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A15722	The patterne of an inuincible faith A sermon preached at Paules Crosse, the first Sunday after Trinity, being the 2d. of Iune. 1616. By VVilliam VVorship, Doctor of Diuinitie.	Worship, William.	1616 (1616)	STC 25995; ESTC S120350	24,803	50

Redemption and by the Right of Marriage and therefore is the Head of the Church in regard of Order as being the First-born among his Brethren In regard of Perfection both for his sublimitie fulnes of Grace and in regard of Vertue for that a certaine influence is deriued from him to all the members of his Church And Hee is called Lord not Denominatiuely but Essentially to the right conceiuing whereof is required a stedfast beleefe of his God-head against those execrable Heretickes Ebion Cerinthu● Berillus Samosatenus Marcianus Photinus Arius Seruet Francis Dauid the Anti-trinitariās of this time And here obserue how honourably this woman thinkes of Christ Shee cals him Lord the Iewes Beelzebub Math. 10. 25. Yet she was an Heathea they Circumcised 1. Cor. 1. 28. Shee an Out-cast they of Israel shee nuzled vp in grosse Idolatry they trayned vp in the Law from their child-hood she but of small and slender knowledge they learned men and subtle Disputers Good Lord how strong art thou in weaknesse and how thou choosest the things that are not to bring to passe the things that are Aug. Cons Etiam sic Domine etiam sic Euen so ô Lord because it is thy will whose dealings are often secret alwaies iust Now where shee salutes Him by the name of the Sonne of Dauid it is euident that shee takes him to bee the promised Messiah For all Iurie rang of this Iohn 7. 42. that The Christ should come of the linage of Dauid Which shee hearing at an outside assisted by the Spirit of God and weighing all circumstances aright concludes that This is He. Which declares her faith to bee holy and aduised well grounded vpon the promises of God and not a fleeting and vapourous imagination This is that which is written in the very beginning of the Gospell The Booke that is the Catalogue or Register Math. 1. 1. of the Generation of IESVS CHRIST the Sonne of DAVID As if Saint Mathew like Iohn Baptist should point with his finger to the Messiah and cry Behold this Man so poore and so contemptible in shew is lineally descended from the Kings of Iudah and is the onely Redeemer of Israel A wonderfull Mysterie that GOD should be manifested in the flesh 1. Tim. 3. 16. yet is it the staffe and pillar of our comfort Therefore Saint Paul affirmes Rom. 1. 3. that Christ was made of the seed of Dauid Not that the Virgin Mary conceiued Him through the pleasure of carnall desire but through faith remaining still in her chastenesse and integrity euen as the Church in a kind of Imitation brings forth children to GOD and is yet a Virgin August Enchirid as Austin excellently noteth Then here is a Towell thrust into the throates of Valentine Marcion Manichaeus Apollinaris and other pestilent Heretickes who stand vp against the truth of Christs Humanity And more there is ministred a sweet Repose for a troubled conscience For what keepes me from dispaire when Satan claps hold on mee with his bloudy sleeue and his great Butchers knife a-crosse his mouth but this that my Sauiour is the Sonne of Dauid Heb. 2. 17. Gal. 1. 4. a mercifull and faithfull High Priest who hath giuen himselfe for my sinnes Hee hath Giuen Satan vnderstand'st thou that not receiued not exacted Hee hath giuen Himselfe Himselfe Satan mark'st thou that not Siluer not Gold not Paschall Lambes not Angels For my Sinnes Satan mind'st thou that Not for my Holinesse not for my Righteousnesse For My sinnes Satan hear'st thou that as well as for Paules or for Peters For though they were a thousand times more Sanctified then I yet were they neuer a whit more Iustified then I And the goodnesse they had came not from themselues but from GOD who hath put into my heart a great desire not of Heauen onley for so had Balaam Numb 23. 10. but of Faith and Repentance which the Reprobate cannot haue Thus if in our Agonies wee shall latch the blowes of our ghostly Aduersarie wee may boldly look for that Crowne of Righteousnes 2. Tim. 4. 8. which the Lord hath promised to those that loue his appearing The Summe of her Petition is set downe two waies Indefinitely and Determinately Indefinitely in these words Haue mercy on me Where shee sues in forma Pauperis and pleades for Mercy not Merit though she was one of the godliest women in all the world Yet you know Beloued who stand vpon the Merit of Condignity affirming and that from their Councell of Trent Concil Trid. Sect 6. cap. 11. 