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A29096	The good old way, or, An excellent and profitable treatise of repentance made by John Bradford in the yeare 1553. Now published with two prefaces relating the life of the author, and the excellencey of the worke.	Bradford, John, 1510?-1555.; Harris, Robert, 1581-1658.; Wilkinson, Henry, 1616-1690.	1652 (1652)	Wing B4106; ESTC R25287	35,398	95

believe to publish and live in his holy word In Gods Law we see it is a foule spot to our soules not only to be an open prophaner of the Sabbath day but also not to rest from our own words and works that the Lord might both speak and work in us and by us not to heare his holy word not to communicate his Sacraments not to give occasion to others to holinesse by our example in Godly workes reverent esteeming of the Ministry of his Word In Gods Law we see it a foule spot to our soules not only to be an open disobayer of our parents Magistrates Masters and such as be in any authority over us but also not to honour such even in our hearts not to give thankes to God for them not to pray for them to aide to help or relieve them to bear with their infirmities c. In Gods Law we see it is a foule spot in our soules not only to be a man-queller in hatred malice proud lookes brags back-biting railing or bodily slaughter but also not to love our neighbours yea or enemies even in our hearts and to declare the same in all our gestures words and works In Gods law we see it a foule spot to our soules not only to be a Whoremonger in lusting in our hearts in wanton looking in uncleane and wanton talking in actuall doeing unhonestly with our Neighbours Wife Daughter servant c. But also not to be chast sober temperate in heart lookes tongue apparell deeds and to help others thereunto accordingly c. In Gods Law we see it is a foule spot to our soules not only in heart to covet in look or word to flatter lye colour c. in deed to take away any thing which pertaineth to another but also in heart countenance word and deed not to keepe save and defend that which pertaineth to thy neighbour as thou wouldest thine own In Gods Law we may see it a foule spot not only to lye and beare false witnesse against any man but also not to have as great a care over thy Neighbours name as over thine own Sinne in Gods Law it is we may see and a foule spot not only to consent to evill lust or carnall desires but even the very carnall lusts and desires themselves are sinne as selfe love and many such like By reason whereof I think there is none that looketh well therein but though he be blamelesse to the World and faire to the shew yet certainly inwardly his face is foule arrayed and so shamefull filthy pocky and scabbed that he cannot but be sorry at the contemplation thereof and that so much more by how much he continueth to look in this glasse accordingly And thus much concerning the second mean to the stirring up of sorrow for our sinne that next unto Prayer we should look in Gods law spiritually The which looking if we use with prayer as I said let us not doubt but at the length God's spirit will work as now to such as believe for to the unbelievers all is in vaine their eyes are starke blind they can see nothing to such as believe I say I trust something is done even already But if neither by prayer nor by diligent looking into Gods law spiritually as yet thy hard unbelieving heart feeleth sorrow nor lamenting for thy sinne Thirdly look upon the tagge tied to Gods Law for to his Law there is a tagge tied that is a penalty and that no small one but such an one as cannot but make us cast our currish tailes between our leggs if we believe it for all is in vaine if wee be faithlesse not to beleeve before wee feele This tagge is Gods malediction or curse Maledictus omnis saith it qui non permanet in omnibus quoe scripta sunt in libro legis ut faciat eam Loe accursed saith he is all no exception all saith God which continueth not in all things for he that is guilty of one is guilty of the whole saith St James in all things therefore saith the Holy Ghost which are written in the booke of the Law to doe them He saith not to heare them to talke of them to dispute of them but to doe them Who is he now that doth these Rara Avis few such Birds yea none at all For all are gone out of the way though not outwardly by word or deed yet inwardly at the least by default and wanting of that which is required so that a child of one nights age is not pure but by reason of birth-sinne in danger of Gods malediction then much more we which alasse have drunken in iniquity as it were water as Job saith but yet we quake not Tell me now good brother why doe you so lightly consider Gods curse that for your sins past you are so carelesse as if you had made a covenant with death and damnation as the wicked did in Esais time what is Gods curse At the Popes curse with book bell and candle O! how trembled we which heard it although the same was not directed to us yea hanging over us