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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

is how joyfull and precious a thing Gods mercy in Christ is how exceeding broad wide high and deepe Christs love is Perchance he can talke and Preach of Faith but yet truly in heart he never felt it effectually for if he did once feele this ravishing consolation indeed then would he be so farre from continuing in sinne willingly and wittingly that wholly and heartily he would give over himselfe to that which is contrary I meane to a new life renewing his youth even as the Eagle doth For as we being in the servitude of sinne demonstrate our service by giving over our members to the obaying of sinne from iniquity to iniquity even so we being made free from sinne by faith in Jesus Christ and endued with Gods spirit a spirit of liberty must needs demonstrate this freedome and liberty by giving over our members to the obedience of the spirit by the which we are lead and guided from vertue to vertue and all kind of holinesse As the unbelievers declare their unbeleefe by the working of the evill spirit in them in the outward fruits of the flesh even so the believers declare their faith by the working of Gods Spirit in them outwardly the fruits of the Spirit For as the Divell is not dead in those which are his but worketh still to their damnation so is not God dead in them which be his but worketh still to their salvation The which working is not the cause of the one or the other being in any but only a demonstration a signe a fruit of the same As the Apple is not the cause of the Apple tree but the fruit of it Thus then you see briefely that newnesse of life is not indeed a part of repentance but a fruit of it a demonstration of the justifying faith a signe of Gods good spirit possessing the heart of the penitent as the old life is a fruit of impenitency a demonstration of a lipfaith or unbeliefe a signe of Sathans spirit possessing the heart of the impenitent which all those be that be not penitent For meane I know none He that is not penitent the same is impenitent he that is not governed by Gods spirit the same is governed by Sathans Spirit For all that be Christians are governed with the spirit of Christ which spirit hath its fruits All other that be not Christs are the Divels He that gathereth not with Christ scattereth abroad Therefore my dearely beloved I beseech you to consider this and deceive not your selves If you be not Christs then pertaine you to the Divel of which things the fruits of the flesh doth assure you as whoredome adultery uncleannesse wantonnesse idolatry witch-craft envy strife contention wrath sedition murther drunkennesse gluttony blasphemy slothfulnesse vaine talking slandering c. If such like fruit as these grow out of the trees of your hearts surely surely the Divell is at Inne with you you are his birds whom when he hath well fed he will broach you and eat you chaw you and champ you world without end in eternall woe and misery But I am otherwise perswaded of you all I trust you be all Christ Jesus his people and his children yea and his brethren by faith As you see your sins in Gods Law and tremble and sigh sorrow and sob for the same even so you see his great mercies in his Gospel and free promises and therefore are glad merry and joyfull for that you are accepted into Gods favour have your sins pardoned and are endued with the good spirit of God even the seale and signe Manuel of your election in Christ Jesus even before the beginning of the World The which spirit for that he is the Spirit of life is given to you to work in you with you and by you here in this life sanctification and holinesse whereunto you are called that so ye might be holy even as your heavenly father is holy I beseech you all by admonition and warning of you that you would stirre up the gifts of God given to you generally and particularly to the edifying of his Church that is I pray you that you would not molest the good Spirit of God by rebelling against it when it provoketh and calleth you to goe on forward that he which is holy might yet be more holy he which