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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27606	Evangelical repentance unto salvation not to be repented of upon 2 Cor. 7, 10 ; and as most seasonable, Short considerations on that great context Hebr. 12, 26, \"Yet once more I shake not only Earth, &c.\" : upon the solemn occasion of the late dreadful earthquake in Jamaica and the later monitory motion of the earth in London, and other parts of the nation and beyond the sea ; whereunto is adjoined a discourse on death-bed repentance, on Luc. 22, 39 / by T. Beverly.	Beverley, Thomas.	1693 (1693)	Wing B2148_PARTIAL_CANCELLED; Wing B2140_CANCELLED; ESTC R17858	162,555	326

that we may not be pleased and contented with a Counterfeit with any other Repentance than that unto Salvation not to be Repented of Least we for ever Repent of our Repentance in Hell where there is no place of Evangelical saving Repentance but of that only which is a barren Fiery Horror and Despaire scorching the Conscience for ever and not allaying it with a Drop of Water to Cooll outragious Tongue Luke 16.24 Blaspheming at the same time God and Christ and our impenitent selves who would not Repent while we had space and place for our Repentance Infer 5. Let us by all the most moving Considerations of the Evil of sin the hatefulness and unreasonableness of it the sense of the Goodness and Grace of God in Christ all his Judgments all his Mercies the sense of an Eternal Misery and Punnishment from his Presence be strongly mov'd excited stirr'd and led to Repentance Infer 6. Let us rejoyce in the sweet Reposes of Conscience when we have truly Repented in the infinite Power Authority and Supreme right of God to Pardon upon Repentance not dependent upon Man nor upon the Will of Man Who is a God like unto him who Pardons Iniquity Transgression and Sin and casts it into the depth of the Sea who makes by his Pardon sins as Scarlet and Crimson to be White as Snow and Wooll that blots out Iniquity as a Cloud and a thick Cloud with the same Potency and Ease that the Sun does off a Cloud and with infinitely greater Let us Rejoyce in the great Efficacies of the Redeemer Pardoning sin upon Earth as the great High Priest of our Profession and the Bishop of our Souls Absolving truly Repenting Sinners by the Witness of his Blood sprinkling the Heart from an evil Conscience and speaking better things than the Blood of Abel The Blood as of a Lamb without spot Offer'd by the Eternal Spirit Purging the Conscience from dead works together with and even as the Author and Finisher of faith and repentance from dead works to serve the Living God Heb. 9. c. 10. c. 12. Let us rejoyce in the Witness of the Divine Spirit Sealing and Witnessing to us by Repentance washing the Body the whole Conversation as with pure water Let us rejoyce in all the Blessed Promises and Assurances of the Word of God made by it to sincere Penitents which are yea and Amen in Christ For all these are of far greater Authority Truth Certainty than All Bindings or Loosings on Earth whether by the Ecclesiastical as we call it Administration of the Keyes or by Men forgiving one Another however necessary these may be in their place Infer 7th Seeing the Kingdom of God and of Heaven is the great Motive to Repentance as hath been before on great Reason made out The high Reason we have to believe that by the Apostles calling it the Last time the last hour the ends of the World so many Hundreds of Years ago we must needs be now upon the very last issue and determination of that Time when the Kingdom shall appear in Glory and all other kind of Time shall be no more How great a Cloud does therefore Encompass us that we should by no means be willing or able to Rend to Engage us to run with Patience the Race of Repentance set before us Heb. 12.1 and to that End to lay aside every weight and the sin that doth so easily beset us looking unto Jesus the Author and Finisher of our Repentance that it may be to Salvation and never to be Repented of Hearing him who in the days of his Flesh because the offers and first appearances and First Fruits of his Kingdom were then begun Preach'd saying Repent for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand so the full Harvest of that Kingdom being now ready to appear he does by the Voices of all his Prophets in the Old and New Testament instantly Preach to us Repent for the Kingdom of Heaven is at Hand And of how strong and close Connexion the Kingdom of God and of Christ and Repentance are I shall more fully and largely at this time Represent as a most solemn Conclusion of this Discourse There is a fixed space given and a peculiar Interval Appointed Lying between the time of the Apostacy call'd the Time Times and Half Time or the 1260 Days and the Time of the Vials And it is 30 years making the 1260 1290 Years Dan. 12.11 even as the 45 Years of the Vials to the Absolutely blessed state of the Kingdom of Christ in Glory when the Saints shall all stand in their Lots fill up to that very Fulness of Times Now at this space of the Thirty Years the Spirit shall be powred out from on High The Song of the Lamb which hath been so long out of use that it becomes as it were a new Song and can be at first learnt only by the 144000 shall be Taught by them immediately and the Everlasting Gospel shall be without delay upon it Preach'd to every Nation Tongue and People under Heaven and then there shall be as in preparation to the Glory of the Kingdom of Christ but under the Influence of that Kingdom in Succession a mighty Spirit of Godly Sorrow working Repentance to Salvation never then indeed to be Repented of pour'd out upon all Flesh Now because this is a point of great moment to the Doctrine of Repentance and sets forth much of the Excellency of Repentance I shall give very great Scriptures and argue upon them for the truth of ir Scripture 1. The first Scripture I would insist upon shall be from a consideration of that great Ordinance of God concerning the Day of Attonement among the Children of Israel This Ordinance We find Levit. 23.27 In the tenth day of the seventh the Sabbattical Month there shall be a day of attonement It shall be an Holy Convocation to you and you shall afflict your Souls And you shall do no work in that same day For it is a day of Attonement to make Attonement for you before the Lord your God for whatsoever Soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same Day he shall be cut off from among his People And whatsoever Soul it be that doth any work in that same day the same Soul will I destroy from among his People It shall be a statute for ever throughout your Generations in all your Dwellings It shall be to you a Sabbath of Rest and you shall Afflict your Souls And on that day there were the great rites of Sacrifice the Bullock the sin Offering the Blood of which was carried into the Holy of Holies to make an attonement for the Vncleannesses of the Priests and People and to reconcile the Holy of Holies and the Mercy Seat and the Tahernacle of the Congregation and the Goat that was to be Kill'ed in the same Manner and the scape-Goat throughout c 16. Now that which I lay in the Foundation is That God never appointed

