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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20229	A sermon of repentaunce a very godly and profitable sermon preached at Lee in Essex / by Arthur Dent ...	Dent, Arthur, d. 1607.	1582 (1582)	STC 6649.7; ESTC S4601	24,399	66

shuttle which glideth away swiftly Euen so the daies of man passe away no man knoweth how Man is of short continuaunce saith Iob full of trouble Experience teacheth that to day a man to morowe none Hence away we must al here is no abiding place for vs how soone we know not Therefore let vs repent Sixtly the small number of those which shal be saued ought to thrust vs forward to repentance Striue to enter in at the narrow gate for many I say vnto you will séeke to enter in and shal not be able saith Christe Luke 13. 24. And in an other place he saith the gate is straight and the way narrowe that leadeth vnto life and fewe there be that finde it If men would consider of this it would make them looke better about them and trie with them selues whether they be of that small number or no. Seuenthly Death threatneth vs who is very terrible to the flesh and the remembraunce of it very bitter to a man that is soused and soked in the pleasures of this worlde It flattereth no man it regardeth not persons it weigheth not friendship it careth not for rewardes it is very grim vglie and cruel and killeth downe right where it hitteth Therefore let vs repent Eightly the day of iudgement and seconde appearing of the Sonne of man ought to quicken vs. The day of the Lord will come as a Théefe in the night in the whiche the heauens shal passe away with a noyse and the Elements shall melt with heate and the earth with the workes that are therein shal be burnt vp séeing therefore that all these things must be dissolue● what manner of persons ought ye to be in holy conuersation and Godlines saith S. Pet. 2. 3. The Lorde Iesus shall shewe himselfe from heauen with his mighty angelles in flaming fire rendering vengeaunce vnto them that know not God and obeye not vnto the Gospell of our Lorde Iesus Christ saith the Apostle 2. Thes 1. I sawe saieth Saint Iohn Apoc. 20. A great white Throne and one that sate on it from whose face fledde away both the earth and the heauen and their place was no more founde And I sawe the deade both great and small stand before GOD and the bookes were opened and another booke was opened which is the booke of life and the dead were iudged of those thinges which were written in the bookes according to their woorkes And the Sea gaue vp her deade whiche were in her and death and hell deliuered vp the deade which were in them and they were iudged euery man according to his woorkes In these places we sée both the sodainnesse the fearefulnesse and glory of Christs comming For he shall not come poorely and contemptuously as in his first visitation but he shall come very princely royally and triumphantly to the great terrour of all his enemies when a consuming fire shall goe before him and ten thousand thousands of Angels waite vpon him at what time the Kinges of the earth the great men and the rich men and the chiefe Captaines and the mightie men and euery bondman and euery fréeman shall hyde themselues in dennes and amongest the rockes of the mountaines and say to the rockes and mountaines fall on vs hide vs from the presence of him that sitteth on the throne and from the wrath of the Lambe for the great day of his wrath is come and who can stand Apoc 6. Therfore let vs repent The last thing is Hell tormentes then the which nothing is more vntollerable Therefore saith Christe Marke 9. If thine hand cause thee to offende cut it off It is better for thee to enter into life maymed then hauing two handes to goe into Hell into the fire that neuer shall bee quenched where the worme dieth not and the fire neuer goeth out The Scripture speaketh very terribly to our senses concerning the estate of the damned persons calling it hel fire damnation the lake that burneth with fire brimstone for euer In 30. cha of the prophesie of Esai it is called Tropheth and it is euen prepared of old it is euen prepared for y e king he hath made déepe large y e burning therof is fire and much wood the breath of the Lorde like a Riuer of Brimstone doeth kindle it these spéeches are terrible to our senses may maruellously amaze vs. But if I had the tongue of an hundred men nay of an hundred Angels yet were I not able to vtter them as some shall one day féele them much lesse were you able to conceiue thē If al the tortures and cruel