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A09595 A sommon to repentance Giuen vnto Christians for a loking glasse, wherin we may behold our owne deformities, and therein and thereby, we are not onely forewarned of our destructions, but we are learned to humble out selues in these dangerous dayes of wickednesse, before the throane of Gods mercy, that wee maye not be preserued from the lake of damnation, in the great and notable day of Christs comming to iudgemente. Published by J.P. student of Cambridge.; Summons for repentance Phillips, John, fl. 1570-1591. 1584 (1584) STC 19875; ESTC S105036 35,560 70

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●…rish and be destroied vnles we repent ●…od therefore whilst we haue time giue 〈◊〉 the grace to conuert 〈◊〉 for 〈◊〉 daie of our visitation is at hand and ●…ot farre off Were the I●…wes the pecu●… and chosen people of God yea vert●… Did they rebell and murmur in the ●…ildernesse against him and doe not 〈◊〉 Gentiles the like had the Iewes a longging after quailes Were they wearie of Manna and doe not the Gentiles gréedilie hunger after Pharo his 〈◊〉 pots Wax they not weary of the 〈◊〉 begin they not the gentils to loath 〈◊〉 euerlasting Manna of y e Gospel Had 〈◊〉 Iewes their desire Let the Gentils take heede by them that God giue them not oner to followe their owne affections Did not manie thousandes of them perish whilest the meat was in their mouthes And shall not he in his iustice destroie and consume vs that longe after 〈◊〉 and are wearie of the truth 〈◊〉 that the remembraunce of these thinges could take déepe roote in our hearts 〈◊〉 that these examples spectakles of 〈◊〉 iustice might suffice to 〈◊〉 our guilty consciences inforce vs to crie out and wéepe bitterlie with the Prophet Dauid for our manifolde sinnes committed against gainst the Lorde our God I woulde 〈◊〉 God that wich Lot we wold go for 〈◊〉 in godlie zeale perfect puritie and 〈◊〉 glenes of hart but it will not be We are wilfull lookers backe with his wife to beastlie Zodoma I would to God that with Lot we woulde faithfullie credite and beleeue that the almightie bath spoken and is fullie determined in his excéeding iustice to bring to passe but with Lots wife we are incredulous we are become turne backs begin to awel in distrust with hir thinking that the maiestie of our God is insufficient to bring to effect y ● thing which prouidently he hath decréed to bring to passe But with Lots wife we do altogither disceue our selues for heauen and earth shall perishe but the worde of the Lorde shall endure for euer Alas there is no one thinge more abhominable vnder the Heauens than is the intertainemente of infidelitie and vnbéeliefe For where this monstrous euill is redsydent there is no hope of salnation no feare of GOD abyding nor no kinde of goodnesse to bee expected for Infydelles and vnbelce●… the LORDE God will iudge This infidelitie flourished in the heart of proude Pharo who regarded not the saieng of the Prophet Moyies but hardened hishart in such condission and estate that neither the messenger of Gods signes and tokens were of him esteemed nor regarded and albeit God sent sondrie and diuers plagues among the Egiptians to make his power knowne yet would not Pharao let go●… the Lordes people such and so great was the infidelitie and increasing contempt of malicious Pharo But God the Lorde of hostes heard the groninges of his peculiar people that were by the cruell Egyptians diuerslie afflicted and with a mightie and out stretched hande he deliuered them from the hands of their enimies and lead them safelie through the red●…e seas wherein Pharo and his host perished Lo here an especiall token of Gods fauor shewen to his people whom in mercie he gratiouslie preserued from danger And an exceding note worthie to be considered of his diuine iustice wherein to the comfort of the faithfull he in the fulnesse of his dis●…pleasure confoundeth there ennimies This in●…idelitie for all the good that the Lorde God had done for his people Israell crept into the very intrales and throughly pearced the harts of them so that they became wilfull contemners of his statutes truce breakers of his couenants forsakers of his lawes and followers of their owne imaginations For they set vp a golden calfe in Horeb and worshipped the same as God This infidelity made bloodthirsty lezabel to fauor conceaue no smal delight in the blasphemous priestes of Baall and to perfecute afflict and put to the edge of the sworde the Lords prophets and those that scared the Lorde but God in his iusti●…e rewarded hir she was throwne from the toppe of an high towre brake hir necke and the 〈◊〉 did eate hir flesh and lapped vp hir bloud according to the saieng of the prophet Thus we sée that mightie is the Lord ou●… God and his iudgements are true This infidelitie made A tha●… ●…ecome a worshipper of straunge gods and to ren●…unce the liuing Go●… of Israell but hir ende was shame and confusion This infidelity made Dauid to distrust in the Lord and to affie him in his owne strength in that he numbered his people but the plague of pestilence tooke awaie threescore and ten thowsand of them in thrée daies This in●…delitie made Nabuchadnezer to erect and set vp a golden image to bé●… worshipped as God himselfe of his people but Sidrack Misaell and Abednego woulde not consent to fall from the Lorde God of hosts neither would they giue the glorie of the Lorde their God to a ●…lthy idoll Nabuchadnezer herewith not a litle displesed cast them into a fierie furnace but the Lord preserued them to their comfort and the confusion of their 〈◊〉 This infidelitie made proude Antiochus to enter into an horrible contempts o●… GOD and his lawe ●…hose people hee ceased not to vexe and afflicte daie and night but hée escaped not 〈◊〉 free the Lorde GOD had a care for his Church preserued his people the foulde of his inheritance and sent his Aungell to correct this Tyraunt as hee was ryding in his Chariote and that in such sorte that the wormes fell foorth of hys fleshe hee béeing alyue And was this all No the fylthy stench of his infection was such and so loathsome and vnsa●…erie in the nostrels of his owne seruauntes that they were vnable to abide his presence A notable example of Gods i●…ste iudgementes This infidelitie made blood thirstie Nero cruell Domisian monstrous Heliogabalus and tyrrannous Tragian to persecute CHRIST in his members to kyll hys Apostles to contemne the 〈◊〉 of his Gospell to worshippe straunge and vnknowne Gods and and to glorie in their owne wickednesses and abhominations but their ende was shame and vtter confusion And I feare me that this monstro●… sinne is not a little fauoured of vs that professe the glorious name of our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ for who seeth not that we for the most part of vs are not great ●…aggers of the Gospell of our saluation But where are the fruites that hee expecteth and requireth at our handes Is it sufficient for vs thinke we to talk of Christ with our carnall and fleshlie lips and to denie him in our deedes What greater offence can there be committed or done against the eternall maies●… of God Is it not a grosse kinde of infidelitie thinke we that posesse●…h our 〈◊〉 consciences that we not 〈◊〉 hate to be reformed but herewithal also we s●…orne