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A19475	Andrewes resolution To returne vnto God by repentance. Directed vnto all the elect children of God, which truly repent, perfectly guiding them in the right way therein. Right godly to reade, as delightfull to heare, but most profitable to be practised. Newly published by Iohn Andrews, minister and preacher of the word.	Andrewes, John, fl. 1615.	1621 (1621)	STC 590; ESTC S115929	11,699	58

The Author to the Reader If thou dost read or hear this work Onely see thou doe this Haue care to mend thy euill wayes Now past and done amisse All those that still presume in sin Not minding to amend Dayly this Booke will witnesse be Reuengefull in the end Each day repent Oh still repent With speede I humbly pray Euen for his Sons sake Iesus Christ So sinne is washt away Anagramma Annon Iesu reades ANDREWES Resolution To returne vnto God by Repentance Directed vnto all the Elect Children of God which truly repent perfectly guiding them in the right way therein Right godly to reade as delightfull to heare but most profitable to be practised Newly published by Iohn Andrews Minister and Preacher of the Word LONDON Printed by Nicholas Okes 1621. The Contents of the booke 1 What Repentance is 2 God is the Author of Repentance 3 Of Contrition 4 Of Examination 5 Of Confession 6 Of Faith 7 Of the time when to repent These parts are al Authenticall and exactly comprised in a most short and compendious Method briefly to be read that it may be effectually practised ❧ TO THE RIGHT HONOrable Francis Lord Verulam Lord high Chanceller of England and one of his Maiesties most Honorable Priuie Counsell Grace Mercy and peace bee multiplied in this life and a Crowne of eternall felicity in the life to come RIght Honorable Although mā was made according to the Image of the Trinity that hee might attaine vnto the knowledge of the Deity yet by reason of sinne which so greatly abounds in this our last euill and declining age it is to be feared too too many are become so alienated and estranged from God haue so accustomed themselues dayly to commit wickednes that the sinne of the whole world is ready to come to maturity and to cry vnto the heauens for vengeance against vs. Wherefore that man should search himselfe that hee might see as in a looking-glasse the abhominable horror and crying of sin to the end that it might induce him speedily to returne vnto God by Repentance I haue therefore imboldened my selfe although vnknowne to dedicate these my poore and vnlearned labours vnto your learned View the which I haue intituled Andrewes Resolution shrowding it vnder your Patronage from the preiudice of contempt Thus my humble duty remembred I take my leaue desiring almighty God that these my labors may breath out such sound and godly doctrine that they may become a salue to cure preserue the soules of the Readers Your Honors in all Christian duty to be commanded Iohn Andrewes To the Christian Reader health in the Lord. Reade to gaine thereby Iudge indifferently Repent vnfeignedly Receiue instruction willingly Meditate thereon zealously Lest you enter into temptation carelesly Vale in Christo Iohn Andrewes First what Repentance is THere is no Doctrine in the Church of God more necessary thē the doctrine of Repentance and amendment of life neither doth the holy Ghost so much labour in all the Scripture as hee doth to beat repentance into mens heads It was not only the only Sermon which S. Iohn Baptist preached to prepare the way for Christ but also it was the first that euer was made it was preached by God himselfe to our first parents in Paradise euer since both the Prophets Apostles and many of Gods faithful Ministers haue preached Repentance vnto the people Yet notwithstanding many are so wedded vnto sinne and they are become so godlesse so gracelesse so rooted and fully resolued to liue therein y t the most part little vnderstand the Doctrine of Repentance and lesse practise the duty Many presume to describe it though few know it many can talke of it but few walke in it many speake of it but few feele it and many thinke they haue caught it when they haue but the shaddow of it because it is so slippery that few can hold it and so secret that many cannot find it it is hid from the world and reuealed vnto none but to the elect Children of God It is a worke that no men with their sine heads and deepe deuices can comprehend for the conuersion of a sinner is supernatural And whosoeuer doth or hath not felt in