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A19522	The conuerted mans new birth describing the direct way to go to heauen: wherein all men may clearely see, whether they shall be saued or damned. Shewing the principall care, and vehement desire, which euery one ought to take, in seeking their saluation. With the spirituall battle betweene the regenerate man and Sathan. Heere is also layd open the true estate of the regenerate man, with the certainty of his saluation: with an excellent marke, to know the childe of God, which hath truely repented; and concluding with a right zealous and godly prayer, out of the pure fountaine of the holy Scripture. Dedicated vnto all the elect children of God, which truely repent. Newly published by Iohn Andrewes Preacher of Gods Word. Being first seene and allowed.	Andrewes, John, fl. 1615.	1629 (1629)	STC 595; ESTC S116760	16,233	48

Lord haue mercy spare vs O spare vs we beseech thee whereby we may see that God regards not the clamour of sinne so much as hee doth the crye of a true repentant sinner But England O sinnefull England there was neuer any Nation in the World that hath such store of Heauenly Manna as his Word his Will his Truth his Gospell which wee haue receiued Iugentia beneficia infinite benefits much knowledge of the Truth so much Preaching of the Word and so much glorious light of the Gospell And yet Mirandum est degeneres nos it is wonder and a great wonder that such a degenerate generation as this such a corrupt and sinnefull Nation as wee should so liue in such a blessed and illuminated a time But our sinnes our sinnes our vnrepented sinnes are more then can bee numbred by any Arithmetition and greater then can be measured by a Geometrition As our swearing and forswearing our prophatning the Lords Sabaoth our contempt of Gods Word our couetousnesse our drunkennes our deceite our whoredome our pride our vnthankfulnes and our waxing worse worse with many moe which crye to Heauen for Gods vengeance against vs. Oh therefore let vs with all expedition seeke for our saluation by speedy repentance Let vs not onely wéepe but powre foorth our teares for our sins like Dauid Wrestle with GOD like Iacob Crye like Esay That our heads may be full of water and our eyes a Fountayne of teares like Ieremiah Let vs be clad in Sacke-cloath like the Niniuites Humbled vnto the ground like Abraham Mourne like a Doue with Ezechia Rore out our griefe with Iob Powre out our Soule with Hanna Rent our hearts with the penitent lament with Peter Sorrow with Mary And crye out with the Iewes Men and Brethren what shall we doe to bee saued For there is nothing more needefull then the saluation of our soules The vehement desire of their saluation caused the Patriarks Prophets and the Saints of the old World to long for and desire that eternall sweete and most ioyful inheritance Regnum Dei the Kingdome of God It caused Abraham to forsake his owne naturall Countrey and his Fathers House and t● go● he knew not whither It caused Moses to forsake Aegypt and refused to be called the Son of Pharaohs daughter it caused Toby Iob Elias and Paul to wish To be dissolued and to bee with Christ It caused the carelesse Niniuites to beléeue Ionas Preaching The desperate souldiers to heare Iohns Sermon The obstinate Israelites to heare Peters perswasion The Euenuch to giue eare to Phillip Cornelius the Captayne with a great multitude to heare Peter and the Macedonians to continue Paules Doctrine vntill midnight When Iohn the Baptist first Preached Primitiua quidem Ecclesia The Primitiue Church did most clearely shine in so much that the Kingdome of Heauen suffered violence That is there was such forwardnesse and zeale in those that heard him Preach to procure their saluation in the Kingdome of Heauen that they stroue most earnestly to goe in and this affection our Sauiour requireth when he sayth Striue to enter in at the straight Gate For Dominus vobiscum dum vos cum Domino The Lord is with you while yée heare his voyce The Prophet Dauid lamented that hée was so long kept from the ioyes of his Saluation Woe is me sayth hee that I am constrained to dwell with Mosech and to haue my habitation among the Tents of Keder And agayne Like as the Hart desireth the water brooke so longeth my soule after thee O God And agayne hée sayth That hee should vtterly haue fainted but that hee did rest in hope of a better Kingdome and beleeued verily in short time to see the ioyes of his Saluation in the land of the liuing And many others counted their Country but a cursed vale of misery their worldly glory but vanity their