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blood_n	body_n	eat_v	faith_n	9,537	5	5.7426	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09439	How to liue, and that well in all estates and times, specially when helps and comforts faile.	Perkins, William, 1558-1602.	1601 (1601)	STC 19728; ESTC S2275	25,478	110

remission of sinne Thus newnes of life with all the parts thereof hath his offspring of our faith Yea after that a man is once made a new creature faith giues him his life and sense faith is the eye of the minde whereby we behold Christ in the word and sacraments By this faith Abraham saw the day of Christ and reioyced With this eye we may sufficiently beholde Christ and bodily sight in this case is not necessarie for the time of this life therefore Christ saith Blessed are they which haue not seene and haue beleeued Againe faith is the hand of the soule whereby we lay holde on Christ and receiue him with all his benefits It is the mouth of the heart whereby we feed on Christ eating his bodie and drinking his blood to eternall life It is the feete of the soule that makes vs walke with God Lastly it is a means to bring vs into familiaritie with God For it is an eare whereby we heare God speak to vs in his word and it is as it were the tongue of the soule whereby we speake to God by Inuocation of his holy name To goe yet further Spirituall life is most of all manifest in afflictions and temptations in the bearing whereof faith raignes and that by a threefold action First of all it makes vs to depend on gods promises and to trust God without limitation For it doth not limit God to any set time of deliuerance but leaues all to God He that beleeues doth not make hast Daniel waited 70 yeares for deliuerance out of captiuitie in Babylon and then finding the time of deliuerance to be at hand he praied to God for the same Againe faith doth not limit God to any meanes of deliuerance God made promise to Abraham of a blessed seede For the verifying of this promise he gaue him Isaac in his old age This don he commands him to offer his onely sonne in sacrifice A grieuous crosse for by this meanes all hope is cut off touching the promised seede Yet by faith Abraham still beleeuees the promise and that in the very offering of his sonne Lastly faith doth not limit God for the measure of affliction Iob saith He will trust in God though he kill him It was a grieuous affliction for Dauid to be driuen out of his kingdome by his owne son yet marke what he saith in the flight If he say I haue no delight in thee behold here I am let him doe vnto me as shall seeme good in his eyes The second action of faith is to make vs beleeue the promises of God when we feele the contrarie and in one contrarie to beleeue an other Whē we feele our owne sinnes it makes vs beleeue our iustification when we feele our wretchednesse and miserie it makes vs beleeue our happinesse when we feele nothing but death it makes vs beleeue our eternall saluation when we apprehend Gods anger and feele him to be our enemie it makes vs to apprehende his mercie and to beleeue his fatherly kindnesse When Christ was forsaken of God he euen then by his faith beleeues God to be his God The third action of faith in afflictions is to assure vs of Gods presence and to beholde him with the eyes of faith Thus Dauid saith I haue set the Lord alwaies before me for he is at my right hand Moses left Egypt and feared not the wrath of the king because he saw him that was inuisible When the seruant of Elisha feared ouer much the host of the king of Syria that compassed the towne of Dothan the Prophet praies to God for him that his eyes might be opened to see the fierie charets of the Angels of God protecting him and we likewise are to pray to God that the eyes of our minds may be opened to beleeue and to acknowledge the same or the like protection And thus are men to liue by faith in the midst of their afflictions By this which hath beene said we are admonished first of all to acquaint our selues with the promises of God as they are recorded in the bookes of the Prophets and Apostles secondly at all times to build vpon them by our faith and not to suffer our selues to be drawne from them though all temporall blessings of God faile vs yea health and life it selfe This is to arme our selues with a shield against all the fierie darts of the deuill and to put on a breast-plate that will saue the heart and life though otherwise in temptations we be grieuously maimed and foyled Thus much of spirituall life That our temporall life is lead by faith I make it thus manifest Temporall life is preserued and maintained by an honest calling euery calling hath his labour work and the labour of all callings hath miserie and trouble for his companion and fellow and in all these faith raignes and beares the sway in them that beleeue For the first that is for the choosing and holding of our callings with good conscience there is required a double vse of faith For we must haue a faith wherby we must be assured that our callings are good lawfull in themselues as Paul saith VVhat soeuer is not of faith is sinne For the setling of this faith this rule must be remembered That offices and callings which serue to preserue the good estate of any familie Church or commonwealth are lawfull and of God because these are estates ordained of God and established in the commaundements of the morall law specially in the first fifth and sixth commandements Againe faith is required wherby euery man must beleeue that the calling in which he is is the particular calling in which God will be serued of him For vnlesse the conscience be setled in this no good worke can be done in any calling And for the better establishing of the conscience an other rule must be remēbred That they which are furnished with gifts for their callings namely aptnesse and willingnes and are thereunto called or set apart by men whome it concernes to call are indeede called of God Thus the Elders of Ephesus hauing gifts to feede and being not called of God immediatly but by men are said to be made ouerseers by the holy Ghost And Paul saith that God committed not onely to himselfe but also to Timothie the ministerie of reconciliation and yet was Timothie not called immediatly of God but by men And thus in all other offices and conditions of life he that hath gifts sit for his place and is in good manner called thereto by them whose dutie it is to call may assure himselfe that he is called of God And from this double faith perswasion that our calling is lawfull in it selfe and lawfull or pleasing God in respect of vs ariseth an assurance of the presence of God and of his protection whē we walke in the duties of our callings In the labour and worke of our calling there is