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A22452	The Christians race teaching vs all so worthily, and so wisely both to beginne, continue, and to end, this our most short and momentanie [sic] course in this mortall life: that in the day of our death wee may for euer enjoy that inestimable crowne of eternall blisse in the life to come. Being a sermon preached in the Parish Church of North Parrott in Somerset, by Iohn Atkins Master of Arts, and preacher of the sacred Word of God, and pastor there.	Atkins, John, Rector of North Parrott.	1624 (1624)	STC 887; ESTC S115377	29,584	48

Secondly because that the number of our trials is to vs vncertayne our calamities as waues falling one vpon another and thirdly and lastly because that their continuance is also vncertayne as is the continuance of our life This whole life as I haue taught you being but a Race so that so long as wee are Runners in this Race so long wee must looke for many stormes and temptations Now then for vs to faint before we haue ended our Race is worse then neuer to haue endured any whit at all In that not only the glorie of all our former patience is vtterly lost but also turned into shame First Ignominie and our God prouoked vtterly to forsake vs and to haue no pleasure in vs as in Heb. 10.38 and therefore euermore amidst all our crosses wee must still remember this short close Si vis vincere disce pati Learne to be patient if thou looke to conquer And thus ab vtili patientiae from the gaine of this most excellent grace of patience I proue also the truth of this my former Doctrine That true patience indeed amidst all our crosses is a most needfull and gainfull grace for the fitting fencing and furnishing of our soule to runne this Religious Race The Vse is of admonition to warne vs all to labour for this Celestiall Herbe of grace of patience that so we may haue it still sprouting and springing in the spirituall Gardens of our hearts and liues Knowing well that God hath giuen such a wonderfull power to this Medicinable Herbe of perfect patience that it shall bee an acceptable Medicament to a generall salue for all persons and for all Diseases And therefore in Reuel 13.10 wee doe reade that when Gods Angell had recorded all the troubles which should come into the World in the latter dayes at last hee closeth and concludeth thus Heere is the Patience and Faith of the Saints As if patience should beare and ouercome them all And for this very cause throughout the whole bodie of the Bible so many seuerall Sentences of Scripture are written and placed as so many Preachers to exhort vs vnto patience as in Luke 19.21 By your patience possesse your soule and in Prou. 14.29 A mans wisdome is knowne by his patience And in Heb. 10.36 Wee haue need of patience that after that we haue done the will of God we might receiue the promise And in Rom. 5.4 Patience breedes experience experience hope and hope maketh not ashamed And againe in Iam. 4.7 8. Bee patient Brethren to the comming of the Lord c. And besides all these powerfull Exhortations vnto patience the Prophets Euangelists and Apostles haue set forth a number of Examples before our eyes like Beacons vpon the tops of Hils of such great Cures as haue beene healed by patience So that what our Apostle saith of Faith in Heb. 11. from the fourth Verse to the fortieth the very same may I say of this grace of patience By patience holy Iob did beare all the trials that the Deuill could possibly heape vpon him Iob 1. By patience Iacob put a number of wrongs at the hands of Laban his Father-in-law and neuer once complained in one and twenty yeeres Gen. 31.7 By patience good Ioseph forgaue all his Brethren when hee might haue put them all to death and gaue them food for reuenge Gen. 45.15 17. By patience Dauid ouercame all his crosses though hee had King Saul that mighty one against him the Philistims against him the Ammonites against him the Edomites against him the Moabites against him and lastly Absalom his owne bowels against him For whom hee cryed saying would God I had dyed for thee 2. Sam. 18.33 Yet Dauid still comforted himselfe in the Lord his God 1. Sam. 30.6 euen as if this most precious Pearle of patience were the only spiritual stone vpon which he leaned and rested his head Lastly by patience our Lord Master Christ suffered Banishment Reproaches Taunts and Scourges vntill last of all hee went to his death like a Lambe to the slaughter Obiect But here now me thinkes I heare some say vnto me how may wee get and obtayne this spirituall Armour of proofe this Pearle of