dwellings but a Prison their pleasure but sorrow mourning and teares and all their doings were to this end that they might ioy in their saluation in the kingdome of Heauen CHAP. II. The second Chapter entreateth of the shortnesse and vncertainty of mans life and how it may be a motiue to induce vs to returne vnto the Lord by repentance because no man knowes the time thereof nor when God will call him ALl Creatures waxe olde with this aged World although Methusela liued 969. yeares yet in our age if we reach to 80. it is with sorrow and labour mans dayes are but a span saith Dauid and all flesh is grasse sayth the Prophet Esay So that man is scarce entred into the World but he is admonished to remember to depart out of the same for as all the world is mutable so of all the things in the world man is most mutable wee are all but Tenants at will and know not how long we shall remayne in this earthly Tabernacle and as our dayes are but short and euill and many cut off suddainly that they haue scarce time to thinke on God or once crye Lord helpe me therefore we ought alwaies so to liue that wee may euer bee prepared for the Lord. Let the memory of death bee euer the looking-glasse of our life and seeing the young must depart from the World as well as the old Let vs imagine that the Spring of our dayes are past our Summer is spent and that wee are arriued at the Autumne or fall of the leafe So that in euery moment wee are in the waning The date of our poore Pilgrimage almost expired and the Lamp of our liues lyeth twinckling vppon the snuffe our forces enféebled our sences impayred and on euery side our tottering and ruinous cottage of our faint flesh ready to fall It were now high time therefore to leaue our owne wayes and with all expedition looke towards our Caelestiall home lest wée bée like those which are tossed with many sturdy stormes and cannot ariue at their desired Port ride little way but are much turmoyled So these that passe many yeares in their vnrepented sins and purchase but small profit to salue their sicke soules should haue a long lyuing in destruction but a short life in conuersion besides that where sinne raignes there goes Gods curse also There is no peace to the wicked But howsoeuer whether in youth or in age wée would leaue our sinnes and returne vnto the Lord by Repentance wee must know this that it is not in our owne power No man can leaue his sinnes when he would nor no Pope or Potentate can pardon them but God neyther is any man capable of grace necessary to saluation before God cals him as our Sauiour sayth No man can come vnto me except my Father draw him The labourer receiued his peny as well that came in the last houre

as hée that came in the first And the Théefe was saued that was on the Crosse So that there is no time too late in this life to repent if wée repent truely whensoeuer it shall please God to call vs neyther any time too earely if wée prepare our selues to leaue our sins and come vnto him when hée calls vs So that whether it be earely or late wée must alwayes prepare our selues to forsake our selues in our sinnes and come at his calling CHAP III The third Chapter describeth a short and Caelestiall view of the place whereunto we are called WE are not called vnto any earthly Tabernacle but to the Kingdome of Heauen vnto that blessed and euerlasting Kingdome vnto that Celestiall and Heauenly Ierusalem that Kingdome of glory that throne of Maiesty that Paradize of pleasure that glory of God and life euerlasting which was the first of all Gods workes and therefore it is most ancient Whose felicity cannot bee imagined neyther the blessings numbred so incomparable as cannot bee equalled and of such value as none can comprize it so great as cannot be measured and of such eternity as neuer can be ended The very name of Heauen to all is louely because it is a Hauen for rest a Citty for beauty and a Kingdom for state It is the Harbour for the Iust the peculiar people the regenerate Christians the Children of light the elect by Gods praeordination where all are Kings and Heires with Christ inuested with glory Crowned with Maiesty cloathed with security decked with delights replenished with pleasure garnished with all graces adorned with beauty furnished with the best company and flourishing with the flower of all Nations it is desired of all hoped for of many but only enioyed of the best And as Heauen is out Summum bonum our chiefe good thing so it is our Terminus adquem the end of al our Preaching the drift of all our Hearing the fruite of all our Beleeuing the effect of all our Knowledge and