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of thy three grand enemies the world the flesh and the Diuell which daily seeke the destruction of thy soule consider these twelue Antidotes Consider the shortnesse of the pleasure of sinne length of the punishment the one for a moment the other euerlasting Consider the companions of sinne for one sinne neuer goes alone but being once entertained it sets all the faculties of the soule also in a combustion and so procures a spirituall iudgment if not temporall vpon estate and person Consider thy life is but a span a breath a blast soone gone now if we had all the pleasure in the world yet being so soone to lose it it s not worth esteeming Consider sin causeth vs to lose a greater good than that can be as the fauour of God interest in Christ a guard of Angells right to the creatures c. Consider the vncertainety of repentance thou maist neuer haue motion to repent after thou hast sinned and so art damned Consider the nearnesse of death to thee some haue liued out aboue halfe their time others almost all of it young and old dye suddenly many times Consider one moment in hell will bee worse then all the pleasure in the world did good though it should haue lasted a thousand yeares twice told So on the contrary one moment in heauen doth more good than all the hardnesse and paines in good duties or persecution for them did hurt Consider the dignity of thy soule it 's more worth then a world Lose it not then for any sinne Consider the preciousnesse of a good conscience which is a continuall feast This thou losest by sinne Consider thou sinnest against a world of mercyes which God hath sent to thee as to soule body good name Estate and others that belong to thee Consider nothing can wash away any sinne but the blood of Christ. And wilt thou now pollute thy selfe againe as it were to haue him kill'd afresh to wash away thy sinne Consider the ancient Martyrs and Worthies chose rather to burne at a stake than they would sinne and thou so easily bee drawne to it or rather run to it Anselme said if the flames of hell were on the one side and sinne on the other side I would rather lye in those flames than sinne And others would rather be torne in pieces with wilde horses Wee haue as precious meanes as they and if our hearts were as good wee should haue the like affections Get a sinceere grieuing that thou canst do these things no better as considering Though thou hadst a thousand eyes and could weepe them all out and shed riuers of teares and a thousand hearts to burst yet all were not sufficient for the least sinne or vanity either of the eyes or heart How much more when our hearts are barren dry had we neede to labour for this sorrow Considering when thou hast made the best prayer or watched most diligently ouer thy selfe for the right and due sanctification of the Sabbath or spent thy selfe in a day of humiliatiō thou hadst need to cry and burst thy heart againe for the imperfections and failings thereof In this sorrow that thou canst performe good duties no better And thus to weaue vp the web what 's lacking in any of the rest here make it vp and to incourage thee thou hast this happinesse ioyned with it that though thy griefe bee small if it bee true to cause thee to sell all how much more in the first place to part from euery sinne for Christ and to take him as a husband and a Lord both for protection gouernment Then by the consent of all Diuines it is godly sorrow and certainly accepted in Christ. FINIS Luke 13. 3. 5. Point Instan Reas. 1. Reas. 2. 1 Act. Reuel 22. 21. Quest. Ans. 2 Helpe 1 Quic point 2 Quic point Chap. 4. 3 Quic point 4 Quic point 5 Quic. point Esa 9. 5. Eze. 13. 10. Ier. 14. 14. Iob 2. 9. Ephe. 6. 4 2 Chron. 20. 37. Esay 1. 23 Esay 5. 20. Wis. 2 9. 2 Sam. 11. 15. Act. 12 22. Acts 22. 20. Psal. 119. 136. Psal. 25. 13. Mar. 3. 5 6 Quic. point 2 Act. 1 Helpe Gen. 7. Eze. 16 49. 2 Helpe Mic. 6 7. 3 Helpe 4 Helpe 3 Act. 1. Reas. 2. Reas. 3. Reas. 4. Reas. 5. Reas. Eph. 2. 1. 6. Reas. 7. Reas. For present time 4 Act. 5 Act. Esa. 38. 14. Iob 6. 4. Esay 57. 15. 6 Act. 1 1. Sam. 7. 7 Act. 1 Mat. 16. 29. 8 Act. 1 Reas. 2 Reas 9 Act. 1 Helpe 2 Helpe 3 Helpe 10 Act.
