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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

A SERMON PREAched at Paules Crosse the 13. of Iune 1602. Genes 9. vers 27. The Lord shall allure Iapheth and he shall dwel in the tents of Shem and Canaan shall be their seruant AFter that Moses had finished the storie of the drowning of the old world he beginneth to speake of the restoring of the earth to Noah againe And he mentioneth the thankfulnes of Noah and the blessing of God vpon him and his by bestowing both benefits lawes and promises vpon them By name he prospered the handie worke of Noah in the vineyard which hee had planted And by occasion thereof is chronicled Noahs fall by infirmity into drunkennesse and the little regard which he had of his honour in his drunkennes which appeared by his discouering of himselfe in the middest of his tent From hence as it followeth his sonne Cham tooke occasion to dishonour him both by impious lookes to the forfeiture of his owne reuerence also by impious and scornefull report of that he saw to draw his brethren to the like But he failed of his purpose for Shem being affected with due piety as the author of this filiall dutie and Iapheth being induced by his brother Shem to be a readie coadiutor in the same came to the succour of their fathers dishonour and throwing his garment that lay by vpon their shoulders with their faces from him couered him with the same reseruing their reuerence vnto him by not seeing When Noah awooke and his drunkennes was clean departed had receiued some informatiō someway of the matter concerning the behauiour of his sonnes all perturbation of mind remoued as became the Prophet of the Lord he was moued by the holy Ghost to publish vnto them by way of oracle what should seuerally befall them after this deede especially in their prosteritie So this oracle hath the commendation of the full recouerie of his sobrietie and of his due notice of the cause And first as the vengeance of God vpon Chams impietie who before is called Cham the father of Canaan he denounceth a curse against this Canaan being Chams sonne Vers 22. because as Aben Ezra supposeth this Canaan abused his grandfather to I know not vpon what ground or rather because Moses from Gods oracle not to bee examined by mans rule purposed to make the name of the Canaanites odious to the Israelites for whom he wrote this storie as they were now on their iourney to the land of Canaan to winne it The curse hee denounceth against Canaan is Gen. 10.21 that he shall be a seruant of seruants to his brethren The other two which are after called brethrē for their ioyning in this deed hee ioyneth in a blessing First hee blesseth Shem the authour thereof though otherwise yonger then Iapheth In his behalfe hee blesseth the Lord in a right feruent blessing as for some high benefit reueiled Giuing intitling intimation in his blessing that Christ should descend of him in whose ly also from that time forward true religion continued Next he blesseth in this text Iapheth Shems helper in this worke of pietie Him he blesseth in his posteritie that is in the Gentiles which should dwell far distant in Asia and Europe as Rupertus obserueth specially for as for the opinion of the Iewes that he meaneth the nations bordering on the holy land it may go amongst the rest of their vanities He prophecieth then that howsoeuer some generations of Iapheths ofspring should grow wild and barbarous and forsake the religion of Shem yet the time should come that the Lord by the vertue of his Spirit would reclaime thē and call them home to his grace And that he would worke vpon their wildnesse and fiercenesse with his sweet and amiable allurements of the Gospell and as it were to breake their hearts with kindnesse to draw them both to returne and also to abide in the tents of Shem. Speaking after their maner of dwelling then but meaning that the Gentiles whereof as I haue said a good part descended of Iapheth should be wonne to the religion of Christ the son of Shem in Gods fatherly pietie to them according to his eternall election and according to the grace and filiall pietie that God wrought in their father Iapheth when he holpe Shem to couer his father Noah For frō hence God moued Noah to promise Iapheth thus much as from the occasion but not the cause of this blessing And further he promiseth to Iapheth as before he promised to Shem that Canaan shal be his seruant because they should both successiuely participate in this dominion ouer Canaan as Moses indeed hath it plurally in both places But Iapheth hath this differēce first that Canaan which is promised to be his seruant is not to bee vnderstood literally but is to be taken vnder that name for the enemies wherewith the Church of the Gentiles in generall should be annoyed And secondly that the seruitude of Canaan shall be annexed to Iapheths dwelling with Shem and so conditionall to Iapheth to continue during his continuance in the tents of Shem. Thus the promise hath two parts the first that he shall communicate with Shem in the couenant signified by dwelling in Shems tents and the second that he shall participate with Shem in ruling ouer the enemies of the church signified by Canaans seruitude vnder him So this text is disposed into two parts that is into two promises The proposition of the former promise is that Iapheth that is Iapheths posteritie according to his name which signifieth allurable shall shew himselfe a Iapheth that is allurable and shall receiue a vocation Which is described first from the author The Lord secondly from the meanes shall allure Iapheth thirdly by the effect that hee may dwell in the tents of Shem. The proposition of the latter promise is that Canaan shall bee their seruant where Canaan is put figuratiuely And this first is inferred with that Hebrue copulatine Vau which is of so many significations and here standeth for Le magnan as it doth Leu. 18.5 Let a man keepe my statutes and he shall liue in them that is Then as it is wel rendred or vpō that condition Secondly it is denounced vnder the tearme of seruant which signifieth one that is held from hauing interest in himselfe As if Noah had extended this reuerend breuity into a larger discourse thus As I haue already partly in the right of a father and more amply in the dutie of a Prophet blessed my sonne Shem for his pietie to me wherein hee was the principal so now likewise in the like right and dutie I blesse my sonne Iapheth his coadiutor To whom as by Gods direction I gaue the name of Iapheth which carieth the signification of aptnesse to be allured so I prophecie to him in the behalfe of his posteritie that he shall in it answerably to his name be allured in the good part to good as my son here hath now been by his brother Shem in this worke