A16596:63
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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In that therefore this outward evil springs out of the inward corruption: seeing Gods Law also is a law of liberty, as saith Saint James: 1and spiritual, as saith Saint Paul: perfectly and spiritually it is to be understood, if we will truly come to the knowledge of our sins. For of this inward corruption, reason knoweth little or nothing. I had not known (saith Paul) that lusting (which to reason, and to them which are guided only by reason, is thought but a trifle:) I had not known (saith he) this lusting to have been sin, if the Law had not said, Non concupisces, Thou shalt not lust.
In that therefore this outward euill springs out of the inward corruption: seeing Gods Law also is a law of liberty, as sayth Saint Iames: 1and spirituall, as saith Saint Paul: perfectly and spiritually it is to be vnderstood, if wee will truely come to the knowledge of our sinnes. For of this inward corruption, reason knoweth little or nothing. I had not knowen (saith Paul) that lusting (which to reason, and to them which are guided only by reason, is thought but a trifle:) I had not knowen (saith he) this lusting to haue been sinne, if the Law had not said, Non concupisces, Thou shalt not lust.
To the knowledge therefore of our sin (without which we cannot repent, or be sorry for our sin,) let us secondly get us Gods Law, as a glass to look in: and that not only literally, outwardly, or partly; but also spiritually, inwardly and throughly. Let us consider the heart, and so shall we see the foul spots we are stained withal, at least inwardly, whereby