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The doctrine and vse of repentance necessarie to be practised and vsed of all who looke to sing the song of Moses, and the song of the lambe beyond the glassie sea: Reuel.15.23. Preached in sundrie sermons in the parish church of Alhallowes Bredstreete in London: by Rich. Stock; Doctrine and use of repentance.
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Stock, Richard, 1569?-1626.
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107 Motiues to Mortification Page 111. 112 P PArts as also Helps are of two sorts Page 103. 104 A true Penitent is carefull to auoid all sinne 199. Two reasons prouing it Page 201 Why one Penitent person was receiued at the last houre Page 344 The Penitent is perswaded of Gods loue to him Page 227 The Penitent discernes two things which he saw not before Page 254 The Penitent will take an holy reuenge of himselfe Page 260 The Penitent is fit for death Page 266 The Penitent need not dread the day of doome Page 267 Popish Penances disallowed Page 255 Person and profession of a man must be distiguished Page â—3â— The Physike of the Soule continuall Page 289 Preaching where wanting their case is fearefull Page 143 Preaching is a great blessing Page 144 Preaching is much to bee respected Page 146 Preaching serues both to beget and to preserue Page 194 Preaching is not like other arts Page 195 Prayer is the instrumentall cause of repentance from within Page 150 Two reasons prouing Prayer so to be Page 151. 152 Presumption of Gods mercie an impediment of repentance Page 308 Three reasons proouing it Page 309 Helps against Presumption Page 312. 314 Presumption the cause of perdition Page 341 Popish Purgatorie of no vse Page 265 R REpentance deseribed Page 1 Repentance is a turning Page 1. 2 Repentance is a turning of the whole man from all sinne 3. and so proued by Scripture 4. And by two reasons Page 5. 8 Fiue sorts of men mistaken about Repentance Page 6. 7 The best way to begin Repentance is to deale with the heart first 9. But the more easie course is to begin with the life Page 9. 10 Repenting must be dailie Page 12 Repentance is from a iustifying faith Page 13 Abab Repentance was from a temporary faith Page 17 Repentance as faith is double Page 18 Repentance how it is before faith 18 How after Page 21 Repentance is not in the ignorant and vnbeleeuers Page 24 Repentance arisoth from the knowledge of a mans spirituall estate 27 Three reasons hereof Page 31. 32 Repentants must haue shame feare and sorrow 51. Three reasons thereof Page 51. 52. 53 The Repentant must be an Examiner an Informer and a Iudge Page 78 Repentance may be without teares Page 95 Repentance hath two parts Page 104 Repentance is not so easily made as is imagined Page 108 Regeneration described Page 113 Where repentance is there is regeneration proued by two reasons Page 115 Repentants are not perfect Page 121 The principall efficient of Repentance is God 125 Proued by two reasons Page 127 The Regenerate shall not fall away Page 132. 133. 134 A man cannot repent when hee list Page 134. 137 The outward instrumentall cause of Repentance is the word 139. 140 Three reasons proouing it Page 141 Why many doe not repent Page 154 The end of Repentance Page 161 Diuers kinds of Repenters Page 167 Remission of sinnes and Repentance goe together Page 169 Why RepentaÌ„ce is preached to the Page 17â— Repentance absolutely necessanie to saluation Page 180 The Regenerate must repent 181 Two reasons hereof Page 182 Seuen signes or effects of Repentance Page 197. 198 How Repentance may be knowno to be true Page 213 Three reasons shewing that Repentance produceth anger at sin Page 218 Three reasons prouing that Repentance makes a man afraid to sin Page 22â— Repentance works a seruent affect on to God and his word 233. Two reasons prouing this Page 233. 235 Reasons proouing that Repentance produceth zeale Page 242. 243. 244 Repentance must be with speede not posted off 136. 270. Fiue Reasons prouing it Page 271. 272. 273 The Proroguers of Repentance taxed Page 274 The danger of delaying repeÌ„tance set forth in fiue particulars Page 281. 282 Repentance must be constant Page 285. 291 292 Two reasons shewing it Page 286 287 The cares and pleasures of the world a let of Repentance Page 324 Three Reasons hereof Page 327. 328 Repentance hindred by scandals 333 Two reasons hereof Page 335 The peaceable ends of sinners a let to Repentance as also the vnquiet deaths of some Repentant Professors 338. 339. Three reasons of it Page 339. 