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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13710	Demegoriai Certaine lectures vpon sundry portions of Scripture, in one volume. By Lewys Thomas: 1. Christ traualiing to Ierusalem. 2. Christ purging the temple. 3. The history of our Lords birth. 4. The true-louers canticle. 5. The propheticall kings triumph. 6. The anatomy of tale-bearers. 7. Peters persecution and his deliuerance. 8. Heauens high-way.	Thomas, Lewis, b. 1567 or 8.	1600 (1600)	STC 24002; ESTC S103488	105,094	284

facit qui dat et velle et perficere If wee say we will the Apostle aunswereth God giueth the will If wee say wee doe endeuour God giueth that endeuour for in him is both the will and the worke Most excellent is that place of Paule in the 5. to the Ephe. A voyce for strength so forcible as Sampsons hairie lockes euen to foile whole Armies of aduersaries 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 gratia estis seruati By grace ye are saued through faith not of your selues it is the gift of God not of workes least any man should boast Vita ●ternum Dei donum est Shall wee so vnkindly entertaine this bountifulnes of Gods free mercy as not to accept heereof Yet saith the Papist I le not haue it like a disdainfull proud Merchant vnlesse I may pay for it eyther I le merrit heauen by my works or I le not come there If the Papist had saide he would neuer come there I had the rather beleeued him Certainly if he stay till merit carry him thither vnlesse by merit he vnderstand the merit of Christ he is neuer like to come there In the Lord Iesus Christ. Beleeue in the Lord he doth not say beleeue the Lord. This sheweth the manner howe we ought to beleeue it is one thing credere Deum another thing credere in De● The one is a generall faith such as the deuill hath and his instrumentes the Athiests Daemones cred●nt contremiscunt and Heretiques and all the Reprobates They haue a generall knowledge they Simon Magus credidit ve●am esse docuinam Apostolorum non h●buit tam●n veram sidē 1 10. 4. beleeue and they will acknowledge that there is a God that made the world that gouerneth the world And wee finde this confession of God and of Christ in many places of the Gospell Thou art Christ the Sonne of the lyuing God Wee neuer finde that hee confessed him to be filium homines Daemon agnoscit Christam vt Deū sed nō vt hominē simul Iesus I know and Paule I know but who are yee But we are taught another speciall kinde of fayth which is to beleeue in God and in Christ That is to apply by faith vnto our selues all that GOD hath wrought for vs in his Sonne Christ as that hee hath created vs redeemed vs preserued vs sanctified vs and in time will glorifie vs all in Christ nothing of our selues not for vs but all in Christ and for Christ for vvithout him we can doe nothing Yea this our faith as it comes from vs as of it selfe cannot iustifie nor please God onely it is his will to accept it and vs in it how imperfect soeuer it be because Christ our Lord presenteth it and doth perfect it Nam i●●llo habitat omms plenitudo for in him dwelleth all fulnes This is briefely the substaunce of that saith which beeing planted in vs by the spirit of GOD will bring with it all sauing kn●●ledge This true beleefe is in vs when wee bel●●ue the wholsome Worde of truth All that the Prophets haue written concerning Christ how that hee was borne for vs and dyed for vs and so entred into his glory To beleeue this and to doe there-after so making our election sure as the Ap●s●le warneth vs this is to haue eternall life this is to finde out that saluation which the Iaylour so diligently sought for I shut vp all with this one note the true iustifying faith hath these properties Acquiescit in Christo omnes cius promissiones et merita apprehendus It doth repose it selfe in Christ laying holde on all his promises and merrits Non est temporaria semper cons●ntit doctrinae caelesti per Prophetas et Apostolos traditae Math 13. 