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Five sermons preached upon sundry especial occasions Viz. 1 The sinners mourning habitFiue sermons preached vpon sundry especiall occasions Viz. 1 The sinners mourning habit
Five sermons preached upon sundry especial occasions Viz. 1 The sinners mourning habit: in Whitehall, March 29. being the first Tuesday after the departure of King James into blessedness. 2 A visitation sermon: in Christs Church, at the triennial visitation of the right reverend father in God the lord bishop of London. 3 The holy choice: in the chapel by Guildhall, at the solemn election of the right honourable the lord major of London. 4 The barren tree: at Pauls-Cross, Octob. 26. 5 The temple: at Pauls-Cross. August 5. By Tho: Adams.Fiue sermons preached vpon sundry especiall occasions Viz. 1 The sinners mourning habit: in Whitehall, March 29. being the first Tuesday after the departure of King Iames into blessednesse. 2 A visitation sermon: in Christs Church, at the trienniall visitation of the right reuerend father in God the lord bishop of London. 3 The holy choice: in the chappell by Guildhall, at the solemne election of the right honorable the lord maior of London. 4 The barren tree: at Pauls-Crosse, Octob. 26. 5 The temple: at Pauls-Crosse. August 5. By Tho: Adams.
London: printed by Aug. Matthewes and John Norton for John Grismand, 1626London: printed by Aug. Matthewes and John Norton for Iohn Grismand, 1626
THE SINNERS MOURNING HABIT. › I repent.THE SINNERS MOVRNING HABITE. › I repent.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Wheresoever Repentance is, she doth not deliberate, tarries not to ask questions, and examine circumstances; but bestirs her joints, calls her wits & senses together: summons her tongue to praying, her feet to walking, her hands to working, her eyes to weeping, her heart to groaning. There is no need to bid her go, for she runs: she runs to the word for direction, to her own heart for remorse and compunction, to God for grace and pardon: and wheresoever she findeth Christ,1 she layeth faster hold on him, then the Shunnamite did on the feet of Elisha; As the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not let thee go: no Gehesi can beat her off. She resolves that her knees shall grow to the pavement, till mercy hath answered her from heaven. As if she had felt an earth quake in her soul, not unlike that Jailer, when he felt the foundations of his prison shaken;2 she calls for a light the Gospel of truth, and springs in trembling; and the fi•st voice of her lips is, O what shall I do to be saved? She lows with mourning, like the Kine that carried ⟨p. 16⟩the Ark; and never rests till she comes to Bethshemesh, the fields of mercy. The good Star that guides her, is the promise of God: this gives her light through all the dark clouds of her sorrow. Confidence is her life, and soul: she draws no other breath then the persuasion of mercy;3 that the King of Israel is a merciful King. Faith is the heart-blood of Repentance. The matter, composition, constitution, substance of it, is amendment of life: there be many counterfeits that walk in her habit, as King Ahab had his shadows; but that's her substance. Her countenance is spare and thin; she hath not eyes standing out with fatness. Her diet is abstinence; her garment and livery, Sackcloth and ashes: the Paper in her hand, is a Petition; her dialect is Miser; and lest her own lusts should be bane within her, she sweats them out with confession and tears.
Wheresoeuer Repentance is, shee doth not deliberate, tarries not to aske questions, and examine circumstances; but bestirres her ioynts, cals her wits & senses together: summons her tongue to praying, her feet to walking, her hands to working, her eyes to weeping, her heart to groaning. There is no need to bid her goe, for shee runnes: she runnes to the word for direction, to her own heart for remorse and compunction, to God for grace and pardon: and wheresoeuer shee findeth Christ,