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             The life of faith by Samuel Ward ...
             Ward, Samuel, 1577-1640.
          
           
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           THE
           LIFE
           OF
           FAITH
           .
           By
           
             SAMVEL
             WARD
          
           Preacher
           of
           Ipswich
           .
        
         
           The
           second
           Edition
           ,
           corrected
           and
           amended
           .
           LONDON
           Printed
           by
           
             Augustine
             Mathewes
          
           ,
           for
           
             Iohn
             Marriot
          
           and
           
             Iohn
             Grismand
          
           ,
           and
           are
           to
           be
           sold
           at
           their
           Shops
           in
           Saint
           Dunstons
           Church-yard
           ,
           and
           in
           Pauls
           Alley
           at
           the
           Signe
           of
           the
           Gunne
           ,
           1621.
           
        
      
       
         
         
         
           TO
           THE
           HONOR
           AND
           VSE
           OF
           THE
           RIGHT
           HONORABLE
           THOMAS
           EARLE
           of
           Suffolke
           ,
           Lord
           of
           Walden
           ,
           Knight
           of
           the
           Honorable
           Order
           of
           the
           Garter
           ,
           one
           of
           his
           Maiesties
           most
           Honorable
           Priuy
           Counsell
           .
        
         
           THis
           Manual
           ,
           I
           first
           consecrate
           to
           your
           Honor.
           The
           greatest
           greatnesse
           hath
           no
           
           greater
           honour
           belonging
           to
           it
           ,
           then
           to
           bee
           an
           Abrech
           ,
           to
           Persons
           ,
           Books
           ,
           and
           causes
           of
           this
           nature
           .
           Such
           Cedars
           haue
           their
           spreadth
           and
           talenesse
           to
           shelter
           such
           Fowles
           of
           the
           Heauen
           vnder
           their
           shadowe
           :
           And
           Faith
           is
           content
           in
           this
           vallie
           of
           vnbeliefe
           to
           receiue
           defence
           and
           countenance
           :
           where
           it
           rather
           giueth
           both
           .
           As
           Christ
           in
           that
           olde
           Allegorie
           of
           Christopher
           
           seemes
           to
           be
           supported
           by
           him
           ,
           whome
           in
           truth
           hee
           supporteth
           .
           And
           verely
           such
           Bookes
           as
           haue
           life
           in
           them
           giue
           a
           longer
           life
           to
           their
           Patrons
           ,
           then
           the
           stateliest
           Buildings
           and
           largest
           Moniments
           .
        
         
           Principally
           I
           Dedicate
           ,
           and
           Deuote
           it
           to
           your
           vse
           ;
           Charitie
           beganne
           at
           home
           .
           I
           first
           meditated
           ,
           collected
           ,
           and
           scribled
           them
           for
           mine
           owne
           benefit
           ,
           
           carryed
           them
           about
           me
           with
           Antoninus
           his
           title
           
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
          
           ,
           
             Notes
             for
             my selfe
          
           .
           That
           which
           with
           all
           my
           might
           in
           seeking
           I
           haue
           sought
           to
           attaine
           ,
           is
           the
           truth
           and
           effect
           of
           that
           which
           many
           thinges
           promise
           ,
           but
           Faith
           is
           only
           able
           to
           performe
           .
           
             Fulnesse
             of
             ioy
             and
             constancie
             of
             content
          
           in
           the
           middest
           of
           the
           chaunges
           ,
           wane
           ,
           eclypses
           ,
           and
           fuls
           of
           all
           externall
           things
           ,
           
           and
           that
           one
           day
           aswell
           as
           another
           throughout
           the
           course
           of
           a
           mans
           life
           in
           that
           latitude
           and
           extent
           whereof
           this
           life
           is
           capable
           .
           
             To
             cry
             out
             ,
             I
             haue
             found
             it
             ,
             I
             haue
             found
             it
             ,
          
           might
           sauour
           of
           vanity
           and
           arrogancy
           :
           Altogether
           to
           deny
           it
           were
           an
           iniurie
           to
           the
           truth
           of
           Gods
           Spirit
           ,
           Word
           ,
           and
           Grace
           .
           Such
           as
           haue
           found
           out
           Sayling
           by
           the
           Compasse
           ,
           the
           Art
           of
           Printing
           ,
           or
           
           should
           one
           man
           discouer
           a
           speedier
           passage
           to
           the
           Indies
           ,
           or
           meete
           with
           a
           speciall
           Cordiall
           in
           Physicke
           ,
           or
           any
           lesse
           profitable
           secret
           ,
           should
           he
           not
           iustly
           be
           sensured
           as
           enuious
           and
           iniurious
           to
           let
           such
           an
           one
           die
           with
           himselfe
           .
           What
           a
           sacriledge
           were
           it
           then
           to
           engrosse
           such
           a
           true
           Elixar
           of
           Spirituall
           life
           ,
           as
           vpon
           some
           proofe
           ,
           I
           am
           sure
           these
           prescripts
           containe
           .
           The
           substance
           therefore
           
           of
           them
           ,
           I
           imparted
           first
           ot
           my
           Flocke
           in
           Sermons
           .
           Nextly
           ,
           considering
           how
           much
           I
           stood
           obliged
           to
           your
           Lordshippe
           ,
           and
           what
           speciall
           vse
           you
           might
           haue
           of
           them
           ,
           I
           translated
           ,
           and
           copied
           them
           out
           in
           the
           forme
           wherein
           now
           I
           humbly
           commend
           ,
           and
           earnestly
           recommend
           them
           to
           your
           serious
           perusall
           and
           thorow
           triall
           .
           If
           vpon
           both
           ,
           good
           shall
           bee
           thought
           the
           better
           ,
           the
           
           more
           communicated
           ,
           others
           shall
           accompt
           themselues
           beholding
           to
           your
           Honor
           ,
           as
           the
           principall
           occasion
           of
           publication
           .
           More
           I
           would
           say
           ,
           but
           I
           feare
           to
           spoile
           the
           elegancie
           of
           Augustine
           his
           Preface
           to
           Romanian
           ,
           
           by
           englishing
           of
           it
           :
           Wherein
           is
           the
           summe
           of
           what
           I
           would
           say
           .
           Whither
           referring
           your
           Lordship
           ,
           I
           rest
           ,
           and
           continue
           as
           euer
           I
           haue
           done
           since
           my
           reference
           
           without
           intermission
           ,
           publikely
           ,
           and
           priuatly
           to
           pray
           to
           the
           Lord
           of
           Lords
           that
           you
           may
           finde
           all
           fauour
           in
           the
           eyes
           of
           God
           and
           man
           ,
           and
           that
           all
           true
           happinesse
           may
           be
           multiplyed
           vpon
           you
           ,
           and
           yours
           in
           this
           life
           ,
           and
           a
           better
           .
        
         
           
             Your
             Lordships
             
               in
               the
               Lord
            
             SAMVEL
             WARD
             .
          
        
      
       
         
         
         
           The
           Contents
           of
           this
           BOOKE
           .
        
         
           
             
               THe
               Iust
               shall
               liue
               by
               his
               Faith.
               
            
             Page
             .
             1
          
           
             Christ
             the
             Fountaine
             ,
             and
             Faith
             the
             meane
             of
             Life
             .
             6
          
           
             
               The
               third
               kind
               of
               the
               Life
               of
               Faith.
               
            
             page
             12
          
           
             
               The
               vse
               of
               Faith.
               16
            
          
           
             
               The
               first
               vse
               of
               Faith
               ot
               new-borne
               Babes
               ,
            
             24
          
           
             
               The
               vse
               of
               Faith
               to
               young
               men
               in
               Christianity
               .
            
             34
          
           
             
               An
               inforcement
               of
               the
               former
               vse
               ,
               with
               a
               reproofe
               of
               the
               neglect
               and
               disuse
               of
               Faith.
               
            
             43
          
           
             
             
               The
               vse
               of
               Faith
               to
               a
               growne
               Christian
               .
            
             51
          
           
             
               An
               obiection
               answered
               ,
               and
               passage
               made
               to
               the
               life
               of
               Sanctification
               .
            
             60
          
           
             
               How
               Faith
               Sanctifies
               and
               Mortifies
               .
            
             67
          
           
             
               How
               Faith
               Viuifies
               .
            
             78
          
           
             
               How
               Faith
               vpholds
               life
               in
               Affliction
               .
            
             86
          
           
             
               An
               Epistle
               to
               the
               Reader
               pressing
               the
               vse
               of
               Faith.
               
            
             100
          
        
      
    
     
       
         
         THE
         LIFE
         OF
         FAITH
         .
      
       
         
           CHAP.
           I.
           The
           Iust
           shall
           liue
           by
           his
           Faith.
           
        
         
           THE
           basest
           life
           excels
           the
           best
           meere
           being
           ,
           as
           much
           as
           Adam
           ,
           the
           redde
           lumpe
           of
           earth
           whereof
           hee
           was
           made
           .
           The
           liuing
           Dog
           ,
           the
           dead
           
           Lyon.
           Betweene
           life
           and
           life
           what
           a
           breadth
           of
           difference
           is
           there
           ?
           from
           the
           Mushrome
           to
           the
           Angels
           how
           many
           kindes
           of
           life
           ?
           Yea
           ,
           in
           one
           and
           the
           same
           kind
           how
           many
           degrees
           ?
           The
           bondslaue
           hath
           a
           life
           as
           well
           as
           the
           King
           ,
           the
           sicke
           man
           as
           the
           whole
           ;
           but
           such
           ,
           as
           in
           comparison
           may
           rather
           bee
           termed
           a
           death
           .
           One
           best
           there
           is
           in
           euery
           kind
           as
           it
           approcheth
           neerest
           to
           that
           Fountaine
           of
           Life
           and
           Being
           ,
           with
           whom
           to
           be
           ,
           and
           to
           be
           most
           happy
           is
           all
           one
           .
           Poore
           Man
           hath
           ,
           or
           rather
           had
           a
           certaine
           pitch
           and
           period
           of
           happy
           life
           ,
           consisting
           in
           the
           Image
           and
           fauour
           of
           his
           Creator
           ,
           from
           which
           hauing
           once
           fallen
           ,
           it
           would
           pittie
           one
           to
           see
           how
           lamely
           and
           blindly
           he
           reaspires
           thereunto
           .
           The
           most
           part
           groaping
           as
           the
           Sodomites
           after
           Lots
           dore
           ,
           the
           blinde
           misguiding
           the
           blinde
           in
           the
           common
           Labyrinth
           
           of
           error
           ;
           each
           one
           imagining
           he
           hath
           found
           the
           way
           ,
           and
           so
           tells
           his
           dreame
           to
           his
           neighbour
           for
           a
           truth
           .
           The
           Couetous
           when
           he
           hath
           gotté
           goods
           ,
           as
           if
           he
           had
           gotten
           the
           true
           Good
           ,
           applaudes
           his
           soule
           ,
           as
           if
           it
           were
           the
           soule
           of
           some
           Swine
           ,
           
             Soule
             thou
             hast
             many
             goods
             ,
             now
             ,
             &c.
             
          
           The
           Voluptuous
           when
           he
           hath
           satiate
           himselfe
           with
           the
           huske
           of
           pleasure
           ,
           cries
           out
           hee
           hath
           liued
           the
           onely
           royall
           and
           Iouiall
           life
           .
           The
           Ambitious
           when
           hee
           hath
           climbed
           the
           pitch
           and
           slipperie
           hill
           of
           Honour
           ,
           builds
           his
           nest
           in
           the
           starres
           ,
           thinkes
           himselfe
           in
           the
           skie
           and
           highest
           sphere
           of
           happinesse
           .
           Alas
           ,
           alas
           ,
           doe
           not
           all
           these
           know
           they
           are
           in
           the
           Chambers
           of
           death
           ?
           Dead
           whilest
           they
           are
           aliue
           ,
           no
           better
           then
           walking
           ghosts
           in
           the
           shapes
           of
           liuing
           men
           :
           seeking
           and
           placing
           a
           spirituall
           and
           heauenly
           Iewell
           ,
           in
           earthly
           pelfe
           ,
           
           in
           watery
           Pleasures
           ,
           in
           ayerie
           Honours
           ,
           which
           being
           all
           dead
           ,
           cannot
           affoord
           that
           life
           which
           they
           haue
           not
           themselues
           .
           Verily
           ,
           if
           one
           liue
           an
           hundreth
           yeeres
           ,
           beget
           children
           ,
           plant
           and
           build
           ,
           and
           see
           no
           other
           good
           but
           such
           as
           these
           ,
           the
           vntimely
           byrth
           is
           better
           then
           he
           .
           What
           then
           ?
           Is
           this
           tree
           of
           life
           not
           to
           be
           recouered
           ,
           no
           where
           to
           be
           found
           againe
           ,
           yes
           doubtlesse
           ,
           though
           there
           be
           many
           by-pathes
           ,
           there
           is
           a
           Way
           ;
           though
           many
           errors
           ,
           there
           is
           a
           Truth
           ;
           though
           many
           deathes
           ,
           there
           is
           a
           Life
           .
           And
           behold
           ,
           oh
           man
           that
           standest
           vpon
           the
           waies
           ,
           inquiring
           after
           life
           .
           He
           that
           is
           the
           
             Way
             ,
             Truth
          
           and
           Life
           that
           came
           from
           heauen
           to
           vanquish
           death
           ,
           and
           by
           his
           death
           hath
           brought
           thee
           to
           life
           againe
           ,
           who
           onely
           hath
           the
           words
           of
           life
           ,
           Hee
           hath
           shewed
           thee
           the
           true
           way
           to
           life
           .
           Hath
           he
           not
           twise
           or
           thrise
           
           shewed
           thee
           in
           this
           liuely
           Oracle
           of
           his
           ,
           
           
             The
             Iust
             shall
             liue
             by
             Faith.
          
           Yea
           ,
           
           but
           if
           a
           man
           like
           to
           our selues
           might
           come
           from
           the
           dead
           that
           hath
           made
           proofe
           of
           this
           way
           and
           life
           ,
           
           and
           would
           speake
           of
           his
           own
           experience
           :
           
           would
           we
           heare
           ?
           Behold
           Paul
           ,
           slaine
           by
           the
           Law
           ,
           reuiued
           by
           the
           Gospell
           ,
           what
           doe
           wee
           thinke
           of
           him
           ?
           Did
           he
           not
           from
           the
           time
           of
           his
           conuersion
           to
           the
           time
           of
           his
           dissolution
           ,
           enioy
           a
           constant
           tenour
           of
           ioy
           ;
           liue
           ,
           if
           euer
           any
           ,
           comfortably
           ,
           happily
           :
           And
           doth
           not
           hee
           tell
           vs
           ,
           euen
           while
           he
           liued
           in
           the
           flesh
           ,
           that
           he
           liued
           by
           the
           Faith
           of
           our
           Lord
           Iesus
           Christ.
           
           Surely
           he
           must
           needs
           be
           blessed
           that
           liueth
           by
           the
           same
           faith
           with
           Bloffed
           Paul.
           Come
           therefore
           ,
           you
           which
           desire
           to
           see
           good
           dayes
           and
           lay
           holde
           on
           the
           waies
           of
           life
           .
           
             Beleeue
             and
             liue
          
           .
        
      
       
         
         
           CHAP.
           II.
           Christ
           the
           Fountaine
           ,
           and
           Faith
           the
           meane
           of
           Life
           .
        
         
           WHat
           then
           ?
           Commit
           we
           sacriledge
           against
           Christ
           in
           deifying
           of
           Faith
           ?
           Rob
           we
           the
           Lord
           to
           adorne
           the
           seruant
           with
           his
           diuine
           honours
           ?
           God
           forbid
           .
           Let
           that
           be
           giuen
           to
           Christ
           which
           is
           Christs
           ,
           and
           that
           to
           Faith
           which
           is
           Faiths
           .
           Let
           the
           power
           of
           life
           and
           death
           be
           intirely
           reserued
           euer
           ascribed
           to
           the
           Lord
           of
           life
           ,
           the
           well
           of
           life
           ,
           the
           light
           and
           life
           of
           the
           World
           ,
           the
           breath
           of
           our
           nosthrils
           ,
           the
           life
           of
           our
           liues
           .
           Thy
           body
           ,
           oh
           man
           !
           hath
           it
           soule
           which
           enliues
           it
           ,
           and
           so
           hath
           thy
           soule
           its
           soule
           whereby
           it
           liues
           ,
           and
           
           that
           is
           Christ
           the
           quickning
           spirit
           .
           Take
           away
           the
           soule
           from
           the
           body
           ,
           and
           earth
           becomes
           earth
           ;
           seuer
           Christ
           and
           the
           soule
           ,
           what
           is
           it
           but
           a
           dead
           carrion
           ?
           Elementary
           bodies
           lighten
           and
           darken
           ,
           coole
           and
           warme
           ,
           die
           and
           reuiue
           as
           the
           Sunne
           presents
           or
           absents
           it selfe
           from
           them
           ,
           Christ
           is
           to
           our
           soules
           the
           Sunne
           of
           righteousnesse
           :
           Sin
           parts
           vs
           ;
           Faith
           reunites
           vs
           :
           And
           so
           wee
           liue
           primarily
           and
           properly
           by
           Christ
           as
           by
           the
           soule
           :
           by
           Faith
           ,
           secondarily
           ,
           as
           by
           the
           spirits
           ,
           the
           bond
           of
           soule
           and
           body
           :
           by
           a
           personall
           and
           speciall
           faith
           appropriating
           Christ
           to
           the
           beleeuer
           ,
           as
           the
           leg
           or
           arme
           liues
           by
           proper
           sinews
           ,
           arteries
           and
           nerues
           ,
           
           vniting
           it
           to
           the
           liuer
           ,
           heart
           and
           head
           ,
           such
           an
           one
           as
           Paul
           had
           in
           Christ
           that
           dyed
           for
           him
           ,
           whereby
           hee
           ingrosseth
           the
           common
           God
           to
           himselfe
           ,
           as
           if
           his
           and
           no
           bodies
           else
           .
        
         
         
           Thus
           saith
           hee
           himselfe
           that
           is
           the
           Truth
           and
           the
           Life
           ,
           
           
             I
             am
             the
             Life
             and
             Resurrection
             of
             the
             World
             ,
             hee
             that
             beleeueth
             in
             mee
             ,
             though
             hee
             be
             dead
             ,
             yet
             shall
             he
             liue
             and
             not
             die
             .
          
           And
           this
           is
           the
           testimony
           of
           those
           three
           heauenly
           and
           earthly
           witnesses
           .
           
           God
           gaue
           life
           to
           the
           Sonne
           ,
           And
           he
           that
           hath
           the
           Sonne
           hath
           Life
           .
           And
           he
           that
           hath
           Faith
           hath
           the
           Son.
           So
           that
           whateuer
           we
           lend
           to
           Faith
           ,
           it
           redoundes
           to
           the
           honor
           of
           Christ
           ;
           neither
           haue
           we
           any
           sinister
           intent
           to
           praise
           the
           wombe
           or
           the
           paps
           of
           Faith
           ,
           but
           to
           cast
           all
           vpon
           Christ
           who
           giues
           and
           works
           this
           Faith
           in
           vs
           ,
           vivisies
           and
           nourishes
           it
           ,
           yea
           iustifies
           the
           imperfection
           thereof
           by
           the
           perfection
           of
           his
           merit
           .
           Nay
           ,
           let
           Faith
           knowe
           that
           if
           shee
           should
           waxe
           arrogant
           towards
           her
           Lord
           ,
           or
           insolent
           ouer
           her
           fellow
           seruants
           ,
           she
           should
           Lucifer-like
           fall
           from
           her
           dignity
           ,
           
           and
           in
           so
           doing
           ,
           of
           the
           best
           of
           graces
           ,
           become
           the
           worst
           of
           vices
           .
           Verily
           ,
           what
           hath
           the
           habite
           of
           Faith
           in
           it selfe
           considered
           better
           or
           equall
           with
           loue
           ?
           Is
           it
           not
           a
           poorer
           and
           meaner
           Act
           to
           beleeue
           then
           to
           loue
           :
           more
           like
           a
           beggarly
           receiuing
           ,
           then
           a
           working
           and
           deseruing
           hand
           ?
           Haile
           then
           oh
           Faith
           freely
           graced
           ,
           graciously
           exalted
           aboue
           all
           Christs
           Handmaides
           .
           Thy
           Lord
           hath
           looked
           vpon
           thy
           meane
           estate
           ,
           because
           that
           hauing
           nothing
           of
           thine
           owne
           ,
           as
           other
           Vertues
           haue
           ,
           whence
           thou
           mightest
           take
           occasion
           to
           reioyce
           ,
           thou
           mightest
           the
           better
           exclude
           that
           hatefull
           Law
           of
           boasting
           ,
           the
           more
           humbly
           and
           frankely
           reflect
           all
           vpon
           thy
           Lord
           :
           who
           willingly
           emptied
           himselfe
           that
           he
           might
           fill
           thee
           with
           honour
           ,
           whiles
           hee
           sayes
           to
           the
           cured
           of
           the
           Palsey
           
             Goe
             thy
             
             way
             thy
             Faith
             hath
             saued
             thee
             .
          
