Saint Stevens last will and testament A funeral sermon on Acts 7. ver. 59.…Saint Stevens last will and testament A funerall sermon on Acts 7. ver. 59.…

Which, as it overthroweth that pestilent Doctrine ¹of Arius, who denied the Deity of Christ: so it may serve to confirm us in the Faith of Christ, and in dependence upon Christ, with full assurance of undoubted safety unto all those that shall so do. For if Christ be God (as undoubtedly he is) and he be with us, as ^ahe hath promised to be for ever with all those that be his; then may we well say with the Apostle, ^bIf God ⟨p. 4⟩be with us, who can be against us? ^cThey must overcome God himself, that prevail against us, saith Augustine: and with the Psalmist, ^dThough I walk through the vale of the shadow of death, I will not fear, as long as thou art with me: for, ^eWhere can any be, either well without him, or but well with him? saith Bernard. And upon this very ground doth our Saviour give assurance to all his, that they shall never any of them miscarry, maugre the might and malice of all their adversaries whatsoever. ^fMy Sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me; and I give them life eternal, and they shall never perish, nor shall any be able to pluck them out of my hand: my Father, that gave me them, is greater then all; nor is any able to pluck them out of my Fathers hand: I and my Father are one.

Which, as it overthroweth that pestilent Doctrine ¹of Arius, who denyed the Deitie of Christ: so it may serve to confirme us in the Faith of Christ, and in dependance upon Christ, with full assurance of undoubted safetie unto all those that shall so doe. For if Christ be God (as undoubtedly he is) and he be with us, as