1. Cor. 9. 16. that they haue Faculty giuen them perfectly to fulfill the Law Nay the Rhemists go further and will stand to it that they are able to doe more then the Ten Commandements require They talke of Puritans but if these be not pure pute Sycophants and the white sonnes of Novatus the ROMAN Presbyter who are To whom notwithstanding to doe them a fauour wee will chaine the Anabaptist after whom shall come the Brownist in a string who is halfe an Anabaptist as the Tadpole is halfe a Frogge Well for vs poore Publicanes wee will not trust to our deserts which will shelter vs no more then an Arbour in Winter but to GODS tender compassion What though my sinnes bee as red as bloud as blacke as Haire-cloth as Pitch as Hell Yet are they not Infinit as is GODS Mercie Onely I must Repent that is confesse and forsake my sinnes and turne with my whole heart not faynedly to the Lord. For our Sauiour chargeth his Disciples to Preach Repentance and Remission of sinnes Luke 24. 47. So that no Repentance no Forgiuenesse of sinnes I know the Gospell is a Booke of Mercie I know that in the Prophets there are many aspersions of Mercy I know that Out of the Eater comes Meat and out of the Strong comes Sweetnesse Iudg. 14. 14. and that in the Ten Commandements which bee the Ministration of Death 2. Cor. 3. 7. there is made expresse mention of Mercy I will haue mercy vpon Thousands Yea the very first words of them are the Couenant of Grace I am the Lord THY God Yet if euery Leafe and euery Line and euery Word in the Bible were nothing but Mercy Mercy it nothing auailes the Presumptuous sinner that lies rotting in his iniquities Our GOD is not an impotent GOD with one Arme but as Hee is slow to anger so is Hee great in Powre Nahum 1. 3. and will not surely cleere the wicked O but he is Mercifull Gracious slow to anger aboundant in goodnesse and truth reseruing mercy for thousands forgiuing iniquity and transgression and sinne Is not here Mercy mentioned nine or ten times together It is But reade on to the very next words And not making the wicked innocent visiting the iniquity of the Fathers vpon the children and vpon childrens children vnto the third and fourth generation Is not this the terrible voyce of Iustice

But stay in the hundred thirty and six Psalme Psal 136. there is nothing but His mercy endureth for euer His mercy endureth for euer His mercy endureth for euer is the foote of the Song and is found six and twenty times in six and twenty verses It is Yet harko what a ratling thunder-clap is heere 15. 17. 18. 19. 20. And ouerthrew Pharoah and his Host in the Red Sea and smete great Kings and slew mighty Kings Sihon King of the Amorites and Og the King of Bashan Therefore Beloued if wee will haue mercy at the Tribunall Seate of GOD let vs humble our selues for our manifold and bloudie sinnes Cyp● Nec quisquam peccatis retardetur aut annis saith Cyprian And let no man hold off for that his offences are heynous and that hee is old and mosse-growne in them onely let him beware of Hypocrisie and Delay which will cheat the soule and bring it to destruction That Part of the Petition which is put downe Determinatly is in these words My Daughter is miserably vexed with a Deuill Where shee instantly beseeches Christ euen in the bowels of compassion to behold her Child her little Child as Saint Marke hath it Marke 7. 23. and to dislodge an vncleane and raging Spirit who had taken vp her body as a Cabin to rest in Where first obserue that she makes her Daughters misery her owne Haue mercy on ME my Daughter Acknowledging withall that GOD in chastening the fruit of her wombe had laid his scourge vpon her also Againe take notice how it is the nature of loue to Descend and how the affection of Parents to their Children is farre more deere then that of Children to their Parents We reade heere in this and in sundry other places of the Gospell how carefully Parents made meanes to Christ for the chasing away of Deuils and diseases from their Children but where reade yee that the Children did the like for their Parents In the eighth of this Gospell Verse 21. there 's a sonne intreates our Sauiour that hee may go bury his Father that he may throw Moulds on him and make him sure but he neuer once prayed him to he●le him when hee was sick or raise him when he was dead Marke further how sore and strange afflictions befall sometimes GODS dearest children Woe and alas here 's a furious Deuill that possesseth the body of this womans Daughter If he had onely haunted the house or outwardly wrought vpon her child the chastisement had beene grieuous but to enter into her with his very substance is most lamentable to thinke on And yet the Lord thus correcteth her in Loue Heb. 12. 