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A08130	A learned and fruitfull sermon preached in Christs Church in Norwich. By Mr. Nevvhouse, late preacher of Gods word there.	Newhouse, Thomas, d. 1611.; Hill, Robert, d. 1623.	1612 (1612)	STC 18494; ESTC S100052	25,182	96

and worke in the same the contrary grace of thy holy Spirit namely true Humilitie whereby wee may acknowledge our owne nothing and may vtterly renounce and deny ourselues and learne onely and wholy to relye and depend vpon the blessed merit of Christ in matter of our saluation ascribing the whole worke and glory thereof to him alone and to no other thing And because all that are in Christ are new creatures and walke not according to the flesh but according to the spirit wee beseech thee to renue vs in the spirits of our mindes and in the affections of our hearts enlightening vs more and more with true knowledge and vnderstanding in spirituall things and sanctifying our hearts to the loue and obedience thereof that wee may walke worthy of thee please thee in all things fructifie in euery good worke and increase in the knowledge of thy holy will Aboue all things set before vs thy holy feare imprint this grace of thine deepely in our hearts perswade vs effectually of thy presence wheresoeuer we doe become in secret or open place that wee may learne to make conscience of sinne and of euery euill way endeuoring to please and obey thee in all thy Commandements and euermore to preserue pure and vnblameable consciences before thee and before all men and that to the end of our dayes And because wee are at continuall warre against Sathan this wicked world and our owne damnable and fleshly lusts Lord help vs in this spirituall combate in all temptations when wee are most weake be thou most strong in vs together with the temptation grant an issue and an euasion teach vs to watch ouer our owne hearts and to keepe them with all diligent obseruation that wee be not any more circumuented of the wiles of Sathan or seduced through the deceitfulnesse of sinne Help our infirmities giue strength against our particular corruptions that in the very act of temptation wee may be able to resist and to ouercome that wee may haue as iust cause to praise thy name in our victories as wee haue had cause to be humbled and cast downe in our foyles And because it is the lot of thy Children in this world to be tryed sundry wayes Lord prepare vs to the dayes of tryall arme vs with spirituall patience to beare thy hand that wee may meekely and contentedly submit our wils to thy good will and pleasure howsoeuer it shall please thee to deale with vs onely teach vs to profit vnder thy rods of correction grant that we may learne hereby to deny our selues to forsake this world pleasures profits preferments of it to make vile and base account of them in respect of heauenly things to loue thy kingdome and thy righteousnesse desiring to be dissolued and to be with Christ that sinne and the corruption thereof might be abolished and we might haue neere coniunction with thy Maiestie in thine owne kingdome Neuerthelesse so long as thou pleasest to hold vs here in this earthly tabernacle dissolue in our hearts the cursed workes of the Diuell confound the power and tyranny of sin daily more and more increase the Graces of thy holy Spirit namely Faith and repentance thy feare and thy loue humilitie and a good conscience with all other graces wherby thy own image may be renued in vs daily that the longer we liue in this world the nearer we may draw to thy Kingdome the greater strength we may haue against our owne sins the greater will and abilitie to serue and please thee in righteousnesse and new obedience Blesse with vs thy whole Church and euery member thereof be good and gratious to these Churches in England and Ireland giue thy Gospell a free passage euery where with all good meanes whereby it may be further published and maintained remouing all lets and impediments wherby the course and proceedings thereof are hindered and stayed for this cause be good vnto our gracious King the principall member therof blesse him with life honor confirme his heart in the truth of this holy Religion hee hath a long time professed and maintained against all the aduersaries thereof increasing his loue and zeale thereunto and his constancie therein and adding vnto his yeeres many dayes that he may be an ancient Father in this Church of thine a Patron an vpholder of thy pure and true Religion against all them that oppose themselues against it Blesse our gratious Queene the Prince and the residue of that Royall Progenie Be mercifull to the Honourable Priuie Counsell and the inferiour Magistrates of this Land blessing them with the wisedome of thy spirit from aboue that they may take counsell with thy word in all their enterprises and deliberations so as first they may conclude of those things which make most for the aduancement of thy Kingdome and Gospell and then for the peaceable and religious gouernment both of Church and Common-weale Blesse the Ministers of thy word and Sacraments increase the number of those that are faithfull and painefull double thy spirit and graces vpon them that they may goe in and out before thy people not onely in the light of pure doctrine but of holy and vnblameable conuersation that by this meanes many may be wonne to the knowledge and obedience of thy truth Be