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A87175	Christ's first sermon, or, The absolute necessity, gospel duty, and Christian practice of repentance, opened and applied, by a godly, able, and faithful minister of Jesus Christ. ; Wherein is discovered, what repentance is, as also the great necessity thereof to salvation: with the great folly and desperate madness of all those that delay and put off repentance unto a sick bed, or old age. ; Together with the great benefit, joy, and comfort that shall be to the souls of all those that timely and truly repent.	Hart, John, D.D.	1663 (1663)	Wing H937; ESTC R177838	21,802	46

of God and more acquaitance with the wayes of God more communion with God in Ordinances Seventhly true penitents are very zealous fo● God O how do I love thy law saith David 〈◊〉 the 119. Psalm A godly man cannot endure t● see God dishonoured as it is said of Lot in th● second of Peter 2.8 He vexed his righteous son● from day to day with their unlawful deeds An● then lastly where true repentance is wrought it will work a holy change in the soul an● whereas sin was formerly delighted in th● true Penitent hath it in indignation they will not onely turn sin out of doors but also are ready to cut it in pieces as it were true penitents have a feeling on their hearts for sin 〈◊〉 will loath themselvs for the evil of their ways It is a hard thing for a man to loath himself every man naturally loves himself but true penitents loath and abhor themselves as Job did A repentant eye sees matter enough in himself of self-abhorrency Repentance lets us see what black desiled creatures we are by nature Ezek. 20.43 You shall remember your wayes saith the Lord and shall loath your selves in your own sight And so much for the Evidences of repentance Is it so then that repentance is so absolutely necessary to salvation an that there is a great danger in putting it off from day to day and that a sick bed repentance is no repentance or at most but a sickly Repentance how highly then doth it concern every one of us even to day while it is called to day to begin our repentance and not onely to begin but to persevere in it to the end of our dayes Let the time past of our lives suffice us to have wrought our own wills and to have walked in our own wayes and ley us resolve for the time to come to live unto God and be not weary for in due season thou shalt reap if thou faint not Make repentance thy daily work that so thy peace may be made with God and when thou comest to dye thou mayest have nothing else to do but to dye He that labours not to kill sin by repentance in his life will be very unfit to die when death comes death is onely welcome to a gracious penitent soul they are not fit to die in whom sin is not killed by Repentance they have done nothing of that work which God sent them into the world to do that have not repented repentance sweetens our lives and takes away the bitterness of death and onely to penitent sinners is mercy promised Consider there is an absolute necessity of repentance we cannot be saved unless we repent Except ye repent saith Christ ye shall all likewise perish Luke 13.3 Consider also thy life is but short thou hast but a littlé time to live in the world thou hast need to bestir thy self then and to husband thy time to the best advantage thy soul thy precious and immortal soul w● be in danger of hell fire if thou repent not no repentance no salvation and if thou do not repent thee here of thy sins thou wilt surly to thy cost repent thee hereafter in hell f●● the neglect of repentance thou wilt then cur● the day wherein thou didst despise repentanc● then if there be any love in thée to thy precio●● soul whatever thou doest repent Consid●● also the end for which Christ came into t●● world Mat. 9.13 I came saith Christ to c●● sinners to repentance Be zealous therefore an repent and as John saith Mat. 3.8 Let us a labour to bring forth fruits meet for repentanc● Now the Lord work these truths upon you hearts and the Lord give every one of us repentance unto life repentance never to be repented of Which the Lord of hi infinite mercy grant unto us all To whom be glo●● and honour for ever Amen FINIS A short Motive to Repentance THe Glass doth run the Clock doth go Awake from sin why sleep you so In sin sleep not securely still Lest thou by sin thy soul doest kill While thou hast time do not delay Defer not off from day to day Thou art not sure to tarry here No not one quarter of a year No not one week nor yet one day One hour thou art not sure to stay Thou hast not space in thine own power To live one minute of an hour The present time see then thou take Thy peace with God in Christ to make Keep Faith and true Repentance still And then ley Death come when it will Thou art prepared for to dye And thou shalt live eternally FINIS Courteous Reader There is lately published an excellent an● profitable Sermon called The Christian blessed Choice Likewise Christs first Sermon Als● Christs