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B15167	A plaine exposition vpon the whole thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth chapters of the Epistle of Saint Paul to the Romanes Wherein the text is diligently and methodically resolued, the sense giuen, and many doctrines thence gathered, are by liuely vses applied for the benefit of Gods children. Performed with much varietie, and conuenient breuitie, by Elnathan Parr Bachelor in Diuinity, and preacher of Gods word. To which is prefixed an alphabeticall table, containing the chiefe points and doctrines handled in the booke.	Parr, Elnathan, d. 1622.	1622 (1622)	STC 19321; ESTC S114077	263,450	369

bee questioned 3 For testifying our duty and submission to Christ as our Lord and mine opinion is that it were a most comely thing if whensoeuer we speake of God or of our blessed and deare Master Iesus Christ we would by putting off the hat or bowing of the knee or both acknowledge our dutifull reuerence Seneca neuer thought of Cato Laelius Socrates Seneca epl 64. and such like famous men but with great respect Ego illos veneror et tantis nominibus semper assurgo I reuerence them quoth he and alwaies rise vp at their names There is small reason then that any should quarrell with our Church for requiring this antient rite to be practised and for my part I endeuour at euery mention of Gods mercies to testifie some reuerence which I know I can neuer sufficiently performe Bowing of the knee is taken for the worship of God Vse 1 and the subiection of the Soule and Spirit to God therefore it is not vnlawfull to be vsed in the worship of God Nay it is the most decent forme of prayer or receiuing the Sacrament because in the one we beg and in the other wee receiue the greatest blessing at the hands of God It may seeme that God hath made our knees flexible euen for this purpose So Ambrose was of opinion Ambros Hex l. 6. c. 9. Flexibile genu quo domini mitigatur offensa ira mulcetur gratia prouocatur Our knee saith he is made bowing by the which wee craue pardon for offence mitigate the anger of the Lord and obtaine grace alledging the Text in the 2. of the Philippians That at the Name of Iesus euery knee should bowe c. By this gesture wee declare our selues to be impotent and needy It is the gesture of suppliants for fauour It is both a testimony and a stirring vp of yeelding affections Reuerent gestures doe not a little foster religion and inflame and prouoke the reuerence of the minde so that I cannot but maruaile at many who at prayers rather choose to stand then to kneele though they may very conueniently so doe Let all acknowledge and submit vnto Christ Vse 2 with heart and tongue and life Hee is God and our Iudge let vs adore him which we doe when we beleeue and liue well He that liues wickedly Hieron com in epl ad Eph. lib. 2. bowes to the Diuell Toties Diabolo flectimus genu quotieseunque peceamus so often doth a man make a leg to the Diuell as hee sinnes saith S. Hierome The blasphemer the drunkard c. acknowledge the Diuell to be their Lord. I warne thee that thou speedily submit thy selfe to Christ If thou doest not now so doe by his word the time will come when thou shalt bee compelled to doe it spight of thy heart and to thy damnation Behold it is sealed As I liue saith the Lord it shall be so Thou shalt bee made to stoope for the Lord hath sworne it Rather now let vs fall downe and worship him that we may haue comfort to saluation VERSE 12. So then euery one of vs shall giue account of himselfe to God IN this verse is set downe the end of our standing before the Iudgement seat of Christ which is to giue account and it is amplified three waies First from the Persons accomptant Second from the matter of which account must bee made and third the person to whom it is to be accounted Shall giue account for this end must wee appeare to account for things done and receiued The processe of the last Iudgement being set downe vnder the similitude of things Ciuill As a Master deliuering money and goods to his seruants afterwards exacts a reckoning and as a Schoolemaster calles his schollers to render the lesson hee hath taken thence so shall wee appeare to render an account of our stewardship Euery one of vs of vs men and so good and bad to be included or of vs beleeuers and so the wicked to be concluded from the lesse The person accountant euery one hee saith not all but euery one not all shuffled together and in the grosse Reuel 20.12 but eueuery one seuerally Euery one without exception both small and great Emperours Kings Princes Iudges must