A16596:83
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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Look upon Gods anger for sin in Adam and Eve, for eating a piece of an apple. Were not they, the dearest creatures of God, cast out of Paradise? Were not they subject to mortality, travail, labour, &c. Was not the earth accursed for their sins? Do not we all, men in labour, women in travelling with child, and all in death, mortality and misery, even in this life feel the same? And was God so angry for their sin, and he being the same God, will he say nothing to us for ours (alas) more horrible then the eating once, of one piece of an apple?
Looke vpon Gods anger for sinne in Adam and Eue, for eating a peece of an apple. Were not they, the dearest creatures of God, cast out of Paradise? Were not they subiect to mortality, trauaile, labour, &c. Was not the earth accursed for their sinnes? Doe not we all, men in labour, women in traueling with childe, and all in death, mortality and misery, euen in this life féele the same? And was God so angrie for their sinne, and he being the same God, will he say nothing to vs for ours (alas) more horrible then the eating once, of one piece of an apple?
In the time of Noah and Lot, 1God destroyed the whole world with water; and the Cities of Sodom and Gomorra, Sebiom and Adamah, 2with fire and brimstone from heaven for their sins: namely, for their whoredoms, pride, idleness, unmercifulness to the poor, tyranny, &c. In which wrath of God, even the very babes, birds, fowls, fishes, herbs, trees, and ⟨p. 33⟩grass perished: and think we that nothing will be spoken to us, much worse, and more abominable then they? For all men may see, if they will, that the whoredoms, pride, unmercifulness, tyranny, &c. of England, far passeth in this age, any age that ever was before. Lots wife looking back,3 was turned into a salt stone: and will our looking back again, yea our turning back a gain, to our wickedness, do us no hurt? If we were not already more then blind Beetles, we would blush. Pharaoh his heart was hardened so, that no miracle could convert him: if ours were any thing soft, we would begin to sob.