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A18357	Six sermons now first published, preached by that learned and worthy divine Edward Chaloner lately deceas'd, Dr in Divinity, sometimes Chaplaine in Ordinary to our soveraigne K. Iames, and to his Maiesty that now is: and late Principall of Alban Hall in Oxford. Printed according to the author's coppies, written with his owne hand	Chaloner, Edward, 1590 or 91-1625.; Sherman, Abraham, 1601 or 2-1654.	1629 (1629)	STC 4937; ESTC S107649	98,854	158

haue seene how the Bees haue one King the Cranes in their flight follow one Captaine even heards in the field naturally incline to one Leader all which might haue taught him that all things are subordinate and moderated not by many but by one Governour Besides he was more wise then either was the Chaldees or Aegyptians and therefore we can presume him to be ignorant of none of their Arts and Disciplines and did not their Arithmeticke teach him that numbers do proceede from vnities their Geometrie that magnitudes doc arise from indivisible points why the Perspectiues drawes all lines to one center Philosophie all causes to one first cause Astronomie all motions to one first Mouer so that there was nothing in all his learning from whence he might not haue learned that of all things there is but one Maker and so consequently for all things we are to worship and giue divine honour but to one God Yet loe this Salomon this bright morning starre sets in the West is hous'd in one of those darke and smoakie degrees mentioned by Astronomers lust and loue of his wiues possesse his fantasie and then whatsoeuer good object would present it selfe to his vnderstanding it is by the interposition of these earthly vanities these foolishnesses of heart darkened It might be wisely said of him as S. Austin once spake of the Wisemen of his dayes O Lord with the vnderstanding which thou giuest vnto men they number the starres of the firmament and the sands of the sea they measure the heauens with their instruments and foretell the Eclipses of the Sunne and Moone many ages before-hand they can say that such a yeare such a month such a day of the month such a houre of the day there shall be an Eclipse and it falls out accordingly and they are lifted vp and greatly extolled which know these things notwithstanding per impiam superbiam recedentes ac deficientes à lumine tuo tantò antè solis defectuns in futurum praevident in praesentia suum non vident through impious pride their foolish hearts departing away from thy light so long before they can foresee the darkening of the sunne which is to come and cannot see their owne darkenes which is present Let me lead you from the Olde Testament into the New there suppose the Scribes and Pharisees sitting in Moses Chaire and scanning the gestures and wordes and workes of our Saviour why did they not know him to be the Messias they heard Iohn Baptist giue plaine testimonie of him the same Christ fulfilled likewise all that was spoken by the Prophets why could not they see that hee was the Saviour of the world hee made the blinde to see the deafe to heare the dumbe to speake the lame to goe he made the sick and diseased whole hee raised vp the dead hee told them even their thoughts cogitations how were their hearts so darkened that they could not know him S. Paul informes vs that their foolish hearts were possest with pride that seeking to establish their owne righteousnes to bee justified by the workes of the Law they stumbled at that stumbling stone Rom 9.32 if any therefore aske or demaund how it comes to passe that so many see not the truth of the Gospel if it be so plaine as we make it whence it is that the Scriptures which we say are so easie in all matters of Salvation be not yet vnderstood either by the wise Salomons or the learned Scribes and Pharisees of the Romane Church I must answere with the Apostle in my text quòd abscurum obtonebratum est eorum cor insipiens because their foolish heart their heart taken vp with foolish earthly imaginations is obscured darkened The Apocalyps in describing the whore of Babylon notes two branches of this foolishnesse in her pride in challenging adoration and covetousnesse in venting her Merchandices which goe beyond all Markets that I know but the divels even to the soules of men Cap. 19. are not our adversaries carefull diligent to fulfill the Scriptures whither tend all their doctrines and teachings as some well note but either to enrich her treasures as indulgences pilgrimages and dispensations or augment her power and authority as ignorance of Lay-people multiplicitie