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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68217	The history of the woman of great faith Recorded by Saint Matthew, ch. 15. v. 22. &c. and by Saint Mark, ch. 7. 24. where three very strong encounters are beaten back by her vnmatchable faith. Treatised and expounded for some help to the weake in faith. By Robert Horn, a Minister of Iesus Christ.	Horne, Robert, 1565-1640.	1632 (1632)	STC 13822; ESTC S116726	104,742	350

will and so giue him not the glorie of his owne but for glorie shamefull contempt which reflecteth vpon those who both vilifie the Iewell and the casket that keepes it that is both the Gospell it selfe the able Minister of it Popish arrogance is here in the second place Vse 2. reproued which will hold in no tenure but of merit if a Papist do a good work God must bee beholden to him for it if not altogether yet some way But how was Dauid and other Saints ignorant of this who though they had beene painefull worke-men in the law yet disclaming or not setting any price vpon their best deeds gaue vp all to God the best of all as not worthy to pay any debt or to go in the reckning when God should take vnto him his iudgements Psal 51.1 123.3 143.2 All the strings of their instrument are tuned to mercie when they speak to God against their sinnes or for grace For Dauid is still harping vpon this string and the best of Saints giue themselues lost in the law when the question is of their obligation vnto workes Psal 130.3 in this case their appeale is wholly and altogether to court of chancerie from the common place of deeds Mercie is all their plea and the righteousnes of Christ the robe with which they are couered By it we enter as the wise with our lamps burning Matth. 25.10 without it as the foolish in that order of virgins we may stand long enough and crie loud enough as that this wee haue done and that we haue done get no entrance v. 11.12 For what is all our righteousnesse the best wee can doe but menstruous matter Esa 64.6 and must we say when we haue done the best we can doe that wee are vnprofitable Luc. 17.10 And shall we say that being such we are such as may well merit the wages of eternall life An apologie for late comers to Christ Vse 3. For Satan will obiect against such that the day beeing so sarre gone that short time will be but little time to worke in for the night cometh when no man can worke Ioh. 9 4. To him and to this they may answere that the time which is short is supplied with the mercie of the Lord that is for euer and that they who were hired about the eleuenth houre receiued euerie man a pennie Matth. 20.9 Indeed if none should be faued but they who haue laboured the whole day then none could bee saued that wrought but the third or sixt or ninth or last houre of that day but in the parable of the labourers wee reade the contrarie Matth. 20.8 and here we see that the beginning end of all is set in Gods mercie if it were otherways we might well doubt of our saluation with a Papisticall feare This is spoken for their sakes vpon whom God hath had mercie though later then vpon those whom hee hath called vp more earely to work It is not spoken to incourage the presuming sinner who thinkes that the last sand of time in his houre glasse is time enough to repent and to turne to God and therefore puts off in the course of sinne till his time be out For if that man be saued God shewes a miracle rather then worke of mercie in sauing him The person followeth for whom the Woman craued this mercie at Christs hands Vpon Mee MErcie this Woman craued for herselfe but for her selfe with reference to her daughter whom an vncleane Spirit so vexed And here nature taught her to take her Daughters affliction for her own crosse but her Faith a better teacher had taught her better which was that God striking her Daughter struck at her And indeed somtimes God purposing to punish the Parents beginnes with the children thus hee began at the first borne of Pharao but made an end with the end of Pharao himselfe whom the waters of the red sea couered Doctr. And so wee see that God doth not alwayes directly smite a people but sometimes indirectly and at a second hand in their graine cattell and the fruits of the earth Sometimes in the seruants and children of the house he striketh at the Master and Parents In Ieremies time when God meant to plague the disobedient Iewes he begun the plague in their cattell which he punished with lack of food and drouth of water Ier. 14 4 5 6. Dauid also was punished with the punishment of his people who died by the pestilence to the number of three-score and ten thousand 1 Chr. 21.17 and the Widow of Sareptah God punished with that which indeed was a punishment the death of her Sonne 1 King 17 18. Thus he struck at Pharao but farre off in much losse of cattel and corn Exod. 9.6.21 and then nearer when hee struck at him in the haile that slew all in the field both man and beast v. 25. and nearer yet when he smote a I the first born in his Kingdome with death and so as there was not a house where there was not one dead Exod. 12.29.30 but then he struck home when he drowned Pharaoh himselfe with his chosē Captains al that pursued Israel in the red sea Exod. 15 4 5 Ps 136.15 thus the plagues of Egypt ranne as by a traine from the waters to the fruits from them to the beasts from the beasts to men from common men to the King himselfe Exod. 7. and 9. chapters In Hosea the Lord warned or by a faire warning stirred vp those of Israel that had fallen from the house of Dauid to Ieroboam and from the true seruice of God to the seruice of the Calues when he smote with death the beasts of the field and the foules of heauen Hos 4.3 and here hee summoneth this Woman by the Deuill in her Daughter Thus therefore God giues warning to men by harmes further off and before he strike to the heart and as his lightnings goe before his thunder Apoc. 4.5 so doth his admonition before a cutting off The reasons By this course Reasons the Lord is more righteous and man more inexcusable who therefore cannot say that God stole vpon him without warning giuen or came priuily as behinde his back vpon him in some sudden destruction when by his iudgements vpon others or inflicted otherways he thus openly and as to his face proclaimes what hee will doe Secondly God will vse all meanes to fetch home-a sinner and this is one which is to saue with feare as pulling him out of the fire Iud. 23. so the stubborn and rebellious Sonne was by the law to be stoned to death it was that the punishment might be exemplar and that all Israel might heare feare Deut. 21.18.21 It may be men wil turne vnto the Lord when they see the vengeance that is seeing what is done vnto others Therefore the Lord slow to wrath will not omit any such drawing possibilitie to repentance Ioel. 2.13 14. 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