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A09595	A sommon to repentance Giuen vnto Christians for a loking glasse, wherin we may behold our owne deformities, and therein and thereby, we are not onely forewarned of our destructions, but we are learned to humble out selues in these dangerous dayes of wickednesse, before the throane of Gods mercy, that wee maye not be preserued from the lake of damnation, in the great and notable day of Christs comming to iudgemente. Published by J.P. student of Cambridge.; Summons for repentance	Phillips, John, fl. 1570-1591.	1584 (1584)	STC 19875; ESTC S105036	35,560	70

from you the gnawing canker of you corruption and there shall no euill happen vnto you for I will deliuer you as adopted sonnes by grace a sacrifice of sweete smelling incense into the hands of my father and your God with whome you shalt after this your transttorie pilgrimage liue in continuall ioie perfect peace and lasting blessednesse But if we refuse the calling of our sauiour that came louinglie not to call the righteous but sinners to repentaunce we doe nothing but desceiue our selues incurre vnto our selues his heauie displeasure make our selues the seruants of sinne the slaues of death and the heires of eternall damnation God therefore who is the Lorde of time to whom al times are in subiectiō in this time tie vs to the time of our caling For delaye bringeth daunger and daunger in time bringeth death Nowe is the accptable time of repentaunce come therefore with a penitent hart and a contrite spirite to Christ and put it not off till to morrowe Nowe is grace offered thee and all wretched creatures prostrate thy selfe before the throne of gods mercie and by a liuely faith and earnest repentance receaue it with reuerence praise and thankesgi●…ing and sith thou nowe maiest be released freelie from the intollerable burthen of thy sinnes refuse thou not the inestimable grace and fauor of the Lorde Iesus who willinglie and gladlie goeth about to yoake and couple thee to himselfe for the greatnes of his mercies shal be a sufficient bulwark and a strong fortresse of defence for thee to stande safelie and surelie against all the assaultes of sathan Therefore sith thou art vncerteine of thy time continue not thy sinnes till to morrowe for he that offereth thee remission of all thy offences nowe may refuse and forsake thee to morrowe For the Lorde thy God will not be inio●…ed to ●…ary thy appointment therefore come now repent and amend ●…arken to the curteous call of 〈◊〉 redeemer worship and serue the Lord thy God this day with f●…are reuerence for thou knowest not whether thou shalt liue to ●…ee thy prescribed and appointed morrow ●…f thou die in thy sinnes and wickednes●…es thou in his exceding iustice as the s●…r ●…ant of si●…ne shalt be confounded and o●…er thrown And is this all No for after ●…his thy bod●…y deth the pains wherof in●…re but a while the worme of thyn●… 〈◊〉 conscience shall torment thee yea ●…hou shalt become subiect to the seconde ●…eath the torments wherof are endlesse ●…nd shall contine we for euer in the dun●…eon of hell whereas the fire remaineth 〈◊〉 and the flame neuer go●…th out Beware therefore that thou con●…emne not the riche graces of GOD ●…hen they are laied forth before thee for ●…o sinne wilfully and wittingly against ●…he Lord thy God in hope of his mercies ●…s a thing of all things most odible and ●…etested in the eies of his diuine maie●…tie But these things are nothing at all ●…onsidered among vs for generalli●… 〈◊〉 we be 〈◊〉 called home to the shéep●… folde of his aboundant grace y●… haue we hardened our hearts with o●… forefathers and murmur with the●… 〈◊〉 disobedient rebels against the Lorde o●… God We haue made deafe our ●…res 〈◊〉 this ende and purpose that we will n●… ther heare the●… swéete and gentle 〈◊〉 of vs home to himselfe in his Gospe●… nor yet enter into the déepe considerat●… on of his terrible threatnings and gr●… uous comminations pronounced again●… vs for the exercise of our manifold wi●… kednesses And is this all No we ha●… most 〈◊〉 blinded our wr●… ched eies with the vale of our own 〈◊〉 rity so that we stand sturdie in our ow●… conceits rather prouoking the Lord o●… God in his iustice to hasten our spéedi●… destruction then otherwise to moue hi●… maiesty by earnest repentance to stret●… out the s●…luered septer of his excéeding 〈◊〉 uour and loue towardes vs. O 〈◊〉 creatures that we are though we sée an●… heare that Christ our Sauiour is readi●… at all times to open and stretch forth th●… armes of his compassion ●…nd pittie t●… ●…rde vs and to imbrace vs louinglie yet will we not come neere him no wée runne farre off from him we are so in●…med with the loue of this wicked and wretched world We are earthlie affected We regard not heauenly felicity we ●…re grose carnally minded We are not ●…piritually inclined Wee are adicted to ●…orldly pleasures We weigh not y ● ioies ●…lestiall We striue here in this vaine ●…ansitory life for worldly promosiō We 〈◊〉 not whilst we haue time most mi●…erable wretches to be vessels of honour ●…ith Christ in the kingdome of heauen ●…ee seeke to accumelate gather and ●…eape vppe vnto our selues worldelie ●…iches which are vncertaine and in●…re but a while Wee haue no care ●…t all for the inestimable treasures of ●…he heauenlie kingdome Wee are well ●…leased to walke in the broad way of our ●…erdission but the narrow way that lea●…eth to life is to heard for vs to finde A ●…mentable case that we will not come ●…hen wee are called to Christ Iesus A grieuous thing it is to consider that we will not relent and fall downe 〈◊〉 fore the Lord our maker And a thing 〈◊〉 dangerous it is to consider that we 〈◊〉 ther can nor wil learne to serue and w●… ship the Lorde our God with 〈◊〉 and namelie in spirite and truth as 〈◊〉 hath commanded in his lawe Ala●… what sho●…ld I saie The guiltines of 〈◊〉 dam whose children we are hath poll●… ted our consciences The suggestions 〈◊〉 the enuious serpent stickes still in o●… hartes The flatteriss of deceitfull 〈◊〉 our grandmother in Adam hath vtter●… bewitched our vnderstanding And 〈◊〉 tast of the forbidden fruit remaineth 〈◊〉 in our mouthes Thus our contempt 〈◊〉 vertue is mightilie increased our d●… bedience greatly multiplied and in m●… ner all feare of God is banished our m●… mories Who indeuoreth to serue 〈◊〉 with innocent Abell Naie who 〈◊〉 cruell Cain couetteth not to hate 〈◊〉 the Lord and to bath their handes in 〈◊〉 blood of the faithfull Would the 〈◊〉 world be reformed by Noah to conue●… from their s●…s and wick●…nesses 〈◊〉 ●…itted against God no they hardened ●…eir harts in their iniquities And doth ●…ot this newe worlde the like yes veri●…e Was the olde world vtterlie destroi●… for the continuance of their euils and ●…ll not this newe worlde perish think●…●…e that surmounts the old worlde in all ●…omination and vncleannesse Yes ●…erily Could the preaching of Lot rouse 〈◊〉 the Sodomites and the Gomorians 〈◊〉 their 〈◊〉 filthines No. No ●…ore wil our great Cities and Townes 〈◊〉 conuerted by the Patriarks the Pro●…ets Iesus Christ himselfe nor his A●…stles Were the 〈◊〉 Citties destroted ●…om the heauen with fire and brimstone ●…r the contempt of Gods great graces thowsand thowsand of our Cities that ●…ound in all kind of euill shall likewise

A SOMMON to Repentance Giuen vnto Christians for a loking Glasse wherin we may behold our owne deformities and therein and thereby we are not onley forewarned of our destructions but we are learned to humble our selues in these daungerous dayes of wickednesse before the throane of Gods mercy that wee maye be preserued from the Lake of damnation in the great and notable day of Christs comming to iudgemente Published by J.P. student of Cambridge Math. 3. Repent and amend your lyues for the kingdome of God is at hande AT LONDON Imprinted by D. Jackson dwelling in fleetestroete 1584. ¶ To the right Honorable Sir Edwarde Osbourne Knight hir Maiesties Leiftenante Lorde Mayor of hir Highnes most honorable Cittie London the right Worshipfull Knight Syr Rowland Haiward Alderman of London the right worshipfull Mayster Iohn Spencer Alderman and Shriue of London and the right worshipful of the fraternitie and misterye of Clothworkers Iohn Phillip the sonne of Robart Phillip Clothworker disceased wisheth the feare of God peace and prosperitie in our merciful Lord and Sauior Christ Iesus c. IF this small present right honorable and worshypful rendered into your hands with all humility and reuerence maye finde fauour in your sight I shall not only accounte my selfe happye but hereafter shew my selfe industerious to pleasure you wyth some other treatise which with this shall redowne to the glory of god your well liking and the commodity of my natiue cuntrimen In the meane season I most earnestly besech your good Lordship and euery of you to pardon my boldnes and to satisfie your mindes with this poore mite of mine which to the comforte of the godly and the reformation of the maleuolent is published not doubting but as you are vertuous and godly affected so your honor and euery one of you being