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A03598	Tvvo sermons vpon part of S. Judes Epistle, by Richard Hooker sometimes Fellow of Corpus Christie College in Oxford	Hooker, Richard, 1553 or 4-1600.; Jackson, Henry, 1586-1662.	1614 (1614)	STC 13723; ESTC S104194	35,221	66

most holy faith that so when our earthly house of this Tabernacle shall bee destroyed we may haue a building giuen of God a house not made with hands but eternall in the heavens This is that which is most piously feelingly taught in these few leaues so that you shall read nothing here but what I perswade my selfe you haue long practised in the constant course of your life It remaineth only that you accept of these labours tendred to you by him who wisheth you the long ioies of this world the eternal of that which is to come Oxon. from Corp. Christ. College this 13. of Ianuary 1613. THE FIRST SERMON EPIST. IVDE 17 But yee beloved remember the words which were spoken before of the Apostles of our Lord Iesus Christ 18 How that they told you that there should be mockers in the last time which should walke after their owne vngodly lusts 19 These are makers of sects fleshly having not the spirit 20 But yee beloued edifie your selues in your most holie faith praying in the holy Ghost 21 And keepe your selues in the loue of God looking for the mercy of our Lord Iesus Christ vnto eternall life THE occasion wherevpon together with the ende wherefore this Epistle was written is opned in the front entrie of the same There were then as there are now many evill and wickedly disposed persons not of the mysticall body yet within the visible bounds of the Church men which were of old ordained to cōdemnation vngodly men which turned the grace of our God into wantonnesse and denied the Lord Iesus For this cause the spirit of the Lord is in the hand of Iude the servant of Iesus and brother of Iames to exhort them that are called and sanctified of God the father that they would earnestly contend to maintaine the faith which was once delivered vnto the Saints Which faith because wee cannot maintaine except wee knowe perfectly first against whom secondly in what sort it must be maintained therefore in the former three verses of that parcell of Scripture which I haue read the enimies of the crosse of Christ are plainely described and in the later two they that loue the Lord Iesus haue a sweet lesson giuen them how to strengthen stablish themselues in the faith Let vs first therefore examin the description of these reprobates concerning faith and afterwards come to the words of the exhortation wherein Christians are taught how to rest their hearts on Gods eternall and everlasting truth The description of these godlesse persons is two fold Generall and Speciall The generall doth point them out and shew what manner of men they should be The particular pointeth at them and saith plainely these are they In the generall description we haue to consider of these things First when they were described they were told of before Secondly the men by whom they were described They were spoken of by the Apostles of our Lord Iesus Christ. Thirdly the daies when they should bee manifested vnto the world they told you they should bee in the last time Fourthly their disposition and whole demeanure mockers and walkers after their own vngodly lusts 2 In the third to the Philippians the Apostle describeth certaine They are men saith hee of whom I haue told you often and now with teares I tell you of them their God is their belly their glorying and reioycing is in their owne shame they mind earthly things These were enimies of the crosse of Christ enimies whom he saw his eies gusht out with teares to behold them But we are taught in this place how the Apostles spake also of enimies whom as yet they had not seen described a family of mē as yet vnheard of a generation reserved for the end of the world for the last time they had not onely declared what they heard and saw in the daies wherein they lived but they haue prophecid also of mē in time to come And you doe well saith S. Peter in that yee take heed to the words of prophecie so that yee first know this that no prophecie in the Scripture commeth of any mans owne resolution No prophecie in Scripture commeth of any mans owne resolution For all prophecy which is in Scripture came by the secret inspiration of God But there are prophecies which are no scripture yea there are prophecies against the Scripture my brethren beware of such prophecies and take heed you heed them not Remember the things that were spoken of before but spoken of before by the Apostles of our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ. Take heed to prophecies but to prophecies which are in scripture For both the manner and the matter of those prophecies doth shew plainely that they are of God 3 Touching the manner how men by the spirit of prophecie in holy Scripture haue spoken written of things to come wee must vnderstand that as the knowledge of that they spake so likewise the vtterance of that they knewe came not by these vsuall and ordinary meanes whereby we are brought to vnderstand the mysteries of our salvation and are wont to instruct others in the same For whatsoever wee know we haue it by the hands and ministrie of men which lead vs along like children from a letter to a syllable from a syllable to a word from a word to a line from a line to a sentence from a sentence to a side and so turne over But God himselfe was their instructour he himselfe taught thē partly by dreames and visions in the night partly by revelations in the daie taking them aside from amongst their brethrē and talking with them as a man would talke with his neighbour in the way Thus they became acquainted even with the secret and hidden counsels of God They saw things which themselues were not able to vtter they beheld that whereat men and Angels are astonished They vnderstood in the beginning what should come to passe in the last daies 4 God which lightned thus the eies of their vnderstanding giving them knowledge by vnvsuall and extraordinarie meanes did also miraculously himself frame and fashion their wordes and writings in so much that a greater difference there seemeth not to bee betweene the manner of their knowledge then there is between the manner of their speed ours When we haue conceiued a thing in our hearts and throughlie vnderstand it as wee thinke within our selues yet we can vtter it in such sort that our brethrē may receaue instruction or comfort at our mouths how great how long how earnest meditation are we forced to vse And after much travaile and much paines when we open our lips to speake of the wonderfull workes of God our tongues doe faulter within our mouthes yea many times wee disgrace the dreadfull mysteries of our faith and grieue the spirit of our hearers by words vnsavory and vnseemely speeches Shall a wise man fill his bellie with the easterne vind saith Eliphaz shall a wise man