of Fryeries necessity of confession and absolution or to conserve that which hath been already gotten as single life of Priests exemption of the Cleargie from secular Magistrates the preheminences of the Pope aboue Princes Councels and Scripture it selfe See the witch-crafts wherewith shee is bewitched the Cuppes wherwith she is drunken the mists wherwith her foolish heart is darkned and obscured Can our adversaries object truly to vs any such follies of the heart which do shut our eyes that wee are not able to discerne the acutenesse of their Achillean arguments yes some of them haue said it is a desire of Soveraigntie in Princes of licentiousnes in all that casts the vaile before our hearts and makes thē foolish in things pertaining to his Holines Why then belike these cause vs that wee doe not allow of Friers and Mookes though in the fourth of Gen it be said as Bellar. vrgeth it then began men to call vpon the name of the Lord for these it is that we doe yeelde vnto the sacrifice of the Masse though Salomon in the 9 of the Prouerbes as Bellar quotes him saith most plainly that wisdome hath built her an house slaine her victuals and drawne her wine These make vs that we will not kill and devoure those creatures the Kings and Princes which performe not what the Pope enjoynes and commands though Baronius most subtilly hath concluded it from the voyce to Peter kill and eate hence it is that wee require more then an implicite faith in the Laytie though the Master of the Sent and Bell. alleadge it in the 1. of Iob it is printed in faire Letters and good Characters that the Oxen were plowing and the Asses feeding besides them If therefore foolishnesse do darken our hearts that we cannot see so farre as the Lynxes of the Roman Church I must say with S. Paul that it is the foolishnes of God which is wiser then men and the weakenesse of God which is stronger then men But what marvaile if others whose hearts are the Cabinets of vanity and folly are purblinde in the way of truth when as wee our selues are so led often-times by them in easie matters that we become beetle-ey'd see little or nothing why do we not see the shortnes of our life but thus Iiue in the world as though we should liue euer why doe wee not see the vanities of earthly things but embrace them as though they had some substance in them Why doe wee not see our owne imperfections and follies but contemne our brethren as though our selues were some demi-gods vpon earth O beloued if wee list to marvaile at the darkenesse of others hearts we cannot well marvaile at any

hollow-hearted in religion for gaine and preferment but if you vvould knit an vnseparable knot of kindred let your brotherhood bee founded in Christ lest at your deaths you bee both of you either everlastingly separated or everlastingly confounded I confesse it is an hard thing to perswade flesh and bloud to follow this they will scarce beleeue that Christ by the right of kinred claimes such an interest in them as that by his example they should so much preferred the spirituall alliance they haue vvith him before that vvhich they haue vvith their owne kinred For doe not vvee see the quite contrary practised every vvhere in the vvorld Doth not one thinke his vvife neerer to him and for her sake either quits or at lest is cold in the profession of Christs religion Doe not others thinke their mother or their brethren neerer to them and vvhen they heare Christ taught in the Church if any saith vnto them as here vvee finde it in my text thy mother and thy brethren are without desiring to see thee they vvill leaue Christs company to feede their fancies Doe not all thinke their humours and pleasures and profits neerer vnto them and for their sakes goe to law vvith their brethren reject all alliance they haue vvith any in Christ and vvith slaundrings backbitings and raylings like foule birds defile their owne nests Moses vvhen two Israelites stroue together said why smitest thou thy fellow I say more vvhy striue vvee vvee are brethren Wee may conceiue our head Iesus Christ as saying from heaven vvhy striue you my kinsmen vvhy make you divisions in our family my mother and my brethren vvhich you are Your are all children of the same heavenly Father children should dwell together members of the same body members should grow together souldiers of the same army souldiers should gether souldiers of the same army souldiers should march together Thus vvee are termed in the holy Scriptures let it be our care to be answerable to such honourable appellations And now that you have seene your titles and prerogatiues vvhich