' andfASTINtJ. be taken e••ery day ( for, repmtA11ce would be as familiar to us ; asfin it felfe; and, as the one, fo the other, daJiy:) Yet at f~menme, ~10rethan other; and at this . fl: roper for then wee have fpectall ufe of It. That the /,ody and the ttm,e, mo Ieppetime. and, when we take phyftcke forrhe body, wee may doe likero,, e may .. ' . f h . h r. I J' · r c hp other If all were well knowne, o t e twame, t e J 011 e hath more wue ,or t ~ • needTI · ediciflt is to be takenfarliJ•g; as therules of Phyftcke are, and as medicines · fi b 115 mMen come neither eating nor drinking to take phyjicke: when wee will · u ketoh et.we take nothing elfe. Thus, ~'affin" is afriend to phy(icl<e both of Joule ta et a · 1 : "'· r. d · · fi u andhodie. Wbenwcerepent, nomanwtlladvaeusto oe Itupon a ultjlomacke, but cumjej11nata. . · . . Ofthistreeandfmit, Go o ( knowmgthegreat need we.have) bath a fpec~all wee be not without it: that it be plantedandgrQwmg lhllmourgardem; and ili:lcbeareusfmit, whereof wehavefocominuallufe. As that in ~aradi{e, ~vas wmedthe forhiddmfruit; So mayth1s (as truely) the fnut bidden, It IS fo enJoy-" ned fo called for of us. . 'And that firfr called for and before all other, as the firll: fmits of theSpirit re- M":"·l 6 •37; (llrning to G~ o. There w~s aftrft ConJt114nilement in the Law: This, I may jullly fay, was theftrjl Commandement of theGo{jell. . . Goe no further, but even where we are, where the Booke opens: Samt Iohn tsat it at firll. It is his very firll: word [Repent] Sermg inapertione erif, tlie opening of his vcrre z; ~outb: So begins He: And fo begins CH 1\ 1 s T ; takes it up after him, word for word t!1e fame :,Repent, for theK ingdomeofHeavm is at hand: neith~rmore nor lelfe. Ch'P·' q : Itisthejirfffmitofrheir !ips?o~h. Andas our SAv 'ouR .c'! R r s t .began with it Himfclfe; So gtves He tt mcharge to Hts Ap1flcs; they With It,to begmhke- c&,p. 1 o. 7 ; wife. Both, when He femthem topreat·h,tot~C: le~ves firH; And againe after when, Luke ..., . at His Afcen!ion, He renewed and enlarged thetr Commifton,and fem them to all Na- · iiom•. That, repenwmfirll; (firll: that ;)and then, retnijfionofftnnes (after) lhould be preached inHis name. • . Which was accordingly by them purfucd. Evcr,they flood on it,as the groundworke, thefimdamentallpoint ofall the rell. So, it is exprerfelytermed, Heb.VI. the Heb.~.JS foundationofrepentdllcefromdeadwor/w. On which(ot~ndAtion, would Go o, more colhvcre bell:owed :that, while we are bulie aloft ontheScaffolds, in ourhigh points. the grotmdftl.r of Religiondecay not for want of lookmg to. To lay them furely: Which Saint Iohn cloth here, an~ we may alllearne of him. · For, having begun (aboveat rhe II. verfe) with hisptenitentiam dgite·,when he Verfe 3; faw,inthe throng of his Auditory, diverfe Scribes and Phari{m hypocrites, he knew where they would be firaighr: (we fhouldhavcanAgite ;arepentance with apenitm'- tiAilfA((, and all afled: ) Repent ? Y~s, in any wife, that they would, and could doe ·it.full well, arid nevertroublerhemfelves with anyfuch matter asfrnit; This made htm by it a new; to his Agite, to ·pm a Facite; to Agitep«mitentiam,a FMitefmc1m. Elfe, he difclaimes (mitlef[e repentAnce. It is none of his: it will doe them n0 good : tt will never quit them ofthe1vrath to come. Where,wefeethegoodofrepentAnce, whatiris: Tofreeus from ira vent11ra V<rC<71 propter pe~catapr£ttrita: Which, theirs willnever doe: Which none will ever doe, unlelfe,bdideptEnitentiamagite (that is, the Act) there be ~Ifo {mflumfacite, matter of fact belides; fame reAl!fruits. And Saint John askcs, Who did it~ and marvels much that any lhould doe it.: teach them any other way, how to efcape wrath !O &hme, Tells them direcHy, .there !s no. other way: but, thatthey doe but beguile fi r emfelvcs, whtle they vamely Im2gme, ro fhp rhorow Go n, wrath With tlus nmlej[e,forma/1, jleight kind ofrepentance, . . . lfrheywtll ~oero it indeed, and doe it, and fo doe it, as it may be availeablero ~~~them ofwrath tocome,thenmuft it nor beb.<rren,but bringforth .-.and thar,fruit: . ~hat, nor fuch lle.ght and llenderfruit, as they commonly pofi tt overWlth, but iVPn '(] fruzts, and fuch as may wellbe-feeme repentAnce indeed: · . . · The
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