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A16531	The vnbeliefe of St. Thomas the Apostle laid open for the comfort of all that desire to belieue. Whereunto is added a comfortable treatise for all that are afflicted in soule or body. The first armeth vs against despaire in the houre of death; the second against impatience vnder the crosse. By Nicholas Bound, Doctor in Diuinitie.	Bownd, Nicholas, d. 1613.; Bownd, Nicholas, d. 1613. Treatise ful of consolation. aut	1628 (1628)	STC 3442; ESTC S113890	68,060	212

The vnbeliefe of St. Thomas the Apostle laid open for the comfort of all that desire to beleeue Whereunto is added a comfortable Treatise for all that are afflicted in soule or body The first armeth vs against despaire in the houre of death the second against impatience vnder the Crosse By Nicholas bound Doctor in Diuinitie London Printed for Robert Allott at the blacke Beare in Pauls Church-yard 1628. To the right Worshipfull Sir ROBERT GARDENER Knight and to the vertuous Ladie ANNE GARDENER his religious and louing wife their owne hearts desire in Christ RIght Worshipfull Sir though the kingdome of Ireland did bereaue his countrey of yours of a great part of that good which by a certain right it hoped for from you● by reason of your long seruice there vnder Queene Elizabeth of blessed memorie in the chiefest and most honourable seate of Iustice by the space of 15. or 16. yeares together yet the benefite vnto both the Kingdomes was thought to be so great thereby that the losse was so much the more easily borne And now at the last this countrey doth willingly acknowledge that it hath great cause to thanke God not onely for your safe returne vnto it some years past furnished with greater experience for gouernment but also with hope of neuer departing frō them any more sauing that in your last imployment vnder his Highnes whome God long preserue into his Ilands of Iarsie and Garnesie they were suspended frō that hope by the space of certaine moneths Which beeing faithfully performed and ended their hope is renued that you beeing now at the last merito tuo maximo donatus rude may say of this countrey Here is my rest Which my selfe ha●● more speciall cause to desire in regard my ministerie which by your presen●● you haue often and long giuen great countenance vnto And you good Madame both since th●● happie ioyning of you both together a●● long before by your continuall comming to the publike assemblies though a goo● way off both winter and sommer neue● hindered by the heate of the one or th● cold of the other and that by the space of 20. yeares haue giuen so good an example like vnto those that traueled without wearisomnes through the vaile of Baca Psal 84.6 ● with hope to appeare before God in Syon that you haue incouraged many vnto the like paines and haue left the slothfull without excuse By which some other good examples like this the credit of Gods word among vs hath in some tolerable sort beene hetherto vpheld For which and for many other great fauours from you both I present these small fruits of my poore labours vnto you as a perpetuall testimonie of my thankefulnes vnto you and to God for you Desiring him to multiplie his graces vpon you and long to preserue you to your owne mutuall comfort and the good of so many as doe depend vpon you And the like blessing of God be vpon the good and forward hopes of the worshipfull M. William Spring your onely child that his youth may be still so seasoned with religion and learning that in time to come he may in the seate of Iustice for the good of his countrey by his deserts goe beyond all his progenitors and so long vphold the credit of that right worshipfull house And so I most humbly take my leaue of you all Norton in Suff. Iun. 24. 1608. Your Worships in all reuerend and dutifull affection Nicolas Bownde THE VNBELEEFE OF S. Thomas the Apostle laid open for the comfort of all that desire to beleeue which armeth vs against despaire in the houre of death Ioh. 20.24 c. But Thomas one of the twelue called Didymus was not with them when Iesus came 25 The other Disciples therefore said vnto him We haue seene the Lord but he said vnto them Except I see in his hands the print of the nayles and put my finger into the print of the nayles and put mine hand into his side I will not beleeue it 26 And eight daies after again his Disciples were within and Thomas with them Then came Iesus when the doores were shut and stood in the middes and said Peace be vnto you 27 After he said to Thomas Put thy finger here and see mine ●ands and put forth thine hand and put it ●●to my side and be not faithlesse but faithfull 28 Then Thomas answered and saide vnto him My Lord and my God 29 Iesu● saide vnto him Thomas because thou has● seene me thou beleeuest blessed are they tha● haue not seene and haue beleeued THis text of Scripture is appointe● to be read for th● Gospel vpon S. Thomas day because it cōtainet● a memorable storie of him whose blessed memori● we keepe vpon that day to that end that we might be thankful vnto Go● for him and for the excellent gif● bestowed vpon him and the gre●● good done to the Church by his m●●nisterie and preaching and that w●● might labour to imitate his vertue and to profit by his great infirmitie wherein consisteth the true and rig●● obseruation of this and all other su●● like daies And not in the worshipping of him and praying to him and setting vp candles before his image and offering to him as they did in the time of Poperie when they praied vnto God to be heard at his intercession and for his merits and blood shedding as they did vpon other such daies for the rest of the Apostles and Saints And they thought that the celebrating of those daies was a great honour and seruice acceptable vnto them and they kept them to that ende that they might become their patrons and fare the better for their sakes before God and they know no other vse of them vnto this day Wherein they offer great indignitie vnto Christ first in robbing and spoyling him of the honour and office of his mediation and intercession to whom onely it belongeth of whom the Apostle thus writeth it is Christ which is dead yea or rather which is risen againe ●om 8.24 who is also at the right hand of God maketh request also for vs and therefore who shall lay any thing to the charge of Gods chosen And Christ himsel●e thus speaketh of his owne office Whatsoeuer ye ask in my name Ioh. 14 13. that wil I doe that the father may be glorified in the sonne Secondly they doe great wrong vnto him in hallowing any daies to the honour of any but of God alone For all things that are sanctified are sanctified to his honour and worship onely who only is to be worshipped serued with diuine worship therefore the bread and wine in the Sacrament of the Lords supper and the water in Baptisme are sanctified to the honour of Christ and of none other as those that represent vnto v● the breaking of his bodie and th● shedding of his most pretious bloo● for the forgiuenes of our sinnes An● so are and ought the Churches to be confecrated to the name and honour

