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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19372	Foure sermons whereof two, preached at two assizes, this present yeare, 1638. at Maidestone in Kent, the other two, in his own charge. By Robert Abbot ...	Abbot, Robert, 1588?-1662?	1639 (1639)	STC 58; ESTC S100378	53,626	193

and Hell Faith will doe it too Faith receives Heb. 11. the dead to life and sends a defiance to the greatest enemies of it O Death where is 1 Cor. 15 thy sting O Hell where is thy victory Thankes bee to God for Iesus Christ the Captaine of my salvation O who would bee without faith It is our workeman hold it Rom. 7. 4 Faith is our best light here Fourthly faith is all the comfortable light yee have in the world Without the sunne the earth would be an Aegypt and without faith we are in a region of darkenesse The wisemen Math. 4. Math. 2. came out of the east and worshipped Christ offering also gold frankincense and myrrhe why what did they see in him They saw a child not a man they saw him in a stable not in a throne in ragges not in robes crying in a cratch not thundring in the clouds how then came it about they now worshipped Faith saw God in him for the heavens waited upon him in his starre Faith saw in him a prophet a priest a king and their oblations were answerable The thiefe upon the crosse cryes out unto Christ Lord remember mee when thou comest into thy kingdome was he a Lord that was dealt with like a slave had hee a kingdome that was disgracefully thrust out of the world Could he remember him that would not remember himself when they cryed come downe from the crosse and save thy selfe Faith casts away these mists and saw glory in shame Yee know what the Centurion said verily this man was the son Mat. 27. 54. of God what a man and the sonne of God too The son of God that could not have the favour to live or dye so well as the sonne of man Surely some sparke of faith saw life in death light in darknesse It is your light hold it Lastly faith makes earth 5 Faith makes earth heaven Math. 13. Gen. 28. Eph. 2. heaven unto you and the church the kingdom of heaven the house of God the Gates of heaven and sets us on the seats of heaven heere below Before we come to the proper place and mansion which Christ hath Ioh. 16. provided for us by faith wee sit with Abraham Isaack and Iacob in the kingdome of heaven Put case wee hope for it wee see it not faith is the ground of things hoped for the evidence Heb. 11. 1. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of things not seene It stands under the waight of the whole world and yet sayes heaven is mine It sees nothing but earth and sinners and beasts and trees under the canopie of the starrie heaven and yet sayes heaven is mine as if it had it already O the world of grace and glory that is in faith therefore hold faith Oh that I now knew how Application to screw my selfe into your soules to search whether yee hold faith How many thousands have it not and cannot hold it How many thousands have it a little and know not whether they hold it or no yee are to bee married to the lambe and till that day come Annulum sponsalem yee have but the wedding-ring of faith to have and to hold first for promise then for fruition Tell me then Doe yee hold the ground of 1 Try the ground of faith Rom. 8. faith Then yee are humbled soules yee have passed thorough the spirit of bondage whereby yee have been shut up in prison under Moses till the sonne hath made you free Ioh. 8. and yee walke humbly ever after for feare of loosing this estate This laies the foundation of faith deepe enough Hymeneus and Alexander 1. Tim. 1. 20. built upon the sands and so they ship-wrackt against the rockes of the world Therefore you must downe lower under the sands earth rockes to the gates of hell and then Out of the depths have I cryed Psal 130. 1 unto thee O Lord. Are yee thus in some measure or other according to your sinnes Say it if yee love faith and your salvation Are yee convinced Ioh. 16. Act. 2. of your sinnes are yee pricked at the heart for your sinnes Are yee so all this that yee are at utter enmity with all sinne Then keepe this ground of faith Doe yee hold the object of 2 Try the object of faith faith This nourisheth and keepes faith alive It is like oyle to the lampe like fewell to the fire and like sap to the tree Have you full assurance of the knowledge of the scriptures Can you say I le pawn my life body and goods and soule that though I cannot conceive all yet all in the scripture is true what I know is true and I resolve to learne more what I know not is true and I will doe my best to comprehend that too Have ye a free assent to all the truth of it and to that alone for salvation Do ye not come off basely as Agrippa almost thou Act. 26. 28 perswadest mee Have yee a beliefe to all the precepts promises and threatnings of the scriptures Doe ye say all the commandements are true I must do them all the threatnings are true and if I live in Deut. 32. sinne I must undergoe them even to burning in the nethermost hell all the promises are true and I must relieve my flagging and drooping spirit with them in despite of my unbeleeving heart Doth thy faith in the knowledge of them change thee as it did David who when hee could Psal 40. say that in the volume of thy booke it is written of mee presently cries out Loe I come to doe thy will If it be thus hold faith But doest thou not rather hate the being of the word in thy understanding Thou knowest it will strip thee of all thy lusts Doest thou not therefore say as those miscreants depart from mee I desire Iob. 20. not the knowledge of thy lawes doest thou not hate the nature of the word to will as that wills Heare that cursed voice and feare to finde it in thy selfe I will doe as I have done Ier. 44. whatsoever the word of God saith Doest thou not hate the rules of the word Art thou not sorry they are true Wouldest thou not they were false Can a fleshly-man love that flesh and bloud cannot inherit 1 Cor. 15. the kingdome of heaven Can an old sinner love that the childe shall dye an hundred Es 65. 20. yeares old so ripe shall hee bee for God and the sinner being an hundred yeares old shall bee accursed Can an usurer love that hee is not for Gods tabernacle and holy hill that Psal 15. 5 putteth his mony to usury Can an whoremonger love that whoremongers and adulterers Heb. 13. God will judge or any of those sinners that bee not deceiued neither fornicators nor 1 Cor. 6. 9 10. idolaters nor adulterers nor effeminate nor abusers of themselves with mankind nor theevs nor covetous nor

