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A68217	The history of the woman of great faith Recorded by Saint Matthew, ch. 15. v. 22. &c. and by Saint Mark, ch. 7. 24. where three very strong encounters are beaten back by her vnmatchable faith. Treatised and expounded for some help to the weake in faith. By Robert Horn, a Minister of Iesus Christ.	Horne, Robert, 1565-1640.	1632 (1632)	STC 13822; ESTC S116726	104,742	350

an inuersion of what hee had said as making rather for them against her Doctr. But first we haue the woman iustifying Christ the Lord in his sharpest answer to her which practice of hers teacheth vs the like and that is to confesse Gods iustice and truth in his roundest dealings with vs. So Dauid cleared the Lord in point of his iustice even when hee suffered vnder his sinne vnto the brimme of hell Nathan the Prophet had denounced the angry sentence of the Lords iustice against him for adultery and bloud hee had told him from God that euill should bee raised against him out of his owne house that the sword should lye vpon it that his wiues should be defiled and the childe of adultery should dye 2. Sam. 12.10.11 14. yet Dauid reasoneth not against Gods true and righteous iudgement in all this but iudgeth truly that God was true holy and righteous and that his sinne had deserued all that was then decreed against him Psal 51.4 his words are Against thee and with the double in token of earnestnesse thee haue I sinned therefore be thou iustified when thou speakest and cleare when thou iudgest It was a good signe of Elies saluation that he submitted to the Lord in that heauie iudgement that was pronounced against his house for he said It is the Lord let him do what seemeth him good 1. Sam. 3.18 Good king Hezekiah subscribed accordingly and said The word of the Lord is good 2. King 20.19 as if hee had said to the m●●●enger There is no fault in thy message all is in my sinne When Shimei railed on Dauid calling him murderer and a man of bloud he saw the the Lord to bee iust in that wicked mouth and therefore saith to Abishai and to the other Suffer him to curse for the Lord hath bidden him 2. Sam. 16.11 as if he should haue said This is little enough and I haue deserued more After Dauid Daniel cleareth Gods seueritie in the heauiest plague that euer was brought vpon a nation Dan. 9.13 14. And Ieremy did the like in his booke of Lamentations for saying that Ierusalem was then as greatly despised as euer greatly honoured before hee saith that it was because shee had greatly sinned Lament 1.8 All these did confesse a righteous Father to the iudgements that were then in the world making sinne the proper efficient of them all The reasons Reasons They know that God could not but bee iust in word and deed as was said Psal 51.4 and therefore in both iustifiable For what can hee say or doe amisse that can neither say nor do otherwayes then well Secondly God is not onely true but the truth nor onely iust but iustice it selfe Ioh. 14.6 1. Cor. 1 30. Now truth can neuer bee a lie nor iustice vnrighteousnesse Thirdly Gods children must be contrary to the deuils children and doe contrarily The deuils children condemne the Lord 2. King 6.33 Gods children therefore must cleare him they iustifie themselues Ezek. 18.25.29 these must instifie him A good natur'd childe will rather take fault to himselfe then charge his father and what children are they that charge God with fault who cannot offend Rom. 3.5 An admonition to Christians to see their owne deseruings Vse 1. and faultinesse in all that is vpon them from God and to pray for such eyes for then they will not charge him with wrong who can doe nothing but what is equall and iust Ezek. 18.4.2 Chron. 19.7 The more we behold our selues in this glasse the more patient we will bee in the hardest things that come So was Iob who therefore answered the Lord and said Behold I am vile and what shall I answer thee I will lay my hand vpon my mouth Iob 40 3. Till God had opened his eyes by shewing vnto him his sinne and by making it apparent as the light at noon-day now impossible it was for a God so innocent to punish without cause he stood stiffely vpon his iustification and thought hee could set downe God with his arguments Iob 23.3.4.5 here his eyes were held and scales of self-sufficiency were vpon them but when his sight was clearer he said as we heard When Ieremy saw as he should he said O Lord if I dispute with thee thou art righteous Iere. 12.1 he knew he should bee at a non-plus if he went on and therefore yeelded without any more ado So if we would rightly consider our wayes and our selues in sinne instead of reasoning with God about our troubles wee would confesse his iust hand vpon vs and say to our selues as the euill doer to his fellow we are iustly here Luk. 23.41 but we measure the punishment and weigh not the sinnes that haue caused it and therefore that God strikes too hard for small matters Hence some complaine of too much strictnesse in God when for tasting of a little fruite hee would cast all mankinde into miserie But these neuer yet considered rightly the merit of that sinne and maiesty of the person against whom it was committed The wages of euery sin is death eternall Rom. 6 23. and Gods maiestie makes euery sinne great though small in our eyes And here though the matter in which the sinne was done were small yet was it no small sinne to bee ambitious of Gods place to beleeue the deuill before God to be so vnthankfull for so large a liberty in all the other trees not to be contented with ones estate to breake a knowne and easie Commandement and to cast away the whole world of mankinde in one sinne Againe some thinke it too great scueritie in God to drowne a whole world of men in one Floud so as none were saued but eight persons But they that thus put finger in the eye repining at Gods iust doings besides the blasphemie of such a wicked taxation of the righteous God they neither know his greatnesse nor how great a sinne it is to offend it A reproofe of their impatiencie Vse 2 who murmure against God for euery little crosse hee sends them in their children in their cattell or corne-fields For thus to murmure is to say plainly that they deserue no such vniust strokes of his hand But if God should take away all as he did from Iob we should take the losse as Iob did blessing his name Iob 1.21 Nay if he should raze vs out of his booke of life wee should bee dumbe and say nothing because hee hath done it Psalm 39.2 how much more should we hold in when he doth but softly touch vs and not send his iron into our soules Some yeeld to the Lord with a forced submission saying What remedie as if hee carried all by the elder hand and plagued them because they could not resist him Where yet it is their own wickednesse that hath corrected them Ier. 2.19 onely the Lord then vsed his great power to make good his iustice vpon them for wilfull transgression For iust is the Lord and nothing shall faile of all

