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scripture_n	ghost_n	holy_a	trinity_n	2,581	5	9.6972	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08129	Certaine sermons, preached by the reuerend and iudicious diuine master Thomas Nevvhovse late preacher of Gods word in the citie of Norwich. And now set foorth for the vse and benefit of Gods people, by Robert Gallard, Master of Arts and minister in the same citie	Newhouse, Thomas, d. 1611.; Gallard, Robert.	1614 (1614)	STC 18493; ESTC S102789	66,753	182

receiue them as pledges of loue both his and mine Indeede I acknowledge the particular respects whereby it hath pleased your Worships to ingage me vnto you doe farre exceed all that poore recompence which the slender dedication of these few sheetes of paper can possiblie make neither would I that the same should bee taken as any way equalizing your desert but onely I desire herein to giue you partly a signe of my dutifull and most vnfained affection towards you and partly also a memoriall of the Author your departed friend who is now in blesse not doubting but that your Worships will please to giue a kinde acceptance to this my poore offer not weighing the worth of the thing it selfe but rather as you are wont the minde and good will of him that giueth Now for these two Sermons in them the Author doth chiefly treate of these two things Baptisme and the feare of God the first a signe of our insition into Christ and a blessed seale of the couenant of grace The second is called in Scripture the Reuerence of Iehouah the fountaine or wel-spring of true and heauenlie wisedome As touching Baptisme me thinkes when wee seriously consider with our selues what weighty things were done therein and mutually past twixt God and vs we cannot but see it to be vtterly a fault so easily to cast aside all thoughts about it and to make it such a stranger to our meditations as vsually wee doe For mine owne part I know not whether any one thing be more worthie of a Christians consideration then is his baptisme for by it as by a conduit it pleased God to conuay vnto vs the best of his fauors For example whereas by nature as scripture speakes we were aliants frō God and sonnes of wrath Ephes 2.3.12 when wee were baptized in the name of the Father Sonne and holy Ghost wee were brought into an holy fellowship with the blessed Trinitie and were admitted into the familie of Christ euer after to remaine as adopted sonnes in the house of the most high God A most blessed condition Againe Ephes 2.1 whereas by nature wee were all dead and rotten in sinne and altogether deuoid of the life of grace in baptisme wee receiued quicknance from the spirit of life the holie Ghost And whereas our poore soules were beggerlie clad with natures cloath which is God wot nought else but a torne and rotten ragge of old Adam in baptisme we laid aside that old and put on a new and most costly coate euen the rich robe of Christ his righteousnes whereby the whole Church the spouse of Christ doth stand as a glorious obiect in the sight of God for euermore Lastly whereas by nature we were most filthie and loathsome in Gods eye no leper or lazer so lothsome to vs as wee to God for as the childe new borne lieth tumbling in blood so we in sin in baptisme we were washed by the cleane water of the spirit of God and thereby freed from the spots and guilt of sinne 2. King 5. as Naaman was from his leprosie in the riuer Iordan Thus by our baptisme of strangers to God we became euen Gods associats of limbes of the diuell members of Christ of beggers brats poorely clad Kings sonnes richly attired in the righteousnes of God of polluted and vncleane pure and amiable 〈◊〉 thus were we blessed when wee were baptized with water and with the holie Ghost Now further see wee what great things did passe from vs to God in our baptisme surely as God therein became a God vnto vs so wee became a people to him wee renounced the world and proclaimed a defiance to sinne and Satan wee dedicated our selues soules and bodies to the seruice and worship of the most high and as Dauid vowed to keepe Gods commandements so did wee by a solemne vow in the sight of men and Angels binde our selues to beleeue in God and to become as it were Gods apprentises or rather the loyal subiects and faithfull souldiers of our Lord Iesus to fight vnder his colours and maintaine his quarrell against all aduersarie power of our saluation and his glorie And thus wee see that in our baptisme the Lord did great things for vs and we promised great things to God againe how requisite a thing is it therefore nay how necessary that we should now and then admit of thoughts about our baptisme that so wee might haue a sense and feeling of the comfort of those blessings of God which there we receiued and also be quickned vp to the carefull performance of what wee haue so solemnely promised For this very cause I wish that this little treatise concerning this argument might be as a Remembrancer to put vs in minde of these things which are of such weight and so neerely doe concerne vs. As touching that other Sermon in it wee may see very exactly and iudiciously handled that rare and singular vertue so oft spokē of in the Scriptures and called by this name The feare of God a most excellent gift of the spirit as vsefull almost as any other to help forward a Christian life and no lesse gainfull in bringing in Gods blessings As for a Christian life as we know it is chiefly spent in two things that is abstaining from euill and endeuouring that which is good or as Isaiah speakes in ceasing to doe euill Isaiah 1.16.17 and learning to doe well Now both these bee streames flowing from one and the same sountaine viz. Prou. 3.7 the feare of Iehouah Salomon saith The feare of the Lord is to hate euill Prou. 8.13 there is Gods feare the cause of surceasing from euill He further saith Pron 14.2 He that walketh in righteousnesse feareth the Lord where the wise man reasoneth from the effect to the cause shewes that Gods feare is it that causeth a man to walke righteously that is to doe well and indeed there was neuer any man that feared God but endeuoured in the course of his life to please God in well-doing So then as we see man that rides in ordering his horse doth vse a bridle a spurre a bridle to restraine him if hee bee too free a spurre to pricke him on forward if he be dull so in ordering our liues the feare of God is as a bridle to curbe vs from rushing into sin and as a spurre to pricke vs on forward and quicken our slow and lazie natures to that which is good and pleasing to God Yet moreouer as this is a vertue of great vse in directing vs to heauen so I may truly call it as the Apostle doth call godlinesse great gaine for it brings in with it the abundance of Gods blessings in so much as whosoeuer will attempt to trade therewith shall finde her reuenewes to bee very great and that which Salomon saith of Wisedome Prou. 3.14 will be verified of her viz. that her merchādise is better then the merchandise of siluer and the gaine thereof is better then