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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04501	An excellent treatise touching the restoring againe of him that is fallen written by the woorthy man Saint Iohn Chrysostome ... ; turned and put into English, out of an ancient Latine translation, written in velume, by R.W. ...	John Chrysostom, Saint, d. 407.; Wolcomb, Robert.	1588 (1588)	STC 14630.5; ESTC S2155	51,393	152

shipwracke neither damage of soule should we not take in hand againe our former exercises and renew our busines by negligence ouerslipped Neuertheles we lie retchlesly and fold our idle hands on our breast after the manner of sluggards and would God our hands were idle and did not worke our owne decay Which if they doo it hath great affinitie with most manifest outrage as if for example a champion leauing his aduers●ry should turne his hands on hi● owne head and buffet himselfe The diuell hath put vs to fligh● and hath dashed vs in sunder w● haue neede then to rise an● to resist him When thou an● once cast downe if thou be willing not onely to lie still but t● throw down thy selfe headlong this is to assent to thine enimie and to take in defence hi● part Blessed Dauid fell after the same sort thou diddest neither so alone but in more greeuous wise for he combined murder with adultery and what did he then Did hee lie so Did hee not rise and resist the enimie and so ouercame him that his good deeds profited his posteritie when he was gone For when Salomon had committed that hainous crime and was deemed woorthy of a thousand deathes yet for Dauids sake the Lorde ●aid he woulde bestow the kingdome on him longer These be the wordes 2. King 11 11 I will surely rent the kingdome from thee and will giue it to thy seruaunt Notwithstanding in thy daies I will not do it 12. bicause of Dauid thy father but I will rent it out of the hand of thy sonne Hezechiah when he was much indangered albeit he were a iust man himselfe yet for blessed Dauid the Lord promised to help him * Or J will defend this citie to saue it for mine owne sake and for Dauid my seruants sake I will defend this citie for mine owne sake 2. King 19 34 and for Dauid my seruants sake I will saue it See what was the strength of repentance see what power conuersion had But if hee had thus thought which thou now thinkest and had said it is impossible that the Lord shoulde nowe be mercifull to me he hath greatly honored me and hath endued me with the gift of prophecie he hath exalted me to a kingdome he hath deliuered me from manifold dangers how then can I promerite clemencie at th● hands of God forasmuch as ● haue thus fallen Yf Dauid ha● thus thought he had lost no● onely that went afore but tha● that followed also For not only the wounds of the body if they be neglected bring death but the wounds of the soule semblably Are we so sottish to put a plaister to a bodily wound and neuer attempt to cure the soule Many woundes of our bodies may not be cured yet we despaire not and though the Chirurgions say the wound is vncureable yet we earnestly and vrgently beseech them that they would mittigate somewhat the paine But in the wounds of the soule which are not vnsanable for the soule is not tied to necessitie neither abideth any passion we are remisse we are past hope we are pricked with no care When there is no hope our griefe of body may be healed yet we withdraw nothing from our care but here when no occasion is of desperation without vsing any labor we omite all care So you perceiue how that more ardently we loue our body than our soule knowing not that if we regard not our soule we cannot saue our body For the soule was not ordained for the body but the body for the soule and he that esteemeth nothing the higher but polisheth the inferiour marreth both But he that obserueth an order and garnisheth the first admit he do not passe for the second by the saluatiō neuertheles of the first the second shall be saued The which is builded on the plot of Christ his words Matt. 10 28. Feare ye not them which kil the body but are not able to kill the soule but rather feare him which is able to destroy both soule and bodie in Hell Thinke you we haue done enough and satisfied you in this thing that no infirmitie of the soule is vncureable Or else is it needefull we should vse other reasons and confirme it yet farther For although a thousand times thou despaire of thy selfe we will neuer despaire of thee Neither do we this that we mislike in other howbeit there be ods whether one despaire of himselfe or another of him To despaire of another is pardonable but to despaire of himselfe is not bicause he is not master of anothers minde this ruleth his owne purpose Wherefore we hope there is a returne for you to the state of your former life and to the vertues of the mind which we know are in you Besides these things this we adde Ion. 2 4. The Nineuites heard the prophet saying definitely Yet fourtie daies and Nineueh shall be ouerthrowen notwithstanding they were not discouraged No not when they were not certaine that the Lord would not bring to passe his words when in mans iudgement there was no hope of forgiuenes And assoone as that abrupt saying was ended they determined repentance saying Verse 9. 10. who can tell if God will turne and repent and turne away his fierce wrath that we perish not And God saw their workes that they turned from their euil waies and God repented of the euill that he had said he would doo vnto them and he did it not If Barbarians and ignorant folke could vnderstand so much of the mercy of God doth it not much more behoue vs to do so who are enstructed in the word of God know this example was before our time and that many moe like are contained in Gods Booke either in words or in actes For my thoughts are not your thoughts Isai 55 8. neither are your waies my waies saith the Lord. 9. For as the heauens are hier than the earth so are my waies higher than your waies and my thoughts aboue your thoughts Futhermore if we receiue our seruants who haue offended vs when they promise they will amende and account of them as afore nay many times credit them more after reconcilemēt will not God much rather deale thus with vs If he had made vs to punish vs thou mightest well despaire and doubt of thy saluation but if for his goodnes onely he made vs to enioy hi● euer-enduring blisse rewards and doth all things from the beginning of the world til this day to this end and purpose that he may saue vs what matter of despairing what matter of misdoubting is there left Wee haue offended him say you more than euer any man For this cause shouldest thou more speedilie earnestly make satisfaction and be sorrowful● for thine offence abandon those deedes with which God is offended Neither doth a grieuous iniurie offend any bodie so much as to continue in it when there is time and opportunitie of satisfaction To sinne is

