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A13209	Lectures vpon the eleventh chapter to the Romans. Preached by that learned and godly divine of famous memorie, Dr. Sutton, in St. Marie Overies in Southwarke. Published for the good of all Gods Church generally, and especially of those that were then his hearers	Sutton, Thomas, 1585-1623.; Downame, John, d. 1652.	1632 (1632)	STC 23507; ESTC S118002	306,616	538

the Arke of the Covenant and the Temple which Salomon built Quis cladem illius urbis quis sunera sando Explicat aut possit lachrymis c. Virgil. 2.1 Aeneid Babylon who could say of herselfe as Isay 47.8 I am and none else beside mee I shall not sit as a widdow c. Yet now she is laid waste Ostriches cry there and the Satyres dance there Isay 13.21 Few places had such prerogatives as Nineveh so much state that Volateran reports that it was eight yeeres a building and all that time no lesse than ten thousand worke-men and Diodorus Slculus that the height of the wals were an hundred foot the breadth able to receive three carts on arow it had fifteene hundred turrets and yet none of these have sence but paper-wals to preserve their memori●● So the seven Churches of Asia I am seges est ubi Troja fuit Ovid. Epist 1. Nice Ephesus and Chalcedon famous for generall Councels and now the ruines and rubbish of them cannot bee found they are turned into pastures for oxen and sheepe 2. Outward privilege is no proofe of election for then all the Iewes enjoying the same privileges should bee saved aswell as any one of them Beware then you deceive not your hearts Vse that you trust not to these broken reeds that have no strength that you judge not of your estate by these outward marks It is not your hearing nor your maintaining of the Gospell but it is your sanctified holines in the heart Follow holines for without that no man shall see the Lord Heb. 12.14 not Herods holines nor Pharisaicall holines not Popish holines in rites and ceremonies will you know that are of the Church I know you desire it for alas what good will it doe a man to have Princes to bow unto him doubt what shall become of his soule That saying of Trajan the Emperor will be but cold cōfort at the day of death though my words perish in the aire yet When that day shall come that Christ shall set some on his right hand and others on his left you will have no comfort but in this that you led good lives kept cleere consciences served God in singlenesse of spirit for then hee will take you by the hands and bring you into his Palace admit you into his Court make you Inheritors of his Kingdome invest you into his glorie where I hope we all long to be and where I hope we shall all meet to praise the blessed Trinitie the Father Sonne and Holy Ghost to whom be glorie So I come to Pauls answer in the next words God forbid for I also am an Israelite Answ This answer consists of two branches The one Pauls reply 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 God forbid The other the strength of his reply in three Arguments 1. From the person Paul 2. From the fore-knowledge of God 3. From the state of the Church in the time of Elias I begin with the reply God forbid It seemes to bee a bare negation but is indeed in sence Bipartita propositio Ad Rom. 1. a two-fold proposition saith P. Martyr 1. God hath cast away none that are within the Covenant God forbid that 2. Which followes by way of corollarie All that are Iewes are not within the Covenant Doct. and from these two propositions follow two conclusions They that are within the Covenant of grace cannot finally be cast away 1. They that are within the Covenant of grace cannot finally bee cast away 2. All men are not within the Covenant of election and grace I beginne with the former and lay downe these grounds Reason 1 whereon it being built will stand like the house upon a rocke against the wind of Popish opposition The 1. God who elected them is unchangeable I am 1.17 I am God and change not Mal. 3.8 a Sine mutatione facit mutabilia moderatur mobiiased sine motu Aug de Trinit lib. 1. cap. 1. He being without change doth make things changeable and governeth things moveable but without motion saith Augustine b Et qui mutat opera non mutat concilium consess lib. 1. cap. 4. And hee who changeth his works changeth not his counsell c Et quodsemel habet nunquam admittit What he once hath he never loseth d Tempus ab aevo esse jubes stabilisque manous das cuncta manert Boet deconsol philos lib. 3. From all eternitie thou commandest time to bee and remaining stable thou causest all things to abide saith Boetius They that would see more may finde it in e De Ecclesiast Hierarch cap. 3. Dionysius the supposed Areopagite that though a man would fall yet God will bee sure in his Covenant The 2. Reason 2 Institut lib. 3. cap. 24. second given by Calvin All the elect are committed by God the Father to the keeping and protection of God the Sonne All that the Father giveth mee shall come to mee Ioh. 6.37 and in Ioh. 17.6 Thine they were and thou gavest them to me and therefore Christ cals himselfe the true Shepherd in Ioh. 10. and knowes everie one that God puts into his keeping vers 14. If a Shepherd then he is to tend and keepe all that is committed to his trust and if you will know how faithfully Christ doth keep them see Ioh. 17.12 All that thou hast given me I have kept and not one of them is lost save the sonne of perdition c. And Ioh. 6.37 Him that commeth to me from the Father I put not away nay there is not one that God hath commended to my keeping but I will shew him to my Father and bee accountable for their soules at the day of judgement For I will raise him up at the last day saith the Shepherd of Israel vers 39. The 3. Reason 3 If any thing should cut them off who are once in the Covenant it must needs be their owne sinne or the stratagem of an enemie Sin cannot because if any of them sinne they have an advocate with the father Iesus Christ 1 Ioh. 2.1 Hee will present them blamelesse and without spot and in the meane time keepe them that they shall not fall Iude 24. nor can the stratagems of Satan prevaile for I give unto them eternall life and none take them out of my hands and they shall never perish Ioh. 10.28 If the elect could be deceived it should bee by false Christs and false Prophets Matth. 24.24 they would deceive if it were possible the verie elect The 4. The assurance of salvation is sealed the covenant is not onely made as Gen. 17.7 but it is also sealed Reason 4 for God hath sealed us and hath given us an carnest-penny for hee hath sealed us and hath given us the earnest of his Spirit in our hearts 2 Cor. 1.22 So Ephes 4.30 Grieve not the holy Spirit of God by whom you are sealed c. So 2 Tim. 2.19 The foundation of God remaineth sure

