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A01711	Certaine sermons, vpon diuers textes of Holie Scripture Whereof some haue been seuerally before published, and other some for the greater benefit of the godly reader are here now added. By M. George Giffard, preacher of the worde of God at Mauldon Essex.	Gifford, George, d. 1620.; Gifford, George, d. 1620. A sermon on the parable of the sower. aut; Gifford, George, d. 1620. Two sermons upon I. Peter 5. vers. 8 and 9. aut; Gifford, George, d. 1620. Foure sermons uppon the seven chiefe vertues of faith. aut; Gifford, George, d. 1620. A godlie, zealous, and profitable sermon upon the second chapter of saint James. aut; Gifford, George, d. 1620. A sermon preached at Pauls Crosse the thirtie day of May. aut; Gifford, George, d. 1620. A sermon on the third chapter of Saint Iames. aut	1597 (1597)	STC 11848.5; ESTC S120470	152,707	288

tempteth hee any man but euerie one is tempted when hee is drawne away by his own concupiscence and is entised then lust when it hath conceiued bringeth forth sinne and sinne when it is finished bringeth foorth death The first thing we haue heere to note in this doctrine is this that all corruption is of our selues not comming from any outward cause It is true that Satan is an instrument and as it were the bellowes to stirre and kindle in vs the lustes of sinne and beareth a verie great stroke in the matter but if it were not for this concupiscence that is in vs hee could not bring his matters to passe the prouocations and allurementes of wicked men are so manie meanes to driue vs and drawe vs into sinne but yet the cause is in our selues A chiefe point to bee obserued that we may lerne to condemne our selues when wee haue done amisse and not after the maner of men which looke when they haue faulted howe they may disburthen themselues and bee discharged of the blame and therefore they will either crie out of the diuel as though he as they say ought them a shame or els they will say woe woorth such or such that euer I knew them if it had not been for them I should not haue done thus The Prophet Dauid when he had committed murther and adulterie being reprooued by Nathan although he knewe right well that the Diuell was a greate furtherer in the matter likewise he might haue thought vpon the fonde dealing of the woman which so vndiscreetlie washed her selfe in such a place as others might see her yet he letteth these go and to the end he may wholy and fullie condemne himselfe hee looketh home to the welspring of all this foule and beastlie sinne saith Behold I was borne in wickednes and in sinne hath my mother conceiued mee as if he should say O Lord I cannot seeke any way to be excused for all this rebellion against thee is conceiued and bred in mine owne corrupt breast I brought the roote of it from my mothers wombe This is a good lesson for vs to learne for so long as we do not know it but like partiall and corrupt iudges go about to excuse our selues to rid our hands of that we haue committed we shall neuer come to any sincere repentance Further wee are heere to obserue in this place that all corruption comming from this lust if we will repent indeed wee must begin heere For if they be changed only in their outwarde deedes and wordes and this inward sickenes not healed they haue gained nothing no more then a man which would destroy a tree and doth no more then lop and shred off certain boughes and twigs leauing the stumpe and roote behinde for so long as this doeth liue in them they may well seeme in the eies of men to be very great conuertes if they of ignorant idiotes are become such as haue gotten some skill and knowledge from drunkards ruffians adulterers and such like they become sober modest and of good behauiour as this may be done before men and yet the heart nothing altered before God for there be many causes which may mooue men to seeme outwardly to bee godlie when the heart within is fraught with lothsome lustes and ful of rotten corruptions which make men still altogether abominable before God To bee short therefore a man shall neuer rightly iudge of himselfe whether hee haue repented vnlesse hee looke to the bottome of this sore that it may bee healed The greatest multitude of men being as blind as Beetles in this point imagine that repentance is a verie light and easie thing which they can haue when they list when a man of wisedome saith this that here lieth so deepe a matter that heere bee rootes which are hard to bee pulled vp hee is mooued to bee the more carefull least hee deceiue himselfe Looke therefore euery man to his thoughts for by them is the triall made if the thoughtes bee chaunged and the inward desires altered so that of prophane and worldlie they are become holie and heauenly then hee may boldlie say I haue a newe heart and there is a right spirit renued in me I haue repented I haue not playd the hypocrite I feele an vpright heart toward God I feele the corrupt fountaine stopped so that the filthy matter and stincking mudde doeth not boile foorth as it did It may also bee demaunded heere whether this lust be not a sinne or a corruption of it selfe because Saint Peter saith that corruption resteth in it The place which I alleadged out of the 51. Psalme doth prooue it to be a sinne also it may bee prooued out of the fift to the Romans where Saint Paule prooueth that infantes haue sinne because they are subiect to death which is the rewarde of sinne although as hee saith they sinne not after the similitude of the transgression of Adam Therefore if wee had none other but this it were enough to condemne vs and vtterly to cast vs away Let vs neuer cease therefore vntill we feele a chāge in our selues euen in this secret infection for otherwise wee shall neuer be able to flie the corruptions which are in the world or as Saint Iames speaketh in the first chapter of his Epistle to keepe our selues vnspotted of the worlde so long as we carie the corrupt world in our breast neither shall our religion bee pure for thus it is faide If any man among you seemeth religious and refraineth not his tongue but deceiueth his owne heart this mans religion is vaine Pure religion and vndefiled before God euen the father is this to visit the fatherlesse and widowes in their distresse and to keepe himselfe vnspotted of the world The second Sermon vpon the 5.6 and 7. verses 5 Therefore giue euen all diligence thereunto ioine moreouer vertue with your faith and with vertue knowledge 6 And with knowledge temperance and with temperance patience and with patience godlinesse 7 And with godlinesse brotherlie kindnesse and with brotherlie kindnesse loue ANd hereunto giue all diligence c. He hath declared in the former verses among other chiefe matters this one especiallie to how great holinesse and purenesse through sanctification we be called which was chieflie expressed in these wordes that by them yee may bee made partakers of the diuine nature in that yee flie the corruption which is in the worlde through lust vnto this now he ioyneth an exhortation requiring at their handes not onlie to put to their diligence but also as he saith euen all diligence For as it is the greatest and chiefest thing which we are to looke after so there is required at our handes to giue our principall care and studie thereunto this equitie must easilie be graunted that if we cannot obtaine or get the thinges of this life which are small in comparison vnlesse wee put to our diligence for God will haue it to be so that then of good right

