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A15580	The saints aduantage or The welfare of the faithfull, in the worst times A sermon, preached at the Hage the 18. of May, 1623. before the most high, and mighty princesse, Elizabeth, by the grace of God, Queene of Bohemia, Countesse Palatine of the Rhene, &c. By Iohn Wing, an vnworthy minister of the gospel and pastor to the English Church at Flishing in Zealand.	Wing, John, of Flushing, Zealand.	1623 (1623)	STC 25847; ESTC S120119	54,386	92

worse because whereas the carkase is consumed in the earth anoye's none their name liue's like carryon aboue ground vnburyed and stinks more and more strongly from one age to another and shall liue to rott through all generations to come for ever till they shal be againe raysed out of rottennes to liue and meete their living loathsome names before the Lords judgments seate who shall then and there put an end to both by throwing both into the bottomlesse pitt of endles perdition they being the men that must rise to fall to everlasting shame and contempt To particulate Cayne Saul Ahitophell Ahab Iudas or the rest of that beaad-role of branded persons whome the living and most glorious God hath marked for remarkeable infamy were not to much purpose and we haue had occasion to note them before it sufficeth to know that their glory is with shame and that all the reputation they haue had with men at the greatest hath but made their reproach greater with God Men haue heaped honourable titles of greatnes vpon them to dignify and renowne them which haue beene but the poore vapours of their ayery words breathed out either for feare or for flattery and haue vanished in the very vtterance and God hath laden them with heavy and most ignominious appellations which his mouth having spoken and his pen having written must remayne to cleaue for ever vnto that most vnworthy miserable memoriall which the world hath of them who knowe's them by no names or titles but only by those that are worse then none at all And touching both in this last difference it may be well and safely observed that the worse words the world hath given Gods saints the better and more glorious titles are given them of God himself and the more men haue renowned the other the more hath the Lord abhorred them and made them abhominable to all eyes and eares His owne son our saviour when in the dayes of his flesh he dwelt among vs had as bad yea and farre worse language given him then any that ever lived he that reades his life knowe's how oft he was abused and most basely vilyfied he was a Samaritane he was mad he had a divell c but the Lord God his father Ioh. 20.17 Phil. 2.9 and our father hath given him a name aboue all names and honor and glory aboue all principalityes and powers and so much the more gloriously exalted him by how much among men he was become the scorne and contempt of the people And in like manner doth he deale with Christians as he did with Christ according to the eminency of their piety for which the greater it is they suffer greater reproach he giue 's them more excellent glory even in the eyes of men as we might shew in many examples And this is our sixt and last Advantage And now beloved and longed for in the Lord what shall we say to these things here we haue had a short and summary survey of those singuler and celestiall advantages that the Lords people haue even at their worst of all vngodly men at their best I say a short and summary survey of them for if we should enlarge our selues in the discovery of them so farre as we might when should we haue done or where should we end or if we could manifest them as they are which mortality cannot doe there could be neither end nor measure of our discourse nay it might be truly sayd of these excellent things as the Evangelist speaketh of the rest of the acts and sayings of Christ which are vnwritten Ioh. 21.25 that the whole world would not contayne the bookes c that must contayne the full declaration of those infinite things wherein the true comfort of the saints doth consist for they are in truth vnvtterable nay indeede vnsearchable as the Apostle doth plainely signify when he saith he heard being wrapt into the third heaven things not to be vttered And if of the mysteryes and secrets of the gospell which elswhere he speaketh of much more may it be most truly sayd of the consolation benefit and reward of the faithfull and persecuted professors of the same that they are such as eye hath not seene 1 Cor. 2.9 eare hath not heard nor haue entred into the hart of man to apprehend the naturall man is meant in the former the spirituall may be vnderstood in the latter For grace is as vnable mixt with infirmity to comprehend heavenly things that are glorious as nature voyd of grace is to conceive aright and reach those that be holy and gracious Why then what shall we say to these heavenly things thus heaped vp together to make vs wholy happy if the Lord haue layd them vp in his booke should not we lay them vp in our bosomes blesse him abundantly who hath soe over abundantly blessed vs with these benedictions which are sent vs soe to sweeten the bitterest cup of our calamity that we might drinke the bottome of it with all cheerfullnes and rejoycing what sayd the good Prophet of God once in a case of this kinde Rejoyce O heaven and be joyfull O earth breake forth into prayses O yee mountaines for the Lord hath comforted his people and shewed mercy vpon his afflicted and even this may and ought all Gods people now to