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A06348 A Godly and short treatise vpon the Lordes prayer, the xii articles of the Christian faith, and the Ten commaundementes. Some, Robert, 1542-1609. 1580 (1580) STC 16814.5; ESTC S2219 13,019 45

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Christ was free from sin 1. Iohn cap. 3. ver 5. and therfore suffered not for his but for our sinnes Rom. chap. 4. ver 25. 2. Cor. chap. 5. ver 21. If any say that notwithstanding Christes death sin doth still remaine euen in the faithful 1. Iohn 1. ver 8. hee may bee answered that sinne doeth bite but not deuoure them The sheelde of faith may be wounded but it cannot be stricken through Was crucified The death of the crosse was most greeuous of al other deaths it was accursed by Gods owne mouth Deut. chap. 21 ver 23. Christ did abide the death of the crosse Philip. cap. 2. ver 8. He was made a curse to redeeme vs frō the curse of the lawe Galat. chap. 2. ver 13. so that wee may be now assured that Satans head is broken Gen. chap. 3. ver 15. and that the hande writing which was against vs is put out by Iesus Christe and fastened to his crosse Col. cap. 2. ver 14. Dead Gods iustice could not bee satisfied for our sinnes but by the death of the Sonne of GOD. Heb. cap. 2. ver 9.17 It was therfore necessary for vs that he shoulde dye the death If any meruaile why we dye when Christe hath dyed for vs they may bee aunswered that death is greeuous but not deadly too Gods Children that it dwelleth in them but hath not dominion ouer them and that they dye but doe passe by the deathe of the body as by a gate of eternall life 2. Cor. cap. 5. ver 1.2 Philip. cap. 1. ver 23. Seeing therfore that the losse of this short and transitory life is the high way and entraunce into Gods kingdome wee must not be afraide to dye when our louing God doth call vs vnlesse wee make greater account of earth then of heauen and of the company of men then of God and his Angels And buried Christe was buryed by an honorable Counsellour Ioseph of Aramathia who begged his body of Pilat Mark chap. 15. vers 43. His burial is mencioned too assure vs that hee dyed indeede He descended into Hel that is to say He suffered the torments of Hel and did abide the most bitter sorowes of death Acts. chap. 2. ver 24. As if hee had beene forsaken of GOD his father Matth. chap. 27. ver 46. All this was for our cause Esay chap. 63. ver 4.5 When wee are in great torment and griefe for our sinnes when we are euen at the brink of despayre then it will bee a notable sheelde to beare of all grieuous assaultes too remember that our Sauiour Christe went downe into Hell to deliuer vs from the torments thereof This lesson if it ●e surely learned and setled in our hartes wyll heale a wounded conscience wyll tayse vs vp from the gates of Hell and wil in our greatest distresse be very sweet ●nto vs. Christ did not discend into hell to fetch from thence the godly Patriarkes and other which died well before his comming in the flesh that is a wicked dreme and hath neyther grounde to stand on nor ●ight to shewe it by in Gods Booke for they were neuer there Ecclesiast chap. 12. ver 7. 1. Cor. chap. 10. ver 3.4 The thirde day he rose againe frō the dead Christes enimies did what they could to keepe him downe they laide a stone vpon his graue they sealed the stone they made the graue sure with a watch Mat. 27. ver 65.66 but al was in vaine for Christ rose the third day from death Math. chap. 28. ver 6.7 Christes resurrection was great losse vnto Satan it swalowed vp death and broke in peeces the bonds of the deuil Coll. cap 2. ver 15. It is gainfull too vs for therby we haue a sure pledge of our resurrection 1. Cor. cap. 15. ver 20.21.22 and are made partakers of the righteousnesse of Christ Rom. cap. 4. ver 25. He ascended into heauen Christs ascending into heauen is manifestly prooued in the Scriptures Mark cap. 16. ver 19 Act. cap. 1. ver 9. Heb. cap. ver 14. Hee ascended into heauē to prepare vs a place Iohn cap. 14. ver 2. and to pray continually for vs vnto God his father Rom. ca. 8. ver 34. Seing that Christ is our Atturney and pleadeth for vs we may go boldly vnto the throne of grace that we may receiue mercy finde grace to helpe vs in time of neede Heb. cap. ver 16. If Christ be in heauen bodily