A16596:60
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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After this sort, I say, or otherwise, as thou thinkest good, if thou wilt have this first part, Contrition or sorrow for thy sins, do thou beg it of God, ⟨p. 23⟩through Christ. And when thou hast asked it, as I have laboured to drive thee from trusting in thy self; so now I go about to move thee from flattering of thy self, from sluggishness, and negligence, to be diligent to use these means following. Unto prayer, which I would thou shouldest first use as thou canst: secondly, get thee Gods Law as a glass to toot in: for in it, and by it, cometh the true knowledge of sin, without which knowledge there can be no sorrow. For how can a man sorrow for his sins, which knoweth not his sins? As when a man is sick, the first steppe to health, is to know his sickness: even so to salvation, the first steppe, is to know thy damnation due for thy many sins.
After this sort, I say, or otherwise, as thou thinkest good, if thou wilt haue this first part, Contrition or sorrow for thy sins, do thou begge it of God, ⟨p. 23⟩through Christ. And when thou hast asked it, as I haue laboured to driue thee from trusting in thy selfe; so now I goe about to moue thee from flattering of thy selfe, from sluggishnesse, and negligence, to be diligent to vse these meanes following. Vnto prayer, which I would thou shouldest first vse as thou canst: secondly, get thee Gods Law as a glasse to toot in: for in it, and by it, cōmeth the true knowledge of sinne, without which knowledge there can bee no sorrow. For how can a man sorrow for his sinnes, which knoweth not his sinnes? As when a man is sicke, the first steppe to health, is to know his sicknesse: euen so to saluation, the first steppe, is to know thy damnation due for thy many sinnes.
The Law of God therefore must be gotten, and carefully looked in; we must look in it spiritually, and not corporally, or carnally, as the outward word or letter doth declare and utter: and so our Saviour teacheth us in Matthew, expounding the sixth and ⟨p. 24⟩