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A03128	Three excellent points of Christian doctrine I. The nativity of our Lord Iesus Christ. II. His bitter sufferings for the sinnes of his people. III. The fruites flowing therefrom, to those that by faith apprehend him. All prophecied by Zachariah in the 8. 9. and 10. verses of the third chapter of his prophecie, and explained in three sermons, preached at Edinburgh by Master Peter Hewat being minister there.	Hewat, Peter, d. 1645.	1621 (1621)	STC 13258; ESTC S108984	62,915	104

And of whose House it may be well said There is in it bread enough large mercies and comforts to the hungrie and wearied soule that comes to seeke them Drinke is good for a thirstie body but wilt thou not remember of thy soule and heare him who hath said I haue drinke to giue whereof whosoeuer drinketh shall neuer thirst againe If we haue no appetite but naturall of things concerning the body what difference betwixt vs and the beast But a spirituall and renewed man is he not knowen in his spirituall appetite and desires such as was that man according to Gods owne Heart expressing his spirituall appetite this way As the Hart brayeth for the rivers of waters so panteth my soule for thee O God Garments are steedable to the naked But remembring thy soule heare him who calleth you to come and buy of him garments to couer your filthy nakednes that yee bee not a spectakle of shame in the sight of God Man and Angell With which garments whosoeuer shal not be found cled in that Day shall cry but in vaine to hils and mountaines to fall vpon them cover them from the face of the Lamb. Gold is profitable hauing for this life the owne necessary vses But harken to him who hath to giue thee fine gold tryed by the fire euen that better and induring substance which cannot be taken from thee again So as the Lord led his people of old from things temporall to things spirituall and from types to trueth so let him take vs by the hand by him let vs be led from these earthly things to spirituall things And frō the things of this life to the consideration earnest desire of the better things of that life to come There is another word also to bee marked heere There fell out many changes which were grievous to this people their owne sins bred them great disquiet As change in their policie desolation in their cities great change in the face of their Church vpon their Priesthood And when their Temple and Priesthood was restored againe it was a griefe to such as remembred the dayes of old to see the last no wayes answerable to the glory beauty of the first This doctrine therfore proponed by the Prophet is to comfort them against all such griefs to settle establish their hearts against all changes whatsoeuer and it is this cast the eyes of your faith toward IESVS CHRIST the great High Priest to come and there your soules shall finde rest IESVS CHRIST who was represented in the figure of the Law is exhibit in the fulnes of time As he came in the world for this end to saue sin ners so is he the only stay of the Hearts of sinners and in him is perfite remedie against all those griefes and tentations that rise here in this world by reason of sin to oppresse the hearts of sinners Heere all things are subiect to change and alteration he that is knit to him stayes vpon a rocke with a defiance of all these worldly changes althogh the world should be turned vpside down the moūtains rolled in the mids of the great deep yet can he not be moued In no thing that is here can there be found cōtentment in him the soul hath ful delight And when a man is as it were chased hūted with griefs on all hands with his many sins with the devils tentations somtimes with the ingratitude malicious doing of men It is euen vpon such a wearyed and distressed body that Christ calleth saying Come to me and I will ease you and refresh you we would therefore hearken to the sweet call of IESVS CHRIST and labour to follow the Saints and seruants of God seeking onely and finding this way contentment to our soules Heere God by his Prophet willeth his people to looke ouer all that blacke cloud of ceremonies to IESVS CHRIST I desire saith Paul to know nothing but IESVS CHRIST and him crucified he is to me both in life and death an advantage Whom haue I saith Dauid in Heauen but thee and there is none vpon earth that I desire besides thee My flesh my heart faileth but God is the strength of my heart and portion for euer Where shall we go to saith Peter hast not thou the words of eternall life What further can I wish sayth old Simeon hauing gotten Christ in the armes of my body and soul both and s●…ene my saluation in him Now let thy servant go in peace Therefore as this is noted to be the great sollicitude and care of the Church to inquire for him Tell mee O thou whom my soule loueth where thou feedest So if thou will proue thy selfe a true member of this Church and be partaker of this onely consolation inquire for him seeke him out while he may be found be homely with him seeke to be daylie farther conioyned with him in him shall ye finde perfite ease and contentment In these three Verses commeth to be considered first the preface that is vsed next the speech which is deliuered containing so many excellent points concerning the Messias both in his person and office In the Preface Iehoshua and his fellowes they are bidden hearken and advert vnto that which is to bee spoken Iehoshua was immediatly of before wakened to attention when the Lord hauing absolued him giues his direction to him speaking vnto him with vehement and earnest protestation Now hee is wakened to attention againe and bidden giue eare to the graue speech following concerning the Messias Although this with the former be but one continued Sermon he that heard of before hath need to heare still he that was wakened of before hath neede to be wakened againe And these graue and great mysteries vttered by the mouth of God himselfe they craue vpon our part great attention When God speakes our eares should be ready to heare In the volume of thy Booke saith Dauid it is written of me This volume of the Booke of God is the Law of God The first words whereof is Hearken Israel The seale of all the letters written to the seuen Churches is Let him that hath an eare heare what the spirit sayth to the Churches No man hath his care so ready to hearken but he hath neede continually to be put vpon to waken him vnto attention And the meanes of this doing are many vpon the Lords part his word a principall his word sometimes in the mouthes of old men sometimes in the mouthes of yong men to waken thy hearing Sometimes it comes with a mourning sound sometimes with a ioyfull sound to waken thy hearing Sometimes it comes in a mysterie as a sealed letter and sometimes the mysterie is revealed and the booke opened to waken thy hearing Sometimes he that cryes in thy eare takes a rod in his hand of some inward or outward affliction wherewith he choppes

