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truth_n	believe_v	jesus_n	life_n	1,867	5	4.4456	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42555	Wisdom justified of her children, or, Two sermons sometime preached in Cockshutt Chappel, in the county of Salop, and lately at Brightling in Sussex, on Matth. XI. XIX. and now at the request of friends enlarged, and published / by William Gearing ...	Gearing, William.	1668 (1668)	Wing G439; ESTC R16127	41,501	72

Father Father I know them not Christ will neither know them nor any of their religious Acts nor acknowledge any thing they have done for him As the Psalmist speaks of dead men They are forgotten and out of mind and their place shall be known no more so it is with such as shall condemn wisdom and deny Christ when they shall cry Lord Lord have we not done this He will be ashamed of such as call him Lord before his Father Chrysostome on that place I know you not said he had rather be stricken through with a thousand thunderbolts than to hear Christ say I know you not Christ will not own any good work or good duty of theirs who have condemned or denied him and his ways all their prayers shall be forgotten as if they had never prayed yea all their duties shall but aggravate their torment he will say to his Father Give double torment to those that have condemned wisdom and yet prayed to Thee in my name 5. Christ will accuse them before his Father These are the persons that would not feed me when I was hungry that when I was thirsty would give me no drink that being a stranger took me not in that when I was naked Matt. 25.40 41. cloathed me not that when I was sick and in prison visited me not these are the men that did basely condemn my ways and shamefully deny me before such and such men This is Judas that betrayed me into the hands of the Jews These are the persons that by their cowardise or covetousness betrayed my truth my worship my religion into the hands of sinners Brethren I know you abhor Judas his fact and would not for a world stand in Judas his coat before God at the day of Judgement Let me tell you to betray the truth of Christ to condemn true wisdom will be reputed as great a sin in that day Nay Christ will not only accuse such but he wil cast them out of his presence and destroy them before the blessed presence of his father he will cast them out from the presence and from communion with Angels and Saints into hell torments Depart ye cursed of God and Christ ye that condemned Religion Depart ye cursed of Angels and of your own Consciences into hell torments What is that worm there that never dieth but thy Conscience of denying and condemning Wisdom 6. Consider the hainousness of the fact what a sin it is to condemn Wisdom and Religion In denying Wisdom you deny Christ himself in condemning Religion you condemn him It is his religion his truth his worship his ways which you condemn therefore in condemning these you condemn Christ himself You condemn him whom God the Father hath justified and glorified and witnessed a good confession of him before men This is my well beloved Son in whom I am well-pleased you condemn Christ whom all the Angels adore it is their glory to be his Ministring Spirits in condemning him you condemn the infinite love of God for so God loved the world that he gave his son you deny the Lord of glory the Prince of life the King of Kings the only Saviour You reject the blood of Christ his blood which is more worth than rocks of Pearl than mountains of Gold yea more than if God had given an heaven full of Angels or a world of Creatures for you O what a great sin is it to condemn him who hath bought Thee with his own blood who suffered the wrath of God for us and purchased many glorious priviledges for us To deny or disown a friend that hath been kind and bountiful it is shameful for a Child to deny his Father it is unnatural but for a man to deny or condemn Christ who died for him condemn his redeemer and Saviour it is worse than unnatural if worse can be 7. Look upon the goodness of wisdom A man can have no better than God's truth to maintain and to acknowledge the word of life and salvation no outward means but the Gospel to bring us to Salvation to condemn these we condemn the means of salvation The men of Sodom shall rise up in judgement against the men of Bethsaida the men of Niniveh against the men of Capernaum because they repented at the preaching of Jonas the Bastards of Babylon shall rise up against the daughters of Zion in judgement the Papists shall rise up in judgement against many Protestants for they will not condemn nor betray the Cause of Anti-christ but these men put Christ to open shame and expose the wisdom of God to a world of contempt in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation CHAP. XI An use of exhortation to justifie Wisdom Vse 2 BE exhorted now my Brethren to justifie Wisdom thereby ye shall shew your selves to be the Children of Wisdom stand up in the defence of Christ and religion be not ashamed of him not of his Gospel be ready and willing to suffer any thing for his sake if thou art called thereunto rather die for him a thousand deaths suffer a thousand torments rather than deny him once if ever ye look to have Christ own you to have his Father own you and his holy Angels in all their glory to own you then beware of condemning wisdom plead for his truth justifie wisdom reliove the members of Christ boldly and freely testifie what ye hold and believe in matters of religion constantly affirm this is Christ's Doctrine this is Christ's Religion this and none else is the pure worship of God in Christ Witness a good Confession with your mouths what ye believe in your hearts of Christ and his Doctrine It is not an Arbitrary duty but necessary If an Arian should ask what believest thou concerning Christ Thou must answer I believe him to be very God though all the world were Arian or if a Papist should ask Thee concerning Christ in the Sacrament Thou shouldest answer I believe He is not there bodily Some think it enough if they believe Christ's truth and Religion in their hearts and as for outward affirmation and justification of it in plain words it is rather superfluous at least Arbitrary not necessary No this is not sufficient A man that believeth in his heart his mouth must shew forth his faith If he be perswaded in his heart that this is truth and that is truth he must testifie it in his words As the Apostles they believed in heart that Christ was the Messiah was the Christ and they did confess it with their tongues Thou art Christ the son of the living God This is Jesus the God of glory the Prince of life whom the Jews slew and hanged upon a tree S. Paul did believe the Resurrection and he did justifie the Doctrine of the Resurrection before a whole Council Act. 23.6 Many account it a peice of singular Wisdom either to silence or to dissemble the truth they had rather be accounted Wise and Wicked than Simple and Religious they had