last Sermon And the Christians best Garment Also Heavens Glory and Hells Horro●● And the School of Grace Also Awarning-piec● to the Sloathful Idle Careless Drunken and Secure Ones of these last and worst of times Ver● godly Books and are but three pence price Likewise 1. Englands Faithful Physician 2. Dooms-day at hand 3. The dreadful character of a drunkard 4. The Fathers last Blessing to his children 5. The sin of Pride arraigned and condemned 6. The Plain Mans Plain Path-way to Heaven 7. The Black Book of Conscience 8. Peters Sermon of Repentance 9. The Charitable Christian 10. Death Triumphant All very necessary for these licentious times and each of them being but of two pence price They are to be sold by Elizabeth Andrews at the White Lion near Pye-Corner

Christs First SERMON OR The absolute necessity Gospel Duty and Christian Practice of Repentance Opened and Applied by a godly able and faithful Minister of Jesus Christ Wherein is discovered what Repentance is as also the great necessity thereof to salvation with the great folly and desperate madness of all those that delay and put off their Repentance unto a Sick Bed or Old Age. Together with the great Benefit Joy and Comfort that shall be to the Souls of all those that timely and truly Repent The eleventh Edition with many Additions Matth. 4.17 From that time Jesus began to preach and to say Repent for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand Luke 13.3 Except ye Repent ye shall all likewise perish London Printed for Eliz. Andrews at the White Lion near Pye-Corner 1663. Christs first Sermon OR The absolute necessity duty and Christian Practice of REPENTANCE Acts 17.30 31. The times of this ignorance God winked at but now commandeth all men every where to repent Because he hath appointed a Day in which he will judge the world in righteouness THE Blessed Apostle Saint Paul in these words beloved endeavours to take off the superstitious Athenians from their Idolatry and worshipping of false gods gods of silver and gold which indeed are no gods but the work of mens hands and this he doth first by endeavouring to convince them of the folly of their Idolatry and then secondly in laying before them the power and goodness of God in making and preserving the world and all things therein God saith he in the foregoing verses made the world and all things therein and is Lord over all and gives to all life and breath and all things and in him we all live and move and have our being and it is he that hath set the bounds of our habitations Therefore saith he you need not think that the Godhead is like unto gold or silver or stones graven by art or mans devices for God is Lord both of heaven and earth I but say these Idolaters like some now adayes we did as our fore-fathers did they shorshipped such gods as these were of the same Religion as our fore-fathers were But saith the Apostle this was done in ignorance and the times of this ignorance God winked at your fore-fathers had not the light of the Gospel they never heard of Jesus Christ But now saith he Christ is preached the light of the Gospel shines forth in the world therefore now ye must repent and turn from these idols and serve the living God Now God commands all men every where to repent although God in times past suffered all Nations to walk in their own wayes Now hath he sent us to preach Christ unto you that you should turn from these vanities and serve the living God If your fore-fathers sinned it was through their ignorance and want of the knowledge of Jesus Christ but if you sin and go on in your idolatry it is through wilfulnes and God will be revenged on you In the words you may observe these four things first a duty commanded and that is repentance secondly the commander that is God God commandeth thirdly the persons to whom this command is enjoyned and that is all men every where high and low rich and poor all the world over fourthly and lastly the time when and that is now now God commandeth all men every where to repent now in these times of the Gospel To day if you will hear my voice saith God in Psalm 95.7 From the worlds thus opened I shall give you these four pra●tical observations The first is this that Repentance is a needful and necessary duty commanded by God Secondly that every man woman in the world is bound to repent Thirdly that the doctrine of the Gospel is a doctrine of Repentance It was Christs first Sermon as you may sée Mat. 4.16 Jesus began to preach and to say Repent Fourthly and lastly observe from these words that God expects more and looks for more from men under the Gospel then from those who never heard of the Gospel These four observations are all of them very clear from the words of the test I shall only therefore give you some few futher proofs of them from Scripture and so proceed in the opening and handling of the two first observations and from thence I shall draw sundry practical uses which I shall endeavour by Gods assistance to apply home unto your souls I shall therefore joyn the two first observations into one intire proposition thus That repentance is a needful and necessary duty commanded by God and that every man and woman in the world is bound to repent Except ye repent saith Christ Luke 13. 