A SUMMON to Repentance.  
Given unto Christians for a looking Glass, wherein we may behold our own deformities. and therein and thereby, we are not only forewarned of our destructions, but we are learned to humble ourselves in these dangerous days of wickedness, before the throne of God's mercy, that we may be preserved from the Lake of damnation, in the great and notable day of Christ's coming to judgement.  
Published by J.P. student of Cambridge.  
Math. 3. Repent and amend your lives, for the kingdom of God is at hand.  
AT LONDON, Imprinted by D. Jackson, dwelling in fleetestroete. 1584.   

¶ To the right Honourable Sir Edward Osbourne Knight, her majesties Leiftenante, Lord Mayor of her highness most honourable City London, the right Worshipful Knight Sir Rowland Haiward, Alderman of London, the right worshipful Master john Spencer Alderman and shrive of London, and the right worshipful of the fraternity, and mystery of Clothworkers. john Philip the son of Robart Philip Clothworker diseased, wisheth the fear of God, peace and prosperity in our merciful Lord and Saviour Christ jesus. etc.  
IF this small present right honourable and worshipful, rendered into your hands with all humility and reverence, may find favour in your sight, I shall not only account myself happy, but hereafter show myself industerious to pleasure you with some other treatise, which with this shall redound to the glory of god, your well liking, and the commodity of my native countrymen. In the mean season, I most earnestly beseech your good Lordship, and every of you, to pardon my boldness, and to satisfy your minds with this poor mite of mine, which to the comfort of the godly, and the reformation of the malevolent is published, not doubting but as you are virtuous and godly affected, so your honour and every one of you being patrons & members of this common weal, in as much as in you shall consist, will do your endeavours to beat down sin, whose branches are so monstruous, that they begin to over shade virtue, the which thing to call unto our memories, is a thing of all things to be lamented: who heareth not in the Gospel how diligently our wickednesses committed against the majesty of eternal God are reproved? but who or where are they that convert and turn to the Lord in this our last time of our age and calling? no, we glory in our iniquities and hate to be reform, and generally to speak the truth, we I say for the most part and greatest number of us that profess the name of Christ, are rocked and lulled in the corrupt cradle of our own securities, and therein we sleep so sound, that neither can the remembrance of God's graces, signs & tokens, his grievous threat ning and terrible comminations serve, to rouse us up out of the dangerous and most perilous slumber of our iniquities, & it cannot be chosen (right Honourable and Worshipful) but that the day of our visitation is at hand, and except we repent, we shall perish in our wickednesses, for God's heavy indig●…tion is ready to enter into the gates of our Cities, the v●…ols of his wrath are ready to be powered forth upon us, & our God is ready in the fullness of his displeasure, to hue us down with the Axe of his vengeance for our ingratitude, to blo●… our names out of the book of life, for the contempt of his commandments, and to leave us 〈◊〉 pray for our abominable actions, to our ancient adversary sathan. I exhort your good Lordship therefore, and every one of you, to whom God hat●… given authority, in the bowels of jesus Christ, to persever and go forward from virtue to virtue, & to the uttermost of your powers, to banish from your Cities and Towns, all the masters of misrule, that both contemn God, and despise good order. Thus shall you please God in discharging your duties, and show yourselves obedient subjects to her excellent majesty, that putteth you in trust to bridle the outrage of the wicked, that range as graceless after their uncleanness. Thus wishing you right honourable and every one of you the fear of god, peace and prosperity in jesus Christ, I leave you to his gracious & heavenly preservation, beseeching him of his infinite goodness, whilst his mercy holdeth his indignation at a bay, to give us the grace with humble and contrite hearts, to prostrate ourselves before him, to crave pardon at his fatherly hands for our offences, to weep bitterly for our sins, and to bring forth the fruits of repentance, thus shall we pacify his heavy displeasure, convert his fury to favour, his 〈◊〉 to love, and his conceived wrath to comfortable kindness, the which we shall enjoy in this life and after when the course of this our pilgrimage is fully finished, we shall stand before him in purity, be sanctified with his holiness, be crowned with honour and glory, and be made fellow heirs with Christ jesus of his celestial kingdom, the which God for hi●… son Christ his sake grant you and every of you.  
Your humble and faithful well willer in the Lord.  
john Philip.   

❧ A Summon to repentance, given unto Christians for a looking glass.  
IF we would consider (dear 
The 〈◊〉 of Godmigh●… s●…ir us up to 〈◊〉 and newn●…s of life.  christians) the inestimable graces, of our loving God poured forth vp●…n us, that have little or nothing at all deserved his fatherly favour, it ●…ere a thing that might move us sinful and most wretched crea●…ures, not only to walk as it becometh ●…s in godly integrity, and newness of life, but therewithal we would like adopted sons, by his 〈◊〉 grace, continue our obedience towards him, that like a most careful Father, and gracious God, s●…keth all the means possible that 〈◊〉 be to nourish and feed us, both in so●… and body, to everlasting life and heavenly blessedness. In spirit and soul by the operation and working of a lively fa●…th, through his divine grace, we are providently f●…d, ●…n the truth of his 〈◊〉 
The inn●…cent 〈◊〉 of Christ is the tood of the soul and his guitles blood the drink spiritual, that quencheth the thirst, of the faithful.  testament, with the sweetest flesh, & drink the d●…rest blood of our immaculate and spotless lamb Christ jesus, who giveth himself most willingly to all those that constantly believe, not carnally but spiritually to be fed upon by faith, and freely 〈◊〉 unto us his most precious blood (without our deserts) to aswadge the thirst of our souls, that Satan 
Only by 〈◊〉 in Christ Jesus we are delivered from the 〈◊〉 of hell and 〈◊〉, if we 〈◊〉 constantly.  through sin had 〈◊〉 to 〈◊〉 death and destruction everlasting, from the which by the unspeakable providence and inf●…te wisdom of our omnipotent GOD, through jesus Christ, we are delivered, Si sumus fideles. And as by his grace we enjoy this delectable food and most 〈◊〉 Nectar, to the comfort of our souls, so with these his divine benefits, 
God's temporal blessings are given us 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 without our 〈◊〉 for the nourishment of our carnal bodies.  h●… most lovingly enricheth us with his temporal blessings. For in body 〈◊〉 our feeble and weak natures most carefully, are by his only goodness, fostered from his bountiful hands, with meat and drink, and all other the glorious gifts of his grace, without the which we could not continue. But (alas) neither the 
〈◊〉 w●… cont●…ne the spiritual foo●… of our souls, so do●… we abuse these his tem porall bles●… heaping 〈◊〉 unto our 〈◊〉, vengeance in the day of 〈◊〉.  one, nor the other, is of us accepted, and 〈◊〉 of us as it ought to be, for as we enter into contempt of his graces, l●…uinge careless, as men carnally and worldly affected, so loath 〈◊〉 Christ JESUS, so cont●…e we in our actions, (as lip labourers) the Gospel of his grace, and therewithal we despise Manna, I mean the Spiritual Lamb that f●…th with his blessed flesh, and 〈◊〉 with his guiltelesse blood, o●…re hungry souls. The which thing to consider, is a thing of all things most lamentable and miserable, requiring for our deserved contempt, deserved punishment. But is this all? No, though we be christians by name, we are contrary to Christ in 
We are very ready talkers of Christ and his gospel, but we are over ●…ll and slow walkers after his wil  deed, we pro●…esse him carnally with words, but our hearts are alienated and far of him, we are busy talkers of his gosgell: but we are ashamed to be ●…arnest walkers after his heavenly will, we live lasciviouslie, prodigally, and wantonly: we that were contracted to Christ in our new regeneration, are now wedded to our own untamed lusts, and straying affections: we that had vowed by an invincible faith, to take our rest in Christ jesus, have given our consents to Satan as the enemies of the lamb, and are ●…ulled fast a sleep in the sinful cradle of our own securities. And thus, as people past grace, 
We have forsaken Christ and given our consents to sathan as peo ple past grace and falsely forsworn, neglecting our spiritual begetting to God through Christ.  we are become wilful truce breakers of his holy commandments, contemners of his blessed co●…enant, periu●…ed people and creatures falsely forsworn, forgetting our new birth and bearing again to God, through grace in Christ jesus, who hath made the atonement for our ●…ffences, appeased the fury of our creator, canceled the bond of our gu●…tie trespasses, and bro●… a sunder, yea, eu●…n to very piece 
As we ●…orget the rich graces that our ●…ng God in Christ jesus hath bestowed 〈◊〉 us, so for the most part of us do we cast from our memories the spiritual conslict that he hath fought for us.  meal, the seal of our condemnation, which we deservedly had heaped up unto ourselves, and that most worthily, by the reason of our to mani●…old sins and wickednesses, but as we forget these his great and inestimable rich graces, so d●… we also cast from our memories (for the most part) his bloody death and painful passion, the triumphant conquest that he hath made for our sins on the cross. The sharp and most 〈◊〉 battle that he fought for us against the world, sin, death, sathan, and all the power of hell is of us nothing at all remembered, and yet we will be christians by external profession and outward show, when as within we are full of all filthiness, and repugnant to Christ, but the greater shall be our plagues in the day of desolation. Thus as we persever and go forward in the ways of our uncleanness, soiling ourselves both in body and soul, with the blemishes of our corruption, and as it were utterly despising of his celestial graces, and contemning of his 〈◊〉 ●…orments that he su●…ed on the cross for our 
As we abuse his 〈◊〉 ●…races, so 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 & d●…spise we h●…s 〈◊〉 bene●…ts. Mon●…rous sins r●…gning in co●…nterfait christian●….  iniquities, so like shaml●…s Ep●…ures and bea●…lie b●…lly gods, we abuse his terrestrial gifts and benefits. Measure is s●…ldome or in any place observed. Riot every where and in all places ruffleth as master of misrule. Sobriety is forsaken, drunkenness imbra●…ed. H●…militie is cast down, arrogancy advanced. Virtue is defaced, monstrous vice flourisheth. 
