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A19372 Foure sermons whereof two, preached at two assizes, this present yeare, 1638. at Maidestone in Kent, the other two, in his own charge. By Robert Abbot ... Abbot, Robert, 1588?-1662? 1639 (1639) STC 58; ESTC S100378 53,626 193

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Ninevites who were presently Ion. 3. 2 Chro. 34. 27. in sackcloth and Iosiah who rent his cloathes with weeping eies and melting heart Thus Davids flesh trembled for fear of God and Psal 119. 120. he was affraid of his judgments yee must looke to the promises of God as David who hid Psal 119. 11 them in his heart that he might not sinne against him Whatsoever is in the word ye must have an eie unto For though they doe not so immediately concerne you in the way of life and death as many Genealogies Chronologies Histories and Prophecies yet you must bee ready to understand Praeparatione animi them and their uses as God shall offer them yet yee must principally hold precepts to direct threatnings to humble and promises to allure and comfort ye must hold them by understanding what the will Eph. 5. 17 of the Lord is till if ye can yee come to all riches of the ful Col. 2. 2. assurance of understanding Yee must hold them by assenting to them yeelding to all the truth of them as Saint Luke to the storie of Christ whereof he was fully perswaded Yee Lu●e 1. 1. must hold them by bringing your bodies and soules into subjection unto them For in Iesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing nor uncircumcision but faith working Gal. 5. 6. by love This is the object of faith The act of faith is to say 3 The act of faith this is mine to adjudge and appropriate father sonne and holy Ghost unto your selves without this yee cannot feele any comfort of what you believe Therefore as David and Christ said My God My Psal 22. 1. Ioh. 20. 28 God as Thomas said My Lord and my God and as the Luke 1. 47 Blessed Virgine said my spirit that is the quintessence of my soule acted by the spirit of God rejoyceth in God my Saviour so by way of adherence when most times ye have no evidence yee must take God in Christ as your owne as hee offers himselfe I am the Lord Ex. 20. Ier. 31. thy God I will bee thy God This is the act of faith The power of faith is to make use of the riches of it The power of faith Psal 32. Psal 45. Rom. 4. Act. 15. Mal. 4. Eph. 3. Heb. 6. 2 Cor. 4. 13. for thy owne proper good Great is the power of faith and it prevaileth It covereth our sinnes by the garments of Christ our elder brother and so is imputed to us for righteousnesse It cureth our sinnes bringing Christ who hath healing under his wings to dwell in our hearts by faith It brings forth a world of the labour of love wee having the same spirit of faith believe speak and thinke and doe For by Eph. 2. 10. faith we are Gods workemanship created in Christ to good workes to walke in them And this affirme constantly that they that have believed in Tit. 3. 8. GOD be carefull to maintaine good workes This is the power of faith Now this ground of faith 2 Why yee must hold faith this object of faith this act of faith this power of faith you must hold upon these five Grounds First faith is our life wee live by faith not by sight and 1 Faith our life 2 Cor. 5. Hab. 2. every just man must live by his faith Not efficiently for so in GOD we live move and Act. 17. have our being Nor meritoriously for so saith Christ I am the way the truth and the life Nor by way of immediate Ioh. 14. application for so the holy ghost is a quickening spirit as Adams soule was the 1 Pet. 3 18. Gen. 2. breath of life But as a prime instrument of our life in Christ without this wee cannot have life either before God or in this miserable world This Rom. 1. 17 Heb. 10. 38 unites us to Christ and receives a quickning spirit as the vertue of Christ from the spirit of Christ in the meanes of salvation As men say of their trades and hands under God they are my living take away these and take away my life so say wee of faith it is your life therfore hold it Secondly faith is our power 2 Faith is our power of working of working to doe us our best good In a naturall man his reason is his power Hee is borne naked with abundance of bodily weaknesse a beast hath a great deale of bodily strength and if a lyon rationally knew how to use his pawes a dog his teeth a bullock or buck his hornes or an horse his hoofes how few men would there bee in the world But let man come in with his reason and hee subdues them all But in a believer his faith is his power and what is the power of reason to this As Christ said of miraculous faith it pulls up trees by the rootes and removes mountaines it makes sunne stand still and go backward so much more of this saving christian faith in another kinde It covers more sinnes then heaven and earth can cover Get the heavens to cover them our sinnes are more then the starres and are come up above the heavens Get the sea to cover them the sea can cover the sands at a full tide but our sins are more then the sandes of the sea Get the earth and all the creatures to cover them our sinnes over-top them all and make Rom. 8. the whole creation groane under the burthen But get faith and as love covers a multitude of sinnes in others so faith covers all sinnes in our selves It brings the garments of Christ and then wee cannot Apoc. 16. Phil. 3. Dan. 9. bee naked It brings the righteousnes of God the everlasting righteousnesse to dwel amongst men and then God cannot but be there where his righteousnesse is to give grace and Psal 84 16 glorie and every perfect gift It is your power to doe your best good and therefore hold it Thirdly faith is your workman 3 Faith is our workman Set faith about any work and what can it not doe Art thou at Gods Gen. 12. word to goe a great journey thou knowest not whither Faith did it for Abraham Art thou to fight against lyons Heb. 11. Gen. 22. beares Philistims and other puissant enemies Faith did it for David Sampson Gideon Barach and their fellowes Art thou to doe what nature abhorres Faith did it for Abraham in the sacrifice of his son Art thou to cleanse the uncleane stables of sinne Faith will take Christs spirit and arguments and doe it It cries out shall I that am dead to sinne yet live Rom. 6 therein Shall I sinne that grace may abound God forbid I will mortifie the deedes of the Rom. 8. flesh by the spirit Art thou to suffer persecution Faith will suffer it for thee in goates-skinnes and sheepes-skinnes Heb. 11. in the craggie wildernesse Art thou to overcome Death
