~.:----l..--- __.______ :....:_ - i §;7 '-~- -,i-.1-1-co_l_ll_lt\;,(\l-ti_<i_n i~,they dted j;: it. A tion cf Gods promifcs; }'et \.t:~ tdmcfatre be.:. r I. et vs karnc here, eo hold on in a gcod hinde him Jll 6(/uft;for bith worl..:olh by lou~; comfc when wee h:tuc cntrcd imo it: for conand loue is tecnc in UUl:ol>cdicnct· : bur gcuc- {fancic and r.:ontinu:mcc is the true commend:\- ·rally, this is rcio rru.:; men make no confcicnct tion: he th:udicth i;: {llith, is he{' that rccciucs ofJ/Jediencr; o.,vhich lhcwcth vudouhrdHv;:th:~t 1 the trch..,nc:. To this ende, let vs Hirrc vp onr thl·!·c is little (ound faith o.mohg t.s. Ai1d it .uar j (clues'" ith the ApoHics exhortation, G~J.6.9· ' be itared, th~t Ehcfe notable men; :Afmrhm·n; r Let vs ;;r;t hcwr,lr)', of wCI!doing. for in dut lime lf.:t-4C; and !.t.:rcoh, D1all !land in iudgcmCta a.: i l l~:f/,a.l/rcapc, if wcftint nor. _ g:~.in!t fts;t? our funhcr_co~ld~mna(~o~~:(or thC'y / . And further, let this teach vs nil_ to choo!c ncucr recclUcd the :1ccophfhmg ot ()od$,pro.:: : r th:tt f.1ith tO liuc: in(IA"ith thcfc holy Patriarchs) tni[C'~;and yet they bclccued: but \~1 C .dOe:· fCC i : rhat WC mayboldly die in. It is a. true obiCruathe f::.mc fulfi!lcti :md exhibited VntO ts, and tion, that Popcrie tJ a good ~·eligio;t to li11: in, yet \\C will Jiut bclcn:c. lmt o~trJto di:m.ThcPapiHsvfurpc:rhisfaying, Butfmurhemafarrt 1 and curnc it the concraric way;bm they hauc as o;f . 1 rriuch right to it, 2s the thcifC to thc uucmans Iferr is thcprcpcnicbftheir f.1ith, t~-nd-tht 1 p~rfc. The libcrtic,thc pardons,d:tpcnf~tions, i B power of it: thepromitCs\-t·crc alarrc btf, ard ! tlntl:uaric, the pompe and oucw:ud gloric of yet they faw them.The phr:t1C here: vfcd,is bor- j their Church; ~nd their f:111ing and outW3rd rowed from Mariners; who bccing ft~rrcon lhC I au!leritics, bceing fO\.vlc and fained hypocrifca, C3nnot def,ric townd, and coa!ls afarre fics, al)d indecdc, opcn~JicentioufnctTc: thcfe off, butonclyby hclpe of fomc tower '?f high andmany things more, m3y ~llurc: any fl:lturall place, which t~cir cic will fooncr difn·rr~~..·, man in the world, to i.iuc in their religion; but though it be afarrc off'; And fo Abrah.!m,S,~:.. ! when they come to die, then they all know, t·llh, lfiuu:,and ltutcob, beeinglor?g before the : and fotne confctTc:, it is furefi and f3fcfi to die ·day of ChriHs incarnation, could not m her.] in our religion. Let vs therefore 'hccrcfully, waics fee Chrift, but af.1rrc off, by the cic of and comfort3bly,liuc in that religion,and faith faith, in thcprornifes of the Mdlias; for this \.