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A63552	The faith of the Chvrch of England concerning Gods work on mans will pvblikely confirmed by the svbscriptions of all the famous martyrs, and divines thereof : faithfully gathered out of the authenticke records of the Chvrch / by Francis Tayler ...	Taylor, Francis, 1590-1656.	1641 (1641)	Wing T276; ESTC R10772	33,137	62

the holy Ghost God grant that these words against adultery may not be spoken in vain God by his holy word indueth his people assembled in his Church Hom. of right use of Church with the effectuous presence of his heavenly grace God doth indue his people assembled in his Church Hom. against perill of idol Part. 1. with the effectuall presence of his grace by his word and promises to the attainment of worldly commodities and all heavenly gifts and life everlasting God vouchsafe to purifie our minds through faith in Christ Hom. of inform of such as take offence at some places of Script Part. 2. to instill the heavenly drops of his grace into our hard-stony hearts to supple the same that we be not contemners and deriders of his word but that with all humblenesse of minde and Christian reverence we may indeavour our selves to heare and to read his sacred Scriptures and inwardly so to digest them as shall be to the comfort of our soules and sanctification of his holy Name Man is first made good by the Spirit and grace of God that effectually worketh in him Hom. of Almsdeeds Part. 2. Hom. of Almsdeeds Part. 2. In the same place In the same place and afterwards bringeth forth good fruits The grace of God worketh all in all Whatsoever can be named good and profitable for body or soule comes only of Gods mercy and meere favour and not of our selves God attributes that unto us and to our doings that he by his Spirit worketh in us and through his grace procureth for us God grant that we may alwayes shew our selves thankfull for Christs death Passion Sermon 2. abhorring all kinde of wickednesse and applying our minds wholly to the service of God and the diligent keeping of his commandments It is Gods Spirit which ingendreth a burning zeale towards Gods word Hom. for Whitsunday Part. 1. In the same place In the same place Nicodemus knew not the power of the holy Ghost in this behalfe that it is he which inwardly worketh the Regeneration and new birth of mankinde It is the holy Ghost and no other thing that doth quicken the minds of men stirring up good and godly motions in their hearts which otherwise of their own crooked and perverse nature they should never have The fruits of faith In the same place charitable and godly motions if man have any at all in him they proceed onely of the holy Ghost who is the only worker of our sanctification and maketh us new men in Christ Jesus The Spirit of Jesus is a good Spirit Part. 2. an holy Spirit a lowly Spirit a mercifull Spirit If any man live uprightly he hath the holy Ghost within him If the Saints in heaven were asked Serm. for Rogat week Part. 1. who should be thanked for their regeneration justification and salvation they would answer with David Not to us Lord but to thy Name give all the thanks If they be asked In the same place whence came all their glorious works they would say with Esay O Lord it is thou of thy goodnesse that hast wrought all our works in us not we our selves They be justitiaries and hypocrites In the same place which rob Almightie God of this honour and ascribe it to themselves Let us confesse Serm. for Rogat week Part. 2. that all spirituall graces behoveable for our soule come from God without whose goodnesse no man is called to faith or stayed therein God grant us all grace so to heare his word that we may fulfill it In the same place God give us grace to know those things Part. 3. and to feele them in our hearts This knowledge and feeling is not in our selfe by our selfe it is not possible to come by it Let us therefore meekly call upon the Holy Ghost that he would assist us and inspire us with his presence that in him we may be able to heare our salvation For without his lively and secret inspiration we cannot so much as name Christ Much lesse should we be able to beleeve In Gods Spirit shall we be meet vessels to receive the grace of Almighty God In the same place for it is he that purgeth and purifieth the minde by his secret working He sitteth in the tongue of man to stirre him to speake his honour He onely ministreth spirituall strength to the powers of our soule and body It is Gods Spirit that maketh us to hold the way which God hath prepared for us and to pray boldly to God If any gift we have whereby we may worke to the glory of God and profit of our neighbour all is wrought by this Spirit The holy Spirit will confirme us in all things In the same place Hom. of Matrim Married persons must crave continually of God the helpe of his holy Spirit so to rule their hearts and to knit their minds together that they be not dissevered by any division of discord It is God that worketh in us both the will Serm. of Repen Part. 1. and the deed Phil. 2. For this cause although Ieremy had said before If thou returne O Israel returne unto me saith the Lord yet afterwards he saith Turne thou me O Lord I shall be turned for thou art the Lord try God Ier. 6. And therefore that holy writer and ancient Father Ambrose doth plainely affirme that the turning of the heart to God is of God Ambros de vocat gent. lib. 8. cap. 9. As the Lord himselfe doth testifie by his Prophet saying And I will give thee an heart to know me that I am the Lord and they shall be my people and I will be their God for they shall returne unto me with their whole heart God vouchsafe by his holy Spirit to worke a true and unfained repentance in us In the same place If we repent Hom. against wilfull rebell Part. 1. Next pray after Coll. Nove. 5. Now. Cat. quest 43. quest 128. God will either take away evill Princes or of evill make them good Make us now and alwayes truly thankfull in heart word and deed for all thy gracious mercies and this our speciall deliverance We must on the Sabbath rest from our own works and yeeld our selves wholly to Gods governance that he may doe his workes in us From Christs resurrection cometh unto us an endeavour vertue and strength to live well and holily Christ indueth us with strength by the vertue and power of his resurrection to rise from the deadly workes of sinne quest 129. and live to righteousnesse The Spirit of God is called holy quest 142. for that by him the elect of God and the members of Christ are made holy for which cause the scriptures have called him the spirit of sanctification It is onely God which strengthneth man and by whose grace the sinner conceiveth this hope quest 164. minde and will Christ with the inspiration and vertue of the Holy

