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A04503	An excellent treatise touching the restoring againe of him that is fallen written by the worthy, Saint Chrysostome to Theodorus a friend of his, who by leud liuing, was fallen from the Gospell; fit to read for reclaiming their hearts which are in like case. Englished (out of an auncient Latin translation, written in velume) by R.W. With an annexed epistle of comfort from one friend to another, wherin the Anabaptists error of desperation is briefly confuted, and the sinne against the holy Ghost plainly declared.	John Chrysostom, Saint, d. 407.; Cottesford, Thomas. Epistle of comfort.; Wolcomb, Robert, b. 1567 or 8.	1609 (1609)	STC 14631; ESTC S121653	61,720	216

in many things and assisting them often that conuersion on the sudden may not be vnpleasant to them and that they may not goe againe to lewdnes for the difficulty of returning But not this parable onely declareth the moderatenesse of alteration but that likewise which is written of the prodigall sonne Luke 15. He was a sonne also no aliant his naturall brother that neuer went from his father he I say was a sonne that went far in the borders of iniquitie for he went into a farre countrey and farre from the Lord he that was rich and of good name was made baser then a seruant and hireling but sorrowfully returning he was taken into his ancient estate and inuested in his former glorie Now if he had lost hope and had beene ashamed to come againe to his father because of his mischanches and had a●ode alway in a straunge and forren countrey hee had not gotten that he gat but perishing for want of food had died a miserable death You see therefore how great necessitie repentance hath what force in turning hope hath by repentance the prodigall sonne recouered the olde condition of his glory which the elder brother had without repentance And if I might speake that I would in these matters me seemeth he gat more by conuersion than the other had ver 26.30 For so he himselfe saith loe these many yeeres haue I done thee seruice and yet thou neuer gauest me a kid that I might make mery with my friends Sinners conuerted get more thē they which stumbled not But when this thy sonne was come which hath deuoured thy goods with harlots thou hast for his sake killed the fat calfe Why should I not then think that he that turneth by repentance obtaineth more then other sith he had neuer a kid giuen him but for this the fat calfe was killed Wherefore beloued hauing these examples of repentance let vs not persist in euils nor despaire of attonement he will neuer put affiance in me turne his eyes from the conuerted if we our selues remooue not our selues from God Hier. 23.23 Our sins separate vs from God Isai 59.2 For he saith I am a God at hand and not a God farre off And againe by the Prophet * Or your iniquities haue separated betweene you and your God Your sinnes separate betweene me and you If then our sinnes disseuer vs from God let vs take away this barre and nothing may let vs to be brought into the fauour of God Will you that I shew it not onely spoken in parables but formed in deed There was a man among the Corinthians by all likelihood of no small calling he had committed such a sinne as was not committed amongst the Gentiles being of the numbe of ●he faithfull and Christs his ●riends for some report mee ●hinketh that he was of the ●mage of the Priests What ●hen Paul neuer parted him ●rom the number of those that ●ope to attaine saluation But when he had sufficiently rebu●ed the Corinthians for him ●urposing to shew that there ●s no wound nor disease that may not bee cured and made whole by repentance he commaundeth to deliuer him ouer ●nto Sathan 1. Cor. 5.5 for the destru●tion of the flesh that the spirit may be saued in the day of the ●ord Iesus But this he commaundeth before he was done ●o wit of his repentance for when he had sorowed it is ●ufficient saith he to him 2. Cor. 2.6 that ●e hath beene rebuked of many and addeth 8. Wherefore I ●ray you that you would con●irme your loue towards him ●est Sathan should circum●ent vs 11. for we are not ignorant of his enterprises The nation of the Galathians after it had perfectly beleeued in Christ and had receiued the holy Ghost insomuch that it wrought signes and miracles by the spirit after for the faith of Christ it had susteined many things after al these things I say it fell from the faith and was renued againe by the exhortations of the Apostle And that thou maist know that by the spirit they had done wonders and miracles heare howe the Apostle saith hee therfore that ministreth to you the spirit Gal. 3.5 and worketh miracles among you doth he it by the workes of the law or by the hearing of faith preached And againe that they had susteined many things after the receit of faith he testifieth where he saith Vers 4. Haue you suffered so many things in vaine Now after so great a steppe in faith they committed a sinne which was able to abalienate them from Christ of which the Apostle himselfe saith Gal. 5.2 Behold I Paul say vnto