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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25829	A tryall of faith, or, The woman of Canaan on Math. 15, 21, 22, 23, 24 : together with the souls sure anchor-hold, on Heb. 6, 19 : with the wisdome of timely remembring our creator, on Eccles. 12, 1 : in severall sermons / by Timothy Armitage.	Armitage, Timothy, d. 1655.	1661 (1661)	Wing A3704; ESTC R26657	267,236	470

If there had been a Will in thee to have desired it he would have given thee Water of Life But if there be not a Will in man to have Faith Nay the heart of man doth secretly oppose it why then let not man lay the fault upon God But if the Lord hath given a Will and a man's Will be not against the Lord then there is a beginning of God's work and the Lord will certainly give out the gift of Faith and Christ to a poor Soul that shall be found waiting upon him And thus you have seen the several Temptations that may arise from the Doctrine of Election Now followeth somthing by way of Answer and Direction for the preventing and silencing of all Temptations of this Nature Matth. 15. 24. But he answered and said I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel SERMON XV. I Come now to lay down some general Rules for the silencing and overcoming of all Temptations of this Nature concerning Election And the first Rule is this Take heed that we do not give way to carnal reason that we do not set carnal Reason on work to finde out this great and wonderful Mysterie take heed of the very beginnings of carnal reason when you begin to reason concerning Election as to the causer of it why God should chuse one and refuse another Seek not to satisfie Carnal Reason in this for know that there is an infinite distance between God and the creature And therefore for the silencing of Carnal Reason Consider first of all That he is God and thou art man therefore do not quarrel and contend with God and seek to bring down God to satisfie thy reason in this Rom. 9. 20. Nay but O man Who art thou that replyest against God Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it why hast thou made me thus The Apostle he brings in this for the silencing of carnal reason that is too busie in prying into God's Election and will not be satisfied unless he hath a reason Man Who art thou consider that thou art man that thou art but a child of Adam and remember that as thou art man so he is God he is Jehovah he is an infinite incomprehensible Being he is absolute he is Independent he doth not depend upon any creature his will it is the rule of all goodness and righteousness he is God it is not the will of man nor the reason of man that must be righteous that must not be good which we will and which we comprehend no that is not the rule of goodness but the will of God and therefore remember that he is God and not man Secondly To silence carnal reason Remember that He is thy Maker Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it Why hast thou made me thus Why he made thee he fashioned thee and is it fit for the creature to contend with his Maker Should the Potsherd go and strive with his Maker There is as great a distance betwixt God and the creature as between the Potter and the clay nay a greater distance between God and us Of the same lump he maketh one a vessel of honour another of dishonour were this remembred we would not be so bold to call God to accompt Thirdly For to silence carnal reason consider That the more a man wades into this mysterie with his own reason the further he is and shall be from satisfaction for it is just as if a man should attempt to go and wade over the Sea on foot when a man sets the first step into the Sea it may be he is up to the knees the next step up to the loyns next step up to the neck and the next step over head and ears and can feel no bottome It is true by faith we may go down into this great deep and see the wonders of God by faith a man may go upon this great depth of the love of God and wonder at it and cry out O! the depth of the love of God! But if we go with carnal reason we shall be over head and ears and the more reason the further from satisfaction and he will confound his reason If a man gaze upon the Sun to know the nature of the Sun and think to comprehend the Sun the more he gazeth upon the Sun the more will the Sun confound the eye that he will not be able to comprehend the Sun and so when the dim eye of carnal reason shall gaze upon this glorious mysterie of God the eye will soon be confounded and we shall be further from satisfaction Fourthly Consider for the silencing of carnal reason That it is not possible that a man should go about to satisfie his reason but he shall dash against many dangerous Rocks that will split him all to pieces Many a man of learning have thought to comprehend this mysterie by reason and so they have split against many dangerous rocks of error and made shipwrack of Faith many have come to reason against Rom. 9. and have wished that it had been torn out of the Book of God O dangerous Rocks that men split themselves against that will have their reason satisfied in this deep mysterie I have known some I hope gracious that have been miserably shattered this way that would needs call God to account why God let Adam fall and why God did not save all the world and why God should take one and not another and they have reasoned thus until they have reasoned themselves out of good thoughts of God and out of acts of Faith and Hope and have reasoned themselves out of their duty to God and have been as poor creatures in the midst of an Ocean and have found no ground to set their foot upon And again consider That the Divel will make use of carnal Reason in this Mysterie of God to keep a poor soul in a dark and perplexed condition there is many a poor soul is kept in the dark and led into a labyrinth that they can finde no path they are kept in a fruitless condition many dayes and years an useless condition they are kept from their present work and duty by giving way to their carnal reason in this great mysterie And consider last of all for the silencing of carnal reason That it is an impossible thing to attain to satisfie it and therefore it is a vain attempt time is spent in vain and thou layest out thy self in vain while a soul seeks that which cannot be to know their Election in the first place before they come to Christ and be found believing and obeying and walking with God I say it is an impossible thing for you to know your Election before you believe in Christ and be a new creature It is true you are put upon it to make your Election sure ay but he does not say finde it out by reason have an account of it in the first place no make