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A00801	A sermon preached at Paules Crosse the second Sunday in Mychaelmas tearme last. 1590. By Geruase Babington D. of Diuinitie. Not printed before this 23. of August. 1591	Babington, Gervase, 1550-1610.	1591 (1591)	STC 1092; ESTC S110424	34,925	81

his barbar caused him to shaue him euery way contynued his receiued liking of a faithfull falsely accused friend to his great honor Sura his great commfort and the accusers great griefe that saw it This againe was constancie worthie prayse in a noble Emperour A glasse for all noble men and great men to looke in y ● the like vertue may win the like prayse and their poore faithfull true friends seruants like comfort The very same honor for constancie in his affection got Alexander the great in his life and kepeth it yet to this day in y ● monuments of learning for giuing no credit to such as accused Philip his phisition y t he ment to poyson him being hired so to doe by Darius For the next phisicke he had néede of he caused the same Philip to make him a p●tion and taking the same with one hand deliuered Philip the letter that accused him with the other drinking of the potion without any stay or doubt either then or euer afterward But what shold I trouble you with many of these examples my text is in stéed of ten thousands thousands of them Jesus Christ our Sauiour is constant loueth to the end whome he once loueth casting not away for malice of man or diuill whom once he receiueth being come vnto him Thinke therfore of this let this reforme our wauering wills our tottering loue vnstable affectiōs together with that of Salomon if you will Omni tempore diligit qui amicus est He loueth euer that is a true friend And let this suffice I might note a true comfort in this constancie of our Sauiour against the blustering threats and thundering excommunications of Pope and papists sectaries and ●nabaptists who shal neuer be able to hurt such as haue the true comfort of their comming to Christ by a liuely faith in their consciences But the time is past The God of heauen giue this which hath béene spoken his blessing that it may be a sauour of life vnto life to vs and neuer a sauour of death vnto death to the prayse of his name and our eternall comfort through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Amen Iohn 8. 47 Iho. 10. 26. Act. 13. 48. a Act 13. 48 b Ihō 8. 47 c Iho. 10. 26 The Fathers giueing is our election Ver. 6. Ver. 9. Ver. 11. Ver. 12. Our dutie bindeth vs to cōsider this doctr Deutro 29. 29. A second reason A third reason Ro. 1. 14. Euidence of Scripture First for the doctr Ro. 8. 30. Ro. 9. 22. 23. Eph. 1. Mat. 13. 11. Math. 25. Luke 2. 34 Ro. 9. De verbis Apost Ser. 20. De spir lit cap. 34. The cause of electiō Ephese 1. 5. Ver. 4. 1. Cor. 7. 25. Ro. 11. 5. Ro. 4. Aug. in Ihon. 6. The stabilitie of our election 2. Tim. 2. 19. Ro. 11. 25. A reason proouing the stabilitie of Gods decree 2. Cor. 2 16. Ro. 2. 4. Galat. 5. 13 1. Cor. 11. 1 Peter 2. 8. Tit. 1. 15. Rom. 8. * The nūber of the elect and knowledg of them in God Luc. 12. 7. 2 Tim. 2. 19. Lucke 10. 20. Iho. 10. 13. Aug. de Cor. Gra. to 3. cap. 12. 13. Knowledg in vs of the same Ihon. 16. 9. The second reason The first vse of this doctrine Lucke 12. 32. Lucke 10. 20. Ro. 8. 33. 34. 35. 38. 39. Another vse A third vse Cupit omnis dilectio redamari A fourth vse A fift vse 1. Ihon. The 6. vse Act. 4. 27. 28. Cauils against Gods predestinatiō The first obiection Act 27. ver 30. Math. 2. Lucke 2. 51. Ro. 1. 〈◊〉 2. Obiection The 3. obiection The doctrine of predestination is not to high c. Tit. 1. 1. Act. 13. 48. Ro. 8. How to know whether we be the children of God or no. D●uers sortes of commers to Christ Lamen 3 40. 2. Cor. 13 The degrees of our estate to be obserued of vs. Pride in aparel no proof y ● we are come to Christ Greg. ho. vlt. in ●uā Hom. 6. Sopho. 1. 8 Hier. epist ad Laetam Eccle. 19 Such as our apparell is such are we A vaine garmēt is like Westminster papers Back papers hat papers Note this well Inward pride of minde no token of our comming to Christ Examples of such as haue falne by pride of minde Dan. 4. 28 Ezek. 28. 2 Psal 91. 5 Episcopi funct fugient Vt crescūt dona sic rationes donorum Greg. A holow hart to the state no proofe of our election Remēber Rodulphe absolued by Greg. The iudge ment of God euer vpon traytors A prayer 1. Sam. 25 29. Contentiō diuision amongst brethren Philip. 2 1. Iohn 4 Math. 5. 9 Ephes 4. 4 Why we haue two hands two eyes c. An embleme declaring the dutie of brethren Psal 50. 16 19 20 Note 21 22 Pro. 6. 19 Aug 2. dis Fortunatum Pro. 20. 3 Marc. 9. 50. Heb. 10. 24 O Note it Aug. Ser. 186. Annales eccles Baronij pag. 576 Epist ●o ad Hiero. Ex Annalibus predict loco predict Sacriledge no proofe of our comming to Christ Dan. 5 Feare this iudge mēt you church robbers Sublatis studiorū pretijs etiam studia pereūt Corn. Tacit Annal. 11 Mar. 6. 34 Act. 5. 2. Kings 4 10 Preface to my booke vpon the com Other sins amongst vs. Yet ther is time to repentance 2. Peter 1. 10. 11. A comfort against despisers of reformation The first vse Comfort against vn worthines Psal 51 The second vse Comfort against disdaine The third vse A paterne for gouernors Be mercicifull as your heauenly Father is merciful The 4. vse to proue y e certaintie of our saluation Psal 1 Iere. 32. 40 Math. 24. Ihon. 10. 28. Note Psal 51. The storie of master Glouer Ihon 13. 1 Hebr. 13. 8 To beleue God is farre from presumption Constancie in God teacheth vs to be constant one to an other Ruth 1. 16 Yet said he well Tua cautio O princeps nostra cautio est Cic. pro Marcell Pro. 17. 17. Sectaries excommunication

