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The penitent publican his confession of mouth. Contrition of heart. Vnfained repentance. An feruent prayer vnto God, for mercie and forgiuenesse.
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Collins, Thomas, fl. 1610-1615.
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Haue freed my soule from all her foule attaints Humbling my selfe may in Gods fauour raise me Weeping for sinne may him to mercy moue Beating my brest most sorrowfull displaies me Sighing and sobbing my hearts griefe approue Playning and praying may procure Gods loue His loue is life which causeth me to craue it And stedfast faith doth tell me I shall haue it Great wonder-worker worthiest worthie one By whose assistance Henocke walkt with God Thou that wert Abrahams righteousnes alone Thou that mak'st men moue mountaines like a clod Euen hâ—apes of sinne from of their old abode Thou pretious one proceeding from aboue Soule-sauing faith our euidence of Gods loue By which we doe his promises imbrace By which we apprehend Christs righteousnes By which we doe sinne death and hell deface By which we are assured of redresse If we repent and waile our wickednes By which our prayers are to God conuaid And without which all suppliants are gain-said Oh blessed faith my fortresse and my shield My onely comfort in calamitie Which dost resolue me I shall win the field And orecome Sathan my arch-enemie I le thanke my God for thee continually Cause t is his grace and goodnes that I haue thee Which art a signe he will in mercy saue mee Thou that art God of gods and King of kings Thou whom the Sun the Moone and Stars obay That fill'st the poore and hungry with good things And dost the rich ones emptie send away My soule shall magnifie thee day by day And all the powers that doe remaine in mee Shall onely praise and euer pray to thee For thou hast vow'd and that most solemnely As thou dost liue which art the life of all Thou dost not will those that doe wickedly And into many grieuous sinnes doe fall Should die the death but rather will'st they shall Returne and liue oh sweet and gracious Lord Which to thy foes saluation dost accord With Salomon I now see all is vaine Youth beautie strength health wealth and honor too Long life and all that doth on earth remaine And all that man with all of them can doo Onely thy word which worldly wights doth woe From earthly toyes to seeke for heauenly treasure Is to be lik'd and loued without measure Thou hast ordain'd a time to gather stones And eke a time wherein to cast away A time likewise thou giu'st vs wretched ones To laugh and sing a time to mourne and pray Most finde the bad few doe the best assay But oh teach me that long in sinne haue ioy'd To mourne and pray sinne may be now destroy'd Euen as a poppie that doth hang the head Or like a Bull-rush beaten downe with winde So I sur-chargd with sinne more sad then lead Looke carefully but can no comfort finde Yet faith and hope doe both perswade my minde That thou oh Lord wilt mercy haue on mee If I repent and rightly call to thee Thy holy prophets bid vs seeke thy face And that I take it is thy fauour Lord Thy louing kindnes mercy and thy grace Which are reuealed to vs in thy word Oh them seeke I to me do thou accord And let me finde them for in them doth rest All that I want to make me euer blest Lord I no presents no oblations bring Onely my selfe I offer vnto thee A broken heart is all my offering The which although it far vnworthy bee Yet Lord accept it for behold and see In true deuotion and in perfit zeale It prostrate here for mercy doth appeale I know right well thy Angels will reioyce And be full glad before thy maiestie To see thee heare a sinfull creatures voyce And in thy mercy cure my maladie Oh heare me then and daine to purifie My impure soule with thy pure spirit of grace For that 's the mercy that I would imbrace Like Naaman I am a Leaper Lord My soule and body both infected bee With filthy sinne yet if thou speake the word There will a wonder straight appeare in mee From all corruption I shall soone be free Yea and be cleaner then the Christall glasse And far more white then snow on Salmon was Abanah cannot nor yet Pharper cure me Nor all the waters in the world beside Onely true faith doth by thy grace assure me That if I take thy spirit for my guide And follow it I shall be purifide For by the same men are regenerate And from a bad borne to a blessed state As Dauid counsels Lord