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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27606	Evangelical repentance unto salvation not to be repented of upon 2 Cor. 7, 10 ; and as most seasonable, Short considerations on that great context Hebr. 12, 26, \"Yet once more I shake not only Earth, &c.\" : upon the solemn occasion of the late dreadful earthquake in Jamaica and the later monitory motion of the earth in London, and other parts of the nation and beyond the sea ; whereunto is adjoined a discourse on death-bed repentance, on Luc. 22, 39 / by T. Beverly.	Beverley, Thomas.	1693 (1693)	Wing B2148_PARTIAL_CANCELLED; Wing B2140_CANCELLED; ESTC R17858	162,555	326

dependences together with earnestest Application to the Grace of God These unclean Spirits therefore that dissemble a retreat return immediately and make a Prey of the deluded Soul Acts 19.14 c. 3. Although Heaven and Hell Happiness and Misery take up the thoughts of a true Penitent yet not separated from God and Christ but as it were compounded into the Sense of God angry and the desire of Attonement with him in Jesus Christ. Happiness and Misery considered apart are not the object of the gracious Soul But God and Christ considered apart are an infinitely sufficient Reason of Repentance The clear love of God upwards the Soul as a Father in Christ without Reflections upon Happiness is though not the single yet the paramount Consideration in Repentance unfeigned But Men a Dying are generally so over-possessed with the Terrors of an Eternal Suffering and meer desires of Freedom from pain and of well-being and so in haste that they generally miss these higher Considerations which being further off not only from corrupt Nature but even from natural Conscience are not commonly espied but therefore argue greater Sincerity and truth of Heart 4. The truest Repentance lies in the bosom of Faith the apprehensions of the Love and Goodness of God in Christ melt the Soul and give it most perfect Separation from Sin the most effectual Purification of the Heart all which express the height of Repentance Upon the soft Fire of the pardoning Goodness of God the Soul most kindly distils into repentant Tears Here flows that Spirit of Grace and ingenuous Goodness which bringeth forth the clearest and holiest Affection towards God But at the time we are now speaking of It is very seldom that either Horror or Presumption do not swallow all Presumption where there is little Sense or Judgment of the Case Horror where the Judgment is clearer and the Sense quicker for evey thing disposes now rather to Fear and to the Spirit of Bondage Rom. 8.15 and a Man naturally does all he does under a servile dread of God and his Eternal Justice And though there may be much mention of Christ and desire of Mercy through him yet it is but as a Malefactor convicted beseeches the Mercy of the Judge no otherwise than as of a Judge So such call out for the Mercy of God to pardon them but still as a Judge not with the Spirit of the Son sent into the Heart the Spirit of Adoption crying Abba Father Nor with that love that casteth out unworthy Fear Gal. 4.6 And indeed how can it be otherwise there having been no acquaintance with God in the way Job 22.21 but a long Enmity and the time now too strait for a free and full Consideration of the riches of Grace such as may still an awakened Conscience Fear presses in every way and shuts out Faith What can now redeem the Soul from this hellish Terror but a light from Heaven immediately darting into it a Grace above that Grace that ordinarily saves Men For a well setled Trust and Confidence in Mercy according to the general Rule is not but after some sad debates and experimental Consultations that have passed between the sense of Sin and the affiancing Acts of the Soul upon Christ This Repentance then is in great danger of missing the Spirit of the Gospel and falling into the Rank of those Repentances of Cain Esau Judas This I have endeavoured to shew that though we suppose a Dying Man to spread his Soul and Thoughts every way and to all the parts of Repentance yet it is extremely to be suspected there will want the true and right quality of them in regard of the very disadvantageous Circumstances wherein such an one is found and the great unfitness of the Soul at that time to begin to do anything worthy to which it hath not been before inured or if it did begin it would be much more unlikely to bring forth fruit as our Saviour speaks to perfection Luke 8.14 I add nothing of the Exercises of a full and well grown Repentance whereby it is daily espying the risings of Sin and suppressing them and filling up the Defects of Holiness and Obedience because they are not to be thought possible in the point I am now speaking of and I have already given a Resolution in that Case I shall now set my self to find out the low Causes that are alway to be suspected to have the great Influence upon such a Latter-end Penitency In general therefore we must take notice that there are several vapors of misapprehension rising upon the Soul when we are a Dying that do so disguise it to it self and disfigure