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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

dwell together and they that dwell in it shall never dwell with God Psal 15. saith David Lord who shall abide in thy Tabernacle who shall dwell in thy holy ●●ill He that walketh uprightly and worketh righteousness And the Apostle saith 1 Cor. 6.9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the Kingdom of God Be not deceived neither fornicators nor Idolaters nor adulterers nor effeminate nor abusers of themselves with mankinde nor thieves nor covetous nor drunkards nor revilers nor extortioners shall inherit the Kingdom of God And Psalm 97. Ye that love the Lord hate evil Also 2 Tim. 2.19 Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity Secondly all those that sin or are under the power and command of sin are of the dev●● For he that commits sin saith St. John is of the devil John 3.9 And is it not a sad thing to be und●r the power of the Devil Every wicked man is the Devils stave and be doth the devils drudgery where ever sin is in the love of it there is also the devil the devil keeps court in wicked mens hearts Thirdly sin is the high way to destruction Is not destruction to the wicked saith Job Chap. 31.3 Yes that it is And a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity Fourthly and lastly sin brought wrath and condemnation upon the soul If ye live after the flesh ye shall die Rom. 8.13 The wicked shall be turned into hell and all the Nations that forget God Psal 9.17 These things being considered seriously taken to heart methinks should not onely awaken sinners out of their sléepy security but also provoke them to repentance And then there is another let which hinders men from repentance and that is in themselves which is of all other the greatest let for did not our own base hearts deceive us the devil the world and sin could never hinder us from coming to God by repentance these lets from ourselves are either from ignorance or hardnes of heart Eph 4.18 Men saith the Apostle through the ignorance that is in them through the hardness of their hearts being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness to work all uncleannes with greedines Ignorance must néeds be a great let to repentance no wonder when men know not the danger of sin nor the necessity of repentance that they live in sin and never come to repentance who is there that séeks for that he knoweth not of If impenitent sinners did but know what a dangerous condition they were in without repentance they would never suffer their eyes to sléep nor their eye-lids to slumber before they had made their peace with God by repentance O then for the Lords sake get acquaintance with God and learn to know what an odious thing sin is Job 22.21 Acquaint now thy self with God an● be at peace thereby good shall come unto thee thereby thou maist be brought to repentance Then secondly there 's in us hardness of heart which hinders the work of repentance It is said of Zedekiah 2 Chron. 36.13 That he hardned his heart that he might not return to the Lord his God And this hardness of heart is very lamentable because all the means which God uses to soften work not upon it at all And Pharaoh hardened his heart and would not let the children of Israel go Ex. 8.32 All the sore judgements of God upon him could not prevail with his hard heart he would not let them go so wicked men whose hearts are hardened they will not let their sins go neither the judgement nor the mercies of God will prevail with wicked men to turn them from their sins Amos 4 12. saith God Though I have sent among you judgment upon judgment plague famine and no●som beasts yet have you not returned unto me Therefore I beseech you in love to your poor souls that by prayer you would beg of God to give you softned hearts that may melt tremble at the word of God lest by going on in your sins ye bring upon your solves swist destrution And so I come to give you some means and motives to stir you up to repentance and I shall conclude The first and principal means of workin● repentance where it is not is the word of God Mat. 4.17 And Jesus began to preach and to say Repent for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand Christs frist Sermon was a Sermon of repentance therefore if ever you would repent 〈◊〉 your sins attend upon the word of God 〈◊〉 ha● a woful sad condition are those in that want th● word of God What the Preacher said Eccle 11.6 In the morning saith he sowe thy seed an● in the evening withhold not thy hand so say I 〈◊〉 hearing the word of God Hear it in the morning and hear it in the afternoon hear it on th● Lords day and hear it in the week day take a● opprotunities of hearing the word of God And then a second help is to consider th● goodness and power of God his almighty an● his all séeing eye consider God sées and know and thy wayes and is able to punish thée for a● thy sins if men were but convinced of this truth they durst not sin so boldly as they do But I pass by this to give you some few Ch●dences of the truth of repentance and they ar● briesly these First the soul that hath truly repented is very careful to avoid even the occasion of sin an● keeps himself at a distance bath from sin sinners he will dispense with no sin at all but wil ●y as Ephraim did What have I to do any more ●ith sin And secondly he that is truly turned ●●ont sin unto God will endeavour to turn ther 's also he is not content that he himself is ●urned to God but he will draw others to God ●lso Thirdly he that hath truly repented is ve●y careful tofurnish himself against the assaults of the devil Thy word saith David Ps 119.11 have I hid in my heart that I might not sin against thee A true repentant treasures up the word of God in his heart and walks worthy of the Lord unto all well-pleasing being fruitful unto every good work and encreasing in the knowledge of God Col. 1.10 They do it as it is in Ps 110.23 They keep the testimonies of God and seek him with their whole heart they also do no iniquity they walk in his ways Their delight is in the law of God and in his law they do meditate day and night Psal 1.2 Fourthly he that hath truly repented is full of holy indignation against sin and turns sin quite out of doors he cannot endure the sight of it Fifthly he that hath truly repented is full of fear he is filled with an awful reverencial and filial fear of the Majesty of God and he is afraid of displeasing God by sin Sirthly a true penitent is full of holy and heavenly desires he desires more