3 ye shall all perish And 2 Per. 3.9 God is not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance As I live saith the Lord Ezek. 33.11 I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked but that the wicked turn from his way and live Turn ye turn ye from your evil wayes for why will ye die O house of Israel And in Mat. 3.2 Repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand And so likewise in Act 2.38 Repent be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins Repentance is needful for all there are none so wise none so learned none so holy but stand in néed of repentance In many things saith St. James we sin all Jam 3.2 And in Rom. 3.23 All have sinned Young ones have sinned and therefore have need to repent that betimes lest as St. Paul saith Heb. 13●3 Through the deceitfulness of sin their hearts be hardned It s good for young ones yea it s the best course they can take as Solomon saith Eccles 12.1 To remember their Creator in the dayes of their youth and not to put off repentance unto old age or the death-bed for then it may be too late For although true repentance is never too late yet late repentance is seldom true It is a good observation of a holy man saith he speaking of the repentant Thief God saved one at the last hour that none might despair and but one that none might presume Thou that wilt not repent when thou maist it may be God will not give thée time to repent hereafter when thou wouldest Doest thou think to do that in thy old age which thou wilt not do in thy youth Canst thou do that in one hour on thy death-bed which thou art not able to do sufficiently all thy life time And then likewise old men have néed of repentance they have lived a long time in sin and have long enough yea too too long neglected repentance Young men may dye soon but old men cannot live long therefore both young and old have néed to repent that they may receive the remission of their sins Mark 1 4. And for your better understanding of this great necessary duty of repentance I

disease with which most men are infected But let such men know that it is a hard matter to repent ans sin is very powerful and if they do not seek to get it subdued in the strength of their dayes it will be too hard for them at the last for although men grow weaker and weaker yet sin grows stronger and stronger and being as we say bred in the bone nursed up by us in our youthful dayes it will not easily be rooted out of the flesh Can the Blackmore change his skin or the Leopard his spots Jer. 15 23. No they cannot no more can they that are accustomed to do evil leave it when they list If repentance be a thing so easie how is it that many who sought after it could never obtain it How many are there that have reared and cried in the bitterness of their souls and in the horror of their consciences that they could not repent O that I could repent O that my hard heart would break in pieces This hath been the cries of many It is not in the power of man to repent when he pleases doth God give us space to repent now it may be he will not do it to morrow a man by nature as he cannot of himself so he hath no inclination of himself to repentance Repentance it s a heart-work a circumcising of the heart and casting of sin out of the soul which indeed will make the heart to bleed which thing no natural man is either willing or able to do Mortifie saith the Apostle Col. 3.5 your Members which are upon earth which thing suits not with a natural man Let no man then put off Repentance upon such foolish wicked thoughts as these that repentance is an easie work which a man may perform when he pleases such sinful thoughts as these will deceive you Thou that wilt not repent now thou mayest when thou wouldest it may be thou shalt not be permitted you that will not repent when God gives space how justly may he when thou wouldest deny it thee because when it was offered to thee thou refusedst Ezek. 24.13 Because I would have purged thee and thou wast not purged thou shalt not be purged from thy filthiness saith the Lord. The longer men live in sin the stronger will sinne grow in them he that will not leave sin when he is yong will hardly leave it when he is old it is said of wicked men in Job 20.11 Their bones are full of the sins of their youth which lie down with them in the dust Not that mens sins are buried with them in their graves for then they might be happy but that they continue with them till death yea after death Many a time and often hath the Lord stood at the door of mens Consciences and knocked to come in Rev. 3.20 Behold I stand at the door and knock saith Christ O do not let God wait long he hath waited a long time already to be gracious unto thee Isa 