speake considering the pemisses in the particulers that we haue revealed How came the good Christians of the primitiue times when persecution was soe sore and extreame not only as was noted before to rejoyce but even to glory in tribulation Ro. 5.3 Heb. 10.34 Act. 5.40 41. to suffer with joy yea with much joy the spoyling of their goods to goe from the consistory with bloody shoulders yet glad harts rejoycing that were accounted worthy to vndergoe the worst for Christ And the Apostle who was so abundant aboue all the rest not only in the labours but in the suffrings of the gospell 2 Cor. 7.4 also telleth vs playnly Great is my rejoycing I am full of comfort I haue not only abundant joy but joy over-abundant in all my tribulations These are strange words yet true and such as he saith he hath already in posession and not only in some lighter afflictions but in his heavyest distresses even in all his tribulations To haue Great joy To be full of comfort yea To be over-full or to over-abounde is such a strayne of speech as never fell from man by any sence or reason of flesh and blood but only from the spirit of God and the power of his grace which had perswaded his soule of the sweetnes of this saving truth that we teach that a man at his worst should not only be full but overflow with comfort and joy which is more then any wicked man can say of his best for all the happines vnder heaven cannot fill much lesse over-fill the hart of man he cannot be satisfyed much lesse can he be glutted indeede or surfett intruth

prooue a meere nullity a very vanity and we should be able not only to endure or holde out in such a hard time as we cannot shun as divers of Gods deare children haue done but with Moses rather make choyse of such a meane state and forsake a better to approue our obedience then to dwell in the tents and enjoy the delights of the vngodly vpon such tearmes as ordinarily their tenure is taken and holden betweene the divell and them here in this world Let no mans temporall condition then be the least occasion to call his spirituall or eternall state into question be it farre from every faithfull man to judge according Note to such owtward and vnceartaine appearance God never built his goodnes to vs nor our happines before him vpon such sand which will swell and sincke vpon the shift of every wynd and surges of every tyde the foundation of his loue is more firme and vnmooveable And know there is no happines in the whole earth good enough to be the least tokē of his true loue nor any earthly evill vnder heavē bad enough even at the worst to distemper the harts of his elect in the least yea though all the poyson and malignity thereof were possible to be emptyed vpon one man He that hath assured vs that our worst doth exceede the best of other men would haue vs harten our selues and solace our soules herein knowing that the true weight of this most worthy truth will overpoyze and beare downe all temporary affliction that hangeth on or presseth downe in this present evill world Be it graunted for it cannot be denyed that the worst end of the staffe is in the hand of Gods people and that it is ill with them when worse men fare well let the divell haue thus much yeelded if he will dispute the case truth is able giue error some advantage and yet conquer too well what will he herevpon inferre what shal be his forced and infernall conclusion of this our free concession why this that Gods people are in worse case then wicked wen well be it soe and what of that say they are will any thing follow to their true discomfort whose soules the Lord would not haue made sad if any thing more then this let the divell say his worst and produce and presse it to the vtmost but if this be all all is nothing Satan is confounded we are confirmed wicked men are befoold ' in all this for why though in some earthly and temporary sence we may say our case may be worse then theirs and theirs better then ours yet God hath given vs to know that in spirituall and heavenly consideration our worst is better then their best and this proposition we doe and dare avouch in the face of our feircest adversary the divell or the most furious of those tyrants which he provoketh against vs who thought to inferre some hydeous and hopeles consequence out of these poore premisses whereas nothing can issue from our perplexity and their peace by any sound evidence but that which wil be Glorious to the Lord Ioyous to his people Greivous to the vngodly and Mischeivous to the divell himself Who observing vs thus compleately armed against his mightiest engyne must now either with shame give over his olde trade of tempting or with sorrow giue over his jdle hope of prevayling and begin to thinke himself lesse able to conquer vs and every child of God who hath this hope to be more then a conquerour through Christ who hath loved them Ro. 8 3● and in his loue made thus much knowne vnto them to make them most harty in their hardest estate And now beloved is the accuser of our bretheren and of our selues cast out and overcome we haue woone Rev. 18.10 he is downe for at the lowest he see 's that we know our selues to be farre aboue all his lymms even all the highest and happiest they can be in and seing he perceive's that we now vnderstand this truth what hope hath he to make vs by any meanes miserable seing we can beleeue that we are more happy then any of his can be in our greatest misery And that we may be the better enabled in our selues to overbeare him let vs descend from the generall