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A06051	A letter written by Mr. Paul Bayne, minister of Gods word, lately deceased. Effectually instructing, and earnestly prouoking to true repentance, loue, and new obedience. Very profitable for euery one that would proceede on in the constant course of a godly life, shewing the way vnto it, and seriously exciting vnto more perfection therein	Baynes, Paul, d. 1617.	1617 (1617)	STC 1645; ESTC S113834	16,563	94

A LETTER WRITTEN BY Mr. PAVL BAYNE Minister of Gods word lately deceased Effectually instructing and earnestly prouoking to true repentance loue and new obedience Very profitable for euery one that would proceede on in the constant course of a godly life shewing the way vnto it and seriously exciting vnto more perfection therein 2 PET. ● 9 The Lord is long suffering to vs-ward not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance HEB. 6.1 Let vs goe on to perfection 1. THES 4.3 For this is the will of God euen your sanctification LONDON Imprinted by F.K. for Nathan Newbery and are to be sold at S. Peters in Cornhill and in Popes head Alley 1617. TO THE RIGHT Worshipfull Master William Halliday Alderman and Sheriffe of London all happines SIr this small but holy treatise being giuen mee by him vnto whom it was written to send it forth more publikely into the world And knowing what euill and iniurious entertainement Orphans oftentimes receiue in the world except they haue some special friend to countenance them I am bold to adresse my selfe vnto you with this Religious child of a godly learned but deceased father for shelter and indeed vnto whom could I with more assured hope dedicate it for harbour then to your selfe vnder whose roofe I and mine are harbored and therefore that so in som part I might manifest my loue and gratefulnes vnto you I present this with my selfe alwaies ready to doe you any good seruice Yours humbly N. N. A LETTER WRITTEN BY Master PAVL BAYNE late deceased effectually instructing and prouoking to true repentance loue and new obedience MAster D. I include your wife in you both your loues to that Saint departed and to my self doth bind me vnto you in all Christian dutie especially to exhort you to repentance and prouoke you to loue the neglect whereof though hitherto it hath been somewhat excusable yet hereafter it might iustly bee condemned in me wherefore I will breake off silence laboring to build you forward in the graces aboue named First to deale with you in repentance then to helpe you forward in new obedience The Lord preacheth repentance still to vs If a messenger knocking at our doores haue their answere returned they are gone forthwith to them that sent them so if the plague and such like messengers which God sendeth to vs had that they came for they would not still ring the bel at our dores and cal vpon vs. Neither doth God waite for repentance onely from the wicked but hee would haue his dearest children meete him condemning themselues if ye also repent not more and more when you see the examples of Gods wrath you shal also perish First to shew you what this is so I shall stirre you vp to it more fruitfully By repentance I meane nothing else but b 2. Co. 7.10 godly sorrow for sinne wherein the soule humbleth it selfe before God and commeth home to him It is not a worldly sorrow like theirs in the 7. c Hos 7.14 of Hosea which maketh vs whine because the world is hard nor yet a hopeles griefe d Ge. 4.13 in feare of punishmēt like Cains but a griefe for e Ps 51 3.4 sinne as it displeaseth God whose loue through Christ wee haue felt f Zac. 12.10 shed into our hearts g Lam. 3.22 whose mercies we see in that we are not cōsumed yea h Heb. 12.6 whose fatherly affection doth seeke to recall vs home by louing correction Now in this sorrow the soule doth humble it selfe for this is the nature of repentance it wil make vs i Ezech. 36.31 take shame to our selues giuing glory to God partly by seasonable acknowledging those waies wherein we haue k Psal 51.14 Dan. 9.5 most prouoked God partly by l Ezech. 36.30 iudgeing our selues as worthie to bee cut off that we may finde grace in his eyes and not bee condemned And together with grieuing and abasing it selfe the stray soule m Act. 26.20 commeth home to God purposing through his strength to leaue the waies wherin it hath grieued him and to cleaue to God in all his commandements Looke then if entring into your heart you finde that as much hath beene amisse so discerning n Rom. 2.4 Gods mercy and patience yea his goodnesse in giuing you the cal of his word and corrections you are grieued that you haue been so vnkinde and vndutifull to so kind and carefull a father if you finde that where it is to his glory you loue to confesse your vnfruitfulnesse to condemne your self and doe with true purpose of heart strike a new couenant with God to forbeare your owne waies to walke more fruitfully before him so far as his grace shall preserue you from the one and strengthen you to the other for all our sufficiencie is in him if you find these things in any measure then reioyce for God hath giuen you o Act. 11.12 repentance to eternall life But if your hearts haue neglected this exercise of a broken spirit and that your consciences tell you there hath been little or no griefe this way then you must be entreated that whilest it is called to day that Gods grace doth still inuite you you would not harden your hearts but prepare to meete him p Luk. 23.28 Weepe not for me weepe for your sins saith our Sauiour and blessed are they that mourne in this kinde the Lord carrieth a handkercheife to wipe away those teares he is neere to comfort these hearts these Aprill dewes bring May-flowers such as sowe in teares shall q Psal 126.5 reape in ioy Is it not better for vs to take the rod into our owne hands and beate our selues gently then force the Lord to take vs into his hand who is a consuming fire if the Lord do but see you are willing to cast downe your selues and to deale with your owne soules he will couer your heads in the euill houre and make loue to your soules whē his negligent children shall taste of his temporarie displeasure Delay not this our foules in their swaruings from God are like two bones beside their ioynt the longer they go they proue the more painfull if wee take them in time they are set more easily We wil take Physick purge sweat to preuent the growing of disease vpon vs shall we not bee wise for our soules the vomit of the soule is the griefe of repētance take it betime driue not of till the Lord bee forced to visit Now if God giue you to desire that your hearts were broken in his sight but yet you finde that you cannot partly for the hardnesse in your harts partly for outward distractions do the thing you would I will helpe you a little at this lift There is an art in blowing vp euery grace in the spirit and this with the rest First therefore you must r Deut. 30 1 Lam. 3.40 Apoc. 2.5 enter into your hearts