20 eum profitetur de ea gloriatur eius cognitione laetatur non ad tempus sed perpetuo It is not for a time but alwayes agreeable with the heauenly doctrine deliuered by the Prophets Apostles the same it professeth of it she glorieth in the knowledge thereof shee reioyceth not for a time but for euer Semper est fructuosa operans per charitem It is alwayes fruitfull and worketh by loue The Scripture mentioneth but two kinds of ●ayth The one a dead faith without good workes which beleeueth all you say of Christ but obserueth not his commandements The other a liuely a iustifying fayth which dooth not onely beleeue but worke also in charity And thus much may be spoken of fayth which as Chrisostome saith No man knoweth or vnderstandeth a-right but he that receaueth it as no man knoweth the sauour of honey but he that hath seene it and tasted it This faith as the same holy man also writeth is Lumen animae ostium vitae fundamentum salutis ●ternae Hee that hath this faith hath already the kingdom of God within him and he may say as Iacob did when he rested him in Bethel and this is no other but the house of God this is the gate of heauen Lord. Lord importeth his soueraignty and power in that he is a Lord he is able to saue vs and to protect vs if we submit our selues to his gouernment In that he is called a Lord wee must be directed onely by him he must raigne in vs and ouer vs. The homage wee must pay to this our Lord and King is our selues our soules and bodies A liuing sacrifice holy and acceptable vnto God which is our reasonable seruice of God If I be a Lord where is mine honour sayth the Lord by Malachy God wil not be our Lord vnlesse we will become his seruaunts but if wee serue the world or our lusts or our vanities then we cast his yoake from vs. Iesus Signifieth a Sauiour I came not to destroy but that the world in me might haue life And this is eternall life to beleeue that God hath sent his sonne They shall call his name Iesus for he shall saue his people from their sinnes There is no other name giuen vnder heauen whereby we must be saued neither is saluation in any other Christ. Vnctus The Lord hath annoynted him with the oile of gladnes aboue his fellowes Heb. 1. Kings Priests and Prophets were first anoynted before they executed their offices And Christ our Lorde beeing a King a Priest and a Prophet is likewise annoynted to execute his three-fold office for vs in gouerning sacrifycing and praying for vs. He was a Prophet the last of the prophets who now hath sealed vp both vision and prophecie and the whole misterie of godlines which is God is manifested in the 1. Tim 3. 16 flesh iustified in the spirit s●●ne of Angels preached vnto the Gentiles beleeued on in the world and receu●ed vp in glory And thou shalt be saued and thine houshold Behold heere the wondersull cōfort presented vpon a suddaine to this laylour Saluation is freely in this place offered vnto him by faith in Christ whom Paul Sylas preached Neuer was the coole shadow so comfortable to the weary traueler in the extremity of Sommers drought as this glad tydings of saluation was to this distres●ed Iaylour Sin and s●than seazed vpon him before as the legion of fi●nds vppon the heard of Swine but now he hath separated frō him his sinnes and quite expulsed all the inty●ing vanities of this decei●full world hee runneth to Christ faster then Zacheus out of the wilde fig-tree Before hee was vnder the wrath of God but nowe hee is vnder grace and is vppon a suddaine become an elect vessell of mercy And thine houshold See howe full the riuers of God are and how vniuersally they streame foorth to water the harts of all Christians that are apt to receiue them Not the Iaylour alone hath the benefit of this wholeso●e Emplayster but his whole houshold are salued as wel as himselfe they for his sake haue a promise of the like grace Seruaunts may be glad that are in seruice vnder a religious Maister for that the blessings of God in the Maister are deriued vnto them Here we may cry out with Paul O the riches of Gods mercisulnes And with Moses Dominus domtnus potens et misericors slow to anger and abundant in mercy and truth reseruing mercy for thousands The housholder himselfe and his family chyldren seruaunts and all are saued The vnbelceuing wife shall be accepted for the beleeuing husband in this place the houshold is accepted for the housholder And this that hath beene spoken shall suffize for the clearing of this story of the Iaylour In whose example we are called vpon to make straite steps vnto our paths and to be alwayes deuising what wee may doe to be saued He ranue to the Apostles to learne how he might be saued we must also run to the Apostles that is to the word and we shall be sure to be informed as he was in the way of our saluation We must apply to our sick soules the benefit of the same emplaister and we must beleeue in the Lord Iesus as he did that is Let vs acknowledge him alone to bee our Messias our Redeemer Aduocate and according to this faith let vs work and fructifie by testifying the same both to the world and our own consciences and then shall this vndoubtedly follow We shall be saued and our housholds Soli Deo gloria