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…

In this sin, though a great while he lay asleep (as many do now a days, God give them good waking) thinking, that by the Sacrifices he offered, all was well, God was content: yet at length, when the Prophet, by a Parable, opened the offence, and brought David in remembrance of his own sin, & in such sort, that he gave judgement against himself: then quaked ⟨p. 60⟩he, his Sacrifices had no more taken away his sins, then our Sir Johns Trentals, and wagging of his fingers over the heads of such as lye asleep in their sins (out of the which when they are awaked, they will see, that it is neither Mass nor Matins, blessing nor cursing will serve) then, I say, he cried out, saying: Peccavi Domine: I have sinned, saith he, against my Lord and good God, which hath done so much for me. I caused indeed Uriah to be killed, I have sinned, I have sinned. What shall I do? I have sinned, and am worthy of eternal damnation. But what saith God, by his Prophet: Dominus (sayth he) transtulit peccatum tuū, non morieris: The Lord hath taken away thy sins, thou shalt not dye. Oh good God, he said, but Peccavi, I have sinned: but yet from his heart, and not from the lips only, as Pharaoh & Saul did, and incontinently he heareth: Thou shalt not dye, the Lord hath taken away thy sins: Or rather, hath laid them upon an other; yea, translated them upon the back of ⟨p. 61⟩his Son Jesus Christ, who bare them, and not only them, but thine and mine also, if that we will now cry but from our hearts, Peccavimus: We have sinned, good Lord, we have done wickedly; enter not into judgement with us, but be merciful unto us after thy great mercy, and according to the multitude of thy compassions, do away our iniquities, &c. For indeed, God is not the God of David onely: Idem Deus omnium, Hee is the God of all: So that, Quicunque inuocaverit nomen Domini, salus erit. He or she, whosoever they be that call upon the name of the Lord, shall be saved. In confirmation whereof, this History is written, as are also the other with I have recited, and many mo which I might recite. As of Manasseh the wicked King, which slew Isaiah the Prophet, and wrought very much wickedness; yet the Lord showed mercy upon him being in prison, as his Prayer doth teach us. Nebuchadnezzar, though for a time he bare Gods anger, yet at the length he found mercy.

In this sinne, though a great while he lay asleep (as many do now a dayes, God giue them good waking) thinking, that by the Sacrifices he offered, all was well, God was content: yet at length, when the Prophet, by a Parable, opened the offence, and brought Dauid in remembrance of his owne sin, & in such sort, that he gaue iudgement against himselfe: then quaked