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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

which the law requires The perfect obedience of the law is impossible to all men except Christ yea to such as are borne anewe of the Holy Ghost though for the time of this life they desire it neuer so earnestly Yet faith in Christ and repentance is so farre forth possible to all that will and desire it that whosoeuer doth seriously but wil to and be conuerted doth indeede beleeue and is conuerted and doth please God and shall not perish eternally although the beginning of this faith and conuersion be weake so it be in truth and not counterfeit Isa. 1.19 If ye will and obey ye shall eate the good things of the land Luke 11.13 Your heauenly father giueth the holy Ghost to them that desire him Math. 11. My yoke is easie and my burden light Therefore let vs trie our selues whether we haue a will to subiect our selues to the word of God that biddes vs beleeue in Christ. Neuerthelesse we may not thinke that this will to beleeue is in our power For it is by the speciall mercie of God stirred vp in the hearts of the Elect by the operation of the Holy Ghost The fourth and last thing in this change is that faith in Christ or in the word beleeued must raigne and rule in the heart bringing the whole man in subiection to the whole word of god And this faith in Christ doth because when it is once setled in the heart it workes in vs a ful and setled faith of euery part of the word of God namely of his precepts and of his threats Here then our dutie is to subiect our selues by meanes of our faith to the whole word and to suffer nothing within vs but it alone to beare sway This is the will of God let the word of God dwell in you plentifully The good groūd yelds it selfe giues place that the seed may take deepe roote It is a blessed thing to haue the kingdome of God erected in our hearts now this kingdome is erected when the word of God keepes all the powers of bodie and soule in subiection And when our faith in Christ brings our thoughts affections words deedes sufferings in subiection to the word of God then we liue by faith The third vse followeth in that we are to liue by our faith we are taught to seeke for knowledge of the wil and word of God daily to increase in the same knowledg specially to acquaint our selues with the commaundements of God that concerne vs with his promises and threatnings For faith is the life of our soules the word is the life of faith because it is first kindled and afterward confirmed by the hearing of Gods word Again the word moderates our faith that we beleeue not more then we should or come short in beleeuing The word therefore that serues thus to limit our faith must be knowne in his seuerall heads and points Fourthly hence we learne how we are to cary our selues in greatest dangers as in the time of plague pestilence in the time of famine in the time of warre bloodshed in the time of our last and deadly sicknes We haue then neede of great helpe and the onely way is then to stay our selues and establish our hearts by our faith on Gods promises It is the very scope of this text to teach this one point of doctrine to the Iewes beeing now oppressed by the Babylonians Dauid in danger and Christ in the time of his passion by their faith commende their spirites into the handes of God Of the martyrs and Saints of God some were by their faith imprisoned some racked some stoned Faith in perilous times is of great vse First when a man is halfe dead it quickens and puts life in him as Dauid saith Remember the promise made to thy seruant wherein thou hast caused me to trust it is my comfort in my trouble for thy promise hath quickned me Vnderstand here the promise as it was tempered and mingled with his faith Againe faith in the times of daunger doth as it were sense and compasse vs with the promises of God This may be gathered by the opposition that is betweene these wordes and the former The vniust man puffs vp himselfe saith the Prophet or builds towers of defence to himselfe but the iust man onely beleeues and that shall be to him in stead of all the towers in the world For it brings vs vnder the presence wing and protection of god it makes him to be our safeguard and tower of defence This doctrin is to be thought on the rather because though we now inioy peace and other blessings of God yet our common sinnes and especially our vnbeleefe calls downe for the great and grieuous iudgements of God Moreouer hence we are taught that euery man must haue a faith of his owne The iust man shall liue by his OWN faith saith the Prophet And good reason for euery man is a creature of god and must doe his homage to God by beleeuing in him because euery man hath neede of Christ for himselfe therefore must euery one haue a faith of his owne to lay holde on Christ. It may be obiected that some time the faith of others hath saued men Mark 2.5 VVhen Christ saw their faith he saide to the sicke of the palsie Thy sinnes are forgiuen thee And Iam. 5.6 The prayer of faith shall saue the sicke I answer that the faith of one man may be a meanes to procure health of bodie and other temporall blessings yea faith vnto others yet cannot any man receiue pardon of sinnes and eternall life but for himselfe Therefore when it is said in the first place VVhen he saw their faith the faith of the palsie man must not be excluded but included and the place of Iames speakes onely of the bodily health Againe it may be alleadged that seeing we are iustified by the iustice of an other namely of Christ we may also be iustified and saued by the faith of an other I answer that the reason is not like because the obedience of Christ is both his and ours his because it is in him ours because it is applied vnto vs by God and receiued by our faith and the like can not be saide of the faith of any other man Thirdly it may be alleadged that infants haue no faith of their owne I answer there be three opinions touching Infants faith The first that infants haue actuall faith wrought in them by the holy Ghost because it is said Mat. 18.6 Whosoeuer offendeth one of these little ones that beleeues in me But this opinion seemes to be an vntruth because faith presupposeth vnderstāding and knowledge which infants want Againe if infants receiued to beleeue when they are young they would no doubt shew it when they come to be of yeares but faith they shew none vnlesse they attaine vnto it afterward by diligent teaching and instruction And the place in Matthew may be vnderstood of