himselfe what repentance is shal bee dammed therefore hee that hath eares to heare let him heare and he that hath eyes to see let him see what Repentance is and withall bring this precept of the Philosophers with him Nosce teipsum Know thy selfe it is the first thing to be done in repentance and the beginning of all grace Repentance is a worke of grace arising of a godly sorrow from a true faith and knowledge of a mans own spirituall estate It is a constant turning of man in his whole life from all his sinnes vnto God it is an harty sorrow for sinne with amendment of life hauing a godly Resolution to sinne no more It is a most necessary thing for mankind it is the very supersedeas and discharge of sinne and the cause of vnity betweene God and man There is no other means to make peace betweene Christ and vs but Repentance No other to discharge sin nor course to auoyde hell but Repentance neither any way to winne heauen but Repentance and therefore Repentance is most necessary What wounded body would not seeke a salue much more what wounded soule slain with sin would not seeke Repentance seeing it is the onely salue to cure the soule It is an Ephod of purity and a defiled man may not weare it The dignity of it is great honorable and the Lord will not bestow it vpon an vnworthy person It is a magnificent guest and wil not come into a polluted Tabernacle It is an holy Sainct and will not dwell in the Synagogue of Sathan It is not to bee bought with siluer or gold nor to bée had from the gifts of Kings Popes or Potentates it is a thing of inestimable value it sheweth the attonement betweene the Sauiour and the Sinner and beeing gotten by Faith Prayer and hearing the Word of God it brings thee vnto Christ It is libera Donatio a gift absolute without consideration which God euer bestoweth vpon his friends vppon those that loue him It is called the Spirit of Burning therefore with spéede repēt that repentance may burne thy sinnes lest the fire of hell burne thy soule Esay 4. 4. The true Essence or nature of thy Repentance onely consisteth in turning from all thy sinnes vnto God and therefore it is not altogether deriued of the word Poenitentia because the Diuines say it doth not comprehend Totum Terminum a quo et ad quem from what and to whom thou must returne But this is the true Repentance which the Latins interpret by this word Resipiscentia or Conuersio w e is not onely the changing of the minde but it is Recessus a malo a forsaking of euill Accessus ad bonum returne vnto that which is good Reuertimini vsque ad me returne

as farre as vnto me Thou must not with Agrippa come w e almost for God delights not in those which will but almost repent but if thou wilt repent truely thou must carefully giue vnto God three things viz. Primam Lunam Rotam Solis Canis iram The first quarter of the moon COR The circle of the Sun And the rage of a dog And withall haue both a purpose in minde and an inclination in will and endeauour in life wholly to forsake all thy sins for euer and turne vnto God For better proofe that true Repentance is a turning vnto God thou maist finde examples in the holy Scriptures plentiously O ye children of Israel saith Esay turne againe frō al your infidelity wherein you haue drowned your selues Turne you turn you from all your euill wayes for why will ye dye O ye house of Israel Repentance may be called a worke of Grace yea a supernaturall Grace of a sanctified spirit arising of a godly sorrow from a true faith and knowledge of a mans owne spirituall estate I may call Repentance a worke because it seemes not to bee a quality or habite but an action of a Repentant sinner striuing to returne from all his sinnes to come vnto God and it cannot be practised by any but such as are in the state of Grace Thou must leaue all sin and turne wholly to God therefore to be contrite and not to conuert to conuert and not to reforme to forsake sinne past and not to amend to eschew euill and not to doe good and to acknowledge Gods mercy not to giue thāks is indéed not to repēt truly To doe one thing and to leaue all the rest vndone or to doe all but one and to leaue that vndone is to do nothing at all but to leaue all vndone is to put the Diuell out of one corner of thy heart into another For bee thou well assured that thy soule is a reall thing and cannot passe but by liuery therefore if thou wilt deliuer the whole possessō of thy soule vnto God by Repentance vnfeignedly thou must needes driue the Diuell out of all the corners of