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A25395	The morall law expounded ... that is, the long-expected, and much-desired worke of Bishop Andrewes upon the Ten commandments : being his lectures many yeares since in Pembroch-Hall Chappell, in Cambridge ... : whereunto is annexed nineteene sermons of his, upon prayer in generall, and upon the Lords prayer in particular : also seven sermons upon our Saviors tentations [sic] in the wildernesse. ...	Andrewes, Lancelot, 1555-1626.	1642 (1642)	Wing A3140; ESTC R9005	912,723	784

gifts our measure our knowledge should waxe greater In 1 Cor. 14.20 he saith Be ye children if ye will for malice but not for knowledge 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Brethren be not children c. Esa 28.9 he goeth lower and calleth it a sucking knowledge Therefore he saith he will teach them no more because they will not grow in knowledge but are still as if they had the pap in their mouthes v. 10. for saith he Precept must be upon precept precept upon precept line unto line line unto line here a little and there a little But as t is 1 Tim. 4.7 They are ever learning and yet never come to knowledge And t is that which the Apostle Heb. 5.12 inveigheth against in the Hebrew Christians that they were not as yet come to the Christian faith having spent so much time and profited no better but as yet needed to be catechised in the first principles 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. For when for the time ye ought to be teachers ye have need that one teach you againe which be the first principles of the Oracles of God c. For the time before Christ in Dan. 12.3 And they that be wise shal shine as the brightnes of the firmament and they that turne many to righteousnes shall shine as the starres for ever And also Ioel 2.28 And afterward I will poure out of my Spirit on all flesh and your sons and your daughters shall prophecy c. In Esa 54.13 And all thy children shall be taught of the Lord and much peace shall be to thy children What flouds of knowledge did the Prophets foresee should be in our times Esa 9.2 The people that walked in darknes have seene a great light They that dwelt in the land of the shadow of death upon them hath the light shined And we have proofes of it in the Primitive Church For the time of Christ it s a common and ordinary phrase with Christ Non legistis non audiistis have ye not read have ye not heard This were strange now for he knowes they know it not It was a question then but now a man needs not aske the question for he may be sure that they neither read nor knew The Apostle sets down commonly a question and an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 shame if they know not as 1 Cor. 15.29 Else what doe they which are baptized over the dead c. And a little after For some have not the knowledge of God I speake this to your shame And this is not onely in light matters but even as 1 Cor. 6.2 3. in high mysteries Know ye not which was heretofore known know ye not that the Saints shall judge the world And if the world shall be judged by you are ye unworthy to judge the least things doe ye not know that ye shall judge the Angels 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 how much more things which belong to this life And v. 5. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I speak to your shame So in the primitive Church it was their use without collation of chapter or place or Author to alledge and we see oftentimes in the Scriptures and in the Fathers divers places alledged without quoting therefore if there had not been greater skill in them then now there had beene but small edifying but they knew that they knew the places So we read 1 Cor. 14.34 that the Corinthians were so forward in religion that the women thought themselves able to teach and to dispute about weighty points in religion so that the Apostle was faine to make a prohibition not to speak in the congregation Your women c. which argueth though too great boldnesse yet great knowledge in them So Act. 18.3 Aquila and Priscilla being makers of Tents Aquila afterward attained much knowledge so that he was a pillar of the Church And Severus as the ecclesiasticall story maketh mention was a wool-winder yet afterwards for his knowledge was chosen Bishop and a Bishop of a great See If we confer these and see how carefull they were for the avoyding of light knowledge we shall think it odious to be in the number of them And if that wil not move us in Hos 8.12 I have written to them great things of mylaw but they are counted as a strange thing That we count it strange yet that Heb. 5.12 should prevaile whereas we should be far past principles we have not the measure of knowledge that is required And for the measure that the common people should have If I should speak to the people that dig not after knowledge I would not appoint them that measure that the Church of Rome doth But seeing in knowledge there must be a discerning to