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A20805	The lambes spouse or the heauenly bride A theologicall discourse, wherin the contract betwixt Christ and the church; the preparation against the mariage; and the solemnization it selfe, and the exclusion of hypocrites and temporizers, is plainly and profitably, with the partucular vses, set forth. Whereunto is annexed an exact preparatiue to the Lords Supper. By T.D. Minister of the word of God.	Draxe, Thomas, d. 1618.	1608 (1608)	STC 7185; ESTC S114693	59,295	211

we want it wee must vse the meanes to get and obtai●e it and if wee finde our selues possessed with it wee must then preserue cherish and norish this holy flame with the knowledg● of Gods word with the vse of the Sacraments by conference by meditation by prayer by practise of good workes and by hope expecting and waiting for the ende of it euen the saluation of our soules For first our faith through the frequency and violence of temptations is often fore assaulted and weakened and therefore it had neede be repayred and confirmed Secondly onely that faith that vsually doth growe and encrease is the sauing and liuely faith and shall neuer be extinct for defect of oile nor pine away by any spirituall consumption but continueth firme and vnmoueable and obtaineth the promises Eph. 4. 11. 12. 13. Lastly if faith haue not as before specified his continuall supply of food it will faile as the wine did at the mariage in Cana of Galil if it be not norished and preserued it will wither like the corne sowen in the stony ground for want of moisture and it wil be lost as we see how it was in the foolish virgins at the Bride groomes comming and that argued that it was not true faith in existence but onely in apparence and that it was rather an opinion then a deepe impression for otherwise the faith of Peter and so of Gods elect shall not faile and the gifts of God namely that directly concerne saluation are without repentance Luk 22. 32. Rom. 11. 19. neuer extinct or taken away But that neither with the ignorant nor with the hypocrites nor yet with the Papists and other heretikes wee content and deceiue our selues with a mocke faith an historicall and temporary faith or with a crackt and erronious faith insteed of that which is sauing and iustifying we must found and search our soules whether wee bee Orthodoxe and vncorrupt in the principles of faith whether we rest wholy vpon the right obiect whether it be ioyned with particuler application and lastly whether we discerne and find in our selues the inward outward signes and euidences of it for then vndoubtedly wee haue that faith that iustifieth the sinner purgeth the heart engrafteth vs into Christ and saueth our soules But of these and the like particulers briefely and in order Principles and foundations of faith are these preaching of the word of God is the ordinary and principall meanes of saluation Rom. 10 14. Christ is both God and Man in one person perfect GOD and perfect man man to suffer and dye and satisfie for sinne in our nature that had offended and God to support his humanitie to giue efficacie and power to his doctrine and miracles and to adde infinite merite and desert to all his actions and sufferings Thirdly onely faith is the hand and instrument to apprehend and apply CHRIST vnto vs with all his blessing● and so to iustifie vs. Faith is like the eye which albeit in the acte and vertue of seeing it is alone yet not solitarye and alone in the bodye but ioyned to other parts so faith albeit it alone iustifieth vs before GOD yet it is not solitarie and alone but alwayes according to the proportion of it accompanied with holy life and good workes Gal. 5. verse 6. There are onely two Sacraments which Christ instituted and left vnto the Church Baptisme the sacrament of our new birth and entrance into christianity the outward signe whereof is Water and the Lords Supper the sacrament of our growth and perfect nourishment and encrease in Christianity the outward signes and matter whereof are Bread and Wine remaining both Bread and Wine for substance both in the sacramentall vse of them and afterwards as Paul maketh it manifest 1. Cor. 11. 26. 27. That no man performe and fulfill the lawe and therfore no man is to hope and looke for righteousnesse and saluation by that obedience which hee sheweth to the lawe Rom. 8. 3. Gal. 2. 15. 16. That we cannot make satisfaction to God for the least of our sinnes but that Christ alone hath most fully and onely performed it 1. Pet. 2. 24. Apoc. 1. 5. 6. That the saluation of all that beleeue is certaine and infallible not onely in Gods decree but also to themselues Rom. 8. 