vpon thee to waken thy hearing and sometimes there may arise●… for the sinnes of people the strange noyse and horrible sound of the Antichristian Locusts to waken mens hearing to bring thē to remorse of their former carelesse hearing and make them thinke and say O how vile and blasphemous things are we compelled with our cares to heare who would not hearken to the voice of our God in his pure and holy Word The people were thus way handled at the rivers of Babel being forced to heare the despightfull wordes of their enemies reproaching their seruice of GOD and that because they did not hearken to the voyce of their GOD being at home in their owne Land Thus it is manifest that no man hath his care so ready and bent but he hath need still to be wakened and stirred vp to heare what GOD sayeth to him Moreouer there is no man so perfite a Scholler in the Schoole of CHRIST but hath neede daylie to heare and in hearing to learne al 's long as he liueth And should not as it is in this Text the gravity of the matter and the great and weighty mysteries coming from God to vs in the mouthes of his servants provoke vs diligently and attentiuely to heare My heart sayeth Dauid is indyting a good matter I speake of the things which I haue made touching the King hearken sayeth he for my mouth will vtter wisedome and statutes divine Hearken sayeth the Lord heere to Iehoshua And the argument is in the matter proponed in the wordes following being a speech of the Messias of his person his office his sacrifice and the good that shall come thereby to his people This word of the Preface wakening Iehoshua to attention it would be marked first for descriuing of a great and common sinne so common that who can say he is free of it GOD hath spoken and his Sonne IESVS CHRIST by whom hee hath spoken in these last times hath cryed alowd vnto vs but we haue not heard him This is the depraved condition of the eare of all the sonnes of Adam The smallest whisperings of the Deuill that old serpent are good language to vs to which we harken readily But the loud cryings and callings of our God are past with a deafe care And that to God we haue not hearkened is it not evident in this no man hath turned out of his way It may be well said that it wil be the superscription of our plague and iudgment when euer it shall come because we would not heare the Lord speaking to vs. A sin which not onely brings on plague and iudgment but a thing worse nor the plague euen the stopping of the Lords eare that he will not heare thee calling to him in the Day of thy Iudgement For albeit a man be plunged in a great deepe yet so long as he may haue commoning with God and interchange speech with him his estate can not be counted hard Ionas lying in the deep of the Sea inclosed in the belly of the whale yet herein was his comfort My voice came to God and he heard me But they that wilfully close their eare and will not heare GOD when hee speakes they close vpon themselues the doore of comfort God hath promised a meeting this way They shall cry to me euen in the day of their trouble but I will not heare them Let vs seeke from him the touching and opening of our eare which hath beene so long closed Ler vs seeke the reformation of our eare that we who haue beene swift to heare the Deuill speaking to our great hurt in soule and body may once resolue to heare our God speaking to our well If thou be one of the Israell of God remember it is written of thee in the first wordes of the booke of God Hearken Israell Sacrifice and burnt offering he craues not of thee Happie is he that may come in and say a bored and prepared eare thou hast giuen me to heare thy Law It was a signe of a perpetuall servitude of old the boring of the eare So it is a signe of that seruice wherein is true freedome and libertie a ready and open eare to heare and in hearing to follow the counsels and directions of God And we that haue so long sleeped and either mistaken or misregarded the voice of our God Would God we once learned the lessoun that old Eli gaue to Samuell that wee might come before him with this disposition and say Speak Lord for we thy seruants are ready to heare Another vse would be made of this discourse concerning the hearing of the Lords voice that seeing trouble and affliction is one of the Lords meanes by which he openeth the eare Then should it draw euery man and woman to a careful examination of them selues how they haue profited in the schoole of affliction and profited in this lesson of better and more carefull hearing of the Word of God None want their owne visitations and afflictions And althogh Gods end in inflicting be as hath bene said to open the eare to heare better yet it may be said of vs all we haue come out of this fornace al 's deafe and dull in hearing as euer we were of before Pharaoh made many faire promises in the dayes of his calamity that if the judgement were remoued he would heare better and hearken to the voice of God in Moyses bidding him let the people goe Yet the judgement being remoued he returned to his owne fashion and counts as little of Gods Word as he did before his trouble When troubles particular hath not mended our hearing it argueth our disease to be great when the presages of such change and alteration as may be the remouing of our candlestick being before our eyes yet mendeth not our hearing an argument of a farther confirmed disease Shall none of these moue vs The Lord he can speake lowder yet and hath a voice to put forth that can make the earth and the inhabitants thereof to tremble The voice of Eli to his sonnes was but soft but God told him hee had a voice to put forth the sound whereof would make all their eares to tingle And as the Disciples who in their drowsines would not be wakened with their masters voice were wakened with the staues and swords of their enemies So where the sound of the word hath past as a base thing and when all Gods doing hath not mended mens hearing what wonder althogh the time come when he that spake as a Lambe shall roare as a Lyon And when the Lyon roares the beasts of the forrest tremble And that the Lord so put forth his voyce in his Iudgement as no flesh shal be able to repell the sound of it Who can expect otherwise There is a sort of hearers who in their hearing are so dainty whose eares are so itching and are so continually attending novelty that if they heare not each