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A00801	A sermon preached at Paules Crosse the second Sunday in Mychaelmas tearme last. 1590. By Geruase Babington D. of Diuinitie. Not printed before this 23. of August. 1591	Babington, Gervase, 1550-1610.	1591 (1591)	STC 1092; ESTC S110424	34,925	81

t Father Which because many yea the most part of men are not therefore they beléeue not neither imbrace that thing which in it selfe yet is worthie all loue and following Necessarie I say to these weake ones that they may learne not to fall away from goodnesse for this cause and necessarie to these vnbeléeuing contemners to awake them to looke how this contempt taketh any roote in them least happely it be by their reiection from God because they are not of the number of them whome the Father hath giuen to his Sonne to be saued of him and by him and in him in his iudging day Purposing then by the Lords assistance and your godly patience to say something of this matter let the order for me to speake and you to heare be the selfe same which the holy ghost directeth vs vnto in the text First of the Fathers giuing Secondly of their cōming that are giuen Thirdly of the intertainmēt with Christ that they finde which being giuen doe come Non eijcio I cast not away 1 Part. Concerning the first to wit the Fathers giuing contained in these words all that the Father giueth mée a learned writer sayth thus Quos pater dedit praedestinatione veniunt per fidem tales non eijcit Christus Whome the Father giueth by predestination those come to Christ by faith and he casteth not away such commers Making this giuing of the father to be nothing else but his eternall election apointment vnto life of such as he will haue saued in Christ and by Christ And in déede so it is Dat enim Christo pater cum eligit in Christo tanquam in capite in quo omnia mēbra salua erunt The Father giueth to Christ when he electeth in Christ as in the head in whome all the mēbers shalbe saued Proofes of scripture are the grounds of grounds to direct both my speche and your faith of those I could remember you of many if it were néedefull But the 17. of Ihon shall suffice vs for all where it is said I haue declared thy name vnto the men whom thou Gauest me thine they were thou Gauest them me I pray not for the world but for them whome thou hast Giuen me Holy Father keepe them whome thou hast Giuen me Them whom thou Gauest me I haue kept Ouer ouer repeating this word you sée euer by the same noting Gods election of his seruants and children apointed to be saued Therefore this exposition is plaine not onely by testimonies of interpreters but by conference witnesse of scriptures themselues So then the doctrine of Gods election is the first point that to day we are occasioned by this text to speake and heare of it being ment by y ● word Giuing as I haue shewed A doctrine as you well know that both heretofore hath and euen yet still is of ignorant minds auoided as a dangerous doctrine iudged not fit to be spoken of except it be in schooles and charged with many wicked inconueniences as flowing from y ● affirmation thereof The Epistles of Prosper and Hilari prefixed before the bookes of Austen De predestinatione sanctorum will iustifie what I say in stede of many mo which might be brought What others of later time especially Papists haue both writen and dayly speake would be to tedious to obserue Whatsoeuer they were or are olde or 〈◊〉 is most certaine they consider not Either y e dutie of gods ministers childrē Or the great euidence of Scripture for this doctrine Or y e swet vse of it to mani special purposes For all these do show that the doctrine in no case is to be auoyded but both spoken and heard of as occasion shall serue to Gods great glory and his true seruaunts swéete comfort And first for our dutie thinke of it I pray you Surely it is this Ut arcana non inuestigare ita reuelata non occultare supprimere As not to search the secrets of God which are not reuealed so not to suppresse and hide what is reuealed For so teacheth vs Moyses if you remember when he saith The secret things belong to the Lord our God but the things reuealed belong to vs and to our children for euer that we may do all the words of the lawe Againe it is our dutie to estééme of the Lord and his word thus that as he hath omitted nothing that is needefull to be knowen so hath he laid downe nothing but what ought to be knowen and is most ●●●fitable But he hath laid downe this doctrine of our election therefore necessary to be taught and looked into of all men Thirdly it is the dutie of all faithfull ministers to preach the gospell wholie to Gods people and to deliuer vnto them euen all the counsel of God But this doctrine is a part of the contents of this booke of God therefore to be deliuered to Gods people as occasion shall serue or else we do not our duities And least any man should distinguish of Gods people say some be learned some be vnlearned the one may be thus preached vnto but not the other cōsider I pray you the words of our Sauiour Christ Go preach the gospell Omni creaturae To all creatures euidently giuing the simpler sort as good right to the whole doctrine of his word as the better and the vnlearned as the learned Which y ● faithfull Apostle well knew when he saide I am a debter both to the Graecians and Barbarians both to the wisemen and to the vnwise If any man will say yet a care must be had of mens capacities and of edification I confesse it willingly and therefore haue alwaies added as occasion serueth that is as shall be fit for y ● people to whom we speake going by degrées in all our doctrine as may most profit and euer soberly and carefully keping within the limits of the word But vtterly to suppresse and alwaies to auoyd any truth reueled in the booke of God or by name this truth of our election and predestination I say it is not lawfull but the contrarie a parcell of our bounden dutie both to God our selues and our brethren In the second place they consider as litle the euidence of scripture for this doctrine as they haue done before our duties For I may bouldly saye there is no one thing more plainely and fully testified in the word then this is being often iterated and beaten vpon in sundry places That a thing often spoken of might at one time or other be duelie marked and borne away First the doctrine then the branches The doctrine it selfe is layd downe in this sort That as the clay lyeth before the potter to be vsed and handled disposed of and formed as shall please him so were all men at the first before the Lord in his eternall counsell to receiue an ende or vse according to his will to life or death

