A16596:48
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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For to omit the testimonies I brought out of John and Paul, which the blind cannot but see: I pray you remember the text out of Isaiah, which even now I rehearsed, being spoken to such as were then the people of God, and had bin a long time, but yet were fallen into grievous sins, after their adoption into the number of Gods children. It is for mine own sake (saith God) that I put away thy sins. Where is your parting of the stake now? If it be for Gods own sake, if Christ be the propitiation: then recant, except you will become Idolaters, making your works God and Christ. Say as David teacheth: Not to us Lord, not to us, but to thy name be the glory.
For to omitte the testimonies I brought out of Iohn and Paul, which the blinde cannot but see: I pray you remember the text out of Esay, which euen now I rehearsed, being spoken to such as were then the people of God, and had bin a long time, but yet were fallen into grieuous sinnes, after their adoption into the number of Gods children. It is for mine owne sake (saith God) that I put away thy sinnes. Where is your parting of the stake now? If it be for Gods owne sake, if Christ bee the propitiation: then recant, except you wil become Idolaters, making your workes God and Christ. Say as Dauid teacheth: Not to vs Lord, not to vs, but to thy name be the glory.
And it is to be noted, that God doth taste in their feeth, even the sin of their first father, lest they should think that yet, perchance, for the righteousness and goodness of their good fathers, their sins might be the sooner pardoned, and so God accept their works.
And it is to be noted, that God doth tast in their feeth, euen the sinne of their first father, lest they should think that yet, perchance, for the righteousnesse and goodnesse of their good fathers, their sinnes might bee the sooner pardoned, and so God accept their workes.