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A01453	The portraitur of the prodigal sonne liuelie set forth in a three-fold discourse.1. Of his progresse. 2 Of his regresse. 3. Of his ioyfull welcome home. Published by Samuell Gardiner Batchler [sic] of Diuinitie.	Gardiner, Samuel, b. 1563 or 4.	1599 (1599)	STC 11579; ESTC S105696	153,821	288

our teares that they shoulde not gush out of our soules to water and refresh vs in the middest of our extremitie Matt. 2 Wherefore kil Herode that Christ may liue slay thy sinnes that thy soule may liue If wee liue after the flesh we shal die Gal 5. but if we die to the flesh wee shal liue and Herod being dead Christ wil returne againe into Egypt As Iacob was called Iacob which signifieth a supplanter ●en 3● before hee was called Israel which is seeing God so wee must first bee Iacob and supplant our sinnes and take them by the hee●● as Iacob did Esau and giue them a fall before wee can be Israelites and see God and be partakers of his kingdome ●od 19 As God gaue commandement to stone the beast which would approch and touch the mountaine so we drawing neere by heauenly meditations to Gods most holy mountaine it is enioined vs to kill the beast our sensuall pleasures and sinfull lusts which are nothing else but beastly Wherefore poure out thy heart like water We must repent our selues of all our sinnes Lament 2 as Hieremy exhorteth thee before the face of God like water not like honie oyle or wine If any other liquour beside water bee poured out of a vessell somewhat of the liquour will hang vnto the sides or remaine in the bottome especiallie clammy and limie substance as oyle and honey or at the least the sauour of that liquour is still retained and remaineth in the cup if both these faile yet will the glasse vessell or cup draw vnto it the outward colour of that liquor as it were wholie altered and changed into that colour But water doth none of these for it runneth out clearely it leaueth neither substance colour or sauour at all behind it Therefore we must as the Prophet warneth poure forth our spirits like water as to our power we may leaue no remainder no dregs no substance no shewe of sinne behind vs but poure it out al out of the vessels of our hearts Wherefore as God commanded Saul to destroy Amalech and to reserue no creature aliue 1. Sam 15 neither sheepe or oxen or any other thing Rom. 6. so God commandeth vs vtterly that we doe abolish the whole body of sinne that no part of sinne bee kept aliue in vs. When as the Israelites were vnder Pharao his bondage Exod. 10 and when as Israell was to sacrifice vnto the Lorde Pharao spake thus vnto Moses and to Aaron Go sacrifice vnto the Lord only let your sheep and cattel remaine Hee would haue a pledge and assurance of their returne and so would the Diuell haue of his captiues whome hee holdeth in there sinne when they should depart from their sinne by true repentance and returne vnto GOD. Hee would haue some sinne that wee shoulde not repent of that we may leaue as a pawne in his hande of our comming againe But aunswere thou the Diuell as Moses and Aaron did aunswere Pharao All our Cattell shall goe with vs their shall not remaine a hoofe behinde vs there shal no sinne tarrie behinde vs all shall be slaine and vtterly destroied As the Angell when he deliuered Peter out of prison Act. 1● hee willed him to girde himselfe and to binde on his sandales not to leaue them behind him least hee should bee mooued to retire againe for them so wee going out of the prison of sinne let vs not leaue anie sinne behinde which maie cause vs to returne and may drawe vs backe after it Leuit. 8 The Bullocke that was slaine by Aaron the priest for a sinne offering was not onelie sacrificed but also all the fatte that was vppon the inwardes the kall of the liuer and the two kidneyes with their fatte were burnt vppon the altar yea the Hyde the flesh the doung was burnt with fire without the hoast as the Lord had commaunded Moses So wee for our attonement must offer this sinne offering wee must burne with fire and consume all our sinnes the very doung and excrements must be done away there must bee nothing left We must serue sin as the altars of idolatry Deut. 7 which God commanded should be throwne downe and crushed in peeces Our sinnes which we haue worshipped must be serued as the Calfe which the Israelites adored Moses grinded it to powder and gaue it to the people of Israel to drinke that so hee might be