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A09595	A sommon to repentance Giuen vnto Christians for a loking glasse, wherin we may behold our owne deformities, and therein and thereby, we are not onely forewarned of our destructions, but we are learned to humble out selues in these dangerous dayes of wickednesse, before the throane of Gods mercy, that wee maye not be preserued from the lake of damnation, in the great and notable day of Christs comming to iudgemente. Published by J.P. student of Cambridge.; Summons for repentance	Phillips, John, fl. 1570-1591.	1584 (1584)	STC 19875; ESTC S105036	35,560	70

and 〈◊〉 of vs as it ought to bee for as we enter into contempt of his graces l●…uinge carelessie as men carnallie and worldelie affected so loath 〈◊〉 Christ JESUS so cont●…e wée in our actions as lip labourers the Gospell of hys grace and therewithall wee despise Manna I meane the Spirituall Lambe that f●…th with hys blessed fleshe and 〈◊〉 with his guiltelesse bloode o●…re hungrie soules The which thing to consider is a thing of all thinges most lamentable and miserable requiring for our deserued contempt deserued punishment But is this all No though we be christians by name we are contrarie to Christ in deede wee pro●…esse him carnallie with wordes but our hearts are alienated and far of him we are busie talkers of his gosgell but we are ashamed to be ●…arnest walkers after his heauenlie will we liue lasciuiouslie prodigallie and wantonlie we that were contracted to Christ in our newe regeneration are nowe wedded to our owne vntamed lusts and straieng affections we that had vowed by an inuincible faith to take our rest in Christ Iesus haue giuen our consents to Sathan as the enimies of the lambe and are ●…ulled fast a sleepe in the sinfull cradell of our owne securities And thus as people past grace we are become wilfull truce breakers of his holie commandements contemners of his blessed co●…enant periu●…ed people and creatures falslie forsworne forgetting our newe birth and bearing againe to God through grace in Christ Iesus who hath made the attonement for our ●…ffences appeased the furie of our creator canceled the bond of our gu●…tie trespasses and bro●… a sunder yea eu●…n to verie péece meale the seale of our condemnation which we deseruedly had heaped vp vnto our selues and that most worthelie by the reason of our to mani●…old sinnes and wickednesses but as we forget these his great and inestimable rich graces so d●… we also cast from our memories for the most part his bloodie death and painefull passion the triumphant conquest that hée hath made for our sinnes on the crosse The sharpe and most 〈◊〉 battle that he fought for vs against the world sinne death sathan and all the power of hell is of vs nothing at all remembred and yet we will be christians by externall profession and outward shewe when as within we are full of all filthines and repugnant to Christ but the greater shall bee our plagues in the daie of desolation Thus as we perseuer and go forward in the waies of our vncleannes soyling our selues both in bodie and soule with the blemishes of our corruption and as it were vtterlie despising of his celestiall graces and contemning of his 〈◊〉 ●…orments y ● he su●…ed on the crosse for our iniquities so like shaml●…s Ep●…ures and bea●…lie b●…lly gods we abuse his terrestriall giftes and benefites Measure is s●…ldome or in anie place obserued Ryot euerie where and in all places ruffleth as maister of misrule Sobrietie is forsaken drunkennesse imbra●…ed H●…militie is cast downe arrogancie aduaunced Uertue is defaced monstrous vice flourisheth Chastitie is disdained incontinen●…ie esteemed Truth is oppressed ●…atterie vpholden Simplicitie is banished 〈◊〉 well welcommed A golden meane is vtterlie vanquished Coue●…ousnesse hath gotten the preheminence Charitie as conuinced quaketh hir ●…oints are benummed with colde Crueltie is wrapped in his furres Liberalitie is not able to stirre for lamenesse an inmeasurable nigardise hath neither left him handes to distribute to the poore ●…eete to go to the sicke nor yet eies to beholde the indigent Hospitalitie is verie faint and so ●…eeble that he ●…are not peepe abroade nor be seene and all by the reason