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A09595	A sommon to repentance Giuen vnto Christians for a loking glasse, wherin we may behold our owne deformities, and therein and thereby, we are not onely forewarned of our destructions, but we are learned to humble out selues in these dangerous dayes of wickednesse, before the throane of Gods mercy, that wee maye not be preserued from the lake of damnation, in the great and notable day of Christs comming to iudgemente. Published by J.P. student of Cambridge.; Summons for repentance	Phillips, John, fl. 1570-1591.	1584 (1584)	STC 19875; ESTC S105036	35,560	70

he that hath not agréedie and an inordinat●… desire to thrist hunger after his owne filthinesse and none the waie to worship God Who is he that fighteth like 〈◊〉 good souldier manfullie vnder the 〈◊〉 captaine of our Sauiour Christ Iesus against the worlde the flesh and th●… diuell Naie what is he that flieth 〈◊〉 like a cowarde from the battell 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ouer the 〈◊〉 forsaketh not the field ●…efuseth not his redéemer eleauing to the world pampring himselfe in all kinds of ●…ncleannes yéelding himselfe most wil●…nglie a pray to sathan The which to cal 〈◊〉 our remembrances is a thing most 〈◊〉 alas is this the glorie wée giue vnto our God O sinful wretches 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 your selues in your 〈◊〉 wickednesses against the Lorde of 〈◊〉 power and maiestie What deserue we in this doing any other than eternal death and destruction of bodies soules O that the painfull passion and the 〈◊〉 woundes that Christe suffered on the crosse for our ●…nnes cannot pierce our 〈◊〉 and stony hearts Alas wret●…es that we are doe we forget howe 〈◊〉 he hath paied the price of our ●…demption O what shal become of vs that go about to tread she blessed blood of our Messias vnder our miserable ●…éete ●…hal not the ●…iols of his wrath be pou●…ed foorth vpon vs or euer we be aware 〈◊〉 that vnlooked for Yes 〈◊〉 For 〈◊〉 the Lord and his iudgements are true Whilest we haue time therfore 〈◊〉 vs conuert and turne vs wholie to the Lorde our God for he is mercifull and full of compassion and louing kindnesse Let vs no longer remaine the seruaunts of sinne but doe our indeuour with all humilitie to serue with feare and reuerence the Lord our God And then shall we to the comfort of our soules in●…oy the chéerefull light of his glorious countenance we shall gratiouslie be deliuered from the snares of death be set free from the captiu●…tie of Sathan and be restored to his fauor and grace who is more ready to heare than we are to cal More willing to open vnto vs the rich storehouse of his mercie then we are to knocke at the gates of his grace with the hammer of an inuincible faith And more desirous to find vs that are lost shepe then we are to séeke after the shéepeherd of our soules Christ Iesus For the Lord our God is slow to wrath and readie to accept the oblations of our sorrowfull ●…earts for a broken hart and mourning soule is the sacrifice that pleaseth God Neither hath ●…he Lorde pleasure in the death of a sinner It is his ioie and sathans foile sorrowe and ouerthrowe when wee conuerte from our euill and bring soorth the fruits of repentance For Christ himselfe hath giuen vs this gratious aduertisement to our exceeding ioie comfort and consolation saieng there is greater solace among the Angels in heauen ouer one person that heartelie artelie and earnestly conuerteth from his sinne than there is ouer ninty and nine iust persons that neuer did offend O happie and blessed sai●…ng He that hath eares to heare let them heare and let him whose consciences is ouerladen with sinne craue of the gratious caller Christ Iesus with weeping eies heauie harts and groaning soules that it woulde please him to continue this call Come vnto mée you that labour and are heauie ladden I will refreshe you my yoake is easie and my burthen verie light If thy sinnes be as redde as scarelet tome vnto mee I call thee saieth Christ hearken to my 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 will make thée whiter than snowe what would●… thou haue more 〈◊〉 my hands are thy sinnes innumerable Surmount they in thy sight the ●…ands of the seas despaire thou not for my mereies excell thy ●…ins a thousand fold Hast thou broken the will of my father thy God come vnto me though thy offences be neuer su great I haue for thée fulfilled th●… lawe my righteousnes shall be thine I wil heale the sor●…s that sathan hath made into thy soule through ●…inne and by 〈◊〉 thou shalt be accepted where thou wast refused Hast thou spent thy patrimonie 〈◊〉 Hast thou gone 〈◊〉 whooring after strange gods Linger not the time neither put it off from daie to daie I call thee nowe sa●…e not thou to morrowe but come now thou art called though thy sinnes be gréeuous I will ease thée of the burthen of thy wickednesses that are readie to presse th●… downe to the dungeon of hell stre yea I will louingli●… if thou come at my call lift thée vp from the daungers of the second death and giue thee life and endless●… glorie in the kingdome of heauen O louing Lord what canst