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A07287	The practice of repentance. Or A sermon preached at Pauls Crosse, the fifteenth of September last passed, by Radford Mavericke, preacher of Gods word in Devon	Mavericke, Radford, b. 1560 or 61.	1617 (1617)	STC 17682; ESTC S105958	30,434	48

be so faint-hearted as Iether Gideons yongest sonne was who feared to slay Zebah and Zalmunnah the Lords enemies Iudg. 8.20 though his father commanded him so to doe Vse 2 A second vse must be to teach vs that if Preachers must be bold to reproue sinne yea to lance the heart of sinners with the knife of Gods Law and to teare them in pieces with the culter of Gods Word then people must be contented to suffer themselues to be reproued and to haue their impostumes of sinne taken out for it is for the health of their bodies and for the saluation of their soules The wounds of a friend are better then the kisses of a foe And who more foe to man then they that soothe vs in our sinnes and sow pillowes vnder our elbowes that sinners may sleepe the more soundly in their sinnes as the false prophets in old time were wont to doe Vse 3 Hereunto we might adde a third vse for Magistrates if it would please them to be intreated to draw out the sword of Iustice to meete and ioyne with the sword of Gods Word for the cutting off of those Hidra's heads I meane Swearing Drunkennesse and Prophanation of the Sabbath that euery day take life againe say and doe the Preachers herein what they can It is the sword of the Magistrate that can doe more good in one dayes punishment for these sinnes then the Preachers can doe with all their paynes And albeit we are to blesse God that we liue in such a Land where these sinnes are both spoken against by the Preachers and also punished by the Magistrates when they come to light yet surely many times too much remisnesse in this dutie may doe much hurt both in Citie and Countrie where all these sinnes abound like a Sea breaking ouer her bankes which must be looked vnto betimes for feare of drowning the whole Continent And thus much now for the manner of Reproofe being done with a vehement interrogation How long shall your wicked thoughts remayne within you Matter Now come we to the matter of reproofe which consisteth of two parts Two things First it is for conceiuing and receiuing euill and wicked thoughts into our hearts for did we not receiue or conceiue them we could not harbour them Secondly for harbouring and retayning them there toolong How long shall your wicked thoughts remayne within you For the first it seemeth our Prophet Ieremie playeth too much the Cinicke and dealeth somewhat too austerely in his reprehensions What Had it not beene enough if he had only reproued actuall sinnes whether in word or worke though I know wicked thoughts consented vnto be actuall sins of the minde such sins as might haply haue come within the compasse of his owne knowledge or such sinnes whereof the World might take notice of but must he come to such secret sinnes as neuer came within the compasse of mens knowledge except they that commit them for no man knoweth the heart of man but the spirit of man that is within him no not the Deuills themselues The Deuills know not our thoughts but by signes except it be such thoughts as the Deuills themselues suggest I answere for the Prophet that he doth herein performe the part of a good Teacher and like a skilfull Surgeon or Physician doth not content himselfe to take away only outward Vlcers or coole the heate of a Feuer with outward coolings but looketh vnto the inward causes of all these mischiefes and so doth labour to take away the cause that the effect may follow Now who knoweth not that the seede of all sinnes and the Well-spring of all wickednesse riseth from the heart of man as our Sauiour right well teacheth Out of the heart proceede euill thoughts Adulteries Thefts Murthers Matth. 