sure nothing should remaine of it But this tractate of true repentaunce Obiection will seeme needlesse to some to whome repentance it selfe seemeth needles For there be those who think that it needeth not or booteth not to repent themselues of that which cannot bee helped to bee sorrowfull for that which cannot bee called backe sinnes that are done cannot bee vndone and therefore it is in vaine to bee sorrowfull for them This is a lewd and vngodly obiection and the argument most weake Trewe it is Answere that euill deedes and actions committed cannot bee reuersed yet are they not so paste as if nothing remained present for the memorie the remorse the guilt of them remaineth It was sometime tolde a Philosopher that he ought not to mourne for his dead son because there was no remedie all the sorrowe and lamentation that he made could not reuiue him but the Philosopher answered that therefore hee had iust cause of lamenting because it coulde not bee otherwise so ought the godly to grieue that they haue sinned and also because it could not be otherwise Obiection Othersome there be who when as they see that of their sinne there hath come good as God out of euill thinges can bring good thinges to passe they thinke this kind of sinne hath a priuiledge and protection and that it is not to bee repented of of vs. Shall we repent our selues say they of that which hath done vs so much good nay let vs rather bee glad of it and reioice There was a religious woman by profession who hauing had two base children being willed by hir confessour in time to bee sorrowfull for this loose and lewde behauiour she answered that there was no reason of that for as much as those children proued so good men the one beeing the great schooleman Gratian and the other Peter Lombarde the maister of the Sentences she rather wished that she had more such children shee was so far from sorrowing for those which she already had Answere But this conceite is as idle as the former and hath no reason in it The Apostle setteth it down as a flat conclusion and Canon in diuinitie that we must not sinne that good may come of it Shall we sinne then saith he that grace may abound Rom. 6 Nay God forbid How shall wee that are dead to sinne liue yet therein Wherefore let vs who are burdened with our sinnes come before God in a godlie sorrowe for them that he might ease vs of them Let the straie sheepe returne vnto his shepheard the sicke

he imploieth all his seruants about him to adorne and set him forth and prouide a banquet for him He would thus cloath him to shew vs what account he maketh of him how highly hee honoreth him as his owne darling though the other woulde haue sued to be but his hyreling He willeth his officers to fetch him the best or the first roabe His roabe what it was and to adorne him with it This first roabe was his first dignitie which Adam lost and Christ redeemed Innocency and holinesse and the grace of God with the which he was first cloathed wherby he was cloathed like vnto the sun in beauty and brightnes With this roabe was Adam first inuested but by his wilful departure from his father he was stripped of it So as we his sonnes who do treade in his steps are subiect to his miseries and may with him bee ashamed of our nakednes But God in his Christ Christ is our roabe to vs his prodigall conuerted sonnes hath restored vs our robe for hee is the garment which we must put on according to that which the Apostle Paule saith Rom. 13 Put yee on the Lord Iesus Christ Hee is the wedding garment mentioned in the gospel Matt. 22 without which wee may not presse vnto the heauenly banquet His righteousnes in vs is the garment of our elder brother by which we must attaine the blessing of our father as Iacob by putting on the garment of Esau obtained the blessing of his father Isaack This is he vpon whom the kingly harper diuinelie descanteth in this dainty ditty O my God thou art exceeding glorious Psal 104 thou art cloathed with maiestie and honor In him behold the great wonder in heauen a woman cloathed with the sunne Reuel 12 If so bee therefore we doe weare his cloth and become his seruants if we put on his merits and obedience our sinnes shall be couered and our nakednes shall bee no more seene Wherefore bestow thou no more labor vpon the olde rags which Adam hath left thee Sowe no longer paultry fig leaues and rotten pieces together for thy paines will be lost and it will not acquite the cost which thou bestowest on