Christ bestowes on you of his mother and brethren hearken but like mothers and brethren to the propertyes required in you which are hearing and doing and God will make you to be so indeed And first I desire hearing which commeth in the next place to be handled My mother and my brethren are they which heare the word of God c. There is nothing so necessary to a Christian which travells from this Egypt of misery and oppression to the heavenly Canaan as the knowledge of the vvord of God for by this hee is directed in his way conducted to his port assured of his safe arrivall This made the Prophets so often to ingeminate the hearing of it vnto Gods people Heare yee the word of the Lord yee rulers Esay 1.10 Heare the word of the Lord yee house of David Ierem. 12.4 You sheepheards heare the word of the Lord Ezech. 34.7 Heare all yee old men Ioel. 1.2 Heare all yee people Mich. 1.2 Princes rulers sheepheards people old young all lyable to this taske of hearing in somuch that our Saviour makes this the burden of his Sermons hee that hath an eare to heare let him heare But beloved in this place our Saviour seemes to goe somewhat farther and as if our kinred and alliance with him were to be confirmed by charter makes none capable of that honour but those which can shew their title out of the word of God My mother and my brethren are they which heare the word of God The observation which I draw from hence is this That it is required of all those which would bee adopted into Christs family to bee diligent hearers of Gods word I neede not be large in proving the truth of this doctrine It is sufficient that hearing is the ordinary meanes vvhich Christ hath left vs to engraft vs into his family and to make vs the children of his heavenly Father for by faith wee are made the heires of salvation and faith commeth by hearing saith the Apostle Rom. 10. so that no hearing no faith no faith no salvation Hee therefore which is of God heares Gods voyce saith our Saviour Iohn 8.47 And againe my sheepe heare my voyce Ioh. 10.27 In regard whereof the Saints in all ages were bound to repaire to the ministers of the word and to heare the Law at the Priests lips Malach. 2.7 In the Old Testament wee finde that they resorted to the Prophets vpon the sabbaths and vpon other dayes for when the Shunamite in 2. King 4. craved leaue of her husband to goe to the Prophet hee replyed wherefore wilt thou goe it is neither new moone nor Sabbath day as if on those dayes the people vsed to resort vnto them to heare them The like was vsed in the new Testament for so our Saviour sent the Iewes to the Scribes and Pharisees Matt. 23.1 the Angell sent Cornelius to Peter Act. 10.32 and of these times Esay prophecying saith that in the last dayes it shall come to passe that many people shall goe and say Come yee and let vs goe vp to the mountaine of the Lord to the house of the God of Iacob and hee will teach vs his wayes Esay 2.3 For indeed the ministery of the Gospell is that golden pipe as one termes it whereby and wherethrough all the goodnesse of God all the sweetnesse of Christ all heavenly graces whatsoever are derived vnto vs It is that hooke and bait which Christs fishers of men his disciples and Apostles vsed in the taking of soules It is that spirituall armour which casteth downe every thing that exalteth it selfe against the knowledge of God and bringeth into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ It is that blowing of the Levites which if not at the first yet at the seventh time will beat downe Iericho in vs and hew a passage in our hearts for the entrance of the heavēly tabernacle It is that poole of Bethesda at which should lye every distressed impotent soule expect the moving of the waters I meane the first moving of the spirituall waters of life by the preachers of the Gospell To make vse of this doctrine there are two sorts of men vvhich commonly faile in the performance of this commandement of hearing the word the first are those which say they can reade the Bible in their houses that they haue Gods word which will instruct them as sufficiently at home as any sermons in the Churches But these men foulety deceiue themselues for first they must know that it is one thing to say that the Scriptures are sufficient to teach them all things necessary to salvation another thing to say that they teach these things so vsefully without an interpreter as with one I deny not but that in the Scriptures more excellent knowledge profound mysteries are contayned then the greatest Doctours learned'st men withall their paines industry can attaine vnto but so powerfull