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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13755	A treatise of faith, and of some principal fruits thereof Deliuered in two sermons, vpon the third chapter of the epistle of Paul to the Ephesians, verse the 12. With some additions and enlargements, tending to the satistaction of such as are in doubt, whether they haue faith or no, and to the comforting of such as are troubled about the weakenesse of their faith. By G. Throgmorton, minister of the word of God.	Throgmorton, George.	1624 (1624)	STC 24052; ESTC S101278	55,089	232

in this estate no benefite of this Mediatour Vse Hereby we see what it is to be a Puritan To professe or thinke himselfe to be so holy of himselfe as daring to goe to God in his owne name that he needs not a Mediatour to lead him that feeles no such filth and corruption in himselfe for which God should abhorre him or if there be sinne and corruption yet it s so little light and veniall that we neede not make so great friends and suite a Saint or Angel may be sufficient for mediation Such a Puritane was the proud Pharisee and euery carnall presumptuous Atheist who without faith and repentance dare goe to God in the Church to the Word and Sacraments and such as goe in confidence of their ceremoniall righteousnesse These lay the imputation of Puritanisme on others which themselues chiefely practise Vse Sinne being an infinite euill and infinitely hated of God its infinite pride and presumption for any creature to dare to present such a sinner to God For its worse then any sinne committed against God to be an Aduocate for sinners to dare to speake for them and to countenance them before God as Romanes 1. verse last vnlesse that hee that shall dare to doe this be as great as God and as a surety will vndertake to satisfie and answer God for them and therfore to make any Saint a Mediatour to God for sinners is to make him God So much of the Ground of this leading In the Meanes and Manner of leading we consider First the Person leading Secondly the Persons led Thirdly the hands by which the one leadeth and the other is led The Person leading as I haue shewed is only the second Person in Trinitie the Sonne of God made flesh like vnto vs as I haue already shewed The Persons led are the Saints and children of God reconciled by Christs flesh crucified and imperfectly sanctified as is also shewed The hands by which this leading is made are carefully and distinctly to bee considered And first the hand of Christ the Person leading The hand of the second Person in Trinitie Iesus Christ euen now as he is man is his spirit As it was the hand of the second Person before hee was made Flesh so it is now since he is made Flesh especially since his Resurrection The hand of God is the hand also of Flesh now risen from the dead and glorified Now God hath no hand but his Spirit the Father and the Sonne haue no hands but the Spirit the holy Ghost For nothing can proceed from the Father and the Sonne but the holy Ghost which is sometimes called the hands of God Thy hands haue made mee and fashioned me that is as else-where is expounded his Spirit Eccl. 11.5 Who knoweth the way of the Spirit and how the bones grow in the wombe of her that is with childe Iob 26.13 His Spirit garnished the heauens and renueth the Face of the Earth Psal 104. ●0 Thou sendest forth thy Spirit and they are created which in other places is called his hands His hands prepared the dry land Psal 101.26 And Christ calles it the finger of God If I by the finger of God cast out Diuels Luk. 11.20 then is the Kingdome of God come vnto you which is expounded by him to be his Spirit It s also called the breath of God which proceeds from him the heauens were made by the word of the Lord and all the Host of them by the breath of his mouth and His word and Spirit proceede and come forth from him together that is his commandement and infinite diuine Spirit and power as his Arme and therefore it s called the Word of his power Heb. 1.2 Who hath beleeued our report and to whom is the Arme of the Lord reuealed and the word is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 breathed forth by his Spirit It s called the shadow of God and the wings of God and whatsoeuer proceeds from the Father and the Son to Man or to any creature is only the holy Spirit Luk. 1.35 The holy Ghost shall come vpon thee and the power of the most High shall ouer shadow thee Psal 90.1 Psal 90.1 Such as dwell in the secret of the most High shall abide vnder the shadow of the Almightie Psal 63. Vnder the shadow of thy wings will I reioyce all which must be meant of his Spirit counselling comforting strengthning as Isa 30.1 Woe bee to them that seeke a couering and not by my Spirit Therefore Mary conceiuing by the holy Ghost without all power of nature a weake woman sings Luke 2. that God had shewed strength with his Arme. As the shadow comes from the body so the holy Ghost from God which is therefore sometimes called a shadow because it shewes it selfe but darkely obscurely and mystically and yet surely and powerfully and this especially in the Ministry of the Church both in Ministers and people In Ministers as Isa 50.16 I haue hid thee vnder the shadow of my hand that I may plant the heauens c. that is I will powerfully by my Spirit way thee and inable to this so great a worke as to make a new world by thee and protect thee from diuels and men No shadow can proceede from God but what is God himselfe his Spirit and Diuine power and vertue which when it s giuen obscurely and not so manifestly is called a shadow In people as Acts 3.19 that is when God in his infinite loue mercy and grace shining to you as his face shall send to you his Spirit the Comforter which shall assure you of the pardon of your sinnes and refresh you with ioy peace comfort in Christs righteousnesse applied to you blotting out your sins out of your consciences if ye continue to grieue repent and to be sorrowfull for them daily and by sorrow to kill and mortifie them Let all your care be only to repent and to lament your sinnes to mortifie them and to grieue for them all your dayes and God knowes the best season when to refresh you with comfort which is the Season of all Seasons 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is when to giue you the Spirit the Comforte● as an infinite gift of his Fatherly loue and mercy and when to shew you that his Fatherly Face and the refreshing from it by sending his holy Spirit to assure your grieued hearts of his fauour and true reconciled in Christ which is the most comfortable refreshing season that can come to a mans soule Now we must not appoint God this season when to refresh vs with the comforts of his Face and Loue by his Spirit but we must goe on in our worke and labour of repentance and daily turning to God flying all sins and vsing all meanes of obtaining all the good promised vs and God in his due time after all our toile labour and sorrowes will send his Spirit to refresh vs. But this by the way to shew what Gods Hand is

