That is Ye that continue still in your wickednesse and think that Gods plagues are not at hand but give your selves to all idlenesse wantonnesse and riot Exposition Obadiah 15. as the exposition is For the day of the Lord is near upon all the heathen as thou hast done it shall be done unto thee thy reward shall remain or return upon thine own head When I heard Habbak 3.16 my belly trembled my lips quivered at the voice rottennesse entred into my bones and I trembled in my self that I might rest in the day of trouble I will utterly consume all things from off the land or destroy all things saith the Lord God I will consume man and beast Zeph. 1.2 3. I will consume the fowles of the heaven and the fishes of the sea and the stumbling-blocks with the wicked and I will cut off or destroy man from off the land saith the Lord. Or I will destroy man and beast I will destroy the fowles of the heaven and the fishes of the sea and ruines shall be to the wicked and I will cut off man from the land saith the Lord. Note Exposition that God was not angry with those dumb creatures but because man was so wicked for whose cause they were created God maketh them to take part of the punishment with him Hold thy peace or be still Zeph. 1.7 8. at the presence of the Lord God for the day of the Lord is at hand for the Lord hath prepared a sacrifice he hath bid or sanctified his guests And it shall come to passe in the day of the Lords sacrifice that I will punish the princes and the kings children and all such as are clothed with strange apparel Who may abide the day of his coming Mal. 3.2 who shall stand when he appeareth for he is like a refiners fire and like fullers sope He sheweth Exposition that the hypocrites which did so much desire the Lords coming will not abide when he draweth near for he will consume them and purge his and make them clean as the exposition is For behold Mal. 4.1 the day cometh that shall burn as an oven and all the proud yea and all that do wickedly shall be stubble and the day that cometh shall burn them up saith the Lord of hosts and it shall leave them neither root nor branch But unto you that fear my name Mal. 4.2 shall the sun of righteousnesse arise with healing in his wings and ye shall go forth and grow up as calves of the stall Meaning Christ who with his wings or beams of his grace should lighten and comfort his Church as the exposition is Wherefore he saith Eph. 5.14 Awake thou that sleepest and rise from the dead and Christ shall give thee light Again Amos 1.14 The day of Judgement called the day of battel and the day of the whirlwind FINIS A SERMON Preached by Mr. MASTERS Master of the TEMPLE in the TEMPLE-CHURCH At the Funerall of Henry Croke Esq one of the Society of the Inner Temple February 8. 1608. LONDON Printed by Fr. Leach and are to be sold by William Lee at the Turks-head in Fleetstreet 1657. A Sermon Preached by Mr. Masters Master of the Temple in the Temple-Church Febr. 8. 1608. 2. Cor. 5.10 For we must all appear before the Judgement-seat of Christ THis Text divides it self into these five parts following Text divided The first touching the certainty and the necessity of the day of Iudgement contained in these words For we must The second concerning the generality of our appearance in these words We must all appear The third concerning the severity of this Iudgement The fourth concerning the manner thereof Before the Judgement-seat of Christ And the fifth concerning the person before whom we are to appear being Christ our Judge and Saviour Of these severally in their order First Of the certainty of the day of Iudgement and that in these three respects First above the Law as appeareth in the generall Epistle of Jude Jude 14 15. 14 15. And Enoch also the seventh from Adam prophesied of such meaning the wicked there before named Behold the Lord cometh with ten thousand of his Saints To give Judgement against all men Secondly Under the Law And Thirdly Under the Gospel as appeareth Matth. 25.31 32 33 34. Matthew 25.31 32 33 34. And when the Son of man cometh in his glory and all the holy angels with him then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory c. The Reasons hereof First To whomsoever a dispensation is given at the end there must be an account by him made and this appeareth to be so Luke 16.1 2. There was a rich man Luke 16.1 2. which had a steward and he was accused to him that he wasted his goods And he called him and said Give an account of thy stewardship Secondly As the life of man is the time of working and death is the period thereof so of necessity there must be a Iudgement and censure of every mans work with a reward thereof Again In the generality all this is to be observed that there is then to be a two-fold Iudgement that is to say First A Iudgement of condemnation Secondly A Iudgement of Declaration And this appeareth in the book of the Revelation chap. 20. ver 10 11 12 13 14. And the Devil that deceived them Rev. 20.10 11 12 13 14. was cast into a lake of fire brimstone And I saw a white throne and one that sat on it And I saw the dead small and great stand before God and the books were opened And another book was opened which is the book of life and the dead were judged of those things which were written in the books according to their works And the sea gave up her dead which were in