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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08772	The prentises practise in Godlinesse, and his true freedome Diuided into ten chapters. Written by B.P.	B. P., fl. 1608.; T. R., fl. 1608.	1608 (1608)	STC 19057; ESTC S120852	65,287	210

temptation be slackt Vndertake no waighty busines of thine owne or thy masters but with praier before that God would guide and speed thee in it Thinke not that thy praying will lose thee thy opportunity For time is neuer lost in praying vnto him that doth command the time Whatsoeuer hath beene vnto thee an occasion of sinne shun it as thou wouldest shun a most mortal danger Thinke no place to be without a witnesse of thy doings for a great part of wickednesse is left vndone if some body be by when one is about to cōmit it Frequent the company of the godly and auoid the conuersation of the wicked and prophane for continuall conuersation is of great force not only to make vs embrace the vertues but oftentimes also euen against our willes to imitate the vices of our companions Hence it commeth that we are alwayes taken for such as those are with whom wee doe ordinarily conuerse according to the prouerb His nature in his mate is showen Who cannot by himselfe be knowen Meditate often of death of the miseries of this life of the resurrection the iudgement and the ioyes of the life to come rather suffer euill then doe euill to any but neither speake euill nor listen to euill speakers Fall not easily at ods with any but continue at ods with none Follow thy God and Sauiours example in doing well vnto all men and endeuour to be like him in louing thine enemies Finally whatsoeuer things bee of good report or honest example those things thinke on and doe and the God of peace shall be with thee for euer These things howsoeuer they seeme vnpleasant and abhorring from our nature especially in our yong yeares yet if the Lord once infuse his grace into our hearts and renue our affections by the working of his spirit they will seeme sweet and easie and delightfull and we shal take more pleasure in doing of them then in any worldly or bodily exercise whatsoeuer All the matter is at first after a little vse all difficulty vanisheth At the first leaping into the water middle high one feeles intollerable cold ready to take away the breath but by that time he hath waded in further vp to the necke it seemes to be of a milder temper So religion and Gods seruice seemes harsh and tedious at the first entry into it but by that time we haue beene a while inured to the practise of it all other things are vnsauorie to vs and onely in this there is heauenly delectation To conclude this chapter remember that our feeling of the want of grace is a good step to the obtaining of grace Our desire to repent is the seed or kernell of repentance and being cherished will at length beare ripe fruites of a sanctified conuersation That howsoeuer the diuell and our owne flesh mooue vs to doubting yet God willeth not the death of a sinner that doth from the bottome of his heart turne vnto him nor shall our repentance be in vaine so it be true though our sinnes were as many for number as the drops of raine and as bloudie for their quality as skarlet is red Gods mercy is a rich mercy and his pardon is absolute without limitation or exception Finally that hearty and continuall prayer and such simple rules directions as I haue set down out of mine owne obseruation experience will prooue good helpes to the new Proselytes for the beginning and perfiting of their repentance CHAP. 9. IF any aske how hee shall know whether his repentance be true or no I answer by the change which eft-soones hee shall feele wrought in his whole man which is in a word the forsaking his former sinnes wherein he delighted and delighting in those good things which before hee despised Without this change there is no repentance Well we may flatter our selues and talke of repentance but we are yet in our sins and the Lords decree is still in force against vs. Well then wilt thou be not almost a Christian as King Agrippa but a true Israelite indeede like Nathaniel in whom was no guile renounce all thy olde sinnes and receiue in their places the vertues opposite to them and this shall seale vp to thy conscience that thy sinnes are forgiuen for his names sake Hast thou beene a swearer from henceforth feare the glorious and fearefull name of the Lord thinke not of it but with singular reuerence because his owne mouth hath said it He wil not hold him guiltlesse that taketh his name in vaine Answere me not as one did not long since being reproued for this sinne I am no such great swearer as you would make me It is but seldome that I sweare by GOD and by such such great othes for commonly the greatest othes that I sweare is but by my faith or troth and that I make account to be no such great matter and I pray GOD you neuer do worse and then you shall do well enough But make thou conscience of an oth aswell little as great for the Apostle alloweth of no oth at al Swear not all saith he neither by heauen nor by earth nor any oth lest you fall into condemnation But as our Sauiour saith let your yea be yea your nay nay for whatsoeuer is more is of the Diuell O but saith one the world is so full of vnbeleefe that except I sweare men will not beleeue me yea nay is nothing now a daies to sell my commodities by if I sweare not I shal not sell Why is that but because thou hast neuer made conscience of a lie but added an oth two or three sometimes to make a lie goe currant and peraduenture thy customers sometimes knowing that thou swearest falsly cannot beleeue thee another time though thou sweare truely But if thou wouldest sell thy wares take the counsell of the Apostle who willeth vs to cast off lying and euery one of vs to speake truth to his neigbour forasmuch as we are members one of another and so by vsing thy tongue to speake truth thou shalt be beleeued sooner vpon thy bare word then vpon thy many protestations and othes Carnall men wil sooner suspect thy swearing then thy plaine saying because they though they be such as cary a forme of ciuil honesty wil notwithstanding not stick to sweare a lie themselues to win some aduantage by and by their own fashion they iudge of thine So then swearing is a sin clothed neither with pleasure nor profit for what pleasure is there in a prophane frothy word spewed out of the wicked abundance of the heart or what profit when the thundring out of six or seuen othes one after another will not sell a yeard of stuffe or a pound waight of thy commodities so little account is made of them Besides in much swearing is oft forswearing as it is seen too often in our shops euery day For let a man come into some shops to cheapen a cōmodity they will sweare that they