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A85868	A sermon of the saints judging the world. Preached at the Assizes holden in Huntingdon, March 13. 1648. by John Gaule, Minister of the Word in Great Staughton.	Gaule, John, 1604?-1687.	1649 (1649)	Wing G380; Thomason E549_8; ESTC R205625	21,828	31

and yet for what he had dome accounted himselfe the least of all Saints ever after II. Positively now to shew who they are And I shall as shortly describe them from their Properties their Exercises their Priviledges and their Services 1. From their gracious Properties Were I to define a Saint I would doe it thus A Saint is the subject of grace Neither do I take a Saint to be any other thing than grace in the concrete or indeed the collective of all graces His gracious Properties are they which constitute him in himselfe difference him from others and declare him to all the world And they are 1. Innocence This is much used in the definition of a Saint or description And vulgarly a Saint and an Innocent are taken for Synonyma's It is said of Christ our High Priest that hee was holy and harmlesse Hebr. 7.26 and such an one became us both to believe and imitate And it is the great act of his Office not onely to make us holy and unblameable but to preserve and present us so Eph. 1.4 5.27 Col 1.22 1 Thes 2.9 3.13 The places give us to note plainly That he that is a Saint or holy in his person must also be an Innocent or unblamable in his actions and not only so but in his affections also unblamable or unreprovable both as from his owne boars and conscience and in the sight of God and by the report and witnesse of godly and faithfull men Neither willingly giving occasion as the severall words import for private scandall to complaine nor for publick justice to call in question 2. Feare of God A private feare or that of conscience O fear the Lord yee his Saints Psal 34.9 A publick feare or that of service God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the Saints Psalme 89.7 Between this and that is the whole work of our Christian or Saintly proficiency Perfecting holinesse in the feare of God 2 Cor. 7.1 For holinesse without feare soone growes sloathfull in srcurity and fear without holinesse growes as sloathfull in despair Both these therefore having had their perfect work there wants not their reward neither temporall Psal 34.9 nor eternall Rev. 11.18 3. Faith The Saints and the Faithfull are inseperable companions Ephes 1.1 Colos 1.2 And though some distinguish them by their Callings and Degrees yet I cannot well discerne which is one which another which is first which last saving that he is the one more properly as justified by Christ and the other as sanctified by the Holy Ghost Onely because many pretend to faith without holinesse I would that the faith of the Saints were discerned by the zeale of profession Jude 3. By the vertue of obedience Rev. 14.12 by the communion of Charity Col. 1.2 and by the patience of expectation Rev. 13.10 4. Love It either respects God and man or man and man Betwixt God and man it is either that love whereby God loved them first and so it is the cause or ground of their Saintship Rom. 1.7 Beloved of God called to be Saints Or else it is that love where with they love God againe and so it is the effect or signe of their Saintship Psalme 31.23 O love the Lord all yee his Saints Betwixt man and man their love is defective to none Eph. 1.4 Holy and without blame in love But excessive and abounding to those of their like Your love unto all the Saints Eph. 1.15 Col. 1.4 5. Wisedome And that of extraordinary revelation as touching particular promises Psalm 89.19 Thou spakest in vision to thy holy one c. Of ordinary illumination in the perpetuall truth Col. 1.26 The mysterie which hath been laid from ages and from generations is now made manifest to his Saints The Saints of old exceeded us in legall visions but we transcend them in Evangelicall illuminations Our mysterious way comparatively hidden to them their miraculous way superlatively hidden to us How great delusion is it then for us to dote after their mists and Moon-shine in the midst of our owne Sun-shine and perfect day Item of a discreet apprehension in matters of prudent and conscientious Piety Prov. 9.10 The knowledge of the holy or of the Saints is understanding None like to theirs for piety and policy both at once That of others is but the shadow this of theirs is the substance of all wisedome But where is it to be found In few or none