you that if you be circumcised Christ shall profite you nothing And againe Verse 4. whosoeuer are iustified by the law yee are fallen from grace And notwithstanding after these slides in faith after so grieuous a fall hee reclaimeth them and as I may say with motherlike compassion reformeth them saying My little children Gal. 5.19 of whom I trauell in birth againe vntill Christ be formed in you What else therefore by all this is there taught but that it may be that Christ may be formed anew in him that hath solde himselfe to worke iniquitie for he will not the death of a sinner Eze. 18.32 but that he should be conuerted and liue For this cause most intirely beloued let vs goe about to fulfill the will of God therefore hath God created vs and caused vs to be that we were not that he may bestow euerlasting good things vpon vs Heauen was made for man hell for the diuils and enfranchise vs into the heauenly city for hee made vs not faggots for hell fire The kingdome of heauen was ordained for vs and hell for the diuell And that this is true the Gospell teacheth for the Lord shall say to them on his right hand Mat. 25.34 Come ye blessed of my father inherite yee the kingdome prepared for you from the foundation of the world Vers 42. But hee shall say to them on his left hand depart from mee yee curs●d into euerlasting fire which is prepared for the diuell and his Angels By this reason the kingdome of heauen was made for man and hell fire for the diuell euen from the foundation of the world So much doth it concerne vs that by preseruering in euils wee doe not frowardly exclude our selues from the entrance of goodnes Repentance in this life profiteth much after this life nought And while we are in this life how great soeuer sinnes we commit it is possible by repentance to purge them but when we are once dead then though we sorrie and we shal be very be sorrie yet there will bee no profite of repentance Although there be gnashing of teeth although there be howling and lamenting although we pray and begge with innumerable petitions yet none shall heare vs none shall helpe vs no not our tongue tormēted in flames shall be wet

who waite vpon him and suppose our selues wretched if we bee not vouchsafed any place amongst them though we know the weaknes and instability of th●se terrene things somtimes for forreine warres sometimes for ciuill conterwaits and sometimes for malicious spite yet howsoeuer it bee it grieueth those that haue fallen thence How then shall it not much more vexe vs if with the highest king who holdeth the whole globe of the earth Isai 40. not a part thereof onely yea who holdeth it in his fist who measureth the heauen with an hand breadth who supporteth each thing by the word of his power who reckoneth the Gentiles as nothing yea as spettle with this I say when he bestoweth honour that shal last for euer we haue no place neither be numbred among his seruants Will it not pinch vs more then any paine But peraduenture thou sayest it will suffice vs to escape hell albeit wee bee not thought worthy of the sight of the King What more vnhappy and wretched soule is there than to which this is sufficient Supposest thou that the King wherof we speake shall come to iudge the earth carried in Chariots of Mules or in gilded waggons or with the terrible power of a diademe Nay harken how the Prophets foretold as much as might be declared to men the comming of Christ One of them saith thus Our God shall come Psal 50.3 and shall not keepe silence a fire shall deuour before him and a mighty tempest shall be mooued round about him he shall call the heauen aboue and the earth to iudge his people And harken how another to wit Isaiah sheweth the diuerse sorts of punishments these are his wordes Behold the day of the Lord commeth cruel with wrath Isai 13.9 and firce anger to lay the land wast and he shall destroy the sinners out of it For the starres of heauen Verse 10. and the planets thereof shall not giue their light the Sunne shall be darkened in his going forth and the Moone shall not cause her light to shine Verse 11. And I will visit the wickednes vpon the world and their iniquitie vpon the wicked and I wil cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease I will make a man more precious then fine Gold Verse 12. euen a man aboue the wedge of gold of Ophir Verse 13. Therefore I will shake the heauen and the earth shall remooue out of her place in the wrath of the Lord of hoasts and in the day of his fierce anger And againe hee saith the windowes from on high are open Jsa 24.18 and the foundations of the earth doe shake The earth is vtterly broken downe 19. the earth is cleane dissolued the earth is exceedingly mooued The earth shall reele too and fro like a drunken man 20. and shall be remoued like a tent the iniquity thereof shal be heauy vpon it so that it shal fall and rise no more And in that day 21. shal the Lord visit the hoa●t aboue that is on high euen the Kings of the world that are vpon the earth and they shal be gathered together as the prisoners in the pit and they shall be shut vp in prison And the Prophet Malachies words are consonant hereto Malac. 