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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12983	A sermon preached at Paules Crosse, the second of Nouember. 1606. By Richard Stocke, preacher of Al-hallowes, Bread-streete, London	Stock, Richard, 1569?-1626.	1609 (1609)	STC 23276; ESTC S117808	42,660	92

enemies who compose themselues to their countenances and seeke not to frame them to the lawes of God who are like to some pictures that will looke on a man which way soeuer hee looke on the right hād or on the left before him or aside of him The Lord keepe all Christian Kings from such enemies And easie were it for them to be freed of them if they would countenance those that would deale plainely with them with discretion Prou. 25.23 and discountenance all such smoothers and flatterers For thē as the North-winde driueth away the raine so would an angry coūtenance the slandering tong yea the flattering tongue I suppose that Alexander was a long time after free from flatterers when as Aristobulus hauing read vnto him many things that he had writ of him surpassing the truth as the was passing the riuer Hydaspis he tooke the booke from him and threwe it into the riuer and said hee was almost mooued to doe so with Aristobulus himselfe for his seruile dealing with such kind of entertainment they might easily rid thēselues of such destroying flatterers least they be forced to say as Adrian the Emperour when he was a dying hauing delighted in Physitians all his life who administred nothing but pleasing things vnto him said that too many Physitians had killed the Emperor so too many flatterers haue caused their destruction Secondly ministers may learnes Vse 2 as they loue themselues to deale faithfully and to bee as the Cherubines vnto the mercie seate thither they looked and thence they gaue their aunsweres and not to be partiall in the law Mal. 2.11 least God cause them to bee despised and in the end destroy them as here is threatned They may liue in a time when such prophets as will speake of wine and strong drinke Mich. 2.11 and pleasing things shall be most desired and among such as are like those in Esay Isa 30.10 which say vnto the seers see not and to the Prophets prophecie not vnto vs right things but speake flattering things vnto vs prophecie errors and such as will tell them if they deale faithfully as Balacke told Balaam I thought surely to promote thee to honour but the Lord hath kept thee backe from honour Numb 24.11 And so it proues that this is the way to earthly honour preferment and liuing for a season and a little while but the Lord threatned it shall not prosper long with them he can in a night take all from them as he did Ionas his gourd But if they enioy it longer it is but for a while Iob. 17.5 for the eyes of his children shall faile that speaketh flattery to his friends But if no such thing happen to them in this life what haue they gained to gaine the whole world to get all honour and preferment and lose their owne soules and to answere for so many soules as haue perished through their vnfaithfulnes For what can they answere when God shall come to iudge will they pretend the greatnes of those whom they indeuoured so to please certainly it will not benefit them Hom. 28. ad pop Antio Chrysostome when he had spoken somewhat which seemed to offend the rich and mighty of his audience spake to thē thus Ne quis miht diues c. Let no rich man nor no great or powerful man swell against me or knit his browes at me I account of all these as fables shaddowes and dreames for none of those that are present shall be able to defend me at that day when I shall be challenged and reprooued for not deliuering the lawe of God with sufficient sharpnes 1. Sam. 2.4 this was euen this was the ruine of that admirable olde man who himselfe liued a blameles life it destroyed him with his sonnes what then can any flattring Amaziahs or fawning Zedkiahs expect that any mans greatnes should excuse them it will not defend themselues how then their flatterers nay as is said before they then shal haue none of their greatnes to defend themselues or helpe others Now in the 16. verse followeth the particular cause of the iudgement which is the gouernours and Ministers misleading of the people making them to erre whence it must needs be that they themselues erred and teached errors Whence I gather this That the gouerners rulers Ministers of a particular visible Church Doctri 5 may erre in matters of faith and manners doctrine and life which is manifest through the whole booke of the Scriptures First these things were foretolde for howsoeuer the people made a bragge Come let vs imagine some deuice against Ieremiah Ier. 18.18 for the law shal not perish fro the priest nor counsell from the wise nor the word from the Prophets Yet the Lord he threateneth it shuld come to passe cleane contrary Ezek. 7.26 as it is said in Ezek. Calamitie shal come vpon calamitie rumour shal be vpō rumor then shal they ●●●ke a vision of the Prophet but the law shal perish 〈◊〉 the Priest counsel from the auncient and Micha 3.6 Therefore night shall be vnto you for a vision Mich. 3.6 and darknesse shall be vnto you for a diuination and the sunne shall goe downe ouer the Prophets and the day shall be darke ouer them Secondly it is manifest by that which is in Esay The watch men are all bl●●●… they be asleepe Esay 6.10 and delight in sleeping and by that in Ieremie I haue seene foolisimesse Ier. 23.13 in the Prophets of Samariah c. If the exception be that this was Israel and not Iuda then see that which followeth I haue also seene filthinesse in the Prophets of Ierusalem If it be said Verse 14.16 that these are prophets and not priests Thirdly I manifest it by the euent All the chiese of the priests also and of the people trespassed wonderfully 2. Chron. 36.14 according to all the abominations of the heathen and polluted the house of the Lord which hee had sanctified in Ierusalem And if it be said that this was in the Synagogue not in the christian church as they absurdly speake that all the cheise of the priests and of the people trespassed c. We will follow them whither they call vs and see the Apostles how they erred when Christ spake vnto them of his sufferings in Luke Luk. 18.34 it is said They vnderstood none of these things and this saying was hid from them neither perceiued they the things which were spoken which not vnderstanding of the speech of Christ grew out of an error which their mindes was forestalled withall before that Christ should raigne as a temporall king But it may be that this was before Christs resurectiō see therfore his disciples asked him Act. 1.6 saying Lord wilt thou at this time restore the kingdoe to Israel as dreaming of an earthly kingdome as if he should haue had one but though he now were risen vet was he not ascended