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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09439	How to liue, and that well in all estates and times, specially when helps and comforts faile.	Perkins, William, 1558-1602.	1601 (1601)	STC 19728; ESTC S2275	25,478	110

men of yeares who if they haue contrite and humbled hearts are little ones beleeuing in Christ. Againe children after some yeares by good education and instruction may attaine to some knowledge and consequently to faith Thus Timothie was brought vp in the Scripture of a childe The second opinion is that all places of Scripture intreating of faith are to be vnderstood of men of yeares and that children are saued by some other vnknown and vnspeakeable way without faith I somewhat doubt of this because it is said VVhosoeuer beleeueth not is alreadie condemned Againe VVithout faith it is impossible to please God The third opinion is that children haue faith after a sort because the parents according to the tenour of the couenant I will be thy God and the God of thy seede beleeue for themselues and their children and therefore their faith is not onely theirs but also the faith of their children Hence it is that the Scripture saith If the roote be holy the branches are holy and If ye beleeue your children are holy According to humane law the father and his heires are but one person the father couenanting for himselfe and his children what then should hinder that the father might not beleeue for his child and the child by the parents faith haue title to the couenant and the benefits thereof It is alleadged that by this meanes children shall be borne beleeuers and so be conceiued and borne without originall sinne I answer Beleeuing parents sustaine two persons one whereby they are men and thus they bring forth children hauing mans nature with all the corruptions of nature The other as they are holy men and beleeuers thus they bring forth infants that are not so much their children as the children of God And Infants are Gods children not by vertue of their birth but by meanes of parents faith which intitles them to all the blessings of the couenant Children proportionally sustain a double person If they be considered in and by thēselues they are conceiued and borne in Originall sinne If they be considered as they are holy and beleeue by the faith which is both theirs and their parents faith and consequently haue by this means title to Christ and his benefits originall sinne is couered and remitted If it be said that by this meanes all children of beleeuing parents are the children of God I answer that we must presume that they are all so leauing secret iudgements to God To this third opinion I most incline because we are to iudge that infants of beleeuing parents in their infancie dying are iustified I find no iustification in Scripture without faith And this hath beene the iudgement of auncient fathers Aug. serm 14. of the words of the Apostle How saith he doe infants beleeue by the faith of the parents If by the faith of parents they be purged by parents sinne they are polluted The bodie of sinne in the first parents begot them sinners and the spirit of life in their latter parents did regenerate them to be beleeuers Bernard epist. 77. saith Among the nations as many as were faithfull if they were of yeares we beleeue that they were clensed by faith and the sacrifices and that the parents faith alone auaileth for children yea that it is sufficient for them Againe It is meete and for the honour of God that to whome age denies their owne faith grace should graunt to them a benefit by the faith of an other Thus then it is manifest that euery person must haue a faith of his owne Hence we learne that the doctors of the Romish Church erre and are deceiued when they teach that a man may rest himselfe in the faith of his teachers beleeuing in sundrie things only as the Church beleeues though he knew not distinctly what is the faith of the Church Againe here the Popes pardons fall to groūd For in vaine doth the Pope by the power of the keyes apply the meritorious works and the satisfactorie suffrings of one man to an other considering euery man is saued onely by his owne faith The