of pro●…igalitie who I feare me hath 〈◊〉 him to the death True friendshippe a-amongst mortall men is neglected dissimulation is so deepelie harboured almost in the hearts of all estates and degrees Just dealing is an outcast bribes are taken to betray the innocent Neighborli●… loue is no more thought vpon God is greatlie dishonoured Mammon is highlie worshppied and to conclude enui●… hatred wrath oppression and the filthie fruits of all vncharitablenesse reigneth generally in all places ages of this our last time ●…las what a whirlepoole of wickednesse doe wee continue in What a filthie sincke of Sodomitrie doe we wallowe in What a perillous puddle of vncleannesse and corruption doe we plunge our selues into of a set purpose Or into what a stincking channell of all kindes of impieties determine wee to cast ourselues headlong Is God delited thinke we with these o●…r outragious sins wil he be pleased with vnsauery cockle in the day of the great mighty haruest when he looketh for good perfect wheat Will we giue him course branne when ●…e commeth for fine flower O what shal become of vs then Uerilie we shall lose the diademe of life the eternall crowne of glorie t●…e comfortable fruission of his glorious pre●…nce and be throwne as most miserable outcasts to the dungion of hell wherewith Sathan and his angels we shall be tormented euerlastinglie Let vs therfore euerie one of vs from the highest to the lowest whilest we hau●… time enter into our owne consciences and by a deepe and earnest confidence of our selues let vs behold diligentlie whether we doe those things that God commaundeth we should doe or whether we leaue them altogither for the most part of vs vndone and then when that we find feele our imperfection to be such and so great that we cannot perform that thing which God by his word and will hath tied and bound vs vnto let vs not cease by the in●…ocation of his holie and blessed name to craue and desire the assistance of his holie spirit with humble and contrite hearts that by the effectuall and liuelie working thereof we may inde●…or our selues to walke in the light to shun the darkenesse of death to liue as it becommeth godli●… affected christians to ●…ast of the olde Adam and to cloth our selues with Christ the newe and heauenly Adam and then his grace shall supplie our wantes his righteousnesse shall couer our imperfections finne death and hell shall die in vs and we shall liue to him by whose blessed merites we are sanctified for euer and euer But if wee will harden our harts in our wickednesses and stande vp in our sinnes against the Lord as our forefathers haue done that wilfullie rebelled against his maiestie we shall not onely with them in●…r his heauy displeasure but sodeinly with his mightie arme be confounded in the imaginations and deuises of our owne harts Let vs see what God requireth of vs his creatures First aboue all other thinges hee hath giuen vs an especiall charge to serue honor worship prai●…e and glori●…e his holie nam●… and as God is truth so looketh he to be worshipped of vs in spirite and truth solely onelie and alone neither may wée giue or attribute that praise honour and reuerence that to him belongeth to anie other

adulterer learne to giue ouer his beastly whoredome filthy fornication Let the drunkard y ● glorieth in his corrup●…on forget giue ouer his vnresonable quaffing Let y ● gréedy landlord indeuor to forbeare the practise of pouling his poore tenant to conclude let vs all ingenerally frō the hiest to the lowest of vs come before y ● Lord our maker with humble contrite harts Let vs wéepe waile cry out morne biterly for our sins then the Lord our God in y ● fulnes of his mercies wil heale our offences cleanse vs frō our sins purge vs frō our iniquities and wash vs from our wickednesses in y ● blod of the lamb yea the Lord our God wll become vnto vs a shelter a shield against all our enimies yea he wil fight for vs against al those that maliciously seke to assaile vs he wil turne towards vs his gratious countenance continue our peace blesse our anointed Debora our virgin Quéene y ● handmaid of the lord continue hir highnes helth to our cōforts conuert or else vtterly confound the power of al hir enimies forren domestical