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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A38185	The Franciscan convert, or, A recantation-sermon of Anthony Egan ... preached in London on April 6, 1673 to which is annexed, A narrative of the strange behaviour and speeches of the papists in Ireland since His Majesties declaration of indulgence : and the commendatory letter in Latine, given to the author by his superiour before his conversion.	Egan, Anthony, B.D.; Ford, Henry, Sir, 1619?-1684.	1673 (1673)	Wing E248; ESTC R7765	10,949	36

Advertisement THe Author being informed that after he had Preached this Sermon the people judged him to be the Capuchin Fryer who lately burnt his Beads Crucifixes c. in the Pallace Yard at Westminster He desires to satisfie the World of their mistake for that to his knowledg he never saw him in his life neither was he in England at that time Anthony Egan FINIS The Franciscan CONVERT OR A Recantation-Sermon OF ANTHONY EGAN Late Confessor General of the Kingdom of Ireland and Guardian of the Friory of Monasterioris in the Province of Lemster Now a Minister of the Gospel according to the Ordination of the Church of England Preached in London on April 6. 1673. To which is annexed A NARRATIVE of the strange Behaviour and Speeches of the Papists in Ireland since His Majesties Declaration of Indulgence And the Commendatory LETTER in Latine given to the Author by his Superiour before his Conversion LONDON Printed for Robert Clavel in Little Britain 1673. The Franciscan Convert OR A Recantation-Sermon c. Luke 22 the latter end of verse 32. When thou art converted strengthen thy Brethren COnversion is an hard work but it is glorious it relates to the two great Faculties of our mind the Understanding and the Will Our Understanding that our Faith be found Our Will that our Morals be good I will begin with our Morals because it is no matter what our Judgment is when our manners are bad Lewd men credit no Profession but disgrace the cause they own Christianity consists of a redemption and that redemption from the iniquity of our ways that is to say a Turning from Sin to Vertue from Satan unto God A Turning from a bad life is nothing else but a Separation of a mans self from profane uses unto Holiness As when a Child and Heir of Hell becomes one of the Sons of God in Scripture Phrase this work of Conversion is called a Ceasing from evil and a learning to do well A putting off of the old man and a putting on of the New and it is called a new Creature a Conformity to Christ in his Death and Resurrection or according to the same Apostle elsewhere Be not conformed to this World but rather transformed by the renewing of your minds Or lastly in our Saviours Language A seeking the Kingdom of God and the righteousness thereof and being holy as he is holy in all manner of Conversation Therefore Christians as you desire to have Peace with God and your own minds live soberly righteously and godly in this World Labour to prove the truth of your Profession by your pious practices Endeavour to become living Images of God Vessels of honour and Temples of the Holy Ghost I might argue against Sin from the common mischiefs of it and remind Sinners of the Labyrinths into which it leads them and assure you that Gods Service is perfect freedom For if all the happiness which Christian Religion propounds to us were only confined to such Promises as have a relation to eternal Bliss it might be thought that the Lord Jesus was only careful to make the end of a Christian Race glorious yet had neglected to make the way pleasant which leadeth thither But if it be truly considered on the other hand that those very Precepts which are enjoyned as the Rules of our duty are in themselves infinitely conducing to our own present satisfaction then we must conclude that none can be miserable in the next World but only such Sots as will not give God leave to make them happy in this For the Laws of the holy Jesus are so agreeing to our Natures that the Execution of them are as great expedients of our present happiness as Testifications of our duty so that our duty and our priviledges run parallel in one Line In the next place as Conversion relates to our Wills so also to our Understandings that we may have such Notions of God and his Worship as becomes the Solemnity of that duty we owe to our God And what dangerous Errors Education and Prejudice may breed is very obvious to all that have made remarks in the World For we know that a dangerous Principle hath hurried many into desperate Practices Saint Paul's Zeal for the Mosaick Law made him spurn against Christ himself So that the immoralities and debaucheries of some men are less dangerous than their Tenents God forbid that any thing that I say should give the least countenance unto Vice but to shew that we may fly from one extreme to another I may compare the enormities of Vice to a Sore that is Ulcerated Nauseous and Offensive to all mens view Errors in our Judgment or a false worship of God is like to a Sore skinned over though not so offensive to our Senses yet more dangerous to the Vitals Our Saviour told the Scribes and Pharisees that Harlots and Publicans entered into the Kingdom of God before them not that we are to think that the Kingdom of God is a place for either Harlots or Publicans as such but that the recovery of the one is more hopeful than the recovery of the other The Profane person is sick but then he and all men know it The Heretick is sick but he thinks himself well and so neglects all means for a remedy and the cure of such a one becomes a wonder The Subject I have chose this day is copious and from it I might present you with many particulars but I must forbear and come to the Application which I must Center in my self When thou art converted c. I hope this Scripture is fulfilled this day on my self being a Monument of God Almighties mercy in bringing me from the gross Superstitions of Popery to the glorious light of the Gospel and seeing the Consequent of my Text is the strengthening of my Brethren I shall now give you some few of the principal motives which drew me from my former perswasions You must know I was bred and Catechized in all the absurd Doctrines and Practices of the Romish Church and no little Zealot in that way I was ordained Deacon and Priest and made Confessor General throughout the Kingdom of Ireland was a Frier of the Order of St. Francis and afterwards Superiour of a Convent and Chaplain to several eminent persons of qualety in that Kingdom Upon a certain time I accidentally came to a publick house to refresh my self I found that a lewd Priest had pawned the consecrated Host to the woman of the house for five and thirty Shillings which I redeemed And with this remarke that Christ was made by him not an Offering for Sin but a Sacrifice for his Lust I need not tell you how great the Scandal was to my self but augmented by considering that the Person was a Superiour of an Order and in great reputation among his People There are many sad circumstances in the story but I will forbear at present to mention them Upon this great disgust I began to dispute