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A68217	The history of the woman of great faith Recorded by Saint Matthew, ch. 15. v. 22. &c. and by Saint Mark, ch. 7. 24. where three very strong encounters are beaten back by her vnmatchable faith. Treatised and expounded for some help to the weake in faith. By Robert Horn, a Minister of Iesus Christ.	Horne, Robert, 1565-1640.	1632 (1632)	STC 13822; ESTC S116726	104,742	350

righteousnesse but what is his Rom 5.22 Hereupon the same Apostle Saint Paul speaking of himselfe a iustified sinner saith that the life he hath in the new life of the Gospell is not his but Christs who breathed it in him and liueth in him Galat. 2.20 all his minde ranne vpon the gaine he had by Christ hauing his righteousnesse all other things in the world were but losse and dunge to this Philip 3.8 9. Therefore in his Epistles to the Romanes to the Galathians and Ephesians hee strongly pleades the cause of faith in the power of iustification without workes plainly in the second Chapter of his Epistle to the Ephesians vers 8. and 9. he excludeth the best things left in nature and the best workes in new nature from the merit of saluation saying We are saued by grace not of our selues against Pelagius and not of workes against Papists and giues the reason which is to preuent all boasting in our selues as if wee did as Papists say we doe bring somewhat in hand to the purchase of our saluation And so we see that faith maketh our way to God and that works follow Reasons The reasons Our workes the best of them are imperfectly good and partly euill and what account can such haue before him whose eyes cannot behold euill Haba 1.13 that that pleaseth him is Christ absolutely holy Christs righteousnesse perfectly good onely 〈◊〉 that but neither hee nor this is ours further then by the grace of faith wee can make them so with application to our selues Secondly the best come out of an vncleane pit and their best works are but as foule ragges Isa 64.6 And who can bring a cleane thing out of filthinesse Iob 14.4 Now can any thing that is vncleane and filthy enter into so holy a place as heauen and stand before so holy a person as the Lord or if it cannot our persons not purged by Christs holinesse and our works not couered with his iustice whither shall they go in heauen there is no place for them and they must stand without with dogges sorcerers and other sinners Apocal. 21.27 22.15 It was sinne that brought vs out with God it must be that which we haue not perfect righteousnesse that must bring vs in againe And this is the Sonne in whom the Father is well pleased Matth 3.17 all other things as we heard are losse and dunge and what good sauour in workes of dunge This is against the Papists Vse 1 who like dogges barke against the truth of sole iustification by faith Their tenet is that the righteousnesse whereby we are iustified is inherent in vs. But the righteousnesse that doth iustifie is called a robe and why a robe but because wee haue it as wee haue our clothes from another out of our selues Flesh and skin we haue from our mothers but our apparell is made vs. So nature we haue by birth but grace by gift in the hand of faith Therefore Saint Paul desired to be found in Christ Philip 3.9 clad with him Obiect True say the Papists all wee haue in our first iustification or change to righteousnesse wee haue from God onely and all is due to him for it But say they there is a second iustification or change and that as a stocke giuen vs to set vp for themselues as it increaseth vnder our hand maketh some part of pay to our saluation Answer But if the Apostle as we heard had knowne any iustification but one and that one onely and altogether by gift hee would not haue giuen away his owne part as hee did and haue acknowledged no other iustification but that of beeing in Christ And further the Apostle giues the reason why hee did so though in another place For speaking of God that iustifieth and saueth onely hee saith For and that for must stand For saith he of him and through him are all things Rom. 11.36 by all things wee must vnderstand all good things specially the good things of life eternall and these all are of and from God And now where wee speake of faith we vnderstand not such a faith as Saint Iames reproueth which is a faith without workes and so dead as the bodie is dead that breatheth not Iam. 2.26 but a saith accompanied with or breathing in manifest symptomes of new life such a faith this woman had which in her was so commended And yet faith only iustifieth our persons before God good workes serue but to iustifie our faith before men Iam. 2.18.21 Also though wee acknowledge good works to be the quicke pulses of a louing faith yet withall wee say that they come not to God in way of iustification For true it is that wee must do good works if we will bee saued and yet it is as true that wee shall not bee saued for them An admonition to Christians to labour to get and hope faith Vse 2 so greatly commended in this woman of great faith and to do so wee must vse the meanes as first the Word faith is by it Rom. 10.17 If then wee will wrestle with God by faith when he proues our faith by temptation we must know what promises God hath made in his word and vpon what tearmes Psal 9.10 so wee shall hold him by the words of his owne mouth and with Iacobs hand till he blesse vs who will surely doe it for bee cannot deny himselfe But how shall wee know what promises God hath made in his word and to whom and vpon what conditions when we know neither East nor West in it and when wee turne from it in the day of hearing When Sathan shall sift vs in the maine point how shall we hope in more then the chaffe if we be not sound graine by the knowledge of saluation Faith is by hearing and hearing by the Word Rom. 10.17 Therefore no hearing no faith and without what possibilitie to please God Hebr. 11.6 and not pleasing him what hope to bee saued A fearfull darknes therefore must needes bee vpon all that want this Sunne of their holy faith And let them thinke of it who as one saith well haue passed an estate of their soules to ignorance for tearme of life neither haue they heard nor will they For how can such obey when they know not God and not knowing him how can they escape the vengeance that is threatened in the flame of fire 2. Thessal 1.8 Secondly if we would haue and get faith wee must pray for it to the authour and finisher of our faith Hebr. 12.2 Mark 9 24. Luk. 17.5 They deserue not good things that will not open their mouthes for them and we haue a saying Spare to speake spare to speed Faith then being of good things the best how vnworthy shall wee shew our selues of so faire a Iewell if wee will not aske it Thirdly as we get faith by the Word and prayer so being had we must keep it in a good conscience For faith and good conscience are relata