her and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them and they were judged every man according to his works There is to be a two-fold Iudgement The one a Iudgement of dissolution for the righteous The other a Iudgement of condemnation for the wicked The first a Iudgement of dissolution or of acquittall The other a Iudgement of condemnation Reason The reason why there is to be a twofold Iudgement of the bodies and souls reunited is this The soul receiveth the first Iudgement being the first and principall actour in sin and then the body being quickned by the soul and so conjoyned and associated with the same in the acting of sin and in this respect it is requisite that there should be a second Iudgement when both body and soul might together receive their Iudgement as they had been both of them joynt actours in sin And this may serve to answer an Objection which may be made of some shew of injustice to be twice punished by two Iudgements for one and the same sin Again at our appearance there we shall be naked and where we shall be manifested
in vita aeterna cum Christo beatus qui non est in hac vita in Christo sanctus That is He shall never be happy with Christ in the life to come and eternall who is not in this life holy and sanctified in Christ It is well observed That man hath a Threefold being as namely First Esse naturae a Naturall being by birth Secondly Bene esse gratiae a well-being by grace by his new birth And Thirdly Optime esse gloriae his glorious being by death the same being an entrance into a life of glory These three being all of them specified by this ensuing place of Scripture c. Jesus answered and said unto him John 3.3 5 6 8. Verily I say unto thee except a man be born again he cannot see the kingdome of God Verily verily I say unto thee except a man be born of water and of the Spirit he cannot enter into the kingdome of God That which is born of the flesh is flesh and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit The wind bloweth where it listeth John 14.2 3. and thou hearest the sound thereof but canst not tell whence it cometh and whither it goeth so is every one that is born of the Spirit In my fathers house are many mansions I go to prepare a place for you And if I go and prepare a place for you I will come again and receive you unto my self that where I am there ye may be also Fourthly Gen. 2. the Old Testament or the law sheweth unto us our miserable estate and condition we are in by sin and by the fall of our first parents in Paradise The New Testament or the Gospel sheweth unto us our happy estate and condition we are in by grace by the merits death and passion Resurrection and ascension of our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ For now is Christ risen from the dead 1 Cor. 15.20 21 22. and become the first fruits of them that slept For since by man came death by man came also the Resurrection of the dead For as in Adam all die even so in Christ shall all be made alive For the wages of sin is death Rom. 6.23 but the gift of God is eternall life through Iesus Christ our Lord. And sin when it is finished James 1.15 bringeth forth death As by the offence of one Rom. 5.18 19 20 21. Iudgement came upon all men to condemnation even so by the righteousnesse of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life For as by one mans disobedience many were made sinners so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous Moreover the Law entred that the offence might abound but where sin abounded grace did much more abound That as sin hath reigned unto death even so might grace reign through righteousnesse by lesus Christ our Lord. Fifthly In the Old Testament we have many Prophecies and foretellings of Christ our Saviour to come In the new Testament or Gospel we have the joyfull newes and glad tidings of the birth of our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ And hereupon one well saith The Gospel or the good spel because the Gospel bringeth us good and glad tidings of salvation in and by Iesus Christ And there were in the same country shepheards abiding in the field Luke 2.8 9 10 11 12. keeping watch over their flock by night And lo the Angel of the Lord came upon them and the glory of the Lord shone round about them and they were sore afraid And the Angel said unto them fear not for behold I bring you good tidings of great joy which shall be to all people For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour which is Christ the Lord. And his name was called Jesus which was so named of the Angel before he was conceived in the wombe Behold Mat. 1.20 21 22 23. the Angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream saying Ioseph thou son of David fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wise for that which is conceived in her is of the holy Ghost And she shall bring forth a son and thou shalt call his name Iesus for he shall save his people from their sins Now all this was done that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the Prophet saying Behold Isaiah 7.14 a Virgin shall be with child and shall bring forth a son and shall call his name Emmanuel which being interpreted is God with us And the word was made flesh John 1.14 and dwelt among us and we beheld the glory as of the onely begotten son of the father full of grace and