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A04931	A sermon preached by Iohn Knox minister of Christ Iesus in the publique audience of the Church of Edenbrough, within the realme of Scotland, vpon Sonday, the. 19. of August. 1565 For the which the said Iohn Knoxe was inhibite preaching for a season. To this is adioyned an exhortation vnto all the faythfull within the sayde realme, for the reliefe of suche as faythfully trauayle in the preaching of Gods worde. Written by the same Iohn Knoxe, at the commaundement of the ministerie aforesayd.	Knox, John, ca. 1514-1572.	1566 (1566)	STC 15075; ESTC S108139	37,230	132

chambers and shut thy dores after thee hide thy selfe for a verie little while vntill the indignation passe ouer For loe the Lorde commeth out of his place to visite the iniquitie of the inhabitants of the earth vpō them and the earth shall disclose her bloude and shall no more hide her slayne A SERMON PREACHED by Iohn knoxe AS THE CONninge Maryner beinge Maister hauing his ship tossed with vehemēt tempest and windes cōtrarious is compelled oft to trauerse leaste that eyther by too much resisting to the violence of the waues his vessell might be ouerwhelmed or by to much libertie graunted to be carried whither the furie of the tempest would his ship should be driuen vpon the shore so make shipwrack Euē so doth our prophet I saiah in thys texte which presentely ye haue heard read For he foreseing the gret desolation that was decreed in the counsell of the eternal against Ierusalem and Iudah to weete that the whole people that bare the nāe of GOD should be dispersed that the holy city should be destroyed the temple wherein was the Ark of couenant and where GOD had promised to giue his owne presence should be brent with her the King taken his sōnes in his owne presence murdered his owne eyes immediately after to be put out the nobility some cruelly murdered some shamefully lead away captiues and finally the whole sede of Abraham rased as it were frō the face of the earth the Prophet I say fearing these horrible calamities doth as it were some times suffer himselfe and the people committed to his charge to be carried awaye with the violence of the tēpest with out further resistance than by pouring forth his and their dolorous cōplayntes before the maiestie of GOD as in the 13 .17 and .18 verse of this presēt text we may reade At other times he valiantly resisteth the desperat tempest and pronounceth the fearfull destruction of all suche as trouble the Churche of GOD which he pronoūceth that God wil multiply euen in such time as when it appeareth vtterly to be exterminate But bycause ther is no final rest to the whole body till that the head returne to iudgement he calleth the afflicted to pacience and promyseth such a visitation as wherby the wickednesse of the wicked shal be disclosed and finally recompenced in their owne bosomes These are the chiefest poyntes which by the grace of God we intende more largely at thy● present to entreate First the Prophet sayth O Lord our God other Lordes besydes thee haue ruled vs. This no doubte is the beginning of the dolorous complaint in the which he first cōplayneth of the vniuste tirannye that the poore afflicted Israelites sustayned during the time of their captiuitie True it is that the Prophet was gathered to his Fathers in peace before that this extremitie apprechēded the people For a hundreth yeare after his deceasse was not the people lead away captiue yet he foreseing the assurance of the calamitie did before hande endite vnto them the complaynt that after they shoulde make But at the firste sight it appeareth that the cōplaint hath small waight For what newe thing was it that other Lordes than GOD in hys owne person ruled them seeing that suche had bene their regiment from the beginning For who knoweth not that Moyses Aaron Iosua the Iudges Samuell Dauid and other godly rulers were men and not God And so other Lordes than God ruled them in their gretest prosperitie For the better vnderstanding of this complaynte and of the minde of the Prophete we must first obserue from whence al authoritie and dominion floweth ▪ And secondly to what ende powers are appointed of God The which two poynts being discussed we shall the better vnderstande what Lordes and what authority rules beside God and who are they in whom God and his mercifull presence rules The firste is resolued to vs by the words of the apostle saying There is no power but of God Dauid bringeth in the eternall God speaking to Iudges and rulers saying I haue sayde ye are Gods the sonnes of the most highest And Salomon in the person of GOD affirmeth the same saying By me Kings raygne and Princes discerne the thinges that are iuste Of which places it is euidēt that it is neither birth influence of Starres election of people force of armes not finally what soeuer can be comprehēded vnder the power of nature that maketh the distinction betwixt the superior power and the inferior or that doth establish the royall throne of Kings but it is the onely and perfect ordinance of God who willeth his power terror Maiestie in a parte to shine in the thrones of Kings and in the faces of his Iudges and that for the profite and comfort of man so that who soeuer would study to deface that order of regimēt that God hath established and by his holy worde allowed and bring in such a confusion as no difference shuld be betwyxt the vpper powers and the subiects doth nothing but euert turne vpside downe the very throne of God which he wil to be fixed here vpon earth as in the ende and cause of this ordināce more playnly shall appeare which is the seconde poynte we haue to obserue for the better vnderstāding of the Prophets words and minde The end and cause then why God prynteth in the weake and feble flesh of man this Image of his own power maiesty is not to puffe vp flesh in opinion of it selfe neyther yet that the heart of him that is exalted aboue others shall be lifted vp by presumption and pryde and so despise others but that he shal cōsider that he is appoynted Lieutenaunt to one whose eyes cōtinually watch vpon him to see and examine howe he behaueth himself in his office Saint Paul in fewe words declareth the end wherefore the sword is committed to the powers saying it is to the punishmēt of the wycked doers and vnto the prayse of such as do well Of which words it is euident that the sword of God is not cōmitted to the hande of man to vse as it pleaseth him but only to punishe vice and maintayne vertue that mē may liue in such societie as before God is acceptable And this is the very and onely cause why God hath appoynted powers in this earth For such is the furious rage of mans corrupt nature that vnles seuere punishment were appointed and put in execution vpon malefactours better it were that man shoulde liue among brute and wilde beastes than among men But at this presente I dare not enter into the descriptiō of this common place for so shuld I not satisfie the text which by gods grace I purpose to absolue This onely by the way I would that such as are placed in authoritie shoulde consider whether they raygne and rule by God so that God ruleth them or if they rule without besides and against God of whom our Prophet here doth complayne If any lust to