thou doe more for vs Hast thou broken thy vowe in wedlocke Hast thou liuedin adulterie Did not I by my grac●… couple and wedd●… thée to my selfe And hast thou made the members of my glorious bodie the members of a shamelesse strumpet Labour to come vnto me by faith and earnest repentance I will release thée from the burthen that gréenously oppresseth thée and pardon and forgiue thoe all that is past I will release thée in my death and blood I wil couple thee to my selfe with the yoake of my fauour my burthen is light thou maiest easely beare it it shal not be troublesome to thée come quicklie come my grace shall cleanse the corruption of thy conscience and heale thy leaperous soule I will abide in the temple of thy bodie and thou shall haue thy dwelling in me O swéete Christ that thus louinglie callest vs home to thy selfe Hast y ● 〈◊〉 my name Hast thou delighted in theft Hast thou 〈◊〉 a bearer of false witnesse against the innocent ●…ast thou defeated the widowe of hir dowrie Hast thou robbed the fatherlesse of his right Hast thou broken my Sabbaoth which I commanded to be kept holie O come come vnto me set a side all dangerous doubtes I will heal●… all your infirmities sinne shall not harme you death shall not greeue you neither yet shall your aduersarie sathan nor all the power of hell be able to preuaile against you for I my selfe will not faile you I will be with you to the ende and in the ende O come vnto me come vnto mee there is none that can helpe you or doe you anie good but my selfe no not one you are sinful Samaritanes I see the condission and estate that you remaine in You are fallen into the handes of hatefull theeues You are wounded with the ●…erie dartes of the deuill You are compassed rounde about with the snares of death You are bound fast hand and foot with the chains of damnation And there is no remedie left for you except I take you in hande For neither can y ● Priest nor the Leuitè doe you anie good I call come vnto me I will cure the 〈◊〉 vlcers of your iniquities I will heale the festred sores of your wickednesses I will willingly take awaie

A SOMMON to Repentance Giuen vnto Christians for a loking Glasse wherin we may behold our owne deformities and therein and thereby we are not onley forewarned of our destructions but we are learned to humble our selues in these daungerous dayes of wickednesse before the throane of Gods mercy that wee maye be preserued from the Lake of damnation in the great and notable day of Christs comming to iudgemente Published by J.P. student of Cambridge Math. 3. Repent and amend your lyues for the kingdome of God is at hande AT LONDON Imprinted by D. Jackson dwelling in fleetestroete 1584. ¶ To the right Honorable Sir Edwarde Osbourne Knight hir Maiesties Leiftenante Lorde Mayor of hir Highnes most honorable Cittie London the right Worshipfull Knight Syr Rowland Haiward Alderman of London the right worshipfull Mayster Iohn Spencer Alderman and Shriue of London and the right worshipful of the fraternitie and misterye of Clothworkers Iohn Phillip the sonne of Robart Phillip Clothworker disceased wisheth the feare of God peace and prosperitie in our merciful Lord and Sauior Christ Iesus c. IF this small present right honorable and worshypful rendered into your hands with all humility and reuerence maye finde fauour in your sight I shall not only accounte my selfe happye but hereafter shew my selfe industerious to pleasure you wyth some other treatise which with this shall redowne to the glory of god your well liking and the commodity of my natiue cuntrimen In the meane season I most earnestly besech your good Lordship and euery of you to pardon my boldnes and to satisfie your mindes with this poore mite of mine which to the comforte of the godly and the reformation of the maleuolent is published not doubting but as you are vertuous and godly affected so your honor and euery one of you being patrons members of this common weale in as much as in you shal consist will doe your indeuors to beate down syn whose branches are so monsterous that they begin to ouer shade vertue the which thing to cal vnto our memories is a thing of al things to be lamented who heareth not in the Gospel how diligently our wickednesses cōmitted against the maiestie of eternal God are reproued but who or where are they that conuert and turne to the Lord in this our last time of our age and calling no we glory in our iniquityes and hate to be reformed and generally to speake the truth we I say for the most part and greatest number of vs that professe the name of Christ are rockt and lulled in the corrupt cradle of our owne securities and therin we slepe so soundly that neither can the remembrance of Gods graces signes tokens his greuous threat nings and terrible comminations serue to rouse vs vp out of the dangerous and most perrilous slumber of our iniquyties it cannot be chosen right Honorable and Worshipful but that the day of our visitation is at hand and except we repent we shal perishe in our wickednesses for Gods heauie indig●…tion is readie to enter into the gates of our Cities the v●…ols of his wrath are ready to be powred forth vpon