30.18 Do not give the devil the prime and strength of your dayes and then think to serve God in your old age You do not leave sin in this but sin leaves you you have not the strength and power to sin then as you have had but still your hearts are as bad as ever they were then put not off your repentance till sickness comes Happy yea thrice happy is that man and blessed shall he be that in the time of his youth health furnishes his heart and soul with comforts against the evil day happy is that soul who when age and sickness comes is so sitted for death by repentance that when death comes he hath nothing else to do but to dye Be perswaded th●n to repent betimes before you go hence and be no more seen there is no time ours but the present time we do not know whether we shall live another day another night many that are in health one day are brought to their graves the next Our life saith St. James is but a vapour that appeareth for a little time Jam. 4.14 we are no sooner born but we begin to die Put not your souls off then from day to day he that 's unfit or unwilling to repent to day will be so to morrow therefore seek the Lord while he may be found Isa 55.6 There is a time when God will not be found Prov. 1.24 to ver 30. sath God Because I called and ye refused and set at naught all my counsel and would none of my reproof therefore will I laugh at your calamity and will mock when your fear cometh when distress and anguish cometh upon you then shall ye call on me but I will not answer they shall seek me early but shall not finde me For that they hated knowledge and did not chuse the fear of the Lord therefore shall they eat the fruit of their ways and be filled with their own devices There is a time when mercy may be had but if we neglect that time it will not be recovered again though it be sought for with tears there is a time when with the wise Vigins we may enter into the wedding but if we take not that time we may with the foolish ones have the door shut against us Mat. 25. Then may we knock and call yea cry Lord Lord open to us but the Lord shall say unto us I know you not The old world had a long time of Repentance a hundred and twenty years did Noah preach repentance to them and yet they repented not but the Ninivites they had but a short time given them but forty dayes and yet they repented they made the Day of Repentance whilst the Sun of Gods patience shined upon them God is not bound to wait mens leasure the Soul is but a tenant at will and may suddenly be turned out of doors and when you lie upon your sick beds the Lord may fill your hearts with such fears as may make your consciences altogether despair of mercy God sent you his servants early and late in season out of season to invite you to repent but you will repent you say hereafter you will if you can you hope God will work it in you What ground have you of this hope hath God made you any such promise Thou canst not draw out the thred of thy life one minute for ought thou knowest this may be thy last day the tenders of mercy and the offers of grace are at an end when thy life ends if not before you know that time and tide stayes no mans leasure every one is so wise as to take time and tide for worldly affairs will any man be so sottish as to defer the time of his sowing till harvest men will not be carrying out of dung when they should be fetching in of Corn no they will dispatch those things first which are of most necessity And is there any thing of more necessity then the salvation of your souls will your souls

humble penitent soul is the most tractable and teachable soul in the world and he above all other is willing to embrace the word of God Fifthly a true humble soul is ready and willing to put in practise all these duties which he hath formerly learned out of the word of God When Paul was once truly humbled he conferred not any longer with flesh and blood but laying aside all carnal reasonings goes on thorowly in his work of preaching the Gospel Gal. 1.16 Thus you maysee that where true repentance is there is also a true humiliation and sorrow for sin then every one learn to be humble and that betimes for as women the longer they are ere they bring forth children the harder is their labour even so they that put off repentance to old age must expect the sorer travel Lamentably are they mistaken who put off their repentance to their old age is it likely that the pains and weakness of old age will be any advantage or ease to thy repentance Rev. 16.19 it s said that at the pouring forth of the fourth viol when God smote the inhabitants of the earth with a scorching heat that they blasphemed the name of God and repented not It s a woful thing to put off repentance to a pained body or to a sick bed pain in its own nature fits rather to blaspheme and turn from God then to return to God and it s very common that sick persons either repent not at all or if they do at the best their repentance is but a sickly repentance sickness doth