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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

●…ertues haue their ●…eing in our carnal contemptuous gospellers which rather make a scorne of Christ Iesus then honour him in their harts But this in●…incible faith g●…unded on the touchstone of truth and this vnfein●…d repenta●…ce through the which by grace in Christ Iesus the olde man is dead and buried from ●…inne and this contri●…on and hartie sorrowe where with all our consciences are touched not for de●…tes but fréely by gods inestimable lou●… and kindnes commeth not of our selues but procedeth towards vs from the father of light and these his singuler graces are pertinent and belonging to the children of beleefe that are truelie regenerate begotten borne againe to God the Father not by water but in the pretious death and bloodshedding of the innocent lambe Christ Iesus This faith and this repentance was profitable to the prophet Dauid when he felt in himselfe the sorrows of his hart and confessed himselfe to haue 〈◊〉 displeased the maiestie of the Lord God saieng I will acknowledge mine vnrighteousnesse against my selfe O Lorde and thou forgauest the vngodlines of my sinnes and as his submission was found acceptablein the sight of the Lorde GOD so Saule wanting a liuely faith and impenitent what could his contri●…on auaile or pro●…t him This faith was s●… setteled in the Apostle Peter that when he had denied his Lorde and maister Christ Iesus looking back vpon him the sillie cocke became a preacher vnto him thervpon calling vnto his remembraunce the wordes of his louing Lorde hee went foorth of the doores and w●…pt bitterlie for his trespasse thus his repentance obteined mercy at the hands of god found fauor bicause that he grounded o●… faith Contrarily this repentance nothing at all a●…ailed Iudas and why bicause he was faithles Thus as Peter purchased remission by faith earnest repentance so Iudas drowned in infidelity sathan poscessing him most desperately hanged him selfe and did heape vnto himselfe the vtter condemnation of bodie and soule and I feare me that in this our last age we haue a far greter number of desperate ludases than faithful repentant Peters God turne our harts and giue vs his holie spirit by the power wherof sin shall cease in vs and we shal liue to Christ Iesus But if we will with an vpright and single 〈◊〉 behold the maners of wicked wordlinges we shall finde them so far dissonant from Christ as light is from darkenes and yet most shamelessie he that is most wicked he whose actions are most detested in the sight of the Lord God wil not stick to say they are folowers of Christ and it may be so that they both followe and seeke after him but howe not with the thrée wise men to serue and worship him in spirite truth but with bloodthirsty Herode to kil and cruci●…e him afreshe in his members They mind not with Nichodemus to seke the Lorde Christ by daie nor yet by night to learn of him as his disciples that which may benefit them to euerlasting life but they seeke and followe after him with the subtill Scribes the proud Phar●…sies and the deceitfull Sa●…uces to intrap him in his talke and to tempt him with a p●…nny but they are sent away not without answere for Caesar must haue that which to him belongeth God must haue his glorie These vsurpers of Christ his holie name these wicked and impudent creatures come not to the lambe of God with the beleeuing Centurion neither wil they repose such confidence and trust in Christ as he did for the r●…couery of his daughters health no they will not come to him that like a good and louing Phisicion woulde cure their sicke soules purifie their 〈◊〉 hearts and cleanse them from all the ●…oares of sinn●… and yet with the Lawier that came to Christ to know y ● way to life they can brag they haue kept the cōman●…ements and al necessary things for their ●…aluation but with the Lawier they go awaie ashamed for these iustifieng felow●… of themselues keepe backe with the lawier neither will they consent to sel all that they haue and giue it to the poore no they will followe Christ in no such order Iudas was a follower of Christ Iudas gaue Christ a discembling kisse but wee haue many Iudases but the faith of Zacheus is forgotten of these counterfeits they will not s●…e Christ in spirit and truth but after their owne affections this is the manner of the maleu●…lent that thinke themselues searchers after CHRIST when they being carnallie affected rather shew themselues blind at noone ●…aies then to haue or inioie their perfect sight for they grope as graceles for him that they cannot finde But contrary the little fold the members of the church militant the faire daughter of Siō y ● perfect spous of Christ and the faithful louers of the gospell they seeke for Christ spiritually and how by a fruitful faith and an earnest repentance they find him to the comfort of their cōsciences the ioie of their troubled harts to the exceding comfort of their soules they sée find him y ● both is delighted to dwell with them in them they in him haue their being so that by his especiall grace ●… fauour they are puri●…ed in the blood of the lambe from al the spots of their sins the deformed wrinckles of their wickednesses this is the meane of godlie christians that seeke and search for Christ by an immoueable faith and beartie sorrowe for their sinnes and they are certeine to find him and why bicause he hath promised that when so euer two or thrée be assembled and gathered togither in his name he will be in the middest of them and this is the hope of the faithful this is the greatest ioie that belongeth to the children of beleefe this is ●…he comfort of each and euerie constant christian and yet they can not stand of themselues but when they fal into the laspe of sinne they confesse their iniquities and forthwith they being touched with the finger of Gods grace they like prodigall sonnes that ●…aue wandered from the sheepefolds of the true and verie Emanuell crie out and returne to their father againe for want of whose fauour they being readie to pine were glad with the swine that wallowe in the stincking ●…ncks of sin to eate y ● corrupt cods of their vnclennes but being as they were vnder the curse of the lawe subuerted by gods eternall iustice to eternall death and damnation they feeling the gnawing worme of their owne conscience to vexe and tormente them and therewith all they beholding the horror of their wickednesses committed against the Lorde their God they seeke to bee ridde of this hellish slauerie they counte to shake of this heauie and intolerable burthen of their iniquities and to be released from the bondage of hell the ●…ting of the second death and the ceaseles torments of that euerlasting

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