Charit●…e forg●…ten, cr●…lty 〈◊〉.  Chastity is disdained, incontinen●…ie esteemed. Truth is oppressed, ●…atterie upholden. Simplicity is banished, 〈◊〉 well welcomed. A golden mean is utterly vanquished. Coue●…ousnesse hath gotten the pre-eminence. Charity as convinced quaketh▪ her ●…oints 
Hospit●…litie murdered by 〈◊〉.  are benumbed with cold. Cruelty is wrapped in his furs. Liberality is not able to stir for lameness, an inmeasurable nigardise hath neither left him hands to distribute to the poor, ●…eete to go to the sick, nor yet eyes to behold the indigent. Hospitality is very faint and so ●…eeble that he ●…are not peep abroad nor be seen, and all by the reason of pro●…igalitie, who I fear me hath 〈◊〉 
True friendship banished by ●…tion.  him to the death. True friendship amongst mortal men is neglected, dissimulation is so deeply harboured almost in the hearts of all estates and degrees. Just dealing is an outcast, bribes are taken to betray the innocent. Neighborli●… 
God by the exercise of our outrageous sins is greatly dishonoured.  love is no more thought upon, God is greatly dishonoured, Mammon is highly worshppied, and to conclude, enui●…, hatred, wrath, oppression, and the filthy fruits of all uncharitableness reigneth generally in all places & ages of this our last time. (●…las) what a whirlpool of wickedness do we continue in? What a 
Sin pla●… us by these our 〈◊〉 acti●…s unto the bottomless take of perdition.  filthy sink of Sodomitry do we wallow in? What a perilous puddle of uncleanness and corruption do we plunge ourselves into of a set purpose? Or into what a stinking channel of all kinds of impieties determine we to cast ourselves headlong? Is God delighted think we with these o●…r outrageous sins, will he be pleased with unsavoury cockle in the day of the great & mighty harvest when he looketh for good & perfect wheat? 
The Lord of the har●…st cometh ●…or wheat he will not be pl●…sed w●…th the c●…kle of corruption.  Will we give him course bran, when ●…e cometh for fine flower? O what shall become of us then? Uerilie we shall lose the diadem of life, the eternal crown of glory, t●…e comfortable fruission of his 
Every one o●… us o●…ght to examine ourselves dilige●…tlie whether we do those things that God hath 〈◊〉 us, or whether we do them not at all, and when we find our imperfections to be such that we canno●… do that we should let us not cea●…e to cra●… assist●…nce of ●…ur 〈◊〉 father by 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  glorious pre●…nce, and be thrown as most miserable outcasts to the dungeon of hell, wherewith Satan and his angels, we shall be tormented everlastingly. Let us therefore every one of us from the highest to the lowest, whilst we hau●… time, enter into our own consciences, and by a deep and earnest confidence of ourselves, let us behold diligently whether we do those things that God commandeth we should do, or whether we leave them altogether for the most part of us undone, and then when that we find & feel our imperfection to be such and so great, that we cannot perform that thing which God by his word and will hath tied and bound us unto, let us not cease by the in●…ocation of his holy and blessed name, to crave and desire the assistance of his holy spirit with humble and contrite hearts, that by the effectual and lively 
The righteou●…nes 〈◊〉 our sa●…or Christ shall ●…ouer our imperfections, if we believe, and sin death and hell shall die in us, and we shall live for ever.  working thereof, we may inde●…or ourselves to walk in the light, to shun the darkness of death, to live as it becometh godli●… affected christians, to ●…ast of the old Adam and to clothe ourselves with Christ the new and heavenly Adam, and then his grace shall supply our wants, his righteousness shall cover our imperfections, fin, death, and hell, shall die in us, and we shall live to him, by whose blessed merits we are sanctified, for ever and ever. But if we will harden our hearts in our wickednesses, and stand up in our sins against the Lord, as our forefathers have done, that wilfully rebelled against his majesty, we shall not only with them in●…r his heavy displeasure, but suddenly with his mighty arm be confounded in the imaginations and devices of our own hearts. Let us see what God requireth of 
Note what thing God requireth of us his cr●…tures.  us his creatures. First & above all other things, he hath given us an especial charge, to serve, honour, worship, prai●…e and glori●…e his holy nam●…, and as God is truth, so looketh he to be worshipped of us in spirit and truth solely, only and alone, neither may we give or attribute that praise honour and reverence that to him belongeth to any other, for the Lord ou●… God is a great, a mighty and gelou●… God, his wisdom is 〈◊〉, and his kingdom hath no end, the sceptre o●… his seat is a righteous sc●…pter, and his dominion shall endure for ever. 
The Lord our God is without beginning and end.  This our God was and is without beginning, and ending, and this our God in purity and holiness must be worshipped of us from the beginning of our ●…ais even to the finishing and ending of our lives, for gracious is the Lord our God, and his truth shall continue for ever. Let us therefore if we will w●…ship the 
If we will worship the Lord our God we must walk before 〈◊〉 in inno●….  Lord our God truly, walk before him in innocency, continu●…llie stand in aw●… of his displeasure, humble ourselves with reverence before the throne of his grace, co●…e before his presence with joy and 〈◊〉, show ourselves glad in him with psalms, and always and ever let us speak good of his name, ●…r he by his wisdom of nothing hath ●…ade all things, & the seat of our God is ●…e glorious heavens, he sitteth between 〈◊〉 Cherubins, his chariot is the wings 〈◊〉 the winds, and the whole earth is his ●…otstoole, and other gods besides this our ●…od there is none, his name be blessed, & 
The 〈◊〉 of the proud Phara●…cs ought not to received of godly affected c●…ristians, 〈◊〉, 〈◊〉 we m●…st d●…re of God for Christ ●…is sake to be made new●… do●…gh.  ●…aised for ever & ever. If we will wor●…ip this our God, namely, the Father, ●…onne, & holy Ghost, three persons in tri●…itie, & one only God, we must ●…denor 〈◊〉 cast away far from us the loathsome lea●…en of the proud prattling Pharasies, that ●…asted of their own righteousness and ●…stification, and we must earnestly ●…ire of God, and that unceasantly with ●…mble and contrite hearts, that we may 〈◊〉 made new dough, that is, that our con●…ences, our minds, & souls may be tho●…wly seasonned with the most pr●…ious ●…me of his grace, by the power whereof ●…rough Jesus Christ, & the comfortable ●…iding of the holy Ghost, we may be di●…ed 
The holy Ghost is the director of the faithful. into all truth  into all truth, & therein by his proui●…nce we may be so strongly confirmed ●…at neither the temptations of sathan, the sinful suggestions of the flesh, 〈◊〉 policies of his deceivable minister that are possessed with the spirit of lie●… 
False teachers are the ministers of ●…than.  teaching their own traditions contr●… rye to Christ, neither yet the vain a●… fading corruptible pleasures of thi●… world, may be able to prevail to wit●… draw us from the worship of our Go●… 
Christian's ●…ust go for●…ard from virtue to virtue.  but that we may as it becometh godl●… and true regenerate children, perseu●… and go forward from virtue to vertu●… and constantly continue with clea●… hearts, undefiled consciences and purifi●… souls in the blood of our saviour, the se●… vice of our God, and then he will beco●… 
Christ will 〈◊〉 our 〈◊〉 heard and we shallbe the 〈◊〉 of his ●…sture.  our shepherd, and we shall be the sh●… of his pasture, he will remain our gra●…ous and loving father, and we shall be th●… children of his blessed inheritance, th●… which our Christ hath purchased for 〈◊〉 those that believe with the prize of h●… heart blood. If we will worship God w●… must love him, because he is the founta●… of love, and loved us from the beginni●… 
Oc●…sions to ●…ue us to the worship●…ing of God.  even when we were his enemies. F●… what love could be greater than this, 〈◊〉 ●…at he gave his only begotten son ●…hrist jesus to suf●…r for our sakes all the 〈◊〉 that could be devised: to bear 〈◊〉 our sakes being forlorn for our sins, ●…he altogether holy & innocent, the heavy ●…rthen of his father's displeasure, & ther●… we believing steadfastly in him to make 〈◊〉 that were the children of death, the ●…ires of life and salvation. O inestima●…e love and abundant kindnesses gran●…d us freely without our deserts through ●…ace in Christ jesus, even when we ●…ere the children of damnation and the ●…rie fire brands of hell, who for this his ●…ceeding love and grace would be so vn●…nd but to love him again, that for all ●…ese his bountiful bestowed benefits ●…ueth nothing at our hands but that ●…e love him as he hath loved us, conti●…allie, 
Note and consider ou●… frowardne●… against the Lord our God.  and that without feigning? Nay, ●…ho forgetteth not this his great love, ●…d recompenseth him that hath loved 〈◊〉 with monstrous ingratitude? Who ●…orshippeth him in heart and mind as he commanded? nay who profaneth not ●…s honour and ●…lorie? Who is chedient to his blessed will & heavenly ordinan●… 
The fruits of 〈◊〉 neglected.  Nay who impugneth not his statutes breaketh not his commandments. 〈◊〉 these the fruits of gods glorio●…s 〈◊〉 that he requireth at our hands: Do 〈◊〉 we are commanded? Do we our 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to ●…oath & adorn ourselves 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 o●… his holy name, or by 〈◊〉 hearing of his heavenly word, with 〈◊〉 spiritual Adam Christ? Nale do we 〈◊〉 
