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A86270	Repentance and conversion, the fabrick of salvation: or The saints joy in heaven, for the sinners sorrow upon Earth. Being the last sermons preached by that reverend and learned John Hewyt, D.D. Late minister of St. Gregories by St. Pauls. With other of his sermons preached there. Dedicated to all his pious auditors, especially those of the said parish. Also an advertisement concerning some sermons lately printed, and presented to be the doctors, but are disavowed by Geo. Wild. Jo. Barwick.	Hewit, John, 1614-1658.; Wilde, George, 1610-1665.; Barwick, John, 1612-1664.	1658 (1658)	Wing H1637; Thomason E1776_1; ESTC R209722	86,537	249

movings of the body trembling and uncertain what can be said but that his body is so miserably agitated that his soul must be in great disorder And in this condition it is as uncapable to produce a good action as to take good counsel but from thence as from an infernal jakes do issue the most infamous vices and execrable actions that can be committed by men And as in an army after a terrour taken the battalions break their rankes in disorder all flye all run and nothing seen but blood and slaughter so it is when fear possesses the soul she troubles her self all vertues abandon her and the vices make a horrible wast and spoil From hence sprung up superstition and so many execrable sacrifices the very report whereof breeds horrour Cruelty claims her for her mother perfidiousness treason and dissembling owe her their original She hath hatcht tyranny and ill counsels and it is none but she that breaking the sacred bonds of nature is capable to animate fathers and mothers against their proper blood and their own bowels In a word 't is impossible to love the thing which we fear Behold then this monster which these Doctors nourish in these poor souls which God by so many promises of his love and assistance chases and banishes from the hearts of his children Fear not little flock for it is your fathers pleasure to give you a Kingdom Luk. 12.32 Nay but say they To day I am well assured but who can continue me this assurance till to morrow and afterwards He that perseveres to the end shall be saved Matth. 24.13 And what is there more changeable and inconstant then man So many assaults that Satan gives us so many dangers that beset us so many infirmities that are in us so many examples of Apostates that make shipwrack of their faith do they not give us cause enough to doubt Yes verily and to despair absolutely if we look no farther then to our selves But the power of God is perfected in our weakness 2 Cor. 12.19 If we be weak he is strong if we be changelings he 's immutable I have loved thee with an everlasting love and have therefore extended my loving kindness to thee Jerem. 31.3 Those whom he hath loved he hath loved to the end and the gifts and calling of God are without repentance Rom. 11.29 His foundation continues firm 2 Tim. 2.19 He knows who are his and none shall ravish them out of his hands and it is impossibile that his elect should be seduced Matth. 24.24 but those whom he hath foreknown he hath predestinated called justified and glorified Rom. 8.29 This chain of his love is altogether inviolable and therefore rest thy self upon his favourable power and upon his unchangeable goodness saying with David Psal 138. The Lord will perfect that which concerneth me thy mercy O Lord endureth for ever forsake not the works of thine own hands Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the dayes of my life and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever This assurance is the true humility which beats down the pride of man that he may glorifie God pride and presumption are to be feared when we go about to rely upon our selves when we sacrifice to our own nets and exalt the merit of our vertues but let not that man fear to glorifie himself that seeks his glory in the shame of the cross of Christ that strips himself of all other ornaments to put on Christ that celebrates not his own justice but the compassions of God I do not glorifie my self because I am just said St. Ambrose but because I am redeemed I will not glorifie my self at all because I am without sin but because I have obtained pardon of my sins I will not glorifie my self that I have profited any but because Christ is Advocate for me towards the Father 1 Joh. 1.2 that he hath shed his blood for my sake and for me hath tasted of death this is not arrogance but faith To preach and to publish that which thou hast received is not pride but devotion said St. Augustine And for conclusion it is least to be feared that this doctrine should make men negligent or be as a pillow under their elbowes to make their souls sleepy in the neglect of the means of salvation St. Paul draws a quite contrary consequence when he saith Philip. 