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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

it be reasonable that the whole should fall on him and none of the drops and end of it come to us and so be fill'd up by us Col. 1.24 We should never read that part of Sacred History of the Agony of Christ but we should deeply take it to Heart Luke 22.44 He being in an Agony Prayed more earnestly and his sweat was as it were drops of Blood Christ was not at this time seiz'd upon and in the hands of those that Crucified him but was in perfect Meditation in an entire solitude of Thoughts He was in Contemplation of the great evil of sin and of the wrath and justice of God upon it We may then say Dyed Christ as a Fool Or was Christ in an Agony as a Fool or as a weak person Did he not pursue the true Reason of Things Did he not follow sin by his holy and wise consideration of it from its beginning to its end Did he not see it as God looks upon it and as the Nature of sin requires it should be looked upon Did he not behold it in the ruin and damnation of mankind in the everlasting horror of Conscience in Hell If not why this Agony Did he not behold our sins in all the aggravations of them Else why was our Lord under a sorrow that no ones sorrow was like to it He might justly say to all that Read of it behold was any mans sorrow like to mine Ought we not therefore though we cannot suffer as he did nor to such an effect of Suffering Yet ought we not to be Conformed to our Head If these things were done in the green Tree ought there not to be a Conformable Sense of them upon us who are as the dry Tree and much more reasonbly to be so affected 3. The great disadvantages that come upon the profession of Christianity in the want of this godly sorrow press for it 1. Either Men rest and center in a false Repentance The fallow ground of the Heart is not truly broken up Jerem. 4 3 so that they sow on the Rock or among Thorns and build in the Sand and their Repentance is not this Repentance the Apostle speaks of they do not go down to the bottom of the Heart nor dig deep to find the Springs of true Repentance 2. Or 2dly Suppose the Repentance not False such are yet in Danger of Falls after Conversion for no man is so truly and continually afraid of sin as he that hath found the smart and evil in profoundest sorrow for it 3. There is Danger when godly sorrow hath not had its perfect work there should arise after perplexities of Conscience either upon the surprisal of outward Afflictions or on the Death Bed and sometimes with great Agonies because we have not gone through the exact course of Repentance in sorrow for sin and after God 4. Oftentimes God leads through outward Chastisements to bring us through a more solemn sense of sin and the evil of it and to closer acts of self Judging and more exact Reformation of our Hearts and ways 4. That we may be under the full efficacy of godly sorrow God hath made that gracious promise Ezek. 36.25 That he will take away the Heart of Stone and give the Heart of Flesh Thus that Adamantine and nether Millstone Temper is removed an● a soft tender Heart that fears the first approach of sin is Introduc'd It may seem an objection against this Doctrine of sorrow for sin as if the pressing of it is a Derogation from the Blood of Christ and the fulness of his Redemption as if his sufferings sacrifice and satisfaction were not enough without our sorrow as a kind of Penance But this I shall endeavour fully to remove hereafter as the same Objection may seem to lye against the whole Doctrine of Repentance I will therefore conclude this part of the Discourse viz. concerning sorrow for sin by giving some practical inferences by way of Application from it Infer 1. Let us be content to suffer in the Flesh as the Apostle Peter speaks 1 Peter 4.4 by deep sorrow for sin and after God as it were the Death of th● Flesh and of the corrupt part that we may Live according to God in the Spirit arm your selves with the same mind that was in Christ Be willing to be as Condemned and put to Death in the sense of sin desire to know Hell and everlasting Misery as he did in your own sense of it he went down to Hell in the Contemplation of it though not Locally Let us be in the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the Communion in the Fellowship of his Sufferings Phil. 5.10 It is better to know it now and here while it may be escap'd than to know it hereafter when there will be a gulf between it and the state of Life that cannot be passed Infer 2 Let us possess our selves with the mighty Reasons and Arguments of godly sorrow the Motives and inward operative Influences of it the serious consideration of the great evil of sin the foulness of it the dishonour the neglect the contempt of God that is found in it the unreasonable ingratieude and unkindness of it to the Lord our God and to Jesus Christ the Saviour and Redeemer but especially let us earnestly beg that Spirit of Grace and Ingenuous sense that may cause us to be in bitterness as he that is in bitterness for his First Born that we may thus sorrow after God Infer 3. Let us sweeten to our selves that which may seem very harsh and contrary to Flesh and Blood this sorrow after God with the consideration of this that Christ hath established a Blessing upon it the blessing of an everlasting Consolation Luke 6.21 25. Blessed are you that Mourn and that Weep for you shall be Comforted And on the other side there is a Woe on them that Laugh now Consider Christ the Captain of our Salvation and all the Saints of God have passed through the Vally of Baca this Valley of Weeping the way to the Heavenly Jerusalem while the mad roaring merry World are going that broad way down to Destruction This works that Repentance to Salvation never to be Repented of Head 3d. I come now to the Third Head in the Doctrin of Repentance and that is to Discourse the true Laws and Rules of Repentance the Frame and the true constitution of Repentance the Motives and considerations for it the signs and evidences of true Repentance all which must needs be very great in that it is Repentance to Salvation not a false or counterfeit Repentance or but to be Repented of not to be recall'd revers'd or repented but to be confirm'd by progressive repeated Acts and renewals after Falls even till it lays hold of Salvation General 1. In the opening the grand Doctrin of Repentance as on this head I sh●ll endeavour to guide the Discourse of it by keeping to the strict proper and precise Nature and notion of Repentance