all by reason of our sinnfs alas how carelesse are we O faithlesse hard hearts o Jesabels guests rocked and laid asleepe in her bed O wicked wretches which being come into the depth of sinne doe contemne the same O sorrowlesse sinners and shamelesse harlots Is not the anger of a King death and is the anger of the King of all Kings a matter so lightly to be regarded as we doe regard it which for our sinnes are so wretchlesse that we slugge and sleep it out As wax melteth away at the heat of the fire saith David so doe the wicked perish at the face or countenance of the Lord If dearely beloved his face be so terrible and intollerable for sinners and the wicked what think we his hand is At the face and appearing of Gods anger the earth trembleth but we earth earth yea stones Iron flints tremble nothing at all If we will not tremble in hearing woe unto us for then shall we be crushed in pieces in feeling If a Lyon roare the beasts quake but we are worse then beasts which quake nothing at the roaring of the Lyon I meane the Lord of Hosts And why because the curse of God hardnesse of heart is fallen upon us or else we could not but lament and tremble for our sinnes If not for the shame and foulenesse thereof yet at the least for the malediction and curse of God which hangeth over us for them Lord be mercifull unto us for thy Christs fake and spare us in thine anger remember thy mercy towards us Amen And thus much for the third thing for the moving of us to sorrow for our sinnes that is for the tagge tied to Gods Law I meane for the malediction and curse of God But if our hearts be so hard that through these we yet feele no hearty sorrow for our sinnes Let us fourthly set before us examples past

The Good Old Way OR An Excellent and Profitable Treatise of REPENTANCE MADE By that Pretious man of God and faithfull Martyr of Jesus Christ Mr. JOHN BRADFORD in the yeare 1553. Now published with two Prefaces relating the life of the Author and the excellency of the WORKE Except ye repent ye shall all likewise perish Luke 13.5 The times of this Ignorance God winked at but now commandeth all men every where to Repent Act. 17.30 OXFORD Printed by LEON LICHFIELD Printer to the Vniversity 1652. To all faithfull Mnasons old Disciples and all those who desire and endeavour to walk in the good old Gospel-way of Faith and Repentance Grace Mercy and Peace from God our Father and from our Lord JESUS CHRIST IT is a common Proverb that good Wine needs no Ivy bush No more doth this good old Wine this excellent Treatise of that Saint of God Mr Bradford need any letters of commendation Yet it will be requisite to speak something and I hope it will be interpreted a deed of charity if I interpose as an Advocate for the truth of this Orphan Tract whose Father was a Saint on earth and now reignes as a glorious Saint in heaven The work is legitimate transcribed after an exact Copy and it 's sutable to the stile and savours of the Authors spirit The many choyce breathings in his letters and this Treatise are all of a peece good old gold more pretious then that of Ophir Something I shall briefely speake of the Author and then of this Tract For the Author what his learning was is upon Record how solid and sinuous his disputations were with the Popish Prelates Spanish Friars and others that visited him in prison and how dextrously he managed all his Disputations with Wisdome judgement and zeale you may read largely in Mr Foxes Martyrology He was a man of an acute witt penetrating judgement and had the approbation and advice of Martin Bucer to enter into the Ministery His piety was rare and eminent As was the man so was his communication holy and usefull Who so reads his spirituall breathings I might almost call it a transcendent style in his Epistles must needs confesse that he was one of the holiest men that ever lived since the Apostles time Take a tast of him in these few characters 1. He was a zealous plaine profitable Preacher of Gods word He knew how to divide the word aright and walke accordingly He had those two rare Qualifications of a Preacher {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} He was a Boanerges a sonne of Thunder to impenitent obdurate sinners but a Barnabas a sonne of consolation to the children of God 2. He was of an humble selfe-denying spirit I never read of any that had a meaner opinion of himselfe then he had You shall finde the subscription of his letters Miserrimus peccator a very hypocrite the most hard-hearted unthankefull sinner a very painted hypocrite John Bradford So cheap an esteeme had he of himselfe This humility is an adorning grace next to the garment of Christs righteousnesse none like to it wherefore the Apostles phrase is Emphaticall 1 Pet. 5. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Be ye cloathed with humility Let it be your uppermost garment Cyprian saith Fundamentum sanctitatis est humilitas This holy man's example is worthy of our imitation 3. He was much acquainted with God and enjoyed a holy communion and familiarity with him in Prayer Meditation He meditated much and Meditation is the spirituall digestion of the soule It 's a divine ruminating upon the word read or Preached when we meditate seriously on the Promises Attributs or such choyce subjects we are up in the Mount with Moses we soare aloft even to heaven being carryed by the wings of holy meditation This meditation is an uphill duty Isaack Moses Paul and other Saints of God have found sweet consolation flowing from it And he joyned prayer to Meditation he was frequently upon his knees and he would not rise up till he felt something coming in some spirituall illapse darted upon his soule His practice was sutable to Bernard's resolution Nunquam Domine discedam a te sine te He studied usually upon his knees and prayed much in his study and indeed he studies well who praies well And he can take the most comfort of his study who reaps the fruits of his paines as Returnes of his prayers 4. He was of a melting tender heart He wept much and mourned that he could not bring his dull heart to love Jesus Christ more At table as he sate at meat he usually pulled his hat down before his eyes and poured forth abundance of teares upon his trencher He had a tender heart bowells opened to the Prisoners he had a tender care both of their bodies and soules When he was in Prison he visited frequently his Fellow-Prisoners and spent much time in praying for them exhorting of them and contributing liberally out of his purse unto them I need adde no more for what I can say is too little beneath the Authors worth of whom the World was not worthy He lived a Saint and died a Martyr Now for this worke which I here present to the Reader I am assured that it s not spurious but the genuine issue of this worthy Author Herein is handled The Doctrine of Repentance with many moving considerations thereunto Perhaps his plaine Phrase may not suite this curious age which is too too much given to affectation of words Sed distinguenda sunt tempora Those times were not used to set forth or garnish their dishes as now they are yet the food is wholsome plaine and profitable And if our palates cannot relish such food I feare there 's some distemper in them and it 's our duty to pray for the removall thereof I shall not make a Panegyrick on the Treatise The work will abundantly commend it selfe Here 's Evangelicall Repentance prest home unto the Conscience with many cogent convincing Arguments It was then spoken in season and it 's a Doctrine that can never be prest our of season These are Gospel daies The Kingdome of heaven is at hand and of all times Gospel times are peculiar times of Repentance The Lord calls upon all rankes of men Magistrates Ministers People Repent Repent Various dispensations call on us to repent some times God speaks in the Thunder of judgement sometimes in the Musick of mercy Both by mercies and judgements we are called to Repentance The last words of this holy Martyr were Repent England And truly the words of a dying man should be much set by Especially of a dying Saint who bequeaths this Legacy to England in his last breath Now whoever thou art that readest this book and art hereby won to think on thy waies and turne unto God give God the glory and look on it as a speciall hand of providence in bringing this book to thy sight I will not detaine thee longer from reading this

ensuing Treatise Read it and read it againe with prayer and Meditation and the Lord teach thee to profit by it And so I commend thee to the grace of God and bid thee heartily Farewell entreating thy prayers for him who in love to thy soule hath revived this Treatise and remaines Thy servant for Christs sake H. W. To the Reader BEing over entreated to Preface something to this Peece I crave a little patience whilest I speak a little both to the Worke and Workman In the Work there is 1. The Matter 2. the Frame or composure considerable the subject matter is Repentance and that 's a thing which will never be out of season till sin which never is in season be out of mens hearts and lives Some men indeed have thought in temptation only I hope this a worke for some at least in these daies too legall and below their Gospel priviledges but if it be rightly stated and understood it will be found a Gospell both duty and priviledge beyond the mercy of Law and never more seasonable then in times of Grace Act. 17. 