3. Verse 1.2 Behold he shall come saith the ●ord of hoasts But who may abide the day of his comming and who shall indure when he appeareth For he is like a purging fire and like fullers s●pe Verse 3. And hee shall sit downe to fine and try the siluer he shall euen fine the sons of Leuie and purifie them as gold and siluer Chap. 4.1 And againe he saith for behold the day commeth that shall burne as an ouen and all the proud yea and all that doe wickedly shall bee as stable and the day that commeth shall burne them vp saith the Lord of hoasts and shall leaue them neither roote nor branch And another of the Prophets saith Dan. 7.9 I beheld till the thrones were set vp and the auncient of daies did sit whose garment was white as snow and the haire of his head like pure wooll Verse 10 A fiery streame issued and came forth from before him the iudgement was set and the bookes opened And a little after Vers 13. as I beheld in visions by night beholde one like the sonne of man came in the cloudes of heauen and approached vnto the auncient of these dayes and they brought him before him And he gaue him dominion Vers 14. and honour and a Kingdome that all people nations and languages should serue him his dominion is an euerlasting dominion which shall neuer be taken away and his kingdome shall neuer bee destroyed Vers 15. I Daniel was troubled in my spirit in the midst of my body and the visions of mine head made me afraid So then when these things shall begin the gates of heauen shall be opened yea rather the very heauen shall be taken away as if the couerings of a pauilion were drawne together to wit that it may be restored and transfigured into better Then all things shall be in feare amazednesse and trembling shall fill euery place Then also feare shall shake the Angels and not the Angels alone but perchance the Archangels thrones dominions rules and powers For this is signified where it is said I will shake the heauen Jsai 13.13 for they are the fellow seruants of them that must bee iudged and must giue an account of this life If when one Citie is to bee iudged by the iudges of this world other feare and shake although it be not for great danger like to insue when the vniuersal world shall come to be iudged of him that lacketh not witnesse that doth not seek arguments that doth not require an orator for the cause but all these things being remooued that doth reueale the deeds wordes and thoughts of men that placeth each thing in open sight and heweth euery fact as it wrre in a painted table before the eyes both of the transgressors and the beholders how much more shall euery creature bee mooued with feare And if then no fierie streame should issue forth neither the terrible Angels or greesely executioners should stand by but if thus onely it were that men should be called before the king and some should be praysed and honoured other some without honour cast to confusion if men did onely suffer this punishment would it not surpasse the torments of hell that when other were endowed with gifts of the king they should shamefully suffer the repulse Which paine how vntolerable it is although speech now may not declare yet then shall we cleerely perceiue it when we come to experience Furthermore besides all these anguishes of torments fet before your eyes not confusion alone and vtter shame but the way how men are drawne to fire and deliuered vp to racking Thinke vpon those cruell and vgly tortors which throw sinners downe headlong

and in that time in which other that haue done well by the bright and gentle Angels being caried before the high throne of the euerlasting king shall be rewarded with immortall gifte These things are accidents to that day iudgement time but that which ensueth what tong can tell What pleasure what ioy shall it be to be with Christ when the soule camming to her proper vigor shall with confidence begin to looke on God none can declare the greatnes of that ioy For she triumpheth not alone for the fruit on of the things present but shee reioyceth much more because shee knoweth there shall be no end of her blessednes And howbeit no speech can set forth that gladnes and mirth nor any thought ōtaine it yet seeing as it were a certaine shadow of the thing to come we will also endeuour to acquaint you with it Demand we of the rich welthy of this world who vaunt in honors power with what gladnesse they are puffed out With how great delectation and pleasure they are in loue with these things so that sometime they carry their noses very high in the wind And that though they themselues know that these things are neither right happy nor yet euerlasting but vanish away sooner then a dreame which if they indure while this life remaineth if we make the most of them we can they can indure no longer Wherefore if men are so exceeding ioyous for fraile and transitory things with what ioy shall wee thinke those soules to be filled which haue gotten heauenly and eternall b●sse In which both quantity