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A87175	Christ's first sermon, or, The absolute necessity, gospel duty, and Christian practice of repentance, opened and applied, by a godly, able, and faithful minister of Jesus Christ. ; Wherein is discovered, what repentance is, as also the great necessity thereof to salvation: with the great folly and desperate madness of all those that delay and put off repentance unto a sick bed, or old age. ; Together with the great benefit, joy, and comfort that shall be to the souls of all those that timely and truly repent.	Hart, John, D.D.	1663 (1663)	Wing H937; ESTC R177838	21,802	46

disease with which most men are infected But let such men know that it is a hard matter to repent ans sin is very powerful and if they do not seek to get it subdued in the strength of their dayes it will be too hard for them at the last for although men grow weaker and weaker yet sin grows stronger and stronger and being as we say bred in the bone nursed up by us in our youthful dayes it will not easily be rooted out of the flesh Can the Blackmore change his skin or the Leopard his spots Jer. 15 23. No they cannot no more can they that are accustomed to do evil leave it when they list If repentance be a thing so easie how is it that many who sought after it could never obtain it How many are there that have reared and cried in the bitterness of their souls and in the horror of their consciences that they could not repent O that I could repent O that my hard heart would break in pieces This hath been the cries of many It is not in the power of man to repent when he pleases doth God give us space to repent now it may be he will not do it to morrow a man by nature as he cannot of himself so he hath no inclination of himself to repentance Repentance it s a heart-work a circumcising of the heart and casting of sin out of the soul which indeed will make the heart to bleed which thing no natural man is either willing or able to do Mortifie saith the Apostle Col. 3.5 your Members which are upon earth which thing suits not with a natural man Let no man then put off Repentance upon such foolish wicked thoughts as these that repentance is an easie work which a man may perform when he pleases such sinful thoughts as these will deceive you Thou that wilt not repent now thou mayest when thou wouldest it may be thou shalt not be permitted you that will not repent when God gives space how justly may he when thou wouldest deny it thee because when it was offered to thee thou refusedst Ezek. 24.13 Because I would have purged thee and thou wast not purged thou shalt not be purged from thy filthiness saith the Lord. The longer men live in sin the stronger will sinne grow in them he that will not leave sin when he is yong will hardly leave it when he is old it is said of wicked men in Job 20.11 Their bones are full of the sins of their youth which lie down with them in the dust Not that mens sins are buried with them in their graves for then they might be happy but that they continue with them till death yea after death Many a time and often hath the Lord stood at the door of mens Consciences and knocked to come in Rev. 3.20 Behold I stand at the door and knock saith Christ O do not let God wait long he hath waited a long time already to be gracious unto thee Isa 30.18 Do not give the devil the prime and strength of your dayes and then think to serve God in your old age You do not leave sin in this but sin leaves you you have not the strength and power to sin then as you have had but still your hearts are as bad as ever they were then put not off your repentance till sickness comes Happy yea thrice happy is that man and blessed shall he be that in the time of his youth health furnishes his heart and soul with comforts against the evil day happy is that soul who when age and sickness comes is so sitted for death by repentance that when death comes he hath nothing else to do but to dye Be perswaded th●n to repent betimes before you go hence and be no more seen there is no time ours but the present time we do not know whether we shall live another day another night many that are in health one day are brought to their graves the next Our life saith St. James is but a vapour that appeareth for a little time Jam. 4.14 we are no sooner born but we begin to die Put not your souls off then from day to day he that 's unfit or unwilling to repent to day will be so to morrow therefore seek the Lord while he may be found Isa 55.6 There is a time when God will not be found Prov. 1.24 to ver 30. sath God Because I called and ye refused and set at naught all my counsel and would none of my reproof therefore will I laugh at your calamity and will mock when your fear cometh when distress and anguish cometh upon you then shall ye call on me but I will not answer they shall seek me early but shall not finde me For that they hated knowledge and did not chuse the fear of the Lord therefore shall they eat the fruit of their ways and be filled with their own devices There is a time when mercy may be had but if we neglect that time it will not be recovered again though it be sought for with tears there is a time when with the wise Vigins we may enter into the wedding but if we take not that time we may with the foolish ones have the door shut against us Mat. 25. Then may we knock and call yea cry Lord Lord open to us but the Lord shall say unto us I know you not The old world had a long time of Repentance a hundred and twenty years did Noah preach repentance to them and yet they repented not but the Ninivites they had but a short time given them but forty dayes and yet they repented they made the Day of Repentance whilst the Sun of Gods patience shined upon them God is not bound to wait mens leasure the Soul is but a tenant at will and may suddenly be turned out of doors and when you lie upon your sick beds the Lord may fill your hearts with such fears as may make your consciences altogether despair of mercy God sent you his servants early and late in season out of season to invite you to repent but you will repent you say hereafter you will if you can you hope God will work it in you What ground have you of this hope hath God made you any such promise Thou canst not draw out the thred of thy life one minute for ought thou knowest this may be thy last day the tenders of mercy and the offers of grace are at an end when thy life ends if not before you know that time and tide stayes no mans leasure every one is so wise as to take time and tide for worldly affairs will any man be so sottish as to defer the time of his sowing till harvest men will not be carrying out of dung when they should be fetching in of Corn no they will dispatch those things first which are of most necessity And is there any thing of more necessity then the salvation of your souls will your souls

