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A07288	Saint Peters chaine consisting of eight golden linckes, most fit to adorne the neckes of the greatest states, nobles, and ladies in this land, as the chiefest iewell of true nobilitie: and not vnfit for the meaner sort. Digested into eight chapters, and published by R.M. minister. With a praier annexed to the end of euerie chapter.	Mavericke, Radford, b. 1560 or 61.	1596 (1596)	STC 17683; ESTC S112697	95,593	198

so fewe entred into the lande of Canaan so vnbeleefe and want of Vnbeleefe the cause that so fewe entred into the promised land Heb. 3.19 faith is the cause that so many shal die eternally in the worlde to come and bee condemned vnto the bottomles pit of hell For this is the last conclusion almost of the whole Bible spoken by him that shal iudge both quick and dead The feareful vnbeleeuing saith he that is all such as haue not this true iustifying faith whereof we haue all this while intreated shall bee cast into Reuelat. 21.8 the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone For the auoyding of which endlesse torments let vs betime bewaile our own blockishnes that hitherto haue so little esteemed of this so precious a Iewell of Faith let vs learne to make more account of Gods word then heretofore wee haue done let vs pray the Lorde to forgiue vs that is past and to increase this holy faith in vs for time to come so shall wee bee blessed here for euer And so much concerning the excellencie of faith and the vtility or profit we receiue by it Nowe it shal be necessary for vs to consider before we conclude this Chapter from whome this faith commeth that is whose gift it is and to whom it is giuen to this end that none may imagine faith to be a naturall gifte common to all seeing it is giuen onely to them whose names are written in the booke of life First that faith is the gifte of God I think Faith the gift of God none will denie and therefore I shall not neede to stande long about the proofe thereof When Saint Paul saith we are saued by grace through faith presently he saith Not of our selues it is the gift of God Ephes 2.8 Sainte Iames saith euery good giuing Iam. 1 17 euerie perfect gifte is from aboue and commeth downe from the father of light that is from God which is called the light that none can attaine vnto but faith is a good and perfecte gifte therefore surely it commeth from God Againe Saint Paule writing vnto the Philippians saith Vnto you it is giuen Phillip 1.29 through Christ to beleeue therefore to beleeue is the gift of God Againe in the twelft to the Hebrewes the holy Ghost exhorteth vs to runne with patience the race that is set Heb. 12.1.2 before vs looking vnto Iesus the authour finisher of our faith Therefore faith must needes bee the gift of God Moreouer when the Apostles of Christ doe pray the Lorde to increase their fayth Luk. 17. 5 they doe thereby plainly shew that faith is the gifte of God Againe Paule planteth Apollos watereth by preaching of Gods 1 Cor. 3.6 worde but God giueth the increase that is faith to beleeue Many such places there are but these may suffice Nexte nowe that this excellent gifte of faith is not common to all appeareth by this one saying of Saint Paule vnto the Thessalonians 2 Thess 3 2 All men haue not faith Therefore To whom faith is giuen in what measure it is a thing most necessarie to be considered to whom this faith is giuen and whether it bee giuen to all in a like measure or not Here first of all wee are to consider of the giftes of God howe some are temporall some eternall some common with the good and bad some giuen onely to Gods electe The giftes that are temporall are all things that pertaine to the vse of this present life yea and life it selfe is a temporall gifte because it is decreed that wee must all die The benefite of the aire the benefite of the earth the benefite of the water the benefite of the Sunne and firmament and all the creatures in eyther of them are temporall giftes seruing onely for the vse of man in this life and common to the good and to the bad as Christ saith that God our Father causeth the Sunne to shine vpon the euill and the good and the raine to fall vpon Mat. 5 45 the iust and vniust Againe the giftes of the minde as wisedome reason knowledge memory learning and the like are all temporal giftes togither with the giftes of healing of prophesying Temporall gifts and working of miracles as Christ saith in the seuenth of Mathewe Many will say vnto mee at the day of iudgement Lorde Lorde haue wee not by thy name prophesyed and by thy name cast out Deuils Mat 7 22 by thy name wrought many great miracles and then I will professe to them saith Christ I neuer knew you depart from mee all ye that worke iniquitie 23. Againe other accidentall giftes as we say of the body as health strength beautie riches honors and the like are all terrene and temporall giftes and no man can certenly iudge thereby whether the possessors Eccles 9. 