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spirit_n	father_n	heart_n	son_n	17,006	5	5.6134	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20803	The churches securitie, togither with the antidote or preseruative of euer waking faith A treatise conteyning many fruitefull instructions, moralities and consolations fit for the time and age wherein wee liue. Herevnto is annexed a sound and profitable treatise of the generall signes and fore-runners of the last iudgement. By Thomas Drax.	Draxe, Thomas, d. 1618.	1608 (1608)	STC 7183; ESTC S109885	58,282	79

foode it is time before we famish to receiue it and to recouer our appetite If with the Church of Ephesus we haue lost our first loue we must repent and consider from whence wee are fallen and doe the first workes if with the Church of Sardis wee haue a name that wee liue and yet are dead wee must awaken and strengthen the things that remaine that are readie to die If with the Church of Laodicaea wee by reason of ease and prosperitie grow luke-warme and are neither cold nor hote we must bee zealous and amend Lastly if our sinnes haue wounded vs and left vs halfe dead as the theeues and robbers did the man that fell into their hands betweene Iericho a●d Ierusalem wee must in the Inne of the Church entreate and procure the good Samaritane Christ Iesus to powre wine and oile into our wounds and to take charge of vs and heale vs so shall wee bee in staetu quo prius yea and our latter end wil be more glorious and comfortable then our beginning And thus much of this point viz. that sauing grace in the elect neuer faileth THE FOVRTH SECTION BVt mine c. Here the Church findeth and feeleth grace in her heart by faith layeth hold on Christ so that notwithstanding that her temptation had in part preuailed yet shee before the extremitie and bitternesse of it came professeth and assureth herselfe and others that her faith was vntainted and her heart sound with GOD. Her walls and outward buildings were somewhat crazed and battered but the strong Castle of her faith in Christ vntouched From this her confession wee learne to our comfort that the elect and Saints of GOD of whome alone his Catholike Church doth consist are except onelie in the greene blade and insancie of the Church or in the night and tempest of some great temptation perswaded and assured in their owne consciences by Gods spirit that they are in the state of grace and saluation and shall neuer fall away from it Now that we may be assured that wee haue faith in our hearts and so are in fauour with GOD wee haue most plaine and pregnant places of holy scriptures to prooue it God hath sent forth the spirit of his Sonne into your hearts whereby wee cry Abba father wee haue receiued the spirit of Adoption whereby wee cry abba father the same spirit beareth witnesse with our spirit that wee are the children of GOD. But this witnesse is not coniecturall but most certaine for the spirit can neuer bee deceiued therefore vndoubtedlie they knewe that they were Sonnes Thirdly by the spirit wee haue boldness and enterance with confidence by faith in him for the spirit expelleth all feare that is all doubtfulnesse and mistrust Prooue your selues whether that you are in the faith examine your selues know yee not your owne selues howe that IESVS CHRIST is in you except you be reprobates Now CHRIST was in them by grace and iustifying faith and not by his power and miracles only as Bellarmine would haue it for by this faith men liue in Christ yea liue for euer But you knowe the spirit for hee dwelleth with you and shall bee in you therefore if wee know the spirit to bee in vs wee must needs know our faith and iustification that proceedeth thence Yee haue an ointment from him that is holy and knowes all things Here the Apostle alludeth vnto the old figures of the law and the ointments where-with the Priests were annointed and specially the high Priest a figure of Christ who is stiled by the name of messias or anointed Now the anointing of Priests and Kings in the old testament was a representation of the gifts of the holy Ghost and this is the cause why the holy Ghost is here and else where named 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or ointment and the sense is that the true beleeuers hauing the holy Ghost know all things necessary to saluation and by his power preseuer in faith ergo they also know that they are in Gods grace and fauour And againe we know that wee are translated from death to life because wee lou●e the brethren Hereby we know that we dwell in him and hee in vs because he hath giuen vs of his spirit He that beleeueth in the sonne of God hath the witnes of God in himselfe Now this is not a doubting or coniecturall knowledge but an holy perswasion wrought in Pauls and so in all our hearts by the holy Ghost I know my redeemer liueth saith Iob and that I shall see God in my flesh and mine ies shall be hold him and none other for me Lastly to be breife I wil conclude with that of Paul I am perswaded that neither death nor life nor Angels nor principaliites nor powers nor things present or things to come nor beegth nor depth nor any other creature shal be able to separate vs from the loue of God which is in Christ I●sus our Lord. But least any man should obiect that this perswasion was proper onely to Saint Paule and that hee had it by some speciall reuelation for the answere hereof A●s Wee must note that the ground of his 〈◊〉 viz the loue of God in Christ I●sus is common to all the faithfull for it is shed in all their hearts And Paul in another place maketh the assurance of saluation common to him with all the faithfull saying there is laid vp for mee a Crowne of righteousnesse and not to mee onely but vnto all them also which loue his appearing albeit some haue it in greater measure then others And that this doctrine may bee the more easily conceiued of vs I will explaine and make it lightsome by some familier comparisons and similitudes Can a man carry fire in his hand and not feele it and can a man containe the holy flame of Gods grace in his heart and not discerne it Can a woman be wedded to an husband and not know it And can wee be conioyned to Christ yea and ingrafted into him and not perceiue it Can a man buy and possesse a precious pearle and a rich treasure and yet bee ignorant of it and can the Church by faith buy and apprehend Christ and not be aware of it Can a man doubt of the garments where with he is cloathed and can the Church cloathed with the sonne of righteousnesse neuer see nor obserue it Can the elect the friends of God know all things needfull for their saluation by reuelation from him and shall they erre and be ignorant in the knowledge and certaintie of their owne iustification and saluation Can the sense bee deceiued about his proper obiect And can all spirituall senses faile and beguile vs Can hee dwell in vs and we not see him Can hee dwell in vs and wee neuer feele him Can he speake peace to our soules and cause our hearts to burne within vs and we not