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A10394	Saint Pauls triumph, or cygnea illa & dulcissima cantio that swan-like and most sweet song, of that learned and faithfull seruant of God, Mr. Iohn Randall, bachelor of diuinitie: vttered by him (in an eleauen sermons, vpon the eight chapter of St. Pavl his epistle to the Romans, vers. 38.39.) lately before his death, in the time of his great and heauy affliction, and vpon the Communion-dayes, either altogether, or for the most part. And now published for the glory of God, the edification of his church and people, and the hononrable [sic] memoriall of the author, by William Holbrooke, preacher of the word of God.	Randall, John, 1570-1622.; Holbrooke, William.	1623 (1623)	STC 20678; ESTC S102568	146,192	249

respect he calls him our Lord For wherein did euer Christ Iesus shew himselfe more plainely to be the Lord then by his Resurrection And wherein may he Lord it more then in giuing his subiects and seruants victory ouer Death and Hell and all their enemies To proceed yet a little further in the proofe of this point according to this generall proportion of Christ being our Lord that is the Lord of all the faithfull wee shall finde that particular beleeuers haue laide particular claime to Christ euery one of them as to his Lord Luke 1.43 And whence commeth it that the mother of my Lord should come vnto me A strong faith in a weake woman to confesse Christ Iesus to be her Lord euen whilest he was in his mothers wombe My Lord that came downe from heauen for me My Lord that tooke flesh of the blessed Virgine my neere and deare Kinswoman euen for my sake to redeeme mee Iohn 20.13 They haue taken away my Lord c. She speakes it as a woman weeping and mourning but not out of a womanish passion but out of a spirituall and heauenly affection My Lord that hath forgiuen mee so many sinnes My Lord that hath cast out seauen Diuels out of me My Lord that hath stood it out manfully on the Crosse against all the powers of darknesse for the redemption of my poore sinfull soule Oh they haue taken him away and I know not where they haue laid him If I could tell where they haue laid him I would surely goe to him I would goe through thicke and thinne that I might enioy my Lord but alasse they haue taken away my Lord. Iohn 20.28 My Lord and my God It is the speech of Thomas he saw in our Sauiours hands the print of the nailes whereby he was fastened on the Crosse and in his side he saw the wound of the Souldiers Speare and vpon sight thereof he cryes out my Lord and my God as who should say Oh my Lord these wounds thou hast receiued for my sinnes and trangressions Oh my Lord c. The Reasons First Christ is our Lord because Reason 1 he made vs Euery free agent is Lord and Master of the worke of his owne hands He made vs therefore he is our Lord. Col. 1.16 By him all things were made Yea but so he is the Lord of the wicked hee made them too yea but he is our speciall Lord hee made vs not onely to be Creatures which is common to the wicked but to be new Creatures which is peculiar to the faithfull onely 2 Cor. 5.17 If any man be in Christ let him be a new Creature Hee transformes and new moulds vs and makes vs new Creatures if we beleeue in him Our Lord Christ as he makes vs Creatures so he makes vs new Creatures Christ Iesus hath made vs both Creatures and new Creatures too and therefore he must needes be our absolute and speciall Lord. Secondly he is our Lord because we were giuen Reason 2 to him of God Iohn 17.6 Thine they were and thou hast giuen them me God hath giuen vs to his Sonne Christ and therefore wee are his in the best and surest right that may be What better right can we haue then to that which is giuen to vs freely And marke in what termes God hath giuen vs to Christ and by what right we are Christs Thine they were and thou hast giuen them mee In the same propinquity that we were Gods in the same propinquity we were giuen vnto Christ but we were Gods as he is our Lord and therefore we are Christs so too And marke further here how hee shewes himselfe to be their Lord and they to be his seruants I haue declared thy word to them that is I as their Lord haue set them their taske what they must doe that they may be saued And they haue kept thy Word saith our Sauiour that is as good and faithfull seruants to their Lord they haue followed my direction Reason 3 Thirdly he is our Lord because he hath deliuered vs from all our enemies Sinne Sathan c. Luke 1.71 A temporall deliuerer from a temporall bondage deserues iustly to be Lord ouer those whom he doth deliuer and this the Law and light of Nature taught among the Heathen for looke who it was deliuered another from any bondage his Lord hee was Our Lord Iesus Christ deliuered vs from the spirituall and eternall bondage and slauery of Sinne Sathan Curse Death Hell and Eternall damnation And therefore he must needes bee our Lord much more And this Reason may be yet further confirmed if we consider the intendment of Christ in our deliuerance and that was that we his seruants might serue him all the dayes of our life Luk. 1.74 Fourthly he is our Lord because he hath bought Reason 4 vs 2 Pet. 2.1 Denying the Lord that he hath bought them Naturall reason teacheth vs this Shall not a man be Lord of that he hath bought and truely and dearely paide for But Christ hath bought vs and paide dearely for vs not siluer and gold but his owne pretious bloud therefore he hath most soueraigne right ouer vs as our Lord and we are most strictly bound to him as his seruants It is the Apostles reason in the 1 Cor. 6 2● Yee are bought with a price therefore glorifie God in your bodies and in you spirits for they are Gods This Doctrine is full of Vse the first Vse is concerning Christ himselfe the second is concerning vnbeleeuers and the third is concerning the faithfull The first Vse is concerning Christ himselfe He is Vse 1 our Lord This is an euident proofe of his Godhead he is our Lord and therefore our God Christ is sometime called the Lord and that intends his Soueraigne power and authority ouer all things sometime our Lord and this intends his Soueraigne power and supreame authoritie ouer the Church euery way the name Lord proues him to be God For to haue Soueraigne power and supreame authority ouer all things or ouer the Church cannot be giuen to any but to God Remember the termes before mentioned vnder which wee are to conceiue Christ to be our Lord and euery one of them will necessarily conclude that Christ our Lord is Christ our God First hee is our speciall Lord as hee is our Mediator and he must be God as well as man that he may be Mediator betwixt God and man Againe hee is our spirituall Lord he is Lord ouer our soules and consciences and a conscience well rectified acknowledgeth none ouer it but God Againe he is our sauing Lord and none can challenge this but God himselfe Saluation belongs to God alone Lastly hee is our absolute Lord to be obeyed without questioning without controule and without resisting in all things whatsoeuer he commands and this none can challenge but God onely I hope there is none here present that will either deny or doubt of Christs Godhead but there are many of vs that in prayer and

this confident perswasion that surely God will be his God for euer 1 Iohn 4.13 Hereby we know that we dwell in him and he in vs because he hath giuen vs of his Spirit Hence it is that this Spirit thus giuen is called an earnest Ephes 1.13.14 It is a significant comparison and most pregnant to our purpose An earnest we know is something giuen in hand at the making vp of a bargaine the buyer giues it the seller receiues it and thereby both parties are bound to the full performance of the bargaine so it is betwixt God and our poore Soules in our conuersion God bargaines couenants with vs to be our God and to make vs his children and heires of saluation he giues vs an earnest and we receiue it what is that His Spirit to assure vs that as he hath begun so he will go on with vs and that his Couenant shall neuer be broken and wee receiue it vpon the same condition If but a man giue vs an earnest if he be an honest man wee are perswaded he will go on with his bargaine much more will God if he giue vs an earnest wee may be confidently perswaded that he will not breake with vs If God should giue but a small earnest but a penny we would beleeue that he would performe with vs but he giues vs his owne Spirit as great an earnest as himselfe in reuerence be it spoken to his great Maiesty and therefore he will surely goe on with vs he giues vs his Spirit to assure vs that he will not faile vs and therefore we may confidently be perswaded of it that he will performe his word to vs and he giues vs this earnest nor in our hands for haply we might loose it then but in our hearts and there it rests as a Seale to seale vs vp to God for euer and euer 2 Cor. 1.22 Who hath also sealed vs and giuen the earnest of his Spirit into our hearts Wee vse to cal this earnest giuen and receiued a Gods penny Here is a Gods penny indeed the best Gods penny that euer we tooke giuen vs vpon the greatest and best match that euer we made to assure vs certainly perswade vs that God wil perform his couenant to vs. Secondly the voyce of the Spirit in vs confirmes it for vpon our true conuersion as we receiue this Spirit so our Spirit growes into a blessed familiarity with Gods Spirit and in this familiarity Gods Spirit acquaints our spirits with many heauenly truthes and amongst other the Spirit tells vs in plaine tearmes that wee are in the number of those that shall be saued thou poore sinfull soule art in truth the child of God Rom. 8.16 The same spirit beareth witnes to our spirits that we are the children of God there is a liuely voyce in the hearts of all Gods true children wherby the Spirit tels them plainly so The Apostle in the 1 Cor. 2.10 to the 16. reasons the case plainely This is a secret might some say Yea but saith the Apostle God hath reuealed them to vs