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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20229	A sermon of repentaunce a very godly and profitable sermon preached at Lee in Essex / by Arthur Dent ...	Dent, Arthur, d. 1607.	1582 (1582)	STC 6649.7; ESTC S4601	24,399	66

shuttle which glideth away swiftly Euen so the daies of man passe away no man knoweth how Man is of short continuaunce saith Iob full of trouble Experience teacheth that to day a man to morowe none Hence away we must al here is no abiding place for vs how soone we know not Therefore let vs repent Sixtly the small number of those which shal be saued ought to thrust vs forward to repentance Striue to enter in at the narrow gate for many I say vnto you will séeke to enter in and shal not be able saith Christe Luke 13. 24. And in an other place he saith the gate is straight and the way narrowe that leadeth vnto life and fewe there be that finde it If men would consider of this it would make them looke better about them and trie with them selues whether they be of that small number or no. Seuenthly Death threatneth vs who is very terrible to the flesh and the remembraunce of it very bitter to a man that is soused and soked in the pleasures of this worlde It flattereth no man it regardeth not persons it weigheth not friendship it careth not for rewardes it is very grim vglie and cruel and killeth downe right where it hitteth Therefore let vs repent Eightly the day of iudgement and seconde appearing of the Sonne of man ought to quicken vs. The day of the Lord will come as a Théefe in the night in the whiche the heauens shal passe away with a noyse and the Elements shall melt with heate and the earth with the workes that are therein shal be burnt vp séeing therefore that all these things must be dissolue● what manner of persons ought ye to be in holy conuersation and Godlines saith S. Pet. 2. 3. The Lorde Iesus shall shewe himselfe from heauen with his mighty angelles in flaming fire rendering vengeaunce vnto them that know not God and obeye not vnto the Gospell of our Lorde Iesus Christ saith the Apostle 2. Thes 1. I sawe saieth Saint Iohn Apoc. 20. A great white Throne and one that sate on it from whose face fledde away both the earth and the heauen and their place was no more founde And I sawe the deade both great and small stand before GOD and the bookes were opened and another booke was opened which is the booke of life and the dead were iudged of those thinges which were written in the bookes according to their woorkes And the Sea gaue vp her deade whiche were in her and death and hell deliuered vp the deade which were in them and they were iudged euery man according to his woorkes In these places we sée both the sodainnesse the fearefulnesse and glory of Christs comming For he shall not come poorely and contemptuously as in his first visitation but he shall come very princely royally and triumphantly to the great terrour of all his enemies when a consuming fire shall goe before him and ten thousand thousands of Angels waite vpon him at what time the Kinges of the earth the great men and the rich men and the chiefe Captaines and the mightie men and euery bondman and euery fréeman shall hyde themselues in dennes and amongest the rockes of the mountaines and say to the rockes and mountaines fall on vs hide vs from the presence of him that sitteth on the throne and from the wrath of the Lambe for the great day of his wrath is come and who can stand Apoc 6. Therfore let vs repent The last thing is Hell tormentes then the which nothing is more vntollerable Therefore saith Christe Marke 9. If thine hand cause thee to offende cut it off It is better for thee to enter into life maymed then hauing two handes to goe into Hell into the fire that neuer shall bee quenched where the worme dieth not and the fire neuer goeth out The Scripture speaketh very terribly to our senses concerning the estate of the damned persons calling it hel fire damnation the lake that burneth with fire brimstone for euer In 30. cha of the prophesie of Esai it is called Tropheth and it is euen prepared of old it is euen prepared for y e king he hath made déepe large y e burning therof is fire and much wood the breath of the Lorde like a Riuer of Brimstone doeth kindle it these spéeches are terrible to our senses may maruellously amaze vs. But if I had the tongue of an hundred men nay of an hundred Angels yet were I not able to vtter them as some shall one day féele them much lesse were you able to conceiue thē If al the tortures and cruel torments that can be deuised by the wit of man were executed vpon some one yet were it nothing to this We poore wretches thinke there is no paine to a Collike or a cruell Ague But if all Collikes Agues and all other strange diseases could possibly light vpon one man yet were it but a fleabiting to that which is to come The pain is endlesse easelesse and remedilesse The daies of their hellish torments shal neuer weare ●ut nor their yeares come to an ende the longer they continue the lesse hope haue they When as many yeres are expired as there be men in the world starres in the heauens when as many thousand yeares are ended as there be stones and sands by the Sea shore yet still there be ten hūdred thousande times so many moe to come Those that wil not now be moued in hearing shall then be crushed to péeces in féeling Al dronkards swearers whoremongers vsurers extortioners liers mockers contemners secure persons iolly felowes roisting ruffians lustie bloudes the braue laddes of this world and all other vnbeleuers shal one day be apprehended and arraigned before the barre of Gods tribunal seate where the Maiesty of GOD shall stand aboue them with a naked sworde of vengeance and a scepter of Iustice The Deuil that olde Satanas shal stand on the one side to accuse them and their own conscience on the other side to condemne thē and the gasping gulfe of Hell vnderneath them ready to swallow them vp for euermore Then shall the dreadfull sentence of eternall woe and damnation procéede against them Go ye cursed into hel fire c. There they shall drinke as a iuste recompence for their iniquitie the bitter cup of Gods eternall wrath and indignation in the kingdom of darknes and in the fearefull presence of Sathan all the cursed enemies of Gods grace where the dolefull Droome of Gods anger shall euer sounde through their eares where shalbe wéeping gnashing of téeth where shall bée confusion woe and endles lamentation Their gripes shall bée so greate their groanes so déepe and their garboiles so vntollerable that they shall grinne like a Dog in their infernall conu●lsions and with howling and yelling crie out woe alas that euer I was borne Oh that I had neuer béene borne or that my mother had borne mee a Tode For then should my condition haue bin better

