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A04931	A sermon preached by Iohn Knox minister of Christ Iesus in the publique audience of the Church of Edenbrough, within the realme of Scotland, vpon Sonday, the. 19. of August. 1565 For the which the said Iohn Knoxe was inhibite preaching for a season. To this is adioyned an exhortation vnto all the faythfull within the sayde realme, for the reliefe of suche as faythfully trauayle in the preaching of Gods worde. Written by the same Iohn Knoxe, at the commaundement of the ministerie aforesayd.	Knox, John, ca. 1514-1572.	1566 (1566)	STC 15075; ESTC S108139	37,230	132

take trial of this poynt it is not hard for Moses in the election of Iudges and of a King describeth not onelye what persones shall be chosen to that honour but doth also giue to him that is elected and chosē the rule by the which he shal trie himselfe whether God raygne in him or not saying when he shal sit vpō the throne of his kingdō he shal write to himself an examplar of this lawe in a boke by the priests the Leuits it shal be with him and he shall reade therin all the dayes of his life that he may learne to feare the Lord his god and to kepe all the words of this law these statuts ▪ that he may do them that his hart be not lifted vp aboue his brethrē that he turne not from the cōmaundement to the right hand or to the left Thesame is repeated to Iosua in his inanguration to the regiment of the people by God himselfe saying let not the boke of this lawe depart fro thy mouth but meditate in it day night that thou mayst kepe and do according to al that which is written in it For then shall thy way be prosperous and thou shalt do prudently The first thing thē that god craueth of him that is called to the honor of a king is the knowlege of his wil reuealed in his word The second is an vpright and willing minde to put in execution suche things as God commaundeth in his lawe without declyning eyther to the right or left hande Kings then haue not an absolute power to do in their regimēt what pleaseth them but their power is limitted by gods word So that if they strike where god commaundeth not they are but murderers if they spare wher GOD commaundeth to strike they and their throne are criminal and giltie of the wickednesse that aboundeth vpon the face of the earth for lacke of punishment O if Kings and Princes shuld consider what accompt shall be craued of them as well of their ignoraunce and misknoweledge of Gods will as for the neglecting of their office But nowe to returne to the words of the Prophet In the person of the whole people he doth complayne vnto God that the Babilonians whō he calleth other Lordes besydes God both bycause of their ignoraunce of God and by reason of their crueltie and inhumanitie hadde long ruled ouer them in all rigor without pitie or cōcompassion had vpon the aunciente men and famous matrones For they being mortall enimies of the people of God sought by all meanes to aggrauate their yoke yea vtterlye to haue exterminate the memorie of thē and of their religion from the face of the earth After the first part of this dolorous complaynt the Prophete declareth the protestation of the people saying neuerthelesse onely in thee shall we remember thy name others reade it Put wee wyll remember thee onelye and thy name But in the Hebrew there is no Coniunction copulatiue in that sentence The minde of the Prophete is playne to wit that not withstanding the long sustayned affliction the people of God declyned not to a false and vayne religion but remembred God that sometime appeared to them in his mercifull presence which albeit then they saw not yet would they still remēber his name that is they would cal to minde the doctrine and promise which sōetimes they hard albeit in their prosperity they did not sufficiently glorifie God who so mercifully ruled in the midst of them The temptation no doubt of the whole Isralites was gret in those dayes They were caryed captiues from the land of Canaan which was to thē the gage pledge of Gods fauour towardes thē For it was the inheritaunce that God promised to Abrahā to his seede for euer The league couenant of Gods protection appeared to haue beene broken They lamentably cōplayne that they sawe not their accustomed signes of Gods merciful presēce The true prophets were fewe the abhominatiōs vsed in Babylon were exceding many And so it might haue apered to thē that in vayne it was that they were called the posteritie of Abrahā or that euer they had receyued law or form of right religion frō god That we may the better fele it in our selues the temptatiō I say was euē such as if God shuld vtterly destroy al order policy that this day is withī his church that the true preaching of the worde should be suppressed The right vse of sacramēts abolished Idolatry papistical abhomination erected vp again And therwith that our bodies should be takē prisoners by Turks or other manifest enimies of God of al Godlynesse ▪ Such I say was their temptatiō How notable then is this their cōfessiō that in bōdage they make to wit that they wil remember God onely albeit