Now this Hand of God is also the Hand of Christ the second Person as made Flesh It s the Hand of Flesh especially as risen from the dead and glorified the holy Ghost is his Breath Shadow Wings Arme Hands and whatsoeuer proceedeth from him towards his Church both Ministers and people is nothing but that eternall Spirit the third Person who proceedeth from the Father and the Sonne Iohn 14.26 By which as High Priest Heb. 9. hee offered himselfe without spot to God as with his owne Hands So now much more the same Spirit proceedth from him in more abundance from his Flesh glorified For before Ioh. 7.39 the Spirit was not giuen in that abundance because that Iesus was not yet glorified But now this Flesh of Christ being glorified this eternall Spirit is all the Breath Armes Hands Strength Shadow Light and Glory of Christ He now breathes nothing but the holy Ghost and Spirit He breathed vpon his Disciples Ioh. 20.21 and said Receiue ye the holy Ghost He hath it now at command as his Breath and as naturall to him and can as easily and plentifully giue it He holds the 7. Starres his Apostles and Ministers in his right hand not of Flesh but of the holy Ghost and being risen he gaue commandements to his Apostles not by a humane breath and voice as before but more specially by the holy Ghost Acts 1.2 See Iohn 5. The time shall come and now is but shall be much more that the dead shall heare the voyce of the Sonne of God that is shall shall haue his quickning spirit 1. Cor. 15. The first Adam was made a liuing soule and all that he could communicate to his posteritie and children if he had continued in innocency had bin only a liuing soule qualified with Gods holy Image but the second Adam is made a quickning spirit which hee communicates to his members and posteritie and which proceedes from him This Spirit is Christs light by which he shines to vs Eph. 5. Awake thou that sleepest and stand vp from the dead and Christ shall shine vnto thee 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Whatsoeuer proceeds from Christs Flesh now in heauen is nothing but Spirit He is ascended farre aboue all things Eph. 4.7 8. to fill all things with his Spirit Whereas therefore he is said to feed vs from heauen with his Bodie as Manna and to wash vs from our sinnes in his blood to guide vs with his light all this is nothing but his Spirit which being purchased by his death comes as it were through his body and blood giuen to vs as our own flesh and blood This Spirit is obtained and giuen by his death and sufferings and comes to vs by his humane flesh and nature into our flesh and nature Ioh. 6.63 Therefore his Flesh is called meate indeed and his blood drinke indeede For the flesh of it selfe profiteth nothing but because for the merit of his sufferings in his flesh and by it as by a cundit the third Person the holy Ghost proceeding naturally from the Father and the Sonne is hereby procured to flow issue and come forth to vs and into our hearts by grace Galat. 4.4 Because yee are sonnes reconciled to God by the death of his Sonne God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Sonne into your hearts which cryeth Abba Father The Spirit doth and would euer naturally issue and proceed from God into vs as Iam. 1.17 did not our sinnes stop the currant and keepe him out of our hearts by our indisposition and vnworthinesse and vncapablenesse of receiuing him as Ioh. 14. Which the world cannot receiue because it seeth him not neither knoweth him but our sins remooued and abolished by the death sacrifice of Christ and by his flesh and body broken through it as by a conduite the spirit againe hath its issue and vent to flow into our sinfull flesh and hearts and God becomes againe that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That liuing God Iam. 1.3 that giues to all men simply without exception whatsoeuer his sinnes he and reproacheth no man that by faith comes to him but poures of his Spirit vpon all flesh Act. 2.17 This Spirit as its God the Fathers hand so it s Christs our Sauiours hand the hand of flesh which Christ reacheth from heauen to vs as to his brethren and takes vs by the hand Now that Christ is glorified in our flesh and nature that Spirit which from eternitie proceeded from the Father and the Sonne and was as their breath and hand by which they made the worlds and breathed into mans face the breath of life and made him a liuing soule the same spirit and third person doth now proceed from the Father of Christ as man and from Christ the second Person Incarnate and is now both the breath of Christ and the arme of Christ which breath of eternall spirit Christ now breathes into man dead in sinne to make him a new creature created in Christ Iesus vnto good works creating anew all the powers and faculties of soule and body as it were new hands and feete quickned with a new life for new motions towards God and seruices and workes it s the hand and arme of Christ which he now reueales and makes bare from heauen and thrusts into our hearts quickning and creating in vs new hands that is new faculties of our soules to lay hold on and fasten on spirituall good purchased by his death and offered vs by his Gospel Christ by his Priestly Office hath performed all things needfull for our saluation and prepared all sauing matter And by his Propheticall Office in the Ministery of his Word offers vs himselfe the second Person incarnate to be our Sauiour and all his sauing benefits and spirit if we will reach forth our hands that is the faculties of our soules to receiue and apprehend him but our hands lye dead in sinnes that is our minds and hearts from vnderstanding choosing willing and affecting any such Person and his Spirit and benefits offered Therefore Christ as King risen from the dead and as Lord of life reacheth forth his arme hand from heauen and creates in vs new hand● that is new mindes and hearts Hee breathes into vs the breath of life that is his quickning spirit that quickens our dead hands to apprehend spirituall things For the naturall man by his naturall soule and spirit 1. Cor. 2. as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Therefore the Spirit creates in vs. First a right hand of Faith to know and apprehend the Person of the Son of God and to choose and take him for our Sauiour as he is reuealed and offered in the Word reiecting all other Persons Angels or Saints or any creature or our selues and our workes betaking our selues to Christ alone and to this second Person in Trinitie made flesh fastning vpon him and receiuing him as offered and commended to vs in the Gospel euen as crucified and made our King