2.12 13. Work out your salvation with fear and trembling and adds this for a reason for it is God that works in you both the will and the performance according to his good pleasure Will you say then that this belief makes men sleepy and choakes in their consciences both the duties of prayer and the exercises of charity contrarywise there is not a sharper spur to this acknowledgment then the knowledge of the Love of God and the assurance of his grace Who hath ever seen fear produce a good action And what is there in the world that is either fair or generous which is not to be attributed to hope It were a devilish malice to be wicked because God is good to turn the back upon him when he turns his face upon us to flye him because he seek us to change affection toward him because his love is for ever unchangeable toward us and because he will give a kingdom in heaven for us to cast our selves into the way that leads to infernal pains The children of God go another way and from the faith and assurance which they have of the love of their father they enflame their loves the more to him and feel themselves the more obliged to his obedience They fear to offend so good a Father and being purchased by so excellent a price they consecrate their bodies and spirits to his glory And as the sick man to whom Physitians have given assurance of recovery keeps himself from things that are contrary to his health and takes more willingly the remedies that are ordained him whereas he that despaires of his health abandons himself to his appetite So the faithful man knowing that God will impart to him of his glory goes by the way of sanctity and good works that he may attain to the other and having so many fair promises cleanses himself from all pollution of flesh and spirit finishing the sanctification in the fear of God 2 Cor. 7.1 So Daniel knew that when the 70 years of the captivity were at an end God should deliver his people and therefore about that time he put himself upon prayer and fasting Dan. 9.2 3. So St. Paul Act. 23.24 31. had a promise for all those that were with him in the ship that none should be lost but yet when he saw the Mariners ready to withdraw themselves he did not spare to tell them that if they did not tarry with us we could not be saved The Pagans themselves never entred into combats with more courage then when they had their birds or the entrails favourable they never

Repentance and Conversion THE Fabrick of Salvation OR The SAINTS joy in Heaven FOR The Sinners sorrow upon Earth Being the last SERMONS Preached by that Reverend and Learned JOHN HEWYT D. D. Late Minister of St. Gregories by St. Pauls With other of his Sermons preached there Dedicated to all his pious Auditors especially those of the said Parish Also an Advertisement concerning some Sermons lately printed and pretended to be the Doctors but are disavowed By GEO. WILD JO. BARWICK LONDON Printed by J. C And are to be sold by Samuel Speed at the sign of the Printing Press in St. Pauls Church-yard 1658. TO THE PIOUS AUDITORS OF THE LATE REVEREND AUTHOR Especially those of St. Gregories Parish in London IT is not the Ignis fatuus of Applause and popular Euge's that produced this Publication since 't is perspicuous no man but he that hath as great a stock of impudence as impiety can lay claim to it being the composition of your Reverend Pastor lately devested of Mortality Nor is the exposing these Sermons to publique view intended to add to the mass of any mans dolor or Internal Regret for the violent death of the pious Author but to prevent the fictitious Chimaera's of many crazy brains that would shroud themselves under his Name induced to it by Avarice whose thoughts level at no other mark but their own sordid Lucre and also that so pious a Beads-man might have somewhat engraven upon the forehead of Time and his name velit nolit invidia vigere Wherefore here ye have a Volume of the elaborate Pieces of this famous Pillar of the Church some as they did flow in their native purity from his own mouth others penned by no meaner a Scribe then his sacred self 'T is but small as to the Bulk but vast as to the Value in which is such a plerophory of significant expressions besides the solid Divinity that if uprightly fathom'd by the utmost extent of the sublimest thought it will be judged so neat and terse a Piece that the whole World can scarce produce a Parallel Therefore