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A08055	Mans actiue obedience, or The power of godlines especially in the commandement of the gospell, which requireth faith in euerie Christian: or A treatise of faith, worthily called precious faith, as being in it selfe a most rare iewell of ioy, and peerelesse pearle, that excelleth in worth the highest price. Wherein is plainly declared what faith in Christ is what properly is the obiect of it, what is the speciall operation of faith, by which it may bee discerned; and the worke about which it is principally imployed, the subiect wherein it is placed; what things are needfull to the making it up, what to the being, and what to the wel-being of it; with the differences that are betweene true beleeuers and fained in all of them, and the vses thereof. By Master William Negus, lately minister of Gods word at Lee in Essex.; Mans active obedience.	Negus, William, 1559?-1616.; Negus, Jonathan, d. 1633.	1619 (1619)	STC 18420; ESTC S113618	278,658	364

pray for them yet would he deny thē nothing Nay so doth it please him to vnbowel himselfe and to open and manifest the loue of his heart which he beareth to his children that as touching their good and concerning them he saith after a sort they may Isai 45 10. command him By all which it may appeare before wee can warrantably beleeue in God as reckoning vpon his fauour and loue to finde mercie at his hands for the pardon of our sinnes and our owne gratious acceptation with him or for the receiuing any blessing from him or any righteousnesse as from the God of our saluation wee Psal 24 5. must first get the knowledge of Christ Iesus and by faith seeke to apprehend him that being first ingrafted into Christ Iesus by faith and admitted to a holy vnion and communion ●ith the Sonne wee may haue fellowship with the Father and so be brought to God by him according Ioh. 14 6. as he is said to be perfectly able to saue all that doe Heb. 7. 25. come to God by him And this is that which Peter speaketh of when hee saith that the faithfull doe by Christ beleeue in God who raised him vp from the dead and 1. Pet. 1. 21. gaue him glorie that their faith and hope might be in God CHAP. V. The manner of knowledge of Christ with the perswasion that is necessary to faith Question WHat manner of knowledge is that which is necessary for vs to haue of Christ Iesus that so we may the better beleeue in him A. Not a confused or a generall knowledge Knowledge of Christ of Christ alone not a bare speculatiue knowledge of him and of the mysterie of saluation by him which is the best knowledge that the most haue of Christ which is yet but idle and vnfruitfull and auaileth Mat. 7. 21. Luk. 6. 46. nothing to saluation But a cleare and distinct knowledge of the mysterie of saluation in Christ Iesus as the same is reuealed in the Gospell whereby we may know assuredly that it is he and hee onely whom the Father hath sealed sent into the world that the world by him might be saued who being fore-ordained to this great 1. Pet. 1. 20. and blessed worke of mans redemption and sauing the world before the very foundation of the world it selfe was laid and promised to the Fathers as God spake by the mouth of his holy Prophets which haue been since Luk. 1. 70. the world began was sent of God when the fulnesse of time was come though being his owne Sonne to become Galath 4. 4. also the Sonne of man and to be made of a woman And as concerning the flesh to descend of the Fathers though from all eternity in himselfe he is God ouer all blessed Rom. 9. 5. for euer A person truly that hath no peere most admirable and wonderfull who is the only Phoenix in the world that hath no fellow euen as the worke was great and difficult yea very admirable and wholly impossible by any other euer to haue been effected about which hee was to bee employed which was the redeeming of the world and reconciling of man to God This will better appeare if we consider first that God himselfe was the partie that was wronged man was the partie that had offended God was to be satisfied man stood in need to be saued necessary it was that there should come satisfaction to God for man that man being saued Gods iustice might not be lost Now the infinite Maiesty of God being wronged there could bee no satisfaction made sufficient by any that were but finite none therefore could thus satisfie but God as none ought to satisfie but man For which cause our Sauiour Christ Iesus was the onely meete person that was to be imployed about this worke which vnto all others was wholly impossible who being God became also man and tooke our nature vpon him that as he was man he might offer the sacrifice and as he was God he might make it precious and conferre worthinesse and dignitie vnto it that it might euery way be sufficient that so by that one sacrifice Heb. 9. 26. 28. of himselfe once offered that being a sacrifice of a sweet smelling sauour vnto God he might satisfie God Ephes 5. 2. Heb. 5. 