〈◊〉 are worshippers ●…f God with o●…r external 〈◊〉, but our ●…rts are far from him.  ●…ather devise to re●…est & cover our 〈◊〉 with the transgressions of our old 〈◊〉 rents, to the co●…demnation of our 〈◊〉 dies and souls eter●…ally? Thu●… throu●… the hardness of our hearts that worship●… God with our lips, and deny him in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, y● 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and mighty in all abomination, read●… to 〈◊〉 the worke●… of 〈◊〉, leave the worship ●…f our God, & to ser●… our 〈◊〉 adversary 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉. Thus our innocent souls the 〈◊〉 rye and tr●…●…age of God, is by the 〈◊〉 
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 m●…n desir●… 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 innocent 〈◊〉.  〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of our ●…dies w●…nded 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, to ●…ternall dea●…, she mourn●… 〈◊〉, but who rega●… 〈◊〉 soul●… 〈◊〉. The outwa●…de man is gi●…en to pleasure and ease. The soul is ●…inched with penury and pain, and ne●…er 
A comparison betwixt the flesh and the soul.  can have rest. The soul through ●…he actions of the fleshly m●…nded man is ●…isgarnished of the vesture of god's grace, ●…hough the man of sin be pranked up ●…n menstruous pride. The flesh is stout and sturdy, the soul is saint and feeble. The flesh is lusty and healthy, posting 
Body and soul through ●…nne, detested in the eyes o●… the Lord.  ●…fter pleasure: The soul is sick and so●…owfull for want of the feeling of god's ●…race: The flesh is affected to all kinds of ●…niquities, and thereby the soul is dange●…ously wounded with transgression so ●…hat both body and soul is become most ●…onstrous in the eyes of the Lord our God, and all because we will not learn t●…●…orship him, nor to walk in his ways, ●…ut who is he that considereth these things? ●…aie who is not rather delighted to 
All men have erred and 〈◊〉 astray in the sight of the ●…rd, no good nesie among the sons 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  work wickedness & to do evil in the sight ●…f the Lord our God? verily all have 〈◊〉 from the highest to the lowest, and 〈◊〉 be short God hath from his dwelling ●…lace looked down to the face of the earth and knoweth that there is no goodness among the sons of men: who hasteth the to shroud himself by an earnest deploration of his sins under the covert of 
The coming of Christ to judgement from our memories.  the glorous wings of God's grace? Nay, rather who wandereth not wide from his heavenly verity, and setteth not by the continuance of his evil, to heap up vengeance to himself in the day of wrath? who is he that prepareth himself to watch and keep ward for the coming of Christ in the clouds? Nay, who is 
The 〈◊〉 of the flesh 〈◊〉 and not subdued.  he that sleepeth not sound in the uncleanness of his own heart? Who is he that striveth in these dangerous days of wickedness, to vanquish & subdue the loathso●… lusts of his own flesh? Nay, who is he that hath not agréedie and an inordinat●… desire to thirst & hunger after his own 
Who continueth the battle against the world the flesh and sathan under the standard of Christ jesus.  filthiness, and none the way to worship God? Who is he that fighteth like 〈◊〉 good soldier, manfully under the 〈◊〉 captain of our Saviour Christ jesus, against the world the flesh and th●… devil? Nay, what is he that flieth 〈◊〉 like a coward from the battle, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 over the 〈◊〉, forsaketh not the field, ●…efuseth not his redeemer, eleaving to the world, pampering himself in all kinds of ●…ncleannes, yielding himself most wil●…nglie a prey to sathan? The which to call 〈◊〉 our remembrances is a thing most 〈◊〉, (alas) is this the glory we give unto our God? (O sinful wretches) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 yourselves in your 〈◊〉 wickednesses, against the Lord of 〈◊〉 power and majesty? What deserve 
The pains that Christ hath suffered on the cross for our redemption can not pierce our flinty hearts.  we in this doing, any other than eternal death and destruction of bodies & souls. O that the painful passion, and the 〈◊〉 wounds that Christ suffered on the cross for our ●…nnes, cannot pierce our 〈◊〉 and stony hearts. (Alas wret●…es that we are) do we forget how 〈◊〉 he hath paid the price of our ●…demption? O what shall become of us, that go about to tread she blessed blood of our Messiah under our miserable ●…éete? ●…hal not the ●…iols of his wrath, be pou●…ed forth upon us or ever we be aware, 〈◊〉 that unlooked for? Yes 〈◊〉. For 〈◊〉 the Lord, and his judgements are true. Whilst we have time therefore 〈◊〉 us convert and turn us wholly to the Lord our God, for he is merciful and full of compassion and loving kindness. Let us no longer remain the servants 
The servants of sin continue their wickedness, the servants of christ are make and ●…umble.  of sin, but do our endeavour with all humility, to serve with fear and reverence the Lord our God. And then shall we to the comfort of our souls, in●…oy the cheerful light of his glorious countenance, we shall graciously be delivered from the snares of death, be set free from the captiu●…tie of Satan, and be restored to his favour and grace, who is more ready to hear than we are to call. More willing to open unto us the rich storehouse of his mercy, than we are to knock at the gates of his grace with the hammer of an invincible faith. And more desirous to find us that are lost sheep, than we are to seek after the shéepeherd of our souls Christ jesus. For the Lord our God is slow to wrath, and ready to accept the 
〈◊〉 broken and bruised h●…t is 〈◊〉 sacrifice acceptable to God.  oblations of our sorrowful ●…earts, for a broken heart, and mourning soul is the sacrifice that pleaseth God. Neither hath ●…he Lord pleasure in the death of a sinner. It is his joy and satans foil, sorrow, 
Repentance grounded on a 〈◊〉 saith is satans 〈◊〉 and overthrow.  and overthrow, when we convert from our evil, and bring soorth the fruits of repentance. For Christ himself hath given us this gracious advertisement, to our exceeding joy, comfort and consolation, saying: there is greater solace among the Angels in heaven, over one person that heartily artelie and earnestly converteth from his sin, than there is over ninety and nine just persons that never did offend. (O happy and blessed sai●…ng) 
Christ calleth sinners to repentance.  He that hath ears to hear let them hear, and let him whose consciences is overladen with sin, crave of the gracious caller Christ jesus, with weeping eyes, heavy hearts, and groaning souls, that it would please him to continue this call: Come unto me you that labour, and are heavy ladden, I will refresh you, my yoke is easy, and my burden very light. If thy sins be as red as scarelet, tome unto me, I call thee saith Christ, harken to my 〈◊〉, 〈◊〉 will make thee whiter than snow, what would●… thou have more 〈◊〉 my hands, are thy sins innumerable? 
The compas●…on and pity that Christ extendeth to the unfeigned 〈◊〉.  Surmount they in thy sight the ●…ands of the seas? despair thou not, for my mercies excel thy ●…ins a thousand fold. Hast thou broken the will of my father & thy God? come unto me, though thy offences be never sum great, I have for thee fulfilled th●… law, my righteousness shall be thine, I will heal the sor●…s that sathan hath made into thy soul through ●…inne, and by 〈◊〉 thou shalt be accepted, where thou wast refused? Hast thou spent thy patrimony 〈◊〉? Hast thou gone 〈◊〉 
De●…y ●…eth 〈◊〉 & deferring of r●…pentance br●…geth God's indig●….  whoring after strange gods? Linger not the time, neither put it off from day to day: I call thee now, sa●…e not thou to morrow, but come now thou art called, though thy sins be grievous, I will ease thee of the burden of thy wickednesses, that are ready to press th●… down to the dungeon of hell stre, yea, I will louingli●… if thou come at my call, lift thee up from the dangers of the second death, and give thee life and endless●… glory in the kingdom of heaven. O loving Lord what canst thou do more for us? Hast thou broken thy vow in wedlock? Hast thou livedin adultery? Did not I by my grac●… couple and wedd●… thee to myself? And hast thou made the members of my glorious body, the members of a shameless strumpet? 
The 〈◊〉 of christ Ie●…us.  Labour to come unto me by faith, and earnest repentance, I will release thee from the burden that gréenously oppresseth thee, and pardon and forgive thou all that is past, I will release thee in my death and blood, I will couple thee to myself with the yoke of my favour, my burden is light, thou mayest easily bear it, it shall not be troublesome to thee, come quickly, come, my grace shall cleanse the corruption of thy conscience, and heal thy leaperous soul, I will abide in the temple of thy body, and thou shall have thy dwelling in me. O sweet Christ that thus lovingly callest us home to thyself? Hast y● 〈◊〉 my name? Hast thou delighted in theft? Hast thou 〈◊〉 a bearer of false witness against the innocent? ●…ast thou defeated the widow of her dowry? Hast thou rob the fatherless of his right? Hast thou broken my Sabbaoth, which I commanded to be 
Christ jesus is the heaven lie 〈◊〉 and Physician of our soul●….  kept holy? O come, come unto me, set a side all dangerous doubts. I will heal●… all your infirmities, sin shall not harm you, death shall not grieve you, neither yet shall your adversary sathan, nor all the power of hell be able to prevail against you, for I myself will not fail you, I will be with you to the end, and in the end. O come unto me, come unto me, there is none that can help you, or do you any good but myself, no not one, you are sinful Samaritans. 
