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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04986	Ten sermons upon several occasions, preached at Saint Pauls Crosse, and elsewhere. By the Right Reverend Father in God Arthur Lake late Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells	Lake, Arthur, 1569-1626.	1640 (1640)	STC 15135; ESTC S108204	119,344	184

long since repented in sackcloth and ashes Of the truth thereof Christ giveth them a tast in this History And this hath beene an ancient practise of God when the meanes of grace hath profited little within the Church to confound His people by their readinesse to believe that were without the Church So did He in the dayes of Eliah confound Israel by the Widdow of Sarepta a Woman of Sidon who entertained the Prophet when the Israelites persecuted him And in the dayes of Elizeus by Naaman the Assyrian who upon a little tast of Gods mercy in curing his Leprosie vowed to serve no other God but the God of Elizeus wheras greater Miracles and sundry Sermons wrought and spoken by Elizeus could not obtaine so much Piety of the Jsraelites The very like is to be observed in the story of Ninivy the great City Ninivy as the Prophet calleth it was in three dayes Preaching reclaimed by Ionah which laboured many yeares with the Israelites and laboured in vaine God in the second of Ezechiel sets downe for a Rule in Generall Eze. 2.3 Sonne of man I doe not send thee to a Nation that understands not thy language but if I did they would heare whereas this people understands but will not be reformed Wherefore God as He threatned in the 32. of Deuteronomy Deu. 32.21 did provoke His people justly by them that are no people a foolish nation as His people provoked their God by them that were no gods but the work of their owne hands Christ is found of them that sought Him not and made manifest unto them that enquired not after Him Acts 13.46 Acts 13.46 This was the Iewes case Saint Paul to the Romans saith that we must every one of us make it our case for as God left the Iewes to go to the Gentiles so may He go from us to the Indies for spiritus spirat ubi vult and there is nothing as it was shewed unto Saint Peter in the Vision that is uncleane when God is pleased to sanctifie it Christ went out of the Coasts of Tyre and Sidon Thus much of the occasion Come to the History which represents two eminent vertues of which vertues we are to consider first the conflict the conflict betweene two persons which addes some right unto the vertues for what are the vertues the one is an importunate Faith and in whom is that in a Canaanitish woman an Heathen woman but which is more sprang from cursed Cham and which is yet further to be observed being of that Line which was specially to be odious to the Iewes whom they were to roote out without all mercy that such a woman should beleeve in Christ who was no Iew by birth this makes her Fact more memorable But what is the other vertue It is delay though it proved profitable delay and in whom was this It was in our Saviour Christ who if He had beene onely God it had beene no wonder if He did put off sinners in the holinesse of a Lord or if it had beene at his second comming in glory it would not have beene strange if he had rejected the woman in the austerity of a Iudge but to doe it in the nature of man which hee undertooke as Saint Paul speaketh that he might be tender hearted towards man to doe it when he came not to judge but save for such a person at such a time to use such delay so to reject a poore woman maketh the vertue of Christ the more remarkable the more admirable But let us come to the conslict of these vertues The woman begins and sets upon Christ She cryed and said Have mercy on me ô Lord thou Sonne of David my daughter is miserably vexed with a Devill her case was bad and therefore needs the lesse wonder if in her suit she were so earnest she spake for her child her child was now left to the malice of the Devill nothing in nature could be nearer then her child no corporeall evill could befall it worse than to be within the power of the devill such a case would melt a stony heart what wonder if it worke so upon the tender heart of a mother But the meaning of the Holy Ghost is that we should be earnest in our prayers according to the danger of our estate the more our danger the more our earnestnesse and we should presse the more upon God the more we are occasioned by calamities that are layed upon us by him for therefore doth he humble us to warme our cold devotion It is so in distresses corporall but much more in our distresses spirituall we must learne the one by this woman and the other by expressing the sense that we have of the want of grace farre more painefull then the other sense is of the want of health But let us heare the womans first onset She makes a short petition but it containes a most excellent confession if you looke to the matter yea and a most confident profession if you looke to the manner of those words wherein she speakes to Christ The matter is a short but a full description of the person and office of Christ His person he was God and man she acknowledgeth both God in calling Him Lord for that word must not be understood but according to the style of the Scripture which in stead of Iehovah in the Hebrew and in the Greek signifies not a bare Lord but the absolute Lord both of Heaven and Earth Shee could not conceave lesse of Christ when she desired he would shew His power over the Devill for how could he have power over the Devill that was not Lord Paramount over all the world She acknowledgeth him then to be God And to be man also for she calleth him the sonne of David Which implies not only that he was a man but also the Messias eodem ipso Christum Domini for as David was the Annoninted King of the Lord so was hee the type of Christ that was to bee annoynted with the Holy Chost Hee was then a man and which is more he was that man even the man whom the Iewes looked for to have for their Messias A faire description of Christs person which further intimates his office too for he that was Christ was also to be Iesus He was to save and so to shew mercy his office was to be the Mercy-seat of God the reliever of the distresses of wretched man Thus much she confesseth of Christs person of his office Yea she professeth it also For whereas many Jewes believed in Christ but durst not say so much openly of him because they loved the praise of men more than of God and feared more to be cast out of the Synagogue of the Iewes then to be shut out of the kingdom of Heaven this poore woman is not ashamed of her Faith she publisheth her beliefe shee publisheth it in her prayer unto Christ which she uttereth with a loud voyce that all standers-by might