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A04847	The spirituall architecture. Or, the balance of Gods sanctuary to discerne the weigh and solidity of a true and sincere, from the leuitie, and vanitie of a false and counterfeit profession of Christianity. Wherein also the sandy foundations of the papisticall faith are briefely discouered. A sermon preached at Pauls Crosse the 16. of Nouember, 1623. by Robert Barrell, Master of Arts, and minister of Gods word at Maidstone in Kent	Barrell, Robert.	1624 (1624)	STC 1498; ESTC S120643	59,486	84

23 traditions of men and the rudiments of the world and not after Christ as many Popish deuotions are namely their pilgrimages inuocations of Saints and Angells adorations of Saints reliques and Images and building of Monasteries for lazie Monkes which are g Tit. 1.12 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 euill beasts slow bellies then they are at the best but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a wil worship and bodily exercise and profite nothing of which God may truely say h Esa 1.12 who hath required these things at your hand But if they bee such as God hath commanded i Lact. Jnstit 15 such as haue true Religion for their root and piety and charity for the two maine branches whereon they grow then they be accepted of God and approoued of men Rom. 14.18 And such haue beene the good workes of this honourable city namely founding of Hospitalls for poore Orphanes decayed Gentlemen and Trades-men maimed Souldiers c. that their k Ihb 21.20 Loynes and soules may blesse you and blesse God for you and erecting of Grammer Schooles for the training vp of youth in good letters and such like in which kind of good workes I dare bee bold to say that our beautifull Rachel .i. true Religion hath beene more fruitfull in one age See Willets Catalogue of the Protestants good workes annexed to his Synopsi Papis than their bleare-eyed Leah .i. blind Popish superstition hath beene in many ages And I heartily pray that in all such good workes yee may abound yet more and more and that your charitie may be like the good a 2. Reg. 4.6 Shunamites oyle euer flowing till there bee empty vessels to receiue it Condit 4 4. The fourth condition is that they be done to a good end and with an vpright intention not that they may be masques and vizards to couer the vgly faces of crying oppression blood-sucking extortion cunning fraud and griping vsury from the eyes of the world for those that doe good workes to such ends are like their Father the Diuell transforming themselues into Angels of light and seeming to be Saints when they be very diuells and Sathans hell-hounds neither can such figge-leaues couer their nakednesse from the eyes of men much lesse from the eyes of God Nor that they may be trumpets to proclaime and blow our fame abroad in the world as b Mat. 6.2 the Pharises in giuing their almes caused a trumpet to be blowne before them c Ber. Ser. 30. in Cant. Quot enim quales piorum botros operum aut tulit iactantia aut faedauit inanis gloria for how many clusters of the grapes of good workes hath pride and vaine-glory corrupted and pluckt off from the vines that bare them Bonorum operum fines but the ends of our good workes must be these 1. Gods glory d Mat. 5.16 c. 6.9 Let your light so shine before men that they may see your workes and glorifie your father which is in heauen for that must be the prime end of our actions which Christ hath taught vs to make the first of our petitions namely that Gods name may be glorified And if we glorifie God by the fruites of righteousnesse here on earth hee will glorifie vs with a crowne of righteousnesse hereafter in heauen 2. The good of his Church and our Christian brethren whose good we must tender as our owne as fellow souldiers of the same campe fellow Citizens of the same city of God fellow-seruants of the same family and fellow members of the same mysticall body 3. The saluation of our owne soules which wee must prize more then the whole world Mat. 16.26 a Aug. in Psal 120. Noli facere nisi propter vitam aeternam ideo fac securus facies Haue no sinister intention in the doing of thy good workes but aime therein at thine owne saluation doe them to that end and thou shalt deale securely For a true Christian though he must renounce his owne merit in his well doing and suffering for Christs sake yet hee