We are 〈◊〉 Samaritans  I see the condission and estate that you remain in. You are fallen into the hands of hateful thieves. You are wounded with the ●…erie darts of the devil. You are compassed round about with the snares of death. You are bound fast hand and foot, with the chains of damnation▪ And there is no remedy left for you, except I take you in hand. For neither can the Priest nor the Levitè do you any good. I call come unto me? I will cure the 〈◊〉 ulcers of your iniquities. I will heal the festered sores of your wickednesses. I will willingly take 
The great mercies of Christ set forth ●… comfort and strengthen our ●…bicilities.  away from you the gnawing canker of you corruption, and there shall no evil happen unto you, for I will deliver you, as adopted sons by grace, a sacrifice of sweet smelling incense, into the hands of my father, and your God, with whom you shalt after this your transttorie pilgrimage, live in continual joy, perfect peace, and lasting blessedness. But if we refuse the calling of our saviour, that came lovingly, not to call the righteous but sinners to repentance, we do nothing but desceive ourselves, incur unto ourselves his heavy displeasure, make ourselves the servants of sin, the slaves of death, and the heirs of eternal damnation. God therefore who is the Lord of time, to whom all times are in subjection in this time tie us to the time of our caling. For delay bringeth danger, and danger in time bringeth death. Now is the accptable time of repentance, come therefore with a penitent heart, and a contrite 
We are called now to coin to Christ put it not of till to morrow  spirit to Christ, and put it not off till to morrow. Now is grace offered thee, and all wretched creatures, prostrate thyself before the throne of god's mercy, and by a lively faith, and earnest repentance, receive it with reverence, praise, and thankesgi●…ing, and sith thou now mayest be released freely from the 
Christ g●…th about to couple and join v●…to himself the faithful 〈◊〉.  intolerable burden of thy sins, refuse thou not the inestimable grace and favour of the Lord jesus, who willingly and gladly goeth about to yoke and couple thee to himself, for the greatness of his mercies shall be a sufficient bulwark and a strong fortress of defence for thee, to stand safely and surely against all the assaults of sathan. Therefore sith thou 
God the lord of time will not be tied to thy appointed morrow, come now therefore ●…ith thou art called.  art uncertain of thy time, continue not thy sins till to morrow, for he that offereth thee remission of all thy offences now, may refuse and forsake thee to morrow. For the Lord thy God will not be inio●…ed to ●…ary thy appointment, therefore come now, repent and amend, ●…arken to the courteous call of 〈◊〉 redeemer, worship and serve the Lord thy God this day with f●…are & reverence, for thou knowest not whether thou shalt live to ●…ee thy prescribed and appointed morrow. ●…f thou die in thy sins and wickednes●…es, thou in his exceeding justice as the s●…r ●…ant of si●…ne, shalt be confounded and o●…er thrown. And is this all? No, for after ●…his thy bod●…y death, the pains whereof in●…re but a while, the worm of thyn●… 〈◊〉 conscience shall torment thee, yea, ●…hou shalt become subject to the second 
We 〈◊〉 consider the joys of heaven, nor yet dread 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 torment●…s 〈◊〉 ●…ell 〈◊〉.  ●…eath, the torments whereof are endless, ●…nd shall contine we for ever in the dun●…eon of hell, whereas the fire remaineth 〈◊〉, and the flame never go●…th out. Beware therefore that thou con●…emne not the rich graces of GOD, ●…hen they are laid forth before thee, for ●…o sin wilfully and wittingly against ●…he Lord thy God in hope of his mercies, ●…s a thing of all things most audible and ●…etested in the eyes of his divine maie●…tie. But these things are nothing at all ●…onsidered among us, for generalli●… 〈◊〉 we be 〈◊〉 called home to the shéep●… fold of his abundant grace, y●… 
We are di●… called but we have made deaf our 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 ●…ur ●…arts in such sort that woe will not hear nor conceive the voice of the caller.  have we hardened our hearts, with o●… forefathers, and murmur with the●…, 〈◊〉 disobedient rebels against the Lord o●… God? We have made deaf our ●…res 〈◊〉 this end and purpose, that we will n●… there hear the●… sweet and gentle 〈◊〉 of us home to himself in his Gospe●… nor yet enter into the deep considerat●… on of his terrible threatenings, and gr●… vous comminations pronounced again●… us for the exercise of our manifold wi●… kednesses. And is this all? No, we ha●… most 〈◊〉 blinded our wr●… 
Neither can g●…ds merci●…s nor his com●…inations drive▪ us to amendment of our lives.  ched eyes, with the vale of our own 〈◊〉 rity, so that we stand sturdy in our ow●… conceits, rather provoking the Lord o●… God in his justice to hasten our spéedi●… destruction, than otherwise to move hi●… majesty, by earnest repentance to stret●… out the s●…luered sceptre of his exceeding 〈◊〉 vour and love towards us. (O 〈◊〉 creatures that we are) though we see an●… hear that Christ our Saviour is readi●… at all times to open and stretch forth th●… arms of his compassion ●…nd pity t●… ●…rde us, and to embrace us lovingly, 
Though Christ be ready to 〈◊〉 us yet we will not come to him.  yet will we not come near him, no we run far off from him, we are so in●…med with the love of this wicked and wretched world: We are earthly affected: 
We are earthly minded and not spiritually affected.  We regard not heavenly felicity: we ●…re gross & carnally minded. We are not ●…piritually inclined: We are addicted to ●…orldly pleasures: We weigh not the joys 
wordly honour is more desired then heavenly glory.  ●…lestiall: We strive here in this vain & ●…ansitory life. for worldly promosion: We 〈◊〉 not, whilst we have time most mi●…erable wretches, to be vessels of honour 
The treasures of this world are set by before the celestial treaures of Chistes' kingdom.  ●…ith Christ in the kingdom of heaven, ●…ee seek to accumelate, gather and ●…eape up unto ourselves worldly ●…iches, which are uncertain, and in●…re but a while: We have no care ●…t all for the inestimable treasures of ●…he heavenly kingdom. We are well ●…leased to walk in the broad way of our ●…erdission, but the narrow way that lea●…eth to life, is to heard for us to find. (A ●…mentable case) that we will not come ●…hen we are called to Christ jesus. A grievous thing it is to consider that we will not relent and fall down 〈◊〉 
〈◊〉 thing most dangerous to 〈◊〉.  fore the Lord our maker. And a thing 〈◊〉 dangerous it is to consider, that we 〈◊〉 there can nor will learn to serve and w●… ship the Lord our God with 〈◊〉 and namely in spirit and truth, as 〈◊〉 hath commanded in his law? (Ala●… 
The 〈◊〉 of Adam hath polluted our consciences, and the taste of the forbidden apple 〈◊〉 still 〈◊〉 o●… mouths.  what sho●…ld I say? The guiltiness of 〈◊〉 dam whose children we are hath poll●…ted our consciences. The suggestions 〈◊〉 the envious serpent sticks still in o●… hearts. The flatteriss of deceitful 〈◊〉 our grandmother in Adam, hath vtter●… bewitched our understanding. And 〈◊〉 taste of the forbidden fruit remaineth 〈◊〉 in our mouths. Thus our contempt 〈◊〉 virtue is mightily increased, our d●… 
●…ll f●…re of God is ●…anished from our memories.  bedience greatly multiplied, and in m●… ner all fear of God is banished our m●… mories. Who endeavoureth to serve. 〈◊〉 with innocent Abel? Nay who 〈◊〉 cruel Cain covetteth not to hate 〈◊〉 the Lord, and to bathe their hands in 〈◊〉 
Noah could not reclaim the old world from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  blood of the faithful? Would the 〈◊〉 world be reform by Noah to conue●… from their s●…s and wick●…nesses▪ 〈◊〉 ●…itted against God? no they hardened ●…eir hearts in their iniquities. And doth ●…ot this new world the like? yes veri●…e. Was the old world utterly destroi●… for the continuance of their evils? and ●…ll not this new world perish think●…●…e that surmounts the old world in all ●…omination and uncleanness? Yes ●…erily▪ Can the preaching of Lot rouse 〈◊〉 the Sodomites, and the Gomorians 
〈◊〉 Gomorrah de●….  〈◊〉 their 〈◊〉 filthiness? No. No ●…ore will our great Cities and towns 〈◊〉 converted by the patriarchs, the Pro●…ets, 
A 〈◊〉 thow●… of our cities 〈◊〉 them in 〈◊〉 and except we repent, we also shall perish.  jesus Christ himself, nor his A●…stles. Were the 〈◊〉 cities destroted ●…om the heaven with fire and brimstone ●…r the contempt of God's great graces? thousand thousand of our Cities that ●…ound in all kind of evil shall likewise ●…rish and be destroyed unless we repent. ●…od therefore whilst we have time give 〈◊〉 the grace to convert 〈◊〉, for 〈◊〉 day of our visitation is at hand, and ●…ot far off. Were the I●…wes the pecu●… and chosen people of God? yea vert●… Did they rebel and murmur in the ●…ildernesse against him, and do not 〈◊〉 Gentiles the like? had the jews a longging 
The jews lusted after quails and the Gentiles wax 〈◊〉 ot Manna.  after quails? Were they weary of Manna, and do not the Gentiles greedily hunger after Pharo his 〈◊〉 pots? Wax they not weary of the 〈◊〉 & begin they not the gentiles to loath 〈◊〉 everlasting Manna of the Gospel? Had 〈◊〉 
The jews were destroyed whilst the me●…te was in their mouths and God in his justice will destraie the Gentiles that hunger ●…fter 〈◊〉.  jews their desire? Let the Gentiles take heed by them, that God give them not over to follow their own affections? Did not many thousands of them perish whilst the meat was in their mouths? And shall not he in his justice destroy and consume us that long after 〈◊〉, and are weary of the truth? 〈◊〉 that the remembrance of these things could take deep root in our hearts. 〈◊〉 that these examples & spectakles of 〈◊〉 
These examples are of no force to terrify our guilty consciences.  justice might suffice to 〈◊〉 our guilty consciences, & enforce us to cry out and weep bitterly with the Prophet David, for our manifold sins committed against 
