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truth_n	believe_v	love_n	unrighteousness_n	1,721	5	11.1941	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04847	The spirituall architecture. Or, the balance of Gods sanctuary to discerne the weigh and solidity of a true and sincere, from the leuitie, and vanitie of a false and counterfeit profession of Christianity. Wherein also the sandy foundations of the papisticall faith are briefely discouered. A sermon preached at Pauls Crosse the 16. of Nouember, 1623. by Robert Barrell, Master of Arts, and minister of Gods word at Maidstone in Kent	Barrell, Robert.	1624 (1624)	STC 1498; ESTC S120643	59,486	84

shall separate vs from the loue of Christ Shall tribulation distresse or persecution or famine or nakednesse or perill or swords no in all these we are more than conquerours through him that loued vs. Not that Gods Saints and Martyrs are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 altogether sencelesse like stoicks or stocks rather for they feele the smart and paine of their tortures els they could not be valiant Martyrs seeing true fortitude consistes in the patient bearing of those things which are most afflictiue to flesh and bloud but they are comforted 1. In the sense of Gods present mercies a Psal 94.19 whose comforts doe refresh their soules 2. In the certaine expectation of their future glory b 2 Cor. 4.17 for we know that these light afflictions which are but for a moment doe cause vnto vs a farre more excellent and aeternall weight of glory So that in all their afflictions persecutions faith supports them that they fall not hope comforts them that they despaire not patience quiets them that they murmure not and their inward peace of conscience sweetens their outward troubles with comfortable cordials that they faint not c Chrys in Loc. As he therefore that beates vpon an Adamant is himselfe beaten with his owne blowes for he is wearied but the Adamant not pierced which is impenetrable And the waues that dash against a rocke are themselues broken but the rocke standeth immooueable and hee that d Act. 9.5 kickes as gainst the pricks is himself wounded with his own stroaks so he that persecutes Gods faithfull children hurts himselfe not them for he makes them haue fellowship with Iesus in being partakers of his sufferings and bearing in their bodies stigmata Christi that is the prints of his precious wounds while himselfe hath fellowship with Iudas in betraying and persecuting Christ in his members e Phil. 1.8 Be nothing therefore terrified with your aduersaries which to them is a token of perdition but to you of saluation and that of God Ratio The reason of this immooueable constancy and stability of Gods Saints is f V. 25. Because the spirituall aedifice of their soules and bodies is built vpon a rocke for they haue these three rocks to support and strengthen them in all their rroubles 1. The might and mercy of God the Father who is the maine pillar of power and fountaine of goodnesse of whose fauour they doubt not because he hath passed it vnto them in his holy word by promise indenture couenant and g Heb. 6.13 c. oath and that before immooueable h 1 Ioh. 5.7 8 witnesses the best in heauen and the best on earth 2. The merits of Christ for their true and sauing faith doth rest it selfe in the precious wounds of Christ as the k Cant. 2.14 doues in the clefts of the rocks that it cannot bee remooued 3. The comforts of the holy Ghost who dwells in them as in his l 1 Cor. 6.19 temples and reignes in their hearts as in his kingdome directing them into all truth and goodnesse and comforting them in all their troubles as being the a Eph. 1.13 14. seale of their adoption and earnest of their aeternall inheritance And with these impregnable bulwarks the fortresse of their faith is so strengthened that neither raine flouds nor wind b Rom. 8.38 39 height nor depth life nor death principalities nor powers c. nor the gates of hell nor the whole force and power of the kingdome of darknesse can once shake much lesse ouerthrow it because it is builded vpon a rocke For though Gods Saints bee troubled on euery side yet are they not distressed c 2 Cor. 4.8 9. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 .i. Haesitantes non haerentes Arr. Mont. perplexed but not in despaire persecuted but not forsaken cast downe but not cast away or destroied But if any build vpon the sand of humane Traditions 1 Casus malorum or their owne fancies or the worlds vanities both building and builders fall together like d Dan. 2.35 Nebuchadnezzars Image when the stone hewen out of the mountaine without hands fell vpon it and become like the chaffe of the summer threshing floures or the sand they build vpon or the dust which the wind scatters from the face of the earth Iust prim● 1. He that goes to build vp the ruines of Babell in his soule shall with it fall to ruine for as one Angell cryed concerning Babilon e Apoc. 14 8 9 10 Cecidit cecidit It is fallen it is fallen so another angell immediately following the former cryed wieh a loud voice If any man worship the beast and receiue his marke in his forehead or his hand the same shall drinke of the wine of the wrath of God powred out without mixture into the cup of his indignation and shall be tormented with fire and brimstone for euer Maruaile not therefore at the Apostacy of many to Popery in these dayes they are such as neuer built on the rock of truth and right but on the sands of their owne fancies or the world by presumption securitie worldlinesse or hypocrisie and therefore God suffers them to fall into errors as a iust punishment of their sinnes and they shall at length fall into the fierie lake as an aeternall punishment both of their sinnes and errors f 2 Thes 2.10.21 12. Because they receiued not the loue of the truth that they might be saued for this cause God shal send them a strong delusion that they should beleeue a lye that they might be damned who beleeued not the truth but had pleasure in vnrighteousnes For a Cypr. imperfectum in Loc. how should he abide in Christ that neuer was in Christ or how should the truth hold him that neuer held the truth or righteousnesse preserue him that neuer kept the wayes of righteousnes No no such buildings though they be built as high as the tower of Babell b Gen. 11.4 whose top did euen reach to heauen or as the tombe of Manseolus or Pyramides of Aegypt and be as faire and stately for outward shew as the temple of c Act 19.27 Diana at Ephesus the wonderment of the world or the costly palace of Alcinoous the walls whereof were brasse the gates gold and the entries siluer yet downe they must they and their builders shall fall and d Iinex v. 27 Ruina magna their fall shall be great The fall of an house is great first when it falls not in part but totaly that is not the roofe or a wal or a roome onely but is turned topsey-turuey from the very foūdation 2. when it falls finally and irrecouerably neuer to be raysed vp againe like the walls of Iericho e Ios 6.26 Such I am persuaded shall in Gods due time bee the fall of Babilon as a f M. Higgo●s in his mysticall Babilon learned Diuine of ours hath of late euidently prooued though the Babilonish

humors of sinne and so playes the schoolemaster not onely in whipping and scourging vs but also in teaching and instructing vs to know God and our selues and the worlds vanitie and to labour after a more permanent faelicity Whereas prosperitie many times like c Iud. 16 19 ●0 Dalila lulls many a strong Sampson so long asleepe in her lappe of carnall pleasures that she takes from him that wherein his spirituall strength consisteth and betrayes him to that vncircumcised Philistim the diuell So then the worlds musicke of profits and pleasures is but a Syrens song which while it tickles our eares it wounds our hearts and splits our soules vpon the rockes of sinne whereby ofttimes wee make shippe-wracke of our saluation d 2 Sam 11.2 c. Dauid who did cleaue fast vnto God in his troubles in his prosperitie started aside like a broken bow and fell into the fearefull sinnes of Adultery and murther And Peter a Mat. 26.51 Io● 18.10 18 who stoutly defended his master among the swords and staues in the garden basely denyed him when he was basting himselfe by the fire in the high Priests hall b Aug. in Psal 34. Homo victus in Paradiso victor in stercore c Ioq 2.8 Job by his patience was a conquerour on the dunghill and d Gen. 3.6 Adam by his pride was conquered in Paradise Also Romes peace and securitie after the Carthaginian wars were ended did her more hurt than all the former battailes And Saint Bernard saith of the Church e Ber. Ser. 33. in Cant. Amara fuit prius in nece Martyrum amarior postea in conflictu haereticorum amarissima vero nunc in moribus domesticorum intimating that she was more hurt by the licentious liues of her children in the dayes of her peace than by the bloud of her Martyrs or her conflict with haeretikes Applicat And may it not be truely said of this Church and land that the raine of prosperitie peace and plenty falling not by drops but by full showers vpon it in the late long and happy reigne of our euer to be remembred and