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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05967	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	Baynes, Paul, d. 1617.	1618 (1618)	STC 1628; ESTC S101118	16,065	32

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

abilities are restored Euen as in nature when the actions of any part are hurt by this or that sicke matter hurting them take but away the disease the part will doe that belongeth to it as ably as euer so the soule once healed by repentance puts forth the powers of it selfe as it did before yea as they say a bone broken and well set againe is stronger then euer it was so Gods often mending the soule by repentance exceeds the former making of it This most blessed exercise of a broken spirit who can declare the vertue of it whether we looke at euils in the soule or in the body and condition It often healeth soule-euils so that there is no scar left in them of the wound receiued Peter a presumptuous man standing on comparison though al these leaue thee yet c. Peter so full of selfe-loue so fearfull of death that he denied his Lord and Master when now God had touched him with repentance mark how cleere he rose vp as it were from these cuils The night before he should haue been martyred he slept as soundly as if he had not been priuie to any such matter and when Christ asked him Doest thou loue me more then these Peter now had forgot his comparisons Lord thou knowest I loue thee So Dauid when God had now enlightened his darknesse after the matter of Vriah he felt such spirituall strength as if he could haue leaped ouer a wall or broken through an armie True it is that somtime when repentance is not in the more through degree but done by halues then it is as in bodily diseases which goe not cleane away but leaue the party neutrum conualescentiae that is not well but onely somewhat mending rather then fully restored This is doth in regard of soule-diseases that are entred but if wee feare their growing on vs then this practice followed is an excellent preseruatiue preuenting their entrance Now for bodily and conditionall euils this keeps them vsed in kinde that they befall vs not Achabs counterfeit repentance obtained no lesse Secondly it makes vs grow out of them if they haue seazed on vs. How did Iob now humbling himselfe in dust and ashes mount vp as it were with Eagles wings aboue all his clamities If the sentence touching outward euils be irreuocablie passed yet so it asswages and sweetens these crosses that wee haue peace in the middest of them and feele not so much disturbance from them As in Moses who might not enter Canaan in Dauid whose child was to die whose other calamities threatned were to succeed Vse This therefore may serue for a touch-stone to discerne whether our repentance be right or otherwise if we haue soundly repented wee shall finde it in our freedome from lusts which sometime troubled vs in our abilities spirituall and in the performance of our duties When by our repentant humiliation we grow of vngodly godly of intemperate sober of vniust iust of slothfull feruent in good duties then we may assure our selues that our sinne by repentance is taken from vs. Should wee see who had been feeble wasted now hauing taken physicke grow full of blood fleshie able to digest any thing strong to labour wee would not doubt but that his disease were fully remoued but that his medecine was right and effectuall so is that repentance right and that man healed by it to whom the workes of grace are now returned but if wee haue not fruits which accompany repentance then is our turning to bee suspected FINIS Errata Page 2. line 17. put out Christ p. 3. l. 26. for let r. viz. p. 10. l. 22. for meere r. new