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A03598 Tvvo sermons vpon part of S. Judes Epistle, by Richard Hooker sometimes Fellow of Corpus Christie College in Oxford Hooker, Richard, 1553 or 4-1600.; Jackson, Henry, 1586-1662. 1614 (1614) STC 13723; ESTC S104194 35,221 66

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exercises purely orderly established in the Church this is to separate themselues by schisme If they willingly cast of and vtterly forsake both profession of Christ communion with Christians taking their leaue of all religion this is to separate themselues by plaine Apostasie And Saint Iude to expresse the manner of their departure which by Apostasie fell away frō the faith of Christ saith they separated themselues noting thereby that it was not constraint of others which forced them to depart it was not infirmitie and weaknes in themselues it was not feare of persecution to come vpō them whereat their hearts did faile it was not griefe of torments whereof they had tasted and were not able any longer to endure them No they voluntarily did separate themselues with a fully setled and altogether determined purpose never to name the Lord Iesus and more nor to haue any fellowship with his Saints but to bend all their counsell and all their strength to raze out their memoriall from amongst men 12 Now because that by such examples not only the hearts of Infidels were hardned against the truth but the mindes of weake brethren also much troubled the holy Ghost hath given sentence of these backsliders that they were carnall men and had not the spirit of Christ Iesus least any man hauing an overweening of their persons should be overmuch amazed and offended at their fall For simple men not able to discerne their spirits were brought by their apostasie thus to reason with themselues If Christ be the sonne of the liuing God if hee haue the words of eternall life if he be able to bring salvation to all men that come vnto him what meaneth this Apostasie and vnconstrained departure Why doe his servants so willingly forsake him Babes be not deceived his servants forsake him not They that separate themselues were amongst his servants but if they had been of his servants they had not separated themselues They were amongst vs not of vs saith Saint Iohn and Saint Iude proveth it because they were carnall and had not the spirit Will you iudge of wheat by chaffe which the winde hath scattered from amongst it Haue the children no bread because the dogs haue not tasted it Are Christians deceived of that salvatiō they looked for because they denied the ioies of the life to come which were not Christiās What if they seemed to bee pillers and principall vpholders of our faith What is that to vs which know that Angels haue fallen from heaven Although if these men had beene of vs indeed O the blessednes of a Christian mans estate they had stood surer then the Angels they had never departed from their place Whereas now we mervaile not at their departure at all neither are we prejudiced by their falling away because they were not of vs sith they are fleshly and haue not the spirit Children abide in the house for ever they are bondmen and bondwomen which are cast out 13 It behoveth you therefore greatly every mā to examine his owne estate and to try whether you be bond or free children or no children I haue tolde you already that we must beware we presume not to sit as Gods in iudgement vpon others and rashlie as our conceipt and fancie doth lead vs so to determine of this man he is sincere or of that man he is an hypocrit except by their falling away they make it manifest and knowne what they are For who art thou that takest vpon thee to iudge another before the time Iudge thy selfe God hath left vs infallible evidence whereby we may at any time giue true righteous sentence vpon our selues We cannot examine the harts of other men we may our owne That we haue passed from death to life we knowe it saith St Iohn because we loue our brethren knowe yee not your owne selues how that Iesus Christ is in you except yee bee reprobates I trust beloued wec knowe that wee are not reprobates because our spirit doth bear vs record that the faith of our Lord Iesus Christ is in vs. 14 It is as easie a matter for the spirit within you to tell whose yee are as for the eies of your body to iudge where you sit or in what place you stand For what saith the Scripture Yee which were in times past strangers and enimies because your minds were set on evill workes Christ hath now reconciled in the body of his flesh through death to make you holy and vnblameable and without fault in his sight if you continue grounded and established in the faith and bee not moved away from the hope of the Gospell Colos. 1. And in the third to the Coloss. yee knowe that of the Lord yee shall receiue the reward of that inheritance for yee serue the Lord Christ. If wee can make this account with our selues I was in times past dead in trespasses and sinnes I walked after the prince that ruleth in the aire after the spirit that worketh in the children of disobedience but God who is rich in mercy through his great loue wherewith he loued me evē when I was dead hath quickned me in Christ. I was fierce heady proud high minded but God hath made me like the child that is newly wained I loved pleasures more then God I followed greedily the ioies of this present world I esteemed him that erected a stage or theatre more then Solomon which built a Temple to the Lord the Harpe Viole Timbrell Pipe men singers womē singers were at my feasts it was my felicity to see my children dance before me I said of every kind of vanitie O how sweet art thou vnto my soule All which things now are crucified to me and J to them now I hate the pride of life and pompe of this world now I take as great delight in the way of thy testimonies O Lord as in all riches now I finde more ioy of heart in my Lord and Saviour then the worldly minded man when his wheate and oyle do much abound now I tast nothing sweet but the bread that came downe from heaven to giue life vnto the world now mine eyes see nothing but Iesus rising from the dead now my eare refuseth all kind of melodie to heare the song of them that haue gotten victory of the beast and of his image and of his marke and of the number of his name that stand on the sea of glasse hauing the harpes of God and singing the song of Moses the servant of God and the song of the Lambe saying Great and marvailous are thy workes Lord God Almightie iust true are thy waies O king of Saints Surely if the spirit haue been thus effectuall in the secret worke of our regeneration vnto newnesse of life if wee endeavour thus to frame our selues anew then we may say boldly with the blessed Apostle in the 10. to the Hebrewes we are not of them which withdraw our selues to perdition but which follow