torments that can be deuised by the wit of man were executed vpon some one yet were it nothing to this We poore wretches thinke there is no paine to a Collike or a cruell Ague But if all Collikes Agues and all other strange diseases could possibly light vpon one man yet were it but a fleabiting to that which is to come The pain is endlesse easelesse and remedilesse The daies of their hellish torments shal neuer weare ●ut nor their yeares come to an ende the longer they continue the lesse hope haue they When as many yeres are expired as there be men in the world starres in the heauens when as many thousand yeares are ended as there be stones and sands by the Sea shore yet still there be ten hūdred thousande times so many moe to come Those that wil not now be moued in hearing shall then be crushed to péeces in féeling Al dronkards swearers whoremongers vsurers extortioners liers mockers contemners secure persons iolly felowes roisting ruffians lustie bloudes the braue laddes of this world and all other vnbeleuers shal one day be apprehended and arraigned before the barre of Gods tribunal seate where the Maiesty of GOD shall stand aboue them with a naked sworde of vengeance and a scepter of Iustice The Deuil that olde Satanas shal stand on the one side to accuse them and their own conscience on the other side to condemne thē and the gasping gulfe of Hell vnderneath them ready to swallow them vp for euermore Then shall the dreadfull sentence of eternall woe and damnation procéede against them Go ye cursed into hel fire c. There they shall drinke as a iuste recompence for their iniquitie the bitter cup of Gods eternall wrath and indignation in the kingdom of darknes and in the fearefull presence of Sathan all the cursed enemies of Gods grace where the dolefull Droome of Gods anger shall euer sounde through their eares where shalbe wéeping gnashing of téeth where shall bée confusion woe and endles lamentation Their gripes shall bée so greate their groanes so déepe and their garboiles so vntollerable that they shall grinne like a Dog in their infernall conu●lsions and with howling and yelling crie out woe alas that euer I was borne Oh that I had neuer béene borne or that my mother had borne mee a Tode For then should my condition haue bin better

A Sermon of repentaunce A very godly and profitable Sermon preached at Lee in Essex by Arthur Deut Minister of Gods word And published at the request of sundrie Godly and vvell disposed persons 1581. the 7. of March Ionah chap. 2. ver 8. They that waite vpon lying vanities Forsake their owne mercie Imprinted at London for John Harison and are to bee solde at the white Greihound in Paules Church-yard 1582. To the Reader ALthough I was moste vnwilling that this poore Talent and trauaile of myne should euer haue bene broched abroade and come to light both because it maye seeme as a Candle lighted at no one day as also because many other mennes doinges might more worthely a great deale haue ben published and committed vnto letters Yet because diuers which heard it preached with a liuely voice were very instant yea and more then importunate with mee to haue it published vsing suche reasons as I coulde not well gainesay I did at the last yeelde to their request and so this vntimely fruite is come abroade to be solde in open markettes Let no man be offended that I haue not strained my selfe to flye an high pitch to fome out the froth of mans wisdome and to make a great shew of learning by blowing the bladder of vanity till it burst with swelling For that is not my vse I seeke especiall the saluation of the simple and ignorant and therefore stoupe downe to their reach and capacitie Therefore I beseeche thee gentle Reader accepte my good meaning Reade this without preiudice like it as thou profitest so shalte thou haue praise of God comforte in thy conscience A. D. The Text. Luke 13. 