is righteous might be more righteous as the evill spirit moveth and stirreth up the filthy to be yet more filthy the covetous to be more covetous the wicked to be more wicked Declare you now your repentance by workes of repentance Bring forth fruits and worthy fruits Let your sorrowing for your evils demonstrate it selfe departing from the evils you have used Let your certainty of pardon of your sins through Christ and your joy in him be demonstrated by pursuing of the good things which Gods word teacheth you You are now in Christ Jesus Gods workmanship to doe good works which God hath prepared for you to walk in For the grace of God that bringeth salvation unto all men hath appeared and teacheth us that we should deny ungodlinesse and worldly lusts and that we should live soberly righteously godlily in this present world looking for that blessed hope and glorious appearing of the mighty God and of our Saviour Jesus Christ which gave himselfe for us to redeeme us from all unrighteousnesse and to purge us a peculiar people unto himselfe fervently given unto good workes Again Titus 3. For we our selves also were in times past unwise disobedient deceived serving lusts and divers pleasures living in maliciousnesse and envy full of hate and hating one another But after that the kindnesse and love of God our Saviour to man-ward appeared not by the deeds of righteousnesse which we wrought but of his mercy he saved us by the fountain of the new birth and with the renewing of the Holy Ghost which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour that we once justified by his grace should be heires of eternall life through hope This is a true saying But I will make an end for I am too tedious Dearely beloved repent your sinnes that is be sorry for that which is past beleeve in Gods mercy for pardon how deepely soever you have sinned and both purpose and earnestly pursue a new life bringing forth worthy and True fruits of Repentance As you have given over your members from sin to sin to serve the Divel your tongues to sweare to lye to flatter to scold to jest to scoffe to beastly talke to vain jangling to boasting c. Your hands to picking griping idlenesse fighting c. Your feet to skipping going to evill to dancing c. Your eares to heare Fables lyes vanities and evill things c. So now give over your members to godlinesse your tongues to speak your eares to heare your eyes to see your mouthes to tast your hands to worke your feet to goe about such things as may make to Gods glory sobriety of life and love to your brethren and that daily more and more diligently for in this way to stand you cannot either better or worse you are to day then you were yesterday But better I trust you be and will be if you marke my Theme that is repent you The which thing that you would as before I have humbly besought you even so now yet once more I doe again beseech you and that for the mercies of God in Jesus Christ our Lord Repent you repent you for the Kingdome of heaven that is a Kingdome full of riches pleasures mirth beauty sweetnesse and eternall felicity is at hand The eye hath not seen the like the eare hath not heard the like the heart of man cannot conceive the treasures and pleasures of this Kingdome which is now at hand to such as Repent that is to such as are sorry for their sinnes beleeve Gods mercy through Christ and earnestly purpose to lead a new life The God of mercy through Christ his Sonne grant us his holy spirit and work in our hearts this sorrow faith and new life which through his grace I have spoken of both now and for ever AMEN FINIS Marc. 4.33 Lumen orationis perspicuitas Aug. who would call a bone ossum to avoid the ambiguity in os in Psal. 138. secundum Aug. Mr R. Ca. of Tentat 1. Resipiscentia 2 {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} 3 {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Deut. 6.2 Mat. 22. Mark 20. Luke 10. Ioh. 3. Mat. 6. Luke 17. Apoc. 22. Deut. 4.1 Phil. 4. Isai 45. 1 Joh. 2. Iames 2. Rom. 7. Gen. 6. Gen. 19. Gen. 19. Josua Caleb Num. 14. Lev. 24a Num. 13. 1 K. 5. 3 Reg. 21.22 4 Reg. 21. 4 Reg. 10. Isai 31. Mat. 7. Heb. 10.

