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A29096	The good old way, or, An excellent and profitable treatise of repentance made by John Bradford in the yeare 1553. Now published with two prefaces relating the life of the author, and the excellencey of the worke.	Bradford, John, 1510?-1555.; Harris, Robert, 1581-1658.; Wilkinson, Henry, 1616-1690.	1652 (1652)	Wing B4106; ESTC R25287	35,398	95

of these examples especially of our late King and this troublesome time will move some teares out of thine heart if thou wilt pray for Gods Spirit accordingly For who art thou think alwaies with thy selfe that God should spare thee more then them whose examples thou hast heard What friends hast thou Were not of these Kings Prophets Apostles learned and come of holy stocks I deceive my selfe think thou with thy selfe if I believe that God being the same God that he was will spare me whose wickednesse is no lesse but much more then some of theirs He hateth sinne now as much as ever he did The longer he spareth the greater vengeance will fall the deeper he draweth his Bow the sorer will his shaft pierce But if yet thy heart be so hardned that all this will not move thee then surely art thou in a very evill estate and remedy now I know none What say I none Know I none Yes there is one which is suresby as they say to serve if any thing will serve You look to know what this is forsooth the Passion and Death of Jesus Christ You know the cause why Christ became man and suffered as he suffered was the sinnes of his People that he might save them from the same Consider the greatnesse of the sore I mean sinne by the greatnesse of the Chyrurgion and the salve Who was the Chyrurgion no Angel no saint no Arch-angel no power no creature in heaven nor earth but only he by whom all things were made all things are ruled also even Gods own Deareling and only beloved sonne becoming man Oh what a great thing is this that could not be done by the Angells Archangels Potentates powers or all the creatures of God without his own sonne who of necessity must come down from heaven to take our nature and become man Here have ye the Chyrurgion great was the cure that this mighty Lord took in hand Now what was the salve certainly of an unestimable value and of many compositions I cannot recite all but rather must leave it to your hearty considerations Thirty three yeares was he curing our sore he sought it earnestly by fasting watching praying c. The same night that he was betrayed I read how busy he was about a plaister in the Garden when he lying flat on the ground praying with teares and that of blood not a few but so many as did flow down on the ground againe crying on this sort Father saith he if it be possible let this cup depart from me That is if it be possible that else the sinnes of man kind can be taken away grant that it may be so Thou heardest Moses crying for the Idolaters thou heardest Lot for the Zoarites Samuel David and many other for the Israelites And deare Father I onely am thine own Sonne as thou hast said in whom thou art well pleased wilt thou not heare me I have by the space of thirty three years done alwaies thy will I have so humbled my selfe that I would become an abject amongst men to obay thee Therefore deere Father if it be possible grant my request save man-kind now without any farther labour salves or plaisters But yet saith he not as I will but as thou wilt But Sir what heard he Though he sweat blood and water in making his plaister for our sore of sinne yet it framed not Twice he cryed without comfort yea though to comfort him God sent an Angel we know that yet this plaister was not allowed for sufficient untill hereunto Christ Jesus was betrayed forsaken of all his Disciples forsworne of his dearely beloved bound like a Theefe belyed on buffeted whipped scourged crowned with thornes crucified racked nailed hanged up be tween two theeves cursed and railed upon mocked in misery and had given up the ghost then bowed downe the head of Christ then God the Father which is the head of Christ allowed the plaister to be sufficient and good for the healing of our sore which is sinne Now would God abide our breath because the stinke damnation guiltinesse was taken away by the sweet savour of the breath of this Lambe thus offered once for all So that here dearely beloved we as in a glasse may see to the bruising of our blockish hard hearts Gods great judgement and anger against sinne The Lord of Lords the King of Kings the brightnesse of Gods glory the Sonne of God the dearling of his Father in whom he is well pleased hangeth betweene two Theeves crying for thee and mee and for us all My God my God why hast thou forsaken mee Oh hard hearts that we have who delight in sinne Look on this see the very heart of Christ pierced with a fpeare wherein thou maist see and read Gods anger for sinne Woe to thy hard heart that pierced it And thus much for the first part of Repentance I meane for the meanes of working contrition First use Prayer then look on Gods Law thirdly see his curse fourthly set examples of his anger before thee and last of all set before thee the precious death of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ From this and prayer cease not till thou feele some hearty sorrow for thy sin The which when thou feelest then labour for the other part that is faith in this sort As first in contrition I willed thee not to trust to thy free will for the attaining of it so doe I will thee in this Faith is so farre from the reach of mans free-will that to reason it is plain foolishnesse Therefore thou must first goe to God whose gift it is thou must I say get thee to the Father of mercy whose worke it is that as he hath brought thee downe by Contrition and humbled thee so he would give thee Faith raise thee up and exalt thee In this manner therefore with the Apostles and the poore man in the Gospel that cryed Lord increase our Faith Lord help my unbeleefe pray thou and say O mercifull and deare Father of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ in whom as thou art well pleased so hast thou commanded us to hear him for as much as he often biddeth us to aske of thee and thereto promiseth that thou will heare us and grant us that which in his name we shall aske of thee loe gracious Father I am bold to begge of thy mercy through thy Sonne Jesus Christ one sparkle of true and certaine perswasion of thy goodnesse and love towards mee in Christ where through I being assured of the Pardon of all my sinnes by the mercies of Christ thy Sonne may be thankefull to thee love thee and serve thee in holinesse and righteousnesse all the daies of my life On this sort I say or otherwise as God shall move thee pray thou first of all and look for thy request at Gods hand without any doubting though forthwith thou feelest not the same for oftentimes we have things of God given us long before we feele them as we would