vs our God is ready in the fulnesse of his displeasure to hew vs downe with the Axe of his vengeance for our ingratitude to blo●… our names out of the booke of lyfe for the contempt of his commandements and to leaue vs 〈◊〉 pray for our abhominable actions to our auncient aduersarie sathan I exhort your good Lordship therefore and euery one of you to whome God hat●… giuen authority in the bowels of Iesus Christ to perseuer and go forward from vertue to vertue to the vttermost of your powers to banishe from your Cities and Townes al the maysters of misrule that both contemne God and despise good order Thus shal you please God in discharging your dueties and shewe your selues obedient subiects to hir excellent maiesty that putteth you in trust to bridle the outrage of the wicked that range as gracelesse after their vncleanesse Thus wishing you right honorable and euery one of you the feare of god peace and prosperitye in Iesus Christ I leaue you to his gracious heauenly preseruation beseeching him of his infinite good nes whilst his mercy holdeth his indignation at a bay to giue vs the grace with humble and contrite hartes to prostrate our selues before him to craue pardon at his fatherly hands for our offences to weepe bytterly for our sinnes and to bring forth the fruites of repentance thus shal we pacifie hys heauy displeasure conuerte his fury to fauor his 〈◊〉 to loue and his conceiued wrath to comfortable kindnes the which we shal inioye in this life and after when the course of this our pilgrimage is fully finished we shal stand before him in purity be sanctified with his holynes be crowned with honor and glory and be made fellow heires with Christ Iesus of his celestial kingdome the which God for hi●… sonne Christ his sake graunt you and euery of you Your humble and faythful wel willer in the Lord. Iohn Phillip ❧ A Sommon to repentaunce giuen vnto Christians for a looking glasse IF wee woulde consider deare christians the inestimable graces of our louing God poured foorth vp●…n vs that haue little or nothing at all deserued his fatherlie fauor it ●…ere a thing that might mooue vs sinfull and most wretched crea●…ures not onlie to walke as it becommeth ●…s in godlie integritie and newnes of life but therewithall we would like adopted sonnes by his 〈◊〉 grace continew our obedience towardes him that like a most carefull Father and gratious God s●…keth all the meanes possible that 〈◊〉 be to nourish and féede vs both in so●… and bodie to euerlasting life and heauenly blessednes In spirite and soule by the operation and working of a liuelie fa●…th through his diuine grace we are prouidently f●…d ●…n the truth of his 〈◊〉 testament with the sweetest flesh drinke the d●…rest blood of our immaculate and spotles lambe Christ Iesus who giueth himselfe most willinglie to all those that constantlie beleeue not carnallie but spirituallie to be fed vppon by faith and fréelie 〈◊〉 vnto vs his most precious blood without our deserts to aswadge the thirst of our soules that Sathan through sinne had 〈◊〉 to 〈◊〉 death and destruction euerlasting from the which by the vnspeakeable prouidence and inf●…te wisedome of our omnipotent GOD through Iesus Christ we are deliuered Si sumus fideles And as by his grace we inioy this delectable foode and most 〈◊〉 Nectar to the comfort of our soules so with these his deuine benefites h●… most louinglie inricheth vs with his temporall blessinges For in bodie 〈◊〉 our feeble and weake natures most carefullie are by his onelie goodnesse fostered from his bountifull handes with meate and drinke and all other the glorious giftes of his grace without the which wee coulde not continue But alas neither the one nor the other is of vs accepted

to walk in the waies that the Lorde our God hath appointed vs and yet we will be compted christians by name but infidels in our actions To talke of Christ being carnally affected and not heauenlie minded is a thing of all other most dangerous 〈◊〉 acknowledge him to be the Sonne 〈◊〉 God in our wordes and not to 〈◊〉 his testimonies is a thing most diuelish and sathanicall for the 〈◊〉 did the like in the desertes when he tempted the Lorde of life that Iohn baptized in Iordan and then if we bée faithlesse as I feare me the greatest number of vs are that remaine in this our last time of calling what differ we from sathan that vnrighteous prince of darknes And is this the way do we cōi●…ture with our selues to please God when in not regarding the price of our redemtion accomplished by Gods eternall decree freelie by and through the working of his ●…serued grace in the spotles and immaculate lambe No we vsurpe the name of Christ in this doing we deceiue our selues we tread the blood of him that hath redeemed vs vnder our feete and to concl●…de wée aggreuate heape vp vnto our selues the heauie and intollerable curse and indignation of the a●…ightie and therwithall vnlesse we conuert from the 〈◊〉 waie of our abhominable wickednesses the destruction of our bodies and soules euerlastinglie But who is he that will enter into his owne conscience examine himselfe whither he be giltie of these causes or not or who is he that finding