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B12254	Phōsphoros or A most heauenly and fruitfull sermon, preached the sixt of August. 1615 At the translation of the right Reuerend Father in God, the Archbishop of St. Andrewes to the sea thereof. By Mr. William Covvper B. of Galloway.	Cowper, William, 1568-1619.	1616 (1616)	STC 5932; ESTC S114580	30,693	94

10 by well doing As euery tree is knowne by the fruit so works of grace proue those that haue them to be a tree planted by predestination in the Paradise of God Psal 1. by that riuer of the water of life and that therefore thy leafe shall not fade and thy roote shall not perish because thou art rooted and grounded in Christ Iesus and growest in him who shall for euer conserue the sappe of grace in thy soule The aduersaries calumniate We are no enemies to good workes but to the opinion of meriting by them vs and call vs enemies to good workes but God forbid wee were so Wee condemne no good works only we condemne their presumptuous opinion of the merit of good workes Meriting causes of saluation they are not yet are they witnessing effects thereof without which a man cannot bee saued not that wee are saued by them but because that iustifying faith which whereby wee are saued cannot bee without them for Faith workes by loue In the act Our workes haue no place in Iustification but haue all place in sanctification of iustification we affirme good workes haue no place for a man must first be iustified before he doe any good Nam sequuntur iustificatum in the worke againe of Sanctification they want no place this doctrine they challenge of noueltie but indeed it is Apostolicke consonant also to the doctrine of the ancient and primitiue Church For that assertion of the Apostle This doctrine is warranted by the Apostle Rom. 3. 28 wee conclude that a man is iustified by faith without the works of the Lawe is equiualent to this that a man is iustified by faith only And from the Apostle the ancient Fathers haue drawn this position Sola fide iustificamur Basil de Confess fidei And Apostolick doctors of the Church Basil in his Treatise De Confessione fidei hath it Nos non habemus vnde quicquam gloriemur de iustitia cum ex sola fide in Christum iustificemur We haue not wherof to glorie of righteousnesse seeing wee are iustified by faith onely in Christ Iesus and more notable is that testimony of Ambrose Ambros in Epist ad Rom. cap. 3. Iustificātur gratis quia nihil operantes neque vicem reddētes sola fide iustificati sunt dono Dei by this one sentence he cuts away from iustification their workes both of congruitie and condignity and annulleth their vain distinction of a first and second iustification and in plaine termes hee ascribes our iustification to faith only in Christ With these concurres Augustine Quod autem sequitur propterea vos non auditis Aug. in Ioan cap. 8. Tract 42. quia ex Deo non estis jis dictum est qui non fuerant credituri ea fide qua sola possent a peccatorum obligatione liberari And passing by many others we adde onely the testimony of Bernard Quisquis Ber. in Cant ser 22. pro peccatis compunctus esurit sitit iustitiam credat in te qui iustificas impium solam iustificatus per fidem pacem habebit ad Deum Whosoeuer hee be that is pricked in his heart with sorrow for his sinnes and hungers thirsts Iustification by faith only is the ancient doctrine of the Church for righteousnesse let him beleeue in thee who iustifiest sinners and so being iustified by faith onely hee shall haue peace with God Let them now cease to glory of antiquity let them thinke shame to charge vs with nouelty if they bee not past all bounds of shame for it is manifest to the indifferent reader that we teach no other way now then the Apostles and approued Doctors of elder times haue taught before vs. But leauing this I wish disputing Good workes are witnesses of our faith seales of our saluation about good workes were turned into doing we haue all learned in this age to put good workes out of the chaire of merit and iustly for none should sit in that chaire but Christ Iesus but wee haue not all learned to giue them their owne place in the matter of saluation though they bee not as I sayd meriting causes yet are they witnesses of thy faith and seales of thy saluation thou art not now iustified by them yet shalt thou bee iudged by them and tryed whether if or not thou wert iustified in CHRIST IESVS Oh that our A iust reproofe of fruitlesse professors fruitlesse professors would consider this Tell me I pray you what haue yee to witnesse with you that yee are Christians your word sayes ye are so but all your works witnesse against you your vncleane eyes your dissolute speech your vaine apparell your polluted hands your wandring feete all these proclaime Chrysost in Math. hom 4. you to be Pagans onely with your tongues ye say ye are Christians yee feed not the hungry ye cloath not the naked ye visit not the sick these are the works and such like that wil be brought out as witnesses either with vs and for vs or then against vs. Be not then deceiued to thinke that thy naked word wil proue thee a Christian when none of the workes of Christ can bee seene in thee But it seems many Professors These haue not learned to shew their faith by works are feared for the curse of the Pharisies on whom Christ pronounced a woe because they did their workes to be seene of men they say they do good but neuer man saw it they haue not learned that lesson of S. Iames to Iam. 2. 18. shewe their faith out of their workes for whom it were better that they should be afraid lest they bee cursed with that figge-tree which a farre off seemed fruitful but when our Lord came neere and looked into it longing for some fruit he found none at all and therefore cursed it It was well obserued by Augustine A good worke sincerely done the more publicke it be is the more profitable that a good work if it be done in sincerity the more puhlicke it be the more profitable it is as namely when almes out of a good heart is giuen in publick not only is he benefited that gets it but such as see it are edified thereby Seeing it is so that our works must be our witnesses let vs all indeuour to be more abundant in them To moue vs hereunto I conclude this point with this two-fold consideration First when thy soule shall be sundred from thy body the good thou hast done in thy body shall neuer bee sundred from thy selfe but shall goe with thee Blessed Reuel 19 A twofold cōfortable fruit of good works are the dead that dye in the Lord for they rest from their labour and their works follow them Secondly when thou art dead in thy body and sundred from men yet shalt thou still liue in thy workes and haue thy memory conserued among men Therefore so long as we haue time let vs do good In