meditations ejaculations and expressions to spread them before God as his own upon this account because M. Bradford had in his writings as he thought represented his case said more for him and done his errand better then he could for himselfe This passage I the rather publish because upon this occasion I would stir up men of parts and experience to impart their experiences and sufficiencies in this kind whilst they live as little knowing how many drooping and desponding soules their surviving workes may helpe when themselves sleep in the dust It is a thing that long since I bewailed that so little is this way done by able Orthodox experienced Casuists but they who for ought appeares know least of the mystery of godlinesse and methods of Sotan undertake the worke I doe not meane such as Gerson Parisiensis Saváorola c. who speake as if they had met with something of God in their lives and consciences but certaine Jesuits and Canonists who resolve all into a blind and upon the matter an humane credence and shew more wit then grace as 't was once said of a Rabbin in their resolves There be not I believe more able men for case divinity and all practicalls in the World then in this Nation would they apply themselves accordingly some yet living have given undeniable proofes of their ability in this errand I forbeare to name them because I would decline the suspicion of flattery I may more freely speak of our Greenhams Dods Perkins Ameses Baineses as also of our Randals Boltons Bals c. who are now out of hearing but not out of memory Oh that others behind them in time but not in abilities would take up the worke where they left and carry it on at least that that brother who owes so much to God for temptations and can say out of his observations so much for God in the case of temptation and desertion would at last perfect his Tract of Temptations so happily begun But I have made the Porch too wide I conclude where I began with humble and when I say humble I say all Mr Bradford I have had some other Workes of his but Warre hath Plun dred me of many Books This peece a godly Brother who is never weary of doing good hath recovered out of the dust and once more made publique under God thank him Reader if thou be the better for it and better thou maist be if thou wilt lay downe pride and prejudice and take this up in humility and with purpose of amendment read it think on it pray for a blessing and if thou findest little at first read againe pray againe apply againe and I misse my aime if thou dost not meet with more at last then it seemed to promise at first I commend both it and thee to the blessing of the Great God and having answered the importunity of my friend in saying thus much I rest Thine in Christ R. H. A prositable Treatise of Repentance made by that holy and Constant Martyr of Christ Mr. JOHN BRADFORD 1553. MAT. 4.17 Amend your lives for the Kingdome of Heaven is at hand THe life we have at this present is the gift of God in whom we live move and are and therfore he is called Jehovah for the which life as we should be thankfull so may we not in any wise use it after our corrupt fantasies but to the end for which it is given and lent us that is to the setting forth of Gods praise and glory by repentance conversion and obedience to his good will and holy lawes whereunto his long-suffering doth as it were even draw us if our hearts by impenitency were not hardned And therfore our life in the Scripture is called a walking for that as the body draweth dayly more and more neare its end that is the earth even so our soul draweth daily more and more neere unto a period that is salvation or damnation heaven or hell Of which thing in that we are most carelesse and very fooles for we alas are the same to day we were yesterday and not better or nearer to God but rather nearer to hell Sathan and perdition being covetous idle carnall secure negligent proud c. I think my labour cannot be better bestowed then with the Baptist Christ Jesus and his Apostles to harp on this string which of all other together with faith is most necessary and in these daies most seasonable What string is that saith one Forsooth brother the string of Repentance the which Christ our Saviour did use first in his Ministry and as his Minister at this present I will use unto you all Repent for the Kingdome of heaven is at hand This sentence thus pronounced and Preached by our Saviour Jesus Christ as it doth command us to repent so to the doing of the same it sheweth us a sufficient cause to stirre us up thereunto namely for that The Kingdome of heaven which is a Kingdome of all joy peace riches power and pleasure is at hand to all such as doe so that is as do repent So that the meaning hereof is as though our Saviour might thus speak presently Syrs for that I see you all walking the wrong way even to Sathan and unto hell fire by following the Kingdome of Sathan which now is coloured under the vaine pleasures of this life and foolishnesse of the flesh most subtilly to your utter undoing and destruction behold and marke well what I say unto you The Kingdome of Heaven that is an other manner of joy and felicity honour and riches power and pleasure then you now perceive or enjoy is even at hand and at your backs and if you will turne againe that is repent ye you shall most truely and pleasantly feele see and inherit Turne againe therefore I say that is Repent for this joy I speake of the Kingdome of heaven is at hand 1. Here we may note first the corruption of our natures in that to this commandement Repent you he addeth a cause For the Kingdome of heaven is at hand For by reason of the corruption and sturdinesse of our nature God unto all his commandements commonly either addeth some promise to provoke us to obedience or else some such sufficient cause as cannot but stirre us up to hearty labouring for the doing of the same as here to the commandement of acting repentance he addeth this Aetiologe or cause For the Kingdome of heaven is at hand 2. Againe in that he joyneth the commandement as a reason saying For the Kingdome of heaven is at hand We may learne that of the Kingdome of heaven none to whom the Ministry of Preaching doth appertaine can be partaker but such as repent and doe amend Therefore dearely beloved if you regard the Kingdome of Heaven in that you cannot enter therein except you repent I beseech you all of every estate as you desire your own peace of conscience to repent and amend The which thing that ye may doe I