I come to tast How sweet thou art and how beyond compare Thy louing kindnes which for aye shall last And more theÌ„ mirh-sweet-smelling mercies are Oh pardon me although thus much I dare It is no proud nor yet presumptuous thought But t' is thy grace which this good worke hath wrought Which grace were it not super-aboundant Lord My all-abounding sinne would still keepe backe Me from obeying of thy blessed word And in this action it would make me slacke But thy good spirit supplieth what I lacke And at this instant doth inable mee To come to croutch to crie and call to thee For mercy Lord for mercy Lord I pray thee For mercy Lord I humbly do intreat thee I am a sinner oh do not denay mee Nor yet in anger either chide or threat mee Although I know thou hast iust cause to beat mee Yet mightie Lord for thy great mercies sake Send mercy downe and some compassion take On me vilde wretch and most vnworthy man The very worst that euer was created A sillie soule a sinfull Publican In whom no grace nor goodnes is innated Nor euer yet was truely imitated Vntill this houre in which thy spirit hath Taught me to pray thus to appease thy wrath Thou that dost ride vpon the Cherubins Thou at whose presence all the mountaines shake And hills doe melt oh pardon thou my sinnes And in thy vinyard me a labourer make Do so sweet Lord and for thy Christ his sake Oh let me haue the hire thou giu'st to all Though it be euening ere to worke I fall With the lost sheepe though I haue gone astray And wandered through the wildernes of sinne Lord let me not become a cast-away But by repentance let me pardon win And once againe good father take me in And from henceforth I le so obedient bee That thou thy selfe shalt take delight in mee Looke soueraigne Lord from thy celestiall throne Ah looke I say and with thy sacred eye See how my soule doth sorrow sigh and mone And what cumpunction there is inwardly In my poore heart which of thy maiestie Doth hourely beg that thou wouldst pardon mee Which oft haue sinned gain'st sweet heauen and thee Which oft haue sinned gain'st sweet heauen and thee And therefore hence-forth am vnworthy far Thy sonne oh Lord intituled to bee Or once bespoke of where thy seruants are Gain'st mercies gate my sinnes are such a bar That they keepe backe all heauenly benediction And yeeld me nought but shame and sad affliction Lo as a
THE PENITENT PVBLICAN HIS CONFESSION OF MOVTH Contrition of heart Vnfained Repentance And feruent Prayer vnto God for Mercie and forgiuenesse AT LONDON Printed for Arthur Iohnson dwelling in Paules Churchyard at the signe of the white Horse neere the great North doore of Paules Church 1620. TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE GRAVE VERtuous and Religious Lady the Lady Katherine Hastings Countesse of Huntington T. C. wisheth health and happines in this life and in the life to come Eternall felicitie IT may seeme somewhat strange vnto your Ladiship that I should thus presume to publish this my poore Penitent Publican vnder your Honorable protection yet in regard of your Ladiships Integritie of heart vnto God manifested by your most vertuous life and zealous loue vnto true Religion I am animated to aduenture him in the worlds view being shadowed vnder the shield of your sacred vertues which like the bright beames of Phoebus may Illustrate and giue a long life to this my illiterate litle-worth labour which wanting your fauorable reflection might without regard For Madame I am not ignorant that Enuie attends vpon all good attempts Ismael will scoffe and mocke at Isaack euen in Abrahams house and Shemy will reuile Dauid to his teeth and therefore the godlie in these dayes may well say with holy Iob my soule is cut off though I liue Iob the 10. and 1. verse The righteous as the prophet speaketh are most despised for let Elisha goe vp to Bethel and euen the little children will call him Bald-pate and so he that labours to liue vprightly and to keepe the true path he is accounted precise and called a Puritan the consideration whereof makes manie men that would be feruent to be fearefull and like Peter to follow a far off and rather to denie him that died for vs then to the face of his enemies affirme that we knowe him such is the times impietie and our infirmitie that we are easily intreated to retire from any godly action or good intention And with Demas quickly drawne to abandon God and imbrace the world yea euen this vild vaine world which many excellent wise and worthy men