A16596:49
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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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.
If they had taken Satisfaction, for that which is done to the Congregation publicly, by some notable punishment, as in the Primitive Church was used to open offenders, sparkles whereof, and some traces yet remain, when such as have sinned in adultery, go about the Church with a Taper in their shirts: Or if they had made Satisfaction for restitution to man ward, of such goods as wrongfully are gotten, the which true penance cannot be without: Or if by Satisfaction, they had meant a new life, to make amends to the Congregation thereby, as by their evil life they did offend the Congregation; in which sense the Apostle seemeth to take that which he writeth in 2. Cor. 7 ⟨p. 16⟩where the old Interpreter calleth Apologian, Satisfaction, which rather signifieth a defence or answering again. If I say, they had taken Satisfaction any of these ways, then they had done well, so that the Satisfaction to God had been left all only to Christ.
If they had taken Satisfaction, for that which is done to the Congregation publikely, by some notable punishment, as in the Primitiue Church was vsed to open offendors, sparkles whereof, and some traces yet remaine, when such as haue sinned in adultery, go about the Church with a Taper in their shirts: Or if they had made Satisfaction for restitution to man ward, of such goods as wrongfully are gotten, the which true penance cannot be without: Or if by Satisfaction, they had meant a new life, to make amendes to the Congregation thereby, as by their euill life they did offend the Congregation; in which sence the Apostle séemeth to take that which he writeth in