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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01739	Tvvo sermons vpon 1. Peter 5. vers .8. and 9 Wherein is shewed that the diuell is to be resisted only by a stedfast faith, how soeuer he commeth either against soule or body: and that whosoeuer hath once attained the true and liuelie faith, it can neuer be vtterly lost, but he is sure to get the victorie. By M. George Giffard, Preacher of the worde of God at Mauldon in Essex.	Gifford, George, d. 1620.	1597 (1597)	STC 11871; ESTC S112185	45,095	88

not al the branches that in me bear fruit but euery branch in me that beareth fruit he purgeth that it may beare more fruit So that we may conclude that there are none of the reprobate that haue the true and liuely faith for if they had they shoulde bring forth fruit and so remain for euer in the vine Againe whosoeuer knoweth that hee bringeth foorth fruite hee may be assured that he shal continue in the vine for euer hee shall neuer perish Also Christ saith I am the breade of life hee that commeth to me shall not hunger in any wise and he that beleeueth in mee shall neuer thirst This is the will of him that sent me that euery one that seeth the sonne and beleeueth in him may haue euerlasting life and I will raise him vp at the last day I am that bread of life your fathers did eate Manna in the wildernesse and are dead This is that bread that came downe from heauen that if anie man eate thereof he should not die I am the liuing bread which came downe from heauen if any man eate of this bread he shall liue for euer He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood hath eternall life This is that bread which came downe from heauen not as your fathers did eate Manna and are dead he that eateth of this bread shall liue for euer Ioh. 6. ver 35.40.48.49 50.51.54.58 From these Scriptures wee may drawe most firme conclusions that not any one of the reprobate euer haue or can haue the true and liuelie faith but that whosoeuer beleeueth he is assured of life eternall Christ teacheth that hee is the bread of life and that whosoeuer eateth of that bread he shall liue for euer It is not possible that any man should eat of that bread and yet not liue for euer Euery one that beleeueth in him I speak of that liuelie faith which as the hand apprehendeth Christ and by which we receiue him and his benefites doth eat his flesh and drinke his blood He that beleeueth in mee saith hee shall neuer thirst for let any maÌ„ shew a reason why some that beleeue in Christ doe eate his flesh and drinke his blood other some hauing the same liuely faith doe not What will they say that the reprobate damned so many of them as euer come to haue the true and liuely faith according as they imagine do indeede eat the flesh of Christ drinke his blood and so for a time be made liuely members of Christ euen flesh of his flesh and bones of his bones as the Apostle speaketh Ephes 5. ver 31 If they doe not eat his flesh drink his blood then haue they not the faith remooue that effect and the cause is remooued If they will not abhor so wicked a speech but affirm indeed that the reprobate doe eate the flesh of Christ so many of them as haue the liuely faith then let theÌ„ see how they ouerthrow also the whole force of the argumeÌ„t of Christ by which he proueth that the Manna was not the bread of life but that he himself is the bread of life Your fathers saith he did eat MaÌ„na in the wildernesse and are dead If any man eat of this bread he shal liue for euer How standeth his argument consider of it I pray you Your fathers did eat Manna in the wildernesse and yet are dead in their sinnes they are dead in the spirituall and eternall death for of that death hee speaketh seeing they also which eat the flesh of Christ doe die the naturall death therefore Manna was not the bread of life that commeth downe from heauen For that which some did eat of and yet did die eternallie is not by any meanes the bread of life And how doth hee prooue that hee himselfe is the bread of life I am the breade which came downe from heauen if any man eate of this bread he shall liue for euer Thus standeth his reason Whosoeuer eateth the flesh of Christ he shal liue for euer therefore the flesh of Christ is the bread of life If they shall now say some of the fathers in the wildernes did eate the Manna and yet died in their sinnes it cannot be denied and thereupon Christ doth affirme that Manna was not the bread of life that commeth downe from heauen and then adde their