repented at John's preaching believed Christ and his Doctrine so that the several ways that God taketh to bring men to Christ is meant by wisdom in this place SECT II. II. We are to enquire what is meant by justifying Wisdom is justified c. 1. Justification is taken sometimes for Commendation Wisdom is justified 1 It is highly admired commended praised Godly men do highly commend and praise God in this way of Salvation through faith in Christ the Saints do admire God's Wisdom in contriving such an effectual way of saving mankind in contriving a means to satisfie offended justice by an infinite and plenary sarisfaction and yet manifest his Free-grace Love and Mercy Marvellous in the eyes of Saints is Gods Wisdom Love goodness Justice Mercy in Christ The Phasees slighted this Wisdom of God called it Heresie and the Greeks called it foolishness but believers cry out O the depth of God's Wisdom in the Gospel 2. Others understand the word justified thus it is received by the godly and approved as the only safe way to salvation No other Jacob's ladder to climb up into the third heaven by nor door to truth life and righteousness but Jesus Christ set forth in the Gospel Believers do with joy dance after Christs piping and lament when John mourneth though the wicked Pharisees reject Christs righteousness and the preaching of the Gospel as things unable to salvation 3. To be justified is to be cleered from all false imputations what blasphemous imputations did the malicious Pharisees lay and fasten upon Christ A Wine-bibber a Glutton a Friend of Publicans and sinners a Samaritane a Devil an ignorant Carpenters son So Chrysostome and others do interpret the words thus seeing the Wisdom of God trieth all ways and neglecteth no means conducing to the conversion of sinners he trieth by mourning trieth by dancing he trieth by preaching terrour he trieth by preaching free grace and mercy he trieth by love he trieth by severity he trieth by promises by threatenings by denouncing woes and curses and yet men remain obstinate and impenitent Rebels against the Counsel of God the wisdom of God is now justified 1 Is absolved is altogether excusable and free from their detractions and false imputations their eternal perishing is from their own stubbornness So to this very day how do profane men lay upon Religion and the holiness of Christ shining in the conversations of the godly false bitter and scandalous crimes and imputations yet true believers do free Christ Religion and Holiness from these calumniations Though they account Religion to be a Moopish and Foolish thing and call holiness preciseness indiscretion overmuch strictness yet the godly will justifie Religion to be an excellent thing and say that Wisdom is the principal thing Prov. 4.7 Though the Pharisees disgrace Christ and call him the Carpenters son yet Peter will justifie him to be the Son of the living God They call him Glutton Wine-bibber Devil but the Saints will justifie him to be the holy One of God the Lamb of God without spot to be undefiled separate from sinners to be the God of Gods and King of Kings 4. To justifie in our common phrase is to maintain what a man speaks or doth A man useth to say I will justifie my words and actions so godly men will plead for wisdom stand to Christ and his ways and will maintain Religion against all oppositions and contradictions SECT III. 3. Who are meant by the children of wisdom It is an Hebraism by children of wisdom are meant wise men godly men As in Scripture by children of disobedience are meant disobedient persons wicked and ungodly men so by children of wisdom thosse that are truly wise every godly man every man in Christ will justifie the wisdom of God in Christ justifie Religion justifie God in his ordinances truth and holiness This point may be strongly proved from Scripture See with what an undaunted courage Peter and John did justifie Christ before all the Jews both Rulers and people who had charged them not to mention the name of Christ Act. 4.10 11 12. Be it known unto you all and to all the people of Israel that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth whom ye Crucified whom God raised from the dead even by him doth this man stand before you whole This is the stone which was set at nought by you builders which is become the head of the Corner Neither is there salvation in any other for there is no other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved and vers 20. We cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard We are Resolved to do it we cannot but do it The profession of Christ and his Gospel was accounted Heresie and believers were accounted factious and schismatical yet S. Paul would justifie it to be the only way and worship of God for thus saith he to Felix Act. 24.14 after the way which they call Heresie worship I the God of my Fathers What holy resolution had the three noble children in the cause of God's worship A stately Idol is advanced by Nebuchadnezzar and All are commanded to worship this dead stock solemn Proclamation is made to this purpose hereupon come in a company of Informers such as are ready on all occasions to do the Devil service they come and accuse the Jews vers 9. They come in a flattering way O King live for ever and vers 12. There are certain Jews whom thou hast set over the affairs of the Province of Babylon Shadrach Meshech and Abednego These men O King have not regarded thee they serve not thy Gods nor worship the golden Image which thou hast set up As who should say under correction your Majesty is mistaken in setting these men in such an eminent place and they are very unthankful for this preferment These men O King regard not thee nor worship thy Gods Hereupon they are called to examination and the King himself takes cognizance of the cause vers 13. Then Nebuchadnezzar in his rage and fury which is no fit qualification for a Judge or Ruler calleth for them to be brought before him and then puts them to interrogatories vers 14. Is it true O Shadrach Meshech and Abednego Do ye not serve my Gods c. Now if ye be ready that at what time ye hear the sound of the Cornet Lute Harp c. ye fall down and worship the Image that I have made well but if ye worship not ye shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a fiery furnace and who is that God that shall deliver you out of my hand Martial Law He speaks thus in effect Have you any God greater than my Gods and seemeth to rely more upon his own strength than upon the strength of his Gods therefore he saith who shall deliver you out of my hand he was puffed up with his many great victories that he is forgetful both of God and man But see their