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nature_n	ghost_n	holy_a	trinity_n	3,214	5	9.7060	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13810	The holy salutation of the blessed Apostle Saint Jude to the saints and seruants of God. Preached at Pauls Crosse the seuenteenth of Nouember. Anno. Dom. 1611. By Francis Tomlinson, preacher of the Word, and chaplaine to the right honourable, the Lord Ellesmere, Lord High Chancellor of England, and Chancellor of Oxford.	Tomlinson, Francis.	1612 (1612)	STC 24111; ESTC S106618	27,486	59

speake boldly and plainly it is cleane contrary Salust obiected to Tully that he was no gentleman and herefore vnworthy to beare office Indeed saith Tully my nobility begins in me and thine ends in thee for some which haue neither learning nor liuing nor wisedom nor ciuility nor honesty nor pietie at all yet if they can fetch their pedegree from some noble or worshipfull house they boast thereof hold themselues worthy of reuerence and thinke themselues wronged if they be not regarded What did the Iewes gaine by glorying that Abraham was their father semen Abrahae sumus pater noster Abraham we are the seed of Abraham Abraham is our father when our sauiour told them Iohn 8.44 vos estis ex patre Diabolo you are of your father the deuill and his works you do Indeed they were the seed of Abraham with Ismael but not the sonnes of Abraham with Izaak Grant them to bee sonnes yet they were sonnes according to the flesh not according to the promise For Non habent hae reditatem Petriqui fidem Petri non habent Ambr. d paeniten lib. 1. cap. 6. Non sunt filij Abrahae qui non sequuntur fidem Abrahae they are not the sonnes of Abraham which follow not the faithful steps of Abraham Outward titles then without inward vertues auaile vs nothing for what shall it profite vs to be entitled Christians and yet liue as prophanely as infidells to bee called the Church of God and yet in cōuersation resemble the Synagogue of Satan To be counted the children of God Qualis haberi velis talis fias and yet spend our times like the sonnes of Belial to bee reputed the seruants of Christ Iesus and yet serue the world the flesh and the deuill to descend of noble godly parents and yet degenerate from their noble godly wayes God is not pleased with shadowes but with substance not with outward titles but with truth in the inward parts Therefore Theodosius the Emperour held it a more noble thing to be Membrū ecclesiae then caput imperij A mēber of the Church then head of the Empire If then thou wilt boast of thine honorable kindred labour striue endeuour that thou mayest truely glory and say that God is thy father La virtu è argume to a● nobilita the Church thy mother Christ Iesus thy elder brother this is most high holy honorable kindred Thus much of the person saluting his name his calling his kinred The persons saluted are beautified with three excellent Titles 1. called 2. sanctified 3. reserued to Iesus Christ Calling is twofold 1. to some office and duty 2. to the knowledge of God and saluation To some office and dutie either priuate or publique priuate and oeconomical as masters of families artificers husbandmen Publique is either ciuill or ecclesiasticall Ciuill is either in peace as Magistrates or in warre as militarie Gouernors Ecclesiasticall is either immediate by God and Christ as prophets and Apostles or mediate by men as Archbishops Bishops Ministers of the word Calling to the knowledge of God and saluation is either externall or internall Externall is either common to all by the instinct of Nature and works of creation Psalme or not cōmon to all by the word preached The Lord hath not dealt so with euery nation Internall and effectuall is a worke of the whole Trinitie whereby God the father through the son by the holy Ghost not onely offers grace but giueth it to the elect Vocantur electi vel foris per externam praedicationem vel intus efficaci operatione speritus sancti The elect are called either without by the outward preaching of the word or within by the inward effectuall operation of the holy Ghost This hath two partes the one inuitement the other admission Inuitement is when God offers remission life euerlasting to all that beleeue this outwardly by the preaching of the word and inwardly by inspiration of heauenly desires Admission is whē men are entred into the kingdom of grace this outwardly by Baptisme inwardly by the spirit engraffing them into Christ and making them reall members of Gods kingdome This is diuers in respect of time and in respect of place In respect of time for God calleth in diuers houres of the day that is in diuers ages of the world and in diuers yeares of our age some before the law as Abel Enoch Noah Abraham some vnder the law as Moses Dauid Iosias Isay with other kings and Prophets some after the law as the blessed Apostles Martyrs Confessors Some in the first houre their childhood as Samuel Ieremy Iohn Baptist Some in the third houre their youth as Daniel and Iohn the Euangelist Some in the sixth houre their middle age as Peter and Andrew Some in the eleuenth houre their old age as Gamaliel and Ioseph of Arimathea some in the last houre of the day the last hour of their life as the theefe vpon the crosse In respect of place for God calleth some from their ships and some from their shops some from the market and some from vnder the hedges This diuers calling at diuers times and in diuers places intimates a caueat and a comfort ●em dicat ●eo me voca●t quia colat ●eum quoma● co●u●sses si ●catus n●n fu●es Austen de ●erb Apost A caueat for such as are called that they magnifie not themselues and vilifie others A comfort for them that feele not themselues sufficiently called that they rest in hope God can wil call when where whom he will either at the last houre with the theefe vpon the gallowes or out of oppressing Egypt with the Israelites or persecuting Paul breathing out slaughter against the Saints of God The vses hereof are three First seeing we are called of God we must walke worthie of our calling that as hee which hath called vs is in himselfe most holy so should we not onely begin well but continue in holinesse and righteousnesse all the daies of our liues For to this end hath the grace goodnesse bountifulnesse of our Lord appeared vt abnegata omni impietate that denying and renouncing all impiety of life and impurity of heart we should liue in this present life Sobriè ●ustè ●iè Haec tria perpe●uò meditare aduerbia Pauli Haec tria sunt vitae regula sancta tuae soberly iustly godly Soberly towards our selues iustly towards others godly towards God because sancta conuersatio confundit inimicum aedificat proximum glorificat Deum A holy life and godly conuersation doth confound and stop the mouthes of our enemies doth edifie and build vp our brethren doth glorifie God Secondly seeing we are called of God not onely generally but particularly for euery one that liueth in the Church and Common-wealth ought to haue a particular calling to walke in wee must ioyne the practise of our particular calling with the practise of our generall calling For it is not sufficient for a man to