A16596:127
A double summons the one, to unfeigned repentance. The other, to the worthy receiving…A double summons the one, to vnfained repentance. The other, to the worthie receiuing…
A double summons the one, to unfeigned repentance. The other, to the worthy receiving of the Lords Supper. Delivered in two notable sermons: made, by that worthy martyr of Christ, John Bradford: who suffered in Smith-field An[n]o. Domini. 1555.A double summons the one, to vnfained repentance. The other, to the worthie receiuing of the Lords Supper. Deliuered in two notable sermons: made, by that worthy martyr of Christ, Iohn Bradford: who suffered in Smith-field An[n]o. Domini. 1555.
London: printed by George Purslowe, 1617
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To Cain he offered mercy, if he would have asked it. What hast thou done, saith God? The voice of thy brothers blood, crieth unto me out of the earth. O merciful Lord (should Cain have said) I confess it: But alas, he did not so, and therefore, said God: ⟨p. 58⟩Now, that is, In that thou desirest not mercy: Now: I say, be thou accursed, &c. Lo, to the reprobate he offered mercy, and will he deny it thee, which art his child?
To Cain hee offered mercy, if hee would haue asked it. What hast thou done, saith God? The voice of thy brothers bloud, cryeth vnto me out of the earth. O merciful Lord (should Cain haue sayd) I confesse it: But alas, he did not so, and therefore, said God: ⟨p. 58⟩Now, that is, In that thou desirest not mercy: Now: I say, be thou accursed, &c. Loe, to the reprobate he offered mercy, and will he deny it thee, which art his child?
Noah, did he not sin and was drunk? Good Lot also, both in Sodom dissembled a little with the Angels, prolonging the time: and out of Sodom, he fell very foul: as did Judas, and the Patriarchs against Joseph; but yet I ween they found mercy. Moses, Miriam, Aaron, though they stumbled a little, yet received they mercy: yea, the people in the wilderness often sinned and displeased God, so that he was purposed to have destroyed them. Let me alone (saith he to Moses) that I may destroy them. But Moses did not let him alone, for he prayed still for them, and therefore God spared them. If the people were spared, through Moses prayer, they not praying with him, but rather worshipping their golden Calf, eating, drinking, and making jolly good cheer: Beloved, why shouldest thou doubt whether GOD will be ⟨p. 59⟩merciful to thee? having, as indeed thou hast, one much better then Moses to pray for thee, and with thee; even Jesus Christ, who sitteth on the right hand of his Father, and prayeth for us, being no less faithful in his fathers house, the Church, then Moses was in the Synagogue. David, that good King, had a foul foil, when he committed whoredom with his faithful servants wife, Bathsheba: whereunto he added also a mischievous murder, causing her husband, his most faithful Soldier Uria to be slain, with an honest company of his most valiant men of war, and that with the sword of the uncircumcised.