he hath appeared to turne his face from them they will remember hys name and will cal to minde the deliuerance promised Hereof haue we to consider what is our duetie if God bring vs as for oure offences and vnthankfulnesse iustely he may to the like extremitie This confession is not the fayre flattering wordes of hypocrites lying and bathing in their pleasures but it is the mightye operation of the spirite of God who leaueth not his owne destitute of some comfort in their most desperate calamities This is then oure duety not onely to confesse our god in the time of peace and quietnes but he chiefely craueth that we auowe him in the middeste of his and our enimies And this is to doe but it behoueth that the spirite of God worke in vs aboue all power of nature And thus we ought earnestlye to meditate before the battayle rise more vehement which appeareth not to be farre of but now must we enter in somewhat more deepely to consider these iudgements of God This people entreated as we haue heard was the onely people vpon the face of the earth to whō God was rightly knowen among them onely were his lawes statuts ordinaunces and sacrifices vsed and put in practise They onely inuocated his name and to them alone had he promised his protection and assistance What then shoulde be the cause that he shoulde giue them ouer into this great reproche and bring them into suche extremitie as his owne name in them shoulde be blasphemed The Prophet Ezekiell that saw this horrible destruction forespoke by Isaiah put in iust execution giueth an aunswere in these wordes I gaue vnto them lawes that were good in the which whosoeuer shoulde walke should liue in them But they woulde not walke in my wayes but rebelled against me and therefore I haue giuen vnto them lawes that are not good and iudgements in the which they shal not liue The writer of the bookes of kings and cronicles declare this in more playne words saying the Lorde sent vnto them his prophets rising early desiring of them to retourne vnto the Lorde and to amende their wicked wayes for he would haue

cryme aboue all others abhominable For to what ende is it that God erecteth his throne among vs but for that we shoulde feare him Why doth he reueale his holy will vnto vs but that we shoulde obey it Why doth he deliuer vs from trouble but that we shuld be witnesses vnto the world that he is gracious and mercifull Nowe when that men hearing their duety knowing what God requireth of them doe malepertly fight against al equitie and iustice what I pray you doe they else but make manifest warre against God yea when they haue receiued from God suche deliuerance that they cannot deny but that God himselfe hath in his great mercye visited them and yet that they continew wicked euen as before What deserue they but effectually to be giuen ouer into a reprobate sence that hedlong they may runne to ruine both of body and soule It is almost incredible that man should be so enraged against God that neyther his plagues nor yet his mercy shewed should moue them to repentaunce but bicause the scriptures beareth witnesse of the one and the other Let vs cease to meruell and let vs firmely beleue that such things as haue bene are euen presently before our eyes albeit manye blinded by affection can not see them Ahab as in the boke of the kings is written receyued many notable benefits of the hande of God who did visit him in diuers sortes some tymes by his plagues sometimes by his worde and sometymes by his merciful deliuerance He made him King and for the Idolatry vsed by him and by his wife he plagued whole Israell by famyne He reuealed to him his will and true religion by the Prophet Helias he gaue vnto him sundry deliuerances but one moste speciall when proude Benhadab came to besiege Samaria and was not content to receiue Ahabs gold siluer sonnes daughters and wyues but also required that his seruaunts shoulde haue at their pleasure whatsoeuer was delectable in Samaria true it is that his elders and people willed him not to heare the proude tirant But who made vnto him the promise of deliuerance and who appointed and put his armye in order who assured him of victorie The Prophet of God onely who assured him that by the seruantes of the Princes of the prouinces who in number were onely 232 he should deface that great armie in the which there were .32 Kings with all their forces As the Prophete of God promised so it came to passe Victorie was obtained not once only but twice and that by the mercifull visitation of the Lorde But howe did Ahab visite God againe ▪ for his great benefit receyued Did he remoue his Idolatry did he correct his Idolatrous wife Iesabel No we find no such thing but the one and the other we find to haue continued increased informer impietie But what was the ende hereof The last visitation of God was that dogges licked the bloud of the one and did eate the flesh of the other In fewe wordes then we may vnderstand what difference there is betwixt the visitation of God vpō the reprobate and his visitation vpō his chosen The reprobate are visited but neuer truly humbled nor yet