notice herof vnto those particuler instances of all kinds of evill wherevnto we are incident and we shall finde true cause tryumphantly to out-face him in every of them from one to another as we may haue occasion to enquire into them in order Put the case where you please nay let Satan haue leaue if you will to particulate where he will in those miseryes which he imagine's may be most for his advantage and our damage whether poverty or captivity or infamy or tyranny or death it selfe we shall sufficiently solace our selues and silence him in each of these Let vs looke a litle into them severally Poverty Is not the poverty of a childe of God better then the wealth of the wicked let Lazarus and Dives be the men that shall decide the matter I dare say you haue read and heard of them both in Gods booke the one is described by his penury and want the other by his superfluity and abundance the one fared deliciously every day and was sumptuosly arayed in purple and fine lynnen the other had but rags and scarce them to cover him and desired but the offall or reliques of the rich mans table to refresh his hungry body and to fill his empty belly Now I pray you which of these two was in the better case and which of their two conditions would you chuse all things considered I suppose no man that hath heard all the truth that is tolde of them both but he had much rather be in Lazarus poore state then haue the riches of the other and soe the poverty of Gods child is happier then the vngodly mans abundance and that which was here but parabolically propounded Ps 37.16 Prov. 15 16. cap. 16.8 vnder these two persons wil be found really true betweene any two in the world in their condition Better is a litle saith David first and Salomon once againe that the righteous hath then the plenty store of a wicked man nay of many wicked mē Our least doth much exceede their most in every respect whether of money meats apparrell or watsoever Imprisonement Againe is not our restraint and jmprisonement better then their liberty and freedome Let Gods child be the prisoner and the jmpious person be free at pleasure a prison wil be found happier to him then a pallace to the other It may soone be tryed betweene Peter Act. 12. and Herod the one was in hard restraint even in chaynes the other might goe where he would yet I warrant you he that reade's the story of these two and count's the middle and both ends would rather be Peter in the loathsome dungeon then Herod in the highest admiration Base vermine

in this world that being so thynne and leane so poore and bare for Christ they might the better even for that cause come to be partakers of this celestiall blessednes with Christ. And this is the fift difference and the saints fift advantage and it is no meane but a mighty odd's that we haue of them herein Our temporall misery preventeth our eternall their temporary happines doth hasten their everlasting misery What man in his right mynde would not soone say which of the two he would take whether the worst of this world with assurance of no evill in that which is to come or that which may be best here with ceartainety of the worst that hell can yeelde him afterward Alwayes we see a childe of God at his worst hath his best estate be hynde and a wicked mans worst is to come when he hath had the best this world could affoord him This earth is our hell even all the hell we shall haue heaven shall surely follow it It is their heaven even all the heaven they can haue and hell must shall surely ensue and succeede it And this is our fist advantage The sixt and last followeth and that is this 6. Advantage 6. That a child of God at his worst even in all his evill whatsoever is evermore in actuall posession of all his excellencyes but a wicked man hath nothing but ignominy and basenes at his best even in all this honours Take a childe of God and conceit him to be cloathed with all the calamity and contempt you can jmagine suppose him vnder all the reproach and misery that is possible to be put vpon him yet now in Gods account he is A childe of God An heire of heaven A coheire with Christ A King and more then a conquerour And jndeede more then can be vttered by vs or conceived by himselfe according to that of the Apostle 1 Ioh. 3.2 we are now the sons of God but it doth not appeare what we shal be as if he should say we know we haue a state to come whose excellency cannot be knowne here all the world cannot devise a name good enough to declare it the vtmost here is to be called the sons of God but what we shal be is such a state as can be called by no name on earth we haue a life which is hid with Christ in God and till he be revealed from heaven Gol. 3.3 at his second comming the glory of this our condition cannot be discovered But on the other side how base worthlesse contemptible and contumelious is every vngodly man in the middest of all his glory and renowne and all the applause the world putt's vpon him he that take's notice by what tearmes the Holy Ghost doth enstile them cannot but say we say the truth at least in part for their full infamy being infinite that is also reserved till the infinite honour of the elect shal be manifested In the meane time are the not called Children of hell Slaues of Satan Vile persons Dogs swyne vypers yea divells With many other more of the like loathsome kinde inspired by the Lord penned by his secretaryes recorded in his scriptures preached by his messengers and remayning for ever as the righteous brands and most proper appellations