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B15167	A plaine exposition vpon the whole thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth chapters of the Epistle of Saint Paul to the Romanes Wherein the text is diligently and methodically resolued, the sense giuen, and many doctrines thence gathered, are by liuely vses applied for the benefit of Gods children. Performed with much varietie, and conuenient breuitie, by Elnathan Parr Bachelor in Diuinity, and preacher of Gods word. To which is prefixed an alphabeticall table, containing the chiefe points and doctrines handled in the booke.	Parr, Elnathan, d. 1622.	1622 (1622)	STC 19321; ESTC S114077	263,450	369

bee questioned 3 For testifying our duty and submission to Christ as our Lord and mine opinion is that it were a most comely thing if whensoeuer we speake of God or of our blessed and deare Master Iesus Christ we would by putting off the hat or bowing of the knee or both acknowledge our dutifull reuerence Seneca neuer thought of Cato Laelius Socrates Seneca epl 64. and such like famous men but with great respect Ego illos veneror et tantis nominibus semper assurgo I reuerence them quoth he and alwaies rise vp at their names There is small reason then that any should quarrell with our Church for requiring this antient rite to be practised and for my part I endeuour at euery mention of Gods mercies to testifie some reuerence which I know I can neuer sufficiently performe Bowing of the knee is taken for the worship of God Vse 1 and the subiection of the Soule and Spirit to God therefore it is not vnlawfull to be vsed in the worship of God Nay it is the most decent forme of prayer or receiuing the Sacrament because in the one we beg and in the other wee receiue the greatest blessing at the hands of God It may seeme that God hath made our knees flexible euen for this purpose So Ambrose was of opinion Ambros Hex l. 6. c. 9. Flexibile genu quo domini mitigatur offensa ira mulcetur gratia prouocatur Our knee saith he is made bowing by the which wee craue pardon for offence mitigate the anger of the Lord and obtaine grace alledging the Text in the 2. of the Philippians That at the Name of Iesus euery knee should bowe c. By this gesture wee declare our selues to be impotent and needy It is the gesture of suppliants for fauour It is both a testimony and a stirring vp of yeelding affections Reuerent gestures doe not a little foster religion and inflame and prouoke the reuerence of the minde so that I cannot but maruaile at many who at prayers rather choose to stand then to kneele though they may very conueniently so doe Let all acknowledge and submit vnto Christ Vse 2 with heart and tongue and life Hee is God and our Iudge let vs adore him which we doe when we beleeue and liue well He that liues wickedly Hieron com in epl ad Eph. lib. 2. bowes to the Diuell Toties Diabolo flectimus genu quotieseunque peceamus so often doth a man make a leg to the Diuell as hee sinnes saith S. Hierome The blasphemer the drunkard c. acknowledge the Diuell to be their Lord. I warne thee that thou speedily submit thy selfe to Christ If thou doest not now so doe by his word the time will come when thou shalt bee compelled to doe it spight of thy heart and to thy damnation Behold it is sealed As I liue saith the Lord it shall be so Thou shalt bee made to stoope for the Lord hath sworne it Rather now let vs fall downe and worship him that we may haue comfort to saluation VERSE 12. So then euery one of vs shall giue account of himselfe to God IN this verse is set downe the end of our standing before the Iudgement seat of Christ which is to giue account and it is amplified three waies First from the Persons accomptant Second from the matter of which account must bee made and third the person to whom it is to be accounted Shall giue account for this end must wee appeare to account for things done and receiued The processe of the last Iudgement being set downe vnder the similitude of things Ciuill As a Master deliuering money and goods to his seruants afterwards exacts a reckoning and as a Schoolemaster calles his schollers to render the lesson hee hath taken thence so shall wee appeare to render an account of our stewardship Euery one of vs of vs men and so good and bad to be included or of vs beleeuers and so the wicked to be concluded from the lesse The person accountant euery one hee saith not all but euery one not all shuffled together and in the grosse Reuel 20.12 but eueuery one seuerally Euery one without exception both small and great Emperours Kings Princes Iudges must there giue account and be iudged as well as others Here not euery man that comes to the Assises is iudged or standeth forth but there we shall all be actors our selues as well as spectators of others But the Saints shall iudge the world 1 Cor. 6.2 Obiect True but that is as they are considered Answ either as members vnited to their head or in comparison of the wicked or in regard of comprobation and assent notwithstanding they shall bee iudged not with the iudgement of Reprobation or condemnation but of Approbation hauing obtained their Quietus est and full discharge from the Iudge Of himselfe This is the matter of the account We shall giue account for others as fathers for the bringing vp of their children Kings for the gouerning of their Subiects c. But of others onely so far as any thing of theirs belongs to our calling as Ministers must giue account for the soules of the people as S. Paul saith Here we may haue an Atturney to appeare for vs Heb. 13.17 and a Counsellor to pleade for vs but there euery one of vs shall giue account of himselfe Of himselfe that is of all his thoughts words deeds passed in his whole life and of all things which concerne his person calling or actions But this seemes impossible because wee are not able to number or to remember all which hath passed vs in our life But God knowes and remembers though we know not nor remember For there are books of remembrance the booke of Gods predestination wherein the persons of men are recorded and the bookes of conscience wherein euery mans particular thoughts words and deedes with their circumstances are registred Reuel 20.12 Aug. lib. de Ciu. Dei ca. 14. Orig. comment in Rom. 14. I saw the dead saith Iohn both small and great stand before God and the bookes were opened of the Olde an New Testament saith Augustine of Conscience saith Origen and another booke was opened which was of life and the dead were iudged out of those things which were written in the bookes according to their works God will put a kinde of diuine power into the conscience Qua fiat vt cuique opera sua bona vel mala cuncta in memoriam reuocentur mentis intuitu mira celeritate cernantur Aug. loco mod● citat whereby the conscience shall remember and wonderfully apprehend and the minde discerne all our works good or bad said S. Augustine We shall see our owne and each others faults Before God This is the person vnto whom the account must be made Before he said Christ here hee saith God therefore Christ is God In the same humane forme and shape in which Christ came to be iudged Reuel 1.7 shall he come