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A85868 A sermon of the saints judging the world. Preached at the Assizes holden in Huntingdon, March 13. 1648. by John Gaule, Minister of the Word in Great Staughton. Gaule, John, 1604?-1687. 1649 (1649) Wing G380; Thomason E549_8; ESTC R205625 21,828 31

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and yet for what he had dome accounted himselfe the least of all Saints ever after II. Positively now to shew who they are And I shall as shortly describe them from their Properties their Exercises their Priviledges and their Services 1. From their gracious Properties Were I to define a Saint I would doe it thus A Saint is the subject of grace Neither do I take a Saint to be any other thing than grace in the concrete or indeed the collective of all graces His gracious Properties are they which constitute him in himselfe difference him from others and declare him to all the world And they are 1. Innocence This is much used in the definition of a Saint or description And vulgarly a Saint and an Innocent are taken for Synonyma's It is said of Christ our High Priest that hee was holy and harmlesse Hebr. 7.26 and such an one became us both to believe and imitate And it is the great act of his Office not onely to make us holy and unblameable but to preserve and present us so Eph. 1.4 5.27 Col 1.22 1 Thes 2.9 3.13 The places give us to note plainly That he that is a Saint or holy in his person must also be an Innocent or unblamable in his actions and not only so but in his affections also unblamable or unreprovable both as from his owne boars and conscience and in the sight of God and by the report and witnesse of godly and faithfull men Neither willingly giving occasion as the severall words import for private scandall to complaine nor for publick justice to call in question 2. Feare of God A private feare or that of conscience O fear the Lord yee his Saints Psal 34.9 A publick feare or that of service God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the Saints Psalme 89.7 Between this and that is the whole work of our Christian or Saintly proficiency Perfecting holinesse in the feare of God 2 Cor. 7.1 For holinesse without feare soone growes sloathfull in srcurity and fear without holinesse growes as sloathfull in despair Both these therefore having had their perfect work there wants not their reward neither temporall Psal 34.9 nor eternall Rev. 11.18 3. Faith The Saints and the Faithfull are inseperable companions Ephes 1.1 Colos 1.2 And though some distinguish them by their Callings and Degrees yet I cannot well discerne which is one which another which is first which last saving that he is the one more properly as justified by Christ and the other as sanctified by the Holy Ghost Onely because many pretend to faith without holinesse I would that the faith of the Saints were discerned by the zeale of profession Jude 3. By the vertue of obedience Rev. 14.12 by the communion of Charity Col. 1.2 and by the patience of expectation Rev. 13.10 4. Love It either respects God and man or man and man Betwixt God and man it is either that love whereby God loved them first and so it is the cause or ground of their Saintship Rom. 1.7 Beloved of God called to be Saints Or else it is that love where with they love God againe and so it is the effect or signe of their Saintship Psalme 31.23 O love the Lord all yee his Saints Betwixt man and man their love is defective to none Eph. 1.4 Holy and without blame in love But excessive and abounding to those of their like Your love unto all the Saints Eph. 1.15 Col. 1.4 5. Wisedome And that of extraordinary revelation as touching particular promises Psalm 89.19 Thou spakest in vision to thy holy one c. Of ordinary illumination in the perpetuall truth Col. 1.26 The mysterie which hath been laid from ages and from generations is now made manifest to his Saints The Saints of old exceeded us in legall visions but we transcend them in Evangelicall illuminations Our mysterious way comparatively hidden to them their miraculous way superlatively hidden to us How great delusion is it then for us to dote after their mists and Moon-shine in the midst of our owne Sun-shine and perfect day Item of a discreet apprehension in matters of prudent and conscientious Piety Prov. 9.10 The knowledge of the holy or of the Saints is understanding None like to theirs for piety and policy both at once That of others is but the shadow this of theirs is the substance of all wisedome But where is it to be found In few or none For what hee once said in modesty Prov. 30.3 every man almost may say with shame I have neither learned wisedome nor have the knowledge of the holy or of the Saints Item of perfect comprehension Eph. 3.18 may comprehend with all Saints c. Namely the love of God in Christ to be comprehended in all the dimensions of it by the Saints in heaven Both the breadth how it extends to all Saints and Angells and the length how it was from everlasting to everlasting and the depth how it had no cause but that rooted within it selfe and the height how it hath brought them to glory in the highest Heavens 6. Purity Both of body and minde For hee that is no pure Saint in his body believe it can bee no true Saint in his soule One that is a right Saint must be holy both in body and spirit 1 Cor. 7.34 Nor can there bee any perfecting of holinesse till a man have cleansed himselfe from all filthinesse of the flesh and Spirit 2 Cor. 7.1 Wherefore Yeeld your members servants to righteousnesse unto holinesse Rom. 6.19 And present your bodies a living sacrifice holy c. Rom. 12.1 For this is the will of God even your Sanctification that every one of you should know how to possesse his vessell in sanctification and honour 1 Thes 4.1 2. Take heed then as yee would bee accounted Saints not onely of actuall pollution through uncleannesse of commission but even of verball infection through corrupt communication But Fornication and all uncleannesse and covetousnesse let it not once be named amongst you as becommeth Saints Eph. 5.3 7. Patience In Daniel and the Revelations Dan. 7.21 25. 8.24 Rev. 13.7 10. 14.12 16.6 17.6 much is expressed concerning the patience of the Saints And much more might be thence affirmed both as touching their patience of perpession and of expectation of sufferance and of perseverance And besides the kinds the causes also Gods justice and mans injustice as likewise faith and obedience the expresse conditions thereof But I forbeare because I know not whether even your patience will beare it and whether my words if they bee many may not tire it in the very hearing or if these words should be weighty might not as to the hearing and bearing weary it with imposing yet further upon it 8. Humility Which is an humble or lowly apprehension of our own graces and Saintship Both because of all defects in comparison of God Who put no trust or found no stedfastnesse in his Saints Job 15.15