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A04380	The triumph of faith A very godly, fruitfull and comfortable treatise on Rom. 8. verse 37. Penned by Daniel Ienkinson Master in Arts, late of Emmanuel Coll. in Cambridge, and found in his studie at the time of his death.	[Jenkinson, Daniel].	1613 (1613)	STC 14493; ESTC S103585	17,222	56

euen stand for him to the very face of the high Priest and the Elders Is Paul in bonds and imprisonment for the Gospell why that gaines freedome to the Gospell and makes it famous euen in Neroes court Is Lazarus ready to starue for hunger and in the faintnesse of his spirit does hee giue vp the ghost I but what loseth he by that what looseth he nay he is a great gainer for hee comes so much the sooner to heauen for death the Lord of our enemies is swallowed vp in victorie I it is made a passage of life being past it we are out of all gun-shot for then for euer we are conquerors our triumph shal be celebrated to eternity the greater danger the more glorious victorie thus wee are likewise more than conquerors Lastly wee may bee said to bee more than Conquerors in that when we seeme to be ouercome and all men deeme we haue the foile why then haue we the day then doe we celebrate the Triumph then wee may sing with Deborah O my soule thou hast marched valiantly This is especially seene in death when as that fearefull Combatant that gastly Aduersarie assailes vs and sets vpon vs and therfore wee will instance onely in that and shew you how euen in death when we are laid full low why then is our Triumph at the highest our Conquest is most supereminent A strange conclusion to humane reason but an euident truth to the eye of faith For when as the godly are brought once to this passe that the wicked haue bereaued them of their liues O then they thinke all is well they are rid of them they haue now brought them vnder So the Deuill thought and hee could get Christ nayled to the crosse once all was well nay but and if he be laid in the graue once and the stone sealed vp all is sure there will be no more talking of him vnlesse it be in disgrace to call him a deceiuer who said he would rise within three daies but could not and therfore there would be no more doings vnlesse his Disciples should come and steale him away by night to gull the people But they would watch them for that they would set souldiers to keepe the Tombe and see who durst be so bold as to come and stirre it Thus the Deuill and his impes did euen dance as it were vpon the graue of Christ and fetch their friskes and Moriscoes as it were singing as it is in the Psalme Surely hee is now so low he can neuer rise againe Thus they trampled vpon him as vpon a dead Lion but the mightie Lion of the Tribe of Iudah rose valiantly from the dead grappled with that mightie Dragon and ouerthrew him and like that valiant Sampson caried the gates of Azzah the gates of death vpon his backe in triumph so that they are now no more the gates of death but the gates of life whereby all the godly enter into glory So that if the Deuill come vnto Gods children and tell them skin for skin and all that a man hath will he giue for his life they may tell him he lyes for if it so pleased God they had rather giue all they haue to be rid of their life If I should here enlarge my speech to relate the valour and confidence and reioycement that the constant Martyrs and faithfull witnesses of the Lord Iesus haue had in suffering for his truth I might liuely paint out vnto you more than a conquest Steuen vnder the stones sees heauen open and Christ at his Fathers right hand ready to receiue him the apprehension whereof did euen so solace his Soule that hee laid downe his life with solace showing greater valour in bearing the blowes then they crueltie in their enraged malice We read in the stories of the Church of a young man that was put to the racke for the profession of Christ and being kept vpon it with much torture from morning to noone hee lay all the while quietly with a sweet smiling countenance as one that had been in a pleasant slumber which being much admired when he was deliuered from the racke it was demanded of him whether he felt no paine all the while because his countenance was so cheerefull he answered indeed that hee did feele some paine but all the while as hee thought there stood by him a beautifull yoong man who wyped the sweat off his face alwayes and besprinkled him with cold water insomuch that the paine was greatly allaied and it was not so much when he was on the Racke as after he was taken off How euer all the godly haue not such extraordinarie apparitions yet they haue the power of Christ supporting their weaknesse and the presence of the spirit giuing them courage and abilitie to beare all with courage that is laid vpon them for the name of Christ I might giue many instances of rare constancie in this our Land in the time of Queene Mary in which the Lords people did euen after a sort seeme lauish of their bloud to shed it for the witnessing of the Lord Iesus who had not spared to shed his hearts bloud for them Who all being ayded by Gods speciall assistance did breake through all difficulties and freely gaue their liues for the Gospell and therein became more than conquerors in that being conquered they conquered yea in that they seemed to bee ouercome therein stood the very glory of their victorie for that same Christian valour the Lord had put into them it made them resolue to cleaue to Christ in life and in death to make him their portion To which purpose excellent is that speech of that Reuerend Hooper laying out vnto vs the combat betweene the frailtie of the flesh and the resolution of the spirit and letting vs see how the grace of God preuailes against the disgraces and greeuances of the world Imprisonment saith he is painfull but yet libertie vpon bad conditions is more painfull The prisons stinke I but not so much as sweet houses where the feare of God is wanting I but we must be alone and solitarie why it is better to be so and haue God with thee then to be in companie with the wicked Losse of goods is great But the losse of Gods fauour and grace is greater I but I am a poore simple creature and cannot tell how to answer before such a great sort of noble learned and wise It is better to make answer before the pompe and pride of wicked men then to stand naked in the sight of all heauen and earth before the iust God at the latter day Why but I shall die then by the hands of the cruell man Why he is blessed yea a thousand times happy that loseth this life full of mortall miseries and findeth the life full of eternall Ioyes Thus beloued the holy ones of God haue resolued to lay downe their liues for the Lord Iesus and in loosing their liues they haue found them for they haue found Christ