that ye doe not this day wilfully sinne against his judgement and so I turne to the children of Israel and the children of Ammon and their cause The children of Israel are 2. 3. The parties Iudged and their cause here in full colours something like Adam in innocency making all the beasts before them to tremble They have 1 The children of Israel all the advantage of lawes libertie Judges of Israel and the Lord the Judge looking upon their cases You are not Israelites according Though wronged to the flesh yet God prevailed with for abundance of blessings upon you Notwithstanding some of you have been feared in your lives some of you have beene spoyled in your goods some of you have beene hurt in your names Must get the Lord to judge some of you have beene disquieted in your possessions some of you have beene battered in your members and in this onely different from the children of Israel heere As you have the Lord the Judge let the Lord the Judge judge for you in the judgements of men When Hezekiah received a blasphemous letter from By declining revenge 2 King 19. 14. proud Senacherib hee went to the temple and spread it before the Lord hee thus appealed to this great Judge you are now as in the temple even so doe you Shew God your cause with honest hearts and seeke and receive judgements as from him How gloriously will this worke it will make you proceede not in the lust Non Libidine unidictae sed amore justitiae of revenge which God hates but in the love of justice which God loves you have the sword of justice in your hands upon the best termes and in truth Christ saith for you sell a garment and buy a Luk. 22. 39. sword But heare how an ancient worthy meditated upon that text O Lord why dost Ambr. in Lucam thou bid me buy a sword forbiddest mee to strike with it Surely it is for just defence not for revenge Thou hast shewed me that I could revenge but I will not of conscience to thy command Even so doe you So be it Love law love justice love peace love truth but Rom. 12. vengeance is mine saith the Lord the Judge Philosophers say that seeing is the noblest sense if not for discipline yet for generall use because it suffers not by contrary objects It can looke upon blacke and white without an appetite of revenge on either Why should it not bee thus with Christians who are better enlightened by him who is all eye If your annoyances bee great let the Lord the Judge judge by his Iphtahs liefetenants and deputies and rest in that without the picklocks of new vexations But if they be lesse cloy no● surfet not the honorable bench Is there not a wise man amongst you shall the pillars 1 Cor. 6. of the earth weare themselves out in bruising dust small when there are mountaines enough to levell God forbid If you and your causes are such the Lord the Judge will not judge for you at last But for the children of Ammon 2 The Children of Ammon where are they It is pitty they have not a ring in some place of this crowne that the word may fall upon them like raine upon the dry ground They are peeping out of their gates thinking this time too short which haply some of you do think too long I can say nothing to them because absent yet give mee leave to speake a word of them against them for them This be spoken of 1 Of them them They are such as love not the law Though let the Vivat Rex currat Lex King live and the law runne be the good subjects prayer yet the old law Iulia could not please adulterers nor the law Cornelia murtherers nor the law Rhemnia promoters so nor our lawes can please those wicked Belialists Their blisters must bee let out This bee spoken against 2 Against them Ne sint pedes nimium lanei ne tandem manus fint nimium ferreae them They have lived in this blessed Church where they might have beene better taught or if they have beene taught where they have unlearned many a good lesson If the ministery can doe no good the magistrate must take the care Let not your feet bee too much made of wooll least at last your hands bee made of two much yron Magistrates and ministers are compared to the teeth Some are Cutters which cut the meat and Incisores forme the voyce these are like ministers who convince Tit. 1 13 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Molares cuttingly Some are grinders which bruise the meate and fit it for passage these are like magistrates who by justice bruise the sonnes of wickednesse in peeces and send them downe into the draffe of the world Neither let it grieve you to be so compared seeing Christ is called the Rock of offence that breaks them in peeces on whom hee falls This lastly bee spoken for 3 For them them They are subjects though bad ones for else the law could not fall on them And though they have made themselves of christians in name Barbarians indeede in particular acts yet are they of two sorts Some are misled Errones Turbones and some are misleaders some are apprentices to sinne some monsters in that blacke art Now doe but consider how For mercy of Gods making carefull the Lord the Judge is least he slay with the wicked the righteous who are so either in present act or under charitable hope If he worke a worke of mercy hee delighteth in mercy if a worke of Mic. 7. 18. justice hee calleth it a strange worke because hee shaves with Esa 26. 21 a razor that is hired if he had no justice of his owne If he Esa 7. 20. be to work a worke of justice he is slow to anger comes to Exod. 34. it when there is no remedy but if a worke of mercy he is rich Chro. 36. 15. in mercy abundant in goodnesse If he looke upon occasions it is a great matter that mooves his justice when the sinnes of the Amorites are at the full Gen. 15. 16. when all flesh had corrupted her waies and the wickednesse Gen. 6. 5. of man was great in the earth when old and young even all the people from every quarter Gen. 19. 4 were given to sinne but a small matter mooves him to shew mercy If there be but tenne men in Sodom If Gen. 18. there bee but one Iacob in the house of Laban one Moses praying for Israel one Phinehas executing judgement and one man in Ierusalem Ier. 5. 1. that seekes the truth hee will spare multitudes So doe you and prosper when it is fit God is well pleased if you follow his owne sonne who excused his disciples in some infirmities saying their spirit is willing their Mat. 26. 41. Eph. 5.