they croud and thrust themselves under the wings of your Patronage that so being acceptable to you all his quondam-Parishioners they may be sheltered from the contagious emissions of that universal Basilisk Detraction That there is nothing able to preserve a mans fame intire and verdant in spite of the Iron teeth of time but the issue of the Brain the Muse of Mellifluous Naso as ingenuously as harmoniously informs us by this warbling Rithme Nil non mortale te nemus Pectoris exceptis ingeniique bonis Pity it is they should continue in the obscure darkness of Latency and the opack shades of silence Therefore do they now like Noahs dove bear an Olive-branch of Assurance and Consolation to all soules that as yet remain in the Ark of God preserved from the deluge of sin They were the last that he pronounced in a Pulpit therefore should be entertained with more zeal and read with more circumspection that God may be praised his servant admired your souls benefited and our Holy Mother the Church lamented for the death of so pious a Son of hers whose loss no pen can pourtray with its sable colours nor tongue express by all it s diapred variety But since it is the will of the Almighty to permit such things for our correction and amendment let us with a pious silence resign our selves up unto God according to the advice of this renowned Clergy-man in his last words and pray for a more comely decorum in the Church that so the coelestial Manna of Gods Word may be administred to us by the truly-Orthodox that the Queen of Sciences Divinity may not be so sluttishly attired as it appoars too often she is to our intolerable grief that men may no longer shun the beauty of the Church but dwell in Gods Holy Temple One thing may not be omitted and that is this when the Library of this famous Divine was surveyed on some of his writings there was found engraven with his own pen these words Luk. 18.13 God be merciful to me a sinner and underneath this ingenious and divine Paraphrase To separate God and Mercy would be blasphemy To separate Mercy and Sinner would be despair To separate me and sinner would be presumption A divine Paraphrase worthy so rare a Divine To accumulate his Herse with Encomiums will be to little purpose since his works will predicate his Fame A Gabibus usque Auroram Gangem This is the comfort of all true Christians he is not amissus but praemissus not lost but sent before let us crave therefore of the Almighty Jehovah that we may all meet in Heaven with him there to sing perpetual Hallelujahs VVorld without end An Advertisement concerning some Notes pretended to be Doctor HEWYT'S Sermons WHereas some imperfect notes were upon a false suggestion and by other indirect means entred into the Hall-book of the Company of Stationers for the use of Mr. Eversden at the Gray-hound and Mr. Rook at the Lamb both in St. Pauls Church-yard under the Title of Dr. HEWYT'S Sermons These are to signifie to all whom it may concern 1. That they are none of Dr. HEWYT'S Sermons but only imperfect notes taken from him as he preached or perhaps from some others in short writing 2. That they were entred without the consent or knowledg of the right Honorable the Lady MARY HEWYT Relict of the said Doctor and are printed contrary to the best endeavours her Ladyship could use by fair means to suppress them as is very well known to the Master Wardens and Assistants of the Stationers Company 3. That if any thing shall be printed or produced in writing pretending the said Ladies consent the same hath been as is still disavowed by her Ladyship as none of hers For all that she gave her hand for or her consent unto was only a caveat that nothing should be printed in Doctor HEWYTS name without her consent and whatsoever there is more in that paper under her hand was an addition to call it no worse of some other whose name we conceal in meer charity after the paper was subscribed as was manifested to the Company at their Court holden on Monday the 14. of June and will be further justified upon oath by two sufficient witnesses when occasion shall serve Geo. Wilde Jo. Barwick IN HAS Conciones Elucubratas admodum Reverendi Doctissimique Viri JOANNIS HEUETI S. T. D. ITae profanatae procul huc decedite chartae Praelorum pudor perniciosa Lues Hic vates Divina docet Mundique caducas Spernere Delicias meliora sequi Tum Peccatorem lapsos convertere gressus Admonet vitae poenituisse suae Inde Redemptoris pandit Mysteria magni Nosque docet solam justificare Fidem Tum monstrat trepidis quae sit vexatio Sanctis Ballaque cum populis irrequieta Piis Scilicet in mediis posita est Ecclesia damnis Vt cingunt teneras