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Title:  A sermon of repentaunce a very godly and profitable sermon preached at Lee in Essex / by Arthur Dent ...
Author: Dent, Arthur, d. 1607.
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of God. This is it yt vomiteth vp all good thinges, and poysoneth the very intrals of a man, & kéepeth all good graces from vs. As appeareth. Math. 13. 58. Hee did not manye greate woorkes there for their vn∣beleefes sake. And the 4. to the Hebrues, it is saide, Vnto vs was the Gospell prea∣ched, as also vnto them, but the worde that they hearde profited not them, because it was not mixed with fayth in those that heard it. So that here we may sée, although we heare neuer so muche, yet if wée bringe not faith with vs, wée shall neuer profite vnto Repentaunce. For vnbeliefe taketh vp our hartes for Sathan, and refuseth all the wholesome doctrine of saluation, and doth so harden them in the waies of sinne: that in the ende they become paste feeling, and cānot be touched one whit, either with the iudgementes or mercies of God: But count the one as blasts of wynd: and make the other a couert for their filthinesse. You shall note some men, who when they haue heard their sinnes straightlie ripped vp by the woord of God, and their iust damnatiō proued by the same, without spéedie, & ear∣nest repentance, will breake out into these 0