the mayne poynt of all our Profession that wee may so liue that wée may enioy this blessed and euerlasting Kingdome CHAP. IIII. The fourth Chapter entreateth of the Spirituall battle in which no doubt euery Regenerate man oftentimes fighteth against Sathan before hee attaine eternall life SAthan is euer quiet with the sinner before hee feareth he shall loose him but then hée séeketh by all meanes that possibly hée can to attempt peruert and vtterly ouerthrow him Moses was quiet vntill hée beganne to deliuer the Children of Israel then●orah ●orah could say Yee take too much vppon you King Dauid was quiet when he kept his Fathers sheep but after he fought for the Church of God Then Saul could rise against him Saint Paul was quiet so long as hee was with the Scribes and Pharisees but afterwards hee had enemies enough Sathan tempted and ouercame the perfectest as Adam the strongest as sampson and the wisest as Salomon Hee therefore that standeth let him take heed lest he fall Christ was no sooner Baptized and had fasted forty dayes but Sathan could tempt him And so it is with euery Regenerate man euen when hee is most weakest then the Diuell is strongest and busiest agaynst him Who daily laboureth to delude him with all manner of inticements First To delight in sinne Secondly To consent Thirdly To custome and from custome to hardness of heart from hardnesse of heart to boasting from boasting vnto desperation and from desperation to damnation and thus by degrees if sinne be not resisted the Diuell will labour to bring the sinner vnto destruction Wherefore wee must daily labour to preuent them by Diuine meditations diuert them by feruent prayers and correct them by sighes and speedy Repentance For I holde those intisements and vanishing thoughts which many times passe through a Regenerate man without approbation not without suppression to be properly Nec mors nec morbus animae sed deformitas Neyther the death nor disease of the soule but the deformity thereof they are Tela immisa Sathans darts shot at vs In corde non excorde in the heart not of the heart which the godly seeke but giue no consent vnto they are our crosses but not our sinnes they are but Morbus mentis The disease of the minde Those motions St. Paul confesseth the Children of God are neuer free from them It is obserued in Hierom which hee bewrayes in many places of his workes That his whole life was in continuall war-faire with his lusts It caused St. Paul to crye out to bee deliuered from the pricke of the flesh But the Lord answered him My grace is sufficient for thee for my strength is made perfect in thy weaknesse I hold these such like temptations to bee the battle which euery Regenerate man fighteth agaynst Sathan For where were grace if there were no temptation where were mortification if no lusts to mortifie And where were patience if there were no affliction if there were no motion to sinne where were the battle the victory and the Crowne wee shall obtaine if wee haue no Aduersary to striue withall The Diuell as hee is the Prince of this World So still he seeketh whom he may deuoure he himselfe is chiefe generall and is alwayes the sore-man in the battle his Lieutenants are fleshly lusts which are in open war agaynst Chastity the Sergeants of his Band are the cursed Children of dacknesse which are in continuall strife agaynst the Children of light His common Souldiers are the effects of the flesh to fight agaynst the fruits of the Spirit And their armour is the brest plate of iniury the girdle of falshood the shoes of discord the shield of infidelity the helmet of mistrust with the piercing darts of cruelty the Cannon shot of spitefull Reproaches the arrowes of flying slanders and the frailty of the flesh to peruert and vtterly confound vs except wee preuent them by Prayer and Repentance Therefore the Children of God ought to put on Gods Armour and manfully fight against the deuices of sinne Sathan and all his detestable crue before they can obtayne their spirituall inheritance in the Kingdome of Heauen Which weapons are able to ouercome the Diuell and all the lewd lusts of the world yea and all the whole host of vices therein Our Captaine and chiefe Generall in all our conflict Is the mighty Lyon of the Tribe of Iudah the Prince of Peace the Conquerour of Death Heil and Sinne Yea the great Iudge of the World and Bishop of our Soules Christ Iesus our Sauiour And to resist the Tyranny of the Diuell it standeth vs in hand to be also well and strongly armed with the brest-plate of equity the Shield of vndoubted faith in Christ the Helmet of assured hope