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A19716	The care of a Christian conscience Ten sermons on the 25 psalme, preached in Tewkesburie in the countie of Gloucester, By Richard Curtis.	Curteys, Richard, 1532?-1582.	1600 (1600)	STC 6134; ESTC S111010	79,468	216

our aduersaries do slaunder vs therefore herein they fight with their owne shadow B. l. 3. de Verbo Cap. 1. We confesse that the Lord in the Scriptures hath tempered hard things and easie together that wee might be exercised in the Scriptures might knock by prayer and study for the opening of the sence and that there might be order kept in the Church some to be teachers and expoūders and some to be hearers by which teachers and expounders through their diligent search and trauell the harder places may be opened to the people But this wee affirme against our aduersaries First that al points of faith necessary to saluation are plainly setforth in the holy Scriptures Secondly that they may with great profite be read of the simple and vnlearned notwithstanding the hardnesse of some places which in time also vsing the meanes they come to the vnderstanding thereof Arg. 1 1. Arg. First our iudgements are euidently approued by the Scriptures Deut. 30.11 For this commaundement which I commaund thee is not hid from thee neither is it farre of verse 12. It is not in heauen that thou shouldest say Who shall goe vp for vs to heauen and bring it vs and cause vs to heare it that we may do it verse 13. Neither is it beyond the sea that thou shouldest say Who shall goe ouer the sea for vs and bring it vs and cause vs to heare it that we may do it verse 14. But the word is very neree vnto thee euen in thy mouth and in thine hart to do it Therefore the Scriptures are plaine Vnto this Argument first it is aunswered that it is meant onely of the Decalogue or 10. Commaundements that they are easie not of the whole Scriptures Answer Replication As though if the Commaundements be easie the rest of the Scriptures be not likewise as the Prophets and historicall Bookes being but Commentaries and expositions of the Decalogue S. Paul Rom. 10.6 vnderstandeth this place of the whole doctrine of faith Againe the prophet Dauid saith Ps 119.105 Thy word is a lanterne to my feete a light to my path Which is not to bée vnderstood onely of the commaundements and precepts in the Scriptures but of the whole word of GOD as Augustine expoundeth it Quod ait Lucernae pedibus verbum tuum verbum est quod Scripturis omnibus sanctis continetur Where hée saith Thy word is a lanterne to my féete hée vnderstandeth the word of God which is contained in all the holy Scriptures Arg. 2 The 2. Argument 2. Cor. 4.3 If our Gospell be then hidde it is hidden to thē that are lost Therefore the Scriptures are plaine to the faithful Bellar. answereth S. Paul speaketh of the knowledge of Christ not of the Scriptures Replie First it is manifest out of the next verse being the 4. whereas the Apostle saith In whom the God of this world hath blinded the mindes that is of the Infidels that the light of the glorious Gospel of Christ which is the image of God should not shine vnto them that S. Paul speaketh of that Gospell which he preached to the Corinthians which is the same he wrote vnto them Wherfore if the Gospel preached were easie and plaine why is not the Gospell written by him I meane the doctrine of faith beyng the same which hee preached Secondly if they graunt as by this answere it appeareth they do wee aske no more for this is that which wee say that the Doctrine of faith saluation is plainly expressed in the sacred scripture Arg. 3 3. Arg. This is the differēce betwéene the new testament the old The old is compared to a clasped booke Is 29.11 The new to a booke opened Apoc. 5.1 6.1 The knowledge of Christiās far exceedeth the knowledge of the Iewes it was lawfull for them to read the Scriptures much more for vs Christians Bellar. answereth that our knowledge is greater then theirs not in all Scriptures but in the mysteries of our Redemption onely Our Replie is This is all wée desire for if the mystery of saluation redemption be plainly opened in the Scripture why should not the people be admitted to the reading of the word to be confirmed in the knowledge of their redemption I conclude therefore this point with the sayings of our sauiour Christ Iohn 5. Search the Scriptures for in them you thinke to haue eternall life and they do testifie of mee Likewise S. Paul to the Colossians 3.16 Let the woord of Christ dwell in you plenteously in all wisedome The seuenth Sermon vpon the 25. Psalme the 15 and 16. verses 15 Mine eyes are euer towardes the Lord for he will bring my feete out of the net The sence thereof is FOrasmuch as the Lord of his great mercy hath promised neuer to leaue them destitute of his assistance which fearing alwaies trusting in him are in great afflictions perils and daungers I therfore not in prosperitie onely but in aduersitie also euen at all times lift vp the eies of mine heart and affections by faith sure confidence towards him seing it is he onely and none other that either can or wil deliuer mée out of the net of troubles Doct. 1 1. Doct. Afflictions and troubles are alwaies incident to the deare Saints Church of Christ 2. Tim. 3.12 All that will liue godly in Christ must suffer persecution Examples Abel Ioseph the Israelites in Egipt and in the captiuity seuentie yéeres the Prophets Christ his Apostles Christians and Martyrs in the Primitiue time and also of late yéeres The causes therof mouing God thereunto are First that he might daily declare himself the disposer gouernour of al things 1. Sam. 2 7. The Lord maketh poore and maketh rich bringeth low and exalteth Secōdly to take from vs that do naturally settle our affections on the earth all occasion of promising our selues prosperity in this life Vse The vse is First to prepare our selues to all conditions whether the Lord send prosperitie or aduersitie health or sicknesse according to the example of the Apostle Paul Phil. 4.11 12. who saith I haue learned in whatsoeuer state I am to bee content verse 12. And I can be abased I can abound euery where in all things I am instructed both to be ful and to be hungry and to abound and to haue want For otherwise it is certaine that affliction comming vpon vs wil be most gréeuous and intolerable Secondly to teach vs to settle our affections vpon heauen the thinges that lead thither which is a most certain anchor-hold and wil neuer faile vs as this world will doe in the most excellent things thereof And forasmuch as no Doctrine in the sacred Scriptures is in my iudgement more necessary then this concerning the vse and benefites of afflictions I purpose by Gods assistance the longer to persist herein Euen as the man that hath a sonne A similitude which is in good and perfect health and a seruant that is