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A20734	A funerall sermon preached at Watton in Hertfordshire, at the buriall of the ancient and worthy knight, Sir Philip Boteler, Decemb. 9. 1606	Downame, George, d. 1634.	1607 (1607)	STC 7116; ESTC S110134	29,412	80

ignorant persons be most forward to commend their faith yet they are to know whiles they continue in ignorance they are altogether voide of faith and consequently of all grace whereby they might hope to be saued For without knowledge there can be n● faith and without faith there is no hope of saluation or any other sauing grace Againe those which doe not giue assent to the whole word of God and euerie part thereof that it is true are so f● from hauing the iustifying faith th● they haue not so much as the general or historicall faith which the diue● themselues are said to haue as namely those which will beleeue so much of the Scriptures as they list and no more then liketh them For although the proper obiect of faith as it iustifieth and vniteth vs vnto Christ is Christ our Sauiour or the promises of the Gospell concerning saluation by him yet by the same faith whereby wee are iustified wee doe vndoubtedly beleeue the whole word of God and euery part thereof The iustifying faith euermore including and presupposing the generall and dogmaticall faith Secondly they haue not the true euangelicall faith who haue not also the legall faith perswading them of their miserable and accursed estate in themselues both in regard of their sinnes as also of the punishments which by the threatnings of the law if they did truly beleeue them they would acknowledge to bee due vnto them Now this legall faith is a necessarie preparatiue to the iustifying faith For vntill wee see our selues to be accursed in our selues wee will not so much as desire seriously to be iustified by Christ. Vntill we find our selues to be bondslaues of sinne and Satan wee will not earnestly seeke to bee ransomed or redeemed Vntill wee acknowledge our selues to be the children of wrath we will not seeke to be reconciled vnto God in Christ. In a word vntill wee finde our selues to be miserable in our selues we will not seriously seeke and sue for the mercies of God or merits of Christ our Sauiour but as much as in vs lieth suffer his precious blood to bee spilt in vaine without any care to applie it to our selues For what neede hast thou either of a Sauiour if thou art not in thy selfe lost or of a Redeemer if thou art not a captiue or of a reconciler if thou art not an enemie or what need hast thou of mercie if thou art not in miserie The whole neede not the Physition saith our Sauiour Christ but the sicke Well thou euer hast had a good conceit of thy selfe thou euer hast loued God aboue all things and thy neighbour as thy selfe thou neuer didst doubt of thy saluation in al thy life c. an euident argument that thou diddest neuer care for Christ or finde thy selfe to stand in neede of a Sauiour But remember who saith I came not to call the righteous that is such as bee righteous in their owne conceits but sinners that is humbled sinners to repentance And againe that he came to seeke and to saue that which was lost to preach the Gospell to the poore namely in spirit to heale the broken hearted to preach deliuerance or redemption to the captiues Wherefore neuer perswade thy selfe that thou hast a iustifying faith if thou doest not as well beleeue the threatnings of the Law as the promises of the Gospell For although faith doth not iustifie as it apprehēdeth the threatnings yet that faith which doth iustifie including euermore the generall and consequently the legall faith doth beleeue the threatnings of the law as the vndoubted word of God The same faith therefore which doth assure thee of thy reconciliation redemption and saluation in Christ doth first informe thee that thou art an enemie of God a bondslaue of sinne and vtterly lost in thy selfe that being with the Publican humbled in thy selfe thou maist be exalted in Christ. Thirdly they deceiue either themselues with a fancie or others with a shew of faith who haue not an effectuall and liuely faith For as there is a twofold knowledge the one a literall or speculatiue knowledge the other spirituall and operatiue and that knowledge is onely true which is working 1. Ioh. 2. 3. 4 so there is a double faith an effectuall vnfained and liuely faith and an idle counterfeit and dead faith Now faith is said to be liuely and effectuall in two respects First respectu actus primi in regard of the effectuall and true being of it Secondly respectu actus secundi in regard of the operation of it In both senses every kinde of faith becommeth effectuall by application of that which is beleeued As first the dogmaticall faith is liuely and effectuall when thou doest not onely beleeue in generall what God is but by particular application to thy selfe doest beleeue that he is such a one to thee As for example if thou doest beleeue onely by a general and historicall faith that God is omnipresent that is in euery place present filling heauen and earth and that hee is omniscient and as the Scriptures call him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 knowing all things yea the very secrets of mens hearts and that by a most perfect and distinct knowledge thou maist be little the better for this faith But if thou doest beleeue with application to thy selfe that he is euery where present with thee and that his eyes be alwaies vpon thee beholding all thy waies then will this faith be effectuall to make thee behaue thy selfe vprightly as in his presence and sight and so of the rest The like may bee said of the legall faith For a man may beleeue in a confused and generall manner the threatnings of the law to be true and yet neuer the more bee humbled but goe on securely in his sinne and notwithstanding his impenitencie and infidelitie promise to himself impunitie But when as a man applieth the threatning after this manner to himselfe If this be true as I vnsainedly acknowledge it to bee the vndoubted word of God that euery one is in himselfe accursed and subiect to eternall death and damnation who hath not continued in all the things which are written in the booke of the law to doe them how can it possibly be auoided but that I am in my selfe a most accursed wight and damned wretch who haue not continued in all the things which are written in the booke of the law to doe them nay in steed of doing the things commanded I haue done the things forbidden in steed of keeping all the commandements of God I haue broken them al diuersly and grieuously in steed of continuing in a perpetual obedience I haue continued in the breach of Gods commandements as indeed vntill the time of a mans conuersion he doth nothing nay hee can doe nothing else but sinne against God Thus by application the legall faith becommeth effectuall and thereby a man is humbled and brought to despaire of saluation in himselfe so