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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13835	The saints humiliation Being the substance of nine profitable sermons upon severall texts. viz: 1 The nature of a fast; on Iudges 20.26. 2 The Christians watchfulnesse; on Mark. 13.37. 3 Gods controversie for sinne; on Hosea 4.12. 4 The remedy for distresse; on Gen. 32.9.11. 5 The use of the covenant & promises; on Gen. 32.10. 6 The broken sacrifice; on Psalme 51.17. 7 Good wishes for Sion; on Psalme 51.17. 8 Motives to repentance; 9 An exhortation to repentance; on Math. 3.7.8. First preached and applied by Samuel Torshel, minister of Gods Word at Bunbury, and now published for the common good.	Torshell, Samuel, 1604-1650.	1633 (1633)	STC 24142; ESTC S118495	136,937	226

love of company and pleasure is like a snare about the feet but wee must thrust away such as troublesome importunate suiters whose impudence will not have denyall Wee shall never goe freely till we be unclogged This is the method we must take in the course of our repentance 2. The other direction is how yee may bring forth fruits Be not wanting to your selves neglect not tillage and the right husbanding and manuring of your ground or because the metaphor is here of a tree doe what is in your power to make a fair and flourishing growth But because Paul may plant and Apollo water but God must give the encrease therefore because it is God worke entreat him to doe it be often and much in prayer 1. That God would afford a moysture from his ordinances and to you grace and power to sucke up that moysture The tree sends its roots up and downe some this way some that every way to suck from the humid earth and of the deaw and raine that falls from heaven to draw what it can unto it selfe Pray that God would drop downe vertue in the word and labour diligently to attract it 2. That God would put within you the heate of charity that out of love you might keep the commandements It is heate which conveyes the moysture up into the sap of the tree and carries along the nutrimentall humour hence it is that in spring time the trees and plants doe sprout Where there is love in the heart there will be obedience in the life Mary the penitent did much for shee loved much 3. Pray that God would sanctifie to you all severall conditions The winter is profitable to the plants to solid and collect them The summer that they may emit or send without what they have collected Pray that God would sanctifie tryall a more pleasing life both to that end that you might be more fuitfull This is the direction 2. I will end with an exhottation 1. Let us endeavour to be meetly or worthily fruitfull to be some way answerable in the degree of our repentance to the degree of sin When shall we find penitents come blubbered into our Churches Oh that such as have beene eminent in their sin would bee eminent in their repentance There are some have an eminency of evill sometimes in a Towne or Parish wee shall know some who are noted poynted at for common Drunkards some are knowne by their common swearing They are knowne by these sins as others are by their Trades Oh that such men would not only repent but give publike testimony of their repentance that they might be noted for that also such a one such a one is a convert O that Drunkards Adulterers Swearers Oppressors Sabbath-breakers would be eminent in the contrary in sobriety in the use of drinkes in temperance to correct their flesh in a strict watch over their tongues in mercy to the poore in a conscionable observation of the Lords dayes We think any thing enough for God if ye leave your callings or pleasures for one of these dayes heare and pray out the time that the congregation stayes together yee thinke yee doe enough you think a sigh a great matter the drop of a teare to bee almost meritorious Ah why should wee be so ungratefull so unanswerable unto God When you fall into sin yee pursue it violently why should there not bee such zeale in the return As ye sinned with greedinesse with violence repent 2. In our repentance let us bee answerable to our spirituall life let us live as such as wee are In civill relations wee can easily doe it wee can live suitably to our estates wee can very easily live above it If a man basely and meanely borne bee raised by the accession of a great wealth to be a Gentleman hee can soone forget how hee lived when he was poore he can very easily learn stately carriage to looke high and speake big and despise his neighbours There are excesses in our carriage this way whence it is that the commonalty live like Gentry the Gentry like Nobility the Nobility like Princes and Princes scarce know how to live Oh that there could bee these excesses in our spirituall manner of life Christians live as heathens as unbeleevers as wordlings It is a shame for us to live so much under our selves But let us endeavour that are Saints yet so much as wee can to live as Angels live as much as we can in heaven have heavenly thoughts heavenly desires and heavenly motions to live if not above yet at least answerable to our principle of life Let mee conclude with an application of entreaty to your consciences that ye would be moved to return unto God Wil a threat prevaile Know then that the Lord knoweth how to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgement to be punished 2 Pet. 2.9 The Baptist urgeth this argument in his sermon Now the Axe is laid unto the root of the trees therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewen downe and cast into the fire in the tenth verse of this Chapter Beloved judgements are come neere us The Pestilence is Gods Axe and a very sharp one it can cut downe men suddenly it can cut downe Countreys it hath felled Preston wood and tall growne trees in other places It is laid neare the root of this County in Lancashire on the one side in Denbighshire on the other in Shropshire on this how easie is it for God to fetch another blow and lay us downe or why should wee expect to stand untoucht when the wood round about us is either feld or cropt Why doe wee despise the riches of Gods goodnesse and after our hardnesse and impenitent hearts treasure up unto our selves wrath against the day of wrath and the revelation of the righteous judgement of God Rom. 2.5 But I will not end with a threat but would rather desire that the goodnesse of God might lead us to repentance The word that the Apostle useth is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The goodnesse of God it leads on or invites or provokes Rom. 2.4 Let this be motive enough let his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 his forbearance that though he be provoked hee is patient and will not strike and his long-suffering that he waits and expects when wee will returne let these move us Let the promise of mercy move us let the mercy that we already have received move us for we may observe that wee have not lost the fruit of our labours of our fasting of our prayers for Sweden prospers and the rage of our neighbour pestilence ceaseth that wee hope shortly to bee as loud in our praises as wee have beene solemne in our humiliations Deo Opt. Max. sit gloria