We will not go forward with Lot in g●… 〈◊〉.  'gainst the Lord our God. I would 〈◊〉 God that which Lot we would go for 〈◊〉 in godly zeal, perfect purity, and 〈◊〉 glenes of heart, but it will not be. We are 
We are lookers backè with Lot's wife to beastly Zodoma.  wilful lookers back with his wife to beastly Zodoma. I would to God that with Lot we would faithfully credit and believe, that the almighty bath spoken, and is fully determined in his exceeding justice, to bring to pass: but 
With Lot's wife we were 〈◊〉 but in distrusting God we utterie deceive ourselves.  with Lot's wife we are incredulous, we are become turn backs, & begin to awel in distrust with her, thinking that the majesty of our God is insufficient, to bring to effect the thing which providently he hath decreed to bring to pass. But with Lot's wife we do altogether disceve ourselves, for heaven and earth shall perish, but the word of the Lord 
In 〈◊〉 a most dangerous▪ sin.  shall endure for ever. Alas, there is no one thing more abominable under the Heavens, than is the entertainment of infidelity and unbéeliefe. For where this monstrous evil is redsydent, there is no hope of salnation, no fear of GOD abiding, nor no kind of goodness to be expected, for infidels and vnbelce●… the LORD God will judge. This infidelity flourished in the heart of 
〈◊〉 king of Egypt incredulous, and would not listen to the Praphet Moses, 〈◊〉 nor tokens nor yet 〈◊〉 plagues could enforce him to let go the lords people.  proud Pharo, who regarded not the saying of the Prophet Moyies, but hardened hishart in such condission and estate, that neither the messenger of God's signs and tokens were of him esteemed nor regarded, and albeit God sent sundry and divers plagues among the Egyptians to make his power known, yet would not Pharaoh let go●… the lords people: such and so great was the infidelity and increasing contempt of malicious Pharo. But God the Lord of hosts heard the groanings of his peculiar people, that were by the cruel Egyptians diversly afflicted, and with a mighty and out stretched hand he delivered them from the hands of their enemies and lead them 
Yet the Lord heard their groanings delivered them through the red se●…, where in Pharo and his host were ●…rowned.  safely through the red●…e seas, wherein Pharo and his host perished. Lo here an especial token of God's favour shown to his people, whom in mercy he graciously preserved from danger. And an exceeding note worthy to be considered of his divine justice, wherein to the comfort of the faithful, he in the fullness of his dis●…pleasure confoundeth there enemies. This in●…idelitie, for all the good that the 
Infidelity flourished in the 〈◊〉 people of God, in that they contemned his sta-tutes, & made them a golden 〈◊〉, which they worshipped in Horeb.  Lord God had done for his people Israel, crept into the very entrails, and thoroughly pierced the hearts of them, so that they became wilful contemners of his statutes, truce breakers of his covenants, forsakers of his laws, and followers of their own imaginations. For they set up a golden calf in Horeb, and worshipped the same as God. This infidelity made bloodthirsty 
Infidelity increased mightily in jezabel, but her reward was shame and confusion.  lezabel to favour & conceive no small delight in the blasphemous priests of Baal, and to persecute, afflict, and put to the edge of the sword the Lords prophets, and those that scared the Lord: but God in his iusti●…e rewarded her, she was thrown from the top of an high tower, broke her neck, and the 〈◊〉 did eat her flesh, and lapped up her blood, according to the saying of the prophet. Thus we see that mighty is the Lord ou●… God, and his judgements 
A 〈◊〉 perished in her infidelity.  are true. This infidelity made A tha●… ●…ecome a worshipper of strange gods, and to ren●…unce the living Go●… of Israel, but her end was shame and confusion. This infidelity made David 
D●…ids distrust in numbering his people.  to distrust in the Lord, and to affy him in his own strength, in that he numbered his people, but the plague of pestilence took away threescore and ten thousand of them in three days. This in●…delitie made Nabuchadnezer to erect 
〈◊〉 through 〈◊〉 set up a golden ●…age.  and set up a golden image, to bé●… worshipped as God himself of his people: but Sidrack, misael, and Abednego would not consent to fall from the Lord God of hosts, neither would they give the glory of the Lord their God to a ●…lthy idol. Nabuchadnezer herewith not a little displeased, cast them into a fiery furnace, but the Lord preserved them to their comfort, and the 
〈◊〉 contempt and infidelity.  confusion of their 〈◊〉. This infidelity made proud Antiochus to enter into an horrible contempts o●… GOD and his law, ●…hose people he ceased not to vex and afflict day and night, but he escaped not 〈◊〉 free, the Lord GOD had a care for his Church, preserved his people, the fold of his inheritance, and sent his Angel to correct this Tyrant, as he was riding in his Chariot, and that in such sort, 
Antiochu●… plague and ouerthrow●….  that the worms fell forth of his flesh, he being alive. And was this all? No, the filthy stench of his infection was such, and so loathsome and vnsa●…erie in the nostrils of his own servants, that they were unable to abide his presence. A notable example of God's i●…ste 
Infidelity i●… bl●…od thirsty and mischievous 〈◊〉 punished.  judgements. This infidelity made blood thirsty Nero, cruel Domisian, monstrous Heliogabalus, and tyrrannous Tragian, to persecute CHRIST in his members, to kill his Apostles, to contemn the 〈◊〉 of his Gospel, to worship strange and unknown Gods, and and to glory in their own wickednesses and abominations, but their end was shame and utter confusion▪ And I fear me that this monstro●… 
Infidelity 〈◊〉 among counterfeit christians.  sin is not a little favoured of us, that profess the glorious name of our Lord and Saviour jesus Christ, for who seethe not that we for the most part of us, are not great ●…aggers of the Gospel of our salvation? But where are the fruits that he expecteth and requireth at our hands? Is it sufficient 
To talk of Christ with our carnal lips, and to deny him in our deeds, is a thing m●…st dangerous.  for us think we to talk of Christ with our carnal and fleshly lips, and to deny him in our deeds? What greater offence can there be committed or done against the eternal maies●… of God? Is it not a gross kind of infidelity think we, that posesse●…h our 〈◊〉 
A gross kind of infidelity.  consciences, that we not 〈◊〉 hate to be reform, but herewithal also, we s●…orne to walk in the ways that the Lord our God hath appointed us, and yet we will be counted christians by name, but infidels in our actions. To talk of Christ being carnally affected, and not heavenly minded, is a thing of all▪ other most dangerous, 〈◊〉▪ acknowledge him to be the Son 〈◊〉 God in our words, and not to 〈◊〉 
Usur●…ing christians that propha●… the name of Christ, agree with 〈◊〉 for he as they do, confessed Christ to be the son of God.  his testimonies, is a thing most devilish, and satanical, for the 〈◊〉 did the like in the deserts, when he tempted the Lord of life, that john baptised in jordan, and then if we be faithless, as I fear me the greatest number of us are, that remain in this our last time of calling, what differ we from sathan that unrighteous prince of darkness. And is this the way do we cōi●…ture with ourselves to please God, when in not regarding the price of our redemption accomplished by God's eternal decree, freely by and through the working of his ●…serued grace in the spotless and immaculate lamb? No, we 
In abusing our 〈◊〉 we tr●…d his blessed blood under our feet, and there withal we 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to ourselves vengeance in the day of wrath.  usurp the name of Christ in this doing▪ we deceive ourselves, we tread the blood of him that hath redeemed us under our feet, and to concl●…de, we aggravate & heap up unto ourselves the heavy and intolerable curse and indignation of the a●…ightie, and therewithal unless we convert from the 〈◊〉 way of our abominable wickednesses, the destruction of our bodies, and souls everlastingly. But who is he that will enter into his own conscience, & examine himself, whither he be 
Consciences wounded with ●…in con●…t not comfort from Christ.  guilty of these causes or not? or who is he that finding his conscience wounded with the deadly dart of his own transgression, & overladen with sin, will learn to acknowledge his own wickednesses, to humble himself with David, before the throne of gods mercies, & to say, Lord have mercy upon me, and according to the multitude of thy manifold mercies blot out all mine iniquities out of thy presence: verily in this age there are few or none that endeavour to bring forth the fruits of repentance, for the confidence that we have in our 
The confidence that we have in ourselves is a distrust in God.  selves, the great distrust that we have in God, in neglecting his commandments, the love that we have to this transitory world, the slender care we have to Christ & his Gospel, the dangerous delight we conceive in our own force, & contrary, the utter forgetting of gods graces bestowed upon us, a prove us rather to be the children of 
An absur●…e thing to us but a most prebable and certain thing to be veri●…ed of us.  darkness, than the sons of light. were it not an absurd thing for us to be called in this our last age, wherein Christ is sencerely preached to be 〈◊〉 for our sins, the enemies of Chest and the friends of Belial? who would not think he had injury being baptized, to be called sath●…n? But what redeemed whom Christ hath ransomed, not with gold nor silver, but with the price of the heart blood of our redeemer, will at all times engrave or print into his remembrance the painful torments that Christ hath suffered for the sins of the whole world? 
