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A22722	Certaine sermons of Sainte Augustines translated out of Latyn, into Englishe, by Thomas Paynell.; Sermons. English. Selections	Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo.; Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 91-1153.; Paynell, Thomas.	1557 (1557)	STC 923.5; ESTC S647	69,671	284

was aswel accepted as though he had died for gods cause be holde howe muche the synners short confession dyd auauntage him But we pristes would to god we were good preistes shoulde so diligently and with such mode ratiō watch to fasten y● word of feare of contrition in the heartes of synners that we feare them not from confessiō and so to opē they re heartes that they not her shut vp nor cloose theyr mouthes from the same Nor we should not absolue the penitent excepte we sawe and perceaued that he were confeste For the beleife of the hearte iustyfyeth the confession of the mouth maketh a manne saufe And therefore he that hathe the worde of confessyon in hys mouth and not in his heart is other craftye or ells false And he that hathe it in hys heart and not in his mouth is other prowde or fearefull Therefore it behouethe preistes to bee suche as doo knowe what maner of medycine and howe muche therof they should minister to euerye sycke manne The Lorde which lyueth and reygnethe for euer being hys ayde and comforte Amen ¶ Of Penaunce Ser. viii I Praye you my dearely beloued brethren that if anye of you after the course and frailenesse of mā be ouerthrowen through the subtill craftines of Satā or inwrappedī dedelye synne ▪ and hath as sayeth the Apostle destroied in him selfe the temple of god I pray him that he despere not of the mercy of God but that he arise vp quicklye from his iniquitie and sinne lest that by the cōtinuaunce custom therof he drowne him selfe in hys owne ruine for he shal not be odious nor abhominable vnto god that hath done committed sinne but he that doth reste and contynue in synne And because no man shoulde mistrust the mercy of god the Lorde by his prophete dothe comforte vs saying I desire not the death of anye synner but that he shuld returne frō sinne and lyue And agayne Whensoeuer the wicked synner shal returne from his wickednes yt shall not hynder nor hurte hym But thys his greate mercy doth then profite vs whē we slacke not to returne vnto him nor ioyne nor accumulate synne vpon sinne Furthermore we may knowe the woundes and fractures of y● body by the woūdes and fracturs of the soule For yf a mans legge or hand be once broken it is wont to be hardely brought and restored to hys olde vse agayne but yet if they breake twise or thrise or oftener in one place your charitie maye easely vnderstand and perceaue wyth what dolor and payne suche woundes and fractures are healed agayne and yet after longe payne torment scarcely they can be restored and brought to theyr former and olde estate And lyke reason is thought to be in the fractures and wondes of the soule ▪ for yf a man do commit sinne once or twyse and without any dissimulation doth fly vnto the remedy of penance he shal without any let and per aduenture without any shāe recouer his helth again But if synne beginne to be ioined to sinne and that the woun des of the soule throughe the clokyng and defending of iniquitie do rather putrify thē by confession and penance do heale and amende it is to be fearde lest the sayinge of the Apostle be verified in hym Dost thou not knowe that the kindnes of god doth lead the to repentaunce but thou after thine hard heart that cannot rēpente dost hepe together the treasure of wrath agaynst the day of vengeaūce and reuelation of the tru iudgement of GOD. But perchaunce some one man maye think that he hath so greuouslye offended that now he cānot merite to haue and to obtayne the mercy of God But God forbid that anye sinner should thinke soo O thou mā that doth consider and waye the multitude of thy synnes why in like maner doste thou not consider the great power of the celestial phisition And considering that God of hys mere goodnes wyl haue mercy vpon vs and that by hys myghtye power he maye be mercifull vnto vs. He doe the cloose vp the gate of hys dyuyne mercy agaynst him selfe that doth beleue that GOD wyl not or that he can not be merciful vnto him or that mistrusteth him to be good omnipotent And therfore let no man nother after a hundred yet a thousand sinnes and crimes