Christs First SERMON OR The absolute necessity Gospel Duty and Christian Practice of Repentance Opened and Applied by a godly able and faithful Minister of Jesus Christ Wherein is discovered what Repentance is as also the great necessity thereof to salvation with the great folly and desperate madness of all those that delay and put off their Repentance unto a Sick Bed or Old Age. Together with the great Benefit Joy and Comfort that shall be to the Souls of all those that timely and truly Repent The eleventh Edition with many Additions Matth. 4.17 From that time Jesus began to preach and to say Repent for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand Luke 13.3 Except ye Repent ye shall all likewise perish London Printed for Eliz. Andrews at the White Lion near Pye-Corner 1663. Christs first Sermon OR The absolute necessity duty and Christian Practice of REPENTANCE Acts 17.30 31. The times of this ignorance God winked at but now commandeth all men every where to repent Because he hath appointed a Day in which he will judge the world in righteouness THE Blessed Apostle Saint Paul in these words beloved endeavours to take off the superstitious Athenians from their Idolatry and worshipping of false gods gods of silver and gold which indeed are no gods but the work of mens hands and this he doth first by endeavouring to convince them of the folly of their Idolatry and then secondly in laying before them the power and goodness of God in making and preserving the world and all things therein God saith he in the foregoing verses made the world and all things therein and is Lord over all and gives to all life and breath and all things and in him we all live and move and have our being and it is he that hath set the bounds of our habitations Therefore saith he you need not think that the Godhead is like unto gold or silver or stones graven by art or mans devices for God is Lord both of heaven and earth I but say these Idolaters like some now adayes we did as our fore-fathers did they shorshipped such gods as these were of the same Religion as our fore-fathers were But saith the Apostle this was done in ignorance and the times of this ignorance God winked at your fore-fathers had not the light of the Gospel they never heard of Jesus Christ But now saith he Christ is preached the light of the Gospel shines forth in the world therefore now ye must repent and turn from these idols and serve the living God Now God commands all men every where to repent although God in times past suffered all Nations to walk in their own wayes Now hath he sent us to preach Christ unto you that you should turn from these vanities and serve the living God If your fore-fathers sinned it was through their ignorance and want of the knowledge of Jesus Christ but if you sin and go on in your idolatry it is through wilfulnes and God will be revenged on you In the words you may observe these four things first a duty commanded and that is repentance secondly the commander that is God God commandeth thirdly the persons to whom this command is enjoyned and that is all men every where high and low rich and poor all the world over fourthly and lastly the time when and that is now now God commandeth all men every where to repent now in these times of the Gospel To day if you will hear my voice saith God in Psalm 95.7 From the worlds thus opened I shall give you these four pra●tical observations The first is this that Repentance is a needful and necessary duty commanded by God Secondly that every man woman in the world is bound to repent Thirdly that the doctrine of the Gospel is a doctrine of Repentance It was Christs first Sermon as you may sée Mat. 4.16 Jesus began to preach and to say Repent Fourthly and lastly observe from these words that God expects more and looks for more from men under the Gospel then from those who never heard of the Gospel These four observations are all of them very clear from the words of the test I shall only therefore give you some few futher proofs of them from Scripture and so proceed in the opening and handling of the two first observations and from thence I shall draw sundry practical uses which I shall endeavour by Gods assistance to apply home unto your souls I shall therefore joyn the two first observations into one intire proposition thus That repentance is a needful and necessary duty commanded by God and that every man and woman in the world is bound to repent Except ye repent saith Christ Luke 13. 3 ye shall all perish And 2 Per. 3.9 God is not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance As I live saith the Lord Ezek. 33.11 I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked but that the wicked turn from his way and live Turn ye turn ye from your evil wayes for why will ye die O house of Israel And in Mat. 3.2 Repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand And so likewise in Act 2.38 Repent be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins Repentance is needful for all there are none so wise none so learned none so holy but stand in néed of repentance In many things saith St. James we sin all Jam 3.2 And in Rom. 3.23 All have sinned Young ones have sinned and therefore have need to repent that betimes lest as St. Paul saith Heb. 13●3 Through the deceitfulness of sin their hearts be hardned It s good for young ones yea it s the best course they can take as Solomon saith Eccles 12.1 To remember their Creator in the dayes of their youth and not to put off repentance unto old age or the death-bed for then it may be too late For although true repentance is never too late yet late repentance is seldom true It is a good observation of a holy man saith he speaking of the repentant Thief God saved one at the last hour that none might despair and but one that none might presume Thou that wilt not repent when thou maist it may be God will not give thée time to repent hereafter when thou wouldest Doest thou think to do that in thy old age which thou wilt not do in thy youth Canst thou do that in one hour on thy death-bed which thou art not able to do sufficiently all thy life time And then likewise old men have néed of repentance they have lived a long time in sin and have long enough yea too too long neglected repentance Young men may dye soon but old men cannot live long therefore both young and old have néed to repent that they may receive the remission of their sins Mark 1 4. And for your better understanding of this great necessary duty of repentance I