only abate and restrain the power of mens lusts it never destroyes the life of sin death it self cannot kill sin wicked mens sins live when they are dead the grave cannot consume them nor the fire of hell the sins of unbelievers remain not onely in their guilt but in their power to all eternity Is it so then that repentance is a turning from sin unto God then I observe that there can be no true repentance where sin is delighted in he that lives in the love practice of any sin knoweth not what repentance meaneth for repentance takes off the heart from the love of sin and works it to such a dislike of sin that it abhors the very occasion of sin if sin comes and tells a gracion penitent soul of the profits and pleasures of sin O saith a gracions heart the sweetness will prove bitterness in the latter end True repentance takes off the heart from all sin as well small as great not from some few sins but from all sin for he that turns not from all turns from none in truth and it is not enough to turn from all sin but we must turn from the commands of sin and satan unto the commands of God from worldliness to heavenly mindedness from pride to humility from hatred and envy to love the Tree that bears not good fruit will be hewen down and east into the fire as well as the trée that bears ill fruit I beséech ye therefore brethren in the bowels of mercy for the Lords sake I intreat every one of you that desire to be saved that you would turn away from all your iniquities and that spéedily lest your repentance be too late And to this end be earnest with God by prayer for the assistance of his spirit in the subduing of thy sins and cast thy selt wholly upon the Lord. Chery true Penitent is wholly the Lords the disire of his soul is to God and to the remembrance of his name with his soul he desires God in the night and with his Spirit within him he seeketh the Lord in the morning Isa 26.8 9. He is now a constant suiter at the throne of grace and with full purpose of heart he cleaves to God and loves the place where his honour dwells Psalm 26.8 All his desire is to know more of God and how he may love him more and serve him better the service and servants of God how joyful are they to his soul He takes all opportunities of doing good he keeps his heart with all diligence and the door of his lips that he offend not with his tongue Psalm 39.1 His heart is enslamed with the love of God that he endeavours with all his might to shew forth the praises of the Lord. By which it appears that a turning to God is not barely a turning from sin but a practising of good and a walking up rightly before the Lord in all well-pleasing all out dayes Is it so then that repentance is needful and absolutely necessary for all persons in what a sad condition then are the greatest part of men and women in the world who as yet are as far from true repentance as light is from darknes and yet poor souls they smooth themselves up with this conceit that God is merciful they hope to be saved as wel as the best they thank God all is well with them and yet notwithstanding they never repented of their sins true repentance is a Grace almost out of fashion in these self-conceited times wherin mens minds are so much running after novelties and outward formalities but the power of holiness and the doctrine ' of repentance and self-mortification these are not minded nay by many are accounted Legal and altogether needless There are three sorts of people that I shall have occasion to speak of in the use of this Point and the first are such as altogether abhor repentance the second are such as although they acknowledge repentance is needful and necessary for others yet think that they themselves have no need of it and the third sort are such as do confess that repentance is needful even for themselves as well as others but not yet its time enough here after there 's no such haste of it And I hope in the handling of these three sorts of persons I shall make it appear that reprntance is needful and necessary at all times for all sorts Having done this I shall remove some lets that hinder men from repentance and so give you some few Motives to stir you up to repentance and then to wind up all in a few words of Application I begin with the first of these those that abhor repentance and they are wilful sinners such as go on in sin and make it even their trade to sin wilful desperate and dissolute wretches that laugh at repentance who declara their sin as Sodom did and hide it not Isa 3.9 Who will not be brought to abandon their wicked wayes but go on still in swearing and cursing lying and blaspheming whoredome drunkenness and all uncleanness and that with greediness as the Apostle saith Who mock at faith repentance as those scoffers did in 2 Pet. 3.4 These are they as S. Peter saith 2 Pet. 2. That walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness and count it pleasure to riot in the day time whose eyes are full of adultery that cannot cease from