The 〈◊〉 of Christ is forsaken o●… cowardly christians, who rather 〈◊〉 to sin than they 〈◊〉 to resist sathan.  nay rather who flieth not from the ensign of his captain Christ Jesus, and yieldeth not himself a bondslave to ●…in, a servant to sathan, & a pray to eternal damnation, & hell? If God have comm●… nded us to serve, honour & obey him, to dedicate and offer up ourselves into his holy hands, to depend wholly, only and solely upon him, to put our whole trust and confidence in him, and to continue his worship in fear, and reverence? Why do we scorn his 
We rather desire to please men then to serve the Lord our God.  commandments? Why yield we not ourselves to obedience? Why are we become men pleasers? Or why go we about of a set purpose to displease our creator, know we not that we are in his heavenly hands, as the clay is in the hands of the potter? & will we become vessels of dishonour, in dishonouring him, that of duty we are bound to obey? Are our hearts so hardened, that we think him insufficient to punish us, that without ceasing provoke him to displeasure? or are we become so far 
Self love maketh us to 〈◊〉.  past fear, that we will not stand in awe of his judgements? Hath Lady self-love made us so wilfully affected, that we will stand thus sturdely against the Lord and his anointed, or hath the inordinate desire of our private gain 
Private gain hath made us to 〈◊〉 Christ Jesus from our memories.  in this world of wretchedness, so deeply possessed our hearts, that we utterly cast Christ Jesus our high and mighty Lord treasurer, and the unspeakable treasures of his glorious kingdom from our memories, alas if we will cocke●… ourselves in our uncleanness heap up 
To 〈◊〉 ourselves in our own conceits, is 〈◊〉 thing of all things most miserable.  sin upon sin, glory in our uncleanness, and give our consents to work evil in the sight of the Lord our God. We are not members of Christ, sons of adoption and grace, but children of the devil forlorn and cast away bastards. If we will become wilful wantoness, straggling Goats, refuse the good shepherd and clean unto the hired servant, shall not sathan the wily wolf devour us both in body and soul? If we will live 〈◊〉, lift 
To live securely in the contempt of God's justice, heapeth up vengeance in the day of desolation.  up ourselves against the Lord, stand stiff in our own securities, and grow in the contempt of God's eternal justice, shall not he in his hea●…ie displeasure, with the heavy Axe of his vengeance, cut us down in our sins, and then after this temporal death, shall not the second death of body and soul, which shall endure for ever, vex and torment us in the dungeon of hell. Oh that we would record and call these things to our remembrances: O that we would ponder in our own consciences, how heavy and 
It is a ●…lous thing to ●…all into the judgements of God.  dangerous a thing it is to fall into the judgements of the Lord our God. O that we would diligently consider with ourselves that as God is merciful, loving & amiable, to those that love him 
As God is merciful to those that do believe, so is he most terrible to the vn●….  and keep his commandments, so is he just, terrible, and displeasant, to those that continue their wickednesses. The 〈◊〉 tree that was barren was accursed, and think we that are fruitless to be blessed? Can not the good seed of the Gospel sown in the stoni●… ground of our stintie hearts take no root at all in us, shall the filthy furrours of our cankered consciences, in stead of good and perfect grain, bring forth unsanerie darnel? when the Lord of the harvest cometh for perfect wheat, will we render him chaff? (alack then most miserable is our condission and estate) for he then that hath his fan in his hand, will purge his flower, gather his wheat into the glorious g●…rner of his grace, but the chaff he will burn with an unquenchable fire. These things might 
Occasions whilst we have time, to move us to turn to the Lord our God.  forewarn us in time, while we have time, to turn to the Lord our God, and to bring soorth the fruits of repentance. But we generally for the most part, here and every where rather like beastly Epicures, then godly affected christians, wallow in the miry soil of our uncleanness and putrefaction, expecting nothing so much as we do our ease, wherein we she we ourselves to be more lazy loiterers, then lovely labourers in the lords vinyeard. For let us even 
We are 〈◊〉 loiterers and not careful labourers in the Lord's vineyard.  from the highest to the lowest, from the eldest to the youngest, from the wisest to the fondest, and from the learnedst to the unskilfullest, behold ourselves in our own imperfections in our own impurities, and in our ●…lthy actions, and we shall see that we are not only enclosed in the snares of hell, fettered with the chains of damnation, and cast aways from God's favour, but also therewith all, we have justly deserved the heavy sentence of condemnation, and that not for a day or year, but everlastingly. To sp●…ake of our abusions, to touch the canker of our corruptions, to uncover the ugly ulcers of our uncleanness, 
Tr●…h may be blamed and not shamed.  to set abroach the monstrous sores of our sins, and to rip up the blanes and botches of our iniquities, I should rather displease then content: offend than delight, and heap up unto me for good will deserved, an undeserved hatred. 
It is better to please God than 〈◊〉.  But may this abash me? should this hinder me, or daunt me in so good a quarrel to keep silence, or cause me to hold my peace? no, God forbidden, and Lord let it be far of from me, for if temporal minded men, that hear their Lords and Masters ill spoken and 〈◊〉, abused and defamed, will stand up and defend to the utter most they can, the cause and case of 
Note this 〈◊〉.  their superiors. How much more ought the servants of Christ jesus to stand up and speak in his cause, whose wor●… is contemned, whose name is profaned, & whose graces, are over stenderlie regarded. These causes c●…nsidered, it beseemeth every christian to speak in the defence of so good a captain, as hath done all the good that may be accomplished and brought to effect, for our utilities. But are not these things quite cast away from our memories? 
The service of Christ is given over for the service of fill thy Mammon.  What are they that have not given over the service of Christ, and are not become the servitors of Mammon? Where is not covetousness hatboured? Or who though he hath never so much thinketh himself satisfied? verily few or none, for the love of gold hath so blinded our eyes, that we cannot find●… the way to Christ jesus. The immoderate desire, the unsatiable lust, and the unstanchable appetite that we have to gape after worldly rule, Lordly dignities and promotions carrieth us away with violence from the service of God, to the sink of per●…. Thus filthy avarice the canker of all corruption, causeth us to fall from God, to ●…istrust in God and to put our confidence oftentimes in worldly riches, which shall waste and wear away, as the moth fretteth and consumeth a garment. But whereas this greedy moiling desire of gold, and this filthy longing after our private gain is esteemed, there 
〈◊〉 fear 〈◊〉 r●…garded.  the fear of GOD is not regarded, compassion is closed up in prison, neighbourly love is banished, hatred flourisheth, oppression ruleth, arrogancy is advanced, and in fine to conclude, all grace and goodness is ●…rodden underfoot. And yet for all this the greediest cormorant that is will be a christian: the vildest ex●… will brag of the Gospel: and the most monstruous usurer that liveth will acknowledge Christ to 〈◊〉 the son of God, but all in vain. For to call Christ Lord, Lord, 〈◊〉 not, neither yet appertaineth that kingdom that Christ hath purchased with his heart blood, to such proud prattling Phare●…s, but that 〈◊〉 place of joy and glory belongeth to those that do the will of God, and truly endeavour through the working of his grace to walk in integricie and newness of life. 