the true face of it that from thence arise dangerous Mistakes concerning a Mans Condition towards God We see into how many shapes upon ordinary Occurrences we change and how easily we exchange them for quite different without any good Cause what continual Ebbs and Flows there are of the Humours and how do these cast the Ballance of the Superiour Soul One Man is every hour some several sorts of Men. How much more do great Accidents and removes out of one Condition into another alter us Which yet are but the sudden and just now state of our Minds upon such Alterations which not continuing we return to our former Figure Vnstable and weak as water Gen. 49.3 we take the form of every Vessel we are put into Who knows then whether his Dying Repentance be any more than the Mould not of his Mind but of his Dying Condition approaching him big with so great a Change We know many things befal us in our Lives which put a greater sense of Religion upon us than we find at other times and yet how variable are we our goodness at such times is as the Morning Dew and as the early Dew it goeth away Hose 6.4 How often are we from the occasions of Mercies Afflictions Fears Hopes good Discourses carried into high Apprehensions of God And we lose them again we know not how Now out of doubt a Dying Condition of any thing we meet with in the World is most apt to move us upon God and a Sense of him But can we think Those fleeting Shoots of the Soul that have no certainty are accepted for Repentance How strangely doth Melancholly and Oppressions of that transform Men which when it falls upon the Motions of Conscience gives us strong Imaginations of Eternal Things which yet being nothing but the cast of that Melancholly upon the Thoughts when that is removed they are quite of another hue It is evident the Mind sees much through the Body and the Representations are coloured by its Temper As the Eye sees through yellow or green Glass differently from the things themselves So the Serenity or Cloudiness of the Humours makes a different Reflection of things upon the Mind and the liveliness or heaviness of the Spirits incline us to very varying Apprehensions Now what time is more like to be so incumber'd with

it is a foul and impure and shameful thing and as it is an Offence against the Holy and only Wife and gracious Majesty of God and as it brings Wrath and Ruine and Condemnation upon it contemplates considers and weighs those Reasons and thereby finds it self affected with sorrow and affliction as if it were after the manner of a broken Bone or bruised Flesh Thus we read of a broken and contrite Spirit and of those who are bruised in Spirit and grieved in Spirit and of a wounded and a troubled Spirit and of a sorrowful Spirit And this when it eyes God as a Father in Christ Gracious and Good and ready to be Reconcil'd and to forgive is a true godly Sorrow or a Sorrow after God For it is in the True Region of godly sorrow the Spirit and it hath the Right Sense and Affection even such an apprehension of God And such a Sorrow the Spirit communicates to the Body in which it dwells so as to make the Appearance of it Solemn Humble and Lowly It denies it those Ornaments or Refreshments that it self at other Times desires for it it bridles and curbs its own appetites and desires of pleasure and satisfaction in it it humbles it by Fasting it lays it in the Dust it keeps it waking it dissolves it into Tears and if it be very great as sometimes it dries up the Benign Juices of it and it carries all the Marks of the Spirit so affected And because these arise from a sorrow within after God God is pleased with them and accepts them as signs of such sorrow and calls for them 2. The Sicknesses or Wants or Pains or Notes of Disgrace that the Wise and Holy Providence of God sends sometimes upon the Body that make it an uneasie or a dishonourable Habitation of the Spirit These the Spirit takes Notice of with troublesome and unquiet thoughts the thoughts being in a Motion a Conflict and Agony if by the Grace of God they are guided to search the Causes of these Strokes on the Body and finds them to be an offended Justice a provoked and displeased Holiness upon the account of Sin and Iniquity and that it apprehends These are but the Beginnings of Sorrows and that they are Indications and Fore-bodes of Wrath to come and of further Judgments from Heaven even at the present upon both Body and Spirit if there be not that course taken of seeking Pardon and Reconcilement in Christ and turning from Iniquity These thoughts sanctified and conducted by God upon himself thus upon the occasion of outward affliction become that sorrow after God of which the Apostle speaks and often works that Repentance to salvation never to be Repented of Thus Scripture very often speaks of Outward Afflictions made serviceable to Conversion to returns to God Famine and Pestilence and War and Captivity in the Land of Enemies are Represented in the Prayer of Solomon as great Motives and even procuring and exciting Causes of Humiliation Bethinking our selves turning to the Lord. The Afflictions of Men are often spoken of by God and used