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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

make good use of corrections to take notice of Gods end and hand in them and learn to see the cause of them which is our sinne That we sorrow for those sinnes which haue brought such correction upon us Secondly if we will repent we must labour for a through knowledge of our own estate What we are of our selues by reason of our sinnes and likewise the curse of God that is due unto us To that purpose we must examine our selues by reason of our sinnes our hearts and liues by the law of God and then we shall sée our sinnes the number of them and the hainous nature of them After I was instructed saith Ephraim that is after I came to the knowledge of my self I repented not till we be brought to the sight of our miserable estate till we be brought to this perplexity with these pricked hearts that we know not what to do can our hearts repent Thirdly labour for faith to apprehend the promises and mercies in Christ Iesus for though Repentance Faith grow together in time yet in nature faith is the mouing cause of repentance Faith and confidence in Gods mercy that he will receiue us is a moving cause of Repentance Till a man belieue the promises of God and apprehend the mercies of God in Christ by faith though he be terrified by iudgement yet he doth grow obstinate and neuer humbleth himself by Repentance Motives to perswade us to Repentance What néeds more then this He that will be saued must repent without repentance nothing can be expected but damnation more particularly consider 1. Motive First Gods mercy and loue God is a mercifull God and that should draw our hearts to repentance Joel 2.12 The Prophet useth this argument Turn unto ●he Lord with all your heart rent your hearts and not your garments c. for he is a mercifull and gra●ious God There is mercy with thee that thou may●st be feared saith David as if he should say if thou wert not a mercifull God to what end were it to ●epent But seeing thou art a mercifull God it is ●o some purpose to repent great is the mercy and ●oue of God to penitent sinners Let the gift of his ●nly begotten Son to the cursed death of the Crosse witnesse Is God so mercifull to us and shall we ●ffend him still by our sinne shall we be so hard ●nd unmerciful to our own souls to whom God hath ●éen so mercifull The second Motive is The consideration of Christs death and passion should moue us to Repentance Was he pierced for our sinnes did he suffer the curse of God for our sins How then should our sinnes that pierced him pierce our hearts with grief Z●ch 12.10 As he did those Beloded hath Christ suffered such things for us and shall we crucifie him afresh with our sinnes Shall we trample his blessed Body and Blood under feet and contemn so great a salvation The third Motiue may be taken from the means and gracious times wee enioy This argument Christ and Iohn Baptist in their preaching used to moue the people to Repentance This is the time of grace and saluation now is Gods grace plentifully powred out if these times and meanes will not moue thée it shall be easier for Tyre and Sydon at the day of iudgement then for thee The fourth Motiue may be taken from the consideration of the Cvils of impenitencie even in this life First Temporall Iudgement that God hath in store for the impenitent and hard-hearted persons that go on in their wickednesse Rev. 2.21 22. I gave her space to repent and she repented not What then Behold I will cast her in a bed and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation except they repent of their deeds And look thou impenitent heart for the like This I will do saith the Lord Amos 4. And because I do thus unto thee prepare thy heart to meet thy Lord O Israel The second evil of impenitencie in this life is either hardnesse of heart or horror of conscience For an impenitent person when hee hath much offended his conscience with long custome of sin must needs be filled with great horror As Cain and Iudas which made them desperately cast away themselues And if he bee not thus filled with horror yet he is possessed with great hardnesse of heart which is the greatest iudgement that he can have inflicted upon him in this life And it followes in the third place why thou after the hardnesse of thy impitent heart treasurest up for thy selfe wrath against the day of wrath The more sin thou committest the longer thou livest in sin and impenitency and the more wrath dost thou treasure up for thy selfe The fifth motive is taken from the benefit of Repentance in this life first it obtaines an assured pardon of all sin which is the cheifest happinesse in this life thy sins shall be washed away by the blood of Christ Thus saith Christ to the penitent woman that washed his féet with her teares Thy sinnes are forgiven Of the penitent Publican he saith This man went home justified So the penitent person ever obtains pardon and remission of all his sinne and is iustified in the sight of God The second benefit is the removall of all afflictions Jer. 18.7 8. I will speak suddenly against a Nation or against a Kingdom to pluck it up and destroy it but if this Nation shall turn from their wickednesse I will repent of the Plague I thought to bring upon them If thou repent God will repent of the evil Thus Ninive found by experience When wicked Ahab did but hypocritically humble himself before the Lord the Lord was pleased to deferre the Iudgement threatned How much more when a man applies with a sincere heart to repent of his sins before God Y●a it will remove Iudgement already fallen This the Lord promiseth Chron. 7.4 If God hath smitten thée in thine estate or otherwise for thy sinne yet humble thy self and the Lord will pardon thée and heale thoo or at least if he remove not thine affliction suddenly it shall be for thy good for he will sanctifie them unto thée Thus did God to David when he had afflictions which because they were scandalous could not be easily and suddenly removed yet saith he it was good for me that I have been afflicted 3. It is a means to obtain temporall blessings Joel 2. The Prophet exhorteth them to repentance adds in the 14. verse who knoweth if God will return and leaue a blessing behind him The Prophet seems to make it doubtfull yet it is without all doubt all question and in the 18. verse he saith If they repent he will be iealous of their land and pitty his people yea behold I will send you Corn Wine and Oyle and ye shall be satisfied therewith and I will make you no more a reproach among th● Heathen So repentance is a means to obtain temporall blessings in this life for the

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