Patience which is so needfull and gainfull a graine Answ First by labouring to bee furnished with Faith towards God For that whosoeuer doth know perfectly and is sure in his heart by Faith that God who is the Lord of all haps and mishaps of prosperitie and aduersitie of health and sicknesse Life and death is pacified and fully reconciled with him by Iesus Christ so that hee cannot possibly bee depriued of eternall saluation to such a true beleeuing Christian man there can be no crosse so sharpe bitter and grieuous vnto him as can possibly bring him out of patience But by faith hee shall still obtayne and keepe this precious Pearle and Iewel of patience as in Iames 1.3 The tryall of your Faith worketh patience the which faith though in this life it bee little and weake in the best and dearest of Gods children heere and in time of tryall and affliction beginne to draw backe and proue like to a brand that hath but little fire in it yet ought wee not to despayre but to remember that the Lord Iesus will not quench but increase it so as wee doe but pray with the blessed Apostles O Lord increase our Faith Luke 17.5 And with the Father of him that was possessed Lord wee beleeue helpe our vnbeliefe Marke 9.24 Secondly sound hope which is the Daughter of a true faith maketh men to bee patient when as they hope trust for honor reward after all their suffrings as in Ro. 8.25 If we hope for that we see not then do we with patience wait for it Thirdly faithfull and feruent Prayer maketh men to be patient for that in Mat. 7.7 hee hath promised doe but aske and haue c. And if experience prooues this much vnto vs that when once we haue but opened our needs and griefs to our friends we do afterward feele a certain ease in our selues so that our former paine and griefe is somewhat remedied and taken away O then much more comfort and ease shall we find from God to the quieting and setling of our mindes by the opening of our griefes and complaints vnto God in humble Prayer Fourthly diligent reading searching and seeking into Gods most holy blessed Word helpeth much vnto patience wherein he doth set before our eyes his most sweete and louing promises as in Iohn 16.33 These things haue I spoken vnto you that in me you might haue peace in the World you must suffer tribulation But bee of good comfort I haue c. In Psal 50.15 Call vpon mee in the time of trouble I will heare thee and thou shalt prayse mee with such like gracious promises which we ought daily to seek search in his Sacred word neuer ceasing to laude prayse his holy Name in that in these our dayes and times he hath

made vs rich partakers of these most sweete and infallible comforts for our soules in his Word and Gospel which Word wee ought all to beleeue receiue and obey euen as though wee heard the immediate voyce of God himselfe from Heauen speaking all such things as we heare out of the same Fiftly and lastly a true loue waxing and sprinkling out of faith will worke in vs this worthy grace of patience in Gen. 29.20 It is said that Iacob serued seuen yeeres for Rachel and they seemed vnto him but a few dayes because hee loued her So likewise whosoeuer truly loueth God he will beare and take most patiently whatsoeuer tryals and troubles God shall lay vpon him and whatsoeuer here he suffereth for Christ his sake it shall be easie vnto him So that still hee will be readie to runne after him through all manner of wayes bee they neuer so rough vntill such time as hee may come at last to perfect and eternall rest in him And so I come from our Apostles Direction with patience the race that is set before vs. The last part of this my Text which is his Demonstration drawne ab exemplo Iesu Christi in these last words Looking to Iesus Not looking to the World Quia mundus deficiet because that the World will forsake and leaue vs and we must leaue the World wee cannot tell how soone as in Prou. 27.1 Boast not thy selfe of to morrow for thou canst not tell what a day may bring forth Nor yet looking to our owne rebellious flesh Quia care irficiet our flesh will infect and poyson our soules so that if wee liue after the flesh we shall dye Rom. 8. Vers 13. Nor yet looking to Satan Quia Diabolus interficiet The Deuill will destroy vs walking about continually like a roaring Lion seeking whom hee may deuoure 1. Pet. 5.8 but as it is here in this my Text Looking to Iesus Quia reficiet for that he will ease vs hee will refresh vs hee will direct vs. Doctrine And hence there ariseth this Doctrine for our Learning that in running of this our Religious Race the life