A golden chaine: or, the description of theologie : containing the order of the causes of salvation and damnation, according to Gods word .. . yle and mourne andgoe drooping: prefently after the jpirit puts into him (as wefay)ths heart ofgrej[e,andmakes him triumph againfi theflejh,the deuill,the world, p^ t x, r 2Mofes was couragiopts at the redfea, but he failed at the waters ofjlrife. JobfrH My J, ^praifeth ^od,and afterward blafphemeth. T)auidis often fainting in miferie 3yet by ,. ^^aud by reuiued. Wherefore there is good canfe why the confderation of repentance j l 1 ^tand the combatJhou
A golden chaine: or, the description of theologie : containing the order of the causes of salvation and damnation, according to Gods word .. . yle and mourne andgoe drooping: prefently after the jpirit puts into him (as wefay)ths heart ofgrej[e,andmakes him triumph againfi theflejh,the deuill,the world, p^ t x, r 2Mofes was couragiopts at the redfea, but he failed at the waters ofjlrife. JobfrH My J, ^praifeth ^od,and afterward blafphemeth. T)auidis often fainting in miferie 3yet by ,. ^^aud by reuiued. Wherefore there is good canfe why the confderation of repentance j l 1 ^tand the combatJhouldgoe togither:that no man,afterhe hath begun to repent,might j _ ,dreame ofeafe to hisfefhias though wefbouldgoe to heauen in beds ofdouneibut ra- p ai 5 t gther that we might be refolued, that when we begin to doe any thingplea^ngvnto «^ , q i 7 &ijod, then we mnfilookefor nothing but continuall molejlatton from our vile and . o 10 IJLwicked natures. t v> » ._, ; Written Anno ispS- the 17. ofNouember, which is the Coronation day of ourdr^adSoueraigne ^ueene^ EL IZ A2 6TH: whofe raigne <jod longcontinm^. ^William 73? CHAP. I. What ^pentance is. Epentancc is a workc of grace, arifing ofa godly (brrow:whereby a man turncs from all his finncs vnto God, andbrings forth fruits worthie amendment of hfe. I call Repentance a worke: becaufc it fecraes notto be;a qualitie,or vertue, or habit: but an adion ofa repentant(inner. Which appeares by the fcrmons of the Prophetsand ApoftleSjWhich runne in this tcnour, Kjpe^t,tfiy»etoGod,amefjdyohr ltnes,($ c. Whereby they intimate,lhat Re-pentance is a worke to be done. AgainCjRepentance is not euery kind of worke,but a worke of grace; bc-caule itcannotbepraftifed of any ,butof (iichas be in the eflate of grace,Reafons are thefc. I. No man can repent, vnlefTe he firfl hate finne, and loucrighteoufhes; and none can hate finne, vnlefTe he be fandified; and he that is(anftified is iufhfied: and he that is iuftificd mud necdes
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