the Spirit of Bondage Rom. 8.15 For that Law of Self-preservation being seated so deep in Man the fear of an evil so Destructive to ●our Beings as wrath to come and the eternal Displeasure of the Supreme Being Nothing moves so strongly and powerfully nothing makes so violent concussions in the Heart of Man as these deep apprehensions or tears up the very Roots of that old sinful Frame and make it fly every way to change its Scituation and Posture for the avoiding of that Displeasure Thus Nineveh affrightned with that present dreadful D●nunciation of Judgment turn'd it self every way to Attonement with God although the Judgment then Denounc'd did not r●ach to Everlasting Punnishment how much more do the Apprehensions of Wrath to come and ever to come as was before observed of it move And though this is not the highest and noblest Kind of Motive yet it is such as our Lord earnestly and doubly recommends to his Friends I say unto you my Freinds fear not them that kill the Body and have no more that they can do Luke 12.14 but I will forewarn you whom you shall fear fear him that after he hath kill'd hath power to cast into Hell yea I say unto you fear him 3. The so gre●t Assurance God hath given in Jesus Christ the Mediator and Redeemer that our s●●s shall be Pardoned upon our Repentance is a most excellent motiv● to Repentance and follows the former as that still Voice wherein God is did the ●arthquake 1 King● c 19.12 This Assurance is that which gives Life and Spirit to Repentance and also the true Eva●gelical Sweetness and Divine Temper to i● which else would turn into the Horrors of Cain and Esau which afterwards relaps'd into a Wor●ly s●curity senselesness and sensi●ility for Cain went out from the P●ese ce of the Lord Gen. 4.15 c. 36.15 and dwelt in the Land of Nod and fell to Building Esau b●came a grea● Earthly Prince and Fa●her to many D●kes without any further thought of the Birthrig●t or Blessing or else the ho ●ors arising from the sense of sin and Divine D●spleasure turn into the D●spair of Saul and Judas ●●at are but the for●casts of Hell and everlasting s●p● a●ion from the presence of God and the light of his Countenance This sense of the Love and Favor of God in Christ is that which draws the Soul by the melting and dissolving that Stony Heart and making that stiff Neck and Iron Sinnew to be ready and pliant to all Holy Rules and Heavenly Motions and sweetens fear sorrow and horror into Love and Reverence and filial disp●sitions to Obedience while there are any beginnings of shedding abroad the Love of God in the Heart and when the Love of Christ begins to Constrain us This glance of the Eye of Christ on Peter wi●h Love and Grace made him go out and weep bitterly this sense of Mercy humbled David and Distill'd into all those Heavenly Penitential Expressions we have Psal 51. 4. When by the grace of God the Heart is deeply Aff●cted with the sight of the great Evil abominable Foulness and Hatefulness of sin and with the Beauty of Holiness this is a most effective motive to Repentance when we are struck with the sense of the Intrins ck shamefulness of every evil way the falseness of those appearances of good that a●e found upon sin but wer● an Inheritance of Lies it makes us hate every false way and cast away the Things that can yeild no true good or prof● and of which we have reason for ever ●o be asham●d the end of which is Death Rom. 6. Through the word of thy Lips I keep my s●lf f●●m the Paths of the Destroyer Psal 17.4 Through thy Precepts I get understanding therefore I hate every false way Thy word is very pure theref●re thy s●rvant loveth it I h●ve found thy Precepts concerning all things to be right and I hate every false way The righteousness of thy Testimonies is everlasting give me understanding and I shall live Psalm 119. The Law of the Lord is right converting the soul the testimony of the Lord is sure making wise the simple the Statutes of the Lord are right rejoycing the heart How sweet are thy words to my taste sweeter than honey to my mouth Moreover by them is thy servant warned and in the keeping of them there is great reward Psalm 19 All these are Expressions of the mighty Power of Holiness moving to Repentance from the Beauty and Amiableness of it self and the Odiousness of Contrary Sin and Evil. 5. The Word of God throughout all these is the Instrument of the Holy Spirit and with the Variety of its Divine Representations Collects and Diffuses into the Soul and Univers●l Spirit of a Man being suited to every Faculty and Affection the Reasons and mighty Efficacies ●oth of Fear and Hope viz. the Wrath and Indignation against sin of Grace and Mercy in Christ to the truly Repenting sinner and together with them the Beauty of Holiness and the Hatefulness of Sin For the Word of God is the Sword of the Spirit executing Vengeance on sin and yet sparing the Humble Returning sinner and effectually moving him by it to Repentance 6. The sixth and last Motive I shall use is the true Consider tion of the Gospel state both as it is now and as it shall be in its Glorious Manifestation For that being a state so New and so different from the present state of Sin and Flesh and Corruption we can never be suited to it but by this great Change by Repentance for it the putting off the Old Man which is corrupt according to its deceitful Lusts Ephes 4.22 23. and putting on the New Man which is renewed after God in Knowledge Righteousness and true Holiness is most absolutely necessary to enjoy this Kingdom And this is the Truth of Repentance It is the having such an Eye upon him 2 Cor. 5.15 who is Risen from the Dead and to the Resurrection of the Dead it self as to know neither Persons nor Things as we knew them before after the Flesh On this account our Lord sent John as an Herald before him preaching and saying Repent for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand And as soon as John had finish'd his Ministry of Repentance to shew it was not only the Message of the Fore runner but of the Lord himself whose way he was to prepare Jesus himself from that time began to preach and to say Repent for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand Matth. 3.1 c. 4.17 he shewed to us this New state requires New Persons New Hearts and Spirits New Lives and Actions to lay the Foundations and Beginnings of it here and now and that it may break out into Salvation and Glory at the Glory of that Kingdom That it may be so tryed now as to be found unto Honour Praise and Glory at the appearance of Jesus Christ I come now to the second part of this