how wonderfull I would faine learne the mysterie of the eternall generation of the sonne of God saith Hilary Whom shall I seeke shall I get me to the schooles of the Grecians why I haue read vbi sapiens vbi scriba vbi conquisitor huius seculi These wise men in the world must needs bee dumbe in this because they haue reiected the wisdome of God Shall I beseech the Scribes and Interpreters of the law to become my teachers how can they knowe this sith they are offended at the crosse of Christ It is death for me to be ignorant of the vnsearchable misterie of the sonne of God of which misterie notwit standing I should haue been ignorant but that a poore fisherman vnknowne vnlearned new come from his bote with his cloathes wringing wet hath opened his mouth and taught me In the beginning was the word and the word was with God the word was God These poore sillie creatures haue made vs rich in the knowledge of the mysteries of Christ. 7 Remember therefore that which is spoken of by the Apostles Whose words if the children of this world doe not regard is it any marvaile They are the Apostles of our Lord Iesus not of their Lord but of our It is true which one hath said in a certaine place Apostolicam fidem seculi homo non capit a mā sworne to the world is not capable of that faith which the Apostles doe teach What meane the children of this world then to tread in the courts of our God What should your bodies doe at Bethel whose hearts are at Bethaven The God of this world whom yee serue hath provided Apostles and teachers for you Chaldeans wisards Southsayers Astrologers and such like Heare them Tell not vs that yee will sacrifice to the Lord our God if wee will sacrifice to Ashteroth or Melcom that yee will read our Scriptures if wee will listen to your traditions that if yee may haue a Masse by permission wee shall haue a Communion with good leaue and liking that yee will admit the things that are spoken of by the Apostles of our Lord Iesus if your Lord and Master may haue his ordinances observed and his statutes kept Solomon tooke it as well he might for an evident proofe that she did not bear a motherly affection to her child which yeelded to haue it cut in diverse parts He cannot loue the Lord Iesus with his heart which lendeth one care to his Apostles and another care to false Apostles which can brooke to see a mingle mangle of religion and superstition Ministers and Massingpriests light darknesse truth and errour traditions and Scriptures No we haue no Lord but Iesus no doctrine but the Gospell no teachers but his Apostles Were it reason to require at the hands of an English subiect obedience to the lawes and edicts of the Spaniard I doe marvaile that any man bearing the name of a servant of the servants of Iesus Christ will goe about to drawe vs from our allegeance Wee are his sworne subiects it is not lawful for vs to heare the things that are not told vs by his Apostles They haue told vs that in the last daies there shall be mockers therefore wee beleeue it Credimus quia legimus we are so perswaded because we read it must be so If we did not read it we would not teach it Nam quae libro legis non continentur eanec nosse debemus saith Hilary those things that are not written in the booke of the law wee ought not so much as to be acquainted with them Remember the words which were spoken of before of the Apostles of our Lord Iesus Christ. 8 The third thing to be considered in the description of these men of whom wee speake is the time wherin they should be manifested to the world They tolde you there should bee mockers in the last time Noah at the commaundement of God built an Arke and there were in it beasts of all sorts cleane vncleane A husbandman planteth a vineyard looketh for grapes but when they come to the gathering behold togither with grapes there are found also wilde grapes A rich man prepareth a great supper and biddeth many but when hee sitteth him downe he findeth amongst his friends here and there a man whom he knoweth not This hath beene the state of the Church sithēce the beginning God alwaies hath mingled his Saints with faithlesse and godlesse persons as it were the cleane with the vncleane grapes with sowre grapes his friends and children with aliens and strangers Mervaile not thē if in the last daies also yee see the men with whom you liue and walke arme in arme laugh at your religion and blaspheme that glorious name whereof you are called Thus it was in the daies of the patriarckes prophets and are we better then our fathers Albeit we suppose that the blessed Apostles in foreshewing what manner of men were set out for the last daies meant to note a calamity speciall and peculiar to the ages and generations which were to come As if he shoulde haue said As God hath appointed a time of seed for the sower and a time of harvest for him that reapeth as he hath givē vnto every hearb every tree his own fruit and his own season not the season nor the fruit of another for no man looketh to gather figs in the winter because the Sommer is the season for them nor grapes of thistles because grapes are the fruite of the Vine so the same God hath appointed sund●ie for every generation of men other men for other times and for the last times the worst men as may appeare by their properties which is the fourth point to be considered of in this description 9 They told you that there should be Mockers He meaneth men that shall vse religion as a cloake to put off and on as the weather serveth such as shall with Herod heare the preaching of Iohn Baptist to day and to morrow condescende to haue him beheaded or with the other Herod say they will worship Christ when they purpose a massacre in their hearts kisse Christ with Iudas and betray Christ with Iudas These are mockers For as ishmael the sonne of Hagar laughed at Isaak which was heire of the promise so shall these men laugh at you as the maddest people vnder the sunne if yee be like Moses choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God then to enioy the pleasures of sin for a season And why God hath not given them eies to see nor harts to cōceiue that exceeding recompence of your rewarde The promises of salvatiō made to you are matters wherein they can take no pleasure even as Ishmael tooke no pleasure in that promise wherein God had said vnto Abraham In Isaac shall thy seed be called because the promise concerned not him but Isaac They are tearmed for their impiety towards God mockers and for the impurity of their life