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A68217	The history of the woman of great faith Recorded by Saint Matthew, ch. 15. v. 22. &c. and by Saint Mark, ch. 7. 24. where three very strong encounters are beaten back by her vnmatchable faith. Treatised and expounded for some help to the weake in faith. By Robert Horn, a Minister of Iesus Christ.	Horne, Robert, 1565-1640.	1632 (1632)	STC 13822; ESTC S116726	104,742	350

that the plague brake in Psal 106.29 So in the dayes of Ames they put words of their owne pleasures into the mouths of his Prophets and gane them their text therefore the Lord saith that hee was pressed vnder them as a cart full of sheaues Am. 2.12.13 and cold hee bee more wearied therefore it is a vexation to him when a people is more zelous of traditions or of mens inuentions then of him The reasons Reasons what Master will not to a vexation bee weary of that seruant that will not doe what hee shall command but what himselfe listeth wee are Gods seruants not to follow our owne head but to follow him When therefore wee walke in our owne deuices not in the steps of his word must it not needs vexe him and so cause him to leaue vs when we leaue him first Secondly such spillings are but strange fire as all els are which in worshipping hee commandeth not and such fire the Lord will deuoure with fire from heauen as he did Nahab and Abihn the Sonnes of Aaron Leuit. 10.1.2 And would he so do if such acts of presumption did not greatly prouoke him Saul sought the Lord in his owne way and found his owne destruction He would not obey as he was commanded but as hee listed therefore the Lord had no pleasure in him nor in any of his offerings 1 Sam. 15 22. Thirdly God is pleased when we do his will and obey his word And obedience in this sense is as the salt of the offering that keepes it in good taste without which it stincks before God 1 Sam. 15.22 as before Ier. 7.22.23 and is God pleased when his word is obeyed then it must needs vexe him when it is not Such seruants and they that so serue doe but mocke God with a shew without substance and hee will not be mocked Galat. 6.7 The vse is first for instruction teacheth that to complement with religion Vse 1. is to driue away Christ and religion Hee is no good Christian whose Christianitie stands all in outwardnes Rom. 2.28 neither he who flides into a visible garbe of Christianitie onely by custome and the imitation of times The lewes did so and had glorious words for a cloake of their falshood Ier. 7.4 They had as most of our ignorants now haue a spiced conscience in vaine things but no conscience of worshipping in Spirit and truth Such worshippers were the Samaritans they stood vpon the formalitie of Iacobs Well when there was no water in it such as Iacob drank of when hee drank of the Spirit Ioh. 4.12 So nature and custome taught them their religion and haue the most of our people any other teachers at this day If they pray it is in words without any heart euen when their lippes march as Iehn 2 King 9.20 they care not if hee that is the Salt of the Parish the Minister keepe his whitenes whether hee haue any sauour in him or no. Math. 5 13. and so they loue rather to see then heare a Preacher This is not to doe after the doctrine here but contrarily and will Christ tarie where hee hath but an outside and not the inwards of a true welcom in the Gospel One saith well he that is maried to a fleshly religion or religion of no Spirit cannot haue Christ for his Husband All ceremonious worshippers are of this stamp moulded into no religion but what is carnall and standeth in worldly matters therefore the marriage bond is broken betweene Christ and them Against this doctrine offend the Papists who hold of Peter by succession if so but not by doctrine not hauing the faith of Peter they catch at his chaire and keepe the bones of the Saints though no marrow bee in them Yea they make crosses 〈◊〉 while yet they make the Crosse of Christ of no effect and will Christ tarie there where he is so dallied with An admonition therefore Vse 2. if we would keepe Christ to keepe in with him by bearing vpon substance in religion and not vpon formes only God is a Spirit and a liuing substance Ioh. 4.24 will be worshipped substantially Now to worship substantially is to serue God by his word where his seruice must be learned of himselfe who left making after hee had made his last testamēt hence the second commandement sends vs to God the only Maker in the frame of religion Exod. 20.4 In making of the tabernacle euery thing was precisely commanded the silke the colour the smallest Goats-haire the least pinne was striken in with Gods owne hammer Exod. 26.4.7.15.16 And then shall wee thinke to please God when wee vse not his hammer but our owne for the pinnes we hang our faith vpon all good meanings the spring of our owne braine what are they but our vnreasonable seruice of God and what is that but the sinne of witch-craft 1 Sam. 15.15.23 what vpon this but a prouoking of Christ to a departure The Lord seekes such to serue him who scrue in spirit and truth Ioh. 4.23 And doth hee seeke such worshippers questionlesse he is delighted with such a worship and further hee seeketh this seruice that hath no need of our seruice and it is to our owne profit not his and then shall hee not haue it that wee may haue him euer Quest. but what is it to worship in Spirit truth Answ To worship in Spirit is to worship spiritually not carnally and in ceremonie and to worship in truth is to worship otherwayes then the lewes who worshipped in shadowes of things to come Heb. 9.9.10 Where it appeareth that the seruice of God in the Gospel must bee in manner wholly inward spirituall whence I inferre that they who vse Gods worship or any part of it as matter of ceremonie and forme only do with Saul go to graues to enquire at the dead 1 Sam. 28 7.8 but then the Lord was departed from him ver 16. that the Deuil said truely and then he will leaue vs which would be considered of those Christians who so 〈◊〉 heere a forme of Gods seruice never care whether it edifie the conscience or no never seeke for Gods seale vpon it that it may imprint blessings never hold Christ with the right hand that he may not go away as here from the Pharises whose deuotion was all set in a ceremonie of religion But whither did Christ goe going from the Iewes departing from them hee went as farre as well he might he went to the hithermost coaste of the Gentils whereof hee was the appointed light Luc. 2.32 And so as the Sunne of the heauens he sends forth some beames of his approach before him as the messengers of his comming not long before he came The Sunne went low in Iudea but was not down and Christ was going away but not gone therefore Christ departed but into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon and not farre into the countrie Here he desired to repose himselfe and was receiued where his owne

