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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
father_n	cry_v	son_n	spirit_n	14,758	5	6.2887	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27605	The general inefficacy and insincerity of a late or death-bed repentance with earnestest disswasives from committing our eternal condition, to that infinite hazard, and a full resolution of the case, how far a death-bed repentance is possible, to be sincere and effectual.	Beverley, Thomas.	1670 (1670)	Wing B2147; ESTC R18995	57,818	104

when by repentance a man Isai 1. 16 17. Mat. 3. 8. ceases to do evil he learns to do well and brings forth fruits meet for repentance and amendment of life On the other side he that seems to make a hasty motion to Holiness without due sense of sin first thinks to overrule the method God hath set who requires humiliation godly sorrow anger revenge fear as preparing to Repentance and further he conceipts a freedom to himself when he is fetter'd and bound without a power given him from God he offers to cast out Devils with ease that cannot be cast out Mat. 9. 29. but by fasting and prayer that is severe courses of self abasement and lowliest dependances together with earnestest application to the Grace of God These unclean spirits therefore that dissemble a retreat return immediately and make a prey of Acts 19. 14 c. the deluded soul Although Heaven and Hell happiness and misery take up the thoughts of the true penitent yet not separated from God and Christ but as it were melted into the sense of God angry and the desire of attonement with him in Jesus Christ Happiness and misery considered apart are not the object of the gracious soul But God and Christ considered apart are an infinitely sufficient reason of Repentance The clear love of God towards the soul as a Father in Christ without reflections upon happiness is though not the single yet the paramount consideration in Repentance unfeigned But men a dying are generally so over possessed with the terrors of an eternal suffering and meer desires of Freedom from pa●n and of well-being and so in haste that they generally miss these higher considerations which being further of not only from corrupt nature but even from natural conscience are not commonly espied but therefore argue greater sincerity and truth of Heart The truest Repentance lies in the bosome of Faith the apprehensions of the love and goodness of God in Christ melt the soule and give it most perfect Separation from sin the most effectual purification of the Heart all which express the height of repentance Upon the so●t fire of the pardoning goodness of God the soul most kindly distils into repentant tears Here flowes that Spirit of Grace and ingenuous goodness which bringeth forth the clearest and holiest affection towards God But at the time we are now speaking of It is very seldom that either horror or presumption do not swallow all Presumption where there is little sense or judgment of the Case Horror where the judgment is clearer and the sense quicker for every thing Rom. 8. 15 disposes now rather to Fear and to the Spirit of Bondage and a man naturally does all he does under a servile dread of God and his eternal Justice And though there may be much mention of Christ and desire of mercy through him yet it is but as a malefactor convicted beseeches the mercy of the Judge no otherwise than as of a Judge So such call out for the mercy of God to pardon them but still as a Judge not with the Spirit of the Son sent into the Cal. 4. 6. Heart the spirit of Adoption crying Abba Father Not with that Love that casteth out unworthy Fear And indeed how can it be otherwise there having been no Iob 22. 21 acquaintance with God in the way but a long enmity and the time now too strait for a free and full consideration of the riches of Grace such as may still an awakened conscience Fear presses in every way and shuts out Faith What can novv redeem the soul from this hellish Terror but a light from Heaven immediately darting into it a Grace above that Grace that ordinarily saves men for a vvell setled trust and confidence in mercy according to the general Rule is not but after some sad debates and experimental consultations that have passed betvveen the sense of sin and the affiancing acts of the soul upon Christ This Repentance then is in great danger of missing the spirit of the Gospel and falling into the rank of those repentances of Cain Esau Judas Thus I have endeavoured to shew that though we suppose a Dying man to spread his soul and thoughts every way and to all the parts of Repentance yet it is extremely to be suspected there will want the true and right quality of them in regard of the very disadvantageous circumstances wherein such an one is found and the great unfitness of the soul at that time to begin to do any thing worthy to which it hath not been before inured or if it did begin it would be much more unlikely to bring forth fruit as our Saviour speakes to perfection Luke 8. 14. I add nothing of the exercises of a full and well grown Repentance whereby it is dayly espying the risings of sin and suppressing them and filling up the defects of Holiness and Obedience because they are not to be thought possible in the point I am now speaking of and I have already given a resolution in that case I shall now set my self to find out the low causes that are alway to be suspected to have the great influence upon such a latter end penitency In general therefore we must take notice that there are several vapors of misapprehension rising upon the Soul when we are a dying that do so disguize it to it self and disfigure the true face of it that from thence arise dangerous mistakes concerning a mans condition towards God We see into how many shapes upon ordinary occurrences we change and how easily we exchange them for quite different without any good cause what continual Ebbs and Flows there are of the humours and how do these cast the ballance of the superiour soul One man is every hour some several sorts of men How much more do great Accidents and removes out of one condition into another alter us Which yet are but the sudden and just now state of our minds upon such alterations which not continuing we return to our former figure Vnstable and weak as water Gen. 49 3 we take the form of every vessel we are put into who knows then whether his Dying Repentance be any more than the mould not of his mind but of his dying condition approaching him big with so great a change We know many things befal us in our lives which put a greater sense of Religion upon us than we find at other times and yet how variable we are our goodness at such times is as the morning Dew Hose 6. 4. and as the early Dew it goeth away How often are we from the occasions of mercies afflictions fears hopes good discourses carried into high apprehensions of God And we lose them again we know not how Now out of doubt a dying condition of any thing vve meet vvith in the World is most apt to move us upon God and a sense of him But can vve think those fleeting shoots of the Soul that