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A88118	The character of a true Christian: described in a sermon at the parish church of St. Botolph Bishopsgate. At the funeral of Mr. William Cade, deputy of that ward. By John Lake, D. D. late rector of that parish; and now Lord Bishop of Chichister	Lake, John, 1624-1689.	1690 (1690)	Wing L195A; ESTC R227280	20,673	64

is Rom. 6.17 That form of Doctrine which hath been delivered to us or to which we have been delivered This St. 2 Tim. 2.2 Paul committeth and commendeth to Timothy that he may commit the same to faithful men who shall be able to teach others also And thus by a constant succession it is come handed down to us and we should keep it as the most precious 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the richest treasure on this side Heaven lay it up as the Virgin Mother of our Lord laid up his sayings in our heart and wear it in effect engraven there This faith which was once delivered to the saints delivered of old Jude v. 7. not lately devised and once delivered i. e. once for all we should earnestly contend for remember how we have received and heard and hold fast and even dye in the defence if we cannot live in the peaceable enjoyment of it And this bringeth on A third and last Depositum no less faithfully to be kept viz. faith and a good conscience which whoever puts away sinketh and maketh Shipwrack 1 Pet. 1.5 We are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation and therefore should keep this at the utmost peril of our soul As the doctrine of faith must be kept sacred and inviolable so likewise the grace of it Heb. 10.23 We must hold fast the profession hereof 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 without wavering or warping either to the right hand or to the left and stand unshaken against all the winds and waves of persecution Tertul. in Apol. as being founded upon rock Even when crimen nominis fit nomen criminis when the meer crime of the christian name is accompted the name of a prodigious crime yet we must hold fast our profession still Ps 31.19 trust in Christ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 before the sons of men And although they may take away our life Rev. 3.11 yet let them not take away our crown Hence we are said by Baptism to put on Christ Gal. 3.27 so as to wear the profession of him uppermost and when at any time we deny or dissemble our profession we in effect put him off again Such night-walkers as Nicodemus who come not to Christ but under the veil of darkness are only the ghosts of Christianity For those that in storm cast faith and good conscience over-board to save their temporal concerns and will deny Christ rather than themselves they chuse a mischief before an inconvenience commute an inselicity for a crime and to avoid a faggot incur hell fire But enough of the duty it self 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Be thou faithful And before I am well aware I am fallen upon the next particular viz. 2. The extent of that duty 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 unto death In Adman ad Graecos or as Clemens Alexandrinus phraseth it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to the very last gasp even breathing out our soul in it As we must run the race that is set before us so we must run it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. 12 1. with patience and perseverance nor is the crown consigned to those that contend but those that overcome St. Paul himself triumpheth not when he putteth on his harness but when about to put it off He knoweth there is laid up for him a crown of righteousnes 2 Tim. 4.7 8. but de reliquo henceforth only when he was now a veterane in the Christian Warfare had already spent a long life and had nothing left but to dye in it I know most mens assurance is upon easier terms and of an earlier date One fancieth to himself a kind of fatal decree which necessarily attaineth its end though he never set foot in the way thither and Henceforth there is laid up for him a crown of life In Gods dark book by what perspective I know not he reads his name written and that with such indelible characters as all the Devils in hell all the fins upon earth cannot blot it out And now instead of giving diligence to make his election sure he is pleased at cheaper rates to think it so So sure that nothing can resist his happiness much less reverse his destined bliss The force of his nativity will carry him to the crown or God in his own defence must do it as he would have his eternal counsel made good Another having dreamed himself into a state of grace is securely confident he can never fall from it and Henceforth there is laid up for him a crown of life His calling he thinks sure and then his crown must be so too He is kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation and now needs keep himself no longer He may as well fear that the Heavens themselves should fall or God himself fall out of them as he fail of the crown Unless Gods eternal purpose unchancheable promise and almighty power fail first he cannot for they are all engaged in his defence A third hath been faithful and run well for a time and Henceforth there is laid up for him a crown of life He looketh so much at the things which are past that he forgetteth the things which are before and whilst he thinketh that the strength of his first impulse will carry him like an Arrow to the Mark he falleth down in the midst of his course like a Bird that is weary of her flight and so is cast by Vincenti dabitur It shall be given to him that overcometh His zeal perhaps like a Torch in an high wind maketh a great blaze but soon swealeth it self a way and when the Bridegroom cometh his lamp is gone out and all his vain hopes and expectations with it Thus do vain men sport themselves in their own deceivings But God is not mocked He looks not at beginnings in Christians but at their ends and not he that starteth first but he that continueth to the last shall be crowned Ye did run well saith St. Gal. 5.7 Paul to his backsliding Galatians who did hinder you God for certain did not He carrieth us on to the end and crowneth us in it if we draw not back and drive him from us But whoever did they lost all that they had done yea and all that they had suffered too and stood onely as monuments of their own ruin Let a man have renounced the most darling delights undergone the harshest duties and severest disciplines of Christianity have sustained infamies injuries and all manner of indignities for righteousness sake yet revolting at last defeateth and destroyeth all and himself with it If he will have his old sins again he shall have the guilt together with them and that aggravated with folly and ingratitude Lot's Wife by looking back perisheth in the very Confines of Zoar and God therefore erected her into a Pillar to tell the World that relenting Virtue ki●leth with the recoil The latter part of our life supplanteth the former and