no comparison with Izhak that was in the couenant Gen. 17.20 21. the inheritance of life with the best conueyance went that way Esau was Iacobs twinne-brother yet because in no couenant with God hated as a dog Iacob in couenant with him was beloued of him Mal. 1.2 3. Saint Peter in the Acts speaking to the children of promise saith that God vnto them had raised vp his Son Iesus Act. 3.25 26. but with the good effect of turning them from their iniquities wherin if they had abidden still they had beene no better than dogs and the vncleane swine of the Gentiles the iustified Gentiles were differenced from the other by faith which was their grace of being in Christ and of being the children of Abraham after the Spirit Gal. 3.8 but the wilde among them who still wandred in the by-waies of nature had no such priueledge And thus wee are all by nature as Christ called this woman with reuerence to nature dogs or worse Reasons the reasons all that since the fall of the first Man were not in a change of nature giuen to Christ are in such nature vnchanged giuen to Satan in a reprobate minde Iohn 17.12 3.36 but also so giuen are vnder a woe euen a w● vnto damnation Matth 26. ●4 worse than neuer borne and so worse than dogs which hauing a being haue an end of being miserable when they die but not so these Secondly by nature we are children of wrath Eph. 2.3 vnder Gods displeasure so long as such and sinners 5.8 comming ou● of and lying downe in an vncleane bed Psal 51.6 and enemies to God Rom. 5.10 till reconciled by the gift of a better nature in Christ and now put these together children of wrath sinners altogether and enemies to God and Christ and what difference betweene men and doggs in point of true happinesse saue that men are worse Dogs as they are no children so they are not children of wrath nor sinners by nature nor in their kinde who do but their kinde enemies to God Man is all men by nature are for the nature of all is alike in all and no barrell better than another was not Esau Iacobs brother Mal. 1.2 that that puts difference betweene an Israel in the flesh and an Israel in Christ is Gods election and his loue before time entred Rom. 11.7 Vse 1. The vse is for admonition to vs that are now Christians better much than dogs and Princes that are not aduising vs to take heed of a reuolt and hauing cast to beware how with dogs wee returne againe to our vomit 2 Pet 2.22 If we will come to Gods table and feed with the children wee must lay away our snarling nature and not come with vnpurged consciences thither wee are called to holinesse 1 Thes 4.7 without it we may feed among dogs In hearing of the word or after hearing wee must not play the dogges snarling at those that breake the bread of life vnto vs it is a propertie of curres to snap at those that bring them their meat at prayer wee must not enter without reuerence nor lie all along as dogs doe we are set at table with the children we must therfore forget and not doe after the kinde wee came of that is snatch one at another by brotherly dissentions wee cannot but forget malice if wee remember our high calling in Christ Some will not come to the table where the children are such as they count enemies lest they should meet them there nor to Church lest they should treade vpon the ground they go on and what may wee thinke of such but that neither will they come to heauen lest they should meet them there nor goe the way of saluation lest they should goe their way these are yet in their old nature not changed from dogs to children But are the best by nature no better than the miserable heathen were Vse 2. or than were the Cananites it may serue for instruction teaching that there is no difference and that all haue sinned Pom. 3.22 23. if one nature speed better than another grace or the gift of God by grace hath made it happier Matth. 11.26 God when he saued fallen man stamped in lether who might haue set his stampe vpon the nature of Angels and so haue stamped in gold but Christ refused their nature and tooke ours Heb. 2.16 hence came our happinesse and hence onely which was denied to the Angells that fell Now therefore what hast thou that thou hast not receiued 1 Cor. 4.7 or why should any by any claime from nature whether Papist or Pelagian lift vp himselfe As Merchants place their counters for thousands hundreds tennes and for nothing so this Merchant of pearles hath placed vs in a higher cast of his rich grace than many thousands vnto whom hee hath had no such respect shall wee therefore boast our selues in comparison of them as if one counter were better than another saue in account If God should crie downe his stampe in vs that giues vs all the valew we haue what would become of our base metle rather of our nothing and should not this take away all comparatiue and vnseemely reioycing in flesh The third vse is for meditation Vse 3 and teacheth vs often to thinke of the vnworthinesse of this our now corrupt nature Of some we vse to say that they are of a very good nature but the truth is nature is alike in all though better set in some than in some by the God of nature hence some are of a calmer spirit and some more boisterous which difference proceedeth not from the nature of the clay alike in all but from the Potters workemanship One saith that a Lyon chained doth not that hurt which one loose doth for this what may wee 〈◊〉 the Lyons nature or his chaine so when some are of better temper than some the thankes is not due to them but to Gods chaine vpon them by restraining grace In the glasse of Cain Saul Iudas wee may see our naturall faces and our naturall mold also that the seed of an ill corne is sowen in vs by naturall propagation Here therefore is matter of deiection for the best and let them thinke of it as they should all are hampered with a miserable necessitie of sinning Rom. 7.19 and as a fire brand neuer so little stirred casts out sparkes euery way so corrupt nature in vs vpon euery motion breakes forth into wickednesse no day goes ouer vs but some concupiscences of sinne goe through the heart and should not this humble vs truely if any thing shall this will which therefore should teach vs to watch the fire that it get not into the drie straw of our nature and burne to destruction daylic wee should purge by repentance who haue a nature from which such foule streames of lust rise vp and fill the house The bread of the children in this place is that holy thing that may not be giuen to dogs Mat.