either runne after him or turne to our side and helpe vs to war against him But that we should not ouercome onely but be more than conquerors this is the preheminence of a Christian souldier aboue all other warriours But may that bee may some say I answer we may be said to be more than conquerors in 4. respects which I wish you to take notice of as worthy obseruation 1. In that before wee enter into the lists wee are sure of the victorie worldly conquerors we know are not sure of the day before they goe to the field they are not sure of the victorie till they see the end and therefore if Achab threaten Mica it must be but with yffs ands if I returne in peace then Mica must pay for the pinnes If Rabshake will needs dominere ouer Gods inheritance and sound the retraite before the Alarme hee shall be taught to know that his tongue was a little more hastie then his wit for the issue of war is doubtfull and he that puts on his armour may not exult as he that puts it off But we beloued that march vnder Christs banner haue this priuiledge aboue al worldly Martialists that we are sure of the victorie before the fight we are sure to returne with Triumph and Renowme at least for the finall Conquest Insomuch that that which the old Israelites had sometime assured by diuine verdict we haue alwaies assured by the vertue of the promise and the current of the couenant of Grace The truth whereof is most apparant In that Christ our Capt hath subdued their forces he our head hath led them in Triumph this conquest is appropriated to vs the like victorie according to our Model is merited for vs. The power of his strength is daily at hand to giue vs strength to affoord vs assistance to infuse courage adde dexteritie how we may handle our spiritual armour how we may take our foes at aduantage and how we may best giue them recoyle So that that which is counted meere folly amongst men in Christianitie is held a point of wise resolution vz. to triumph before the victorie for before the victorie we are sure to be conquerors in this surely more than conquerors 2. We are more than conquerors in this that we who euerie way are so silly and simple of so meane forces and so litle power doe obtaine the victorie In earthly conquests we know the victorie is vsually obtayned by valiant and resolute Spirits great Commanders and experienced souldiers as the worthies of Dauid the sonnes of Zeruiah but here it is far otherwise We that are very earth-wormes the outcast of the world in the hands of all these grieuous aduersaries Tribulation anguish c. euen as Lambs before the rauenous creatures as little Dauid before that Gyant-like Goliah we I say that are so vnequall matches we breake through all their forces like the three mightie men through the host of the Philistims they be all subdued vnto vs death it selfe the last enemie is turned into life Bethmaueth into Bethel the doore of death into the gate of heauen So that a Christian lying in the agonie and anguish thereof and finding small solace in regard of the exigent when it pleaseth the Lord to open the eyes of his soule by deliuering it from the prison of his bodie as he did Iacob from his dreame lying in the field he may well say with that holy man This is the house of God and I was not aware this is none other then the very gate of heauen But to our purpose beloued If you should see a little boy bicker with a mighty Giant of great strength and puissance and that he should bring him vnder giue him the ouerthrow and quite vanquish him would ye not say the child were more than a conqueror Surely the Israelites thought so of Dauid and sutably they gaue him an eminent and superlatiue applause in their triumphant gratulation Saul hath slain his thousand and Dauid his ten thousand Why euen so it is with vs we that are thus weake and feeble and vnweldie to see too that haue neither forme nor beautie in vs nor any thing to be desired we obtaine the victorie And that God who doth by the foolishnesse of preaching confound the wisedome of the wise by the weake and despised things of the world make the strong to stoope and lay their honour in the dust and their port in obliuion that God I say perfits his owne strength in our weaknes assists vs so with the sufficiencie of his grace that we may well be said to be more then conquerors Againe we are more then conquerors in that by euery victory we grow the stronger yea by euery foil we grow the more puissant Worldly conquerors we know tho they win the victory yet it is vsually with the losse of much blood their forces are long time after much weake and therfore the lesse vnable to bicker againe But we beloued get the better by all these brunts we get more strength by all our incounters not in experiment only but likewise in ability if not somtimes for the present yet alwaies in time conuenient If we be in tribulation why Peter telleth vs it bringeth forth patience and patience experience and experience hope and hope maketh vs to lay faster hould vpon God and to hould vp our heads with comfort So that for one affliction we get fower vertues for one enimie fower asociats for tribulatiō namely we are armed with the buckler of patienc the brestplate of experience the helmet of hope and the shield of faith and what loosers then are we by the bargaine are we in affliction why Dauid will tell vs it was good for him that he was afflicted for therby he learned to keep Gods law Did not he get good strength before he could not make straight steps to Gods statutes But he was fetting byasses and compasses hee went limping and ill fauouredly in the way to heauen but now now he had learned to goe vpright and to runne with cheerefulnesse and so shall we doe beloued if our afflictions bee sanctified vnto vs. Are wee reuiled and persecuted for the name of Christ and the profession of his trueth why Christ tells vs we are happy and blessed The Apostles thought they were highly dignified yea strangely preferred that they were thought worthy to suffer any thing for the name of Christ And surely it is an high dignitie to be a Captaine as it were against Satan and to breake a speare in the cause of Christ For this encouragement wee get by it that whereas before we were ashamed of the name of Christ we were afraid to professe the truth now we are as bold as Lyons and as resolute as may be in the cause of God Peter that before durst not looke a silly wench in the face but would sweare and lye rather than he would take notice of Christ is now of so couragious a spirit that he dare