truth Who 1 Pet. 1.20 verily was fore-ordained before the foundation of the world but was manifest in these last times for you But when the fulnesse of time was come God sent forth his son made of a woman and made under the Law To redeem them that were under the Law Gal. 4.4 5. that we might receive the adoption of sons Sixthly The Law tyeth us to an active obedience and due performance of all which the Law requireth to be done by us Dicit Lex hoc fac vive that is do and perform all this which is commanded and live Now therefore hearken O Israel Deut. 4.1 2. unto the statutes and unto the judgements which I teach you for to do them that ye may live and go in and possesse the land which the Lord God of your fathers giveth you Ye shall not adde unto the word which I command you neither shall ye diminish ought from it that ye may keep the commandements of the Lord your God which I command you What thing soever I command you Deut. 12.32 observe to do it thou shalt not adde thereunto nor diminish from it Ye shall do my judgements and keep mine ordinances Levit. 18.4 5. to walk therein I am the Lord your God Ye shall therefore keep my statutes Levit. 20.8 and my judgements which if a man do he shall live in them I am the Lord. And ye shall keep my statutes and do them I am the Lord which sanctifie you Therefore shall ye keep my commandements Levit. 22.31 and do them I am the Lord. But if thou wilt enter into life Mat. 19.17 keep the commandements Onely Joshua 1.8 9. be thou couragious that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law which Moses my servant commanded thee turn not from it to the right hand or to the left that thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth but thou shalt meditate therein day and night that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous then thou shalt have good successe Ye shall observe to do therefore Deut. 5.32 33. as the Lord your God
1.1 2 3 4. And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us and we beheld his glory the glory as of the only begotten Son of the Father full of grace and truth That which was from the beginning which we have heard which we have seen with our eyes which we have looked upon and our hands have handled of the word of life For the Life was manifested and we have seen it and bear witness and shew unto you that eternall life which was with the Father and was manifested unto us That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you that ye also might have fellowship with us and truly our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Iesus Christ And these things write we unto you that your joy may be full Exod. 20.2 Eighthly Again in the old Testament we have the Law given by Moses But in the new Testament we have Grace and Mercy brought unto us by Christ Iesus And of all his fulness have all we received Iohn 1.16 and grace for grace For the Law was given by Moses Iohn 1.17 but grace and truth came by Iesus Christ Ninthly Again by the Law we have the knowledge of Sin and of Gods curse which followed thereupon and of the Iudgements denounced against sinners and that not only of a death temporal but even of a death eternal both of body and soul And the Lord God took the Man Gen. 2.15 16 17. and put him into the Garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it And the Lord God commanded the Man saying of every Tree of the Garden thou mayest freely eat But of the Tree of knowledg of good and evill thou shalt not eat of it for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die And unto Adam he said Gen. 3.17 19. because thou hast hearkned unto the voice of thy Wife and hast eaten of the Tree of which I commanded thee saying Thou shalt not eat of it Cursed is the Ground for thy sake in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the daies of thy life In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thou return unto the ground for out of it was thou taken for Dust thou art and unto Dust shalt thou return For the wages of sin is death Rom. 6.23 For when we were in the flesh Rom. 7.5 the motions of sin which were by the Law did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death What shall I say then Rom. 7.7 8 9 10 11. is the Law sin God forbid Nay I had not known sin but by the Law for I had not known Lust except the Law had said Thou shalt not covet But sin taking occasion by the Commandement wrought in me all manner of concupiscence for without the Law sin was dead For I was alive without the Law once but when the Commandement came sin revived and I died And the Commandement which was ordaiued to life I found to be unto death For Sin taking occasion by the Commandement deceived me and by it slew me But by the Gospel we have the knowledge of the free Pardon and full forgiveness of our Sins purchased for us by the death and passion of Christ our Saviour and conferred unto us by his grace and favour he undergoing the full vial of Gods wrath and judgement denounced against sin and Sinners even the whole curse of the Law he endured for us who died for our Sins and rose again for our justification that we should dye unto sin and live unto righteousness Rom. 5.6 8. For then when we were yet without strength in due time Christ died for the ungodly God commendeth his love towards us in that while we were Sinners Christ died