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A27449 Rome tyrannical, idolatrous and heretical the origine of her errors with an answer to her objections : also three short sermons of repentance against swearing and drunkenness preached to the ships company before Admiral Aylmer and several captains / by Peter Berault. Berault, Peter. 1698 (1698) Wing B1956; ESTC R30222 55,952 193

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against God as often as we have thought and desired any thing contrary to his holy Commandments With our Tongues we have offended him as many times as we took his Name in vain or spake ill Words or were Slanderers or false Witnesses against our Neigh Neighbours With our Hands as often as we did strike any body or Rob him of his Goods With our Feet when we went into those places which we knew to be to us an occasion of Sin With our Ears when we took delight in hearing impure and obscene Words And with our Eyes as often as we did read bad Books and look upon a Woman to Lust after her Seeing then we have so many ways sinned against God who is our Father I think it is very reasonable we should Repent And if to Repent is nothing but to weep for our Sins and commit them no more are we not obliged to it since we have sinned against him How cruel it is saith St. Austin to offend such a Father and willingly commit any thing against his Commandments We did fall into such a Cruelty as often as we have sinned against him It is then very necessary we should Repent Therefore let us weep for our Sins and commit them no more Let us begin to day at this very hour and moment and continue all the days of our Lives Let us beg him Forgiveness and kneeling with a contrite Heart let us say as the prodigal Child Father I have sinned against heaven and before thee and am no more worthy to be called thy son Let us imitate David St. Peter and Mary Magdalen They have Sinned but they have Repented They bitterly wept for their Trespasses and committed them no more We have followed them in their Sins let us follow them also in their Repentance We are obliged to 't seeing we have offended God who is our Father The second Reason why we are obliged to Repent is because if we do not we shall certainly be unhappy for ever He that is cast into an eternal Fire is Miserable and Unhappy for ever seeing he endures there exceeding immoderate Torments For he undergoes two sorts of Pains one Privative and the other Positive 1. Privative because in that burning Prison he is deprived from the sight of God who is infinitely beautiful good perfect and consequently infinitely worthy to be loved and put out of the Company of Jesus Christ of the Angels and all blessed Souls thereby losing all the Delights Treasures and Honours which are found in the Kingdom of Heaven 2. Positive Because he that is in that fiery Prison is always full of Sorrow Fury Grief and Despair being detained in a place of Tears Sighs Groanings gnashing of Teeth and innumerable other Torments which no Tongue can express Therefore if he that is in an eternal Fire wherein he is suffering all these positive and privative torments which I have just now described unto you be unhappy and miserable for ever it is certain we shall be so unless we repent For except ye repent saith Jesus Christ in the words of my Text ye shall all likewise perish We may believe Jesus Christ the axe saith he is laid unto the root of the Trees therefore every Tree which brings not forth good fruit is hewen down and cast into the fire yes certainly except we repent we shall not escape these eternally burning Prisons we shall undergo all the Torments contained therein we shall be unfortunate and all perish for ever For since God did not forgive his Angels and did cast into Hell the Inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah with Dives Judas and several others because they would not forsake their Sins let us be certain if we do not repent we shall receive alike punishment we must either burn or repent saith St. Austin and except ye repent saith Jesus Christ ye shall all likewise perish Are we then willing to escape these eternally tormenting Flames have we a desire that our Sins should not be punish'd of God we must needs punish them our selves whilst we live in this World Wilt thou not have God to punish thy sins saith St. Austin punish them thy self for every iniquity either great or small is to be punisht either by repenting Man or by a revenging God And that we may be the more inclined to repent let us see its utility this is the third part of my Discourse 3. Part. Repentance is useful 1. Because it blots out all our Sins 2. Because thereby we obtain the Grace of God And 3. Because therein consists the Salvation of all Men. Before I make it appear unto you that Repentance blots out all our Sins ye must know that Sin is hurtful for three special Effects 1. Because it kills our Souls The Soul saith Ezekiel that sinneth it shall die 18. 4. But how can Sin kill our Soul since it is immortal The reason is because there is a double life in our Soul one natural and another supernatural As for the former life our Soul does not lose it by Sin but as for the latter which is more excellent than the other and without which natural life is nothing but sorrow misery trouble and grief Sin kills it The Soul that sinneth it shall die Secondly Sin is hurtful because thereby we lose infinite Riches both of Body and Soul we lose saith Laurence Justinian in his Sermon concerning St. John the Evangelist the Whiteness of Innocency the Gown of Immortality the Purity of the Soul the sweetness and delight of Contemplation the liberty of Spirit the Kingdom of Heaven the Society of Angels and the Love of God Thirdly Sin is hurtful because he that Sinneth from the Child of God becomes the Child of the Devil He that commits Sin saith St. John is of the Devil for the Devil sinneth from the beginning 1 John 3. 8. If Sin be so hurtful as I have made it appear Repentance must needs be very advantageous seeing it blots out all our Sins This Truth is evident by these Words Repent ye and be converted that your sins may ●e blotted out Acts 3. 9. For as the Sun expells Darkness because of the essential Opposition they have one with another likewise Repentance expells Sins It is like unto that Pool whereof it is spoken in the Fifth Chapter of St. John which whosoever first after the troubling of the Water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever Disease he had Witness David and Mary Magdalen David did commit both Adultery and Murther He killed Uriah with the Sword and took away his Wife He Repented of his Sins he begged Pardon unto God and said I have sinned against the Lord 2 Sam. 13. 12. And what then his Sins were blotted out the Lord did forgive him Mary Magdalene whose Sins were many and out of whom went seven Devils Luke 1. She Repented of her Sins for when she knew that Jesus sat at Meat in the Pharisees House brought an Alabaster Box of Oyntment and stood at his Feet with