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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29096	The good old way, or, An excellent and profitable treatise of repentance made by John Bradford in the yeare 1553. Now published with two prefaces relating the life of the author, and the excellencey of the worke.	Bradford, John, 1510?-1555.; Harris, Robert, 1581-1658.; Wilkinson, Henry, 1616-1690.	1652 (1652)	Wing B4106; ESTC R25287	35,398	95

that giveth the more to his enemies will he not give the lesse to his friends God hath given his own Son then which nothing is greater even to us his enemies and we now being become his friends will he deny us faith and pardon of our sinnes which though they be great yet in comparison they are nothing at all to the price given Christ Jesus would give his own selfe for us when we willed it not and will he now deny us Faith if we will it This will is his earnest that he hath given us truly to look indeed for the thing willed And look thou for it indeed for as he hath given thee to will so will he give thee to doe Jesus Christ gave his life for our evils and by his death he delivered us O then in that he liveth now and cannot dye will he forsake us his heart blood was not too deare for us when we asked it not what can then be now too deare for us asking it Is he a changeling Is he mutable as a man is Can he repent him of his gifts Did he not foresee our falls Paid not he therefore the price Because he saw we should fall sore therefore would he suffer sore Yea if his suffering had not been enough he would yet once more come again God the Father I may say if the death of his sonne incarnate would not serve would himselfe and the Holy Ghost also become incarnate and dye for us This Death of Christ therefore look on as the very pledge of Gods love towards thee whosoever thou art how deepe soever thou hast sinned See Gods hands are nailed they cannot strike thee his feet also he cannot run from thee his armes are wide open to embrace thee his head hangs down to kisse thee his very heart is open so that therein looke nay even see and thou shalt see nothing therein but love love love love to thee hide thee there lay thy head there with the Evangelist This is the clift of the Rock wherein Elias stood This is for all aking heads a pillow of downe Anoint thy head with this oile let this oyntment embalme thy head and wash thy face Tarry thou on this firme rock and I le warrant thee Say with Paul What can separate me from the love of God can death can poverty can sicknesse hunger or any misery perswade thee now that God loveth thee not Nay nothing can seperate thee from the love wherewith God hath loved thee in Christ Jesus whom he loveth he loveth to the end So that now where abundance of sin hath been in thee the more is the abundance of grace But to what end Certainly that as sinne hath reigned to death as thou seest to the killing of Gods Sonne so now Grace must raigne to life to the honouring of Gods Sonne who is now alive and cannot dye any more So that they which by faith feele this cannot any more dye to God but to sinne whereto they are dead and buried with Christ As Christ therefore liveth so doe they and that to God to righteousnesse and holinesse The life which they live is In fide Filii Dei in the faith of the Sonne of God whereby you see that now I am slipt into that which I made the third part of repentance namely newnesse of life which I could not so have done if that it were a part of it selfe indeed it is an effect or fruit of the second part that is of faith or trust in Gods mercy For he that beleeveth that is is certainly perswaded sinne to be such a thing that is the cause of all misery and of it selfe so greatly angreth God that in Heaven nor in earth nothing could appease his wrath save onely the death and precious bloodshedding of the Sonne of God in whom is all the delight and pleasure of the Father he I say that is perswaded thus of his sinne the same cannot but in heart abhorre and quake to doe or say yea to think any thing willingly which Gods Law teacheth him to be sinne Again he that beleeveth that is is certainly perswaded Gods love to be so much towards him that where through sinne he was lost and made a firebrand of Hell the eternall Father of mercy which is the omni-sufficient God and needeth nothing in us or of any thing that we can doe to deliver us out of Hell and to bring us into Heaven did send even his own most deare Sonne out of his bosome out of heaven into hell as a man would say to bring us as I said from thence into his own bosome and mercy we being his very enemies he I say that is thus perswaded of Gods love towards him and of the price of his redemption by the deare blood of the Lamb immaculate Jesus Christ the same man cannot but love God againe and of love doe that and heartily desire to doe better the which might please God Think you that such a one knowing these things by Faith will willingly insist and wallow in his wilfull lusts pleasures and fantasies Will such a one as knoweth by Faith Christ Jesus to have given his blood to wash him from his sinnes play the Sow to nuzle in his puddle of filthy sinne and vice againe Nay rather then he will be defiled againe by his wilfull sinning he will wash often the feet of his affections watching over the vice still sticking in him which as a spring continually sendeth out poyson enough to drowne and defile him if the sweet water of Christs passion in Gods sight did not wash it and his blood satisfy the rigour of Gods justice due for the same This blood of Christ shed for our sinnes is so deare in the sight of him that beleeveth that he will abhorre in his heart to stamp it and tread it under his feet He knoweth now by his beleefe that it is too much that hitherto he hath set too little by it and is ashamed thereof Therefore for the residue of his life he purposeth to take better heed to himselfe then before he did Because he seeth by his faith the grievousnesse of Gods anger the foulenesse of sin the greatnesse of Gods mercy and of Christs love towards him he will now be heedy to pray unto God to give him his grace accordingly that as with his eyes and tongue hands and feet c. he hath displeased God doing his own will even so now with the same eyes tongue c. he may displease his own selfe and doe Gods will Willingly will he not doe that which might renew the death of the sonne of God He knoweth he hath too much sinne unwillingly in him so that thereto he will not adde willing offences This willing and witting offending sinning whosoever doth flatter himselfe therein doth evidently demonstrate and shew that he never yet indeed tasted of Christ truly He was never truely perswaded or beleeved how foule a thing sinne is how grievous a thing Gods anger

