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A16598	A godly sermon preached before the right worshipfull Edvvard Cooke Esquier Atturney Generall vnto the Queens most excellent Maiestie, and others of worship, in Tittleshall in Norfolke: by F.B.	Bradley, Francis, fl. 1600.	1600 (1600)	STC 3505; ESTC S116905	21,385	48

commanded Salomon to build the Temple after which time the Israelites were commaunded to resort thither for the performance of such sacrifices and other rites and ceremonies which were required of them by the Lord all which seruice and worship continued till the comming of Christ although it were altogether corrupted amongst the Iewes as also amongst the high Priests with the Scribes and Pharisees and after that Salomon had builded the Temple hee made his prayer vnto God that the Lord would haue his eares open vnto the prayers of his seruants which should pray vnto him in that place and that if any should be ledde into captiuitie and returne vnto the Lorde by repentance 2. Chro. 6 1. King 7. with their faces towards the Temple that hee would be ready to heare them the Lord answering his prayer in the next Chapter Thus they left off to serue God and became Idolaters and hasted Gods iudgements against themselues What should I speake of our Italian and Romish worshippers when as euery man that hath any sight at all may see their grosse and palpable dealing in absenting themselues from our assemblies and saigning vnto themselues a religion of their own braine So that as they haue forsaken the fellowship of Gods children in the congregation so haue they forsaken God himselfe and set vp Idols in God his stead casting downe themselues before them and worshipping them but if they will say they worship not the Idoll or image but God in them or by them this is grosse idolatrie befofore God But blessed be God for that it hath pleased his Maiesty to stir vp our gracious Queene to tread in the steps of good Ezechtas and Iosias to destroy the Idoll groues and temples with those high places or rather high Altars which were erected for the sacrifices of their Masse and other their superstition Another sort there are that haue left our publike assemblies Brownists saying we haue neither Church nor lawfull ministery and yet haue some of them confessed that the knowledge which they haue they first came vnto it by the hearing of the word of God in our congregations preached by those whom now they do condemne they pretend purity in the profession of the Gospel and see not that their proceeding cannot be warranted by the word nay some of them haue confessed that since that they left of to heare the word preached they haue found themselues very colde in religion These with others are puffed vp with a certaine proud conceit of themselues and doe beare themselues very stubbornly towards their superiours eyther forgetting or else not hauing learned the lesson of meeknes and humility of our Sauiour Christ Mat. 11. I will not speake of the idle life of some of them how they haue neglected their calling wandring from place to place and liuing by the labours of others but it were well if we could approue our humility in some measure before God and men with holy Dauid who saith My bea rt is not haughty neither are my eyes lofty Psal 13. neither haue I walked in great matters and hid from me by which words the Prophet approoueth himselfe before God as one of his and purgeth himfelse from this sin of pride There are also some which although they leaue not of altogether to heare the word yet how much time do they spend in reading bookes vnprofitable and prophane which tendeth much to the hurt of a good mind being stuffed with many lies and tales as the booke of King Arthur Sir Tristram Sir Lancclet the booke of Skogging Beuis of Southhampton the hundreth vnsauory tales filled with ribaldry I say nothing of amorous bookes yea rather venemous bookes flowing with lasciuiousnes and vncleannes and such other dregs of the like stamp which were sitter for the fire then the presse in these toyes while many do spend their time in reading of them they neuer complaine of wearines although they spend diuers houres in the forenoone and also in the afternoone but the hearing of the word of God is irksome vnto them yet they can be content to driue away the time as they say which I haue shewed before should be better imployed yea the long winter nights must by that meanes be shortned and as the eares of many are very attentiue so their hearts are carried away with a certain delight of such stuffe as they heare out of such prophane bookes but as for the sacred book of God the holy Bible it lieth in a corner being seldome vsed if there be any And these although they do not altogether refuse to heare the word of God yet it hath not wrought such a relish in them Act. 17.11 that with the noblemen of Berea they search the scripture and therefore as the Lord saith Why takest thou my wordin thy mouth and hatest to be reformed So it may be said to those why hearest thou my word and hatest to be reformed Wel for as much as it is the work of God his spirit both to will and to doe the thing that is good we must haue our recourse vnto God by praier to work those things in vs which nature will not afford that we hearing the word may reape such profit as that we may relish and taste it to the building of vs vp in Christ Now as it is the part of all men to labour for a sauing knowledge so also must this knowledge beget a practise in all those that professe the Gospel following the example of the godly in the scripture who after they had the tree of saith planted in them they brought forth fruit accordingly as appeareth by Zacheus Luk. 19. Luke 19 and that we may be the better stirred vp to vse the means for faith let vs consider the example of some whom the holy Ghost hath set out vnto vs and our sauiour Christ himselfe vpbraiding the stubborne Iewes bringeth in that exāple worthy of memory to wit the Queene of the south who is said to come from the vttermost part of the earth to heare the wisedome of Salomon and behold saith he a greater then Salomon is here she is said to haue left for a time her fruitful country Arabia called Saba when as she might haue had sufficient excuses for her stay at home Chro. 2. ch 9 Mat 12 first the weaknes of her sex with the longues of the iourney the perill of her owne person insurrections and commotions in her absence many things of moment might haue stayed her but she laying aside all excuses whatsoeuer came with a resolute purpose to heare the wisedome of Salomon We haue heard how the noble men of Berea searched the scripture after they had heard the Doctrine of the Apostles Also I remember that famous Ladie of Herods court accompanied with other godly women being the wife of Herods steward whom the Euangelist reporteth that they went to heare our Sauiour preach out of a ship they standing by the Sea side