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B13700	The foundation of the faythfull In a sermon deliuered at Paules Crosse the 17. of Ianuarie. 1610. By Samuel Gardiner, Doctor of Diuinitie.	Gardiner, Samuel, b. 1563 or 4.	1611 (1611)	STC 11577; ESTC S116548	34,682	78

of the world being considered in his workes to the intent that they should be without excuse Because that when they knew God they glorified him not as God neyther were thankfull Now God can not otherwise be glorified but by our cōformitie to the Law by our departure frō iniquitie by our duties of pietie and integritie No other end hee proposeth to himselfe in his afflicted punishments that so they might consider his anger towards sinne to be shie thereof and shunne it He hath determined the Diuels and the Reprobates to damnation to no other ende then to warne the Elect not to sinne and if they sin to saue themselues by repentance and by perfourmance of future obedience The patience of God is to the same purpose His sufferance Rom. 2.4 is only a summons to our conuersion to which end saith the Apostle Despicest thou the riches of his bountifulnes and patience and long sufferance not knowing that the bountifulnesse of God leadeth thee to repentance The common and ordinarie benefites of God redound vnto the wicked The Cloudes droppe downe Fatnesse vppon their Cloddes they haue the gracious dew of his blessing though none of his inheritance That his practise might be president and Patterne to vs of pietie and perfection as he intimateth in the conclusion thereof in this sentence of monition Bee yee also perfect as your heauenly Father is perfect 2 All the Workes of our Redemption are of reference vnto this Our departure from Iniquitie For all the Promises of the Gospell in Christ are to dispell Despaire that we should not as absorpt of Desperation plunge our selues through our sinnes into the pitte of Perdition but contrariwise vnder hope of Grace should repent vs of our Trespasses and depart from our Iniquities Christ the Argument of the Gospell conformed himselfe to the rites of the Law could defie euery aduersarie that could accuse him of Sinne was obedient to his Father to the death that his example should be our imitation according to this his direction in such causes I haue giuen you an exsample that as I haue done so should yee doe Hee that saith hee is in him must walke as hee hath walked Hee cured the Sicke raised the Dead filled the Hungrie with good thinges as for other ends so namely and mainely for this one ende that while they recounted how Sinne brought these euils into the World they should shake off these euils and forsake their sinnes the Caution giuen by Christ to the Palsey-man Now thou art whole sinne no more least a greater euill come vnto thee Hee remitted sinnes that wee should committe no more sinnes wherefore hee sayeth to the adultresse in the Ghospell Jf no man condemne thee J doe not condemne thee Goe in peace The same matter of meditatiō ariseth vnto vs out of the circumstances of his passion Hee did beare the Crosse and suffered the shame for vs to deliuer vs determined to eternall death and to leaue vs an example that it seeme not grieuous vnto vs to suffer all manner of euill vniustly for his sake This vse Saint Peter giueth vs of Christe Passion for vs 1. Pet 4.1 Forasmuch as Christ hat suffered for vs in the flesh arme your selues likewise with the same minde which is that hee the hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sinne that he hence forward should liue not after the lustes of men but after the will of God That is in a word as it is else where deliuered That wee should crucifie the flesh with the lustes thereof He prayed for his Enimies to teach vs to forbeare vengeaunce to beare wronges with patience Hee dieth not onely to saue our Soules from death but also to the end that wee should die to our sinnes The application that Paul maketh of that Article of the Fayth He is buried Rom. 6. that wee also should burie our sinnes and roule a great Stone ouer the Graue of them that they neuer rise againe The inference Rom. 6.4 the same Apostle maketh in the same place Wee are buried then with him by baptisme into his death that like as Christ was raysed vp from the dead to the glory of the Father so wee also should walke in newnesse of life Hee dispatcheth his Apostles into the wide perambulation of the world with this legatiue Commisson to preach the Gospell and Remission of sinnes and to this speciall end that wee should make an end of sin as in the clause of that commission is not obscurely intimated where these wordes are added Teaching them to obserue such thinges as J haue commaunded you Hee