thrice renowned Deborah and our now peacefull Salomon hath done more hurt to this building by rotting many beames and rafters thereof than those tempestuous whirle-winds and violent torrents of persecution in Queene Maries dayes for whereas there were then glorious confessions of the truth in the midst of the fire now there be dayly Apostacies from it in the dayes of peace And our moralitie is so corrupted with our long peace and prosperitie that there was neuer more lying and dissembling in Creta swearing and forswearing in Carthage gormandizing in Capua or Semiplacentia drunkennesse in Germany pride in Spaine or wantonnesse in Italy than is at this day in our land as if the vices of all nations did meete here as in their Center or as if our land were the sinke or common sewer for the sinnes of all nations to runne into Shall we thus repay the Lord for his blessings shall we now begin to f Num 11.5 6. loath our Manna that hath thus long fallen dayly about our tents and hanker againe after the flesh-pots of the Romish Aegypt shall we surfet of our quailes and being full fed with Gods blessings g Deut. 8.10 spurne with the heele against him and turne our backes vpon his mercy-seat God forbid Let vs not thus turne Gods grace into wantonnesse and repay him with our foule and crying sins in stead of thankfullnesse for his blessings like the sea that receiues sweet waters from the fountaines of the earth and returnes them salt and bitter least we incurre the curse of the reprobate Iewes a Psal 69.22 23 Rom. 11.9 10. Let their table be made a snare and a trap and a stumbling blocke c. and the things that should haue beene for their weale be vnto them an ocasion of falling 2. Tent. persuas 2. With this tentation of prosperitie I may conioyne the Churches second tentation by the pleasing south-winds of haereticall persuasions because they are most rife in the dayes of the Churches peace With these winds hath the house of the liuing God beene forcibly beat vpon and the ship of his true Church beene violently tossed almost in all ages in the troublesome sea of this world for haeretikes and schismatikes being themselues carryed away with these b Iren. li 3. c 13. three disastrous whirle-winds 1. With the vncleane spirit of error 2. With their owne frenzie whereof they labour 3. Magis studio contradicendi c Cypr ad Demet sect prima quam voto discendi .i. Rather with an itching humour of singularity to contradict the truth than a true zealous humility to learne it seeke to driue others with them into error and so they willfully d Mat. 15.14 blind leade the woefully blinded with themselues into the ditch of destruction But he who is driuen of these winds e Aug. Ti. 1. in Ioh. Mat. 25.30 Non portum sed planctum inueniet shall in the end arriue at no other harbour but where shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth Applicat And from these disastrous winds our Church is not free now in the dayes of her peace for there swarmes among vs corner-creeping Priests and Iesuites who like subtle foxes seeke to vndermine and roote vp the flourishing vine of this Church and State by f 2. Tim. 3.6 creeping into hovses and leading captiue silly women laden with diuers lusts and silly Ideots apt to beleeue whatsoeuer they tell them without further tryal of their doctrine by the touchstone of truth This kind of fishing they learned from Sathan himfelfe who first g Gen. 3.1 attempted the woman that by her hee might tempt the man vsing the wife as a trappe to catch her husband And from the auncient Gnostikes of whose ring-leader Marcus Jrenaeus reports h Iren. li. 1. c. 9. Maximè circa mulieres occupatus est His principall aime and chiefest businesse was to seduce silly women And as the diuell at first a Cypr. de vnitate Eccl. sect 5 Verbis mendacibus blandiens rudes animas incauta credulitate decepit deceiued the poore innocent soules of our first parents by his lying flattering words praesuming vpon their heedlesse credulitie so they by their lying and flattering words which are b Lact Jnstit li. 5. c ●1 Mella venenum tegentia pills of poyson lapt in hony creepe into the soules of their ouer-credulous Disciples and blinding them with the false vizar of the name of the ancient Catholike Church lead them hoodwinked to their owne destruction Ie●uiticaal traps to catch poore soules For first they tell them and that onely truely c Cypr. de vnit Eccles That out of the true Church there is no saluation but all that are out of it must needs perish as all that were out of the arke were drowned in the deluge Secondly they falsly assume