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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06193	The mysterie of mankind, made into a manual, or The Protestants portuize reduced into explication application, inuocation, tending to illumination, sanctification, deuotion, being the summe of seuen sermons, preached at S. Michaels in Cornehill, London. By William Loe, Doctor of Diuinity, chaplaine to his sacred Maiesty, and pastor elect, and allowed by authority of superiours of the English Church at Hamborough in Saxonie.	Loe, William, d. 1645.	1619 (1619)	STC 16689; ESTC S105401	92,048	356

scriptures call those the Worlde whom God hath thus called out of the world because for their sakes onely this world was made and this world is as yet preserued and all things continue as from the beginning But when God hath his full number of these his chosen people out of the world then this world shall haue an end and there shall bee a new Heauen and a new earth wherein shal dwell righteousnesse To these his redeemed people in the world God made his promises both of the promulgation extension and augmentation of this Kingdome of Iesus Christ his Sonne First that the extention thereof should be as large as is the expansion of the Heauens and so great that it should encircle and surround the earth Secondly that the dominion thereof should bee from sea to sea And from the riuers vnto the end of the world The kings of Tharsis and of the ●sles should bring presents yea all Kings should fall downe before him at nations should serue him Thirdly that Christ should ●edeeme vs to God by his bloud ●ut of euery kindred and tongue and people and Nation Fourthly that there should ●ee so great a multitude of beleeuers of all Nations Kindreds people and tongues which stand before the throne and before the ●ambe that no man should bee ●ble to number them The performance of which ●rophesies and promises God shewed most power●●lly in the very commencement of this conquest of faith ●or Peter conuerred in one ●ermon three thousand and 〈◊〉 another Sermon fiue thou●and soules that beleeued and ●●●●rned to God from their in●quities So mightily yea so ●uddenly grew the word of God and preuayled yea 〈◊〉 is ttuely obserued both by Suetonius in the life of Nero and by Tacitus in the first booke of his Historie beeing enemies to Christ Christians and also by Tertullian a friend to Christians in his Apologeticall exhortation to the Gentiles that the multitude of beleeuers was so great in the Prim●tiue Church euen amidst those furious bloudy butcheries and wofull persecutions that their strength and puissan●e if they should haue waged warre was oft times a feare and terror euen to the ve●ry persecuting Emperours themselues This was exceeding strange that a World of people so dissonan● so dissolute so aliant so repug●nant to God and to goodnesse should become so plyable so flexible so obediēt 〈◊〉 submit and subiect them●●lues to the yoke of Gods ce●●estiall direction And albeit this very acte ●f beleeuing may seeme very ●aruellous vnto vs in it selfe ●et the strange means where●y this victorious conquest was wrought by Christ in ●educing the world to the act ●f faith was indeed incompa●ably wonderfull and aboue mans capacitie to conceiue For Christ Iesus the Sonne of God when hee made this conquest of the World by faith did not proclaym to the world as king Cyrus did whē he intented his conquests great pay worldly promotions magnificent titles and honourable entertainements for his voluntaries and Followers neither did Christ proffer as the diuell did All this will I 〈◊〉 thee shewing all the king●omes of the world if thou wilt fall downe and worshi● me nor as the licentious Turk doth grants libertie of wiueving to what number of women men will of thriuing by what callusions and deuises men can so they doe no violence to all that embrace his Mahumetanisme nor yet as the most Turkish Pope vseth who grants pardons and indulgences from all kinde of punishments to all his Peccadilloes whatsoeuer For then Christ doubtlesse might haue had followers on a sudden more then enough But behold and consider the iniunctions motions and perswasions that Christ vsed to moue the world to beleeue and then tell me Beloued in our Lord if this be not a secret and hidden Mysterie The very first mandate that Christ ienioyned to those that meant to follow him was Re●●nt yee that is Bee of another ●inde and leade another life 〈◊〉 you haue done hereto●●re Become new creatures ●●at is leaue off to doe euill 〈◊〉 learne to do good This was no lesson for the ●●lfe louers of the world to ●●arne and of these there is an ●●finite number By this doctrine Christ ●●ight lose all the nice of the world and all that were wed●ed to their owne selfe li●ings Another iniunction was ●n the world if you will bee mine you shall haue augariation and your hearts shall bee pierced ●hrough with many sorrowes This was no coppie to bee taken out by the effeminate delitious and delicate persons of the world A third was You shall bee hated of all men for my names sake saith Christ. This was no condition to obligue faint and false hearted cowards of the world A fourth was He that loues his life shall lose it This was not the way to winne a worldling notwithstanding all these and other such like more conditions and entertainments euen to exquisite torments ye● I say what euer could be sayd or done to the contrary by the infidell party in all the bloud and but chery of Gods Saints behold yee the power of God in this wonderfull conquest of the world by faith For a Centurion beleeue● euen to life albeit Christ is absent from doing any act speakes this in the words of a beleeuer Say the word onely O Lord and my seruant liueth A Canaanitish woman beleeues to health if she might eate but the crums th●● fall ●●om the table or touch but ●he hemme of Christ his ve●ure The good theefe beleeues 〈◊〉 saluation in Christ Iesus ●hom he beheld fastened to ●●rosse laden with disgrace●●●l reproches and scoffings forlorne and forsaken of the ●hole world strugling in his 〈◊〉 dolours gasping gaping 〈◊〉 weltring in his owne ●oud Oh wonderfull power 〈◊〉 faith Oh maruellous work ●f God! Is there any reason 〈◊〉 bee yeelded hereof Are ●●ere any causes of this so rare 〈◊〉 maruellous a change in the ●eart and resolution of man ●o surely Mans reason in this ●ynt is but as a beast as Iere●ie sayth But Almightie ●od hath his reasons for it ●ost preg●ant most pow●●full For this beleeuing in ●hrist being an act of the vnderstanding assenting to Gods diuine truth at the commandement of the will so moued by the grace and spirit of God sheweth that it is the power onely and spirit of God that inclineth our hearts to beleeue as the first mouing cause thereof This was the reason why Lydia the Thyatirian hearkned to Paules preaching which many other did not that heard the word notwithstanding as well as she For the Text saith God opened the heart of Lydia that she attended the the words of Paule that is to say She attended not vntill God openeth her heart The inuisible finger of God being as you see a golden key to vnlocke our steely hearts that may see perceiue and be moued to seeke after God for our saluation And this is the reason why ●he