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The penitent
Publican's
firll
m~ving
was,
he we.nt up tu the templetttpray.
Let them
}<l".>.r7·
pray and fay:
Spartthypeople o
L o
It
.o,
andgtve notoverthmernbmtancetobear,.
lon.;.
s.
proch tmtotheheathen : (
fatth I o •
L,
1~
Ius repentance.
)Let
them cry mightily
rmto
theLo
n o,(faytheyof2'{!mve, mthms.) Aniltheprayer.iofDAv
I
o, IoN
As
MA,; Ass
11
s,
fort heir owne finnes : of D
AN I • L,
E z
R A,
N •
H • M I As
fo;
chefinnesoftheLand; andinaword, the
Penitential! Pfalmei
lhew this, that;vcre
chofen forno other end bucto bee a taskc for
penitentia!lperfonn
Thete is one
frilit.
·
z
u!lmesis
another1 A
fruit,
and fo (by the name of
fr,uii)
expreffely called
Rom;
Pro.ir..r7.
I5. 28.
For,
by mercyjhewed,jinnesarefHrgiven
(faithS A
L
o
M
oN:)
Hethatfeckes
mmy istofhewmercy,Pro.
I6,6.
Da
NI • L
(youheard)didprefcribeittonoleffe
perfon than the
King
himfelfe at
Babylo».
And the fame at
I
emfalem
was a
frRittoo :
wimeffe
E[ay.58. Breake thy breud to the htmgry,made
by him, there,a part ofcrucre.
pentane
e.
And
Zachee
!hewed as much in his owne happy practice upon himfelfe,of
Luk.r,
s.
ourS AvI ouR C
H R
1sT's
highappr~bation.
There is another
fruit.
3
Faffing
is a third fruit : and that a fpeciall one, and fo hath
alwai~s
been reputed,
,s,m.u.•
&.
Itappeareth bythethree'Kings.
King
DAv
i
o
whowasareligiosu Prince:
Not
• Rcg. "· •7·
onely by him, but by
King
A
HA •
who was fcarcefound in
religion.
Nor by rhem
lon.J·
6
·
only, but by the
King of
N'
N 1
v • a
heathen man,
who, even by the
light o{Natort,
brouaht forth this
fruit.
b
\Vh:tt there
worker
are in
gtiftra!J.
We name it lafi, but it
is
(indeed) firll: Firfi in
Nature;
fitl!:,
quoadnos.
Firll, in
nature,
a~
oppolite rothe
firft tnrnfgrefion,
which was by
eating.
Firll(l am fure)
quuadnos,
(peaking ofus and ourcounrry.
Excejfe
that \vay, infare and feeding,hath
beeneand is counted our
Gentilcvitimn,
our
~tionallfault.
So,
nofmit,
tlmour
Nation is more boundtoftringforth,than it.For
Efca ventri,andvmter
efciJ,
meat
for
the
belly,
a11dthe
belly
f~tr
meat,
it no where rcigneth fo much,
This is athird
(mit.
A
fruit,
which if we would frame our felves to bring forth irr kind, there would
come with it both the other
fruits
befides. For ifwee could
io
(aft
as wee lhould it
would abate
luft
cenainelv; which otherwife, keeps the
body high,
you !hall hardly
bring low : (thatfmit.) And, ifwe could fo
f'!ft,
it would mend our
devotion
much;
our
Praym
would not befofull of
yawning
as we find them: (that
fruit.)
And ifwe
could fo
{4/,
there would bethemore lefrtCJ enable us to befo much themoreplen·
tifull in
AlmeJ
than we be: (thatfmit.) So as a good encrcafe or yeeld would come
ofthis third
fmit
well brought forth.
•
T hefe
three
in fpeciall arechofen out; but in gencrall, any as well as thefe. There
is.a way, how it is poflible, there is not a
vertue
of them all, but you may make the
workc ofitafruit
of
repentavce.
In moral! m:mers it holds ever:
Finis dat fom;am,tht
end(that)givestheforme,and
fothetrue'effince to every
rvorke:
Infomuch as
theworke
is reckoned
afruit,
not ofthat
verttte
from whence it proceeds, by which it is done;
but ofthat
vertue
to which it rcfcrres, for whofe
end
it is done.
Nay,it falls out often fo,as an act ofvcttuc(as
Pray.r, Faffing, u!lmes)
done for a
vitiom
end(fuppof~,for
v•in.glory
)lofeth his ownekind, and becomes the proper
ac1
ofthatvice,it is done for. So powerful! athing is the
End, in moralibsu.
Whereby it
comes to paffe,l:he worke ofany
vertttt,
be it what it will,undertaken with amind and
intent
(or,
as wee fay)
animo corrigendi,
enjoyned
eo nomine,
referred to that,
alters the nature, and becomes a worke
oflt~jlite
correflive,
and foa
fmit
of
repen–
tance.
For, even in thefe three before remembred,fo
it
goes.
Almn,
ofit felfe, isa worke
of
ChArity :
Famng(properly)an actofthevertue;,"e,a,;.,
abffinence: Prayerofhis
owne nature, a wotke of
religiotu Jvorfhip.
But,
Almes
donefomeway toamcrceout
felves
:Failing
done
animo caffigandi cor/'."' : Prayerimpofed
as a
t.uk-wo~kc,to
(pend
fo
much time, to lland fo long bent at lt : all thefe thus referred lllll with an eye
to
that,ch~nge
their nature
;irtd
become
11fls
penafl,
and fo
fruits
of
Repcntllnc(.
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