for us Who was delivered for our Offences Rom. 4.25 and was raised again for our justification Much more then being now justified by his blood Rom. 5.9 we shall be saved from wrath through him For if when we were enemies Rom. 5.10 we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son much more being reconciled we shall be saved by his life Who was delivered for our offences Rom. 4.2 and was raised again for our justification O Death where is thy sting O Grave where is thy victory 1 Cor. 15.55 56 57. The sting of Death is Sin and the strength of Sin is the Law But thanks be unto God which giveth us the victory through our Lord Iesus Christ Who his own self bare our sins 1 Pet. 2.24 in his own body on the Tree that we being dead to sin should live unto righteousness by whose stripes ye were healed But he was wounded for our transgressions Isaiah 53.5 6. he was bruised for our iniquities the chastisement of our Peace was upon him and with his stripes are we healed All we like sheep have gone astray we have turned every one to his own way and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all If God be for us Rom. 8.31 32. who can be against us He that spared not his own son but delivered him up for us all how shall he not with him also freely give us all things Who shall lay any thing to the charge of Gods elect Rom. 8.33 34. it is God that justifyeth Who is he that condemneth it is Christ that died yea rather that is risen again who is even at the right hand of God who also maketh intercession for us Christ hath delivered us from the curse of the Law Gal. 3.13 being made a curse for us For it is written Cursed is every one that hangeth on a Tree For he that is hanged Deut. 21.23 is accursed of God Tenthly Again the Law was as our School-master to bring us unto Christ to shew us the way to him and to direct us therein aright But the Gospel bringeth Christ himself unto us who is the way the truth and the life offering of himself to be received by us by a true and lively faith Wherefore the Law was our Schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ that we might be justified by Faith But after that Faith is come Ga. 3.24 25. we are no longer under a Schoolmaster For ye are all the Children of God by faith Iohn 14.1 6. in Christ Iesus Let not your hearts be troubled ye believe in God believe also in me Iesus saith I am the way the truth and the life no man commeth unto the Father but by me Upon which place St. Chrysostome thus discourseth Quo vis ire ego sum via S. Chrysostom Quid vis scire ego sum veritas Ubi vis manere ego sum vita Whither wilt thou go I am the way What would'st thou know I am the Truth Where would'st thou remain I am the Life And again St. Bernard upon this place saith S. Bernard I am the way which leadeth to the Truth I am the Truth that
Eve First began with a Nequaquam moriamini ye shall not dye Hereupon Saint Augustine after the Serpent was accursed by God from the Earth saith thus unto the Serpent O n quam ubi jam esi tua nequaquam O thou wicked serpent Where are now thy lying words Ye shall not dye at all For the wages of sin is death Rom. 6.23 but the gift of God is eternall life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Mors fructus à fruendo dicitur as one observeth of it Death is the fruit so called from the enjoying of it and so death is the fruit or wages of sin Quotidie morimur S. Bernard quotidie enim demitur pars vitae tunc quoque cum crescimus vita decrescit ut S. Bernard That is We do dye daily and even every day a part of our life is cut off as St. Bernard observeth Homo est fatuus usque ad quadraginta annorum deinde Luther ubi agnovit se esse fatuum vita consumpta est ut Luther That is A man is as a fool and full of ignorance till he attain unto the age of forty yeares and then so soon as he comes to know and so to acknowledge himself to be a fool to be ignorant and to know nothing of himself even then and at that very time his life here is as it were ended gone and spent as Luther observeth Mors tua mors Christi fraus mundi gloria coeli Et dolor inferni sint meditanda tibi That is These things thou oughtest to take into thy serious consideration and duely for to meditate thereon as namely On thy own death on the death of Christ of the fraud and deceit of the world of the great glory of heaven and on the unsufferable paines and torments of Hell as one observeth It is well observed by one That death in Christ killed life for a time that afterwards life in him might kil death for ever For since by man came death 1 Cor. 15.21 22 25 26 55 56 57. by man came also the resurrection of the dead For as in Adam all die even so in Christ shall all be made alive For he must reign till he hath put all enemies under his feet The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death O death where is thy sting O grave where is thy victory The sting of death is sin and the strength of sin is the law But thanks be to God which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ Death as one observeth is a quiet sleep The soul when death comes puts off the body and the body buried lives in the earth the grave being the bed thereof there to remain till the morning of our resurrection at the day of Iudgement appearing It is observed by one That the true servants of God are so farr from being any wayes discontented or troubled with the thinking of death as that they rather earnestly desire and thirst after it with a Cupio dissolvi Philip. 