Church to liue as he pleaseth and then thinke that he should be followed in all that liketh him Let this pride bee left to Antichristian Prelates and their Pope Caracalla that bloudy and incestuous Emperour learned it from his Step-mother Iulia and they haue receiued it from him Imperatoris esse leges dare non accipere their liberty they esteeme a lawe and their authority an argument good enough No thou art otherwise bound by the lawe of God thou must first bee formed by him thy selfe and according to that forme and none other must thou conforme his people S. Paul exhorts the Corinthians 1. Cor. 4. 16 to bee followers of him but expounds himself in another place Be ye followers of mee as I 1. Cor. 11. 1 am of Christ Yee are the light of the world take heed that the light Math. 5. 14 Luke 11. 35 which is in you bee not turned into darkenesse they who walke not according to this rule are blind Mat. 15. 14 Acts 9. 15 Such an ensample was S. PAVL who carried the message of Christ in his mouth the image of Christ in his life the markes of Christ in his body and pernicious guides of the people For where the blinde leadeth the blinde both must fall into the ditch A worrhy ensample was Saint Paul A chosen Vessell to beare the name of his Lord for he carrieth the message of CHRIST in his mouth the image of Christ in his life the markes of Christ in his body 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and such an ensample willeth he Titus and all other Bishops and Pastors to be first in themselues and then to shew it out vnto the others Shew thy selfe an ensample or as the word in the originall more significantly imports 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 exhibite thy selfe an ensample for the shewe of a good that is not endeth in shame Cum nihl simulatum sit diuturnum All Christians are bound to All Christians are bound to be ensamples shevving out Gods image to others be good ensamples vnto others for as no King will admit in his treasurie counterfait money nor suffer it to go for currant in merchandize among his people 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Macar hom 30. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 euen so a soule vnlesse it haue in it the image of Christ by secret light ingrauen is not meet to bee gathered into the heauenly treasure and the holy Apostles Merchants of the kingdome reiect it as counterfait money not rightly stamped which should not be receined among Saints But howsoeuer this be a common But they are most bound who come nee rest the Lord by a holy calling dutie required of all Christians certaine it is the neerer men come to the Lord in a holy calling the more are they bound to be ensamples of holiness vnto others In the order of Nature wee see the elements seated one aboue another and according to their place they excell one another in purity the earth is the lowest element most remote from heauen and it is the grossest the water naturally compasseth the earth and is purer then the earth the ayre is aboue the water and purer then the water the fire againe is aboue the ayre and a purer element then the ayre the Spheres of Heauen compasse all and are purer then the rest As the world so the Church How the whol Church is a circle the centre and circumference whereof is the Lord. is a circle the Centre and Circumference whereof is the Lord he is the Centre which drawes al to himselfe and in whom all his Saints shall meete in one at the last hee is the Circumference which compasseth vs about to keepe in his Saints that none of them goe from him Let it bee supposed that there are many circles betweene the Centre and the Circumference but these which are neerest the Centre are likest vnto it I will be sanctified Leuit. 10. 3 sayth the Lord in all that comes neere me the neerer by place calling thou come to the Lord the more requires he to be sanctified in thee When the Army of Israel camped in the Wildernesse they were cast in a quadrant three of their Tribes on the West three on the East three on the South and three on the North in the middest of them was the Arke they were all bound to be holy but these Leuites who came neerest the Ark and carried it were bound to be more holy then others In the Reuel 4. 4 new Testament the Church is cast in forme of a circle in the middest whereof God hath his throne all enioy his presence for they are round about him but as yee may see figured by S. Iohn in the type thereof they who are neerest the Throne excell others in holinesse When the Lord proclaimed A fearefull example of iudgment on such as corrupt their waies in a high and holy calling his Lawe vpon Mount Sinai the people were parted in 3. rankes some stood in the valley and might not touch the Mount vnder paine of death others were permitted to goe vp to the Mount as Aaron Nadab Abihu Exod. 24. 11. with the Nobles of Israel these saw the glory of God Ioshua was there also yet none but Moses Verse 18. went vp to the Mount and entred in the cloud That fearefull example of Nadab and Abihu consumed with strange fire from heauen because they became profane and presumptuous to offer strange fire to the Lord euen after that God had preferred them to such high dignitie and place aboue their brethren it should be an aw-band to all those whom GOD hath set neere to himselfe by a holy calling that they corrupt not their wayes before him but as they are warned by MALACHY They keepe themselues in the Spirit lest the like strange wrath from GOD should sodainely ouertake them Of good workes By this same Three rankes of good workes Tit. 2. 12 Apostle in this Chapter good workes are diuided into three rankes for they are eyther workes of Piety toward God or of Equitie toward our neighbour or Sobriety toward our selues and these bring out a threefold fruite most sweet and excellent for by them first God is glorified secondly thy neighbour is edified thirdly thy owne conscience comforted and confirmed in the assurance of thy saluation Of the first speaks the Apostle Let Seruants shewe all faithfulnesse that they may adorne Tit. 2. 10 the doctrine of God our Sauiour in all things there wee see that our The threefold fruit of them good works are an ornament to the Gospell Of the second and first also speakes our Sauiour Let your works so shine before men that they seeing them may glorifie Math. 5. 16 your Father that is in heauē there we see that God is glorified by our godly life and men thereby are edified and moued to do it Of the third speakes S. Peter Make sure your calling and election 2. Pet. 1.