           Hence
           forth
           cals
           hee
           thee
           no
           more
           seruant
           or
           friend
           ,
           but
           stiles
           thee
           as
           Adam
           his
           Spouse
           ,
           Chauah
           ,
           the
           Mother
           of
           all
           Liuing
           :
           Counts
           it
           no
           iniurie
           to
           diuide
           his
           praises
           with
           thee
           ,
           likes
           it
           well
           that
           thou
           which
           doest
           nothing
           but
           by
           him
           ,
           shouldest
           bee
           said
           to
           doe
           all
           things
           which
           he
           doth
           :
           
             To
             purifie
             the
             heart
          
           ,
           
           
             to
             ouer
             come
             the
             world
          
           ,
           
           
             to
             saue
             men
             ,
             &c.
          
           
           
           And
           
             è
             contra
          
           ,
           hee
           to
           doe
           nothing
           without
           thee
           ,
           which
           yet
           does
           all
           of
           himselfe
           .
           Hee
           could
           worke
           no
           Miracles
           in
           Capernaum
           because
           they
           had
           no
           Faith.
           So
           glorious
           and
           wonderfull
           things
           are
           spoken
           of
           thee
           :
           (
           I
           had
           almost
           said
           )
           so
           omnipotent
           is
           thy
           strength
           which
           hast
           said
           to
           the
           Sunne
           and
           
             Moone
             ,
             Stand
             yee
             still
          
           ;
           yea
           if
           but
           as
           big
           as
           the
           least
           graine
           ,
           canst
           say
           to
           the
           greatest
           Mountaines
           ,
           Remoue
           .
           What
           can
           God
           doe
           which
           
           Faith
           cannot
           doe
           if
           requisite
           to
           bee
           done
           ?
           Questionlesse
           ,
           Iustifying
           Faith
           is
           not
           beneath
           miraculous
           in
           the
           sphere
           of
           it
           owne
           actiuitie
           ,
           and
           where
           it
           hath
           the
           warrant
           of
           Gods
           Word
           .
           It
           's
           not
           a
           lesser
           power
           then
           these
           ,
           to
           say
           ,
           
             Thy
             Sinnes
             are
             forgiuen
             thee
             ,
             thy
             person
             is
             accepted
             of
             God
             ,
             what-euer
             thou
             askest
             thou
             shalt
             haue
             ,
             &c.
             
          
           Wherefore
           we
           need
           not
           doubt
           vnder
           Christ
           without
           feare
           of
           Praemunire
           ,
           or
           offence
           to
           his
           Crowne
           and
           Dignity
           ,
           to
           affirme
           of
           Faith
           ,
           That
           it
           is
           Gods
           arme
           and
           power
           to
           the
           enliuing
           and
           sauing
           of
           euery
           beleeuer
           ,
           as
           it
           is
           written
           ,
           
             The
             Iust
             shall
             liue
             by
             Faith.
             
          
        
      
       
         
         
           CHAP.
           III.
           The
           third
           kinde
           of
           the
           Life
           of
           Faith.
           
        
         
           BVt
           least
           wee
           seeme
           to
           speake
           swelling
           thinges
           ,
           whiles
           we
           soare
           in
           the
           Cloud
           of
           generalities
           ,
           let
           vs
           descend
           to
           some
           solide
           particulars
           .
           Three
           thinges
           there
           are
           whence
           commeth
           Death
           to
           the
           Soule
           of
           Man
           ,
           Sinne
           with
           the
           guilt
           thereof
           giues
           the
           first
           deadly
           blow
           ,
           exposing
           it
           to
           the
           wrath
           of
           God
           who
           is
           a
           Consuming
           fire
           ,
           whose
           anger
           is
           the
           messenger
           of
           Death
           ,
           whence
           came
           the
           first
           Thunderbolt
           striking
           thorough
           the
           Soule
           ,
           that
           sentence
           of
           God
           
           to
           
             Adam
             ,
             Thou
             shalt
             dye
          
           ;
           And
           such
           as
           Nathans
           to
           
             Dauid
             ,
             Thou
             hast
             sinned
             and
             art
             the
             childe
             of
             Death
             .
          
        
         
           The
           second
           ,
           is
           the
           spott
           and
           corruption
           of
           sinne
           deprauing
           ,
           yea
           ,
           deading
           all
           the
           faculties
           of
           man
           to
           spirituall
           actions
           ,
           which
           made
           Paul
           cry
           out
           ,
           
             That
             which
             I
             would
             doe
             ,
             I
             doe
             not
             ;
             And
             wretched
             man
             that
             I
             am
             ,
             who
             shall
             deliuer
             me
             from
             this
             body
             of
             Death
             .
          
        
         
           
             Thirdly
             ,
             that
             swarme
             of
             plagues
             and
             army
             of
             punishments
             ,
             in
             the
             re-reward
             wherof
             comes
             first
             a
             second
             death
             .
             All
             which
             made
          
           Iob
           
             cry
             out
          
           ,
           
           Why
           is
           light
           giuen
           to
           him
           that
           is
           in
           misery
           ,
           and
           life
           vnto
           the
           bitter
           in
           soule
           ?
           which
           long
           for
           death
           more
           then
           for
           treasures
           ;
           and
           ioy
           when
           they
           can
           finde
           the
           graue
           .
        
         
           Were
           it
           not
           for
           these
           three
           ,
           man
           might
           liue
           ,
           fare
           ,
           and
           doe
           well
           ,
           but
           sin
           hauing
           entred
           into
           the
           World
           ,
           brought
           in
           Death
           with
           it
           ,
           which
           
           reigneth
           and
           triumpheth
           ouer
           the
           sonnes
           of
           Adam
           with
           this
           three-forked
           Scepter
           ,
           of
           Guilt
           ,
           of
           Corruption
           ,
           of
           Punishment
           .
        
         
           Here
           comes
           in
           Faith
           with
           a
           three
           fould
           Antidote
           ,
           brings
           vs
           to
           the
           Tree
           of
           Life
           ,
           whose
           fruit
           and
           whose
           leaues
           heale
           vs
           of
           the
           sting
           and
           deadly
           poyson
           of
           Sinne
           :
           working
           in
           vs
           a
           three-fold
           life
           opposite
           to
           the
           forenamed
           deaths
           .
        
         
           The
           first
           is
           the
           life
           of
           righteousnesse
           ,
           discharging
           vs
           from
           the
           sentence
           of
           death
           ,
           restoring
           the
           light
           of
           Gods
           countenance
           appeased
           in
           Christ
           our
           surty
           :
           which
           made
           Dauid
           cry
           out
           ,
           
           
             Blessed
             is
             the
             man
             whose
             sinne
             is
             couered
             .
          
        
         
           The
           second
           is
           the
           life
           of
           the
           Spirit
           ,
           or
           new
           life
           ,
           regenerating
           &
           reuiuing
           euery
           faculty
           ,
           &
           quickning
           vs
           to
           euery
           good
           worke
           ;
           which
           maks
           Paul
           glory
           ,
           that
           
             he
             is
             able
             to
             do
             al
             things
             through
             Christ
             inabling
             him
             .
          
           
        
         
         
           The
           third
           ,
           is
           the
           life
           of
           ioy
           and
           comfort
           ,
           cheering
           the
           soule
           in
           the
           middest
           of
           all
           trials
           and
           tribulations
           ;
           which
           made
           Iob
           in
           the
           valley
           of
           death
           exult
           and
           trust
           in
           his
           liuing
           Redeemer
           ,
           and
           Paul
           insult
           ouer
           all
           kinde
           of
           Calamities
           as
           more
           then
           Conquerour
           ,
           
             Romaines
             8.
          
           
        
         
           In
           these
           three
           ,
           being
           contained
           what-euer
           accomplisheth
           the
           life
           of
           the
           soule
           :
           may
           not
           Faith
           well
           be
           said
           to
           supply
           abundantly
           all
           things
           pertaining
           to
           life
           and
           godlinesse
           ?
           But
           what
           doe
           I
           treating
           of
           the
           kindes
           of
           life
           ?
           what
           should
           I
           blot
           paper
           and
           tyre
           my
           Reader
           in
           writing
           of
           the
           kinds
           of
           Faith
           ,
           the
           degrees
           of
           Faith
           ,
           or
           any
           other
           motions
           of
           Faith
           :
           things
           so
           well
           known
           of
           those
           that
           know
           any
           thing
           of
           Christ
           ?
           That
           nothing
           so
           much
           vexeth
           me
           to
           see
           so
           much
           spoken
           and
           written
           of
           faith
           ,
           
           so
           little
           done
           by
           it
           ,
           the
           Theory
           of
           it
           so
           throughly
           canuased
           and
           cleered
           in
           Controuersies
           and
           Sermons
           ,
           and
           the
           practise
           of
           it
           so
           obscured
           and
           disgraced
           in
           the
           liues
           of
           Christians
           .
        
      
       
         
           CHAP.
           IIII.
           The
           vse
           of
           Faith.
           
        
         
           OH
           Faith
           when
           I
           read
           of
           thee
           ,
           when
           I
           meditate
           of
           thee
           ,
           when
           I
           feele
           any
           part
           of
           thy
           vertue
           ,
           I
           finde
           thee
           to
           be
           a
           wonder-worker
           ,
           I
           conceiue
           nothing
           but
           high
           and
           stately
           things
           of
           thee
           .
           When
           I
           looke
           into
           the
           World
           and
           vpon
           the
           liues
           euen
           of
           such
           as
           call
           themselues
           beleeuers
           especially
           of
           the
           
           common
           sort
           ,
           I
           begin
           to
           question
           my
           thoughts
           for
           dreames
           ,
           and
           to
           say
           ;
           Faith
           ,
           thou
           art
           but
           a
           name
           ,
           a
           sound
           ,
           a
           meere
           word
           ,
           no
           powerfull
           thing
           .
           Why
           are
           many
           of
           thy
           followers
           so
           dead
           ,
           so
           mopish
           ,
           so
           melancholly
           ?
           why
           are
           worldly
           men
           as
           merry
           ,
           as
           iocund
           as
           they
           ?
           Yea
           ,
           why
           are
           many
           ciuill
           men
           as
           righteous
           as
           they
           ?
           whence
           should
           this
           wrong
           and
           disparagement
           proceed
           ?
           Is
           thy
           Vertue
           exhaust
           ,
           thy
           strength
           decayed
           in
           this
           old
           age
           of
           the
           World
           ?
           or
           is
           it
           because
           men
           know
           thee
           not
           ?
           verily
           neither
           of
           these
           .
           No
           drugge
           ,
           no
           herbe
           so
           commonly
           extolled
           ,
           so
           famously
           knowne
           .
        
         
           Paul
           of
           old
           ,
           Luther
           of
           late
           ,
           with
           infinite
           moe
           ,
           euery
           Catechisme
           haue
           blazoned
           the
           name
           ,
           described
           the
           nature
           ,
           set
           out
           the
           properties
           and
           effects
           to
           the
           full
           .
           Only
           the
           miserie
           is
           ,
           the
           World
           either
           
           knowes
           not
           the
           vse
           ,
           or
           forgets
           the
           practise
           of
           it
           .
           There
           wants
           a
           practicall
           Luther
           which
           should
           deale
           by
           Faith
           ,
           as
           Socrates
           by
           Phylosophie
           ,
           who
           brought
           it
           out
           of
           the
           Skies
           and
           Bookes
           into
           Cities
           and
           Houses
           ,
           taught
           and
           vrged
           the
           familiar
           and
           quotidian
           vse
           of
           it
           .
        
         
           Doth
           not
           all
           the
           praise
           ,
           beautie
           ,
           and
           lustre
           of
           Faith
           ,
           as
           well
           ;
           or
           more
           then
           of
           other
           vertues
           consist
           in
           action
           and
           not
           in
           motion
           ?
           Is
           not
           the
           gaine
           and
           benefit
           of
           it
           in
           sense
           and
           feeling
           ,
           not
           in
           knowledge
           or
           discourse
           ?
           Is
           not
           the
           throne
           and
           seat
           of
           it
           rather
           in
           the
           heart
           then
           in
           the
           head
           ?
           Who
           knowes
           not
           there
           is
           a
           Doctrinall
           speculation
           and
           discourse
           of
           Faith
           easily
           by
           reading
           and
           hearing
           attained
           ,
           such
           in
           one
           as
           Schollers
           ,
           that
           neuer
           went
           out
           of
           their
           Studies
           and
           
           schooles
           haue
           ,
           of
           remote
           Countries
           ,
           of
           their
           commodious
           situation
           ,
           pleasant
           riuers
           ,
           high
           mountains
           ,
           costly
           buildings
           ,
           rich
           mines
           ,
           iewels
           ,
           and
           al
           other
           commodities
           :
           which
           ,
           what
           a
           frigid
           and
           ieiune
           contemplation
           is
           it
           ,
           in
           comparison
           of
           that
           delight
           and
           benefit
           which
           the
           Merchant
           and
           Trauiler
           enioyeth
           by
           a
           reall
           sight
           and
           fruition
           of
           them
           ?
           What
           is
           the
           notionall
           sweetnesse
           of
           honey
           or
           sugar
           to
           the
           experimentall
           taste
           of
           them
           ?
           And
           yet
           this
           Aery
           ,
           windie
           stuffe
           is
           all
           ,
           the
           World
           at
           this
           day
           cares
           for
           and
           hunts
           after
           .
           The
           Schoole-men
           and
           Casuists
           ,
           what
           doe
           they
           but
           languish
           into
           vselesse
           ,
           needlesse
           ,
           and
           endlesse
           questions
           ,
           spending
           their
           thoughts
           about
           this
           magnificent
           vertue
           in
           cold
           and
           bloudlesse
           subtleties
           of
           the
           subiect
           ,
           obiect
           ,
           kindes
           ,
           &c.
           
        
         
         
           Preachers
           for
           the
           most
           part
           inuring
           themselues
           to
           declaime
           in
           praise
           of
           some
           morall
           vertue
           ,
           and
           to
           inueigh
           against
           some
           vice
           of
           the
           times
           ,
           happily
           sometimes
           finde
           leisure
           to
           weaue
           a
           curious
           spiders
           webbe
           in
           commendation
           of
           Faith
           ,
           rarely
           shewing
           or
           pressing
           the
           life
           ,
           and
           vse
           of
           it
           .
        
         
           In
           a
           word
           ,
           will
           you
           see
           the
           fashion
           of
           the
           World.
           The
           Schooles
           disputes
           of
           it
           ,
           the
           Pulpit
           Preacheth
           of
           it
           ,
           Profession
           talkes
           of
           it
           ,
           prophane
           men
           sweare
           by
           it
           ,
           two
           or
           three
           ,
           few
           or
           none
           liue
           by
           it
           .
           I
           met
           with
           a
           story
           of
           an
           ancient
           Hebrew
           ,
           a
           reuerend
           Rabby
           ,
           who
           that
           he
           might
           the
           more
           liuely
           conuince
           the
           people
           in
           his
           times
           of
           their
           neglect
           of
           practise
           of
           this
           excellent
           Grace
           ,
           put
           himself
           into
           the
           habit
           of
           a
           Mountebanke
           or
           trauelling
           Aqua-vitae-man
           ,
           and
           made
           Proclamation
           
           of
           a
           soueraigne
           cordiall
           Water
           of
           Life
           he
           had
           to
           sell
           :
           being
           called
           in
           and
           demaunded
           the
           shew
           of
           it
           ;
           Turned
           them
           to
           the
           Bible
           ,
           the
           Fountaine
           of
           Life
           ,
           and
           to
           seuerall
           places
           of
           it
           ,
           as
           the
           thirtie
           foure
           Psalme
           ,
           &c.
           intimating
           ,
           that
           if
           they
           would
           make
           vse
           and
           daily
           drinke
           of
           the
           water
           they
           had
           ,
           they
           might
           (
           as
           it
           should
           seeme
           hee
           did
           )
           liue
           farre
           better
           ,
           and
           more
           comfortably
           then
           vsually
           they
           did
           .
        
         
           And
           indeede
           ,
           why
           is
           there
           such
           a
           price
           put
           into
           the
           hands
           of
           fooles
           that
           know
           not
           the
           worth
           and
           improuement
           of
           it
           ?
           As
           secrets
           and
           misteries
           in
           good
           Artisens
           ,
           that
           haue
           sometimes
           a
           faculty
           whereby
           they
           can
           earne
           tenne
           or
           twenty
           shillings
           the
           day
           ,
           and
           might
           liue
           as
           well
           as
           landed
           men
           ;
           but
           then
           they
           haue
           another
           boone
           withall
           ,
           they
           loue
           
           idlenesse
           ,
           pastime
           and
           good
           fellowship
           ,
           and
           so
           liue
           like
           beggars
           :
           or
           as
           land
           and
           money
           in
           the
           hands
           of
           those
           (
           whom
           we
           therefore
           aptly
           call
           misers
           )
           
             to
             Haue
             and
             to
             Hold
          
           ,
           but
           neuer
           make
           good
           vse
           of
           it
           :
           Who
           may
           well
           be
           said
           to
           vse
           the
           World
           ,
           as
           if
           they
           vsed
           it
           not
           ,
           for
           they
           put
           it
           foorth
           to
           vse
           ,
           or
           locke
           it
           from
           themselues
           and
           others
           ;
           goe
           basely
           ,
           fare
           hardly
           ,
           liue
           in
           debt
           to
           backe
           and
           belly
           ,
           as
           if
           they
           knew
           not
           it
           would
           buy
           them
           good
           meate
           and
           good
           cloathes
           ,
           and
           other
           necessaries
           and
           conueniences
           for
           their
           liues
           .
           It
           is
           possible
           a
           man
           may
           haue
           a
           toole
           ,
           a
           medecine
           ,
           or
           an
           engine
           ,
           and
           not
           haue
           the
           skill
           or
           strength
           to
           vse
           it
           .
           It
           is
           possible
           a
           man
           may
           haue
           a
           gift
           of
           God
           ,
           and
           not
           the
           gift
           to
           vse
           it
           throughly
           ,
           else
           needed
           not
           Paul
           call
           on
           Timothy
           to
           stirre
           vp
           
           the
           gift
           that
           was
           in
           him
           .
           Among
           all
           the
           gifts
           of
           God
           there
           is
           none
           more
           vsefull
           then
           Faith
           :
           others
           are
           profitable
           for
           some
           few
           things
           ,
           this
           is
           for
           this
           life
           and
           the
           life
           to
           come
           ,
           for
           all
           parts
           and
           purposes
           of
           our
           liues
           ,
           in
           the
           vse
           of
           it
           manifold
           and
           rich
           euery
           manner
           of
           way
           .
        
      
       
         
         
           CHAP.
           V.
           The
           first
           vse
           of
           Faith
           to
           new-borne
           Babes
           .
        
         
           AND
           first
           ,
           let
           me
           beginne
           with
           thee
           that
           art
           beginning
           to
           liue
           this
           life
           ,
           thou
           Embryo
           that
           art
           in
           hatching
           ,
           that
           hast
           so
           much
           life
           ,
           as
           to
           know
           thy selfe
           dead
           in
           sinne
           ,
           and
           to
           desire
           to
           liue
           in
           Christ
           ,
           (
           for
           what
           should
           I
           cast
           away
           speech
           vpon
           scelets
           and
           skulles
           ,
           carnall
           men
           I
           meane
           meere
           Strangers
           to
           this
           life
           of
           Faith
           ,
           I
           expect
           not
           reading
           should
           put
           life
           and
           spirit
           into
           them
           ,
           onely
           I
           pray
           for
           such
           that
           they
           may
           heare
           Gods
           voyce
           
           in
           the
           Ministerie
           ,
           and
           liue
           :
           )
           but
           as
           for
           thee
           whom
           the
           Law
           hath
           wounded
           ,
           and
           the
           Gospell
           is
           healing
           ,
           who
           art
           euen
           at
           the
           byrth
           ,
           and
           stickest
           betweene
           the
           knees
           ,
           onely
           wantest
           power
           to
           come
           into
           the
           light
           ;
           who
           liuest
           but
           feelest
           not
           thy
           life
           ,
           holdest
           Christ
           but
           with
           benummed
           hands
           ;
           beleeuest
           ,
           but
           canst
           not
           yet
           beleeue
           thou
           hast
           Faith
           :
           What
           is
           the
           matter
           thou
           art
           still
           ensnarled
           in
           the
           cords
           of
           death
           ?
           Why
           loosest
           thou
           not
           thy
           handkerchiefes
           and
           commest
           out
           of
           thy
           Graue
           ,
           and
           walkest
           chearefully
           in
           the
           Land
           of
           the
           liuing
           ?
           Suffer
           Faith
           to
           doe
           her
           perfect
           worke
           in
           thee
           ,
           to
           forme
           Christ
           in
           thee
           ,
           suffer
           not
           thy selfe
           alwaies
           to
           bee
           detained
           in
           the
           throwes
           and
           throbs
           of
           feare
           and
           doubt
           .
        
         
           The
           Common
           causes
           of
           this
           slownesse
           of
           beleefe
           and
           snares
           of
           
           Death
           ,
           I
           obserue
           in
           most
           to
           be
           one
           of
           these
           three
           .
        
         
           
             First
             ,
             Immoderate
             aggrauation
             of
             sinne
             .
          
           
             Secondly
             ,
             Foolish
             and
             proud
             humilitie
             .
          
