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The application of scripture. Or The maner how to vse the word to most edifying. By Thomas Granger preacher of the word at Botterwike in Holland, neere Boston, in Lincolnshire
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Granger, Thomas, b. 1578.
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THE APPLICATION OF SCRIPTVRE OR The maner how to vse the Word to most edifying By THOMAS GRANGER preacher of the word at Botterwike in Holland neere Boston in Lincolnshire GOD IS MY HELPER LONDON Printed by T. S. for Thomas Pauier and are to be sold at his shop in Yuie lane 1616. TO THE RIGHT WORshipfull and vertuous Lady the Lady IOAN LEVENTHORP temporall and eternall happinesse MADAME THe sincere conceit of your worthines consisting partly in those heauenly endowments wherewith the Lord hath beautified and adorned you as solid wisdome pietie humilitie sinceritie in all things herein shewing your selfe the expresse image of that worthy and iudicious man Sir Iohn Brograue your Father and chiefely in your Christian loue towards all that loue God and liue a godly life euen these sole considerations haue moued mee to dedicate this small and worthlesse worke to your Ladiship which if it shall please you to accept as the Widowes mite into the treasury of your other Bookes esteeming it rather by the minde of the giuer then valuing it by the weight of it selfe you shall fully satisfie my desire The Lord continue still his wonted goodnesse and louing kindnesse towards you who as he hath made you a ioyfull Mother of many faire children and carefull of their vertuous education so it would please his heauenly Maiesty to fulfill your ioy in your latter daies by beholding their vertuous courses and desired establishment here in the earth that in the end both you and they may reioyce together for euer in the promised Canaan when your Arabian pilgrimage is here finished Amen From Botterwike in Holland neere Boston in Lincoln Your Ladiships in all dutie THOMAS GRANGER THE APPLICATION OF SCRIPTVRE 2. SAM 12. 7. Then said Nathan to Dauid Thou art the man KIng Dauid had prouoked the Lord to wrath by committing two grieuous sinnes Adultery and Murther which commonly followeth the same by one meanes or other Therefore he sent the Prophet Nathan to reproue him and to denounce these iudgements against him First that the sword should neuer depart from his house Secondly that his owne sonne should take his wiues from him Thirdly that the childe begotten in adultery should die Wherein we obserue first the iustice of God in that he will punish sinne and the sinnes of them especially vpon whom he hath more plentifully poured his benefits And againe the mercy of God in that he will not suffer his children to lie in sinne and so to perish by sinne but awaketh their consciences and stirres them vp to repentance by correcting them least they should perish with the world Out of his iustice therefore mixt with mercie he sent the Prophet and the Prophet comming propounded his sinne by way of a parable that not being blinded with partialitie and selfe-loue as all men are he might giue righteous iudgement against himselfe in the person of another There were saith he two men in one citie the one rich and the other poore the rich man had exceeding many sheepe and oxen but the poore had none at all saue one little sheepe which hee had bought and nourished vp and it grew vp with him and with his children also and did eate of his owne morsels and dranke of his owne cuppe and slept in his bosome and was vnto him as his daughter Now there came a stranger vnto the rich man who refused to take of his owne sheepe and of his owne oxen to dresse for the stranger that was come vnto him but tooke the poore mans sheepe and dressed it for the man that was come vnto him Hereupon Dauid maketh answer vers 5. He was exceeding wroth and said that the man which did that thing was the childe of death and that hee should restore the Lambe fouresold In the vers 7. Nathan maketh particular application Thou art the man From this practise of the Prophet we learne that the true Prophets and Ministers of Christ must make particular application of the word of the Lord whether of commandement exhortation admonition reproofe c. to those to whom they are sent whether it be to a kingdome to a particular people or to priuate men and though worldly men being stiffe-necked and hard hearted will not yeeld themselues vnder the yoake of obedience and are therefore alway ready to make resistance yet must wee know who hath sent vs both with promise of protection and reward for the faithfull discharge of our duties and also with denuntiation of vengeance for our disobedience and rebellion Ier. 17. 19. Speake all that I command thee Ier. 17. 19. be not affraide of their faces least I destroy thee before them they shall fight against thee but shall not preuaile against thee for I am with thee to deliuer thee And in another place Sonne of man though they be rebellious yet be not thou rebellious Besides this we haue many examples to encourage vs hereunto 1 King 22. 13. 14. Foure hundred Prophets 1 King 22. 13. 14. had prophesied victory to Ahas at Ramtoth Gilead and at Iehosaphats request Micah the Prophet of the Lord was sent for the messenger aduised him wisely and discreetely as he supposed to doe the like but he answered As the Lord liueth whatsoeuer the Lord hath said vnto me that will I speake 1. King 18. 17. 18. 1. King 18. 17. 18. Thus faithfully also dealt Elias with him It is not I that haue troubled Israel but thou and thy fathers house in that ye haue forsaken the commandements of the Lord and thou hast followed Baalim In the obiection of Ahab vers 17. obserue the nature of blinde and obstinate sinners they make the true Prophets and Ministers the causes of their calamities and plagues whereas the cause is in themselues that refusing instruction and reformation contemne and persecute the seruants of God sent vnto them and despise the word of the Lord sent by them To this purpose note well that ignorant and rebellious speech of the high priests and Pharisees Ioh. 11. 48. If we let him thus alone all Ioh. 11. 48. men will beleeue in him and the Romanes will come and take away both our place and the Nation Here you see that they would make the Gospell to be the cause of their vtter ouerthrow and the ouerthrow of the Gospell to be the onely meanes of their safetie But these faithlesse and godlesse polititians were deceiued for that which they feared came vpon them through the wrong auoiding thereof In the Primitiue Church what euill soeuer happened to the citie or prouinces of Rome whether famine pestilence earthquakes warres vnseasonable weather c. the Christians were thought to be the causes thereof whereupon arose great persecution against them yea in these present daies many ignorant and blinde people doe yet thinke that preaching makes the world so bad as it is whereas indeede it is the want of preaching want of faith and obedience in them to the same that maketh the word so