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A80790	The doctrine of faith. Or, The prime and principall points which a Christian is to know and believe. Handled in sundry sermons upon texts of scripture selected and chosen for the purpose. Wherein the method of the creed, (commonly called the Apostles Creed) is observed; and the articles thereof are confirmed, explained and applied, for the instructing of the ignorant, and the establishing of all in the truth. / By Christopher Cartwright, Minister of the Word at York.	Cartwright, Christopher, 1602-1658.	1650 (1650)	Wing C687; Thomason E1231_1; ESTC R14778	283,812	488

Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved Act. 16. 31. 2. Are there any outward troubles and pressures upon us Let us consider what Christ hath suffered and how by his suffering he hath recon●ised us to God and purchased eternall Redemption for us and therefore we need not fear though the earth be removed and though the hills be carried into the midst of the sea though the waters thereof roar and be troubled though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof Psal 46. 2. 3. He that spared not his own sor but gave him up for us all how shall he not with him also freely give us all things Rom. 8. 32. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ shall tribulation distresse or persecution or famin or nakednesse or perill or sword As it is written for thy sake we are killed all the day long counted as sheep for the sl●ughter Nay in all these things we are more then Conquerours thorough him that loved us For I am perswaded that neither death nor life nor Angels nor principalities nor powers nor things present nor things to come nor height nor depth nor any other creature shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Iesus our Lord Rom. 8. 35 36 37 38 39. Vse 2. Here also is instruction for us not to rely on our own but on Christs sufferings We must turn unto God as with all our heart so with fasting and with weeping and with mourning Joel 2. 12. We must so lay to heart our sins as to be afflicted and mourn and weep our laughter must be turned into mourning and our joy into heavinesse Jam. 4. 9. We must take a holy revenge on our selves for our sinners 2. Cor. 7. 11. If we would judge our selves we should not be judged of the Lord 1 Cor. 11. 31. Because we neglect to judge our selves therefore God doth judge us and lay his afflicting hand upon us to bring us to a sight and sense of our sins that we may repent of them and so not perish in them When we are judged we are chastned of the Lord that we may not be condemned with the world 1 Cor. 11. 32. The Antinomians are much wide wrong who wil not have God to afflict his children at all for sin yet the Apostle saith we are chastned of the Lord and chastning presupposeth a fault for which one is chastned And so the Apostle expressely For this cause many among you are weak c. 1 Cor. 11. 30. viz. for their sin in receiving the Lords Supper so unworthily as they did Yet the punishment that God doth inflict upon his children is but castigatory not satisfactory as the Papists would perswade us who hold that men may and must satisfie the justice of God by their own sufferings which they must either voluntarily or els perforce endure only Christ is the propitiation for our sins 1 Joh. 2. 2 Only the blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth us from all sins 1 Jo. 1. 7. Only Christs suffering is our satisfaction Vse 3. Again by Christs sufferings we may see the evill and odious nature of sin how exceedingly God doth hate and abhor it in that his justice would not be satisfied but by such sorrows and such sufferings of his own son O let not us love that which God doth so hate Ye that love the Lord hate evill Psal 97. 10. Sin is evill in the sight of God let it be so in ours also he hates sin and therefore let us also hate it let us not make light of that which Christ found so heavy let us remember what he said as he went to the Crosse If they do these things in a green tree what shall be done in the dry Luk. 22. 31. If Christ who himself had no sin did so suffer for sin what shal become of those who are ful of nothing but sin wil still go on to fill themselves more more with it O let us look on him whom we have pierced and let us mourn for him that is for our sins by which we have pierced him as one mourneth for his only son be in bitternesse for him as one is in bitternesse for his first born Zach. 12. 10. Vse 3. Finally here we may see the wonderfull love of God and of Christ towards us that rather then we should receive the just recompence and reward of our sins God would give his own Son and Christ would give himself to suffer for us God so loved the world that he gave his onely begotten son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life Joh. 3. 16. In this was manifested the love of God towards us c. Joh. 4. 9. Who loved me and gave himselfe for me Gal. 2. 20. Amat non immeritò qui amatus sine merito Great cause have we to love God and to love Christ who so loved us when there was no cause to love us but to hate and abhor us God commendeth his love towards us in that whiles we were yet sinners Christ died for us Rom. 5. 