by his Spirit c. But it is hid in Gods minde Wee know the minde of God saith the Apostle verse 16. But how doe we know Gods minde why God hath reuealed it to vs by his Spirit verse 10. And in the 12. verse the Apostle saith that he hath giuen vs the Spirit that is of God that wee might know the things that are of God he hath giuen vs his Spirit to this end to confirme and seale vnto vs that wee are appointed vnto life Thirdly the nature of faith requires it Faith requires Reason 3 a confident perswasion how else can we say I beleeue in God and doubting is opposite to faith Iames 1.16 Aske in faith and wauer not Doubting is opposite to faith as darknes is to light they cannot stand together but with strife and contradiction one against another Fourthly the fruits of the Spirit and of Reason 4 faith approue it what are the fruits of the Spirit why the Commandements of God 2 Pet. 1.10 If yee doe these things ye shall neuer fall God giues his word for it hereby we are sure saith the Apostle 1 Iohn 2.3 that we know him if we keepe his Commandements and 1 Iohn 3.14 we know that wee are translated from death to life because we loue the Brethren If I loue my Brother truely for Christs sake I am sure that I am translated from death to life as sure as I know it to be day by the light Reason 5 Lastly the truth of Gods promises ratifie and establish it for as this makes our state sure in it selfe so also it makes it sure to vs Heb. 10.23 Hee is faithfull that hath promised and therefore let vs draw neere vnto him with full assurance and hold fast the profession of our hope without wauering this will carry vs out through thicke and thinne Vse 1 The first Vse is matter of Confutation it serues to confute Popish doubting I will insist specially vpon that because it is true that there is doubtings sometimes in the dearest of Gods children but they acknowledge and confesse them to be sins and infirmities and striue against them and repent of them But Popish doubting is maintained and they cherish men in it and they condemne an vndoubting faith to bee grosse presumption Alasse all our doubting is of our selues and not of God and confident perswasion is of God and not of vs and shall doubting be called good Religion and assurance condemned to bee presumption This is a grosse iudgement and a damnable censure But it is strange that euer the Papists should doubt of their saluation seeing they pretend that they haue the Law and the Gospell for them too The Law saith Doe this and liue and they pretend to performe perfect obedience to the Law and yet they doubt whether they shall liue The Gospell saith Beleeue this and thou shalt be saued and they say they are onely the true beleeuers Haue they both the Law and the Gospell to assure them and yet doe they doubt whether they shall be saued If the Law assure them not of saluation yet the Gospell might at least both together should not faile them But all things well considered it is no maruell seeing they ioyne their merits with Christs it is iust with God to deny them the greatest comfort in the world namely this full assurance by the merits of Christ And seeing they will be iustified by their owne workes no maruell though their iustification faile them seeing their workes faile them The euils of Popish doubting But let vs see the euill of this their Doctrine hereby they impeach Gods truth and call all his promises into question and deny one of the chiefest priuiledges in the world to Gods children and bereaue them of their best comfort and hereby they dishearten Gods children and dampe them in the course of grace and many other euills follow hereupon I will insist onely

warrant from God to take all the benefit they can afford them and a priuiledge too to free and secure them from all their hurts God hath imposed an ineuitable law vpon life and death that they shall be attendant vpon his children to doe them all the good they can but no euill and God hath giuen power an heart to his children to serue themselues vpon life and death for their owne safety Reason 4 Fourthly Death and life are sanctified and sweetned vnto vs by the life and death of Iesus Christ and that is the reason that we are in safety against the euill of all our afflictions and this reason the Apostle giues of it for his owne particular Philip. 