           
             Thirdly
             ,
             Preposterous
             desire
             of
             Sanctification
             before
             Iustification
             .
          
        
         
           First
           ,
           Thou
           wouldest
           beleeue
           ,
           but
           thou
           hast
           beene
           a
           sinner
           .
           Whom
           came
           Christ
           to
           saue
           but
           sinners
           ?
           And
           whom
           doth
           hee
           iustifie
           but
           the
           vngodly
           ?
           Oh!
           but
           thy
           sinnes
           are
           Scarlet
           ,
           crying
           ,
           scandalous
           sinnes
           .
           Said
           I
           not
           all
           things
           are
           possible
           to
           Faith
           ,
           onely
           if
           thou
           canst
           beleeue
           .
           Are
           not
           all
           faults
           easily
           pardonable
           to
           an
           infinite
           mercy
           ,
           which
           exceedes
           Mans
           ,
           as
           Heauen
           doth
           Earth
           ;
           which
           can
           redilier
           forgiue
           seuenfie
           ,
           then
           Man
           seuen
           offences
           .
           Well
           did
           Mar●●●s
           answere
           the
           
           Diuell
           ,
           himselfe
           obiecting
           his
           former
           life
           to
           him
           ,
           that
           euen
           his
           might
           bee
           pardoned
           if
           hee
           could
           beleeue
           .
           Did
           not
           Christ
           take
           the
           flesh
           of
           Rahab
           and
           Bathsheba
           ,
           and
           did
           hee
           refuse
           to
           take
           their
           sinnes
           vpon
           him
           ?
           Did
           not
           his
           blood
           wash
           Dauids
           bloody
           sinne
           as
           white
           as
           snow
           ?
           Doth
           not
           he
           delight
           to
           forgiue
           much
           ,
           that
           hee
           may
           binde
           to
           loue
           much
           ?
           Shall
           not
           his
           fauour
           abound
           to
           the
           sense
           of
           thy
           Faith
           ,
           where
           sinne
           hath
           abounded
           to
           the
           wounding
           of
           thy
           heart
           ?
           But
           thou
           art
           an
           olde
           habituate
           sinner
           .
           As
           if
           Christ
           came
           from
           Heauen
           to
           cure
           onely
           small
           fearres
           ,
           greene
           cuttes
           ,
           and
           not
           deepe
           inuetorate
           woundes
           ,
           diseases
           of
           eight
           ,
           of
           twelue
           ,
           of
           eight
           and
           thirty
           yeares
           olde
           :
           to
           cast
           out
           single
           Diuels
           ,
           and
           not
           Legions
           also
           ?
           Oh
           then
           take
           heede
           thou
           adde
           not
           to
           thy
           great
           and
           many
           
           sinnes
           ,
           a
           greater
           then
           all
           :
           Cains
           sinne
           ,
           which
           was
           greater
           in
           infidelitie
           then
           in
           fratricide
           .
           All
           thy
           help
           is
           to
           looke
           of
           thy selfe
           an
           obiect
           of
           confusion
           ,
           and
           to
           looke
           vpon
           Christ
           an
           obiect
           of
           consolation
           :
           And
           then
           how
           fiery
           and
           deadly
           so
           euer
           thy
           sting
           bee
           ,
           by
           meere
           looking
           (
           a
           strange
           cure
           I
           confesse
           ,
           yet
           most
           approued
           )
           that
           is
           ,
           by
           sole
           beleeuing
           thou
           shalt
           be
           cured
           and
           liue
           .
        
         
           Secondly
           ,
           But
           forsooth
           thou
           wilt
           be
           more
           mannerly
           then
           so
           with
           Peter
           thou
           wilt
           not
           suffer
           Christs
           precious
           hands
           to
           wash
           thy
           foule
           feete
           .
           Take
           heede
           thy
           modesty
           turne
           not
           into
           pertinacy
           ,
           lest
           he
           swear
           in
           his
           anger
           thou
           shalt
           haue
           no
           part
           in
           him
           ,
           if
           thou
           stubbornly
           refuse
           his
           gratious
           offer
           :
           he
           liked
           well
           the
           humility
           of
           that
           Cananitish
           that
           bore
           the
           terme
           of
           
           dogge
           ,
           but
           better
           her
           confidence
           ,
           that
           would
           not
           be
           said
           nay
           of
           the
           crums
           of
           his
           table
           .
           And
           shalt
           thou
           not
           tenne
           times
           ,
           more
           honour
           him
           and
           please
           him
           ,
           in
           trusting
           his
           mercy
           and
           sealing
           to
           his
           truth
           ,
           then
           in
           fearing
           his
           iustice
           and
           dreading
           his
           power
           ?
           Take
           heede
           of
           pride
           in
           the
           clothes
           of
           humilitie
           .
           Bee
           not
           deceiued
           ,
           It
           is
           pride
           and
           high
           pride
           ,
           not
           to
           come
           when
           thou
           art
           called
           .
           Faith
           is
           obedience
           ,
           and
           obedience
           is
           more
           acceptable
           then
           curtesie
           &
           complement
           .
           The
           sooner
           thou
           commest
           the
           better
           welcome
           .
           It
           is
           rudenesse
           and
           not
           good
           manners
           not
           to
           do
           as
           thou
           art
           bidden
           to
           doe
           ,
           yea
           ,
           so
           often
           and
           earnestly
           charged
           to
           doe
           .
           To
           doe
           the
           worke
           of
           God
           is
           to
           beleeue
           in
           him
           whom
           he
           hath
           fealed
           and
           sent
           to
           be
           thy
           Sauiour
           .
           
        
         
           Thirdly
           ,
           Oh!
           but
           thou
           wouldest
           faine
           first
           repent
           ,
           amend
           and
           
           doe
           some
           good
           workes
           ,
           and
           then
           thou
           wouldest
           bee
           bold
           to
           come
           .
           That
           is
           ,
           thou
           thinkest
           thou
           shalt
           not
           be
           welcome
           vnlesse
           thou
           come
           with
           thy
           cost
           .
           Thou
           wouldest
           accept
           of
           a
           pardon
           if
           thou
           mightst
           pay
           for
           it
           :
           but
           his
           are
           free
           ,
           and
           he
           bids
           thee
           come
           and
           buy
           without
           siluer
           ,
           or
           else
           he
           saies
           ,
           thou
           and
           thy
           money
           perish
           .
           Thou
           wouldest
           goe
           the
           old
           and
           naturall
           way
           to
           worke
           .
           What
           shall
           I
           doe
           to
           inherit
           euerlasting
           life
           ,
           but
           that
           is
           now
           farre-done
           and
           impassable
           through
           our
           infirmity
           :
           Besides
           ,
           before
           thou
           canst
           walke
           or
           worke
           ,
           thou
           must
           be
           aliue
           .
           Did
           Christ
           indent
           with
           Zacheus
           for
           Restitution
           and
           almes
           ?
           or
           Paul
           bid
           the
           Iaylour
           first
           repent
           ,
           become
           a
           new
           man
           ,
           and
           then
           beleeue
           ?
           No
           they
           knew
           that
           the
           one
           would
           voluntarily
           ,
           necessarily
           ,
           together
           ,
           &
           immediately
           follow
           or
           rather
           accompany
           
           the
           other
           .
           Wherefore
           swim
           out
           of
           these
           weedes
           ,
           lay
           hold
           on
           the
           Rocke
           ,
           and
           to
           facilitate
           thy
           birth
           by
           the
           Act
           of
           beleeuing
           ,
           set
           beefore
           thy
           eyes
           Christs
           freedome
           to
           all
           suitors
           in
           the
           time
           of
           his
           flesh
           ,
           repelling
           none
           that
           truely
           desired
           the
           price
           of
           his
           blood
           :
           And
           especially
           ,
           Gods
           esteeme
           of
           Faith
           aboue
           all
           other
           Graces
           ,
           Deeds
           ,
           or
           Acts
           of
           thine
           .
        
         
           Study
           ,
           striue
           ,
           endeauor
           to
           beleeue
           ,
           as
           thou
           doest
           in
           a
           difficult
           point
           to
           conceiue
           .
           Pray
           for
           a
           faculty
           and
           for
           the
           act
           of
           beleeuing
           .
           Be
           not
           euer
           beleeuing
           ,
           and
           neuer
           a
           beleeuer
           ;
           euer
           beginning
           to
           liue
           ,
           and
           neuer
           liuing
           .
           Liue
           to
           day
           ,
           to
           day
           is
           Saluation
           offered
           ,
           steppe
           from
           death
           to
           life
           ,
           and
           write
           this
           day
           thy
           birth
           day
           ,
           and
           number
           from
           hence
           the
           dayes
           of
           thy
           life
           ,
           in
           which
           of
           a
           Childe
           of
           perdition
           ,
           thou
           are
           made
           the
           sonne
           
           of
           GOD
           through
           Faith
           ,
           and
           so
           made
           foreuer
           .
           Doest
           thou
           beleeue
           this
           with
           thy
           whole
           heart
           ?
           Driue
           on
           the
           Charriot
           of
           thy
           life
           with
           ioy
           and
           reioycing
           till
           thou
           come
           to
           the
           marke
           .
        
         
           But
           what
           signe
           shall
           I
           haue
           of
           the
           truth
           of
           my
           Faith
           ?
           May
           it
           not
           bee
           presumption
           if
           without
           repentance
           and
           sanctitie
           ?
           How
           shall
           I
           be
           sure
           it
           is
           not
           that
           vaine
           and
           dead
           Faith
           Saint
           Iames
           speaketh
           of
           ?
        
         
           At
           the
           first
           ,
           it
           shall
           suffice
           to
           finde
           and
           feele
           a
           change
           of
           the
           minde
           ,
           an
           vnfained
           purpose
           ,
           desire
           ,
           and
           resolution
           of
           new
           vniuersall
           obedience
           ,
           which
           is
           contemporary
           with
           Faith
           ,
           though
           the
           younger
           and
           a
           second
           brother
           in
           order
           of
           Nature
           :
           which
           where
           it
           is
           ,
           sufficeth
           to
           warrant
           Faith
           ,
           and
           to
           embolden
           the
           confidence
           in
           the
           first
           act
           of
           conuersion
           .
           
           Zacheus
           ,
           the
           Iaylor
           ,
           and
           all
           new
           Conuerts
           had
           not
           any
           more
           ,
           could
           haue
           no
           experience
           of
           amendment
           of
           life
           ,
           and
           yet
           relyed
           vpon
           the
           word
           
             Beleeue
             ,
             and
             thou
             shalt
             bee
             saued
             .
          
        
      
       
         
         
           CHAP.
           VI.
           The
           vse
           of
           Faith
           to
           young
           men
           in
           Christianity
           .
        
         
           PVT
           off
           now
           thy
           sackcloth
           and
           ashes
           ,
           put
           on
           the
           garments
           of
           ioy
           and
           gladnesse
           .
           Let
           not
           white
           raiment
           be
           wanting
           ,
           nor
           oyle
           to
           thy
           head
           .
           Liue
           I
           say
           ,
           liue
           to
           day
           ,
           liue
           to
           morrow
           ,
           liue
           oh
           Christian
           for
           euer
           .
           Not
           for
           one
           or
           a
           fewe
           dayes
           ,
           But
           all
           the
           dayes
           of
           thy
           life
           .
        
         
           This
           thou
           mayst
           doe
           ,
           if
           thou
           wilt
           learne
           to
           vse
           thy
           Faith
           ,
           not
           
           as
           men
           vse
           Wedding
           apparell
           ,
           for
           a
           weeke
           or
           two
           after
           Marriage
           ,
           and
           then
           lay
           it
           vp
           for
           high
           and
           solemne
           dayes
           onely
           .
           This
           indeed
           is
           the
           fashion
           of
           beleeuers
           at
           their
           first
           conuersion
           :
           beeing
           iustified
           ,
           to
           haue
           peace
           and
           ioy
           in
           beleeuing
           the
           remission
           of
           their
           sinnes
           ,
           and
           for
           a
           while
           to
           bee
           glad
           of
           their
           estate
           ;
           but
           then
           to
           neglect
           and
           determinate
           the
           vse
           of
           Faith
           ,
           as
           if
           it
           had
           now
           done
           all
           it
           should
           or
           could
           doe
           :
           except
           till
           they
           relapse
           againe
           into
           some
           foule
           sinne
           ,
           then
           to
           recouer
           life
           againe
           ,
           vsing
           it
           as
           Vsquebath
           and
           strong
           Waters
           for
           swones
           and
           heart
           qualmes
           onely
           ,
           not
           being
           acquainted
           with
           a
           dayly
           and
           quotidian
           improuement
           of
           it
           :
           which
           ought
           to
           bee
           as
           constant
           and
           continuate
           as
           is
           the
           vse
           of
           Fire
           and
           Water
           ,
           of
           Salt
           ,
           of
           Bread
           ,
           or
           Wine
           ,
           or
           whateuer
           is
           more
           ordinary
           
           and
           necessary
           then
           other
           :
           such
           as
           no
           part
           of
           our
           liues
           may
           well
           be
           without
           .
           Serues
           Faith
           for
           entrance
           and
           beginnings
           ,
           and
           not
           for
           proceedings
           and
           encreasings
           .
           Are
           we
           not
           nourished
           by
           the
           same
           Elements
           of
           which
           wee
           consist
           ?
        
         
           Is
           Faith
           the
           Midwife
           and
           breeder
           of
           ioy
           and
           peace
           ,
           and
           not
           the
           Nurse
           and
           Foster-mother
           of
           them
           .
           Cherishing
           and
           feeding
           thee
           till
           thou
           come
           to
           a
           full
           and
           perfect
           age
           in
           Christ
           ?
           Is
           not
           the
           fruit
           of
           it
           sweeter
           in
           the
           eare
           then
           in
           the
           blade
           ?
        
         
           Hearken
           therefore
           to
           mee
           ,
           oh
           thou
           of
           little
           Faith
           ,
           and
           lesse
           vse
           of
           it
           .
           Doest
           thou
           desire
           to
           haue
           a
           continuall
           feast
           ,
           to
           reioyce
           alwaies
           in
           the
           Lord
           ?
           I
           know
           thou
           desirest
           it
           with
           all
           thy
           soule
           .
        
         
           Let
           me
           prescribe
           a
           Dyet
           ,
           a
           daily
           dyet
           without
           omission
           ,
           strictly
           
           to
           bee
           kept
           ,
           (
           The
           Lord
           giue
           thee
           and
           mee
           grace
           to
           obserue
           it
           )
           Looke
           how
           duly
           thou
           refreshest
           thy
           bodyly
           spirites
           by
           vse
           of
           repast
           ,
           or
           recreations
           ;
           so
           often
           at
           the
           least
           bee
           sure
           to
           cheere
           vp
           thy
           Soule
           by
           the
           vse
           of
           thy
           Faith.
           
        
         
           Let
           thy
           soule
           haue
           two
           or
           three
           walkes
           a
           day
           vp
           to
           Mount
           Tabor
           ,
           that
           is
           ,
           into
           some
           retyred
           place
           of
           Meditation
           and
           Prayer
           ,
           such
           as
           Isaaks
           Field
           ,
           Gornelius
           his
           Leaded
           ,
           Dauids
           Closet
           ,
           &c.
           
        
         
           But
           what
           is
           there
           to
           be
           done
           ?
           I
           answere
           ,
           Still
           make
           vse
           of
           thy
           Faith.
           
        
         
           But
           what
           is
           that
           you
           call
           vsing
           of
           Faith
           ?
           I
           now
           come
           to
           the
           point
           ,
           to
           the
           chiefe
           misterie
           of
           Spirituall
           life
           .
           Shore
           vp
           thy
           soule
           in
           this
           Mount
           to
           conuerse
           with
           Christ.
           Looke
           what
           promises
           
           and
           priuiledges
           thou
           doest
           habitually
           beleeue
           ,
           now
           actually
           think
           of
           them
           ,
           rowle
           them
           vnder
           thy
           tongue
           ,
           Chew
           on
           them
           till
           thou
           feele
           some
           sweetnesse
           in
           the
           palate
           of
           thy
           soule
           .
           View
           them
           ioyusly
           ,
           seuerally
           :
           Sometimes
           muse
           of
           one
           ,
           sometimes
           of
           another
           more
           deepely
           ,
           and
           lest
           (
           as
           Patients
           oft
           doe
           in
           Physicions
           Billes
           )
           thou
           still
           complaine
           of
           obscurity
           :
           thus
           doe
           ,
           thinke
           with
           thy selfe
           how
           excellent
           a
           thing
           it
           is
           to
           haue
           all
           thy
           debts
           cancelled
           ,
           how
           sweet
           a
           thing
           to
           haue
           God
           appeased
           ,
           how
           glorious
           a
           thing
           to
           bee
           the
           sonne
           of
           God
           ,
           how
           happy
           and
           safe
           a
           condition
           for
           thee
           to
           bee
           sure
           thy
           perseuerance
           and
           saluation
           ,
           how
           pleasant
           a
           state
           to
           bee
           ●●●●●
           of
           the
           fiere
           of
           death
           〈◊〉
           〈◊〉
           ,
           how
           〈◊〉
           〈◊〉
           〈◊〉
           〈◊〉
           〈◊〉
           of
           glory
           .
        
         
         
           Feastmakers
           in
           ancient
           time
           had
           speciall
           officers
           that
           cheered
           vp
           their
           guests
           ,
           they
           thought
           it
           not
           enough
           to
           set
           store
           of
           meate
           beefore
           them
           ,
           but
           one
           must
           come
           in
           and
           say
           ,
           Fall
           too
           and
           be
           merry
           ,
           Let
           vs
           eate
           and
           drinke
           ,
           It
           is
           a
           good
           time
           ,
           &c.
           
        
         
           Thus
           say
           thou
           to
           thy selfe
           ,
           as
           Paul
           to
           the
           Corinths
           (
           
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
          
           )
           
             Let
             us
             feast
             and
             bee
             merry
             .
          
           Christ
           hath
           made
           vs
           Holy-dayes
           ,
           our
           Paschall
           Lambe
           is
           slaine
           ,
           Haue
           any
           more
           cause
           to
           bee
           merry
           ?
           With
           these
           Soliloquies
           mingle
           some
           Eiaculations
           to
           heauen
           ,
           for
           grace
           and
           ayde
           :
           And
           leaue
           not
           ,
           descend
           not
           this
           Mount
           till
           thou
           findest
           and
           feelest
           thy
           soule
           in
           some
           cheerely
           plight
           ,
           reuiued
           and
           warmed
           with
           these
           spirituall
           Flagons
           of
           Wine
           ,
           in
           the
           strength
           whereof
           thou
           mayest
           walke
           all
           the
           day
           following
           .
        
         
         
           This
           is
           that
           which
           the
           Sp●●se
           calles
           ,
           Walking
           into
           the
           Gardens
           and
           eating
           of
           the
           fruits
           ,
           &c.
           which
           in
           plaine
           termes
           ,
           I
           call
           ,
           vsing
           of
           Faith
           ,
           and
           liuing
           by
           Faith.
           Which
           if
           thou
           wilt
           duely
           inure
           thy selfe
           vnto
           ,
           thou
           wilt
           not
           maruell
           why
           I
           called
           it
           ,
           
             Ascending
             Mount
             Tabor
          
           :
           thou
           wilt
           say
           thy selfe
           ,
           vpon
           good
           proofe
           ,
           It
           is
           good
           to
           be
           here
           ,
           dayly
           to
           be
           here
           ,
           often
           to
           come
           hither
           .
           This
           is
           that
           exercise
           of
           Faith
           ,
           which
           paul
           inioynes
           Timothy
           ,
           and
           calles
           stirring
           vp
           ,
           or
           in
           kindling
           .
        
         
           Fire
           in
           the
           Embers
           vnstirred
           ,
           glowes
           not
           ,
           heats
           not
           the
           house
           ;
           Sugar
           in
           the
           cup
           vnstirred
           sweetens
           not
           the
           Wine
           .
           And
           in
           such
           it
           is
           all
           one
           not
           to
           haue
           Faith
           ,
           and
           not
           to
           vse
           it
           .
           It
           may
           well
           bee
           said
           of
           Money-hoorders
           ,
           they
           haue
           no
           quicksiluer
           ,
           no
           currant
           money
           ,
           they
           haue
           no
           more
           that
           which
           they
           
           haue
           ,
           then
           that
           which
           they
           haue
           not
           .
           And
           so
           of
           such
           beleeuers
           as
           doe
           not
           thus
           vse
           their
           Faith
           ,
           they
           haue
           no
           liuely
           Faith
           ,
           They
           were
           almost
           (
           for
           matter
           of
           feeling
           ,
           and
           for
           present
           benefit
           and
           comfort
           )
           be
           without
           Faith.
           A
           man
           is
           little
           the
           better
           for
           a
           sleeping
           habit
           .
           It
           is
           a
           rare
           portion
           ,
           saith
           Salomon
           ,
           and
           that
           which
           GOD
           giues
           onely
           to
           such
           as
           are
           good
           in
           his
           eyes
           ,
           to
           make
           vse
           of
           wealth
           ,
           to
           eate
           ,
           drinke
           ,
           and
           bee
           merry
           :
           it
           is
           a
           much
           rarer
           to
           vse
           Faith.
           What
           is
           a
           man
           the
           better
           for
           a
           Locke
           if
           he
           haue
           not
           the
           Key
           to
           vse
           it
           withall
           ?
           It
           is
           not
           a
           Trade
           ,
           but
           a
           Trade
           well
           followed
           .
           It
           is
           not
           Land
           ,
           but
           Land
           well
           tilled
           that
           maintaines
           men
           .
        