Strange 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 maketh 〈◊〉 proud persons and the children of 〈◊〉.  The strange disguisings that at this day we put in practice approveth ourselves to be the children of Lucipher, the babes of belial, and the very ●…re brands of hell. New fashions are favoured: the Itallian 
A●…ominable abuses practised and suffered at this day in England unpunished.  cut is set by: Beauty must have a peacocks tail to keep hit from the sun burning: men are become effemina●…e, manhood is not thought upon: the launch and the shield are nothing esteemed: carpit knights must lull them in their lady's laps. O loathsome world wherein iniquity aboundeth. O wordlings that wallow in all kinds of wickedness fashioning most devilishly such ornaments as rather make you unreasonable monsters, then reasonable men, such roisting & reveling in your french ruffs, such bombasting of doublets, that make you bellies like bumbards. I think was never seen, such curious painting of crabtrée faces, such tavern bushes worn in women's heads, was never before this frequented, such 
The maintei●…ance of s●…e is the decay of virtue, the like sin never practised ●…mongst pa●… as are 〈◊〉 in 〈◊〉 of bragging christians.  deceit, such falsehood, such bribery, such polling and pilling, such swearing and tearing of God for tri●…es, such lea●…ongring, such enhancing of rents, such oppression, and extortion, such whoredom and drunkenness, such wilful perjury, and false witness beareing, such detracting, backbi●…ing and flandering, as remaineth amonng christians, I conjecture, nay I am rather ●…llie persuaded was never put in practice among the very infidels and pagans, that never had any knowledge of God and Christ, but it shall be easier for them then for us, in the day of ou●… resurrection. At what time the Lord shall come with power and glory to judge the quick and dead. But such is the cor●…uption of our natures, that the remembrances of these things cannot take any root in our hearts, re●…tance 
●…epentance is not reg●…ded, neither can the terror of God's justice drive us to the amendment of our lives.  is deferred from day, to day, neither can the terror of god's justice drive us to amendment of our lives, nor his manifold mercy's cause us to humble our selves before the Lord. Signs & tokens given us from beaven, to put us in mind of god's indignation, are taken for trif●…es, prodigious monsters brought forth contrary to nature, in the course of concepti●… cannot awaken us from our wickednesses, neither think we that the heavens when they threaten us for 〈◊〉, do presaidge our destruction. And in these points 〈◊〉 me how much do the ●…aine glorious gentiles differ from the unbelieving jews: God be merciful unto us, & spare us from those plagues that we have most justly deserved, give us grace to convert and turn us wholly from the perilous paths of perverse impletie, the we may be saved from vengeance in the day of wrath. But there be divers 
Impedi●… 〈◊〉. that let and withholds us from hart●… repentance.  lets to withhold us from hearty repentance, the devil, the world, and the flesh are our enemies, the love of concupiscence, the vain ●…lurements of worldly delectation, and the ●…ordinate hunting after worldly treasure, are dangerous impediments to keep us from hearty contri●…on, and sorrowful 〈◊〉, for the exercise of wickednesses, the loathsomeness of the Gospel of grace, the gross and carnal fullness of our corrupte●… humours, that cannot be purged from the filthiness of the old Adam, nor yet learn to digest the verity, but only by the invocation of God's sacred and holy name, and the divine working of his singular merci●… and grace, are most grievous stops to kep●… us from repentance. And as a lively faith through the favour of Christ is the ground 
A fruitful faith hath no being in the children of 〈◊〉.  of contri●…iō, so as neither this faith grounded on Christ his bloodly death and passion, nor this compunction or 〈◊〉 sorrow can have any place in the 〈◊〉 of unbelief, which harden their hearts in all mischief and wickedness, no more can neither of these excelling ●…ertues have their ●…eing in our carnal & contemptuous gospelers, which rather make a scorn of Christ jesus, then honour him in their hearts. But this in●…incible faith g●…unded 
〈◊〉 cometh not of ourselves, but by grace and faith in Christ jesus  on the touchstone of truth, and this vnfein●…d repenta●…ce, through the which by grace in Christ jesus, the old man is dead and buried from ●…inne, and this contri●…on and hearty sorrow where with all our consciences are touched, not for de●…tes, but freely by gods inestimable lou●… and kindness, cometh not of ourselves, but proceedeth towards us, from the father of light, and these his singular graces are pertinent, and belonging to the children of belief, that are truly regenerate, begotten & borne again to God the Father, not by water, but in the precious death and bloodshedding of the innocent lamb Christ jesus. This faith, and this repentance, 
〈◊〉 pro●…table to David, but discommodious to Saul because he wa●…ted faith.  was profitable to the prophet David, when he felt in himself the sorrows of his heart, and confessed himself to have 〈◊〉 displeased the majesty of the Lord God, saying, I will acknowledge mine unrighteousness against myself, O Lord, and thou forgavest the ungodliness 
Repentance 〈◊〉 to Pe er, but nothing bene●…ciall to judas, for want of fait●… for as Christ had Peter in cure ●…or his 〈◊〉 sorrow, so sathan had judas in possession ●…or ●…acke of 〈◊〉.  of my sins, and as his submission was found acceptablein the sight of the Lord GOD, so Saul wanting a lively faith and impenitent, what could his contri●…on avail or pro●…t him? This faith was s●… settled in the Apostle Peter, that when he had denied his Lord and master, Christ jesus, looking back upon him, the silly cock became a preacher unto him, & thereupon calling unto his remembrance the words of his loving Lord, he went forth of the doors and w●…pt bitterly for his trespass, thus his repentance obtained mercy at the hands of god, & found favour because that he grounded o●… faith. Contrarily this repentance nothing at all a●…ailed judas, and why? because he was faithless. Thus as Peter purchased remission by faith & earnest repentance, 
More despe●…ate Iud●…ses in this last age, than 〈◊〉 peter's.  so judas drowned in infidelity, sathan poscessing him, most desperately hanged himself, and did heap unto himself the utter condemnation of body and soul, and I fear me, that in this our last age we have a far greater number of desperate ludases, than faithful repentant peter's, God turn our hearts, and give us his holy spirit, by the power whereof sin shall cease in us, and we shall live to Christ jesus. But if we will with an upright and single 〈◊〉 
The condissi●…n of worldly christians dif ●…er from Christ  behold the manners of wicked wordlings, we shall find them so far dissonant from Christ as light is from darkness, and yet most shamelessie he that is most wicked, & 
Difference in seeking ●…fter Christ, The three wise men sought Christ to wor ship him, Herode to ●…stroy him.  he whose actions are most detested in the sight of the Lord God, will not stick to say, they are followers of Christ, and it may be so, that they both follow and seek after him, but how? not with the three wise men, to serve and worship him in spirit truth but with bloodthirsty Herode to kill and cruci●…e him afresh in his members. They mind not with Nichodemus to seek the Lord Christ by day, nor yet by night to learn of him as his disciples, that which may benefit them to everlasting life, but they seek and follow after him with the 
Nicodem●…●…ought Christ by night to learn of him, the Scribes and Phare●…es to tempt him.  subtle Scribes, the proud Phar●…sies, and the deceitful Sa●…uces to entrap him in his talk, and to tempt him with a p●…nny, but they are sent away, not without answer, for Caesar must have that which to him belongeth, & God must have his glory. These usurpers of Christ his holy name, these wicked and impudent creatures come not to the lamb of God, with 
The Centurion sought Christ by faith, for the health of his daughter, but we will not seek him for the safeguard of our souls that would ●…aue us to come unto him.  the believing Centurion, neither will they repose such confidence and trust in Christ as he did for the r●…couery of his daughter's health: no they will not come to him, that like a good and loving Physician would cure their sick souls, purify their 〈◊〉 hearts, and cleanse them from all the ●…oares of sinn●…, and yet with the Lawyer that came to Christ to know the way to life, they can brag they have kept the cōman●…ements, and all necessary things for their ●…aluation, but with the Lawyer they go away ashamed, for these justifying felow●… of themselves keep back with the lawyer, neither will they consent to sell all that they have, and give it to the poor, no they will follow Christ in no such order. judas was a follower of Christ, judas gave 
judas was ●… follower of Christ, but Zacheus followed him by faith, but Iu●… to betray ●…im.  Christ a discembling kiss, but we have many Judases, but the faith of Zacheus is forgotten of these counterfeits, they will not s●…e Christ in spirit and truth, but after their own affections, this is the manner of the maleu●…lent, that think themselves searchers after CHRIST, when they being carnally affected, rather show themselves blind at noon ●…aies, then to have or enjoy their perfect sight, for they grope as graceless, for him that they cannot find. But contrary the little fold, the members of the church militant, the fair 
The faithful members o●… the church m●…tant seek Christ by fai●… and they ●…nd him to ●…he comfort of their con●….  daughter of Sion, the perfect spous of Christ and the faithful lovers of the gospel, they seek for Christ spiritually, and how, by a fruitful faith and an earnest repentance, & they find him to the comfort of their consciences, the joy of their troubled hearts, & to the exceeding comfort of their souls, they see & find him, that both is delighted to dwell with them, & in them, & they in him, have their being, so that by his especial grace ●… favour they are puri●…ed in the blood of the lamb from all the spots of their sins, & the deformed wrinkles of their wickednesses, this is the mean of godly christians that seek and search for Christ, by an immovable faith, and beartie sorrow for their sins, and they are certain to find him, and why? because he hath promised 
Christ is in the midst of them that ●…re gathered to●… in his holy name.  that when so ever two or three be assembled and gathered together in his name he will be in the midst of them, and this is the hope of the faithful, this is the greatest joy that belongeth to the children of belief, this is ●…he comfort of each and every constant christian, and yet they can 