and quallity differeth so much from the other in excellency for all that in this life we account them good so that neither eye hath seene Isai 64.4 1 Cor. 2.9 nor eare hath heard nor heart as yet hath vnderstood them For as a little one is in the belly of his mother so are we in the world in wrapped straitely in darkenesse and cannot behold the light and liberty of the world to come But when the time shall come Such corne as we sow here such bread shal wee eate in the world to come that this world shal trauell in birth with vs and shal bring forth into the brighnes of the future world all it hath conceiued if any shall bee found by the meanes of sinne putrified or not of full growth they goe from darkenes to harkenes from tribulation to more bitter tribulation But they that shall be perfect and like vnto the king she proffereth to the father as a worthy issue to be placed in the ministery of Angels and in the seates of Archangels Therfore will you goe that way my friend that the countenance and kingly beauty of thy soule may bee polluted and this world at the last reiectt thee but repaire quickly the Image of thy father repaire thy vertue beauty and gallantnes that among other thou mayest be knowne of thy father The soule must be pollished more thē the body and God hath thus appointed The beauty of the body God hath limited with certaine naturall bonds but the beauty of the soule he hath made free and subiect to no necessity which leaueth far behind the comlines of the body Insomuch that the trimnes of our soule is at the back of God yet in our power For if the Lord had graunted vs licence to vse our owne fancy in our bodilie brauery we should haue beene burdened with superfluous and naught inaileable cares spending all the time of our life in them whereby the soule must needes not be docked Sith euen now when we haue no power ouer the trimnes of our bodies we so carke and care that by all possible meanes we polish them assaying by the painting of colours by the frisling of our haires by the roaling of our eyes by variety of vestiments by exquisite practises to augment our bodily b●auery But how much more conuenient were it for vs to goe about to garnish the soule wherein the true beauty is and such as may by vs daily be made more beautifull Yet we on the contrary consume the whole race of our life in spoyling the mistresse and in adorning the maiden leauing the mistresse like a vile bond-woman vntrimmed bespotted vtterly couered with all vnseemely sluttishnes When as God for this cause exempted vs from the carke of this body and inclosed it within the bonds of nature least being occupied in needles cares Soules defiled with sin may bee trimmed againe wee should neglect the beautifying of our soule whose beauty and brauenesse albeit it be brought to extreame pollution yet by our labour and diligence shee may be restored to notable gaynesse and be recouered so farre that shee may not onely bee admired of all good men but be desired and loued of the king himselfe who is Lord of all As the Prophet speaketh to it in the Psalmes The king shall haue pleasure in thy beauty Psa 45.11 Often times experience proueth that of those women which haue beene inured to common brothelrre if any bee somewhat handsome for fairenes sake she hath beene vnited in matrimony to some good man and hath beene drawne to honestie How much rather will not God contemne ne dispise the soules which haue fallen from their diuine excellency by the tyranny of the diuel into the brothelhouse and stewes of this present life You shall find that the Prophets haue vsed these examples when they spake to Hierusalem for she played the dishonest woman and went a whoring after a strange sort as sheweth the Prophet Ezechiel Eze. 16.33 saying they giue gifts to all other whoores but thou giuest gifts vnto thy louers and the contrary is in thee from other women Verse 34. And againe another saith thou hast sitten vpon the way waiting for them as a desolate * C. quaile Or thou hast sit waiting for them in the wayes as the Arabian in the wildernesse Iere. 3.2 chough This people which had so played the harlot the Lord reclaimed to himselfe for their captiuitie was not so much for their punishment as for their amendment For if in case God would haue punished and destroyed them withal he would not haue brought them home againe to their natiue soile neither would haue caused them to reedifie with greater magnificency their Citie and Temple which were ouerthrowen the glory saith he of this last house Hagg. 2.10 shall be greater then the first So then if God doe not forbid repentance to those that haue so manifoldly practised whooredome he will much more willingly reclaime thy soule which now first hath grieuously falne God is iealous ouer our soules The reason is for that no carnall louer though neuer so hoate can bee so ielous ouer the loue of his de●ling as God is kindled with the loue of our soules Which albeit dayly it may bee gathered yet it may be apparantly proued out of the word of God In a word read that is spoken of God