         
           Oh
           that
           this
           did
           as
           clearely
           appeare
           to
           the
           world
           in
           the
           matter
           of
           Faith
           ,
           as
           it
           doth
           in
           all
           other
           habits
           ,
           graces
           ,
           giftes
           ,
           vertues
           and
           good
           
           things
           whatsoeuer
           ,
           that
           the
           principall
           beauty
           and
           benefit
           of
           them
           consists
           in
           vse
           ,
           fruition
           and
           action
           ,
           not
           the
           bare
           profession
           ,
           yea
           the
           very
           increase
           and
           perfection
           of
           them
           .
           Vse
           limbes
           and
           haue
           limbes
           ,
           the
           more
           thou
           doest
           ,
           the
           more
           thou
           mayest
           .
           The
           oftner
           the
           liberall
           man
           giues
           Almes
           and
           does
           good
           turnes
           ,
           the
           more
           his
           liberality
           growes
           ,
           and
           shines
           .
           Vse
           will
           breed
           perfectnesse
           ,
           and
           through
           disuse
           things
           perish
           ,
           and
           come
           to
           nothing
           ;
           as
           the
           Plowsheare
           laid
           vp
           ,
           rusts
           and
           consumes
           ;
           imployed
           ,
           glisters
           ,
           doth
           good
           and
           lasts
           the
           longer
           .
           Let
           any
           man
           diligently
           and
           throughly
           improue
           ,
           and
           great
           will
           be
           his
           faith
           and
           great
           the
           ioy
           it
           will
           bring
           in
           .
        
      
       
         
         
           CHAP.
           VII
           .
           An
           inforcement
           of
           the
           former
           vse
           ,
           with
           a
           reproofe
           of
           the
           neglect
           and
           disuse
           of
           Faith.
           
        
         
           WHerefore
           I
           say
           again
           ,
           
             Liue
             by
             Faith
          
           ,
           againe
           I
           say
           ,
           alwaies
           liue
           by
           it
           ,
           reioyce
           alwaies
           through
           Faith
           in
           the
           Lord.
           I
           dare
           boldly
           say
           ,
           It
           is
           thy
           fault
           and
           neglect
           of
           this
           exercise
           ,
           if
           thou
           suffer
           either
           thy
           own
           melancholly
           humor
           ,
           or
           Satan
           to
           interrupt
           thy
           mirth
           and
           spirituall
           alacritie
           ,
           and
           to
           detaine
           thee
           in
           dumps
           and
           pensiuenesse
           at
           any
           
           time
           .
           What
           if
           thou
           beest
           of
           a
           sad
           constitution
           ,
           of
           a
           darke
           complexion
           ?
           Is
           not
           Faith
           able
           to
           rectifie
           nature
           ?
           is
           it
           not
           stronger
           then
           any
           ellebore
           .
           
           Doth
           not
           an
           experienced
           both
           Diuine
           and
           Phisition
           worthily
           preferre
           one
           dramme
           of
           it
           before
           all
           the
           Drugges
           in
           the
           Apothecaries
           shop
           for
           this
           effect
           ?
           Hath
           it
           not
           soueraigne
           vertue
           in
           it
           to
           excerebrate
           all
           cares
           ,
           expectorate
           all
           feares
           and
           griefes
           ,
           euacuate
           the
           minde
           of
           all
           ill
           thoughts
           and
           passions
           ,
           to
           exhilerate
           the
           whose
           man
           ?
           But
           what
           good
           doth
           it
           any
           to
           haue
           a
           Cordiall
           by
           him
           ,
           if
           he
           vse
           it
           not
           ?
           to
           weare
           a
           sword
           souldier
           like
           by
           the
           side
           ,
           and
           not
           to
           draw
           it
           forth
           vpon
           an
           assault
           ?
           when
           a
           dump
           ouer-takes
           thee
           ,
           if
           thou
           wouldest
           say
           to
           thy
           soule
           in
           a
           word
           or
           two
           ;
           Soule
           ,
           why
           art
           thou
           disquieted
           ?
           know
           and
           consider
           
           in
           whom
           thou
           beleeuest
           ?
           would
           it
           not
           presently
           returne
           to
           it
           rest
           againe
           ?
           would
           not
           the
           Master
           rebuke
           the
           Windes
           and
           Stormes
           and
           calme
           thy
           minde
           presently
           ?
           Hath
           not
           euery
           man
           something
           or
           other
           wherewithall
           hee
           vseth
           to
           put
           away
           dumps
           to
           driue
           away
           the
           ill
           spirit
           as
           Dauid
           with
           his
           Harp
           :
           some
           with
           merry
           company
           ,
           some
           with
           a
           cup
           of
           sack
           ,
           most
           with
           a
           pipe
           of
           Tobacco
           ,
           without
           which
           they
           scarce
           ride
           or
           goe
           ,
           if
           they
           misse
           it
           a
           day
           together
           ,
           they
           are
           troubled
           with
           rhumes
           ,
           dulnesse
           of
           spirits
           ,
           they
           that
           liue
           in
           Fennes
           and
           ill
           ayres
           ,
           dare
           not
           stirre
           out
           without
           a
           morning
           draught
           of
           some
           strong
           liquor
           .
           Poore
           silly
           smoaky
           helps
           ,
           in
           comparison
           of
           the
           least
           taste
           ,
           (
           but
           for
           dishonouring
           of
           Faith
           ,
           I
           would
           say
           )
           whiffe
           ,
           or
           draught
           of
           Faith.
           
        
         
         
           Oh!
           that
           wise
           Christians
           would
           as
           often
           take
           the
           one
           ,
           as
           idle
           Guls
           doe
           the
           other
           ?
           would
           not
           the
           drawing
           in
           of
           sweete
           ayer
           from
           the
           pretious
           promises
           breede
           excellent
           blood
           and
           cheerely
           spirits
           ;
           It
           is
           a
           mystery
           in
           bodily
           health
           that
           to
           keepe
           the
           arteries
           and
           the
           nosthrils
           ,
           veines
           ,
           and
           other
           passages
           to
           the
           head
           ,
           heart
           ,
           and
           liuer
           ,
           cleere
           and
           free
           from
           colds
           and
           obstructions
           ,
           maintaines
           a
           healthfull
           and
           cheerefull
           temper
           .
           The
           Pipe
           of
           Faith
           is
           the
           same
           to
           the
           soule
           .
           Hee
           that
           is
           Astmaticall
           ,
           narrow
           breathed
           or
           straight
           breasted
           in
           his
           Faith
           ,
           cannot
           bee
           but
           lumpish
           and
           melancholly
           .
           Wherefore
           as
           thou
           louest
           thy
           mirth
           aboue
           all
           other
           ,
           tend
           this
           vitall
           artery
           aboue
           all
           keepings
           ,
           keepe
           thy
           Faith
           and
           it
           will
           keepe
           thy
           ioy
           :
           It
           will
           keepe
           it
           an
           euen
           euerflowing
           
           current
           ,
           without
           ebbe
           and
           flowe
           ,
           clouds
           and
           eclipses
           ,
           turning
           euer
           vpon
           the
           hinges
           of
           heauenly
           and
           solid
           mirth
           .
           And
           indeed
           ,
           how
           or
           why
           should
           it
           be
           otherwise
           ?
           Doe
           not
           Christians
           consider
           how
           vnseemely
           it
           is
           for
           them
           ,
           to
           goe
           drooping
           ,
           hanging
           the
           head
           ?
           Is
           any
           so
           simple
           to
           think
           because
           hee
           is
           a
           Christian
           that
           hee
           should
           affect
           a
           sad
           carriage
           ,
           a
           deiected
           look
           ,
           a
           demure
           countenance
           like
           an
           image
           ?
           Away
           with
           such
           Monkish
           hypocrisie
           .
           How
           doth
           it
           become
           the
           Righteous
           to
           reioyce
           ?
           Do
           they
           not
           consider
           how
           they
           wrong
           themselues
           of
           the
           maine
           benefit
           of
           their
           Iustification
           ?
           what
           is
           a
           Christian
           but
           his
           mirth
           ?
           wherein
           doth
           the
           kingdom
           of
           Heauen
           consist
           but
           in
           Ioy
           ?
           Doe
           they
           not
           see
           how
           they
           offend
           standers
           by
           and
           beholders
           ?
           Is
           not
           heauinesse
           a
           check
           that
           driues
           away
           
           and
           mirth
           as
           a
           lure
           that
           wins
           to
           the
           liking
           of
           their
           profession
           ?
           Men
           wonder
           to
           see
           a
           rich
           man
           that
           hath
           the
           world
           at
           will
           ,
           all
           things
           at
           hearts
           desire
           ,
           to
           be
           but
           in
           a
           fit
           of
           heauinesse
           .
           What
           ,
           say
           they
           ,
           should
           hee
           ayle
           ?
           The
           Irish
           aske
           such
           ,
           what
           they
           meane
           to
           die
           ?
           but
           I
           wonder
           a
           thousand
           times
           more
           to
           see
           one
           that
           hath
           Christ
           to
           friend
           ,
           that
           beleeues
           God
           to
           be
           his
           shepheard
           ,
           that
           knowes
           all
           must
           worke
           for
           the
           best
           ,
           to
           bee
           at
           any
           time
           out
           of
           tune
           or
           out
           of
           sorts
           .
           For
           a
           N●abal
           to
           be
           all
           a
           mort
           like
           a
           stone
           ,
           it
           is
           no
           newes
           to
           me
           ;
           but
           to
           see
           Nehemiahs
           countenance
           changed
           ,
           there
           must
           needs
           be
           some
           extraordinary
           cause
           :
           should
           such
           a
           man
           as
           he
           feare
           ,
           or
           carke
           ,
           or
           grieue
           ?
           What
           if
           it
           doe
           not
           yet
           appeare
           what
           thou
           shalt
           bee
           ?
           Is
           a
           yong
           Ward
           prouder
           and
           gladder
           (
           in
           his
           minority
           )
           of
           an
           vncertaine
           
           reuersion
           ,
           then
           a
           yeoman
           of
           his
           present
           estate
           ?
           And
           is
           not
           Faith
           an
           Hypostasis
           and
           euidence
           to
           thee
           of
           an
           infallible
           inheritance
           ?
           Canst
           thou
           bee
           sad
           ,
           which
           mayest
           say
           ,
           not
           to
           thy
           belly
           ,
           but
           to
           thy
           soule
           ,
           Thou
           hast
           ,
           not
           many
           goods
           ,
           but
           fulnesse
           of
           all
           treasures
           ,
           layd
           vp
           ,
           not
           in
           the
           earth
           ,
           where
           moath
           and
           canker
           and
           theeues
           may
           come
           ,
           but
           in
           heauenly
           places
           ,
           out
           of
           the
           Deuils
           reach
           ,
           and
           that
           not
           for
           many
           yeares
           ,
           but
           for
           euer
           and
           euer
           ,
           neuer
           to
           bee
           taken
           from
           thy
           soule
           ,
           nor
           thy
           soule
           from
           them
           .
           Oh
           thou
           vaine
           man
           !
           shew
           mee
           thy
           Faith
           by
           thy
           ioy
           :
           if
           thou
           liuest
           dumpishly
           ,
           and
           yet
           say
           thou
           liuest
           by
           Faith
           ,
           I
           wil
           as
           soone
           beleeue
           thee
           as
           him
           ,
           that
           shall
           say
           hee
           hath
           the
           Phylosophers
           stone
           ,
           and
           liues
           like
           a
           beggar
           ,
           If
           it
           were
           euer
           well
           with
           thy
           Faith
           ,
           could
           it
           euer
           bee
           amisse
           with
           thee
           :
           should
           not
           the
           
           temper
           of
           thy
           body
           follow
           the
           temper
           of
           thy
           soule
           ,
           and
           the
           temper
           of
           thy
           soule
           ,
           the
           temper
           of
           thy
           Faith
           ?
           The
           body
           may
           incline
           thy
           soule
           ,
           but
           the
           soule
           commands
           the
           body
           ,
           and
           Faith
           is
           the
           Lord
           of
           them
           both
           .
           According
           to
           thy
           Faith
           ,
           so
           be
           it
           vnto
           thee
           ,
           so
           will
           it
           be
           with
           thee
           .
           Vse
           thy
           Faith
           and
           haue
           ioy
           :
           encrease
           thy
           Faith
           ,
           encrease
           thy
           ioy
           .
        
      
       
         
         
           CHAP.
           VIII
           .
           The
           vse
           of
           Faith
           to
           a
           growne
           Christian.
           
        
         
           NAy
           Christian
           ,
           now
           I
           haue
           gotten
           thee
           hither
           ,
           I
           must
           draw
           thee
           yet
           a
           pegge
           higher
           ,
           and
           tel
           thee
           ,
           it
           is
           a
           small
           thing
           for
           thee
           to
           come
           to
           an
           ordinary
           pitch
           of
           cheerefulnesse
           ,
           except
           thy
           ioyes
           exceedes
           the
           mirth
           of
           a
           worldling
           ,
           yea
           of
           a
           professed
           Epicure
           in
           the
           qualitie
           and
           quantitie
           of
           it
           .
           If
           thy
           mirth
           bee
           not
           a
           sweeter
           and
           more
           rauishing
           mirth
           of
           an
           higher
           kinde
           ,
           of
           a
           more
           pure
           
           defecate
           nature
           ,
           of
           a
           more
           constant
           tenure
           ,
           then
           any
           Carnall
           man
           what
           euer
           ,
           thou
           disparagest
           Faith
           ,
           thou
           art
           very
           little
           and
           yong
           in
           the
           Kingdome
           of
           Heauen
           ,
           which
           consists
           not
           in
           meates
           and
           drinkes
           ,
           but
           in
           ioy
           vnspeakeable
           and
           glorious
           ,
           in
           the
           ioy
           of
           the
           Holy
           Ghost
           .
           And
           must
           not
           that
           needes
           bee
           another
           manner
           of
           ioy
           then
           euer
           entred
           into
           the
           heart
           of
           a
           naturall
           man
           ,
           then
           euer
           a
           Sardanapalus
           tasted
           of
           ?
           Yes
           vndoubtedly
           .
           So
           must
           bee
           construed
           that
           text
           ,
           1.
           
           Cor.
           2.
           not
           of
           the
           ioyes
           of
           Heauen
           ,
           which
           here
           the
           spirituall
           man
           himselfe
           cannot
           tell
           what
           they
           shall
           be
           ,
           but
           of
           the
           Gospels
           ioy
           ,
           of
           the
           Wine
           and
           Fatlings
           already
           prepared
           and
           now
           reuealed
           to
           the
           beleeuer
           by
           the
           Spirit
           :
           which
           if
           the
           carnall
           man
           scorne
           and
           scoffe
           at
           ,
           thou
           canst
           no
           more
           helpe
           him
           or
           prooue
           to
           him
           ,
           then
           
           a
           seeing
           man
           to
           a
           blinde
           man
           that
           hee
           sees
           orient
           rich
           colours
           .
           It
           is
           enough
           for
           thee
           to
           secretly
           feele
           and
           enioy
           it
           .
           Only
           it
           ought
           in
           thy
           life
           so
           to
           be
           expressed
           ;
           yea
           ,
           so
           to
           shine
           in
           thy
           forehead
           ,
           so
           to
           be
           read
           in
           the
           very
           face
           of
           thee
           ,
           that
           their
           teeth
           may
           be
           set
           on
           edge
           ,
           and
           that
           they
           may
           enquire
           ,
           what
           is
           thy
           beloued
           aboue
           other
           beloueds
           ?
           what
           is
           that
           makes
           this
           man
           thus
           merry
           in
           all
           estates
           ?
           Thus
           let
           them
           enuy
           at
           thine
           ,
           let
           not
           thy
           soule
           descend
           to
           theirs
           .
        
         
           Are
           not
           the
           gleanings
           of
           Ephraim
           better
           then
           the
           vintage
           of
           Abiezer
           ?
           Shouldest
           thou
           that
           hast
           tasted
           of
           the
           grapes
           of
           Canaan
           ,
           long
           after
           the
           Onions
           and
           Garlick
           of
           Aegypt
           ?
           Is
           Pharphar
           like
           vnto
           Iordan
           ?
           hast
           not
           thou
           Riuers
           of
           water
           euer
           flowing
           out
           of
           thy
           belly
           ?
           and
           wilt
           thou
           stoope
           to
           their
           puddle
           waters
           ,
           to
           their
           stolne
           waters
           ,
           
           blousing
           ,
           carding
           ,
           dicing
           ,
           whoring
           ,
           &c.
           which
           should
           not
           thy
           soule
           altogether
           lothe
           and
           abhor
           ,
           after
           the
           taste
           of
           Faiths
           Nectar
           and
           Ambrosia
           .
           But
           euen
           their
           ordinary
           and
           lawfull
           delights
           ,
           the
           wine
           and
           oyle
           ,
           musicke
           ,
           hunting
           ,
           hawking
           &c.
           to
           these
           God
           allowes
           thee
           to
           stoope
           for
           thy
           bodies
           sake
           ,
           as
           the
           Eagle
           to
           the
           prey
           ,
           or
           as
           Gideous
           souldiers
           to
           soope
           thy
           handfull
           ,
           not
           to
           swill
           thy
           belly
           full
           .
           If
           Plato
           could
           tell
           the
           Musitians
           ,
           that
           Phylosophers
           could
           dine
           and
           sup
           without
           them
           ,
           How
           much
           more
           easie
           is
           it
           for
           Saint
           Augustine
           to
           weane
           himselfe
           from
           the
           childish
           rattles
           and
           may
           games
           of
           carnall
           delights
           ,
           to
           bee
           merry
           without
           the
           Fiddle
           .
           Good
           leaue
           hast
           thou
           ,
           yea
           ,
           right
           and
           title
           to
           vse
           all
           externall
           recreations
           ,
           wherof
           before
           thou
           wert
           but
           an
           vsurper
           ,
           but
           vse
           them
           aright
           as
           if
           thou
           
           vsedst
           them
           not
           ,
           knowing
           how
           to
           put
           thy
           knife
           to
           thy
           throat
           ,
           and
           how
           to
           be
           without
           them
           :
           to
           bee
           as
           one
           that
           liueth
           not
           by
           them
           but
           by
           Faith.
           