that God himself hath put vpon them and which they must beare from him who is too great and too good to vnsay one jot or tittle of that he hath spoken To instance particuler persons were to litle purpose all that are mentioned by name or comprehended and meant in that peereles catalogue which we haue in this chapter though they were exposed to the worst and vtmost contempts that could be for infamy and to the most tyrannous and villanous torments that could be for extreamity ver 13.39 ver 38. yet the worst word we heare of them is this All these dyed in the faith and obtayned a good report and againe Of whome the world was not worthy loe a world nay more then a world of honour in two or three words for the whole world to wit of worldly and vngodly persons is not valued at the worth of one childe of God no not by God himself who hath bought them at a high price yet gaue no more for them then he thought them worth and hath made knowne their worth to the world by the price he bestowed on them viz the most precious blood of his only son which it pleased him not to thinke too good to be given for the purchase of their redemption glory So that they are not overvalued at this invaluable rate seing the most wise God out of his owne wisdome and loue hath set thus much vpon them and in not accounting the world worthy of them hath also pleased through the meritts of the Lord that bought them to account them worthy of the world to come Reu. and of all that glory jmmortality life and belessednes there which all the witt reason and vtmost reach of mortall man is not so much as able once to gresse at for it being soe absolutely infinite it doth in finitely surpasse all possibility of man to ayme at it much lesse comprehend On the contrary now where shall the vngodly and the sinner appeare or what shal be accounted of them if the Lord come to giue sentence vpon them at the very best of their estate what are they worth how are they esteemed before him why nothing vanity Psal Isa 40. yea lesse then nothing lighter then vanity more vile then the basest vermyne they tread vpon yea more vile then the earth which harboureth both them and all base vermyne whatsoever no creature so bad as they vpon the whole earth only the Divell in hell he is somewhat worse and by how much he is worse then they because he made them naught by so much are they worse then all other creatures who were by them and for their sakes accursed To be entituled dogs swyne vypers and such like is only to shew their basenes as these creatures seeme to vs Iob. not as they are in themselues for soe saith Iob they are not to be compared to the dogs of my flock for these creatures God made them exceeding good only sin their sin hath made them soe naught as we vsually account them to be in themselues they haue no sin nor ought els that is bad but only by them by whose sins they are corrupted and degenerate from that noble excellency and those notable qualityes of their nature which once they had when they had an estate as pure in nature as we our selues in our created condition Now therefore as the Divell only is worst of all because he made wicked men so bad soe they next him are the worst in the world because all other things are jmbased by them Besides take the mightiest among the men of the world haue not their names pilaished with them and are beome as rotten as their bodyes yea

THE SAINTS ADVANTAGE OR The welfare of the FAITHFVLL in the worst times A Sermon Preached at the Hage the 18. of May 1623. before the most High and Mighty Princesse ELIZABETH by the Grace of GOD QVEENE of Bohemia Countesse Palatine of the Rhene c. By IOHN WING an vnworthy Minister of the gospel and Pastor to the English Church at FLISHING in ZEALAND 2 Cor. 1.3.4 3. Blessed be God the Father of our Lord Iesus Christ the Fathers mercies and God of all consolation 4. Who comforteth vs in all our tribulation that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble by the comfort wherewith we our selues are comforted of God AT FLISHING Printed by Martin Abraham vander Nolck dwelling at the signe of the Printing-house 1623. TO THE Most High and Mighty Princesse ELIZABETH by the grace of God QVEENE of Bohemia Countesse Palatine of the Rhene c. IOHN WING Pastor of the English Church at Flushing in Zealand wisheth all encrease of grace and peace whatsoever may enlarge all present happines on earth and assure that which is eternall in heaven MOST GRACIOVS PRINCESSE Inasmuch as it pleased your most excellent Majesty to vouchsafe a Gracious eare to the weake vtterance of these meditations I am comfortablely encouraged to present a more compleate discovery of them to your Princely eyes not that I account them worthy as they are myne of the least looke of Majesty but trusting wholy to that clemency favour which I humbly entreate may thyne from you vpon this my poore endeavour it having next to the honour of the most high God her only respect and ayme at your Majesties present and furture condition a true type wherof is here tendered by him whose soule doth daily sue vnto the King of Kings that as he hath measured vnto and you haue shared with Moses and David many tribulations in the entrance of their honour and renowne and after made them so much the more famous admired victorious So it might please the same Lord to alott you the sweete happines of their issue which was most blessed and glorious to alay the distaste of that bitter beginning which vnto nature seemeth somewhat tarte and greivous and together