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A61501	Trias sacra, a second ternary of sermons preached being the last (and best) monuments that are likely to be made publique of that most learned, pious and eminent Dr. Richard Stuart ...	Steward, Richard, 1593?-1651.	1659 (1659)	Wing S5528; ESTC R34608	46,631	180

Herod might indeed truly rejoyce at the Preaching of Iohn but I shall detect his joy and shew it to have been meerly carnal and so wholly set upon the respects of this life that it had no dependency at all on that to come And to begin the discovery aright we must first observe his Faith which I take or rather find to be Temporary the fame that Saint Mark describes chap. 4th at the 17th verse They have no root in themselves and endure but for a time my Authority is Beza ●…adebat hic semen in saxosa loca saith he The sowers seed sell here upon stony ground The servant must not be above his Master and therefore as Christ sometimes Preached to hard and obdurate hearers that received not the word so kindly into their hearts as that it could take due root in them so must Iohn be content to do Now this Temporary Faith although we may well enough stile it true Faith as Truth is opposed to Hypocrisie because it was not feigned yet doth it as much differ from the nature and excellency of that which justifieth as Ismael did from Isaak he was no counterfeit child of Abraham but yet begotten upon a bond-woman So these Faiths the Temporary and Iustifying Faith do both proceed from the same Spirit as from the same Father or Author of them But you know that Sun the Holy Spirit I mean imparts his influences diversly unto men and after different measures viz. according as he stands affected to the subject which he works upon No man can say that Iesus is the Lord but by the holy Ghost saith Saint Paul 1 Cor. 12. and yet the devils themselves constrained no doubt thereto by the evident power of Gods Spirit non dicunt tantum sed vociferantur as one saith they do not onely speak it but proclaim it I know who thou art saith the unclean spirit in Saint Mark chap. the 3. even the holy one of God Here are different works of the Spirit you see even upon reprobate and damned creatures But Spiritus Paracletus erit vobiscum saith Christ of the elect Iohn the 14th They shall receive the Spirit not of Illumination only but of Comfort The Scripture 't is confessed stiles them both by the name of Faith but the one is a bare assent only unto the Doctrine preached the other is a confident application of it wee saith that elect Apostle have confidence by Faith in him Ephes. 3. at the 12th verse Lastly they both produce a gladnesse this pure and Spiritual out of a sense of the forgivenesse of Sins being justified by Faith we have peace with God Rom. 5. at the 1. that other impure carnal and only stirr'd up by the force of some Worldly motives So were the Philosophers at Athens most gladly desirous to hear the Doctor of the Gentiles not because their Souls were joy'd with the soundnesse of his Doctrine but because their ears listened after Novelties 'T was a story to them that seem'd to deserve attention to hear of a Deity Incarnate of a God crucifyed and that to the Immortality of the Soul which they had learn'd from nature the Gospel now added the Resurrection of the Body The strangenesse of such Doctrine as this must needs delight and give satisfaction no lesse to a Curious than to a Godly Auditour How could the Doctrine of Christian liberty but be welcome to many irreligious and loose people in Hierusalem how could that news want ready entertainment that promised such absolute and present freedom both to themselves from the bondage of those annual ceremonies and to their children also from the pain and peril of Circumcision Iustification by Faith must needs joy them that are loath to be at the charge of good Works and free remission of Sins is so plausible a Theme that I fear it makes many think they are scarse put to the trouble of Beleeving How many joyful hearers do these times afford who yet never in their life desired much lesse laboured to attain a sense of the forgivenesse of Sins Their joy imployes it self about other matters The Preacher 's eloquent perhaps and then his pleasing periods command their attention Perhaps he 's bitter and then they are tickled with the display of their Neighbours vices and begin to take it for a kind of Innocency that other men are as bad as themselves Nay are they not those that presse with eagernesse into these Assemblies only that they may find wherewith to busie their detracting humours Here he wanted Art there diligence these lines were too carelesse that strain too affected Quibus plus Displices si ominem sine aspiratione dixeris saith St. Austin quam si hominem oderis men that had rather you should break a Commandement than offend a Grammar rule and think it a greater fault to mispronounce a mans name than to murther his reputation But let such Auditours know animis non auribus loquimur as Seneca hath it we speak to your consciences not to your ears and desire not so much to please as to save your Souls I much wonder therefore at our English Arminius I mean Thompson in the 5. chapter of his Diatriba that makes the difference according to Scripture as he pretends between the wavering or Temporary and Iustifying Faith to be only temporis tantum aut gradus non rei et essentiae that is that they differ not essentially and in nature one from another but gradually and in respect of time durance and perseverance only So that Temporary Faith with him so long as it continues is as true Faith as that which continues for ever And hence indeed it follows easily that a man though qualifyed only with that fading imperfection of a Temporary Faith yet for the time that such Faith continueth in him must needs be justified before God and when it fails that his Iustification also ceaseth and is broken off and so the Title of his Diatriba is made good de interscisione Gratiae c. But surely the Truth is farr otherwise Those things are distinguish'd essentially and in nature that differ as I have shewed these to do that is to say first in the cause The Temporary Faith proceeding only from some general and inferiour operation of the Holy Spirit commonly incident unto reprobates and wicked men who doubtlesse feel many times Impulses and as it were Knockings of the Spirit at the dore of their hearts which yet are never opened to any true Conversion whereas Iustifying Faith proceeds from that supreme and most special working of the Spirit which is proper to the Elect and alwayes effectual to Salvation Secondly they differ in the things themselves or in their Definition That viz. Temporary Faith being only a bare assent unto the Doctrine preached This a confident and lively application of it to ourselves and to our own Souls Thirdly in their effects This to wit Iustifying Faith being the Fountain and Source of true Spiritual joy and comfort