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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29096	The good old way, or, An excellent and profitable treatise of repentance made by John Bradford in the yeare 1553. Now published with two prefaces relating the life of the author, and the excellencey of the worke.	Bradford, John, 1510?-1555.; Harris, Robert, 1581-1658.; Wilkinson, Henry, 1616-1690.	1652 (1652)	Wing B4106; ESTC R25287	35,398	95

doe Now unto this prayer use thou these means following After prayer for Faith which I would should be first Secondly because the same springeth out of the hearing not of Masse Mattins Canons Councells Doctors Decrees but out of the hearing of Gods word get Gods word but not that part which serveth specially to Contrition that is the Law but the other part which serveth specially to consolation and certain perswasions of Gods love towards thee that is the Gospell or publication of Gods mercy in Christ I mean the free promises But here thou must know that there are two kindes of promises one which is properly of the Law another of the Gospel In the promises of the Law we may indeed behold Gods mercy but so that it hangeth upon the condition of our worthinesse as if thou love the Lord withall thy heart c. thou shalt find mercy This kind of promise though it declare unto us Gods love which promiseth where he needeth not yet unto him that feeleth not Christ which is the end of the Law they are so farre from comforting that utterly with the Law they bring man to great despaire so greatly we are corrupt for none so loveth God as he ought to doe From these therefore get thee to the other promises of the Gospel in which we may see such plenty and franke liberality of Gods goodnesse that we cannot but be much comforted though we have very deeply sinned For these promises of the Gospel doe not hang on the condition of our worthinesse as the promises of the Law doe but they depend and hang on Gods truth that as God is true so they cannot but be performed to all them which lay hold on them by Faith I had almost said which cast them not away by unbeliefe Marke in them therefore two things namely that as well they are free promises without any condition of our worthinesse as also that they are universally offered to all I say which are not so stubborne as to keep still their hands whereby they should receive this almes in their bosomes by unbeliefe As concerning Infants and children you know I now speak not but concerning such as be of years of discretion and under the Gospel And now you look that I should give you a tast of these promises which are both free and universall except none but such as except themselves Well you shall have one or two for a say In the 3d of John saith our Saviour So God the Father loved the World that he would give his Deareling his one only sonne that all that believe in him should not perish but have everlasting life Loe Sir he saith not that some might have life but all saith he And what all all that love him with all their hearts all that have lived a good life Nay all that beleeve in him Although thou hast lived a most wicked and horrible life if now thou believe in him thou shalt bee saved Is not this sweet grace Againe saith Christ Come unto me all ye that labour and are laden and I will refresh you Let us a little look on this letter Come unto mee Who shall come Lords Priests Holy men Monkes Friars yea Coblers Tinkers Whores Theeves Murtherers also if they lament their sinnes Come unto mee saith he all ye that labour and are laden that is which are afraid and weary of your sinnes And what wilt thou doe Lord And I shall refresh you saith he Oh what a thing is this And I will refresh you Wot you who spake this He that never told lie He is the truth there was never guile found in his mouth and now will he be untrue to thee good brother which art sorry for thy greivous sinnes No forsooth heaven and earth shall passe and perish but his word shall never faile Saint Paul saith God would have all men saved Loe he excepteth none And to Titus the grace of God bringeth salvation to all men as from Adam all have received sinne to damnation so by Christ all have grace offered to Salvation if they reject not the same I speak not now of Infants I say nor need I enter into the matter of Predestination In preaching of repentance I would gather where I could with Christ As surely as I live saith God ' I will not the death of a sinner art thou a sinner Yea Loe God sweareth he will not thy death How canst thou now perish Consider with thy selfe what profit thou shouldest have to believe this to be true to others if not to thy selfe also Sathan doth so Rather consider with Peter that the promise of Salvation pertaineth not only to them which are nigh or to such as are falne a little but also to all to whom the Lord hath called be they never so farre off Loe nowby me the Lord calleth thee thou Man thou Woman that art very farre off The promise therefore pertaineth to thee needs must thou be saved except thou with Satan say God is false and if thou doe so God is faithfull and cannot deny himselfe as thou shalt feele by his plagues in hell for so dishonouring God to think that he is not true Will he be found false now The matter hangeth not on thy worthinesse but it hangeth on God's truth Clap hold on it and I warrant thee Christ is the propitiation for our sinnes yea for the sins of the whole World of Jew and Gentiles believe this Man I know thou believest it say therefore in thy heart still Domine adauge mihi fidem Lord encrease my faith Lord help my unbeleefe Blessed are they which see not by reason this but yet believe Beloved we must hope above hope as Abraham did And thus much for a tast of the promises which are every where not only in the new Testament but also in the Old Read the last end of Leviticus 26. The Prophet Isaiah 30. Where he saith God tarryeth looking for thee to shew thee mercy also the 40 and so forth to the 60. Read also 2 Kings 24. Ps. 33. Joel 2. c. Howbeit if all this will not serve and if yet thou feelest no faith no certaine perswasion of Gods love then prepare thy selfe unto Prayer and diligent considering of the free and universall promises of the Gospel Thirdly set before thee those blessings which heretofore and at this present God hath given thee Consider how he hath made thee a Man or a Woman which might have made thee a Toade or a Dogge And why did he this Verily because he loved thee and thinkest thou if he loved thee when thou wast not to make thee such a one as he most graciously hath and will he not now love thee being his handy work Doth he hate any thing that he made Is there unablenesse with him Doth he love for a day and so farewell No beloved God loveth to the end his mercy endureth for ever Say therefore with Job Operi manum tuarum porrige dextram that is to the work