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A09595	A sommon to repentance Giuen vnto Christians for a loking glasse, wherin we may behold our owne deformities, and therein and thereby, we are not onely forewarned of our destructions, but we are learned to humble out selues in these dangerous dayes of wickednesse, before the throane of Gods mercy, that wee maye not be preserued from the lake of damnation, in the great and notable day of Christs comming to iudgemente. Published by J.P. student of Cambridge.; Summons for repentance	Phillips, John, fl. 1570-1591.	1584 (1584)	STC 19875; ESTC S105036	35,560	70

A SOMMON to Repentance Giuen vnto Christians for a loking Glasse wherin we may behold our owne deformities and therein and thereby we are not onley forewarned of our destructions but we are learned to humble our selues in these daungerous dayes of wickednesse before the throane of Gods mercy that wee maye be preserued from the Lake of damnation in the great and notable day of Christs comming to iudgemente Published by J.P. student of Cambridge Math. 3. Repent and amend your lyues for the kingdome of God is at hande AT LONDON Imprinted by D. Jackson dwelling in fleetestroete 1584. ¶ To the right Honorable Sir Edwarde Osbourne Knight hir Maiesties Leiftenante Lorde Mayor of hir Highnes most honorable Cittie London the right Worshipfull Knight Syr Rowland Haiward Alderman of London the right worshipfull Mayster Iohn Spencer Alderman and Shriue of London and the right worshipful of the fraternitie and misterye of Clothworkers Iohn Phillip the sonne of Robart Phillip Clothworker disceased wisheth the feare of God peace and prosperitie in our merciful Lord and Sauior Christ Iesus c. IF this small present right honorable and worshypful rendered into your hands with all humility and reuerence maye finde fauour in your sight I shall not only accounte my selfe happye but hereafter shew my selfe industerious to pleasure you wyth some other treatise which with this shall redowne to the glory of god your well liking and the commodity of my natiue cuntrimen In the meane season I most earnestly besech your good Lordship and euery of you to pardon my boldnes and to satisfie your mindes with this poore mite of mine which to the comforte of the godly and the reformation of the maleuolent is published not doubting but as you are vertuous and godly affected so your honor and euery one of you being patrons members of this common weale in as much as in you shal consist will doe your indeuors to beate down syn whose branches are so monsterous that they begin to ouer shade vertue the which thing to cal vnto our memories is a thing of al things to be lamented who heareth not in the Gospel how diligently our wickednesses cōmitted against the maiestie of eternal God are reproued but who or where are they that conuert and turne to the Lord in this our last time of our age and calling no we glory in our iniquityes and hate to be reformed and generally to speake the truth we I say for the most part and greatest number of vs that professe the name of Christ are rockt and lulled in the corrupt cradle of our owne securities and therin we slepe so soundly that neither can the remembrance of Gods graces signes tokens his greuous threat nings and terrible comminations serue to rouse vs vp out of the dangerous and most perrilous slumber of our iniquyties it cannot be chosen right Honorable and Worshipful but that the day of our visitation is at hand and except we repent we shal perishe in our wickednesses for Gods heauie indig●…tion is readie to enter into the gates of our Cities the v●…ols of his wrath are ready to be powred forth vpon vs our God is ready in the fulnesse of his displeasure to hew vs downe with the Axe of his vengeance for our ingratitude to blo●… our names out of the booke of lyfe for the contempt of his commandements and to leaue vs 〈◊〉 pray for our abhominable actions to our auncient aduersarie sathan I exhort your good Lordship therefore and euery one of you to whome God hat●… giuen authority in the bowels of Iesus Christ to perseuer and go forward from vertue to vertue to the vttermost of your powers to banishe from your Cities and Townes al the maysters of misrule that both contemne God and despise good order Thus shal you please God in discharging your dueties and shewe your selues obedient subiects to hir excellent maiesty that putteth you in trust to bridle the outrage of the wicked that range as gracelesse after their vncleanesse Thus wishing you right honorable and euery one of you the feare of god peace and prosperitye in Iesus Christ I