        
         
           Were
           it
           not
           odious
           to
           see
           a
           man
           that
           hath
           a
           spouse
           peerelesse
           for
           beautie
           ,
           to
           liue
           with
           a
           deformed
           blouse
           ?
           to
           see
           one
           professing
           some
           liberall
           Science
           ,
           to
           liue
           by
           some
           base
           manuall
           trade
           ?
           no
           better
           fight
           is
           it
           to
           see
           a
           Christian
           vpholding
           his
           ioy
           by
           course
           and
           earthly
           pleasures
           ,
           that
           hath
           more
           noble
           and
           generous
           ,
           yea
           ,
           Angelicall
           delights
           ;
           then
           which
           ,
           what
           hath
           heauen
           better
           but
           in
           degree
           only
           ,
           and
           manner
           of
           fruition
           ?
           what
           hath
           this
           world
           comparable
           ?
           Alas
           poore
           Phylosophers
           ,
           when
           I
           read
           your
           Treatises
           of
           Tranquillitie
           of
           mind
           ,
           of
           consolation
           ,
           of
           remedies
           against
           both
           Fortunes
           ,
           though
           in
           some
           things
           you
           come
           
           neere
           the
           kingdome
           of
           Heauen
           ,
           yet
           how
           dull
           are
           your
           comforts
           to
           one
           of
           ours
           ?
           the
           highest
           of
           yours
           to
           the
           lowest
           of
           ours
           ?
           Had
           you
           but
           through
           a
           creuis
           or
           Lettice
           seene
           the
           things
           which
           the
           eie
           of
           Faith
           seeth
           with
           open
           face
           ,
           how
           would
           you
           in
           comparison
           of
           Christianisme
           haue
           loathed
           your
           Stoicisme
           and
           Epicurisme
           ?
           Had
           you
           but
           with
           the
           tip
           of
           your
           tongue
           ,
           tasted
           of
           Faiths
           dainties
           ,
           how
           would
           you
           haue
           magnified
           Faith
           aboue
           all
           your
           Cardinall
           vertues
           ?
           you
           that
           so
           composed
           your
           liues
           by
           ieiune
           and
           empty
           contemplations
           of
           an
           autarky
           in
           vertue
           by
           the
           rules
           of
           nature
           ;
           what
           stately
           liues
           would
           you
           haue
           led
           and
           liued
           ,
           if
           the
           grace
           and
           hopes
           of
           the
           Gospel
           had
           appeared
           to
           you
           by
           the
           rules
           of
           Faith
           ?
           As
           for
           you
           Poets
           of
           the
           lighter
           and
           pleasanter
           veine
           ,
           when
           I
           read
           your
           oades
           and
           sonnets
           ,
           
           chaunting
           out
           your
           choice
           ioyes
           and
           loues
           ,
           your
           wishes
           and
           vowes
           ,
           framing
           a
           conceited
           happinesse
           to
           your selues
           ,
           as
           the
           highest
           you
           could
           imagine
           or
           desire
           :
           what
           low
           streines
           and
           meane
           aire
           do
           I
           reckon
           them
           ,
           in
           comparison
           ,
           of
           our
           Christian
           and
           diuine
           hymnes
           ?
           what
           pittifull
           subiects
           for
           such
           sublimated
           wits
           ?
           what
           difference
           between
           your
           oaten
           pipes
           and
           our
           heauenly
           harpes
           ?
           Salomon
           that
           loued
           both
           these
           loues
           ,
           liued
           both
           liues
           ,
           and
           sung
           songs
           of
           both
           sorts
           ,
           when
           God
           raised
           his
           muse
           to
           an
           higher
           tune
           ,
           and
           taught
           it
           to
           sing
           the
           song
           of
           songs
           ,
           how
           despised
           he
           his
           former
           windy
           vanities
           in
           comparison
           of
           his
           new
           spirituall
           delicacies
           .
           Wherefore
           ,
           O
           Christian
           ,
           that
           hast
           such
           transcendent
           obiects
           of
           thy
           thoughts
           aboue
           al
           other
           men
           ,
           why
           shouldest
           thou
           not
           euer
           keepe
           thy
           soule
           vpon
           the
           wing
           ,
           euer
           in
           a
           manner
           
           bee
           in
           the
           third
           heauens
           ,
           rowling
           and
           tumbling
           thy
           soule
           in
           these
           beds
           of
           roses
           :
           I
           meane
           these
           meditations
           of
           thy
           Iustification
           ,
           sanctification
           and
           saluation
           through
           Christ
           ,
           without
           which
           ,
           why
           should
           one
           day
           passe
           thee
           ?
           why
           any
           one
           part
           of
           a
           day
           ?
           why
           should
           not
           thy
           soule
           haue
           her
           due
           drinkes
           ,
           breakfasts
           ,
           meales
           vndermeales
           ,
           beuers
           ,
           and
           after-meales
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           thy
           body
           ?
           Thus
           to
           redeeme
           time
           ,
           thus
           to
           taske
           and
           tye
           thy
           soule
           to
           such
           heauenly
           round
           of
           worke
           ,
           would
           it
           not
           make
           the
           Mill
           of
           time
           pleasant
           ,
           the
           yoke
           of
           businesse
           easie
           ?
           would
           not
           pretious
           time
           glide
           swiftly
           and
           easily
           away
           like
           a
           boate
           with
           full
           winde
           and
           tide
           needing
           no
           oares
           ;
           or
           a
           free
           mettald
           horse
           needing
           no
           spurres
           ,
           needing
           no
           idle
           pastime
           to
           driue
           it
           before
           thee
           ?
           shall
           it
           not
           be
           a
           pleasure
           to
           thee
           to
           want
           other
           
           pleasures
           ?
           Thus
           mayest
           thou
           make
           all
           thy
           daies
           Christ-tides
           ,
           Easters
           ,
           Whitsundaies
           ,
           Birthdaies
           ,
           and
           Holydaies
           :
           not
           enuying
           Foelix
           his
           felicitie
           ,
           Festus
           his
           festiuitie
           ,
           nor
           Diues
           his
           daily
           purple
           and
           delicious
           fare
           :
           but
           liuing
           a
           life
           kingly
           and
           Angelicall
           ,
           in
           comparison
           of
           the
           vulgar
           sort
           .
        
      
       
         
         
           CHAP.
           IX
           .
           An
           obiection
           answered
           ,
           and
           passage
           made
           to
           the
           life
           of
           Sanctification
           .
        
         
           HAppily
           thou
           replyest
           ,
           all
           this
           were
           possible
           and
           easie
           ,
           were
           it
           not
           for
           that
           euen
           amiddest
           this
           diligent
           practise
           of
           Faith
           ,
           euen
           in
           the
           stricktest
           watch
           ,
           in
           many
           things
           the
           best
           faileth
           ,
           many
           knowne
           frailties
           will
           escape
           ,
           and
           more
           escape
           vnknowne
           :
           And
           how
           can
           mirth
           chuse
           but
           bee
           damped
           with
           frequent
           slips
           ?
        
         
         
           The
           answere
           is
           ,
           such
           an
           one
           as
           keepes
           the
           watch
           of
           his
           God
           ,
           and
           pretermits
           no
           day
           without
           the
           forementioned
           duties
           ,
           shall
           seldom
           or
           neuer
           fall
           into
           any
           foule
           slough
           ,
           and
           dash
           the
           ship
           of
           his
           Faith
           against
           any
           dangerous
           Rocke
           ,
           and
           if
           hee
           doe
           ,
           long
           hee
           cannot
           lye
           ,
           but
           his
           Faith
           will
           set
           him
           on
           worke
           to
           goe
           out
           ,
           weepe
           bitterly
           ,
           and
           make
           his
           peace
           presently
           with
           his
           Lord
           ,
           and
           Conscience
           ,
           that
           he
           may
           enioy
           his
           wonted
           repasts
           :
           And
           for
           his
           ordinary
           infirmities
           it
           will
           daily
           fetch
           him
           out
           a
           pardon
           of
           course
           ,
           washing
           and
           scouring
           his
           soule
           euery
           morning
           and
           eueuing
           ,
           more
           duely
           then
           any
           Pharisie
           his
           face
           or
           hands
           :
           and
           set
           him
           on
           worke
           euery
           day
           as
           hee
           runnes
           into
           arrerages
           ,
           to
           draw
           the
           redde
           lines
           of
           Christs
           Crosse
           ouer
           the
           blacke
           lines
           of
           Gods
           Debt
           Booke
           .
           And
           what
           if
           as
           
           an
           All-seeing
           God
           hee
           sees
           our
           violation
           of
           his
           Lawe
           ,
           and
           knowes
           better
           then
           our
           owne
           Consciences
           euery
           peccant
           Act
           of
           ours
           in
           thought
           ,
           word
           ,
           or
           deed
           ?
           what
           if
           GOD
           looke
           vpon
           the
           Hand-writing
           against
           vs
           ?
           Doth
           hee
           not
           see
           the
           Billes
           cancelled
           with
           the
           Pretious
           Blood
           of
           his
           Sonne
           and
           our
           Suretie
           ?
           Which
           for
           matter
           of
           guilt
           ,
           defilement
           ,
           and
           punishment
           is
           all
           sufficient
           to
           expunge
           ,
           couer
           ,
           nullifie
           ,
           abolish
           ,
           and
           wholly
           to
           take
           away
           our
           sinnes
           ,
           in
           such
           sort
           that
           he
           neither
           sees
           ,
           will
           see
           ,
           nor
           can
           see
           them
           as
           sinnes
           and
           debts
           bearing
           action
           against
           vs
           ,
           obliging
           vs
           to
           any
           penalty
           ;
           no
           more
           then
           the
           Creditor
           who
           though
           hee
           sees
           the
           Items
           in
           his
           Booke
           ,
           and
           knowes
           what
           debts
           haue
           beene
           ,
           yet
           sees
           them
           crossed
           ,
           cleared
           :
           And
           what
           thought
           then
           neede
           
           the
           Debtor
           take
           for
           such
           debts
           ?
           Why
           ,
           but
           is
           not
           this
           to
           make
           Faith
           a
           Pandar
           to
           sinne
           ?
           And
           to
           make
           good
           the
           Papists
           and
           Worldlings
           slander
           of
           Solifidians
           .
           that
           make
           no
           more
           of
           it
           ,
           but
           drinke
           and
           take
           Tobacco
           ;
           sinne
           ,
           and
           beleeue
           ;
           get
           a
           pardon
           of
           the
           olde
           ,
           and
           a
           licence
           for
           the
           new
           .
        
         
           Oh
           peeuish
           and
           froward
           Generation
           to
           whom
           it
           is
           not
           giuen
           to
           knowe
           the
           mysterie
           of
           Faith
           ,
           which
           is
           of
           the
           nature
           of
           Soueraigne
           mundifying
           waters
           ,
           which
           so
           wash
           off
           the
           corruption
           of
           the
           ulcer
           ,
           that
           they
           coole
           the
           heate
           ,
           and
           stay
           the
           spread
           of
           the
           infection
           ,
           and
           by
           degrees
           heale
           the
           same
           :
           And
           of
           Cordials
           which
           so
           comfort
           and
           ease
           the
           heart
           ,
           as
           also
           they
           expell
           the
           noxious
           humours
           and
           strengthen
           nature
           against
           them
           .
        
         
         
           These
           are
           ministred
           onely
           to
           prepared
           bodies
           ,
           these
           pearles
           are
           not
           for
           Swine
           ,
           this
           Diuinity
           wee
           Preach
           not
           in
           Gath
           and
           Askelon
           to
           vncircumcised
           prophane
           ones
           that
           will
           turne
           euery
           good
           thing
           to
           their
           owne
           destruction
           :
           But
           this
           belongs
           to
           the
           sealed
           Fountaine
           ,
           to
           the
           Spouse
           of
           Christ
           alone
           :
           which
           when
           shee
           hath
           washed
           her
           feete
           how
           loath
           is
           shee
           to
           foule
           them
           againe
           ?
           When
           shee
           hath
           appeased
           her
           Beloued
           ,
           howe
           doth
           shee
           adiure
           her-selfe
           and
           others
           by
           the
           Hyndes
           and
           Roes
           ,
           not
           to
           awaken
           and
           offend
           him
           againe
           ?
        
         
           The
           Text
           sayeth
           ,
           Not
           euery
           hypocrite
           ,
           euery
           profligate
           professor
           of
           Faith
           that
           liues
           as
           hee
           listes
           ,
           shall
           liue
           by
           his
           Faith
           ,
           but
           
             the
             Iust
          
           or
           Righteous
           ?
           Which
           golden
           sentence
           is
           indeede
           ambiguously
           
           enunciated
           of
           purpose
           by
           the
           Holy
           Ghost
           that
           it
           may
           either
           way
           bee
           taken
           ,
           
             The
             Iust
             by
             his
             Faith
             ,
             shall
             liue
             :
          
           Or
           ,
           
             The
             Iust
             shall
             liue
             by
             his
             Faith
             ,
          
           yet
           so
           as
           it
           hath
           but
           one
           right
           eare
           to
           bee
           holden
           by
           ,
           and
           that
           is
           onely
           for
           the
           hand
           of
           the
           Righteous
           man
           :
           Implying
           ,
           that
           whosoeuer
           beleeues
           ,
           or
           liues
           by
           his
           Faith
           ,
           is
           also
           and
           must
           of
           necessity
           bee
           a
           righteous
           man
           ,
           a
           Iust
           man
           ,
           not
           onely
           imputatiuely
           ,
           but
           inherently
           in
           part
           :
           such
           an
           one
           as
           vnfainedly
           loueth
           righteousnesse
           ,
           studieth
           the
           practise
           of
           it
           ,
           denieth
           and
           hateth
           all
           vnrighteousnesse
           ,
           endeuoureth
           euery
           day
           to
           bee
           more
           and
           more
           righteous
           ,
           and
           so
           deserueth
           the
           denomination
           of
           righteous
           .
        
         
           So
           that
           looke
           how
           the
           rationall
           
           Soule
           ,
           includeth
           and
           implyeth
           the
           animall
           ,
           so
           doth
           Iustification
           ,
           Sanctification
           ,
           being
           indiuiduall
           .
        
      
       
         
         
           CHAP.
           X.
           How
           Faith
           Sanctifies
           and
           Mortifies
           .
        
         
           SO
           I
           slide
           into
           the
           second
           part
           or
           kinde
           of
           Christian
           life
           ,
           consisting
           in
           holinesse
           and
           righteousnesse
           ,
           which
           I
           shall
           easily
           demonstrate
           not
           onely
           to
           bee
           an
           indiuiduall
           companion
           ,
           but
           a
           naturall
           and
           necessary
           effect
           of
           Faith.
           
        
         
           For
           looke
           how
           the
           strength
           of
           the
           heart
           breedes
           ,
           not
           onely
           cheerefulnesse
           but
           actiuenesse
           :
           Motion
           as
           well
           as
           health
           (
           whence
           
           it
           is
           that
           life
           ,
           is
           put
           for
           liuelinesse
           and
           agility
           )
           driues
           away
           all
           lassitude
           ,
           hebetude
           ,
           and
           indisposition
           ,
           brings
           in
           aptnesse
           and
           delight
           to
           stirre
           :
           the
           like
           doth
           Faith
           in
           the
           soule
           :
           which
           may
           as
           the
           former
           in
           the
           body
           ,
           for
           a
           time
           stand
           with
           some
           sleight
           distempers
           ,
           spots
           of
           the
           skinne
           ,
           atche
           of
           limbes
           ,
           but
           not
           long
           with
           deadly
           diseases
           ,
           either
           vanquishing
           them
           ,
           or
           vanquished
           by
           them
           .
           This
           noble
           vse
           of
           Faith
           will
           excellently
           appeare
           in
           both
           the
           parts
           of
           this
           newe
           life
           ,
           Mortification
           and
           Viuification
           :
           And
           in
           each
           of
           these
           ,
           two
           manner
           of
           wayes
           doth
           Faith
           produce
           this
           effect
           ;
           partly
           as
           a
           moouing
           ,
           partly
           as
           a
           procreant
           cause
           .
           In
           the
           first
           kinde
           admirable
           is
           the
           
             Pitho
             &
             Saada
          
           of
           Faith
           aboue
           all
           the
           Oratory
           in
           the
           World
           :
           All
           the
           common
           incentiues
           taken
           from
           profitte
           ,
           
           pleasure
           and
           honour
           ,
           all
           the
           Topicke
           places
           of
           Logicke
           ,
           Figures
           of
           Rhetoricke
           ,
           what
           poore
           and
           weake
           engines
           are
           they
           to
           the
           irresistable
           pe●arre
           of
           Faith
           ,
           which
           sayeth
           ,
           but
           Ephata
           ,
           and
           presently
           our
           Euerlasting
           Gates
           yeeld
           and
           stand
           open
           .
        
         
           For
           thus
           it
           goes
           to
           worke
           with
           vs
           ,
           Hath
           Christ
           giuen
           himselfe
           for
           thee
           ,
           forgiuen
           thee
           so
           many
           debts
           ,
           conferred
           ,
           fauours
           of
           all
           kindes
           vpon
           thee
           ,
           and
           what
           hast
           thou
           to
           retribute
           ?
           If
           thou
           giue
           all
           thy
           goods
           to
           the
           poore
           ,
           thy
           body
           to
           the
           fire
           ,
           thy
           soule
           ,
           to
           his
           seruice
           ;
           yea
           were
           euery
           hayre
           of
           thine
           head
           a
           man
           or
           Angell
           ,
           were
           not
           all
           short
           of
           recompence
           ?
           Louest
           thou
           ,
           louest
           thou
           this
           Sauiour
           of
           thine
           ,
           and
           darest
           thou
           ,
           or
           wilt
           thou
           dare
           to
           venture
           vpon
           any
           thing
           displeasing
           
           him
           ,
           is
           there
           any
           thing
           too
           good
           ,
           too
           heard
           or
           deare
           for
           him
           ?
           Mary
           ,
           if
           thy
           teares
           will
           washe
           his
           feete
           ,
           wilt
           thou
           not
           poure
           them
           out
           ?
           Is
           thine
           haire
           too
           good
           to
           bee
           the
           towell
           ?
           Is
           there
           any
           Spicknard
           too
           costly
           for
           his
           head
           ?
           Ioseph
           ,
           the
           LORD
           requireth
           the
           handsell
           of
           thy
           Tombe
           ,
           and
           wilt
           thou
           deny
           him
           ?
           Zacheus
           ,
           louest
           thou
           thy
           wealth
           aboue
           his
           honour
           that
           hath
           saued
           thee
           ?
           Stephen
           ,
           louest
           thou
           thy
           life
           aboue
           thy
           Master
           ?
           Can
           ,
           or
           did
           any
           Beleeuer
           giue
           the
           nay
           to
           these
           melting
           commaundes
           or
           commaunding
           entreaties
           of
           Faith
           ,
           will
           it
           take
           the
           repulse
           ?
           Doth
           it
           not
           constraine
           and
           extort
           more
           then
           all
           rackes
           and
           strapadoes
           ,
           allure
           more
           then
           all
           wages
           and
           prizes
           ?
           Doth
           not
           this
           Magnes
           as
           easily
           drawe
           weighty
           yron
           as
           other
           
           Iet
           doth
           strawes
           ?
           So
           that
           when
           thou
           wouldest
           bee
           sure
           to
           speed
           and
           obtaine
           any
           thing
           of
           thine
           vntoward
           heart
           ,
           set
           Faith
           a
           worke
           to
           make
           the
           motion
           ,
           and
           that
           will
           be
           sure
           to
           speede
           ,
           not
           onely
           by
           this
           perswading
           facultie
           ,
           but
           also
           by
           a
           Diuine
           power
           secretly
           effecting
           what
           it
           requires
           ,
           conueying
           into
           the
           heart
           ,
           will
           ,
           and
           abilitie
           vnto
           the
           deede
           .
           It
           stands
           not
           without
           doores
           as
           a
           Mendicant
           Flexanimous
           perswader
           ,
           but
           enters
           into
           the
           closets
           of
           the
           heart
           ,
           shootes
           the
           barres
           ,
           vnlocks
           the
           boults
           ,
           takes
           away
           all
           reluctation
           and
           redaction
           ,
           infuseth
           a
           plyable
           willingnesse
           :
           of
           woluish
           and
           dogged
           ,
           makes
           the
           Will
           Lambe-like
           ,
           and
           Doue-like
           :
           of
           wilde
           and
           haggard
           ,
           morigerous
           and
           mansuete
           .
        
         
           No
           otherwise
           then
           the
           medicine
           
           curing
           the
           vicious
           stomacke
           ,
           and
           restoring
           it
           to
           health
           ,
           makes
           it
           long
           for
           wholesome
           meate
           ,
           as
           before
           for
           coales
           and
           ashes
           .
        
         
           All
           this
           it
           doth
           by
           fetching
           supernaturall
           efficacie
           from
           the
           death
           and
           life
           of
           Christ
           ;
           yea
           ,
           part
           of
           that
           mighty
           power
           where
           by
           Christ
           raised
           himselfe
           from
           the
           dead
           ,
           cured
           all
           diseases
           ,
           and
           wrought
           all
           his
           miracles
           :
           By
           the
           vertue
           whereof
           it
           metamorphizeth
           the
           heart
           of
           man
           ,
           creates
           and
           infuseth
           new
           principles
           of
           action
           .
           Make
           triall
           of
           this
           in
           mortifying
           the
           flesh
           to
           sinne
           ,
           and
           quickning
           thy
           spirit
           to
           holinesse
           .
        
         
           For
           example
           ,
           complainest
           thou
           of
           some
           preualent
           corruption
           ,
           some
           violent
           passion
           that
           oft
           carries
           thee
           headlong
           against
           thy
           desire
           and
           resolution
           ,
           as
           Castrusius
           
           to
           Hierom
           ,
           who
           shall
           helpe
           mee
           subdue
           
             Nebuzardan
             ,
             Goliah
             ,
             Holofernes
          
           ,
           my
           raging
           lustes
           that
           are
           too
           mighty
           for
           mee
           ?
           Answere
           thy selfe
           as
           Dauid
           himselfe
           to
           the
           like
           :
           Through
           thee
           O
           Lord
           shall
           wee
           doe
           valiantly
           ,
           ouer
           Edom
           shall
           I
           cast
           my
           shooe
           ,
           &c.
           yea
           ,
           when
           thou
           hast
           spent
           all
           thou
           hast
           vpon
           other
           Phisitions
           ,
           tried
           all
           morall
           conclusions
           of
           purposing
           ,
           promising
           ,
           resoluing
           ,
           vowing
           ,
           fasting
           ,
           watching
           ,
           selfe-reuenging
           ,
           yet
           get
           thee
           to
           Christ
           ,
           and
           with
           a
           finger
           of
           Faith
           ,
           touch
           but
           a
           hem
           of
           his
           garment
           and
           thou
           shalt
           feele
           vertue
           come
           from
           him
           to
           the
           curing
           of
           thy
           disease
           .
           What
           if
           thou
           hast
           often
           encountred
           thy
           enemie
           ,
           and
           receiued
           the
           foyle
           ,
           relapsed
           after
           victorie
           :
           yet
           cast
           not
           away
           the
           sheeld
           of
           Faith
           ,
           but
           with
           the
           Israelites
           against
           
           Beniamites
           the
           second
           and
           third
           time
           ,
           set
           a
           fresh
           in
           the
           name
           of
           the
           LORD
           ,
           and
           they
           shall
           flye
           before
           thee
           .
        