may haue an b Heb. 11.26 eye to the recompence of reward with Moses c 2. Tim. 4.8 to the crowne of righteousnesse with Saint Paul and d Heb. 12.2 to the glory set before him with Christ himselfe as a spurre to pricke him forward to well doing and a cordiall to comfort him in his suffering Yea hee may safely expect it also without all pride and praesumption yet not as due by his owne desert but by Gods faithfull promise e Psal 146.6 who keepes his fidelity for euer and f Rom. 2.6 rewards euery man according to his workes The good workes done to those ends may absolutely and in euery respect be termed good g Bonū triplex 1. In se cui fit sed non facienti for the Schoolemen distinguish of a threefold good worke 1. Good in it selfe and to him vnto whom it is done but not to the doer as when a man giues an almes to a needy person not out of charity but out of pride and vaine glory to bee seene of men 2. 2. Jn se facienti sed non cui fii In it selfe and to the doer but not vnto him to whom it is done as when out of our charity we bestow an almes vpon an idle person 3. 3 In se cui fii facienti In it selfe and to the doer and to him also to whom it is done as when wee giue an almes to one that truely wants not for our own but Christ his sake h 2. Sam. 9.7 As Dauid did good to poore Mephiboseth for Jonathans sake Applic. Let me exhort you therefore who with charitable Dorcas i Act. 9.36 are full of good workes and almes which ye doe not k Mat. 6.1 2. Pharisaically to cause a trumpet to bee blowne before you when ye giue your almes or to doe your good work● to be seene of men for then although yee haue the reward ye now looke for and hunt after vpon earth ye shall loose the reward which ye should looke for in heauen Vers 3. your temporall vaineglory will rob you of eternall true glory but doe them in secret and for the ends before specified and your Father which seeth you in secret will reward you openly Vers 4. And the lesse ye seeke for your owne glory on earth the more ye shall obtaine it the faster ye flye from it the faster it will pursue you as the shadow the body for a good name is the inseparable companion of well doing And by doing bona bene Fructus bonerum operum 1. Am●r i. Good workes to good ends ye shall vndoubtedly reape these fruites 1. Loue honour and reuerence among men so that they will reioyce to enioy and grieue to loose you a 2 Reg. 2.12 as Elisha did for Elias at his assumption My father my father the chariot of Jsraell and horsemen thereof and b

hard and flinty heart which disobedience and rebellion had shut vp and closed This doing of Gods word consists in two things Esa 1.16 17. Rom. 15.8 Eph. 4.22 23 24. 1. In ceasing to do euill and 2. In learning to do well In casting off the workes of darknesse and putting on the armour of light In putting off the old man and putting on the new c. 1. We must mortifie sinne in our earthly members c. Col. 3.5 and crucifie the flesh with the affections and lusts Gal. 5.24 e Ber. Ser. 30. in Cant. which is a kind of Spirituall Martyrdome And this must bee done 1. Speedily f Luc. 12.40 because we know not what day or houre the Sonne of man will come to call vs to an account g 2. Cor. 5.10 for the deedes done in the body whether they be good or euill 2. Totally h 1. Sam. 15 9 c. for in destroying these spiritual Amalekites we must not spare one Agag neither may we foster one i Iud. 16.4 c. Dalila or k Mat. 14.4 Herodias in our bosomes .i. one darling or beloued sinne least that one though we thinke it but a little one as l Gen. 19.20 Lot said of Zoar incense Gods iust wrath and worke our deserued destruction for if any of these m Iud. 2. 3. Canaanites remaine within our borders they will be prickes in our eyes and thornes in our sides wounds in our soules and vlcers in our conscienences giuing our soules no rest but still vexing and molesting vs. 3. Finally that wee returne no more a 2. Pet. 2.21 ●2 with the dogge to his vomit or the sow that is washed to her wallowing in the mire for it had been better for vs neuer to haue known the way of righteousnesse than hauing knowne it to turne from the holy commandement giuen vnto vs. A true poenitent hates sinne once repented of more mortally than b 2 Sam. 13.15 Ammon did Thamar after he had defloured her or c Gen. 27 35. Esau did Jacob after he had supplanted him twice and deceiued him both of his birthright