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heart_n	act_n	faith_n	soul_n	2,950	5	5.3803	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02189	The iaylers iayl-deliuery. Preached at Great Saint Maries in Cambridge, the 6. of February. 1619. By Henry Greenvvood, Master of Art, and preacher of the Word of God	Greenwood, Henry, b. 1544 or 5.	1620 (1620)	STC 12333; ESTC S118959	14,276	38

they had said Poore Iayler be no disparaged but looke vpon Christ Iesus there 's mercy enough in store not onely for thy selfe but for thy whole houshold if they can but beleeue yea aboundant saluation for all humbled beleeuers That the faith of one saueth not another at least in adultis looke into Ezekiel That soule that sinneth that soule shall dye the righteousnes of the righteous shall be vpon him and the wickednesse of the wicked shall be vpon himselfe also In the old Law it was Fac hoc and viues Do this and thou shalt liue God gaue vs leaue to doe it by another Iesus Christ the righteous but in the new Law it is Crede viues beleeue and thou shalt liue God gaue vs leaue to doe this by no other Can a man see with another mans eye No more can a man goe to heauen by another mans faith Euery man must beleeue for himselfe if he will be saued himselfe This is notably apparant in the Parable of the Virgins The foolish would haue borrowed oyle of the wise but they answered Not so lest there be not enough for vs and you they had it seemeth grace little enough to saue themselues they could saue none for their sistren I know for the godly mans sake God many times spareth the wicked as if there had beene found ten righteous in Sodome for their sakes the City had beene spared but this was in a temporary saluation but in the point of iustification to eternall happinesse euery man must haue faith in himselfe therefore quod dixit Christus dico vobis Habete salem in vobis what Christ said in his Gospel that I say vnto you al Haue the salt of faith in your selues for Iustus exsua fide viuet the iust shall liue by his faith Beleeue on the Lord Iesus Christ and thou shalt be saued IN this heauenly resolution I note three 1. First the act Beleeue Secondly the obiect on the Lord Iesus Christ Thirdly the euent And thou shalt be saued Beleeue Beleeue on the Lord Iesus Christ Beleeue on the Lord Iesus Christ and thou shalt bee saued Beleeue FIdes faith in the Hebrew is called Amnah of Aman which signifies firmum esse to be firme or strong or well resolued In the Greeke it signifies a perswasion in the Latine fides quasi fiat quod dicitur of the two sillables fi-factum des dictum that shall bee done that is spoken 'T is Augustines descant vpon them Thus therefore I describe faith It is firmus ac constans animi assensus Verbo Dei Spiritus Sancti afflatu ad credentium salutem Faith is a stedfast and resolute assent or consent of the heart to Gods Word by the breathing of the holy Ghost to the saluation of beleeuers The materiall cause of faith is the Word of God The formall cause is the act of consent The efficient cause is the holy Ghost the finall cause is the saluation of our soules Now lest wee should imagine euery beleeuer to bee blessed wee are to know that there is a fourefold faith yet but one salutiferous The first Historicall when a man assents to the truth of the word the Diuels goe thus farre in faith and tremble The second momentany when a man with some howerly delight imbraceth the Word meerely for knowledge sake and no further and suffers not the power of it to bee lodged and seated in his soule in prosperity to make a great flourish in Religion but in the time of triall to fall away as in that of Saint Luke They depart from God in time of tribulation The third Miraculous spoken of in the Corinths What if I had all faith that I could remoue mountaines and haue not Charity such a faith profits me nothing The fourth Iustifying whereby a man possessing and imbracing Christ Iesus with his merits and graces is accepted as iust before God This is also called a liuely faith shewing that it may bee as easily perceiued in the wombe of the conscience as a childe after quickening in the wombe of the mother Bede makes a triple distinction of faith Credere Deum Deo In Deum To beleeue there is a God to beleeue that he is faithfull and iust in his mercies and iudgements to beleeue that hee is reconciled to vs in the bloud of his Sonne into whom wee are inserted as an ympe or sciens into a stocke or tree and so liue by the sap and iuyce of his deriued merits and graces this is the faith that instrumentally is said to saue all our poore soules euerlastingly aliue And I may well say instrumentally for faith as it is a bare and meere quality saueth no man but as it hath reference to the obiect Iesus As a Diamond Ring is said to be rich and precious but take out the Diamond and it is worth little Faith is this Ring Christ is this Diamond which enricheth vs all with heauenly saluation Now lest wee should build vpon the sands of presumption and thinke wee are in this faith being yet farre wide Let vs examine this faith by his fruits for as fire is not without heate and the Sunne without shine so this faith is neuer knowne without workes of amendment Hee that rubbleth muske cannot but smell thereof so hee that hath put on Christ cannot but bee a new creature cannot but smell of Myrrhe Aloes and Cassia out of Christs Iuory Palaces whereby his heart is made exceedingly glad There are fiue especiall euidences and fruits of this faith It brings peace of conscience and ioy in the holy Ghost vpon our reconcilement with God Being iustified by faith wee are at peace with God c. It causeth a man boldly and openly to confesse the name of Christ For by the heart a man beleeueth to righteousnesse and by the tongue a man confesseth to saluation Where there is a beleeuing heart there will bee a confessing tongue and professing life to Gods glory It teacheth a man to rest vpon Gods promise and prouidence in all streights and tryalls whatsoeuer The iust shall liue by faith that is they by faith shall rest vpon God in their streights and God will preserue them It stirres vs vp to often and earnest prayer Lord I beleeue there is his faith Helpe mine vnbeliefe there is his prayer therefore no prayer no faith cold prayer dead faith vehement prayer strong faith It behaueth it selfe as a Preacher in the Pulpit of the soule alwayes mouing the soule to holinesse Beleeue thus on the Lord Iesus Christ thou shalt be saued and thy houshold Now by these examine your selues proue your selues whether you are in the faith know yee not that Iesus Christ is thus in you except you bee reprobates yee are reprobates if these things more or lesse be not in you The Lord then worke in our hearts this faith and encrease it towards perfection that so our selues with our houshold euerlastingly

