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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

Angel from heauen preach vnto you otherwise then that which we haue preached vnto you let him be accursed Thus we haue heard what flatterers haue been in the Church of God from time to time labouring to seduce and draw Gods children from true religion and his seruice which may be a sufficient warning vnto vs as we haue shewed before lest we be carried away vnto falsehood and become irreligious and profane imbracing the doctrine of diuels for the doctrine of Christ Which many times falleth out amongst vs for want of due care had ouer our selues and therefore it will not be amisse for vs to auoid as much as may be the company of the wicked least by our societie with them we be drawne to ioyne with them in their corrupt religion as also in a profane conuersation Let vs take heed that we lend not our eares to the inchanted melodie of those Sytens whose songs may breed a sweet delight in vs and yet our destruction may be at hand Thus we will conclude this second point that as Absolon by the courteous carriage of himselfe stale away the hearts of his fathers subiects so these Princes by their reuerent behauiour stole away the heart of this king from his God And so much for the second circumstance Now foloweth the three circuÌ„stance in these words And the King harkened vnto theÌ„ Which is as much as if the holy Ghost had said he accepted of their counsell and being deluded by them he declined from the true seruice of God wherein he had been trained vp all his life time by Iehoiada the high Priest and was now fallen away We must not thinke that it was vnlawfull for the King to heare them for in that he heard their counsel he sinned not but in that he obeyed them and was contented to be led by them vnto Idolatrie thereby he incurred the wrath of God and brought a heauie iudgement vpon himselfe and his subiects And therfore it is the part of all good christians and louing subiects to pray vnto God and that continually that it would please his Maiestie so to inlighten all christian kings and princes of the earth with the spirit of wisedome and discerning that they may auoid and slie the dangerous allurements of the wicked whom the Lord sometime suffereth to sit in the place of Magistracie enen to be a rod for the people For Salomon saith I haue seen seruants on horses Princes walk as seruats on the grouÌ„d which saying of Salomon may be thus vnderstood Prou. 10.7 that somtime both in the Church and Commonwealth the vnworthie and vnfit ones are preferred before the worthie and being set at the sterne of the ship they like vnskilfull Pylots suffer the ship to go to wracke But in this thing we must not thinke the hand of God to be wanting but that hee by his prouidence vseth them as a scourge to correct his people as he vsed Nabucadnezer and Senacherib and diuers others to afflict and persecute the stubborne and disobedient Iewes and therefore Dauid his counsell is to be listned vnto whereas he exhorteth all kings and rulers of the earth to submit themselues vnder the hand of God in these words Be wise now therefore ye Kings be learned yee Iudges of the earth Psal 2.10 serue the Lord in feare And therefore if there be any that wil learne true wisedome and be truly wise they must be Gods schollers they must bee contented to he are him speaking vnto them out of his word And so soon as they know that it is the voice of God their answer must be obedience and must say with Samuel speake on Lord 1. Sam. 3.10 thy seruant heareth Thus we must bend our eares vnto God when he speaketh vnto vs by his ministers whom he hath placed ouer vs for our instruction When the people of Israel were to inioy that good land which the Lord had promised them by the right of inheritance and had destroyed many nations kings for their sakes what did the Lord require of them in lieu of his wonderous workes which he wrought vpon Pharao the Aegyptians Sheon king of the Amorits which dwelt at Heshbon and Og the king of Basan and tooke their Cities and diuided them among the tribes of Israel as we may read in Deut. Deut. 3. Truly hee requireth this that they would harken vnto his lawes ordinances and statutes which he gaue them by the hand of Moses his seruant whom he had placed ouer them in authoritie as appeareth further in the next chapter of this booke where hee thus speaketh vnto the people from the Lord. Now therefore hearken O Israel vnto the ordinances Deut. 4. and to the lawes which I teach you to doe them that ye may liue and go in and possesse that land which the Lord God of your fathers giueth you And again he saith Keepe them therfore and do them for that is your wisedome and your vnderstanding in the sight of the people which shall heare of all these ordinances and shall say onely this people is wise and of vnderstanding and a great nation c. Thus euerie one from the highest to the lowest must hearken to the lawes of God set downe vnto them in his word to do them for this is true wisedome and true vnderstanding both before God and men Yea other nations shall be constrained to acknowledge and confesse that this our people nation is a wise people and of vndestanding yea further the Lord maketh most sweet promises vnto theÌ„ if they wil hearken vnto his lawes to do them Deut. 28. as we may read in the same booke where also he doth denounce threaten to lay his curses vpon them which do the contrarie And againe in the fifth of this booke when Moses was to deliuer the law written in Tables of stone which he had receiued of the Lord to deliuer vnto Israel he called all the people together and said vnto them Deut. 5. Heare O Israel the ordinances and lawes which I propose to you this day And againe in the next chapter he hath the like words saying Heare therfore O Israel and take heed to do it And again he saith Deut. 6. heare O Israel the Lordour God is Lord onely And thus as Moses laboured that the people of Israel should apply their eares hearts to heare and to do that which he taught them from the Lord euen so should we apply the same and lay them vp in our hearts with blessed Marie Luke â— and ponder them to our further comfort But it is the nature of man to haue his eares open to heare the counsell of men many times before the counsel of God and according to the affection we beare vnto them we are conteÌ„ted to suffer our selues to be led by them whether it be with or against the truth whereby many times it falleth out to our ouerthrow destruction as we shal hereafter

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 exaÌ„ple 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

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