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A08129	Certaine sermons, preached by the reuerend and iudicious diuine master Thomas Nevvhovse late preacher of Gods word in the citie of Norwich. And now set foorth for the vse and benefit of Gods people, by Robert Gallard, Master of Arts and minister in the same citie	Newhouse, Thomas, d. 1611.; Gallard, Robert.	1614 (1614)	STC 18493; ESTC S102789	66,753	182

gold What good is there almost that a good man can set his heart a wishing or desiring but may bee obtained if God thinke meete so be it he will be a fearer of God the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it Psalm 34. that nothing shall be wanting to them that feare him would we liue long and inioy many daies on earth which is the foundation of all earthly comforts the wise man saith Prou. 10.27 that the feare of the Lord increaseth the daies Would we faine be rich and had in high esteeme and repute among men Prou. 22.4 The reward of the feare of the Lord is riches and glorie Are wee desirous to know the holy Scriptures aright and to bee acquainted with the deepe secrets and hidden councels of the most high God The Prophet Dauid saith Psal 25.14 The secret of the Lorde is reuealed to them that feare him Doe we long after Gods fauour and that his louing countenance may shine vpon vs without which nothing in this world is worth the hauing The Prophet saith the louing countenance of the Lord indureth for euer on them that feare him Would we be truely happie and blest of God both in our selues and in our Children we leaue behinde vs Questionles our onely way for this purpose is to feare the Lord Blessed saith the Prophet Psalm 112.1.2 is the man that feareth the Lord his seede shall be mightie vpon earth and the generation of the righteous shall be blessed And most excellent is that sentence Psalm 25. His soule shall dwell at ease his children shall inherit the land Loe thus and many other waies shall that man be blessed that feareth the Lord. Thus I thought good Right Worshipfull to touch the titles of these two Sermons in these sewe words wherein you may see the worth and weight of the subiect matter they are about and so be led to a further perusing of them to your soules good Now the God of heauen who hath alreadie seasoned your hearts with his feare and set you apart as sanctified vessels to beare his glorious name hold on your hearts in a wise and zealous profession of his truth and grant that you may see your seruice to God abundantly rewarded euen with the best of his fauours vpon your selues and vpon your most hopefull posteritie for euer From Norwich Nouemb. 15. 1613. Your Worships true affected in all Christian loue and dutie Robert Gallard A SERMON SHEWING THE FRVIT AND BENEFIT we haue by our Baptisme GALATH. 3.27 For all ye that are baptized into Christ haue put on Christ HItherto the Apostle hath proued by the scope and end of the legall administration that the law is abrogate by the comming of Christ the ceremoniall law wholly and the Morall in some part viz. in respect of iustification Now in the 26. verse he proueth the same by opposition of their present with their former estate as if hee should say All ye are now the sonnes of God you are therefore no more seruants as you were vnder the law and that they are the sonnes of God he sheweth it by this that they were ingrafted into Christ by faith the proper instrument of this insition Now in this verse hee confirmeth this their incorporation by the testimonie of baptisme whereby the truth of this is signed and sealed vnto them For the words themselues that we may with fruite be conuersant in the handling of them first let vs search the true and proper meaning of them and then come to the vse To be baptized into Christ is to be baptized in or into the name of Christ that wee might be made partakers of all the benefits of Christ which concerne saluation Thus Saint Peter expoundeth it Acts 2.38 where he giueth this aduice vnto the Iews which were touched in conscience for their sinne in crucifying of Christ Repent be baptized in the name of the Lord Iesus for the remission of sins Now to be baptized into the name of Christ is to haue the name of Christ named vpon vs and for vs to be acknowledged to bee his members and by baptisine as by a solemne right and ceremonie instituted of God to be inuesled and installed into the familie of Christ viz. his Church and to bee indued with all the priuiledges thereof This appeareth by a like phrase vsed Genesis 48.16 where Iacob at his death blessing Iosephs children hath these words Let my name be named on them and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaack that is let them be all taken and reputed as my children Now because this speech vsed by the Apostle is a sacramētal phrase wherein that is attributed to the signe which is proper to the thing signified These words are further to be explained on this manner All yee that are baptized into Christ that is all ye that are ingrafted and set into the bodie of Christ and haue receiued the sacrament