as we are plainely taught in Gods booke by S. Peter by S. Paul Act. cap. 3. ver 21. Phil. chap. 3. ver 20. Heb. cap. 9. ver 24. Then he neither is nor can be bodily in many places at once It is true that Christe promised his Apostles in thē other that he would be with them vnto the ende of the worlde Mat. cap. 28. ver 20. But hee ment by the vertue of his spirite Ioh. cap. 14. ver 18. in which sense S. Paule sayth that Christ ascended aboue all heauens too fulfill all things Ephe. cap. 4. ver 10. And sitteth at the right hand of God the father almightie God is a spirit Ioh. cap. 4. ver 24. He hath neither hands eyes armes eares nor such like as some haue imagined I graunt the Scripture giueth eies armes eares c vnto God not that hee hath suche but to helpe our weakenes by such maner of speaches Christ is sayd to sit at the right hand of God because he is aboue all rule and power and might and dominion and euery name that is named not in this worlde onely but also in the world to come Ephe. chap. 1. ver 21.22 Seeing that Iesus Christe is of so great power Gods children may assure them selues of a singular defence and the wicked maye reckon of a greeuous ouerthrow From thence shal he come to iudge the quicke and the dead Christ when hee was on the earth was most vniustly iudged but in the great day he shall sit in Iudgement and all the worlde shall appeare before his Maiestie 2. Cor. cap. 5. ver 10. none shall escape his iudgement Apoc. chap. 20. ver 12.13 Dead and lyuing shall come before his presence Acts. chap. 10. ver 42. 2. Timoth. cap. 4. ver 1. If any saye that death is the house of all fleshe Hebr. chap. 9. ver 27. And therefore that none shall bee aliue at Christes second and glorious appearance he may be answeared that as they which eyther haue already dyed or shall dye heereafter before the day of Iudgement haue and shall put of the Substaunce of theyr bodyes so they which shall bee aliue at that tyme shall put of not the Substaunce of theyr bodyes as the other haue but the Qualities of theyr bodyes which is no doubt a kinde of death and thus is the place of Saint Paule to be vnderstoode Wee shall not all sleepe but we shall all be chaunged 1. Corinth Chapter 15. verse 51. This day of Iudgement will bee a comfortable and ioyfull day to
God his children Luke chap. 21. verse 28. Philip chap. 3. ver 20.21 1. Thessa chap. 4. ver 16.17 for then they shal haue ful possession aswel in body as soule of Gods euerlasting kingdome Matthew cap. 25. ver 34.49 It will bee a fearefull day to the wicked 2. Thessalonians chap. 1. verse 7.8.9 For then Gods vengeaunce shall bee plentifully powred vppon them Apocalips chap. 20. ver 15. Matthewe chap. 25. ver 41.46 I beleeue in the holy Ghoste By holy ghost I vnderstand the third person of the holy Trinitie proceeding frō the father and the sonne Iohn cap. 15. ver 26. who as he is true God Act cap. 5. ver 3.4 1. Cor. cap. 3. ver 16. so by his inwarde and heauenly working in our harts he assureth vs that wee are of the number of Gods children Rom. chap. 8. ver 16. and that we are shal be cloched with Christ as with a precious garment and haue Christes benefices plentifully and with a full horne powred vpon vs. The holy Catholike Church that is to say I beleeue that almightie God had from the beginning of the worlde hath presently in the world and shall haue vntil the ende of the world his church on the earth Ezdr. cap. 9. ver 8. Esay cap. 29. ver 18.22 though not alike visible at al times in the eyes of men Esay chap. 49. ver 21 Dan. cap. 7. ver 21.22 Apoc. chap. 12. ver 6. The visible Churche is the company of those which make profession too serue the true god in Christ The Church is called holy not because it is without sinne or cannot be dusked with some spot for the whole Church prayeth for pardō of their sinnes Math. cap. 6. ver 12. But for that Iesus Christe who is the head of the Church is holy and that the holinesse of the Church is begun in this life The Church is called Catholike or vniuersall because it is not tyed to any time persons or place Ezech cap. 11. ver 22.23 Mat. cap. 23. ver 37.38.39 Act. cap. 13. ver 27.28 but because it is scattered ouer the face of the world according to the plesure of almightie God This Catholike Church of God standeth not in multitude of persons Act cap. 