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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03281	The dignitie of the Scripture togither with the indignity which the vnthankfull world offereth thereunto In three sermons vpon Hose. 8. 12. By Samuel Hieron.	Hieron, Samuel, 1576?-1617.	1607 (1607)	STC 13398; ESTC S119045	35,236	48

the denyall of Peter is more expresly laid downe by Marke then by any other Euangelist And Paul sets downe with his owne pen his owne faults in more sharpe measure then any other man would doe 1. Tim. 1.13 I was a blasphemer a persecutor an oppressor This argueth that these men were guided by God in that they were so free from flattery that they spared not themselues We know it is contrary in other writers you shall see generally those that write histories speake partiallie ether of some meÌ„ or of their own natiue couÌ„tries as if a man should read the Chronicles of England he would thinke that to be the only country It sheweth the scripture to haue been guided by some higher spirit it being so free from all partiality Seauenthly the wonderfull preseruation of the bookes of the scripture At the first the two tables of the law which were written by Gods owne finger were apointed by the Lord to be laid vp in the Arke Deut. 10 2 5 6. and the whole Tribe of Leui commanded to attend it Next the bookes which Moses himselfe wrot Exod. 24.27 Deut. 31.9 Iosh 24.26 1. Sam. 10.25 as he wrot them by the speciall appointment of god as appeares so he deliuered it to the sonnes of Leui also to be kept Ioshua tooke the same course for the preseruation of that which he had written So did Samuell yet this is nothing in respect of that which followed The prophesy of Ieremy was burned by king Iehoiakinne therby thinking to abolish the whole memory of it but the lord presently caused the same to be written againe yea and added thereunto many words Ier. 30. When Manasses and Ammon two wicked kings to the end they might the better draw the people to Idolatry and to keep them in it had suppressed the booke of the law 2. Chron. 34.14 1. Macc 1. yet in the daies of Iosias it pleased God that euen in the ruynes of the temple the booke of the law was found againe It is recorded in the booke of Maccabees how that king Antiochus cut in peices and burnt al the bookes of che law which he could find and followed the matter so extreamely that whosoeuer had a booke of the testament found by him he should be put to death And Eusebius an auntient writer of the story of the Church reports how Dioclesian a heathen Emperour and a cruell persecutor both forbad the vse of the bookes of the prophets and Euangelists and consumed them with fire also So that indeed it is a very miracle and an argument that the scripture is from aboue in asmuch as notwithstanding the perpetuall enmity of the deuill against it the indeauours of Heretiques to corrupt it the practises of Tyrants vtterly to abolish it and the many hazards which the Church hath been in which could not chuse but endanger it yet it hath ben preserued whole and entyre yea eueÌ„ in the originall tongues the old testament in the Hebrew and the new in the Greek euen vnto this day we may well apply vnto it the words of the Psalme It is the Lords doing Ps 1.8.23 and it is marueilous in our eies Eightly the forme and dignity of the stile which is as I said Fulnes of maiesty in simplicity of words There is no parte or tittle of it which sauoureth of any earthlines the maiesty of the sentences is such as it cannot be fully and wholly conceiued and vttered by any man and yet it is alwaies more powerfull in matter then in words And we see the bookes called the Apochripha who haue endeauoured to expresse the excellency of that holy stile are yet so farre from it that they are but cold and euen barbarous in comparison Ninthly if when we consider the excellency of the matter and the heauenly Maiesty of the stile we shall remember also what kind of men they were which wrot it it will adde some strength vnto this proofe For if we consider them simply in themselues Exod. 3.1 Ier. 1.6 Math. 4.18 Math. 9.9 Col. 4.4 1. Tim. 1.13 we shall see how vnfit they were by all likelihood for such a story Moses first a shepheard then a prophet Ieremy a yery child by his own confession Peter a fisherman one that was neuer trayned vp in learning Mathew a publican a meere stranger to the things of God Luke a phisitian learned but yet not accustomed in things of that quality Paul a persecutor a professed enemy to the doctrine of the gospell It could not chuse but be some heauenly and spirituall power that should call afterwards enable these meÌ„ vnto this waighty busines to be the penmeÌ„ of that in which so much admirable excelleÌ„cy doth appeare TeÌ„thly let vs coÌ„sider also the power efficacy of the scripture There is no man but if he obserue it and hearken to it shall finde the power of it how it searcheth into the very secrets of a mans heart and deuides asunder the soule and the spirit Heb. 4.11 and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents it striketh a terror into the very consciences of those which are the greatest enemies vnto it and would seeme to despite it and that is the very thing that hath caused it to haue so many and greiuous aduersaries among men We may behold also how it works to the reclaiming of many men from their euill waies what fruits of holines it brings forth in the liues of diuers that professe it with contempt of the world what hatred of sinne what duties of mercy yea and how the loue and sweetnes thereof hath so possessed the hearts of some that they haue ben content not only to sacrifice their wealth their credit their good name their liberty for it but euen their very liues and to chuse rather to beare any torments then to disclaime that holy truth which by the teaching of the scripture they haue once throughly entertained Thus this power of the word in conuincing some in conuerting others in amazing some in reioycing others in drawing some earnestly to loue it in prouoking others deeply and tiranously to detest it this same secret and effectuall working of it I say vpon the secret powers of the soule is a testimony for the scripture that it is no deuise of man but the very sacred will of God These ten tokens I haue thought good to commend vnto your care and consideration by which it may be manifested vnto vs that that which we call the Bible and is dayly commeÌ„ded vnto vs to be the word of god is indeed that which it is said to be and the very thing by which we shal be iudged at the last day 1. The purity of the law 2. The matter of the scripture the description of mans misery and of the true remedy for it 3. The antiquitie of it 4. The consent of it with it selfe 5. The certaine euent of all prophesies 6. The vnpartiall dealing of those that write it 7.