amended The chosē being visited they sobbe and they cry vnto God for mercy which obtained they magnifie Gods name and after declare the fruites of repentaunce Let vs ●herefore that heare these iudge●ents of our God call for the assistance of his holy spirit that how soeuer it pleaseth him to visite vs that we may stoupe vnder his merciful hands and vnfainedly cry to him when he correcteth vs. And so shall we knowe in experience that our cryes complaintes were not in vayne but let vs heare what the Prophet sayth further Lyke as a woman sayth he with childe that draweth neere to the trauayle is in sorow and cryeth in her paines so haue we bene in thy sight O Lorde we haue conceyued we haue borne in vayne as thoughe we shoulde haue brought forth the winde Saluations were not made to the earth neyther did the Inhabitants of the earth fal This is the seconde parte of the Prophets complaint in the which he in the person of Gods people complayneth that of their great affliction there appeared no ende This same similitude is vsed by our master Iesus Christ for when he speaketh of the troubles of hys church he compareth them to the paynes of a woman trauayling in her childe birth But it is to another ende For there he promiseth exceding and permanent ioy after a sort thoughe it appeare trouble But here is the trouble long vehement albeit the fruite of it was not sodainely espied He speaketh no doubt of that long dolorous tyme of their captiuitie in the which they continually trauayled for delyuerance but obtained it not before the compleate ende of 70 yeares During the which time the earth that is the land of Iuda which sometymes was sanctified vnto God but was then giuen to be prophaned by wicked people gat no helpe Nor perceyued any deliuerance For the Inhabitants of the world fell not that is the tirantes and oppressors of gods people were not taken away but still remayned and continued blasphemers of God an troublers of his church But bicause I perceiue the houres to passe more swiftly then they haue done at other tymes I mind to cōtract that which resteth of this text into certayne points The Prophet first fighteth against the present desperation After be introduceth God himselfe calling vpon his people And last of all he assureth his afflicted that God will come and require accompt of all the bloude thirstie tirants of the earth First fighting against the present desperation he sayth thy dead shall liue euen my bodye or with my body shall they arise awake and sing ye that dwell in the dust For thy dew is as the dew of herbes The Prophere here pierseth throughe all impedimentes that nature coulde obiect And by the victorie of faith he ouercōmeth not onely the common enimies but the great and last enimie of al to wit death it self For this would he say Lorde I see nothing to thy chosen but miserie to follow miserie and one affliction to succede another yea in the ende I see that death shal deuour thy dearest children But yet O Lorde I see thy promise to be true and thy loue to remaine towards thy chosen euen when death appeareth to haue deuoured them For thy deade shall liue yea not onely shall they liue but my verie dead careasse shall arise And so I see honor and glory to succede this temporall shame I see ioye permanent to come after trouble order to spring out of this terrible confusion and finallye I see that lyfe shal deuoure death so that death shall be destroyed and so thy seruauntes shall haue lyfe This I say is the victorie of faith when in the middest of deathe throughout the light of Goddes worde the afflicted see lyfe Hipocrites

A SERMON preached by Iohn Knox Minister of Christ Iesus in the Publique audience of the Church of Edenbrough within the Realme of Scotland vpon Sonday the .19 of August .1565 For the which the said Iohn Knoxe was inhibite preaching for a season 1. Timoth. 4. ¶ The time is come that men can not abyde the Sermon of veritie nor holsome doctrine To this is adioyned an exhortation vnto all the faythfull within the sayde Realme for the reliefe of suche as faythfully trauayle in the preaching of Gods worde Written by the same Iohn Knoxe at the commaundement of the ministerie aforesayd Imprinted Anno. 1566. IOHN KNOXE THE seruaunt of Iesus Christ Inpreaching of his holy Euangell to the beneuolent Reader desireth grace and peace with the spirite of righteous Iudgement WONDER NOT christian Reader that of al my studye and trauayle within the scriptures of GOD these twentye yeares I haue set forth nothing in exponing anye portion of scripture except this onely rude and indigest Sermon preached by me in the publicke audiēce of the church of Edingbrough the day and yeare aboue mēcioned That I did not in writ communicate my iudgemēt vpon the scriptures I haue euer thought and yet thinke my selfe to haue most iust reason For cōsidering my selfe rather cald of my God to instruct the ignorant comfort the sorowfull confirme the weake and rebuke the proud by tong liuelye voyce in these most corrupt dayes thā to compose bokes for the age to come seeing that so much is written that by men of most singuler