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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19091	A vvedding sermon preached at Bentley in Darby-shire vpon Michaelmasse day last past anno Domini. 1607. Wherein is set forth the bond and preseruation. ... By R. Abbot ...	Abbot, Robert, 1560-1618.	1608 (1608)	STC 55; ESTC S100549	22,610	74

Cyprian inferreth b Cyprian lib. 2. epist 3. If Christ onely be to be heard or harkened vnto we are not to regard what any man before vs hath thought fit to be done but what Christ hath done who is before all for we are not to follow the custome of men but the truth of God And if by this rule we esteeme of the way wee shall soone perceiue that Popery is out of the way because in that path which the Apostles and Prophets haue chalked out vnto vs we neither find the Pope nor his pardons nor his masse nor his images nor his reliques yea all these and the rest of his trinkets are easily perceiued to be but false and base and broken wares 3 If wee desire somwhat more briefly to heare the way our Sauiour Christ telleth vs c Ioh. 14 6. I am the way the truth and the life no man cometh to the father but by me S. Austin amplifieth the words d August in Ioan. tract 22. Ambulare vis c. Art thou desirous to walke I am the way Woldest thou not be deceiued I am the truth Woldest thou not die I am the life There is no whither for thee to go but to me there is no way for thee to go by but by me Christ only himselfe is our way to come to Christ e Heb. 10. 20. Through the vaile that is his flesh he hath prepared the new and liuing way whereby we are to enter into the holy place His pas●●on is our redemptiō his obediēce our righteousnes his resurrection our iustification he is for vs whatsoeuer wee neede to bring vs vnto God f Act. 4 12. There is not saluation in any other nor any other name giuen vnder heauen by which we must be saued This way must we go if we will go the right way but if wee seeke for a way in our selues or in any other creature if we g Ro. 3. 10. set vp our owne righteousnes against the righteousnes of God another altar and sacrifice against the crosse and sacrifice of Christ if we trust to other mediations merits and satisfactions wee are out of the way wee wander in strange and crooked paths which will neuer bring vs to our desired end In a word the Apostle willing to instruct vs of the rightway and to that purpose setting downe a briefe summe of the doctrine of the gospell saith thus h Gal. 6. 14. God forbid that I should reioice but in the crosse of our Lord Iesus Christ wherby the world is crucified vnto me and I vnto the world for in Christ Iesus neither circumcision auaileth any thing nor vncircumcision but a new creature Now hereto he addeth And they that walk according to this rule peace and mercie shall be vpon them Here is then the rule and way of our walke to reioice that is to put trust and confidence of remission of sinnes saluation only in the crosse of Iesus Christ not in the crosse of Peter or in the crosse of Paul or of the Virgin Mary but only in the crosse of Iesus Christ so to be possessed with this reioycing as for the enioying of the ioy hereof to bee mortified to all worldly conuersation and to be content to beare the malice and persecution of the world They that walke in this way and according to this rule they shall finde mercie with GOD to attaine to peace but with the rest it shall come to passe which Ionas saith i Ionas 2. 8 They that wait vpon lying vanities forsake their owne mercie 4 Now that peace is the end of our walke euen the ending of all our labours and sorrowes and the fruition enioying of God who is k Rom. 15. 33. the GOD of peace and of Iesus Christ our Sauiour who is l Esai 9. 6. the Prince of peace in whom is full perfect blisse and happines for euer This is the thing wherto all our walking ought to tend which as the marke before the archer so ought to be before our eies to aime at in al the course of our life and the regard thereof so to ouerpasse all other regards as that nothing be further or otherwise regarded then as may stand with the attaining of this end hauing alwaies in remembrāce that which our Sauiour Christ saith m Mat. 16. 26. what profiteth it a man to winne the whole world and to lose his owne soule This mind the Apostle Saint Paul expresseth when he saith n Phil. 3. 8. I haue counted all things losse for the excellent knowledge sake of Christ Iesus my Lord for whom I haue counted all things losse and doe iudge them to be dung that I might winne Christ c. that I may know him the vertue of his resurrection and the fellowship of his afflictions and be made cōformable to his death if by any means I may attaine to the resurrection of the dead Giue me hunger thirst cold and nakednes sicknesse and sores torment and death this end to attaine to the blessed resurrection of the dead maketh amends for all Giue me the kingdomes of the earth and all the pleasures and glory thereof yet if my end be not to attaine this end I am a most wretched man and better had it beene for me that I had neuer bin borne The more may we wonder at the strange retchlesnesse of the greatest nūber of men with whom this is least of all thought of and least of all respected o B●rnard so vainley vsing their soules saith Saint Bernard as if they did not reckon that they haue any soules at all so wholly dreaming and doating vpon the things of the world as if they were borne to no other end but to liue for euer in the world A wandring fancy men commonly haue of a desire to come to heauen but how few set their hearts thereupon to make it the drift of their life the main end of all their purposes and counsels and doe not rather drowne the regard thereof in the purposes and desires of other things That we runne not with others into this common errour let vs duely remēber that our life is but a walke and a walke must haue an end therfore that it concerneth vs so to frame our courses and doings as that we may make a good end that our death to this world may be to vs the beginning of euerlasting life in the world to come 5 To this end we are to call to minde that walking importeth mouing and stirring and therfore aduertiseth vs that seeing our life is a walke we are still to be mouing and stirring and doing in the way and worke of God that being by the mercy of God broght into the right way we are not there to sit downe at rest idle and vnfruitfull but as the life of Christ is described p Act. 10 38. He vvent about doing good so ought our walking and life bee to doe good