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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06874	A sermon preached at Paules Crosse the 13. of Iune. 1602. By M. Francis Marburie; Sermon preached at Paules Crosse the 13. of June. 1602.	Marbury, Francis, d. 1611.	1602 (1602)	STC 17307; ESTC S105434	29,109	90

of pietie to me For although there shall be a long and a grieuous departing away of Iapheths posteritie from Shem with whom shall remaine the truth of religion with the oracles thereof of whom the Messiah shall descend so that their Gentilisme and idolatrie shall alienate them and Satan shall a long time entise in the ill part from the true God of Shem so farre that they shall be past all mans recouerie yet the time in due season shal come that the Lord himselfe shall take the matter into his hands and by the omnipotent vertue of his holy Spirit shall conuert them And for the manner of conuerting them it shal not be done by violence but as I said by entising and by the sweete allurements of almightie God euen by the Gospell of Iesus Christ and the godly endeuours of the seruants of Christ who shall both by their life and doctrine allure them And these are the meanes which the Lord will sanctifie by the might and grace of his holy Spirit to their conuersion And wherto shall the Lord allure Iapheth euen to dwel in the tents of Shē that is in the Church of Christ which is the statiō of felicitie and the greatest benefit that God can bestow on man who otherwise is the mirrour of wretchednesse In these tents of Shem the Lord shall allure them to dwell that is they shall come thither and abide there when they are come so that the Church shall not be remoued from the Gentiles though some parts thereof shall be greatly ecclipsed And this shall be the first blessing to communicate with Shem in the blessing of Christian religion And to this there shall be added a second blessing wherein he shall communicate with Shem likewise by succession from the Iewes to the Gentiles and that is in the dominion ouer such enemies of the Church as shall be in their seuerall times For as the verie nation of the Canaanites shal be subiect to the Iewes which descended of Shem so those which shall succeed the Canaanites in enmitie to Gods Church of 〈◊〉 nation soeuer they be shall bee brought in subiection And their subiection shall consist not only in suppressing them from vsurping authoritie but also from vsurping libertie and impunitie in their maliciousnesse And this second blessing shall be so annexed to the former that it cannot be enioyed apart But so long as Iapheth shall dwell in the tents of Shem so long shall Canaan bee their seruant But when their loue of religion shall quaile their enimies shall preuaile against them This is the exposition of this oracle now it remaineth to make our obseruations according to it and there are sixe conclusions to bee drawne out of this Text. The first conclusion is that whereas Noah vrgeth Iapheths posteritie with an argument taken out of the signification of his name Iapheth wherewith also hee polisheth his speech saying Iepth Iapheth as much as by like agnominatiō the allurable shall bee allured 〈…〉 Ghost propoundeth vnto vs thereo●● the edification of names that it is our duty to edifie our selues by those names of importance which the Lord by his prouidence ordinance hath allotted vnto vs. And amongst the rest by this particular name of Iapheth which is ours by descent to edifie our selues in the grace of tractablenesse and easinesse to be allured to our owne good that we may be Iapheths indeede as well as in name The holy Scriptures are found to haue a great felicitie in these notations agnominatiōs in their originall both by the like sound of words which pleased well and also for the deriuations sake as those that can skill may see in many places of the originall Thus it is Zepan 2.4 thus Isai 24.4 thus Act. 8.30 thus Rom. 12.3 and thus Iacob in his blessing both decketh his speech and also maketh matter of the seuerall names of the Patriarkes Genel 49. And yet alwayes with the sobrietie of wisedome not giuing libertie to make matter of Etymologies without a cause nor to be vaine in affecting the sound of words but shewing their completenes in ioyning sweet and profitable together Specially this is so in these ample Oracles which were certain * Holy grauings Hieroglyphicks as they were wont to call other conceits in the Church of God grauen in the memory with a diuine skil Heere the holy ghost dispēseth with the impropriety of the word for the pleasant affinity of the soūd for to say the truth this verb Iepht properly signifieth to intise in the il part or to deceiue as Exo. 22.16 but because it sweetly soundeth with the name of Iapheth he vseth it in the good part So thē this name of Iapheth which we haue now vnder hand wherewith the holy ghost chargeth the conscience of the Gentiles of Europe descended from him to whom the gospell is tendered and amongst the rest specially of these verie Ilands as some men vndertake to particularize it ought to moue vs as we haue said to tractablenes that there be not a stubborne and vnflexible mind in vs that will not be allured to true religion that we be not as Dauid saith Like the deafe Adder that will not heare the voice of the charmer Psal 58.4.5 though he charme neuer so cunningly We must saith Salomon cause our eares perforce to heare Pro. ● 1.2 and encline our hearts to vnderstanding It is an heauie iudgement of God to be hard hearted This sinne is the punishment of another sinne euen of continuance in sinne And it is vnspeakablie horrible to be giuen ouer to a reprobate sense that is to hold a lie in our right hand after demonstratiō of the truth He is indeed a foole as Salomō saith that beleeueth euerie thing Pro. 14.15 and is caried vp and downe with euerie wind of doctrine But he is a worse and more wofull foole that sheweth his vntractablenes against God and his stubbornnes against his word whē he goeth about to reclaime him There is a better stifnes to be stiffe in the truth The Papists defame the land with a pretence of praise that they find many tractable persons in the same but who so is of a wise heart will disdaine the deuils prayses and will remember that amongst whoremongers austeritie is the defence of chastitie Well I am sure that there are many poisoned with a preiudice against the religion of Iesus Christ and they will not heare with any patience what may be said for the truth And there are againe which although they will heare will not be perswaded to an effectuall conuersion Moued they are but not remoued The stifnecked Papists if they will suffer themselues to beare their denomination where they haue their dependence I means of the Pope are grieuous offenders in this kind by name in this sinne of obfirming hardening themselues against counsell and perswasion They haue the propertie of the Adders before mentioned in the Psalme which as Augustine and Cassiodorus say