with that peerelesse greatnes which they enjoyed on earth the same glory and joy which they posesse in heaven The Great God of heaven and earth blesse with the richest abundance combination of his rarest and best blessings your Royall Head Husband your Highnes all your hopefull Plants Princely posterity that your Crowne may yet flourish your enemyes may ever perish and you all may be made mirrours of Majesty and Royalty to all generations Your Majesties in all duty to be commanded IOHN WING To my worthy and Right welbeloved Freinds Maister Caleb Cockcroft Treasurer to the famous followship of Merchant Adventurers of England resident at Delft And vnto Maister Iohn Barkelay Maister Arthur Tyndall Maister Iohn Quarlys Maister William Clarke Bretheren of the same Society Iohn Wing wisheth all present welfare and prosperity o● earth which may further their future felicity in heaven HOwsoever I haue hereto-fore saluted your whole society in that vnfayned affection which I beare vnto you all yet n being in some particuler engagements more bound to some in speciall then to all in generall I presume vpon your kinde acceptance of this poore manifestation of my loue to you having had large experience of yours to me A small token is welcome from a true freind and I nothing doubt but this shal be the better entertayned not only because it is sent from such a one but also for that it contayneth matter of Advantage and that as I trust I may boldely say to your selues as vnto those who desyring and endeavouring to be of that number to whome these most worthy preiveledges doe appertayne shall in your due seeking be right sure to enjoy those many most blessed benefitts which are here by vs discovered and by God himself entayled to all his faithfull ones for ever And inasmuch as it is noe good decorum to make a long Epistle to a litle booke I am more breife with you then otherwise my loue would let me be which could much more enlarge it self if it were meete at present soe to doe But what is not convenient now to say to your selues I shall not cease to vtter in my poore requests for you vnto him who is Lord over all and rich vnto all To whose grace loue I leaue you and all that are yours beseeching him to enrich you with all the graces of his good spirit that may giue you a blessed and abundant entrance into his glorious Kingdome by Iesus Christ both your Lord and ours in whome I rest Yours vnfaynedly for any good to my vtmost ability IOHN WING From my house in Flushing March 7. 1623. To the Christian Reader BEloved in the Lord seing promise is debt and performance alone the only discharge that can giue plenary satisfaction I must at present deale as poore debtors oft-times are enforced to pray where they cannot pay and to entreat yet longer time for that which was due long a-goe It is neere foure yeares since I began to engage my self vnto thee for the perfecting of my matrimoniall treatise then in part published To this day I confesse I haue not finished the same for I mett with such cumbrance hynderance and inconvenience in that litle which was but as a praeface to the rest that I durst not adventure to set vpon the remaynder being the farre greater part Yet I am not out of all hope ere long to doe it and in the meane time I thought good to send this Sermon abroad wherein I haue endeavoured the cure of one of the most common sores that hath come to my observation in these evill times to wit the hard conceit that not only the vngodly doe harbour of Gods people but they of themselues especially if outward things goe hard with them the times doe not favour but distaste and frowne vpon them Beholde here a man that was taught of God to know so much of the very meanest estate of the members of Christ that he willingly left to be mighty in the worlde to make one among them in their meanesse misery and by his practise made it manifest that his perswasion was quite contrary to the base opinion of men touching the saints of God And if he were led vnto this excellent estimation by extraordinary inspiration from God is it not extraordinary impiety to thinke or speake otherwise of them Surely soe farre as God did informe the one Satan doth infatuate the other Reade and ponder the particulers but first correct these few errors of the Printer and pray to that God for me to whome I am and shal be a suitor for thee for thy present and future welfare Farewell in the Lord in whome I am thyne IOHN WING ERRATA Pag. Lin. Error Correction 1. 4. as

the extreamest that they can be And herein I joy and will joy maugre all the divells in hell and hell hounds on earth Would not this or the like speach vnto this make the eares of tyrants to tingle and their harts to tremble would it not vexe and torture their very spirits within them to here these voyces sounding from the mouthes of those who are vnder their heaviest vexations Ceartainely it would worke one way or other with them if they could but beleeue it either it would cause repentance vnto salvation and make them weary of their wickednes and most willing to become as one of them whome they thus abuse or to frett and fume and gnaw owne their owne bowells to see themselues defeated in all the jmpious purposes which being to make the Lords people most miserable of all men cannot by the most and worst and all they can doe make them any way soe miserable as themselues who in their owne opinion are more happy then any Doe you thinke it would not make their harts to boyle yea to burne within them and chafe them soe