1.23 a desire with St. Paul to be dissolved and to be with Christ For death as a Father well observeth is but provectio a journey or a laying down of this our earthly tabernacle Nihil certius quod quilibet debet mori sed tempore quando quo leco vel quomodo uihil incertius There is nothing more certain then this that every one must die but when in what place or the manner how nothing is more uncertain Statutum est omnibus semel mori It is dereed that all men must once die Rom. 5.14 As by one man sin entred into the world and death by sin and so death passed upon all men for that all have sinned For this is the sentence of the Lord over all flesh Eccles 4.3 As by one mans disobedience Rom. 5.19 21. many were made sinners so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous That as sin hath reigned unto death even so might Grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord. When Lust hath conceived it bringeth forth Sin Iames. 1.15 and Sin when it is finished bringeth forth Death Now nothing is more uncertain than the time when we shall die the place where or the manner how we shall die This was therefore the meditation of Seneca daily with himself as is recorded of him Dic tibi dormituro Seneca potes non expergisci Dic exerecto potes non dormire amplius Dic ereunti potes non reverti Dic revertenti potes non exire amplius VVhen thou liest down at night in thy Bed to sleep and to take thy rest say thou unto thy self It may be thou shalt never live to awake again to behold the light of the ensuing day When thou awakest in the morning and dost arise out of thy bed say then unto thy self It may be thou shalt never live to lye down in thy bed to take thy rest and sleep again When thou goest forth of thy house about thy necessary affaires say then unto thy self It may be thou shalt never live to return unto thy house again When thou doest return in safety to thy house say then unto thy self It may be thou shalt never live to go forth of thy house again These meditations ought to stirr us up unto a daily and continuall preparation for death that so death may never take us unawares and unprepared Mors sanctis refrigerium improbis autem supplicium Death to the godly is but as it were a refreshing but to the wicked death is a punishment Cujus vita est Christus mors ei lucrum maximum Sed Cujus vita est mundus mors ei damnum maximum ut Pater He who liveth like a Christian and maketh Christ his life here death unto him is the greatest gain that can be But he who liveth here like a worldling and maketh the world his life and chiefest delight here death unto him is the greatest detriment and dammage that can be Boni moriuntur bene etiamfi mors ipsa mala ut Pater Good and godly men do die well and make a happy end although death it self in it self be evil Num. 23.10 This made the prophet Balaam to cry out and say Let me dye the death of the righteous and let my last end be like his Upon which place one well observeth thus much as namely That he which desireth to die the death of the righteous must labour and strive here in this life to lead and live the life of the righteous and then his death will be happy like unto his Vita est vivere vitam Deo sed vivere vitam mundo mors est ut Pater To live here a godly and a Christian life and to devote our selves here wholly to the service of God this is the onely way for us after this our life here ended to attain unto the everlasting life of glory in the kingdome of heaven But He which
hath commanded you Ye shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left You shall walk in all the wayes which the Lord your God hath commanded you that ye may live and that it may be well with you and that ye may prolong your dayes in the land which ye shall possesse And the Lord shall make thee the head and not the tail Deut. 28.13 14. and thou shalt be above onely and thou shalt not be beneath if thou hearken unto the commandements of the Lord thy God which I command thee this day to observe and to do them And thou shalt not go aside from any of the words which I command thee this day to the right hand or to to the left to go after other gods to serve them For not the hearers of the law Rom. 2.13 are just before God but doers of the Law shall be justified And I gave them my statutes Ezek. 20.11 and shewed them my judgements which if a man do he shall even live in them For Moses describeth the righteousnesse of the Law Rom. 10.5 which is of the Law that the man which doth those things shall live by them For as many as are of the works of the Law are under the curse Gal. 3.10 12. for it is written Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the Law to do them And the Law is not of faith but the man that doth them shall live in them Cursed be he that confirmeth not all the words of this Law to do them Deut. 27.26 and all the people shall say Amen The Gospel tyeth us onely to believe aright in God and in his son our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ The Gospel onely looks upon the eye of our faith that we believe the promises of God made unto us in Christ Jesus and that we lay hold on him make particular application of the benefits of his sufferings