thy heart by amendmēt of thy life wholly Thou must resolue to leaue sinne fully and absolutely If thou begin to repent and goe not forward from Grace to Grace thy Repentance is of no value Non progredi est regredi Not to goe forward in thy Repentance is to go backward without thy amendment for there is no standing still in the state of sin if thou mind to repent Qui cessat esse melior cessat esse bonus He that ceasseth to bée better ceasseth to bée good but he that doth begin goe on to the end receiues his reward and this can neuer be obtained except thou repent truly To Repent consisteth but of two syllables yet vnto the wicked it is so hard to be learned and so vnapt to be practised that like as the Camelion can change himselfe into all colours sauing white so wold they change thēselues from all goodnesse to follow euil rather then to returne vnto the Lord by Repentance To conclude this point thou shalt no sooner repent but heauen shall bee confirmed vnto thee habendum et tenendum for euer and euer Secondly God is the Author of Repentance REpentance is libera donatio a gift absolute without consideratiō and it comes fréely from God who is the very efficient and principall Author or Donor thereof It is therfore to be held the more precious and to bee desired with the more hope yea to be thy Summum Bonum for it obtaineth Saluation vnto all those which truely repent and turne vnto God And hee that turneth vnto God by Repentance must first of all bee turned by God and so saith Ieremiah Ierem. 31. 19. Surely after I was conuerted I repented and after I was instructed I smote vpon my thigh I was ashamed yea euen confounded because I did beare the reproch of my youth And our Sauiour Christ saith No man can come vnto me except my Father draw him Therefore saith S. Paule Instruct them with meekenesse prouing if God will at any time giue them Repentance that they may be saued For God is good and mercifull vnto all those that turne vnto him by Repentance he is full of pitty and hath no pleasure at all that the wicked should die but is rich vnto all that call vppon him for mercy and hath promised to heare thy petitions if thou truely repent Furthermore if thou hadst repentance in thine owne power and mightest repent when thou wouldest yet it were but a folly yea it were a méere madnesse to presume in sinne because thou hast a remedy But now séeing thy repentance is in the hand of God and that none can repent without his especiall Grace it were a double and a treble folly to delay thy Repentance from day to day or to seeke it from any other but from God Thirdly of Contrition COntrition is a feare and inward sorrow of consciēce perceiuing that God is angry with sin is sorry that it hath sinned And to speake more largely of it thou maist know this y ● Contrition also comprehendeth first the knowledge of God requiring Obedience and discommending Disobedience and not to remit Sin without full and perfect satisfaction either in respect of obedience it selfe or else in respect of punishment Secondly the discussing and examining of thy Nature thy thoughts will affections and all thy actions and déedes according to the square and rule of Gods Lawes in euery point for as saith S. Augustine Peccatum puniendum est aut a te aut a Deo si punitur a te tunc punitur sine te si vero a te non punitur tecum punietur Sin must néedes bée punished either of God or of thy selfe if by thy selfe then sin is punished without thée if of God then thou and thy sin must bée punished together Therefore if thou wouldst repent with a true contrition that thereby thou maist reape a most plentiful haruest thou must sowe in Gods field y e séedes of Repentance and oftentimes water them w t the teares of thy humble Contrition so shalt thou gather the true fruits of euerlasting ioy and felicity For as y e déeper the woūd the more diligent the cure so let thy repentance bring forth as much sorrow as sin gaue thee delight And as S. Ambrose saith Expectat lachrimas nostras Deus vt profundat Pietatem suā God looketh for thy teares in thy Contrition that hée may powre downe his grace vpon thy amendment Lauandum est cor Poenitentiae lachrimis Thou must wash thy heart in the troubled Poole of Bethesda in the true tears of Repentance hauing an inward sorrow wrought by the holy Ghost for thy sinnes before committed against so good and gracious a God ioyned both with a perfect faith to bee forgiuen for Christ his sake and also from henceforth with a ful and determinate purpose to