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cause_n	faith_n	good_a	salvation_n	3,234	5	7.4195	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06068	Two godly and fruitfull treatises the one, vpon the Lords prayer. The other, vpon the sixe principles. Both penned by that learned man, Paul Baine, sometimes preacher of Gods word at S. Andrewes in Cambridge.	Baynes, Paul, d. 1617.	1619 (1619)	STC 1649; ESTC S115503	46,776	286

to be heads of some Corporation it is held a great matter but suppose there were a great kindred of poore Iacke strawes which had rebelled against the King should the Prince match himselfe with some poore maide of the tribe that so he might pacifie the King toward them here were grace such as no report of storie could second The King of heauen hath when we were all poore rebels matched himselfe with our flesh and bloud by couenant of personall cohabitation with it neuer to be dissolued Secondly we must hence see what reason we haue to come to God with boldnesse God in himself is a light to which is no accesse a consuming fire but loe he hath made himselfe God-man that looking at thy owne nature thou mightest not be afraid of him The ancient sheepheards to make themselues lesse awfull and more louely to their sheepe were wont to go couered with their skinnes So this sheepheard of our soules that he might not be terrible vnto vs maketh himselfe like vnto vs in flesh and bloud Though we feared some great man yet were he married to our house very neare vs this circumstance would animate vs not a little thinke the same of thy God married as aforesaid to thy flesh Thirdly as this sheweth loue and encourageth so to consider that God is he that dwelleth in our nature will be a ground of hope against all euils whatsoeuer Naked man could not helpe vs thou must neuer stay in seeing man But as when thou seest a body thou knowest it is such a ones body so when thou imaginest that glorious body and spirit still thinke whose they are the eternall Sonnes of God On this person as God fixe all thy trust as man thou hast encouragement but as God thou hast matter of confidence as who cannot be withstood in his gracious pleasure toward thee our affiance is built vpon the person that is man but as he is God not as he is man For cursed is he that trusteth in flesh Lastly seeing Christ hath for our sake taken our base nature how equall is it that we at his request should labour to be partakers of the diuine nature that is of heauenly qualities and condition Should the Prince hauing done such a thing for the poore snakes aboue named intreate nothing at them but that they would liue at Court with him and partake in his glorie were it not an easie suite The next thing that followeth is that at Christ hath done and suffered all things for vs euen the cursed death We of our selues are bankrupts who stand indebted vnto all obedience to euery commandement which is that perfect righteousnesse the Law requireth who likewise are in debt to the iustice of God because we haue sinned in debt I say so farre as to beare the cursed death Cursed is he that continueth not in all to do it alwaies Now God hath put himselfe surety for vs he hath in our roome bene obedient to euery commandement if this be to be asked of vs and he hath put his body soule twixt this cursed death and vs that so we might be discharged If a man do this or that office for vs when absent ô how kindly we take it especially if he do it out of his meere good will vnspoken to of vs But how should we take this to heart that Christ hath when we could not through our gracelesnesse once aske him fulfilled all righteousnesse which we were to fulfill We take it as loue in men if spoken to they will do small matters often for vs. Againe he that will beare a blow in our behalfe be bound for vs in great summes of money especially he that will lie by it for our good but how much more are we to acknowledge this grace of Christ who hath bene our surety payed for our deliuerance not siluer or gold but his precious bloud Againe this is the sure anchor of our faith our surety hath discharged all that can be required at vs. Now a debt in iustice once payed cannot againe be demanded Who then shall lay anything to our charge it is Christ that is dead yea risen from the dead for the iustifying of vs. He hath once satisfied all in the behalfe of vs who beleeue who then shall be able to demand ought at vs The next thing is that Christ alone hath done and suffered all things for vs not Saints nor our selues are to be Sauiours but the glorie of this belongeth to that Name alone shall dust and ashes beset to helpe out the great God in that he goeth about Let the Sunne borrow light of candels when this may be prooued Whatsoeuer mooueth God to saue vs as without himselfe whatsoeuer effectually applieth it all is in Christ Christs passion the medicine Christs diuine power the vertue which worketh all in all True it is that faith repentance thankfull confession are required but first not as causes working our saluation but as meanes without which we come not to this saluation I am sicke there is a Physician which healeth such as I am onely he would haue his patients haue a good perswasion of him be thankfull to him be sorrie if they rudely prouoke him Now such he with his medicines by his art applying the same restoreth to health Who would say that a mans going to the Physician his sorrow for offending him his thankfulnesse toward him do properly cure him of his disease euery thing necessary to this or that end is not a cause of that to which it concurreth as needfull We haue need of meate and drinke that we may serue God yet meate drinke are no causes of godlinesse Secondly these things needfull are begun in vs continued perfected by Christ the author and finisher of faith and all other graces in vs. Now the Papists do in these two branches derogate from Christ his absolute sauing of vs. First that they make man in part to do and endure that which is the medicine healing of him Secondly that they make him out of the power of his wil not created in him when he is onely regenerate but remaining in his corrupted nature to bring forth those things which are necessary to concurre that saluation may be applied Let vs therefore know that in Christ we are compleat and hauing such an one who is able perfectly to saue vs let vs not looke any other way to any creature in heauen or earth It is Christ that is dead risen yea that maketh intercession If the Prince should vndertake a thing who would wish he might for his further securitie haue some poore subiect ioyned with him that which is perfect is marred by adding ought vnto i● And who will say that Christs sufferings righteousnes effectuall application are any way defectiue Let vs then with the Apostle care to know nothing but Christ and him crucified A fift wheele helpeth nothing troubleth not a little so it fareth with all additaments of righteousnesse and sufferings that are ioyned with