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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00669	A sermon preached at St. Mary Spittle on Easter Tuesday 1613. By Roger Fenton D. in Diuinitie	Fenton, Roger, 1565-1616.	1616 (1616)	STC 10804; ESTC S115028	43,251	226

these words it is first to belieue to acknowledge and to professe the same not to denie the power of them in their liues and conuersations no not to denie them in that extremity wherein Iob now lies These three I take to containe the full sense of these words For it is not sufficient by the Leuiticall Law whose ground is morall to chew the cudde but also to deuide the hoofe our feete must bee cleane as well as our mouthes though our lips be neuer so holy yet notwithstanding if our waies be vncleane wee are as abominable vnto almighty God as those that haue all vncleane All is one to the beast in the 13. of the Reuelat. the 16. whether we haue his marke in the forehead or in the right hand all is one to Satan many there be that haue very smothe foreheads and carrie a goodly profession of religion yet notwithstanding their hands are full of iniquity Iob was as well in life and profession an vpright iust man one that feared God and eschewed euill an vpright man first as God saith of him a iust man towards others in distributing vertues and all this out of conscience and religion one that feared God and though as the Apostle saith euill is alwaies with mee yet he laboureth to eschew euill so that hee denied not the power of that he professed he performed the power of the word of God in life and conuersation and that not only in prosperitie but in his extremity in sickenesse and miserie It is an easie matter not to denie the word of God so long as the Lord pleaseth vs in prosperity but Iob would say the Lord hath giuen and the Lord hath taken yet notwithstanding blessed bee the name of the Lord so wee see for the clearenes of his conscience in the 6. chapter the 25. ver how he challenges his accusers Can any of you iustly accuse me this cleare conscience wrought in him true magnanimitie and it is that makes a man strong as a Lyon as Salomon saith As Christ is said to sleepe in the shippe in the tempest so this is the onely pillow whereon a man must rest when his conscience tells him hee is vpright though through infirmitie yet hee hath done his poore indeauor to keepe the wordes of the holy one indeed without this cleare conscience let neuer any man presume of faith for it is but a counterfet faith the wordes of the holy one being first sowne as wee see in the heart that seed knit vnto the roote of faith that roote brings out a tree of Charitie that tree beares the fruite of good workes so as it is true indeed we are our selues iustified before God onely by faith but our faith is iustified to our owne conscience by charity and our charitie must bee iustified before the world by our fruites of charity and by our godly liues and conuersations Faith it is an illumination it is hard to distinguish betweene the illumination of the true spirit and the illusion of the false therefore it hath pleased Almightie God with that heauenly faith to ioyne another vertue of Charitie that a mans owne conscience may testifie whether his faith be counterfet or no and because the world cannot see into the heart therefore that Charitie must bee iustified by workes and a good conscience ioynes all these together this is the ground of the resolution of that holy man Iob wherfore he doth desire to be out of this world You haue heard briefly the commendable miserie of this holy man of God Iob which as you see doth remaine vpon record not so much for his commendations as for our instruction yet for both Shall I commend beloued this our Brother here departed vnto you he hears it not his friends desire it not I haue not receiued any information concerning him of any because hee affected it not what then a mans name is like his shadow the faster hee runnes away the faster it followes the memoriall of the righteous shall bee blessed reputed hee was for an vpright and iust man in all his dealings let me vse the plaine dialect of the world I like the phrase well hee was an honest man which ciuill honesty did grow out of conscience and the feare of God in him for that is the holy salt that must season all without which there is no sacrifice that can bee acceptable vnto him In religion he was not factious if he had had occasion to speake of any that were of other opinions if hee conceiued them to be honest men he would speake of them so charitably as if he did euer remember the Apostles rule the 3. to the Philip. the 15 verse those that are perfect be thus minded and those that are otherwise minded God shall reueale it vnto thee also The marke of Iesus Christ I make no question was in his hand as well as in his forehead his workes were answerable to his profession In his owne familie I haue obserued that he was neither a sheepe nor a Lyon but a painefull and a watchfull Shepheard labouring by all meanes diligence to bring his seruants to good to worke in their thoughts true religion to examine and catechise them such a comfortable Guide both for soule and body that I thinke hee might haue giuen example in that kinde to the best To his friends and acquaintance most louing kinde and true hearted I dare say they that had occasion to trie him would testifie no lesse In this Parish hee hath not beene of many yeeres growth and so scarce incorporated but a man might easily perceue him to be both of that Spirit if the cause did require and withall of that wisedome to temper his Spirit as I may iustly say we haue lost a worthy member in the Church of Christ hee was a true liuing stone manifesting his liuely faith as by his religious conuersation in generall so by his forwardnesse in any good worke whatsoeuer and hee would doe it in that fashion as the left hand should not know what the right hand did his heart delighted in the word of God and hearing of the same hee did flourish in the house of our God his wife and family friends and kindred neighbours and acquaintance of the place wherein hee did most reside I suppose can testifie more then I say grounded hee was in a true Christian faith and had learned Iobs grace of Dominus abstulit he was a true Eagle hee looked through a thicke cloude of a long and tedious sicknesse vnto the happy issue and end of all during which time of sicknesse hee shewed such a Christian resolution that when many had thought hee himselfe had stood most in neede of comfort then was hee most comfortable vnto others I euer found him like himselfe from the beginning of his sicknes to the end hee burned in sorrow God loued him and yet spared him not and now no doubt hee doth rest in God blessed be the name of God for that