A16596:9
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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He was too good to tarry with us, so wicked,1 so froward, so perverse, so obstinate, so malicious, ⟨image 3⟩so hypocritical, so covetous, unclean, untrue, proud, and carnal a generation. I will not go about to paint us out in our colours: God by his plagues and vengeance, I fear me, will paint and point us out: We have so mocked with him and his Gospel, that we shall feel it is no boarding with him.
He was too good to tarry with vs, so wicked,1 so froward, so peruerse, so obstinate, so malicious, ⟨image 3⟩so hypocriticall, so couetous, vncleane, vntrue, proud, and carnall a generation. I wil not goe about to paint vs out in our colours: God by his plagues and vengeance, I feare me, will paint and point vs out: Wee haue so mocked with him and his Gospell, that we shall feele it is no bourding with him.
- 1Heb. 11.
Of long time we have covered our covetousness and carnality, under the cloak of his Gospel; so that all men shall see us to our shame, when he shall take his Gospel away, and give it to a people that will bring forth the fruits of it: To let his Gospel tarry with us, he cannot; for we despise it, contemn it, are glutted with it. Since his Gospel came amongst us, we say now, we had never plenty; therefore, again, let us go and worship the Queen of heaven, and to provoke the Lord to anger. The earth cannot abide now the words and Sermons of Amos. 1The cause of all rebellion, is Amos and his preaching. It is Paul and his fellows, that make all out of order. Summa, the Gospel is now, Panto on peripsema, & catharma tou cosmou, The our-east and curse of the Realm, and so are the Preachers: therefore, out of the doors with them. So that, I say, God cannot let his Gospel tarry with us, but must needs take it away, to do us some pleasure therein: for so shall we think for a time; as the Sodomitanes thought, when Lot departed from them: as the old world thought,