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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12708	A short treatise, very comfortable for all those Christians that be troubled and disquieted in theyr consciences with the sight of their owne infirmities wherein is shevved hovv such may in their owne selues finde whereby to assure them of their free election, effectuall vocation, and iustification.	Sparke, Thomas, 1548-1616.	1580 (1580)	STC 23025; ESTC S102432	22,600	64

of their workes being conered through his good meanes Fourthelye bée the matter neuer so godly that we doe that yet it is necessary to take it in hande and to procéede therein of loue and by loue Paule hath notably taughte vs 1. Cor. 13. saying Thoughe I speake wyth the tongues of men and Aungels and haue not Loue I am as a sounding brasse or a tinkling Cimball and thoughe I had the gifte of Prophecie and knew all secrets and all knowledge yea if I hadde all Faith so that I coulde remoue Mountaines and hadde not Loue I were nothyng and thoughe I séede the p●●re with all my goodes and thoughe I gyue my body that I be br●ned and haue not Loue it profiteth me nothing By loue I meane that two solde loue towardes God and man it muste not be the loue of our selues loue of the worlde or loue of aduantage that must set vs on work but loue in déede vnfained by to wardes God bicause he hathe loued vs so fréely and effectually in Christe And this loue we can no way shewe towards him better than in giuing of oure selues fréely and wholy hartily and continually to obey his laws and commaundements For he that saith he loueth him and hepeth not his commaundements dissem●leth with him The hyr●l●ng not working of loue workes ●oy●eringly and soone is weary but where loue setteth a worke there the worke is done diligently care●u●ly and faithfully that not for a 〈◊〉 but ce●tin●●● yea●●therfore that it ●●ye appeare that we giue our selues is g●●●iuesse ●uen of loue to ●un that is go●●●sse it selfe let vs busset oure selues ab●use it their fully withour grudging for God lo●●●h a thée●●full giuer diligently and no●●●gligently or ●●●●●lly for ●ursed is he that doeth the worke of the Lord negligentlye and let vs perseuer and continue in ●ell 〈◊〉 without fai●●ing or giuing ouer for blessed is he that perseuereth to the end he that putteth his hend is the plough looketh backe is not méete for the kingdome of Heauen Finally last of al that nothing be lacking learn we out of the 6. of Math. to take héeds that we séeke not vain glorie that is the praise and glory at mans hand for our wel doing but let our principal end be the glorie of God as Christe hathe taught vs Math. 5. saying Let your light so shine before men that they may sée youre good works and glorifie your heuenly father which is in heauen and aming thus at this marke by the way we shal there by edifie our neighbors by our good exāple and assure our selues to our great comforte of our election which ●e two excellent ends vses comu●●dities the rise to vs by our good works Thus exercising our selues and wras●iug according to the measure of oure faith euery day to be lesse sinfull more righteous though that perfect righteousnesse that the law requyreth be not founde in vs by reason of oure weakenesse yet wée age counted in the sighte of GOD sanctified holy acceptable in Christ Iesus and so sealed vp to the day of redemption Paul without al doubt was in state of Iustification and a man regenerate or newe borne and therefore suche a one as had put off the olde man and putte on the newe when he wrote his Epistle to the Romaynes and yet there in the ●eauenth Chapiter it appeareth that hée sounde in hymselfe when hée hadde done what he could sin dwelling insomuch that he confesseth that he didde not the good thing that hée would but the euil thing that he wolde not that did he and that he felt a lawe in his members rebelling e●ayust the law of his minde leading him captiue vnto the lawe of ●●ue and therefore he cryeth out of himselfe ô wretched man that I am who shall deliner me from thys body of sinne and death And 〈◊〉 Corinthians 12. hée confesseth that he hadde a pricke in his fleshe whyche hée calleth the Messenger of Sathan that bu●●itted him ●or the whych his faith he prayed thrice that it might depart from him but he sayeth answere was made him that Gods grace was sufficient for him and that his power was made perfect through weakenesse whereby God taught him that so it is and will be euē with the holyest of vs all that there wil remayne in vs alwayes whiles we liue some reli●es of old Adain is humble vs to wrestle and fight against this is necessary to be obserued least that any vpō occasion of the former do●rine shoulde gather against himselfe that forasmuch as he séeth ●n infirmities in himself that therefore he is not sanctified and so void of any assurance of his election and iustificatiō for though Paul ●oūd it thus with himselfe yet bycause in the inner man he ●ound a wrestling a striu●●g against these sinnes in his flesh he ass●teth himselfe that he is one whom God had so certainly purposed to saue for his Christes sake that in his owne person in the persons of all other in the same case the he was he saith I 〈◊〉 pers●●ded that neyther death nor life nor Angels nor principalities nor powers nor things present nor things to come nor height nor deapth nor any other creature is abte to separate vs from the loue of God which is in Christ Iesus oure Lord Rom. 8. so that let not Peccatum ●i●abitans sinne dwelling in the flesh in the which we know with Paule that no good thing dwelleth Rom. 7. discourage vs so that we be able to say truly with the same Paule we delite in the Lawe of God concerning the inner man In déede we must accompt that Paule hath sayd vnto the regeuerate Let not 〈◊〉 raigue in your mortall bodyes that yée shoulde obey it in the lustes thereof Rom. 6.12 and thereby gather that i● we be sa●●●fied and regeuerate in déede that then sinne is put from his reigne or kingdome in vs but their the must vnderstand that there is greate disterene betw●●te Peccatum regu●●s an● E●●●catum 〈◊〉 that is betwéet sh●●e reiguing in vs and dwelling in vs 〈◊〉 then is in his reigne and king● 〈◊〉 when he hath the members of man redy to yéeld him their voluntary or willing obediēce taking delight in doing of him seruice in whiche estate sin is in vs till we be regenerate haue put on Christ wheby his spirita dispossesseth sin of his kingdom howbeit then til death come in some measure it will be founde in man but yet farre vnlike that it was before for now it is resisted by the spirite so either cannot get the members is doe it seruice at al or else if it doe so farre prenayle as to too often it doeth yet by theforce of the spirite they are so checked and taken vp for their so doing that neither is there such delighte taken in sin as before neither can sin after get his will obeyed so easily again insomuch that thoughe it get his wil now then done