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A87175	Christ's first sermon, or, The absolute necessity, gospel duty, and Christian practice of repentance, opened and applied, by a godly, able, and faithful minister of Jesus Christ. ; Wherein is discovered, what repentance is, as also the great necessity thereof to salvation: with the great folly and desperate madness of all those that delay and put off repentance unto a sick bed, or old age. ; Together with the great benefit, joy, and comfort that shall be to the souls of all those that timely and truly repent.	Hart, John, D.D.	1663 (1663)	Wing H937; ESTC R177838	21,802	46

Christs First SERMON OR The absolute necessity Gospel Duty and Christian Practice of Repentance Opened and Applied by a godly able and faithful Minister of Jesus Christ Wherein is discovered what Repentance is as also the great necessity thereof to salvation with the great folly and desperate madness of all those that delay and put off their Repentance unto a Sick Bed or Old Age. Together with the great Benefit Joy and Comfort that shall be to the Souls of all those that timely and truly Repent The eleventh Edition with many Additions Matth. 4.17 From that time Jesus began to preach and to say Repent for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand Luke 13.3 Except ye Repent ye shall all likewise perish London Printed for Eliz. Andrews at the White Lion near Pye-Corner 1663. Christs first Sermon OR The absolute necessity duty and Christian Practice of REPENTANCE Acts 17.30 31. The times of this ignorance God winked at but now commandeth all men every where to repent Because he hath appointed a Day in which he will judge the world in righteouness THE Blessed Apostle Saint Paul in these words beloved endeavours to take off the superstitious Athenians from their Idolatry and worshipping of false gods gods of silver and gold which indeed are no gods but the work of mens hands and this he doth first by endeavouring to convince them of the folly of their Idolatry and then secondly in laying before them the power and goodness of God in making and preserving the world and all things therein God saith he in the foregoing verses made the world and all things therein and is Lord over all and gives to all life and breath and all things and in him we all live and move and have our being and it is he that hath set the bounds of our habitations Therefore saith he you need not think that the Godhead is like unto gold or silver or stones graven by art or mans devices for God is Lord both of heaven and earth I but say these Idolaters like some now adayes we did as our fore-fathers did they shorshipped such gods as these were of the same Religion as our fore-fathers were But saith the Apostle this was done in ignorance and the times of this ignorance God winked at your fore-fathers had not the light of the Gospel they never heard of Jesus Christ But now saith he Christ is preached the light of the Gospel shines forth in the world therefore now ye must repent and turn from these idols and serve the living God Now God commands all men every where to repent although God in times past suffered all Nations to walk in their own wayes Now hath he sent us to preach Christ unto you that you should turn from these vanities and serve the living God If your fore-fathers sinned it was through their ignorance and want of the knowledge of Jesus Christ but if you sin and go on in your idolatry it is through wilfulnes and God will be revenged on you In the words you may observe these four things first a duty commanded and that is repentance secondly the commander that is God God commandeth thirdly the persons to whom this command is enjoyned and that is all men every where high and low rich and poor all the world over fourthly and lastly the time when and that is now now God commandeth all men every where to repent now in these times of the Gospel To day if you will hear my voice saith God in Psalm 95.7 From the worlds thus opened I shall give you these four pra●tical observations The first is this that Repentance is a needful and necessary duty commanded by God Secondly that every man woman in the world is bound to repent Thirdly that the doctrine of the Gospel is a doctrine of Repentance It was Christs first Sermon as you may sée Mat. 4.16 Jesus began to preach and to say Repent Fourthly and lastly observe from these words that God expects more and looks for more from men under the Gospel then from those who never heard of the Gospel These four observations are all of them very clear from the words of the test I shall only therefore give you some few futher proofs of them from Scripture and so proceed in the opening and handling of the two first observations and from thence I shall draw sundry practical uses which I shall endeavour by Gods assistance to apply home unto your souls I shall therefore joyn the two first observations into one intire proposition thus That repentance is a needful and necessary duty commanded by God and that every man and woman in the world is bound to repent Except ye repent saith Christ Luke 13. 3 ye shall all perish And 2 Per. 3.9 God is not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance As I live saith the Lord Ezek. 33.11 I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked but that the wicked turn from his way and live Turn ye turn ye from your evil wayes for why will ye die O house of Israel And in Mat. 3.2 Repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand And so likewise in Act 2.38 Repent be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins Repentance is needful for all there are none so wise none so learned none so holy but stand in néed of repentance In many things saith St. James we sin all Jam 3.2 And in Rom. 3.23 All have sinned Young ones have sinned and therefore have need to repent that betimes lest as St. Paul saith Heb. 13●3 Through the deceitfulness of sin their hearts be hardned It s good for young ones yea it s the best course they can take as Solomon saith Eccles 12.1 To remember their Creator in the dayes of their youth and not to put off repentance unto old age or the death-bed for then it may be too late For although true repentance is never too late yet late repentance is seldom true It is a good observation of a holy man saith he speaking of the repentant Thief God saved one at the last hour that none might despair and but one that none might presume Thou that wilt not repent when thou maist it may be God will not give thée time to repent hereafter when thou wouldest Doest thou think to do that in thy old age which thou wilt not do in thy youth Canst thou do that in one hour on thy death-bed which thou art not able to do sufficiently all thy life time And then likewise old men have néed of repentance they have lived a long time in sin and have long enough yea too too long neglected repentance Young men may dye soon but old men cannot live long therefore both young and old have néed to repent that they may receive the remission of their sins Mark 1 4. And for your better understanding of this great necessary duty of repentance I