         
           Complainest
           thou
           with
           Augustine
           of
           his
           in-bred
           ,
           hereditary
           ,
           habituall
           ,
           inueterate
           vices
           ,
           holding
           thee
           in
           the
           Adamantine
           chaines
           of
           custome
           ,
           against
           which
           thou
           hast
           often
           resolued
           ,
           and
           resolued
           ,
           
             modo
             &
             modo
          
           ,
           now
           I
           will
           leaue
           them
           ,
           and
           now
           I
           will
           forsake
           them
           ,
           why
           should
           I
           not
           as
           well
           as
           such
           and
           such
           ,
           as
           Potitian
           and
           Victorinus
           ,
           and
           yet
           they
           keepe
           thee
           Prisoner
           still
           ,
           full
           against
           thy
           will
           and
           endeauours
           .
           Find
           out
           the
           cause
           ,
           which
           hee
           had
           reuealed
           to
           him
           
             in
             te
             stas
             &
             non
             stas
             .
          
        
         
           Thou
           standest
           vpon
           thine
           owne
           feete
           ,
           and
           therefore
           fallest
           so
           foulely
           ,
           thou
           wilt
           like
           a
           childe
           goe
           alone
           ,
           and
           of
           thy selfe
           ,
           and
           
           therefore
           gettest
           so
           many
           knocks
           .
           Dye
           to
           thy selfe
           ,
           renounce
           the
           broken
           reede
           of
           thine
           owne
           free-will
           which
           hath
           so
           often
           deceiued
           thee
           :
           and
           put
           all
           thy
           trust
           in
           the
           grace
           of
           Christ
           ,
           And
           it
           will
           crucifie
           the
           olde
           man
           ,
           and
           giue
           him
           his
           
             Hoc
             habet
          
           ,
           his
           deathes
           wound
           ,
           pierce
           his
           sides
           ,
           and
           breake
           his
           knees
           in
           peeces
           .
        
         
           Be
           weake
           in
           thy selfe
           and
           strong
           in
           the
           Lord
           ,
           and
           through
           Faith
           thou
           shalt
           bee
           more
           then
           Conquerour
           .
           Leaue
           tuggling
           and
           strugling
           with
           thy
           sinne
           ,
           and
           fall
           with
           Iacob
           to
           wrestle
           with
           Christ
           for
           a
           blessing
           :
           and
           though
           thy selfe
           goe
           limping
           away
           ,
           yet
           shalt
           thou
           bee
           a
           Prince
           with
           God
           ,
           and
           bee
           deliuered
           from
           Esaus
           bondage
           .
           Yea
           ,
           what
           if
           Satan
           ,
           what
           if
           Legions
           of
           Principalities
           ,
           and
           powers
           haue
           long
           held
           possession
           in
           some
           strong
           fort
           of
           thy
           heart
           ,
           beginne
           
           to
           pleade
           prescription
           ,
           scorning
           as
           the
           Iebusites
           to
           bee
           eiected
           out
           of
           their
           impregnable
           tower
           :
           hast
           thou
           Faith
           ,
           and
           canst
           thou
           beleeue
           ,
           persist
           in
           resisting
           and
           hee
           shall
           flye
           ,
           and
           thou
           shalt
           see
           him
           fall
           like
           lightening
           before
           thee
           .
           Christ
           raised
           from
           the
           dead
           ,
           not
           onely
           the
           daughter
           of
           Iairus
           which
           was
           yet
           within
           bed
           ,
           not
           layd
           forth
           :
           nor
           the
           Sonne
           of
           the
           Widdow
           newely
           carryed
           out
           of
           the
           Gate
           to
           buriall
           ,
           but
           Lazarus
           that
           had
           foure
           daies
           lyen
           in
           the
           graue
           ;
           to
           that
           ende
           ,
           sayeth
           Augustine
           ,
           That
           such
           as
           haue
           long
           beene
           dead
           in
           sinne
           ,
           yea
           such
           as
           vpon
           whom
           Satan
           hath
           rowled
           the
           stone
           of
           Custome
           ,
           and
           such
           as
           stinke
           in
           the
           nostrilles
           of
           the
           world
           through
           putrified
           soares
           of
           sinnes
           ,
           should
           not
           yet
           despaire
           ,
           but
           know
           that
           which
           falles
           out
           in
           frequent
           experience
           ,
           
           Faith
           can
           cure
           diseases
           past
           all
           other
           cures
           and
           hopes
           .
           Through
           Faith
           thou
           shalt
           roule
           away
           the
           stone
           from
           the
           Caue
           of
           Makpelah
           ,
           and
           take
           out
           the
           fiue
           Kings
           that
           haue
           domineered
           and
           tyrannized
           ouer
           thee
           ,
           set
           thy
           feete
           in
           the
           neckes
           of
           them
           and
           triumph
           ouer
           them
           .
        
      
       
         
         
           CHAP.
           XI
           .
           How
           Faith
           Viuifies
           .
        
         
           ANd
           what
           is
           there
           yet
           further
           ,
           thou
           wouldest
           haue
           Faith
           doe
           for
           thee
           ?
           Oh
           sayest
           thou
           !
           it
           is
           not
           enough
           to
           bee
           healed
           of
           the
           disease
           ,
           vnlesse
           thou
           mayest
           take
           vp
           thy
           bedde
           and
           walke
           ;
           yea
           ,
           leape
           and
           skippe
           as
           the
           Lame
           restored
           to
           his
           limmes
           .
           Oh!
           that
           I
           could
           finde
           that
           life
           of
           Grace
           which
           I
           see
           in
           some
           that
           can
           make
           it
           their
           meate
           and
           drinke
           to
           doe
           the
           will
           of
           God.
           
        
         
         
           Though
           I
           be
           not
           pestered
           and
           mastered
           with
           any
           reigning
           corruption
           ,
           yet
           I
           finde
           my selfe
           so
           dull
           and
           vntoward
           ,
           that
           I
           take
           no
           pleasure
           in
           my
           life
           .
           Know
           also
           that
           this
           quickning
           power
           ,
           Faith
           only
           can
           helpe
           thee
           withall
           .
           To
           pray
           ,
           to
           meditate
           ,
           to
           haue
           thy
           conuersation
           in
           heauen
           ,
           to
           keepe
           a
           Sabbath
           cherely
           is
           as
           easie
           to
           thee
           as
           to
           Iron
           to
           swimme
           ,
           and
           stones
           to
           ascend
           vpward
           ,
           but
           nothing
           is
           impossible
           to
           Faith
           :
           it
           can
           naturalize
           these
           things
           vnto
           thee
           ,
           metamorphize
           thee
           ,
           make
           thee
           a
           new
           creature
           ,
           of
           a
           moule
           of
           the
           earth
           a
           soule
           of
           heauen
           ,
           of
           a
           snaile
           a
           dromedarie
           :
           such
           a
           change
           as
           the
           Sunne
           workes
           in
           the
           vapour
           ,
           when
           of
           an
           earthy
           heauy
           substance
           ,
           it
           makes
           it
           light
           and
           aery
           ,
           apt
           to
           ascend
           into
           the
           middle
           Region
           .
           Such
           a
           change
           Cyprian
           saith
           hee
           felt
           in
           his
           conuersion
           :
           And
           how
           
           else
           came
           Dauid
           to
           that
           high
           delight
           in
           Gods
           seruice
           ,
           that
           he
           loued
           the
           Commandements
           of
           God
           more
           then
           thousands
           of
           gold
           and
           siluer
           ,
           the
           honey
           and
           the
           honey
           combe
           ,
           that
           hee
           rose
           at
           mid-night
           to
           meditate
           in
           them
           .
           The
           selfe-same
           duties
           may
           be
           done
           by
           the
           Ciuill
           man
           ,
           and
           by
           the
           beleeuer
           ;
           for
           the
           outside
           and
           deede
           done
           ,
           both
           may
           goe
           to
           Church
           ,
           heare
           a
           Sermon
           ,
           reade
           a
           Chapter
           ,
           but
           the
           one
           goes
           as
           the
           Beare
           to
           the
           stake
           ,
           as
           a
           slaue
           to
           the
           mill
           ,
           and
           the
           dullard
           to
           schoole
           ,
           in
           comparison
           of
           the
           other
           who
           hath
           a
           different
           internall
           principle
           :
           which
           is
           as
           a
           spring
           and
           oile
           to
           the
           wheeles
           ,
           that
           makes
           them
           goe
           smoothly
           and
           currantly
           ,
           makes
           the
           yoake
           light
           and
           easie
           .
           
           They
           that
           trust
           in
           the
           Lord
           shall
           renue
           their
           strength
           ,
           lift
           vp
           the
           wing
           as
           the
           Eagle
           ,
           runne
           and
           not
           bee
           
           weary
           ,
           walke
           and
           not
           faint
           .
        
         
           Faith
           it
           is
           that
           fetcheth
           sap
           from
           the
           roote
           Christ
           ,
           that
           makes
           euery
           tree
           bring
           forth
           fruite
           in
           it
           kinde
           ,
           euery
           Christian
           in
           his
           owne
           calling
           .
           What
           else
           made
           Dauid
           so
           worthy
           a
           Souldier
           ?
           what
           taught
           his
           fingers
           to
           fight
           ,
           so
           that
           a
           bowe
           of
           steele
           was
           broken
           in
           his
           hand
           ?
           What
           made
           Paul
           an
           able
           Minister
           of
           the
           Gospell
           ,
           gaue
           him
           the
           doore
           of
           vtterance
           ,
           made
           his
           tongue
           as
           the
           penne
           of
           a
           readie
           writer
           ?
           
             Hee
             beleeued
          
           ,
           therefore
           hee
           spake
           .
           What
           made
           Onesimus
           of
           a
           false
           eye-seruant
           ,
           trusty
           to
           his
           Master
           ,
           as
           to
           the
           Lord
           ?
           The
           like
           might
           bee
           said
           of
           all
           trades
           and
           sciences
           .
        
         
           Looke
           what
           a
           full
           treasurie
           of
           all
           sorts
           of
           graces
           Christ
           hath
           stored
           vp
           in
           him
           ,
           Faith
           dreineth
           and
           deriueth
           them
           out
           of
           his
           fulnesse
           
           to
           the
           vse
           of
           euery
           seuerall
           Christian
           ,
           euen
           
             Grace
             for
             Grace
          
           .
        
         
           Faith
           is
           the
           Conduit
           Cocke
           that
           watereth
           all
           the
           Herbes
           and
           flowres
           in
           the
           Garden
           .
           All
           which
           the
           more
           I
           consider
           ,
           the
           more
           I
           pitty
           the
           preposterous
           care
           and
           vnhappy
           trauell
           of
           many
           well
           affected
           ,
           who
           study
           the
           practise
           of
           this
           and
           that
           vertue
           ,
           neglecting
           this
           cardinall
           and
           radicall
           vertue
           ;
           As
           if
           men
           should
           water
           all
           the
           branches
           of
           a
           Tree
           and
           not
           the
           roote
           :
           Faine
           would
           they
           abound
           and
           shine
           in
           patience
           ,
           meeknesse
           ,
           zeale
           ,
           yet
           establish
           and
           roote
           not
           themselues
           in
           Faith
           ,
           that
           should
           maintaine
           all
           the
           rest
           ,
           are
           ambitious
           to
           doe
           good
           workes
           ,
           build
           Hospitalles
           ,
           giue
           Almes
           ,
           but
           study
           not
           to
           doe
           the
           worke
           of
           the
           Father
           :
           And
           what
           is
           the
           worke
           of
           the
           Father
           ,
           but
           to
           beleeue
           in
           the
           Sonne
           whom
           hee
           hath
           sealed
           
           and
           sent
           into
           the
           world
           to
           bee
           relyed
           on
           for
           Saluation
           ;
           which
           worke
           is
           the
           gratefullest
           work
           that
           we
           can
           performe
           ,
           and
           which
           will
           make
           gratefull
           all
           that
           we
           doe
           besides
           :
           without
           which
           all
           that
           we
           can
           doe
           will
           not
           please
           him
           .
        
         
           What
           cares
           hee
           for
           thy
           thousands
           of
           Rammes
           ,
           thy
           Riuers
           of
           Oyle
           ?
           Hath
           he
           not
           shewed
           thee
           ,
           Oh
           man
           ,
           that
           he
           that
           trusteh
           in
           his
           Sonne
           honoureth
           him
           most
           of
           all
           in
           putting
           to
           his
           Seale
           that
           hee
           is
           true
           ?
           This
           honour
           if
           thou
           wouldest
           doe
           vnto
           him
           ,
           hee
           would
           honour
           thee
           with
           all
           other
           graces
           and
           withhold
           no
           ornament
           ,
           no
           good
           thing
           from
           thee
           ,
           if
           it
           be
           fit
           for
           thee
           .
           Meeke
           thou
           shalt
           be
           as
           Moses
           ,
           patients
           as
           Iob
           ,
           zealous
           as
           Dauid
           ,
           thy
           soule
           and
           life
           embroadered
           with
           all
           kinde
           of
           shining
           Graces
           ,
           as
           the
           high
           Priests
           apparell
           with
           Iewels
           Wherefore
           
           adde
           this
           prescript
           to
           the
           former
           when
           thou
           art
           on
           the
           toppe
           of
           Mount
           Tabor
           ,
           solacing
           thy
           soule
           in
           thy
           Lord
           ,
           and
           his
           fauour
           through
           Faith
           :
           feasting
           and
           banqueting
           with
           him
           as
           Ester
           with
           Ahasuerosh
           .
           Bethinke
           thy selfe
           what
           suite
           thou
           hast
           to
           him
           ,
           what
           troublesome
           enemy
           thou
           wouldest
           bee
           ridde
           off
           ,
           suppose
           it
           bee
           some
           potent
           Haman
           of
           prid
           ,
           make
           but
           thy
           complaint
           ,
           and
           it
           shall
           bee
           executed
           and
           crucified
           before
           thine
           eyes
           .
           Consider
           what
           grace
           thou
           standest
           in
           neede
           of
           ,
           and
           make
           thy
           petition
           as
           Achsah
           to
           Caleb
           ,
           And
           hee
           shall
           giue
           thee
           the
           springs
           aboue
           and
           the
           springs
           beneath
           .
           
        
         
           This
           prescript
           if
           thou
           wilt
           dayly
           obserue
           ,
           some
           daies
           more
           largely
           and
           feruently
           ,
           as
           the
           Spirit
           that
           blowes
           how
           and
           where
           it
           lists
           shall
           assist
           ,
           and
           as
           occasion
           
           shall
           require
           :
           but
           euery
           day
           some
           what
           more
           or
           lesse
           ;
           though
           I
           will
           not
           promise
           thee
           thou
           shalt
           attaine
           to
           perfection
           of
           degrees
           such
           as
           the
           perfected
           spirits
           of
           the
           Iust
           enioy
           in
           glory
           :
           because
           here
           thou
           shalt
           euer
           beleeue
           but
           in
           part
           ,
           and
           therefore
           bee
           holy
           but
           in
           part
           :
           yet
           this
           I
           dare
           promise
           ,
           as
           thou
           growest
           from
           Faith
           to
           faith
           so
           shalt
           thou
           grow
           from
           strength
           to
           strength
           in
           all
           other
           graces
           ,
           till
           by
           degrees
           thou
           attaine
           to
           the
           fulnesse
           and
           maturitie
           of
           Age
           in
           Christ
           ,
           which
           shall
           make
           thee
           a
           Saint
           in
           earth
           ,
           alight
           in
           this
           darke
           world
           ,
           and
           make
           thee
           able
           to
           liue
           in
           holinesse
           and
           righteousnesse
           all
           the
           dayes
           of
           thy
           life
           ,
           with
           much
           more
           comfort
           to
           thy selfe
           ,
           and
           credit
           to
           the
           Gospell
           ,
           then
           strangers
           to
           this
           life
           of
           Faith
           ,
           either
           doe
           ,
           or
           imagine
           may
           be
           done
           .
        
      
       
         
         
           CHAP.
           XII
           .
           How
           Faith
           vpholds
           life
           in
           Affliction
           .
        
         
           SAy
           then
           ,
           O
           Christian
           ,
           is
           there
           any
           thing
           yet
           behinde
           that
           may
           impeach
           the
           cōpleat
           happinesse
           of
           a
           beleeuers
           life
           ,
           speake
           now
           if
           there
           be
           any
           thing
           that
           hinders
           it
           ,
           which
           Faith
           cannot
           helpe
           ?
        
         
           Oh!
           yes
           saies
           the
           Flesh
           (
           which
           euer
           is
           cowardly
           and
           loues
           ease
           )
           though
           a
           man
           be
           neuer
           so
           iustified
           and
           sanctified
           ,
           yet
           may
           he
           liue
           in
           pouerty
           ,
           in
           crosses
           ,
           yea
           in
           great
           &
           
           manifolde
           pressures
           ,
           and
           what
           a
           life
           can
           there
           bee
           in
           such
           extremities
           ?
           Oh
           how
           doth
           Faith
           heere
           lift
           vp
           the
           Crest
           ,
           shine
           and
           triumph
           aboue
           Nature
           ,
           Reason
           and
           all
           Morall
           Vertues
           in
           her
           incomparable
           valour
           ?
           Being
           in
           all
           these
           not
           as
           they
           ,
           onely
           a
           patient
           perforce
           ,
           or
           a
           meere
           bearer
           ,
           but
           more
           then
           Conquerour
           ;
           not
           onely
           ,
           not
           daunted
           ,
           but
           reioycing
           to
           fall
           into
           manifold
           trials
           and
           tentations
           ;
           knowing
           it selfe
           to
           bee
           the
           Adamant
           ,
           that
           nothing
           will
           breake
           ;
           the
           Palme
           ,
           that
           sinckes
           not
           vnder
           the
           waightiest
           of
           burthens
           ;
           the
           Oyle
           ,
           that
           euer
           ouer-swims
           the
           greatest
           quantity
           of
           water
           you
           can
           powre
           vpon
           it
           ,
           the
           sheate
           Anchor
           ,
           that
           holds
           when
           all
           other
           Tackling
           breakes
           .
           Here
           is
           the
           Crowne
           and
           Garland
           of
           Faith.
           Were
           it
           not
           for
           Conflicts
           ,
           what
           superexcellent
           vse
           were
           then
           of
           Faith
           ?
           Euery
           Cock-boat
           
           can
           swim
           in
           a
           Riuer
           ,
           euery
           sculler
           saile
           in
           a
           Calme
           ,
           in
           daily
           and
           ordinary
           gusts
           ,
           euery
           man
           of
           a
           patient
           temper
           or
           cheerely
           disposition
           can
           hold
           vp
           the
           head
           ,
           but
           when
           a
           blacke
           tempest
           comes
           ,
           a
           tenth
           waue
           flowes
           ,
           and
           one
           deepe
           calls
           another
           ,
           nature
           yeeldes
           ,
           spirits
           faint
           ,
           heart
           failes
           :
           then
           to
           stand
           erect
           ,
           then
           to
           liue
           and
           raigne
           ,
           that
           onely
           can
           Faith
           doe
           ,
           which
           hath
           the
           Word
           for
           the
           Compasse
           ,
           and
           Christ
           at
           the
           helme
           .
           The
           greatest
           aduersities
           that
           are
           ,
           are
           but
           the
           exercise
           ,
           yea
           the
           soile
           and
           luster
           of
           Faith.
           Man
           gloryes
           when
           he
           can
           tame
           Tygers
           and
           Lyons
           ,
           thinks
           himselfe
           a
           stately
           king
           when
           hee
           can
           make
           an
           Elephant
           bow
           and
           stoope
           to
           him
           ,
           when
           he
           leads
           a
           Beare
           on
           the
           Ring
           ,
           or
           can
           handle
           a
           Serpent
           without
           hurt
           ;
           but
           what
           a
           small
           conquest
           is
           this
           to
           that
           of
           Faith
           ?
           When
           it
           makes
           
           shame
           ,
           pouertie
           ,
           sickenesse
           ,
           persecutions
           ,
           banishment
           ,
           yea
           death
           it selfe
           ,
           not
           onely
           ,
           not
           dreadfull
           and
           harmefull
           ,
           but
           tractable
           and
           seruiceable
           ?
           Questionlesse
           ,
           great
           and
           sundry
           aduantages
           hath
           a
           Christian
           by
           vertue
           of
           his
           Faith
           ,
           aboue
           any
           Naturian
           or
           Politique
           by
           all
           his
           reason
           ;
           onely
           ,
           heere
           is
           the
           defect
           of
           Christians
           that
           they
           want
           skill
           ,
           or
           else
           forget
           to
           holde
           vp
           their
           shield
           when
           a
           Dart
           comes
           suddenly
           vpon
           them
           .
           Like
           him
           that
           was
           robbed
           by
           a
           Theefe
           with
           a
           staffe
           onely
           in
           his
           hand
           ,
           hauing
           himselfe
           a
           Pistole
           at
           his
           backe
           ready
           charged
           ,
           but
           surprised
           vpon
           the
           sudden
           ,
           altogether
           vnmindefull
           ,
           or
           vnable
           to
           vse
           it
           .
           And
           if
           a
           man
           hath
           a
           Target
           that
           is
           impenetrable
           ,
           what
           is
           hee
           the
           better
           if
           his
           heart
           or
           Arte
           faile
           him
           when
           hee
           should
           defend
           himselfe
           by
           it
           ?
           This
           makes
           Christians
           
           when
           they
           ayle
           any
           thing
           ,
           with
           Saul
           to
           runne
           to
           Endor
           ,
           
           with
           Asa
           to
           send
           out
           to
           the
           Physitians
           ,
           
           as
           if
           Faith
           could
           stand
           them
           in
           no
           steed
           .
           When
           therefore
           a
           storme
           rises
           ,
           presently
           runne
           and
           awaken
           thy
           sleeping
           Faith
           ,
           knocke
           at
           Faithes
           doore
           ,
           ho
           Faith
           ,
           helpe
           at
           a
           pinch
           ,
           now
           doe
           thy
           office
           ,
           and
           Faith
           will
           presenly
           ayde
           and
           releeue
           thee
           with
           one
           of
           these
           speciall
           cordials
           .
        