blesse our land spare vs frō those plagues y ● we haue most righteously deserued at the last when it shal plese him to cal vs vnto an account reckoning of our bailiwéekes and stewardships before his tribunal thron we shall stand before him in innocencie holines of life here him pronounce to our endles comforts this hapie sentence Come you blessed of my father enter into y ● kingdome prepared for you from the beginning of the world To the which most gratious God louing father mercifully conduct vs for thy sonne Christ his sake to whom with thee the holie Ghost the spirit of all truth vnitie and concord thrée person one eternall and euerliuing God be rendred all laud glory honor praise power and dominion for euer Amen FINIS The 〈◊〉 of Godmigh●… s●…ir vs vp to 〈◊〉 and newn●…s of life The inn●…cent 〈◊〉 of Christ is the tood of the soule and his guitles blood the drinke spiritual that quencheth the thirst of the faithfull Onely by 〈◊〉 in Christ Jesus we are deliuered from the 〈◊〉 of hell and 〈◊〉 if we 〈◊〉 constantly Gods temporall blessings are giuen vs 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 without our 〈◊〉 for the nourishment of our carnall bodies 〈◊〉 w●… cont●…ne the spirituall foo●… of our soules so do●… we abuse these his tem porall bles●… heaping 〈◊〉 vnto our 〈◊〉 vengeance in the day of 〈◊〉 We are verie readie talkers of Christ and his gospell but we are ouer ●…ll and slow walkers after his wil. We haue forsaken Christ and giuen our consents to sathan as peo ple past grace and falsly forsworne neglecting our spirituall begetting to God through Christ. As we ●…orget the rich graces that our ●…ng God in Christ Iesus hath bestowed 〈◊〉 vs so for the most part of vs do we cast from our memories the spiritual conslict that he hath fought for vs. As we abuse his 〈◊〉 ●…races so 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 d●…spise we h●…s 〈◊〉 bene●…ts Mon●…rous sinnes r●…gning in co●…nterfait christian●… Charit●…e forg●…ten cr●…lty 〈◊〉 Hospit●…litie murthered by 〈◊〉 True friendship banished by ●…tion God by the exercise of our outragious sinnes is greatly dishonored Sinne pla●… vs by these our 〈◊〉 acti●…s vnto the bottomles take of perdition The Lord of the har●…st commeth ●…or wheat he wil not be pl●…sed w●…th the c●…kle of corruption Euery one o●… vs o●…ght to examine our selues dilige●…tlie whether we doe those things that God hath 〈◊〉 vs or whether we doe them not at al and when we finde our imperfections to be such that we canno●… doe that we shold let vs not cea●…e to cra●… assist●…nce of ●…ur 〈◊〉 father by 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The righteou●…nes 〈◊〉 our sa●…or Christ shal ●…ouer our imperfections if we beleeue and sin death and hel shal die in vs and wee shall liue for euer Note what thing God requireth of vs his cr●…tures The Lord our God is without beginning and ende If we will worship the Lorde our God we must walke before 〈◊〉 in inno●… The 〈◊〉 of the proude Phara●…cs ought not to receiued of godly affected c●…ristians 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 we m●…st d●…re of God for Christ ●…is sake to be made new●… do●…gh The holie Ghost is the director of the faithfull into all truth False teachers are the ministers of ●…than Christians ●…ust go for●…ard from vertue to vertue Christ will 〈◊〉 our 〈◊〉 heard and we shalbe the 〈◊〉 of his ●…sture Oc●…sions to ●…ue vs to the worship●…ing of God Note and consider ou●… frowardne●… against the Lorde our God The fruits of 〈◊〉 neglected 〈◊〉 are worshippers ●…f God with o●…r externall 〈◊〉 but our ●…rts are far from him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 m●…n desir●… 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 innocent 〈◊〉 A comparison betwixt the flesh and the soule Bodie and soule through ●…nne detested in the cies o●… the Lord. All men haue erred and 〈◊〉 astraie in the sight of the ●…rd no good nesie among the sonnes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The cōming of Christ to iudgement from our memories The 〈◊〉 of the flesh 〈◊〉 and not subdued Who continueth the battel against the world the fleshe and sathan vnder the standerd of Christ Iesus The paines that Christ hath suffered on the crosse for our redemption