For what hee once said in modesty Prov. 30.3 every man almost may say with shame I have neither learned wisedome nor have the knowledge of the holy or of the Saints Item of perfect comprehension Eph. 3.18 may comprehend with all Saints c. Namely the love of God in Christ to be comprehended in all the dimensions of it by the Saints in heaven Both the breadth how it extends to all Saints and Angells and the length how it was from everlasting to everlasting and the depth how it had no cause but that rooted within it selfe and the height how it hath brought them to glory in the highest Heavens 6. Purity Both of body and minde For hee that is no pure Saint in his body believe it can bee no true Saint in his soule One that is a right Saint must be holy both in body and spirit 1 Cor. 7.34 Nor can there bee any perfecting of holinesse till a man have cleansed himselfe from all filthinesse of the flesh and Spirit 2 Cor. 7.1 Wherefore Yeeld your members servants to righteousnesse unto holinesse Rom. 6.19 And present your bodies a living sacrifice holy c. Rom. 12.1 For this is the will of God even your Sanctification that every one of you should know how to possesse his vessell in sanctification and honour 1 Thes 4.1 2. Take heed then as yee would bee accounted Saints not onely of actuall pollution through uncleannesse of commission but even of verball infection through corrupt communication But Fornication and all uncleannesse and covetousnesse let it not once be named amongst you as becommeth Saints Eph. 5.3 7. Patience In Daniel and the Revelations Dan. 7.21 25. 8.24 Rev. 13.7 10. 14.12 16.6 17.6 much is expressed concerning the patience of the Saints And much more might be thence affirmed both as touching their patience of perpession and of expectation of sufferance and of perseverance And besides the kinds the causes also Gods justice and mans injustice as likewise faith and obedience the expresse conditions thereof But I forbeare because I know not whether even your patience will beare it and whether my words if they bee many may not tire it in the very hearing or if these words should be weighty might not as to the hearing and bearing weary it with imposing yet further upon it 8. Humility Which is an humble or lowly apprehension of our own graces and Saintship Both because of all defects in comparison of God Who put no trust or found no stedfastnesse in his Saints Job 15.15

sanctified himselfe to the office of his mediation that so he might sanctifie us to the office of our profession He sanctified or prepared himselfe to his passion to the end he might sanctifie or purge us from our sins He sanctified himselfe to a perfection of obedience to the intent he might sanctifie us to a conformitie in our lives 2. Because we were Saints in Christ before we were Saints nay while we were yet corrupt in our selves The lump or masse prophane it selfe is notwithstanding holy in the first fruits The Branches wild in themselves are holy neverthelesse in their root Rom. 11.16 17. Our children that are uncleane in themselves yet now are they holy 1 Cor. 7.14 and all through the Covenant made with us and our seed 3. Because now that we are Saints in our selves we are yet more Saints in Christ then we are in our selves 'T is not all our inspired or present but his presenting holinesse that makes us so purely and perfectly holy Eph. 5.27 Gol. 1.22 And therefore we count not our Saintship to consist so much in our active and infused as in our passive and imputed sanctity For by the one we can be but holy as we are capable of in our selves but by the other we are found to be holy as he is holy 2. Not they that have not the spirit We attribute it in peculiar manner to the Holy-Ghost to be our Sanctifier which is as much as a Saint-maker And shall any man thinke to be so made without his Maker In Rom. 1.4 2 Thes 2.13 1 Pet. 1.2 There are these convertible termes or Propositions the Spirit of sanctification and the sanctification of the Spirit To note both wayes that neither can that Cause be without this effect nor this effect without that Cause As no Spirit without sanctification so no sanctification without the Spirit Persons of Saints actions of Saints communion of Saints all are sanctified or sainted by the Holy-Ghost the Spirit of our God Rom. 15.16 1 Cor. 6.11 2 Pet. 1.21 3. Not they that are not sanctified by the Word It is the Word that sanctifies the common creature even to saintly uses 1 Tim. 4.5 It is the Word that sanctifies the Person to