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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12160	Corona charitatis, = The crovvne of charitie a sermon preacht in Mercers Chappell, May 10. 1625. at the solemne funerals of his euer-renowmed friend, of precious memory, the mirroir of charitie, Mr. Richard Fishburne, merchant, and now consecrated as an anniuersary to his fame; by Nat: Shute, rector of the parish of Saint Mildred in the Poultry, London.	Shute, Nathaniel, d. 1638.	1626 (1626)	STC 22466; ESTC S117282	35,817	55

whether good or euill Now there are three things of a good man written by God first his feare of God A book of remembrance was written before him for them that feare the Lord. Mal. 3.16 Concerning whom lend mee but your eyes a little further and see what God saith in the next verse And they shall bee mine Verse 17. saith the Lord of Hosts in that day when I make vp my Iewels These bee Gods prime seruants his Iewels the signets of his right hand whom hee did not write in a booke with the rest of his Saints but made a booke as it were a part for them and such a booke wherein they should bee diligently remembred as the word imports Secondly hee writes our teares Put thou my teares into thy bottle Sepher Siccaron are they not in thy booke God hath both a bottle and a booke for our teares A bottle to put our teares themselues in Ps 56.8 and a booke to write downe the Number and the bitternesse of these teares Thirdly hee writes downe our good deeds as in this place 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 70. nay the word in the Greeke signifies as much as if they were not onely written but painted yea and that in oyle for perpetuitie O the infinite mercie of God what tongue so rich that is able to embellish it Hee doth not onely write our names in the booke of life Luke 10.20 nay write and engraue our remembrance in manibus suis Esay 49.16 in the palmes of his hands with great Characters euen the nayles of his Crosse his bloud being his inke his paper his owne flesh yea our very members are written by him Psal 139.16 but writes our workes and that so tenderly and fauourably Iob 13.26 that though our deserts might sway his hand to write bitter things against vs yet he writes for vs. Mens Chronicles the truer they are the freer they are in taxing errors 2. Reg. 21.17 as an ingenuous Painter takes out the moles as well as the fairer lineaments The rest of the acts of Manasseh and his sinne that hee sinned are they not written in the Booke of the Chronicles of the Kings of Iudah but the vaines of Gods mercy are so large and full that as he suffers his mercy to triumph ouer his iustice in rewarding Iac. 2.13 so he suffers the same mercy to triumph ouer his truth in writing and writes not our sinnes but only our good deeds Gods Booke is not like a Merchants Booke of Creditor and Debitor wherein a man writes both what is owing him and what hee owes himselfe for God in his mercy wips out that wee owe him and writes that only which he owes vs by promise much like the cloudes that receiue ill vapours from vs yet returne them to vs againe in sweet raines that mans braine is yet darke that doth not duly consider this for a great mercy Againe if God write vp our good deeds this is as a full winde in our sailes to put vs on euen to load Gods Chronicle with them writing vpon our selues by a reall profession of his seruice as Aaron did Exod. 28.36 Esay 49.4 Holinesse to the Lord. For Surely our Iudgement is with the Lord and our worke with our God What mans heart so dry that is not moued when he heares that our prayers and our almes goes vp for a memoriall before God Acts 10.4 not to be remembred as it were with one sole act of his memory 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but as the word carries it to bee a standing monument and remembrance of vs for euer in his presence Shall our good workes bee like Esai's trees Esay 10.19 so few that a child may write them when we haue such a God for whom we worke will not only thinke vpon our workes but write them vp in such royall paper as his owne Booke Let no feare inuade vs as if that paper could sinke and so wee should lose our workes for if men lose not small deeds sometime 2. Sam. 1.18 and Sauls teaching but of the vse of a bow deserued a roome in a Chronicle certainly better deeds shall neuer be blasted but God will write them and seale them vp for all eternitie Secondly as this word wipe not out implyes that our good deeds are written by God so againe it tels vs that though they be written yet they they may be wipt out againe else had it beene in vaine for Nehemiah and a dead request to haue commended such a petition to the eares of God that his workes might not bee wiped out actually had hee not first presumed a possibility of wiping them out For not to touch the skirts of the fierie hill I meane the question of falling or not falling away from iustifying faith or imputed righteousnesse A man may fall away from some part of sanctification by a sinne of prophanenesse for he that so sinnes cannot be holy and vnholy in the same respect As it is granted by all Enormibus peccatis pij reatum mortis incurrūt Synod Dordracena c. 5. artic 5. that good men may fall into grieuous and ennormous sinnes so this instance following shewes that a contrarie act of prophanenesse must needs wipe out some part of sanctification Dauid chast before falls into adultery wee must needs say hee lost that part of his holinesse except we say his adulterie was holy which no man of the leanest vnderstanding will affirme Now how farre not one mortall sinne perchance originally proceeding from infirmitie or precipitancie may quite eate out sanctification and so faith as some say considering probably that an habit of faith is not easily lost but may seeme to stand with some true acts of inward Sanctification some being lost as in another case the foundation may stand when the roofe or a piller of the house is falne but many seuerall acts of foule and wilfull sinning without repentance Iude verse 20. not onely efficienter by acts directly contrary to the habit of faith but demeritoriè by acts cōtrary to the habits of other vertues when a man doth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sends away or casts farre from him a good conscience as the word imports how farre I say these sinnes may make or not make na●fragium fidei the shipwracke of faith 1. Tim. 1.19 I will leane vpon the bosome of the Church till it be determined only I desire leaue to adde my poore iudgement which is that if this question and some others were not so rigidly stated the diuision had not grown like Ahabs cloud from the bignesse of a mans hand to a storme But no more of this because my text is properly of wiping out deeds of sanctification Secondly because I can no more contract the whole discourse of this argument within an houre than all the beames of the Sunne within a ring Thirdly because in gathering herbes I am loath to touch the wild Vine or