can not pearce our flintie harts The seruants of sin continue their wickednes the seruants of christ are make and ●…umble 〈◊〉 broken and brused h●…t is 〈◊〉 sacrifice acceptable to God Repentance grounded on a 〈◊〉 saith is sathans 〈◊〉 and ouerthrow Christ calleth sinners to repentance The compas●…on and pitie that Christ extendeth to the vnfeined 〈◊〉 De●…y ●…eth 〈◊〉 deferring of r●…pentance br●…geth Gods indig●… The 〈◊〉 of christ Ie●…us Christ Iesus is the heauen lie 〈◊〉 and Phisician of our soul●… We are 〈◊〉 Samaritanes The great mercies of Christ set foorth ●… comfort and strengthen our ●…bicilities We are called now to coin to Christ put it not of til to morrow Christ g●…th about to couple and ioine v●…to himselfe the faithfull 〈◊〉 God the lord of time will not be tied to thy appointed morrowe come nowe therefore ●…ith thou art called We 〈◊〉 consider the ioies of heauen nor yet dread 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 torment●…s 〈◊〉 ●…ell 〈◊〉 We are di●… caled but we haue made deaf our 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 ●…ur ●…arts in such sort that woe will not heare nor conceaue the voice of the caller Neither can g●…ds merci●…s nor his com●…inations driue vs to amendment of our liues Though Christ be reddie to 〈◊〉 vs yet we wil not come to him We are erthly minded and not spirituallie affected Wordlie honor is more desired then heauenly glorie The treasures of this world are set by before the celestiall treaures of Chistes kingdome 〈◊〉 thing most dangerous to 〈◊〉 The 〈◊〉 of Adam hath polluted our consciences and the taste of the forbidden apple 〈◊〉 still 〈◊〉 o●… mouths ●…ll f●…re of God is ●…anished from our memories Noah

for the Lorde ou●… God is a great a mightie and gelou●… God his wisedome is 〈◊〉 and his kingdome hath no ende the scepter o●… his seate is a righteous sc●…pter and his dominion shall indure for euer This our God was and is without beginning and ending and this our God in puritie and holinesse must be worshipped of vs from the beginning of our ●…ais euen to the finishing and ending of our liues for gratious is the Lord our God and his truth shall continue for euer Let vs therefore if we will w●…ship the Lord our God truelie walke before him in innocencie continu●…llie stand in aw●… of his displeasure humble our selues with reuerence before the throne of his grace co●…e before his presence with ioie and 〈◊〉 shew our selues glad in him with psalmes and alwaies and euer let vs speake good of his name ●…r he by his wisedome of nothing hath ●…ade all things the seate of our God is ●…e glorious heauens he sitteth betwene 〈◊〉 Cherubins his chariot is the wings 〈◊〉 the winds and the whole earth is his ●…otstoole and other gods besides this our ●…od there is none his name be blessed ●…aised for euer euer If we will wor●…ip this our God namelie the Father ●…onne holie Ghost three persons in tri●…itie one onlie God we must ●…denor 〈◊〉 cast away far from vs the lothsom lea●…en of the proud pratling Pharasies that ●…asted of their owne righteousnesse and ●…stification and wée must earnestlie ●…ire of God and that vnceasantly with ●…mble and contrite harts that wée may 〈◊〉 made new dough that is that our con●…ences our minds soules may be tho●…wly seasonned with the most pr●…ious ●…me of his grace by the power wherof ●…rough Jesus Christ the comfortable ●…iding of the holy Ghost we may be di●…ed into al truth therin by his proui●…nce we may be so stronglie confirmed ●…at neither the temptations of sathan the sinfull suggestions of the fleshe 〈◊〉 pollicies of his disceaueable minister that are possessed with the spirit of lie●… teaching their owne traditions contr●… rie to Christ neither yet the vaine a●… fading corruptible pleasures of thi●… worlde may be able to preuaile to wit●… drawe vs from the worship of our Go●… but that we may as it becommeth godl●… and true regenerate children perseu●… and go forwarde from vertue to vertu●… and constantlie continue with clea●… harts vndefiled consciences and purifi●… soules in the blood of our sauiour the se●… uice of our God and then he will beco●… our shepherd and we shall be the sh●… of his pasture he will remaine our gra●… ous and louing father and we shal be th●… children