the increase of true faith in them yet the wicked eate drink it vnworthely to their owne damnation and regard not as they ought the Lords bodie What should I saye Is not Christ himselfe our déere and blessed Sauiour good and full of life and saluation to all that beléeue Yet euen this Lambe of God sonne of the most high to these cursed castawaies is a stone to stumble at a rock of offence they being disobedient and euen ordeigned to this thing Finally in a word vnto them that are defiled and vnbeleeuing nothing is pure but euen their mindes and consciences are destled Contrarywise to the godly which are pure all things are pure and euen all things all things I say worke to y ● best to them that loue God Yea saith Austen Ipsa etiam peceata The very sinnes falls of the godly turne vnto their good some way or other though thereby they may not be imboldned to offend Therefore we sée how firme this decrée of God is the wicked cannot be saued turning all things to their wo and the elect cannot finally be cast away reaping through the assisting grace of Gods spirit good from all things that befall them For number and knowledge of God of these his elect and chosen the scripture againe is not silent but telleth vs thus much that the haires of our heads are nūbered Then certainly our persons God knoweth who be his Then certainly he knoweth the number and the number is certaine Our names are written in the booke of life Therefore we are knowne and the number is certaine He calleth his by their names therefore he knoweth them both who they are and how many With which proofes and many mo that might be named Saint Austen ioyneth when he saith Praedestinatorum ita certus est numerus vt eis nec addatur nec minuatur The number of the elect is so certaine that neither addition can be made vnto them nor diminution from them Lastly the word instructeth euen vs also to knowe and to beléeue this matter in perciculer of our selues For the Spirit shall rebuke the world of sinne saith Saint Ihon because it beléeueth not and what is it to beléeue but in my soule and conscience to be assured that Christ died not onely for others but euen for me and that by his death and passion as well I my selfe my poore body and soule shalbe saued as any others And what is this I pray you but to beléeue that amongst others with others as well as others God hath chosen you to be an heire of his Kingdome Want this faith in your selfe the place I aledged saith the spirit shall rebuke you and as many as want it for sinne because ye do not beléeue this Therefore we are all bound you sée euen by the will of God to beléeue our particuler election predestination he that doubteth or waueretd must be rebuked and is rebuked euen of Gods spirit for so doing Why againe should so much and so many things be spoken of the mercie goodnesse of God as is in y ● scripture but that you I and all flesh should catch hold of it and conclude out of y ● same that to vs particulerly such so euer God wilbe Looke we then at the light of y ● word of God both for election for y ● causes of the same for the firmenesse stabilitie of it for nūber knowledge in God in our selues and sée whether these mad men that cannot away with this doctrine of Gods election do not oppose themselues directly plainely against the euidence of Gods holy sacred Scriptures striuing against the streame and kicking against the prick to their fearfull confusion if they leane not The third last thing which I said they oppose themselues against is the swéet vse of this holy doctrine which it yeldeth sūdry waies to as many as rightly with vnderstanding meditate vpon it As first by confirming most strongly this féeble faith of ours against despayre when troubles crosses do euery way beset vs as it were ouerwhelme vs. For truely may it be saide of the afflictions often of the godly as one saide of an other matter 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 one labour beg●● 〈◊〉 ●●her one sorow foloweth an other 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ●iue godly in Christ 〈…〉 the troubles 〈…〉 But ●eare not litle flock saith our Sauiour Christ for it is your Fathers will to giue you a kingdom as if he should say whatsoeuer befalleth you bitter in this world dispaire not but comfort your selues and soules with this that you are of the flock that is elect chosen for a kingdome which your fathers will is w tout all faile to giue you Reioyce that your names are written in the booke of life that is stay your selues vpon your election euer feare not Who shall lay any thing to the charge of Gods chosen it is God that iustifieth who shall condemne Who shall seperate vs from the loue of Christ shall tribulation or anguish or persecution or famine or nakednesse or perill or sword No I am perswaded that neither death nor life nor Angells nor Principalities nor powers nor things presēt nor things to come nor height nor depth nor ani other creature shalbe able to seperate vs from y ● loue of God which is in Christ Iesus our Lord. Sed superatis omnibus pro cellis tandem in portu c. But all storms waues of wo being passed ouer well broken of at last in y ● quiet hauen of euerlasting comfort I shall haue my rest for euer euer In a word how can a man dispaire of Gods mercie in due time that findeth his election in the meane time Swéete therefore euer against finall feare is this doctrine Secondly it cooleth and quencheth the proud puffe of sinfull flesh telling vs that be we neuer so mightie neuer so Honorable and high by place and calling in the world yet we were made of the same masse and mould that the poorest man and most wretched caitife to see to in the world was we haue stode before the potter no better matter then he to receiue a choise to such vse and ende as might please him What difference is in vs if any be touching election it hath come by mercy and not from merit therefore no pride but thankes no disdaine of any but humilitie toward all and euer in our selues bewtifieth adorneth vs most He that gloryeth let him glorie in the Lord saith this doctrine of election For fauour in God is the fountaine of our grace whatsoeuer it is that we reioyse in Shall I hoyse sayle and looke bigge vpon others when onely by grace I am that I am It may not be Thirdly it ●●réth our harts with a féeling of loue in God towards vs that is swéeter then hony or the