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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48847	A sermon preached before the King at White-Hall, March 6, 1673/4 by William Lloyd ...	Lloyd, William, 1627-1717.	1674 (1674)	Wing L2708; ESTC R20362	14,668	37

ye know runs throughout the whole course of ones life every day of our life has need of repentance for no day is free from the pollution of sin But through Gods mercy in Christ sin shall not be imputed to them in whom it is mortified or subdued and kept under in whom the power of it is conquered and kill'd or in whom 't is kept from coming to life I endeavour to use so many several terms as may reach the several states of men which I have to consider The first state is of them that are not yet grown up to years of discretion that cannot yet fully distinguish between good and evil they are to mortifie sin I cannot properly call it repentance that have not yet soil'd the white robe of Innocence which they put on through Gods Grace in the Sacrament of Baptism The second state is of them who having broke their Baptismal profession and having fallen into sin through ignorance and frailty have not yet proceeded so far as to have defil'd themselves by any wilful or deliberate sin The third state is of them who have thus transgressed and yet not gone to that height of enormity as to commit any sin against the light of nature such as God has particularly threatned with excision and have not yet contracted any habitual custom of those sins into which they have fallen The fourth state is of them who having done thus are therefore said to be spiritually dead The Question is what men in each of these states have to do in the work of Repentance how in each of these states they are to mortifie the deeds of the flesh First of them that are not yet grown up to years of discretion children that can scarce distinguish between good and evil the question is what they have to do in this work sure there is much to be done by their Parents and Governours 'T is their duty to forwarn them of sin to make them know their danger of it and by it to teach them as they are able to learn what solemn Vows and Professions were made for them in Baptism The first promise then made for them was that they should forsake the Devil and all his works the pomps and vanities of this world and all the sinful lusts of the flesh Children should be taught what these things are how hard it is to forsake them through the naughtiness of our natural disposition and yet how necessary 't is to forsake them and how possible through the Grace and Goodness of God Children should be taught in their daily prayers to acknowledge what they find of their ignorance and frailty to ask pardon for what has been amiss in their little time past and to beg the assistance of Gods Grace for the future Whensoever they do fall into actual sin as soon as ever it comes to the knowledge of their friends 't is their duty to admonish them and to make them sensible of it to make them ashamed of it and sorry for it To bring them if it be possible to hate and detest it To see that they Confess it to God and ask his pardon for that sin and all other that they resolve by promise to forsake it and beseech God for his Grace to enable them to fulfil that good resolution In the whole course of our life after Infancy being obnoxious to many and manifold sins some of Ignorance some of Weakness and some of Wilfulness and Presumption and none of these being to be forgiven without Repentance we ought as far as we know and are able to suit our Repentance to our Sins For sins of Ignorance and of daily Incursion I conceive a general Repentance may suffice for sins of Wilfulness and Presumption there ought to be a particular Repentance First for sins of Weakness and daily Incursion I say 't is necessary there should be a general Repentance Every one that has the use of knowledge and reason should make such a daily Confession in his Prayers as David did in that Psalm 19 12. Cleanse me Lord from my secret sins This our Church has taught us to do in our publick Prayers and we should do it as oft as we repeat that Confession Almighty and most merciful Father we have offended against thy holy Laws doing those things which we ought not to have done and not doing those things which we ought to have done In this and such like offices we sum up together our sins of Ignorance and daily Incursion we cast our selves with them before the Tribunal of God imploring that Mercy which according to the terms of the Gospel we are sure he will grant to them that confess in the general those sins which they know not in particular In this sense I conceive those words may be understood 1 John 1. 9. We says the Apostle of himself and such as he was cannot say that we have no sin We have sins of Ignorance and of daily incursion but blessed be God if we confess our sins he is faithful and will forgive us according to the terms of the Gospel As for those sins which need a particular Repentance of them says the same Apostle he that abides in God sinneth not 1 John 3. 6. and ver 9. He does not commit sin he does not fall into wilful and deliberate sin If he does there is a breach and he must speedily make it up by particular repentance for that particular sin Good God! how many such sins do many of us commit and pass them by without particular notice and therefore without particular Repentance they do not remember themselves and are as quiet as if God had forgotten them Because this happens too oft and cannot be helpt when 't is past I must mind them that are sensible of it how much they are oblig'd to special and solemn acts of Repentance This God will surely expect and less will not be accepted at their hands that they should set apart some special times for their spiritual accompt and especially when they would prepare to receive the Lords Supper All Christians are oblig'd to receive at Easter according to the ancient Laws yet in force When those Laws were first made in the Primitive Church care was taken there should be a time of preparation and I suppose for this purpose it was wisely ordain'd that there should be not only a whole Lent of Abstinence but a Week of Fasting the Passion Week in which men as it were with one common consent not to interrupt and hinder one another might set themselvs to examine the state of their Conscience to mortifie their Lusts and correct their evil Habits to purge out the old Leaven before they come to the Feast of that Sacrament What care the Church has taken for this we ought our selves to take for all our other preparations to set apartSufficient time for the cleansing of the Conscience To say how much is Sufficient I shall not undertake for the measures are various