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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

amend and leade a new life Fourthly of Examination BEfore thou confesse thy sinnes vnto God thou must take heede to examine thy selfe that thereby thou maist know them both in greatnesse and danger for vntill thou know thy sins that thy conscience may be conuicted by them thou canst neuer humbly hartily confesse them For let any repentant sinner aske his conscience what was the first cause of his conuersion and surely he will say That when hee began to repent he did first search himselfe and finding his wayes dangerous and his cause feareful did therevpon resolue to take a new course It is the beginning of all grace to search trie and examine thy selfe It is also a meanes to preuent Gods iudgement for if thou doest not search thy selfe then God will search thee with his fiery crosses and terror of his punishments But if thou truely examine thy selfe first to bee guilty of Adams sin Secondly prone by Nature to all euill Thirdly subiect to the curse of Gods wrath Thus in the guiltinesse of Adams sin sin hath his beginning in the originall his continuance and in actuall his full perfection So answerable thereunto is the wrath of God it beginneth by leauing thée by nature vnto the slauery of Sathan it is continued by death and accomplished by damnation Now these three rules I leaue to thy carefull consideration assuring thée from God thou canst neuer bee saued vnlesse thou repent nor neuer repent except thou doest search trie and examine thy selfe Thus if thou wilt repent truly thou must search and looke into thy selfe to see in what a miserable case thou art as I haue said before and thou shalt find that by nature thou art the child of wrath out of the fauour of God not onely wretched and accursed by the Law a bond-slaue vnto Sathan but finally subiect to death hell and damnation Thus if thou wouldst know if thou art in the right way of repentance or no thou shalt finde if thou consider in thy selfe whether thou hadst euer any neede of Gods pardon for thy sinne or of Christ his blood to salue and cure thy soule Or was thy heart euer wounded or grieued for thy sin so that thy soule were euen sicke with the stinke thereof Or didst thou euer hunger and thirst after God in Christ and with sighes groanes and teares beg for his mercy vpon thy knees as for life and death If thou hast not felt nor done these things in some measure surely thy case is very fearefull and dangerous y u art not yet in the way of Repentance therefore as yet the mercies of God belong not vnto thee Fifthly of Confession SAint Chrysostome saith that nothing pleaseth God more then Confession if it be ioyned with true contrition and that it is a part of Humiliation euer ioyned with true Repentance because they cannot bee truly humble repent who confesse not their sins vnto God neither will he giue them pardon for God couers when men vncouer and acknowledge he iustifieth when men condemne themselues and flye vnto him for mercy If any plead vnto God Non est factum and deny his deedes and debts of sinne there is no reason why he should haue the Acquittance of Grace Therefore saith Salomon He that hideth his sins shal not prosper but hee that confesseth them and forsaketh them shall haue mercy If thou confesse them effectually it wil cause thee to weepe like Mary Magdalen wrastle with God like Iacob and poure forth flouds of teares like Ezechia Thou must cōfesse thē in this or such like manner First y u must put vp an inditement against thy selfe and accuse thée before God wherin thou must acknowledge both thy particular vnknowne sins generally without any excuse extenuation or defence in hiding the least of them An example thou maist finde in Dauid I know my iniquity is euer before me Secondly y u must w t griefe of heart as a Judge vpon y e Bench giue sentence against thy self acknowledging thy vnworthinesse by reason of thy sinne to haue deserued euerlasting damnation as the Prodigall child did who said Father I haue sinned against heauen and before thee Or the Publican who standing a far off would not so much as cast vp his eyes vnto heauen but smot his breast crying Lord bee mercifull vnto me a sinner Thou must also accuse thy sins thy very conscience must witnesse against them and thy heart conuince them thou must accuse them first as strangers deiected secondly as aduersaries conuicted and thirdly as enemies professed In so doing saith Augustine when thou accusest thy selfe by confessing thy sins vnto God thou preuentest thereby the Diuell of his purpose so that hee cannot accuse thee at the day of Judgement For saith hee thou blottest out all thy sinnes by Repentance Where there is no accuser there is no crime produced for the Judge to cōdemne For Eius quod non est non est poena peccatum remissum non est ergo peccati remissi non est poena That which is not hath no punishment forgiuen sins are not ergo forgiuen sins haue no punishment And so saith the Author to the Hebrewes 10. 18. Leo saith that those sins shall neuer bee condemned which are purged before with confession and Repentance Neither is Jesus Christ any longer thy Judge to condemne thee but thy Aduocate to plead for thee if y u accuse thy selfe by confession Therefore confesse thy sins vnto God without any excuse or delay For it is another manner of thing to repent then many take it for It is not euery sob or sigh that brings Repentance God is mercifull c. And thus lightly dawbe them ouer as though Gods mercy were to be gained in a moment Let no man deceiue himselfe it will cost thée many a praier and many a teare in thy confession before thou canst haue pardon for thy sins If thou diddest feele the smart of sin but pricke in thy wounded conscience y u wouldst neuer giue God any rest but like Dauid crye vnto God againe againe vntill thou hast found some comfortable perswasion of Gods mercy in Christ for the forgiuenesse of thy sins Untill thou doe thus thou shalt neuer finde any quietnesse in thy conscience nor any sound comfort of Gods Spirit in thee Dauid could neuer repent vntill God sent Nathan vnto him to reprooue him for his sin but so soone as hee saw his sin and that it was not onely cōmitted against Vriah but also against God it presently so woundes his conscience killed his poore heart and so grieued his soule that hée cryed out in his conscience Against thee O Lord against thee haue I sinned c. As if he would haue said Oh my God it grieues me exceedingly and wounds my very soule that euer I was so vile a sinner as to sinne against thee O my most gracious and merciful God Therefore the only way to repent is from the bottome of thy heart in thy conscience to

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