be saved without repentance or can you repent when you will but you will say you are young and therefore may be born with a while which is the Devils divinity for young men have no more liberty allowed them to sin or to put off repentance then old men have it s the Devils policy to infuse this into thy brains that he may ensnare thee It was the commendation of Timothy that from a Childe he had known the holy Scriptures 1 Tim. 1. Young Saints say some but not the word of God prove old Devils But I am sure it is a rare thing to sée and old sinner to become a young Saint When the devil and sin hath lorded it in your soul yea tyrannized both over soul body for thirty or forty years together do you think then that a little groaning or crying Lord have mercy upon me wil be able to dispossess him at the last he having gotten too strong a footing in your soul to be beaten out of his quarters so easily he that will not remember God when he is young and living it s greatly to be feared God will be unmindeful of him when he is old and dying Therefore once more I beseech you in the bowels of Christ speedily to set about the work of repentance lest when it is too late you repent weep and mourn that you repented not before Do not say of repentance as Felix spake to Paul Thou wilt repent when thou art better at leasure another time shall serve the turn it may be thou mayest not live to another time or if thou doest thy heart may then be as hard if not harder then now it is Would you not in the day of the Lord be in a worse condition then heathens or infidels are Then repent Would you not when you are dead be in a worse condition then toads or serpents then repent It may be said of every impenitent sinner as Christ said of Judas in the 26. of Matthew and the 24. ver It had been good for that man if he had never been born Heathens in the day of Judgement shall be in a better condition then impenitent Christians for they shall have the lesser condemnation because of their ignorance who it may be would have done better if they had known more It shall be more tollerable saith our Saviour for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgement then for thou Capernaum Thou England that art exalted up to heaven in Gospel-mercies take heed and beware lest thou be not thrown down to hell in Gospel-vengeance I should now shew you the lets that hinder men from Repentance and so endeavour to remove them but I shall onely name them and so conclude with some few motivhs to stir you up to Repentance Now the lets that keep men off from Repentance are either from Sin and Satan or else from our selves and the World the Devil perswades men that repentance is a needless work and men need not trouble themselves with it for those that God hath ordained to live shall be saved let them live never so loosely and those that he hath appointed to wrath shall be damned let them repent never so much But to remove this let out of the way know this that all those that God hath ordained to salvation shall first or last more or less be brought to embrace the means In the 13. of the Acts and the 48. As many as were ordained to eternal life believed God hath joyned the end and the means together and cursed is he that dares to separate them Salvation without repentance is impossible without holiness no man shall see God Heb. 5.19 A second way by which the Devil keeps men off from Repentance is Gods mercy God is merciful saith the devil his mercy is over all his works he that made you will not damn you you need not to fear it True it is even to wicked men God is merciful but these are but mercies on the left hand common mercies it s a mercy to men that they live it s a mercy that we were not born monsters and its a mercy to have outward enjoyments but what are these to the peculiar mercies of God It was a good speech of a godly man saith he He that made thee without thee will not save thee without thee if thou art in a ditch and wilt do no more to come out but cry God help me thou mayest lie and perish O do not dare to go on in sin becaus God is merciful Shall we sin saith St. Paul that grace may abound no God forbid I dare not saith a gracious heart If ever you would partake of mercy you must depart from iniquity 2 Tim. 2.19 Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity I dare holdly say that if all the clouds of heaven should continually showre down mercy there would not so much as one drop fall upon any impenitent person Thirdly the devil labours to keep men off from repentance by bringing them to despair of mercy if he cannot work men into presumption by the consideration of Gods mercies he will do what he can to bring thent into desperation by telling them that mercy is out of date But let not this hinder thy repentance for as it cannot be too soon to repent so its never too late to repent better once then never I do not speak this that any should neglect to repent betimes but that none should ever despair of mercy and thereby be hindred from this duty of repentance A second let that hinders repentance is the world the lusts of the flesh and the pride of life the pleasures and preferments of the world these fight against the spirit and resist the work of repentance Voluptousness and Drunkenness unfits men for repentance therefore these must be abstained front 1 Pet. 2. 11. as things that war against the soul Mortifie therefore saith the Apostle your members which are upon earth fornication uncleanness c. Col. 3.5 These must be mortified And then a third let that keeps men from repentance is sin sin hath such a commanding power over the souls of unregenerated persons So that as it is Rom. 6.10 they give themselves over as servants to sin and to uncleanness O then for the Lords sake avoid all occasions of sin Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal bodies that you should obey it in the lusts thereof neither yield you your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin but yield your selves unto God as instruments of righteousness Rom. 6.12 13. verses O that I could prevail with you and that the Lord would perswade your hearts of the dreadful doleful condition of all umpenitent Sinners Consider then I beseech you in the fear of the Lord these following considerations and first of all know this you that live in the love of sin you live in the hatred of God for the love of God and the love of sin cannot possibly