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A27449 Rome tyrannical, idolatrous and heretical the origine of her errors with an answer to her objections : also three short sermons of repentance against swearing and drunkenness preached to the ships company before Admiral Aylmer and several captains / by Peter Berault. Berault, Peter. 1698 (1698) Wing B1956; ESTC R30222 55,952 193

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the free will of Man work so in his mind and heart as to make him forsake and renounce the Object which he loves best and without which he cannot live This is harder to God if I may speak so than to create Heaven and Earth For when God would create all the things that are in this World he only said let there be such a thing and presently it was created But when he will convert a Sinner and will have him to forsake his wickedness what resistance and opposition does he not find notwithstanding the different means he makes use of For Oftentimes God willing to induce a Sinner to repent of his sins cherishes him as a Nurse does her Young sucking Child and as a good Husband his Faithful Wife Sometimes he threatens him as a careful Father threatens his disobedient Son as a good Master his unruled Servant and as a just Judge his guilty Prisoner And yet his cherishings and threatnings do very often prove vain and unprofitable The sinner remains in his Crimes and will not repent of them God according to his ordinary way in the Conversion of a Sinner must give him a preventing Grace and afterwards an assisting one and though these two Graces be sufficient for a true and sincere Conversion yet to pass from Power to Act he must needs give him another Grace which is called effectual This is the difficulty of Repentance considered in respect of God our Creator But it is more hard and difficult if we consider it in respect of the Creature For a Man who got a great store of Goods by an Unjust way is bound to restore them wholly to him they belong to for as saith St. Austin Non remittitur Peccatum nisi restituatur ablatum A Sensual and Carnal Man who wholly devoted himself to worldly Delights and Pleasures is obliged to forsake them for ever What Pain and what Difficulty does he not find when he takes resolution to leave them And this Difficulty is the greater if he be an old Sinner and got a bad Custom For can the Ethiopian change his Skin saith the Prophet Jeremiah or the Leopard his Spots then may ye also do good that are accustomed to do evil 13. 23. We see that every day by our own experience especially if a Man be accustomed either to Drunkenness or Impurity For then he will find a great difficulty to subdue and forsake his filthy and dishonest Passion If Grace invites him to abandon his Sins and truly Repent of them Nature presently opposes it self and gives him a quite contrary Mind There is a Fight in that Man between Nature and Grace And to speak otherwise there are two Men in that Man the Man of Grace and the Man of Sin The Man of Grace is willing to forsake his Sins and Repent of them and the Man of Sin is unwilling The Man of Grace speaks thus these many Years I have committed Sins I must now forsake them with all the guilty Pleasures of this World and I must wholly consecrate my self unto God And the Man of Sin saith what wilt thou forsake those Delights Pleasures Sports and Recreations which so many Men sigh after and with so great a Passion as if their soveraign Happiness were truly consisting in them The Man of Grace saith come I will Repent and the Man of Sin replies not yet not now stay a little longer I pray thee To make it short there is a wonderful Battel in this poor Man's Heart and Mind I look upon him as upon a Ship in a great and furious Storm For as this Ship by the violence of Waves goes sometimes as high as the Clouds and presently seems to go down into the bottom of the Sea so this Man Ascends into Heaven by Grace and Descends into Hell by Sin What strange Fight do we see in this poor and miserable Creature What difficulty does he not find when he is willing to forsake his Sins And when he delays from day to day that Difficulty encreases for two Reasons The first is taken from Grace and the Second from Sin The Reason taken from Grace is that being necessary to forsake Sins it goes away and forsakes the Creature that is delaying from day to day The other Reason taken from Sin is because it is compared unto a young Tree which grows every Month stronger and stronger and is hardly pluck'd out if we let it grow several Years For it is easie to a Hedge-hog to thrust out her Youngs before their Bristles be grown strong but if she stays too long she shall rather die then expel them out of their Hole Sin is like unto a Hedge-hog for it is easie to cast it out of our Hearts when it is Young I mean in its beginning but if we stay too long what difficulty shall we not find to pluck it out of them Such as the Ethiopian in changing his Skin and the Leopard his Spots Wherefore we must confess that Repentance is hard and difficult to Men whether considered in respect of the Creator or in respect of the Creature Nevertheless it is necessary unless we will all perish And this I am going to shew you in the second part of my Discourse 2. Part. This Man who was sent from God to bear witness of the Light that all Men through him might believe this Man I mean St. John the Baptist began his Sermons by this necessary Virtue And when Jesus Christ began to Preach he began with these Words Repent ye for the kingdom of heaven is at hand These two Examples would be sufficient to convince us of the necessity of Repentance But that I may remove all Doubts from your Minds I will prove that we are obliged to Repent of our Sins for two Reasons First because we have offended God who is our Father and secondly because if we do not Repent we shall all be unhappy for ever That God is our Father all Christians do acknowledge this Truth for as often as they say the Lord's Prayer they confess God to be their Father Yes certainly God is our Father since he made and Created us And to speak properly he only is our Father Call no man Father on earth for one is your Father which is in Heaven Matth. 23. 9. He is more properly our Father than those that brought us into the World because he not only concurs with them in the Production of our Bodies but also because he alone Created our Souls and makes us partakers of his holy Grace whereby we become his Children If then it be true that God is our Father likewise it is certain we have Sinned against him two different ways positively when we have done those things which we ought not to have done and negatively when we have left undone those things which we ought to have done We have offended him in our Hearts in our Understandings by our Tongues by our Hands Feet Ears and Eyes In our Hearts and Understandings we have sinned