Ninevites who were presently Ion. 3. 2 Chro. 34. 27. in sackcloth and Iosiah who rent his cloathes with weeping eies and melting heart Thus Davids flesh trembled for fear of God and Psal 119. 120. he was affraid of his judgments yee must looke to the promises of God as David who hid Psal 119. 11 them in his heart that he might not sinne against him Whatsoever is in the word ye must have an eie unto For though they doe not so immediately concerne you in the way of life and death as many Genealogies Chronologies Histories and Prophecies yet you must bee ready to understand Praeparatione animi them and their uses as God shall offer them yet yee must principally hold precepts to direct threatnings to humble and promises to allure and comfort ye must hold them by understanding what the will Eph. 5. 17 of the Lord is till if ye can yee come to all riches of the ful Col. 2. 2. assurance of understanding Yee must hold them by assenting to them yeelding to all the truth of them as Saint Luke to the storie of Christ whereof he was fully perswaded Yee Lu●e 1. 1. must hold them by bringing your bodies and soules into subjection unto them For in Iesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing nor uncircumcision but faith working Gal. 5. 6. by love This is the object of faith The act of faith is to say 3 The act of faith this is mine to adjudge and appropriate father sonne and holy Ghost unto your selves without this yee cannot feele any comfort of what you believe Therefore as David and Christ said My God My Psal 22. 1. Ioh. 20. 28 God as Thomas said My Lord and my God and as the Luke 1. 47 Blessed Virgine said my spirit that is the quintessence of my soule acted by the spirit of God rejoyceth in God my Saviour so by way of adherence when most times ye have no evidence yee must take God in Christ as your owne as hee offers himselfe I am the Lord Ex. 20. Ier. 31. thy God I will bee thy God This is the act of faith The power of faith is to make use of the riches of it The power of faith Psal 32. Psal 45. Rom. 4. Act. 15. Mal. 4. Eph. 3. Heb. 6. 2 Cor. 4. 13. for thy owne proper good Great is the power of faith and it prevaileth It covereth our sinnes by the garments of Christ our elder brother and so is imputed to us for righteousnesse It cureth our sinnes bringing Christ who hath healing under his wings to dwell in our hearts by faith It brings forth a world of the labour of love wee having the same spirit of faith believe speak and thinke and doe For by Eph. 2. 10. faith we are Gods workemanship created in Christ to good workes to walke in them And this affirme constantly that they that have believed in Tit. 3. 8. GOD be carefull to maintaine good workes This is the power of faith Now this ground of faith 2 Why yee must hold faith this object of faith this act of faith this power of faith you must hold upon these five Grounds First faith is our life wee live by faith not by sight and 1 Faith our life 2 Cor. 5. Hab. 2. every just man must live by his faith Not efficiently for so in GOD we live move and Act. 17. have our being Nor meritoriously for so saith Christ I am the way the truth and the life Nor by way of immediate Ioh. 14. application for so the holy ghost is a quickening spirit as Adams soule was the 1 Pet. 3 18. Gen. 2. breath of life But as a prime instrument of our life in Christ without this wee cannot have life either before God or in this miserable world This Rom. 1. 17 Heb. 10. 38 unites us to Christ and receives a quickning spirit as the vertue of Christ from the spirit of Christ in the meanes of salvation As men say of their trades and hands under God they are my living take away these and take away my life so say wee of faith it is your life therfore hold it Secondly faith is our power 2 Faith is our power of working of working to doe us our best good In a naturall man his reason is his power Hee is borne naked with abundance of bodily weaknesse a beast hath a great deale of bodily strength and if a lyon rationally knew how to use his pawes a dog his teeth a bullock or buck his hornes or an horse his hoofes how few men would there bee in the world But let man come in with his reason and hee subdues them all But in a believer his faith is his power and what is the power of reason to this As Christ said of miraculous faith it pulls up trees by the rootes and removes mountaines it makes sunne stand still and go backward so much more of this saving christian faith in another kinde It covers more sinnes then heaven and earth can cover Get the heavens to cover them our sinnes are more then the starres and are come up above the heavens Get the sea to cover them the sea can cover the sands at a full tide but our sins are more then the sandes of the sea Get the earth and all the creatures to cover them our sinnes over-top them all and make Rom. 8. the whole creation groane under the burthen But get faith and as love covers a multitude of sinnes in others so faith covers all sinnes in our selves It brings the garments of Christ and then wee cannot Apoc. 16. Phil. 3. Dan. 9. bee naked It brings the righteousnes of God the everlasting righteousnesse to dwel amongst men and then God cannot but be there where his righteousnesse is to give grace and Psal 84 16 glorie and every perfect gift It is your power to doe your best good and therefore hold it Thirdly faith is your workman 3 Faith is our workman Set faith about any work and what can it not doe Art thou at Gods Gen. 12. word to goe a great journey thou knowest not whither Faith did it for Abraham Art thou to fight against lyons Heb. 11. Gen. 22. beares Philistims and other puissant enemies Faith did it for David Sampson Gideon Barach and their fellowes Art thou to doe what nature abhorres Faith did it for Abraham in the sacrifice of his son Art thou to cleanse the uncleane stables of sinne Faith will take Christs spirit and arguments and doe it It cries out shall I that am dead to sinne yet live Rom. 6 therein Shall I sinne that grace may abound God forbid I will mortifie the deedes of the Rom. 8. flesh by the spirit Art thou to suffer persecution Faith will suffer it for thee in goates-skinnes and sheepes-skinnes Heb. 11. in the craggie wildernesse Art thou to overcome Death