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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01331	A sermon preached on Sundaye, being the .17. of March Anno. 1577. at S. Alpheges Church within Creplegate in London, by William Fulke doctor in diuinitie. Seene and allowed, accordyng to the order appoynted in the Queenes Maiesties Iniunctions	Fulke, William, 1538-1589.	1577 (1577)	STC 11454; ESTC S112799	25,975	72

thinges which they doo but represent and signifie As Circumcision is called the couenant the Lamb is called the Passouer Baptisme is called the newe byrth and S. Paule speaking of the Sacrament of Christes blood sayth The Rocke was Christ And our Sauiour Christ himselfe sayth This cuppe is the newe Testament In al which speaches there can be no transsubstantiation and chaunge of substances be vnderstoode but a signe a figure or representation What then Doo we make the Sacramentes nothing else but bare signes naked figures and imaginatiue representations God forbyd it is not in vaine that the ontwarde elementes in the deuine Sacramentes doo beare the names of those things which they doo represent but that God doth truely and in deede perfourme his promises vnto the faithfull of which these Sacramentes are the seales to confyrme their fayth So God in Baptisme which is the Sacrament of regeneration dooth worke effectually to the mortifying of the olde man and renuing of the newe man whereby the man that is baptised is made the childe of god And Christ in the Sacrament of his bodye and blood dooth truely feede vs wyth hys bodye and blood which is the onely foode of our soules wherby wee are nourished and preserued vnto eternall lyfe But to returne to the matter Agar in this fygure dooth signifye the Mount Sinay in Arabia from whence the Lawe of bondage was giuen as Sara dooth signifie the Mount Sion in Hierusalem from whence the Gospell of freedome proceeded And wee must note here that Sinay is a mountayne in the desart of Arabia where the lawe of bondage was proclaimed Namely we must vnderstand that it was altogether out of the compasse of the land of promise It was in the barren wildernes not in the land that flowed with milke honye It was in Arabia not in Canaan So that god would signifie euen by the place where hee published the law that it perteined not to the promise of his mercy but to the pacte or Couenant of his iustice For the land of Canaan was the land of promise a very fruitfull land abundant in all commodities and pleasures of this lyfe which GOD professeth oftentymes vnto the people that hee gaue it them and that without all desert or worthinesse of theyrs of his onely goodnesse and mercy towards them to fulfyll hys promyse made to their Fathers Forbydding them alwayes to thinke or saye that for theyr owne ryghteousnesse God had chosen them to cast out those nations before them putting them ofte in mynde that they were a frowarde and stiffnecked people and howe many wayes they had deserued that God shoulde vtterly haue reiected them as Moses preacheth to them in Deuteronomie Wherefore the lande of Canaan was to them a Sacrament of the Kingdome of Heauen which beyng an inheritance of most gloryous and eternall felicitie no man shall attayne vnto by his owne merytes or woorthinesse but onely by the mercye of god No more then the Israelites were brought into the lande of promise in respecte of their owne deseruings but only by the promise of god Now farre without the bondes of this holy lande in a deserte and solitarie place in a barraine and vnfruitefull soyle where nothing grewe for the sustentation of mannes life where water wanted for the necessarie vse of man and beast euen there God chose a harde stonie and craggie rocke to be the pulpet from whence he thundred out the Lawe of Iustice with most terrible lightes and noyses to signifie that by the Cavenant of his ryghteousnesse no man shoulde looke for any fauour or grace but that all they that were founde transgressors of this law should vndoubtedly incurre the paines of eternall condempnation This was Mount Sinay in Arabia This was Agar the Egyptian This was the mother of Ifmael This is the nobilitie of the sonnes of bondage But he proceedeth and. sayth that Agar or Sinay answereth in figure or similitude to that Hierusalem which is nowe and is in bondage with her children Some translations reade that Sinay bordereth vppon Hierusalem but that is neither true in the litterall sense nor agreeth with the meaning of the Apostle in this figure nor expresseth the Greeke worde which the Apostle vseth For mount Sinay dooth not border vppon Hierusalem but is farre distant from it by certaine hundreth myles But the worde which the Apostle vseth doth signifie a respect or relation of one thing to an other And so he meaneth that Mount Sinay hath respect to that Hierusalem which is nowe which is to the earthly Hierusalem because the earthly Hierusalem did answer in figure to Agar not to Sara to Sinay not to Sion And why so Because she was now degenerated gone out of kind as the Prophet complayneth How is the faithfull Citie become an Adulteres Because she sought to bee iustified by the Lawe that was giuen in Mount Sinay and refused the grace of Christ that was preached on Mount Sion She should haue been a liuely Image of the heauenly Hierusalem if shee had accepted the Gospell of Christ but nowe by refusing the same shee answereth in figure to Sinay the mountaine of Arabia to Agar the mother of Ismael and is in bondage with her Children Shee was called with her children to libertie and freedome by the sonne of God who onely hath authoritie to set at libertie those that were in bondage but they proudly refused it and stoode vppon their prerogatiue saying We are the seede of Abraham wee haue not serued any man howe sayest thou that wee shall bee made free They woulde not vnderstande that euerye one that committeth sinne is the seruant of sinne and cannot haue eternall abyding in the house They woulde not acknowledge that the Sonne of GOD who alwaye abydeth in the house hath Authoritie to infranchise them and that they could not be delyuered from the bondage of sinne but by him Therefore they ramayne styll in bondage without hope of deliuerance For the Adultresse Hierusalem theyr mother hauing nowe embraced a seruyle doctryne and Religion is become Agar or Sinay whose qualities and condition she doth properly represent Wherefore although they doo with full mouthe neuer so proudlye boast themselues to be the seede of Abraham they are neuerthelesse the sonnes of Agar And no greater priuiledge they haue by beyng the sonnes of Abraham then Ismael had who also was the Sonne of Abraham but after the fleshe onely and not after the spirit Wherefore though Sinay in distance of place be farre of from Hierusalem yet in qualitie and condition they are altogether lyke for they are both seruyle the doctrine of them both ingendreth to bondage Thus you see how Hierusalem which is nowe that is the earthly Hierusalem by reteyning the doctrine and religion of bondage and refusing the doctrine and Religion of freedome is become Sinay of Sion Agar of Hierusalem A good admonition for vs al to take heede that wee doo not imbrace the doctrine of bondage but