8. Herein is love not that we loved him but that he loved us and sent his son into the world for us 1 Joh. 4. 10. He adds v. 19. We love him because he loved us first It behoves us to do so but so as to testifie our love by our obedience This is the love of God that we keep his Commandements 1 Joh. 5. 3. If ye love me keep my Commandements Joh. 14. 15. And as such was the love of God and of Christ towards us so we accordingly ought to love one another If God so loved us we ought also to love one another 1 Joh. 4. 11. Walk in love as Christ also loved us and gave himself for us c. Ephes 5. 2. A new Commandement give I unto you that ye love one another as I have loved you that you also love one another By this shall all men know that ye are my Disciples if ye have love one to another Joh. 13. 34 35. THE FOURTEENTH SERMON PHIL. 2. 8. And being found in fashion as a man he humbled himself and became obedient unto death even the death of the Crosse THe Apostle exhorting unto unity and concord v. 1 2. as a means conducing thereunto he exhorts unto humility and lowlinesse of mind v. 3. 4. And to incite unto this he propounds the example of Christ whom Christians ought to imitate v. 5. c. Having shewed how Christ humbled himself in being made man he shewes how he humbled himself when he was made man viz. so as to be obedient unto death even the death of the Crosse Being found in fashion as a man This doth not import that Christ only had the shape and form of a man but was not man indeed as some Heretikes have maintained Every Spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is true man having true humane

Christ and the Father are one Joh. 10. 30. That which the Father doth he doth also Joh. 5. 17. 14. 10 11. Therefore Cum eadem fit divina virtus operatio Patris Filii haec duo se mutuò consequuntur quòd Christus fit suscitatus divinâ virtute Patris sui ipsius Aquin part 3. quest 53. art 4. ad 1. these two are so farre from crossing one the other Christ was raised up by the power of his Father and Christ arose by his own power that they confirme one the other they follow one upon the other Vse 3. Thirdly by Christs Resurrection our faith is confirmed in him as a most perfect Redeemer For seeing that Christ died for our sins he as our Surety was arrested by death as Gods Serjeant and cast into the prison of the grave in that he was not still detained there but released and set free it clearly shewes that the debt is discharged Gods justice satisfied and we through faith in Christ reconciled unto God and at peace with him The two Disciples that knew Christ to be dead but knew not that he was risen again seemed to have but small hope of redemption by him We trusted said they that it had been he that should have redeemed ●srael Luk. 24. 21. They did trust so before but now it seems they did in a manner despair of it And indeed had Christ so died as not to rise againe we could have had but a dead hope as I shewed before But now our hope is a lively hope as S. Peter calls it Blessed be God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope how by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead 1 Pet. 1. 3. So S. Paul having said that Christ was delivered for our offences and rose again for our justification he addes immediately Therefore being justified by faith we have peace with God through Jesus Christ our Lord Rom. 4. 25. 5. 1. And Acts 13. 38 39. having immediately before confirmed Christs Resurrection he thereupon inferres Be it known unto you therefore men and brethren that thorough this man is preached unto you forgivenesse of sins And by him all that believe are justified c. And Rom. 8. 34. he cryeth out Who is he that condemneth it is Christ that died yea rather that is risen again And Heb. 7. 25. Wherefore he is able to save to the uttermost all that come unto God by him seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them Vse 4. Fourthly by the Resurrection of Christ we may be assured of our owne Resurrection The Apostle 1 Cor. 15. to convince some among the Corinthians who denied the Resurrection of the dead first proves at large Christs Resurrection and from thence inferreth the resurrection of Christians Now if Christ be preached saith he that he rose from the dead how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead But if there be no resurrection of the dead then is Christ not risen 1 Cor. 15. 12 13. And v. 16. For if the dead rise not then is not Christ raised And v. 20. c. But now is Christ risen from the dead and become the first fruits of them that slept For since by man came death by man also came the Resurrection from the dead For as in Adam all die so in Christ shall all be made alive But every man in his own order Christ the first fruits afterward they that are Christs at his coming So 2 Cor. 4. 14. Knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus c. And 1 Thes 4. 14. