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Tria sunt omnia, or, A necessary narration and distinct discussion of faith, hope and love legible in The idea of the book / by R. Mayhew ...
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Mayhew, R. (Richard)
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early in the morning he riseth up taketh his Son goeth to the place and goeth about his work A great and a strong Faith will bear great Delayes Though God doth not answer in Kind and give a present answer to prayer yet a great Faith saith I shall have it in due time A weak Faith is soon out of Breath but a strong Faith makes not haste Isa 28.16 He that believeth maketh not haste He shall not be as a man at his wits end running backward and forward but expect a timely and a thorough Issue A great Faith will stay Gods leisure Oh saith Faith if I may not have the mercy now I will stay longer Then said I I am cast out of thy sight Jon. 2.4 yet will I look again toward thy holy Temple A great and a strong Faith will take no Denyal This ye may run and read in the trial of the Woman of Canaan which by the Evangelist is introduced with a demonstrative Adverb behold Behold Mat. 15.22 a woman of Canaan Is it wonderful that there should be a Woman in Canaan when that was a Land and had many Women in it No it is not wonderful that there was a Woman in Canaan but this looked like the Woman in Canaan this looked like a Woman of Women But what of this Woman She comes and cries unto Christ Have mercy upon me Ver. 23. O Lord thou Son of David She comes to him as God and Man acknowledging his Divine and humane nature My Daughter not a servant is vexed not troubled grievously not a little with the Devil not with a common enemy But what entertainment doth She find She finds repulse upon repulse Though She comes and comes right to Christ yet Christ answers her not a word Christ is a mute will not the Saviour speak to the Sinner As the Father knows not how to bear the Child 's not asking so the Child knows not how to bear the Fathers not answering The Sinner speaks but the Saviour is silent he answered her not a word Here Christ seems to neglect her His Disciples say unto him send her away for she crieth after us Christ answered I am not sent but to the lost Sheep of the house of Israel Christ Ver. 24. was sent to be a Saviour of the Gentiles as well as of the Jews I will give thee for a light to the Gentiles Isa 49.6 that thou mayst be my salvation to the end of the Earth He was first sent to Israel Jerome saith one Junius He was while in the form of a servant sent onely to Israel saith another Here Christ seems to deny her Ver. 25. She comes now and worshipeth him saying Lord help me The words are few but forcible He answers Ver. 26. It is not meet to take the Childrens bread and to cast it to Dogs Here Christ seems to disgrace her but all is for the exercise of her Faith and patience A man would have thought that one repulse from Christ whose Looks are Loves had been enough but this poor Woman is repulsed three times as if she had resolved here I will live here I will lie and here I will die but I will have an answer of peace She was a Gentile and Christ speaks after the manner of the Jews who call the Gentiles Dogs Is it meet to take the Childrens bread and cast it to Dogs The Woman seems to answer by an ingenious inversion retorting the words of a blessed Jesus upon himself Truth Lord yet the Dogs eat of the crums which fall from their masters tables As if She had said 't is true I am a Dog but Dogs are indulged Crums If I may not have a Feast let me have a Fragment If I may not have a Cordial let me have a Crum for Crums belong to Dogs If I be a Dog I am thy Dog and let me be indulged the Fare of a Dog The Woman will take no denyal and this is called by him that best understood it a great Faith Now Christ cries out as one conquered as if she had made a conquest upon him by her Faith Jesus answered and said unto her Ver. 28. Oh Woman great is thy Faith be it unto thee even as thou wilt and her Daughter was made whole from that very hour I have though not a Cedar in Lebanon but a Shrub in the Valley and the most unworthy been weakly discussing the Signs of a great and a strong Faith Vlpian Did one complain that there were few Philosophers I may complain there are few true Believers at least that have a great and a strong Faith Is it not unbecomming to have a great God and a little Faith It dishonours God as much and more when we believe little as when we do little Though Man is not worthy to be beloved yet God is worthy to be believed Suffer me therefore to encourage a great Faith by a reflection of six particulars which call for a great Faith Great Services call for a great Faith There is great doing work for believers and this great doing calleth for great believing Believers they are to do what Christ commandeth where Christ commandeth when Christ commandeth as Christ commandeth and this calleth for a great Faith When Christ in a way of mercy hath laid Seige to the Souls of persons their cries have been what shall we do Men and Brethren what shall we do Sirs what shall I do to be saved Lord what wilt thou have me to do Believers may have great work yet to do before they go off the Stage and be gathered unto their Fathers which calleth for a great Faith Believers may have great work yet to do before they go to the grave of silence to the house appointed for all living and this calleth for a great Faith There is a Testimony to be born to the Headship of Christ which is the generation-truth as the Head of the Body the Church and this calleth for a great Faith Who knows but the question may be is there any King but Caesar Is there any Head of the Church but the Prince or the Pope Rev. 11.2 Christ will have his witnesses though they be but Two A few comparatively Chap. 12.17 the remnant of the womans seed which keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ Great Sufferings call for a great Faith As great Action so great Passion calls for a great Faith There may be dying as well as doing work for Believers and great Passion calleth for great Faith The Cross is the way to the Crown Passion is the way to Paradise the Wilderness is the way to Canaan This way the Head went Luke 24.26 Ought not Christ to have suffered these things and to enter into his Glory This way the Body must go Act. 14.22 Thorough much tribulation we must enter into the kingdom of God The Cross is the Churches Armes yea she glories in
