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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08055	Mans actiue obedience, or The power of godlines especially in the commandement of the gospell, which requireth faith in euerie Christian: or A treatise of faith, worthily called precious faith, as being in it selfe a most rare iewell of ioy, and peerelesse pearle, that excelleth in worth the highest price. Wherein is plainly declared what faith in Christ is what properly is the obiect of it, what is the speciall operation of faith, by which it may bee discerned; and the worke about which it is principally imployed, the subiect wherein it is placed; what things are needfull to the making it up, what to the being, and what to the wel-being of it; with the differences that are betweene true beleeuers and fained in all of them, and the vses thereof. By Master William Negus, lately minister of Gods word at Lee in Essex.; Mans active obedience.	Negus, William, 1559?-1616.; Negus, Jonathan, d. 1633.	1619 (1619)	STC 18420; ESTC S113618	278,658	364

to reioyce alwaies for his goodnesse vnto them who by his gracious and wise prouidence doth so order and dispose of euery thing that doth happen as hee neuer faileth but doth cause all to work together to the good of them that truly doe loue him This is that which the Apostle willeth Phil. 4. 5. 6. and waranteth to euery good Christian that they doe reioyce in the Lord alwaies Now alwaies includeth as all times so all things and all cases that may happen for if there were any thing that might come to passe or any condition might befall a true Christian wherein there could not be found some cause of reioycing in the Lord for some one respect or other then might not a Christian reioyce alwaies but this the Apostle hath said hee may yea and ought also to doe or else he would not so directly haue spoken it and willed the doing of it and lest any should thinke hee had somewhat with the most and granted too large an allowance vnto Christians thus alwaies to reioyce to meete with that doubt and to make it cleare that there is warrant for them so to doe he saith it againe and speaketh it the second time doubling that speech as if he should say I willed you to reioyce in the Contra. 116. 128 Lord alwaies in saying whereof I haue said nothing too much I know what I do● say I say nothing but what I haue warrant for I will therefore say it againe Reioyce in the Lord alwaies and againe I say reioyce But it is worthy the marking he doth not will vs to reioyce alwaies in all things that may happen for some things may either be done by vs or be done to vs which are not simply to be ioyed in but to be lamented in and much be wailed by vs for which things themselues alone being considered we are to be greatly sorry as being euill in themselues But because so wonderful is the Lord in counsel and so excellent in working as he knoweth how to bring good out of the greatest euil that can happen to be done for otherwise as wel hath one of the Fathers obserued the Lord would neuer let euill bee vnlesse he knew how to bring good out of euill therefore hee willeth vs whatsoeuer cause we may haue to be humbled in our selues for that which may befall vs or vnto any others yet to reioyce in the Lord alwaies in his mercie and goodnesse iustice and truth in the excellencie of his wisedome and the absolute perfection of his skill as who knoweth without all failing to make all things beautifull in due time for Eccles 3. 11. so perfect a workeman is he as it skilleth not what matter and stuffe he taketh into his hand to worke vpon reffuse and rubbish that none others can tell how to put to any vse he will improue to such a purpose and cause so well to serue his turne as the very perfection of beauty shall bee seene in that passing workmanship of his hands which he will make euident to be done by him and to be wrought vpon the same For perfect is the worke of the mightie God and all his waies are iudgement God is true and without Deut. 32. 4. wickednesse iust and righteous is he as Moses did sing in his Swannes song Now if any doe desire that as the Lord turneth all things to good so hee might get good also out of euery thing that so hee might alwaies reioyce in all things so made profitable vnto him the Apostle giueth him this direction following in the place before cited that in nothing being too mistrustfully carefull he doe make prayers vnto God alwaies and in all things for the same Innumerable be the things that in particular may and doe fall out in our life time which doe much and nearely concerne vs some which of themselues in their owne nature and at the first hand are very ioyfull and comfortable vnto vs sent from God as benefits and blessings to cheare comfort and doe vs good and so they are accounted of by vs and intertained with all gladnesse and reioycing on our parts returning backe againe heartie thanks and praises vnto God for the same In such things it is cleare enough a good Christian may and ought much to reioice but there are many other things happening which may seeme to be as much against vs and about such things is all the question and the greatest doubt made how in those things which first and in their owne nature are heauie things to be heard of to be seene with our eyes or felt by our owne experience which iustly doe bring matter of griefe and heauinesse to our hearts and as iustly may call for much humiliation at our hands a faithfull seruant of God may possibly gather or picke out any kind of true comfort or find how any cause of sound ioy and warrantable reioycing in any respect may be raised from the same that so this may stand true the ioy of a sound Christian is of so large an extent as it may be reached out to euery thing that doth happen and according to that the Apostle willeth that a good Christian may be warranted to reioyce alwaies in the Lord. CHAP. XXII Of the lets of true ioy and first of sinne And how the Lord raiseth thence maater of reioycing to beleeuers OF all the things that are of this nature and kinde the greatest doubt so farre as I conceiue may be made of these two in particular viz. either of such things as doe respect our dealing against God by sinning and disobeying of him or doe respect Gods dealing against vs by chaftising and not sparing of vs and that either by his withdrawing himselfe from vs in hiding his owne countenauce or by his comming neere vnto vs in iudgement to smite vs with his rod laying on heauy chastisements and bringing sore and great troubles vpon vs. For as for all else that doe befall vnto vs by any other meanes of men or diuels or any other the creatures if they were not armed and made strong against vs by our sinnes or were not sent and set on by Gods owne hand his warrant and allowance he being thereunto iustly prouoked by vs to set them vpon vs and to set them against vs wee need not weigh them a rush nor care at all what they al together could possibly do for the doing to vs any hurt or any way to hinder our steady comfort But euen in those things whereof the greatest doubt may be made if there can for the present no manner of cause be found why in any respect a true beleeuer may haue his ioy in the Lord euen then still abiding and some kinde of lawfull reioyeing in the Lord yet allowed vnto him it is not because there is wholly wanting all manner of ground from whence may be raised a true and warrantable kind of reioycing but because we cannot see it till our eyes be opened and the