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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02189	The iaylers iayl-deliuery. Preached at Great Saint Maries in Cambridge, the 6. of February. 1619. By Henry Greenvvood, Master of Art, and preacher of the Word of God	Greenwood, Henry, b. 1544 or 5.	1620 (1620)	STC 12333; ESTC S118959	14,276	38

they had said Poore Iayler be no disparaged but looke vpon Christ Iesus there 's mercy enough in store not onely for thy selfe but for thy whole houshold if they can but beleeue yea aboundant saluation for all humbled beleeuers That the faith of one saueth not another at least in adultis looke into Ezekiel That soule that sinneth that soule shall dye the righteousnes of the righteous shall be vpon him and the wickednesse of the wicked shall be vpon himselfe also In the old Law it was Fac hoc and viues Do this and thou shalt liue God gaue vs leaue to doe it by another Iesus Christ the righteous but in the new Law it is Crede viues beleeue and thou shalt liue God gaue vs leaue to doe this by no other Can a man see with another mans eye No more can a man goe to heauen by another mans faith Euery man must beleeue for himselfe if he will be saued himselfe This is notably apparant in the Parable of the Virgins The foolish would haue borrowed oyle of the wise but they answered Not so lest there be not enough for vs and you they had it seemeth grace little enough to saue themselues they could saue none for their sistren I know for the godly mans sake God many times spareth the wicked as if there had beene found ten righteous in Sodome for their sakes the City had beene spared but this was in a temporary saluation but in the point of iustification to eternall happinesse euery man must haue faith in himselfe therefore quod dixit Christus dico vobis Habete salem in vobis what Christ said in his Gospel that I say vnto you al Haue the salt of faith in your selues for Iustus exsua fide viuet the iust shall liue by his faith Beleeue on the Lord Iesus Christ and thou shalt be saued IN this heauenly resolution I note three 1. First the act Beleeue Secondly the obiect on the Lord Iesus Christ Thirdly the euent And thou shalt be saued Beleeue Beleeue on the Lord Iesus Christ Beleeue on the Lord Iesus Christ and thou shalt bee saued Beleeue FIdes faith in the Hebrew is called Amnah of Aman which signifies firmum esse to be firme or strong or well resolued In the Greeke it signifies a perswasion in the Latine fides quasi fiat quod dicitur of the two sillables fi-factum des dictum that shall bee done that is spoken 'T is Augustines descant vpon them Thus therefore I describe faith It is firmus ac constans animi assensus Verbo Dei Spiritus Sancti afflatu ad credentium salutem Faith is a stedfast and resolute assent or consent of the heart to Gods Word by the breathing of the holy Ghost to the saluation of beleeuers The materiall cause of faith is the Word of God The formall cause is the act of consent The efficient cause is the holy Ghost the finall cause is the saluation of our soules Now lest wee should imagine euery beleeuer to bee blessed wee are to know that there is a fourefold faith yet but one salutiferous The first Historicall when a man assents to the truth of the word the Diuels goe thus farre in faith and tremble The second momentany when a man with some howerly delight imbraceth the Word meerely for knowledge sake and no further and suffers not the power of it to bee lodged and seated in his soule in prosperity to make a great flourish in Religion but in the time of triall to fall away as in that of Saint Luke They depart from God in time of tribulation The third Miraculous spoken of in the Corinths What if I had all faith that I could remoue mountaines and haue not Charity such a faith profits me nothing The fourth Iustifying whereby a man possessing and imbracing Christ Iesus with his merits and graces is accepted as iust before God This is also called a liuely faith shewing that it may bee as easily perceiued in the wombe of the conscience as a childe after quickening in the wombe of the mother Bede makes a triple distinction of faith Credere Deum Deo In Deum To beleeue there is a God to beleeue that he is faithfull and iust in his mercies and iudgements to beleeue that hee is reconciled to vs in the bloud of his Sonne into whom wee are inserted as an ympe or sciens into a stocke or tree and so liue by the sap and iuyce of his deriued merits and graces this is the faith that instrumentally is said to saue all our poore soules euerlastingly aliue And I may well say instrumentally for faith as it is a bare and meere quality saueth no man but as it hath reference to the obiect Iesus As a Diamond Ring is said to be rich and precious but take out the Diamond and it is worth little Faith is this Ring Christ is this Diamond which enricheth vs all with heauenly saluation Now lest wee should build vpon the sands of presumption and thinke wee are in this faith being yet farre wide Let vs examine this faith by his fruits for as fire is not without heate and the Sunne without shine so this faith is neuer knowne without workes of amendment Hee that rubbleth muske cannot but smell thereof so hee that hath put on Christ cannot but bee a new creature cannot but smell of Myrrhe Aloes and Cassia out of Christs Iuory Palaces whereby his heart is made exceedingly glad There are fiue especiall euidences and fruits of this faith It brings peace of conscience and ioy in the holy Ghost vpon our reconcilement with God Being iustified by faith wee are at peace with God c. It causeth a man boldly and openly to confesse the name of Christ For by the heart a man beleeueth to righteousnesse and by the tongue a man confesseth to saluation Where there is a beleeuing heart there will bee a confessing tongue and professing life to Gods glory It teacheth a man to rest vpon Gods promise and prouidence in all streights and tryalls whatsoeuer The iust shall liue by faith that is they by faith shall rest vpon God in their streights and God will preserue them It stirres vs vp to often and earnest prayer Lord I beleeue there is his faith Helpe mine vnbeliefe there is his prayer therefore no prayer no faith cold prayer dead faith vehement prayer strong faith It behaueth it selfe as a Preacher in the Pulpit of the soule alwayes mouing the soule to holinesse Beleeue thus on the Lord Iesus Christ thou shalt be saued and thy houshold Now by these examine your selues proue your selues whether you are in the faith know yee not that Iesus Christ is thus in you except you bee reprobates yee are reprobates if these things more or lesse be not in you The Lord then worke in our hearts this faith and encrease it towards perfection that so our selues with our houshold euerlastingly