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A18521	The consolation of the soule being an assurance of the forgiuenesse of sinnes, with the most notable promises of God conteined in holy Scripture, both in the olde and newe Testament: briefly expounded and applied, as hereafter followeth. With certaine examples woorth the bearing in minde, touching the great mercies of God, towards poore, and miserable sinners. ... Made by Iohn Chassanion, and englished by H. S. of Greyes Inne. Gent.; Consolation de l'âme sur l'asseurance de la remission des pechez. English.	Chassanion, Jean de, 1531-1598.	1590 (1590)	STC 5061; ESTC S118621	36,864	96

because they would not frame themselues according to his abhominations For these thinges the wrath of GOD was kindled against him in so much that he was ouercome of the Asserians and lead captiue to Babylon bound with chaynes but being there in anguish he humbled himselfe to God confessing that he had beene wicked cruell and abhominable at whose complaint God had mercie on him deliuered him from such miserable bondage caused him to returne to Ierusalem and set him in his kingdome againe who beeing thankfull to his God for his goodnes tooke away the strange Gods pulled downe the Alters and established the pure seruice of GOD with a straight commaundement to all his people to obserue it giuing in this a ful testimonie of his true repentance and conuersion to God by this we haue an example and euidēt apparant signe of the infinite mercie of GOD towards vs poore and miserable sinners to this end that none dispayre in his sinnes how great and filthie soeuer they bee for as I haue shewed out of Gods word where sinne aboundeth there grace aboundeth much more It was a great and filthie offence when many of the high Priests and Leuites in the tyme of the Captiuitie and when the wrath of God was spred ouer them and ouer al the people because of their iniquities who neuer thought on their transgressions nor sorie for their sinnes in turning to the Lord by a true repentaunce but forgat what he had commaunded them tooke strange wiues lincking themselues to straunge people betrothing their sonnes and daughters in mariage and mingling by this meanes the holy seede with prophane people a thing generally forbidden to all the people of GOD Deut. 7.3 but especially prohibited in Leuit 21.14 Yet when Esdras a soueraigne high Priest a Scribe of the law a rightuous man vnderstood this disorder and confusion he was very sorie and greatly offended making lamentation before GOD for it The people also were taken with feare and trembling acknowledging their faultes and by the commaundement of Esdras sent awaye their strange wiues with their children making certaine Offringes in respect of their sinnes and so the bountie and mercifulnesse of God remayned among them There was a woman sayth S. Luke in the 7. Chapter of the Gospell which was of euill life who hauing cast her self at the feete of Iesus Christ weeping receiued of him such ioye and consolation to assure her selfe that her sinne was forgiuen her though they were neuer so great There was also sayth the selfe same Euangilist in the 19. Chapter a man called Zacheus who was a principall Maister of the Custome rich and of a wicked life yet when Iesus promised to lodge with him he shewed that hee was come to seeke and saue that which was lo●● by which meanes this poore sinner was receiued into grace with a true repentaunce and goodwill to satisfie againe the hurt which he had done to others I pray you beholde the fall of S. Peter it is an example to euery one who being one of the twelue Apostles and Doctors of the worlde brought vp in the knowledge of the Lord by seeing his wonderful myracles and beeing one of the three witnesses which saued his glorie in the Mountaine promised neuer to forsake him neither in prison or in death yet his infirmitie was so great and so fearefull that he not onely forsooke him but forsware him three tymes yet the Lorde in mercie had compassion on him and behelde him though he had made himselfe vnworthie of the honorable office whereunto he was ordayned but repenting weeping in teares was one of the first which was called vnto his office and fitted with the giftes of the holy Ghost to be a seruaunt and faithfull witnesse a couragious and valiaunt Martyr of Iesus Christ The vnhappie and wicked man which for his misdeeds was hanged on the Crosse had his recourse vnto Iesus Christ in the tyme of death and was not cast away but receiued into ioye and consolation with promise that after his death not after many yeeres or some space of tyme or after he had bene in the forged fire of Purgatorie but presently whē he should end this mortal life he should be with Christ in Paradise He was truely execrable which was cut of from the number of the faithfull