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SermonS.
and
FAsTING.
of
fruits,
wefaidat firlt,
two
Vfes there arc:
Fir.ft,
to be offered
as
aprc[ent:
So,
'I;he
Yfto£
I
AC 0 ;
fentthem to the*
Governollr
of
./Egypt.
For the
fir~: ~e
havepn all)
bu~ :~~~~~~
;.
three things to offer unto Go
v,dto prefident,
ro
11
ho~o;_r Huuf~~ttl~, /h~
h
Spmt
_(or
•i•g.
iff
Sot~le)•
thebody, aodlourworllygoo
".'
T
eoJJermgo
t
e_,o"ets,te~ownng
' Gcn. 43 .u,
it out in
prayer,
and other
workes
ofthat ktnde•.
2
~fthe
body,
the
chaJfemngitby
ex-
ercifes that way tending • ;
0
four
goods,
by d1flnbuung and dumg goodWith them
in
Almcs
and
ojforings.
.
.
.
,
.
Suppotin"the
Jinne-ojformgm
the
Law
bell: to futte With repentance (as it doth.)
Pr<il
•
'A
forrowjr.'!t.ffirit
is
a
fMrijice to
GoD (that we know;) • and no
reafo~?,u.t
a
cha
0
·fl·'
7 •
jlcHed body
fl
1
ould be[Q!ikewife; land why the
prtce andcharges ofthe
Sacrijzcefho~i~
not come into rhe reckonmg,
I
fee not,whiCh was parr oftheir worldly Stare ; wh1cn
being difiribured and done good withall, in meat a.nd drinke offerings,this the
Apoftle
.
.
calleth
a[acrificewherervzth
Go
vu wellpleafed.
fhe firlt Vfe otthete
frt~zts
brought
Phil.4.d.
iorth.
The
fecoHd
Vfe we fpake ofwas, as they are
medicinable.
This difference there is
2
• •
.
berweene the
prmijhmentof Ir'.flice,
and
repentance.
luflzce?t~Jerwhiiesdeffroyesthe
AraMtd.eme.
tlelinquent.;
[o
dorh
repentance
never, but faves alwayes. So, it 1s more hke the
p11ni}b-
mentof Phyjickethan
of
La1v.
For,
Phyjicke,
though it be amre, yet a
penance
it is to
the
body,
ifwedeale with it through!y,and goe through with it. And
repentance
is the
Phyjickeofchefouleandbodyboch. Sitobfecrofanatio
(faith
DA
N
r •
L)
Let
there
Dlll.4.>{~
he a
&"redone, when he exhorted him to
repent.
Botharea
mre :
as
Correc1ive
of
whatispaft,
foprejervative
(or ifyou will, you may call it
corret1ivetoo)
ofwha~
is to
come.
When the finner is
correc1ed,
bath
,correc1ion
given him, for the former,
he
correfleth
his wayes amends his'life forever afcer.
Cafligo corpus
ferves fo,rwhat
bath beene done:
In
ferviilllem redigo
ferves, that he doe itno more. Both to
wrealce
our [elves for fo often offering fo fouleindigniries
to
heaven and the Go., ofheaven, '
Cor.gJ,;;
in our formerbad courfe oflife : And to keepe l)nderchefkfh, and hold the concupi-
fceoce in awe, that it runne nor againe into the
form~r
ryot.
T.his latter, •we call
a.
'mendment oflife
;
which is nor
Repentance,
for it pertainesrarherto
ITei,,:,
than to
,..,7.,,•(being yet to come) but it never failes to follow it infallibly, in fo much as if
it
doe nor, nothing is done.
For
I
report me
eo
you : Let it be but knownc to the
.flcjb
that rhis tal).le
light
or
flerght repentance,
fhall not ferue-the turne, but to a
rormd reckoning
it fhall come and
m~ke ~ull acco~pt
t.o tafle ofthefe
fmits
rhroughly,without hope ofbeing difpenfed
With; .whether it will not take offrheedgeof our
ttppetite,
and
make it more dull and
fearefull to offend
~
On the other fide, kr it be confidered, whether this be not to
lay the
bridle
on the
neck
of
conwpifcence eo
pawre it felfe into all riot, if(/inning) it
·know,tt fhall be d1fpatched wnh any
repentance,
never fo fhort and !hallow as
doe
no
more[o,
and
All
is
well?
Whether
(I
fay) this will not make all the
fappeg~e
downe,
as
wee !hall never fee
frmt
come : Nay, whethent bee not to
d'.ftroy fmit
and
tree
and
all~
Verily, they that for purezea!e and
indignation
at themfdves forcheir.ftnnu, never
!hed a
teare,nor
milfe.a
meale,nor
breake a
jleepe,nor
d<?,nor fuffer,nor part with ought;
Jt
may fceme a queltwn, wherherchey rhmke not Samt I o
H N
here overfeenin pref:
ling that for fo
needfit/1,
whiCh they can lo eafily
dijfenfe
with.
h
Bur
if
when we come to
Ca.ftigo Corpus,
thercwdeave Saint P
A
u
L
·whento
nei-
JCor.g.• 7 ·;
t
trtatrng
nor drinking,
there weleave Saint I o
u
N •
and when to
jlevi;amar'i:
there
M•10h.
xus.'
.fi
wele~;eSaim
PE
T •
!!.,
and when
ro.,.,'~"and ,.7,;~.,
chall<>ing our
mirth
in~ope11·
?:.
6 . 15 '
vene;Je
rherewel
S ·
I
I
11
h
b
11
1
b '
eave amt
A M •
s, marve ,
w
at manner
repentan"
we wi
cave cfore we have done, or what lhall become ofour
fruits
here~
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