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A13187	Disce vivere Learne to live : a briefe treatise of learning to liue, vvherein is shewed, that the life of Christ is the most perfect patterne of direction to the life of a Christian : in which also, the well disposed may behold their orderlie passage, from the state of grace, to the state of glorie.	Sutton, Christopher, 1565?-1629.	1604 (1604)	STC 23484; ESTC S1737	203,338	618

they would heare his Sermons If I doe not the workes of my Father s●…yeth hee beleeue mee not If I doe them though ye beleeue not me yet beleeue me for my works sake The works which I doe testifie of me By which we may gather whereunto tended the myracles of the sonne of God These things are written that yee might beleeue Let wauering mindes but consider a little his admirable workes in the worlde was it knowne from the beginning yea since the world began it was not heard that euer any man opened the eyes of one that was borne blind Nichodemus saith Rabbi we know that thou art a teacher come from God for no man could doe these myr●…cles that thou doest except God were with him nay that which is more Nichodemus none could doe them except God were in him and hee in God To manifest that hee had power in earth to forgiue sinnes he sayes vnto the sicke of the Palsie no more but this fi●… d●…mittuntur peccat●… tua Sonne calling a poore miserable man sonne and bidding him to be of good comfort To confirme that hee was the bread of life he féedes a great multitude with fiue barly loaues and two fishes to shewe that hee had authority ouer Sea and land hee commaunds the waters and they obey him To make his power known ouer the power of darknes hee chargeth soule spirits who had taken vp their dennes in many distressed creatures to come out and they beséech him not to cast them into the déepe To declare plainely that hee was the resurrection frō the dead he raysed Lazarus who had laye●… foure dayes in his graue The Magitians of Egypt did some wonders before Pharaoh but they came not neere to Moyses doings for they were but slender illusions yet Moyses myracles ca●…e farre behind these of our Sauiour they were so many they were so wonderfull as none but God could effect them 2 And this order did our Sauiour Christ obserue that from the power of his doctrine he procéeded to shew myracles that if his words could not preuaile yet his workes might By which works it was euident how willing hee was to heale our infirmities and how able to helpe all that still call vpon him to this ende therefore in the first place serue his myracles to shewe his power that hee was God and that there is no disease so desperate which hee by his onely word cannot cure and in the second place his goodnesse that there is none so miserable whom hee will exclude who excludes none Iosaphat the King when hee was at a great straite and knew not what to doe at last hee resolued vpon this Aske counsaile of the Lord I pray thée as if he should say I will goe séeke helpe of God when wee knowe not what to doe or which way to turne vs for helpe wee may resolue vpon this wee will goe to Christ hee was mercifull on earth and shewed many myracles in helping all that came vnto him and hee is the same still sitting at the right hand of God in heauen 3 But nowe obserue wee the manner of his working myr●…cles at one time hee speaketh the word onely at another hee toucheth the diseased sometimes hee cures in presence at another time beeing farre absent In some hee is lifting vp his eyes to heauen in others hee prayeth openly all which want not a mysterie and appertaine as well to the instruction of our fayth as the direction of our life and are as part of the Gospell because they shewe vnto vs good and ioyfull thinges When the Prophets wrought myracles they were alwayes praying but we heare Christ commaunding and speaking the worde onelie and it is doone Hee commaundeth the windes and the Seas hee chargeth diseases to cease and deuils to depart Unto the Leaper he saith I will be thou cleane Unto the man that lay by the poole Bethesda Take vp thy bed walke Unto the widowes sonne Young man arise And wee may obserue by the way that vnto whom he gaue remedie he oft times enioyned a duty The Church storie doth mention a certaine Letter written by one Agbarus an Edissean vnto our Sauiour Christ the forme whereof was this Agbarus the Edissean to Iesus the good Sauiour in the Countrey of Iurie c. It is shewed vnto me that thou and thy Disciples doe giue health to mortall men without hearbes or medicines for as the fame goes of thée thou doest bring to passe that the blind see the lame walke the Leapers are cleansed that thou doest cast out foule spirits and euen raysest some dead amongst the people these things when I heard them of thee I began to conceiue this to wit that eyther thou wert God or at the least the Sonne of God come downe from Heauen In this we sée that the myracles of our Sauiour made the world to stand amazed at him and the faythfull to beléeue on him 4 In the second of S. Iohn when Christ had turned water into wine for that was his first myracle who did turne sorrowe into ioy the law into grace the Euangelist sayth hee began to shew forth his glory his Disciples beléeued on him for his myracles they saw them and beleeued on him wee heare them and beléeue on him Blessed are they that beleeue and haue not seene And what else dooth the daylie hearing of his diuine myracles but daylie encrease in vs faith more and more The Iewes reasoned within themselues If this man were a sinner hee could not doe these thinges And Christ himselfe saith for the remoouing of their incredulitie If I had not done the workes which no other had done they should haue had no sinne but now they haue no excuse Some will say holy men of old wrought myracles at the prayer of Iosuah the Sunne stoode still Elias and Elizeus did manie great and wonderfull works It is so indéede saith S. Austen but if you marke the manner these were farre inferiour to Christes myracles These wrought by prayer Christ by his owne power they as holy men he by authority as God they when they raysed one from the dead did no more Christ did manie and of all sortes It was but his worde and his déede vnto the blinde man Receiue thy sight 5 Compare we a little Christes myracles with the testimonies of the Prophets long before his comming hee hath giuen medicine to heale our infirmities saith Esai The eyes of the blind the eares of the deafe are opened the lame shall leape as a Hart the dead men shall liue then shall hee preach the acceptable yeare all which accord with his myracles in the Gospell Our Sauiour vpbraydeth the Cities of Bethsaida and Chorazin wherein he wrought manie myracles which were so perspicuous testimonies of his Dettie that if they had béene done in Tyre and Sydon they would haue repented sitting in sackcloth and ashes Why did the Pharisies