of Baptisme as a seale and confirmation of this your insition and incorporatiō haue put on Christ euen as men doe vse to put on a garment The originall of this Metaphore I take it to be this Those that were to be baptized in the Primitiue Church being men of yeeres were wont to put off their cloathes going into the water and when they came out of the water either to put on new cloathes or the old garments as new themselues being become new men whereupon the Apostle speaking of regeneration alludeth to this custom in two places Ephes 4.22.24 Coloss 3.9.10 Further Christ is here compared to a garment in two respects first in respect of necessitie secondly of ornament For the first the garment hath this necessarie vse to couer the nakednesse from the eyes of men and to protect and preserue a man from the iniuries of the ayre and the weather viz. from the extremitie of heate and cold In like sort Christ is a couering to hide our nakednes from the sight of God and a shelter to shroud and defend vs from the heate and tempest of the wrath and anger of God and thus is Christ put on in iustification For the second as the garment doth adorne and beautifie a mans person and doth not a little commend him and make him acceptable in the presence of men euen so Christ being put on in faith doth adorne and inrich our soules with diuine and spirituall graces making vs to appeare precious and beautifull in the sight of God and thus is Christ put on in sanctification so then the meaning is that those that by baptisme are ingrafted into Christ are iustified and sanctified And thus much shall suffice to haue spoken of the meaning of the words now come we to the vse the which is manifold First if baptisme be a sacrament of our incorporation into Christ our dutie is to labour by all meanes in truth and indeed to be set into Christ and to be made members of his bodie that so we may answere our profession made in baptisme

eternall life beleeued Where the restraint is to be obserued the Apostle doth not make faith common to all but to the elect onely excluding as it is manifest to any indifferent reader all others which were not ordained to life And lest any man might doubt of the equality reciprocation of the members that is faith and election let him reade Tit. 1.1 where the Apostle speaketh of a faith proper to the elect which the article plainly declareth put there for distinction sake noting that there is a faith indeed in reprobates to wit a temporarie or historicall faith but not the faith of the elect viz. sauing and iustifying faith the which whosoeuer hath hath presently eternall life Ioh. 3.36 not only in a blind and coniecturall hope as the Papists say but in a certaine and infallible perswasion grounded vpon the word and promise of God and in such a hope as disappointeth not neither maketh ashamed neither that only but in present possession if wee regard the beginnings of it for there are three degrees of eternall life the first is in this life in faith and regeneration the second in the end of this life in the totall abolishment of sinne which is the accomplishment of mortification the third is after this life at the resurrection in the fulnes of glory wherewith both soule and bodie shall bee replenished for euer wherfore the first degree or entrance into this life is made so soone as a man beginneth to beleeue Further in the same chapter vers 18. hee that beleeueth saith our Sauiour Christ is not condemned neither euer shall be as it appeareth Ioh. 5.24 but hath alreadie passed from death vnto life and Rom. 8.1 There is no condemnation to them that by faith are ingrafted into Christ lest any should doubt of their perseuerance hee addeth by way of description that they are such as walke not according to the flesh but according to the spirit Further that true faith is an infallible note of election it is manifest 2. Tim. 2.21 whosoeuer purgeth himselfe from these hee shall be a vessell vnto honour Whence I reason thus * The syllogisme at large may thus be framed If sanctificatiō be a sure mark of election thē saith is so because sanctification is an inseparable fruit of faith But sanctification is a sure marke of election Therefore c. Sanctification is a sure marke of election now sanctification is a fruit of faith for that alone purifieth the hart Acts 15. Ergo. And indeede Ioh. 14.16.17 our Sauiour Christ denieth that the world that is reprobates can receiue the spirit of regeneration which is the comforter and leader into all truth and Paul 2. Cor. 13.5 excepteth the reprobates from the number of such as haue Iesus Christ dwelling in their hearts by faith By al which it is more then manifest that true sauing grace is neuer communicated to the reprobate Lastly if this doctrine might stand three notable absurdities in Diuinitie would necessarilie follow vpon it First that reprobates in their persons and actions shall sometimes please God viz. when they haue faith and worke from faith for faith is that that makes both person and action acceptable to God but how can this stand with that of our Sauiour Christ Matth. 