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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06068	Two godly and fruitfull treatises the one, vpon the Lords prayer. The other, vpon the sixe principles. Both penned by that learned man, Paul Baine, sometimes preacher of Gods word at S. Andrewes in Cambridge.	Baynes, Paul, d. 1617.	1619 (1619)	STC 1649; ESTC S115503	46,776	286

fal the true righteousnesse as Aesops dog making to the shadow of meate he saw in the water let fall that which he had in his mouth Christ and these will not stand together so much as we lay hold on these so much we let go out hold on Christ Lastly note what benefit we haue being in Christ we haue righteousnesse and life eternall We by Adam first stand guiltie of sinne secondly of euerlasting death Now Christ hauing bene made a sacrifice for sinne that is for the taking away of sin and pacifying of God his Father doth not onely obtaine forgiuenesse of sinne for vs that are his but the grace of adoption and free donation of life euerlasting Hence it is that as by generation and coming of Adam we partake in sinne and death so by regeneration being set into Christ we are made partakers of righteousnesse and life from him And look as a griffe partaketh in the sap which the stocke containeth or as a member coupled vnto the head communicateth in the sense and motion which is thence deriued so we by faith set into Christ haue his righteousnesse cōueyed vnto vs God imputing it to vs as ours and life likewise conueyed from him the fountaine of it Ob. But then we are saued and made righteous with anothers righteousnesse as if any can be made wise with anothers wisedome Answ Christs is not anothers but after a sort ours when we by faith are made one with him Secondly how was Adams sinne made our sinne Thirdly if the Pope be pleased he may in his indulgences impute the sufferings righteousnesse of other men to such as neuer knew thē shall it then be vnlawfull for God to impute to vs the righteousnesse of his Sonne And it is to be noted that he saith we are iustified that is haue in Christ forgiuenesse of sinne and are sanctified that is haue the life of glorie begun in vs. For grace is the beginning of eternall life according to those sayings To such as are in Christ there is no condemnation Who so beleeueth hath euerlasting life whom he hath iustified those also he hath glorified by faith their hearts were purified For looke as not onely Adams fact in eating the forbidden fruite was imputed to vs but his corruption which was in his nature being the death of the soule was also propagated to his posterity so not only Christs obedience to the cursed death is reckoned as if we had borne it but the glorious life which resteth in him as a roote of it is conueyed to vs. We see then what wonderfull benefits we haue being in Christ If we had faulted against some great man we would count it no small benefit to haue it released freely forgiuen vs. Againe to be recouered vnto bodily life out of some great dangerous sicknesse is no smal mercie what blessednesse then is this to be set free from all our offences against God and of dead men in soule to be made aliue to God Secondly if any thirst after these things whither must they go euen to this fountaine Thirdly marke that the pardon of sin neuer goeth to a man but that clensing of his nature and sanctifying of him goeth with it also A counterpoyson coming to the heart poyson is expelled So Christ and Belial will not dwell together in one person The fift Principle Q. VVHat are the ordinarie or vsuall meanes for obtaining of faith Answ Faith cometh onely by the preaching of the word and increaseth daily by it as also by the administration of the Sacraments and prayer This answer layeth downe two things first the meane or instrument both of begetting and increasing faith viz. the word preached Secondly the meanes which serue only to the further increasing not to the first begetting of it viz. the Sacraments and prayer For the first we may note hence that true faith is bred in vs by the hearing of the word and nourished by the same Rom. 10. How can we beleeue without hearing so the Gospell is the powerfull instrument of God to saluation from faith to faith I commend you to the word which is able to build you vp For faith is the credit and assent which we giue to matters now how can we giue credit to any thing we neuer heard of Againe as we cānot heare what is done in France till some messenger do bring vs word of it so wee cannot heare what Gods pleasure in heauen is toward vs till he dispatcheth his messengers vnto vs. The same word doth after increase faith in vs for if we beleeue an honest mā so much the more because he often goeth ouer which affirmeth this or that to vs how much more must we be strengthened to heare God reiterating his testification of this or that which he formerly had spoken Euen as in the naturall birth the same bloud of the mother whereof as a seede it is framed the same I say is after her deliuery by benefit of the kernels in the breast turned into milke wherewith the babe is nourished so this word is both the seed which breedeth the sincere milke of the Gospell which feedeth faith in vs. Yet we must not thinke that this word we preach is the principall worker of faith for it is but an external instrument which God vseth which as it cānot worke faith without God so God will not worke faith without it It hath pleased God by the foolishnesse of preaching to saue his otherwise Eph. 1. The same power which raised vp Iesus from the dead is it which bringeth vs to beleeue If one were borne without an hand none could set a naturall hand on such a body but the power which createth and maketh a body so much lesse can any power but the Lords create this grace in the soule which is as an hand that reacheth into heauen The vse of this is first to examine our faith in this point by what meanes we found it wrought in our hearts by what meane it is preserued increased in vs. If it be a true faith the word preached did beget it it feeleth it selfe to grow in strength by meane of the same word When as many that say they beleeue they neuer found any vse of the word to begin their faith for they cannot remember they say that euer since yeares of reason they were without a good beleefe to God-ward neither do they feele any need of the word to grow by the lesse they haue of it it is the better with thē such mens faith is a diuellish delusion Contrariwise if we haue come to our faith by hearing find that the word is effectuall in vs to the augmenting of it in vs in all this it is with vs as it is with true beleeuers Secondly we see how needfull the word preached is for vs no word no faith no faith no saluation This maketh the diuell so malicious to perswade the contempt of it or at least to beare vs in hand that it

