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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03854	A sermon preached at Reyfham in the countie of Norff. the 22. of September, an. Do. 1588 And eftsoones at request published by R.H. minister of Gods worde.	Humpston, Robert, d. 1606.	1589 (1589)	STC 13969; ESTC S104324	28,218	58

receiued into the Church But if neyther the ioyes of a king can induce them in time to retire nor an Emperours sorrowes yet reduce them to come hume by weeping crosse 21 Sam 12 13 with open humble acknowledgement of their offence to returne with Dauid in time Mat. 27.4 lest Iudas Peccaui come too late Then let the Maiestrate by whose negligence this sect monstrously swelleth with daylye increase in diners parts of the land Haue an eye this waye lest foolish pittie spoyle a citie and pester a comon wealth with a people full of blasphemies against God and not all void of treasons against the King Dionisius the Bishop of Alexandria for bare not to tell Nouatus to his teeth that the sinne is greater to breake the vnitie and peare of the Church ●…seb in ●…ta Const than to commit Idolatrie And reasoning a paena in the example of Chore that quoth he was punished with the sworde but this with the yawning of the earth Et non dubitatur scaeleratius esse commissum quod grauius erat vindicatum That saith hee was more haynously committed which was more heauily punished And now to the thirde circumstance namely the manner of Gods comming in these wordes His glorie couereth the Heauens Which as you see are discerned from the former parte of the texte Psa 3.2.4.8 by this worde Selah full oft obserued in the booke of Psalmes Psa 4.2.4 and seruing in the old Church for the singers direction in the change of their voyce or tune Psa 9.16.20 But here Psa 31.4 as I take it Psa 49.15 standing as an important note to moue both attention and affection Psa 68.19 and no meruail for the matter in hand is weightie Men haue written much of Xerxes fourth comming with his Nauies Alexander with his Armies and Salomon in his royaltie their fame flewe farre and their puissance was renowmed yet were they but men whose breath was in their nostrels their power was limitted their arme was but flesh their pomp was but a flower soone changed into dust yea all was but vanitie and lighter then vanitie it self But when God commeth foorth the heauens melted and the earth shooke saith Dauid euen as Sinay also was moued at the presence of the God of Iacob Psa 68.8 For nowe the Heauens and firmament by violent fraction and rupture of the clowdes seemed to burst in sunder and the fearfull lightenings and roaring thunderclaps did rend the bending sides of the skie the darke wallowing clowdes skirmishing in the ayre did driue away with vehement course Psa 77.17 as shunning most fearfully the sight of this presence Yea the smothering mount in the rage of the tempest did cast foorth sparckling vapours and flashings of fire like another Aetna or an image of hell thus God commeth from Teman and thus came the holy one from mount Paran Againe the people stricken with astonishment stoode trembling about the hill not daring to aproch but quaking crye vnto Moses Obe thou our spokesman or else we dye The rattling sharme of the Trumpe calling on and summoning apparance seemed to resemble the daye of doome when the heauie sentence goe ye cursed into euerlasting fire shall be denounced against the wicked Yea Mat. 25.4 the Sunne was turned into bloud the foules forsooke the light the beasts of the field sought succour among the dennes of the Lyons and euery creature else that could crall away sought a place or corner where to hyde his head and thus God commeth from Teman and thus came the holie one from mount Paran Furthermore the Lawe it selfe by a Sub paena inforcing a strict and absolute obedience in worke worde and thought euen vnder paine of death ●eu 28.15 and eftsones bewraying the priuation of originall Iustice reuealing sinne discouering the impuritie of nature and displaying the verie frame of mans heart ●en 6.5 altogether out of course and out of measure wicked Nowe shee hurleth curses and nowe shee heapeth woes Nowe shee poureth out wrath and nowe shee plungeth sinners and consequently dendunceth the heauie sentence of condemnation against all flesh And thus God commeth from Teman and thus came the holy one from mount Paran The ende and vse of his thus comming was to strike the heartes of this people with a reuerend regarde and holye feare of his most glorious name and presence to shewe what in iustice hee might challenge at ours handes and the impossibilitie on our parte to perfourme it in the least part thus to bring all men to the knowledge of sinne and that thus the Lawe might scoole vs vnto Christ Gal. 3.24 where I praye doe not mistake mee to laye these imputations to the Lawe as properly the cause of sinne God forbid For as saith the Apostle the Lawe is pure Rom. 7.12 the Lawe is holye and the Lawe is good But in that shee increaseth sinne in that shee is the mynister of death c. it is per accidens and in our default For euen as men deformed in their bodies and blemished in their faces while they be compassed with darkenesse are not discerned from others but the light once appearing dooth by and by bewraye their ouglinesse and shewe them in their kinde and yet the cause not in the light but in them selues So the Lawe is our light and glasse poincting out our coruptions and deformities of nature and yet the cause not in the glasse but in the flesh not in the Lawe but in our nature And thus you haue heard how God commeth from Teman and the holie one from mount Paran Now where Moses calleth the Law Iugum ferreum a hard a heauie Iron yoke Deur 28. ● Christ calleth the Gospell Iugum suaue a sweete a light easie yoke Mat. 11.3 Wher Esaie calleth the Law Virgam exactoris The rod of the oppressour Esa 9.4 Michea calleth the Gospel Virgam pastoris Mich. 7.14 the rod of the Shepheard where vnder he guydeth his flock in the pastures of comfort and conducteth them to the waters of life Where Ieremie tearmeth the Lawe Mallens dissipans petram Ier. 23.29 The hammer that grindeth the rockes to powder Psa 45.6 Dauid calleth the Gospell Sceptrum Regni The Scepter of the kingdome wherewith Christ in all lenitie and mildnes gouerneth in his Church Esa 42.3 not once breaking the brused reed nor yet quenching the smoking flar Where S. Paul calleth the Lawe Ministram mortis The minister of death He saith 2. Cor. 3. ● the Gospell is Ministratio vitae The administration of life So that God is nowe come to vs not from Teman but from heauen not from mount Paran but from mount Sion not in the sharme of the trumpe denouncing death Heb. 12. but in the sound of the trumpe proclaiming life not in the shrill voice that cleaueth the mountaines 〈◊〉 Re. 19.11 but in the