leaue you to his gracious heauenly preseruation beseeching him of his infinite good nes whilst his mercy holdeth his indignation at a bay to giue vs the grace with humble and contrite hartes to prostrate our selues before him to craue pardon at his fatherly hands for our offences to weepe bytterly for our sinnes and to bring forth the fruites of repentance thus shal we pacifie hys heauy displeasure conuerte his fury to fauor his 〈◊〉 to loue and his conceiued wrath to comfortable kindnes the which we shal inioye in this life and after when the course of this our pilgrimage is fully finished we shal stand before him in purity be sanctified with his holynes be crowned with honor and glory and be made fellow heires with Christ Iesus of his celestial kingdome the which God for hi●… sonne Christ his sake graunt you and euery of you Your humble and faythful wel willer in the Lord. Iohn Phillip ❧ A Sommon to repentaunce giuen vnto Christians for a looking glasse IF wee woulde consider deare christians the inestimable graces of our louing God poured foorth vp●…n vs that haue little or nothing at all deserued his fatherlie fauor it ●…ere a thing that might mooue vs sinfull and most wretched crea●…ures not onlie to walke as it becommeth ●…s in godlie integritie and newnes of life but therewithall we would like adopted sonnes by his 〈◊〉 grace continew our obedience towardes him that like a most carefull Father and gratious God s●…keth all the meanes possible that 〈◊〉 be to nourish and féede vs both in so●… and bodie to euerlasting life and heauenly blessednes In spirite and soule by the operation and working of a liuelie fa●…th through his diuine grace we are prouidently f●…d ●…n the truth of his 〈◊〉 testament with the sweetest flesh drinke the d●…rest blood of our immaculate and spotles lambe Christ Iesus who giueth himselfe most willinglie to all those that constantlie beleeue not carnallie but spirituallie to be fed vppon by faith and fréelie 〈◊〉 vnto vs his most precious blood without our deserts to aswadge the thirst of our soules that Sathan through sinne had 〈◊〉 to 〈◊〉 death and destruction euerlasting from the which by the vnspeakeable prouidence and inf●…te wisedome of our omnipotent GOD through Iesus Christ we are deliuered Si sumus fideles And as by his grace we inioy this delectable foode and most 〈◊〉 Nectar to the comfort of our soules so with these his deuine benefites h●… most louinglie inricheth vs with his temporall blessinges For in bodie 〈◊〉 our feeble and weake natures most carefullie are by his onelie goodnesse fostered from his bountifull handes with meate and drinke and all other the glorious giftes of his grace without the which wee coulde not continue But alas neither the one nor the other is of vs accepted

for the Lorde ou●… God is a great a mightie and gelou●… God his wisedome is 〈◊〉 and his kingdome hath no ende the scepter o●… his seate is a righteous sc●…pter and his dominion shall indure for euer This our God was and is without beginning and ending and this our God in puritie and holinesse must be worshipped of vs from the beginning of our ●…ais euen to the finishing and ending of our liues for gratious is the Lord our God and his truth shall continue for euer Let vs therefore if we will w●…ship the Lord our God truelie walke before him in innocencie continu●…llie stand in aw●… of his displeasure humble our selues with reuerence before the throne of his grace co●…e before his presence with ioie and 〈◊〉 shew our selues glad in him with psalmes and alwaies and euer let vs speake good of his name ●…r he by his wisedome of nothing hath ●…ade all things the seate of our God is ●…e glorious heauens he sitteth betwene 〈◊〉 Cherubins his chariot is the wings 〈◊〉 the winds and the whole earth is his ●…otstoole and other gods besides this our ●…od there is none his name be blessed ●…aised for euer euer If we will wor●…ip this our God namelie the Father ●…onne holie Ghost three persons in tri●…itie one onlie God we must ●…denor 〈◊〉 cast away far from vs the lothsom lea●…en of the proud pratling Pharasies that ●…asted of their owne righteousnesse and ●…stification and wée must earnestlie ●…ire of God and that vnceasantly with ●…mble and contrite harts that wée may 〈◊〉 made new dough that is that our con●…ences our minds soules may be tho●…wly seasonned with the most pr●…ious ●…me of his grace by the power wherof ●…rough Jesus Christ the comfortable ●…iding of the holy Ghost we may be di●…ed into al truth therin by his proui●…nce we may be so stronglie confirmed ●…at neither the temptations of sathan the sinfull suggestions of the