Commons but when Christ came to the house and home of his heart proued bountifull and liberall insomuch that halfe of his goods hee gaue to the poore and if any man could proue that hee had wronged him a penny he would make him quadruple restitution So this Iayler before his conuersion an insidell prophane and hard-hearted member but the Lord hauing taken him to taske and trembling him by the spirit of bondage now hee reuerenceth Gods Ministers now hee humbly sues vnto them for counsell and instruction saying Sirs Renerend Sirs what must I doe to be saued And thus must wee all be changed beloued in the Lord from darkenesse to light or el● hell and damnation must bee our portion to drinke The Lord then worke this excellent change in our hearts the Lord create in vs all a new heart and renew a right spirit within vs the Lord take away our stony hearts and giue vs hearts of flesh the Lord renew vs in our minds and iudgements wills and affections words and actions turne vs O Lord and wee shall be turned conuert vs thus O God and then and neuer before then shall we bee conuerted Thus much for the first word Sirs The second orderly to be considered is the occasion of this his earnest enquiry for saluation and that was his humiliation by the Law in these words What must I doe I that am the childe of wrath and sonne of perdition I that am leprous lothsome and out of measure sinfull I that haue the wrath of God sensibly vpon my soule for my sinnes I that know no way out of this my feare and misery O what must poore lamentable damnable I doe to bee faued Whence wee note the power office and property of the Law that it is as we reade Galathians 3. 24. A notable Schoolemaster to send vs to Christ it sends vs to Christ non aliciendo sed compellendo not by alluring but by compelling The Law is a killing letter When the commandement came I dyed saith Paul it killeth by shewing vs and making vs feele the damnability of our sinnes some by the Law killed to destruction as Caine Esau Iudas and such as wholly despaire others killed to saluation as Paul and such as by their despaire are driuen vnto Christ The property of the Law is to humble and quake vs for our sinnes it sheweth vs our sinne and ministreth wrath vnto our soules This humiliation standeth in two Confession Attrition The first brings shame the second horror shame from sinnes filthinesse horror from sinnes fearefulnesse This doth the Law being knowne and applyed as a Centinel it bewrayeth the enemy and makes vs flye vnto Christ Thus were they humbled that heard Peter in the Acts they were wounded in conscience and pricked in heart before they cried out Men and brethren what must we doe Thus the Law wrought vpon them that heard Iohn before they cryed out What must wee doe then And so Nineueh being first humbled sought vnto God and Paul first trembled then said What shall I doe Lord And heere a poore Iayler in the sorrow of his soule cryeth out for saluation Sirs what must I doe to be saued so that the Law prepares vs to Christ It is most certaine that saluation belongeth to none but the humble To whom will I looke saith the Lord euen to him that is of a contrite heart and trembleth at my words yea the refreshing is promised to none but the laden for we must go through the hell of a wounded conscience before wee shall taste of the heauenly refreshing Merchants waxe must leach in a candle before it can take a stampe or impression the terror of sinne must languish our soules before wee can come to blessed remission The comming of God into the soules of his chosen is notably resembled by his appearance to Eliah First there came a mighty strong winde that rent the mountaines and brake the rockes but the Lord was not in the winde after the winde came an earthquake but the Lord was not in the earthquake after the earthquake came fire but the Lord was not in the fire at last came there a still and soft voyce So the Lord appeareth to his redeemed ones first by the winde of his wrath breaking their hearts then by the earth-quake of his anger shaking their soules then by the fire of his displeasure smoking their consciences but in the end by the still voyce of his mercy hee refresheth their soules This poore Iayler had an earth-quake in his conscience as an earthquake in his Castle before euer hee perceiued his election and saluation There is an old saying Wee must goe by the gates of Hell to Heauen but I say more We must after a sort be in Hell before euer we can bee capable of Heauen that is in the hell of an ashamed affrighted and confounded conscience before euer the Lord will say vnto our soules that he is our redemption If humiliation by the Law precedes the saluation of the Gospell then they are not conuerted that more or lesse were neuer humbled Secondly they that are troubled and amazed at their sinnes let them not be disparaged so farre they are in this their hell from Hell as hereby they are composed and fitted for Heauen for wee must be lost before we can be found wee must bee condemned before we can be saued Thirdly let not humbled consciences rest here but passe on still till they haue found the spirit of bondage become the spirit of adoption to their soules And this counsell I giue all troubled soules for sinne Let them come to the Temple Let them impart their griefe to some friend or Minister Let them conferre with them that haue beene in the like case Let them know that they must be thus sicke before Christ will euer heale them Let them build vpon Gods mercy promised to such Let them pray that God in his good time would minister refreshing What must I doe AGaine heere wee may note the miserable mischiefe and cursed condition of sinne how burthensome and irksome it is to the soule it ministreth nothing but horror and hell to our soules The seruice of sinne is farre worse then the slauery of Egypt The bondage of Egypt was of the body onely this of sinne is both of soule and body In the bondage of Egypt they serued men in this sinne and Satan In the first they had a sense of their bondage and desired liberty in the second they thinke themselues free and despise deliuerance In the first the misery was but temporall in the second eternall In outward bondage men may help themselues by running away by intreaty by ransome in the the second they lye still till Gods mercy deliuer them A wofull thing it is to abide in the estate of sinne yea the damned themselues confesse that the way of sinne is a wearisome way to bee walked in Wee haue wearied