committed despere of Gods mercy but make al the haste he can that God with oute any stoppe or let may be merciful vnto him lest that ▪ he perchaunce do so accustome him self to sinne that though he would he can not be delyuered from the snares craftye deceytes of the deuyl Dauid the whiche was both by the ayde and gyfte of God a kynge and a Prophete was so preuented that he committed not onely adultery but also murder and yet he reserued not him selfe nor protracted nor taried not to do penaunce in his old age ▪ but by and by lyinge in a shurte of heare and ouer sprinckled with asshes did sorowfull greate penaunce and fulfylled that he sayde in his Psalmes I wyll wasshe and water my couche euery night with my teares And agayne I dyd eate asshes as bread and watered my brinke with teares And because that with mortiferous vncarefulnes he dyd not delaye to do frutefull penaūce he immediatly so stird vp and reuoked the mercy of God that alonely he lost not his kingdome but also deserued to receaue and to haue y● gift of the holy cōt̄orter But peraduenture there be yet the wil say I am ocupied in warfare or I haue a wyfe howe can I then do penaunce As though that I when I coūsel you to do penaunce wold say that ye shulde rather go aboute to plucke out the heares of your heades then that ye should leaue youre synnes wretchednes or vnthrede youre gownes then to refuse your euyll conuersation maners But let him whiche goeth about by such dissimulation more to deceaue then to excuse hym selfe take hede marke that nether the honor of his kingdome nor yet the dignitie of his apparel could refrayne or let kynge Dauyd from doing of penaunce Also the sacrilegius kyng Achab of whome Scrypture sayth that there was neuer none suche solde to do eutil against God after that Jezebell his wife had depraued him had made him abhominable in the sight of God Naboth being stoned to deth because he wold not yeld vp his vine yard yet after that the Prophet Heli had spoken vnto him he put on a shyrte of heare bowed downe his heade vnto god did penaunce Where vpon god said vnto Heli hast thou not seene how that Achab hath humiliated him selfe vn to me Forasmuch as he saith the lorde hath buxomed and bowde him selfe vnto me for my sake I wil not as long as he shal liue punyshe nor trouble the people Now consider good brethren that although this Achab was sacrilegius naughtes yet he prolonged not the

vi Ser. HOly scripture doth often times exhorte vs to fiye to the remedye and medecin of confessiō not that because that God hath anye nede of our confession vnto whome all that we thinke speake or do is cleare and at hand but because we can not be otherwise saued except that we being penitente do penitently confesse that we negligentelye haue cōmitted Sathan shal not accuse him agayne at domes daye that dothe here of his sinful dedes and vngodly life accuse him selfe so that he be confest and penitently doth leaue and forsake them renueth them not agayne Confesse your sinnes say the S. James one to another and praye one for another y● ye may be saued And the Apostle Paule sayth Confession with the mouth is to oure saluation And Salomon sayeth thus of the confession of sinnes he that dothe hyde and cloke hys synnes shall so rowe but he that dothe confesse his faults and forsaketh them shall obteine mercy It is a ryght good medecyne of saluation not to renew our olde m●dedes nor to refresh the skarres of our old woundes For S. Ihon sayeth yf we confesse our synnes God is faithful and iust to forgeue vs and to clense vs from all iniquitie Dauid sayeth lyke wyse I sayd that I wold cōfesse mine iniquitie and vnrighte wisenesse agaynste myself and thou diddest remitte the wickednes of my synne Lette the synner confesse his sinnes whilest he lyueth for hereafter is no frutefull confession nor no penaunce that shal profyte to saluation Se nowe is the time of healthe nowe is the acceptable time nowe is the tyme of remission for those that are penytente For why after deathe shal be the tyme of punysshement for those that were negligente to confesse them of theyr iniquities All wickyd and sinneful personnes haue bitter penaunce in paine and torment but yet it doth profyte them nothinge vnto remission for theyr conscience doth wryng them to the encrease and augmentation of the paine that they do suffer They myghte by conīession haue escaped the bitternes of theyr tormentes and payne but they