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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07287	The practice of repentance. Or A sermon preached at Pauls Crosse, the fifteenth of September last passed, by Radford Mavericke, preacher of Gods word in Devon	Mavericke, Radford, b. 1560 or 61.	1617 (1617)	STC 17682; ESTC S105958	30,434	48

THE PRACTICE OF REPENTANCE OR A Sermon preached at PAVLS CROSSE the fifteenth of September last passed By RADFORD MAVERICKE Preacher of Gods Word in DEVON IER 17. 21. Thus saith the Lord Take heede to your soules LONDON Printed by WILLIAM STANSBY 1617. TO THE RIGHT Honorable THOMAS Lord RIDGEWAY Baron of GALTEN-RIDGEWAY And to the right Vertuous and Religious LADY his WIFE all grace and happinesse in Earth accompanyed with all glorie and renowne in Heauen HONORABLE PERSONAGES MAy it please you to peruse these printed Papers contayning the summe of a Sermon preached at the Crosse not long sithence the Printer perswading it onward with this reason for that a Sermon touching Repentance being preached at the same place now twentie yeeres gone he thought it not meete that this present Sermon perswading vnto the practice of Repentance and being so neere of Kinne to the other both in respect of the Author and Subiect should sleepe in the graue of silence or obliuion but rather taking her elder Sister by the hand should seeke their fortunes in the wide Wildernesse of this World where happily some godly disposed will either for pitty or pieties sake giue them intertaynement And for mine owne part this benefit I hope may redound by the printing of it that as it may be with farre greater ease read and perused of them that heard it then at that time it could well be attended vnto by reason the winde was somwhat high and hard at the publishing thereof so such as were not present may by this means be made partaker of the same both for their profit and comfort the mayne point therein handled being a doctrine so necessary and generall that it concernes all persons and people whosoeuer that either long for or desire their eternall saluation And now Honorables I will not spend many wordes to yeeld reasons or causes of this my Dedication to your honored selues you are not ignorant that my ancient and long acquaintance with you with reuerence I speake it here in your owne Country and the certayne knowledge I tooke of your zealous and pious courses you euer held in the right path of Religion which happily hath prepared you for these greater Honors and Places were motiues enough to perswade me to suffer these lines if they had beene written with gold to passe vnder your godly protections to speake nothing of the many fauours I haue receiued from you and your worthy Ancesters which as I may neuer forget so I take pleasure with all thankefulnesse often to remember them One thing more I must adde and so I end at my being in London when this Sermon was preached some few dayes before I promised your brother and verily intended to shew my dutie vnto you at Lambeth when my paynes had beene ended about the same but I was hindred only by sicknesse and weakenesse which made me to returne home speedily where I thanke God I haue now after a long sicknesse reasonably well recouered my health and strength againe and am not altogether without hope but that I may see you once more before I goe hence and be no more seene Meane while and for euer I will not cease to pray for your Honors prosperitie both in your honored selues and worthy Progenie that as God of his goodnesse hath aduanced you to these earthly Honors which you know are but fading so you may seeke by all meanes possible to aduance Gods glorie in the Gospell of his Sonne and the true Professors thereof which shall be the Churches good and your glorie for euer AMEN From my poore house at ILSINGTON in DEVON the sixt of AVGVST 1617. Your Honors euer in the Lord to be commanded RADFORD MAVERICKE THE PRACTICE OF REPENTANCE IEREM 4. 14. O Ierusalem wash thine heart from wickednesse that thou mayest be saued how long shall thy wicked thoughts remayne within thee Exordium SEeing this my Text seemeth to be but an abrupt speech of our Prophet I shall the lesse neede to be curious in obseruing the Coherence of the same Coherence Yet being well obserued we shall finde that it hath good dependency vpon the former part of this Chapter where the Prophet biddeth Israel to returne to the Lord and now sheweth them how they should returne by willing them to wash their hearts from wickednesse saying O Ierusalem wash thine heart c. Diuisio In which wordes we may obserue two generall parts First an Exhortation Secondly a Reprehension An Exhortation to Repentance The Reprehension for that they linger so long their Repentance The Exhortation in these wordes O Ierusalem wash thine heart from wickednesse that thou mayest be saued The Reprehension in these wordes How long shall thy wicked thoughts remayne within thee In the exhortation I obserue foure circumstances Who exhorteth Ieremie Who are exhorted The people of Ierusalem Whereunto they are exhorted To Repentance Wherefore That they may be saued First then we are to consider in the exhortation who exhorteth namely Ieremie one of the Lords Prophet Excelsus Domino one very highly beloued of the Lord knowne vnto God before he was formed in the wombe sanctified in his Mothers belly and ordayned to be a Prophet vnto Nations For so it is read in the Text Then the Word of the Lord came vnto me saith Ieremie Ierem. 1.5 saying Before I formed thee in the wombe I knew thee and before thou camest out of the wombe I sanctified thee and ordayned thee to be a Prophet vnto Nations Obser 1 Now in that Ieremie is appointed and ordayned to be a Prophet vnto Nations specially vnto Ierusalem before he was borne We are to obserue therein the care that the Lord hath for the good of his Church and Children long before in prouiding for them Pastors Teachers likewise Kings Queenes Captaynes and Gouernours who are nursing Fathers and nursing Mothers as well to Church as Common-weale Example So were Moyses and Aaron prouided and miraculously preserued for the deliuerance of the Israelites of Egypt Exod. 2. So was Ioseph before that for the preseruation of that whole Family which grew afterward into so great a Nation Gen. 41. So was Queene Hester and Mordecay preserued from the conspiracy of that wicked Haman for the great good of the Iewes who were adiudged to the slaughter Hest 6. So was King Dauid preserued first from the Lyon and the Beare and afterward from Goliah and Saul that he might feed the children of Israel prudently with all his power 1. Sam. 17.37 So was Iosias Hezechias and other godly Kings so was Samuel and the rest of the Prophets so was Paul and the rest of the Apostles all prepared and prouided for the good of Gods Church as well of the Gentiles as of the Iewes So was that good and great King Constantine ordayned of God to giue some breathing time to the persecuted Christians after their so many and cruel persecutions So likewise we may say was Iohn Husse Hierome of Prage