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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29096	The good old way, or, An excellent and profitable treatise of repentance made by John Bradford in the yeare 1553. Now published with two prefaces relating the life of the author, and the excellencey of the worke.	Bradford, John, 1510?-1555.; Harris, Robert, 1581-1658.; Wilkinson, Henry, 1616-1690.	1652 (1652)	Wing B4106; ESTC R25287	35,398	95

that giveth the more to his enemies will he not give the lesse to his friends God hath given his own Son then which nothing is greater even to us his enemies and we now being become his friends will he deny us faith and pardon of our sinnes which though they be great yet in comparison they are nothing at all to the price given Christ Jesus would give his own selfe for us when we willed it not and will he now deny us Faith if we will it This will is his earnest that he hath given us truly to look indeed for the thing willed And look thou for it indeed for as he hath given thee to will so will he give thee to doe Jesus Christ gave his life for our evils and by his death he delivered us O then in that he liveth now and cannot dye will he forsake us his heart blood was not too deare for us when we asked it not what can then be now too deare for us asking it Is he a changeling Is he mutable as a man is Can he repent him of his gifts Did he not foresee our falls Paid not he therefore the price Because he saw we should fall sore therefore would he suffer sore Yea if his suffering had not been enough he would yet once more come again God the Father I may say if the death of his sonne incarnate would not serve would himselfe and the Holy Ghost also become incarnate and dye for us This Death of Christ therefore look on as the very pledge of Gods love towards thee whosoever thou art how deepe soever thou hast sinned See Gods hands are nailed they cannot strike thee his feet also he cannot run from thee his armes are wide open to embrace thee his head hangs down to kisse thee his very heart is open so that therein looke nay even see and thou shalt see nothing therein but love love love love to thee hide thee there lay thy head there with the Evangelist This is the clift of the Rock wherein Elias stood This is for all aking heads a pillow of downe Anoint thy head with this oile let this oyntment embalme thy head and wash thy face Tarry thou on this firme rock and I le warrant thee Say with Paul What can separate me from the love of God can death can poverty can sicknesse hunger or any misery perswade thee now that God loveth thee not Nay nothing can seperate thee from the love wherewith God hath loved thee in Christ Jesus whom he loveth he loveth to the end So that now where abundance of sin hath been in thee the more is the abundance of grace But to what end Certainly that as sinne hath reigned to death as thou seest to the killing of Gods Sonne so now Grace must raigne to life to the honouring of Gods Sonne who is now alive and cannot dye any more So that they which by faith feele this cannot any more dye to God but to sinne whereto they are dead and buried with Christ As Christ therefore liveth so doe they and that to God to righteousnesse and holinesse The life which they live is In fide Filii Dei in the faith of the Sonne of God whereby you see that now I am slipt into that which I made the third part of repentance namely newnesse of life which I could not so have done if that it were a part of it selfe indeed it is an effect or fruit of the second part that is of faith or trust in Gods mercy For he that beleeveth that is is certainly perswaded sinne to be such a thing that is the cause of all misery and of it selfe so greatly angreth God that in Heaven nor in earth nothing could appease his wrath save onely the death and precious bloodshedding of the Sonne of God in whom is all the delight and pleasure of the Father he I say that is perswaded thus of his sinne the same cannot but in heart abhorre and quake to doe or say yea to think any thing willingly which Gods Law teacheth him to be sinne Again he that beleeveth that is is certainly perswaded Gods love to be so much towards him that where through sinne he was lost and made a firebrand of Hell the eternall Father of mercy which is the omni-sufficient God and needeth nothing in us or of any thing that we can doe to deliver us out of Hell and to bring us into Heaven did send even his own most deare Sonne out of his bosome out of heaven into hell as a man would say to bring us as I said from thence into his own bosome and mercy we being his very enemies he I say that is thus perswaded of Gods love towards him and of the price of his redemption by the deare blood of the Lamb immaculate Jesus Christ the same man cannot but love God againe and of love doe that and heartily desire to doe better the which might please God Think you that such a one knowing these things by Faith will willingly insist and wallow in his wilfull lusts pleasures and fantasies Will such a one as knoweth by Faith Christ Jesus to have given his blood to wash him from his sinnes play the Sow to nuzle in his puddle of filthy sinne and vice againe Nay rather then he will be defiled againe by his wilfull sinning he will wash often the feet of his affections watching over the vice still sticking in him which as a spring continually sendeth out poyson enough to drowne and defile him if the sweet water of Christs passion in Gods sight did not wash it and his blood satisfy the rigour of Gods justice due for the same This blood of Christ shed for our sinnes is so deare in the sight of him that beleeveth that he will abhorre in his heart to stamp it and tread it under his feet He knoweth now by his beleefe that it is too much that hitherto he hath set too little by it and is ashamed thereof Therefore for the residue of his life he purposeth to take better heed to himselfe then before he did Because he seeth by his faith the grievousnesse of Gods anger the foulenesse of sin the greatnesse of Gods mercy and of Christs love towards him he will now be heedy to pray unto God to give him his grace accordingly that as with his eyes and tongue hands and feet c. he hath displeased God doing his own will even so now with the same eyes tongue c. he may displease his own selfe and doe Gods will Willingly will he not doe that which might renew the death of the sonne of God He knoweth he hath too much sinne unwillingly in him so that thereto he will not adde willing offences This willing and witting offending sinning whosoever doth flatter himselfe therein doth evidently demonstrate and shew that he never yet indeed tasted of Christ truly He was never truely perswaded or beleeved how foule a thing sinne is how grievous a thing Gods anger