be with Christ Excellent is that meditation of Augustine Inquictū est cor nostrum O Domine dones in te requiescat Aug. Confess l. b. 1. cap. 1. Our heart is restlesse O Lord till what time it resteth in thee So that all that long for his comming are sure of a crowne The Vse is Vse 1 First to refute the Papist who teacheth that Paul had this assurance by revelation for so both Pighius and Andradius out of the Trent Councell for if you looke Rom. 8.32 33 34. you shall see that Paul grounds this certaintie not on revelation but upon a ground common to all beleevers as first on Christs death vers 32. Secondly on Christs free justification vers 33. Thirdly on Christs intercession vers 34. As before hath beene shewed But the principall use is to note the happinesse of all true beleevers and of all that feare God Whatsoever griefe and sorrow meannesse and want they endure here they know they shall have honour in stead of it hereafter They may be like Lazarus in Fulgentius without a garment but if not without faith without a house but if they be not without a Lord without meat but if they be not without Christ in the world here know that they shall not be without glorie without a Kingdome in the world to come When men suppose them to bee quite forsaken then can they looke with joy up to Heaven where they shall dwell and they can see though not the roomes and seats yet the glorious house and mansion which is theirs by inheritance and this point will lighten all our burthens mitigate all our sorrowes ease all our griefes that though here our heads be covered with ashes we know that there they shall bee crowned with glorie though here we be esteemed base we know that there wee shall be happy though wee be here as yet but servants wee know that there wee shall reigne as Kings though we be yet as strangers we know we shall be received as sonnes though here wee have a fit of mourning wee know wee shall rejoyce for ever though we labour hard for the six dayes we shall come to keepe a Sabbath that will last ever What comfort like this to be men and yet to know that God our God what comfort like this to be the meanest of men and yet to know that Christ is ours what comfort like this to dwell on earth and yet be sure aforehand that Heaven is ours what comfort like this to be here verie emblemes of basenesse and and yet bee sure that glorie is ours to dwell in a base cottage and yet bee sure that wee are borne to an immortall inheritance So that my conclusion is that of David Psal 37.37 Marke the upright man and behold him for the end of that man is peace Peace with Angels peace with his owne conscience peace with God the Father Sonne and Holy Ghost Lord bring us to that glorie invest us to that Kingdome give us that peace for thy Sonnes sake So I come to the second part of this description Of the seed of Abraham Of the seed of Abraham The seed of Abraham not onely a Convert or a Proselyte but deseended from Abrahams loynes and it seemes to be thus in sense that though some of Abrahams seed be cast off yet some are not and it will easily carrie this Doctrine That parentage can neither hinder a mans salvation Doct. nor further it One Abraham hath Isaac and Ishmael one called to an inheritance the other not One Isaac may have an Esau and a Iacob one loved and the other hated of God Mal. 1.2 3. A man may bee borne of a wicked father and yet bee deare unto God Amon a wicked King one that did much evill in the sight of the Lord as his father Manasses had done 2 Kings 21.20 yet he hath a sonne that doth uprightly and walkes in all the wayes of God as David had done 2 King 22.2 So that the Spirit of God gave him this testimony that like unto him was no King before him that turned not aside c. nor any like to him that came after him 2 Kings 23.25 and he may be a godly father of a wicked sonne as Isaac of Esau and Abraham of Ishmael One man may bee the sonne of a Patriarch and himselfe damned another the sonne of some poore Carpenter and be saved one may creepe in purple as Quintilian Lib 1. de Instit another hath not a rag to cover it the father and mother forsake it and yet the Lord takes him up and sets him neare to himselfe and in the end crownes it The Vse is To teach us first Vse That parents greatnesse and vertue cannot procure acceptance of their sonnes before God if a childe be good it is no disparagement that his father is not good Malo pater tibi sit Thersites dummodo tu sis Alacidae similis Vulcamiaque arma capessas quàmte Thersitae similem producat Achilles If thou be not good thy selfe it is not thy fathers vertues that can commend thee unto God Let everie man adorne and trim up his owne heart that it may be a sweet lodging for Christ to dwell in Though Christ should lodge in thy fathers house thou mayest be a cast away if he reside not in thee also Trust not then in parents and friends for there is no helpe in them If good doubt not of happinesse thou shalt fare no worse for them Thus it is no privilege to be great Secondly that it is no prejudice to be meanly borne for be a man never so poore if hee worke righteousnesse he is accepted Acts 10.35 bee he never so meane to him shall be glorie and honour and peace Rom. 2.10 She that grindes at the mill is as neere Heaven as he that sits on the throne what if thy father have nothing yet the earth is the Lords what if parents forsake thee the Lord will take thee up what if without food the Lord will send thee the bread of life what if without cloathes hee will cloath thee with the righteousnesse of Christ if thou belong unto him Thus parentage can neither helpe nor hinder us from God Before I proceed observe that Paul speakes not onely of his carnall descent from Abram but of the spirituall privilege that hee was one of his faithfull seed for in Gods account they onely that have the promises are counted for the seed Rom. 9.8 The one saith Augustine will doe a man honour the other none from whence I build a second Theoreme Doct. It is more honour to be faithfull than to be Abrahams seed It is more honour to bee a faithfull childe of God than the sonne of the greatest Prince Moses Heb. 11.24 counts it greater honour to bee amongst the children of God than to live in Pharaohs Court and be called the sonne of Pharaohs daughter David takes more honour to dwell one day in Gods Court than a thousand elsewhere