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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A22452	The Christians race teaching vs all so worthily, and so wisely both to beginne, continue, and to end, this our most short and momentanie [sic] course in this mortall life: that in the day of our death wee may for euer enjoy that inestimable crowne of eternall blisse in the life to come. Being a sermon preached in the Parish Church of North Parrott in Somerset, by Iohn Atkins Master of Arts, and preacher of the sacred Word of God, and pastor there.	Atkins, John, Rector of North Parrott.	1624 (1624)	STC 887; ESTC S115377	29,584	48

to liue both by his Precepts and Examples of Pietie doth daily flutter and houer ouer vs in this present life In Iohn 13.15 When our Sauiour would perswade his Disciples and followers vnto Humilitie and Loue hee sayth Dedi vobis exemplum c. I haue giuen you an Example that you should doe as I haue done to you And in the 1. of Pet. 2.21 When as Saint Peter would perswade vs to patient Suffering hee sayth CHRIST also suffered for vs leauing vs an Example that wee should follow his steps And in 1. Cor. 11. Verse 1. When Saint Paul would incite the Corinthians for to follow him hee tels them plainely that his meaning was that indeed they should follow CHRIST saying Be yee followers of mee euen as I follow Christ And in Ephes 4.32 When as the same Apostle would perswade the Ephesians to forgiue one another hee sayth Forgiue yee one another as CHRIST forgaue you And finally in the 1. of Ioh. 2.6 Saint Iohn layes downe this point of Doctrine most plainly vnto vs saying Hee that abideth in him ought himselfe to walke euen as hee walked still looking to Iesus euen as Saylers doe to their Sterne and as Runners to their Goale And thus Ab ipsissima vita Christi I prooue the truth of this my former Doctrine that in Running of this our Religious Race the holy Life of our Lord and Master CHRIST must bee our Coelestiall Card and Compasse it must bee our onely leuell and our line for to guide vs by First Vse is of reprehension to checke and sharpely to rebuke the Spiritually blinde I meane the ignorant Papists of these our dayes and times who in stead of their looking vnto the life of IESVS and to his Precepts Practice and Presidents as this our Text doth teach them looke either to the Pardons and Indulgences of the holy Father the Pope or else to the Diabolicall and damnable rules of his Iesuites those Iebusites his Seminary Priests preferring most grossely the rules of his Franciscan and Benedictine Friars c. before this one onely most excellent rule of the life of Christ or else they looke altogether to their own Merits Works which will vtterly deceiue them at the last if they renounce not all these and looke onely vnto Iesus For that of the first they are taught by IESVS himselfe That they are but blind leaders of the blinde and if the blind leade the blind they both shall fall into the Ditch Math. 15.14 And of their second which are our owne good workes wee are taught out of his most blessed Booke that Opera nostra per se nihil mereri possint the best good Workes that heere wee can doe deserue rather damnation then saluation in themselues First Quia non sunt nostra sed Dei opera in nobis Not our owne but the workes of God in vs as in 1. Cor. 4.7 Quid habes quod non accepists If a good Thought this is Grace infused if a good Word this is Grace effused if a good Worke this is Grace diffused Secondly Quia non sunt gratuita sed debita Not free at our owne pleasures to doe or else to leaue vndone but which we must doe by bounden dutie as in Luk. 17.9 10. Verses Thirdly Quia non snnt perfecta sed imperfecta Not perfect but full of infinite imperfections as in Rom. 8.23 We haue heere but onely the first fruits of the Spirit and an earnest penie onely and no more Fourthly and lastly Quia non sunt pura sed multis peccatis sunt permixta They are not pure but like poluted Cloutes Esay 64.6 Verse So that Eternall life which we looke for in the end of our liues is not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Debitum a Debt or Dutie which our God doth owe vs but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Donum the free Gift of our God as in Rom. 6.23 Eternall life is the gift of God through Iesus Christ our Lord. So that notwithstanding all our owne good Workes yet wee must looke to Iesus And onely to his Actiue and Passiue workes which hee alone hath both done and endured for vs. Concluding with that Learned Father Saint Austen Quod meritis quidem nostris damnamur sed non saluamur nisi tantum meritis Iesu Christi By our owne good Workes wee are damned but cannot bee saued at all saue onely by the Merits and good Workes of our Lord and onely Sauiour IESVS Obiect But heere now me thinkes I heare some ignorant Papists say If wee are not saued at all by our owne good Workes Why then is life Eternall stiled Merces our wages or our hyre Math. 20.10 Which is euermore payed amongst men for their Workes sake I answer the wages which is so payed amongst men is merces Legalis a Legall wages or hyre but this of Eternall life from GOD is merces Euangelica an Euangelicall hyre not merces debita a deserued hyre as the Legall is but onely indebita altogether vndeserued and yet most truely an hyre for these two causes First Ob consecutionem because it followeth after our good Workes although freely giuen vs of Gods fauour in Christ And secondly Ob promissionem because that God himselfe hath Promised it vnto all his Saints And thus as most excellently sayth Saint Austen Non debendo sed permittendo Deus se fecit debitorem Our good God is now become a debtor vnto vs not of any dutie that hee owes vs at all but onely out of his most Gracious promise which hee hath openly made vnto all his Elect. Be ashamed therefore O yee ignorant Papists of all your best good workes that you can doe and notwithstanding all these yet Oculo fidei with the Spirituall eye of a liuely Faith learne and labour with our Apostle in this short Race of your liues still to looke vnto Iesus In quo omnia habemus In whom alone wee haue all things necessarie to Saluation as Saint Ambrose sayth Whose blessed Birth was and is our new Birth whose Victorie ouer the Tempter was our Triumph his Labours our Peace and quietnesse his Prayers our Intercession his Pouertie our Riches his Soares our Salues his Wounds our Medicines his Righteousnesse our Merits and lastly his Death our Life My second and last vse of this my last Instruction raised from these last words Looking to Iesus Is of admonition to warne vs all in the Running of this our Religious Race wherein euery true Christian is a Runner that we may so runne indeed as to enioy the prize which is Eternall life with Christ in Heauen in our day of Death Let vs now make Christ our onely Marke our Copie Goale and Guide both in beleeuing and in liuing as wee ought to doe So that first if wee would know what we ought to beleeue let vs looke to Iesus who is made vnto vs of God his Father Wisedome Righteousnesse Sanctification and Redemption 1. Cor. 1.30 And who alone is both the Alpha and Omega the beginning