5. I tell you nay but except you repent you shall likewise perish THE occasion of these wordes of our Lorde and Sauiour Iesus Christe was bicause there were certayne that shewed him of the Galileans whose bloud Pilate had mingled with their owne Sacrifices That is murthered them as they were sacrificing and so their bloude was mingled with the bloud of the beastes whiche were sacrificed Those men therefore though that these Galileans were greater sinners then all other Galileans because they had suffered suche thinges And that those xviii also vppon whome the Tower in Siloam fell and slue them were sinners aboue all men that dwelte in Hierusalem Wherein they did vtter a secret corruptiō naturally ingendred in all men that is verie sharply to see into the sinnes of others seuerely to censure thē but in the meane while to flatter themselues to bée blindfold in séeing their owne sinnes For these men thought because the like iudgmentes did not fall vpon them therfore they were safe inough they were not so great sinners but rather highly in the fauour of GOD. According as many doe falsly suppose that those are alwayes the worst sort of people whome God doeth moste strike and presse with his punishing hande hauinge forgotten that God doeth not kéepe an ordinarie rate here belowe to punishe euery man as he is worst or to fauour and cocker him as he is best but onely taketh some examples as he thinketh good for the instruction and aduertisement of all others and to be as it were looking glasses wherein euerie man may sée his owne face yea and his owne cause handeled that God is a seuers reuenger of sin that all men maie learne by the example of some to tremble beware least peraduenture they bée worthily constrayned to kéepe their owne turnes and to knowe what they haue deserued These men whiche broughte these newes to our Sauiour Christ had not taken foorth this lesson wherevpon our Sauiour in iustlye occasioned to correcte their erroneous and sinister Iudgement and to teach them that they must not reioice at the iuste punishement of others but rather to bée instructed thereby to repentance And further to signifie that God doeth not alwayes most punishe the moste notorious offenders as Murtherers Théeues Robbers Whoremaisters Blasphemers Quarrellers Scoffers and suche like but reserueth them vnto the iudgement of the greate daie and as it wéere fatteth them against the daie of slaughter and therefore he answereth them negatiuely and sayeth nay or not so but excepte you repente you shal all likewise perish as if he should say are you of this opinion indéede that onelie monstruous Sinners are punished in this worlde others let alone or that the Galileans and these eightéene vppon whome the Tower in Siloā fel were greater sinners then all others Or doe you thinke because the same Iudgementes haue not light vpon you therefore you shal steale away in the darke escape the Iudgement of God No no you are deceyued For I saie vnto you that except you mourne and lament for your sinnes and fall to some agreement with God in time you I say euen you whiche are so readie to condemne others and iustifie your selues shall not onely perish with the like iudgementes in this presente worlde but be euerlastingly condemned in the world to come So that our Sauiour in so saying doeth thunder downe a moste dreadfull sentence vpon all our heades for he concludeth and setteth it downe that all men liuing vpō the face of the earth whether they bee highe or lowe rich or poore young or olde noble or vnnoble learned or vnlearned simple or polyticke of what estate degree and condition soeuer they bee liuing and dying without repentaunce shall perish and bee damned in hell fire for euer The Scriptures are full of suche Thunderboltes Iohn 3. 18. Hee that beleeueth not is damned alreadie And 2. Cor. 13. verse 5. Prooue your selues whether you are in the Fayth examine your selues Knowe yee not your owne selues that Iesus Christ is in you except yee bee reprobates Where the Apostle flatlie setteth downe that all those whiche haue not Christ dwelling in their harts by faith which is the houshold sister of repentance are no better then reprobates castawayes and condemned persons But because the most people in those dayes are groslye deceiued in repentaunce both concerning what it is what it meaneth what it woorketh what bee the qualities conditions of it which be the causes and which be the lets and hinderances and also why when and wherefore we should repent Therfore I haue in presēt infent to teach first what is repentaunce Secondly which bee his qualities and effectes Thirdly when wee should repense Fourthly wherefore wee should repent And last of all what letteth vs from Repentaunce whiche order and methode of teaching although some maye mislike as indeede with me it is not ordinary yet considering the matter I haue in hand I thinke it not inconuenient But the matter Repentance is an inward sorrowing and continuall mourninge of the heart and conscience for sinne ioyned with fayth and both inwarde and outwarde amendement Inward I say in chaunging the thoughtes and affections of the hearte and outwarde in chaunging the woordes and woorkes from euill to good This repentaunce no doubte was in