38. Heb. 10. 22. and therefore that the opinion of the Papists is wicked which make faith vncertaine and so holde our saluation to bee doubtfull That all doctrine necessary to saluation is contained in the Scriptures so that nothing is either to be added to it or detracted from it Deut. 4. 2. Apoc. 22. 18. 19. Gal. 1. 8. That the knowledge of the Scriptures are necessary for all sorts of people for their saluation and therefore that they ought to read them that they may thereby learne and vnderstand what God would haue them to beleeue and doe Iohn 5. 39. Mar. 12. 24. Math 22. 29. That God alone is to be adored of vs and that no part of diuine worship is to bee giuen vnto any creature Math. 4. 10. That holinesse of life good workes as effects and consequents of faith and the way wherein wee should walke Ephes. 2. 10. is necessarily required of all that will be saued Hebr. 12. That the Sacraments are onelye signes and seales of righteousnesse and not causes of saluation and therefore our saluation doth not so depend vpon them that they that want them must needs bee damned whereas our saluation consisteth onely in Christ his merits Marc. 16. 16. which none can dispoile and dismantle vs of That Christ his body was but once conceiued of the substance of the Virgin Mary and cannot bee made of any other matter and that CHRIST hath onely one body and therefore it is not made of Wheate bread as the Papists say it is dayly for it is not the seede of Dauid and bread is not the flesh of the Virgin That the humaine nature of Christ is now onely resident and contained in heauen and therefore it is not to be adored in earth Acts. 3. That the whole force vertue and efficacie of our saluation and redemption is in the onely and once offered sacrifice of CHRIST Heb. 10. 12. 14. and that this sacrifice could bee offered of none but Christ who was to be a Priest for euer Lastly to omit diuers other articles which bee more plaine and confessed it is a foundation of faith to know beleeue and hold that then immediatly after the dissolution from the body the soules of the righteous are carryed by the Angels into heauen and the soules of the wicked and impenitent are carryed by the diuill into hell and that the same bodyes with all their perfect partes and demensions shall for substance bee raised vp by CHRIST at the day of iudgment Iob. 19. 25. 26. Of this maine and principall article many are ignorant or at least not iuditiously and soundly perswaded as may appeare by the examinatiō of the ignorant people both

An outward ●igne or ●eale ordayned of God to confirme our fayth in the c●rtenty of our redemption and to signifie and seale vnto vs the graces and benefits that ●lowe thence Gen. 17. 11. Rom. 4. Qu. What are the endes of Sacraments in generall An. First and princially to confirme our faith in the promises of grace and to be seales and pledges thereof vnto vs. 1 Cor. 10. 16. Rom. 6. 3. Gal. 3. 2. 6. Secondly to distinguish vs from all Infidells and Atheists whatsoeuer Thirdly to preserue the remembrance and memory of Christ his benefits Exod. 12. 14. Luk. 22. ver 19. Lastly to bind vnite vs more firmly to God and his seruice and to one another Qu. Are the Sacraments necessary to saluation Ans. Yes for first God in his wisedome and mercy hath instituted them to that end and hath also commaunded them to be vsed Secondly by the refusall and contempt of them we declare our selues to bee none of Christs desciples of whome these Sacraments are badges Thirdly during this mortality we are weake infaith ful of infirmities therfore haue need of thē Qu. But are the Sacraments so simply and absolutely needfull to sal●ation that hee that wanteth them cannot bee saued An. No for first not the want but the contempt of them damneth Secondly the Israelits in the Wildernesse wanted them 40. yeares but were not therefore condemned the theife vpon the Crosse was saued albeit neuer baptized Luke 23. Lastly damnation is denounced to the vnbeleeuer and impenitent person and not to haue that without his owne defaute is depriued of the Sacraments Qu. Then grace and remission of sinnes is not inherent in annexed and tied so to the Sacraments that whosoeuer vseth them should by his very act of receiuing be partaker of it An. No for first it is the proper worke of God to confer grace albeit ordinarily by the means Secondly the Sacraments are signes seales of grace but not causes therof Thirdly their nature and substance is not changed therfore they cannot of themselues conferre grace Lastly Achit●phell Simon Magus Iudas were Partakers of the Sacraments yet because they wanted faith they receued no good by them for here in regard of vs faith is all in all Heb. 4 ver 2. Qu. If there be no grace contained and inherent in the Sacraments why are the signes and the things signified called so often in Scripture by one and the same name Exo. 12. 