his saintly Duties John 17.17 Sanctifie them through thy truth thy word is truth Exceeding well limited by our Saviour himselfe that no man might presume of other or further sanctity or Saintship then the Word it selfe sets forth Or that there should be a truth of any thing necessary to be knowne or done by sanctified men or Saints either besides or beyond it It is by the Word and by the Sacraments too that the Church or Congregation of Saints is sanctified both in her mysterious relations and religious offices Eph. 5.26 Let the Saints of the Church then see to it that neither means of sanctification or Saintship be neglected 4. Not they that would be Saints in name only and in nothing else We read of the called Saints indeed Rom. 1.7 1 Corin. 1.2 But who expounds that of the Nominall and not of the reall Calling In the Old Testament the word Saint is so indefinite in signification that in many places we are left to interpret it indifferently either of a holy man or of a holy thing And there in many places againe the Saints or holy persons are expressed by sanctity or holinesse it selfe yea and Christ himselfe is not only called the Holy One but the Holy thing Luke 1.39 All is to teach us not to glory in the name without the thing not to bea●● of Saints in the concrete without sanctitie in the abstract What shall we be as prophane as Papists are superstitious in calling painted Pictures and livelesse Images Saints The word was abused of old whether arrogantly or ironically I know not by calling whoremongers and hariets by the same or the like name with Saints Gen. 38.21 Deut. 23.17 2 Kings 23.7 Hos 4.14 I am ashamed to say how it is so and so abused even now adayes 5. Not they who out of an opinion of their owne sanctitie despise all others as if there were no Saints but themselves Of this sect were some old Jewes Isa 65.5 and after them the Pharisees Luke 7.39 18.9 As he cannot be simply a Saint that is a Saint only in comparison comparing himselfe with others whom he takes to be worse or not so good as himselfe so neither is he who comparing himselfe with himselfe presumes himselfe for a Saint alone or above all other Saints whomsoever Contrary to such a Pharisaicall conceit was St Pauls humble apprehension and confession of himselfe Eph. 3.8 Who am lesse thou the least of all Saints But how doe they make themselves better then the least of Saints who thinke it no sacriledge to reb Peter and Paul of the name of Saints and yet no superstition to assume it to themselves Who presume that their righteousnesse then exceeds the Pharisees when they exceed them only in Pharascisme Who not only contemne others as the Reshagaim the wicked and deride the Thaddikim the just in a conformity to the Morall Law but not contented to be accounted the Chesidim righteous above the Law in their Traditions they will be that I may adde so much to the old distinction even the Kedoshim holy above the Gospell in their owne delusions 6. Not they who make all to be Saints alike Numb 16.3 All the Congregation are holy every one of them Oh the arrogance of confusion I There will be a seperation The Lord will shew who are his and who are holy or Saints Meane while bring every man his Censor his conscience and stand in the doore of the Congregation the Church of God and be you before the Lord in presenting your conscience to be informed by his Word and then the glory of the Lord his graces will appeare Thinke not to fetch Saints all at once or one like another out of the earth for that were utterly against the old Etymology of a Saint 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and it is to be feared the carth will swallow up such Saints againe But look up to the heavens whence all Saints have their originall and you shall soon perceive the difference not only bet wixt stars and Comets but even betwixt starres and starres For they differ in grace as well as glory 1 Cor. 15.41 7. Not they which make warre with the Saints Dan. 7.21 Revel 3.7 Not they which give the flesh of his Saints unto the beasts of the earth Psal 79.2 Not they which are drunken with the bloud of the Saints Revel 17.6 You know the places are expounded of Atheists Idolaters Prophaners Hypocrites Hereticks Schismaticks Persecutors c. and of their cruelties treacheries seducements c. I read of one and but of one of whom it was said He had done much evill to the Saints Acts 9.13 yet he afterwards became a Saint and as a Saint suffered more himselfe than he had done to all others before