great multitude that in a maner the whole world agréeth w e them to practise our death Thus the diuell doth cast a mist before their eies and closly lead them away from repentaunce Therefore ●éere brethrē let vs stand fast in the word of the Lord and not be caried away or bowed quite down with this raging stream of the multitude but let vs knowe it to be one speciall engine of Sathan whereby he driueth vs from repentaunce The fourth let vnto repentance is long custome of sinne For that taketh away all sense féeling of sinne making it as 〈◊〉 were another nature vnto vs So that we may aswel alter nature as shake it of whē it is once thus soldred vnto vs through lōg custome Therefore it is saide Iere. 13. 23. Can the blake-More chaunge his skin or the Leopard his spots thē may ye also doe good that are accustomed to do euil Here the Prophet affirmeth that it is as hard to cure an old disease that is bred in the bone and to remedie a sinne that hath béene hatched and brought vp with vs as to washe a black-more white or to change the spots of a Leopard which cannot be with out destroying of nature And surely trie it who will hee shall finde it as harde a matter to leaue an old custom whether it be of sw●●ring of gaming of lying of whoring of euill company or of any other sinne as to wash an Aethiopian Therfore it is written Prou. 27. Though thou shouldest bray a foole in a morter emonge whea●e brayed with a pestell yet will not his foolishnes depart from him So that as longe as we are in custome with sinne the doore of repentance is barred vp against be The fifth hinderance is long escaping of punishmēt for the wicked therby are sta●●●ed in sinne and driuen of from repentance euen as an olde théefe that hath stollen a long time and escapeth both prison and gallows is animated more boldely to procéede in his wickednesse thinking he shall so alwayes escape So many filthy loose liuers go forward in their abhominations without repentaunce thinking that because God doth not incontinētly punish them and shew some manifest iudgments signe of his wrath vpon them therefore they shalbe acquited for altogether Wheras contrariwise if God should by and by strike th̄ down assone as they had sinned by thundering vpon one and lightning vpon another and raining fire brimstone vpon the third it would make them afraid Hereupon it is said in Pet. 2. 3. 4. This first vnderstand that there shal come in the last dayes mockers which will walke after their lustes and say where is the promise of his comming For since the fathers died al things continue alike from the beginning of the creation But let these men well knowe that when God hath delayed along time prolonged the terme of the wicked at length he will shew y t although● he waited for their repentance yet he fo●●gate not their misdéedes but registre● them before him and packed them vp 〈◊〉 a great heape to increase the terrour o● his wrath The sixt hinderance is the beholding 〈◊〉 other mens endes For when some me● that haue liued a wicked an vngratiou● life and haue bene notorious sinners euen to the worldward so that euery man cou● point at them yet if vpon their death 〈◊〉 they can say a fewe good wordes and crye God mercy and say their praiers and for giue al the world and so die quietly It is merueilous to heare howe the foolish people of the world will exalt them iustifye them saying hee made a very good ende as any man could make and died as qui●● as a Lambe set all things in good or●●● before he died Herevpon an other w●●ked monstrous verlet is encouraged 〈◊〉 sinne For thinketh he such a man liued 〈◊〉 loosely as I or any man else and yet 〈◊〉 made a verie good ende and why may not I do so too But alas these mens eye● are bleared For to die quietly is no to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to crie God mercie for fashion is not to haue God mercifull to say a fewe ●●●yers with téeth outwarde is not to die in the faith of Christ for many may doe all this and yet die miserably The last let is hope of long life for while men féede and besette them selues in this hope they waxe dronken in sin and defer the day of Repentance As the riche man in the Luke 12. dreaming of his long life cast off all thought of God and of the other life and of Christes comming and of Repentaunce and all good thinges and sayid within himselfe Soule thou hast muche goods laid vp for many yeres liue at ease eate drinke and take thy pastime Thus the bleareyed men of this world choke vp Repentance quite smother it by doting themselues with hope of long life Therefore my deare brethren I beséech you by the mecies of God in the bowels of Iesus Christ that none of all these common lets may stay you from spéedy and vnfeigned Repentance But that you may ouerstride them all least vnhappily you being found without Repentance and taken tardie in your sinnes should all perish and be damned according to Christs sentence Wh●●● fore in conclusion let vs with godly E●chias be afraide of Gods threateninges sorrow aforehand stand in awe of GOD examine our conscience mourne for our sinnes lament inwardly that when the wicked which haue swimmed in pleasures here belowe shall enter into their eternal paynes we may then I say there haue euerlasting peace rest that when Iesus Christ shall appeare from heauen with all his holy Angels we may haue crownes of glory and victory clapped on our heades and raigne with our God our sauiour his sonne and all his Sainctes and Angels in the middest of all ioy in the heauens for euermore To the which ioy he bring vs all which hath so bearely bought vs Iesus Christ the righteous to whom with the father the holy Ghost be all honour glory praise power empire and dominion now and for euermore Amen FINIS