7.23 who shall pronounce at the day of iudgement of them that were otherwise adorned with most rare and singular gifts and graces of God I neuer knew you at no time I approued you either in your persons or works I neuer acknowledged you for mine which hee would not neither could say if euer they had been indued with true faith for at that time at the least he must needes haue acknowledged them to be his Secondly the certaintie of saluation falleth flat to the ground for the which wee contend so much with the Papists for what other 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or medium is there wherby to perswade the conscience of the certaintie of election besides faith which if it be a common grace to the reprobate with the Elect then no certitudo fidei for a man may beleeue the pardon of a sin and yet for all that be a reprobate Thirdly the very reprobate ones shall be true members of Christ and of the Catholike Church which is meere Poperie and the thing that Bellarmine and the Papists labour to establish Secondly the very word Election ouerturneth this deuice of an vniuersall decree for in euery choice there is a taking of some and a refusall of other some and he that electeth cannot be said to take all but some only Obiect To elect is to loue but God loueth all his creatures and therefore chuseth all Answ To elect is not to loue but to destinate and appoint to an eternall loue Againe God loues not all with an equall loue hee is said to loue all in that hee willeth good vnto all but not the good of eternall life Thus Thomas answereth part 1. qu. 23. art 3. Thirdly wee see by the euent that all come not to eternall life but some only how then can we imagine that the finall estate of a man in saluation and damnation should come to passe without the decree of God Ioh. 17.2.11 our Sauiour Christ giueth eternall life to them alone that were giuen him of the Father that is those that were elected now if all had bin elected why did he not speake generally that he gaue eternall life to all but restraineth it to those that were giuen him of the Father But here exception will be made though Gods decree bee vniuersall yet conceiued with a condition which when men doe not obserue no maruell though they miscarrie and come not to eternall life Answ This conditionall decree is a foolish dreame of mans braine and carrieth with it many grosse absurdities First the Scripture hath not spoken a word of it but whensoeuer it mentioneth the decree it simply and categorically propoundeth it as Rom. 9 and Ephe. 1.4 He hath chosen vs before the foundation of the world It will be replied the Gospell is propounded with condition and that is nothing else but Gods predestination reuealed Ans Albeit I confesse that the Gospell doth in some part reueale the decree of God yet it followeth not that it is to bee confounded with it and that they are things distinct one from an other may appeare by these differences First predestination being as it is commonly vsed in Scriptures and in the writings of Diuines referred to the Elect is that wherein God determineth what he will doe touching vs or in vs and hereupon the definition of Augustine is commonly receiued It is the preparation of the blessing of God wherby they are deliuered that are deliuered But the Gospell is that wherein hee determineth by dutie what we are to doe vnto him Secondly in predestination hee defineth both the materiall and formall number as the Schoolemen speake that is who and how many they are that shall be saued which number can neither be

a symball and as it were a doore of their solemne entrance admissiō into the Church of God and for the time to come it is a seale and pledge vnto them of their certaine incorporation into the body of Christ Thus much of the first vse Secondly if by baptisme wee are ingrafted into Christ then let vs walk as it becommeth the members of Christ 2. Cor. 5.17 If any man be in Christ let him be a new creature that is renewed in his minde in his thoughts in his purposes in his desires in his affections in his speeches in his actions and whole conuersation let none of these sauour of the flesh but of the spirit and why so because All old things saith the Apostle are past and all things are become new So likewise Galath 5.25 If we liue in the spirit that is if being coupled vnto Christ we be quickned by his spirit in the inward man then let vs walke in the spirit that is let vs bring foorth the fruites and doe the workes of the spirit and not of the flesh If a man were called out of the countrie to liue in the citie and made one of the corporation his name being registred in the Roles and he enfranchised and entitled to all the priuiledges of a free Citizen he would shake off all his rude and rusticall behauiours and carry himselfe and conuerse ciuilly as a Citizen so likewise wee being called out of this world that is the corrupt stock of mankind and set into Christ the true vine our dutie is to cast off all our worldly and carnall behauiours and to carrie and demeane our