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A20939	Coales from the altar; or Foure religious treatises to kindle deuotion in this colde age. Written in French by Mounsieur du Moulin: and translated into English by N.M.	Du Moulin, Pierre, 1568-1658.; Metcalfe, Nicholas.	1622-1623 (1623)	STC 7318; ESTC S118640	76,812	278

c. And forasmuch O Lord as without faith we cannot be agreeable or acceptable vnto thee we beseech thee so to increase it in this thy seruant and in vs all that he may come to the last breath of life and we with him to perseuere therein and to be alwayes disposed to render a pure confession with heart and mouth as wee now present our selues vnto thee saying I beleeue in God c. This is his faith O Lord and ours giue vs grace to liue and dye herein through Iesus Christ our Lord who in vnity of the Holy Spirit liueth and raigneth with thee eternally Amen When there is apparencie that the sickenesse is mortall follow this forme Sir It behoueth you to bee of good courage in the middle of your affliction which it pleaseth God still to continue vpon your body and be assured that he hath neither sent or continued it but for the good and saluation of your soule to teach you by this meanes to vnderstand your selfe as being a poore sinner more and more to detest your sinnes contemne the world to lift you vp to God and to inuocate and call vpon him with much more feruour with assurance to be heard following his holy promises and to obtaine of him Christian Constancy which is most necessary for you in this tryall The assurance of the mercy of God in Iesus Christ the true ground of all Consolation That which ought most to comfort you and with courage and patience to strengthen you is the assurance which you ought alwayes to take that God for the loue of his welbeloued Sonne our Lord Iesus hath imbraced you into his loue and free fauour hath pardoned your offences hath adopted you and receiued you amongst the number of his children to make you inherite the Kingdome of Heauen by vertue of the purchase which Iesus Christ hath made for you by the merit of his death such an assurance will make you alwayes certaine that nothing can happen vnto you whether it be in life or death which can be any other then the fauour and blessing of your Heauenly Father and so consequently are aides and meanes ordayned by his wise prouidence to conduct you to the blessed life This assurance commeth from Faith It is true that this assurance wee cannot take of our selues it is our good God that giueth it when by the vertue of his holy Spirit and holy Word he createth in our hearts a true and a liuely faith with the which we receiue and wee appropriate the promises of his grace which he hath ordayned vs in the preaching of the gospel Which promises in effect are That God hath so loued the world that he hath giuen his onely Sonne that whosoeuer beleeueth in him should not perish but haue life euerlasting Ioh. 3.16 If God then hath giuen you the grace to beleeue in his only Son to embrace him for your Redeemer and Sauiour as we gather hitherto by the profession you haue made and still continueth in the Church you may take from thence a holy assurance that God according to the infallible truth of his Word hath receiued you into his loue that you shall not perish but haue euerlasting life Now being so what can you feare Rom. 8.30.31 If God be with vs who can be against vs Hee who hath not spared his owne Sonne but deliuered him vp for vs all how shall hee not with him also freely giue vs all things Hee hath giuen you the most that is his Sonne hee will not euerthelesse deny you any thing else that can be necessary for to keepe you from all sort of euill corporall and spirituall as well in life as in death Faith applyeth to all the faithfull the promises of the Gospell This application whereof I haue spoken which you must make to your selfe from the promises of the Gospel to gather such a holy assurance it is necessarily required by Faith For to beleeue in Iesus Christ it is not enough to beleeue in grosse that there is a Iesus Christ and who beleeueth in him hath eternall life neither is it enough to beleeue that the promises of the Gospell are altogether true the Diuell beleeueth so much yet notwithstanding hee hath no true beleeuing faith But to beleeue in Iesus Christ is when the faithfull beleeueth that there is saluation in Iesus Christ for him which the Diuell cannot beleeue And the true iustifying faith whereby the iust liueth chiefely consisteth in that that we apply and appropriate vnto our selues euery one in his own particular the promises of saluation that euery one in his owne behalfe may say that which St. Paul saith in the person of euery one of the faithfull Gal. 2.20 I liue in the faith of the Sonne of God who hath loued me and giuen himselfe for me and in the 2 Tim. 1.2 I know whom I haue beleeued and I am perswaded that he is able to keepe that which I haue committed vnto him against that day and Rom. 8.37.38 I am assured that neither death nor life nor Angels nor Principalities nor Powers nor things to come nor height nor depth nor any other creature can separate vs from the loue of God which he hath shewed vs in Iesus Christ our Lord. This faith doth not bring vs a simple opinion or coniecture of our saluation but a certaine knowledge following that which Saint Iohn saith 5.14 Wee know that we are translated from death to life And Iohn 10. We know that we are of God and I haue saith he 1 Ioh. 5.13 written these things to you which beleeue in the Name of the Sonne of God to the end that you should know that you haue eternall life This faith freely lets vs goe to the treasure of Gods grace Heb. 4.10 With assurance as hee saith in the 10.22 euen with a true heart and a full assurance of faith as Saint Paul saith Ephes 3.12 that by Iesus Christ we haue boldnesse and accesse in our beleefe by the faith which wee haue in him This faith is called Hebrewes 11.1 the substance of things hoped for that is to say that maketh things beleeued and hoped subsist in our soules neither more nor lesse then if we were already in the very Actuall possession and inioying This Faith maketh vs finde peace and rest in our soules and consciences chasing away the feares and terrours which sinne would set before vs with the apprehension of Gods iudgements following that which Saint Paul saith Rom. 5. Verse 1. That being iustified by faith we haue peace with God through Iesus Christ our Lord by the which also wee haue beene led by Faith to this grace wherein we hold our selues fast and glorifye our selues in the hope of the glory of God The gift of perseuerance assured to the Faithfull Moreouer these passages propound vnto vs this holy assurance of Faith not onely for the present but also to come and containeth a promise which God giueth vs to perseuere in this Faith euen to the

