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spirit_n	faith_n	grace_n	work_n	10,605	5	5.6748	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68105	The way to well-doing. Or A sermon of faith and good vvorkes Preached in the chappell of Buntingford, in the county of Hartford, at the beginning of their publike lecture. By Iohn Gore, rector of Wenden-lofts in Essex.	Gore, John, Rector of Wendenlofts, Essex.; Gore, John, Rector of Wendenlofts, Essex, Summer sermon. aut; Gore, John, Rector of Wendenlofts, Essex. Winter sermon. aut	1638 (1638)	STC 12087; ESTC S116024	20,619	38

A SVMMER SERMON VPON ELIAHS PRAYER Preached in the Cathedrall Church of St. Pauls in LONDON on the last Sonday of Trinity Terme in the afternoone being a time of extraordinary heat and drought By John Gore Rector of Wenden-lofts in Essex Printed at London by Thomas Cotes for Themas Alchorn and are to be sold at his shop in Pauls Church-yard at the Signe of the Greene-Dragon 1638. TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFVLL Mr. VVILLIAM BIRD Doctor of the Civill Law my most Worthy Friend and Benefactor RIGHT WORSHIP WHen I consider the manifold favours and courtesies that I have found at your hands I am ready to say unto my selfe as Ruth said once to Boaz Ruth 2. 10. Quare inveni gratiam Why have I found grace in your eyes that you should take knowledge of me seeing I am a stranger For mine owne part I can impute it to nothing but unto Gods goodnesse and your owne worthinesse And my onely ambition is to make you this acknowledgement that the world may see though I am poore I am thankefull Now as Ioab wisht to David in another case 2 Sam. 24. 3. so wish I to you The Lord God adde unto your estate how much soever it be an hundred fold and that your eyes may see it and your heart may rejoyce in it all the dayes of your life Thus prayes Your poore unworthy Friend JOHN GORE A SVMMER SERMON IAMES 5. 17 18. Elias was a man subject to like passions as wee are and hee prayed earnestly that it might not raine and it rained not on the earth by the space of three yeares and sixe moneths And hee prayed againe and the heavens gave raine and the earth brought forth her fruit THe summe and drift of this Text is to set forth the efficacie or rather omnipotency of earnest and fervent Prayer There be two graces of God in man that may justly be termed Omnipotent or Almighty graces God himselfe being pleased to shew his Almighty power and goodnesse in them and they are Faith and Prayer 1. For the first Mat. 15. 28. O woman great is thy faith bee it unto thee even as thou wilt What a large unlimitted Grant and Patent was this for a poore sinner to aske what she would and have promise of acceptance Mark 9. 23. To him that beleeveth all things are possible Looke what a beleever cannot doe himselfe God himselfe will doe it for him and yet it shal be accounted as his act and deed Phil. 4. 13. I can doe all things through Christ that strengtheneth me Not meaning that hee could doe all things in generall and at large as to walke on the waters flye in the ayre c. but all things that belonged to his calling all things that concerned his Ministery and all things that pertained to the right way of pleasing God and of saving his owne soule He could pray well Preach well live well he could want and he could abound he could conforme and apply himselfe to all estates whatsoever All this hee could doe not by any power or ability of his owne but by the strengthning grace and faith and vertue of Iesus Christ I can doe all things through Christ that strengthneth me As on the contrary our Saviour saith of himselfe Mark 6. 5. that he could doe nothing worth speaking of in his owne Country 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 no mighty worke no worke of wonder in respect of what he could have done only because of their unbeleife and marke that it is not said He would do no such workes there but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 He could not doe them not that Christ was unable for want of power but hee saw it was unavaileable through their lacke of faith For the power of God and the faith of men are like the spirits and the sinewes in the body the one mooves and stirres and workes within the other if there be no faith in us there can be no expectation of any power or any helpe from God 2. The other omnipotent grace is Prayer and that you may be assured it is so marke but that expression Exod. 32. 10. Let me alone saith God to Moses that I may consume them and I will make of thee a great Nation What a word was this to come from the mouth of Almighty God to bid a poore weake creature let him alone it shewes that Moses by his prayer did even as it were over-power the Lord that the Lord had not the power to revenge himselfe on that provoking people as long as Moses interceded for them Such a powerfull man with God was Eliah here in my text His mouth as a Father saith was Fraenum Coeli the very bridle of Heaven he could even rule the heavens with his prayers as a man rules a horse with a bridle Now least you should thinke he did thus prevaile with God rather by the priviledge of his person than by the vertue of his prayers The Apostle tells us for that he was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he was a man subject to the same passions that we are and yet his prayer tooke such good effect Eliah was a man subject c. In my text there are two generall points to bee considered 1. The condition and quality of Eliahs person He was a man subject to like passions as wee are 2. The condition and quality of his prayer that like a two-edged sword it cut both wayes and prevailed in both kindes both to bring a judgement and to bring a blessing upon the people His first prayer like a burning feaver entred into the bowels of the earth and scorcht and dryed up the Rivers and Lakes and Springs and left no moisture in them and so brought a judgement of drought and dearth upon the land His second prayer went up into the clouds above and fetcht an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a heaven-dropping dew a happy and a heavenly raine that moystned and fatned and refreshed the earth againe He prayed againe and the heavens gave raine and the earth brought forth her fruit 1. The condition and quality of Eliahs person what manner of man Eliah was My Text saith hee was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A man subject to the same passions to the same frailties and infirmities that we are Hence you may observe that no profession of holinesse no practise of piety no degree of grace and sanctification in this life can exempt or free or priviledge a man from common passions and infirmities Eliah was a man of God a mortified and a sanctified man and one of the greatest favourites in the Court of heaven and yet a man subject to passions What shall I neede to multiply examples to proove this point when wee know the Apostle affirmeth even of our Saviour himselfe That hee was in all things like unto us sinne onely excepted set but sinne aside where of his blessed person was uncapable for as no rust can take hold of burning and flaming iron no more could any sin or corruption take