         
           First
           ,
           whereas
           sense
           and
           reason
           did
           but
           dimmely
           and
           cloudily
           suggest
           to
           their
           followers
           certaine
           broken
           and
           confused
           opinions
           ,
           little
           better
           then
           dreames
           of
           destinie
           and
           prouidence
           .
           Faith
           will
           confidently
           and
           euidently
           assure
           thee
           of
           this
           ground
           of
           comfort
           ,
           that
           the
           least
           ticke
           befalles
           thee
           not
           ,
           without
           the
           ouer-ruling
           eye
           and
           hand
           ,
           not
           onely
           of
           a
           wise
           God
           ,
           but
           of
           a
           tender
           Father
           ,
           and
           
           fellow-feeling
           elder
           brother
           ,
           who
           knowing
           thy
           mould
           doth
           more
           exactly
           measure
           out
           euery
           Crosse
           vnto
           thee
           ,
           then
           the
           carefullest
           Apothecaries
           do
           their
           Scruples
           and
           Drammes
           of
           dangerous
           Physicke
           .
        
         
           Secondly
           ,
           out
           of
           this
           Principle
           ,
           Faith
           will
           ,
           extract
           these
           infallible
           conclusions
           ,
           this
           estate
           is
           not
           the
           Axe
           of
           Perdition
           but
           the
           Pruning
           Knife
           of
           Affliction
           :
           this
           Cuppe
           is
           not
           a
           potion
           banefull
           ,
           but
           medicinable
           ,
           how
           bitter
           and
           wringing
           soeuer
           .
           Whateuer
           befals
           ,
           being
           in
           Christ
           ,
           it
           cannot
           bend
           to
           thy
           confusion
           ,
           condemnation
           or
           vtter
           vndoing
           ,
           but
           an
           issue
           shall
           bee
           giuen
           out
           of
           it
           .
           What
           terrible
           noyse
           soeuer
           the
           storme
           shall
           make
           ouer
           thy
           head
           ,
           it
           shall
           bee
           but
           as
           Hailestones
           vpon
           the
           Tiled
           or
           Leaded
           House
           that
           rattle
           more
           then
           hurt
           .
           Thou
           art
           kept
           by
           the
           power
           of
           
           his
           might
           the
           euill
           one
           shall
           not
           touch
           thee
           :
           thou
           art
           in
           safe
           harbour
           vnder
           the
           Rocke
           Christ
           ,
           and
           mayest
           know
           in
           whom
           thou
           hast
           trusted
           ,
           and
           art
           sure
           neuer
           to
           be
           confounded
           .
           If
           it
           be
           sicknesse
           or
           pouerty
           ,
           it
           is
           in
           thy
           Fathers
           owne
           hand
           :
           if
           the
           rodde
           bee
           in
           some
           malicious
           enemies
           hand
           ,
           if
           hee
           turne
           thee
           ouer
           to
           a
           seruant
           to
           scourge
           thee
           ,
           and
           dresse
           him
           in
           the
           Diuels
           habit
           to
           scare
           thee
           ,
           yea
           though
           Satan
           himselfe
           buffette
           thee
           ,
           yet
           he
           stands
           by
           ,
           lookes
           on
           ,
           will
           moderate
           and
           number
           the
           stripes
           :
           the
           Diuels
           could
           not
           goe
           one
           inch
           beyond
           commission
           in
           the
           Swine
           :
           hee
           knowes
           thy
           strength
           is
           not
           the
           strength
           of
           Whales
           or
           stones
           ,
           and
           therefore
           will
           not
           permit
           them
           to
           lay
           on
           more
           ,
           then
           thou
           shalt
           well
           beare
           :
           his
           wisdome
           &
           grace
           will
           be
           sufficient
           for
           thee
           .
           Hee
           that
           is
           in
           
           good
           termes
           with
           a
           Prince
           ,
           feares
           not
           the
           approach
           of
           Heraulds
           or
           Purseuants
           :
           he
           that
           is
           out
           of
           debt
           feares
           not
           Baylifes
           or
           Sergeants
           ,
           but
           imagines
           they
           come
           vpon
           some
           good
           Messages
           .
        
         
           Afflictions
           are
           scarrbugges
           to
           wicked
           men
           ,
           as
           bushes
           to
           theeues
           ,
           but
           if
           thou
           bee
           a
           beleeuer
           ,
           at
           peace
           with
           GOD
           in
           Christ
           ,
           they
           lay
           off
           their
           terrible
           Vizard
           ,
           and
           come
           with
           an
           amiable
           ,
           countenance
           .
           GOD
           thy
           Father
           hath
           giuen
           the
           whole
           Host
           and
           Army
           of
           afflictions
           more
           inuiolable
           charge
           then
           
             Danids
             ,
             Doe
             the
             younge
             man
             ,
             my
             Sonne
          
           Absolon
           ,
           
             no
             harme
          
           .
           Doe
           my
           annointed
           no
           harme
           .
        
         
           Thirdly
           ,
           Faith
           will
           further
           assure
           that
           he
           hath
           not
           onely
           giuen
           them
           a
           prohibition
           or
           negatiue
           commission
           but
           an
           affirmatiue
           iniuuction
           to
           doe
           thee
           all
           good
           that
           
           may
           be
           :
           he
           hath
           said
           vnto
           them
           ,
           purge
           ,
           refine
           ,
           trye
           ,
           exercise
           ,
           breed
           the
           quiet
           fruit
           of
           righteousnesse
           ,
           giue
           him
           experience
           of
           his
           faith
           ,
           make
           him
           bring
           forth
           more
           fruit
           :
           so
           that
           though
           there
           be
           in
           thy
           Phisicke
           some
           maligne
           or
           poysonful
           ingredients
           ,
           yet
           being
           administred
           by
           him
           that
           knowes
           thy
           temper
           and
           disease
           ,
           and
           entirely
           affects
           thy
           health
           ,
           it
           shall
           bee
           so
           mingled
           with
           allaies
           and
           correctors
           that
           the
           confection
           shall
           be
           good
           ,
           and
           all
           together
           shall
           and
           must
           worke
           for
           the
           best
           .
           When
           thou
           feelest
           thy
           bowels
           wring
           ,
           or
           (
           as
           in
           a
           Sea-sicknesse
           )
           are
           dead
           sicke
           for
           the
           present
           ,
           remember
           thou
           shalt
           bee
           the
           better
           many
           daies
           after
           .
           And
           though
           with
           Iob
           and
           Dauid
           thy
           querulous
           flesh
           complaine
           ,
           and
           grunt
           ,
           and
           groane
           ,
           yet
           when
           it
           is
           ouer
           a
           little
           ,
           thou
           shalt
           bee
           able
           to
           say
           ,
           
             Oh
             this
             was
             good
             for
             me
             !
          
           I
           
           would
           not
           for
           any
           thing
           but
           I
           had
           borne
           the
           yoake
           in
           my
           youth
           ,
           that
           I
           may
           liue
           the
           more
           comfortably
           in
           age
           :
           Considering
           that
           sicke
           thou
           art
           ,
           and
           that
           of
           many
           humours
           ,
           thy
           Father
           should
           not
           loue
           thee
           ,
           if
           he
           should
           feede
           thee
           with
           sweete
           meate
           ,
           and
           mingle
           no
           Aloes
           with
           them
           :
           much
           folly
           is
           bound
           vp
           in
           thy
           back
           ,
           and
           if
           thy
           indulgent
           father
           should
           forbeare
           the
           rodde
           he
           should
           hate
           and
           not
           loue
           thee
           .
        
         
           Fourthly
           ,
           Moreouer
           Faith
           will
           reminde
           thee
           of
           Christs
           partnership
           in
           thy
           affliction
           ,
           and
           of
           thy
           conformity
           with
           him
           ,
           
             the
             first
             borne
             ,
             onely
             begotten
             ,
             and
             entirely
             beloued
          
           sonne
           of
           God
           ,
           if
           hee
           that
           was
           without
           sinne
           ,
           yet
           was
           not
           without
           stripes
           ,
           wilt
           thou
           looke
           to
           bee
           a
           cockered
           Adoniah
           ?
           And
           what
           if
           the
           Crosse
           bee
           heauy
           ,
           and
           thou
           a
           weake
           Childe
           ,
           yet
           
           Christ
           a
           Gyant
           at
           one
           end
           ,
           beares
           part
           of
           it
           ,
           and
           makes
           it
           light
           and
           easie
           ,
           hee
           is
           quicke
           of
           feeling
           ,
           when
           Stephen
           is
           stoned
           ,
           saith
           ,
           
             Saul
             why
             persecutest
             thou
             mee
          
           ?
           Besides
           what
           more
           honourable
           Badge
           and
           Cognisance
           canst
           thou
           haue
           of
           thy
           Sonship
           ,
           then
           this
           resemblance
           of
           him
           ,
           not
           as
           now
           glorified
           in
           the
           heauens
           ,
           which
           thou
           must
           stay
           for
           till
           thou
           come
           there
           ,
           but
           as
           in
           the
           way
           to
           glory
           ,
           when
           hee
           despised
           the
           shame
           ,
           suffered
           the
           Crowne
           of
           thornes
           ,
           the
           Scepter
           of
           Reed
           ,
           the
           spittings
           ,
           buffetings
           ,
           mockes
           and
           mowes
           ,
           and
           all
           reproches
           of
           vile
           sinners
           ,
           the
           piercing
           of
           the
           Speare
           ,
           and
           shewed
           himselfe
           to
           be
           the
           Sonne
           of
           God
           ,
           not
           by
           descending
           from
           the
           Crosse
           but
           by
           enduring
           the
           Crosse
           :
           
             And
             shall
             I
             not
          
           (
           saith
           he
           )
           
             drinke
             the
             Cup
             which
             my
             Father
             hath
             tempered
             ?
          
           and
           
           if
           thou
           wilt
           bee
           his
           Disciple
           ,
           the
           first
           lesson
           in
           his
           Schoole
           is
           ,
           
             Christs
             Crosse
          
           ,
           Deny
           thy selfe
           ,
           take
           it
           vp
           and
           follow
           him
           ,
           And
           glory
           with
           the
           Martyrs
           ,
           now
           am
           I
           like
           my
           Lord
           and
           Master
           .
        
         
           Lastly
           ,
           Faith
           will
           set
           before
           thee
           as
           before
           him
           the
           infinite
           recompence
           of
           rewarde
           ,
           not
           onely
           renowne
           in
           this
           World
           ,
           which
           yet
           by
           Faith
           the
           patience
           ,
           not
           onely
           of
           Iob
           ,
           but
           of
           all
           Martyrs
           haue
           obtained
           ,
           but
           that
           farre
           most
           excellent
           Hyperbolicall
           weight
           of
           glory
           :
           Which
           Paul
           eying
           ,
           counted
           his
           afflictions
           (
           which
           to
           vs
           would
           haue
           beene
           intollerable
           )
           light
           and
           momentany
           ,
           not
           worthy
           the
           naming
           in
           comparison
           :
           which
           made
           him
           not
           onely
           ,
           not
           weepe
           and
           howle
           ,
           but
           sing
           in
           the
           Dungeon
           ,
           and
           reckon
           it
           a
           speciall
           fauour
           and
           honour
           to
           be
           counted
           not
           onely
           a
           beleeuer
           ,
           but
           a
           sufferer
           for
           
           Christ.
           And
           God
           forbid
           ,
           that
           a
           beleeuer
           should
           glory
           in
           any
           thing
           so
           much
           as
           in
           the
           Crosse
           of
           Christ
           ,
           in
           his
           wounds
           and
           scarres
           for
           his
           Lord
           and
           Master
           :
           As
           that
           worthy
           Vincentius
           sayd
           to
           the
           Tyrant
           ,
           
             Threaten
             these
             things
             to
             your
             Courtiers
             and
             Carpet
             Knights
             ;
             Rackes
             ,
             Strapadoes
             ,
             torments
             ,
             are
             but
             a
             play
             to
             vs
             ,
             we
             Souldiers
             chuse
             to
             bee
             in
             Christs
             Garrison
             ,
             rather
             then
             in
             the
             Court
             ,
             in
             the
             Field
             and
             fore-front
             of
             the
             battle
             ,
             then
             in
             the
             Pallaces
             of
             Princes
             .
          
           The
           more
           hazard
           and
           perill
           ,
           the
           more
           glory
           and
           honour
           .
           And
           what
           else
           desire
           wee
           but
           to
           dye
           dayly
           ,
           that
           the
           life
           in
           Christ
           may
           be
           manifested
           in
           vs
           ?
           Yea
           ,
           in
           the
           very
           instant
           of
           Death
           ,
           Faith
           helpes
           the
           beleeuer
           to
           liue
           ,
           so
           as
           he
           may
           be
           said
           not
           to
           see
           death
           ,
           &
           neuer
           to
           dye
           ,
           (
           but
           that
           requires
           a
           iust
           Treatise
           by
           it selfe
           .
           )
           Let
           all
           the
           complaints
           ,
           greeuances
           ,
           wants
           ,
           and
           
           miseries
           of
           the
           world
           be
           searched
           and
           gaged
           ;
           the
           bottome
           will
           bee
           found
           either
           to
           be
           want
           of
           Faith
           ,
           or
           of
           the
           vse
           and
           practise
           of
           Faith
           :
           So
           that
           we
           may
           well
           say
           with
           Augustine
           ,
           to
           any
           christian
           sinking
           vnder
           his
           crosse
           ,
           or
           shrinking
           at
           his
           enemy
           ,
           
             Hast
             thou
             lost
             thy
             Faith
          
           ?
           And
           conclude
           with
           that
           worthy
           Ensigne-bearer
           of
           Christ
           ,
           
             Many
             are
             the
             troubles
             of
             the
             Righteous
             ,
          
           
           but
           
             by
             Faith
             wee
             stand
          
           ,
           
           
             by
             Faith
             we
             fight
             ,
             by
             Faith
             we
             ouercome
             .
          
        
      
       
         
         
           CHAP.
           XIII
           .
           An
           Epistle
           to
           the
           Reader
           pressing
           the
           vse
           of
           Faith.
           
        
         
           NOw
           Reader
           ,
           for
           so
           I
           chuse
           to
           call
           thee
           in
           a
           Postcript
           ,
           whē
           thou
           hast
           reade
           the
           Booke
           ,
           rather
           then
           in
           a
           Preface
           ,
           when
           thou
           maist
           there
           leaue
           as
           many
           do
           .
           Giue
           me
           now
           leaue
           to
           grapple
           with
           thee
           ,
           and
           minister
           to
           thee
           an
           Iutergatory
           or
           two
           .
        
         
           How
           many
           doest
           thou
           knowe
           within
           thy
           conscience
           ,
           liue
           this
           life
           of
           Faith
           ?
           Many
           thou
           seest
           liue
           by
           their
           Lands
           ,
           by
           their
           wits
           ,
           
           by
           their
           shifts
           :
           but
           how
           many
           by
           their
           Faith
           ?
           For
           the
           want
           of
           this
           vse
           of
           Faith
           ,
           Doe
           not
           many
           poore
           christians
           thinke
           ,
           and
           say
           of
           it
           ,
           as
           a
           poore
           labouring
           countrey-man
           sayd
           to
           his
           neighbour
           in
           serious
           priuate
           talke
           ,
           That
           he
           neuer
           beleeued
           there
           was
           any
           such
           summe
           as
           a
           thousand
           pounds
           of
           money
           ,
           but
           that
           onely
           rich
           men
           gaue
           it
           out
           so
           ,
           in
           boasting
           ,
           or
           pollicy
           to
           excite
           others
           to
           labour
           :
           so
           saith
           the
           common
           Protestant
           ,
           out
           of
           doubt
           there
           is
           no
           such
           sweetnesse
           in
           the
           life
           of
           Faith
           :
           for
           wee
           see
           not
           beleeuers
           so
           cheerefull
           and
           contented
           aboue
           other
           men
           .
           If
           Attists
           and
           Trades-men
           did
           no
           more
           dayly
           and
           duely
           follow
           their
           worke
           ,
           then
           most
           Christians
           doe
           practise
           their
           Faith
           ,
           would
           they
           not
           be
           starke
           beggars
           ?
           But
           to
           aske
           thee
           a
           more
           profitable
           question
           ,
           Leaue
           iudgeing
           
           of
           others
           ,
           and
           answer
           mee
           in
           good
           serious
           sooth
           between
           God
           and
           thy
           soule
           ,
           Hast
           ,
           and
           doest
           thou
           thy selfe
           liue
           by
           thy
           Faith
           ?
           Let
           mee
           a
           little
           put
           thee
           to
           it
           ,
           prooue
           and
           examine
           thy selfe
           ,
           and
           take
           for
           instance
           this
           present
           weeke
           or
           day
           past
           wherein
           thou
           readest
           this
           little
           Manuell
           .
           How
           hast
           thou
           and
           vsually
           doest
           thou
           spend
           the
           day
           ?
           what
           thought
           diddest
           thou
           awake
           withall
           ?
           what
           was
           thy
           morning
           draught
           for
           thy
           soule
           next
           thy
           heart
           ?
           what
           hath
           cheered
           and
           made
           thee
           merry
           in
           priuate
           and
           in
           company
           ?
           whether
           thy
           sports
           and
           meales
           ,
           more
           then
           thy
           heauenly
           ejaculations
           ?
           Deale
           plainely
           ,
           not
           with
           me
           and
           this
           booke
           (
           which
           yet
           shall
           witnesse
           against
           thee
           ,
           if
           thou
           refuse
           to
           practise
           it
           when
           thou
           hast
           read
           it
           )
           but
           with
           thy selfe
           .
           Hast
           thou
           ,
           or
           hast
           thou
           not
           challenged
           
           some
           time
           more
           or
           lesse
           ,
           halfe
           ,
           or
           quarter
           of
           houre
           at
           the
           least
           ,
           for
           this
           exercise
           of
           thy
           Faith
           ;
           hast
           thou
           not
           troubled
           thy selfe
           about
           the
           many
           things
           ,
           that
           this
           one
           onely
           needefull
           hath
           beene
           forgotten
           (
           that
           which
           only
           should
           be
           called
           worke
           and
           businesse
           )
           hast
           thou
           not
           melted
           the
           day
           ,
           yea
           ,
           it
           may
           bee
           the
           weeke
           ,
           or
           moneth
           past
           ,
           and
           made
           thy
           soule
           wholly
           to
           fast
           and
           pine
           for
           want
           of
           these
           refeshings
           :
           if
           so
           ,
           as
           I
           most
           iustly
           feare
           it
           in
           most
           of
           my
           Readers
           ,
           how
           much
           more
           in
           such
           as
           are
           vsually
           no
           readers
           ?
           why
           then
           let
           thy
           heart
           smite
           thee
           for
           thy
           folly
           ,
           smite
           thou
           thy selfe
           vpon
           the
           thigh
           ,
           and
           say
           ,
           how
           haue
           I
           liued
           ,
           or
           rather
           not
           liued
           ,
           but
           consumed
           precious
           dayes
           in
           time-eating
           Vanities
           ?
           How
           comes
           it
           about
           that
           the
           greatest
           part
           of
           my
           life
           is
           the
           least
           part
           wherein
           I
           
           haue
           liued
           .
        
         
           Oh
           then
           recouer
           and
           recollect
           thy selfe
           before
           thou
           goe
           hence
           ,
           and
           be
           no
           more
           .
           Wilt
           thou
           dy
           before
           thou
           hast
           liued
           ,
           as
           Boyes
           slubber
           out
           Bookes
           before
           they
           learne
           their
           lesson
           .
           Oh
           learne
           to
           liue
           this
           life
           ,
           It
           is
           neuer
           too
           late
           ,
           it
           is
           neuer
           ,
           I
           am
           sure
           ,
           too
           soone
           ;
           it
           is
           no
           shame
           to
           learne
           it
           what
           age
           or
           condition
           soeuer
           thou
           bee
           of
           .
           Bee
           thou
           Prince
           ,
           Potentate
           ,
           Nobleman
           or
           Gentleman
           ,
           though
           few
           such
           Readers
           I
           looke
           for
           :
           remembring
           well
           what
           Bradford
           tels
           the
           Earle
           of
           Bedford
           ,
           and
           Augustine
           tels
           Romanian
           ,
           whiles
           hee
           was
           in
           the
           mouthes
           of
           all
           men
           ,
           most
           honorable
           ,
           most
           munificent
           ,
           most
           fortunate
           ,
           in
           the
           full
           of
           his
           prosperitie
           ,
           in
           the
           source
           of
           pleasures
           in
           the
           toppe
           of
           greatnesse
           ,
           &c.
           who
           durst
           lispe
           a
           word
           of
           a
           better
           life
           ,
           of
           true
           happinesse
           ,
           or
           
           what
           boote
           was
           it
           for
           any
           man
           to
           make
           mention
           of
           any
           such
           matter
           .
           Yet
           if
           any
           such
           God
           will
           perswade
           to
           make
           tryall
           of
           this
           life
           ,
           thou
           which
           saist
           ,
           what
           is
           a
           Gentleman
           but
           his
           pleasure
           ?
           shalt
           then
           tell
           mee
           ,
           as
           Salomon
           of
           his
           youth
           such
           gentry
           is
           but
           vanity
           ;
           true
           pleasure
           there
           is
           none
           but
           in
           this
           life
           .
           What
           is
           a
           Christian
           but
           his
           Faith
           ?
           and
           what
           is
           his
           life
           but
           the
           vse
           of
           his
           Faith
           ?
           Beest
           thou
           a
           Scholler
           ,
           a
           Prophet
           ,
           or
           Sonne
           of
           the
           Prophets
           ,
           what
           is
           thy
           worke
           ?
           what
           is
           thy
           scope
           ?
           or
           what
           should
           it
           bee
           in
           thy selfe
           and
           others
           ,
           but
           this
           life
           of
           Faith
           ?
           What
           is
           Paul
           or
           Apolloes
           but
           such
           as
           by
           whom
           you
           haue
           beleeued
           ?
           