by the Church at Corinth because against all honestie and ciuility he did entertaine and vncouer the nakednesse of his fathers wife for which cause although he well deserued to be deliuered to Sathan excommunicated and vtterly cut off from the misticall bodie of Christ yet the Apostle S. Paule seeing his repentaunce and vnderstanding the punishment which the Church had layd vpon him vsed clemencie compassion neither would haue the man to suffer any greater seueritie but to haue some regard in comforting him for feare hee should bee swallowed with too great sadnesse See here what examples the holy Ghost setteth forth in holy Scriptures as pure cleare testimonies to proue the great and inestimable mercies of God towardes poore sinners which doe conuert themselues with all their harts without dissimulation vnto him by a true repentaunce and amendement of life These examples be of some force to those whom God hath receiued lately vnto the communion of his grace when as he made a way vnto the Gentiles and called them vnto his Church All those then which haue bene before named were of the people of God of his house of which some haue sinned against the first Table others against the second others against both by monstrous misdeedes some haue robbed some murthered and done dissolutly Some haue committed Adultery Fornication and Incest Some Apostaties Idolators and reuolters from the trueth Some giuen vnto Witchcraft all they neuerthelesse haue bene receiued into the mercie of God O the wonderfull loue of the Lord how excellent and full of compassion is he Who would not be rauished to beholde his stedfastnesse Who would not trust in him to reioyce and comforte himselfe in his mercies who is a strong hould for the poore afflicted a refuge for those that be amased and desolate a comfort to those which are in calamitie the whole hope of the poore It is thou O Lord which doest surmount all our iniquities thou swallowest them downe and bringest them to nothing by acquitting and deliuering vs from them Is there any then that feeleth himself guiltie of any great fault or any sinne committed after they haue bin instructed in their saluation occupying a place in the Sheepe-fould of the Lord let him not dispayre in the clemencie of God seeing he hath here fayre examples before his eyes to followe for his comfort Seeing then it is so by so many places of holy Scripture and by the promises of God by good examples liuely exhortations of the grace and mercie of God offered to vs presently and set foorth by the loue of his beloued sonne our Lord Iesus Christ let vs bee certaine and full assured that if wee beleeue and truely repent and call vpon him with a true heart and affection he will bee pacified with vs what offence soeuer wee haue committed he will wholly forgiue vs. This is then the consolation in myne affliction for thy word O Lord hath quickened mee Psalm 119. 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Sea or as the starres of Heauen yet we know that he holdeth the Sea in his hand and calleth the Starres by their names for as the Heauen is in comparison of the Earth so are his mercies towards all that call vpon him Why should any then mistrust the benignitie of GOD seeing he is so carefull to assure vs of the forgiuenesse of our sinnes whensoeuer we doe call vpon him Exech Chap. 18. ver 21. If the wicked will turne from his sinnes that he hath committed and keepe all my statutes and doe all that is lawfull and right he shal surely liue and not dye al his transgressions which he hath cōmitted shall not be mentioned vnto him Haue J any desire that the wicked should dye saith the Lord or shall hee not liue if he retourne from his waies Therfore returne and repent you for your transgressions so iniquitie shall not bee your destruction Cast away from you all your transgressions wherby you haue transgressed and make you a newe heart and a newe spirite for why will you dye O house of Israel THe Lord in this place speaketh not directly vnto the sinner which falleth by frailtie and weakenesse of flesh but to the wicked which of mallice and crueltie hath robbed and shed innocēt blood who hath oppressed the needie and solde the poore for olde shooes who hath whined after his neighbours wife hath bene partakers with the Adulterers which haue runned frō Bethel to Dan and from Dan to Bethel to serue straunge Gods which haue sacrificed of their owne flesh to Molocke and haue eaten the offringes of the dead to these which ●●●nke sinne as water and drawe iniquitie with cords to these I say speaketh the Lord and telleth them that if they doe truely repent them of all their misdeedes which they haue committed they shal neuer be imputed to them againe they shall be deliuered from them and made partakers of eternall life if his repentāce be true not fained but