can hinder that they should not take effect in their iust execution Thirdly Christ is the Sauiour of his people and this was the name giuen him by the Angell Matth. 1.21 but how should hee saue his people if he could not by a larger power destroy his peoples enemies how can hee dwell in them and not put out the vsurper Luke 11.22 and how should we doe then and who shall treade Satan vnder our feet if Christ doe not or could not Romans 16.20 A comfort to all Christs members Vse 1. for the power of their head is to saue their heads and the subiection of the deuils to Christ is their victorie ouer them in him The life the deuils haue is but a vanquished life or life of repryuie in prison till the day of the last generall assizes the day of their full dam● nation and so they are of no power against any of Christs true members being as dead Lyons and Christs members being as Daniel among the Lyons Dan. 6.22 S. Iames makes them no better than Cowards who if a man turne againe will flie Iam. 4.7 come against them with faith and they are gone 1. Pet. 5.9 Obiect You will say but it seemes not so Answ I answer what matter for seemings for seeme as it will it is so the brazen Serpent seemed a liuing Serpent and terrible but was not Indeed in the reprobate seed the deuils draw breath in the seed of grace they gaspe as a dying man and draw their last breath of hope here and hence They got downe Christ by our sinnes laid vpon him and to this day they nible at his heele his members and seruants by their owne sinnes but their Scull is broken Gen. 3.15 and Christ hath triumphed ouer them vnto their vnrecouerable perdition made an open shew of them after the old Roman solemnitie and spoyled them for euer Coloss 2.15 A terrour to all the wicked enemies of Christ Vse 2 for he that hath subdued the deuils the stronger can casily master them the weaker shall then the blasphemers of Gods name shall drunkards whoremongers oppressers of the needie sabbath-breakers and other sinners thinke to carry out their matters still as they haue done when he that is Soueraigne Lord of the deuils shall make enquirie after them to their full destruction in the hells The men of Samaria speaking of Iehu say two kings could not stand before him and how shall we 2 King 10.4 not onely not two kings but not all the deuills of hell stronger than all kings not strengthened with Christ could make their part good against him that hath the keyes of death and hell Apoc. 1.18 euen Christ the Lord and shall weake men being vngodlie and sinners be able to make head against him no verilie for the vngodlie shall not stand in the iudgement nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous Psal 1.5 The consequent of Christs speech to the woman followeth And her daughter was made whole from that very houre S. Marke addeth Chap. 7. V. 30. that When shee was come to her house she found the Deuill gone out and her daughter laid vpon the bed BOth S. Matthew S. Marke pitch vpon one thing onely S. Marke hath a circumstance which S. Matthew hath not and that is that When she came to her house shee found her daughter laid vpon the bed because it is like not perfectly well though much better than before the deuill being gone that cast her into those fits and so she had no more of them though not quite from weakenesse the remainder of her former distempers And now where the woman found it to be as Christ had told her wee learne Doctr. that what Christ the truth saith is done his word and deed are one also Gods promise in the word is sure nothing can make it vneffectuall Rom. 3.3 yea all his promises in Christ are yea and in him Amen 2 Cor. 1.20 Christ himselfe saith heauen and earth shall passe away or runne into nothing before any word of mine shall passe or not stand in force Matth. 24.35 and it cannot be that the word of God and consequently of Christ-God should take no effect or faile in performance Rom. 9.6 Hence I conclude that Gods promises and the promises of Christ-God are as certainely done as made no tract of time can anull them Reasons Galatians 3.17 The reasons One reason may be taken from an attribute in God and Christ which is truth in the abstract Iohn 14.6 1 Iohn 4.6 Deut. 32.4 In the concrete hee that is true may be false but truth can neuer Secondly a second reason may bee taken from an impossibilitie that God or Christ should lie it cannot bee saith S Paul Rom. 9.6 and so said Samuel 1 Sam. 15.29 or if an honest man will keepe his word is it possible that God or that Christ who is God should breake his truth may bee in men and is in the blessed Angels but truth in men and Angels is as those things that are set with the hand in God and Christ-God as things that grow naturally and without hand and if it bee impossible that God should sin it is impossible he should Hebrews 6.18 Habac. 1.13 then he cannot deceiue which in true account is to sinne The first vse is Vse 1. for the reproofe of those who are not followers of God or Christ in what they say for as it was said of the Pharises and Scribes in Moses chaire they say and doe not Mat 23 3. they can promise by the ●ll but pay by the inch their mouthes talke of vanitie and their hand is the hand of falsehood Psal 144.8 their words and deeds fall out by the way and many promise largely yea and shake hands vpon the same who yet keepe no promise May not such mens words well bee called winde for as when the winde blowes we heare a sound but cannot hold the same so when such promises are so made wee heare a sound of words but beside words which wee cannot hold there is nothing to hold by but a winde of promises that turnes with euery weather Gods promises are yea and Amen 2. Cor. 1.20 theirs are yea and nay not careing how many they make nor how few they keepe but as Peter said to lying Ananias while it remained appertained it not to thee Act. 5.4 so I say to thee before thou didst open thy mouth to thy neighbour was it not in thy power to promise or not but hauing promised the power is gone from thee to the other and not keeping promise thou lyest both vnto God and vnto man God taketh hold of thy words though man cannot and let this teach vs to hold in and not to speake rashly lest as a riuer ouer flowing wee leaue much slime behinde vs the slime of many and great vntruthes And further let vs consider what we are in Gods booke by our many promises not kept and so blot the booke by