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him The force of this inference viz. of the resurrection of Christians from Christs resurrection consists in that near relation and union that is betwixt Christ and Christians he being their head Quod praecessit in caepite impletum erit in corpore Bern. and they his members As in the naturall body though all the members be under water yet the head being above they are safe and there 's no fear of drowning so is it in the mysticall body Christ our head being risen though we his members lie in the dust yet there is a sure and certain hope of our resurrection For the members must be with the head and conformed to it Father I will that they whom thou hast given me be with me where I am said Christ Joh. 17. 24. We know that when he shall appear we shall be like unto him 1 Joh. 3. 2. Christ shall change our vile bodies and shall make them like unto his own most glorious body Phil. 3. 21. THE TWENTIETH SERMON Vse 5. FIftly and lastly as Christ rose corporally so ought we to rise spiritually viz. from the death of sin to the life of grace There is a death of the soul by sin and a resurrection of the soul by grace Awake thou that sleepest and arise from the dead and Christ shall give thee light Ephes 5. 14. And that we must be conformed unto Christ by a spirituall resurrection the Apostle sheweth Rom. 6. 4. Therefore we are buried with him by baptisme into death that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father even so we also should walk in newnesse of life And v. 11. Likewise reckon ye also your selves dead indeed unto sin but alive unto God thorough Jesus Christ our Lord. We must thus be conformed unto Christ by the resurrection of our souls here or els we shall not be conformed unto Christ by the resurrection of our bodies hereafter For though all shall corporally rise again yet not so as to be conformed unto Christ in glory and happinesse No thus shall none rise corporally but only such as now rise spiritually so as to be conformed unto Christ in grace and holinesse Only they that whiles they are upon earth have their conversation in heaven can expect that the Lord Jesus will change their vile bodies and make them like unto his own most glorious body Phil. 3. 20 21. Now if we would know whether we be partakers of this spirituall resurrection we may try and discern it by these marks 1. Heavenly mindednesse If ye be risen with Christ seek those things that are above where Christ sitteth at the right hand of God Set your affections on things above and not on things on the earth Col. 3. 1. 2. 2. Love of Gods children We know that we are passed from death to life because we love the brethren 1 Joh. 3. 14. This is meant of loving the godly eo nomine in that very respect as they are godly not for by ends or carnall respects which they may do who are not godly 3. A sense and feeling of spirituall wants and infirmities VVhere there is such a

life but they first die yet this hinders not but that in respect of some it may be otherwise by a singular and extraordinary priviledge vouchsafed unto them So it was with Enoch and Eliah and so it shall be with those that are alive at Christs coming to judgement This being premised for the understanding of those words quick and dead from the Text I shall deduce two points whcih clearly arise from it viz. 1. That both quick and dead even all generally whosoever they be must be judged 2. That Christ is he who must be the Judge of all both of quick and dead For the first That all generally shall be judged the Scripture is plain and expresse Heb. 9. 27. It is appointed unto men to die once and after this the Judgement Eccles 12. 14. God will bring every work to judgement Heb. 6. 2. the judgement to come there called eternall judgement to distinguish it from judgements executed here which are but temporall that judgement I say is reckoned amongst the Principles of the Doctrine of Christ as they are there called v. 1. This truth also may be confirmed by divers arguments 1. The judgements which God hath already executed or doth execute upon transgressors prove that there is a judgement to come S. Peter maketh use of this argument from Gods dealing with the Angells that sinned with the old world and with Sodome and Gomorrah he infers that God will at length meet with all the wicked that those fore-going judgements are tokens of this judgement which is to come If God spared not the Angells that sinned but cast them down to hell c. And spared not the old world c. And turning the Cities of Sodome and Gomorrah into ashes condemned them with an overthrow c. The Lord knoweth how to deliver the righteous out of temptation and to reserve the wicked unto the day of Judgement to be punished 2 Pet. 2. 4. 9 2. Man 's own conscience is enough to convince him of this that all shall be judged For conscience will check and reprove for doing ill though otherwise amongst men none know of it or if some do yet either they cannot or will not punish for it When David had but cut off the lap of Sauls garment whereas some would have had him cut off his head his heart smotehim for it 1 Sam. 24. 5. And so when he had sinned in causing the people to be numbred 2 Sam. 24. 10. On the other side conscience will comfort and incourage in doing well though in the world one be traduced and slandered as an evill doer This is our rejoycing said the Apostle even the testimony of our conscience 2 Cor. 1. 