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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13755	A treatise of faith, and of some principal fruits thereof Deliuered in two sermons, vpon the third chapter of the epistle of Paul to the Ephesians, verse the 12. With some additions and enlargements, tending to the satistaction of such as are in doubt, whether they haue faith or no, and to the comforting of such as are troubled about the weakenesse of their faith. By G. Throgmorton, minister of the word of God.	Throgmorton, George.	1624 (1624)	STC 24052; ESTC S101278	55,089	232

and so are changed into it more and more in sanctification from glory to glory Whatsoeuer boldnesse of face and glory of countenance or libertie of speach wee may haue towardes men in and by our selues and our workes wee haue none towards God but by Faith in Christ Rom. 4.1 First the Law indites arraignes and stops our mouth as Rom. 3.19 shame and confusion couers our faces and then Christ lifts vp our head as Psal 3.3 Thou art my glory and the lifter vp of my head Yea hee annoints our head with oyle giues vs the oyle of gladnesse for the spirit of heauinesse 2. Cor. 1.21 1. Ioh. 2.20 27. as God hath created oyle to make the face to shine gloriously Therefore contrarily by the law in humiliation they cast durt on their heads and couered their faces in pleading their guiltinesse and in dayes of fasting the Pharises were 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mat. 6.16 Now Christ our high Priest was annointed with this oyle of gladnesse aboue his fellowes that it might lift vp his face for vs in the sight and presence of God to appeare before him and wee receiue an anointing from this holy One and hee annoints our faces with oyle of ioy for this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which word signifies specially freedome and glory of speech in prayer or praises of God and thankesgiuings for in Christ wee haue a new mouth a new speach tongue and language of Canaan The end of mans creation being chiefely to glorifie God Adam was created with an excellent mouth and tongue wherewith to glorifie him which was his greatest glory life happines but by hearkning to Sathans blasphemous mouth and tongue belying and dishonouring God and beleeuing it he and all his posteritie haue lost their naturall mouth tongue and language and haue the mouth and language of Satan readier to blaspheme and curse God then to pray to him or to pr●ise him and being man become earth and lacking the Image and Glo●ie of God and borne of the earth Ioh. 3 3● he speakes of the earth as an earth-worme with an earthly mouth rising out of the dust As Satan is a lyer so is euery man from the wombe going astray and speaking lies Therefore Christ giues a new mouth tongue and language if we hearken to him as our only Prophet and Rabbi and a new 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by his spirit of Glory in vs according to his gracious couenant in Christ Isa 59.21 And I will make this my couenant with thē saith the Lord My spirit that is vpon thee and my words which I haue put in thy mouth shall not depart out of thy mouth nor out of the mouth of thy seede nor out of the mouth of the seede of thy seede from henceforth and for euer Therefore Christ is called the Truth Iohn 14.6 But first he is the Way then the Truth our Way to God and our 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Priest and then is he the Truth and giues vs a new mouth But these particulars appeare more fully in the obseruations only thus much for vnfolding the text and the sense of the words Wherein wee consider two parts 1. The Excelcellencie of Faith in Christ set forth by two vertues or workes in the heart and inner man 1. Accesse to God or Manuduction with boldnesse or confidence or a confident accesse to God by Manuduction 2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Glory of face with liberty of speech 2. The limitation of this excellencie and of these vertues They are not in the whole man and beleeuer but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is so farre as he is in Christ not as he is or euer was in the first Adam or as he is in nature in the flesh and world or as he is in any other estate and condition in this life or that any man can haue in any other Religion then by Faith in Christ And whereas the childe of God may complaine that hee finds and feeles contrary to all this feare trembling flying from God shame of face for his sinnes and his mouth often stopped and not able to pray or praise God Answer is here made It is true so farre as we are not in Christ and haue nature and flesh in vs but as we are in Christ we haue all this contrary good 1. De Iure though not de facto by right though not by full possession 2. Wee haue these in some measure though mixt with contrary corruptions 3. We may haue more if the fault be not in our selues 4. We shall haue all these in full measure 5. These are prepared for vs in Christ and our Faith in Christ will grow vp to these and increase with the increasings of God and of Christ if we pray as Paul here doth for these Ephesians so they may haue all this in Christ and that their Faith may grow and haue these vertues working in them as in the verses following verse 16 17 18. which imply that they had them not as yet from Christ as they should haue hereafter but were only laid vp and prepared for them in Christ The summe then is that no Faith nor Religion giues that accesse to God with that boldnesse so cheerefull and glorious a countenance such a mouth to praise God to pray and speake freely to God to powre out our hearts before him that giues such a Spirit of prayer and of Adoption to cry Abba Father to make a man bold to plead with God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to stand vpon interrogatories with God and to parle with him especially when Satan sinne and conscience accuse Now these vertues are not sanctifying graces in vs in their full perfection but they are such blessings and benefits in Christ as Faith drawes from Christ Therfore he saith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in which Christ they are as in the propper naturall subiect roote and fountaine and Head and which Faith drawes and receiues from Christ or possesseth in him and therefore he saith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and so I come to the obseruations 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in whom that is in Christ By Christ dwelling in vs we haue and exercise these vertues of Christ or Christ shewes himselfe to be in vs and we to be in him by these vertues All sauing good things in vs are sauing vertues in and from Christ Rom. 8.2 1. Pet. 2.9 To shew forth the vertues of him that hath called you out of darkenesse As the soule shewes it selfe to be in the body by the life and vertues it exerciseth in the body such as the body it selfe hath not by its naturall humors So Christ exerciseth such vertues in the heart and soule of a Christian as the heart and reasonable soule haue not naturally As a man shewes himselfe to dwell in a house by the wisedome authoritie power he exerciseth therein So Christ to dwell in vs by faith as in his house when he exerciseth his vertues in vs Eph. 3.17 Heb. 3.6