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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 circūstance in these words And the King harkened vnto thē 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 groūd 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 thē 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 ● 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 contēted 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