yeelds himself wholly to serue his God though his obedience be imperfect and there bee some want in him yet hee shall bee washed in the blood of the Lambe by his woundes he shall be healed and in his weakenesse he shall bee made strōg he shal be holy because he which hath called him is holy And in this respect are Christians called oftentymes iust in holy Scripture though there bee some imperfections in them daylie to bee seene yet this is shewed to declare the wōderful and great bountie and clemencie of God towards vs that hauing offended him in breaking his ordinaunces and so made guiltie of eternall death yet that he vouchsafeth to call vs againe vnto him and to stretch forth his arme all the day long to take vs vp when we were fallen and exhorteth vs to repentaunce and to newnesse of life which is the token and euident testimonie of a true conuersion and newe regeneration by the holy Ghost And whereas he commaundeth vs to repent adding a promise of life and saluation he sheweth that hee would haue vs touched to the quicke and truely sorie for our faultes committed with firme and stedfast purpose to liue better in time to come so that here wee may knowe what kinde of man he is which shall not perish but shall haue eternall life according to this promise Zach. Chap. 1. ver 3. Returne you vnto me saith the Lord of hosts and J will returne vnto you HEre is an other exhortation to repētance ioyned with the promise and reconciliation to God very like vnto that before Math. Chap. 4. ver 17. Amend your liues for the kingdome of heauen is at hand THis is the first exhortation that the Lord made to the people of Israel agreeable to that where Iohn Baptist admonisheth euery one to repentance and amendement of life which that they may the better performe he addeth this reason and promise that the grace of God the remission of sinnes and the reconciliation with God is present and neere to them by the preaching of the Gospell which is here called the kingdome of God for by this meanes the tyranny of Sathan is destroyed and ouerthrowne the force of sinne dead the kingdome of Christ gloriously extolled and lift vp on hye raigning in the hearts of those which by his spirite haue felt the vertue vnto newnesse of life a sufficient token to assure vs in this life to be made partakers of his inheritaunce in the life to come Math. Chap. 9.13 J am not come to call the rightuous but sinners to repentaunce THis is the answer of our Sauiour made to the Pharisies who finding themselues offended that he and his companie did eate with Publicanes and Harlots with sinfull and leaud liuers thought him a glutton and lose fellowe For these men counting them selues onely the people of GOD erred and corrupted themselues in such a sorte that they accounted all other vtterly profayne Whereupon our Sauiour Christ sheweth wherefore he leaueth their companies who so much iustified themselues and betaketh himselfe and all his to poore sinners though they were wicked and euill in life that by this meanes he might drawe them frō their vice and iniquities and bring them into the right way To those then which doe repent of their sinnes appertayneth the grace of God for repentance is the very effect of the sonne of God which bringeth saluation vnto all people Acts 3. ver 19. Amend your liues therefore and turne that your sinnes may be put away THose to whom Peter spake in this place had put and deliuered to death the holie and the iust the Prince of life that is to say our Lorde Iesus Christ yet he exhorteth thē to a godly conuersation of life promising that their sinnes shall bee forgiuen them so that the grace of God is shewed forth to all men whom the Lorde counteth by putting from them their iniquities Acts Chap. 5. ver 31. This is that Jesus whome GOD hath lift vp with his right hand to bee a Prince and a Sauiour to giue repentaunce of sinnes to Jsrael and forgiuenes of sinnes THis is spoken to this ende that the Lord Iesus hath brought vs vnto saluation by repentaunce which is neuer seperated from the forgiuenes of sinne 1. Cor. Chap. 7. ver 10. Godly sorowe causeth repentance to saluation THe profayne and wicked men continually doe reioyce in their wickednesse and harden their harts in their sinnes neuer ceasing till their accursed ioye bee turned into weeping and gnashing of teeth by the iust and feareful iudgement of God who casteth all such into vtter perdition but they which haue the feare of God after that they haue done amisse in any sorte bee greatly sorie in heart weeping and lamenting that haue offended such a gracious God and alwaies suffer extreme greifes because they offended him in breaking his commandements The rulers which had the ouersight of the church of Corinth beeing reprehended by S. Paule for their slouthfulnes and slownes in not acquitting themselues