his conscience woūded with the deadlie dart of his own transgression ouerladen with sinne will learne to acknowledge his owne wickednesses to humble himselfe with Dauid before the thron of gods mercies to saie Lord haue mercie vpon me and according to the multitude of thy manifolde mercies blot out all mine iniquities out of thy presence verelie in this age there are few or none that indeuor to bring forth the fruits of repentance for the confidence that we haue in our selues the great distrust that we haue in God in neglecting his commandements the loue that we haue to this transitory world the slender care wée haue to Christ his Gospel the dangerous delight we conceaue in our owne force contrarie the vtter forgetting of gods graces bestowed vppon vs a proue vs rather to be the children of darknes then the sonnes of light were it not an absurde thing for vs to be called in this our last age wherein Christ is sencerely preached to be 〈◊〉 for our sins the enimies of Chist and the friends of Belial who would not think he had iniury being baptised to be called sath●…n But what redéemed whome Christ hath raunsomed not with golde nor siluer but with the price of the hart blood of our redéemer will at all times ingraue or print into his remembrance the painful torments that Christ hath suffred for the sins of the whole world nay rather who flieth not from the ensigne of his capteine Christ Jesus and yeldeth not himselfe a bondslaue to ●…in a seruant to sathan a pray to eternall damnation hel If God haue cōm●… nded vs to serue honor obey him to dedicate and offer vp our selues into his holie handes to depende wholie onely and solie vpon him to put our whole trust and confidence in him and to continue his worshippe in feare and reuerence Why doe we scorne his commandements Why yeelde we not our selues to obedience Why are wée become men pleasers Or why go wée about of a set purpose to displease our creator knowe we not that we are in his heauenly hands as the clay is in the hands of the potter will we become vessels of dishonor in dishonoring him that of dutie we are bounde to obey Are our hearts so hardened that wée thinke him insufficient to punishe vs that without ceasing prouoke him to displeasure or are we become so farre past feare that we will not stande in awe of his iudgementes Hath Ladie selfeloue made vs so wilfullie affected that we wil stand thus sturdely against the Lord and his annointed or hath the inordinate desire of our priuate gaine in this world of wretchednes so déepelie possessed our harts that we vtterlie cast Christ Jesus our high and mightie Lorde treasurer and the vnspeakeable treasures of his glorious kingdom frō our memories alas if wee will cocke●… our selues in our vncleannes heape vp sinne vpon sin glorie in our vncleannes and giue our consents to worke euill in the sight of the Lorde our God We are not members of Christ sons of adoption and grace but children of the diuell forlorne and cast away bastardes If we wil become wilful wantons stragling Goates refuse the good sheephearde and cleane vnto the hired seruant shall not sathan the wilie wolfe deuoure vs both in body and soule If we will liue 〈◊〉 lift vp our selues against the Lord stande stiffe in our owne securities and growe in the contempt of Gods eternall iustice shall not hee in his hea●…ie displeasure with the heauie Axe of his vengeance cut vs downe in our sinnes and then after this temporall death shall not the seconde death of bodie and soule which shall endure for euer vexe and torment vs in the dungion of hell Oh that we would record and call these thinges to our remembrances O that we woulde ponder in our owne consciences how heauie and dangerous a thing it is to fall into the iudgements of the Lorde our God O that we would diligently cōsider with our selues that as God is mercifull louing amiable to those that loue him and kéepe his commandements so is he iust terrible and displeasant to those that continue their wickednesses The 〈◊〉 tree that was barren was accursed and thinke we that are fruitlesse to be blessed Can not the good seede of the Gospell sowne in the stoni●… grounde of our stintie harts take no root at al in vs shal the filthy furrours of our cankred consciences in stead of good and perfect graine bring foorth vnsanerie darnell when the Lorde of the haruest commeth for perfect wheat will we render him chaffe alacke then most miserable is our condission and estate for hee then that hath his fanne in his hand wil purge his floure gather his wheate into the glorious g●…rner of his grace but the chaffe he will burne with an vnquenchable fire These thinges might forewarne vs in time while wée haue time to turne to the Lorde our God and to bring soorth the fruites of repentaunce But wée generallie for the most part here and euery where rather like beastlie Epicures then godlie affected christians wallowe in the myrie soyle of our vncleanesse and putrefaction expecting nothing so much as we doe our ease wherin wée she we our selues to be more laisie loyterers then louelie labourers in the Lordes vineyarde For let vs euen from the highest to the lowest from the