an inuersion of what hee had said as making rather for them against her Doctr. But first we haue the woman iustifying Christ the Lord in his sharpest answer to her which practice of hers teacheth vs the like and that is to confesse Gods iustice and truth in his roundest dealings with vs. So Dauid cleared the Lord in point of his iustice even when hee suffered vnder his sinne vnto the brimme of hell Nathan the Prophet had denounced the angry sentence of the Lords iustice against him for adultery and bloud hee had told him from God that euill should bee raised against him out of his owne house that the sword should lye vpon it that his wiues should be defiled and the childe of adultery should dye 2. Sam. 12.10.11 14. yet Dauid reasoneth not against Gods true and righteous iudgement in all this but iudgeth truly that God was true holy and righteous and that his sinne had deserued all that was then decreed against him Psal 51.4 his words are Against thee and with the double in token of earnestnesse thee haue I sinned therefore be thou iustified when thou speakest and cleare when thou iudgest It was a good signe of Elies saluation that he submitted to the Lord in that heauie iudgement that was pronounced against his house for he said It is the Lord let him do what seemeth him good 1. Sam. 3.18 Good king Hezekiah subscribed accordingly and said The word of the Lord is good 2. King 20.19 as if hee had said to the m●●●enger There is no fault in thy message all is in my sinne When Shimei railed on Dauid calling him murderer and a man of bloud he saw the the Lord to bee iust in that wicked mouth and therefore saith to Abishai and to the other Suffer him to curse for the Lord hath bidden him 2. Sam. 16.11 as if he should haue said This is little enough and I haue deserued more After Dauid Daniel cleareth Gods seueritie in the heauiest plague that euer was brought vpon a nation Dan. 9.13 14. And Ieremy did the like in his booke of Lamentations for saying that Ierusalem was then as greatly despised as euer greatly honoured before hee saith that it was because shee had greatly sinned Lament 1.8 All these did confesse a righteous Father to the iudgements that were then in the world making sinne the proper efficient of them all The reasons Reasons They know that God could not but bee iust in word and deed as was said Psal 51.4 and therefore in both iustifiable For what can hee say or doe amisse that can neither say nor do otherwayes then well Secondly God is not onely true but the truth nor onely iust but iustice it selfe Ioh. 14.6 1. Cor. 1 30. Now truth can neuer bee a lie nor iustice vnrighteousnesse Thirdly Gods children must be contrary to the deuils children and doe contrarily The deuils children condemne the Lord 2. King 6.33 Gods children therefore must cleare him they iustifie themselues Ezek. 18.25.29 these must instifie him A good natur'd childe will rather take fault to himselfe then charge his father and what children are they that charge God with fault who cannot offend Rom. 3.5 An admonition to Christians to see their owne deseruings Vse 1. and faultinesse in all that is vpon them from God and to pray for such eyes for then they will not charge him with wrong who can doe nothing but what is equall and iust Ezek. 18.4.2 Chron. 19.7 The more we behold our selues in this glasse the more patient we will bee in the hardest things that come So was Iob who therefore answered the Lord and said Behold I am vile and what shall I answer thee I will lay my hand vpon my mouth Iob 40 3. Till God had opened his eyes by shewing vnto him his sinne and by making it apparent as the light at noon-day now impossible it was for a God so innocent to punish without cause he stood stiffely vpon his iustification and thought hee could set downe God with his arguments Iob 23.3.4.5 here his eyes were held and scales of self-sufficiency were vpon them but when his sight was clearer he said as we heard When Ieremy saw as he should he said O Lord if I dispute with thee thou art righteous Iere. 12.1 he knew he should bee at a non-plus if he went on and therefore yeelded without any more ado So if we would rightly consider our wayes and our selues in sinne instead of reasoning with God about our troubles wee would confesse his iust hand vpon vs and say to our selues as the euill doer to his fellow we are iustly here Luk. 23.41 but we measure the punishment and weigh not the sinnes that haue caused it and therefore that God strikes too hard for small matters Hence some complaine of too much strictnesse in God when for tasting of a little fruite hee would cast all mankinde into miserie But these neuer yet considered rightly the merit of that sinne and maiesty of the person against whom it was committed The wages of euery sin is death eternall Rom. 6 23. and Gods maiestie makes euery sinne great though small in our eyes And here though the matter in which the sinne was done were small yet was it no small sinne to bee ambitious of Gods place to beleeue the deuill before God to be so vnthankfull for so large a liberty in all the other trees not to be contented with ones estate to breake a knowne and easie Commandement and to cast away the whole world of mankinde in one sinne Againe some thinke it too great scueritie in God to drowne a whole world of men in one Floud so as none were saued but eight persons But they that thus put finger in the eye repining at Gods iust doings besides the blasphemie of such a wicked taxation of the righteous God they neither know his greatnesse nor how great a sinne it is to offend it A reproofe of their impatiencie Vse 2 who murmure against God for euery little crosse hee sends them in their children in their cattell or corne-fields For thus to murmure is to say plainly that they deserue no such vniust strokes of his hand But if God should take away all as he did from Iob we should take the losse as Iob did blessing his name Iob 1.21 Nay if he should raze vs out of his booke of life wee should bee dumbe and say nothing because hee hath done it Psalm 39.2 how much more should we hold in when he doth but softly touch vs and not send his iron into our soules Some yeeld to the Lord with a forced submission saying What remedie as if hee carried all by the elder hand and plagued them because they could not resist him Where yet it is their own wickednesse that hath corrected them Ier. 2.19 onely the Lord then vsed his great power to make good his iustice vpon them for wilfull transgression For iust is the Lord and nothing shall faile of all