Ancilla pietatis: or, The hand-maid to priuate deuotion presenting a manuell to furnish her with necessary principles of faith. Forcible motiues to a holy life. Vsefull formes of hymnes and prayers. ... By Daniel Featly, D. in Diuinity.

The Admonition for Tuesday morning: being an exhorta∣tion to godly sorrow.

THE ANALYSIS.

We must desire & pray for godly sorrow, because it is

• 1 A speciall duty requi∣red in the
  • Law.
  • Gospel.
• 2 The Saints conti∣nuall practise.
• 3 A necessary dispo∣sition to make vs ca∣pable of the Gospel.
• 4 A Sacrifice well plea∣sing to God.
• 5 An effect of true conuersion.
• 6 An efficient cause of many diuine vertues.
• 7 An assurance of e∣ternall ioy and com∣fort.
• 8 The want of it, a fearefull signe of a reprobate sense.

THE TEXTS.

TVrne ye vnto me with all your heart,* 1.1 with fasting, weeping and mourning, Ioel 2. 12.

And rent your hearts and not your garments, &c. ver. 13.

And in that day did the Lord God of hosts call to weeping and mourning, and to baldnesse, and girding with Sackcloth, Isa. 22. 12.

Now I reioyce, not that yee were made sorry, but that yee sorrowed to repentance, 2 Cor. 7. 9.

For ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might re∣ceiue damage in nothing.

Weepe not for me, but weepe for your selues, Luk. 23. 28.

Ye shall weepe and lament, &c. Io. 16. 20.

Howle and lament, &c. Iames 5. 1.

I abhorre my selfe,* 1.2 and repent in dust and ashes, Iob. 42. 6.

I fainted in my mourning; I cause my bed euery night to swimme, and water my couch with my teares, Psal. 6. 6.

I will confesse my wickednesse, and be sorry for my sin Ps. 38. 18.* 1.3

Hezekiah humbled himselfe for the pride of his heart, he and the inhabitants of Ierusalem, and therefore the wrath of the Lord came not in the dayes of Heze∣kiah,* 1.4 2 Cro. 33. 12.

And when he was in affliction he besought the Lord his God, & humbled himselfe greatly before the God of his fathers, 2 Cr. 33. 12

And prayed vnto him, and was intreated of him, ver. 13.

Now when Ezra had prayed,* 1.5 and had confessed weeping and casting himselfe downe before the house of God, there assembled vnto him, out of Israel, a very great congregation of men, and women, and children; for the people wept very sore, Ezr. 10. 1.

And Peter remembred the

words which Iesus said vnto him,* 1.6 Before the Cocke crow twice, thou shalt deny me thrice; and he went out, and wept bit∣terly, Mat. 26. 75.

Come vnto me all ye that are heauy laden,* 1.7 and I will ease you, Mat. 11. 28.

He hath anointed me to preach the Gospell to the poore, hee hath sent me to heale the broken hearted, Luke 4. 18.

The Sacrifice of God is a con∣trite spirit;* 1.8 a broken and a con∣trite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. Psal. 51. 17.

Put my teares in thy bottle; are not these things noted in thy booke? Psal. 56. 8.

The Lord hath heard the voice of my weeping, Psal. 6. 8.

Tell Hezekiah, the Captaine of my people, saying; I haue heard thy prayer, I haue seene thy teares, I will heale thee, 2 Kings 30. 5.

And when they heard these

things,* 1.9 they were pricked in their hearts, and said vnto Peter, Men and Brethren, what shall we doe? Act. 2. 37.

Godly sorrow causeth repen∣tance not to be repented of;* 1.10 but worldly sorrow causeth death, 2. Cor. 7. 10.

For behold this selfe same thing that yee sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulnesse it wrought in you, yea what clee∣ring of your selues, yea what in∣dignation, yea what feare, yea what vehement desire, yea what zeale, yea what reuenge, ver. 11.

They that sow in teares,* 1.11 shall reape in ioy, Psal. 126. 7.

I dwell with him that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to re∣uiue the spirit of the humble, and to reuiue the heart of the contrite, Isa. 57. 15.

Ye shall be sorrowfull but your sorrow shall bee turned into ioy; Ioh. 16. 20.

Blessed are they that mourne,

for they shall bee comforted, Mat. 5. 4.

Wee haue mourned vnto you,* 1.12 and yee haue not wept, Luke 7. 32.

And yee are puffed vp, and haue not sorrowed, 1 Cor. 5. 2.

Woe bee vnto thee Corazin, woe vnto thee Rethsaida, &c. for they, &c. in sack cloth, Mat. 11. 21.

And I gaue her time to repent, and shee would not repent, Reuel. 2. 21.

After thy hard and impenitent heart treasurest vp to thy selfe wrath in the day of wrath, Rom. 2. 3.

Notes

• * 1.1

  1 Gods Com∣mande∣ment.
• * 1.2

  2 The Saints pra∣ctise.
• * 1.3

  Hezekiah.
• * 1.4

  Manasses.
• * 1.5

  Ezra.
• * 1.6

  Peter.
• * 1.7

  3 A prepa∣ration to the Gospell.
• * 1.8

  4 Accepta∣ble to God.
• * 1.9

  5 The effect of true con∣uersion.
• * 1.10

  6 A cause of many di∣uine ver∣tues.
• * 1.11

  7 Bringeth ioy and comfort.
• * 1.12

  8 The want of it feare∣full.