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land_n	abraham_n	canaan_n	egypt_n	1,319	5	8.3550	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12165	A verie godlie and necessary sermon preached before the yong countesse of Cumberland in the North, the 14 of Nouember, 1577. By Christopher Shutt.	Shutte, Christopher, d. 1626.	1578 (1578)	STC 22470; ESTC S103003	33,188	104

which hath promised We are alreadie saued by hope but hope that is seene is no hope for how can a man hope for that which he seeth but if we hope for that which wee see not we doo with pacience abide for it And this treasure wee haue in our earthen vessels that the excellencie of that power might be of God not of vs And therefore our cōuersation is in heauē from whence we looke for the sauiour euen Iesus Christ with whom our life is hid in God that whē Christ which is our life shal appeare thē shal we also appeare with him in glorie Such a sure perswasiō of things to come had Noe neither wauered he in fayth at all This is that exceeding comfort which maketh glad the hearts of the elect in the middest of the sorowes of this life assuredly beholding with the eies of faith such thinges as neither the eie of man hath seene nor his eare hath heard nor yet his heart perceyued or vnderstoode Such an vndoubted hope and trust had the godly fathers vnder and before the lawe when with the eyes of fayth they behelde the Messias sauiour Christ to come and so were iustified as we beleue now that he is come alreadie and hath wrought our redemption Such was the faith of Abraham Isaac and Iacob concerning the promises of the land of Canaan whē as they were but strangers vpon the earth had not a foot bredth to possesse beleeuing what the Lord had promised should surely come to passe Such an assurāce of fayth had Moses when he refused the delightes of Egypt and the pleasures of Pharaos court to suffer persecution with his brethren looking to the promised rewarde This assured fayth of thinges to come had good king Dauid when he trusted that his throne shoulde continue and be established for euer This assurance of things to come our Sauiour Christ commended to his disciples against the assaults of persecution promising them that they shuld sit vpō twelue thrones with him and iudge the twelue tribes of Israel This assurance had the Apostle Paul whē he desired to attaine the righteousnes of fayth and resurrection of the iust that he might weare the crown which God had layde vp in store for him And what els moued the saints of God to withstande the beast and not to loue their liues to death but that by fayth they sawe the newe Ierusalem And this is that golden saying of Ignatius going to be martyred Nihil moror visibilium nec inuisibilium modo Iesum Christum acquiram I neither sayeth he care for things nowe seene nor thinges which are not seene so that I may laye holde of Iesus Christ This is our comfort dearely beloued in these daungerous dayes and byllowes of the world that our faith is not fixed of things present but of thinges to come For though now we be the childrē of God as sayeth the Apostle yet doth it not appeare what we shal be For we know that whē Christ shal appeare wee shall bee like to him for wee shall see him as he is We see now in a glasse darkly but thē shal we see him face to face we know but nowe in part but then shall wee knowe euen as we are knowne We are now corruptible but we shal be clothed with incorruptiō We are now but mortal but this mortall shall be swalowed vp of immortalitie We are now afflicted in distres but the same is but for a momēt yet causeth in vs a most excellēt eternal weight of glory while we looke not on the things which are seen but on the things which are not seene for the things which are seen are but tēporal but the things which are not seene are eternall Though for a while we feele the reliques of sin in vs prouoking vs to euil yet looke we dayly whē that time shal come that this body of sin may be don away We feele in our selues the sparks and seed of much vnrighteousnes yet do we hope in stead therof we shal be clothed with the fine reynes and righteousnes of Christ and all our transgressions to be pardoned We feele for a litle hunger colde yet do we hope for the abūdance of all delightes heauenly treasures We daily sorowe and weepe are vexed with the vncleane conuersatiō of the wicked yet trust we that our sorowe shal be turned into ioy all teares wyped from our eyes We now abyde with patience the tauntes and checkes of Antichrist and his mēbers but yet we see by faith that Babylon the mother of all abominations shal sodainly fall and come to nought for that her sinnes are in remembrance with God. We dayly feare the assaultes of sinne death yet do we knowe by faith that Christ hath cōquered them for vs. We feele our frailtie in this lyfe and thraldome to infirmities yet do we hope for euerlasting rest in the resurrection of the iust Such is the assurance of our faith surmounting farre the reache of mannes capacitie shee wauereth not she sincketh not shee doubteth not as saith the misbeleeuing papist leaning to his ydle woorkes but she maketh the good conscience sure and alwayes hath 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 whilest shee plainly beholdeth the things as yet not seene but surelie for to come to passe Further whereas this readines of Noe was ioyned with reuerēce it is dearely beloued to teache vs that his faith was directed both to the promisse of the couenāt whereby he was receyued into fauour also to the threatnings of GOD whereby the Lord menaced the destructiō of the world which he beleeued to come and so did tremble And as by the former he was assured of gods fauour so by the other in respect of his own infirmitie he feared least he should haue perished with the wicked Wherein we must note two things the one what is the obiect of our faith the other how it trembleth in respect of our selues at the plagues denounced yet for all that is assured of Gods mercie Our faith is leueled directed especially at Christ the obiect therof For like as the Israelites did with their bodily eyes behold the brasen serpent were cured euen so doth fayth the eye of our soule beholde the Sonne of God lift vp vpon the altar of the crosse for our redemptiō And like as wholesome meates onely nourish the body euen so nothing dooth feede our faith but Christ crucified the bread of lyfe at whose worke of redemption our faith must alwaies looke or els we must needes be pressed down with the terrour of our owne conscience into hell For seeing that the promises of the Gospell are a readie way to leade vs to the knowledge of Gods mercy reueyled in Christ in whom it pleaseth the father that al fulnes should dwell and