and blessing For sinne is in this respect a true Iacob a supplanter indeed 1. It supplants vs and depriues vs of our birthright or interest vnto the kingdome of heauen which we should haue had by Christ Iesus the true heire of heauen 2. It depriues vs of all Gods blessings temporall spirituall and eternall and therefore is to be mortally hated and vtterly reiected 2. We must doe good d Mat 3.8 bringing foorth fruites worthy amendment of life and e Col. 1.10 walking worthy of the Lord endeauouring to please him in all things beeing fruitfull in all good workes and abounding in the knowledge of God And to the end our workes may bee truely good and such as God accepteth wee must obserue these conditions 1. That our selues bee in Christ ingraffed into him as branches into the stocke and incorporated as members with their head by the bond of the spirit and hand of faith f ● Cor. 5.17 If any man be in Christ let him be a new creature First he must be in Christ and then a new creature It is the axiome of the Schoole Diuines Regula Scholast Complacentia operis praesupponit complacentiam personae The worke can neuer bee accepted except the person be first accepted g Gen. 4.4.5 as we see in Cain and Abel Therefore S. Aug. saith of the vertues of the Heathens as the iustice of Aristides the temperance of Fabritius c. that they are but h Aug in Ps 31. Splendida peccata .i. Glistring or glorious sinnes and i Et Ser. 55. de ver dom in Ioh. Cursus celerimus praeter viam .i. a most swift course but out of the way and saith moreouer k Et in Psal 83. That their chickens were trodden vnder foote by God because they were not hatched in the nest of the Church meaning that their good workes were reiected of God because themselues were not members of the Christian Church 2. That our good workes proceed a 1. Tim. 1.5 from a pure heart a good conscience and faith vnfained for the spirit of grace is the father and faith the mother of good workes the one the root and the other the iuice of that tree that brings foorth good fruit b Ber. Ser. 30. in Cant. Nec palmites absque vite nec virtus absque fide True vertue can bee no more without true faith than the branches without the vine in which they grow and by which they liue and are nourished c 1. Reg. 6.34 The two doores of the Sanctum Sanctorum had folding leaues clasping in each other to teach vs that the two doores of faith and charity by which Christ enters into our soules as his holy Temples must neuer be separated but Se inuicem tenere .i. Fold in one the other and claspe hands together d Leo magnus Sicut enim in fide est operum ratio sic in operibus fidei fortitudo As faith is the norme or squire to rule out our good workees so good workes are the proppe or pillar to vphold and strengthen our faith For faith and good workes be fundamentall stones in the spirituall building of our soules to be an holy Temple in the Lord e Eph 2. vlt. an habitation of God by the spirit but they both leane vpon relye vpon and are borne vp and sustained by the greatest and chiefest corner-stone Christ Iesus Maldonate Mald. in loc therefore the Iesuite doth falsely taxe vs in his Commentaries vpon this text for building on the sand because wee teach with S. Paul That f Rom. 3.28 faith alone doth iustifie without the workes of the law seeing wee teach withall that charity is the life and soule of faith and that a true iustifying faith must needs be operatiue and fruitfull in charity g Iac. 2. vlt. for as the body without the soule so faith without charity is dead We teach indeed and that according to the Scriptures that in the act of Iustification faith is alone Thesis nostra Fides est sola quoad actum iustificandi non solitaria quoad actum existendi because wee beleeue that not any merit of our owne workes but the merit of Christ his perfect obedience actiue and passiue doth purchase at Gods hands the remission of our sinnes and makes our peace and reconciliation with him and faith alone is the eye whereby wee behold Christ and the hand of the soule which wee stretch out to lay hold on him and to apply the plasture of his pretious merits to our wounded soules and to open the rich treasurie or caskenet of his spirituall graces vnto vs thereforethough we teach that faith is alone in that act as most proper thereunto as the eye is alone in the act of seeing the eare in the act of hearing and the