selues honestly as it becommeth the members of Christ being now made as it were free Citizens of the kingdome of heauen Thirdly if by baptisme we are ingrafted into Christ let vs endeuour and vse al good meanes daily to grow vp more and more with him in this spirituall coniunction The members of the naturall bodie at the first are but small and slender but still they grow in strength and receiue daily increase till they come to their iust quantitie euen so it is in the mysticall body of Christ though at the first we be but babes in Christ yet by the continuall vse of the Word and Sacraments and by prayer meditation c. wee must looke to receiue continual increase growing from grace to grace till we come to be tall strong men in Christ Iesus The sience or graffe that is set into a stocke and doth not prosper and grow greater neither bearing leafe nor bringing foorth fruite we iudge it to be a dead and a rotten branch and that worthilie and that it liueth not by the sappe and iuyce of the roote semblablie when as by baptisme wee are set into Christ and make no progresse or proceedings in knowledge in faith in loue in zeale in godlinesse in obedience it is an argument wee are but dead branches and are but only outwardly in appearance before men ingrafted into Christ and not truly indeed before God Fourthly here al parents are taught their dutie as the common care of all is which is commendable by baptisme to bring their children into the Church so when they come to yeeres which is commonly neglected of al to instruct them touching the matter and vse of baptisme a maine principall point whereof is their infition into Christ labouring to bring them to the sight and sense of their sinnes to repentance vnfained for the same and consequently by the vse of the Word and Sacraments to true fellowship and communiō with Christ Fifthly heere is a matter of great comfort vnto all that are fallen or by infirmitie or otherwise haue made relapse in some or more grieuous sinnes for when a man fallen shall consider that baptisme is a signe and seale of our perpetuall insition and indissoluble vnion with Christ in which is granted a generall pardon of all sins past present and to come neuer to be repealed because the Couenant remaineth euer in force vnto them that repent and obserue the cōdition Esay 54.10 The couenant of my peace shall not faile he taketh hart and comforteth himself in hope of fauour and mercie if he returne vnto God by repentance For baptisme is like vnto a ship out of which if a man shall be fallen into the Sea and shall but catch hold of a board to bring him to the ship the Pylot will be readie to receiue him so if a man shall after his fall hauing caught the board of repentance returne vnto baptisme the Lord will be readie to receiue him to mercie and it will bee of force to saue him Lastly if baptisme bee the sacrament of our incorporation then wee ought to honour it to reuerence and regard it as the holie ordinance of God and by all meanes to testifie the same And heere a common abuse commeth to be taxed and reproued when men depart foorth of the congregation in the time of administration thereby manifesting their contempt of the holy Sacrament whereas by their presence and decent behauiour they ought to testifie their reuerence vnto the ordinance of God and their ioy for the adding of a member vnto the Church Haue put on Christ Christ is put on three waies First in his merit secondly in his efficacie and thirdly in his example For the first Christ is put on in his merit when as by faith his righteousnesse and meritorious obedience is applied vnto iustification and saluation this is signed and sealed by the action of the Minister besprinkling the bodie of the partie baptized with water thereby representing the blood of Christ which being sprinkled vpon the soule by the hand of faith purgeth and cleanseth it from all sinne 1. Ioh. 1.7 Our dutie therfore which we learne from hence is this that we are to labour aboue all things to bee purged and washed in our consciences from sinne that our hearts being purified by faith wee might stand blamelesse and without fault before God Acts 22.16 Ananias is brought in giuing this counsell vnto Paul Arise saith he and be baptized wash away thy sins c. Secondly Christ is put on in his efficacie when as by the vertue and power of his death a man killeth and crucifieth the corruption of his nature and by the power of his resurrection he reuiueth and is raised out of the graue of his sinne to holinesse and newnes of life this is also signed and sealed in our baptisme and for that cause we are said Rom. 6.3 to be baptized into the death of Christ because baptisme is the seale and sacrament of our mortification neither of that only but of our viuification also as may appeare Rom. 6.4 for we must be like fashioned vnto Christ not only in the similitude of his death that as he died for our sinnes so we by the vertue of the same death should die vnto sinne but also in the similitude of his resurrection that as hee rose againe for our iustification