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A68217	The history of the woman of great faith Recorded by Saint Matthew, ch. 15. v. 22. &c. and by Saint Mark, ch. 7. 24. where three very strong encounters are beaten back by her vnmatchable faith. Treatised and expounded for some help to the weake in faith. By Robert Horn, a Minister of Iesus Christ.	Horne, Robert, 1565-1640.	1632 (1632)	STC 13822; ESTC S116726	104,742	350

God among them Gen 23. 6 and when the brethren of Ioseph enuied him for his dreame his father regarded him for it Gen. 37 11. the women in their fo●g and dance gaue Dauid his due but the thing displeased Saul 1 Sam. 18.7 The like did Abimelch who speaking of Dauid to Saul said hee had not such another seruant 1 Sam. 22.14 Christ the Lord for example to vs doth elswhere call those that improued his spirituall talent as they were indeed his good seruants and faithfull Matth. 25.21.23 so Barnabas is called by S. Luke in his right name a good man Act. 11.24 and so we must not nip with the frost of 〈◊〉 but cherish the spring of good things where God hath put them and giue them a true report Reasons the reasons for else wee wrong the owner that is God from whom is euery good giuing and perfect gift Iam. 1.17 Secondly the contrary is forbidden as false witnesse against our neighbour for what other doe wee when wee take away a righteous mans righteousnesse from him and speake euill of his good Esa 5.20.23 but speake falsely of him Thirdly the deuill who is the accuser of the brethren and a slanderer doth belie the goodnesse of the Saints Iob 1.11 and shall Christians that should follow Christ bee like the deuill Fourthly we should incourage the good in their good way but to speake otherwaies than well of well-doing is not to set them forward but backward in goodnesse The first vse is for reproofe of those who are so blinded with anger against the good Vse 1. that they can see no good where much is and heere the old saying proues true that ill will neuer speake well If any little fault bee in such they blow with their strongest wind to send it as farre as their breath will carry so far from commending things commendable in them that they grime them rather with their blacke tongues calling all their holinesse hypocrisie Papists were wont to be alone in such wrong done to true Christians but company comes vnto them euen out of our owne profession and this leprosie of a foule tongue is gone from Naaman to Gehazi from them to some Protestants as great mockers of sinceritie in profession as Papists are 2. King 5.27 The next vse is for instruction Vse 2. teaching vs to loue good men for the good things in them for so we will loue such much better in whom they be We loue gold though in the filthy oare and will take vp a iewell though trodden in the mire so if we loued goodnesse for it selfe that is truly loued it we would not neglect it though in the foile of a bad man or trodden in the mire of a heart very sinfull much lesse would we dis-regard it placed in a worthy subiect Parents loue their children with a strong loue the reason is they haue that in them which they loue nature So Christians should follow true Christians with like force of true loue the reason is they haue that in them which they should loue grace This loue of parents to their children makes that they care not how much good they speake or heare spoken of them so if like loue or any were in vs towards these earthly Saints we would speake our selues and be glad to heare others speake much good of them for the grace of God in them Thirdly Vse 3 this is for admonition to Christians to beware of enuy in regard of graces which are in others more then in themselues For such will bitterly from that wormwood of enuie instead of praising oppose against them So did Iosephs brethren and therefore rose vp against their better brother Gen. 37.4.18 19. And Cain set his crueltie on worke against Abel a farre better man then himselfe and his owne naturall brother where nothing could ease the great paine of his enuie but a medicine made of his brothers bloud Gen. 4 8. So the Pharisees and Priests among the Iewes watched Christ in the graue that he should not rise Matth. 27.66 and so the enuious among vs louers of themselues 2. Tim. 3.2 put vertue in the graue with Christ and watch it that it rise not But further as Christians must not wrong others in their good parts by enuious detractions so neither hauing such good parts in them must they wrong themselues by false testimonie I say false testimonie for there is false witnesse against a mans selfe as well as against his neighbour Many well indewed of God in some fits of the spirituall feauer fare as if they had nothing no faith no hope no grace And some in the affliction say though before they had done exceeding well that they were neuer good before God nor sound in profession but hypocrites So the deuill would haue it But should Christians ioyne issue with Sathan against themselues Is not the deuill strong enough without our helpe and except we wrong our selues to gratifie him rather we should fight vnder God against him then with him against our owne soule For so did righteous Iob in the thickest mist of his troubles His friends had vrged him hard and would baue perswaded him that though he had done many good things yet it was in no soundnesse to God But Iob though hee had otherwayes lost all his children seruants substance and all yet he would not be so great a loser to them and the deuill as to part with his integritie in what hee had done Iob 27.5 for where he had failed he knew hee had made vp the reckoning by repentance and sorrow for sinne and therefore doubted not but that so much was left as would comfort him and reproue them Our Sauiour purposing to commend this womans vnwearied petitioning to him in regard of her daughter and her selfe commends that which was the roote of that fruit her great faith Which faith is a grace of persuasion whereby we beleeue for our selues and particularly to eternall life And to this faith of hers the health of her daughter is ascribed as the branch to the root that beares it Where wee see Doct. 2 that by faith we haue acceptance with God the good workes we doe being as fruites of that tree Hence Dauid speaking of a iustified sinner saith that the booke is cleared by forgiuing the debt and not by any satisfaction made Psal 32.1.2 This faith beleeues and workes haue nothing to do in her office Therefore saith the Apostle Saint Paul To him that worketh not but beleeueth in him that iustifieth the vngodly his faith is counted for righteousnesse Rom. 4.5 that is all the satisfaction that a iustified sinner can make is to beleeue that it is made without him or any thing that he can do And so faith obtaineth by imputation what it gets in the account it gets it by Christ that hath paied the whole debt of sinne and turneth ouer his obedience to those that cannot obey but imperfectly and vnprofitably Luk. 17.10 and so haue no