The third dutie is you must loue him for loue we know maketh the man and woman one so it doth couple vs to God Wee must labour to say from our hearts Lord what haue wee in heauen but thee Psal 73.25 or in earth in comparison of thee Now though we think wee doe loue him and doe so yet it is weakly and aboue all things we had need to mende in this behalfe Trie your loue and then iudge of it Those you loue doe you not loue to be present with thē as you two one with another if one of you be forth of towne doe you not thinke long til you meet together are but should bee affectioned toward euery stranger if shee should not care how long she were absent from him but thinke her selfe best while they were asunder if shee cared little how her louing husband were offended casting that at her heele which hee taketh to heart were not this shamelesse behauiour in her and shall not we be ashamed to shew no lesse want of loue to thee to whom our souls are married in Christ Then you must turne you to God confessing that your hearts are full of harlotry and false-loue You can loue your selues you haue affectiō enough to the things of this world the gifts of God and that the meanest more then the giuer as harlottes to rings gold bracelets more then the senders and beseeching him to purge your hearts of this and fill you with his loue for this is his promise I will circumcise your hearts and make you loue mee with all your hearts The fourth thing is the feare of God Sanctifie the Lord in your har●s make him your feare Esa 8.13 * Mat. 10.28 feare to offend him who when the body is killed can cast the soule into hell fire We shold reuerence his excellent Maiestie and dread to offend him because hee hath been gracious to vs and hath power to doe with vs what euer he pleaseth And with good reason were there from whom wee hold our house and stocke so that hee could turne vs out of all at his pleasure would wee not walk very circumspectly fearing that which might alienate his fauour from vs Againe if the Maiesty of a mortall man doth affect vs as of the King with reuerence how much more should wee be affected with the glorious Maiesty of the most high God Now you must know your hearts are much void of this also The thing speaketh it self Do you not feele when in prayer you are to speake to God that there is no reuerence in your hearts beseeming so high a Maiestie Do you not feele the want of dreade at his iudgements which so long haue been vpon vs and still houer about vs and what awe is in vs making vs fearefull by sin to displease him Alas presumption securitie hardnesse of hart these weeds grow so hic that wee can scarce discerne the fruit aboue named In the third place thē you must worke this want vpon your heart as the former saying If I were in the presence of some great personage and should carrie my selfe rudely without due respect would I not blush shall I not bee ashamed I haue no more reuerence when I come before thee Iam. 2.19 O thou God of glory so for want of dread shall the beasts tremble whē the Lion roreth yea shall the diuels tremble to thinke of thy iudgement O shall I be senslesse and no whit mooued So for want of awe in regard of breaking Gods law shall I dare as well to take a beare by the tooth as to breake the Kings law where especially it threatneth life limme or liberty and shall I not bee afraid to trespasse against thy ●●●tutes the breach wherof is punishable with eternall death Is there none but thee that wee may make bold with shall I bee so foolish as to feare sicknesse pouerty mens displeasure and not bee afraid of sinne and thy wrath which is a Heb. 12. vlt. a consuming fire what were this but with little childrē to bee scarred with a harmelesse bul begger and to bee dreadlesse of fire and water In the last place you must looke to God in conscience how this affection is peruerted in you confessing to him that you can feare the face of men things that are or seeme hurtfull to your selues you can ●emean your selues reuerently toward such as are great amongst mē but toward him you finde great want and goe pray him to worke it in your hearts who hath couenanted to put his b Ier. 32.40 feare in our harts so that we shall not depart from him Fifthly to haue God for your God bindeth you to reioyce in him c Phil. 2.4 Reioyce in the Lord againe I say reioyce d Ie● 9.23 Psal 37.4 Delight thy selfe in the Lord and hee will giue thee thy hearts desire let not the rich man reioyce in wealth the strong man in strength the wise man in wisedome but in this that he knoweth mee saith the Lord. For what wee make our chiefe ioy that is our God for the heart resteth chiefly in that with which it is most delighted Now what is more equall then that we should solace our selues in him with ioy vnspeakeable and glorious who hath deliuered vs from death sinne and Satan who as Gods executioner hath power in sin and death in him who is a light and a shield that is a fountaine of all good and a defender of vs from all euill one able to maintaine all the good spiritual and corporall which we haue and giuē vs whatsoeuer is wanting but if wee marke our hearts their ioy is much depraued so that Salomon saith not without cause Eccles 2.2 our laughter is become madnesse for our harts are not cheary this way tell thē of the precious benefits are giuen vs in Christ pardon of sinne peace the beginning of euerlasting life through the work of grace hope through Christ of the heauenly Kingdome why they can heare this and be so farre from leaping within vs that we can hardly discerne them any whit moued Nay if we marke them the better we shall see that when wee would hold them to the remembrance of such things till they haue broke loose from vs they are not in their kind cannot bee lightsome as if God were the dampe of our mirth not the matter of our exulting gladnes Now when you obserue that you cannot reioyce in the Lord you must shame your soules by laying before them their owne course in other matters If I see some toy heare some iest I cannot containe my selfe if I heare some goodnesse or meete with prosperus successe in my worldlie affaires I can bee pleasant enough if I be passing the time with my friends at their curteous inuitements it goeth on merily deadnesse and vncomfortablenes I feele them not for the time Fie shall I haue laughter euen till I tickle at a feather at some merry conceit at good newes