know quid verum what is true and in that quare verum a giving of a reason therefore that in the 1 Thes 5.21 I would require omnia probate try all things that they be able to prove what they say i. that they be able to prove that they heare Or that in Io. 10.5 That they know their own shep-heard and his voyce and a stranger they will not follow Or at the least wise that which is 1 Pet. 3.15 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. that they can give a reason of that they believe and hope for But that our scioli smatterers in knowledge should enter to debate of controversies which is not theirs as discussing of hard and great questions but Timothy's office i. the Ministers that they should do this it cannot be allowed And it will be found that which the papists say that sancta simplicitas est virtus laicorum holy simplicity is the vertue of the laicks Yet not ignorance but knowledge is required He that said that time to be evill that laboured of both extreames must now more say it That either they are ignorant be cause as it is Ps 82.5 They will not be learned nor understand but walk still in darknesse or because they are out of course that are the foundations of the earth i. the teachers and as Chrysostome saith Ierome if darknesse be on the tops of high mountaines it s no marvell that there is a myst in the valleys and where there is knowledge it filleth the mouth of the adversary They will check and controll their teachers The 2. Rule of our knowledge is to no further end but to worship God aright Objectum scientiae dr●i●ae The obj●ct of divine knowledge S● much knowledge as sufficeth for Gods worship is sufficient for 〈◊〉 which is now done in our times So in the 2. rule we see what is forbidden Wherein is included both the Species Aequipollens Of the 3. rule of extension we have no use in the first Commandement because it is wholly spirituall To the 4. rule belong the means of knowledge But before we intreat of the means we must first know the object which is one of the circumstances and that is here God the Father he whom he hath sent Iesus

our use God is called the Father of lights First in opposition to the lights themselves to teach us that the lights are not the causes of good things but he that said fiat lux Gen. 1. Secondly in regard of the emanation whether we respect the Sunne-beames called radii shining in at a little hole or the great beame of the Sun called Iubar he is author of both and so is the cause of all the light of understanding whether it be in small or great measure Thirdly to shew the nature of God nothing hath so great alliance with God as light The light maketh all things manifest Ephes 5. and the wicked hate the light because their workes are evill Iohn 3. But God is the Father of lights because as out of light commeth nothing but light so God is the cause of that which is good Prov. 13. Againe light is the cause of goodnesse to those things that are good of themselves It is a pleasant thing to behold the light Eccles 11. On the other side howsoever good things are in themselves yet they afford small pleasure or delight to him that is shut up in a dark dungeon where he is deprived of the benefit of light So God is the Father of lights for that not onely all things have their goodnesse from him but because he makes them good also Light is the first good thing that God created for man fiat lux Gen. 1. But God is the Father of lights to shew that he is the first cause of any good thing that can come to us Againe because he is that onely cause of the visible light which at the first he created and also of that spirituall light whereby he shineth into our hearts by the light of the Gospel 2 Cor. 4. the Apostle saith of the whole Trinity Deus lux est 1 Iohn 1.5 More particularly Christ saith of himselfe Ego sum lux mundi Iohn 8. The holy Ghost is called light where he is represented by the fiery tongues Act. 2.3 The Angels are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. 1.7 David also as a civill Magistrate was called the light of Israel 2 Sam. 21.17 Ecclesiasticall Ministers are called light Vos estis lux mundi Matth. 5. And not onely they but the people that are of good conversation are said to shine tanquam luminaria in mundo Phil. 2. All these lights have their being from God and for this cause he is worthily called lux mundi and the Father of lights A againe this name is opposed unto darknesse God is light and in him there is no darknesse 1 Iohn 5.5 Therefore the ignorance of our minds is not to be imputed unto him He is the light that lightneth every one Iohn 1.9 and cannot be comprehended of darknesse Therefore it is not long of him that we through ignorance are said to sit in darknesse and in the shadow of death this comes of the Devill the Prince of darknesse who blindeth mens eyes 2 Cor. 4. God is the Father of lights Secondly he is so called to distinguish him from heat The lights which we make for these private uses doe not onely give