mercifull to the people of this Land confirme them that are called and strengthen them that they may continue stedfast in the sinceere profession and practise of true religion vnto the end those that yet wander and goe astray through sinne and wickednesse call them home in thy owne good time that they with vs and we with them may haue both hearts and mouthes enlarged to glorifie thy holy name Touch all our hearts with true Repentance from the highest to the lowest that thy iudgements present and imminent may be remoued preuented thy mercies still procured vnto vs and the posteritie after vs especially in the continuance of thy word and Gospell among vs for euer Lord be mercifull to all thine afflicted whether they be sicke vpon their beds or distressed in conscience for sinne or persecuted for thy name and truth or pinched with pouerty wanting those outward things which thou hast in great abundance delt out vnto vs relieue them according to their seuerall necessities strengthen them in their weaknesse comfort them in their distresse mitigate their sorrowes and extremities put an end vnto them in thine owne good time and turne them to their humiliation and in the end to their eternall comfort and saluation by Christ Be mercifull to our friends in the flesh and acquaintance in the spirit parents brethren sisters children seruants and all other for whom we are bound by any dutie to pray granting vnto them a supply of all graces needfull for their present state and calling and the finall saluation of their soules Haue mercie on vs now calling on thy name forgiue our sinnes and manifold defects in this holy dutie and accept at our hands this weake and imperfect obedience in Christ and giue vs thankfull hearts for all mercies receiued from thy bountifull hand that thou hast loued vs in Iesus Christ with an euerlasting loue before the world was and from loue hast chosen vs to life and glory called vs in time to the certaine knowledge of this our Election iustified and redeemed vs by Iesus Christ his death and resurrection sanctified vs in the inner man by his holy spirit that thou hast giuen vs Faith in thy promises and hope of a better life feare of thy Name loue of thy Maiestie zeale of thy glory loue and tender affection towards our brethren yea towards our enemies and those that hate vs patience vnder the Crosse strength against our particular temptations and corruptious Humilitie gentlenesse meeknes with many other gifts and graces of regeneration all which we acknowledge haue proceeded of thy meere mercy and goodnesse towards vs wee beseech thee to increase them daily more and more in vs and ●et vs not be negligent in the vse of all good meanes whereby they may grow in vs daily We doe also with all thankfulnes remember all temporall blessings concerning this life and the preseruation thereof our health libertie peace prosperitie and all outward things wee doe enioy this gratious gouernment with all blessings accompanying the same We thanke thee that thou hast sustained vs in great weakenesse relieued vs in much necessitie comforted vs in much distresse resolued vs in many doubts deliuered vs from many and great dangers and when wee were falling into them hast rescued vs with thine owne hand and preserued vs from many grieuous sinnes into which through the corruptions of our natures and Sathans temptations wee might haue fallen Make vs ●nfaignedly thankfull and teach vs to walke worthy of them and to testifie thankfulnes therefore not in word onely but by a conscionable walking with thee in all duty and obedience vnto the end Blesse vs this night keepe vs and all ours from all dangers grant vnto vs if it be thy holy and good will such a portion of rest and sleepe that thereby body and senses being refreshed we may rise vp in the morning cheerfully to glorifie thy name in the duties of Christianitie and in the works of our particular callings as thou shalt seuerally dispose of vs and giue vs strength and opportunitie and that by Iesus Christ In whose name we conclude our prayers as he himselfe hath taught vs saying Our Father which art c. 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euer obserued him diligent in his studie wittie in discourse apprehensiue of truth deepe in knowledge powerfull in preaching vigilant in practising and a perfect patterne of grauitie and sobrietie in the whole course of his life and conuersation And if the spirit of that iudicious Mr. Perkins might be found in any Diuine I thinke it appeared in him It is the Art of Arts to preach well to diuide the word and to saue soules hee excelled in this Art and that he might grow in this knowledge he tooke such paines that like vnto a seruiceable candle in giuing light to you he consumed himselfe Though there be too many Bookes in this scribling age and the paper is worth more then the things that are written in them as Socrates once said when he would write nothing yet of some mens Labours there are too few For though they should write but that which before hath beene written yet by reason of their credit in the Church the soundnesse of their iudgement the vprightnesse of their life their experience in cases of controuersie and conscience and that loue which their auditors haue had to them and their doctrine they might by writing doe much good Wee reade not indeede that our Sauiour Christ committed of himselfe any thing to writing