1.20.21 Christ shall be magnified in my body whether it be by life or by death Why for Christ is to me both in life and death aduantage And so likewise it is the Apostles reason for all the faithfull in generall Rom. 14.9 why we are the Lords whether we liue or die for Christ saith he therefore dyed and rose againe and reuiued that hee might bee Lord both of the dead and quicke that is that hee might be a protecting and a sauing Lord to vs both in the state of life and death A Snake or a Serpent is in danger to poyson vs and sting vs if we handle them as they are but if wee get out their poyson and sting from them then we may handle them safely and they can doe vs no harme In this corrupt state life is as a Snake and death is as a Serpent full of poyson in themselues and we are in danger to bee stung and poysoned by them but Christ Iesus by his life and by his death hath taken away the poyson of our life and the sting of our death that is sinne and so wee are now in safety against all the dangers both of life and death there is no hurt in them The vses are these The first vse is for matter of comfort to Gods Vse 1 children It is matter of sound comfort to all true beleeuers that they liue in safety they die in safety They liue vnder Gods protection and they dye vnder Gods protection they liue a happy life and they die a happy death Blessed are the people that are in such a case yea Blessed are the people whose God is the Lord. Moses was rauished with the meditation of the happy estate of Gods children in their life and in their death Deut. 33.27.29 The eternall God is thy refuge and vnder his armes thou art for euer Blessed art thou oh Israel who is like vnto thee oh people saued by the Lord c. Here is a happy state indeed feares assault vs God comforts vs afflictions trouble vs God preserues vs our enemies thrust sore at vs that wee should fall but God is our helper our sinnes endanger vs God deliuers vs the Diuell tempts vs God vpholds vs death strikes at vs but God he shields and saues vs our hearts and our strength and our life they faile vs yea but God is our portion for euer he will neuer faile vs neither in life nor in death Shall the Creatures hurt vs No they shall nor for God hath made a couenant with them for vs Hosea 2.18 Would the wicked swallow and deuoute vs They shall not God will not giue vs as a prey to their teeth c. Psal 124.6 7. Is the whole world in an vproare round about vs Yet we are in safety Psal 91.7 8. Is the whole frame of Nature out of order as it lackes but little of it at this day yea but hee that calls vpon the name of the Lord shall be saued Ioel 2.31 32. A necessary consideration and meditation as at all times so in these troublesome cruell desperate and bloudy times when warres and rumors of warres are sounding in euery mans eare and Gods enemies make hauoke of Gods Church and the Angell of the Lord is abroad in the world executing Gods iust iudgements in many places and when there is a generall combustion in most parts of Christendome yet here is all our stay The Lord will surely helpe his people and saue his inheritance vpon all his glory shall be a defence Yea but are not many of Gods deare children at this day greatly persecuted in many places are they not murthered consumed and deuoured It is true let the wicked take away their liues yet they shall neuer take away their soules no God is ready when their liues are taken away by their enemies to receiue their soules and to place them in eternall glory Vse 2 The second vse is to stirre vs vp to much thankefulnesse to God that he being so holy and mighty and glorious a God should so respect and take such care for such poore sinnefull wretches as wee are as that he should continually watch ouer vs not for euill but for our good both in life and death whereas we haue deserued euill at his hands the best Master that is can but protect his seruant and looke to but while hee liues at his death hee giues him ouer and can doe him no good but our good God our heauenly Master keepes and protects vs his sinnefull seruants and doth vs good both in life and in death and after death This is a blessed Master and blessed are those seruants that serue such a Master Psal 48. the last verse This God is our God for euer and euer hee shall be our guide vnto the death Thirdly This should strengthen our faith against Vse 3 all terrours in life and death against all terrours in death against all terrours of life because the Lord is the strength of our life of whom then shall wee be afraid Psal 27.1 and Psal 42.8 God is said to be the God of our life this is a sweet comfort and should much strengthen our faith against all terrours in our life because God is the God of our life and what can spoile that which God preserues So it should strengthen our faith against all terrours of death Though hee kill me yet will I trust in him saith Iob 13.14.15 And the Apostle 2 Cor. 5.1 We know that if the earthly house of this our Tabernacle be destroyed we haue a building giuen vs of God that is an house not made with hands but eternall in the heauens If God take away our life we haue an eternall state in heauen Fourthly This teacheth vs patience in all our sufferings Vse 4 because we are in safety against them all vnder Gods protection It is our Sauiours owne argument Luke 21.18.19 There shall not one haire of your heads perish by your patience possesse your soules We haue great reason to be patient all the while wee are in safety but wee are in safety in all our sufferings not onely in life but in death too and therefore we must be patient in all our sufferings both in life and death Vse 3 The last vse teacheth vs to apply our selues