340 Diuers differences betwixt the repentant theefe and our Adiourners of Repentance Page 345 No man is respected for his perfect repentance nor reiected for the imperfection of it Page 348 No restitution no Repentance Page 90 Shifts against Restitution remooued Page 99. 100. 101 Restitution how to be made without crazing credit Page 102 Non-Restitution excludes saluation Page 103 Reuenge the seuenth signe or fruit of Repentance Page 251. 253 How this Reuenge differs from indignation Page 252 Reasons prouing repentance to bring foorth this reuenge Page 253. 255 Reuenge how it may be taken Page 259 This life is the onely time of Repentance Page 262 Two Reasons prouing it Page 264 The delaying of Repentance fearefull Page 269 S SCandals and their remedies Page 333 335. 337 Scandals may by God be set before a man and why Page 338 Searching of a mans selfe necessarie Page 79 Search out two things Page 79. 80 Sinne separated man from God Page 5 Shame whence it ariseth Page 49 No Shame before repentance Page 51. 52 Sinne why of some liked Page 219 Sinners must not be hated except for sinne Page 213 Originall sinne described Page 80 The seedes of all sinnes are in euerie man Page 80 Stumps of sinne sticke in the regenerate Page 107 Sinne why not wholly slaine in this life Page 117 Sinne willingly committed may bee pardoned Page 190 Sins iterated haue been forgiuen Page 191 Of Sighes and sobbing Page 68 Sorrow for sinne makes a man defend himselfe against sin and Satan Page 207 Sorrow and ioy how they will stand together Page 287 Sorrow is ioyned with repentance Page 50. 51. 57 Sorrow for sinne must not bee deemd a melancholike passion Page 55 Sorrow should bee sutable to a mans sinnes Page 58. 59 Whence difference of Sorrow ariseth Page 59. 60 Soule-sicknes is continuall Page 289 T TVrning is of foure kinds Page 3 Turning from one sinne is made by some vnto another Page 8 Turning meerely outward may haue a benefit Page 11 Turning is not constaÌ„t without feare Page 53 V VIuification described Page 113 Vnworthie man must not despaire for his vnworthinesse Page 323 W GOds Word should be heard often Page 196 Why meÌ„ loue the word no better Page 235 Why some cannot abide the word Page 311 Good works from a corrupt fountaine are sinnes Page 46 Whipping vsed of Papists taxed Page 92. 93 Of Weeping for sinne Page 95. 96 The World is an enemie to repentance Page 325 Helps against worldly cares Page 329. 332 Z ZEale a fruit of repentance Page 247 Zeale little in the world Page 244 246 Zealous Protestants scorned Page 245 The difference of good bad Zeale Page 247 Zeale consists of Loue and Sorow Page 248 Zeale that is true how discerned Page 251 FINIS
Pauls preaching So the Apostle Peter saith 1. Pet. 1.23 Being borneanew not of mortall seed but of immortall by the word of God c. Like wise Saint Iames saith Iames 1.18 Of his own wil begat be vs with the word of truth And S. Paul saith to the Corinthians 1. Cor. 4.15 That in Christ Iesus he begot them through the Gospell And the Lord saith by his prophet Ieremy Ierem. 23.29 That his word was like a fire and like a hammer that breaketh the stone Al which places doe prooue that the word is the ordinarie instrumentall eause of a mans repentance and conuersion as also these reasons consirme it Reason 1. First because it is so powerfull and pearcing as the author to the Hebrues saith Heb. 4.12 That it is liuely mighty in operation sharper thē any two edged sword c. Which power it hath not from any inherent qualitie in it selfe or from man that preacheth it but because of the supernaturall power of God who as the Apostle saith to the Galathians Galath 2.8 was mightie by Peter in the Apostleship ouer the Circumcision and was mighty by him also toward the Gentiles Noting that when men are conuerted by the preaching of the word and it is powerfull to that purpose it hath it not of it self but from God but howsoeuer it is indeed powerfull Psalm 19.7 and doth conuert the soule Reason 2. The second reason is because faith is one immediate cause and beginning of repentance Now faith is begotten by the word therefore repentance also must needes come by the word As touching faith the Apostle to the Romans saith Rom. 10.17 Faith is by hearing and hearing by the word of God Therefore preaching the word being the cause of faith it must needs be the cause of repentance Causa causae causa causati Reason 3. The third reason is Because the conuersion of men is the seale and only miracle that the Gospell now hath And it is vsuall with the Lord in working