onely exceedeth hell When wee see an earthly king entring his pallace with his adherents and garde we admire and call those great men who waite vpon him and suppose our selues wretched if we be not vouchsafed any place amongest them though wee knowe the weaknes and instabilitie of these terrene things somtimes for forreine warres sometimes for ciuil conterwaites and sometime for malitious spite yet howsoeuer it be it grieueth those tha● haue fallen thence Howe the● shall it not much more vexe v● if with the highest king Isai 40. who ho●deth the whol globe of the eart● not a part thereof onely ye● who holdeth it in his fist wh● measureth the heauen with a● hand-breadth who supporte● each thing by the woorde of hi● power who reckneth the Gentil● as nothing yea as spettle wit● this I say when he bestoweth honor that shall last for euer w● haue no place neither be numbred amonge his seruants Wil● it not pinche vs more than any paine But peraduenture thou saiest it will suffice vs to escape hell albeit we be not thought worthi● of the sight of the king Wha● more vnhappie and wretche● soule is there than to which thi● is sufficient Supposest thou tha● the king whereof we speake sha● come to iudge the earth caried in chariots of Mules or in gilded waggons or with the terrible power of a diademe Nay harkē how the Prophets haue 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 deuoure before him and a mightie tempest shall be mooued round about him he shall call the heauen aboue the earth to iudge his people And harken how another to wit Isaiah sheweth the diuerse sortes of punishments these are his words Isai 13 9. Beholde the day of the Lord commeth cruel with wrath and fierce anger to lay the land waste and he shall destroy the sinners out of it Vers 10. For the starres of heauen and the planets thereof shall not giue their light the sunne shal be darkened in his going foorth and the moone shall not cause her light to shine Vers 11. And I will visit the wickednes vpon the world an● their iniquitie vpon the wicked and I wil cause the arrogancie o● the proud to cease Vers 12. I will make a man more precious than fin● golde euen a man aboue th● wedge of golde of Ophir Therefore I will shake the heauen Vers 13. an● the earth shall remooue out o● hir place in the wrath of the Lord of hosts in the day of hi● fierce anger And again he saith the windowes from on high are open Isa 24 18. and the foundations of the earth do shake 19. The earth is vtterly broken downe the earth is cleane dissolued the earth is exceedingly mooued 20. The earth shall reele too fro like a drunken man shal be remoued like a tent the iniquitie thereof shall be heauy vpon it so that it shall fal and rise no more And in that day 21. shall the Lord visit the hoa●● aboue that is on high euen the kings of the world that are vpon the earth and they shall be gathered togither as the prisoners in the pit and they shall be shut vp in the prison And the prophet Malachies words are consonant hereto Malac. 3. Behold he shall come saith the Lorde of hostes Vers 1.2 But who may abide the day of his comming and who shall indure when he appeereth For he is like a purging fire and like fullers sope Vers 3. And he shall sit downe to fine and try the siluer he shall euen fine the sonnes of Leuie purifie them as golde and siluer And againe he saith Chap. 4 1. for beholde the day commeth that shall burne as an ouen and all the proude yea and all that do wickedly shall be as stubble and the day that commeth shall burne them vp saith the Lord of hosts and shall leaue them neither roote nor branch And another of the prophets saith Dan. 7 9. I behelde 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 the pure wooll Vers 10. A fierie streame issued and came foorth from before him the iudgement was set and the bookes opened And a little after Vers 13. as I beheld in visions by night behold one like the sonne of man came in the cloudes of heauen and approched vnto the ancient of daies and they brought him before him Vers 14. And he gaue him dominion and honor 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 shal neuer be destroied Vers 15. I Daniel was troubled in my spirite in the midst of my body and the visions of mine head made me afraide So then when these things shall begin the gates of heauen shall be opened yea rather the very heauen shal be taken away as if the couerings of a pauilion were drawen togither to wit that it may be restored transfigured into better Then all things shall be in feare amazednes 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 Isai 13 13. I wil shake the heauen for they are the fellow seruants of them that must be iudged and must giue an account of this life If when one citie is to be iudged by the iudges of this worlde other feare and shake although it be not for great danger like to insue when the vniuersall world shall come to be iudged of him that lacketh not witnes that doth not seeke arguments that doth not require an orator for the cause but all these things being remooued that doth reueale the deedes wordes and thoughts of men that placeth ech thing in open sight and sheweth euery fact as it were in a painted table before the eies both of the transgressors and of the beholders how much more shall euery creature be mooued with feare And if then no fierie streame should issue foorth neither the terrible angels or greesely executioners should stand by but if thus onely it were that men shoulde be called before the king and some should be praised and honored other some without honor cast to confusion if men did onely suffer this punishment would it not surpasse the torments of hel that when other were endowed with gifts of the king they shuld 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 al these anguishes of torments set before your eies not confusion alone