fleshe 〈◊〉 pollicies of his disceaueable minister that are possessed with the spirit of lie●… teaching their owne traditions contr●… rie to Christ neither yet the vaine a●… fading corruptible pleasures of thi●… worlde may be able to preuaile to wit●… drawe vs from the worship of our Go●… but that we may as it becommeth godl●… and true regenerate children perseu●… and go forwarde from vertue to vertu●… and constantlie continue with clea●… harts vndefiled consciences and purifi●… soules in the blood of our sauiour the se●… uice of our God and then he will beco●… our shepherd and we shall be the sh●… of his pasture he will remaine our gra●… ous and louing father and we shal be th●… children of his blessed inheritance th●… which our Christ hath purchased for 〈◊〉 those that beleeue with the prise of h●… hart blood If we will worship God w●… must loue him bicause he is the founta●… of loue and loued vs from the beginni●… euen when we were his enimies F●… what loue could be greater than this 〈◊〉 ●…at he gaue his onelie begotten sonne ●…hrist Iesus to suf●…r for our sakes al the 〈◊〉 that could be deuised to beare 〈◊〉 our sakes being forlorne for our sins ●…he altogither holy innocent the heauy ●…rthen of his fathers displesure ther●… we beleuing stedfastly in him to make 〈◊〉 that were the children of death the ●…ires of life and saluation O inestima●…e loue and aboundant kindnesses gran●…d vs frely without our deserts through ●…ace in Christ Iesus euen when wee ●…ere the children of damnation and the ●…rie fire brands of hell who for this his ●…ceeding loue and grace would be so vn●…nd but to loue him againe that for all ●…ese his bountifull bestowed benefites ●…ueth nothing at our handes but that ●…e loue him as he hath loued vs conti●…allie and that without feining Naie ●…ho forgetteth not this his great loue ●…d recompenseth him that hath loued 〈◊〉 with monstrous ingratitude Who ●…orshippeth him in hart and mind as he commanded nay who prophaneth not ●…s honor and ●…lorie Who is chedient to his blessed wil heauenlie ordinan●… Naie who impugneth not his statutes breaketh not his commandements 〈◊〉 these the fruits of gods glorio●…s 〈◊〉 that he requireth at our hands Do 〈◊〉 we are commanded Do we our 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to ●…oath adorne our selues 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 o●… his holy name or by 〈◊〉 hearing of his heauenly word with 〈◊〉 spirituall Adam Christ Nale do we 〈◊〉 ●…ather deuise to re●…est couer our 〈◊〉 with the transgressions of our olde 〈◊〉 rentes to the co●…demnation of our 〈◊〉 dies and soules eter●…ally Thu●… throu●… the hardnes of our harts that worship●… God with our lips and denie him in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 y ● 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and mightie in all abhomination read●… to 〈◊〉 the worke●… of 〈◊〉 leaue the worship ●…f our God to ser●… our 〈◊〉 aduersarie 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Thus our innocent soules the 〈◊〉 rie and tr●…●…age of God is by the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of our ●…dies w●…nded 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to ●…ternall dea●… she mourn●… 〈◊〉 but who rega●… 〈◊〉 soul●… 〈◊〉 The outwa●…de man is gi●…en to pleasure and ease The soule is ●…inched with penurie and paine and ne●…er can haue rest The soule through ●…he actions of the fleshly m●…nded man is ●…isgarnished of the vesture of gods grace ●…hough the man of sinne be pranked vp ●…n menstrous pride The flesh is stout and sturdie the soule is saint and feble The flesh is lustie and healthie poasting ●…fter pleasure The soule is sicke and so●…owfull for want of the feeling of gods ●…race The flesh is affected to all kinds of ●…niquities and therby the soule is dange●…ously wounded with transgression so ●…hat both body and soule is become most ●…onstrous in the eies of the Lorde our God and al bicause we will not learne t●…●…orship him nor to walke in his waies ●…ut who is he y ● considereth these things ●…aie who is not rather delighted to worke wickednes to do euil in the sight ●…f the Lord our God Uerily all haue 〈◊〉 from the highest to the lowest and 〈◊〉 be short God hath from his dwelling ●…lace looked down to the face of the earth and knoweth that there is no goodnesse among the sons of men who hasteth the to shroude himselfe by an earnest deploration of his sinnes vnder the couert of the glorous wings of Gods grace Naie rather who wandereth not wide from his heauenlie veritie and setteth not by the continuance of his euill to heape vp vengeance to himselfe in the daie of wrath who is he that prepareth himselfe to watch and kéepe warde for the coming of Christ in the clouds Nay who is he that slepeth not soundly in the vnclennes of his own hart Who is he that striueth in these dangerous daies of wickednes to vanquish subdue the loathso●… lusts of his owne flesh Naie who is