15.19 and the like Therefore as the heart must be washed from all wickednesse so from all wicked thoughts which are the originalls of all vnrighteousnesse for the imaginations of mens hearts are euill continually and no man can say his heart is cleane nay I thinke euery one will confesse that the wicked thoughts of his heart are worse then his workes because either feare or shame want of occasion or one thing or other doth hinder the wicked worke when the heart doth burne or boyle in wickednes as in lust furie malice enuic or the like which are the maladies of the minde And little doth man know how much he is bound to the goodnesse of God that the Deuill doth not know our wicked thoughts farther then we bewray our selues vnto him or by gessing at our complexions wherein he is not vnskilled I shall not neede to relate the opinion of the Schoolemen concerning the thoughts of men euen in wicked things Aquinas saith Cogitatio de opere illicito non est semper peccatum The thought of an vnlawfull thing is not alwayes sinne his reason because saith he Tales cogitationes dupliciter considerandae Such thoughts are to be considered in a double sense Aliquando sunt cum aliqua affectione concupiscentiae aliquando horroris Sometimes they are accompanyed with affection of Concupiscence and then they are sinne sometimes with a thought of horror and detestation and then it is no sinne Also some wicked thoughts are cast into our mindes by Satan whereunto we neuer yeeld any consent these are not our wicked thoughts But it is not against these latter thoughts that our Prophet speaketh for such thoughts to thinke vpon the ouglinesse and foulenesse of sinne come too little into our mindes but it is against wicked thoughts which either proceede of our owne corrupted nature or suggested into our mindes by the malice of Satan whereunto we giue consent and liking or the allurements of the World which we cherish and delight in that our Prophet doth here reproue withthis vehemencie of an interrogation when he saith How long shall your wicked thoughts remayne within you Such wicked thoughts whereof Saint Iames speaketh When lust hath conceiued it bringeth forth sinne and sinne when it is finished bringeth forth death Iam. 1.15 These wicked thoughts of ours are the Cockatrice egs which in short time breake forth into sinnefull Serpents and must be killed in cold Winter when they seeme to be dead otherwise if we heate them long in our brests and bosomes they will bite and sting vs as bad as Scorpions Which is one good vse that we must make of this doctrine Vse 1 Therefore take we heede how we either conceiue or receiue wicked thoughts into our hearts for euill thoughts separate from God and such a heart as is taken vp with such foule and filthy ghests the Spirit of grace and of glorie will neuer rest in Vse 2 A second vse we must make hereof namely To keepe watch and ward as well ouer our thoughts as ouer our wordes or workes and not thinke we are in a good case if we commit not actuall Adulterie Theft Murther and the like for our Sauiour saith

Martin Luther and other godly Preachers stirred vp and preserued by Gods owne power to oppose themselues against the Pope and to bring a new light as it were vnto the World So were many godly Bishops and Preachers saued and preserued in Queene Maries raigne from the rage of that bloudy Bonner and other cruell persecuters So was our renowned Queene Elizabeth worthy of lasting memory very strangely and miraculously saued and preserued at that time when shee had often written her owne Epitaph Tanquam Ouis with her owne hand And to conclude for of such examples there is no end who doth not see and with all thankefulnesse acknowledge the blessed prouidence of a gracious God in preseruing King Iames our most gracious Soueraigne from danger of death euen before he was borne as his Maiestie confesseth in his speech to the Parliament from the point of the Dagger before he was our King and from many most vile Treasons and Treacheries sithence God gaue him vnto vs Not to name the Gunne-powder Treason for the horror thereof and all this doubtlesse if God make vs thankefull for the euerlasting good of those Churches and Kingdomes ouer whom Gods only prouidence hath placed him whose grace guide him in all the pathes of pietie and whose right hand shield him from all malignitie either of forraine or domesticall foes Vse 1 The vse that must be made hereof is this that whether he be a King or a Prince a Priest or a Prophet or whatsoeuer office wee haue either in Church or Common-weale we must know and acknowledge that God hath aduanced each one to this or that place that dignitie or this honor onely or chiefly for the glory of his owne name and for the speciall good of his Church and Children Vse 2 And we must all know farther that no man commeth into this world by chance but for some end and purpose and that God doth set euery one his taske allotting some speciall dutie to euery one of his seruants whereunto he ought specially to attend This point is not vnnecessary to be vrged in these dayes but I cannot stand to insist vpon it Only this may be remembred in particular that because our Prophet Ieremie was specially and extraordinarily chosen and