ascended vp to Heauen not onely to appeare for vs in the presence of God but also to raise vp our Soules from the nethermost Pitte to the vppermost Heauens that wee might learne in liew of this benefite to lead an heauenly life It is the warning that Paul giueth vs out of the sayd Learning Coloss 3.1.2 If yee be then risen with Christ seeke those thinges that are aboue and not those thinges that are on the earth This was Paules course of conuersation Our conuersation is in Heauen Finally foretelling the finall Iudgement hee inserteth this speciall end hereof to giue to euery one according to his workes Wherefore it standeth vs in hand as much as our Soules Bodies are worth to looke to our wayes and to follow our iniquities no more 3 Lastly the workes of our communicate Redemption implye the same condition The Apostle shutteth them all vp in foure wordes 1. Rom. 8. Predestination 2. Vocation 3. Justification 4. Glorification 1. The intention of our Election heedeth this condition as where Paul teacheth it saying Ephes 1.4 Hee hath chosen vs in him before the foundation of the world that we should be holy and without blame before him in loue Of our Vocation wee may say the like For God hath not created vs to vncleannesse but vnto holinesse Wee haue Fayth giuen vs to obey his Call First that thereby we might pertake of the righteousnesse of Christ imputed to vs. 2. Next that wee might obserue the Law and that the righteousnesse of the Law might be fulfilled in vs. Rom. 6.19 Hence commeth in this Interrogation of the Apostle Doe wee make the Law of none effect through Fayth God forbid yea wee establish the Law Hee Iustifieth vs in pardoning our sinnes that we should be no more factiue instrumentes to sinne 1. Cor. 6. but that we should Giue vp our members as seruantes vnto righteousnesse in holinesse he instilleth his holy Spirit into vs that being made the Members of Christ and the Temples of the holy Ghost wee should take heed how hereafter we pollute and defile our bodyes with iniquities It is the quicke expostulation and question of the blessed Apostle 1. Cor. 15. Know yee not that your bodyes are the Temples of the holy Ghost Hee that shall pollute the Temple of God him shall God destroy All the Religion that we haue in the Church as Preaching Sacraments Prayers Discipline driue at this end to die to sinne to liue to God To conclude our Glorification includeth concludeth the same consideration Then shall God be all in all because then there shall be no more sinne to striue against God Wherefore bend wee and band wee all our Sinnewes and Sides against the sides of Sinne that wee may liue in his feare and die in his fauour and enioy that Place which the Father of old hath prepared Christ of late hath purchased and to which wee are sealed by the Spirit of sanctification To these three Persons and one God be praise and glorie now and euer Amen FINIS

his treble apostasie which hereby appeareth in that amidest all those stormes of temptations they held fast the Fayth the Ancre of the Soule and called vpon the Lord. Heere I would haue done with this Foundation and haue buckled my selfe to the rest of the Building but that there are obiections of Scriptures against vs that are needfull to bee answeared 1. As this from Ezechiel Ezech. 18.14 Jf the righteous turne away from his righteousnesse and commiteth iniquitie Jn the sinnes that he hath sinned in them he shall die This supposall If is true but where is it simply sayd without an If that the Righteous shall make this reuolt from his righteousnesse If is often in Scripture language as to say Not at all As where it is sayd If a man shall keepe the Law hee shall liue in his owne righteousnesse where this If is as much as that which is impossible Suppositions doe not set downe any thing if they doe an other thing is aymed at then is there supposed God is at such deadly fewde with sinne as who so shall cherrish it in his breast shall feele his vengeance follow him at the backe wherefore it behooueth vs to continue in well doing that beginning in the Spirit wee end not in the Flesh If we doe as we haue sowen we shall reape Wee haue sowen Sinne wee shall reape Iustice 2. Rom. 11.20 An other is from that counsaile of Saint Paul Thou standest by faith be not high minded but feare Wee answere there arrogancie supine securitie is inhibited and an holy feare and reuerence enioyned vs. Those that are of the Foundation can not be of this high minde and presumption as to shake off all feare and to become altogether carelesse for so might the very Elect be reiected to whom this Cautat is directed 3. An other is from this warning of the same Apostle 1. Thes 5.19 Quench not the Spirit I