9. for man and become the authour of eternall saluation to all them that will obey him Secondly and as wee are to know that in person hee was right wonderfull and in worke no lesse powerfull yea most singular most glorious and excellent so are we to know that the offices were most high and honourable vnto which he was assigned and which he bare vpon him for the accomplishment of the same as being annointed of God to those offices of greatest dignitie and respect both before God and man of being our high Priest King and Prophet by whom we might be reconciled vnto God deliuered from the hands of our enemies ruled by his lawes guided by his teaching and shewed the path and way of life that so in the end we might bee saued by Psal 16. 11. him A high Priest indeed but made not after the law of a carnall commandement in a policy that was perishable Heb. 7. 16. but after the power of an endlesse life in the promise of a dignity that should bee euerlasting A King of greatest Apoc. 1. 5. and 17. 14. Heb. 12. 27. 28. 1. Tim. 1. 17. Luk. 1. 33. Maiesty and glory but not such a one as euer may bee deposed or put out of his throne not such a one whose kingdome can euer bee shaken but who is a King euerlasting and immortall and of whose kingdome and gouernment there shall neuer bee end A Prophet mighty indeed and in word doing such workes as no other Luk. 24. 19. Ioh. 15. 24. Ioh. 7. 46. man did and speaking such words as neuer man spake who was annointed to that holy function as well as others but yet with the oyle of gladnesse aboue all his fellowes Who receiued not the Spirit by measure as Psal 45. 7. doe others for it pleased the Father that in him all fulnesse should dwell of whose fulnesse we haue all receiued Ioh. 3. 34. Colos 1. 19. Ioh. 1. 16. Mat. 17. 5. Isa 42. 4. euen grace for grace him are we willed to heare and the Isles are to wait for his law Now we are to pray without ceasing that the God of our Lord Iesus Christ the Father of glory would giue vnto vs the Spirit of wisedome and reuelation in the true knowledge of him making daily more and more manifest this great mysterie of Christ Ephes 1. 17. which in other ages was not made knowne to the sonnes Ephes 3. 5. of men as it is now reuealed by the Spirit that wee may after this manner both know and acknowledge him Q. Beside the true knowledge of Christ in the description you made of faith

enemies together the greatest mightiest and proudest enemies that they haue are able to doe against them no not what Satan himselfe the very prince of darknesse nor all the power of hell can doe against them since all these haue no power at all but as it is giuen them and so Ioh. 19. 11. giuen them as it is limited according to the good pleasure of his will at his word they are sent forth at his word they are called in againe hee ruleth ouer their greatest rage and maketh their maddest furic to turne to his owne Psal 76. 10. praise without him none of them all can lift vp hand or foot in all the world but through the greatnesse of his power they are all made subiect vnto him and for the glory of his Maiesty they all tremble and feare before him Psal 66. 3. if he will giue quietnesse none of them all can make trouble yea such is the Soueraignty and superiour command Iob 34. 29. ●e hath ouer them as that for the safety of Gods people out of the hands of them all euery faithfull seruant of God may come and pray before him as doth the Church in the Psalme Thou art my king O God command deliuerances Psal 44. 4. for Iacob The knowledge also of this may quiet our mindes in the greatest stirres that may happen in the world and the most disordered confusions that can be seene to fall out among men and cause vs with patience and in silence to sit vs downe waiting till wee haue seene the issue of them and what may be the end which God who ruleth by his power for euer and stilleth the noise of the seas the Psal 66. 7. and 65. 7. noyse of their waues and the tumult of the people will bring vnto them who in his infinite wisedome knoweth well how to make all things beautifull in time yea out of the fowlest facts the vilest and shamefullest deeds that are done by men so doth the Lords worke appeare beautifull to his seruants and the beautie of the Lord doth so shine out vnto them as they are not onely made glad in seeing his workes but to triumph in the workes of his Psal 92. 4. hands which they see him to haue wrought before them Lastly the knowledge of this that the Lord who is high aboue all nations doth yet humble himselfe to behold to care for and to order the things that are done in Psal 113. 3. 5. 6. heauen and 〈…〉 this should cause vs to feare before the Lord in whose hands are our liues and in whose sight are all our wayes so to rest in and be well contented with whatsoeuer in our whole life time in any sort shall happen as knowing that it is his hand that doth Iob 1. 