patrons members of this common weale in as much as in you shal consist will doe your indeuors to beate down syn whose branches are so monsterous that they begin to ouer shade vertue the which thing to cal vnto our memories is a thing of al things to be lamented who heareth not in the Gospel how diligently our wickednesses cōmitted against the maiestie of eternal God are reproued but who or where are they that conuert and turne to the Lord in this our last time of our age and calling no we glory in our iniquityes and hate to be reformed and generally to speake the truth we I say for the most part and greatest number of vs that professe the name of Christ are rockt and lulled in the corrupt cradle of our owne securities and therin we slepe so soundly that neither can the remembrance of Gods graces signes tokens his greuous threat nings and terrible comminations serue to rouse vs vp out of the dangerous and most perrilous slumber of our iniquyties it cannot be chosen right Honorable and Worshipful but that the day of our visitation is at hand and except we repent we shal perishe in our wickednesses for Gods heauie indig●…tion is readie to enter into the gates of our Cities the v●…ols of his wrath are ready to be powred forth vpon vs our God is ready in the fulnesse of his displeasure to hew vs downe with the Axe of his vengeance for our ingratitude to blo●… our names out of the booke of lyfe for the contempt of his commandements and to leaue vs 〈◊〉 pray for our abhominable actions to our auncient aduersarie sathan I exhort your good Lordship therefore and euery one of you to whome God hat●… giuen authority in the bowels of Iesus Christ to perseuer and go forward from vertue to vertue to the vttermost of your powers to banishe from your Cities and Townes al the maysters of misrule that both contemne God and despise good order Thus shal you please God in discharging your dueties and shewe your selues obedient subiects to hir excellent maiesty that putteth you in trust to bridle the outrage of the wicked that range as gracelesse after their vncleanesse Thus wishing you right honorable and euery one of you the feare of god peace and prosperitye in Iesus Christ I leaue you to his gracious heauenly preseruation beseeching him of his infinite good nes whilst his mercy holdeth his indignation at a bay to giue vs the grace with humble and contrite hartes to prostrate our selues before him to craue pardon at his fatherly hands for our offences to weepe bytterly for our sinnes and to bring forth the fruites of repentance thus shal we pacifie hys heauy displeasure conuerte his fury to fauor his 〈◊〉 to loue and his conceiued wrath to comfortable kindnes the which we shal inioye in this life and after when the course of this our pilgrimage is fully finished we shal stand before him in purity be sanctified with his holynes be crowned with honor and glory and be made fellow heires with Christ Iesus of his celestial kingdome the which God for hi●… sonne Christ his sake graunt you and euery of you Your humble and faythful wel willer in the Lord. Iohn Phillip ❧ A Sommon to repentaunce giuen vnto Christians for a looking glasse IF wee woulde consider deare christians the inestimable graces of our louing God poured foorth vp●…n vs that haue little or nothing at all deserued his fatherlie fauor it ●…ere a thing that might mooue vs sinfull and most wretched crea●…ures not onlie to walke as it becommeth ●…s in godlie integritie and newnes of life but therewithall we would like adopted sonnes by his 〈◊〉 grace continew our obedience towardes him that like a most carefull Father and gratious God s●…keth all the meanes possible that 〈◊〉 be to nourish and féede vs both in so●… and bodie to euerlasting life and heauenly blessednes In spirite and soule by the operation and working of a liuelie fa●…th through his diuine grace we are prouidently f●…d ●…n the truth of his 〈◊〉 testament with the sweetest flesh drinke the d●…rest blood of our immaculate and spotles lambe Christ Iesus who giueth himselfe most willinglie to all those that constantlie beleeue not carnallie but spirituallie to be fed vppon by faith and fréelie 〈◊〉 vnto vs his most precious blood without our deserts to aswadge the thirst of our soules that Sathan through sinne had 〈◊〉 to 〈◊〉 death and destruction euerlasting from the which by the vnspeakeable prouidence and inf●…te wisedome of our omnipotent GOD through Iesus Christ we are deliuered Si sumus fideles And as by his grace we inioy this delectable foode and most 〈◊〉 Nectar to the comfort of our soules so with these his deuine benefites h●… most louinglie inricheth vs with his temporall blessinges For in bodie 〈◊〉 our feeble and weake natures most carefullie are by his onelie goodnesse fostered from his bountifull handes with meate and drinke and all other the glorious giftes of his grace without the which wee coulde not continue But alas neither the one nor the other is of vs accepted