nor devill against us doe prevaile In the same hymne And grant O Lord that thou being our leader and our guide We may eschew the snares of sinne and from thee never slide Onely thy grace must be my stay Humble suit of sin least that I fall downe flat And being downe then of my selfe cannot recover that Lord keepe our King and his councell Prayer to the Holy Ghost before Serm. Hom. of faith Part. 3. Hom. of Inform of them which take offence c. Part. 1. In the same place and give them will and might To persevere in thy Gospel which can put sinne to flight It is God that must be our defence and protection against all temptation of wickednesse and sinne Noah and Lot godly men which otherwise felt inwardly Gods holy Spirit inflaming them in their hearts with the feare and love of God could not by their owne strength keepe themselves from committing horrible sinnes We must therefore acknowledge our owne infirmity and weaknesse and pray more earnestly to God incessantly for his grace to strengthen us and to defend us from all evill It is of the goodnesse of God Serm. for Rogat week Part. 3. that we faint not in our hope unto him It is verily Gods worke in us the charity wherewith we love our brethren If after our fall we repent it is by him that we repent which reacheth forth his mercifull hand to raise us up If any will we have to rise it is he that preventeth our will and disposeth us thereto Pray God to defend and maintaine you in marriage Hom. of Matrim Now. Cat. quest 206. that ye be not overcome with any temptations We pray that God would strengthen the members of his Church with his aide and power as his souldiers that they may earnestly fight against and subdue the devill the world and the lusts of the flesh We pray God not to suffer us to be overcome with any wicked temptation but that he will deliver us quest 224. and save us from all evill Direct our steps in thy word Psal for Even and so shall our feet be kept from falling and no wickednesse shall have dominion over us Deliver us from the power of wicked spirits Even prayer there and from all sinne the workes of darknesse and from all other perils bodily and ghostly CHAP. XII Of the progresse of the Regenerate THe servants of God that are regenerate though they be able to doe spirtuall actions by vertue of that grace they have received yet so unperfectly that they cannot make any great progresse in godlinesse without further helpe of Gods grace they acknowledge that they have of Gods assistance to bring into action their good cogitations so violently are they opposed by the remainders of fleshly corruption Now if the regenerate have need of Gods grace to make a progresse how much more have they need of his effectuall grace that have no power to regenerate themselves as we say or at least not so much as the regenerate have to proceed as our adversaries must say unlesse they will put no difference betwixt spirituall death and spirituall life Let us now heare the testimony of the bookes in this particular Grant that we being regenerate Collect. on Christmas day and made thy children by adoption and grace may daily be renued by thy holy Spirit Nourish us with all goodnesse Sund. 7. after Trinity Sunday 14. after Trin. Prayer 3. in Baptisme Prayer in priv Bapt. Almightie and everlasting God give unto us the encrease of faith hope and charitie Encrease this knowledge and confirme this faith in us evermore Give thy holy Spirit to this infant that he being born again and being made heire of everlasting salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ may continue thy servant and attain thy promise Daily increase in these thy servants Prayer 1. in Confirm thy manifold gifts of grace the spirit of ghostly strength and true godlinesse and fulfill them O Lord with the spirit of thy holy feare Defend O Lord Prayer 2. there this childe with thy heavenly grace that he may continue thine for ever and daily increase in thy holy Spirit more and more untill he come unto thy everlasting kingdome O Lord increase our faith in us Prayer to holy Ghost before Ser. Prayer 3. in order of Priests and love so to abound c. We humbly beseech thee by the same thy Sonne to grant unto all us which either here or else where call upon thy name that we may shew our selves thankfull to thee for these and all other thy benefits and that we may daily encrease and go forwards in the knowledge and faith of thee and thy Sonne by thy holy Spirit Almightie God accomplish in you the good work Prayer 2. in Consecr of Bishops which he hath begun that ye may be found perfect and irreprehensible at the latter day Regard not the horrour of our sinnes Prayer in fast 1625. Coll. 1. but our unfained repentance Perfect that worke which thou hast begun in us Give unto us every day more earnest and unfeignned repentance Prayer 6. added to Letany there plant in our hearts by the grace of thy holy Spirit a setled feare of thy name and full resolution to lead the rest of our life in the carefull obedience of thy holy will in our callings and faithfull hope of a better life to come Lord we beleeve but do thou encrease our faith Prayer for season weather there our devotion our repentance and all Christian vertues Thou didst most graciously accept our undeserved repentance before thee Prayer against pestil in the fast 1626. we beseech thee to give us the grace of greater humiliation and to shew as yet further mercy Neither doth the holy Ghost think it sufficient Hom. for Whitsunday Part. 1. inwardly to work the spirituall and new birth of man unlesse he do also dwell and abide in him Whether the Prince be good or evill Hom. against wilfull rebel Part. 1. Thanksgiv Nov. 5. Pr. after 1. Coll. let us pray for him for his continuance and increase in goodnesse if he be good and for his amendment if he be evill Increase in us more and more a lively faith and fruitfull love in all obedience CHAP. XIII Of the prayers of holy men SVch as are indued with true grace already yet pray to God still for grace By which grace they do not entend a power to do well if they please for this they have already yea they had it before they did actually beleeve and by vertue of this power did beleeve as our adversaries say The grace then that Gods servants pray for that they may obey God is an actuall inclination of their will already regenerate to the effecting of those good desires that are in their souls Neither must we suppose that their prayers aime only at an indefinit power of doing well but at a