yet his Apostles hee made as his Hand and Secretaries to commend the New Testament to the Church of God Our aduersaries the Papists daily doe assault the Church with deadly weapons the poyson of Aspes is vnder their pennes if these Fooles were not answered to their Folly they would be too proud Our Aduersary the Diuell casteth daily new deuised darts into the minds and Consciences of people if he should not be resisted by the Sling of Dauid hee would soone triumph ouer the Israel of God True it is indeede that by the mouth of the Preacher wee receiue much good and the liuely voyce giues much life to discourse but when after hearing wee may with our eyes peruse that which our eare hath heard wee shall the better ponder and know and remember and affect that which otherwise we might vtterly forget and make our hearts as rich in grace as our Bookes are full of goodnesse To this end that which was preached vnto the eare in the assembly of many learned Diuines and by name before that Reuerend Doctor Redman late Bishop of your Diocesse I am bold to publish to your view that by the finger of this Herculean labourer you may know what the whole man was And the same I am bold to dedicate to your Worship as a testimonie of your long loue to me and my desire to be thankfull to you When I liued in your Parish a painfull Preacher I found seeming fauor at the hands of some curious but substantiall fauour of diuers courteous and true meaning people How in the first yeere of my comming I was entertained by that graue Senator Mr. Francis Rugge then the third time Maior of that happy Citie I cannot forget whose house was vnto me rather an habitation then an Inne How euer after I was welcome to you and continually was fed at your table I must not forget vnlesse I would be thought an vnthankfull man I acknowledge all with much thanks both to God for such a friend and to you for such friendship and desire that when both you and I shall haue gone the way of all flesh the kindnesse which you haue shewed to me may of all into whose hands this little Booke shall come he had in remembrance I am now at an end I present vnto you this learned Sermon of the Iustification of a sinner before God with an excellent Prayer which Mr. New-house gaue me written with his owne hand I doubt not of your kinde acceptance of them both and I trust they will be a welcome New-yeeres gift to the whole Citie who I hope will euer obey them that haue the ouer-sight of them Hebr. 13. and submit themselues to them for they watch for their soules euen as they that must giue accounts that they may doe it with ioy and not with griefe for that is vnprofitable for them Now I pray that as the true feare of God hath so encreased your happy dayes vpon earth that you haue attained to the age of fourescore yeeres and for aboue fortie yeeres past haue liued a worthy Senator of a most worthy Citie so it would please God when your glasse is runne and Death shall call for you you may with old Simeon depart in peace with faithfull Samuel be lamented for and after receiue the end of your Faith which is the saluation of your Soule Thus crauing pardon recommending you your vertuous Wife M ris Anne Layer with that bountifull and godly Widdow M ris Anne Rugge to the protection of the Almighty I humbly take my leaue From Mr. Andrew Curwaynes house in Salisburie-rents at S. Martins in the Fields Decemb. 3. 1611. Your Worships euer in the Lord ROBERT HILL A SERMON PREACHED AT Great S. Maries in Cambridge 2 COR. 5.21 For he made him which knew no sinne to be sinne for vs that we should be made the righteousnesse of God in him FRom the ninth verse of this Chapter to the eighteenth the Apostle commendeth his faithfulnesse and sinceritie in the execution of his function Apostolicall From the eighteenth verse vnto the end hee commendeth the doctrine of the Gospell and that by a double argument the former whereof is taken from the Authour or efficient cause who is GOD himselfe the latter from the effect to wit reconciliation betweene God and man and therefore it is called the Ministerie of reconciliation Further this effect is enlarged by sundry arguments first from the Authour who is also God himselfe secondly from the subiect viz. the World by a Metonimie of the subiect men liuing in the world and by a Synecdoche of the whole for the part the Elect in the world thirdly from the forme viz. the not imputing of sinne fourthly from the adiuuant causes that is the Ministers of the word to whom the dispensation of this heauenly ambassage is committed verse 19. and 20. fiftly from the meritorious impulsiue cause which is the worke of Christs Mediatorshippe in vndertaking the discharge of mans sinne before God verse 21. Wherein three things more particularly are to be considered First our Sauiour Christ the Redeemer and reconciler of the world is described by his adioynt or propertie which is puritie of nature and immunitie from sinne in these words Which knew no sinne Secondly his worke is propounded whereby hee merited and procured at the hands of his Father attonement and reconciliation between God and man in these words became sinne for vs. Thirdly this work is amplified from the vse and end of it which is the iustification of a sinner before God in the last words that we might be made the righteousnesse of GOD in him Thus much shall suffice to haue spoken of the coherence order and