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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07828	Two treatises concerning regeneration, 1. Of repentance, 2. Of the diet of the soule shewing the one, how it ought to be sought after and may be attained vnto, the other, how it being gotten, is to be preserued and continued.	Morton, Thomas, of Berwick.	1597 (1597)	STC 18200.5; ESTC S4792	100,213	251

hearing of Gods worde The third earnest and continuall praier By the first he addresseth himself to come to God casting off his filthy sinnes and putting on the new garment of a religious iust vpright and honest life by the second he standeth waiting at the gate of Gods mercy where vsually men are receyued into fauour by the third hee becommeth a little more bolde presumeth to knocke and rappe at Gods gate where we leaue him prepared wayting and knocking till it please God to open and let him in Sect. 5. ANd yet there remaineth one point to be briefly declared to wit how this repentāt being now as we are to hope iudge and suppose of a carnall made a spirituall man may know himself to be in the state of grace For although regeneration beeing so great and a totall chaunge bee vsually so euident especially to him in whom it hath place that hee can not doubt of it yet it commeth often to passe by the temptation of Sathan and that naturall infidelitie which remayneth in them that euen the faythfull are brought to this passe that they knowe not what to make of themselues but eyther thinke or at the least suspect themselues to bee in the middest of a troublesome and tempestuous Sea when as in trueth they are arryued in the Hauen This controuersie must bee taken away by comparing our present estate with our former and by considering that chaunge which wee feele to bee of a suddaine wrought in our selues in the earnest perfourmance of some Christian exercise tending to regeneration For wee are not to looke for it in our banquets pastimes sleepe recreations or while wee are busied about worldly affaires but while wee heare the worde of GOD while wee pray vnto him publikely or perhaps priuately alone or with others while wee humble our selues in fasting and vnfayned sorrowe for our sinnes In the perfourmance of the which Christian duties GOD is by his mightie power able to turne the hearts of men which way hee lifteth to change the naturall disposition of his soule whom hee then calleth making it looke towarde himselfe which before did frowardlie abhorre from all good and vppe to heauen which before had the eies fixed in earthly things Whereupon this repentaunt for wee will yet giue him his olde name because hee doubteth himselfe to bee still not a newe but the olde man feeleth all the facultyes of his soule his minde will and affections straungely chaunged For whereas before hee felt himselfe so hard hearted that although he sawe his sinnes yet hee was not greeued for them vnlesse it were for the punishment of them nowe he powreth out of his eyes Ryuers of teares in respect of the dishonor which he hath by his sins b●ought to the name of God Whereas before he doubted of Gods fauor and the pardon of his sinne now he is vndoubtedly perswaded of both and so he is now replenished with vnspeakable ioy heareth the spirit not of bondage and feare wherewith hee was possessed but of adoption crying in his heart Abba father He now feeleth himself able to withstand those sinnes wherevnto before he yelded continually at the first to haue a delight in praying to God and in all Christian exercises wherevnto before hee was drawn by feare of the displeasure either of men or perhaps in some conscience of sinne in feare of the wrath of God and a desire to auoyd it And to conclude hee feeleth all those parts of holinesse wrought in some measure in his soule which are requited in the faithfull FINIS The Argument of the Treatise following AS it is not sufficient for the good estate of mans bodie that it be brought into the world in the naturall perfe●●●on of it which consisteth in the equall temperature and iust proportion of the seueral parts of it for that it being left here would soone perish and come to noug●t and therefore it must of necessitie be continually both nourished with meate and drinke and also preserued from all hurtfull things yea carefully restored to the former state of health if by any inward or outward meanes it fall into sicknesse or bee any way hurt wounded or distempered no more will it serue for the good estate of the soule that it be both prepared by repentance for regeneration yea actually regenerated by the spirite of God but it likewise must continually be tended fed and cherished yea healed of all those maladies which by any meanes happen vnto it This we call the right dieting of the soule resembling the soule to the bodie that both the doctrine may be plaine and easie being illustrated declared by sensible familiar similitudes and also that the continuall care and paines which we take about our bodies t●e ordering dieting of them may alwaies be putting vs 〈◊〉 minde of perfourming the same dutie vnto our soules for the which we oght to be so much the more carefull as eternall happinesse is better thē this short and miserable life This spirituall diet hath two partes conseruatiue and restoratiue the former continueth and keepeth in the soule that measure of grace and of holinesse which it hath receiued from God the other restoreth it when it is lost and repaireth it being decaied Againe conseruatiue diet hath two parts nutritiue and preseruatiue consisting the one in the right vse of those things by the which the soule is nourished the other in the carefull auoyding of all things which are hurtfull vnto it spirituall nourishment consisteth in two t●ings foode and exercise whereof the one is the matter the other the meanes maner or forme of nutrition Further we are to consider how the soule hath resemblance to the state of the bodie and how it being of it selfe simple and spirituall can be subiect to alterations distempers and diseases which haue place in the bodie by reason of the contrarietie of qualities preuailing or yeelding one to another to wit that as in the bodie heate and moysture so in the soule holinesse sinfulnesse do continually fight togither the one laboring to consume and expell the other the sinfulnesse of the flesh labouring to quench all the good motions of the spirit and the spirit striuing to crucifie the flesh with all the corrupt lusts thereof Gal. 5.17 The flesh lusteth against the spirit and the spirite against the flesh and these are contrary the one to the other This is the composition temperature of the soule hauing place onely in the state of regeneration wherein the soule hath in it selfe both holinesse and sinfulnesse but not in the state of innocencie or yet since the fall of Adam in carnall men when as t●e soule being altogither either holy or sinful cannot be said to haue this composition or temperature These points of doctrine may profitably be considered But first we are to know that the paines and care taken in dieting and ordering the soule ought to bee continuall without any intermission for that as the body being neglected for