HELPES TO HVMILIATION IAMES 4. 10. Humble your selues in the sight of the Lord and he shall lift you vp Printed at London by T. Cotes for Peter Whaly dwelling in North-Hampton 1630. To the Reader I Here commend vnto thee Christian Reader a table of Repentance now put into a little Tract collected from that graue learned and godly Diuine Mr. Robert Bolton I could haue beene content to haue stayed the publishing thereof vntill such time in which the Author might haue beene preuailed with to print it for there cannot but want much beauty and lustre which it might haue had if it had beene set forth or perused to be fitted for the Presse by him that first gaue life vnto it but being inforced to it by the importunity of many well affected both farre and neere and I vnwilling to haue such a pretious fountaine sealed vp considering the good that might redownd to many in the meane time by it I resolued by the Authors leaue no longer to ingrosse the same to a priuate vse but to impart it to a publike good especially considering first how few are acquainted with the right nature of Humiliation no more than Nicodemus was with regeneration that though many boast of it few haue it when alasse it 's plaine without true Repentance there is no saluation Now this table hauing so perspicuously vnfolded the nature of this grace those that haue a beginning of it may from hence adde an increase to their store and they that want it may here see the way and meanes of obtaining it Secondly the extraordinary exercise of fasting and prayer a duty of pretious account amongst Gods Children which hath alwayes beene wonderfully blest with a happy successe in so much as albeit their ordinary prayers returne not empty without a blessing yet respectiuely to those prayers which are ioyned with fasting they seeme barren and blasted which otherwise are fruitfull and full eared How then could I withhold this which by experience and the iudgement of iudicious Christians cannot but bee of speciall vse and helpe vnto such a blessed and successefull ordinance Thirdly these times call for it to fast and pray and cry mightily vnto God by our prayers that wee may stand in the gapp and make vp the breach and from this table wee may receiue much helpe in this particular Wherefore I hope I shall neede no further perswasion for thy gracious acceptance than that hereby if the fault bee not thine owne thou maiest receiue much good and comfort to thy soule which if thou findest giue God the glory the Author thy thankes and me thy prayers I. S. HELPS TO HVMILIATION Acts 2. 37. Now when they heard this they were pricked in their heart and said vnto Peter c. IN these words here is First a compunction and a thorow wounding their hearts Secondly a consultation what to doe Thirdly Peters holy counsell Amend your liues and be baptized From the first in that these men when they had heard of the greatnesse of their sin were thus wounded at the heart obserue That contrition in a new creature ordinarily is answerable to his former vanity Manasse 2 Chron. 33. 6. Mary Magdalen Luke 7. Augustine a great sinner wrote 12. bookes of Repentance To whom much is forgiuen they loue much and this is a fountaine of Euangelicall Repentance As a traitor condemned to dye would wonderfully breake his heart to thinke hee should bee so villanous to so gracious a Prince so is it with a Christian that beholds Gods mercy to him Christians after their conuersion desire to see their sinnes to the vtmost with all the circumstances that make them hatefull as the obiect nature person time and age c. In which or how they were done that so they may bee more humbled for them If it be not so as it may be otherwise for God is a free agent and is not tyed to any proportion of sorrow then such troubles as these vsually seaze on them First they are often afflicted with this that their conuersion is not through and sound and so do not with such heartinesse and chearefulnesse performe the duty of Godlynesse Secondly they are many times haunted with listlessnesse and coldnesse in their progresse of Christianity Thirdly they are visited with some crosse or other that sticks by them to make them lay a greater Load vpon sin Fourthly they are more subiect to bee ouertaken with their sweete sinne because because they haue no more sorrowed for it For the lesse it is sorrowed for the more it insnares men Fiftly some of them haue beene assaulted vpon their bed of death with sorrowfull and strong temptations Not that men should conceiue this is alwayes the reason of it for God hath ends in all his workes knowne onely to himselfe but this I haue knowne some haue beene troubled and this may bee in great mercy to make a weake conuersiō more strong Least any Christian should bee troubled at it take notice in Contrition There must bee sorrow of heart because of sinne There must bee a dislike of it in the will There must bee a transmutatiō or strong reasoning in the mind out of the word of God against sin This is the Sinew of Repentance as Austin had against Playes that all men could not draw him to it There must bee a resolution and striuing and watching against it as Iob with his eye Iob. 31. 1. There must bee a greiuing that hee is not excellent in all these and herein make vp what thou wantest in the former These bee in some measure in all Christians some are more eminent in one part some in another as Ioseph had little sorrow but a strong Resolution because hee had so strong a temptation and withstood it hee had strong reasons beyond nature to resist sin and resolue against it so that it is not so much the measure as the truth of euery part that is required But if they bee not in an excellency in great sinners they are to mourne for the want of them To help herein obserue these tenne degrees or Acts of repentance or rather helps to humilation Get sight and suruey and full apprehension of all thy vilenesse iniquities transgressions and sinnes the number and nature of them Get a right apprehension of Gods wrath and fiery indignation and the pure eye of God against sinne Get a sense of the vnspeakable misery thou art lyable to by reason of sinne Get a base esteeme of thy selfe Get an inward sorrow of heart and bleeding of soule Get an outward bewailing with hart-peircing confession Get an hatred and auersion in thy will from sinne Get a strong reasoning in thy minde against sinne Get a sincere opposition in thy life of sinne Get a sincere greiuing that thou canst do these things no better Now for the first act viz. Get a sight suruey and full apprehension of all thy vilenes iniquities transgressions and sinnes the number and nature of