light but heat also but God giveth light without heat wherefore such as are of a fiery spirit as the Disciples that said Shall we command that fire come downe from Heaven and consume them are not like God Christ is called the day-starre not the dog-starre 2 Pet. 1. God is said to have walked in the coole of the day not in the heat of the day Gen. 3.8 When God would speake to Eliah he shewed himselfe neither in the strong wind nor in earth-quake nor in fire but in a small still voyce 1 Reg. 19.12 To teach men that if they will be like God they must be of a meeke and quiet spirit He is said to dwell in the light 1 Tim. 6. not that he is of a hot fiery nature as our lights are but because he giveth us the light of knowledge In respect of the number he is not called the Father of one light but Pater luminum It was an imperfection in Iacob that he had but one blessing Gen. 27. God is not the cause of some one good thing but as there are divers starres and one starre differeth from another in glory 1 Cor. 15. so as we receive many good things and of them some are greater then others so they all come from God who is the Author and fountaine of them all Our manifold imperfections are noted by the word tenebrae which is a word of the plurall number and in regard thereof it is needfull that God in whom we have perfection shall not be Pater luminis but Pater luminum Our miseries are many therefore that he may deliver us quite out of miseries there is with the Lord Copiosa redemptio Psal 130. The sinnes which we commit against God are many therefore he is the Father not of one mercie but Pater misericordiarum 2 Cor. 1. The Apostle Peter tels us that the mercie of God is multiformis gratia 1 Pet. 4. So that whether we commit small sinnes or great we may be bold to call upon God for mercie According to the multitude of thy mercies have mercie upon me Psal 51. For as our sinnes doe abound so the mercie of God whereby he pardoneth and is inclined to pardon us is exuberans gratia Rom. 5. The darknes that we are subject to is manifold there is darknesse inward not only in the understanding Eph. 4. where the Gentiles are said to have their cogitations darkned but in the heart whereof the Apostle speaketh He that hateth his brother is in darknesse 1 Iohn 2. There is the darknesse of tribulation and affliction whereof the Prophet speaketh Thou shall make my darknesse to be light Psal 18. and the misery which the wicked suffer in the world to come which our Saviour calleth utter darknesse Matth. 22. God doth helpe us and give us light in all these darknesses and therefore is called the Father of lights As the Sunne giveth light to the body so God hath provided light for the soule and that is first the light of nature which teacheth us that this is a just thing ne alii facias quod tibi fieri non vis from this light we have this knowledge that we are not of our selves but of another and of this light the Wiseman saith The soule of man is the candle of the Lord. Prov. 20.27 They that resist this light of nature are called rebelles Lumini Iob 24. With this light every one that commeth into this world is inlightned Iohn 1.9 Howbeit this light hath caught a fall as Mephibosheth did and thereupon it halteth notwithstanding because it is of the bloud royall it is worthy to be made of Next God kindleth a light of grace by his word which is lux pedibus Psal 119. and lux oculis Psal 19. and that we may be capable of this outward light he lightneth us with his

petition we are to consider two things First the Kingdome it selfe secondly the Comming of his Kingdome Touching the first point it may be objected how it is that Christ teacheth us to make this petition for Gods Kingdome is an everlasting Kingdome and his Dominion endureth throughout all ages Psal 145.13 How then is it said to come For the answer of this doubt the Kingdome of God must be distinguished First God hath an Vniversall Kingdome such a Kingdome as ever was and for ever shall be of which it is said The Lord is King be the people never so impotent he ruleth as King be the people never so unquiet Psal 99. Secondly there is a Kingdome of Glory that whereof our Saviour speaketh Matth. 25.34 Come ye blessed of my Father inherit the Kingdome prepared for you c. And the thiefe upon the Crosse said Lord remember me when thou commest into thy Kingdome Luke 13. and this is the Kingdome which in the first place Christ teacheth us to pray for we pray for this Kingdome that it may come we pray for our owne good for it is a Kingdome of power and therefore able to defend us and therefore our Saviour in the conclusion of his prayer addeth this For thine is the Kingdome Matth. 6. According to which the Prophet David saith Thy Saints give thankes to thee they shew the glory of thy Kingdome and talke of thy power Psal 145.11 The government of his Kingdome is committed to Christ of whom it was said by God I have set my King upon my holy Hill of Sion Psal 2. In which regard he doubteth not to affirme of himselfe Matth. 