21. guide euery thing CHAP. III. The Christians practice according to the knowledge of himselfe and his owne dutie and herein first of the legall Commandements Question SO much of the practice and vse we are to make of the knowledge of God himselfe and of his workes come now to shew the like vses that we are to make of the knowledge of ourselues and of our owne duties And first touching ourselues what may this serue vs instead to know that we were once made so happy creatures and so excelling in goodnesse A. For so much as it is the Lord that so made vs happie and not we our selues all the excellencie of that our estate serueth but to declare him to bee most excellent that first set vs in it and of whom we had it For if the heauens declare the glory of God and the firmament show his Psal 19. 1. handy worke which yet are but a part of the great world made by God of nothing man who is a creature so fearfully Ingens miraculum homa and wonderfully made and so curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth as he is alone a little world Psal 139. 14. 1● Our soules and bodies are shops of his most notable works whe in himselfe and an abstract or modell of the vniuersall how cannot the glory of God much more shine bright out of him and the praise of his workmanship his wisedome his goodnesse and his greatnesse be more aboundantly in are wrought wonders and things neuer enough admired The Lord did mouid and fashion man a liuing image of his Deity shewed forth by a creature made so glorious as had the very character and image of God his owne glory put vpon it which the other neuer had Beside the glory of our first creation being so great who as touching our bodily substāce were but creatures raised out of the dust and as touching our soules made something out of nothing though a diuine substance indeede Gen. 1. 7. of an excellent and happy condition puts vs in hope that these vile bodies of ours though they must returne againe to their dust are to be laid downe againe with dishonour in the graue yet shall be raised vp againe the second time to the fruition of a better perfection of glory in Gods kingdome and be made like the glorious body of the Sonne of God by the mighty power of him Phil. 3. 21. that once did so make them and that these sinfull soules of ours though now they be so laden pestered and poysoned with aboundant corruption as wee know not of any goodnesse at all that can be found in them shall by the same power not onely be freed from all this load and Rom. 7. 18. burthen of corruption but recouer againe the first if not a fuller purity and greater perfection then they euer had and be clothed vpon againe with a more enduring glory 2. Cor. 5. 4. that will neuer fade Lastly the knowledge heereof serueth to stoppe the mouth of euery man from complaining against God that made him for that he is now so lamentably sallen seeing God made him vpright but himselfe hath sought out that inuention that hath caused this wofull ruine Eccles 7. 29. Q. And what vse are we to make of the knowledge of our miserable estate into which we that were once so happie are now so plunged by the fall of Adam as that we all by nature are become the children of wrath one as well as another A. By this we are taught to acknowledge that thing which by our lamentable experience wee haue now learned and found to bee most true namely that no Iob 4. 18. 1. Sam. 2. 9. creature how glorious soeuer it be is able to sustaine and vphold it selfe if the hand of the Creator bee once withdrawne This serueth also to ouerthrow our pride to cast downe Rom. 3. 27. Ioh. 3. 3. 6. all our glory and confidence in our selues all boasting of our stocke and blood in nature how nobly soeuer wee bee borne since all are shut vp vnder this condemnation to stand vnder the wrath of God by nature and are

fell to offer 1. Sam. 13. 10. 12. it himselfe for he thought the time long as himselfe said till he had made his supplication to the Lord but he was a foule hypocrite his ioy and his zeale they continued not his end was fearefull Flitting spirits be neuer good and this warbling and quauering musicke of ioy that is thus but by fits brings neuer such steady comfort as may bee reckoned vpon will stay long with a man If men seeme neuer so to ioy in good things to affect godlinesse for a time if they be not constant they may goe to hell for their paines in the end Great ioy if it be but onely for a time Apoc. 2. 4. 3. 1. good motions and fits of zeale that will not last long are not so much to be reioyced in while they are had as the losse of them is to be lamented when they are so lost as they can no more bee found nor perceiued to be in them that had them If there be a terrible sight in any thing to be seene it is in this that a man was good but now hee is become naught he had delight and comfort in well-doing but now he hath none he had zeale and forwardnes but now he is luke-warme hee was aliue and quicke to good workes but now he is dull and dead-hearted and that way become as lumpish and heauy as a stone he seemed to heare the Word with much gladnesse and to haue had great ioy for a season but now there is no such thing to be found remaining with him but all is vanished and quite gone all is withered away and brought to nothing that being found verified vpon him which our Sauiour hath threatned that as to him that hath shall still be giuen to Matth. 