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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09473	Tvvo treatises· I. Of the nature and practise of repentance. II. Of the combat of the flesh and spirit.	Perkins, William, 1558-1602.	1593 (1593)	STC 19758; ESTC S102079	38,243	106

hanging drawing and quartering A man walking in his way falles into a deepe dungeon that is full of vggely serpents and noisome beastes in his fall he catches hold of a twigge of a tree that growes at the mouth of the dungeon and hangs by it afterward there comes a beast both leane and hungerbitten which having cropt the whole tree is ever and anon knapping at the twigge on which he hanges Nowe what is the daunger of this man surely he is like to fall into the pit over which he hangeth well this man is every impenitent sinner the pit is hell prepared for the devill and his angels the twig is the brickle and fraile life of man the hungerbitten beast is death that is ready every houre to knap our life asunder the dāger is fearful for mā hanging as it were over the mouth of hel whē life is ended unlesse he use good meanes before he die he then falleth to the very bottome of it If this be the miserie wherewith the careles man is sieged cōpassed about every way that for his sinnes why do men lie in the dead sleepe of security ô it stands them in hand to take up the voice of bitter lamentation for their offences to howle after the manner of dragons If men could weepe nothing but teares of blood for their sins if they could dye a 1000 times in one day for very griefe they could never be grieved ynough for their sins The second motive to draw men to repentance is the consideration of the wretched estate of an impenitent sinner in his death which is nothing but the wages allowance that he receives for his sinne and it is the very suburbs or rather the gates of hel S. Paul compares death to a scorpion who carieth a sting in his taile which is sinne Now then whē impenitent prophane persons die then comes this scorpion gripes them with her legs stabs them at the hart with her sting Wherfore the best thing is before death come to use meanes to pull out the sting of death And nothing wil do it but the blood of Christ let mē therfore breake off their sinnes by repētāce let thē come to the throne of grace crie yea let them fil heaven earth with cries for mercy oh pray pray pray for the pardō of thy sinnes If thou obtaine but one drop of Gods speciall mercie in Christ all danger is past For death hath lost his sting and then a man without danger may put an ougly serpēt in his bosom The third motive is the consideration of his estate after death When the day of the last judgement shalbe he must be brought and set before the tribunal seat of christ he shal not be able to escape or hide himself then the bookes shalbe brought out all his sins shalbe discovered before Gods saints angels the devil his own conscience shal accuse him none shall be aduocate to plead his cause hee himselfe shall be speechlesse hee shall at length heare the dreadfull sentence of damnation Goe ye cursed into hell prepared for the divell his augels This thing might moove the vilest Athiest in the world to leaue his wicked wayes and come to amendement of life Wee see the strongest theefe that is when he is ledde in the way from the prison to the barre leaves his theeving and behaues himselfe orderly And indeed if hee woulde then cut a purse it were high time that he were hanged All men by nature are traitours and malefactours against God whiles we live in this worlde wee are in the way going to the barre of Gods iudgement The wheele of the heavens turnes one bout every day and winds up somwhat of the threed of our life whether wee sleepe or wake we are alwayes comming neerer our end wherfore let all men daily humble themselues for their sinnes and pray vnto God that he would be reconciled unto them in Christ and let them indeavour themselves in obedience to all Gods commandements both in their lives and callings Againe after the last iudgement there remains death eternal appointed for him which standes in these three things I. A separation from all ioy and comfort of the presence of God II. Eternall fellowship with the divell and all his angels III. The feeling of the horrible wrath of God which shall seaze upon bodie soule and conscience shall feed on them as fire doth on pitch and brimstone and torment them as a worme crawling in the bodie and gnawing on the heart they shall alwaies be dying and never deade alwayes in woe and neuer in ease And this death is the more grievous because it is euerlasting Suppose the whole worlde to be a mountaine of sande and that a birde must carrie from it a mouthfull of sand euerie thousande yeeres many innumerable thousands of yeres will be expired before she will haue caried away the whole mountaine well if a man should stay ●n torment so long and then haue an ende of his woe it were some comfort but when the bird shall haue caried away the mountaine a thousand times alas alas a man shall be as far from the ende of his anguish and torment as ever he was This consideration may serve as an yron scourge to drive men from their wicked lives Chrysostome would have men in their meetings in tavernes and feastes to talke of hel that by often thinking on it they might avoyde it A grave and chaste matrone being mooved to commit folly with a lewd ruffian after long discourse she called for a panne of burning coales requesting him for her sake to holde his finger in them but one houre he answered that it was an unkinde request to whome she replyed that seeing he would not holde so much as one finger in a fewe coales for one small houre she could not yeeld to do the thing for which she should be tormented body soule in hell fire for ever And so shold all men reason against themselves None will be brought to doe a thing that may make so much as their finger or tooth to ake therefore we ought to have great care to leave our sinnes whereby we bring endlesse torment to bodie and soule in hell CAP. VIII Of motives Evangelicall EVangelicall Motives are two especially The first is taken from the consideration of mans redemption He that redeemed mankind is God him selfe As Paul saith that God was in Christ reconciling the world to him selfe Mans sinne is so vile and hainous in the eyes of God that no Angell nor creature was able to appease the wrath of God for the least offence But the Sonne of God himselfe must come downe from heaven and take mans nature on him and not onely that but he must also suffer the most accursed death of the crosse and shed his most pretious heart blood to satisfie the justice of his Father in our behalfe If a Father should be sicke of such a

