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A caueat for cold Christians. In a sermon preached by Mr. Paul Bayne ... Wherein the common disease of Christians, with the remedie, is plainly and excellently set downe for all that will vse it
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Obseru 5 or second exercise prescribed is repentance set downe by the effect of it doe thy first workes Now that against this sicke state he prescribes this remedie Repent we see what expels and heales all such matters in the soule viz. repentance This will helpe euery malady were a man sicke of the consumption of his lungs there were smal hope it is mors lenta but certa well languishing Ephesus euen in a soule-consumption is restored by repentance We see in nature euery part hath a faculty of expelling what is noxious and harmfull the lungs haue their cough the braine his sneezing and other excretions the stomacke will turne it selfe topsie turuie but it will bring vp by vomit that which offends Not to prosecute this in stead of all these and such like the soule of man in this condition wherein it contracts corruption hath this faculty of repentance put into it whereby it empties it selfe of all that which is offensiue But for the further edifying you in this point I will open two things first in what this practice stands secondly how we may excite repentance The act of repentance is a certaine determination which the vnderstanding makes and propounds Secondly in the turning away of the will from that sinne it lay in as now hauing it in abomination Thirdly in certaine affections and actions which the will now changed excites in vs. For first in repentance the mind apprehends and determinately sets downe thus much that we lie in a fearfull estate guilty of grieuous sinne the vnderstanding speakes these things within vs O we haue done foolishly what is it we haue done we are worthy to be cut off we haue sinned done wickedly peruersly Dan. 9. Ezech. 20. Ier. 6.8 1 King 8. Now while the vnderstanding speakes this in the soule the will perceiuing by her vnderstanding in what euill shee hath lien turnes it selfe away nilling and hauing in abomination the sinne it liued in What haue I to doe with Idols saith repenting Ephraim Hos 14 For looke as in the body not the presence of sicke matter but the sitrring of it so that nature begins to feele the malignancie of it this stirring is that which makes nature to fight with it and driue it forth so not the presence of sinne but when the sense of it is conueyed by this the vnderstanding speakes then the soules endeauour of turning it away is excited Thirdly the will thus abhorring it causeth certaine affections to arise as griefe indignation reuenge shamefastnesse 2. Cor. 7. Hebr. 12.28 Yea it commands certaine outward actions confession humbling our selues in fasting some as signes and testimonies some as meanes also further helping it For as after a medecine taken Physitians prescribe fasting sixe or eight houres more or lesse as the nature of things require and that to this end that the medecine may more effectually grapple with the matter to be expelled hauing no auocament so here we restraine meates and all delights for a season that the flesh may be more fully wrought vpon by the Spirit while the worke of the soule by these carnall auocaments is nothing hindred Now for exciting if hauing set before vs our sinne we feele not our hearts penitently affected then must we thinke how it is with vs in outward euils and take words to our selues saying Lord if I see any danger towards my body or estate sorrow will come before I send for it In default but of complement with man I can be ashamed quickly what Atheisme and hardnesse of heart is this that I canthinke of my sinnes against thee indangering my soule and that without griefe or blushing Thus hauing made this discouerie of the hard-hartednesse in vs Vse we must conscious of our owne inability looke to Christ who giueth repentance and pardon of sinne who takes away the heart of stone giuing vs hearts tender and fleshie If yet it rise not to our desire we need not feare this is the seed which will grow vp to that we wish in due time This then being thus that repentance is so soueraigne a medecine for all diseases of the soule how should we be inamoured with it what good reason haue we to hold it in high esteeme would not one account much of such a receit as taken in any bodily sicknesse were present remedie Againe Vse it must moue vs to the conscionable practice here enioyned seeing it is so beneficiall to the soule what will we not endure for our bodies the making them sicke with bitter potion incision yea cutting off if a member be putrified searing them in diuers parts with hot irons shall we goe thus farre for the good of the body and refuse the practice of this exercise for the good of our soules I may speake to thy impenitent breast as Naamans seruants spake to him about the cure of his leprosie Father if the Prophet had cōmanded thee a hard thing wouldest thou not hauedone it how much more seeing he saith Wash and he cleane If God had commanded thee a hard thing wouldest thou not haue done it to auoid damnation How much more must thou obey when he saith Be but grieued and condemne your sinnes your selues I will not condemne you Neither must they onely Vse who are priuie to greater sinnes as more mortall sicknesses repent them but we also seeing we all of vs though wee haue no such dead sicknesses yet we haue such corruptions as will breed vs bitternesse if we auoide them not by repentance if ye repent not you shall perish ye my disciples Men that are well how would it goe with them if neither by vrine nor siege they should get easement of such superfluitie as it to be expelled they would not long continue well So it is though we are well for grace shewed vs yet our soule daily contracteth and harboureth such matter which if we purge it not forth by renewed repentance we may assure our selues it will turne to some fearfull soule-sicknesse Let vs not be like such foolish ones who goe on in some disease rather then they will trouble the humour and disease themselues one day let things goe on with them till they are curelesse I know the diuell makes it seeme a painfull thing to leaue our delights to disquiet our selues and sit as Iudges condemning our selues within our selues A sluggard thinkes it intolerable to rise yet when he is vp he findes it not painfull so here But were it troublous is it not better to put thy conscience out of office by iudgeing thy selfe then haue GOD and thy conscience condemne thee eternally To conclude this point doe we catch any fall bodily but we will get vp againe though we rise from hand to knee and get vp but faintly O let vs be wise in the fals of our soules take heede to get vp by repentance againe Thus much of the practice of repentance Obseru 6 now for the effect doe thy first workes I obserue that sinne by repentance remoued our former