to walk in the waies that the Lorde our God hath appointed vs and yet we will be compted christians by name but infidels in our actions To talke of Christ being carnally affected and not heauenlie minded is a thing of all other most dangerous 〈◊〉 acknowledge him to be the Sonne 〈◊〉 God in our wordes and not to 〈◊〉 his testimonies is a thing most diuelish and sathanicall for the 〈◊〉 did the like in the desertes when he tempted the Lorde of life that Iohn baptized in Iordan and then if we bée faithlesse as I feare me the greatest number of vs are that remaine in this our last time of calling what differ we from sathan that vnrighteous prince of darknes And is this the way do we cōi●…ture with our selues to please God when in not regarding the price of our redemtion accomplished by Gods eternall decree freelie by and through the working of his ●…serued grace in the spotles and immaculate lambe No we vsurpe the name of Christ in this doing we deceiue our selues we tread the blood of him that hath redeemed vs vnder our feete and to concl●…de wée aggreuate heape vp vnto our selues the heauie and intollerable curse and indignation of the a●…ightie and therwithall vnlesse we conuert from the 〈◊〉 waie of our abhominable wickednesses the destruction of our bodies and soules euerlastinglie But who is he that will enter into his owne conscience examine himselfe whither he be giltie of these causes or not or who is he that finding his conscience woūded with the deadlie dart of his own transgression ouerladen with sinne will learne to acknowledge his owne wickednesses to humble himselfe with Dauid before the thron of gods mercies to saie Lord haue mercie vpon me and according to the multitude of thy manifolde mercies blot out all mine iniquities out of thy presence verelie in this age there are few or none that indeuor to bring forth the fruits of repentance for the confidence that we haue in our selues the great distrust that we haue in God in neglecting his commandements the loue that we haue to this transitory world the slender care wée haue to Christ his Gospel the dangerous delight we conceaue in our owne force contrarie the vtter forgetting of gods graces bestowed vppon vs a proue vs rather to be the children of darknes then the sonnes of light were it not an absurde thing for vs to be called in this our last age wherein Christ is sencerely preached to be 〈◊〉 for our sins the enimies of Chist and the friends of Belial who would not think he had iniury being baptised to be called sath●…n But what redéemed whome Christ hath raunsomed not with golde nor siluer but with the price of the hart blood of our redéemer will at all times ingraue or print into his remembrance the painful torments that Christ hath suffred for the sins of the whole world nay rather who flieth not from the ensigne of his capteine Christ Jesus and yeldeth not himselfe a bondslaue to ●…in a seruant to sathan a pray to eternall damnation hel If God haue cōm●… nded vs to serue honor obey him to dedicate and offer vp our selues into his holie handes to depende wholie onely and solie vpon him to put our whole trust and confidence in him and to continue his worshippe in feare and reuerence Why doe we scorne his commandements Why yeelde we not our selues to obedience Why are wée become men pleasers Or why go wée about of a set purpose to displease our creator knowe we not that we are in his heauenly hands as the clay is in the hands of the potter will we become vessels of dishonor in dishonoring him that of dutie we are bounde to obey Are our hearts so hardened that wée thinke him insufficient to punishe vs that without ceasing prouoke him to displeasure or are we become so farre past feare that we will not stande in awe of his iudgementes Hath Ladie selfeloue made vs so wilfullie affected that we wil stand thus sturdely against the Lord and his annointed or hath the inordinate desire of our priuate gaine in this world of wretchednes so déepelie possessed our harts that we vtterlie cast Christ Jesus our high and mightie Lorde treasurer and the vnspeakeable treasures of his glorious kingdom frō our memories alas if wee