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master_n	father_n	king_n	servant_n	3,226	4	6.7708	4	false

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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

of a hopelesse answer she kneeles to him she speakes to him she fawned upon him like a dogge she was instant with him to help her at a dead lift So that if ye did before wonder at her cry so constantly professing Christ and her prayer so plainly expressing what inducement shee had to seeke to Christ now wonder much more at her gesture so humble her words so importunate she doth more lively expresse her faith in Christ when she worships him then when she did describe him and her cry is of greater force when she doth intimate that Christ doth use to helpe but it is when he is importuned with a cry for so signifies the Greeke word which is as much as to runne at a cry So that this second cry is equivalent to the former though it doth adde unto it for she doth really confesse him to be a Saviour whom she doth worship for worship belongs only to a Saviour and in that she did worship him she implyeth notwithstanding CHRISTS answer that he was her Saviour and He was to save her because she called upon him The lesson that belongs to us is that a true feare of God is not only verball but reall and that he proceeds in this feare that addes deeds to his words and yeelds unto CHRIST in deeds what hee confessed to be his due in words Secondly That CHRIST will not helpe except we cry for the proper word that signifies helpe implies that Gods mercy is to be obtained by our performance of our duty You have seene this womans faith her redoubted faith still the same but not in the same degree she began well she goes on better hoping that though Christ put her off with silence and with words the first shewing contempt the second cutting off all hope yet he would be entreated seeing that his denyall left still some advantage unto her to reply unto him and to gather that she might yet well hope to speed well with him But poore woman she hath not yet heard the worst her faith hath not had yet a full proofe it was bad before the next words will make her case worse the higher she riseth in faith the lesse Christ is seene to be moved with pity for what faith he It is not good to take the childrens bread and to cast it unto Whelps Contempt is grievous unto flesh and bloud but yet if there be hope it is better borne but if no hope and yet contempt durus est hic sermo who can endure it If you adde reproach to both you must needs breake the I eart a naturall man cannot but sinke under it Christs last speech then is a most bitter speech It was enough not to reckon her for a sheep not so much a lost sheep but to count her and call her a Whelp this seemes more than enough and a Whelp being in opposition to children the comparison encreaseth the reproach when others were so neere Christ and she so farre off from him The phrase alludes to uncleane beasts such as had no accesse unto the Temple might not bee offered in sacrifice So that Christ now doth expresse plainly and fully not only that he was not sent unto her but that she was not in any sort worthy to be respected by him For as it is in Jerusalem above the mother of us all so it is likewise in Icrusalem below extra canes there is no place for dogs within it So then the woman may be gone when her answer is so plain that whatsoever goodnesse is in Christ it nothing concernes her because there is so little worth in her But she will not yet be gone she presseth yet neerer Christ and is more vile as David speakes in her owne eyes she doth not stomacke the reproach she acknowledgeth her small worth she confesseth that Christs words though they be bitter are true and that she is no better than a Whelp but yet though she be of so meane worth yet is she not without hope for she hath one advantage left that she hath some likelihood to speed for though she be not a Child but a dogge yet may she be fed with crummes if not given unto her yet falling from her masters Table The humility was great in the prodigall child that said Father I have sinned against heaven and against thee I am no more worthy to bee called thy Sonne make me but as one of thy hired servants Greater in King David who was not only contented to be a servant so he might be a servant of God but a servant in a meane place I had rather bee a doore keeper in the house of the Lord then to dwell in as Lord of the tents of the ungodly But this woman goes beyond them both she is contented to be a Whelp so she may be Christs Whelp and to gather crums so it be from the Table of such a Master and the crums of that bread wherewith he feeds his children though it fall from that Table whereat the Children sit It is no wonder though Saint Paul counted all worldly things but dung in comparison of that excellent knowledge which is in Christ when this woman make●h so great account of the crums that fall from that Table What blame then doe we deserve that being accepted for children and admitted to Christs owne Table set so little by the childrens bread when every crumme thereof is of so great worth They that loathed Manna were sharply punished how much more doe wee deserve it that make so little account of Gods mercy in Iesus Christ This womans faith will one day rise in judgment and condemne us that in esteeming the gifts of God did go so farre beyond us even so farre that Christ may wonder at our unbeliefe as he did at the Iewes no lesse then he did wonder at this womans faith which was but a Gentile wondred at it and was conquered by it Joseph made himselfe strange to his brethren that so he might breed in them a sense of their sinne and so in the end make himselfe knowne with greater comfort stood out long but in the end could forbeare no longer but shed teares and discovered himselfe that hee was not what hee seemed an enemy but indeed as it proved a kind brother to them Even so our Saviour made semblance as if he had no compassion for this woman when ●s indeed hee meant both to make her renowned for her ●aith and to yeeld her a good proofe that such a faith is ●ot in vaine Therefore I call this delay a profitable de●ay it was delay in that he would be so often importu●ed that was otherwise so tender hearted a Saviour but ●t was profitable both for her whose faith was hereby commended and her daughter relieved and for Christ ●hat the world might see what that is which is due unto him and when it is fit to relieve us We must come unto him in a true sense of our unworthinesse reputing our selves no better