dwell together and they that dwell in it shall never dwell with God Psal 15. saith David Lord who shall abide in thy Tabernacle who shall dwell in thy holy ●●ill He that walketh uprightly and worketh righteousness And the Apostle saith 1 Cor. 6.9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the Kingdom of God Be not deceived neither fornicators nor Idolaters nor adulterers nor effeminate nor abusers of themselves with mankinde nor thieves nor covetous nor drunkards nor revilers nor extortioners shall inherit the Kingdom of God And Psalm 97. Ye that love the Lord hate evil Also 2 Tim. 2.19 Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity Secondly all those that sin or are under the power and command of sin are of the dev●● For he that commits sin saith St. John is of the devil John 3.9 And is it not a sad thing to be und●r the power of the Devil Every wicked man is the Devils stave and be doth the devils drudgery where ever sin is in the love of it there is also the devil the devil keeps court in wicked mens hearts Thirdly sin is the high way to destruction Is not destruction to the wicked saith Job Chap. 31.3 Yes that it is And a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity Fourthly and lastly sin brought wrath and condemnation upon the soul If ye live after the flesh ye shall die Rom. 8.13 The wicked shall be turned into hell and all the Nations that forget God Psal 9.17 These things being considered seriously taken to heart methinks should not onely awaken sinners out of their sléepy security but also provoke them to repentance And then there is another let which hinders men from repentance and that is in themselves which is of all other the greatest let for did not our own base hearts deceive us the devil the world and sin could never hinder us from coming to God by repentance these lets from ourselves are either from ignorance or hardnes of heart Eph 4.18 Men saith the Apostle through the ignorance that is in them through the hardness of their hearts being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness to work all uncleannes with greedines Ignorance must néeds be a great let to repentance no wonder when men know not the danger of sin nor the necessity of repentance that they live in sin and never come to repentance who is there that séeks for that he knoweth not of If impenitent sinners did but know what a dangerous condition they were in without repentance they would never suffer their eyes to sléep nor their eye-lids to slumber before they had made their peace with God by repentance O then for the Lords sake get acquaintance with God and learn to know what an odious thing sin is Job 22.21 Acquaint now thy self with God an● be at peace thereby good shall come unto thee thereby thou maist be brought to repentance Then secondly there 's in us hardness of heart which hinders the work of repentance It is said of Zedekiah 2 Chron. 36.13 That he hardned his heart that he might not return to the Lord his God And this hardness of heart is very lamentable because all the means which God uses to soften work not upon it at all And Pharaoh hardened his heart and would not let the children of Israel go Ex. 8.32 All the sore judgements of God upon him could not prevail with his hard heart he would not let them go so wicked men whose hearts are hardened they will not let their sins go neither the judgement nor the mercies of God will prevail with wicked men to turn them from their sins Amos 4 12. saith God Though I have sent among you judgment upon judgment plague famine and no●som beasts yet have you not returned unto me Therefore I beseech you in love to your poor souls that by prayer you would beg of God to give you softned hearts that may melt tremble at the word of God lest by going on in your sins ye bring upon your solves swist destrution And so I come to give you some means and motives to stir you up to repentance and I shall conclude The first and principal means of workin● repentance where it is not is the word of God Mat. 4.17 And Jesus began to preach and to say Repent for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand Christs frist Sermon was a Sermon of repentance therefore if ever you would repent 〈◊〉 your sins attend upon the word of God 〈◊〉 ha● a woful sad condition are those in that want th● word of God What the Preacher said Eccle 11.6 In the morning saith he sowe thy seed an● in the evening withhold not thy hand so say I 〈◊〉 hearing the word of God Hear it in the morning and hear it in the afternoon hear it on th● Lords day and hear it in the week day take a● opprotunities of hearing the word of God And then a second help is to consider th● goodness and power of God his almighty an● his all séeing eye consider God sées and know and thy wayes and is able to punish thée for a● thy sins if men were but convinced of this truth they durst not sin so boldly as they do But I pass by this to give you some few Ch●dences of the truth of repentance and they ar● briesly these First the soul that hath truly repented is very careful to avoid even the occasion of sin an● keeps himself at a distance bath from sin sinners he will dispense with no sin at all but wil ●y as Ephraim did What have I to do any more ●ith sin And secondly he that is truly turned ●●ont sin unto God will endeavour to turn ther 's also he is not content that he himself is ●urned to God but he will draw others to God ●lso Thirdly he that hath truly repented is ve●y careful tofurnish himself against the assaults of the devil Thy word saith David Ps 119.11 have I hid in my heart that I might not sin against thee A true repentant treasures up the word of God in his heart and walks worthy of the Lord unto all well-pleasing being fruitful unto every good work and encreasing in the knowledge of God Col. 1.10 They do it as it is in Ps 110.23 They keep the testimonies of God and seek him with their whole heart they also do no iniquity they walk in his ways Their delight is in the law of God and in his law they do meditate day and night Psal 1.2 Fourthly he that hath truly repented is full of holy indignation against sin and turns sin quite out of doors he cannot endure the sight of it Fifthly he that hath truly repented is full of fear he is filled with an awful reverencial and filial fear of the Majesty of God and he is afraid of displeasing God by sin Sirthly a true penitent is full of holy and heavenly desires he desires more