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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00669	A sermon preached at St. Mary Spittle on Easter Tuesday 1613. By Roger Fenton D. in Diuinitie	Fenton, Roger, 1565-1616.	1616 (1616)	STC 10804; ESTC S115028	43,251	226

his faith and his full expectation of comfort after this life in these words then shall I yet haue comfort In the second place there is inserted a parenthesis which sets downe the encouragement of that faith a godly magnanimitie and resolution though I burne with sorrow let him not spare And thirdly and lastly here is both the ground of that resolution and the onely touchstone of his faith in that his conscience tells him hee hath not denied the words of the holy one Of these three first and then of the occasion to which they are fitted of both briefly For then shall I yet haue comfort though I burne with sorrow let him not spare because I haue not denied the words of the holy one For the first death is terrible to nature and therefore is called the King of feare Iob. 18. 14. most terrible yet notwithstanding it is but as a cloude and hee that hath an Eagles eye of faith to looke through the cloude hee may discerne that glorious comfortable light and such an Eagle was the seruant of God Iob for being inuironed with so many miseries and infirmities as he was at this time yet notwithstanding hee doth pierce through the cloude by the eyes of faith espying his euerlasting consolation When our Sauiour Christ is described that hee shall appeare in the cloudes in the last day it pleased him to compare himselfe to a slaine beast for indeed he was the lambe of God slaine from the beginning therefore Luke the 17. and the last verse hee saith Wheresoeuer the bodie is thither will all the Eagles resort nay such is the sagacity of that creature as we read that by the resort of Eagles in Africa the Inhabitants foresee their should bee warre and bloud-shedde in that place and such an Eagle was Iob who liuing so many hundred yeeres before the incarnation foresawe his Redeemer chap. the 19. 25. verse 27. I know that my Redeemer liueth a visible Redeemer and so Abraham sawe Christs daies Iohn the 8. By this faith did Iob receiue comfort beyond the cloude of death And Salomon describeth our Sauiour Christ in the second of the Canticles the 9. verse that he standeth behinde the Wall and looketh through a grate aluding to the manner of Nurses and Mothers that runne behinde a wall that their children may seek them with a greater desire so doth God in sickenesse he goes behinde the wall and if we haue an eye to spie him through the grate there is our comfort as that was Simeons ground Lord now lettest thou thy seruant depart in peace for mine eies haue seene their saluation after he had gotten Christ in his armes that hee had seene his saluation hee thought he was in prison till he departed and the word signifieth for to be loosed out of prisonne 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and you know that it was that S. Paul speaketh I desire to bee dissolued because hee would bee with Christ No maruell if Iob when hee discerned this comfort desired to bee taken out of the world this eie of faith of his begets a godly magnanimitie resoluing with all patience to vndergoe and not doubting to ouercome whatsoeuer is or can possiblie bee laid vpon him here 's the phraise and a gradation though I burne with sorrow though mine ague bee neuer so terrible the fit neuer so fearefull my miseries neuer so many nay as hee saith further in the 13. chap. the 15. verse Though he kill me yet will I trust in him the word in the originall for sorrow is taken from the root chus that signifies the sorrow of a woman in trauell that cries to God in her paine such paines will compell a man for to pray and to pray vnto God most earnestly it seemes by the Prophet that a woman in trauell will crie out vnto God though shee sildome thinke of him at other times if euer she be in a good minde it is then and such were the paines that Iob was in at this time though I burne with sorrow it was a conflict and a great conflict that Iob was now in and hee wrestles as it were with Iacob and though some speeches of impatience passe from Iob yet notwithstanding hee recouers himselfe and in the end his hope patience was crowned though I burne with sorrow nay let him not spare Let almighty God lay as much vpon me as it pleaseth him so that I may at the last inherit that which is my hope and comfort Mee thinkes hee speaketh as though hee would challenge almighty God for these temporall afflictions to doe his worst so hee might take him out of the world I haue obserued three strange phraises in Scripture which doe amplifie that power of faith that power of prayer and that power of patience which it pleaseth God to giue his Saints he speakes of faith in the 92. Psalme at the 9. verse as if a faithfull man were able to point Almighty God to a thing to come So the Prophet Dauid speaketh of faith Lo thine enemies shall perish as if faith did apprehend it so clearely that it pointed God to it a strange phrase And ye know of prayer in the 32. of Exod. the 10. vers hee speaketh of praier as though prayer were able to binde the hands of Almighty God Let mee alone that my wrath may waxe hot against them and so in this place the holy Ghost speaketh as though the holy man in miserie would leaue Almighty God to doe his worst though I burne with sorrow Lastly the ground of this magnanimitie the onely touchstone of this faith of Iob that his conscience testified vnto him that hee had not denied the wordes of the holy Ghost What are those wordes of the holy Ghost and what it is to denie them bee the two points By the words of the holy one in this place considering the time wherein Iob liued which is supposed for to be in the time of nature I doe not onely vnderstand those edicts of nature which the Apostle speaketh of in the 2. to the Rom. the 15. verse the effect of the morall law written in their hearts I meane those common rules of honestie which wee haue receiued by the light of nature and reason the heauens declare the glorie of God as in the 19. Psalme I say I doe not onely vnderstand by the words of the holy one in this place that light of nature but those Reuelations also by which God reuealed himselfe more especially to the very Saints of God and my reason is because hee giues God the name of the holy one in this place for wee know the nature of holinesse is to separate a thing from that which is common therefore hee doth not meane in this place the words of God onely as God is the God of nature but as he is the Authour of grace and as he hath reuealed vnto mee his will by reuelation from God and so is God promised vnto his saints Secondly not to denie