19. ver 27. Apo. cap. 28. ver 28. but in weight of trueth Ephe. chap. 2. ver 20 otherwise Christe himselfe and his Apostles had not byn Catholike for his flock was very litle Luk. ca. 12. ver 33. and the catholik or vniuersal consent of the world stoode against it Acts. cap. 4. ver 26.27 The communion of Saints By Saints are mental the faithful whersoeuer sanctified by the holy Ghost so that this is the meaning of this Article I beleeue that there is a communion or felowship of and amongest the children of God This communion or felowship of Saints is first especially with Iesus Christ who as he is the onely head of the Church Col. cap. 1. ver 18. Eph. cap. 4. ver 15.16 So he giueth life and spirituall giftes to the faithful who are his members This communion or felowship is also amongst the godly themselues appeareth euidently by vnitie of faith by partaking of the holy Sacraments lastly by relieuing one another either with spiritual graces Heb cap. 3. ver 13.1 Thes chap. 5. ver 11.14 Which must bee vsed to the comfort and good of others according to our calling or els with part of those external blessings which the Lorde in mercy hath made vs stewards of 2. Cor. cap. 8. ver 3.11.12 Heb. cap. 13. ver 16. The forgeuenes of sinnes that is to say I beleeue that Almightie God hath doth and will forgiue me and al his children al our sinnes committed both before and after baptisme 1. Iohn cap. 1. ver 7.1 Pet. cap. 2. vers 24. howe greate and many so euer they bee Esay cap. 1. ver 18. Mat. cap. 12. ver 31 not for any worke or merite of ours Luke cap. 17. ver 10. Esay cap. 43. ver 25. and chap. 64. ver 6. but for the death bloodshed of the immaculat lambe Iesus christ 1. Pet. chap. 1. ver 18.19 Apoc. chap. 1. ver 5. With whose righteousnes because we are clothed we may assure our selues that we are deliuered from eternal death which is the stipende and wages of sinne Rom. cap. 6. ver 23. Almightie god hath and doth bestow many good things dayly vpon vs for which wee are greatly and deepely bound vnto his maiestie but this benefite of washing vs from our sinnes in Christs blood if it be compared with the other doth as farre passe thē as the Diamond doeth the Peeble stone The resurrection of the body that is too say I beleeue that all mens bodyes euen the selfe same wee carrye about vs in our life time and no other then they as touching the substaunce whether they rotte in the Graue or bee any otherwise consumed shall bee raysed vp againe at the last day and bee ioyned to their soules Iob. chap. 19. ver 26.27.1 Cor. cap 1.5 ver 52.53 Philip cap. 3. ver 22. At which time the godly shal haue ful possession of eternal life and the wicked of eternall death Iohn cap. 5. ver 28.29 The life euerlasting That is to say I beleeue that as I haue the seede of eternal life already sowne in my heart which is very sweete and a sure staffe to rest on in all miseries of this life whatsoeuer so I shall be perfectly happy in the life to come and shal then there praise the Lorde God without ceassing and yet without weatinesse Apoc. cap. 21. ver 4. If Gods children do beleeue eternal life then they neither can nor ought to doubte of the certayntie of their saluatiō for faith and doubting cannot stand togeather 2. Cor. chap. 13. ver 5. Rom. chap. 8. vers 14.16.7 The Lorde for his mercy sake increase our faith and giue vs grace to liue alwayes in his feare that when we shal leaue this transitorie life we may haue the ende of our faith which is the saluation of our soules purchased vnto vs by the precious death and bloodshed of our Lorde and onely Sauiour Iesus Christe Amen Without faith it is impossible to please GOD. Heb. chap. 11. vers 6. Sinne is a breaking of Gods law 1. Iohn 3. ver 4. either in woorde thought or deed The ten Commaundements of almghtie God The first 4. Commaundements teache vs our duetie to God The 6. last teache vs our dutie towards men 1 THou shalt haue no other gods but me that is thou shalt put thy trust in god only worship him only Deut. cap. 6. ver 13. Mat. cap. 4. ver 10. The Lord cannot abide to haue any ioyned with him Deu. cap. 6. ver 14.15 He will either haue al or none Ezec. cap. 20. ver 39. Iosua cap. 24. ver 23.24 They which trust in any other then God alone doe forget the Lorde Psalm 44. ver 20. 2 Thou shalt not make to thy selfe any