           What
           euer
           you
           teach
           ,
           before
           you
           haue
           taught
           this
           you
           were
           as
           good
           Preache
           to
           the
           stooles
           and
           stones
           of
           your
           Churches
           ?
           What
           are
           your
           Auditors
           
           but
           dead
           bones
           ,
           and
           skulles
           ,
           till
           they
           ,
           beleeue
           ,
           and
           till
           Christ
           be
           formed
           in
           them
           .
           Get
           first
           an
           hold
           whereon
           you
           may
           fasten
           your
           Engines
           to
           drawe
           them
           to
           vertues
           and
           good
           workes
           .
           You
           which
           would
           doe
           that
           in
           soules
           which
           Elisha
           did
           in
           bodies
           ,
           raise
           them
           from
           their
           graues
           :
           Interpretors
           one
           of
           a
           thousand
           get
           the
           tongue
           of
           the
           learned
           to
           declare
           their
           righteousnesse
           vnto
           them
           ,
           the
           righteousnesse
           I
           say
           of
           Faith
           :
           shew
           your selues
           skilfull
           workemen
           ,
           such
           as
           haue
           been
           brought
           vp
           not
           onely
           in
           moralls
           of
           the
           heathen
           ,
           subtilties
           of
           Scholemen
           ,
           sentences
           and
           conceipts
           of
           Postilers
           ,
           rosaries
           ,
           destructories
           ,
           Anthologies
           ,
           but
           in
           the
           wholesome
           word
           of
           Faith
           ,
           which
           are
           the
           Arme
           and
           power
           of
           God
           to
           the
           saluation
           of
           euery
           beleeuer
           .
           Aboue
           all
           let
           it
           be
           our
           wisedome
           to
           
           liue
           our selues
           by
           that
           which
           we
           teach
           others
           to
           liue
           by
           ;
           wee
           that
           haue
           ,
           or
           might
           ,
           or
           should
           haue
           more
           Faith
           then
           common
           Christians
           ,
           is
           it
           not
           a
           shame
           if
           we
           liue
           not
           more
           happily
           ,
           and
           cheerefully
           then
           priuate
           Christians
           ?
           not
           by
           our
           Liuings
           wherein
           the
           Laity
           hath
           now
           gotten
           the
           start
           of
           vs
           for
           the
           most
           part
           ,
           but
           by
           our
           Faith
           ,
           wherein
           wee
           haue
           the
           aduantage
           of
           them
           ,
           or
           else
           shame
           be
           it
           to
           vs.
           
        
         
           Is
           it
           not
           a
           shame
           to
           see
           an
           honor
           of
           a
           thousand
           pound
           a
           yeere
           liue
           as
           meanely
           as
           a
           poore
           Farmer
           ,
           a
           Master
           and
           professor
           of
           an
           Art
           ,
           as
           a
           meane
           practisioner
           .
           Yet
           this
           I
           must
           say
           euen
           to
           the
           meanest
           tradsmen
           and
           poorest
           people
           ,
           this
           life
           belongs
           not
           to
           such
           onely
           that
           are
           booke
           learned
           ,
           but
           is
           equally
           obuious
           and
           open
           (
           as
           the
           Kings
           high
           way
           )
           to
           all
           sortes
           of
           Trauailers
           to
           
           Heauen
           .
           Honourable
           liues
           ,
           Pompous
           liues
           ,
           voluptuous
           liues
           ,
           poore
           folkes
           haue
           small
           hope
           to
           atteyne
           vnto
           :
           but
           a
           true
           happy
           life
           they
           may
           and
           doe
           liue
           as
           well
           as
           the
           learnedest
           Cleakes
           and
           greatest
           Princes
           ,
           if
           they
           get
           the
           gift
           to
           practise
           that
           ,
           which
           ,
           such
           for
           the
           most
           part
           doe
           but
           study
           and
           talke
           of
           .
           To
           conclude
           ,
           what
           euer
           thou
           art
           ,
           or
           who
           euer
           that
           desirest
           to
           mend
           thy
           condition
           ,
           to
           better
           thine
           estate
           ,
           to
           multiply
           thy
           life
           ,
           to
           change
           thy
           few
           and
           euill
           daies
           of
           thy
           pilgrimage
           ,
           into
           good
           and
           many
           :
           behold
           here
           is
           the
           Art
           of
           liuing
           well
           and
           liuing
           long
           .
           Life
           is
           not
           to
           bee
           numbred
           by
           the
           houres
           ,
           but
           measured
           by
           cheerfulnesse
           ,
           as
           moneyes
           not
           by
           tale
           but
           value
           .
           A
           little
           peece
           of
           gold
           conteynes
           a
           great
           many
           peeces
           of
           siluer
           .
           Manhood
           consists
           not
           in
           the
           bulke
           of
           the
           bones
           ,
           but
           in
           the
           
           mettall
           and
           spirits
           .
           Is
           not
           one
           weeke
           of
           an
           healthy
           man
           ,
           better
           ,
           then
           a
           yeere
           of
           a
           crasie
           ;
           one
           Sun-shine
           houre
           ,
           then
           a
           gloomy
           day
           ?
           I
           haue
           often
           mused
           how
           a
           man
           might
           come
           neerest
           to
           that
           life
           which
           Adam
           lost
           ,
           and
           recompence
           in
           this
           latter
           age
           of
           the
           World
           ,
           (
           wherein
           the
           liues
           of
           men
           are
           so
           contracted
           )
           the
           longaeuity
           of
           those
           that
           liued
           before
           the
           Floud
           .
           And
           this
           is
           the
           best
           helpe
           I
           finde
           :
           To
           liue
           well
           is
           to
           liue
           twise
           .
           A
           good
           man
           doubles
           and
           amplifies
           his
           dayes
           :
           one
           may
           speake
           as
           much
           in
           few
           words
           as
           another
           in
           many
           .
           Persius
           wrote
           more
           in
           a
           few
           leaues
           then
           Marsus
           in
           large
           volumes
           .
           One
           day
           led
           by
           the
           rules
           of
           Faith
           is
           better
           then
           an
           immortalitie
           of
           vanity
           .
           A
           man
           may
           liue
           to
           as
           good
           content
           to
           himselfe
           and
           others
           ,
           in
           a
           short
           space
           ,
           as
           others
           in
           a
           long
           life
           ;
           
           some
           are
           old
           in
           yeeres
           tediously
           drawne
           out
           ,
           others
           in
           howers
           cheerfully
           spent
           ,
           some
           haue
           been
           long
           ,
           and
           others
           haue
           liued
           long
           ,
           and
           they
           onely
           are
           such
           as
           haue
           liued
           this
           life
           ;
           of
           whom
           I
           conclude
           as
           doth
           the
           story
           of
           the
           Kings
           ,
           Ieremiahs
           Prophecie
           ,
           touching
           Zedekiah
           vpon
           his
           aduancement
           by
           the
           King
           of
           Babell
           ,
           His
           portion
           was
           a
           continuall
           portion
           ,
           a
           Kingly
           portion
           ,
           euery
           day
           a
           certayne
           all
           the
           dayes
           of
           his
           life
           ,
           such
           I
           say
           it
           is
           ,
           or
           might
           be
           ,
           if
           Christians
           might
           be
           perswaded
           not
           to
           content
           themselues
           to
           professe
           or
           thinke
           they
           haue
           Faith
           ,
           but
           to
           liue
           by
           their
           Faith
           :
           
           onely
           before
           I
           part
           with
           thee
           ,
           take
           from
           me
           one
           Caueat
           ,
           one
           aduise
           ,
           one
           request
           ,
           and
           so
           an
           end
           .
        
         
           First
           ,
           take
           heede
           thou
           mistakest
           me
           not
           in
           all
           this
           ,
           as
           if
           I
           had
           spoken
           of
           an
           absolute
           perfection
           in
           
           this
           life
           equall
           to
           vision
           &
           fruition
           in
           the
           life
           to
           come
           ,
           confounded
           Heauen
           with
           earth
           ,
           as
           if
           I
           thought
           my selfe
           ,
           or
           any
           other
           to
           haue
           comprehended
           .
           If
           any
           man
           thinkes
           hee
           beleeues
           any
           thing
           ,
           hee
           beleeues
           nothing
           yet
           as
           hee
           ought
           to
           beleeue
           ,
           but
           all
           things
           in
           part
           ,
           and
           imperfectly
           .
           Wee
           cannot
           by
           all
           our
           assiduousnesse
           in
           Reading
           ,
           Prayer
           ,
           and
           Meditation
           haue
           Gods
           Spirit
           at
           an
           absolute
           command
           ,
           no
           more
           then
           Mariners
           the
           winde
           ,
           or
           Husbandmen
           the
           showers
           ,
           so
           as
           the
           most
           obseruant
           beleeuer
           hath
           his
           
             turbida
             interualla
          
           ,
           his
           buffetings
           ,
           lest
           hee
           bee
           too
           much
           exalted
           ,
           his
           desertions
           wherein
           his
           beloued
           will
           hide
           himselfe
           behinde
           the
           grates
           ,
           not
           to
           bee
           found
           of
           him
           for
           a
           while
           ,
           that
           hee
           seeke
           him
           more
           eagerly
           ,
           and
           prise
           his
           presence
           more
           thankefully
           ,
           more
           
           heedefully
           keepe
           him
           when
           hee
           hath
           him
           ,
           and
           be
           wholly
           dependant
           on
           his
           grace
           ;
           yet
           so
           as
           this
           remaines
           most
           sure
           and
           certaine
           ,
           that
           the
           constant
           and
           dayly
           Practiser
           of
           his
           faith
           shall
           constantly
           ,
           and
           congruously
           bee
           seconded
           with
           the
           gusts
           and
           gales
           of
           his
           spirit
           ,
           the
           onely
           true
           Zephirus
           and
           Fauonius
           ,
           shall
           haue
           Satan
           tyed
           vp
           from
           long
           and
           frequent
           molesting
           him
           ,
           shall
           not
           haue
           such
           tedious
           absences
           of
           the
           Spirit
           ,
           such
           vncertaine
           fits
           and
           moodes
           of
           his
           ioy
           and
           comfort
           ,
           as
           the
           negligent
           and
           loose
           beleeuer
           ,
           but
           a
           more
           stedfast
           frame
           and
           tenor
           of
           ioy
           ,
           then
           any
           other
           kinde
           of
           man
           in
           the
           world
           that
           takes
           not
           this
           course
           .
        
         
           Prouided
           that
           thou
           take
           this
           aduise
           ,
           
           that
           for
           the
           better
           and
           stronger
           vse
           of
           this
           Faith
           ,
           thou
           seele
           vp
           thy
           senses
           and
           chaine
           vp
           
           thy
           reason
           .
           Walking
           by
           sight
           ,
           and
           walking
           by
           Faith
           are
           opposite
           things
           :
           and
           therefore
           as
           men
           fortifie
           the
           visuall
           beames
           of
           one
           eye
           by
           closing
           the
           other
           ;
           so
           must
           thou
           winke
           and
           close
           vp
           the
           eye
           of
           thy
           soule
           to
           all
           worldly
           things
           ,
           that
           thou
           mayest
           by
           the
           prospectiue
           of
           Faith
           fixe
           thy
           spirituall
           eye
           vpon
           heauenly
           delights
           :
           not
           that
           thou
           needest
           goe
           out
           of
           this
           world
           and
           sequester
           thy selfe
           like
           an
           Eremite
           into
           Dennes
           and
           Caues
           ,
           retired
           from
           all
           societie
           ,
           but
           euen
           in
           the
           middest
           of
           all
           glistering
           obiects
           see
           them
           as
           if
           thou
           sawest
           them
           not
           ;
           that
           is
           without
           being
           deepely
           affected
           with
           them
           .
           So
           looked
           Paul
           from
           off
           the
           things
           that
           are
           seene
           euen
           in
           the
           middest
           of
           Rome
           ,
           and
           looked
           vpon
           things
           which
           were
           not
           seene
           :
           and
           Moses
           in
           Pharaohs
           Court
           saw
           him
           that
           was
           inuisible
           .
        
         
         
           A
           right
           beleeuer
           goes
           through
           the
           world
           ,
           as
           a
           man
           whose
           minde
           is
           in
           a
           deepe
           study
           :
           or
           as
           one
           that
           hath
           speciall
           haste
           of
           some
           weighty
           businesse
           ,
           goes
           through
           a
           street
           ;
           that
           gazeth
           on
           nothing
           ,
           heare
           's
           nothing
           ,
           mindes
           nothing
           that
           is
           in
           the
           way
           ,
           but
           onely
           that
           which
           his
           head
           is
           taken
           vp
           withall
           :
           Our
           conuersation
           is
           in
           heauen
           ,
           our
           treasure
           is
           in
           heauen
           .
           Oh!
           that
           all
           our
           thoughts
           were
           there
           ,
           so
           as
           no
           earthly
           obiect
           might
           detaine
           ,
           or
           distract
           them
           ,
           no
           more
           then
           must
           needes
           bee
           in
           our
           callings
           ,
           so
           that
           the
           maine
           bent
           and
           intention
           of
           all
           that
           is
           within
           vs
           might
           be
           set
           vpon
           the
           dayly
           nourishing
           of
           our
           Faith.
           
        
         
           For
           which
           purpose
           I
           make
           this
           parting
           and
           farewell
           suite
           vnto
           thee
           ,
           
           as
           thou
           meanest
           to
           receiue
           any
           good
           by
           this
           Booke
           .
           That
           thou
           wouldest
           euen
           from
           this
           
           very
           houre
           wherein
           thou
           endest
           the
           reading
           of
           it
           ,
           determine
           and
           couenant
           ,
           betwixt
           God
           and
           thy
           soule
           ,
           neuer
           whilest
           thou
           liuest
           on
           the
           face
           of
           this
           earth
           to
           omit
           one
           day
           (
           God
           enabling
           thee
           by
           his
           Spirit
           )
           wherein
           thou
           wilt
           not
           vindicate
           and
           redeeme
           ,
           at
           the
           least
           ,
           one
           halfe
           or
           quarter
           of
           an
           hower
           ,
           either
           twise
           or
           once
           in
           the
           day
           ,
           at
           the
           least
           :
           Wherein
           all
           other
           affaires
           layd
           aside
           ,
           thou
           mayest
           withdraw
           thy selfe
           apart
           from
           all
           company
           ,
           and
           occasions
           ,
           with
           a
           
             non
             obstante
          
           ,
           to
           practise
           the
           exercise
           formerly
           prescribed
           .
           That
           is
           ,
           by
           Prayer
           ,
           Reading
           ,
           and
           Meditation
           ,
           to
           put
           some
           strength
           and
           life
           into
           thy
           Faith
           ,
           till
           thou
           hast
           cheered
           ,
           and
           reuiued
           ,
           and
           warmed
           thy
           soule
           therewithall
           .
           This
           if
           thou
           shalt
           inuiolably
           obserue
           ,
           the
           strength
           ,
           the
           feeling
           ,
           the
           comfort
           ,
           and
           the
           fruites
           of
           
           thy
           Faith
           will
           by
           little
           and
           little
           insensibly
           ,
           and
           in
           a
           little
           while
           ,
           most
           sensibly
           thriue
           and
           growe
           till
           thou
           commest
           to
           the
           ripenesse
           of
           age
           in
           Christ.
           
        
         
           What
           hurt
           can
           it
           bee
           to
           thee
           if
           thou
           shouldest
           binde
           thy selfe
           by
           vow
           hereunto
           ,
           or
           if
           thou
           fearest
           thy
           strength
           ,
           yet
           by
           full
           purpose
           thus
           to
           doe
           all
           and
           euery
           day
           of
           thy
           life
           :
           that
           so
           in
           the
           Lees
           and
           Dregs
           of
           time
           ,
           whiles
           fleshly
           Protestants
           are
           raysing
           contention
           about
           matters
           of
           Faith
           ,
           or
           making
           Sects
           and
           Schismes
           in
           the
           Church
           about
           needelesse
           trifles
           ,
           thou
           maist
           edifie
           thy selfe
           in
           thy
           most
           holy
           Faith
           and
           whilest
           thou
           liuest
           in
           the
           darke
           wombe
           of
           this
           world
           ,
           liue
           by
           the
           Nauell
           of
           Faith
           till
           thou
           come
           to
           haue
           thy
           mouth
           satiate
           with
           fulnesse
           of
           all
           good
           things
           at
           the
           right
           hand
           of
           God.
           When
           ,
           as
           
             Elizabeth
             Folk
          
           said
           ,
           
             Faith
             shal
             cease
             to
             be
             Faith
             
             and
             be
             turned
             into
             fruition
             ,
             and
             wee
             receiue
             the
             ende
             of
             our
             Faith
             ,
             the
             saluation
             of
             our
             soules
             .
          
        
         
           These
           things
           haue
           I
           written
           that
           your
           ioy
           may
           be
           full
           .
        
         
           The
           Iust
           shall
           liue
           by
           his
           Faith.
           
        
         
           According
           to
           thy
           Faith
           so
           be
           it
           to
           thee
           .
        
         
           Lord
           increase
           our
           Faith.
           
        
      
    
     
       
         
           The
           Bookeseller
           to
           the
           Reader
           .
        
         
           GEntle
           Reader
           ,
           I
           pray
           thee
           take
           Notis
           that
           
             Master
             Ward
          
           ,
           hath
           lately
           published
           a
           most
           Remarkable
           Monument
           ,
           of
           the
           Inuincible
           Nauie
           of
           88.
           &
           the
           vnmatchable
           Powder
           Treason
           1605.
           
           Necessary
           to
           be
           had
           in
           the
           House
           of
           euery
           good
           Christian
           ,
           to
           shew
           Gods
           louing
           and
           wonderfull
           prouidence
           ,
           ouer
           this
           Kingdome
           ,
           when
           the
           Papists
           twise
           sought
           their
           vtter
           ruine
           &
           subvertion
           .
           These
           Monuments
           are
           to
           be
           sold
           where
           these
           Bookes
           are
           sould
           in
           
             Saint
             Dunstones
             Church-yard
          
           ,
           and
           
             Pauls-Ally
             .
             Vale.
             24
             of
             Ianuary
             .
          
           1621.
           
        
         
           FINIS
           .
        
      
       
         Notes, typically marginal, from the original text
         
           Notes for div A14750-e120
           
             Lib.
             1.
             contra
             Academicos
             .
          
        
         
           Notes for div A14750-e630
           
             Heb.
             2
             4.
             
          
           
             Rom.
             1.
             17.
             
          
           
             Gal
             3.
             11.
             
          
           
             Heb.
             10.
             38.
             
          
           
             Gal.
             2.
             20
             ,
          
        
         
           Notes for div A14750-e820
           
             Chrysost.
             in
             1
             Cor.
             1.
             10.
             
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             .
          
           
             Iohn
             11.
             25.
             
          
           
             1
             Iohn
             5.
             
          
           
             Act.
             15.
             9.
             
          
           
             1
             Ioh.
             5.
             4.
             
          
           
             1
             Pet.
             1.
             9.
             
          
        
         
           Notes for div A14750-e1200
           
             Iob
             3.
             20.
             
          
           
             Psal.
             32.
             
          
           
             Phil.
             3
             
          
        
         
           Notes for div A14750-e1710
           
             Ioh.
             6.
             
          
        
         
           Notes for div A14750-e2510
           
             Doct.
             Bright
             of
             Melanch
             .
          
        
         
           Notes for div A14750-e3740
           
             Esay
             40.
             31.
             
          
           
             Iudg.
             1.
             
             14&
             .
          
        
         
           Notes for div A14750-e4100
           
             1
             Sam.
             28
             7.
             
          
           
             2
             Chr.
             16.
             12.
             
          
           
             Foxe
             in
             14.
             
          
           
             Apoc.
             
          
        
         
           Notes for div A14750-e4560
           
             1.
             
             Cor.
             3.
             
          
           
             A
             needfull
             Caueat
             .
          
           
             A
             profitable
             aduice
             .
          
           
             An
             earnest
             request
             .