an hundred times yet they wil know nothing til they see it And not onely this sinne raigneth in the wicked that they will beleeue no more of the promises and threatnings of the ioyes of heauen pains of hell then they can see feele thēselues and so because they do neither of them yet they will beleeue none of them let men say what they will and neuer so long and so they goe on in their sinnes and liue thereafter which is greatly to be lamented But also if we will examine our selues other men we shall finde that this was in our selues and in them til● the Lord had mercie vpon vs. That though we had often heard that God was iust and would punish sinne ye● we presumed otherwise and did not beleeue it because we escaped a while in our sinnes and did not see and feele the truth of it in our selues and by that meanes went on and were hardened in our sinnes And so that was verified in vs as well as in others which the Lord complaineth ●f by his Prophet Psal 50.21 These things hast ●hou done and I held my tongue ●herefore thou thoughtest that I was ●●ke thee but I will reprooue thee ●nd set them in order before thee And thus not only before our cal●●ng infidelity did wholly beare ●●e sway in vs but also since that time great remnant of it still remaineth 〈◊〉 vs so that in many things we will ●eleeue no further then we see and ●ele especially in the time of temp●●ion for if we be in any great trou●●e Iob and then if there be a messenger God sent vnto vs or an interpreter ●his word one of a thousand as Elihu calleth him who shal bid vs be of good comfort and put our trust in God he will helpe vs and deliuer vs in his good time and declare vnto vs many promises of his word to that ende We then if wee want meanes to help our selues we are ready to say O but I see not how and which way that should be So that if we did presently vse the promised helpe that we might feele it or had means to bring it to passe that we might see it we say we wold beleeue it or els not S●● our faith goeth no further to comfor● vs then our senses of seeing and feeling And this is too true in what affliction soeuer we be either of pouertie sickenesse or any other distresse And this vnbeleefe of ours is 〈◊〉 much the more dangerous and th● more deepely rooted in vs becau●● though we haue had experience 〈◊〉 Gods goodnes towards our selues i●● time past wherein we may remēber how he hath holpen and deliuered vs beyond all that we could foresee or haue any hope of yet at another time we trust him and his worde no further then we can see our selues Thus the people of Israel doubted of the power of God whether he would giue them flesh in the wildernes according to their desire though they ●ad seene his power before in giuing ●hē water out of the hard rock wherof Dauid speaketh after this manner They temped God in their hearts Psal 78.18 in ●equiring meate for their lust they ●pake against God also saying Can God prepare a table in the wildernes Behold he smote the rocke that the ●ater gushed out and the streames ●uerflowed can he giue bread also ●●r prepare flesh for his people Where he aggrauateth their sinne ●f infidelitie in that they seeing be●ore how he beyōd all hope brought water plentifully out of the rocke to supplie their want they did now doubt that they should haue no flesh though Moses had promised it vnto them from God because they could not see how in the wildernes such aboundance should be prepared for so great a people that euery one might haue enough And we our selues are subiect to the like not onely in these outward things and are therein too much mislead because we relie wholly vpon our outward senses but also in the matter of our saluation therein our vnbeleefe doth especially shew it selfe so that we can hardly or not at all beleeue any thing beyonde our sense and feeling For when we are humbled vnder the weighty hand of God with the sight of our corruption and sinnes and haue the feeling of Gods wrath vpon vs for them in any measure thē though we heare the cōfortable promises of the gospel made to all that vnfainedly turne frō them Rom. 8.1 As there is no condemnation to them that are in Christ Iesus which walke not after the flesh but after the spirit Esa 1.16 And if you will inwardly walke and make your selues cleane from them and take away the euill of your works from before your eies cease to doe euil learne to doe good though your sinnes were as crimson they shall be made white as snow though they were red as scar●et they shal be as white as wooll that ●s if you leaue thē I am readie to forgiue them though they be neuer so many and then we find by the grace of God that we vtterly detest them ●nd are weary of them as of an im●ortable burden haue cast them ●way from vs as a filthie cloath yet ●ecause we see not the light of Gods ●ountenance shining clearly vpon vs ●nd haue not the feeling of his loue powred into our hearts wee cannot beleeue the pardon of them as wee ought And vnto all the promises that are brought for our comfort we are ready to obiect alas we haue no feeling of that that is said vnto vs. Which is as if we should thus speak you say thus and thus vnto me but I can haue no comfort in it for vnles I see it and feele it I will not beleeue it Which vnbeleefe though it be very great yet Christ Iesus doth beare with them a while in it and helpe them of it in due season as he did his seruant Thomas the Apostle here And truly as the Deuill did by Gods permission thus farre preuaile with the Apostle S. Thomas that he was brought to this straight that without sight and feeling he would not beleeue So with this one temptation of his he hath so mightily preuailed against many of the best seruants of god that he hath brought them to a very low ebbe euen almost to their wits ende For besides that he hath driuen them to this extremitie which is very great that they wil beleeue no more of Gods fauour towards them then they can see and feele in themselues he hath gained this also at their hāds which is much more that because they haue no feeling therefore they say they haue no faith as though these two were both one feeling and faith or as though they were alwaies necessarily ioyned together And hereupon haue come the great complaints and outcries which some of them haue made against thēselues in the time of their trouble and not onely of those who haue grosly apparantly fallen