j Abrahams, 1::':~ ! I the 11. Chap. to the Eebr. I 9$ • . _J____ fl10uld beperfornicd in Gods good timC. I Thcfc promifc.swcrc principaUy thcfc twdo r. Sa!wation by the Mcffias. ex.,mple.roffaith, the holy GhOil: giucs a gene- A rail commCdacion ofthe faith ofal thofe loymly which are fpoken ofalrcadie. VERSE '3· d/1 theft diedinfaith,and receiued not the promifes, hut (a-we them afarre off, and he~ leeued them : and receiued them than".!ful/y, and con/ef edtbat they-were Jlrangm & pilgrimeson the earth. f7i?;:-";;;:,;;('W;;::;;:¥1\Itherto the Holy Ghofi • hath particularly commcu– dcd the faith of diuers holy belccuers.. Now from this verJc tocher 7· he doch ge– nerally corpmcnd the faith ~G~~~~of .Abraham, Sarah, Ifoac, and laaco6 together; yet not fo much their faith as the clm~mce and cou{hncie of their faith: Particularly the points are rwo. 1 • I$laid downC their conHancie and con– tinuance; Allrhefediedinfairh. •· Thac confiancic is fq forth by foure ef– fects. 1. They r(Cei~ted 11ot the promifo, /;m Jaw rhun afarre off. • · ThepoOfffiotJ of cl re Lond of Cana- . an. 1 lr1 this faith they died; th:J.t is, they held it , (through all atfaults ::~nd temptations tO rhc : comrary)eucn to the lafl: gafpc,and died there.:. 1 in. . '! , In this their pt:aCtifc, is eommendcd vnto .vs· a moH: vvonhy ldfon ofC'hriHianitic_:n:unc- 1 ly;th:\twe mu!tfo hue that \Ye moy die in[wJ1l . Many f.1y,.they Jiuc in faith:and it is well ifrhr;)r ; doe fo: but the mai.ne point is, to die bt f.{itb. J There is none fo ill,but howfoc.ucr he liucs,y<'t · B he would die wd:lfhe would di: wcll;hc '''"fi die in fait I;. For mi(erablc is the death, rh:tr is wichout faith. And herein faich and hope differ from other graces ofGod; J ..... ottr, io;·,:Gr:a!t,ho.:. linejfe, and all other graces arc imperfeCt here, •nd arc pcrfeC\ed in heaucn: buc faiJh andhope 1 arc perfeCted at our deaths; they arc not in the ~thcr world, for there is nOthing then to be bclccucd, nor hoped for, fecing we then doe enioy al things:but as they are begun in our Jifc at our regeneration, fo they be made p~rr("a ,_.,·hen we die;and they fl1inc mofl glorioufly in the lafl: and greatdl- combatc of all, whid1 is, :Jt the houre of death. So thatthc death of :J Chrifiian~ which is the gate to gloric,is to die C it~faith. Befidcs, as life leaues vs, fo death findes vs; and as death lcaucs vs, fo the lafi .iudgcmdlt findcs vs:and as it leaucs vs: fo we continue for eucr and eucr without recoucrie or alterati– on. -:. Theyheleeuedthem. to it. . 3· Rtaiuedrhemrhank!f·df;. Saint Paul cells vs, J. Cor. 15. 55· Dc'ath Now to 'die mfaith, isto die in an;lffurcd c... fiate ofgloric & happindfc;-which is chat, that cuc:ry man dc6reth : therefore, ::ts we: all defire it, 10 let vs die in faith,and wclha.Il auainc Yn4• Profejfodthemfeluesftrang<rsandpilis a ccrriblc [~pent, for hcc harh a poifoncd ,grimoontheearth. fling: Now when we die, \>\'rare to encounter The firfi point couching chefe bcleeuers is; wicn chis hideous and fearefull ferpenc. Hec is that aschey begun, to they held on: as they lifearefull cuery way,burcfpecially for his fiing; ucd, fo they died in faich. D thatfting u ourfinne: and this fiing is noc ea!: en Allthefe diedinfairh. away, northc force of it qucnched,bm by cruc The truth of the mancr, in the words, may faith , rvhich quencbethall rhe jierie darts ofthe be referred to all afore going, fauiogEnoch d<uill,Eph. 6.16. Jf therefore we would beable whodiedngt; yet he continued alfo Conllanc in to cncoumer wi1h this great encmic ( in the his faith, and in that f:'lith was taken vp: but as conquering of whom fiands our happincffc; for AbelandNoah, thry diedinfaith. Ycc Icakc and by whom to be conquered, is our eternal! ic, thac principally and direc1ly,che holy Ghofi mifcrie)we mufi then fo armc our felues with intended no more then rhcfc foure I named: faith, that we may die in faith;for he that dicth and my rcafon is, bccaufe the particular effeCls in faith, that f.1ith of his kills his linncs, and in this vcrfc, and the points "'here this their c6qucrs dc:1th: but he th:u dierh \.\'ithcut faith 1 confiallcic is amplified in the three vcrfcs foJ..: death and finne fcizc on him, and his finns liuc lo\1\'ing, doe all agree, efpecially v.'ith thcfc for eucr,and his mifcric by them. I fourc; and not iOpropcrlyv-·ith .AGe!or No.1h: Now, if we would die in faith, \ovc mufi liuc fo that 1take, he mcancth by all thefo, all thcfc in faith;cls it is not to be cxpcC1ed; For,fo thciC l'----'-·-n-ct_H_h_ac_l_iu-c-d-in-tl-lC~fc-c-on-d-"_'o_rr-ld_,_fi_n_cc-t-he---holy Pauiarchs·Jiucd long in this faith,,Nbercfioo~. All thefe died in faith: that is, in afTuin th'Zy dicd.For,th ir hoLy liucs fhc\Ned plain ... : r_:J.I~~~rromifcs rnadc vmo them, _!y 2 tb:tt they liued in ~hat faith, which the ~-P~:- I . !he
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