owne saying which is this some doe eate the flesh of Christ and yet do die in their sinnes what will then followe if this reason do stand in force Your fathers did eat Manna in the wildernes and are dead therefore Manna was not the bread of life Then shall not this also follow Many doe eat the flesh of Christ and yet are damned therefore the flesh of Christ is not the bread of life Thus it is euident that such as do affirme that any of the reprobate haue the liuelie faith doe gainsay Christ and ouerthrow the force of his argument To proceede what can be more firme to proue that the reprobate cannot haue the true liuely and iustifying faith then that which Saint Paul hath written Where this ground is first to bee laide that whosoeuer he is that hath the true iustifying faith he hath the spirite of sanctification the spirite of adoption for thus the Apostle conioyneth them wherein also after that yee beleeued yee were sealed with the holy spirit of promise which is the earnest of our inheritance vnto the redemption of the purchased possession vnto the praise of his glorie Ephes 1. ver 13.14 Is there any so absurd as to hold that a man is a liuely member of Iesus Christ as euery one is that hath the liuelie iustifying faith and yet hath not that holy spirite of promise that spirite of adoption that scale and that pledge If they will say that the faith which the reprobate doe attaine vnto is without this spirite of adoption or without this seale or pledge then doe wee holde with them and then doth it follow that the faith of the reprobate is not the true iustifying and sanctifying saith which purgeth the heart Act. 15. But if they shall say that the reprobate are for a time partakers of the spirit of sanctification euen of that spirit of adoption then will there diuers right wicked consequences follow which are to be banished far froÌ„ christian religioÌ„ For first touching the spirit of adoption see what the Apostle saith As manie as are led by the spirit of god they are the sons of God For ye haue not receiued the spirit of boÌ„dage again to fear but ye haue receiued the spirit of Adoption whereby we crie Abba Father That same spirite beareth witnesse vnto our spirit that we are the sonnes of God Rom. 8.14 15 16. If anie of the reprobate be led by the spirit of God or be at anie time sanctified then hath not S. Paule here said true that as manie as are led by the Spirit of God they are the sonnes of God Some of the reprobate

TVVO SERMONS vpon 1. Peter 5. vers 8. and 9. Wherein is shewed that the diuell is to be resisted only by a stedfast faith how soeuer he commeth either against soule or body and that whosoeuer hath once attained the true and liuelie faith it can neuer be vtterly lost but he is sure to get the victorie By M. George Giffard Preacher of the worde of God at Mauldon in Essex LONDON Printed by Felix Kingston for Thomas Man 1597. TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFVLL M. Ioseph Bainham Esquire and to Mistresse Ione Bainham his Wife SIR when J call to minde the reuerent and holy memory of that godly Martyr both of your name countrie and house M. Iames Bainham who died most constantly for the truth of the Gospell as we haue his story at large described in M. Fox pag. 1030. and consider withall the great mercie of God in continuing still vnto that VVorshipfull name and stocke the same light of faith and zeale of the truth and holynes of profession J nothing doubt to say vnto you as sometime the holy Apostle wrote vnto Timothie When I call to remembrance the vnfayned faith that is in thee which dwelt first in thy Grandmother Lois and in thy Mother Eunice and am assured that it dwelleth in thee also 2. Tim. 1.5 So it cannot be but a great ioy and comfort to those that feare God to see the posteritie of Martyrs to retayne still the holy faith and profession of Martyrs not only to be of their earthly linage but of the spirituall kindred also not to be next them only in generation but to folow them in regeneration And this example of your owne cloth as it is vnto vs an occasion of reioycing so to you it must serue not as a spur to pricke you but as a starre to direct you and a line to leade draw you forward to al holy encrease of faith and zeale That holy man as he was vertuous in his life deuoute in prayer sound in faith patient in his afflictions so most of all was he constant and cheerefull in his death who in the midst of his torments and out of the raging flames of fire thus spake with a comfortable and heauenly voyce O yee Papists behold yee looke for miracles here now you may see a miracle for in this fire I feele no more paine then if I were in a bed of downe but it is to me as sweet as a bed of Roses How ought wee now to honor the memorie of this blessed man and how much are you to praise God that hath giuen you out of your worshipfull house so worthie an example and encouragement to all Christian proceeding J saye againe with the same Apostle Wherefore I put you in remembrance that you stirre vp the gift of God in you c. 2. Timoth. 