A16596:38
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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Contrition, they call a just and a full sorrow for their sin. For this word, just, and full, is one of the differences, between Contrition and Attrition.
Contrition, they call a iust and a ful sorrow for their sinne. For this word, iust, and full, is one of the differences, betweene Contrition and Attrition.
Confession, they call, a numbering of all their sins in the ear of their ghostly father: for as (say they) a Judge cannot absolve without knowledge of the cause or matter; so cannot the Priest, or ghostly father, absolve ⟨p. 8⟩from other sins, then those which he doth hear.
Confession, they call, a numbering of all their sinnes in the eare of their ghostly father: for as (say they) a Iudge cannot absolue without knowledge of the cause or matter; so cannot the Priest, or ghostly father, absolue ⟨p. 8⟩from other sinnes, then those which he doth heare.
Satisfaction, they call amends making unto God for their sins, by their undue works, Opera indebita, Works more then they need to do, as they term them: This is their penance which they preach, write, and allow: But how true this stuff is, how it agreeth with Gods Word, how it is to be allowed, taught, preached, and written, let us a little consider. If a man repent not, until he have a just and full sorrowing for his sins (dearly beloved) when shall he repent? For in as much as hell fire, and the punishment of the devils, is a just punishment for sin: In as much as in all sin, there is a contempt of God, which is all goodness, and therefore there is a desert of all illness: alas, who can bear for feel this just sorrow, this full sorrow for our sins, this their contrition, which they do so discern from their attrition? Shall not man by this doctrine, rather despair, then come by repentance? If a man repent not until