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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

shall little shew you what it is and that briefly Repentance is of two sorts either real or unfeigned or else séeming and hypocritical séeming repentance that 's common to wicked men and is altogether Legal arising from the accusations of their own consciences such a repentance as this was that of Judas and then there is a real and unfeigned repentance which doth properly belong to the godly and this is likewise of two sorts Legal and Evangelical Legal repentance that comes from the Law giving us the sight of our sins and our misery by sin the Law is our School-master to bring us to Christ Gal. 3.24 But Evangelical repentance that springs from faith in Christ and carries out the soul unto Christ in opposition to every sin and to a forsaking of every evil way repentance then I shall thus describe I say repentance is a gift of God by which a believing sinner being cast down in the sight and sense of his own sinnes doth utterly forsake and abhor all his former evil wayes and turns to the Lord with a perfect heart I say it is a gift of God that which comes from God and not from nature it s a flower never grew in natures garden neither birth nor bréeding neither art nor learning nor any other sublunarypower or qualification is able to beget repentance true repentance comes from above Every good and perfect gift saith St. James comes from above Jam. 1.17 Grace doth not grow here below but comes down from the father of lights The Apostles Acts 11.18 glorified God that to the Gentiles he had granted repentance unto life Repentance is the quickning of a dead soul and therefore must be the act of him who is the giver of all life We are all of us by nature dead in sins and trespasses Ephes the 2. and the 1. A man by nature is no more able to perform an act of true grace then a dead person in the grave is able to do an act of nature They that live in sin as St. Paul saith of the widow that lives in pleasure 1 Tim. 5.6 are dead while they live Repentance then is the gift of God Acts 11.18 God granted repentance unto life So in 1 Tim. 2.25 the Ministers of God are required to instruct those that oppose themselves with méekness if God peradventure wil give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth that they may recover themselves out of the snares of the devil It is said of Christ Acts 5.31 He is exalted to be a Prince and a Saviour to give repentance unto Israel Faith and repentance are supernatural works we may as wel create new heavens and a new earth as do these acts of our selves it is God alone that works them in our hearts by the efficacious operations of his Spirit 2 Cor. 3.5 We are not sufficient of our selves to think any thing as of our selves but it is God that worketh in us both to will and to do of his good pleasure Phil 2.13 Secondly repentance is a change first of the heart then of the whole man there must be a new heart and a new hand a new life and a new head all things must be new where repentance is If any man be in Christ saith the Apostle he is a new creature 1 Cor. 5.17 Repentance makes a man a new man and it is only in the power of God to renew our hearts neither Angels nor men are able to do it In Jer. 31.18 19. saith Ephraim Turn thou me and I shal be turned for thou art the Lord my God Surely after that I was turned I repented and after that I was instructed I smote upon my thigh I was ashamed yea even confounded because I did bear the reproach of my youth Here is the character of a true repentance it is the Lord that must change our hearts it is he only that must give us new hearts and take from us these hearts of stone it is the Lord that must pluck us out of the snares of the Devil and cast down the strong holds of sin in us if God do not turn us we shall never be turned After that I was turnned I repented saith Ephraim But I proceed in the description of repentance It s a gift of God I say whereby a believing sinner turns from all his sins unto God I say a believing sinner because faith must first precede and go before repentance for none can truly repent but he must first believe there may be in a sinner that which we call Legal repentance which may cause a sinner to fall out with his sins it may be to loath them with a kinde of detestation its possible a wicked man may repent that ever he knew what sin meant or that ever he had to do with sin all this may be and yet no true repentance because no true faith for true repentance causes a hatred of sin as it is displeasing to God aswell as hurtful to our selves yea he hates sin as hell yea worse then hell it self which cannot be in an unbelieving soul It cannot be denied but that repentance is a saving grace and if so then none can partake of this saving grace till he be first united unto Christ the fountain of all grace so then faith must needs be before repentance Secondly where true repentance is there is a change wrought in the whole man and a turning first to our selves secondly to God and thirdly to man An unrepentant sinner is out of himself and he is not onely out of his way but out of his wits In Luke 15.17 when the Prodigal came to himself he said Father I have sinned this is the first step to repentance self-returning Secondly repentance is a returning to God If thou wilt return O Israel saith the Lord return unto me Jer. 4.1 The grace of repentance is suitably expressed by this act of returning to God they who did not repent are said not to return to God In Amos. 4 1. God saith Notwithstanding I have given you cleanness of teeth and want of bread yet have you not returned notwithstanding I have with-holden the rain from you and smitten you with blastings and mildew and sent among you the Pestilence Notwithstanding I have slain your young men by the sword and overthrown some of you as I overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah by fire yet have you not returned unto me saith the Lord. Repentance is a turning from sin to God Sin turns men from God and draws the soul into the wayes of death Jam. 1.14 A man is drawn away of his own lusts and enticed drawn away from God and from the truth of God but when once Repentance comes he turns back again he changes his minde then and abhors himself for what he hath done Job 42.6 I abhor my self and repent saith Job in dust and ashes The prodigal was drawn away from his fathers house through his own lusts and yet at last he returned first to himself