cōdition and yet so little well obserued I decreed to containe my selfe within the bondes of that vocation wherevnto I founde my selfe especially called I dare not denie lest that in so doing I should be iniurious to the giuer but that God hath reuealed vnto me secretes vnknowen to the worlde and also that he hath made my tong a trumpet to forwarne realmes and nations yea certaine great personages of mutations and chaunges when no such thinges were feared nor yet was appearing a portion wherof can not the world denie be it neuer so blind to be fulfilled and the rest alas I feare shall followe with greater expedition and in more full perfection than my sorowfull heart desireth These reuelations and assurances not withstanding I did euer absteyne to commit anye thing to writ contented onely to haue obeyed the charge of him who commaunded me to cry If anye then will aske to what purpose this onely sermon is set forth greater matters omitted I answere to let such as Sathan hath not altogether blinded see vpon how small occasions great offence is nowe conceyued This sermon is it for the which from my bed I was called before the Councell and after long reasoning I was by some forbidden to preach in Edingbrough so long as the King and Queene were in the towne This sermon is it that so offēdeth such as would please the Court and yet will not appeare to be enimies to the truth that thei dare affirme that I haue exceded the bonds of Gods messanger I haue therfore faithfully committed vnto writ what soeuer I could remember might haue beene offensiue in that sermon To the ende that aswell the enimies of Gods truth as the professors of the same may eyther note vnto me wherin I haue offended or at the least ceasse to condempne me before they haue conuicted me by Gods manifest worde If any man thinke it easy vnto me to mitigate by my pen the inconsiderate sharpenesse of my tongue and so can not men freely iudge of that my sermon I answere that neyther am I so impudent that I will study to abuse the worlde in this great light neyther yet so voyde of feare of my God that I will auowe a lye in his owne presence And no lesse doe I esteeme it to be a lye to deny or cōceile that which in his name I haue once pronounced than to affirme that GOD hath spoken when his worde assures me not of the same for in the publike place I consulte not with flesh and bloud what I shall propone to the people but as the spirit of my God who hath sent me and vnto whome I must answere moueth me so I speake and when I haue once pronounced threatnings in his nāe howe vnpleasant soeuer they be to the world I dare no more deny thē than I dare deny that God hath made me his messinger to forwarne the inobedient of their assured destruction At that sermō were auditours vnto me not onely professors of the truth and such as fauor me but rancke papistes dissembled Hipocrites no small number of couetous clawbaks of the new court Now I will appeale the conscience of them all as they will aunswere in the presēce of the eternal god that eyther they beare me record now writing the truth or els note vnto me the sentences offensiue then by me pronounced now ommitted in writting for in Gods presence I protest that so far as memorie would serue me I haue written more vehemētly than in the action I spake and pronounced but of purpose I haue omitted persuasions and exhortations which then were made for alluring of suche vnto the feare of God whom gladly I would haue pleased if so I could haue done not haue betrayed the manifest truth of my God The Lorde be mercifull vnto me that I did not more fullye expresse whatsoeuer his holy spirit layde before me in that text which I am assured the indifferent reader shal think I haue but slenderlye handeled all circumstances being cōnsidered O Lord for thy great name sake giue vnto vs Princes and rulers that delight in thy truth that loue vertue hate impietie and that desire rather to be roundely taught to their saluation than deceyueably flattered to their euerlasting confusion Amen At Edingbrough the .19 of September .1565 Isaias .26 Chap. verse 13. 13 O Lorde our God other Lordes beside thee haue ruled vs but we will remēber thee onely and thy name 14 The dead shal not lyue neyther shal the dead arise bicause thou hast visited and scattered them and destroyed all their memorie 15 Thou hast increased the nation O Lorde thou hast increased the nation thou art made glorious thou hast enlarged all the coastes of the earth 16 Lorde in trouble haue they visited thee they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was vpon them 17 Like as a woman with childe that draweth nere to the trauaile is in sorrowe and cryeth in her paines so haue we beene in thy sight O Lorde 18 We haue conceyued we haue borne in paine as though we shuld haue brought winde there was no helpe in the forth neyther did the inhabitants of the earth worlde fall 19 Thy deade men shall liue euen with my bodye shall they rise awake and sing ye that dwell in dust for thy dewe is as the dew of herbes and the earth shall cast out the dead 20 Come my people enter thou into thy