were meeter that we should euen with teares of bloud importune him yet the sonnes of men whose breath is in their nosthrils not waighing this vnutterable kindnes should dare to set at naught such a message and to let it flip as if it were some idle stuffe not worth the looking on Againe wheras it is often touched in the scripture that the lord had a speciall regard ouer the Iewish nation more then to any other vnder heauen the liberty of enioying the law of god is noted as the principal benefit which the lord vouchsafed them Deut. 4.8 What nation is there so great saith Moses that hath ordinances and lawes so righteous as all the law which I set before you this day And Dauid in the Psalmes haueing spoken at large touching the prouidence of God ouer all mankind coÌ„meth at last to shew wherin the Iewes had the preeminence aboue all other Ps 147.19 20. in these words He shewed his word vnto Iacob his statutes and Iudgments vnto Israell he hath not dealt so with euery nation Rom. 3.1 2. And Saint Paul propounding to himselfe this question what is then the preferment of the Iew answereth it thus cheifly because vnto them were committed the oracles of God So then seing among all the blessings that God bestowed vpon theÌ„ this was the choise that the great things of the law were committed vnto them in it must needs be an argument of extreame vnthankfulnes in them to make so slight account of so great a fauour The third euill of which this euill here reproued in them was compounded was neglect of their owne priuate good For the lord had not commended to them the things of his law simply as a meanes by which they might shew their obedience vnto his authority Eze. 20.11 but the intent of the lord therin was the furtherance of their good I gaue them saith God statutes and ordinances which if a man doe he shall liue in them the glory should haue returned to God by their obedience but the cheife profit should haue beene their owne and therfore for them to let the law lie like some old booke out of vse or some other forlorne or forraigne matter it could not but argue a most miserable neglect and bewray them to be men of a most profane and dissolute disposition so then if you demaund what great matter this was for which this people was so highly blamed in these words They haue accounted the great things of the law as a strange thing I answere it was an error comprising vnder it 3. soule euills 1. rebellious disobedience to Gods expresse coÌ„maÌ„dment 2. presumtuous contempt and base estimation of gods great kindnes 3. the desperate neglect of the saluation of their owne soules This is the second point Now for the third Which is touching the punishment due to this fault if we haue obserued what hath beene said before touching the nature of the sinne we cannot doubt ether that it deserues a punishment or that the lord will surely proceed against it in his due time but yet if we shall consider what the scripture saith of it in particular it wil much more affect vs. Thus much therefore we may generally vnderstand that the lord punisheth no sinne more greiuously then the contemning of his word and thereof we haue no more full and pregnant example then this Iewish nation For wheras sundry times before the comming of Christ in the flesh the wrath of God came vpon them that the iudgments wherwith they were visited made eueÌ„ their eares to tingle that heard them and brought that very people whome he had carried as it were in his armes out of Egipt to become a hissing and a by-word to the whole world whosoeuer obserueth the course of the prophets shall finde that the principall ground of all this was their slight account of the holy doctrine of God their preferring the inuentions of men the guises of other nations and the traditions of their fathers before the blessed will of the lord manifested and reuealed to them in his law But lest we should thinke this is nothing to vs though indeed it was left written to admonish vs concerning this matter there are two places of holy scripture especially to be considered and they are both in the booke of the Prouerbs Chap. 28. 9. the one is he that turneth away his care from hearing the law euen his prayer shal be abhominable marke I pray you there is no duty in the holy scripture to which the lord hath promised a greater blessing then the duty of prayer Ps 65.2 the lord takes it as an honor vnto him to haue this title to be called the hearer of prayers yet the neglect of Gods word the making no account of the meanes to bring vs to the knowledge of it turnes all a mans prayers into sinne stops vp the eares of the lord vnto all his sutes doth as it were barre vp the gate of heauen against him that though his request be neuer so earnest yet it is vnpossible for him to haue entrance God will heare no prayer that proceeds from him which doth not esteeme the knowledge and vnderstanding of his word a fearefull Iudgment Chap. 1. 22. The other place is O you fooles how long will you loue foolishnes the fooles hate knowledge veâ— 25. and againe you haue despised all my counsell would none of my aduice mark now what followes I will also laugh at their destruction mocke when their feare commeth I beseech you in the feare of God let vs consider it The lord is often reported of to vs in the scripture by the name of a mercifull God a God that doeth not punish willingly a God that doeth not take delight in the death of him that dieth what a grieuous sinne then must that needs be which turneth that so sweete and gratious nature of God into that extremity that he should euen reioice at mens destruction take pleasure in their tormente And yet this reckoning the word of God as a strange thing brings forth this strange effect and makes that God who delights in mercy to please himselfe in the feirce execution of his vengance Thus then wee end this pointe if you aske what iudgment is due to this offence of not regarding the greate things of Gods law I answere in generall it sets open the very floodgate of Gods wrath as appeareth by the example of the Iewes 2 in perticular it makes all our praiers odious and the torment of our soules Luc. 14.28 a matter of reioyceing and pleasure to the Lord. It is truly saied of our Sauiour To whom God giues much of him he requires much The liberty of his word is the greatest blessing and therfore the contempt therof must needs bring vpon vs the greatest vengance Come wee now to the next point to see whether this fault thus described and thus deseruing to be punished be not our faulte

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