miracles to shadow them by outward meanes that he might conceale his owne worke specially from vnbeleeuers As Salomon saith Prou. 25.1 The glorie of God is to conceale a thing secret Then it is his glory to couer this miracle by this outward meanes 1. Cor. 1.21 and by so foolish and base a thing as preaching is in the eies of the world to worke this great wonder and to saue men designed by Satan to destruction And when I say the word is the instrumentall cause of repentance I exclude not the law as that which helpeth to this though properly it worke it not for by bringing men to the sight and knowledge of their sinnes and miseries it prepareth them for the receiuing of that grace and mercie which is propounded in the Gospel as an eating corasiue which maketh way for a healing medicine But the Gospell is the message of glad tidings and mairing the promises of pardon ◅dre◅sission of fumes is that which especially worketh it or that which doth throughly worke it in men Vse 1. Now for to make vse of this truth vnto our selues First This may teach vs that their case is fearefull that are without the preaching of the word because they are without the ordinarie meanes and so without hope to come to repentance as Iewes Turkes and Infidels that are depriued of the word and they that liue in corners where the sound of it is not heard It was a fearefull curse when Christ said vnto his Apostles Matth. 10.5 Goe not into the way of the Gentiles and into the cities of the Samaritans enter ye not And now that some haue found mercy which sought it not and others are still left in their darkenes and horrible blindnes it is no lesse fearefull when God denieth still the ministerie of the word vnto them and saith as it were vnto his ministers preach not there for it is as if he had said I will not haue these conuerted as Augustine saith Quoniam vt crederent non erat ijs datum etiam vnde crederent est negatum Aug. de bono perseuerantiae God hath denied vnto men the meanes whereby they should beleeue because hee hath no purpose that they should beleeue And so God hath denied to men that by which they should be conuerted because he hath not purposed their conuersion Then wheresoeuer men want it either by the iudgement of God denying it to them or by their owne peeuishnesse withdrawing themselues from hearing the word or else not harkning to it hauing eares not boared but giuen to drowsines and sleepinesse and so they want it though they liue in the middest of it such an estate is a fearefull signe as if God had no purpose they should hee conuerted Vse 2. 2. Secondly this teacheth vs to acknowledge the happie condition of that people or that nation or place wheresoeuer God hath vouchsafed the preaching of the word to wit that it is a mauifest proofe hee hath a people there that hee would conuert and hath a desire to saue them As he said to Paul in the Acts when he was at Corinth Acts 18.18 Feare not but speake for I haue much people in this place Arguing that he had a people there whom hee meant to saue and therefore hee sent his word to them So whersoeuer God sendeth his word and giueth his ministers gifts and conscience to preach the word vnto any nation or people it is a signe hee fauoureth them and that he would haue them conuerted and be saued though not euery one that heareth it for many haue this but to make them more inexcusable and to increase their iudgement but only those to whom he giueth hearts and eares open vnto it which if it be so great a fauour from God then are wee to acknowledge the mercie of God that hath sent his Gospell amongst vs and giuen gifts vnto men to preach the same vnto vs. For wherefore hath God giuen his Ministers knowledge to preach the word is it only for themselues No verily for as they are men they could bee saued with as little knowledge as others But God hath giuen them gifts for the gathering together of his Church and for the conuersion of others And here we are to be stirred vp to walke worthie of this benefit lest it be remoued taken from vs and giuen to a nation that will bring forth better fruit For though we may be alreadie conuerted by the benefit of the ministery hitherto inioyed yet what shal become of our posterity euē of so many thousand infants or sucklings if they may not haue the means by which they may be conuerted If thē we haue any loue vnto thē that as they are our children by nature so they may be the children of God by grace let vs labour to walke worthie of this mercie that we may leaue it to our posteritie as our sathers left it to