if at any time their sinnes the true causes of all plagues that come From all this we may conclude that what soeuer the dearth of other things is the dearth of faith is graeat The second vse is for examination where wee shall finde the true Christian Vse 2. if wee seeke him in his constant adhering to Christ notwithstanding the many troubles that may arise for his sake This is the seed sowen in good ground which abides with patience notwithstanding the iniurie of the winter Luke 8.15 so doth not that that is sowen vpon stones for in the day of tentation it goes away V. 13. The other growes into a blade and comes vnto fruit this for want of rooting withers away Matth. 13.6 if it scape the winter the Summers-Sunne strikes it dead such are the faithfull and vnbeleeuers They that receiue Christ in an honest heart will keepe him come what troubles can but they that otherwaies receiue him and in no deepe earth that is good ground when persecution comes on when preferment is toward they are gone so Demas could tarry no longer with S. Paul than the world would giue leaue which he embraced as in both armes 2 Tim. 4.10 They that hold Christ in true affection will follow him whither so euer hee goes Matth 8.19 neither the winter of Satan nor the Summers of the flattering world shall stirre them any thing shall those who will keepe their Summer but not their winter with him It is easie for men to bee doing while nothing is against them but if that winde blowe cold they that professe but in the warme Gospell will when the winter is upon it presently giue ouer But this woman fet ouer by troubles Doct. 2 comes to Christ the winde blowes her to him and this teacheth that afflictions are profitable teachers Manasseh the strangest Conuert and greatest sinner that we reade of learned that in the schoole of the crosse being bound in chaines and fetters vnder Ashur which the magnificence of a kingdome could not teach him for being in tribulation saith the text he humbled himselfe greatly before the God of his fathers prayed heartily vnto him and after his returne to Ierusalem made a worthy reformation 2 Chr. 33.12 13 14 15 16. When Ionah lay in the center of the sea shut vp in a whales belly hee receiued that true knowledge of himselfe which before hee was so cooped vp he sought not after Ion. 2.8 3.2.3 The people that cared not for God in their good da●es in their bad of troubles made many errands to him it is said when his chastening was vpon them that they powred out a prayer or were plentifull in praying to him Esa 26.16 so in trouble better than out Hereupon the prophet confesseth that it was good for him that he was afflicted giuing this for reason because that through affliction and trouble hee was made a good scholler proceeding to a good degree in Gods testimonies Psal 119.71 and indeed trouble is one of those seruants whom the feast-maker in the Gospel sent to compell his Ghests to come to his great Supper Luke 14.23 It was that that made the prodigall to looke home after he had beene long from his father in a farre country of sinne Luke 15.17 and it was that that made Saul in his iourny against Christ after hee was stricken downe by a light from heauen to humble himselfe vnto him whomhe persecuted and with a trembling all ouer to say Lord what wilt thou that I doe Act. 9.3 4 5 6. And thus afflictions are good schoolemasters Reasons the reasons We are all naturally full of the dregges and lees of sinne which by afflictions as by powring out must be taken from vs Zeph. 1.12 these are the fire to burne out the drosse of the naturall man And these bring vs as miserie did the prodigall to a sight of our selues Luke 15.17 Iob. 33.16.18 Gen. 42.21 also these make vs pray in words of fire Hos 17.14 Psal 107.4 5.10.18.26 where otherwaies wee would either not pray as Atheists or as hypocrits coldly and but for fashion only Psal 14.4 for in prosperitie we goe from God but when hee hides his face wee seeke him diligently Hos 5.15 afflictions fur ther containe vs in obedience to God and keepe vs in as with a hedge that wee breake not out as vnruly cattell that wander from their pasture Hos 2.6 they draw vs from the loue of the world which would robbe vs of the loue of God 2 Sam. 19.34 35. 1. Iohn 2.15 or as a storme at sea they make vs to wish to bee in our hauen Psal 107.26 27 30. and iudge is with the rod here that hence wee bee not iudged to hell 1. Cor. 11.32 thus from the effects of good offices done vs by our troubles it is euident that they are good profitable Monitors Secondly if we consider the essiciencie of them they are good for they are of God and come by his will therefore the Apostle saith All that will liue godly in Christ shall suffer persecution 2 Tim. 3.12 hee saith all excluding none and making a necessitie of it hee saith shall and would say neither if afflictions were not of God for what euill in the Citie the Prophet meanes the euills of aduersitie and the Lord hath not done it Am. 3.6 Thirdly the end of afflictions and the end makes all proues them to be good for they are the puttings of vs from our sloathfulnesse to God and where wee would cast our selues as the possessed in the Gospell into the sire and sometimes into the water to destroy our selues Marke 9.22 Gods corrections in their ends for such are they stop vs and his louing crosses saue vs. Also the end why God sends them is by them to fit vs for the holie City into which nothing entreth that is vncleane Apoc. 21.27 and as the parching heate ripens the corne so they prepare vs for Gods saluation that wee may goe into the barne as a shocke of corn fully ripe Iob 5.26 And are not all these good the effects the efficiencie and the end of our troubles Are afflictions so good Techers Vse 1. it should teach vs to learn somwhat of such Masters if God make vs whole after some tiring sicknesse by such a correction remoued wee should resol●e to sin no more to weet as wee did that a worse thing come not after Ioh. 5.14 For if God take away the crosse of sickenesse shal we crosse our saluation by doubling our sinnes which in the single can cast into hell if he restore to a land the yeares of corn after some yeares of dearth in it that land must by such a hard time altered to fruitfulnes learne more to feare God and lesse to sinne then it did It must not therefore play the wanton with the abundance so giuen for so wee may perish with the quailes in our mouthes Psal 78.31 If God pay our debts wee must not runne in