1.6 And J doubt not but that as it is true generally in the Church Sanguis Martyrum semen Ecclesiae the blood of the Martyrs is the seede of the Church so more especially in your familie that it hath been blessed of God and made fruitefull being seasoned as it were by the blood of so holy a man Saint Ambrose saith Passio Christi sufficit ad salutem passio Martyrum contulit ad exemplum Christs death sufficient to saluation the Martyrs death is effectuall for example and instruction You haue both Christs holy passion to saue you and this Martyrs worthy example and confession to instruct you The memorie of this excellent man gaue me occasion to present this Sermon vnto you which came to my hands which contayneth a profession of the same faith for the which he dyed in you reuerencing his remembrance and honoring his faith God graunt vs all the like zeale and holynes in our liues that wee may haue the like comfort and cheerefulnes in our end Your Worships welwiller in the Lord Thomas Man TWO SERMONS VPON THE 1. Peter 5. vers 8. and 9. Wherein is shewed that the diuell is to be resisted only by a stedfast faith how soeuer he commeth either against soule or bodie and that whosoeuer hath once attained the true and liuelie faith it can neuer bee vtterly lost but he is sure to get the victorie The first Sermon Be sober and watch for your aduersarie the diuel as a roaring Lyon walketh about seeking whoÌ„ he may deuour whome resist stedfast in the faith 1. Pet. 5. verse 8.9 BLessed Peter an Apostle of Iesus Christ 1. Pet. 1.1 wrote this Epistle to the Christian Iewes which dwelt as strangers dispersed here and there in sundrie countries as in Pontus Galatia Cappadocia Asia and Bithynia For the ten tribes were scattered of old time and had dwelt long among the Gentiles in many kingdoms being caried away by Shalmaneser king of Ashur out of their owne lande as wee read 2. King 17. And of somewhat later times manie of the tribe of Iuda and Beniamin were also dispersed among the heathen so that S. Iames wrot his epistle in like maner to the twelue tribes which were in the dispersion Iames 1. ver 1. These dispersed Iewes came vp out of all landes at certaine solemne feastes vnto Ierusalem for to worship there according to the law of Moses and there had they heard the Apostles preach Christ as ye may see by that which is written Act. 2. and beleeued in him and vnto them that so beleeued S. Iames and S. Peter directed their Epistles Touching the matters handled in this Epistle of Peter we are to note that the holy Apostle dealeth principallie about the duties of christian life as namelie the times being then full of troubles and terrour of persecutions hee laboureth to make them bolde patient constant and cheerefull in all afflictions and sufferinges which they were to passe through to come to the partaking of the heauenly glory with Christ Also hee vseth manie graue and forcible reasons to mooue them vnto true holinesse euen to walke in the vertues of the spirit of grace and to bring foorth fruites worthie of so high a calling But first of all he openeth as it were the fountaine and beginning of all good actions in man that is how God of his great mercie had chosen them and begotten them in Christ to bee his children and heires of glory Among these perswasions admonitions and exhortations of the Apostle this is one which I haue read vnto you and which I am now to handle It may bee diuided into three partes Of which the first is an admonition or an exhortation wherby he stirreth vp all the faithfull vnto sobriety and watchfulnes in these wordes Be sober and watch The second part sheweth what cause there is to mone all men vnto this sobriety and watchfulnes or how much it standeth them euery way vpon seeing they haue so terrible and so cruell an aduersary who continuallie seeketh their eternall woe and destruction which is in these wordes For your aduersarie the diuell as a roaring Lion walketh about seeking whom hee may

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