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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19551	A sermon of sanctification preached on the Act Sunday at Oxford, Iulie 12, 1607. By Richard Crakanthorp Doctor of Diuinity.	Crakanthorpe, Richard, 1567-1624.	1608 (1608)	STC 5982; ESTC S109018	32,903	41

spoken of the third generall point namely the maner of our sanctification that it must be totall and entire Vnto the comming of our Lord Iesus Christ. The 4. general point and the last which I intend to obserue is the time or continuance which the Apostle requires in our sanctification namely that we should perseuere therein vnto the end of our liues and to our dying day for the life of a Christian is compared to a race wherein none receiue the prize but they onely that continue and run out vnto the end So runne then that yee may obtaine It is compared to a combat and the garland of immortalitie and crowne of righteousnesse for which we all doe striue hath not engrauen vpon it certanti but vincenti dabitur to him that ouercommeth and keepeth my words vnto the end will I giue to eate of the tree of life and of the hidden Manna Be thou faithfull then vnto the death and I will giue thee the crowne of life Non quaeruntur in Christianis initia sed finis saith S. Ierome ad Furiam It is not enough to begin but to end well is the honour of a Christian life The Prophet sets it downe as a propertie of the faithfull They will goe from strength to strength vntill euery one of them appeare before God in Sion Let vs not be weary saith S. Paul of weldoing for in due season we shall reape if wee faint not He that continueth saith S. Iohn in the doctrine of Christ he hath both the Father and the Sonne To them that by continuance in wel-doing seeke glory and honour shall be immortalitie and eternall life Behold saith the same Apostle the bountifulnesse and seueritie of God toward them which haue fallen seueritie but toward thee bountifulnesse if thou continue in his bountifulnesse or els thou also shalt bee cut off And to such onely as perseuere is the promise of our Sauiour made Matth. 24. Hee that endureth to the end he shall be saued Beloued if any haue not already entred into the course of such a sincere and godly life as both long since they solemnly vowed and doe now outwardly professe such I cannot exhort with the Apostle to continue or goe forward but to desist from that course and without delay euen while it is called to day as the Apostle saith To turne vnto God nor euer to vse any of those sluggish and delatorie answers which S. Austen most iustly condemnes that when God cals you to arise from sinne and to bee partakers of his grace you should replie and say vnto him Modò ecce modò sine paululum sed modò modò non habebant modum Yet a little sleepe a little slumber and rest in sinne but rather follow that woorthie example of S. Austen who after a long strife and combat betwixt the flesh and the spirit at last as being impatient of longer delay he brast out into that most patheticall exclamation Quamdiu quamdiu ●ra● ●ra● quare non hodie quare n● hac hora finis turpitudinismeae How long shal I put off frō day to day why not euen this day nay why not this very houre do I make an end of all my filthines embrace the loue of God But because not onely Christian charitie but my priuate affection to this place makes me to iudge the best of you that you haue not onely begun but haue well proceeded in the course of a godlie life my onely exhortation shall bee vnto you that yee neuer turne backe from God nor from a Christian and a godly life but continue and perseuere therein as our Apostle saith euen to the comming of our Lord Iesus Christ for although it be impossible which I haue heeretofore in sundry Sermons out of this place made cleere that those who are once truely sanctified by Gods spirit and seasoned with his grace should euer afterwards either totally or finally relapse or fall away from God yet that euen such by their voluntary running into some grieuous transgressions may so farre decline from God and from many degrees of his grace that they may leaue a grieuous wound vnto their conscience and a blemish to their profession and calling those knowne examples of holy Dauid S. Peter and diuers others doe more then sufficiently witnesse vnto vs which are purposely registred in the booke of God not so much to be a staffe of comfort to vphold those from despaire which by like infirmitie fall into like sinnes but specially to be a caueat and warning to all other wisely to preuent and manfully to resist all the motions of sinne and euen the first suggestions of Satan cum videant tantorum vtr●rum cauendat tempestates slenda nausragia as S. Austen obserues of those very examples in his 3. booke De doctr Christ. and 23. chap. that seeing Satan hath already giuen the foile to those who were so full fraught with pietie and so strong and valiant champions in this spirituall conflict that they were able to encounter yea to ouerthrow euen Goliah of the Philistims how vigilant and watchfull ought wee to be who haue neither so great strength nor skill to make resistance against so mightie so subtill and so expert an enemie Wherefore let me put you in minde of the Apostles exhortation Take heed lest at any time there bee found in any of you an euill heart and vnfaithfull to depart away from the liuing God Remember the Apostles reproofe O foolish Galathians are yee so foolish that when yee haue begun in the spirit yee will end in the flesh Better it had beene as S. Peter saith neuer to haue knowen the way of righteousnesse then after yee haue knowen it to turne from the holy commandements of God O what a griefe would it be vnto you if when yee haue formerly beene as faire lampes in Gods Church giuing much light and warmth vnto many others those graces of Gods spirit should afterward be so farre smothered and almost quencht that they could yeeld neither more heat then some small sparkes and those couered also vnder the finders of many sinnes nor giue more light then the snuffe of a candle which is both dimme and noisome Or what a griefe would it be for a Christian minde that hee should euer haue iust cause to complaine as Milo did who hauing in his yonger daies beene renowned and famous throughout all Greece for his strength afterwards comming to the Olympicke games bemoned the want and decay thereof and stretching out his armes said At hi lacerti nunc mortui sunt ah the strength and sinewes of my armes are now withered and decaied farre greater sorrow would it bring vnto a Christian heart if in his old age which should be best of all finding an impairing of his spirituall strenth and former graces of Gods spirit he should then haue cause to lament and say Time was indeed