be saved without repentance or can you repent when you will but you will say you are young and therefore may be born with a while which is the Devils divinity for young men have no more liberty allowed them to sin or to put off repentance then old men have it s the Devils policy to infuse this into thy brains that he may ensnare thee It was the commendation of Timothy that from a Childe he had known the holy Scriptures 1 Tim. 1. Young Saints say some but not the word of God prove old Devils But I am sure it is a rare thing to sée and old sinner to become a young Saint When the devil and sin hath lorded it in your soul yea tyrannized both over soul body for thirty or forty years together do you think then that a little groaning or crying Lord have mercy upon me wil be able to dispossess him at the last he having gotten too strong a footing in your soul to be beaten out of his quarters so easily he that will not remember God when he is young and living it s greatly to be feared God will be unmindeful of him when he is old and dying Therefore once more I beseech you in the bowels of Christ speedily to set about the work of repentance lest when it is too late you repent weep and mourn that you repented not before Do not say of repentance as Felix spake to Paul Thou wilt repent when thou art better at leasure another time shall serve the turn it may be thou mayest not live to another time or if thou doest thy heart may then be as hard if not harder then now it is Would you not in the day of the Lord be in a worse condition then heathens or infidels are Then repent Would you not when you are dead be in a worse condition then toads or serpents then repent It may be said of every impenitent sinner as Christ said of Judas in the 26. of Matthew and the 24. ver It had been good for that man if he had never been born Heathens in the day of Judgement shall be in a better condition then impenitent Christians for they shall have the lesser condemnation because of their ignorance who it may be would have done better if they had known more It shall be more tollerable saith our Saviour for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgement then for thou Capernaum Thou England that art exalted up to heaven in Gospel-mercies take heed and beware lest thou be not thrown down to hell in Gospel-vengeance I should now shew you the lets that hinder men from Repentance and so endeavour to remove them but I shall onely name them and so conclude with some few motivhs to stir you up to Repentance Now the lets that keep men off from Repentance are either from Sin and Satan or else from our selves and the World the Devil perswades men that repentance is a needless work and men need not trouble themselves with it for those that God hath ordained to live shall be saved let them live never so loosely and those that he hath appointed to wrath shall be damned let them repent never so much But to remove this let out of the way know this that all those that God hath ordained to salvation shall first or last more or less be brought to embrace the means In the 13. of the Acts and the 48. As many as were ordained to eternal life believed God hath joyned the end and the means together and cursed is he that dares to separate them Salvation without repentance is impossible without holiness no man shall see God Heb. 5.19 A second way by which the Devil keeps men off from Repentance is Gods mercy God is merciful saith the devil his mercy is over all his works he that made you will not damn you you need not to fear it True it is even to wicked men God is merciful but these are but mercies on the left hand common mercies it s a mercy to men that they live it s a mercy that we were not born monsters and its a mercy to have outward enjoyments but what are these to the peculiar mercies of God It was a good speech of a godly man saith he He that made thee without thee will not save thee without thee if thou art in a ditch and wilt do no more to come out but cry God help me thou mayest lie and perish O do not dare to go on in sin becaus God is merciful Shall we sin saith St. Paul that grace may abound no God forbid I dare not saith a gracious heart If ever you would partake of mercy you must depart from iniquity 2 Tim. 2.19 Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity I dare holdly say that if all the clouds of heaven should continually showre down mercy there would not so much as one drop fall upon any impenitent person Thirdly the devil labours to keep men off from repentance by bringing them to despair of mercy if he cannot work men into presumption by the consideration of Gods mercies he will do what he can to bring thent into desperation by telling them that mercy is out of date But let not this hinder thy repentance for as it cannot be too soon to repent so its never too late to repent better once then never I do not speak this that any should neglect to repent betimes but that none should ever despair of mercy and thereby be hindred from this duty of repentance A second let that hinders repentance is the world the lusts of the flesh and the pride of life the pleasures and preferments of the world these fight against the spirit and resist the work of repentance Voluptousness and Drunkenness unfits men for repentance therefore these must be abstained front 1 Pet. 2. 