1. No man cā certenly iudge by the hauing or not hauing of temporal blessings whether he be beloued or hated of God Spirituall gifts thereof bee eyther beloued or hated of God And that is the meaning of Salomon when hee saith No man can know whether hee bee in the loue or hatred of God meaning by the hauing or not hauing of these earthly and temporall giftes Nowe on the other side the giftes that are heauenly are faith loue ioy peace meekenes temperance patience godlines Iustification sanctification adoption glorification and finally eternal and euerlasting saluation all these giftes are giuen onely to such as God hath elected to bee heyres of saluation according as Sainte Paule saith Rom. 8 29 Those which God knewe before hee also predestinated to be made like to the image of his Sonne those whome hee predestinated them also hee called Whome he called them also he iustified and whome 30 hee iustified them also hee gloryfied So then it is certayne that Faith and all these other heauenly giftes are gyuen onely to the chosen and elect people Tit. 1 1 of God for which cause faith is called by Saint Paule the faith of Gods electe Againe it is said in the Actes of the Apostles that so many as were ordained to eternall life beleeued and so were saued Againe all Act. 13. 48. Eph. 2.8 that are saued are saued by grace through faith therefore so many as are saued haue faith and none other No man commeth vnto me saith Christ but those the father Iohn 6 44. Mat 13. 11. Faith is a mistery draweth And to his disciples hee saith To you it is giuen to knowe the misteries of the kingdome of heauen but to others it is not Againe faith is a chiefe part of the misterie whereof Saint Paul speaketh Therefore to some it is giuen to haue faith to some it 1 Tim. 3.16 is not Againe Christ saith in the tenth of Iohn Ye beleeue not why because ye are Iohn 10 26 not of my sheepe that is none of those who are elected vnto

Nature giueth vnto age estimation and authoritie but meekenesse of heart is the glorie of youth and age and giueth vnto them both dignitie and honour That may rightly be called genterie that is begun continued and ended in true humilitie according to our english prouerbe A gentleman hath gentle conditions It is the saying of a sage man that the higher any one is in authority so much the more gentle and lowly should he behaue himselfe and that nothing is more seemly or commendable for a prince or noble man thē the vertue of gentlenesse meekenes and humilitie For the gentle and lowly minded man cannot lightly be hated Vertue specially learning Humility maketh a man beloued with humility hath aduanced many men vnto great honor dignitie agreeable to that saying of Salomon Before honour goeth humilitie and againe The reward of humility is life riches and glory Man is in nothing Prou. 15.33 22 4. more like vnto God then in gentlenesse humilitie The vertue of humilitie saith one encourageth to attayne truely the Law of God and maketh apte vessels to receiue the spirit of God according to this saying of Dauid Them that be meek wil God guide Psal 25.9 in iudgemente and teach the humble his way Therefore the prophet Dauid knowing the great vertue of humilitie maketh this protestation of himself in one of his Psalms Psal 131. Lorde saith hee I am not highe minded I haue no proude lookes but on the contrary my soule saith hee is euen as a wayned childe meaning that hee was humble in heart as a child And surely the example of a childe is We must learne humilitie of children very forcible to teach vs humilitie therefore Christ himselfe vsed the same example vnto his Apostles when in pride of hart they demanded who shoulde bee greatest in the kindome of heauen Then Iesus called a little childe and set him in the middest of his disciples and saide vnto them Verely I Mat. 18.1.2 say vnto you except ye bee conuerted and become as little children ye shall not enter into the kingdome of heauen but contrariwise Whosoeuer shall humble himselfe as this little childe the same is the greatest in the kingdome of heauen See then what a precious vertue humilitie is and to what great honour it preferreth vs euen to be the greatest in the kingdome of heauen Humility preferreth vs to the greatest honour Galat. 