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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29213	The necessity of a present repentance in a sermon preach'd before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen at Guild-Hall Chapel, March 10th, 1694/5 / by William Bramston ...	Bramston, William, d. 1735.	1695 (1695)	Wing B4242; ESTC R11261	9,979	30

no other Considerations to convince us in this Partilar yet in this one we may discover how improper Sickness must be to be fix'd upon for the Performance of our Repentance namely because no Man can be certain what Operations Sickness may effect in him whether its Anguish may not harden or its Gentleness prevent his holy Resolutions to Repent We have daily Instances of such Distempers which deprive Men of their Hopes and Wits together and of others too whose indiscernable Decays too often lull them in Impenitence And now can Sickness be a proper Season for Repentance which contains our Sorrows for our past Irregularities which is our actual returning into the Paths of Health and Wisdom when Sickness many times puts us but still more besides our selves Can that be the proper time to qualifie our Griefs for Sin which has so many Uneasinesses and Distractions of its own And thus I pass to the Second time in which many purpose to Repent and that is the time of old Age Where I shall not stand now to consider the improbability whether One in Five hundred of those who fix upon this time ever live to be old nor yet that Observation which daily Experience seems but too constantly to instruct us in namely That a vicious and impenitent Youth too frequently concludes in a hardened and an unrelenting old Age but I shall now suppose That by the good Providence of God we may all here live to be old and so reason upon this Supposition Now then Shall old Age be proper for this Work What Shall that be mastered with seeble Joints and trembling Knees which has so long been victorious over all our strongest Resolutions Shall the Dregs and refuse of Life be the properest Sacrifice for our God Shall we then be best qualified to set forth the Greatness of his Mercies when all those excellent Endowments which God has bless'd us with on purpose that we might glorifie his Heavenly Majesty have been consumed on Sin and are worn out in the Works of Unrighteousness Shall that be our fit time for the Fear of God which is the beginning of Wisdom when we are reduced to the Weakness of Childhood Can that be the fittest Season for us to take the Review of our Lives past when we have lost our Memories that a time to look back when we shall scarce be able to see before us In a word Shall that be a fit time for a free voluntary and conscientious forsaking of Sin wherein true Repentance does consist when Sin it self will forsake us 'T is wonderful to observe how Men act contrary to those received Principles of Wisdom which directs them in other Matters in this greater Business of their Salvation if we examine them as to their Concerns relating to this World this Excuse they make for their present Cares Cravings and immoderate pursuit after the Things of this World is this To keep and refresh them when they shall be unfit for Cares to make old Age happy and easie How insatiable are they in securing the greatest Stores against that time when the least may satisfie But as for those Heavenly Treasures which will be the more needful the nigher we approach the Grave they think it time enough to be seeking these when they shou'd actually enjoy them They think there is no Necessity to be careful for these which are most necessary till by the inveterate habits of their Vices they are indeed rendered unfit for all the watchful Cares of true Devotion What a Contradiction is here That Men shou'd pretend they wou'd have their old Age happy and yet load it with all the Pains and bitter Labours of Repentance Can old Age thus be happy when all this may be too little when we may cry and not be heard when we may weep and languish and Repent and yet like Esau find none to Comfort none to restore the Blessing When that God whom now in the Beauties of our Youth and Perfection of our Age we have contemned shall in his Wisdom and Justice contemn our craziness Wou'd'st thou be happy when thou art old thou must then needs be Godly now thou art young That which often disturbed the Soul of David was the sence of his Sins tho' he lived in an habitual Repentance yet we find this frequently wounded him in the midst of his Enjoyments Let me therefore earnestly beseech ye that are young or in the Strength of your Years to Remember your Creator now in these Days of Youth and Strength And that as for many others so especially upon these two Considerations First Because If ye will not Serve God now whilst ye are fit for the Services of the World ye can expect no Blessings from God then when ye shall be past Transgressings Secondly Because If ye will not Serve God now ye will not be Able to Serve him hereafter there being no Service at all in that it will be the effect of Impotency and Necessity it being no Service at all to God that thou wilt abstain from Sinning when the vicious humour has been fulfilled before and thy Natural Decays render thee unfit for Sinning Consider 't is now in these Days of Youth and Strength that Temptations flow about thee 'T is now that Ambition pricks and the World besets thee with Enchantments 'T is now that the unruliness of thy Blood and the evil propensities of thy Flesh prompt thee to Rebellion against thy God and therefore it must be now that is the properest Season for all the holy Actions of true Devotion If thou cast off the care of thy Soul now think not that God will take it up think not that He will accept thy refuse much less in Wisdom or Religion can'st thou imagine that notwithstanding thy present contempt of so precious a Treasure he will at last Exalt and Glorifie thee Old Age shou'd God bless us with it will be the beginning of our Harvest the time when we shall in some Measure reap the bless'd Fruits of a present Piety and Repentance and therefore very improper to be appointed by us for the time of Seed i. e. for the time of begining of our Repenting And thus I am brought to speak to the third Time resolved on by too many Men for the Work of their Repentance which though it be a Time which all must come to yet certainly a later Hour they cannot think on for 't is the Hour of Death Now is not this a monstrous Resolution I will begin then to live righteously when I may conclude with my self I shall live no longer I will there fix the Assurance of my Eternal Happiness where I am taught will end all the Opportunities of making sure my future Happiness Wilt thou say'st thou Repent at Death Wilt thou indeed trust all to one Moment then give me Leave to represent unto thee how desperately the State of thy Salvation standeth thou wilt Repent Alas It will not be in thy Power to Repent at Pleasure