of our Lord and Master Iesus must be our Spirituall Card and Compasse our only Line and Ieuell for to guide vs by The Reason for proofe and confirmation of this my last Lesson for breuitie shall be but one drawne Ab ipsissima vita Iesu Christi because that in his life hee both was and is the Lord of all Vertues and therefore he sayth thus to all his Disciples Discite à me Learne of me Mat. 11.29 and sequimini me follow me For where in all the whole World can wee sooner fiud true Humilitie perfect Charitie Sobrietie Patience Obedience and Prayer without Example with all other co-adjoyned and allied Vertues then in Christ his life of whose life Saint Augustine writeth thus Thou hast O Christian Soule saith he in the life of Christ alone a most Celestiall Medicine to helpe all thy defects For what Pride is there in thee that his Humility cannot abate What Wrath and Anger that his Gentlenesse cannot lenifie What Couetousnesse that his Pouertie cannot salue What benummednesse of thine heart that his Loue cannot inflame And as Christ his life is a most Celestiall Medicine for all the Defects and Diseases of our Soules so is it a most absolute Rule or Square of most perfect Discipline for our liues For where I pray you can we behold such a President without paralell of Humilitie Charitie Patience Chastitie Obedience Sobrietie and generally and in a word of all Vertues then in the life of Christ Where is there true Wisdome more to be found then in the Doctrine of Christ Where true Fortitude then in the Death and Passion of Christ Where true Clemencie then in the Mercy of Christ Where true Humilitie then in the obedience of Christ Where true Charitie then in the forgiuenesse of Christ What I pray doe wee learne by his base lying in the Manger at Bethlehem and by his poore bringing vp in a meane Hostage at Nazareth but an vtter contempt of this wicked World What learne wee by his Exile into Egypt and by his Birth in the dayes of cruell Herod but patient suffering hereof Persecution What learne we by his Fasting in the Wildernesse the Austeritie of his life and conflict with Satan But how to bee able to withstand all Temptations What learne we by all his Contumelies and Reproaches offered vnto him by his owne Countreymen the Iewes calling him a Blasphemer a Seducer of the people and a friend of Publicans and Sinners but still to possesse our soules by Patience What lastly learne wee by his most heartie Prayers to God his heauenly Father for his most bloudie Persecutours yea euen in the bitter pangs of death vpon the Crosse but a Lesson of Charitie If we speake of this World and of worldy things Who euer respected them lesse then he But if we speake of heauen and of heauenly things who euer tended and tendred them more then he If we speake of Almes where euer was there such an Almes-giuer heard off as he who freely gaue his own bodie and bloud to refresh the hungry If we speake of Bountifulnesse where euer was there so bountifull a giuer as hee who gaue Paradise it selfe to a sinfull Suter only vpon the very first motion made vnto him Finally what Grace I pray you can any Christian mans heart desire which is not to bee found with much spirituall delight in the life of Christ Or what any one Vertue can wee wish but that in him we may euidently see a most liuely Idea or Image of the same Thus hath our Lord and Master Christ done his part and conformed himself vnto vs what now remayneth on our parts but that we striue to conforme our selues to him Who is the Way the Truth and the Life Iohn 14.6 The Way without erring the Truth without failing the Life without fading the Way by Example the Truth by Promise Life by Reward In the way of Life which is The Christians Race whom may wee more safely follow then the way it selfe They cannot goe amisse whose Guide is the Way they cannot erre whose Director is the Truth they cannot perish whose Preseruer is the Life And therefore euermore in this our Religious Race wee must looke to Iesus but not to his Miracles to be Imitators of them For that Quae supra nos nihil ad nos these all are far aboue our abilities being euident Testimonies of his Deitie but only to his Vertues to be followers of them For behold he neuer commanded vs saying Learne of me to fast fortie dayes and fortie nights to walk vpon the waters to cast out Deuils to rayse the Dead c. But learne of me to be meeke and lowly to loue your enemies to suffer affliction c. The olde Eagle for to learne her young Ones to flye doth often flutter and houer ouer them So our Master Christ to teach vs how