will cocke●… our selues in our vncleannes heape vp sinne vpon sin glorie in our vncleannes and giue our consents to worke euill in the sight of the Lorde our God We are not members of Christ sons of adoption and grace but children of the diuell forlorne and cast away bastardes If we wil become wilful wantons stragling Goates refuse the good sheephearde and cleane vnto the hired seruant shall not sathan the wilie wolfe deuoure vs both in body and soule If we will liue 〈◊〉 lift vp our selues against the Lord stande stiffe in our owne securities and growe in the contempt of Gods eternall iustice shall not hee in his hea●…ie displeasure with the heauie Axe of his vengeance cut vs downe in our sinnes and then after this temporall death shall not the seconde death of bodie and soule which shall endure for euer vexe and torment vs in the dungion of hell Oh that we would record and call these thinges to our remembrances O that we woulde ponder in our owne consciences how heauie and dangerous a thing it is to fall into the iudgements of the Lorde our God O that we would diligently cōsider with our selues that as God is mercifull louing amiable to those that loue him and kéepe his commandements so is he iust terrible and displeasant to those that continue their wickednesses The 〈◊〉 tree that was barren was accursed and thinke we that are fruitlesse to be blessed Can not the good seede of the Gospell sowne in the stoni●… grounde of our stintie harts take no root at al in vs shal the filthy furrours of our cankred consciences in stead of good and perfect graine bring foorth vnsanerie darnell when the Lorde of the haruest commeth for perfect wheat will we render him chaffe alacke then most miserable is our condission and estate for hee then that hath his fanne in his hand wil purge his floure gather his wheate into the glorious g●…rner of his grace but the chaffe he will burne with an vnquenchable fire These thinges might forewarne vs in time while wée haue time to turne to the Lorde our God and to bring soorth the fruites of repentaunce But wée generallie for the most part here and euery where rather like beastlie Epicures then godlie affected christians wallowe in the myrie soyle of our vncleanesse and putrefaction expecting nothing so much as we doe our ease wherin wée she we our selues to be more laisie loyterers then louelie labourers in the Lordes vineyarde For let vs euen from the highest to the lowest from the

●…ertues haue their ●…eing in our carnal contemptuous gospellers which rather make a scorne of Christ Iesus then honour him in their harts But this in●…incible faith g●…unded on the touchstone of truth and this vnfein●…d repenta●…ce through the which by grace in Christ Iesus the olde man is dead and buried from ●…inne and this contri●…on and hartie sorrowe where with all our consciences are touched not for de●…tes but fréely by gods inestimable lou●… and kindnes commeth not of our selues but procedeth towards vs from the father of light and these his singuler graces are pertinent and belonging to the children of beleefe that are truelie regenerate begotten borne againe to God the Father not by water but in the pretious death and bloodshedding of the innocent lambe Christ Iesus This faith and this repentance was profitable to the prophet Dauid when he felt in himselfe the sorrows of his hart and confessed himselfe to haue 〈◊〉 displeased the maiestie of the Lord God saieng I will acknowledge mine vnrighteousnesse against my selfe O Lorde and thou forgauest the vngodlines of my sinnes and as his submission was found acceptablein the sight of the Lorde GOD so Saule wanting a liuely faith and impenitent what could his contri●…on auaile or pro●…t him This faith was s●… setteled in the Apostle Peter that when he had denied his Lorde and maister Christ Iesus looking back vpon him the sillie cocke became a preacher vnto him thervpon calling vnto his remembraunce the wordes of his louing Lorde hee went foorth of the doores and w●…pt bitterlie for his trespasse thus his repentance obteined mercy at the hands of god found fauor bicause that he grounded o●… faith Contrarily this repentance nothing at all a●…ailed Iudas and why bicause he was faithles Thus as Peter purchased remission by faith earnest repentance so Iudas drowned in infidelity sathan poscessing him most desperately hanged him selfe and did heape vnto himselfe the vtter condemnation of bodie and soule and I feare me that in this our last age we haue a far greter number of desperate ludases than faithful repentant Peters