them It happeneth sometime that a poore creature hath a garment so olde and spent with wearing A similitude as if it take a rent it cannot be stitched vp for the threads doe breake asunder they are so rotten and decaied with vse as they are not firme enough to sustaine a newe thread or to beare a needle so our robe of rebellion which wee doe carrie about vs hath beene worne so bare by our ancient and long continuance in sinne as there is no repairing it but wee must leaue it as beggars doe their rags 1. Cor. 1 and cast it vpon the hedge and wee must put on a new garment euen Iesus Christ Our wisdom iustification sanctification and redemption For he is as Chrysost very wel doth say vnto the people of Antioch Chrysost ad pop Antioche ●um hom 21 Rom. 6 all in all vnto vs our table our house our garment our head our roote To this ende doth Paule say Whosoeuer bee baptized in Christ must put on Christ as hee is raised vp from the deade by the glory of his father so wee also should walke in newnesse of life nowe we put on Christ Iesus by a liuely faith Ambrose and doe weare him about vs euen as Stephen beeing in earth touched him in heauen 2. Tim. 4 This is to bee diligently obserued of vs and the rather bicause there are erroneous spirits wholy led by the doctrine of Diuels who do bumbast themselues with their owne righteousnes destroying that righteousnes which is by faith Reuel 3 They do but flatter and deceiue themselues with a v●in opinion of that which is not in them as the L●●d●niā● whō the spirit taxeth saying Thou saiest I am rich and increased with goods haue need of nothing knowest not how thou art wretched and miserable and p●ore and blind and naked I counsaile thee to buy of me gold tried by the fire that thou maiest bee made rich and white raiment that thou maiest be cloathed and that thy filthy nakednesse do not appeare Such as go strouting ietting about bragging of their workes are like vnto the souldiours against whom in times past king Agesilaus did fight in battell who beeing the leanest and most carionlie creatures which the worldes eye coulde see they quilted and embossed the quarters of their garments with huge flappes and borders to appeare huge and mightie to terrifie their enemies but after they were vanquished and slaine in the field and stripped of these vestments their lanke and thinne sides appeared to their viewe and the enemie scorned them So if we disrobe iusticiaries and meritmongers of their bragging borders of their conceited and counterfeit righteousnes and lay them naked to the eye of the worlde they will appeare the most apish and ridiculous persons as anie one can beholde It is vanitie to sooth and please our selues in that which we ought to bee ashamed of for the wages of our merits is death Psal 51 We are borne in sinne and conceiued in iniquitie Iob. 9 Iob. 25. saith the kinglie Prophet I feared all my workes saith that iust man Iob. The starres in Gods sight are vncleane much more a vilde man saith the same saint If wee consider our owne merits wee must despaire sayth the auncient father Hierome Hieron in 6 Esay Hee that trusteth not to his good workes nor hopeth with himselfe by his workes to be iustified he hath onelie the hope of saluation and the mercies of the Lord sayth reuerend Basil Basilius Being iustified by faith wee haue peace with God through our Lorde Iesus Christ as the holie Ghost teacheth vs. Wherefore let vs with the foure and twentie Elders Reuel 4 spoken of in the Apocalips Take off the Crownes from our heads and lay them downe at the feete of the Lambe Whatsoeuer worke we do let vs lay it at the feete of Christ who woorketh in vs as Paule teacheth who speaking of his labours that they exceeded others he stoppeth and correcteth himselfe saying Not I but the grace of God in me We are of our selues as the prodigall sonne verie poorelie and filthily attyred It is God the father in his dear sonne who clotheth vs in costly and imbrodered garments with a vesture of gold wrought about with diuerse colours Wherefore giue glorie to God my sonne as Iosua Iosu● ● said to Achan and boast not of thy selfe The sixth Chapter Of his ring and shooes which were giuen vnto him AS he richly araieth him with a royall to be so he further graceth him adorning him with a ring This ring serued for a signet and seale of the couenant and last will which hee maketh with him namely that hee would become his God and hee should bee numbred among his people that he