answere that we find not the affirmatiue part that the Spirit is quenched I yeelde that 1. Gods graces may minish in a man To which purpose Ephes 4.30 these dictates and directions are deliuered vs Quench not the Spirit Grieue not the Spirit of God by which ye are sealed to the day of redemption 2. That the graces of God may be buried in a man yea for a time seeme dead like a man in a traunce as Eutychus was when hee fell from the third loft Yet we may say of him Act. 20.9 as Paul did of Eutychus Trouble not your selues for his life is in him Whom we likewise hearten with this text out of Jsaiah Isai 65.8 The wine is found in the cluster and one saieth destroy it not for a blessing is in it As also with this comparison of the same Prophet Isai 6.13 There is substance in the Elme or in the Oake when they cast their leaues In which plight stood Dauid in his adultrie Peter in his apostasie Salomon in his Idolatrie 3 That a man after repentance may haue often relapse yet shall rise againe as Abraham when hee twice lyed as Ioseph when he twice prophanely sweared as Dauid that fell often into adulteries beside other iniquities If Man that hath not a Mite of mercie respected with God must seauentie times seauen forgiue his brother euery day that trespasseth against him how may we faddome comprehend Gods mercies in what boundes may we containe them 4 That a man may sinne presumptuously which is heynous and horrible against which Dauid thus poureth foorth his spirit like water before the Lord Psal 19.13 Keepe thy seruant from presumptuous sinnes least they get the dominion ouer mee so shall I be vndefiled and innocent from the great offence 5 Finally Psal 77.7 that a man may despaire of Gods mercie as Dauid did where he playneth it thus Js his Mercie cleane gone for euer and is his Promise come vtterly to an end for euermore And J sayd this is my death Iob. 6.2.3.6 As Job did where he thus bewrayeth it Oh that my griefe were well weighed and my miseries were layde togeather in the ballance For it would be now heauier then the Sand of the Sea therefore my wordes are swallowed vp For the Arrowes of the Almightie are in mee the venome there of did drinke vp my spirit And he further complaineth that God is turned enimie and writeth bitter thinges against him and setteth him vp for a Butte to shoote at As the incestuous Corinthian almost did for he was drouping and stooping that way 2 Cor. 2.7 but that Paul watched him and charged the Corinthians concerning him Comfort him least he be swallowed vp with ouermuch heauinesse As Luther did for three yeares togeather after his conuersion by his owne confession And as some among vs haue done a longer time Yea Despaire may sucke and soake the body as much as any Sicknesse But the Spirit can not quite be extinct in the Elect their Despaire shall be neither Totall nor Finall not Totall because this Despaire shall not be from the whole heart For Fayth in that exigent shall couet against Despaire Not Finall because hee shall recouer himselfe before the end of his life In the meane while it shal be our partes to cherish the sparkes of the Spirit in our heartes and eschew such meanes as are the quenchment thereof But they reason but absurdly who out of the endeauour that must be ours of preseruing of the Spirit would conclude the danger wee are in of quite quenching it For the meaning of the Apostle in that place is onely this That wee be not too indulgent to the Flesh in the fight against the Spirit 3 An other obiection is from the sixt to the Hebrewes Heb. 6.4 5 6. Jt is impossible that they which were once lightned and haue tasted of the Heauenly guiftes c. If they fall away should be renued againe by repentance whereunto wee put in this our double answere 1. First that there it is not saide that such at any time fall away 2. Secondly that many Reprobates haue this illumination but without sanctification yet with some cheere and chaunge of affections such as was in Saule Iudas Simon Magus and in those of the Parable who receiued the seede of the worde with ioy but suffred it not to roote and that such fall for a full due it is both certaine and necessarie But this is nothing to the Elect who after all their fallinges haue againe their happie risings Their faith being seconded with a Corroborating and strengthning grace of perseuerance to the end And this is that grace that Paul wished the Ephesians Ephes 3.16 That they may be strengthned by his spirit in the inner-man Colos 1.11 And to the Colosians that they may be strengthned with all might through his glorious power The grace which he felt in himselfe where he sayeth J am able to doe all things Phil. 4.13 through the helpe of Christ that