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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

Adding that the knowledge thereof came not from the starres but only frō the God of Abraham who onely was and is the true God ▪ which thing vnderstanded the king burst forth in his confession saying of a truth your God is the moste excellent of al Gods And he is Lord of kinges and onely he that reuealeth the secretes seeing that thou couldest open this secret And when the king after puffed vp in pride by the counsell of his wicked nobilitie would make an Image before the which he would that al tongues and nations subiect to him should make adoration that Sydrack Misacke and Abednago woulde not obey his vniust commaundement so were cast in the flaming furnace of fyre and yet by Godes Angels were so preserued that no smell of fier remayned in their persons nor garments this same king giueth a more notable confession saying the Lord God of Sydrack Misack Abednago is to be praysed who hath sent his Angels and deliuered his worshippers that put their trust in him who haue done against the kings cōmaundement who haue rather giuen their owne bodyes to torment than that they woulde worship another God except their owne God By me therfore is there made a decree that whosoeuer shal blaspheme the God of Sydrack Misack Abednago that he shall be cut in pieces and his house shal be made detestable Thus we se how God began euen almoste in the beginning of their captiuitye to notifie his name to multiply his knowledge set forth aswel his power as his wisedome true worshipping by those that were taken prisoners yea that were dispised and of all men contempned so that the name feare of the God of Abrahā was neuer before notified to so many realmes nations This wōderous worke of God proceeded from one Empire to another For Daniel being promoted to great honor by Darius king of Perses and Medes falleth into a desperat daūger For he was cōmitted to prisō among Lyons bicause that he was deprehended breaking the kings iniunctiō not that the king desired the destruction of Gods seruants but bicause the corrupt Idolaters that in hatred of Daniell had procured that lawe to be made vrged the king against his nature But God by his Angell did stop the Lyons mouthes and so preserued his seruant Which considered with the soddaine destruction of Daniels enimies by the same Lyons king Daryus besides his owne confession wrote to all people tongues and nations after this forme It is decreed by me that in all the dominions of my kingdom men shal feare and reuerence the God of Danyell bicause he is the liuing God abiding for euer whose kingdome shall not be destroyed and his dominion remayneth who saueth and deliuereth and sheweth signes and wonders in heauen and in earth who hath deliuered Daniell from the Lyons This knowledge was yet further increased in the dayes of Cyrus who giuing freedome to the captiues to returne to their owne natyue cuntry giueth this confessiō Thus sayth Cyrus the king of Persians all the kingdomes of the earth hath the Lorde God of heauen giuen vnto me and hath commaunded me that a house be built to him in Ierusalem which is in Iuda Whosoeuer therefore of you that are of his people let the Lord his God be with him and let him passe vp to Ierusalem and let him builde the house of the Lord God of Israell for he only is God that is in Ierusalem Time will not suffer to intreate the poyntes of this confession neyther yet did I for that purpose adduce the historie But onely to let vs see howe constantlye God kept his promise in increasing of his people and in augmēting of his true knowledge when that both they that were the seede of Abraham and that religion which they professed appeared vtterly to haue bene extinguished aboue mens expectation I say he brought fredome out of bondage light out of darkenesse and lyfe out of death I am not ignoraunt that the building of the temple reparation of the walles of Ierusalem were long stayed so that the worke had many enimies But so did the hande of God preuayle in the ende that a decree was giuen by Daryus by him I suppose that succeded to Cambises not onely that all things necessarie for the building of the temple and for the sacrifices that were to be there brent shoulde be ministred vpon the kings charges but also that whosoeuer shuld hinder that work or change that decree that a balke should be taken out of his house and that he should be hanged thervpon Yea that his house should be made a donghil and therto he addeth a prayer saying the God of heauen who hath placed his name there roote out euerye king and people O that kings and nations should vnderstande that shall put his hande eyther to change or to hurte this house of God that is in Ierusalem and so in dispite of Sathan was the temple builded the walles repayred and the city inhabited and in the moste desperat daungers it was preserued til that the Messias promised the glory of the seconde temple came manyfested himselfe to the worlde suffred and rose againe according to the scriptures And so by sending forth his gospell from Ierusalem did replenish the whole earth with the true knowledge of God and so did God in perfectiō increase the nation aud the spirituall seede of Abraham Wherefore deare brethren we haue no small consolation if the estate of all thinges be this daye rightly considered we see in what furie and rage the worlde for the moste parte is nowe raised against the pore Church of Iesus Christ vnto the which he hath proclaymed liberty after this feareful bōdage of that spirituall Babylon in the which we haue beene holden captiues of longer space than Israell was prisoner in Babylon it selfe For if we shall consider vpon the one parte the multitude of those that liue without God and vpon the other parte the blinde rage of the pestilent papistes what shal we think of the small number of them that do professe Christ Iesus but that they are as a poore sheepe already seazed in the clawes of the Lyon yea that they the true religion which they professe shall in a moment vtterly be consumed But against this fearefull temptation let vs be armed with the promise of our god to wit that he wil be the protector of his church yea that he will multiply it euen when to mans iudgement it appeareth vtterly to be exterminate This promise hath our God performed in the multiplication of Abrahams seede in preseruation of it when Sathan labored vtterly to haue destroied it in deliuerance of the same as we haue heard from Babilon He hath sent his sonne Christ Iesus clad in our flesh who hath tasted of all our infirmities sinne except who hath promised to be with vs to the ende of the worlde He hath further kept promise in publication yea in