\•herein we.rnay fo boldly die, thlt cucn our is the property of faith,to m::~ke a thing abfCnt, aduer(arics confeffc it to be (:~;felt. to be prcfem, after a fort:Faith brir.g theground Now followe the foure effeCls,and fruits of.. cf things hoped for, ,,.d tbt tHid<ncc of things th cir faith. C which m·( not forne, • the fir£l is this: th<lt Here we may lcarnc adifferente betwccne Th-ey rueiued.ntttrhepr~t.. the Church inthc:oldc TcJhmenr,and inthC I mifos.lmt [aw.thei# new, We in the new Teftamf-41_, h-auc greatd ~tfM.rreojf. , meafure ofknowlcdgc,more liucly difccrning ByPromiflJ, We .t,.nderHand,fiffi,th~promiof the Mdiiast and a clearer light ofvnderfes of the Land of Canaan. Sccondly,the fpiri• /landing, in the my!lcry of our faluation by \ tuall promifes of the Kingdbmc of Chrill. Cnrift, then the Church had: vnder the olde Thefetheydidnorrii:tille;that is, folly;though Ttftament: howfoeuer thcfexcelkd in faith, . in part they did:fdr, true faith doth alwaies reyet in the knowkdgc,and difccrning ofChriH, Ceiue, app,rehcnd, and~pplyYnc~ it !CJfc,tru~J}' theywere infcriburvmovs. Arid thercfore,thc though notfully,the thmg prorntfed.God fard, I:ord made thispromifeto the time of the Gohe would giue therh the Land of <:;ahaani biti fpel, long before: thar rhen the earth foal! bic they did nor fit!ly enioy and polfdfe !r:So like; -foil of ~now/edge of the Lord, "' the tvaters tl'!'' wife; the M'jfiM \\'as promifedVmo the:m; hilt eoHer the[ea. And. S. Pa~Jlpr~oucs this p0rfor..:.. th<'y ne_uer faw his comming ih the flcfh,& yC't med, '-Nhen he affirmc.th of the: ClitJr,h of the' I they bckitucd Gods pmmife; and died in that new Tellamcnr, z. Corinth;j. t8; llut.dl wr4 faith. D AI ina mirrourbeholdth• glcry·8f the Lord, with Whercwcmaj•fec, the initincib!e force of opmfau.AndChrill,Ioh.6.45' Thqfo,/!btJI/ theirfaith, ihat deaued f•llvnto rhcpromife r.HghtofGod. ! 1 of God, cuenvmodeath; though theyncuer If this be erne, that knowiCdgc fhouJd fO 3... f cnioycd the things promifcd in this.lifc:\1\'hich bound in the tirhc of the Gofpel; then !UJ'~.t>J-, I plaincly condcmries bur age of vnbc1et'fc, for 1·ant pcrJOns of thi~ latter age of the. wo1 ttr, 1 V.'c hauc more accomplifhcdvmb vS. thenemufl know, that they ha~tmuch to anfv:cr fdr I \Jer they had. Abraham neucr Jaw (:hrift, but at the !all day of iudgcmcm: for, God in rhc !~tjr.rr-e off; yr:.t we: hauc him d:hiblt-ed in th~ nCwc Tcfiamcnt liath made his Church to a... Adh: we fee and knov\· he liucd <"II)d dicd;rofc b'ound in knowlc:dge, fo that the-ir ignoran(-ei, 2gaine,and afccnded,:nd nowmakes comimr- (fof which the}' thinkt God\·\ ili holdc thcnrl all intcrcefli.on for vs: :tnd we hauethe trUe f.1txnrfcd) fl1~1l bCc a bill of inclitcmcnt ~oai(1{f c::11ncms , \yhi.ch i11:Jl1l:.1fl for eucrplcdgcs of th'cd1 at the l:~(l d::.y, to their further cor~l(ni..: 1 Inm. and of lite cucrb.fiing by him. And fer natidn t bc:c:mfc t_he lighr of th~ Cofpd is ro j temporaH prhmlfcs, t:vc h:~.uc farre more ac. clcardy ,and plcntrfully rcue·:~l·cd r_n thcfc d::ics; ! complitl1cd vmo \'S then cucr hcc had. But that wherc:lS the mof1 cxct:ll~·m Patriarchs 6f I j t}:.?.~:;h '~~c bcfot:._::!b,::.~~n th:: fnri- :1ll, coul~i thcr.~.-but fc<: ClmH afarrc off, ·tl:C ! ' ------------ --Ky-,----------rr:O:Ji -----·------·-·-·- ---- - ··
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