of his blessed inheritance th●… which our Christ hath purchased for 〈◊〉 those that beleeue with the prise of h●… hart blood If we will worship God w●… must loue him bicause he is the founta●… of loue and loued vs from the beginni●… euen when we were his enimies F●… what loue could be greater than this 〈◊〉 ●…at he gaue his onelie begotten sonne ●…hrist Iesus to suf●…r for our sakes al the 〈◊〉 that could be deuised to beare 〈◊〉 our sakes being forlorne for our sins ●…he altogither holy innocent the heauy ●…rthen of his fathers displesure ther●… we beleuing stedfastly in him to make 〈◊〉 that were the children of death the ●…ires of life and saluation O inestima●…e loue and aboundant kindnesses gran●…d vs frely without our deserts through ●…ace in Christ Iesus euen when wee ●…ere the children of damnation and the ●…rie fire brands of hell who for this his ●…ceeding loue and grace would be so vn●…nd but to loue him againe that for all ●…ese his bountifull bestowed benefites ●…ueth nothing at our handes but that ●…e loue him as he hath loued vs conti●…allie and that without feining Naie ●…ho forgetteth not this his great loue ●…d recompenseth him that hath loued 〈◊〉 with monstrous ingratitude Who ●…orshippeth him in hart and mind as he commanded nay who prophaneth not ●…s honor and ●…lorie Who is chedient to his blessed wil heauenlie ordinan●… Naie who impugneth not his statutes breaketh not his commandements 〈◊〉 these the fruits of gods glorio●…s 〈◊〉 that he requireth at our hands Do 〈◊〉 we are commanded Do we our 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to ●…oath adorne our selues 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 o●… his holy name or by 〈◊〉 hearing of his heauenly word with 〈◊〉 spirituall Adam Christ Nale do we 〈◊〉 ●…ather deuise to re●…est couer our 〈◊〉 with the transgressions of our olde 〈◊〉 rentes to the co●…demnation of our 〈◊〉 dies and soules eter●…ally Thu●… throu●… the hardnes of our harts that worship●… God with our lips and denie him in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 y ● 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and mightie in all abhomination read●… to 〈◊〉 the worke●… of 〈◊〉 leaue the worship ●…f our God to ser●… our 〈◊〉 aduersarie 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Thus our innocent soules the 〈◊〉 rie and tr●…●…age of God is by the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of our ●…dies w●…nded 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to ●…ternall dea●… she mourn●… 〈◊〉 but who rega●… 〈◊〉 soul●… 〈◊〉 The outwa●…de man is gi●…en to pleasure and ease The soule is ●…inched with penurie and paine and ne●…er can haue rest The soule through ●…he actions of the fleshly m●…nded man is ●…isgarnished of the vesture of gods grace ●…hough the man of sinne be pranked vp ●…n menstrous pride The flesh is stout and sturdie the soule is saint and feble The flesh is lustie and healthie poasting ●…fter pleasure The soule is sicke and so●…owfull for want of the feeling of gods ●…race The flesh is affected to all kinds of ●…niquities and therby the soule is dange●…ously wounded with transgression so ●…hat both body and soule is become most ●…onstrous in the eies of the Lorde our God and al bicause we will not learne t●…●…orship him nor to walke in his waies ●…ut who is he y ● considereth these things ●…aie who is not rather delighted to worke wickednes to do euil in the sight ●…f the Lord our God Uerily all haue 〈◊〉 from the highest to the lowest and 〈◊〉 be short God hath from his dwelling ●…lace looked down to the face of the earth and knoweth that there is no goodnesse among the sons of men who hasteth the to shroude himselfe by an earnest deploration of his sinnes vnder the couert of the glorous wings of Gods grace Naie rather who wandereth not wide from his heauenlie veritie and setteth not by the continuance of his euill to heape vp vengeance to himselfe in the daie of wrath who is he that prepareth himselfe to watch and kéepe warde for the coming of Christ in the clouds Nay who is he that slepeth not soundly in the vnclennes of his own hart Who is he that striueth in these dangerous daies of wickednes to vanquish subdue the loathso●… lusts of his owne flesh Naie who is