to walk in the waies that the Lorde our God hath appointed vs and yet we will be compted christians by name but infidels in our actions To talke of Christ being carnally affected and not heauenlie minded is a thing of all other most dangerous 〈◊〉 acknowledge him to be the Sonne 〈◊〉 God in our wordes and not to 〈◊〉 his testimonies is a thing most diuelish and sathanicall for the 〈◊〉 did the like in the desertes when he tempted the Lorde of life that Iohn baptized in Iordan and then if we bée faithlesse as I feare me the greatest number of vs are that remaine in this our last time of calling what differ we from sathan that vnrighteous prince of darknes And is this the way do we cōi●…ture with our selues to please God when in not regarding the price of our redemtion accomplished by Gods eternall decree freelie by and through the working of his ●…serued grace in the spotles and immaculate lambe No we vsurpe the name of Christ in this doing we deceiue our selues we tread the blood of him that hath redeemed vs vnder our feete and to concl●…de wée aggreuate heape vp vnto our selues the heauie and intollerable curse and indignation of the a●…ightie and therwithall vnlesse we conuert from the 〈◊〉 waie of our abhominable wickednesses the destruction of our bodies and soules euerlastinglie But who is he that will enter into his owne conscience examine himselfe whither he be giltie of these causes or not or who is he that finding his conscience woūded with the deadlie dart of his own transgression ouerladen with sinne will learne to acknowledge his owne wickednesses to humble himselfe with Dauid before the thron of gods mercies to saie Lord haue mercie vpon me and according to the multitude of thy manifolde mercies blot out all mine iniquities out of thy presence verelie in this age there are few or none that indeuor to bring forth the fruits of repentance for the confidence that we haue in our selues the great distrust that we haue in God in neglecting his commandements the loue that we haue to this transitory world the slender care wée haue to Christ his Gospel the dangerous delight we conceaue in our owne force contrarie the vtter forgetting of gods graces bestowed vppon vs a proue vs rather to be the children of darknes then the sonnes of light were it not an absurde thing for vs to be called in this our last age wherein Christ is sencerely preached to be 〈◊〉 for our sins the enimies of Chist and the friends of Belial who would not think he had iniury being baptised to be called sath●…n But what redéemed whome Christ hath raunsomed not with golde nor siluer but with the price of the hart blood of our redéemer will at all times ingraue or print into his remembrance the painful torments that Christ hath suffred for the sins of the whole world nay rather who flieth not from the ensigne of his capteine Christ Jesus and yeldeth not himselfe a bondslaue to ●…in a seruant to sathan a pray to eternall damnation hel If God haue cōm●… nded vs to serue honor obey him to dedicate and offer vp our selues into his holie handes to depende wholie onely and solie vpon him to put our whole trust and confidence in him and to continue his worshippe in feare and reuerence Why doe we scorne his commandements Why yeelde we not our selues to obedience Why are wée become men pleasers Or why go wée about of a set purpose to displease our creator knowe we not that we are in his heauenly hands as the clay is in the hands of the potter will we become vessels of dishonor in dishonoring him that of dutie we are bounde to obey Are our hearts so hardened that wée thinke him insufficient to punishe vs that without ceasing prouoke him to displeasure or are we become so farre past feare that we will not stande in awe of his iudgementes Hath Ladie selfeloue made vs so wilfullie affected that we wil stand thus sturdely against the Lord and his annointed or hath the inordinate desire of our priuate gaine in this world of wretchednes so déepelie possessed our harts that we vtterlie cast Christ Jesus our high and mightie Lorde treasurer and the vnspeakeable treasures of his glorious kingdom frō our memories alas if wee will cocke●… our selues in our vncleannes heape vp sinne vpon sin glorie in our vncleannes and giue our consents to worke euill in the sight of the Lorde our God We