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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47079	An antidote for troubled soules, or, The fruit of repentance taken out of the word of God, and delivered to Thomas Jones of the city of Hereford ...	Jones, Thomas, of Hereford.	1646 (1646)	Wing J993; ESTC R15721	10,050	23

maintenance o● our estates Lastly it is a means to obtain increase of grace with peace of conscience and increase of ioy and comfort Thus Saint Peter exhorts Repent saith he and then he promiseth the gift of the Holy Ghost should flow forth to them and after grace followes peace and spirituall joy Christ will make thee par taker of true ioy he will dwell with the humble and revive their spirits The sixt Motive to perswade ●is to Repentance may be taken from the consideration of our baptisme we have set our hands to the ●eal of baptisme to bind us to the duty of repentance therefore we are bound to it by our own seale our own p●omise and vow Again Repentance makes our persons workes ●cceptable to God the broken the contrite heart is acceptable to God A broken heart G Lord thou wilt not despise Another Motive may be taken from the considera●ion of the last judgement Now God wisheth all men to repent because hee hath appointed a day wherein he will judge the world with righteousnesse saith Saint Paul Then shall their sinnes be laid open O let us bethink ous selves in what estate we would be found before the great Iudge at the last day whether with our sinnes remaining or pardoned and forgiven Lastly consider the wofull estate of sinners in hel and the blessed estate of the paitent in heaven Let the consideration of all those things move us to turne to God by repentance and make conscience of a new life But some will say repentance is a bitter thing But he that will taste of the sweetnesse of salvation must partake of the bitternesse of repentance Is repentacce a bitter thing know then that the fruit of impenitency is more bitter Nay though repentance be bitter to flesh and blood yet God havei●g ●●fused grace into the repentant soul it doth becomen weet unto him But some will say it I should set my selfe to the practise of repentance it will be my undoing I should lose my gaine But tel me what will it availe thee to win the whole world and to lose thine owne soul Now if thou wilt beleeve Christ thou shalt gaine an hundred fold Mat. 19.29 The gaine that thou hast by impenitency what is it but the cause of Gods iudgements against thee Goe too now ye impenitent wretches weepe and houle your garments are moth-eaten You treasure up riches here to increase Gods vengeance hereafter But repentance gains Gods blessing in this life and a Kingdome in the world to come Now s●me will say I would faine repent for my sinnes but I am s●●umbred with the things of this life that I cannot apply my selfe unto it But cast of the incumbrances of this world first and know that repentance will not hinder thee in t●y honest calling Some other would say I am willing to repent but I am ●o intangled with carnall friends that I shall displease them and I shall have a weary life with them But he that forsaketh not father and mother and brother and sister and all things else for my sake saith our Saviour is not worthy of me Wilt thou despite God and Christ and thine owne soule for thy carnall friends Repent then God and Christ and all the Saints and Angells will be thy friends Now others will say I purpose to repent and cannot yet apply my selfe unto it But when dost thou purpose to repent Is the time in thy hand Thou knowest not how suddenly thou shalt be cut off therefore deferre not the time o● thy repentance Doe we not sée many in their youth health a●d weal●h quickly gone And dost not thou byd l●y make the burthen heavier encreasing thy s●●●e Is not the worke harder when thou dost performe it then In the mea●e while thou art the Devils slave Yet suppose thou dost intend according to thy promise to repent in thy sicknesse or in old age thou shalt find as the burthen is greater so the taske to be more hard and difficult when sicknesse comes and old age is burthen enough of it selfe and needs not any greater Lastly consider the gift of Gods grace is not in thy power Now is the day of grace now is the appo●nted time and if thou wilt not now accept his grace offered unto thee when thou callest hereafter upon him how knowest thou if hee will hear thee seeing now thou refusest grace when it is offered thee If ever thou meanest to repent now is the tim● slight not the grace of God now it is offered unto thee Some will say I h●ve repented already but if thou hast thy repentance must be perpetuall and ●o●tinuall it is not the worke of a day but o● a●ise As long as thou bre●the●t thou dost sinne the●efore ●epent as oft as thou sinnest Betake the s●lfe to a more déep search renew thy repentance daily looke back to thy former sinnes and life to thy birth and corruption and know that the more thou repentest the more swéet and easie will thy repentance be and at last nothing will comfort thy soule so much as repentance The last use is for comfort to all those that have repented indéed they shall be saved thou shalt lose nothing by thy repentance thou shalt have great recompence thy prayers shall be acceptable to God thou shalt have peace in death boldnesse in iudgement and glory in Heaven GENERAL RVLES Of a Godly Life He 's only wise who God doth know And doth by life his knowledge show EVery day thou drawest neerer to thy Death Iudgement and Eternity Therefore thinke every day how thou mayest be able to ●and in that most strict and severe Iudgement ●nd so live for ever Look diligently to thy ●houghts Words and Deeds Every evening ●hink thou shalt dye that night Every mor●ing thinke thou shalt die that day Doe not deferre thy conversion and good works till to Morrow because to morrow is uncertaine but Death is certaine and hangs over thy head every day Nothing is more contrary to Godlinesse than delay If thou contem●test the inward calling of the Holy Spirit thou shalt never attaine to true conversion Deferre not thy conversion and good works till thine old age but offer unto God the flower of thy youth It is uncertaine whether the young man shall live till he be old But it is certaine that destruction is prepared for the young man that is impenitent No age is fitter for Gods service than youth which flourisheth in body and minde For no mans sake undertake an evill cause for it is not man but God that shall hereafter judge thee do not therefore preferre the favour of men before the grace of God In the way of the Lord either we goe forwards or else we goe backwards Therefore examine the life every day whether thou goest forwards or backwards in the study of piety to stand in the way of the Lord is to goe back Delight not then to stand still in the course of godlinesse but study alwayes to walke in the way of the Lord let thy conversation be evermore courteous unto all grievous to none familiar with few To God live piously to thy selfe chastly to thy neighbour justly Shew favour to thy friend Shew patience towards thy enemie Shew thy good will towards all an● thy bounty to whoml thou art able In thy life die daily unto thy selfe and unto thy vices So in death thou shalt ●ive unto God FINIS