ordayned of God to so great and hard a taske as to be opposite to the whole world as it were therefore God did extraordinarily comfort and encourage him as he did the rest of his Prophets and Apostles The same God no doubt it is that to this day doth and for euer will helpe and strengthen the poore indeuours of all faithfull and painefull Pastors that labour in the worke and Ministerie of his Word for the increase of your faith the end whereof is the saluation of our soules And so much for the first circumstance who exhorteth namely Ieremie a great Prophet of God yet a man subiect to many sorrowes and sundry infirmities as the best of Gods seruants euer haue beene and euer shall be in this world The second circumstance The second circumstance is VVho they are that are exhorted And I say the people of Ierusalem all the inhabitants thereof both King Priest and People none excepted But the Prophet Ieremie saith O Ierusalem I answere it is a figuratiue speech vsuall in the Scripture Continens pro contento naming the Citie for the Citizens therein contayned In the Gospell it is said that all Ierusalem went out into the wildernesse vnto Iohn Baptist that is the people of Ierusalem And Christ saith O Ierusalem Ierusalem which killest the Prophets and stonest them that are sent vnto thee Now we know it was not the Citie but the Gouernours of the Citie the Kings the Priests and the People that killed the Prophets and after that CHRIST IESVS the Prince of Prophets Therefore by Ierusalem is meant the people of Ierusalem like as by the world is meant the things and people of the world So then it is the people of Ierusalem that are here exhorted to Repentance notwithstanding they were the peculiar people of God and dwelt in the most famous Citie of the World Doct. The lesson that we may learne hereby is this that no place in the world can priuiledge any one from sinne for had not Ierusalem sinned and grieuously sinned they should not haue needed exhortation to Repentance nor reprehension for not repenting Adam sinned in Paradise the Iewes sinned at Ierusalem the Pope sinneth at Rome the Hermites in the Wildernesse no change of place but the gift of grace stayeth the course of sinne all men haue sinned at all times and in all places Vse 1 The vses hereof may be first for reproofe against Pelagians and Semipelagians the Papists which dreame I know not of what perfection as though they had beene borne aboue the Moone and had had no touch or taste of Adams sinne and contagion but this heresie though it be ancient needs no other confutation then the common experience of all the world Vse 2 Secondly it may serue to teach vs all to walke warily and circumspectly in euery place because we can come into no place but we shall meete with occasions enow to entice vs vnto sinne which occasions wee must auoide as much as possibly we may Vse 3 A third vse may teach all Pastors and Preachers to labour by all meanes possible in this dutie to conuince the world of sinne as Christ exhorteth wheresoeuer they be placed Vse 4 The fourth vse may be for Magistrates to learne them to looke well about them to haue their eyes in euery corner to seeke and finde out the tract and haunt of sinners to punish sinne seuerely when and where it is found lest it be said vnto them They haue borne the sword in vaine It was a sage saying Seeke not to be in authoritie except thou canst mightily put downe sinne the Sword and the Word should goe together in this dutie A fifth vse we might here insert that seeing Ierusalem it selfe nor any other Church or Kingdome in the world is free from sinne and the purest Churches that euer were had their many imperfections therefore none should separate * Papists for Rome and Rhemes Brownists for Amsterdam themselues from the societie of the faithfull in any Church State or Kingdome where Christ his Gospel is purely preached his Sacraments rightly administred and good discipline established for the punishment of sinne And this doctrine will fall hard vpon the consciences of Recusant Papists that runne to Rome or Rhemes as also vpon our Brownists or Separatists whosoeuer that like Amsterdam better then England haply because it is better and fitter for their purposes And so much for the second circumstance The third Circumstance The third circumstance and which is most materiall and therefore hath neede most to be stood vpon is The matter or thing wherevnto they are exhorted and that is doubtlesse vnto Repentance a point very much vrged but coldly practized Iohn Baptist began with this doctrine Christ the