are not members of Christ sons of adoption and grace but children of the diuell forlorne and cast away bastardes If we wil become wilful wantons stragling Goates refuse the good sheephearde and cleane vnto the hired seruant shall not sathan the wilie wolfe deuoure vs both in body and soule If we will liue 〈◊〉 lift vp our selues against the Lord stande stiffe in our owne securities and growe in the contempt of Gods eternall iustice shall not hee in his hea●…ie displeasure with the heauie Axe of his vengeance cut vs downe in our sinnes and then after this temporall death shall not the seconde death of bodie and soule which shall endure for euer vexe and torment vs in the dungion of hell Oh that we would record and call these thinges to our remembrances O that we woulde ponder in our owne consciences how heauie and dangerous a thing it is to fall into the iudgements of the Lorde our God O that we would diligently cōsider with our selues that as God is mercifull louing amiable to those that loue him and kéepe his commandements so is he iust terrible and displeasant to those that continue their wickednesses The 〈◊〉 tree that was barren was accursed and thinke we that are fruitlesse to be blessed Can not the good seede of the Gospell sowne in the stoni●… grounde of our stintie harts take no root at al in vs shal the filthy furrours of our cankred consciences in stead of good and perfect graine bring foorth vnsanerie darnell when the Lorde of the haruest commeth for perfect wheat will we render him chaffe alacke then most miserable is our condission and estate for hee then that hath his fanne in his hand wil purge his floure gather his wheate into the glorious g●…rner of his grace but the chaffe he will burne with an vnquenchable fire These thinges might forewarne vs in time while wée haue time to turne to the Lorde our God and to bring soorth the fruites of repentaunce But wée generallie for the most part here and euery where rather like beastlie Epicures then godlie affected christians wallowe in the myrie soyle of our vncleanesse and putrefaction expecting nothing so much as we doe our ease wherin wée she we our selues to be more laisie loyterers then louelie labourers in the Lordes vineyarde For let vs euen from the highest to the lowest from the

adulterer learne to giue ouer his beastly whoredome filthy fornication Let the drunkard y ● glorieth in his corrup●…on forget giue ouer his vnresonable quaffing Let y ● gréedy landlord indeuor to forbeare the practise of pouling his poore tenant to conclude let vs all ingenerally frō the hiest to the lowest of vs come before y ● Lord our maker with humble contrite harts Let vs wéepe waile cry out morne biterly for our sins then the Lord our God in y ● fulnes of his mercies wil heale our offences cleanse vs frō our sins purge vs frō our iniquities and wash vs from our wickednesses in y ● blod of the lamb yea the Lord our God wll become vnto vs a shelter a shield against all our enimies yea he wil fight for vs against al those that maliciously seke to assaile vs he wil turne towards vs his gratious countenance continue our peace blesse our anointed Debora our virgin Quéene y ● handmaid of the lord continue hir highnes helth to our cōforts conuert or else vtterly confound the power of al hir enimies forren domestical blesse our land spare vs frō those plagues y ● we haue most righteously deserued at the last when it shal plese him to cal vs vnto an account reckoning of our bailiwéekes and stewardships before his tribunal thron we shall stand before him in innocencie holines of life here him pronounce to our endles comforts this hapie sentence Come you blessed of my father enter into y ● kingdome prepared for you from the beginning of the world To the which most gratious God louing father mercifully conduct vs for thy sonne Christ his sake to whom with thee the holie Ghost the spirit of all truth vnitie and concord thrée person one eternall and euerliuing God be rendred all laud glory honor praise power and dominion for euer Amen FINIS The 〈◊〉 of Godmigh●… s●…ir vs vp to 〈◊〉 and newn●…s of life The inn●…cent 〈◊〉 of Christ is the tood of the soule and his guitles blood the drinke spiritual that quencheth the thirst of the faithfull Onely by 〈◊〉 in Christ Jesus we are deliuered from the 〈◊〉 of hell and 〈◊〉 if we 〈◊〉 constantly Gods temporall blessings are giuen vs 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 without our 〈◊〉 for the nourishment of our carnall bodies 〈◊〉 w●… cont●…ne the spirituall foo●… of our soules so do●… we abuse these his tem porall bles●… heaping 〈◊〉 vnto our 〈◊〉 vengeance in