meditations ejaculations and expressions to spread them before God as his own upon this account because M. Bradford had in his writings as he thought represented his case said more for him and done his errand better then he could for himselfe This passage I the rather publish because upon this occasion I would stir up men of parts and experience to impart their experiences and sufficiencies in this kind whilst they live as little knowing how many drooping and desponding soules their surviving workes may helpe when themselves sleep in the dust It is a thing that long since I bewailed that so little is this way done by able Orthodox experienced Casuists but they who for ought appeares know least of the mystery of godlinesse and methods of Sotan undertake the worke I doe not meane such as Gerson Parisiensis Saváorola c. who speake as if they had met with something of God in their lives and consciences but certaine Jesuits and Canonists who resolve all into a blind and upon the matter an humane credence and shew more wit then grace as 't was once said of a Rabbin in their resolves There be not I believe more able men for case divinity and all practicalls in the World then in this Nation would they apply themselves accordingly some yet living have given undeniable proofes of their ability in this errand I forbeare to name them because I would decline the suspicion of flattery I may more freely speak of our Greenhams Dods Perkins Ameses Baineses as also of our Randals Boltons Bals c. who are now out of hearing but not out of memory Oh that others behind them in time but not in abilities would take up the worke where they left and carry it on at least that that brother who owes so much to God for temptations and can say out of his observations so much for God in the case of temptation and desertion would at last perfect his Tract of Temptations so happily begun But I have made the Porch too wide I conclude where I began with humble and when I say humble I say all Mr Bradford I have had some other Workes of his but Warre hath Plun dred me of many Books This peece a godly Brother who is never weary of doing good hath recovered out of the dust and once more made publique under God thank him Reader if thou be the better for it and better thou maist be if thou wilt lay downe pride and prejudice and take this up in humility and with purpose of amendment read it think on it pray for a blessing and if thou findest little at first read againe pray againe apply againe and I misse my aime if thou dost not meet with more at last then it seemed to promise at first I commend both it and thee to the blessing of the Great God and having answered the importunity of my friend in saying thus much I rest Thine in Christ R. H. A prositable Treatise of Repentance made by that holy and Constant Martyr of Christ Mr. JOHN BRADFORD 1553. MAT. 4.17 Amend your lives for the Kingdome of Heaven is at hand THe life we have at this present is the gift of God in whom we live move and are and therfore he is called Jehovah for the which life as we should be thankfull so may we not in any wise use it after our corrupt fantasies but to the end for which it is given and lent us that is to the setting forth of Gods praise and glory by repentance conversion and obedience to his good will and holy lawes whereunto his long-suffering doth as it were even draw us if our hearts by impenitency were not hardned And therfore our life in the Scripture is called a walking for that as the body draweth dayly more and more neare its end that is the earth even so our soul draweth daily more and more neere unto a period that is salvation or damnation heaven or hell Of which thing in that we are most carelesse and very fooles for we alas are the same to day we were yesterday and not better or nearer to God but rather nearer to hell Sathan and perdition being covetous idle carnall secure negligent proud c. I think my labour cannot be better bestowed then with the Baptist Christ Jesus and his Apostles to harp on this string which of all other together with faith is most necessary and in these daies most seasonable What string is that saith one Forsooth brother the string of Repentance the which Christ our Saviour did use first in his Ministry and as his Minister at this present I will use unto you all Repent for the Kingdome of heaven is at hand This sentence thus pronounced and Preached by our Saviour Jesus Christ as it doth command us to repent so to the doing of the same it sheweth us a sufficient cause to stirre us up thereunto namely for that The Kingdome of heaven which is a Kingdome of all joy peace riches power and pleasure is at hand to all such as doe so that is as do repent So that the meaning hereof is as though our Saviour might thus speak presently Syrs for that I see you all walking the wrong way even to Sathan and unto hell fire by following the Kingdome of Sathan which now is coloured under the vaine pleasures of this life and foolishnesse of the flesh most subtilly to your utter undoing and destruction behold and marke well what I say unto you The Kingdome of Heaven that is an other manner of joy and felicity honour and riches power and pleasure then you now perceive or enjoy is even at hand and at your backs and if you will turne againe that is repent ye you shall most truely and pleasantly feele see and inherit Turne againe therefore I say that is Repent for this joy I speake of the Kingdome of heaven is at hand 1. Here we may note first the corruption of our natures in that to this commandement Repent you he addeth a cause For the Kingdome of heaven is at hand For by reason of the corruption and sturdinesse of our nature God unto all his commandements commonly either addeth some promise to provoke us to obedience or else some such sufficient cause as cannot but stirre us up to hearty labouring for the doing of the same as here to the commandement of acting repentance he addeth this Aetiologe or cause For the Kingdome of heaven is at hand 2. Againe in that he joyneth the commandement as a reason saying For the Kingdome of heaven is at hand We may learne that of the Kingdome of heaven none to whom the Ministry of Preaching doth appertaine can be partaker but such as repent and doe amend Therefore dearely beloved if you regard the Kingdome of Heaven in that you cannot enter therein except you repent I beseech you all of every estate as you desire your own peace of conscience to repent and amend The which thing that ye may doe I