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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14585	A fruitfull and godly sermon preached at Paules crosse before the Honourable audience and assemblie there, this present yeare 1592. Vpon the 5. chapter of the prophesie of Zacharie, 1, 2, 3, 4 verses. By A.W.	Willet, Andrew, 1562-1621.	1592 (1592)	STC 24899; ESTC S119640	29,840	80

the inconstant waters whereof the wise man speaketh Prou. 27 19. Or as one that forsaketh the fountaine of liuing waters and diggeth the broken pits of humane inuention which can hold no water Ierem. 2 13. Moses receiued of God this especiall grace and fauour that whereas the Lord spake to other prophets by vision and dreame he would be knowne to Moses face to face mouth to mouth Numb 12 7 8. He then that refuseth the word and runneth to vnknowne traditions and vncertaine and deceiueable doctrines might as well say I will not haue God to speake to me mouth to mouth for so doth he in his word but I desire to bee taught by visions and dreames Let vs heare what our sauiour sayth scrutamini scripturas search the scriptures Ioh. 5 39 And S. Paule saith they are able to make the man of God perfect to euerye good worke 2. Timo. 3 17. If then the worde of God doo bring perfection with it what neede we any other helpes or furtherances perfection being by the word already attained It followeth nowe that we speake of the booke and the description thereof which commeth to be considered in the first part We do read of three sundrye bookes besides the written word which the Lord in the scriptures is saide for to haue The first is the booke of his secrets as that which was shewed to Ezechiel 2 10. and that which Iohn saw Reuel 5 1 None was found worthy to open it but the lambe The seconde is the Lordes register booke or his booke of recorde and remembrances wherin al things doone in the worlde either good or euill are as it were registred Malachy 3 16. A copy or counterpane of this booke euerie man hath in his conscience which is called the booke of our conscience Reuelations 20 12. The thirde is called the booke of life which is nothing else but the lords stedfast decree concerning those that shall be saued Reuel 20 12. and another booke was opened c. This booke which the prophet heere saw is as the firste the decree of Gods iudgements which he had determined to bring vpon the wicked This booke first is a swifte booke which betokeneth the swiftnesse spee dinesse of the iudgementes of God For howsoeuer vnto the wicked if the Lord spare them but a little to prouoke them to repentance his iudgmentes seame to be slow yet shall they come in the end and suddainly when they are vnlooked for The Lord is not slack as some men count slacknes saith S. Peter for a thousand yeeres with the Lord are but as one day and one day as a thousand yeeres 2. Pet. 3 8. What and if the wicked escape vnpunished euen vntill his old age yet when Gods iudgmentes ouertake him at the length then hec is constrained to cry out and confes that the iudgments of God are swift indeed and too soone brought vpon him The Lord spared the old world a thousande six hundred yeeres and more yet when the floud came no doubt the wicked which perished in the waters thought their destruction to bee too sudden So was the finall ouerthrow of Amaleck deferred 400. yeares from Moses time vntill Saule yet who wil not say that they soone were brought to vtter ruine Therefore is the destruction of the wicked likened to the putting out of a candle which with one little blaste or puffe of wind is soone extinguished and put out Iob. 18 5. like the house of a spider which is soone dissolued Iob. 8 14. They are set as in slippery places soone ouerturned and cast downe Psal. 73 18. Yea they are as a dream then the which nothing is more vaine Psal. 73 20. But some man will say as Augustine speketh in their person Ego iam senui multos castos inuenes ante me sepeliui multorum castorum funera ad sepulchrum deduxi I am now aged may the olde adulterer saye I haue buried many chast yong men and followed them to the graue O saith he writing vppon those wordes of the Psalme Perdet Deus eorum memoriam de terra god shall cast out their memorye from the earth Est alia terra saith he in qua non erit inpudicus est alia terra in regno caelorum There is another coūtry into the which no vncleane person shall enter another land in the kingdom of heauen Wherefore boast not O thou secure sinner whosoeuer thou art that thou hast continued many yeares and neuer tasted of the cuppe of Gods wrath What if thou passest all thy time in pleasure yet know that Gods iudgements may meete with thee in another worlde Remember the example of the rich glutton in the Gospell who liued on earth in all outwarde happines when his life was ended with all his vaine ioy and his sorrows began thinke you not that euen then the time past semed as nothing no notas one day or one houre to him or that he thought not in himselfe that the iudgementes of God were swift yea swifter then any Eagle Therefore let no sinner flatter him selfe in his vngodlinesse or thinke because the iudgementes of God are deferred that eyther he regardeth not as the wicked and sinfull doe imagine or else that the vngodly shall escape vnpunished It is also a large booke 10. cubites in bredth and in length 20. cubits wherby is signified that none of what place calling soeuer that are or can be exempted from Gods iudgements Neither the rich shall escape bicause of his riches nor the wise man by his wisdom yea rather than any of the vngodly shal be left out of this booke it is written both within and without Isach 2 10. Tropheh saith the prophet is prepared euen for the king Isai. 30 33. saye vnto the king and the queene humble your selues in sackcloth Ier. 13 18. Wherefore fitlye are the iudgements of God compared to a rasour that shall shaue not only the heare of the feet but of the head and the beard also Isai. 7 20. they are as a raging floud that commeth vp not to the loines only and the middle but euen to the chin and the neck Isai. 8 8. And although other fishers doo spred their net for the smaller fish they cannot take the Leuiathan of the sea the Whale or the whirlepoole with an hooke or pierce his iawes with an angle as the Lord saith to Iob. 40 21. Yet the Lorde will come against the great Dragon and Crocodile of the riuers he will take him with an hooke and cause the fish to cleaue to his scales Isai. 29 4. By this then we do learne that there are no such mighty potentates or powers vpon the earth whome the Lord is not able to ouerthrow and to tread as mire of the streat vnder his feet if they rebel against him And therefore the church and people of God neede neither to feare Pope nor Spaniard no if all the kinges of the earth were leagued togither against them though they stande vppe