wise virgins professed that they had oyle no more then serued their owne turnes They knew not the popish doctrine that men might haue good works enough for themselues and an ouerplus for others Hilarie gathereth hence that one mans good workes cannot be applied to an other Hierome saith Euery man shall receiue a reward for his owne workes and that one mans workes cannot couer another mans faults in the day of iudgement The speech of Leo may stoppe the mouths of all Papists Though saith he the death of the Saints be preticus in the sight of God yet the killing of no innocent is the reconciliation of the world The righteous haue receiued crowns but they haue not giuen crownes And the fortitude of beleeuers ministers examples of patience but not gifts of iustice For the deaths of them all were priuate or particular neither did any of them by his funerall discharge another mans debt considering among the sinnes of men Christ our Lord is onely found in whom all are crucified dead and buried and rise againe Paul indeede saith to the Corinthians that he desired to be bestowed for their soules and that he suffers all things for the elect but this he speakes in respect of his Apostolicall ministerie and not in respect of any workes of satisfaction performed by him in the behalfe of others Againe he saith I beare in mine owne body the remainders of the sufferings of Christ but these remainders are the sufferings which euery man must beare for himself For euery disciple of Christ must take vp his own crosse and so accomplish the sufferings of the whole mysticall bodie Thirdly by this we learne not to relie on the gifts suffrages and praiers of others but to seeke for a sufficient liuely faith of our owne The foolish virgins that supposed they might haue furnished thēselues with sufficient oyle of the wise virgins were vtterly disappointed Therfore the speech of the Papists is to be detested namely that the suffrages of the liuing that is their fastings prayers almes masses c. do three waies helpe the dead by way of merit of cōgruitie by way of intreatie and by way of satisfaction Lastly here we learne that faith and the iustice of good conscience must alwaies goe together And for this cause it is not said that man liues by faith but the iust man Let all protestants learne and remēber this For it is Gods commandement that we should ioyntly keepe faith and good conscience And it is a common offence to Atheists papists worldlings that such as pretend faith faile in the righteousnesse of good conscience Some it may be will say that it shall suffice for thē to call vpon God when they are dying and to die by faith I answer that we must not onely die and be saued but also liue in this world by our faith FINIS Luk. 1. ● Iob 1. ● Rom. 1.17 Gal. 7.11 Gal. 1.20 Gal. 3.11 12. Eph. 1.18 Heb. 11.3 Psal. 56.4 Rom. 1.5 Math. 4.3 Rom. 4.18 Luk. 8.13 Ioh. 5.35 Iam. 1. ●● Luk. 8.15 1. Tim. 1.19 Heb. 3.38 Heb. 10.38 Joh. 3.31 Rom. 3. ●● 2. Cor. ●● ● Ioh. 3.9 Heb. 1● 7 Gen. 8.16 Psal. 119.11 Act. 16.31 Gen. 39.9 〈◊〉 ● 15 Psal. ●● ● 1. Ioh. 3.23 Heb. 4.16 Isa. 26.3 1. Ioh. 5.4 Ioh. 7.17 1 Cor. 2.14 Psal. 3.5 Phil. 4.7 Rom. 4.17 Phil. 3.1 1. Pet. 1.8 Psal. 98.99 Luk. 7.47 Ioh. 8.56 Ioh. 20.25 Gen. 5. ●● Isa. 16.28 Dan. 9. 2 3 Iob 4. 2. Sam. 15.26 Psal. 16.18 Heb. 11.27 ● Reg. 6.19 Eph. 6.16 1. Thest. 5.8 Act. 20.28 2 Cor ● 1● 1 Tim. 4. Heb. 11.7 ●●● 33.34 Psal. 55.23 Phil. 4.6 ● Pet. 5.7 Math. 6.32 1. Pet. 5.7 Psal. 34.9 Gal. 3.11 12. Heb. 3.12 Gen. 19.4 Isa. 28.15 Math. 25.37 2. Cor 4.4 Math. 6.30 Rom. 8.5 1. Cor. 1.14 Heb. 6.2 1. Ioh. 2. ●● Eph. 1.1 Tit. 1.15 Isa 7.9 Mark 6. ● Num. 20 1● 2. King ● Luk 1. ●● a Psal. 10.6.11.13 14. 2. Luk. 18.11 12. Apoc. 18.7 1. Cor. 2.14 Math. 12.24 Psal. 7.8 Isa. 28.15 Luk. 12.19.45 Num. 20.12 Psal. 52. 1.6 11. 73. 11 12. 1. Tim. 11.13 Heb. 4.12 2. Cor. 10. 1. King 13.2 Isa. 44. end 2. Ioh. 3.23 2. Cor. 1. ●● Col. 3.27 Heb. 11.36 Psal. 119.49 Muk 16.16 Rom. 12. 1. Cor. 7 1● a Bella● l. 1 de bapt c 4. See further Iustin. 9.56 Aug epist. 23.57.105 de bapt l. 4. c. Bernar. ser. 66. in Cant. a Immanuel Sa. in Aphorismis cōfestatiorum upon Mat. 25. ibidem Serm. 12. de passione 2. Cor. 12.15 2. Tim. 2. Coloss. 3. ●ollar de Indulg c. 14. p. 85.