believe to publish and live in his holy word In Gods Law we see it is a foule spot to our soules not only to be an open prophaner of the Sabbath day but also not to rest from our own words and works that the Lord might both speak and work in us and by us not to heare his holy word not to communicate his Sacraments not to give occasion to others to holinesse by our example in Godly workes reverent esteeming of the Ministry of his Word In Gods Law we see it a foule spot to our soules not only to be an open disobayer of our parents Magistrates Masters and such as be in any authority over us but also not to honour such even in our hearts not to give thankes to God for them not to pray for them to aide to help or relieve them to bear with their infirmities c. In Gods Law we see it is a foule spot in our soules not only to be a man-queller in hatred malice proud lookes brags back-biting railing or bodily slaughter but also not to love our neighbours yea or enemies even in our hearts and to declare the same in all our gestures words and works In Gods law we see it a foule spot to our soules not only to be a Whoremonger in lusting in our hearts in wanton looking in uncleane and wanton talking in actuall doeing unhonestly with our Neighbours Wife Daughter servant c. But also not to be chast sober temperate in heart lookes tongue apparell deeds and to help others thereunto accordingly c. In Gods Law we see it is a foule spot to our soules not only in heart to covet in look or word to flatter lye colour c. in deed to take away any thing which pertaineth to another but also in heart countenance word and deed not to keepe save and defend that which pertaineth to thy neighbour as thou wouldest thine own In Gods Law we may see it a foule spot not only to lye and beare false witnesse against any man but also not to have as great a care over thy Neighbours name as over thine own Sinne in Gods Law it is we may see and a foule spot not only to consent to evill lust or carnall desires but even the very carnall lusts and desires themselves are sinne as selfe love and many such like By reason whereof I think there is none that looketh well therein but though he be blamelesse to the World and faire to the shew yet certainly inwardly his face is foule arrayed and so shamefull filthy pocky and scabbed that he cannot but be sorry at the contemplation thereof and that so much more by how much he continueth to look in this glasse accordingly And thus much concerning the second mean to the stirring up of sorrow for our sinne that next unto Prayer we should look in Gods law spiritually The which looking if we use with prayer as I said let us not doubt but at the length God's spirit will work as now to such as believe for to the unbelievers all is in vaine their eyes are starke blind they can see nothing to such as believe I say I trust something is done even already But if neither by prayer nor by diligent looking into Gods law spiritually as yet thy hard unbelieving heart feeleth sorrow nor lamenting for thy sinne Thirdly look upon the tagge tied to Gods Law for to his Law there is a tagge tied that is a penalty and that no small one but such an one as cannot but make us cast our currish tailes between our leggs if we believe it for all is in vaine if wee be faithlesse not to beleeve before wee feele This tagge is Gods malediction or curse Maledictus omnis saith it qui non permanet in omnibus quoe scripta sunt in libro legis ut faciat eam Loe accursed saith he is all no exception all saith God which continueth not in all things for he that is guilty of one is guilty of the whole saith St James in all things therefore saith the Holy Ghost which are written in the booke of the Law to doe them He saith not to heare them to talke of them to dispute of them but to doe them Who is he now that doth these Rara Avis few such Birds yea none at all For all are gone out of the way though not outwardly by word or deed yet inwardly at the least by default and wanting of that which is required so that a child of one nights age is not pure but by reason of birth-sinne in danger of Gods malediction then much more we which alasse have drunken in iniquity as it were water as Job saith but yet we quake not Tell me now good brother why doe you so lightly consider Gods curse that for your sins past you are so carelesse as if you had made a covenant with death and damnation as the wicked did in Esais time what is Gods curse At the Popes curse with book bell and candle O! how trembled we which heard it although the same was not directed to us yea hanging over us all by reason of our sinnfs alas how carelesse are we O faithlesse hard hearts o Jesabels guests rocked and laid asleepe in her bed O wicked wretches which being come into the depth of sinne doe contemne the same O sorrowlesse sinners and shamelesse harlots Is not the anger of a King death and is the anger of the King of all Kings a matter so lightly to be regarded as we doe regard it which for our sinnes are so wretchlesse that we slugge and sleep it out As wax melteth away at the heat of the fire saith David so doe the wicked perish at the face or countenance of the Lord If dearely beloved his face be so terrible and intollerable for sinners and the wicked what think we his hand is At the face and appearing of Gods anger the earth trembleth but we earth earth yea stones Iron flints tremble nothing at all If we will not tremble in hearing woe unto us for then shall we be crushed in pieces in feeling If a Lyon roare the beasts quake but we are worse then beasts which quake nothing at the roaring of the Lyon I meane the Lord of Hosts And why because the curse of God hardnesse of heart is fallen upon us or else we could not but lament and tremble for our sinnes If not for the shame and foulenesse thereof yet at the least for the malediction and curse of God which hangeth over us for them Lord be mercifull unto us for thy Christs fake and spare us in thine anger remember thy mercy towards us Amen And thus much for the third thing for the moving of us to sorrow for our sinnes that is for the tagge tied to Gods Law I meane for the malediction and curse of God But if our hearts be so hard that through these we yet feele no hearty sorrow for our sinnes Let us fourthly set before us examples past