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A20718	Abrahams tryall a sermon preached at the Spittle, in Easter weeke. Anno Domini 1602. By George Downame Doctor of Diuinity.	Downame, George, d. 1634.	1602 (1602)	STC 7102; ESTC S110119	37,293	100

conscience of thine owne vnworthines or any thing else wring from thee thy stedfast faith in Christ but beleeue against sense and reason and hope against hope as Abraham did This is the promise of God beleeue in Christ and thou shalt be saued Indeed it pleaseth God many times so to trie his seruants for the exercise of their faith as that their triall seemeth to oppugne his promises But yet notwithstanding the promises are firmely to be beleeued and we are to be perswaded that when any thing doth happen vnto vs contrarie to the promise and the Lord shewes himselfe vnto vs otherwise then the promise soundeth as our Sauiour shewed himselfe to the woman which was a Cananite Matth. 15.23.28 that it is but a trial whereby the Lord howsoeuer hee exerciseth vs for a time will yet doe vs good in the end Deut. 8.16 and therefore we are not to let goe our hold or suffer the promise which is our staffe and stay to be wrested out of our hands Rather let vs imitate Abrahams faith in this place who when hee was commaunded to kil his sonne in whose seede hee had many promises yeelded indeed to the commandement and yet held him to the promise Though Isaac be consumed to ashes yet shall the promise of God concerning his seede bee performed So Iob when he was so grieuously afflicted as that in his own sense and opinion of others he seemed to be cast out of Gods fauour yet saith he though he kill me I will beleeue in him In like sort when as God promiseth life to all that beleeue yet we die we must beleeue that although we die yet wee shall liue Ioh. 11.25 In a word we must learne by Abrahams example to giue credite to the truth and power of God rather then to our owne sence and reason For he is true and therfore will hee is omnipotent and therefore can performe his promise Secōdly our faith must be fruitful as Abrahams was and we are to manifest it by good works that the Lord may say of vs as he did heere of Abraham Now I know that thou fearest God c. for although good works do not concurre with faith to the act of iustification as anie cause thereof yet they concurre in the subiect that is the partie iustified as necessarie fruits of his faith and testimonies of his iustification And therfore Abraham although he were iustified before God by faith without works as Paul saith that is absolued from his sinnes and accepted as righteous vnto life yet he was iustified not only in that sence by faith but in another sence that is declared to be iust by works as Iames saith But to this purpose most effectuall is S. Iames his argument in the second chap. By such a faith as Abraham was iustified must we be iustified but Abrahā was iustified by such a faith as brought forth good works as appeareth by this example and was not an idle or dead faith and therfore that faith wherby we must be iustified must bring forth good fruits or els it is not a liuely a true but a dead counterfeit faith by which no man can be iustified For howsoeuer faith alone doth iustifie because it alone doth apprehend the righteousnesse of Christ whereby we are iustified and not loue or any other grace yet that faith which is alone doth not iustifie because it is not a true faith For euen as the bodie without spirit or breath is iudged to be dead so faith which is without works is dead And to conclude howsoeuer the promise of saluatiō is made to faith yet the sentence of saluation shall be pronounced according to our works and therefore let vs be carefull as Abraham was to shew our faith by our workes For good works are as it were the euidence according to which the Lord wil iudge of our faith in so much that where hee findeth none hee will say Depart from me you cursed into euerlasting fire And where hee findeth workes giuing euidence to our faith he will say Come you blessed of my father inherite the kingdome which is prepared for you from the foundation of the world To which kingdome let vs beseech him to bring vs who hath so dearely purchased it for vs euen Christ Iesus the righteous to whom with the Father and the holy Ghost be all praise and glorie both now and euermore Amen FINIS Errata Pag. 16. lin 10. reade as he knoweth he can answere pag. 27. lin 21. reade when as pag 41. lin 9. reade not deliuer lin 10. not be present Luk. 16.22 1. Pet. 1.9 Affectum tuum inquisiui non factum exegi Ambros. In voto probaui quod in facto renui August de tempore Serm 73. 1. Pet. 2.11 Iam. 1.14 Ephes. 6.16 Rom. 1.24.26.28 Exod. 15.32 Ephe. 4.19 Heb. 4.13 Va●in apud ●ez●m De Sancta Trin. lib. 1. De tempor● Serm. 72. De tempore Serm. 72. Ibid. Matt. 26.41 De tempore serm 73. God in trying his seruants obserueth a Geometricall proportion This was saith Philo lib. de Abrah 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the most forcible motiue of loue because as he saith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 parents dote as it were vpon those which are late borne De tepore Serm. 73. Gal. 4.22.23 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Philo. Iphigen Plin. 35.10 See Tully in Oratore Leuit. 1.5.11 Eph. 6.17 Sacrificing of men Psal. 106.37 Mich. 6.7 August de temp ser. 72. 1. Cor. 15.22 Heb. 9.27 Foelix orbis soret si omnes fic fierem parricidae Zeno. Veronens Neither must that trouble vs that he is called Nagnar vers 5. which is translated a child for so are the two seruants called vers 3.5 whom Philo supposeth to haue been 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the ancientest in the familie and Iosua when he was as the Hebrewes thinke 56. yeeres old Exod. 33.11 and Dauids souldiers 2. Sam. 1.15 Chrysost. tom 2. ser. 33 A caption in respect of their vnderstāding taking that properly which was spoken by a Synecdoche vve wil returne and a prophecie in respect of the holie Ghost directing his speech according to the euent Serm. 73. De tempere 1. Ioh. 5.4 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Serm. de temp 72. Eccles. 2.1 My sonne if thou wilt come into the seruice of God prepare thy soule to tēptation Iam. 1.12 2. Thess. 2.10.11.12 Vers. 10. Matth. 7.24 Rom. 12.1 De temp serm 72. Num. 22.8.9 Ioh. 3.14.15 16. Mat. 16.16 Luther in Gen. 22. Job 13.15 Iam. 2.18 Iam. 2.26 ●att 25.34