Gods anger yet at the length he found much mercy The City of Ninivie also found favour with God as did many other which for brevity I will omit and will bring forth one or two out of the New Testament that we may see God to be the same God in the New Testament that he was in the Old I might tell you of many if I should speake of the Lunatick such as were possessed with Divels Lame Blind dumb deaf lepers c. but time will not suffer me therefore one or two shall serve Mary Magdalen had seven Divels but yet they were cast out of her and of all others she was the first that Christ appeared unto after his resurrection Thomas would not believe Christs resurrection though many told him which had seen and felt him by reason whereof a man might have thought that his sinnes would have cast him away Except I should see and feele saith he I will not believe Ah wilfull Thomas I will not saith he but Christ appeared unto him and would not loose him neither will he thee beloved if with Thomas thou wilt keepe company with the Disciples as Thomas did Peters fall was ugly he accursed himselfe if ever he knew Christ and that for feare of a Maiden and lyed not once but three severall times and that in the hearing of Christ his Master but yet the third time Christ looked back and cast on him his eye of grace so that he went out and wept bitterly And after Christs resurrection not only did the Angels will the Woman to tell Peter that Christ was risen but Christ himselfe appeared unto him such a good Lord is he The Theefe hanging on the Crosse said thus Lord when thou comest into thy Kingdome remember mee And what answer had he This day saith Christ thou shalt be with me in Paradise What a comfort is this in that he is now the same Christ to thee and mee and to us all if we will runne unto him for he is the same Christ to day and to morrow untill he come to judgement Then indeed he will be inexorable but now is he more ready to give then we to aske If thou cry he heareth thee even before thou cry Crie therefore behold man he is not partiall Call saith he and I will he are thee aske and thou shalt have seeke and thou shalt finde though not at the first yet at the length If he tarry a while it is but to try thee Nam veniens veniet non tardabit He is coming and will not be long Thus have you foure meanes which you must use to the attaining of faith or certain perswasion of Gods mercy towards you which is the second part of repentance namely prayer the free and universall promises of Gods graces the recordation of the benefits of God past and present the examples of Gods mercy Which although they might suffice yet will I put one more to them which only of it selfe is full sufficient I meane the death of the Sonne of God Jesus Christ which if thou set before the eyes of thy mind it will confirme thy assurance for it is the great Seale of England as they say yea of all the World for the confirmation of all Patents and perpetuities of the everlasting life whereunto we are all called If I thought these which I have before recited were not sufficient to confirme your faith of Gods love towards such as doe repent I would tarry longer herein But because I have been both long and also I trust you have some exercise of conscience in this daily or else you are to blame I will but touch and goe consider with your selves what we are misers wretches and enemies to God Consider what God is even he which hath all power majesty might glory riches c. perfectly of himselfe and needeth nothing but hath all things Consider what Christ is concerning his God-head coequall with his Father even he by whom all things were made he I say by whom all things are ruled and governed Concerning his Man-hood the onely Deareling of his Father in whom is all his joy Now Syr what a love is this that this God which needeth nothing would give wholly his own selfe to thee his enemy wreaking his wrath upon himselfe in this his sonne as a man may say to spare thee to save thee to win thee to bye thee to have thee to enjoy thee for ever Because thy sinne hath seperated thee from him to the end thou mightest come eftsoones into his company againe and therein remaine he himselfe became as a man would say a sinner or rather sinne it selfe even a malediction or curse that wee sinners we accursed by our sinne might by his oblation or suffering for our sinnes by his curse be delivered from sinne and from malediction For by sinne he destroyed sinne killing Death Sathan and sinne by their own weapons and that for thee and mee man if we cast it not away by unbeliefe Oh wonderfull love of God Who ever heard of such a love The Father of Heaven for us his enimies to give hís own dearly beloved Sonne Jesus Christ and that not only to be our brother to dwell among us but also to the death of the Crosse for us Oh wonderfull love of Christ to us all that was content and willing to work this deed for us Was there any love like to this love God indeed hath commended his charity and love to us herein that when we were very enemies unto him he would give his own sonne for us That we being men might become as you would say Gods God would become man That we being mortall might become immortall the immortall God would become mortall man That we earthly wretches might be Cittizens of Heaven the Lord of Heaven would become as a man would say earthly That we being accursed might be blessed God would be accursed That we by our father Adam being brought out of Paradise into the puddle of all pain migh be redeemed and brought into Paradise againe God would be our Father and an Adam thereunto That we having nothing might have all things God having all things would have nothing That we being vassailes and slaves to all even to Sathan the Fiend might be Lords of all and of Sathan The Lord of all would become a vassaile and a slave to us all and in danger of Sathan Oh love incomprehensible Who can otherwise think now but if the gracious good Lord disdained not to give his own Sonne his own hearts joy for us his very enemies before we thought to beg any such thing at his hands yea before we were Who I say can think otherwise but that with him he will give us all good things If when we hated him and fled away from him he sent his Sonne to seek us who can think otherwise then that now we loving him and lamenting because we love him no more but that he will for ever love us He