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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11162	A sermon preached at Richmond before Queene Elizabeth of famous memorie, vpon the 28. of March, 1596. By the reuerend father in God Anthony Rudd, Doctor in Diuinitie, and Lord Bishop of S. Dauids	Rudd, Anthony, 1549 or 50-1615.; R. S., fl. 1603.	1603 (1603)	STC 21432; ESTC S103177	19,634	62

A SERMON PREACHED AT RICHMOND BEfore Queene Elizabeth of famous memorie vpon the 28. of March 1596. By the reuerend father in God ANTHONY RVDD Doctor in Diuinitie and Lord Bishop of S. Dauids Printed for Thomas Man 1603. To all that feare God THIS Sermon bred much speech long ago and the sight of it was greatly desired by many But it hath bene concealed these seuen yeares and more by him that had the copy therof Howbeit now at the last it is published vpon hope that it may with as good meaning be construed by the Reader as it was formerly vttered by the Author R. S. PSAL. 90. 12. Teach vs so to number our dayes that we may applie our hearts vnto wisedome THIS Psalme was endited by Moses the man of Num. 13. 14. God the occasion of the making of it grew thus After that those which were sent to search the land of Canaan were returned frō the viewing or surueying of it vpō the report of some of them that the inhabitants were Gyants in respect of the Israelites who in comparison of them seemed but grashoppers and that their cities were walled vp to heauen and Deut. 9. 1. so iudged impregnable the people murmured Whereupon God sententiated Num. 14. 29. that their carkasses should fall in the wildernesse so many as were twenty yeares old and vpward Then Moses penned this Psalme that it might be a monument of their repentance and a forme of prayer for the obtaining of mercy This text I say is a prayer And whereas there be foure sorts of prayer 1 Tim. 2. 1. mētioned by the Apostle namely first a petition for the obtaining of that good which we want desire Secondly deprecation whereby we request the turning away of that euill from vs which we feare and haue deserued Thirdly intercession when we intreate for others Fourthly thanksgiuing for benefits receiued Now this prayer is a petition first for instruction in these words Teach vs secondly in this particular to number our dayes thirdly to this end that we may apply our hearts vnto wisedome The request of teaching implieth ignorance in the petitioner and the acknowledging thereof by consequence For the sluggard which is Pro. 26. 16. wiser in his owne conceipt then seuen men that can render a reason and al they that be wise in their owne Isa 5. 21. eyes prudent in their owne sight contemne all doctrine and admonition hating to be taught and reformed Therefore woe vnto them for there is more hope of fooles then of Pro. 26. 12. them for fooles sinne of ignorance but these sinne of malice I haue learned of Zophar the Naamathite that vaine man would Iob. 11. 12. be counted wise though indeed man new borne is like a wild Asse-colt that is without vnderstanding So that whatsoeuer good gifts he hath afterward they come of God and not of nature Verily ignorance is the mother not onely of admiration while we wonder at those things whereof we know not the cause or reason but also of errour Mat. 22. 29. For by it men speake good of euill and euill of good putting darknesse Esai 5. 20. for light and light for darknesse bitter for sweet and sweete for sower being like the children of Nineueh Ionas 4. 11. who could not discerne betweene their right hand and their left Seeing then the naturall man vnderstandeth not the things that are of 1. Cor. 2. 14. the spirite of God for they are foolishnesse vnto him therefore Nicodemus though a maister in Israell Iohn 3. 1. 2. must be Catechised before he be regenerated and see the kingdome of God If Saul heare not Ananias the Act. 9. 17. 18. scales will not fall from the eyes of his mind any more then from the eyes of his body Cornelius the Captaine of the Italian band must heare Peter Act. 10. preach vnto him and his familie and his friends before that he and they receiue the holy Ghost And how should the Eunuch of Aethiopia vnderstand what he readeth in Esai except Act. 8. 26. vsque ad finem Philip the Euangelist be ioyned to his chariot and comming vp to sit with him expound the Scriptures vnto him Assuredly the kingly Prophet himselfe cannot see how the Psal 73. 17. prosperity of the wicked may stand with Gods prouidence vntill he go into the sanctuarie of God there to learne by his word and holy spirite that he ordereth all things most wisely and iustly And it is put downe in the foote of one of the Psalmes that Psal 49. 20. if man be in honour and vnderstand not he is like to beasts that perish Wherefore to preuent this daunger Dauid had need to haue Nathan 2. Sam. 12. 24. and Gad to admonish and aduise him And if Ahab had not wanted grace and abandoned the feare of God from before his eyes yea and 1. Reg. 21. 20. sold himselfe to worke wickednesse in the sight of the Lord he might haue receiued great benefit by the godly lessons of Elias and Micheas 1. Reg. 18. 21 22. 2. Reg. 12. 2. King Iehoash did that which was good in the sight of the Lord all the time that Iehoiada the Priest taught him If the Nineuites had not heard Ionas 3. beleeued Ionas they had vndoubtedly bene destroyed in their sinnes And to be short where prophesying Pro. 29. 18. faileth there both the Prince and the people must needs perish in the end Wherfore Almighty God for the singular loue which he beareth to mankind hath furnished al ages with skilfull and sound teachers For example before the floud after Adam the monarch of the whole earth by Gen. 4. 3. 4. whose instructions his sonnes sacrificed to the king of heauen was Sheth Ibid. 26. who taught the men of his time to call vpon the name of God restoring religion which by the wicked had a long time bene suppressed Henoch Gen. 5. 22. likewise that walked with God Noe also whom the Apostle entituleth a 2. Pet. 2. 5 Preacher of righteousnesse After the floud till the giuing of the lawe in mount Sinai for the space of 857 yeares the Patriarks were the worlds instructors whom in their perambulations from nation to nation Psal 105. 13. 14. 15. from one kingdome to another people God suffered not to be wronged but euen reproued kings for their sakes saying Touch not mine annointed and do my Prophets no harme At the giuing of the law it was ordained that the Priests lippes Mal. 2. 7. should preserue knowledge and that men should seeke the lawe at their mouthes because they are the messengers of the Lord of hosts And when they failed in their ordinarie duty then God stirred vp extraordinarie 1. Sam. 9. 8 9 10. teachers called Seers men of God and Prophets So that at sundry times and in diuerse maners God Heb. 1. 1. 2. spake