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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A79521	A sermon preached at the publike fast before his Maiesty at Christ-Church in Oxford. By William Chillingworth. Published by command since his death.	Chillingworth, William, 1602-1644.	1644 (1644)	Wing C3894; Thomason E52_16; ESTC R9370	22,195	32

willingly without any constraint or unavoydable necessity wee have transgressed the law of God it being in our Power by Gods grace to have done otherwise To aggravate this fault is to confesse we have done so when we might easily have avoyded it and had no great nor violent temptation to it to pretend any great difficultie in the matter is to excuse and extenuate it but to say that all things considered it was absolutely impossible for you to avoyd it is flatly to deny it Others there are that think they have done enough if to confession of sinne they adde some sorrow for it if when the present fit of sin is past and they are returned to themselves the sting remaining breed som remorse of conscience some complaints against their wickednesse and folly for having done so and some intentions to forsake it though vanishing and ineffectuall These heat-drops this morning dew of sorrow though it presently vanish and they return to their sin againe upon the next temptation 〈◊〉 2.22 as a dog to his vomit when the pang is over yet in the pauses betweene while they are in their good mood they conceive themselves to have very true and very good repentance so that if they should have the good fortune to be taken away in one of these Intervalla one of these sober moods they should certainly be saved which is just as if a man in a quartane Ague or the stone or gout should think himselfe rid of his disease as oft as he is out of his fit But if repentance were no more but so how could S. Paul have truely said 1 Cor. 7.10 that godly sorrow worketh repentance every man knowes that nothing can worke it selfe The Architect is not the house which he builds the Father is not the Son which he begets the Tradesman is not the worke which be makes and therefore if sorrow godly sorrow worketh repentance 2 Cor. 7 1● certainly sorrow is not repentance the same S. Paul tells us in the same place that the sorrow of the world worketh death and you will give me leave to conclude from hence therefore it is not death and what shall hinder me from concluding thus also Godly sorrow worketh repentance therefore it is not repentance To this purpose it is worth the observing that when the Scripture speakes of that kind of repentance which is onely sorrow for something done and wishing it undone it constantly useth the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to which forgivenesse of sinnes is no where promised So it is written of Judas the son of perdition Mat. 27 5. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he repented and went and hanged himselfe and so constantly in other places But that repentance to which remission of sins and salvation is promised is perpetually expressed by the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifies a through change of the heart and soule of the life and actions 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mat. 3 2. which is rendred in our last translation Repent for the Kingdome of heaven is at hand But much better because freer from ambiguitie in the entrance to our Common Prayer Book Amend your lives for the Kingdome of heaven is at hand From whence by the way we may observe that in the judgement of those holy and learned Martyrs repentance and amendment of life are all one And I would to God the same men out of the same care of avoyding mistakes and to take away occasion of cavilling our Liturgy from them that seeke it and out of feare of encourageing carnall men to security in sinning had beene so provident as to set downe in termes the first sentence taken out of the 18 of Ezekiel and not have put in the place of it an ambiguous and though not in it selfe yet accidentally by reason of the mistake to which it is subject I feare very often a pernitious paraphrase for whereas thus they make it At what time soever a Sinner doth repent him of his sins from the bottome of his heart I will put out all his wickednesse out of my remembrance saith the Lord The plain truth if you will heare it is the Lord doth not say so these are not the very words of God but the paraphrase of men the words of God are as followeth If the wicked turne from all the sins which he hath committed and keepe all my statutes Ezek. 18.21 and do that which is lawfull right he shall surely live he shall not dye where I hope you easily observe that there is no such word as At what time soever a sinner doth repent c. and that there is a wide difference betweene this as the word repent usually sounds in the eares of the people and turning from all sinnes and keeping all Gods statutes that indeed having no more in it but sorrow and good purposes may be done easily and certainely at the last gaspe and it is very strange that any Christian who dyes in his right senses and knowes the difference betweene heaven and hell should faile of the performing it but this worke of turning keeping and doing is though not impossible by extraordinarie mercy to be performed at last yet ordinarily a worke of time a long and a laborious worke but yet heaven is very well worth it and if you meane to goe through with it you had need goe about it presently Yet seeing the Composers of our Liturgy thought fit to abreviate Turning from all sinne and keeping all Gods statutes and doing that which is lawfull and right into this one word repenting it is easie and obvious to collect from hence as I did before from the other place that by repentance they understood not only sorrow for sinne but conversion from it The same word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mat. 12 42. is used in speaking of the the repentance of the Ninivites and how reall hearty and effectuall a conversion that was you may see Jonas 3 from the 5 to the last verse The people of Ninive beleeved God and put on sackcloth from the greatest of them to the least of them for word came to the King of Ninive and he arose from his throne and he cast his Robe from him and covered him with sackcloth and sate in ashes and he caused it to be proclaimed and published throughout Ninive by the decree of the King and of his nobles saying Let neither man nor beast heard nor flock taste any thing let them not feed nor drinke water but let man and beast be covered with sackcloth and cry mightily unto God yea let every one turne from his evill way and from the violence which is in their hands who can tell if God will turne and repent and turne away his fierce anger that we perish not Which words containe an excellent and lively patterne for all true penitents to follow and whereunto to conform themselves in their humiliation and repentance Ionah 3 4. And truly though there be no Ionas sent