haue most fitly compared vnto a sea of glasse of the which S. Iohn speakes Reuelat. the 4. and the 6. verse for it is both so slipperie and so vncertaine so full of troubles tempestious waues one wallowing vpon the necke of another that it is high time for vs to say with the Disciples Maister saue vs or else we perish Mathew 8. and the 25. verse for so small is our faith that we soone faint especially in Gods affaires Yet wee seeme vnto men as though wee were both so constant and so confident in God that we might say with Iob Though he kill mee yet will I trust in him Iob. the 13. and the 14. verse But alas if we do behold but a litle persecution lay hand vpon our profession for feare of the one wee are readie to flie from the other Forgetting the charge that Saint Paul giues vnto Timothie Fight the good fight of Faith and lay holde of Eternall life Timot. the 6. and the 12. verse Wee are not onely cold in loue but also carelesse in Religion For like the readie yet recanting sonne some say they wil come into Christs congregation but come not others say they wil not come yet they do but it is at the end of the day before they will drawe neere And long doth Wisedome crie in the streetes before she can call them together to goe to the Tabernacle and returne to the Lord who by his Prophet Ezekiell makes this proclamation Ezek. the 18. and the 23. verse Haue I any desire saith hee that the wicked should die or shall hee not liue if hee returne from his owne wayes And againe in the 31. verse of the same chapter he saith Cast away your trangressions wherewith you haue transgressed and make you a new heart and anew spirit for why will yee die oh yee house of Israel Nay more hee promiseth by the same Prophet in the 34. and the 16. verse I will seeke that which was lost and bring againe that which was driuen away and builde vp that which was broken and will strengthen the weake wherby we may see that the Lord would haue none to be lost but with the penitent Publican to confesse our sinnes and to reforme our selues and according to the counsell of Saint Peter in his 2. chap. and 1. verse laying aside all maliciousnes all guile and dissimulation all Enuie and euill speaking as new borne babes let vs desire the sincere milke of the word that wee may growe thereby from vertue to vertue and from grace to grace vntill we be come perfit men in CHRIST IESVS which wee can neuer be vnlesse with the Penitent Publican we doe truely humble our selues before the Almighty and vnfainedly craue mercie and remission The which that we may the more be animated vnto I haue here though but in a homely habit set him to be a patterne of true penitence to all such persons as haue any desire to imitate him in prayer and repentance by whose example if any be incited as I hope there shall to confesse their sinnes and craue pardon for the same let them first giue glorie vnto God by whose holy aide I did indite it and then thankes vnto your Honour vnder whose protection I haue presumed to publish it that it may thereby as with a buckler be defended from the venemous tongues of the Enuious And thus with my most humble and hartie praiers vnto the Almightie for your Ladiships long life and prosperitie I ende this 6. of Iulie 1610. Your Honors most humblie deuoted Thomas Collins To the Reader whosoeuer MVch to insert and make too long a matter As an Apologie for my Publican Were as on fire-lesse Fuell to cast water And shewe my selfe a sence-besotted man Then as it is accept it or reiect it For cringing Complements I list not vse I know the wise and vertuous will affect it The rest I care not though they it refuse Pebbles are fitter then rich Pearles for swine For both alike th'eyle trample in the mire The Gordian knot is easier to vntwine Then bring bad men good matters to desire But you deuout ones of diuiner spirit Doe you my labour with my loue inherit Yours euer most vnfainedlie T. C. THE PENITENT PVBLICAN ON bended knees and with a broken heart Eyes cast on earth hands beating of my brest I come to act a penitentiall part Before th' almightie who is pleased best With sinfull soules when they are thus addrest In whose dread presence caitiffe that I am Prepared thus till now I neuer came Knees euer bow and standing beare no more Eyes euer weepe and nere be drie againe Hands beat my brest and make it euer sore Heart neuer cease but sigh and sob amaine Tongue euer pray and for my sinnes complaine Till teares blowes sighs sobbs prayers and complaints