the day of 〈◊〉 We are verie readie talkers of Christ and his gospell but we are ouer ●…ll and slow walkers after his wil. We haue forsaken Christ and giuen our consents to sathan as peo ple past grace and falsly forsworne neglecting our spirituall begetting to God through Christ. As we ●…orget the rich graces that our ●…ng God in Christ Iesus hath bestowed 〈◊〉 vs so for the most part of vs do we cast from our memories the spiritual conslict that he hath fought for vs. As we abuse his 〈◊〉 ●…races so 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 d●…spise we h●…s 〈◊〉 bene●…ts Mon●…rous sinnes r●…gning in co●…nterfait christian●… Charit●…e forg●…ten cr●…lty 〈◊〉 Hospit●…litie murthered by 〈◊〉 True friendship banished by ●…tion God by the exercise of our outragious sinnes is greatly dishonored Sinne pla●… vs by these our 〈◊〉 acti●…s vnto the bottomles take of perdition The Lord of the har●…st commeth ●…or wheat he wil not be pl●…sed w●…th the c●…kle of corruption Euery one o●… vs o●…ght to examine our selues dilige●…tlie whether we doe those things that God hath 〈◊〉 vs or whether we doe them not at al and when we finde our imperfections to be such that we canno●… doe that we shold let vs not cea●…e to cra●… assist●…nce of ●…ur 〈◊〉 father by 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The righteou●…nes 〈◊〉 our sa●…or Christ shal ●…ouer our imperfections if we beleeue and sin death and hel shal die in vs and wee shall liue for euer Note what thing God requireth of vs his cr●…tures The Lord our God is without beginning and ende If we will worship the Lorde our God we must walke before 〈◊〉 in inno●… The 〈◊〉 of the proude Phara●…cs ought not to receiued of godly affected c●…ristians 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 we m●…st d●…re of God for Christ ●…is sake to be made new●… do●…gh The holie Ghost is the director of the faithfull into all truth False teachers are the ministers of ●…than Christians ●…ust go for●…ard from vertue to vertue Christ will 〈◊〉 our 〈◊〉 heard and we shalbe the 〈◊〉 of his ●…sture Oc●…sions to ●…ue vs to the worship●…ing of God Note and consider ou●… frowardne●… against the Lorde our God The fruits of 〈◊〉 neglected 〈◊〉 are worshippers ●…f God with o●…r externall 〈◊〉 but our ●…rts are far from him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 m●…n desir●… 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 innocent 〈◊〉 A comparison betwixt the flesh and the soule Bodie and soule through ●…nne detested in the cies o●… the Lord. All men haue erred and 〈◊〉 astraie in the sight of the ●…rd no good nesie among the sonnes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The cōming of Christ to iudgement from our memories The 〈◊〉 of the flesh 〈◊〉 and not subdued Who continueth the battel against the world the fleshe and sathan vnder the standerd of Christ Iesus The paines that Christ hath suffered on the crosse for our redemption can not pearce our flintie harts The seruants of sin continue their wickednes the seruants of christ are make and ●…umble 〈◊〉 broken and brused h●…t is 〈◊〉 sacrifice acceptable to God Repentance grounded on a 〈◊〉 saith is sathans 〈◊〉 and ouerthrow Christ calleth sinners to repentance The compas●…on and pitie that Christ extendeth to the vnfeined 〈◊〉 De●…y ●…eth 〈◊〉 deferring of r●…pentance br●…geth Gods indig●… The 〈◊〉 of christ Ie●…us Christ Iesus is the heauen lie 〈◊〉 and Phisician of our soul●… We are 〈◊〉 Samaritanes The great mercies of Christ set foorth ●… comfort and strengthen our ●…bicilities We are called now to coin to Christ put it not of til to morrow Christ g●…th about to couple and ioine v●…to himselfe the faithfull 〈◊〉 God the lord of time will not be tied to thy appointed morrowe come nowe therefore ●…ith thou art called We 〈◊〉 consider the ioies of heauen nor yet dread 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 torment●…s 〈◊〉 ●…ell 〈◊〉 We are di●… caled but we haue made deaf our 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 ●…ur ●…arts in such sort that woe will not heare nor conceaue the voice of the caller Neither can g●…ds merci●…s nor his com●…inations driue vs to amendment of our liues Though Christ be reddie to 〈◊〉 vs yet we wil not come to him We are erthly minded and not spirituallie affected Wordlie honor is more desired then heauenly glorie The treasures of this world are set by before the celestiall treaures of Chistes kingdome 〈◊〉 thing most dangerous to 〈◊〉 The 〈◊〉 of Adam hath polluted our consciences and the taste of the forbidden apple 〈◊〉 still 〈◊〉 o●… mouths ●…ll f●…re of God is ●…anished from our memories Noah