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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12982	The doctrine and vse of repentance necessarie to be practised and vsed of all who looke to sing the song of Moses, and the song of the lambe beyond the glassie sea: Reuel.15.23. Preached in sundrie sermons in the parish church of Alhallowes Bredstreete in London: by Rich. Stock; Doctrine and use of repentance.	Stock, Richard, 1569?-1626.	1610 (1610)	STC 23275; ESTC S106168	171,388	390

ioyned vnto him but to driue vs by bitter sorrow to purge out that sinfulnes and those remainders which our precedent sins left behind them in respect whereof we are not yet fully ioyned to Christ And so hauing this signe as the others may bee assured they haue truly repented are regenerated and haue Christ in their hearts as the shepheards were sure when they found all the signes the Angel gaue them that that was he they found in the cratch and so may they bee assured that when death shall come they shall as Simeon prayed when he had Christ in his armes Luke 2.16 depart in peace and enter into glorie The time of repentance Now from these signes and fruits of repentance we must proceed in the next place to the time of repentance when men ought to performe this dutie And first of the generall time of repentance This life is the only time of repentance In this life and vpon the earth there is only place for repentance men onely can heere repent and turne to God So much that place of Timothie prooueth 2. Tim. 2.25 Instructing them with meekenes that are contrarie minded proouing if God at any time will giue the repentance c. Wherby it appeareth that this repentance must bee in this life because the ministery of the word is onely of vse in this life Again in the Reuelation Christ speaking of Iezabel saith Reuel 2.21 he gane her time space to repent Meaning he had let her liue to repent if he had cut her off before hee had taken from her the time of repentance This is insinuated in the parable of the figtree in the Gos-Gospel Luke 13.5.6 where our Sauior Christ saith Except you repēt you shal al perish wherupon he doth inferre the parable that 〈…〉 and bestowed all the cost that might be and yet it brought forth no fruit the Master of the Vineyard commanded it then to be cut downe Insinuating that if they did not bring forth the fruit of repentāce before they were cut downe and died they should neuer do it Also the preaching of Iohn Baptist witnesseth the same who saith Math. 3.10 Now is the axe put to the roote of the tree therfore euery tree that bringeth not foorth good fruit is hewen down and cast into the fire Also the Lord speaketh by the Prophet Ezechiel Ezech. 33.11 As I liue saith the Lord God I delight not in the death of a sinner but that he turne and liue Turne you turne you from your euill waies for why will yee die O ye house of Israel Cyprian thinketh that this place doth prooue Cyprian lib. 3. Testimo aduersus Iudaeos ad Quirinum that repentance is only to bee performed in this life because God saith that he will not the death of a sinner but rather that he returne noting that if he do die then the time ●s p●st therfore he desireth his turning ●efore he dieth S. Paul saith 1. Cor. 5.10 We must ●ll appeare before the iudgement seat of Christ that euery man may receiue the ●hings that are done in his body accor●ing to that he hath done whether it be ●…d or euill Whence I gather that euery one at the general iudgemēt day must giue an account of the things done in his bodie in this life but nothing of things done after this life Which place with the other proue that repentance is an act to be performed in this life onely and reason it should be so Reason 1. 1. Because repentance is a fruit of faith and is performed of none but they who haue faith it neither goeth before faith neither can come afterward when faith is ceased and is no longer but in this life onely faith hath a being and not in that life whith is to come for both faith and hope cease to be after this life For S. Paul saith 1. Cor. 13.13 Now abideth faith hope and loue euen these three but the chiefest of these is loue The reason is because faith and hope end in this life when a man hath obtained that he beleeued and hoped for but loue is euerlasting faith then ceasing in this life which is the tree that bringeth forth repentance repentance being the fruit must needs cease Reason 2. 2. Because the essentiall parts of repentance cannot be performed but in this life which are mortification and regeneration there being afterwards no corruption and sinne to be mortified namely in those who haue right to repentance and are the subiects of it Vse 1. The first vse of this doctrine is this to reach vs that if there be no vse of repentance after this life then is there no vse of Purgatory such as the Papists speake of for men die either repentant and so not capable of that place or vnrepentant and so deseruing a worse For afterward is no place for repentance and then for no redemption and deliuerance for their satisfaction being a part of their repentance and no repentance but in this life therefore after this life can be no satisfaction For for them by commutation of penance to free men from the paines of Purgatorie is absurd for that commutation cannot be without repentance This error ●…me●h to rise from the practise of the Church who in the more purer times of it when they had excommunicated any for a publike offence and ha●… for him a long time of his repentance that is to manifest it vnto the Church if before that was accomplished they saw surficient signes of his repentance they sometime remitted 〈◊〉 esse of it And vpon this and 〈◊〉 this grew these satisfactions and commutations But that was onely a mitigation of the punishment which the Church had designed and yet not without repentance but neuer of that which God had appointed did they remit or think vpon to change which these malepartly do at least according to their owne doctrine and that without repentance there being no repentance after this life nor place for that But as Iustin Martyr saith Post animae è corpore egressum statim fit bonorum malorum distinctio ducuntur enim animae ad loca quae eis digna sunt ab angelis bonorum quidem in paradisum impiorum vero ad inferiora loca vbi custodiuntur vsque ad resurrection em Iust. Mart. quaest 75. After the soule is departed out of the bod●e eftsoones is there made a distinction of good and euill For the soules are carried by the Angels to those places which are worthie of them and are fitted for them the soules of the good are carried into paradise but the soules of the wicked are carried to hell where they shall be kept till the resurrection Vse 2. 2. This will afford comfort vnto as many as haue cruelie repented which comfort standeth in this that though their liues be short and not so short as vncertaine being not certain of one day or houre being tennants