there giue account and be iudged as well as others Here not euery man that comes to the Assises is iudged or standeth forth but there we shall all be actors our selues as well as spectators of others But the Saints shall iudge the world 1 Cor. 6.2 Obiect True but that is as they are considered Answ either as members vnited to their head or in comparison of the wicked or in regard of comprobation and assent notwithstanding they shall bee iudged not with the iudgement of Reprobation or condemnation but of Approbation hauing obtained their Quietus est and full discharge from the Iudge Of himselfe This is the matter of the account We shall giue account for others as fathers for the bringing vp of their children Kings for the gouerning of their Subiects c. But of others onely so far as any thing of theirs belongs to our calling as Ministers must giue account for the soules of the people as S. Paul saith Here we may haue an Atturney to appeare for vs Heb. 13.17 and a Counsellor to pleade for vs but there euery one of vs shall giue account of himselfe Of himselfe that is of all his thoughts words deeds passed in his whole life and of all things which concerne his person calling or actions But this seemes impossible because wee are not able to number or to remember all which hath passed vs in our life But God knowes and remembers though we know not nor remember For there are books of remembrance the booke of Gods predestination wherein the persons of men are recorded and the bookes of conscience wherein euery mans particular thoughts words and deedes with their circumstances are registred Reuel 20.12 Aug. lib. de Ciu. Dei ca. 14. Orig. comment in Rom. 14. I saw the dead saith Iohn both small and great stand before God and the bookes were opened of the Olde an New Testament saith Augustine of Conscience saith Origen and another booke was opened which was of life and the dead were iudged out of those things which were written in the bookes according to their works God will put a kinde of diuine power into the conscience Qua fiat vt cuique opera sua bona vel mala cuncta in memoriam reuocentur mentis intuitu mira celeritate cernantur Aug. loco mod● citat whereby the conscience shall remember and wonderfully apprehend and the minde discerne all our works good or bad said S. Augustine We shall see our owne and each others faults Before God This is the person vnto whom the account must be made Before he said Christ here hee saith God therefore Christ is God In the same humane forme and shape in which Christ came to be iudged Reuel 1.7 shall he come

people of my Lord liue soberly chastly c. and shall I commit such things As the Lord liueth I will not doe this thing 2. Sam. 11.11 Let the loue of Christ to vs Vse 3 constraine vs to loue and obey him Christ tooke vpon him our sinnes and dyed vnder the burthen for vs. He sought not his owne pleasure but our good let not vs seeke to please our selues but him What should haue become of Manasses Dauid Mary Magdalen Peter Yea what should haue become of vs all if he had sought to ease and please himselfe Yea if he should not beare with vs euery day Let nothing draw thee from his obedience whom nothing could draw from effecting thy good If most vnspeakable torments most bitter death most shamefull reproches could haue done it hee had neuer redeemed thee If counsell euen Peters counsell could haue preuailed Matth. 16.22 he had pleased himselfe to our eternall displeasure But he ouercame all impediments to please and profit thee though to his infinite paine so doe thou to please and obey him though it should cost thee ten thousand liues Sinnes are reproches against God to commit drunkennesse Vse 4 whoredome to blaspheme lye slander is to reuile the most High Hee that curseth and reuileth his Parents is worthy of death much more if the Creature shall reproach his Creator God accounteth himselfe honored when wee obey him and dishonored by our rebellions remember what is written and reproch him not The Lord saith Them that honor me 1. Sam. 2.30 I will honor and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed VERSE 4. For whatsoeuer things were written aforetime were written for our learning that we throughpatience and comfort of the Scriptures might haue hope THe first Proposition of the Argument vers 3. was this Whatsoeuer is written of Christ we must follow This is here proued by an argument taken from the end of the Scriptures they are written for our learning It seemeth to be inferred by a Prolepsis It is written that Christ pleased not himselfe some might say what is that to vs Much