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A10232 The communicants duty set forth in eight sermons / preached at Kings-Lynne in Norfolke by Thomas Purchas ... Purchas, Thomas. 1639 (1639) STC 20509.3; ESTC S1282 68,428 342

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commeth shall hee finde Faith on the earth y Luke 18 8. hee saith not that when hee shall come againe hee shall finde no Faith at all in the earth for he shall finde as many kinds of Faith as there be kindes of Religion in the World neither meaneth he that hee shall finde no saving Faith for he shall finde it in many who shall then be alive at his comming a 1 Thess 4. 15 16. But the meaning is that when Christ shall come to judgement he shall finde few in the earth that have a saving Faith in comparison of them that have it not Thirdly All men have not a saving Faith because all men shall not be saved for as many as are saved are saved by Faith b Rom. 9. 27. Now that all shall not be saved it is plaine for though the number of Israel were as the sand yet but a remnant shall be saved Fourthly All men have it not because First Some make Shipwrack of it c 1 Tim. 1 19 Secondly Some depart from it and deny it d 1 Tim. 4. 1. Thirdly Many cast it off e 1 Tim. 6 10. Fourthly Many erre and are reprobate concerning it f 2 Tim. 3 8. Wee must examine our Faith because the Lord Reas 3 himselfe tries our Faith now wee must not thinke that this God doth as though hee were ignorant of our Faith for all things are naked and open before God but to teach us to trie and instruct us that upon tryall wee shall know whether wee have a saving Faith that God tries wee may see in Abraham who was tryed g Heb. 11. 17. God tryed Abraham and will try us but I neither teach nor thinke that God doth or will try the Faith of all Christians with so great a tryall as was Abrahams Examine wee must our Reas 4 Faith because there is no grace so necessary as this is First Because no grace is acceptable to God without this h Heb. 11. 6. Secondly Because no grace so necessary for this life and the life to come All good things are ours by promise the promise is made ours by Faith and it is Faith onely that layes hold on Christ Thirdly Because it is to bee desired and used above all other graces above all saith the Apostle take the shield of Faith i Eph. 6. 16 Where note that the Apostle contenteth not himselfe with a bare exhortation but with weighty reasons presseth his exhortation both behinde and before First Before comparatively preferring it before all other graces and above all Secondly Behind simply declaring the vertue and efficacy of it whereby ye shall be able to quench But it will be objected Ob. 1. We are ignorant and cannot examine to examine requires wisedome knowledge understanding Obiections Answered True it is many are ignorant but all are not so and though many bee ignorant and simple yet that little wit and understanding that they have if they would imploy it they might doe much craving Gods blessing upon the use of the meanes againe they have a light to direct them the light of Gods Word True but the Word is hard and difficult so that Ob. 2 we cannot understand it Have you not teachers Ministers resort to them Ans you have the Word publikly preached and private conference to helpe you Wee have Trades and occupations Ob. 3 Wives and Children and have no time to spare Many who make this Ans Obection have no lawfull callings or no callings at all but sure it is that there are none who have lawfull callings that are so streightned but that they may set a part some time to examine they spare some time to Eate to Drinke to Sleepe to recreate themselves and shall there bee none for so Holy a Worke as this trades-men spend not all their time in bying and selling but some in casting up their debt-book that they may know how it is with their estates how they thrive and shall there be no time spent to know how they thrive and grow in grace many have great trading and imployments so that it may be in the sixe dayes they cannot let such do it on the seventh the LORDS Day The End of the Fourth SERMON The Fifth SERMON 1 Corinthians 11. CHAP. 28. VERS Let a man examine himselfe and so let him eate of that Bread and drinke of that Cup. HAving shewed the necessity of the examination of our faith and answered some objections It now concernes all to know what saving faith is or faith in Christ Now saving Faith is a Faith described grace of the Spirit of God wrought in the heart of a sinner whereby he trusts in the Lord Jesus for eternall blessednesse And here we must take notice First that it is a grace of the Spirit of God So that it is not onely God that works it in those that have it but also that the Lord in grace mercy favour works it First it is God that God workes Faith workes it It is his gift he is called by the Apostle the Author and finisher of our faith a Heb. 12. 2. as the Athenians were called Inventrices perfectrices omnium doctrinarum the inventers and perfecters of all good learning The Romanes had their learning from the Grecians and the Grecians from the Aegyptians and the Aegyptians from the Chaldees and they from Adam Seth Noah and the old Patriarchs but the Church hath all her Learning Religion and faith from God he gave it at the first and he confirmed it he gave some to be Apostles some Prophets and some Evangelists some Pastours and Teachers for gathering together of the Saints for the worke of the Ministery and for the edification of the body of Christ til we meet together in the unity of Faith and Knowledge of the Sonne of God Saint Luke having spoken of Stephens Faith noteth the cause of it that Stephen was full of the Spirit for God worketh it by his Spirit b Acts 7. 22. all good workes are the fruits of the Spirit therfore saith the Apostle the fruits of the Spirit are love ioy peace faith c Gal. 5. 22. and it is reckoned up among the gifts of the Spirit to another is given faith saith the Apostle by the same spirit d 1 Cor. 12. 9. Every good and perfect gift comes from above e 1 Jam. 17 And that which is said of Lydia is true of all the faithfull that the Lord opened the h●art of Lydia so that she beleev●d And Christ saith that this is the Worke of God f Ioh 6. 29. that yee beleeve not the Worke of the Father alone of the Sonne alone or of the holy Ghost alone but of the whole Trinity for this is one of the Workes of God which are said to be ad extra and therefore attributed to all the three Persons First To the first Person where Christ saith no man can come unto me that is beleeve except