of thy Hope Do not rack thy thoughts and Anticipate Providence for Mat. 6.34 sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof Do not live like a person in the Tombs dig not thine own grave and bury as it were thy self alive for God is the Object of thy Hope and will be so in a day of evil Jer. 17.17 Be not a terror unto me thou art my hope in the day of evil Ah but mine eyes fail in waiting for God! in waiting for Good Object 2 Enjoyment Sol. will compensate all thy Hope and fruition will be a Compensation unto all thy expectation Hope deferred Prov. 13.12 maketh the heart sick but when the desire commeth it is a tree of life Ah but I may say as the Church did Objec 3 Lam. 3.18 My strength and my hope is perished from the Lord. I am clean out of Hope Dost say as the Church did Sol. then do as the Church did But what did the Church 1. She seeketh the God of Gods Remembring remember that 's a better reading Remember my affliction v. 19. and my misery the wormwood and the gall As if she would give unto that God a memento that needeth no memento's 'T is true God needeth no memento's and memorandums but yet to do these things he will be enquired of by the house of Israel She senseth her Heart as with her own misery so with Gods mercy With her own misery My Soul hath them still in remembrance v. 20. and is humbled in me or bowed in me This I recall to mind reduce v. 21. or make to return to my heart Margent therefore have I Hope With Gods mercy It is of the Lords mercies that we are not consumed because his compassions fail not v. 22 23. They are new every morning great is thy faithfulness As if she had said 't is a wonder of mercy that things are no worse seeing we are no better but are so bad She sealeth this with her own experience v. 25 26. The Lord is good unto them that wait for him to the Soul that seeketh him It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the Salvation of the Lord. The experience of the Church is here produced We are not to make experience the Rule of Scripture but to make Scripture the Rule of experience 'T is said of Luther Experientia docet optimaque Magistra est that he felt what he spake and had experience of what he wrote therefore greatly qualified to express to the life both the Sore and the Salve the malady and the medicine the Assault and the Assistance the Order of the Battel and the means of the Conquest Ah but I question whether my hope be a true hope Object 4 Ah my fear is that my hope hath the Stamp of a Caesar but not the Stamp of a Christ upon it A true Hope Sol. may be known from a false Hope A false Hope hath a false Object Some make pleasure their Hope some make profit their Hope and some make the World their Hope Job declaimeth against this Job 31.24 If I have made gold my hope or have said unto the fine gold thou art my confidence Thus false Hope hath a false Object but true Hope hath a true Object Paul 1 Tim. 1.1 an Apostle of Jesus Christ by the commandment of God our Saviour and Lord Jesus Christ which is our Hope A false Hope goeth alone A counterfeit Hope is without a Train this hath no Graces going along with it but true Hope hath a Train of Graces We glory in tribulation also Rom. 5.3 4. knowing that tribulation worketh patience and patience experience and experiencee Hope The Apostle in the context having asserted Rom. 5.2 we glory in Hope of the glory of God the Glory of God was the Object of their Hope and they gloried therein for so the greek is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 we glory in hope of the glory of God subjoineth this And not only so but we glory in tribulations also knowing that tribulation worketh patience and patience experience and experience Hope Graces have as it were a generation one from another though all Graces have but one generation from Christ at once We have here the Genealogy of Hope in three Descents Experience is the next or immediate Parent of Hope and experience hope A false Hope is short-lifed The hypocrites Hope shall perish Job 8.13 As all the Hope of hypocrites perish when they dye so while they live their hopes are dying They have no hope when they dye yet all their hope is to dye and that is a miserable hope The Hopes of hypocrites they are as the Life 's of many Popes have been very short Job 20.5 The triumphing of the wicked is short and the joy of the hypocrite is but for moment Did the Psalmist say remember how short my time is I may say to the hypocrite remember how short thy Hope is And as the Apostle saith Brethren the time is short so the hypocrite may say my Hope is short Thus a false Hope is a transient Hope but a true Hope is a permanent Hope a false Hope is a fleeting Hope 1 Cor. 13.13 but a true Hope is an abiding Hope Now abideth faith hope and love Motives concerning a Gospel-Hope Would ye have God to take pleasure in you Live then and dye in the Act Mot. 1. and exercise of Hope There are vessels in whom God taketh no pleasure but what infinite Condescention is it that he which doth all things according to his pleasure and who only hath right to say my will is my Law my will Sic volo sic jubeo stat pro ratione voluntas is my rule should take pleasure in Dust and Ashes in undeserving yea in ill deserving creatures We may resolve the reason of Gods actions into Gods will He is the Lord. The first Cause needeth not to shew second Causes God hath the reason of all things in himself and therefore we are not to call upon him to give a reason God is the only Line and Rule to Himself and to all besides himself We must do the will of God because it is the Will of God his will must not be only the Rule of what we do but also the very reason why we do it Was there ever any Cain or Esau Any Achitophel or Jezebel any Judas or Julian but did the will of God though they went to Hell for their pains Luth. Fiat voluntas mea mea Domine quia tua Psal 147. â—â— Luther praying for an useful Friend cried out my will be done oh Lord but he comes off with this mine oh Lord because Thine Jehovah taketh pleasure in those that fear him in those that hope in his mercy God hath the People of his Pleasure a peculiar people a peculiar treasure a People very near unto himself Would ye not be