saith Paul For whatsoeuer is written aforetime is written for our learning That of Christ is written afore Therefore c. Here are two things deliuered of the Scriptures making for the commendation of them Their end which is Doctrine Their vse which is Hope which Hope is set forth by the meanes whereby it is nourished Patience and Consolation which are noted by their Instrument whereby they are wrought the Scriptures Whatsoeuer things are written aforetime This notifieth the old Testament which was then onely written and is to be applied to the New also for there is the same end of both which is Christ Learning that is heauenly learning For other matters as the Art of Nauigation Husbandry c. may be learned by other writings but to know God aright to vnderstand his prouidence the Redemption of man by Christ c. by no booke to be attained but onely by the Scriptures There is a great booke which sheweth vs the Inuisible things of God which is the Booke of the Creatures but the Scripture onely able to make vs wise in such things to saluation That we might haue hope through patience and comfort of the Scriptures Hope is the certaine expectation of eternall life to be giuen freely for Christ the daughter of faith yet being as ancient as the mother Faith beleeues hope expects Patience is a voluntary suffering of things grieuous for piety sake Comfort is better felt then by words declared yet you may say that it is a sweet effect of our Iustification vpon the affections whereby we re●oyce in the promises of God Some reade exhortation because the Greeke word signifies both and M. B●za doth not much disallow it Ambrose but it cannot bee so taken here for the resuming of both these in the next verse The God of patience and consolation for I remember not that God is any where called the God of exhortation Patience and comfort though they beget not hope yet they are as the two brests which nourish and confirme it Iob said Though hee slay me I will trust in him and againe All the dayes of my appointed time will I wait Iob 13.15 Iob 14.14 till my change come His patience and the comfort he felt sustained him in this hope Of the Scriptures Scripture is a Latine word and signifies writing now the bookes of the Old and New Testament are called the Scriptures or writings in regard of their excellency as onely worthy to bee written Scriptures with this addition Holy So we call the Scriptures in one volume the Bible which is a Greekish word as if wee should say The Bible because as Dauid said of Goliahs sword there is none to that so we may say of this Booke a Caedar in Lebanon not more exceeding the lowliest shrub then this all other bookes As the gold and siluer and raiment of the Israelites comming out of Aegypt was nothing comparable to the riches of Ierusalem in the dayes of Salomon August l. 2. de Doct. Christ ca. 42. so neither the learning of all prophane writings with the holy Scriptures as saith Saint Augustine For saith he Quicquid homo extra didicerit c. Whatsoeuer a man learnes in other bookes if it be ill it is in the Bible condemned if it be good it is there to be found and ouer and aboue there are things of exceeding profit to bee found which we shall meet with in no other booke These holy Scriptures worke patience and consol●tion that patience and comfort which is gotten elsewhere will faile in the time of need The Scriptures were written for our edification in learning Doctr. and hope by patience and comfort Psal 19 7.8.9.10.11 where the effects of the law or Scriptures of the old Testament are set downe to bee most soueraigne and wholesome much more now in the addition of the New Testament Rom. 4.23 1 Cor. 10.11 Ioh. 20.31 2 Tim. 3.15.16.17 The Scriptures are most excellent Vse 1 1 In regard of their Author which is God but this is not in our Text. 2 In regard of their Contents which is the heauenly Doctrine whereby the wounded and dead conscience is comforted and reuiued 3 In regard of their perfection there is no errour in them there is nothing idle or superfluous for whatsoeuer is written as Paul here and elsewhere all Scripture is exceeding profitable to learning and hope We reade the ancient Fathers with singular comfort but in them as in all moderne writers there is something if not erroneous a Consule Aug. Marcellino Ep. 7 yet that might bee spared but this Booke the whole and euery part of it is profitable vsefull and necessary and this onely hath this priuiledge as S. Augustine twice in one Epistle acknowledgeth b Aug. Hieron Ep 19. and elsewhere c Aug. Vincent Ep. 48. Quaeuis bracteola d Chrysost Hom. 1. ad