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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87175	Christ's first sermon, or, The absolute necessity, gospel duty, and Christian practice of repentance, opened and applied, by a godly, able, and faithful minister of Jesus Christ. ; Wherein is discovered, what repentance is, as also the great necessity thereof to salvation: with the great folly and desperate madness of all those that delay and put off repentance unto a sick bed, or old age. ; Together with the great benefit, joy, and comfort that shall be to the souls of all those that timely and truly repent.	Hart, John, D.D.	1663 (1663)	Wing H937; ESTC R177838	21,802	46

humble penitent soul is the most tractable and teachable soul in the world and he above all other is willing to embrace the word of God Fifthly a true humble soul is ready and willing to put in practise all these duties which he hath formerly learned out of the word of God When Paul was once truly humbled he conferred not any longer with flesh and blood but laying aside all carnal reasonings goes on thorowly in his work of preaching the Gospel Gal. 1.16 Thus you maysee that where true repentance is there is also a true humiliation and sorrow for sin then every one learn to be humble and that betimes for as women the longer they are ere they bring forth children the harder is their labour even so they that put off repentance to old age must expect the sorer travel Lamentably are they mistaken who put off their repentance to their old age is it likely that the pains and weakness of old age will be any advantage or ease to thy repentance Rev. 16.19 it s said that at the pouring forth of the fourth viol when God smote the inhabitants of the earth with a scorching heat that they blasphemed the name of God and repented not It s a woful thing to put off repentance to a pained body or to a sick bed pain in its own nature fits rather to blaspheme and turn from God then to return to God and it s very common that sick persons either repent not at all or if they do at the best their repentance is but a sickly repentance sickness doth only abate and restrain the power of mens lusts it never destroyes the life of sin death it self cannot kill sin wicked mens sins live when they are dead the grave cannot consume them nor the fire of hell the sins of unbelievers remain not onely in their guilt but in their power to all eternity Is it so then that repentance is a turning from sin unto God then I observe that there can be no true repentance where sin is delighted in he that lives in the love practice of any sin knoweth not what repentance meaneth for repentance takes off the heart from the love of sin and works it to such a dislike of sin that it abhors the very occasion of sin if sin comes and tells a gracion penitent soul of the profits and pleasures of sin O saith a gracions heart the sweetness will prove bitterness in the latter end True repentance takes off the heart from all sin as well small as great not from some few sins but from all sin for he that turns not from all turns from none in truth and it is not enough to turn from all sin but we must turn from the commands of sin and satan unto the commands of God from worldliness to heavenly mindedness from pride to humility from hatred and envy to love the Tree that bears not good fruit will be hewen down and east into the fire as well as the trée that bears ill fruit I beséech ye therefore brethren in the bowels of mercy for the Lords sake I intreat every one of you that desire to be saved that you would turn away from all your iniquities and that spéedily lest your repentance be too late And to this end be earnest with God by prayer for the assistance of his spirit in the subduing of thy sins and cast thy selt wholly upon the Lord. Chery true Penitent is wholly the Lords the disire of his soul is to God and to the remembrance of his name with his soul he desires God in the night and with his Spirit within him he seeketh the Lord in the morning Isa 26.8 9. He is now a constant suiter at the throne of grace and with full purpose of heart he cleaves to God and loves the place where his honour dwells Psalm 26.8 All his desire is to know more of God and how he may love him more and serve him better the service and servants of God how joyful are they to his soul He takes all opportunities of doing good he keeps his heart with all diligence and the door of his lips that he offend not with his tongue Psalm 39.1 His heart is enslamed with the love of God that he endeavours with all his might to shew forth the praises of the Lord. By which it appears that a turning to God is not barely a turning from sin but a practising of good and a walking up rightly before the Lord in all well-pleasing all out dayes Is it so then that repentance is needful and absolutely necessary for all persons in what a sad condition then are the greatest part of men and women in the world who as yet are as far from true repentance as light is from darknes and yet poor souls they smooth themselves up with this conceit that God is merciful they hope to be saved as wel as the best they thank God all is well with them and yet notwithstanding they never repented of their sins true repentance is a Grace almost out of fashion in these self-conceited times wherin mens minds are so much running after novelties and outward formalities but the power of holiness and the doctrine ' of repentance and self-mortification these are not minded nay by many are accounted Legal and altogether needless There are three sorts of people that I shall have occasion to speak of in the use of this Point and the first are such as altogether abhor repentance the second are such as although they acknowledge repentance is needful and necessary for others yet think that they themselves have no need of it and the third sort are such as do confess that repentance is needful even for themselves as well as others but not yet its time enough here after there 's no such haste of it And I hope in the handling of these three sorts of persons I shall make it appear that reprntance is needful and necessary at all times for all sorts Having done this I shall remove some lets that hinder men from repentance and so give you some few Motives to stir you up to repentance and then to wind up all in a few words of Application I begin with the first of these those that abhor repentance and they are wilful sinners such as go on in sin and make it even their trade to sin wilful desperate and dissolute wretches that laugh at repentance who declara their sin as Sodom did and hide it not Isa 3.9 Who will not be brought to abandon their wicked wayes but go on still in swearing and cursing lying and blaspheming whoredome drunkenness and all uncleanness and that with greediness as the Apostle saith Who mock at faith repentance as those scoffers did in 2 Pet. 3.4 These are they as S. Peter saith 2 Pet. 2. That walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness and count it pleasure to riot in the day time whose eyes are full of adultery that cannot cease from