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A18973	Three sermons vpon Marke, the ninth chapter, 22.23. verses Containing fifteene doctrines, the particulars whereof appeare in the next pages following. / By Robert Cleauer.	Cleaver, Robert, 1561 or 2-ca. 1625.	1611 (1611)	STC 5392; ESTC S118642	34,073	58

him that so they might freely take her vnto themselues Here we see carnall reason did oppose it selfe against his faith and in this particular ouerswaied him And so it was with Zacharie the husband of Elizabet though ouerwise a true beleeuer when he heard of the Angell that he should haue a sonne in his old age he was so intangled with carnall conceites that he could not giue credit thereto I am olde saith he Luke 1. 18. and my wife is olde and is it possible that such olde people as we are should haue a childe And in the same case did Sarah faile though she were the Matriarch of holy women Gen. 18. 12. when she was tolde that she should beare a sonne she laughed at it as if it were a ridiculous thing to beleeue any such matter and as carnall reason doth hinder the faith of Gods seruants so also doe distempered passions as anger and feare and the like As we may note in Moses though an admirable man and such an one as in other cases had shewed a care and worthie faith yet being vexed and troubled at the rebellious disposition of the people of Israel he manifested great vnbeliefe for when God promised him to feede all that people for a moneth with flesh in the wildernes he doubted how it could be What ●aith he Nū 11. 21. 22 shall all the beastes be killed for hem and shall all the fishes of the Sea be gathered together to make prouision for them As if God had ouershot himselfe in making them such a large promise as he would not be able to stand too Vse 1. Heere then are they to bee confuted that neuer had anie faith at all and yet thinke that they can beleeue whatsoeuer God telleth them yea they make that an argument of the strength of their faith that they perswade themselues they can beleeue at their pleasure I dare vndertake say they that I doe beleeue and will beleeue that I doe repent and will repent both which come to one reckoning and that as well as the proudest of them and therein they say true indeed as well as the proudest for the proud beleeue not at all but haue the Lord himselfe Iam. 4. to resist them when hee giueth grace to the humble Neither haue such boasters any faith at all for if they knew what it meant they would neuer so presume vpon their owne strength Vse 2. Secondly let this teach vs when wee goe about any seruice of God not to rest vpon that olde store of faith which we haue nor to be so confident thereof as to say If now I were to heare the word or to be partaker of the Sacrament I am sufficiētly prouided without any more adoe or if this or that crosse should fall vpon mee I haue vndergone greater matters then that comes too and therefore I know I shall not shrinke vnder it Let vs not I say thus builde vpon our owne strength but let euery one rather come to this my faith is not mine owne I cannot beleeue what when I will and therefore Lord make me to beleeue whatsoeuer is needfull according as occasion shall be offered if we doe not thus we shall finde by wofull experience that though we haue the shield of faith yet when we come into the field against our aduersaries we shall not be able to vse it either to Gods glorie or our owne safegard All things are possible to him that beleeueth If faith be set a worke nothing is so hard and difficult but it will goe thorough therewith whence obserue this doctrine that Doct. 3. The faithfull are strongest and happiest Of all the men in the world godly beleeuers are the most mightie and most happie None haue so great power nor so good an estate as the faithfull for they conquer the world that is internall corruptions and outward allurements according to that of the Apostle Iohn 1. Iohn 5. 4. This is our victorie whereby we ouercome the world euen our faith Without this it is impossible for men to get victorie ouer themselues and ouer their worldly lusts be they neuer so great and mightie in the earth nay the mightier they are the weaker in this conflict the world hath them in the greatest seruitude of all others it puts them as it were into the dungeon and holdes them fast in the stockes and makes them the most miserable bondslaues that are vnto pride and sensualitie and all kinde of voluptuousnes 2 Againe as faith makes men conquerers ouer the world so doth it also ouer the diuell for 1. Pet. 5. 9. Iam. 4. 7. if we resist him stedfast in the faith he will flie from vs. And concerning all other difficulties let vs reade the 11. Chap. of the Epistle to the Hebrewes where the wonderfull and strange effects of faith are at large spoken of and there we shall easily perceiue that the most incredible things that can be imagined haue by vertue thereof beene effected and accomplished Reasons And the reason hereof is 1. First because faithfull men doe lay holde of God himselfe and of his all-sufficiencie and therfore hauing the enioyment of his fauour what can be wanting vnto them 2 Secondly they build vpon the truth of God for faith is not euery slight imagination of a frenticke braine but a setled perswasion grounded on the word of God and therefore if the scriptures say simplie and without exception that they shall haue any thing they rest vpon it without any wauering but if the scriptures promise with condition onely they doe conditionally expect the things so promised and by this meanes their happinesse is as large as Gods promises and their hopes are ratified by the truth of his word Numb 23. 23. who is not as man that he should lie and of whom it is said Rom. 3. 4. Let God be free and euery man a liar Vse 1. Seeing then that there is such efficacie in faith and such happinesse depending thereon let vs preferre it before all earthly treasures and count all the glorie of the world base in comparison of it for a poore faithfull Christian is better then a rich vnbeleeuing king And why because all things are possible vnto him he may haue his hearts desire in any thing so farre as his affection is ordered by Gods word and this priuiledge haue none in the world but only beleeuers It is no where in the scripture said All things are possible to the rich to the noble to those that are strong or to those that are couragious nay such doe continually finde that their willes and desires are exceedingly crossed and that it is impossible for them to bring many of their enterprises to passe Nebuchadnezzar Dan. 4. as great as he was foūd by experience that al things are not possible to the mightie Monarches of the earth and that when they begin to exalt themselues into the place of God as hee