hony combe and ●●●●eth our soules to loue againe except we be dead yea to loue most earnest according to the mercie that we haue tasted of Some shadowing of it we may sée in men that stand all condemned iustlie for matter of trespasse committed and expect a sentence of bitter death accordingly Let the Prince in this case release one pardoning in mercie and giuing life when paritie of trespasse called for equall punishment O how leapeth the hart of that released one when be knoweth it crying mercy mercy O swéetest mercy how bound am I for this release Can I loue can I thinke can I honor euer condignly the fountaine of this fauour towards me I cannot I cannot and therefore I will dye with this O mercy aboue merit and hope of requit all in me So it is in our election where onely grace hath made the difference saued vs. The loue is great we cannot but sée it what is due we may not deney it If all loue destre loue againe God forbid but such loue should be euer thought of as the Lord inableth Fourthly it prouoketh vs to all good works we neuer think obediene to much y t redounneth to the good liking of him y t thus hath loued vs. If men in this world shall stede vs any way how wish we how will we how care we how seeke we to do the thing that may content auoyd the thing that may offend them what comparison is there betwixt the loue of men and this loue of God towards vs before the world was made Can then the knowledge and true regard of it be without fruite in our conuersation It cannot be Fiftly it stayeth vs against offence that wold grow by such as fall away if this wer not For it telleth vs some stand in show and some stand in truth some stand for tyme and some stand for euer If any had bene of vs saith y e Apostle Ihon. They would haue continued with vs. Feare we not therfore when men start aside but stand we fast whosoeuer shake remembring wel that all being not apointed to the end they neither are apointed to the meanes Lastly most swéetly this doctrine of our election profiteth vnto patience telling vs y t no tiranny in this cursed worlde no malice nor moods of mortall men can or shall euer preuaile beyond the limits and lists of his counsell y t hath decréed their pitch And therefore indure it and indure it patiently for he moderateth This comforted the Apostles for their Lord master in that notable place of the Acts worthy reading a thousand times O Lord say they against thy holy Sonne Iesus whome thou hadst anointed both Herod and Pontius Pilate with the Gentills and the people of Israel gathered themselues together But what could they doe Surely they haue done nothing but what thy hand and thy counsell had determined before to be done This comfort our Sauiour himselfe pleased to apply to himself against the cruel enemy lifting him selfe vp vāting as though he had all power of life death against our Sauiour Thou couldst haue no power against me saith he except it were giuen thee from aboue True in the head and true in the members euer to our great stay and comfort These and such like are y ● fruits of this doctrine of our election Which they neuer tasted nor euer knew that so wickedly condemne it Let it suffice that we féele it to the prayse of God our comfort and let them perish with their error that so cast away a doctrine of such heauenly vse if they will not repent and be perswaded Away then with those cursed Cauils that flye vp downe against this doctrine For it is holy it is swéete it is the Lordes It maketh no man set all at six and seuen as carelesse what he doth saying if I be predestinate to be saued I cannot be damned and if I be apointed to death I cannot be saued But contrarywise it maketh men rather carefull to vse meanes as knowing that the decrée of God taketh his effect by meanes And therefore such as rightly vnderstand this doctrine cary in themselues a care not to speake prophanely of any truth of God howbeit they knowe that the decrée of God standeth euer in it selfe vnchangeable and cannot be altered yet looke they not at that but at the meanes that God hath apointed all men to vse either for the obtaining or auoyding of any thing wished or feared And those meanes they vse with all care and diligence séeking the ende by the way ordeyned not any way made retchlesse in the meanes by the end As for example that I may be plaine Rebecca knew that GOD had apointed her sonne Iacob to liue to be a greater man then Esau because God himselfe had tould her that he would make two mightie nations of her two sonnes the elder should serue the yonger yet did she not conclude hérevpon as these men do that therfore it skilled not what she did when Esau threatned to kill Iacob for being apointed to liue he could not be killed But contrarywise she most carefully deuised and most spéedely vsed meanes to kéepe him from danger by sending him away to her brother Laban till Esau his anger should be as waged Knowing as I say that the decrée of God did not preiudice meanes but rather binde vnto the same as being to take his effect in time by the same And so she ran not rashly to the counsell of GOD as these men doe but looked what her owne dutie was and vsed that By which meanes her Sonnes both liued and all came to passe well as God had decréed Take an other example as plaine as this In the Acts of the Apostles we read that Paule and his company were in great danger vpon y t sea In so much that they were faine to throw all their lading out and in the end the ship burst in two Before the extremitie of the perill God that is euer carefull to comfort his by his Angel in y t night foretould Paule of all y t should happen had him not feare for he should escape and for his sake all likewise that were with him which were in number 276. soules Héere was Gods coūsell knowen his decree and purpose reuealed which Paule beléeued and exhorted all thē most firmely to be persuaded of What now Did Paule vpon this cōclude as these men speak why then it skills not what we do For God hauing determined to saue vs we cannot be drowned No such matter but leauing y ● decrée of God looketh streight at the meanes that must be vsed the industrie of y ● Mariners who wold haue stolne away had not Paule preuented them the strēgthning of their bodies by taking some meat Which being don such as could swim threw themselues first into the Sea y t getting to land they might helpe