A sermon of repentance a very godly and profitable sermon preached at Lee in…A sermon of repentaunce a very godly and profitable sermon preached at Lee in…

The holy Ghost in the Scriptures pointeth us to the present time, and exhorteth us to make that the time of our Repentance, as Joel. 2. 12. Therefore also now the Lord sayeth, turn you unto me ⟨image 20⟩with all your heart, with fasting, with weighing and with mourning. Likewise in the 3. Chap. to the Hebrews, exhort one another while it is called to day, least any of you be hardened, through the deceitfulness of sin. And in the same Chapter. To day if you will hear his voice, harden not your harts as in the provocation. So that now, even now, even now, is the time of our Repentance. Now whilst he calleth, now whilst he speaketh, now whilst he knocketh, let us now therefore hear: let us now therefore obey: Let us now therefore redeem this day this present Wednesday, which have foreslowed so many days, which have so long hardened our hearts, which have let so many good things run out, and spill besides. Let us take up this day and make it the day of our repentance. Although we could never be moved with any Sermon hitherto, yet let us now be moved once at last. Let us now say, this shall be my day of Repentance, I will defer it no longer. But now will I turn unto my God, and forsake all my former wicked ways, and mine own imaginations, I will now change the course ⟨image 21⟩of my life, and begin all new again. I will be acquainted with Gods word, and take counsel there how to do, and how to behave my self in every action. I will not only reform my self, but also my whole household, Wife, Children, and Servants, according unto the same. Thus my dear Brethren, I beseech you purpose in your hearts without any further delay, and be not like to Epicures, and sla•ckgraces, which say youth will be youthful, and youth will have his course, & what should we make it so holy, when we are young, tush, there needs but a sigh an hour before death, let us be merry now, we shall never be younger, we will Repent when we are old. As though poor souls, they had repentance in their sleeve, and at their commandment, and that they could repent when they list. No, no, these fellows shall pay for their presumption. For God will give them over to hardness of heart, and impenitency, because they took so much upon them, and made so long delays, that in the mean season they might enjoy the profits and pleasures of sin.

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