

244
Of
REP
E N TA N
c
&,
Sermon
7 :
Mat. 9-44·
.6.
gnawing,
and neve,
d;ing
..
So dqrh our
SA
V
IOljll
defcribe it:
!}jlapa~
an,dnevcrgomgqtlt,
ng
Efay JP+
.
N?w willlbur askethe
Prophet
Efay'squeftion,(Chap.33)whoofus~andwel!'
GQ,Pfi_•mmg
fire
l
That>
IS
ottr fire,
which as it
con(imm,
fo willit be
conf.,meditfc!f.
1
~
B~.~t
then, he comes over againe, Bur
who
if
able to Abide in everlaflil'g burnings
l
n:~
carr none doe:
Proferte
ftr~e1tu
igitur,.
This(loe) is the
mratp,
t.he very
dregs
of tl
wrath to come.,Bur whoregard,eth thepower ofthu wrath?
Th;y (I feare me) leaft,
rb~~
fl1all feele it moft.
, I have purpofely fiood uporr>his a little, For that, as upon this
d.:y
they were
Wonr,
py
the
ceremonie
of giving
a/bes,
to_put men in minde of
~hisfre,
For
iljbiS
We[e not given
\0
put men
i~ rni~de
of their
mortalitie :.dtlj/
had beenemore
p~oper
t~Jiave
done that
.0
ur
mortalztze
IS
grounded upon
Pulv_r;
es
&
inpulverern.
Bur,a)lw,
they come nonyjrhourfre: where they
areJir~rnufi
have beene lid!. And, fo they
mofimeer to reprefenrfreand make us thmke of1t. The ajhes,rhey be blowen away;
bur, not the
memorze
of the,m(I hope.? Whatfoever becomes of the
ceremonie,
the
fHbftan,·e
wpulq not be
hlowen away
af,t~r
lt. Spr,e,thefe
a/bes
laid wdl·to the
root
ofthe
tree,
it harh bee11e thought, will
mak~it
hear._e the.fooner.
The
prefent feare
of
f
11
t
11
r
1
wrath
for fins pall:_.wil putfome force mro tlus
Igztur:
If th1s will not, nothing will,
This
or
nothing make the fap
to
afcend : This,or nothing
bring
them
forth,; .
Thecomfort
•
Scientes igitur terrorem hrmc :
you have feene the
terro11r:
Shall I open
you~
ofvtnlHra,lt
b
doore ofhopeinrhi':
valley of
Achor.?
All is not
terror
in
ventura:
there
is,fome~com.,
may be
flea
forr, that it is bur to
come
(this
wrath;
)it is yet to come. So,while it is yet
to
come
~':cor.
! . "·
there is time given us to take order for it,
bef~re
it come : That
th~ftuit
may
corn~
b~~c.,.
'·'
!·
before the
wrath,
and not the
wrath
before rheftuit
:
forthen we are gonefor ever. ·
There is an?ther cpmfort: That though
cheaxe
and
thef".nne
lhallcome upol
all; and none fty from either of
them,~o
lhall nor
w_rath.
Thatlhall
n<?t'c~me
Njon.
~!/;but
all
may,
~nd
fome 0Jalljly from It.
Fly
f:om1t(l fay) for, rhere1s no
meetinz
!t,nodbzdmgof
It \yhen _1t comes: No
Ua~du~
lt our,
butjly
from lt wemufi (fairiJ
the Text;) and
jly
from It
)'IC
may.There 1s a nghr way,1f wemay be fl1ewcd it; and
there is no rightway,but one, and who willlhew us
chat~
That will St.Iohnreach
us. He
prepares
it,and he is beft able; and he knowes no way bur by
Proferte igitur.
Jjy
PYD[trtt.
Bur ifthere
beajlight,
there is no
flying
it, not with the
wings
of an
Eagle;
not
with, the fix wings of a
Seraphin:
onlyrhe wings of
repent.cnce,will
fly
from it. But,
there is no
flight
entended:
Proferte igitur
will ferve: only fund and
he
are
thu
frurt,
and it lhall be a
SuperfedetUtoall wrath to mne.
You need nor
fly;
you need not fiirre,
no more than a
tree;
but keep your fianding,and
be.:reyonr
fmit,and it lhall nor come
_lixod.u,, 3 .
neere you,but fly over you,as did the
dejlroying
Angefl,their houfes in
'&gypt.To comf
it is(this
wrath: )jly
from it we may: This,rheway to doe it.
Tca,this is
one way:
bur,is there no way but
this~
It fee.nes,therc was fome bo·
die lhewing fome other way belides,that St.
Iohn
was a little fiirred,and asked,Wh1
hath jhewedyou it, who.?
Whofoever he was,he had lhewed them a wrong way. So
rhar,even rhen, even in CHR r sT s time and Sr.
Iohns,
fomerherewere thattookea
pbanfic,rhey had found a neerer way ro cut betwecn,ro
jly
this
wrath,
and ycrlertrte
Verfc ,.
and
fmit
alone, and care for neither. And (as it followes) by a
dicentts intr.tfe,Caid
.wirhin rhemfclves (fomewhat firange things men will fay there)
fruits
arc for rhelll)
that have not
Abrahamfor their father,bur we have himfor our Father :
and forooke
themfelves privjleged from
fruit-bearing,
by char.
chrifl
Jbewesrhem their folly;
Ioh.!.l9·
Have you fo,have you
Ahraham
to your
Father.?chen doe the works
1[
AbrAham:
that
is,
hri»gfmh thefruits
that he did.
For,AbrahAm
himfelfebroughtforth thefe
frusts;
went no other way butthis,by
Proferte igitur.
The fame may befaid
roanotherDi<entesintra feof
fomeof us. WehaveA–
IJr11ham to our Father,
So they :
We hawe
CHars T
to
ourS
A
v r o u R,fo wee : and
make a iliorr cur and fieppe to CH
J.
r s T ..ftraight, and lay hold on Him
~y
jAitlt,
without any more adoe : Thrull: by Satnt
Mm
Bapti.ft;
Hzrn,
and
Ills
Rcpm–
tAnce,
Both. lndeed, fo fome goe (but withmorchall:e thangood fpeed) that vain·
.
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