declare a wonderfull faith and loue towards God as we may easily see considering all the whole circumstances of the storie God hath called him out of his natiue country and from his fathers house into a strange land hee had promised him a sonne by his wife Sara of whome the blessed seed should come he performed this promise in his old age euen when Sara was by nature past childbearing Gen. 21.12 he had no other child by her the promise was made in none but in him In Isaac shall thy seede be blessed Ech man shall now be driuen to confesse that here was a great triall when God doeth bid him take his onely sonne euen Isaac and goe three daies iourney to the place which he would shew him and to offer him vpon the altar a slaine sacrifice How great a griefe is it for a louing father to loose a sonne which hee loueth dearely especially when hee hath no more sonnes then how much griefe might this be not onely to see his sonne slaine but also to slay him with his owne handes and most of all that childe in whome the couenant of eternall life was made because Christ should come of him who beeing dead all hope of saluation did die with him All this did not withhold but the faith of Abraham carried so great a loue in him and feare towardes God that hee neuer grudged at the matter nor neuer made delay but went indeed to haue slain his sonne hauing bound him vpon the wood and hauing taken in his hand the sacrificing knife to kill him Then the Angell of the Lord from heauen did forbid him Before the Lorde it was as if it had been done because Abraham did fully purpose to doe it then wee see plainly by this what the true faith is But if any man should obiect and say this example is not fit euerie man can not be like Abraham nor haue such a faith as hee had hee was a rare man few or none to be compared with him Saint Iames doth answer If ye thinke this example to be too high and that yee are not to be measured by it I will shewe you another as low what say yee to Rahab the harlot was not shee iustified by workes did not her faith declare it selfe by good workes Can ye take any exception against this example Will yee not be ashamed that your faith should not be like hers As the faith of Abrahā did vtter it selfe to the world so did hers whereby she shewed her selfe to be a right daughter of Abraham although shee were not of his posteritie according to the flesh but came of one of those cursed nations which God had commaunded the children of Israel to roote out and destroy yet I say shee was his daughter according as Saint Paul setteth it forth in the Epistle to the Romanes that hee should be the father not onely of them which are of the Circumcision but also of those that walke in the steps of the faith of our father Abraham like as all his children both of the Iewes and Gentiles must doe which will be blessed with their faithfull father Abraham Then wee haue here the example of the father of all the faithfull with the example of one of his daughters which had been a poore harlot what excuse remaineth or what can wee pretend shall wee not blush and be ashamed to say that we beleeue well and take our selues to be the children of Abraham and the children of God when we are no more like him then as the common saying is an apple is like an oister Christ our Sauiour doeth vse this reason against the Pharisies in the Gospell of Saint Iohn If yee were Abrahams children saith he ye would doe the workes of Abraham but now you go about to kill mee a man that hath tolde you the trueth which I haue heard of God this did not Abraham And a little after Ye are of your father the deuill and the lustes of your father yee will doe What would ye haue more plaine than this Euen the verie seed and posteritie of Abraham which tooke themselues to be the children of Abraham and the children of God yet Christ Iesus telleth them plainely they are the children of the deuill and why Because their workes were not like the workes of Abraham their beliefe was not like his but it was dead Shall wee not then as boldly say at this day nay rather doth not Christ speake as plainly as he did and telleth vngodly men to their face howsoeuer yee bragge of your faith it is but dead and howsoeuer yee boast and take your selues to be the children of God yet in verie deede vnlesse yee returne from your vngodly waies and shew forth the fruites of a true liuely faith yee are the children of the deuill trust not vnto your vaine hope and deade faith for it will but deceiue you Dearely beloued let vs not be so mad when God telleth vs this with his own mouth as to beleeue the contrarie and to perswade our selues wee shall doe well enough although we continue in our sinnes This is a most pestilent craft of Sathan and commeth from the roote of Infidelitie as yee may see in our great grandmother Eue God had told her and Adam that what day soeuer they should eate of the tree they should die the death the deuill told her yee shall not die she beleeued him but beleeued not God shee thought euen as the deuill tolde her shee should doe well enough or els shee would neuer haue eate thereof we haue sucked this poison from her breastes when God telleth vs if your faith bring not foorth good workes it is deade it can not helpe yee if yee continue in these wicked deedes yee are the children of the deuill yee must speedily repent for yee can not when yee would No no saith the deuill on the other side that is not true your faith is good enough goe on yee shall doe well God hath mercie in store yee may repent afterward Now the most doeth beleeue the deuill in this and giue no credit at all vnto God and neuer seeke to trie themselues whether they be in good case or not When the Apostle saith here that Abraham was iustified by workes and that Rahab was iustified by workes c. Wee must note that this word Iustified is taken diuers waies in the scriptures which is one cause as I noted before why Saint Paul and Saint Iames seeme to be contrary Saint Paul proouing that we are iustified by faith taketh it as contrarie to this worde condemned for being by our sinnes guiltie and to receiue the sentence of condemnation we are in Christ into whose mysticall body wee are incorporate thorough faith acquit and discharged which is called iustification this cannot be by the workes of the lawe because there is no perfection in the deedes of any but euen the most pure are vncleane and spotted Therefore as Saint Paul saith they are all