God turne our harts and giue vs his holie spirit by the power wherof sin shall cease in vs and we shal liue to Christ Iesus But if we will with an vpright and single 〈◊〉 behold the maners of wicked wordlinges we shall finde them so far dissonant from Christ as light is from darkenes and yet most shamelessie he that is most wicked he whose actions are most detested in the sight of the Lord God wil not stick to say they are folowers of Christ and it may be so that they both followe and seeke after him but howe not with the thrée wise men to serue and worship him in spirite truth but with bloodthirsty Herode to kil and cruci●…e him afreshe in his members They mind not with Nichodemus to seke the Lorde Christ by daie nor yet by night to learn of him as his disciples that which may benefit them to euerlasting life but they seeke and followe after him with the subtill Scribes the proud Phar●…sies and the deceitfull Sa●…uces to intrap him in his talke and to tempt him with a p●…nny but they are sent away not without answere for Caesar must haue that which to him belongeth God must haue his glorie These vsurpers of Christ his holie name these wicked and impudent creatures come not to the lambe of God with the beleeuing Centurion neither wil they repose such confidence and trust in Christ as he did for the r●…couery of his daughters health no they will not come to him that like a good and louing Phisicion woulde cure their sicke soules purifie their 〈◊〉 hearts and cleanse them from all the ●…oares of sinn●… and yet with the Lawier that came to Christ to know y ● way to life they can brag they haue kept the cōman●…ements and al necessary things for their ●…aluation but with the Lawier they go awaie ashamed for these iustifieng felow●… of themselues keepe backe with the lawier neither will they consent to sel all that they haue and giue it to the poore no they will followe Christ in no such order Iudas was a follower of Christ Iudas gaue Christ a discembling kisse but wee haue many Iudases but the faith of Zacheus is forgotten of these counterfeits they will not s●…e Christ in spirit and truth but after their owne affections this is the manner of the maleu●…lent that thinke themselues searchers after CHRIST when they being carnallie affected rather shew themselues blind at noone ●…aies then to haue or inioie their perfect sight for they grope as graceles for him that they cannot finde But contrary the little fold the members of the church militant the faire daughter of Siō y ● perfect spous of Christ and the faithful louers of the gospell they seeke for Christ spiritually and how by a fruitful faith and an earnest repentance they find him to the comfort of their cōsciences the ioie of their troubled harts to the exceding comfort of their soules they sée find him y ● both is delighted to dwell with them in them they in him haue their being so that by his especiall grace ●… fauour they are puri●…ed in the blood of the lambe from al the spots of their sins the deformed wrinckles of their wickednesses this is the meane of godlie christians that seeke and search for Christ by an immoueable faith and beartie sorrowe for their sinnes and they are certeine to find him and why bicause he hath promised that when so euer two or thrée be assembled and gathered togither in his name he will be in the middest of them and this is the hope of the faithful this is the greatest ioie that belongeth to the children of beleefe this is ●…he comfort of each and euerie constant christian and yet they can not stand of themselues but when they fal into the laspe of sinne they confesse their iniquities and forthwith they being touched with the finger of Gods grace they like prodigall sonnes that ●…aue wandered from the sheepefolds of the true and verie Emanuell crie out and returne to their father againe for want of whose fauour they being readie to pine were glad with the swine that wallowe in the stincking ●…ncks of sin to eate y ● corrupt cods of their vnclennes but being as they were vnder the curse of the lawe subuerted by gods eternall iustice to eternall death and damnation they feeling the gnawing worme of their owne conscience to vexe and tormente them and therewith all they beholding the horror of their wickednesses committed against the Lorde their God they seeke to bee ridde of this hellish slauerie they counte to shake of this heauie and intolerable burthen of their iniquities and to be released from the bondage of hell the ●…ting of the second death and the ceaseles torments of that euerlasting