25. 29. haue more so from him that hath not shall be taken away euen that which both to himselfe and to others he seemed otherwise to haue had before On the other side true beleeuers haue ioy and peace in Rom. 15. 13. beleeuing their ioy is sound and lasting and as their faith is True ioy is lasting sure which neuer will faile them so are their comforts and ioyes steadfast solide and vnconquerable such as are able to cheare vp a mans heart in greatest distresses and make him strong to endure by a firme and most settled resolution against all manner of opposition and whatsoeuer thing may happen yea so liuely and effectuall is the sense and feeling of their ioy as it is able to carry their hearts after a sort out of their bodies and to lift them vp euen to the very heauens Their ioy is permanent and enduring their comforts are like a spring of water whose waters faile Isai 58. 11. not for riuers of waters of life flow out of their bellies so as Iohn 7. 38. they neuer can be wholly drie againe the ioy of the Lord which as Ezra told the people was their strength is said to Nehem. 8. 10. be euerlasting ioy the Lord promising his people that euerlasting ioy shall be vpon their heads they are promised Isai 35. 10. Psal 112. 4. Isai 42. 16. to haue ioy and gladnesse and sorrow and mourning shall 〈◊〉 away Vnto the righteous doth light arise in darknesse but such light as is not like to flashes of lightning in a darke night which tarrieth but a moment and then doubleth the darkenesse when it is out againe but their l●ght is as the breakings sorth of the light of the morning or as the light Isai 58. 8. of the Sunne when it breaketh out of a cloud and shineth sorth in his greatest strength whereby al darknes is dispelled and driuen quite away And if comparison be made the light of the Moone to them is far aboue that which the light of the Sun is to others and the light of their Sun is found to be Isai 30. 26. seuenfold and like the light of seuen dayes in the day that the Lord doth bind vp the breach of his people heale the stroke of their wound as saith the Prophet The ioy that these haue and light of comfort arising to them is not like to the light of those whom Iude calleth wandring starres to Iude 13. whom is reserued the blacknes of darknesse for euer for the Lord is the creator of their ioy and hee giueth to them the light of their comfort so as their sunne shall neuer go downe neither shall their Moone be hidden from them for the Lord will be their euerlasting light and their God Isai 60. 19. 20. their glorie The Lord dealeth with them as he dealt with his people in old time when he brought them out of Egypt and went before them in a pillar of a cloud by day to leade them the way and in a pillar of fire by night to be guide Exod. 13. 21. 22. vnto them of that vnknowne iourney that they might goe both by day and by night neither taking away the pillar of the cloud by day nor the pillar of fire by night from before his people Christ who did this for his people then doth no lesse for his Church at this day and is no lesse present with his faithfull ones now then hee was with those Fathers then at that time And therefore Isaiah prophecying of the times of Christ among other blessings reckoned remembreth this that God will create vpon Isai 4. 5. 6. Psal 105. 39. It is said he spread out the cloud for a couering to his people as though he had held a canopie ouer their head Thus doth God to this day spread ouer the wings of his gracious and mightie protection ouer all his faithfull that they may rest safe vnder the shadow of the almighty On the other side whom bee leaueth of them it is said their shadow is departed from them Numb 14. 9. Ioy ecclipsed 1. Pet 1. 8. Isai 61. 7. euery place of mount Zion and the assemblies therof a cloud that it may be a couering and shadow in the day from the heate and the shining of a flaming fire by night that vpon all the glorie that is vpon the Church and companie of the faithfull who are so called may be a defence and that by day and by night they might haue comfort which comforts shall no more be taken away from his seruants Now then was this shadow of the cloud by day or the shining of the pillar of fire by night taken from the Israelites after they were gone out of Egypt True it is the ioy of Gods seruants sometimes may through their owne default be ecclipsed from them as we perceiue to be sometimes to be the very light of the Sunne but howsoeuer the Sunne may be ecclipsed for a time yet wee see that it is soone recouered againe so it is with the ioy of Gods seruants howsoeuer for a time it may bee interrupted and they may seeme to be in heauinesse for a season