5.22 True humilitie and gentlenesse of minde is a cheefe fruit of the spirite of God The fruite of the spirte saith Saint Paul is loue ioy peace long suffering gentlenes meeknesse and so forth Therefore is it that the same Apostle doth so earnestly exhort vs Collos 3 12 13. vnto humilitie As the elect of God sayth hee holy and beloued put on tender mercy kindnesse humblenesse of mind meekenes long suffering Thus wee see how humilitie is both commanded commended vnto vs. Now let vs a little consider howe that as God in his iustice hath euermore throwne downe the proude so in his mercy hee hath exalted the humble and Examples how God hath exalted the humble Numb 12.3 meeke Moyses that man of God among all his vertues is commended for nothing more then for his humilitie and meekenes for he is saide to bee the meekest man vpon earth and see how hee was exalted of God When his father and mother had left him by the Exod. 2.3.4 5. riuers brinke among the bulrushes God caused him to bee taken vp aduanced him to the court of Pharao and after made him a prince and a gouernour ouer his owne people Little Dauid the sonne of Ishai because hee was little in his owne eyes and as wee haue heard before humble in heart as a wained Psal 78 70 71 childe therefore God did exalte him tooke him from following the Ewes great with yong and aduanced him to the kingly throne Neyther haue we onely examples of men but also of women as of Esther that of a poore captiue hauing nor father nor Ester 2 17. mother aliue onely a good kinseman Mordecay was by God aduanced to be the wife of a King What inould we speak of the humilitie low estate of the virgine Mary who notwithstanding was chosen by God himselfe to bee the mother of Christ This great working of God in throwing downe the proude and exalting the lowly doth that holy Virgine well note in her song of reioycing when she saith My soule doth magnifie the Lord and my spirite reioyceth in God my sauiour by Luk. 1.46 and by she sheweth the reason For he hath looked on the poore degree of his seruant scattered the imaginations of the proude He hath put downe the mightie from their seates and exalted them of lowe degree The verie same thing doth Hanna the mother of Samuel note in her prayer saying 1 Sam. 2.7 8. The Lord maketh poore and maketh riche bringeth lowe and exalteth hee rayseth the poore out of the dust lifteth vp the begger from the dunghill to set them among Princes and to make them inherite the seat of glorie Hence is it that Saint Paule faith though 1 Cor. 1 27 28. to another purpose that God hath chosen the foolish things of this world to confound the wise and God hath chosen the weake things of this world to confound the mightie things vile things things which are despised hath God chosen things that are not to bring to nought things that are that no flesh should glory in his presence but according as it is written hee that glorieth let him glory in the Lord. Ierem 9.24 Thus we haue seene how God doth euermore exalt them that are humble and lowly in their owne eyes Let vs therefore make much of humilitie But yet to proceede a little further if we wil haue examples of humilitie then let vs come to the example of The chiefest example of humilitie all examples euen to the example of Christ Iesus the Sonne of God Which example Saint Paule doth propose vnto vs in the second to the Philippians saying Let the same Philip. 2.5 mind bee in you which was in Christ Iesus who being in the forme of God thought it no robberie to be equall with God but hee made himselfe of no reputation and tooke on him the forme of a seruant was made like vnto men and was found in his shape as a man he humbled himselfe and became obedient vnto the death euen the death of the Crosse wherefore God hath highly exalted him and so forth Now we must not only learne by the example of Christ to be humble and lowly in We must learne by the example of Christ to be humble both in prosperitie and aduersitie 1. Pet. 2.21 22.23 prosperitie but also in aduersitie when we shall suffer any thing for his sake for here in saith Saint Peter hath Christ left vs an example that we should follow his steps who