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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18126	A sermon of the nature and end of repentance shadowed in the ministerie of Iohn the Baptist. Preached the Sunday afore Lent. 1613.	Case, William, 1584 or 5-1634.	1616 (1616)	STC 4767; ESTC S107898	20,795	36

want both of obseruation of the order of the working of grace within vs and also of distinct explication what kinde or degree of grace the seuerall merits of Christ doe procure vs. To conclude this point therefore as the children of nature walke in darkenesse and confusion so the children of grace should walke in light and distinction and not onely talke wildely and confusedly of their faith in Christ of their hope and other their great vertues but also be able to discerne of the manner and order of the working of Gods spirit within them and distinguish of the seuerall changings of their affections and not that onely but also feele the power thereof in their owne soules and then shall they know whether they can certainely beleeue that their sinnes are forgiuen afore they be repented of Fourthly for the hypocriticall heart of man hath many windings it may be conceited as it is by some that they haue already repented that time is already past For there are some Anabaptisticall and fanaticke spirits that haue limited a certaine time for sorrow and repentance that imagine and affirme that men are to continue and lie vnder the terrours of conscience euen vntill they be ready to vndertake some desperate attempt and then affter they haue once escaped that danger they thinke they are safe they are so throughly seasoned that euer after they remaine secure all their drosse is purged out going on continually afterwards in a course of obseruing and censuring other mens imperfections and in the meane time neglect themselues altogether Whereas certaine it is that so long as we liue in this world we shall shew our selues euery one of vs to be but men full of frailtie and instabilitie and therefore that our repentance is daily to be renewed For as the naturall life of man doth consist vpon that which is called by the Physitians humor radicalis and calor naturalis naturall heate and radicall moisture for indeede all life is sustained by motion and motion is betweene contrarieties so in our spirituall life there must of necessitie be two contrary qualities repentance continually to put off our own vnrighteousnesse and faith to put on Christs righteousnesse the one to worke vpon the other so to preserue life by mofect of good within vs must repentance and faith be encreased which must be vnto the end of our liues for death onely is the end and complement of our repentance and mortification euen as our resurrection shall be the end and complement of our faith and viuification Now the last shift worth the speaking of which men frame vnto themselues thereby to slippe the bridle of mortification is one vnworthy any man that is euen but of meane capacitie in vnderstanding the sacred misteries of his saluation and vnworthy also either the answering or so much as mentioning were it not so common as it is indeede being fitter to scare crowes then Chrislians And it is this that in asmuch as repentance is so harsh vnto flesh and blood and practised of so few and that the auerse nature of man can hardly be drawne to vndergoe the same that therefore the indispensable necessary exaction therof is a doctrine which might bring men to despaire and so exceeding dangerous to be vrged wherein it is strange to see that men should be so strongly deuoted to their owne distruction that they should not acknowledge the meanes of their restitution but the Prophesie of the Apostle is fulfilled herein where he foresheweth that the time should come when men would not suffer wholesome doctrine 2 Tim. 4.3 but hauing eares itching shall get themselues teachers after their owne lusts But to returne and satisfie this great doubt What needes any man to feare despaire 2 Tim. 2.19 The foundation of God remaineth sure saith the Apostle and hath this seale The Lord knoweth who are his Luke 21.18 and there shall not one hayre of their heads perish How then shall the ordinance of God disanull and ouerthrow the purpose of God Indeed if any man should goe about to deceiue and ouercharge simple soules by a deniall or extenuation of Gods mercy insinuating that it were eyther hopelesse or a hazard to trust vnto the same it were dangerous and like enough to swallow them vp with distraction or dispaire but so long as Repentance is but taught truely for the remission of sinnes and that remission of sinnes is not obtayned without it Let Paul plant and Apollos water let euery man doe his duety and performe his charge and referre the euent and successe to him that is able to dispose of all things to his owne glory Fphes 1.11 and worketh all things after the counsell of his owne will And then let what will fall out it is our part to giue praise vnto God thereby knowing this 2 Cor. 2.15.16 that the Gospell as it is ordayned the sauour of life vnto life vnto such as shall be saued euen so by Gods owne purpose is it the sauour of death vnto death vnto those that shall be damned And therefore this scruple is but a cracke that doth more feare then hurt discouering both folly in the heads and prophanesse in the hearts of those that obiect the same For it is certaine that when mens affections are so strongly set vpon vanitie that by no meanes they will be drawne from the same they inuent and imagine continually how to oppose and disable the force of that which they thinke doth any way checke or restraine their vnbridled lusts and so especially ayme to disproue and gaine-say the necessitie of repentance and mortification by such friuolous and ridiculous arguments as these and yet as they thinke wisely to For of this sort some there are that are in their owne conceits of so refined and sublimated temper that they thinke they are too wise and account it as a disparagement for their high spirits to submit themselues to the foolishnesse of God for the preaching of the Crosse of Christ is to them that perish foolishnesse 1 Cor. 1.18 saith the Apostle and therfore doe they alwayes as much as in them lyes discountenance and disharten any that are of stricter and more conscionable carriage then themselues Others of them there are also so farre from imbracing repentance that they oppose by all meanes against it and like iearing Ismaels set themselues to scorne and diride the same so that whosoeuer vndertaketh that holy course exposeth himselfe to all the censure and obloquie that such wicked and prophane hearts can inuent Yea to so strange a height of Atheisme are men growne in these times that ordinarily they deeme and tearme others curious and precise not because they are busie Polypragmons hauing an Oare in euery mans Boat and iudging of euery mans conscience neyther for their affected singularitie and nice curiositie nor for that bold and blinde zeale of Vzza in medling with that which belongs onely vnto the Priests office nor yet for their rebellious