Christs in iustifying and satisfiing for vs. The fourth Principle Q. BVt how mayest thou be made partaker of Christ and his benefits A. A man of a contrite and humble spirit by faith alone apprehending and applying Christ with all his merits vnto himselfe is iustified before God and sanctified This Principle layeth downe foure things first what is the qualitie of the person to be saued in those words a man of an humble and broken spirit Secondly the grace by which as a meane he is saued or the grace apprehending that whereby we are saued viz. faith alone Thirdly the thing apprehended Christ his benefits Fourthly the fruits following vpon Christ and his benefits apprehended our iustification and sanctification For the first obserue that none whose spirit is not broken with conscience of sinne hath benefit by Christ I came not to cal the righteous but the sinner not such as thinke themselus iust enough but such as through my working in them see their sinnes to call those to repentance Come to me ye that are weary and heauy laden God commanded that the Paschall Lambe should not be eaten but with bitter herbes to teach vs that without the salad of godly sorrow and contrition for sinne Christ sauoureth not For looke as man must be hungry yer he will care for bread and must feele himselfe sicke before he will care for the Physitian so it is with vs if our soules feele not themselues empty of all goodnesse and sicke of sinne they will not care for Christ the bread of life the Physitian of distressed soules We must labour therefore to be cast downe in the sense of our misery Were we guilty of faults for which the law of man would seuerely punish vs how would it go neare vs for our breach of Gods lawes we take no care if we haue lost little things on the earth we grieue but to be cast out of heauen our eternall inheritance this stingeth vs not Such is the working of sin it is a death of the soule which taketh away sense of sicknesse as in the body the nigher death the lesser we feele the more deadly the sicknesse the lesse it is perceiued Againe it doth like drunkennesse take away the spirituall vnderstanding of our miseries A drunken man feeleth no knocks so we the diuell hauing made vs drunken feele not how we are wounded Secondly obserue what we must do to be saued Beleeue on Christ Such as would be cured of their stings which by serpents they had receiued must looke vp to the serpent of brasse which God did set vp So we that will be cured of the poison which the old serpent hath conueyed into vs must looke to Christ with our eye of faith What shall we do that we may be saued Beleeue saith S. Paul For as it is not enough that there is a Physitian which hath a medicine readie for this or that griefe but the patient must go to him and take it and as it is not enough for vs being hungry to see and know that there is bread but we must eate it if we will haue fruit by the one or other so in Christ we must come to him by faith feede vpon him in our hearts by vnfained beleefe before he will profit vs any thing Wherefore let vs not content our selues with the Papists faith which confesseth that there is a Christ the Sonne of God but doth not lay hold on him as their Sauiour This is an historicall faith which letteth Christ hang in the aire doth not bring him to dwell in the heart We must say with Thomas My Lord and my God With Paul Galat. 2.20 Who hath loued me giuen himselfe for me For plaisters must be spread on the sore and medicines taken before the patient can be amended Thirdly obserue that faith onely is it which as an instrument applying Christ doth saue vs. Not that faith goeth alone without other vertues and care of good life but because no other grace doth lay hold of Christ as in whom we come to haue forgiuenesse of sin life euerlasting Loue indeed claspeth Christ yet not seeking righteousnesse and life by him but cleauing to him for that which we discerne him to be vnto vs through faith euen as the eye in the head is not alone without other senses yet it onely seeth and no other sense with it Which doth let vs see what a precious thing this faith is as Peter calleth it and why the diuell doth so much labour against it because this is it alone which tyeth vs vnto Christ our Sauiour which holdeth him as all in all to vs. Suppose one did hang ouer the sea clasping a rocke with his hands he that wished his destruction need no more thē to loose the hold he had with his hands so it is with vs. Fourthly marke what it is that faith layeth hold on to saluation onely Christ dying for vs fulfilling all things in our behalfe This is the onely obiect or matter about which faith is occupied as it is the instrument of iustifying and sauing of vs and in regard of this that it apprehendeth it is said onely to saue vs. Faith iustifying doth beleeue the story of the Bible the threatnings of God yea may vpon some particular word by instinct or otherwise coming to vs worke a miracle but it doth not iustifie and saue vs but onely as it looketh to Christ who is the righteousnesse and the saluation of our God not as beleeuing other things As a reasonable soule in man doth bring forth sense and motion doth concoct expell doth exercise animall sensitiue and naturall functions in the body yet it is not reasonable as it doth these things but as it conceiueth of things simple or otherwise discourseth and in this respect onely it is said to saue vs because that it layeth hold on Christ our Sauiour so that the meaning of this faith saueth vs is Christ apprehended by faith doth saue vs. Whence Rom. 3.9 and Act. 3.9 these phrases are made aequiualent to be iustified by Christ and by faith to be healed by the Name of Christ and faith in his Name As if one should say this pot of money maketh me a rich man we would not thinke the pot made him rich but the treasure in it So when faith is said to saue it is not to be meant that the act of beleeuing absolutly cōsidered doth saue vs but respectiuely in regard of Christ our Sauiour whom faith holdeth Wherefore let vs onely hold Christ as beside whom we lacke nothing fully to saue vs. This maketh the diuell as he laboureth against faith so he seeketh to corrupt men in resting onely vppon Christ Hence he teacheth them to trust on their good prayers seruing of God meaning workes and in the popish Church many other things the Church treasury the intercession of Saints humane satisfactions indulgences workes that thus he might bring them while they catch at a shadow of righteousnes to let