as Arguments to such Resentments as call to Self-judging and so to reforming â—ven often not only in the Old but in the New Tectament We are Chasten'd of the Lord that we might not be condemned with the World Affliction yieldeth the peaceable Fruit of Righteousness to them who are exercised thereby 1 Cor. 11.31 Heb. 12.11 Both these Operations of godly sorrow seem to be Represented with a great Elegancy V. 14. and Holy Eloquence Job 33. the first when this Sorrow begins in the Spirit of a Man and Thoughts arising therein God speaks once and twice in a Dream in a Vision of the Night He opens the Ears of Men and sealeth their Instruction That he may withdraw Man from his purpose and hide Pride from Man He brings him to such Humiliation as keeps him from going on in his former purpose Again when sorrow begins in the Body v. 19. He a man any man upon whom the methods of God for Repentance are so laid is chasten'd with pain upon his Bed and the multitude of his Bones with strong Pain so that his Life abhorreth Bread and his Soul dainty meat his Flesh is consumed away that it cannot be seen and his bones that were not seen stick out yea his Soul draweth near unto the Grave and his Life to the Destroyers if there be a Messenger with him an Interpreter one among a thousand to shew to man his uprightness then he is gracious unto him and saith deliver him from going down to the Pit I have found a Ransom his Flesh shall be fresher than a Childs He shall pray unto God and he will be Favourable unto him and he shall see his Face with Joy he will Render unto man his Righteousness And now this sorrow thus after God sanctified thus to have Respect to God and carried out after him is Counter distinguish'd it is most different from the sorrow of the World that worketh Death The sorrow that hath no higher spring than this World works Death that is however the Mind or the Body be Affected when it does not mount up to a consideration of God offended for sin when it does not seek pardon of him and Reconciliation to him in Christ when it only pores upon the things of this World and agitates it self about them it runs down into the dead Sea of Sorrow that weeping and wailing and gnashing of Teeth that is in Hell It is an Idolatrous Sorrow arising from an Heart deeply set on this World and glewed to it and so goes down into the Vault and Pit of eternal Sorrow It tends to the Death of the Body it brings down the Head to the Grave It tends to wear and grind bodily Nature to the Dust every such sorrow not after God that hath no tincture from him on it If it be not Antidoted by sorrow after God and by Repentance to Salvation It tends to eternal Death and is the Inlet unto it For it is certain all sorrow here that comes from Heaven ascends up to Heaven as Water ascends as high as its Spring But that which is of a terrene earthly Nature sinks down to the Center which is the neathermost Hell I come now to the second Head to shew the excellent use and service sorrow after God yeilds in this wise and holy preparation of it by God to that Repentance to salvation not to be Repented of 1 In that so great and principal an Affection of the Soul is given up to God It hath an use and a service to steer the Soul to God For the Affections are as the Rudder of the Soul as the Helm of it guided by the judgment as by a Pilot And these affections are all in a Linck and in a chain If any one of the principal Affections are mov'd that mighty Vessel of the whole Soul is turn'd this way or that way by a very small thing as it may seem

stand for ever obliged and deeplyest indebted to true Grace that not only their after thoughts and Judgment in Repentance are accepted but that they are Retriev'd by the Eâ—â—cacious Operations of it to Newness of Life General 2d I have thus far open'd the Nature of Repâ—nâ—ance by considering the strict and precise Notion of it and shewing how excellent admirable and even noble a Grace this Evangelical Grace is even in that strict and precise Notion I will now go on to consider it in the excellent motives and Incentives to it that will further shew the excellency of its Nature and then the signes of its Truth that it is Repentance of the true Alloy the truly excellent Nature under that great sign It is Repentance to Salvation and that is never to be Repented of which is the Second General under this Third Head in the Doctrin of Repentance Particular 1. I begin with Motives to this true Repentance wherein I Record these following of which I will but briefly speak having already comprehended much of them And as they are motives so they are to be look'd upon as the highest means and instructions fitted by God for Repentance and the Soul accordingly is to apply and stretch forth it self in the use of them 1. The principal not Motive but Mover is the Supreme Grace and Operation of the Divine Spirit who siâ—s as a Refiners Fire and Fâ—llers Soap within the Temple of the Soul Malac. 