can value with any price Let our pietie shine cleerely for the instruction of our families and not shew our selues carelesse but carefull to make them know the riches of saluation with the means how it must be attained otherwise we are no better than the executioners of their soules worse than bruit beasts who but for a while care for their young ones or like those that sacrificed their children to Baal I say if we consent that they be nourished with the milke and venome of spirituall whoredome we doe as much as we can to make them one day participate of the malediction of the eternall euen as if we had vowed to be instruments to deliuer them vp into the hands of Satan which we do testifie if against our knowledge and conscience we nourish them not vp in the waies of the Lord. Let vs apply our whole studie to that after a sort doing as God hath committed to our charge for their holy conuersation to publish to euery one the truth of our profession as a thing that we make most esteeme of I pray you where is he that is borne of a noble familie who is not iealous to be acknowledged for one of that race What Lord will not set out his Titles and will not weare his Armes euen in the best places for to be most beheld although it be but of small continuance and little better than pure vanitie yet can it hold no comparison with this Title so high aboue all so full of glory the top of all Honour this Title I say of the childe and seruant of God coheire with Christ dignities O the most Noble and magnificent which make Monarks happie not for a while but eternally in regard whereof all other things be they neuer so pretious which are vnder Heauen are much lesse than nothing euen most vnhappy if this other be not adioyned vnto it and moreouer if the noble man of the family in his Armes will not suffer to take away or adde any thing lest the world should detract from his dignitie how much more should we be carefull to commit any thing that is not conuenient who are truly the children and seruants of God and in contempt of the world enforce our selues to walke in integritie and striue to be so esteemed which if we doe not how can we be esteemed to be in the grace and fauour of Heauen let vs not then be ashamed of the truth of Christs Gospell which is the vertue of God to saluation vnto all beleeuers for alas if it be so that we are become so bruit and bestiall that to possesse the world or for feare of it we will dissemble the knowledge that is in vs the Sonne of God himselfe saith vnto vs Luke 9.26 euen as we haue denied him before men he will also denie vs before his Father and there will be ashamed of vs and very iustly Let vs then hold the confession of our hope without varying for any thing according as S. Paul teacheth vs That that which is present and to come height depth pouertie nakednesse persecution affliction nor death nor life shall not separate vs from the loue of Christ alwaies prepared in euery place and before all to render a reason to euery one of the hope that is in vs and as truly faithfull let vs take our neighbours by the hand and say let vs goe vp to the Mountaine of Sion into the house of the God of Iacob and there will he teach vs his waies and let vs one stirre vp another to Charitie and good Workes without swaruing from the companie of the faithfull for S. Paul saith If we willingly sin after we haue receiued the knowledge of the truth there is no more sacrifice for sinne but a terrible looking for iudgement and a furie of fire which shall deuoure the aduersaries Representing vnto vs that if any haue misprised the Law of Moses he was without all mercie put to death from thence then conclude how much greater torment doe they deserue who haue the bloud of IESVS CHRIST in no reuerence or holinesse by which they haue beene sanctified doing this iniurie euen to the spirit of grace afterwards that this commeth to be knowne the custom is to depriue such odious people of great mens fauours which maketh all faire designes proue abortiue this is no true nor faire proceeding but rather an incouragement still to continue in their wicked waies Here must the place be of the wrastling behold the Combat but before we enter the lists let vs know our enemies they are the World and the Flesh shall we aske of our enemies conuenient things to destroy them No that would be worse than to cast flaxe into the fire to quench it For to defend our selues from the first assault let vs ranke our selues like Daniel Sidrack Misack and Abednego let vs march their pace and we shall serue our selues with the like Armes of Martyrs which they did hauing our reines girt with the girdle of Truth cloathed with the brest-plate of Righteousnesse and our feete with the preparation of the Gospell of peace in euery thing taking the buckler of Faith the helmet of Saluation and the sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God renouncing our selues to follow IESVS CHRIST as euery true Christian ought so shall we passe a greater conflict than this we haue at this present if we meete it and shall remaine conquerers as they haue done which haue not only knowne but also followed the will of the Eternall and not the sensualitie of the Flesh of the World a gift of God which he giueth to all that aske it of him with confidence knowing that the Almightie curseth the man that putteth his trust in Man and in the flesh of the arme for the greatest is but vanitie and lies and whosoeuer should weigh al the great ones of the earth against nothing yet should they all be found more light than nothing But they haue not waited for saluation from any other soueraigne but reposed wholly in him Doe we not see that there neuer was any Monarch in the world that displeased God but presently was reduced to nothing doe we want any proofes that God euer failed in his promises neither hath it beene euer knowne but the wrath of God followed him that trusted in his owne arme and power were it neuer so powerfull let vs at last renounce it for he that hath nothing but earthly force hath none at all Let vs therefore follow the counsell of Dauid and put our trust alwaies in God for he is good and will giue vs all that is conuenient mightie in power and truth and vnmoueable in all his promises for to bring euery thing to passe therfore let vs all say with him God is my force and my hope neither is there any other helpe but from him Psalme 28. Thou that fearest thy Honours and fearest that the goods of the earth will leaue thee which when they haue done so