12. Neither is this work of conscience only in the regenerate but even in the unregenerate also The Apostle speaking of the Gentiles who had but the light of nature and so a meer naturall conscience yet saith saith of them that they shew the work of the law written in their hearts their conscience also bearing witnesse and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another Rom 2. 15. We find that the Heathens could say that Conscientia mille testes Hic murus aheneus esto Nil consicre sibi Juven conscience is a thousand witnesses no matter who testifie for a man if conscience testifie against him no matter who testifie against him if conscience testifie for him A good conscience say they is a wall of brasse able to protect and defend against all opposition But on the other side What skills it or what matter is it saith Seneca Quid infert neminem scire cum tu scias O te miserum si contemnas hunc testem though none know what thou hast done whenas thou knowest it O the wretchednesse of thy condition if thou doest despise this witnesse thine own conscience True it is conscience doth often lie asleep it is stupified and seared many times but at one time or other it will awake it will accuse convince condemne and torment affliction doth use to awaken conscience if it were asleep before Josephs brethren after they had sold him concealed the matter for a long time and their conscience did little trouble them for ought we find about it But when they found themselves in distresse Joseph whom they knew not though he knew them dealing roughly with them then their conscience did awake and cry out against them for that which they had done so long twenty years and more as appears by the story before They said one to another We are verily guilty concerning our brother in that we saw the anguish of his soul when he besought us and we would not hear therefore is this distresse come upon us And Ruben answered them saying Spake I not unto you saying Do not sin against the child and ye would not heare therefore is this distresse come upon us Gen. 42 21 22. And not only Josephs brethren who though guilty of much sin yet were indued with true grace but even Pharoah himself when Gods hand was heavy upon him cryed peccavi saying I have sinned this time the Lord is righteous but I and my people are wicked Exod. 9. 27. And so Adoni Bezek a cruell Tyrant when the Israelites had taken him and cut off his thumbs and his great toes then his conscience accused him of his cruelty and he confessed that he was dealt with as he had dealt with others Judg. 1. 7. Threescore and ten Kings said he having their thumbs and their great toes cut off gathered meat under my table as I have done so God hath requited me Thus the conscience of man doth sufficiently shew that there shall be judgement wherein all shall receive according to their wayes and their doings 3. Justice requires that it should fare better Ut bonis benè fit malis autem malè with the good then with the bad with the righteous then with the wicked That the righteous should be as the wicked that be far from thee said Abraham unto God Gen. 18. 25. And so this is far from God for the just Lord will do no iniquity Zeph. 3. 5. No as Elihu speaks far be it from God that he should do wickednesse and from the Almighty that he should commit iniquity For the work of a man shall he render unto him and cause every man to find according to his waies Yea surely God will not do wickedly neither will the Almighty pervert judgement Job 34. 10 11 12. God bids Say unto the righteous it shall be well with him c. Woe unto the wicked it shall be ill with him c. Esa 3. 10 11. But this difference betwixt the righteous and the wicked doth not alwayes appear in this world No here no man knoweth love or hatred by all that is before them Eccles 9. 1. That is by Gods outward administrations none knoweth whom he loveth and whom he hateth because as it followeth All things come alike unto all

the money that he had for it to the Apostles or no. But thus far that example is to be followed that they which have must communicate to those that want To do good and to communicate forget not Heb. 13. 16. Charge them that are rich in this world c. That they do good that they be rich in good works ready to distribute willing to communicate 1 Tim. 6. 17 18. As we have opportunity let us do good unto all especially unto them that are of the houshold of faith Gal. 6. 10. Vse 1. The use of this doctrine is first to convince and reprove such as professe themselves Christians and so consequently Saints ●et do little regard the communion of Saints that communion which all true Saints have with God with Christ and with one another In stead of communion with God some have communion with Satan in stead of communion with Christ they have communion with Belial with fin and wickednesse in stead of communion with Saints they have communion with the ungodly in stead of joyning in the worship and service of God they joyn in the practice of iniquity swearing and swaggering drinking and revelling together and this they account and call good-fellowship but it is far from that fellowship which the Text doth speak of which indeed is the only true good-fellowship God is light saith S. Iohn presently after the Text and in him is no darknesse at all If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in darknesse we lie and do not the truth But if we walk in the light as he is in the light we have fellowship one with another c. 1 Joh. 1. 