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A50397
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Tria sunt omnia, or, A necessary narration and distinct discussion of faith, hope and love legible in The idea of the book / by R. Mayhew ...
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Mayhew, R. (Richard)
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bearing it for a Crest Though God had one Son without Sin yet he never had a Son without Suffering 2 Tim. 3.12 All that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution Luther saith that he learned more by Christs Cross Qui non est Crucianus non est Christianus than by all the letters in the book He saith also that he is not a Christian that hath not a Cross They who are without chastisement are Bastards and not Sons Now no Bastard can inherit by the Law of God by the Law of Nature by the Law of Nations This hath ever been the poesy of the Church of the first born TO DO GOOD ANDTO SUFFER EVIL Suffering work is noble work the noblest work that Dust and Ashes can be concerned in Saints are inferiour to Angels as to doing but Saints are Superiour to Angels as to Suffering for they are Spirits and so impassible Whom God affects most he many times afflicts most and there is many times the choicest Affection under the chiefest Affliction Great Promises call for a great Faith The Promises of God they are the Churches Stock and a Believers Patrimony The Promises of God are great things so great things that what would not a convinced or a deserted Soul give for a Promise The Promises of God they are greater than the Fears or the Faith of the People of God The Promises of God they are greater than the wants or the weaknesses of the People of God The Promises of God they are greater than the Sorrows or the Sins of the People of God The Promises of God they are greater than the Threatnings of God and as great as the Commands of God When the World was shaken by Adam's sin Gen. 3.15 God secured it by the Promise of his Son All the after Promises were but as so many Commentaries upon this first Promise the SEED OF THE WOMAN God hath many times repealed Punishments but God hath not at any time repealed Promises The Promise is a Ground for Faith as the Precept is a Rule for Obedience The congregating and calling of the Jews together with the drying up of the great river Euphrates in order thereunto are not these great things to believe and do not these call for a great Faith The blasting of Babylon and the blessing of Sion the breaking of Babylon and the Building of Sion the Ruine of Babylon and the Resurrection of Sion are not these great things to believe and do not these great things call for a great Faith A numerical resurrection of the Body Act. 1.10.11 the binding of Satan the personal return of Christ from Heaven 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and the reign of His with Him according to the Greek the thousand years Rev. 20.4 are not these great things to believe and do not these great things call for a great Faith Great Providences call for a great Faith The works of God are distinguished into two sorts of Creation and Providence 'T is bad to out-run Providence and 't is not good to loyter and lag behind it 'T is not good to go before God and 't is as bad to stay long behind him Creatures have a teaching voice they read us Divinity-Lectures of divine Providence There is the general Providence of God Acts. 17.28 which extends it self to the whole world From him we live and move and have our being There 's also the special Providence of God which he sheweth towards his Church Isa 43.2 When thou passest thorough the Waters I will be with thee and prevent thy drowning when thou walkest thorough the fire I will be with thee and prevent thy burning Is not every year a year of Wonder Annus Mirabilis what detections disappointments and defeats have there lately been upon a beastly and bloody brutish and barbarous merciless and murderous generation by a timely interposition of divine providence The Poison and the Antidote come into the Nation together such is the divine Providence of the divine Majesty God now speaks not onely from the Earth but also from Heaven by the great and wonderful works of his Providence Eusebius which one calleth the Sermons of God Now do not these Providences call for a great Faith Great Temptations call for a great Faith Where is the Christian of Christs making that is without Temptation Our whole life saith one is but a Temptation Aug. There was a Tempter in the terrestial Paradise but there shall be no Tempter in the Celestial Paradise That indeed a man is that he is under Temptation To be without Temptation saith one is the greatest Temptation Tillinghast When God puts any of his Servants into Satans hand 's then he keeps Satan in his own hands There is no place in the world that can secure from Temptation or be a Sanctuary from Satanical Assaults It is the folly of Popish Votaries that think to immure themselves within Walls from the Temptations of Satan Cloysters are as open as the open field to Satan but he is confined as to his Temptation to the aereal part and therefore called the Prince of the power of the air Ephes 2.2 When once therefore we are beyond the Earth we are beyond the reach of all Temptations I am saith Luther set upon without by all the world and within by the Devil and his Angels Satan in Tempting hideth the Hook and sheweth onely the Bait. Christ was made like unto Man that he might be Tempted and Man is Tempted that he may be made like unto Christ When Satan doth his worst in Tempting a Christian should do his best in praying Beza One when Tempted made this answer Whatsoever I was Satan I am now in Christ a new creature and 't is that which troubles thee Luther gives one compendious way to withstand all temptation whatsoever If moved any way by Sin Satan or the World answer all with this onely I am a Christian Christianus Sum. I may not yield to any sin for I am a Christian Suspend thy judgment as to those under temptation Christ himself was Tempted in the highest measure that could be That which is written of Spira that he was a Reprobate and a Cast-away because he concluded this of himself was penned very inconsiderately for what did befal him which may not befal a Child of God Christs intercession must be the Souls Anchor in time of temptation He that can say under temptation Ego non sum Ego as that young Convert did I am not what I was nor where I was is happy indeed Oh saith Satan there is at hand a blasting time a breaking time a binding time a bleeding time a burning time curse God and die curse thy King and thy God and look upward Do not great temptations call for great Faith Satan rageth most at last He is always going as a subtle Serpent to delude or as a roaring Lion to devour Satan is the greatest