28 Data est mihi omnis potestas c. All power is given ●e in Heaven and in Earth And notwithstanding God reigneth as King yet that is verified which the Prophet complaineth of Isa 26.13 O Lord God other gods besides thee have ruled over us for Sathan taketh upon him to be King and hath played the Tyrant and hath prevailed so farre as that the greatest part of the world are subdued unto him in which regard our Saviour calleth him the Prince of the world Iohn 14.30 And by the Apostle he is termed the God of this world for that he blindeth mens eyes and maketh them subject to the Kingdome of darknesse 2 Cor. 4. Secondly there is a Kingdome of sinne against which the Apostle exhorteth Let not sinne reigne in your mortall bodies Rom 6 ●2 which he meaneth when he saith That sinne hath reigned unto ●●●ath Rom 5.21 Thirdly the Apostle sheweth that Death hath a Kingdome when he saith that by meanes of sinne death reigned from Adam to Moses Rom. 5.14 These are enemies to the Kingdome of God for while the Devill reighneth by meanes of sinne as he doth so long as he worketh in the children of disobedience Ephes 4. he taketh away the glory of Gods Kingdome and Death takes away the power of it And in regard of Sathans Kingdome he is said to be a King over all the children of pride Iob 41.34 For he makes the whole world rebell against God so that they are not ashamed to deny him to his face and that is true not onely of the common sort of the world but even of a great many of the Church of which number are those that sticke not to say We will not have Christ to rule over us Luke 19.14 Againe there are many stumbling blocks for the hinderance of Gods Kingdome Matth. 13.41 that the Kingdome of God cannot come and therefore we doe worthily pray as well that the Kingdome of Sathan and sinne may be overthrowne as for the removing of those offences God having exalted his Sonne into the highest Heaven saith unto him Sit thou at my right hand till I make thine enemies thy foot-stoole Psal 110. The last enemy that is to be destroyed is death 1 Cor. 15.16 Wherefore our desire is that there may be such a Kingdome as wherein the Law of God may be exactly kept and that it would please God in this Kingdome to tread downe Sathan under our feete Rom. 16. that not only death it selfe but he that hath the power of death being destroyed Heb. 2.14 God may be all in all 1 Cor. 15.28 When we behold the state of the world and see that good men are trodden under feete and the vessels of wrath and sinne are exalted and prosper then we may know that that is not the true Kingdome and therefore we pray that God will set up his Kingdome in our hearts and governe us by his Spirit And therefore this point doth not onely concerne our selves but also God for unlesse his Kingdome come his name cannot be sanctified of us As there are temporall Kingdomes so there is a spirituall Kingdome called the Kingdome of Grace whereof our Saviour speaketh The Kingdome of God is within you Luke 17.21 As before we prayed for the Kingdome of Glory so now for this Kingdome of Grace for without this we shall never bee partakers of that other Kingdome The glory of other Kingdomes is the reformation of things that were before amisse but the glory of the Kingdome of Grace is that as during the tyranny of Sathan Sinne raigned unto death so now under this Kingdome Grace may raigne through righteousnesse by Iesus Christ Rom. 5.21 That we may have interest in both these Kingdomes wee must hearken to that which Christ proclaimeth Matth. 4.27 Repent for the Kingdome of God draweth neare as it draweth neare to us so wee must draw neare to it else we shall never enter into it for except a man be borne againe he cannot enter into the Kingdome of God Iohn 3.2 And that we may beginne to draw neare to it there is an outward regiment to be used which is a token of the grace of God bearing rule in our hearts we must by the Kingdome of God within us cast out Devils Matth. 8. We must intreate God by the power of his Spirit to plant in our hearts that which is good and to roote out and remove out of them that which is bad Matth. 13.48 We must displace Sathan and sinne that they set not up their thrones in our hearts and in stead of it we must set up Gods Kingdome ruling in us by his Spirit for the Kingdome of God stands in righteousnesse and peace and joy in the holy Ghost Rom. 14.17 If we finde these vertues in us they are sure pledges of the Kingdome of Grace and we may assure our selves that after this life is ended we shall be received into the Kingdome of Glory And how soever he hath appointed Kings and Rulers over us for our outward safety and defence yet they have their Scepter from him and the end of their rule is to further Gods Kingdome as the Apostle speaketh That we may live under them in all godlinesse and honesty 1 Tim. 2. Touching the comming of his Kingdome it may be demanded why we pray that it may come to us seeing that