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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86270	Repentance and conversion, the fabrick of salvation: or The saints joy in heaven, for the sinners sorrow upon Earth. Being the last sermons preached by that reverend and learned John Hewyt, D.D. Late minister of St. Gregories by St. Pauls. With other of his sermons preached there. Dedicated to all his pious auditors, especially those of the said parish. Also an advertisement concerning some sermons lately printed, and presented to be the doctors, but are disavowed by Geo. Wild. Jo. Barwick.	Hewit, John, 1614-1658.; Wilde, George, 1610-1665.; Barwick, John, 1612-1664.	1658 (1658)	Wing H1637; Thomason E1776_1; ESTC R209722	86,537	249

engaged into a business with so much vigor as when they were assured of success by the answers of Oracles We are called by the vocation of God to the possession of the heavenly Canaan He promises us for the getting it his conduct favour and assistance so that with Job we may very well say I shall see God And what then remains but that casting down every burden and the sin that so easily enlaces us we may pursue with constancy the course set before us and traversing all dangers and going under hope against hope we may have our eyes upon Jesus Christ the author and finisher of our faith that so we may more and more in his love revive the strength of ours and recollect in him every day new vigor until the time that from vertue to vertue we may appear before his Sacred face where receiving the Crown and heap of his blessings we may glorifie him for ever as to him appertains honour and glory from this time forth and from generation to generation Amen THE SAINTS COMFORT in the day of death In the book of Job the 19 Chapter and the 25 verse it is thus written As for me I know that my Redeemer liveth c. IT is impossible to please God without faith Heb. 11.6 SERM. VI. for 't is necessary that he that comes to God believe not only that he is but that he is a rewarder of those that seek him To God that dwells in the Heavens we go by faith not by view All the view that conducts us to eternal salvation is faith And therefore as in vain the Sun sends forth his light in vain does it enlighten so many torches in the Heavens and discovers upon Earth so rich an embroidery of leaves and flowers for those that are without eyes So as unprofitable are the marveiles which the wisdom of God hath display'd in all this universe and the divine mysteries which it hath discovered in the clearness of his holy word for those that are without faith God complaines Esai 65. that in vain he hath stretcht out his hands to a rebellious and contradicting people and St. Paul Heb. 4.2 gives a reason why the word of preaching hath not profited the people of the Jewes and it is because it was not mingled with faith in those that heard it Who hath believed our preaching and to whom hath the arm of the Eternal been revealed Isai 53.1 Light is the first and most excellent work of God in the elementary world the eye is the most admirable beauty of all the humane body it is the joy of our life the address of our actions and the cleerest window of the soul the eye and light of our soul is faith without which it remaines in darkness ignorant of the way of God confused in all her actions and plunged in mourning and despair and therefore it is also the chief gift of heavenly grace the first tract of the Image of God that is markt in our hearts the first action of our spiritual life and the foundation and origine of all other vertues By this light Job acknowledges and discovers the eternal benefits which recompense his temporal losses he finds spiritual sweetness which tempers the bitterness of his corporal dolours he sees and embraces the perdurable felicity of the second life which reinforces his soul against the apprehensions of death For this cause we have so long insisted to describe and represent to you the nature of this faith by winding it out of ignorance from the confusion and uncertainty wherein they seek to fold it up that withdraw souls from the true spring of life and divert it to the crackt cisterns of superstition to engrave the lively tracts of it as deep in your souls as Job desired to have them imprinted in the hard rock that so the deduction which we shall make you after him of the mysteries of your redemption may not be unfruitful to you but that being guided by this divine and heavenly torch you may there find that assurance firmity and consolation that Joy inenarrable and glorious which is necessary for you in the midst of so many evils and combats as the enemies of the truth of God do deliver and prepare for his Church Before we come to a more particular consideration of the Redeemer and of this life resurrection and glory which he hath purchased for us by the price of his redemption we must upon these words make some general remark which may be proper to confirm us as much in the verity of our faith as they will make us see that it is venerable for antiquity and alwaies veritable and constant in her unity We see the dolours of Job encrease against all other remedies drawn either from hope of temporal things or from any rules of the law and to acquiesce in one onely Jesus Christ seeking in the only benefit of his redemption his repose and hope where he teaches us clearly that the principal and special object of faith hath at all times been the promise of the grace and salvation which was to be purchased by this Mediator betwixt God and men which holding and embracing she finds and not till then her repose and tranquillity The whole Word of God is truly the proportioned object to th'extent of our faith and according to the intelligence and approbation of the understanding she embraces it wholly and can go no further and in every thing and every where she reputes God to be true whether he command or forbid whether he promise or threaten whether he instruct or correct she leads all her thoughts captive under obedience she receives all his commands with humility she keeps her self to his prohibitions with fear she embraces his promises with affection she fears his threatnings she hearkens to his instructions and profits by his corrections for if faith doubt and go reeling in uncertainty of any one point of whatsoever is manifested in the Word of God there will afterwards need no great violence to shake it in all other things and to throw it head-long into infidelity And therefore when we give for the principal object of faith the promise of salvation and grace we will not subtract it to other parts of the word as leaving it indifferent and every one to liberty of believing or mis-believing at his fancy but contrariwise knowing that all hath been brought to us not by the will of man but by the inspiration of the eternal spirit which hath guided the tongues and pens of those that have announced and left written this holy word we maintain that the verity of it must be wholly and in every part both heard and received with the like reverence But we say moreover that as the waters of the Sea are for divers ends spread abroad and go creeping through an infinity of chanels over and under the face of the earth yet in such sort that at last they return all into the bosom of the Ocean from