30 much pressed by the Lord of Preachers and his forerunners by his Apostles and their successors down to our Authors time who frequented no one doctrine or duty more For the forme and manner of handling this Theme we referre thereunto his method his stile or phrase In the first we must allow a latitude to him to others according to each mans gift and genius so long as curiosity and confusion be avoided and the capacity of the hearer considered Much I know is written about the Method of Preaching and it must be granted that nothing contributes more to the memory both of the speaker and hearer then method doth Howheit the rule holds that the greatest art is to dissemble art and that Preacher who studies himself and his people most usually speaks most to the heart and to edification a Workman may fetch his stuffe from anothers shop but if he will make the suit fit he must apply himselfe to the party concerned and take measure of him I mean this a Teacher must fetch all his materials from the word but his application from the Auditory and herein this good man was his crafts master Nor will his Method I am confident be quarrelled by any true Artist he begins with a description of the Term of the Thing and that done he casts it into the parts vindicating them from false glosses and mistakes and restoring them to their proper sense and the way thus cleared he bears down all before him with strength of argument and application wherein lies the life of this of any Sermon For his Phrase that 's suited to the times wherein he lived and to the matter that lies before him and whilst 't is so it was not needfull either to alter a tearme unlesse it were super annuated or to adde a word unlesse it were to make up a gappe where the Coppy seemed defective It is confessed on all hands his persecutors not gainsaying it that the Author was in those times a master of speech but he had learned of his Master not to speak what he could speake but what his hearers could heare he knew that clearnes of speech was the excellency of speech and therefore resolved with a good Orator to speak beneath himselfe rather then above his Auditory and with the nurse to speake broken words rather then obscure and doubtfull otherwise his eloquence was confessedly great that is Native Masculine Modest in one Heavenly for if you marke him he savours and breaths nothing but Heaven yea he sparkles thunders lightens pierces the soft breaks only the stony heart The blessing of God hath been signally eminent upon this land in her Preachers I had almost said beyond all lands since the Reformation the Lord make us sensible of it really thankefull for it to the encouragement of all such Amongst these I have in my time met with foure mighty men upon this very argument now all with God for I forbeare to instance in the living the men are John Bradford John Udall Arthur Dent Dan. Dyke and if I might be pardoned for for comparing dead men which I doe not practice towards the living I should think that as Mr Bradford is before them all in time so not behinde any one of them in this way of Preaching he was of a most sweet humble and melting spirit who I know not how will be in a mans bosome ere he be aware and willingly winne him from himselfe to Christ Many years are now past since I first read this Tract and it is not to be stranged if still I affect it t is the first Printed Sermon that affected me to purpose and I were to blame if I should be unwilling to carve and convey it to others which whilest I doe it is not to be expected that I should engage either for or against every punctilio in it he shall shew little ingenuity and lesse Charity who cannot look upon such a Brother dissenting in some opinion or expression without some abatement of affection or respect It was the frequent profession of my ever honoured Predecessor where I see most of Christ there will I love most whether the party be of my opinion or of a different judgement so he so I but of the Work enough shall I speak a little of the Workman This blessed Martyr who beautisied his sufferings with his meeknesse humility was doubtles one of a thousand whether a better Preacher or Scholler is to me a great question after his conversion his whole life was a continued Sermon of Repentance in his addresses to the Vniversity to the Citty to his Country men and kinsmen he Preacht Repentance he liv'd Repentance and in his last farewell to this land he breathed out his last thus O England England Repent Repent of thy sins I am much ashamed when I read his workes and life penned by many and cannot without sad reflections upon my selfe consider how farre our meanes helps opportunities are beyond his times and how infinitely I to censure none but my selfe fall short of him in the practice of godlinesse and power of exhortation Truly if Luthers three engredients 1. Prayer 2. Meditation 3. Temptation make up either Preacher or Christian you may find them all in him who was a man of prayer of meditation of temptations as his workes speak him and they found him who have made use of him in their temptations and desertions The man who most in my mind resembled him in Preaching conference prayer temptation every way was the man whose society I sometimes enjoyed this blessed man now with Christ hath often told me that he himselfe whose ability and dexterity in setling and satisfying troubled spirits was certainly great hath been at one time so overwhelmed with temptations and at another so becalmed into a flatnesse and listlesnes of spirit that he hath been enforced to adopt M. Bradfords