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A13554	The progresse of saints to full holinesse described in sundry apostolicall aphorismes, or short precepts tending to sanctification, with a sweete and divine prayer to attaine the practise of those holy precepts / by Thomas Taylor ...	Taylor, Thomas, 1576-1632.	1630 (1630)	STC 23850; ESTC S1019	235,792	462

our callings both generall and speciall Be faithfull in thy profession of godlinesse lurke not as an hypocrite among the Saints carry no treacherous purpose to save thy selfe by denying or betraying the truth give it thy heart hand and tongue and life if it require it beware of a politique profession never let thy practise disagree from thy profession Consider Christ professed a good profession before Pilate and sealed it with his life and death 1 Tim. 5.13 and wilt thou so nourish any secret fraud in thy heart contrary to thy profession and Paul telleth Timothy hee had made a good profession and a faithfull before many witnesses And this is a most necessary doctrine we know not how soone we may be called to it therefore learne it betimes that we may be like our heavenly Father in faithfulnesse not onely in times of prosperity but in times of tryall for a Christian man is that indeede which he is in tryall let us shew our selves to bee that wee seeme to be Then in thy speciall calling be faithfull Christ was a faithfull high Priest in things concerning God Heb. 2.17 and Moses was faithfull in all the house of God as a servant Heb. 3.5 So it is required of every Minister or dispenser of the secrets of God that hee be faithfull 1 Cor. 4.1 the steward of Gods house must be faithfull to his Lord and to his family It is not great pompous titles that commends a Minister but his faithfulnesse Prov. 13.17 A faithfull Messenger is health And in thy private calling deale faithfully with all men and in all things both great and small so doth God who is not the rule onely but the witnesse and judge 1 Thess. 4.6 Let no man defraud his brother God is the avenger of all such things 4. In friendship be faithfull God is most faithfull to his friends in prosperity in adversity in life in death Be faithfull especially in the fellowship of the Gospell specially aiming at holinesse as the Lord doth and to draw thy friend along to heaven with thee and helpe him out of sinne else a sorry friend art thou But how farre we from this among whom it is so hard to finde a faithfull friend who in civill things will sticke to a man in adversity Where is to be found the friendship of David and Ionathan Among Heathens we reade of a Daman and Pithias of a Pylades and Orestes of an Euryalus and Nysus of an Achates who was a faithfull friend to Aeneas and would not leave him in danger But few such are to be found among Christians among whom faithfull friendship is degenerated into pollicy and flattery The Heathens could say that they used not fire or water oftner than friendship would Christians could say so of faithfull friendship and yet they seeme to pull the Sunne out of heaven who would take faithfulnes from friendship in the lives of men Would to God that Christians had not forgotten these naturall principles We all professe our selves to be of the family of Christ would it were with us as in that that but one of twelve were unfaithfull to God and their friend But wee see the contrary too too often 5. In communicating to thy brethren be faithfull lay out thy Lords talent faithfully as a wife and faithfull servant whom the Lord may make ruler over his house Luk. 12.42 Hast thou much many talents be faithfull in much and thou shalt finde much faithfulnesse in the Lord. Hast thou little be faithfull in that little and thy Lord shall make thee ruler over much when it shall be said Well done good and faithfull servant c. Matth. 25.23 Oh that men would remember the doome against the evill servant Matth. 25.30 Cast the unprofitable servant into utter darknesse Why was he judged so severely 1. Because an hypocrite comes among the good servants and receives some talents 2. Having his talent hee hideth it in the earth earth eates him up and buries him alive 3. He is unprofitable hinders his Lord and makes him a loser and doth no good to others all which makes the sentence as just as severe and certaine 2. This faithfulnesse of God is the ground of all true religion and hereupon must the whole frame and all parts of it be laid This appeares in five instances 1. In all the doctrine of faith 2. In all the practise of faith 3. In all the prayers of faith 4. In all profession of faith 5. In all perseverance in faith First we must ground all the doctrine of faith all the articles of faith all our judgement and opinion in matters of faith upon this faithfulnesse of God and this by holding fast in them all the faithfull word Titus 1.9 for that onely is the true religion which is wholly grounded upon his word who is unchangeable in truth and faithfulnesse How could we beleeve all the Articles of faith which are unconceivable and impossible to reason if we ground them not upon Gods faithfulnesse in his word How should we conceive that the heavens and earth were created of nothing that the Sonne of God should become man should be borne of a Virgin should by dying overcome death by descending into hell should deliver from hell How should wee beleeve that our bodies cloathed with corruption and wrapped in deaths garments should rise againe to eternall life which Article the Sadduces mocke at if wee should not apprehend them as the word of him that is faithfull and true Contrary hereto the maine pillars of Popery are set upon the unfaithfull words of men of Fathers Councels Traditions Popes Whereas Rom. 3.4 Let God be true and every man a lyer Be he Father or holy Father further than hee speakes according to the faithfull word Nay if an Angel from heaven speake otherwise let him be accursed Gal. 1.8 Nay the Popish Church is so farre from acknowledging this faithfulnesse of God in the Scripture as it never found a greater resister or opposite among the sects and opposite heresies in the world For bring in either Iewes or Turkes or any kinde of heretickes more vilifying Gods faithfulnesse in the Scripture and Papists shall not be the worst But did ever any of them accuse the Scripture to be a nose of waxe the authority of it to be no better than Esops Fables without the Churches determination to be a leaden and a Lesbian rule to be a seed-plot of heresies and they to be heretickes that stand to the voice of the Scriptures Doe not they call the Bible the booke of heretickes doe they not burne the Scriptures as sometime did wicked Asa Antiochus Maximinus Have they not burned Christian men for having them Let any such furious heretickes against Gods faithfull word be brought in if they can But certainly Papists must carry the bell above all other in the world for standing opposite to the faithfulnesse of God in the Scripture and be the most hereticall as who shut the doore against the