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saint_n	body_n	member_n	mystical_a	1,656	5	10.4255	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A79008	A patterne for all, especially for noble and honourable persons, to teach them how to die nobly and honourably. Delivered in a sermon preached at the solemne interment of the corps of the Right Honourable Robert Earle of Warwick. Who aged 70 years 11. months, died April 19. And was honorably buried, May 1. 1658. at Felsted in Essex. By Edmund Calamy B.D. and pastor of the church at Aldermanbury.	Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666.	1658 (1658)	Wing C262; Thomason E947_1; ESTC R207615	31,046	52

Doctrine of Perseverance 2. To practise the Doctrine of Perseverance 1. To be rooted and established in the Doctrine of the Perseverance of the Saints And to beleeve that whosoever is truly united unto Jesus Christ by a lively faith shall be so preserved by Christ in the use of all Gospel-means that he shall never totally and finally fall away Christ Jesus at the day of judgement will have a compleat body mystical as well as natural He will not loose any of his real members for then his body should be incompleat There was a book written in King James his dayes by Bertius of the Apostacy of the Saints This book the forenamed King calls in a letter written to the States of Holland A book with a blasphemous title And a learned Professor of Oxford calls it a book with an execrable title And surely if it was blasphemous and execrable then it is as bad now I will notenter upon the controversie there are books lately written to very good purpose for the justification of the doctrine of perseverance To me it is sufficient that God hath said it and shallnot he do it he hath said whom he justified them he also glorified He hath said The servant abideth not in the house for ever but the Son abideth ever He hath said my sheep heare my voyce and I know them and they follow me and I will give unto them eternal life and they shall never perish neither shall any pluck them o●t of my hand My Father which gave them me is greater than all and no man is able to pluck them out of my Fathers hand He hath said I will put my feare in their hearts that they shall not depart from me He hath said Neverthelesse the foundation of God standeth sure having this seale the Lord knoweth who are his c. Though Hymeneus and Philetas have not stood sure yet the foundation of God standeth sure He hath said being confident in this very thing that he that hath begun a good work in you will performe it untill the day of Christ And that we are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation And whosoever is borne of God doth not commit sin for his seed remaineth in him and he cannot sin because he is born of God He hath said I have prayed for thee that thy faith faile not And he is now in heaven at the right hand of his Father making intercession for us And the chief end of his intercession is that God would uphold and continue us in his favour unto the end Christ doth not intercede as some would have it That God would save us if we persevere There is little need of this and lesse comfort in it But he intercedes that we may persevere And God in the Covenant of grace doth not only promise to give us heaven if we beleeve and persevere but also to give us in the use of means to beleeve and persevere Now then if God the Father hath decreed the perseverance of the Saints if he hath promised that they shall persevere and that he will enable them by his power unto it If God the Son hath prayed that the faith of all those who were given to him by the Father should not faile and if he ever liveth to make intercession for them that they may never utterly fall If God the holy Ghost be given to the Saints to abide in them for ever and if the seed of God abides in them to keep them from total and final Apostacy then we may safely conclude that the Doctrine of the perseverance of the Saints is most agreeable to Scripture and that it is our duty to be stedfast and unmoveable in it Quest Did not Saint Austin himselfe the great Champion of free grace against the Pelagians hold the doctrine of the Apostacy of the Saints For though he saith That an elect justified person shall never finally fall away yet he seems to say that there are many truely justified who are not elect and that justification and election are not termes convertible And that many are justified by a faith working by charity who not being elected fall away totally and finally Answ. I must not deny but that this opinion is charged upon St. Austin by some learned men and a Reverend Divine hath lately in a book printed about this subject asserted it as a thing undubitable and without controversie and for this end he brings many sayings out of his works which favour this opinion But this learned brother may if he please read an answer to most of those quotations long ago given by Bishop Abbot in his animadversions upon Tompsons Diatriba de amissione intercisione justificationis gratiae And he may likewise find many sayings brought out of St. Austin which do most fully and clearly prove that he held not only that no elect man can finally fall away but also that none but the elect are justified and that those who are truely justified can never fall away As for example God saith Austin calleth none with that calling which is according to his purpose but such whom he hath predestinated and he justifieth none but those whom he thus calleth and glorifieth none but those whom he hath predestinated called and justified c. Againe speaking of the vessels of wrath and of the reprobates he saith That God brings none of them to sound and spiritual repentance by which a man is reconciled to God in Christ whether he waites longer on them then on the elect or shorter In another place he saith That God doth not forgive the sins of all men but only of those whom he hath foreknown and whom he hath predestinated Againe he saith in another place That the gift of the holy Ghost to wit the love of God shed abroad in our hearts by the holy Ghost is given only to those who shall raigne with Christ for ever in heaven Strangers saith he that is such who shall never inherit the Kingdome of heaven have some of those things which are given to the house of God But the gift of the holy Ghost is proper to the Saints of which no stranger doth communicate that is no man that shall never inherit the Kingdome of heaven This is wanting to all the malignant and sons of hell although they are baptized with the baptisme of Christ as Simon Magus was Therefore he calls that a peculiar fountaine of waters running down the streets of the Saints and no where else In other places he saith That Christ justifieth none but those who are members of his body And no man is made alive by the Spirit of Christ but he that is a member of his body And that no man is indeed and in truth a member of Christs body who shall not be with him in heaven to all eternity These places and many more which might be brought and are brought by the forementioned Author are