dyd not regarde it And therfore as they are outwardly troubled with fire so they are inwardly vexed with the remorse of consciēce How cāsurgion heale the would the which the paciēt is ashamed to shewe God dothe desyre our confession that there by he might haue a ful and a perfect knowledge of our misde des He that is ashamed to di close and to confesse hys sinnes shall haue God both his iudge and hys punysher A man shall do best to iudg him selfe in this worlde leste that God here after iudge him to perpetuall payne and tormēt Euerye sinfull man ought to haue double sorowe in penaunce fyrste that throughe his negligēce he did no good and agayne that throughe a certayne boldnes he committed that thing which was euyll That he shuld not haue done he did that he shuld haue done he did not Confession dothe iustifie confession doth geue remission of sinne Al hope of forgeuenes doth rest in confession confession is a worke of mercy the verye health of those that be sicke and wyth penaunce our onely help and comfort whose land praise the Lord doth declare in the gospel saying Do penaunce for why the kingdom of god doth drawe ●yghe And S. Ihon the ba●tiste dothe saye Do ye worthy workes of penaunce Worthye workes of penaunce are to be wayle the sinnes that are past and to renewe them no more As it is written l●ke thou adde nor heape not sinne to sinne And our Lorde by the Prophete Esaias doth saye Washe ye and be cleane He is wasshed cleane that doth bewail that is past approcheth no more vnto them He is wasshed not cleane that doth lament his misdedes and afterward renueth that he lamēted Of these menne S Peter doth speake most terribly sayinge A dogge returning to his vomite O my child sayth holy scripture hast thou cōmitted sinne do no more so but pray that the old maye be forgeuē thee True penaunce is not iudged by the nūber of yeres but by the bitternes and heuines of the mynd S Peter by and by obteyned of God the forgeuenes of his synnes because he lamented most bitterlye that he had thryse denied hym And notwithstanding a mans penaūce be but shorte yet if it be done with the inward bitternes of the mind God the righteous iudg cōsidering the secretnes of mās heart will not despise it For god doth not so much require the continuaunce of time as he doeth ponder the will and the sincere mind of him that repenteth doeth penaunce For he that with al his heart minde doth trust in Christ although he departe and dye with much sinne yet his faith shall lyue for euer as GOD in hys holye Gospell doethe saye I am the resurrectyon and lyfe whosoeuer beleueth on me thoughe he were deade yet shall he lyue and whosoeuer lyuethe and beleueth on me shall neuer dye He doth speake of y● death of the soule the which shal happen and chaunce vnto man through the infirmities and fraylnes of synne God of his nature is mercyful and ready to saue al those by mercye the whiche he can not fynde to saue by iustyce He woulde that euerye man shulde be saued and that no man shuld peryshe saying by the Prophere that whansoeuer a synner dothe conuerte hym selfe that he shall lyue not dye And notwithstandyng we are all wicked synners yet yf we turne to penaunce let vs not doute but that throughe the mercye of God we shall obtayne the remission of al out iniquities sinnes The mercy of GOD doth helpe and succour those that in this world be penitēt do penaunce For penaūce in the worlde that is to come where euery man shal geue an accoūts of his owne workes dothe not preuayle Penaunce must be done in this worlde for after our death is none amendemente ¶ Of auriculare confession vii Ser. MEn are wont to saye moste dearely beloued brethren that God knoweth al thinges and that with god there is nether time past nor tyme to come for he seeth al thyng and pondereth all thinge all thinges are bare open vnto God Why will God then say they that we shulde cōfesse our sinnes to man were it not better not to manifeste and disclose such euyl dedes then to open them abroade for who is he that wold glad lye saye I haue trespassed aboue al other And yf I shuld shewe all thing vnto manne I shuld be estemed the worst of all other many throughe mine example wuld do much euil Why should a man then cōfesse hymself to any other O thou man docite thou not know that we ar al sinuers for if we say that we be with oute synne we deceaue oure selues and the trueth is not in vs. We do al sinne we are all borne in synne we