4.2 Zech. 12.10 Esay 4.4 is a Spirit of Grace and of Supplication a Spirit of Judgment and Burning washing away the Filthiness of the Flesh and of the Spirit The divine Spirit is the great Superintendent of the Grace and Work of Repâ—nâ—ance by his inward Motives and Overshaddowings of the Soul For seeing Repentance is the Gift and Grant of God Acts 11.18 2 Tim. 2.25 Luke 11.20 the Divine Spirit that is the Power and Finger of God must needs be the Supreme Operator What the Love of God is the Fountain of in the Divine Operation that the Spiâ—it of God by whom the last Operation and â—ffect is in every thing perfected is the immediate Hand and Finger that bâ—ings it to pâ—ss and so what Jesus Christ is a Prince to Giâ—e that which is his the Riches the Pâ—â—chase of his Redemption his Spirit is sent John 16.15 he sends him in the Fathers Name to take of it and to give it to â—is Râ—dâ—emed Repentance therefore being the â—urchase of the Reâ—emption of Christ he gives it as â—he Fruit of that Redemption and whence else should Repentance arise For except by vertue of the Redemption of Christ it were Created and Lorn with us It is noâ— in aâ—y Created Power to raise or to bring it forth That belongs to the all Creaâ—ing Power That Christ hath shored up the Moral Faculties so far as to preserve the possibilities of Repentance is Evident and to his Glory be it declared That by him the same motions and endeavours that Natural Conscience hath to Holyness and Righteousness before sin the same it hath to Repentance after sin and so even as in sinning so in not Repenting the Impenitent Sinner is most righteosly Condemned But even as a Man cannot exert nor put forth his Faculties to Holiness and Righteousness before sin without a Regâ—neration and new Creation even so can he not after sin either as it is habituâ—l in his Nature or as he is fallen by innumerable Actual Sins return by Repentance except by the speciâ—l Assistances of Divine Grace and Almighty Power For surely as nothing lies for ever in a state of nothing except an almighty moover gives Being from himself so Impenitency lies for ever in a state of Impenitency except an infinite Spirit of Grace give Repentance to â—ife which shews that mankind stands in no other state for Repentance than it does to Holiness and Righteousness There is that preserv'd in him that shews the goodness of both and moves him to both but how to Perform in either he finds not but as he is Assisted by Infiâ—ite Grace and by an Infinite Spirit And this shews Supremacy of Grace distinguishing between those to whom it gives Repentance unto Life and to whom it does not give even â—s it destinguishâ—s between those to whom it gives Regeneration Renovation new Creation to Holiness and Righteousness and to whom it does not give For except these even Repentance new Creaâ—n Regâ—nâ—raâ—ion were so by Christ communicated to our very Natures that every man had them by the very Grace of conâ—iâ—â—ing Creâ—tion except he Lost it for himself as Adam did Original Righteousness for himself and his Posterlty which no man will dare to assert it is so evident to the contrary else what is not never will be and what is at Rest will never move except an Almighty Mover give it Motion For though it is true the Engrafted Notions of Righteousness and Holiness first and then of Repentance in case of sin or Fall have a Residence in the very Spirit of Man or Human Nature except utterly quench'd by a Malice even Diabolical as in the sin against the Divine Spirit yet they cannot rise beyond themselves to true Repentance without a new Donation from God and Christ by the Holy Spirit and only shew the exceeding first Corruption and Degeneracy of Human Nature and aggravate Condemnation in that they reach not that end they should reach to nor indeed to their own utmost possibility but men are condemn'd and depriv'd of further Grace by not improving the Talent given to them so far as they indeed might But from all this it arises that the Supreme Mover in true Repentance is the Holy Spirit of Grace and if there be any appearance of Repentance that is not a Repentance given from the Divine Spirit it is not the Repentance to Salvation not to be Repented of but a semblance and Counterfeit only of it Now in this point I have been the larger be cause I had not before spoken to it I shall but just name thâ—se following because I have before comprehended them in former Particulars 2. The sense of our own lost condition without Repentance is generally the first motive to Repentance in which regard our Lord pronounces once and again except ye Repent you shall all Perish â—uke 13.3.5 Repent and turn your selves so iniquity shall not be your ruin Cast away your Transgressions make you a new Heart and a new Spirit for why will you Die Implying this as the great motive to Repentance that without it we must needs Die Ezek. 18.30 Acts 17.31 God commands all Men every where to Repent because he hath appointed a day wherein he will Judg the World The consideration of a Judgment to wit of Condemnation upon an Impenitent Person as one great motive to Repentance God is pleas'd therefore generally to usher in Repentance by a shaking an Earthquake in the Soul shewing it the Horrors of Wrath and eternal Punishment which is call'd

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