5 6 7. Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers for what fellowship hath righteousnesse with unrighteousnesse and what communion hath light with darknesse And what concord hath Christ with Belial or what part hath he that believeth with an Infidel And what agreement hath the Temple of God with Idols 2 Cor. 5. 14 15 16. Some under a pretence of sanctity violate the communion of Saints they forsake the assemblies of the Saints because of some in those assemblies by whose society they fear to be polluted but this is either great hypocrisie or a grosse errour Let a man examin himself said the Apostle and so let him eat of that bread and drink of that cup 1 Cor. 11. 28. Therefore it is not the unworthinesse of others that can prejudice thee if thou thy self beest not unworthy Come out from among them and be ye separate how and touch not the unclean thing 1 Cor. 5. 17. So separate as to have no communion with others in that which is evill Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darknesse but reprove them rather Ephes 5. 11. Some will exercise communion of Saints in respect of spiritual things but in respect of corporall things they wil have no such communion The Hebrew Doctors note that there are four sorts of persons 1. Such as will say Mine is thine and thine is Pirke Aboth c. s. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 mine They will communicate to others but only so as that others communicate to them again But Luk. 6. 32. 33. If ye love them that love you what thank have ye for sinners also love those that love them And if ye do good to those to those that do good to you what thank have ye for sinners also do even the same 2. Such as will say Mine is mine and thine is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 thine They will keep what they have and let others keep what they have they will neither be beholding to others nor shall others be beholding unto them And this say some was the disposition of the people of Sodome The Prophet Ezekiel speaking of the sins of Sodome mentioneth this for one neither did she strengthen the hands of the poor and needy Ezek. 16. 49. They are not taxed for robbing defrauding and oppressing the poor but for not succouring and relieving them as they should have done 3. Such as will say Thine is mine and mine is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 mine They will take from others but will not impart to others these are grossely wicked 4. Such as will say Mine is thine and thine is thine They will impart to others not expecting that they should impart to them againe This is the disposition of the godly it is that which our Saviour requires Love your enemies and do good and lend hoping for nothing again that is not hoping to receive the like kindnesse by borrowing afterwards of those who now borrow of you and your reward shall be great c. Luk. 6. 35 36. Vse 2. Secondly as we professe Christianity and so sanctity let us practise this communion which is the communion of Saints and so of all true Christians communion with God and with Christ and with one another To this end first let us have a care that we be Christians indeed and so Saints indeed Saints I say in some measure though not full measure God is holy and Christ is holy and all the true children of God and members of Christ are holy and so if we would have communion with them Simile gaudet fimili we must be holy also For every thing seeks communion with that which is like it selfe Birds of a feather flie together Follow holinesse without which no man shall see the Lord Heb. 12. 14. 2. As we must follow after all holinesse so especially Amor. unit amantem cum re amata Love which wo 〈…〉 ●nion and so communion And above all 〈…〉 e things put on charity which is the bond of perfectnesse Col. 3. 14. Beloved let us love one another for love is of God and every one that loveth is born of God and knoweth God He that loveth not knoweth not God for God is love 1 Joh. 4. 7 8. 3. Humility is also a great means to preserve and maintain this communion Onely by pride cometh contention Prov. 13. 10. With all lowlinesse and meeknesse with long-suffering forbearing one another in love indeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace Eph. 4. 2 3. Fulfill ye my joy that ye be like minded having the same love being of one accord of one mind Let nothing be done through strife or vain-glory but in lowlinesse of mind let each esteem other better then themselves Phil. 2. 2 3. The three and thirtieth SERMON Isai 33. 24. The people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity THe Prophet here speaking of the Church under the notion of a City and under the name of Sion and Jerusalem v. 20. sheweth what a great benefit belongs unto it and to the members of it viz. the forgivenesse of sins The people that dwell therein in Zion or Jerusalem in the Church they that are so in it as to be of it shall be forgiven their iniquity It is the happinesse of the members of the Church triumphant