A CAVEAT FOR COLD CHRISTIANS IN A SERMON PREACHED BY Mr. PAVL BAYNE SOMTIMES Minister of Gods Word at St. Andrewes in Cambridge WHEREIN THE COMMON DISease of Christians with the remedie is plainly and excellently set downe for all that will vse it Iohn 15.9.10 Continue ye in my loue If ye keepe my Commandements ye shall abide in my loue AT LONDON Imprinted by Felix Kyngston for Nathanael Newbery and are to be sold at his shop vnder St. Peters Church in Cornhill and in Popes-head Alley right against the signe of the white horse 1618. TO THE WORSHIPFVLL HIS SINGVLAR GOOD FRIEND Mr. ROBERT CLAVERING Towne-Clarke of Newcastle all happinesse of a better life and this present SIr considering the good acceptance that some former few Sermons of that religiously-learned and learnedly-religious Diuine Master Paul Bayne haue had with the Church of God the ensuing Sermon lying hitherto by me I was without difficulty induced to make it publike For if I should longer conceale it what know I whether some body else who had not the like interest to it that my selfe haue might not preuent me in printing this as well as they haue done in publishing some other things of the like nature Moreouer looking into the carriage and frame of this draught I did not see how it could disparage any of the rest which are flowne abroad before it Lastly if we will ponder the subiect matter discoursed of in the following leaues I will permit it to any indifferent wise-hearted Christian Reader who vieweth the estate of the times and waigheth aduisedly what singular vice raigneth what especiall graces are ordinarily defectiue among Professors whether this Sermon vttereth not * Commoda accommoda profitable things and profitable things in their season For when respected Sir did the like wofull declining from the ancient feruor of our first loue so generally spread it selfe through all the quarters of our Iland He hath but halfe an eye who looking vp and downe beholdeth not that euery little nothing in zealous forwardnesse of profession seemeth for the most part very sufficient We will neither diligently prouoke our selues to liuely proceedings in the way of powerfull walking with God neither will we patiently endure others to outstrip vs and to aspire vnweariedly after the highest pitch of well doing This leauing our first loue this abatement of former light and heate in our Christian course is proued in the ensuing Sermon and reproued When was there so little minding and remembring whence we are generally not slidden but as it were fallen headlong When were there so few sincere and setled resolutions to repent of the euill of relinquishing our first loue a sinne wherein our land hath sinned besides all its other sinnes Alas the sanctified employment of our memories to consider whence we are fallen shame and confusion of face working true repentance that we are so fowlie fallen are strange things vnto vs although onely the exercise of these graces can raise vs vp to true happinesse in this life and in the next That we may set vpon these sauing practises wee are effectually called vpon in the fore-named Sermon So that as I formerly said it will I perswade my selfe proue both profitable and seasonable to the Christian Reader who hath a discerning spirit both what his owne wants are and how by this little booke some pretty supply may be affoorded him for his recouering Thus much why the Sermon is published a word or two Worthy Sir why by a more especiall inscription I haue dedicated it to your name First therefore I was moued hereto with an earnest desire to manifest further then euer yet I haue done the entirenesse of my dearest affections toward you who after our many yeeres comfortable louing and liuing together of late haue been remoued from me into those Northerne parts Not being therefore now able face to face to enioy the wonted sweet intercourse of speech and other friendlike offices I longed notwithstanding to tell you you were not so much out of mind as out of sight Secondly I desired that the dedication might befit the person remembring Senecaes counsell * Vtique cauebimus ne munera superuacua mittamus vt foeminae aut seni arma venatoria aut rustico libros aut studijs ac literis dedito retia Sen. de ben l. 1. cap. 11. we must take heede wee send not superfluous gifts as to a woman or old man hunting weapons or to a clowne bookes or nets to one following his studies and learning On the contrary to send a booke to a scholer or a Sermon to an experienced professor I cannot see but it will hold good proportion Thus not doubting but you will louingly receiue what was louingly intended I take my leaue desiring that hee who hath begun the good worke some yeeres agoe in you and hath made you graciously proceed hitherto euen hee the mercifull and true God would perfectly accomplish it vnto the day of Iesus Christ Yours in the surest bond EZ Ch. London 1618. A CAVEAT FOR COLD CHRISTIANS REVEL 2.4.5 Neuerthelesse I haue somewhat against thee because thou hast left thy first loue remember therefore from whence thou art fallen and repent and doe thy first workes AS a husband absent aduertiseth his wife by letter of that which is behoouefull so it pleaseth our Sauiour Christ absent in body though present in spirit to admonish his Spouse and this Church in particular by an Epistle sent to her In it we may obserue these three parts Three parts in the Epistle 1. The preface first the preface containing the persons written vnto and writing the one wee endorse on the backside of our letters the other we vse to subscribe after them Secondly the matter 2. The matter in which are three things in which three things are contained first because loue edifieth he beares her witnesse of the things commendable in her that his rebuke comming from loue might be better digested Secondly in this 4. verse he mentioneth that for which he had a saying to her that is to say that she was fallen from her first loue it was decayed in her Thirdly in the fifth and sixth verses hee prescribes a remedy in setting downe which he obserues this order first he sets downe a double practice which would restore her viZ. remembring her fall and repenting Secondly because the medicine is bitter and not easily taken hee shewes her the great perill the mortall hurt which will ensue if this be neglected Thirdly hee encourageth his patient shewing that yet there was a good signe that loue was not quite gone though it was in some sort lessened and enfeebled because she hated the workes of the Nicolaitans Thus with a bitter potion sending her a manus Christi Christ folding vp as it were a pill in gold that it might bee let downe the more pleasantly Hauing finished the matter Conclusion 3 he comes to conclude in which first by a solemne O yes hee makes