Wickedness and Sensuality The thirty pieces are nothing worth Mat. 27.3 and the innocent blood above all value when Men suffer in the Agonies of Conscience and Fears of the approaching Judge A House full of Silver and Gold will not buy a Man to resist God when indeed he appears to him when the terrible Majesty opens it self Numb 22.18 what is so precious that Men will not fling to the Bats and Moles Isai 2.20 When the Breath is going out of the Nostrils how precious is Repentance Faith a Pardon in Christ a happy Eternity to those who have heretofore slighted them as the off-scouring of all things But these things are always so rich Wisdom is always so precious that it disdains to borrow Esteem from a minute of Extremity and therefore it most often falls out that those who would none of its counsel but despised all its Reproof when they come to seek it early cannot find it but it laughs at their Calamity as Men laugh at the unhappiness of Fools that would not be corrected in their Folly till their Misery confute their Confidence 3. From hence it follows That this Repentance is a Choice when there is no other Choice If a Man loved his Sins or the World never so passionately he must leave them if he disliked God and his Holiness and an everlasting Abode with him to the utmost yet he is even forced upon them or dashed upon an Eternal Misery and Unhappiness which it is impossible to choose And therefore though he would not choose the holy ways of God if he might still enjoy former Vanity yet that being out of his reach and way he must take what is to be had The Sense therefore is no more than this All these things are good when a Man is just a Dying but while he lives and can have the World they are troublesom and unprofitable Death makes them good upon this account only because else there would be something worse and there can no longer be any thing better A Man is now willing to offer a Life he hath not to give but Eternal Life is not worth any part of that Life he thinks in his power to do any thing else with Let us then observe at what rate it is set for to use Tertullian's words in another Case we may thus Reason * Quale bonum hoc est quod melius est poena quod non potest videri bonum nisi pessimo comparatum ut ideo bonum sit resipiscere quia deterius est ardere Caeterum si per mali collationem cogitur bonum dici non tam bonum est quam genus mali inferioris quod altiori malo obscuratum ad nomen boni impellitur Tertul. De Monogamia Chap. 3. What a mean sort of good is this that only excels Punishment which needs the worst of States for a Foil to it self that it may be thought Good It is good to repent and be saved because who can dwell with everlasting Burnings But if it must purchase the Reputation of being Good from Evil it is not so much a Good as a lower degree of Evil which while the greater Evil Eclipses it is compelled as it were to accept the name of a good being driven upon the confines of Goodness by the Violence of greater Evil. 4. This Repentance is not the Free but inslaved Judgment and Choice of the Soul as Men cast out Goods in a Storm and receive a Power to Rule over them that they cannot endure but that it is too strong for them Men are afraid what God will do to them therefore they submit His Enemies in Heart are found Lyers to him they flatter him with their Mouth as Julian oppressed by the Almightiness of Christ is storied to have cried out Vicisti Galilaee Thou hast overcome me Galilean Thus they are overcome by Death and the apprehension of Judgment In the sight and view of the Danger Men resolve to part with their Sins Let but that remove they call for their Sins again as Mariners wish for their Goods after the Storm They throw up their Lusts in their sickness but drink them in when their trouble is past as the Dog returns to his vomit 2 Pet. 2.22 In all this there is nothing of the love of God 5. In this Repentance the Soul of it is generally a pitiful mean Self-love even the meanest kind imaginable wherein a Man considers himself as a Creature in being and likely or at least possible to be for ever without any apprehension of himself as a rational Creature made for God and the Enjoyment of him in conforming with whom his Happiness consists and in the resting for ever in his love Of this part he hath no distinct apprehension only he would be happy though he knows not what it is or rather he would not be miserable yet even that he truly understands not But as the Jews said to Christ when he spake to them of the Bread of Life Lord ever more give us this bread and yet were scandalized at his Explanation of himself to be that Bread so far as to leave him John 6.34 And the Pharisees hearing of the Vineyard to be let out to other Husband-men and the Judgment upon themselves to be executed Luk. 20.16 Cried out God forbid yet run on in the Sin that brought it upon them This little point of Self-love into which all is crowded is ennobled with no sight of the Excellency of the things themselves or a due Estimation of them as the true pleasure and joy of an Immortal Spirit This is not that allowable love of a Man's self which incircles it self within the love of God as the lesser Circle is comprehended by the greater but this either leaves out that love wholly or debases it to basest self Let us now compare both sides together and see how much true Repentance differs from that which is always to be feared lest it should be the height of the Death-Bed And of that which hath been spoken this is the Sum True Repentance is the most free Election of the Soul inabled by the Grace of God upon a clear and just Dictate of the Judgment attended with sincerest Affection to give up it self to God through Jesus Christ and when it is most it self not under any irregular fear or constraint and at least would be the same in a time when it hath all the probability that can be to lay hold upon things present The other Repentance arises from a Soul all troubled and discomposed with the throws of Death the fears of Hell the Doubts what will become of it in another World the Uproars of a guilty Conscience when it supposes it self necessarily at the full stop of its former Courses by being cut off from longer Life in the midst of all which arise vehement Resolutions to turn from Sin to God and possibly with many fair Apparences but without opportunity to give proof of themselves Let