The faithful do fall into the las●…●…f sin they cannot stand of themselves, but like prodi●…all sons, their cons●…ence is touched with the ●…nger of god's grace, they mourn and weep bitterly for their 〈◊〉.  not stand of themselves, but when they fall into the laspe of sin, they confess their iniquities, and forthwith they being touched with the finger of God's grace, they like prodigal sons that ●…aue wandered from the sheepefolds of the true and very Emanuel, cry out and return to their father again, for want of whose favour, they being ready to pine, were glad with the swine that wallow in the stinking ●…ncks of sin, to eat the corrupt cods of their uncleanness, but being as they were under the curse of the law, subverted by gods eternal justice, to eternal death and damnation, they feeling the gnawing worm of their own conscience to vex and torment them, and therewith all, they beholding the horror of their wickednesses committed against the Lord their God, they seek to be rid of this hellish slavery, they count to shake of this heavy and intolerable burden of their iniquities, and to be released from the bondage of hell, the ●…ting of the second death, and the ceaseless torments of that everlasting fiery flame, wherein the godless shall be punished and tormented everlastingly. But how or by what means they trust not to their own strengths, 
The mean and way that the godly and faithful re●…tant use to come unto 〈◊〉.  they put no confidence in man, they stand not sturdy in their own conceits, neither yet build they on their own deserts, no they stand not to reason with the Lord as though they would justify themselves, but they feeling the misery of their languishing souls, they fly unto the Lord by a lively faith, they are ashamed of themselves, they are heartily sorry for their sins, they weep and cry out bitterly for their iniquities saying, O father we are not worthy to be called thy children, ●…or 
Their humble 〈◊〉 is accepted, and they 〈◊〉 recea●…ed to god's favour and grace.  we have sinned against thee, and are not worthy to be called thy children. This humble submission of theirs, this hearty sorrow of theirs, is not only accepted, but the Lord himself appea●…ing his fury with the outstretched arms of his compassion and pity, receiveth them to his favour, and giveth unto them the fat kid Christ jesus, on whom by faith they feed, and have their fill, to their exceeding io●…es, and to the salvation of their souls. This is the difference betwixt the faithful and the unbelieving. This is an especial token how and in what kind, the children of 
An especial note 〈◊〉 the children o●… light and the children of darkness.  light are, and may at all times easily be discearned from the children of darkness. This is an especial note for us to consider how, and in what manner the church militant may easily be deciphered from 
Marks to know the church militant, the true spouse of Christ, from the church malignant, the proud 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉.  the church malignant, for as the members of the true church of Christ, continually travel under the cross, & are at warfare, and their fight is endless against 〈◊〉, death, hell, the flesh, this wicked world, sathan, and all the powers of hell. So this malignant church, this synagogue of the devil, this proud painted strumpet of Babylon 〈◊〉, in all 〈◊〉, glorieth in all uncleanness, loveth this world, percheth for promotion, and princely dignity, and that most 〈◊〉, pampereth itself in fleshly & filthy lust most shamelesselie, soileth itself in all notorious 
It hath 〈◊〉 an old 〈◊〉, and long used that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hath had his church, the devil hath had his chi●…, but it may now be said in this age, that whereas Christ hath his chapel the devil hath his church.  sins and evils most abominably, and to conclude, Lucipher the prince of pride 〈◊〉 the ringleder of this mischievous church, contrary the mihtent church hath learned of her loving 〈◊〉 Christ jesus, to be humble, lowly, meek, gentle, patiented, ready to suffer affliction, willing to 〈◊〉 under the banner of her head, & to continue constant in time of their trial. The children of this church are not ashamed of the truth of the Gospel. The children of this church are ready at all times to give a reckoning of their faith before princes. The children of this church are ready to suffer imprisonment, reviling, persecution, and willingly they agree to give their lives for the testimony of Christ. Contrary the church 
〈◊〉 malignant church 〈◊〉 self a●… nst God & 〈◊〉 〈◊〉: they 〈◊〉 are the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 church 〈◊〉 to 〈◊〉 stroy the Lords vine▪ 〈◊〉, but the Lord upholdeth their cause 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉.  malignant most arrogantly lifteth it 〈◊〉 against the Lord, against his 〈◊〉, and the true 〈◊〉 of his blessed name, they resist the Lords army of his saints, they in their kind as the 〈◊〉 members of the very devil himself, do all, and that with one consent toil without ceasing to destroy the lords vineyard, to batter down the walls of Zion, and to overthrow the pillars of the Lords house, but he most 〈◊〉 being the founder and builder of his church, 〈◊〉 the same, maintaineth his cause against the ungodly, and breaketh the jaw bones of the malicious a sunder. Thus dealeth the Lord our God with his 
The blood of the 〈◊〉 that are 〈◊〉 for the love and truth of Christ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 of the church.  people, and yet sundry and oftentimes he suffereth the wolf to crush the tender lambs of his fold, but the blood of the martyrs that are persecuted for the truth of the Gospel, is the seed of his church, which bringeth forth such increase, that all the tyrants of the world shall never be able, 〈◊〉 what 〈◊〉 they can, to root up, deface, or irradicate his church. That same God that spoke unto Saul when he had received letters of the high priests, to persecute his saints at Damascus, speaketh unto them that make havoc of the fold of his inheritance, and showeth them that it shall be as heard for them as it was 〈◊〉 Saul to kick against the prick, it is all in vain therefore for mortal men 〈◊〉 what condition soever they be to stand 
As the 〈◊〉 cannot ●…troule the 〈◊〉, no more can man that is but 〈◊〉 clod of 〈◊〉, 〈◊〉 the ma●… of God.  up against the Lord, for he is the Lord of all power, the God of all wisdom, and as the pot cannot control nor check the potter, no more can man that is but a clod of clay, and the handy work of his creator resist, nor withstand that the Lord of hosts hath purposed to bring to effect. 
Satan 〈◊〉 forth his ministers to all mischief, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, persecute an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the godly.  Yet where sathan is the ringleader of this disordered 〈◊〉, and shameless rabble, he in such sort pricketh them forward, that they 〈◊〉 no small felicity and delight, to whet their tusks, to make sharp their 〈◊〉, to this very purpose, that they may spoil and 〈◊〉 the Lords fold, but he that is mighty often and sundry times confoundeth them in the imaginations of their own 〈◊〉! 〈◊〉 us therefore 
〈◊〉 more that we are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Christ, the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 we 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  in time of our trial continue constant, let us in time of our affliction, endeavour to bear the cross with patience, for the sharper that in this life our torments are or shall be for the testamony of a good conscience, the greater shall be our glory in time to come in the kingdom of heaven. The more that we are reviled, ill spoken of, & 〈◊〉, for our Lord and 〈◊〉 Christ jesus, the more better shall we be accepted and well welcomed, accounted of, blessed, and received of Christ our saviour, to his everlasting kingdom. If therefore we will be his disciples, we must learn of him to follow his steps, to walk in holiness and righteousness of 〈◊〉, to 
The scholars of 〈◊〉 must continue their studies in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 his truth.  dedicate ourselves wholly unto his service, we must like good & skilful scholars continue our studies in the nursery of his eternal truth, and crave of him that through the assistance of his holy and blessed spirit, we may learn to understand the blessed 〈◊〉 contained in his holy law, & to walk continually in his sight, as it becometh godly and faithful 
The 〈◊〉 we have to 〈◊〉 maketh 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of God.  sons, adopted by grace to life everlasting. But as I have said before, so say I again, the love of this world so 〈◊〉 in us, that the love we ought to bear unto Christ is forgotten, the desire we have to 〈◊〉, and the continuance of our evils, maketh us ●…ned of God, and beloved of the devil, whose service we continue, to the great dishonouring of the lamb Christ jesus, and to our utter confusion ever lastinglie. Let the avaricious minded 〈◊〉 forget his ●…lthy avaries, & learn to be contented 
from sinful impiety, and the fruits of 〈◊〉 vnclean●…es by the exercise whereof we provoke God to disple●…sure 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 up unto out sel●…es eternal condemn and, let us therefore from the highest to the lowest bring forth the fruits of repentance, and the Lord out God will be merciful unto us, he will heal out offences, and continue his gracious co●…tenance unto us his people, and then at the last when we shall give an account of our stewardships we shall 〈◊〉 before him in innocency, and be crowned with glory.  with a mean: let the proud man give over his strange disguisings, let ancient custom in appareling our bodies beat down our masking robes, let us not be proud in our conseats, but humble & meek in all our actions. Let the beastly epicure that glorieth in excess, forget to make his belly his God. Let the usurer, that eateth & deu●…ureth up young gentlemen, & poor artificers alive, learn with Zacheus, to make restitution of their wrong gotten goods. Let the whore●…onger and adulterer, learn to give over his beastly whoredom, & filthy fornication: Let the drunkard that glorieth in his corrup●…on forget & give over his unreasonable quaffing. Let the greedy landlord endeavour to forbear the practice of pouling his poor tenant, & to conclude, let us all ingenerally, from the highest to the lowest of us, come before the Lord our maker, with humble & contrite hearts. Let us weep & wail, cry out & morn biterly for our sins, & then the Lord our God in the fullness of his mercies will heal our offences, cleanse us from our sins, purge us from our iniquities, and wash us from our wickednesses in the blood of the lamb, yea the Lord our God will become unto us a shelter & a shield against all our enemies, yea he will fight for us against all those that maliciously seek to assail us, he will turn towards us his gracious countenance, continue our peace, bless our anointed Deborah, our virgin Queen, the handmaid of the lord, continue her highness health to our comforts, convert or else utterly confound the power of all her enemies, foreign & domestical, bless our land, spare us from those plagues that we have most righteously deserved, & at the last when it shall please him to call us unto an account & reckoning of our bailiwéekes and stewardships before his tribunal throne, we shall stand before him in innocency & holiness of life, & here him pronounce to our endless comforts this happy sentence. Come you blessed of my father, enter into the kingdom prepared for you, from the beginning of the world. To the which most gracious God & loving father mercifully conduct us, for thy son Christ his sake, to whom with thee & the holy Ghost the spirit of all truth, unity and concord, three person, & one eternal and everliving God, be rendered all laud, glory, honour, praise power and dominion for ever, Amen.  
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