11. as things that war against the soul Mortifie therefore saith the Apostle your members which are upon earth fornication uncleanness c. Col. 3.5 These must be mortified And then a third let that keeps men from repentance is sin sin hath such a commanding power over the souls of unregenerated persons So that as it is Rom. 6.10 they give themselves over as servants to sin and to uncleanness O then for the Lords sake avoid all occasions of sin Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal bodies that you should obey it in the lusts thereof neither yield you your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin but yield your selves unto God as instruments of righteousness Rom. 6.12 13. verses O that I could prevail with you and that the Lord would perswade your hearts of the dreadful doleful condition of all umpenitent Sinners Consider then I beseech you in the fear of the Lord these following considerations and first of all know this you that live in the love of sin you live in the hatred of God for the love of God and the love of sin cannot possibly

of God and more acquaitance with the wayes of God more communion with God in Ordinances Seventhly true penitents are very zealous fo● God O how do I love thy law saith David 〈◊〉 the 119. Psalm A godly man cannot endure t● see God dishonoured as it is said of Lot in th● second of Peter 2.8 He vexed his righteous son● from day to day with their unlawful deeds An● then lastly where true repentance is wrought it will work a holy change in the soul an● whereas sin was formerly delighted in th● true Penitent hath it in indignation they will not onely turn sin out of doors but also are ready to cut it in pieces as it were true penitents have a feeling on their hearts for sin 〈◊〉 will loath themselvs for the evil of their ways It is a hard thing for a man to loath himself every man naturally loves himself but true penitents loath and abhor themselves as Job did A repentant eye sees matter enough in himself of self-abhorrency Repentance lets us see what black desiled creatures we are by nature Ezek. 20.43 You shall remember your wayes saith the Lord and shall loath your selves in your own sight And so much for the Evidences of repentance Is it so then that repentance is so absolutely necessary to salvation an that there is a great danger in putting it off from day to day and that a sick bed repentance is no repentance or at most but a sickly Repentance how highly then doth it concern every one of us even to day while it is called to day to begin our repentance and not onely to begin but to persevere in it to the end of our dayes Let the time past of our lives suffice us to have wrought our own wills and to have walked in our own wayes and ley us resolve for the time to come to live unto God and be not weary for in due season thou shalt reap if thou faint not Make repentance thy daily work that so thy peace may be made with God and when thou comest to dye thou mayest have nothing else to do but to dye He that labours not to kill sin by repentance in his life will be very unfit to die when death comes death is onely welcome to a gracious penitent soul they are not fit to die in whom sin is not killed by Repentance they have done nothing of that work which God sent them into the world to do that have not repented repentance sweetens our lives and takes away the bitterness of death and onely to penitent sinners is mercy promised Consider there is an absolute necessity of repentance we cannot be saved unless we repent Except ye repent saith Christ ye shall all likewise perish Luke 13.3 Consider also thy life is but short thou hast but a littlé time to live in the world thou hast need to bestir thy self then and to husband thy time to the best advantage thy soul thy precious and immortal soul w● be in danger of hell fire if thou repent not no repentance no salvation and if thou do not repent thee here of thy sins thou wilt surly to thy cost repent thee hereafter in hell f●● the neglect of repentance thou wilt then cur● the day wherein thou didst despise repentanc● then if there be any love in thée to thy precio●● soul whatever thou doest repent Consid●● also the end for which Christ came into t●● world Mat. 9.13 I came saith Christ to c●● sinners to repentance Be zealous therefore an repent and as John saith Mat. 3.8 Let us a labour to bring forth fruits meet for repentanc● Now the Lord work these truths upon you hearts and the Lord give every one of us repentance unto life repentance never to be repented of Which the Lord of hi infinite mercy grant unto us all To whom be glo●● and honour for ever Amen FINIS A short Motive to Repentance THe Glass doth run the Clock doth go Awake from sin why sleep you so In sin sleep not securely still Lest thou by sin thy soul doest kill While thou hast time do not delay Defer not off from day to day Thou art not sure to tarry here No not one quarter of a year No not one week nor yet one day One hour thou art not sure to stay Thou hast not space in thine own power To live one minute of an hour The present time see then thou take Thy peace with God in Christ to make Keep Faith and true Repentance still And then ley Death come when it will Thou art prepared for to dye And thou shalt live eternally FINIS Courteous Reader There is lately published an excellent an● profitable Sermon called The Christian blessed Choice Likewise Christs first Sermon Als● Christs last Sermon And the Christians best Garment Also Heavens Glory and Hells Horro●● And the School of Grace Also Awarning-piec● to the Sloathful Idle Careless Drunken and Secure Ones of these last and worst of times Ver● godly Books and are but three pence price Likewise 1. Englands Faithful Physician 2. Dooms-day at hand 3. The dreadful character of a drunkard 4. The Fathers last Blessing to his children 5. The sin of Pride arraigned and condemned 6. The Plain Mans Plain Path-way to Heaven 7. The Black Book of Conscience 8. Peters Sermon of Repentance 9. The Charitable Christian 10. Death Triumphant All very necessary for these licentious times and each of them being but of two pence price They are to be sold by Elizabeth Andrews at the White Lion near Pye-Corner