6. in Loue I say howsoeuer it seeme a Paradox to Reason O it 's an heauy iudgement of GOD when a man thriues in sinne and when in the midst of his rebellions hee spreads himselfe against the Sunne like an Apricock When the anger of GOD waxed hot against the Israelites hee threatens that hee will plague them How plague them in not plaguing them Hos 4. 14. I will NOT visite your Daughters when they are Harlots nor your Spouses when they are Whores Certè tunc magis irascitur Deus cum non irascitur saith Bernard Bern. Certainely GOD is then most angry when hee seemes not angry at all Misericordiam hanc nolo For mine owne part saith he I would none of this mercy Moreouer note how all things worke together for the best to them that loue GOD. Rom. 8. 28. Heauen Earth Fire Water good Men bad Men wilde Beasts tame Beasts Calmnesse Tempests Peace Warre Freedome Thraldome Wealth Want Healthfulnesse Crazinesse Life Death Angels Deuils Aug. de Ciu. Dei lib. 14. cap. 13. Etiam peccata Domine Euen our sins also ô Lord saith Austen Audeo dicere saith the same Father superbis esse v●ile cadere in aliquod apertum manifestumque peccatum I dare bee bold to speake it that it is good that proud men do fall into some grosse and open sinne that so Shame may driue them to remorse This Doctrine is true But let no Spider suck poyson thence One wold haue thought that this woman who was not long before cōuerted to Christ wold haue laid the blame on her Religion and thought hardly of GOD thus to single her out for a spectacle of misery and scarse to shake his rod at her fellow Gentiles but see how this correction brings her neerer to GOD and how the Deuill himselfe is a meanes to further her saluation Lastly it is obserueable that Sinne is the most fearefull thing in the world The body of Man was made to be the Temple of the Holy Ghost but sinne makes it a Stie and Plauncher for Satan who teares it wallowes it and torments it piteously as here Verse 20 and in the ninth of Saint Marke Shall I in one word set out the vilenesse of it It is a Deuill And why not worse For what makes the Deuill a Deuill but Sinne Take that away and hee 's a good creature Besides here 's a single Deuill in this Childe without a partner but sinne is so congregable that it is impatient of solitude Our Father Adam eates the forbidden fruit we would thinke it but one sinne but what sayes Austine Aug. Enchir. Superbia est illic Sacrilegiū Homicidiū Fornicatio Spiritualis Furtū Auaritia Pride was at the fact Sacriledge Murder and Spirituall Fornication and Theft and Couetousnes This is the Diuell that reignes at this day in the Childrē of Disobedience with which yet they play as with a feather and take pleasure in Pleasure O Sinne thou art delightfull at the first but at last thou stingest like a Bee like a Waspe like an Hornet like a Scorpion O Pleasure thou hast a Honey-suckle in thy mouth but a bitter branch sticking at thy heart I would name Rue but that thou hast nothing to doe with Hearbe of Grace And this of the PROTASIS The EPITASIS followes wherein we are to weigh the sundry Repulses and Discouragements to weigh the sundry Repulses and Discouragements of this good Woman together with the constant prosecution of her cause as they lye in order For the first Repulse the Evangelist sayes that He answered Her not a word What not vnfold his lips to giue one word O wonderfull temptation For what might shee thinke Is this Hee in whom all the Nations of the earth should bee blessed Gen. 12. 3. Isaiah 55. 1. 65. 24. Is this He of whom Proclamation was made Ho Euery one that thirsteth come yee to the Waters Is this He that will heare his seruants while they speake and answere before they call No no I see my labour is lost my hopes degraded and my thoughts frustrate I haue look't vp to the Sunne and can see no light I haue hied me to the Fountaine and can finde no water I haue runne and cried after the GOD of All comfort and He