11. 1. Cor. 5. 7. Math. 26. 28. 1. Cor. 11. 24. Ans. They are often times thus named onely to shew the straite vnion and neere coniunction that is betwixt the signes and the things signified in the beleeuers for at what time they in faith receiue the signes God by his spirit conferreth the things signified Qu. What difference is there betwixt the word Preached and the Sacraments Ans. Frst the word preached is only audible and propounded to the eares but the sacraments are sensible and offered subiect to the sense of seeing fasting handling Secondly grace is offered in the word more generally but in the Sacrament more particularly Thirdly the word is preached both to beleeuers and vnbeleeuers but the sacraments especialy that of the Lords supper are communicated to those that beleeue or at least thus probably iudged Forthly the word is of force towards faith and saluation without or before that the Sacraments bee receiued as may appeare in Abraham Gen. The Enuch Act. 8. Corn. Act. 10. ve 2. 3. and 44. 45. but the sacrament without the word is of no validity I meane the words of Institution Qu. How are Sacraments deuided A. Into Sacraments of the old Testament Sacraments of the New Qu. What is a Sacrament of the old Testament A. That which was instituted ordaned of God for the faithfull before Christs in carnation Qu. Of How many sortes was it Ans. Of two sortes ordinary and extraordinary Q what were their ordinary Sacramēts An. Circumcision and the passouer Qu. What is Circumcision An. An ordinary Sacrament of the old Testament whereby by reason of the cutting off circumcizing of the foreskin the premise of grace that is of redemption sanctification in the Messias to come was signified and sealed Gen. 7. ver 11. 12. Rom. 4. 11. Qu What is the Passeouer An. An ordinary Sacrament of the old Testament whereby by the eating of a Lambe the beleeuers were put in mind of their deliuerance out of Egypt and especially were confirmed concerning their redemption from the power of Satan sinne and death to be performed by Christ that was then to come Qu. What were the extraordinary Sacraments of the old Testament An. Those that were not so solemly repeated of this sort was the arke wherein Noe and his family were preserued in the time of the deluge and hereby was signified sealed our preseruation from eternall damnation by Christ 1. Pe. 3. 3. 20. Such like Sacraments were the baptisme of the cloud of the sea 1. Cor. 10. 1. 2. likewise the eating of Manna the drinking of the water flowing out of the rocke ibid vers 3. and 4. Q. what are the Sacraments of the new Testament A. Those which Christ the mediator of mankind being now exhibited did institute ordaine for his that be●eeued Q what how many are these sacramēts Ans. Onely two Baptisme and the Lords supper Q. What difference is there betweene the Sacraments of the old Testament and of the new that succeede them Ans. They are both the same altogether in substance or in respect of the thing signified for as the substance of the word was the same in the time of the old Testament and of the New so also the substance of the Sacraments this is made plaine by diuers places of Scripture ●ebr 13. 8. Collo 2. ver 11. 1. Cor. 5. 11. Qu. How then do they differ Ans. Only in certaine circumstances and accidents as for example First they differ in the externall signe or element Secondly in number for they were more in number but these few Thirdly in manner of signification for they signified Christ to come and therfore were more darke but these Christ presented and exhibited and therefore more plaine and easie Lastly they differ in time and person for the Sacraments of the old Testament were proper to the Iewes and lasted onely vnto the comming of the Messias but the Sacraments of the new Testament are common both to Iewes Gentiles doe continue vnto the worlds end Qu. How many things are wee to consider in a Sacrament Answ. Three first the outwarde signe or matter Secondly the thing signified Thirdly the forme order and analogy between the signe the thing signified Qu. VVhat is the signe An. The outward or sensible matter which is the substance the externall act●ons cōuersant about the sacramēt which is the accidentall circumstance Q What are the things signifyed by thē Ans. Christ with all his mercies and sauing graces