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Sermon
8.
and
FA
s
T
1 N G.
there is none
quicker
than
th~t
of
.Angtr.
F?r which caufe, when time was, you may
ember we made it the chtefe
Ingredt<nt
mto
Repenta/Ice. Even,Angerat
our
[elves
~~were f~
evil! advifed as to bring our,fdves into the
~nser
of Goo. Wh.ofe
«nge;
l'Ul.n~·~·
when it comes,
~ispotertt!
who
can,who u ablel
(thatis,nonecan,
~one
1s able)
to
J, 'de
And why found we tt fo
~
Bccaufemoltlifeand.ffmtappcaresm that :
Feare
1
d
Sorrow
and che refr, are bur
dull
and heavy in comparifon of it.
.
an And this
I
now inention the rather,becaufe the
pa.fion
of
Anger
(1f you marke
it) frrikes
upo~
ira ventura
in the,Text :doth even in a!llanner
!~ad
us by the hand un–
to
it.
one anger;to another: Gods anger, to ottrs : pod sto
e~me,
to ours .for theprefent.
For by our
angtr
for
rhepre(e~t,
we
t11rne away
fi
tUo.co'."e.
Our
anger
1S a
[tperfedeas
10
Hit.
Or,ifyou w1ll have 1t
m
termes of
Iu.ftzce,pidgmg our(elves we
jh11U
not bep1d.
ged
cfthe Lord.
.
But our
<.Anger,
and (generatly) all ouraffeCl'ionsarewellcoinparedtolime;
out of the water,
where they lhould bee hot, no
heate
app,eares in them :
in wattr
wherethey lhould be cold,rhcrethey
boile
and
take
on.
V
fed there moll:, where
rhey
fhould be leafr : and auaine leafr,where they lhould be mo!t. For, take me
a
world–
ly man and lethim but over-reach himfdfe, in fomegood bargaine, ici marter of
profit,'you
!hall
fee him fo
an;sry ,[o
out of
pa:ience
with.himfelfe,as oft it
c~frs
him
into fomedifeafe. There (!o)
1srepentance
mkmd: there,1s that whtch makes 1ta
tree,
the
Spirit of life.. ours
(for the moll: part) towards Gon is
dull and bloc1ifh
;neith~r
life
nor foule
10
lt.
·
But we may nod!:and thus about the
tree:We
are called on for
Proferte,to bring
1
I'
fomewhat(Qrth: Elfehow !hall we know,itis
a
tree,
an<J.no
log
l
Small ods or none
The
8 ,;,;"'
at all,berween a
dead.ftocke
and a
barren tree;
one brings forth as much as the other,
It
o!thc
r,,,
is the
bringing
forth,thatmakes the
difference.
.
Bringing forth
is oppolite to
lueping in,we
mull: have no
kept-inrepentance. Fimh
'it muft come,
forth
it mulr be brought. From whence
~
from
within. Carying in
(be.
fore;)
Keeping
in(now:)
•llwithin's
are againll:,uttcl'ly againft
Proferte.
,
Sr.
Iohn
faw;well,which way the world wouldgoe. Men would have
theirrepen'
tance proveresintwperagenda,
a
macterto be
Jfedde,
diJPatched,fhr~ffledup
within,
be–
tween their
confcience
aad
thun
(forfooth.) And then they would tell you great mat–
ters,what
rbey
are
within.
There, within,they have it,that they have; where no body
, can fee what they have.
V
ader the
bujbe!l
much, bur nothing on the
candlejlicke,
chat
. :myman can fee. So,in ll:ead of
Proftrte,
we lhould have
Pr.tferte,noth.ing
but
preten·
M11th.
f.l
r:
dmg.
Nay,no
Pr«jerte: Proferte
(faith St.
John:)
No
bofome repentance: Brir;git out,
fhew
it.
For,upon St.
Iohn's Pr9fertc
is grounded St.
lame's o.ftende mihi, Shew
m~
thy
Iam,>.
!''
faith:
And it h,olds,itl
repentance
too. Tell them not of a
repentance under theground;
downe
"'
the root;
within, in the
hollow
of thebarke; They will not heare of
it,Vtin
P"'llltentt!t, fola confcientia pr,e(eratttr; fed ut aliqrto etiam externa
aCl'u
adminijlret11r :
Not only
a
pretmce
or
faire fhew.
to be made of our
confcience
within,but fome
out·
ward.thmg
to
be.done
and
execretedupon
it: Somewhat to be
brot~ght
forth.
Take heed
ofthts errour, as tf
repentance
were
a
matter meerely
mental!
or
intentional!.
It
is nor,
good n.uons
en
the brainc, norgoodmotions in the minde
will ferve, thefe are but the
fap
wzthm:
Looke to the
branches,
what fee you there Look to
Profertc,
what is
brougfi~
forth.
h
llringfortb then
:And
what~
Many things doth
:ttree
bring forth,and divers.of
l(J.'
~ ~m
as
fore.mnncrs
to the/rttit,as
bozighs,and leaves,and budds
,and
blof{otnes.
Saint
Thc{ruiz it
/. nmennons none of them; paffethbythem all: fhyes at no
11
c
till hecometothe
twu.
·
J
mets
Tl
· · 1
'
fl
1
N
·
1at1s tt,t 1e
tree
was plamed for. Not to make
materia!ls,not
to
give
.
Maow:
· ot fofrthegreene
bo,.gbs
,nor thegay
bloffomes
not for anythinu but for the
frNit.
The
tree1s
or rh
t'.
·
~
b
:JJ'
'
"
· •
r
h' h.
e '"
111 ;
an..., lltforthefruit, thetehadbeene notrec. FrllltltWas,ror
w 1c Itwas.fidtfet,,andfor which it
islctgrqw :
and when thereis no longer hope
.
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