required at his hands vpon his returne by him that did send him hither and preserued him whilest he is here 2 When Naaman the Syrian was healed of his leprosie and saw that by the power of God he was from a ●…aper become a sound man to acknowledge this benefit well the knées of his bodie might bowe in the house of Rimmon a false God yet when he came there he made a solemne vow the knées of his soule should bend to the true God whom he perceaued had done him good When Peters wiues mothér was cured of her Feauer shee rose vp ministred vnto Christ when the people saw the care of Iosuah which hee vndertooke to bring them into the land of Canaan they all saide as it were with one hart O Iosuah all that thou commaundest we wil do and whither so euer thou sendest vs we will goe Wee haue receiued a greater cure then euer Naaman did when he receiued the cleansing from his leprosie or then 〈◊〉 wiues mother when at Christes word the feuer left her some bending of our harts some ministring vnto Christ should be remembred and let our Iosuah haue his due who is leading vs to the land of promise 3 When Zacharie mentioned the loue of God in visiting and redéeming his people in raysing them vp a mighty saluation in deliuering them from the hands of their enemies first shewing what God had done for them he then consequently annexeth the end of all and what they should doe to God to wit To walke before him in holines and righteousnes all the dayes of their life This the Apostle sheweth in more expresse words at large the grace of God hath appeared that bringeth saluation vnto all and teacheth vs that wee should denie vngodlines and worldly lusts that we should liue soberly and godly in this present world looking for the blessed appearance of the glorie of the mighty God and of our Sauiour Iesus Christ. Thereby shewing our first entrance into grace and therewith the works of grace and then in order the appearance of glory For what else doth grace require but the works of grace therefore wee beséech God that wee fall not amongst théeues as the man that passed betwéene Ierusalem and Iericho which would spoile vs of this precious garment and the true vse thereof Lord saith Dauid keepe thy seruant from presumptuous sinnes that they get not the dominion ouer me What should the children of light haue to do with the works of darknes what should Christians walke according to the flesh who are by Christ their redéemer regenerate and borne●… new according to the spirit Alexander saith Quintus Curtius willed that the Grecians the Barbarians should be no longer distinguished by garments but let Grecians said he be knowne by their vertues and Barbarians by their vices The application is plaine let Christians be knowne by Christian behauiour 4 When Almightie God had brought his people from the oppression of Pharaoh and that they were now towards a land which should flow with milk and honie Moyses soberly aduiseth the people after this manner and telles them what God doth looke for at their hands And now Israel what doth the Lord require of thee euen that thou serue him If he be Deus tuus then must hee haue adorationem tuam Is hee thy God then will he haue thy worship Saint Peter vnto the dispersed Iewes and conuerted Christians saith you were not a people but now are the people of God and therfore should walk as the children of God the night is passed saith the Apostle S. Paul where hee resembleth the law vnto the night by reason of the dark mists and figures therof the day is come néere where hee resembles the state of grace vnto a lightsome time what followes Let vs cast away the works of darknes and put on the armour of light All which as it inferreth a dignitie in that we are called so withall a duty that is required a final sinne in the world is notwithstanding great in one professing Christ. Saint Bernard thought it a thing prodigious in nature to haue the first place and the lowest life a high calling and some abiect course of liuing because the calling to place of dignitie doth chalenge vnto it selfe the greater exellencie Quid prodest saith Saint Austen vocari quod non es What profiteth it thée to be called the thing then are not To beare the title of a Christian and to be in action nothing lesse To be a Christian in name but not in déede to séeme and not to be to haue the voyce of Iacob but the hands of Esau one thing in shew but another in substance what dost thou saith Saint Cyprian rush in with a blinde headie zeale thou knowest not whither nor howe extinguishing peace and charitie the true lights of a christian life certainly these vices they are as blemishes in the face of our profession Zeale without knowledge is a blind sacrifice knowledge without zeale is a maymed sacrifice neither blind or maimed should be offered to God 5 Aulus Fuluius perceiuing his sonne gotten vpon the wings of pride and associating himselfe with Cateline that firebrand of the common wealth comes and takes him aside and schooles him after this manner Thou vnthrift haue I brought thee vp for such an end when we find our affections inclining to foule desires let vs say vnto our selues as Aulus Fuluius said vnto his sonne Is this the end why God hath giuen vs our being and well being were we redeemed from sinne to continue in the lusts thereof were we freed from the seruitude of the world to become seruants of so bad a Lord Why were we redéemed to good works should so great a price bestowed for vs be cast away God forbid To come to a consideration of our selues and to call to mind our adoption whereby we crie Abba Father if God be our father then must we remember what he requireth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 be you holy for I am holy the duty of the child is the fathers honor We are resembled vnto the branches and Christ vnto the vine euery branch that beareth not fruite which fruite is good life the husbandman which is God taketh away We are compared vnto fruitfull trées planted by the water or pleasant streames of Gods graces and therfore should bring forth fruite in due season Wee may remember the curse of the bagge trée that bare leaues some shew only of fruit and that sentence denounced against the other that bare no fruites at all The Axe is laid to the root of the tree euery tree that bringeth not forth fruit shall be cut downe and cast into the fire The Axe death the cutting downe the execution of iustice the casting into the fire the sētence of iudgment Now is the Axe there will be a now the Axe not a rod to the roote not to the