throughly that they should be forced to foame at mouth with indignation and distemper Were a man but in their bosomes to see how they frett and vexe jnwardly when they perceive God himself to laugh them to scorne in heaven and his people to laugh at them on earth to see that all the mallice and villany the divell can arme them withall cannot make anothers estate at worst so bad then their owne at best then would something appeare as the effect and efficacy of this truth which we haue told them it may be they would cease their bloody hands against the blessed of the Lord and begin to lay them on themselues as Iudas and some other of their praedicessors haue done But our God the God of heaven 2 Cor. 4.4 doth suffer the Divell the God of this world to blyndefolde their eyes that they should not see or know or acknowledg this truth soe by the ignorance therof they worke out at once Their owne perdition Phi. 1.28 and Our salvation and make Vs blessed Martyrs Themselues accursed Malefactors in despight of all that they contrarily intend and her of if they might or could be perswaded no question were to be made but they would quickly become either better or worse But it is misery enough that they cannot be brought to beleeue the same oh what saith the Apostle if our gospell be hid 2 Cor. 4.3 it is hid to them that are lost A heavy sentence inasmuch as by ignorance especially wilfull of any truth more sin is multiplyed against God more service is done to the Divell more mischeife to men Rom. 2. and consequently more plagues heaped on and wrath stored vp against the day of wrath to be powered by the mighty arme of Almighty God vpon the heads of all those that haue thus encreased their jmpietyes before him who shall not escape the full poyson of all those his envenomed vyalls which he hath revealed from heaven to be reserved in hell for them But we will now leaue these men as men left of God and not soe happy as once to giue vs the hearing or the Lord the beleeving of this truth but given over to be drunke with their owne delusions to their owne damnation perswading themselues soe well of their owne evill estate and being so ill perswaded of the good and blessed condition of Gods children that they meane to continue as they are and to proceede in their jmpiety against the Lord oppression against his people till they haue wrought out their owne eternall confusion by both and provoked the dreadfull indignation of the Lord God to come vpon them to the vttermost through this double jniquity committed against his highest majesty Vse 3 And in our last vse we will turne our speech to all manner of persons endeavouring to doe our best Instruction to all men to giue them that true information which floweth from this point wherof we now treat and the premisses of the same which haue beene so particulerly and plentifully related at large vnto vs. And the consequence of this truth for matter of instruction looketh both at the saints of God themselues and also at all others that are not yet revealed to be such For the former viz those who haue beene already found and approoved to be faithfull whose happy interest is therefore vndeniable in this heavenly truth it call's for their constant continuall and perpetuall perseverance in that their estate of grace and holynes the worst whereof is so good as we haue heard For if our first being in grace while we are yet but babes or beginners therein doe giue vs assurance of so much consolation doubtles if we continue hold out to the end as we grow and goe on in grace soe doth the sweete savour of this happines encrease and multiply vpon vs. But I hope the discovery of the comforts aforesayd is such as may saue me the labour of any further pressing of this point vpon them and that their taste of the blessednes of them is so pleasant as they haue sensible arguments within them sufficient both to perswade them to tarry where they are and to oppose and repulse all suggestions to the contrary And therefore I will not persue them with more words for whose sakes especially all that is past hath beene vttered and whose setled resolutions touching their state of grace are such and so vnmoveable as was the Apostles who sayd I am sure that neither death Rom. 8.38.39 nor life nor Angells nor Principalityes nor Powers nor things present nor things to come nor heigh nor depth nor any other creature shal be able to separate me from the loue of God which is in Iesus Christ our Lord. This was his of himself and the Romans this is and ought to be ours of our selues of all true Christians therein we will rest and turno our last speech vnto those that yet are not turned to the Lord by any visible manifestation of that faith the vertue wherof doth giue them their part and portion in the saving peace and comfort of that which hath beene vttered And what can we vrge either more or lesse vpon them then that they should now at last learne to leaue their former sinfull and vngodly condition and cleave to the Lord in the power and truth of sincerity and sanctification that inasmuch as they are not yet cannonized of the Lord for saints nor haue their names written in the booke of life so farre as their life sheweth vnto men they might now once bethinke themselues what they are and come out of that estate wherein they cannot be happy And what more weighty or worthy argument can we vse then this which is soe powerfull to perswade if it be duely pondered of them For it is drawne from that which nature affecteth and desireth in all men aboue