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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01303	The vvoman of Canaan A comfortable sermon of faith in temptations and afflictions. Preached at Saint Buttolphes without Aldersgate in London, the 15. of February. 1573. By Maister William Fulke Doctor of Diuinity and Maister of Pembrooke Hall in Cambridge.; Comfortable sermon of faith, in temptations and afflictions	Fulke, William, 1538-1589.	1611 (1611)	STC 11425; ESTC S102776	25,978	93

humility But heere wee may well doubt how the faith of this woman should bee so highly commended when it seemeth to presume against the word of God whereas true faith is alway grounded vpon the word of God And secondly seeing all the promises of God are Yea and Amen in Christ and be stedfast and established in Christ only when shee heareth by Christs owne mouth that the promised redemption pertaineth not to her how can shee continue her confidence in him I answer that first her faith was grounded vpon the word of God which because she knew most certainly to be an vndoubted truth she will not be brought from that by any thing that may seeme contrary vnto it And whatsoeuer shee heareth of Christ although shee doe acknowledge it to bee true yet shee is perswaded that it is so true that it taketh not away the truth of Gods former promises And seeing Gods general promises did appertaine to her that did beleeue them she retaineth hope against al hope And as Abraham beleeued that God would raise vp Isaac from death to life to fulfill his promise and therefore doubted not to obay the commandement of God in sacrificing him so this woman doubted not but God must needs find a meanes whereby his promises might be verified to her howsoeuer Christ was not sent but to the lost sheepe of the house of Israell And therefore as she doth not reason nor dispute against the word of God so she doth still simply continue her sute and faith Lord helpe me All which importeth as much as if she had said Although thou art not sent to offer thy grace vnto the Gentiles but vnto the Iewes onely yet in as much as God hath promised that whosoeuer putteth his trust in thee shall not bee confounded and I am one of those that put my trust in thee thou canst not send mee away confounded and therefore helpe mee for Gods promise must needs bee true Let vs learne heere so firmely to hould the generall principles of our saluation that wee admit nothing that may seeme contrary vnto them for of this we may bee assured that howsoeuer any thing may seeme contrary vnto them yet from God proceedeth nothing either in word or deed that is contrary And as for all the creatures of the world beside if they should oppose and set them-selues against them they are not able to preuaile Therefore Saint Paul saith with great confidence I am perswaded that neither death nor life neither Angels nor principallities nor powers nor things present nor things to come nether height nor depth nor any creature can seperate vs from the loue of God which is in Christ Iesus our Lord. For if God be on our side who can be against vs or if any be against vs how can they be able to hurt vs But if God himselfe seeme to be against vs whome haue wee then to comfort vs For the Iustice of God pronounceth Damnation to all that transgres his law But for asmuch as God of his infinite mercy hath promised saluation to all penitent sinners he hath found a meane by which both his Iustice is satisfied and yet no penitent sinner that beleeueth his promise shall be damned This onely meane is Christ our Sauiour who by his obedience hath throughly satisfied for all our disobedience and transgression as many as beleeue to haue remission of our sinnes by him Seeing therefore wee haue not onely the generall promises of God contayned in the ould Testament but also the full execution performance and establishment of them in Christ what shame is it for vs to bee found inferior in faith to this Cananitish woman which had no more but the first where-vnto neuerthelesse she cleaued so fast that by no meanes she would be drawne from them And surely euen the very generall promises of God are sufficient that our faith being builded vpon them should neuer be remooued for by them God hath so bound him-selfe vnto vs that by no meanes he can reuoke his promised saluation And yet for more confirmation and to take a way all scruple of doubt and wauering as the Apostle saith to the Hebrewes he hath established them with an oth that by two things immutable in which it is imposible that God should lie wee might haue consolation and comfort as many as flee for refuge to take hold of the hope that is propounded set forth vnto vs. Therfore the anker of our faith hath two most vnchangeable holds namely the promise of God and the oth of God in both which it is impossible that God should lye For as it is impossible that God should lye when he simply affirmeth so is it more impossible if there may be degrees in impossibilities that God should lye when hee sweareth And as it is impossible that God should lye or bee forsworne so is it impossible that any man or woman which taketh hold of Gods promises by faith should misse the performance of them whatsoeuer seemeth to bee lets or impediments vnto them For there can bee no lette or impediment so great as should bee able to compell God to lying or periurie which bee as great impossibilities as can be thought of For if the generall or vniuersall promises of God should not bee granted to any one person that embraceth them by faith God should bee no more true of his word and his oth which is as impossible as that God should be no more God For example seeing God hath said Whosoeuer calleth vpon the name of the Lord shall be saued If I poore wretch embracing this promise of God by faith doe call vpon the name of the Lord whatsoeuer lets or impediments be in the way it is impossible but that I shall bee saued Therefore if all the Angels in heauen should tell me on their owne credit or as it were by Gods cōmandement that I should be damned I must hold them all accursed rather then to grant that God should be a lyar or periured person And forasmuch as Christ hath said Whosoeuer beleeueth and is baptised shall be saued if I being Baptised into the name of Christ repose my whole trust confidence in him whatsoeuer can be obiected against me I must of necessity be saued For neither the iustice of the law nor the guiltines of my sin nor the accusation of the Diuell nor witnes of myne owne conscience shal bee able to condemne me so long as I depend vpon the promise of God For there is now no condemnation to them that are in Chrst Iesu For whatsoeuer can bee obiected out of the word of God howsoeuer contrary at the first sight it may seeme to be yet it is not indeed directly contrary to these and such like generall promises As these saying They that are in Christ walke not after the flesh but after the spirit If Christ be in you the body is dead vnto sinne they that are Christs haue crusified the flesh with the lusts