death and passion Resurrecton and ascension unto our souls by a true and lively faith And this is all we are commanded and enjoyned to do and perform by the Gospel and New Testament Whereupon it was well said by one Dicit Evangelium Crede hoc vive that is Onely believe all this and thou shalt live He that believeth Mark 16.16 and is baptized shall be saved but he that believeth not shall be damned And he said unto her Luke 8.48 Daughter be of good comfort thy faith hath made thee whole go in peace Straightway Mark 9.24 the father of the child cried out and said with tears Lord I believe help mine unbelief And a woman having an issue of bloud twelve yeares Luke 8.43 44. which had spent all her living upon Physicians neither could be healed of any Came behind him and touched the border of his garment and immediately her issue of bloud stenched For she said within her self Matthew 9.21 if I may but touch his garment I shall be whole And Jesus said who touched me Luke 8.45 46. when all denied Peter and they that were with him said The multitude throng thee and press thee and sayest thou who touched me And Iesus said Some body hath touched me for I perceive that vertue is gone out of me And when the woman saw that she was not hid she came trembling Luke 8.47 48 and falling down before him she declared unto him before all the people for what cause she had touched him and how she was healed immediately But Iesus turned him about Matth. 9.22 and when he saw her he said Daughter be of good comfort thy faith hath made thee whole and the woman was made whole from that houre Hereupon St. St. Augustin Augustin observeth thus much upon this place Cum de morbo in morbum laborasset cum de morbo desperato tunc accessit tetigit sanata est When she laboured of a great disease and of such a disease that was even desperate then even then she came unto our Saviour Iesus Christ she touched the hemme of his garment and she was immediately healed and made whole And again as touching the words of Christ who hath touched me Cum omnes te tangunt indifferenter quomodo quaeris quis specialiter te tangit as one observeth When all men do alike indifferently touch thee wherefore dost thou enquire and ask who harh specially touched thee Thus and in this manner tangere Christum to touch Christ as a Father well observeth this was tactus fidei the touch of her faith And he said unto her Luke 8.48 Daughter be of good comfort thy faith hath made thee whole go in peace St. S. Augustin Augustine upon this former place sheweth two reasons why Christ our Saviour used this before-recited form of speech Prime ut mulierem ad confessionem traheret First that he might hereby draw the woman to a confession of what she had done and for what cause she did it Secundo ut timorem mulierit probaret Secondly that he might hereby prove the fear and try the faith of the woman And he said to the woman Luke 7.50 thy faith hath saved thee go in peace And said unto him Arise go thy way thy faith hath made thee whole This spoken to the Samaritan Luke 17.19 a leper being cleansed and returned to give thanks And Iesus said unto him Luke 18.42 Receive thy sight thy faith hath saved thee But as many as received him John 17.12 to them gave he power to become the sons of God even to them that believe on his name And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wildernesse John 3.14 15. even so must the son of man be lifted up That whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have eternall life God so loved the world John 3.16 17 36. that he gave his onely begotten son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have eternall life For God sent not his son into the world to condemn the world but that the world through him might be saved He that believeth on the Son John 11.25 26. hath life everlasting and he that believeth not the son shall not see life but the wrath of God abideth on him Iesus said I am the resurrection and the life he that believeth in me though he were dead yet shall he live And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die To him give all the Prophets witnesse Acts 10.43 that through his name whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins Be it known unto you therefore Acts 13.38 39. men and brethren that through this man is preached unto you the forgivenesse of sins And by him all that believe are justified from all things from which ye could not be justified by the Law of Moses And we believe Acts 15.11 that through the grace of the Lord Iesus Christ we shall
be saved And they said Acts. 16.41 Believe on the Lord Iesus Christ and thou shalt be saved and thy house For I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ Rom. 1.16 17 18. for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth For therein is the righteousnesse of God revealed from faith to faith as it is written The just shall live by faith But the just shall live by his faith Habakkuk 2.4 Hebrews 10.38 Gal. 3.11 Now the just shall live by faith But that no man is justified by the Law in the sight of God it is evident for the just shall live by faith But the Scripture hath concluded all under sin Gal. 3 22 23. that the promise by faith of Christ Iesus might be given to them that believe But before faith came we were kept under the law shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed By the deeds of the law Rom. 3.20 21 22. there shall no flesh be justified in his fight for by the Law is the knowledge of sin But now the righteousnesse of God without the Law is manifested by the Law and the prophets Even the righteousnesse of God which is by faith of Iesus Christ unto all and upon all that believe For all have sinned Rom. 3.23 24 25 26. and come short of the glory of God Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Iesus Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his bloud to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past through the forbearance of God That he might be just and the justifier of him which believeth in Iesus To him that worketh nor Rom. 4.5 but beliveth on him that justifieth the ungodly his faith is counted for righteousnesse Being justified by faith Rom. 5.1 2. we have peace with God through our Lord Iesus Christ By whom also we have accesse by faith into this grace wherein we stand and rejoyce in hope of the glory of God There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Iesus Rem 8.1 2. Who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit For the Law of the spirit of life in Christ Iesus hath made me free from the lâ—w of sin and death For Christ is the end of the law Rom. 10.4 for righteousness to every one that believeth The Word is nigh thee even in thy mouth and in thy heart Rom. 10.8 9 10 11. that is the Word of Faith which we preach That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Iesus and shalt believe in thy heart that God hath raised him from the dead thou shalt be saved For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness and with the mouth Confession is made unto salvation For the Scripture saith Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed Whatsoever is not of Faith Rom. 14.23 is sin And whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed Rom. 9.33 It pleased God 1 Cor. 1.21 by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe For we walk by faith 2 Cor. 5.7 not by sight I live yet not I Gal. 2.20 but Christ liveth in me and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me They which be of faith are blessed Gal. 3.9 26. with faithfull Abraham For ye are all the Children of God by faith in Christ Iesus In whom also Ephes 1.13 14. after that ye believed ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of Promise which is the earnest of our Inheritance For by Grace are ye saved through Faith Ephes 2.8 and not of your selves it is the gift of God For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again 1 Thess 4.14 even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him Above all things take the shield of Faith Wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery Darts of the wicked Ephes 1.16 17. Watch ye 1 Cor. 16.13 stand fast in the Faith quit you like men be strong And to whom swore he Heb. 3.18 19 that they should not enter into his rest but to them that believed not So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief Let us draw near with a true heart Heb. 10.22.23 in full assurance of Faith having our hearts sprinkled from an evill Conscience and our Bodies washed with pure water Let us hold fast the Profession of our Faith without wavering for he is faithfull that promised Now Faith is the substance of things hoped for Heb. 11.1 the evidence of things not seen But without Faith it is impossible to please him Heb. 11.6 for he that commeth to God must believe that he is and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him The whole Chapter being special instances of Faith Of the great Power of faith in the true Servants of God who shewed the powerfullnesse of Faith in general and of their Faith in particular Looking unto Jesus Heb. 12.2 the Author and finisher of our Faith Receiving the end of your Faith 1 Pet. 1.9 20. even the salvation of your Souls Who by him do believe in God that raised him from the dead and gave him glory that your faith and hope might be in God Be thou faithfull unto the death Rev. 2.10 and I will give thee the Crown of life Hence is the patience of the Saints Rev. 14.12 here are they that keep that Commandements of God and the faith of Iesus Seventhly Again Christus in veteri Testamaento est velatus Sed in novo Testamento Christus est nobis revelatus Christ in the Old Testament was hid and covered as it were under a veil and was only shadowed out unto us But in the New Testament Christ is there manisestly revealed unto us and the veil of the old Testament by him taken away 2 Cor. 3.13 14 15. And not as Moses which put a veil over his face that the Children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished But their minds were blinded for untill this day remaineth the same veil untaken away in the reading of the old Testament which veil is done away in Christ But even to this day when Moses is read the veil is upon their hearts Nevertheless where they shall turn to the Lord the veil shall be taken away And without controversie 1 Tim. 3.16 great is the mystery of Godliness God was manifest in the flesh justified in the Spirit seen of Angels preached unto the Gentiles believed on in the world and received up into glory In the beginning was the Word Iohn 1.1 2 14. and the Word was with God And the same was in the beginning with God 1 Iohn