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cause_n	good_a	justify_v	work_n	6,434	5	6.8388	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20717	The true friend, or A bill of exchange expressed in a sermon preached at White-hall: vpon Sonday the XIII. of December, anno Domini, 1629. By Iohn Dovvle, Doctor of Divinitie, and his Maiesties chaplaine.	Dowle, John.	1630 (1630)	STC 7101; ESTC S118447	17,369	80

they Your friends which you had before gotten by your charitie you heard before who they were the blessed Saints the holie Angels they shall receive you carrie you into Abrahams bosome The Poore they shall receive you poore friends God wot yet such as shall another day doe you rich favours for they shall receive you They The Poore Either Pauperes spiritu saith Bona venture The poore in spirit for theirs is the Kingdome of Mat. 5. 3. God Mat. 5. 3. Or Pauperes in August sacculo The poore who live in want here their praiers shall receive thee Orabit pauper prote The poore shall pray for thee Ecclesiast 29. But is that all Ecclesiast 29. That is but colde comfort for alas how shall he who whilest hee lived here could not helpe himselfe and which is worse it may be went to hell himselfe after his death be able to receive mee into everlasting habitations Why he shall send up his praiers to heaven for thee and although perhaps hee doe it not or not as he ought it matters not Thine almes are ever had in remembrance in the sight of God Acts 10. 31. It is the sweete meditation of the blessed Psalmist on this point Psal Psal 16. 2. 16. 2 Tobathi bal gnaléka Likedoshim asher baaretz My goods and my goodnes O Lord are nothing unto thee thou art in heaven and they cannot reach up to thee therefore they shall be extended to the poore Saints which are on the earth and why to them It may be thou wilt take it as done to thy selfe so thou shalt receive us thy selfe but according to all the kindnesse wee have shewed unto them Christus recipiet Christ Jesus saith Haymo shall receive us for that good which wee have done unto others Such if you marke it well is the proportion of the last doome when the Saints are received into glorie Matth. 25 Come ye blessed Mat. 25. of my Father inherite the Kingdome prepared for you Come I say I know you all Thou gavest me once in such a place a cheerefull pennie else had I gone supperlesse to bed Come receive a Crowne for it now thou shalt sup with the Lambe At another time thou gavest mee a garment else had I starved for colde Come receive thou a wedding garment Thou gavest me meate when I was hungrie drinke when I was thirstie Come thou shalt have the bread of life and the water of life of which whosoeever eateth and drinketh shall hunger and thirst no more Lord when saw we thee hungrie naked or in want I say unto you In as much as you did it to one of these little ones you did it unto me Come ye blessed inherite the Kingdome prepared for Mat. 25. you Object But if almes-giving and our other deedes of charitie be able to reconcile us to God at first and shall afterwards receive us into everlasting habitations then by our good workes may we obtaine heaven and merit eternall life and if that be so in vaine doe wee beleeve that Christs death and passion was all-sufficient for us or as Saint Paul saith That he died for our sinnes and rose againe for our iustification Answ But in one word to wipe away this doubt and to cleare the doctrine of our Mother the Church of England in which we live which in the Homilie of almes deedes teacheth us expreslie thus That Our good works are not the originall cause of our acceptation before God but consequents fruits and signes of our Justification Neither doe those Fathers of Trent anie more for anie thing I could ever see after al their traversing this point in their sixth Session but propose the Exercise of good workes to the just to those who are justified before which if our Church did not likewise in vaine have I beene preaching unto you all this while who at this present meant to doe nothing else For although wee like not the Rhemists doctrine who teach That the kingdome of heaven is to bee had for monie the very words of their note upon my Text nor their Mother the Church of Rome who putteth the same in practise as it appeareth by that Catalogue not long since printed at Bolonia in Italian wherein everie Ecclesiasticall preferment and office is valued at so much to be purchased Oh new way to heaven yet we teach that after our first justification which is by faith Vivit iustus ex fide that good workes are prepared for us to walke in they are as the Ancients taught Via regni not causa regnan●i we shew the fruits of that in our sanctificatiō growing from strength to strength from one degree of grace unto another untill we appeare perfect before our God in Zion Psal 84. 7. And so at last God Psal 84. 7. looking upon these fruites of our righteousnesse being Tincta sanguine Christi dyed in Christs blood as Bellarmines phrase is at last is pleased to grant them a recompence and to crowne them with a reward of victorie And thus in my Text are they said to receive those that doe them into everlasting habitations into the joyes of heaven above and when they are there no doubt all of them are fulfilled with glorie yet as one starre differing from another The twelve Apostles sitting upon twelve seates Elias and Iohn Baptist shining as greater lights For in my Fathers Kingdome saith our Saviour are many dwelling places Ioh. 14. 2. There shall bee paritas gaudii disparitas gloriae parity of ioy disparity of glory yet everie vessell shall bee full according to the measure of its owne capacitie Lastly as they shall be habitations not one but manie so saith the text they shall be everlasting also For we know saith the Apostle 2 Cor. 5. 1. that if 2 Cor. 5. 1 our earthly house of this Tabernacle shall be destroyed we have a building given of God an house not made with hands but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 everlasting in the heavens Vnwise men that we be let us give over labouring for those things which perish and wea rying our selves our thoughts to gaine those flitting riches which on a sudden take the wings of the morning and forsake us and at last learne to build for eternitie Let us no longer vexe our selves to compasse transitorie pleasures and momentanie delights which for the most part are gone frō us before wee can truely say they are come and now at the last by our good deedes of charitie lay up for our selves true treasures in heavē above which can never be taken away from us nor wee from them seeing they be everlasting habitations Let us lose all that we may gaine these let us sell all that we may buy these Let us never thinke our selves at home but ever Pilgrimes and strangers untill we possesse these these everlasting habitations In one word let us make us friends of our unrighteous Māmon that when we our selves shall faile they may receive us into everlasting habitations in which we shall dwell forever and for ever sing Halleluiah Glory honour and praise be unto God the Father to the Lambe that sitteth upon the Throne and to the holy Ghost world without end Amen FINIS