disease that nothing would heale but the heart blood of his owne childe he would presently judge his owne case to be dangerous and would also vowe if ever he recovered to use all meanes whereby he might avoid that disease So likewise seeing nothing could cure the deadly wound of our sinne but a plaister made of the heart blood of Christ it must make us acknowledge our pitifull case and the hainousnesse of the least of our sinnes and stirre us up to newnesse of life Againe considering the end of the redemption wrought by Christ was to deliuer us from our euill conuersation in sinne and unrighteousnesse we are not to continue and as it were lie bathing our selues in sinne for that were as if a prisoner after that he had bin ransomed and had his boltes taken of and were put out of the prison to go whither he would should returne againe and desire to lie in the dungeon still The second motive is that God hath made a promise to such as truly repent I. Of remission of sinnes Wash you make you cleane take away the evill of your workes from before mine eyes cease to doe evill c. though your sinnes were as crimsin they shall be made a● white as snow though they were red like scarlet they shal be as wooll And Seeke the Lorde while he may be found call upon him while he is neere Let the wicked for sake his wayes the vnrighteous his own imaginations returne vnto the Lord and he will have mercie on him for hee is very plentifull in forgiving II. Of life everlasting I will not the death of a sinner but rather that hee repent and live And Thus saith the Lord vnto the house of Israel Seeke yee me ye shall live III. Of mitigating or remooving temporall calamities Stand in the courte of the Lordes house speake vnto all the cities of Iudah c. If so be they will hearken and turne every man from his evill way that I may repent me of the plague which I have determined to bring upon them because of the wickednesse of their workes As God hath made these mercifull promises to penitent sinners so he hath faithfully perfourmed them so soone as they have but begun to repent Exāple of David Then David said to Nathan I have sinned against the Lord. And Nathan said to David thy sinne is forgiven thee Of Manasses When he was in tribulation he prayed vnto the Lord his God humbled him selfe greatly before the Lord God of his fathers and prayed unto him an● God was intreated of him heard his prayer Of the Publicane The Publicane c. smot● his breast saying O God be mercifull to me sinner I tell you this man departed iustified t● his house rather then the other Of the thiefe He said unto Iesus Lord remember me when thou commest to thy kingdome Then Iesus sai● unto him verely I say unto thee to day shall thou be with me in paradise Having such notable promises made to Repentance no man is to drawe backe from the practise of it because of the multitude o● his sinnes but rather to doe it The Pharise● said to Christs disciples why eates your master with Publicanes and sinners When Iesu● heard it he said unto them the whole need no● the Phisition but they that are sicke And I am come not to call the righteous but sinners to repentance And Verely I say unto you that Publicanes and harlots shall goe before you into the kingdome of God CAP. IX Of the time of Repentance THe time of repentance is the time present without any delay at all as the holy Ghost saith To day if ye will heare his voyce And Exhort one another daily while it is called to day lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfullnesse of sinne Reasons hereof are these I. Life is uncerten for no mā knowes at what houre or moment after what manner he shall goe forth of this world Be ye also prepared therefore for the sonne of man wil come at an houre when ye thinke not This one thing should make a man to hasten his repentance and the rather because many are dead who purposed with them selves to repent in time to come but were prevented by death and shall never repent II. The longer a man lives in any sin the greater danger because by practise sin gets heart strēgth Custome is of such force that that which men use to do in their life time the same they doe and speake when they are dying One had three pounds owing to him to be paid three seuerall yeres when he was dying nothing could be got of him but three yeres three pounds Againe by deferring repentance men treasure up wrath against the day of wrath As if a malefactour for his punishment should be appointed to cary every day a sticke of wood to an heape to burne him twentie yeeres after III. The more the time is prolonged the harder it is to repent the longer a man goes in his sicknesse without phisicke the harder is the recoverie And where the devill dwells long hee will hardly be remooved The best way to kill a serpent is to cruse it in the heade when it is young IIII. It is as meat and drinke to the devill to see men liue in their sinnes deferring repentance as on the contrary there is great ioy among the angels of god in heaven when a sinner doth repent V. Late repentance is seldome or never true repentance For if a man repent when he cannot sinne as in former time as namely in death then hee leaves not sinne but sinne leaves him wherefore the repentance which men frame to them selues when they are dying it is to be feared least it die with them And it is very iust that hee should be contemned of God in his death who contemned God in his life Chrysostome sayeth that the wicked man hath this punishment on him that in dying hee shoulde forget himselfe who when hee was living did forget God VI. We are with Abel to giue unto God in sacrifice even the fatte of our flocke now they which deferre repentance to the end do the contrary Late repenters offer the flower of their youth to the deuill and they bring the lame and broken sacrifice of their old age to God CAP. X. OF CERTAINE CASES in Repentance I. Case of a revolt WHether a man that hath professed Christ and his religion yet afterwarde in persecution denies Christ and forsweares the religion may repent and be saved Answere It is a grievous estate yet a man may come to repentance afterward Manasses fell away to idolatry and witchcraft and yet was received to mercie So did wise Salomon and yet no doubt recovered and is received to life everlasting My reason is because God vouchsafed him to be a pen-man of some parts of holy scripture And the sctiptures were written not by