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A13809	A sermon preached the 26. day of May. 1584. in S. Maries Church in Shrewesbury before the right honorable the Earle of Leicester, accompanied with the Earle of Essex, the Lorde North, diuers knightes, gentle-men of worshypfull callyng, the worshipfull bayliues, aldermen and burgesses of the towne of Salop. By Iohn Tomkys publick preacher of Gods word there: now first published by the authour. Seen, perused, and allowed accordyng to her Maiesties iniunctions.	Tomkys, John.	1586 (1586)	STC 24110; ESTC S118479	38,851	98

Heb 13 14 except we walke on continually in the loue of god of our neighbour wherefore as the author of the Epistle to the Hebrues exhorteth vs f 12 1 Let vs runne with patience the race that is set before vs. Let vs lift vp our handes 12 which hang downe and our weake knees and make straight steppes to our feete 13 least that which is halting be turned out of the way but let it rather bee healed Yea g Exo. 12.11 let vs make hast to the promised land with our loynes girte our shoes on our feete and staues in our hāds that we stay not in the way whiche leadeth from this worldly Egypt vnto the heauenly promised land And this much concerning the manner of walking in the way whiche leadeth into euerlasting life * 4. The end of the way is euerlasting life Now remaineth that we shew you the ende of the way which in order is the fourth circumstance The ende of the way wherein the Apostle exhorteth vs to walke is euerlasting life Neither is it without cause that I propose vnto you the ende of our walking For the end of all actions being first in intention and last in execution is by experience found to be of that force that it draweth vs on although it stand with our perill to accōplish that we intend in hope to atchiue the end in our minds first proposed And therfore Christ our Sauiour to incourage vs a Mat. 7.14 to enter in at the straite gate to walk in the narrow way of due obedience vnto God proposeth the ende which is life And on the cōtrary part to deterre vs b Mat. 7.13 from entryng through the wide gate and walking in the broa● way of licentiousnesse he proposeth also the end which is Destruction And what can bee more comfortable the● life and the same to bee inioyed eternally in the kingdome of heauen O● what can bee more fearefull then destruction and the same to be cōtinued for euer in hell Let vs then chearefully walke on in the way of obediēce so shall we receiue the promised reward But that we may with more courage runne our race in hope to obtaine the crowne let vs take a vewe of euerlasting life with the eies of our mynds as in gods word it is diuersly described * 1. Euerlasting life compared to the land of Canaan god in old time gaue vnto the aunciēt Israelites the land of Canaan a land for the fruitefulnes therof sayd a. Exod. 3.8 Num. 13.27 to flowe with milke and hony that they might not onely possesse it accordyng to his b Gen. 15.14 c. promise but also by the temporall benefites thereof to be put in mynde of the spirituall blessings in the land of the liuyng and by their earthly rest there inioyed after the bondage in Egypt to be stirred vp with the desire of the heauenly rest to be possessed by the people of god after their deliuerance frō the thraldom of Satan Read the fourth to the Hebrues and there shall you finde this doctrine waranted So is the land of Canaan a figure of euerlasting life Christ the wisedome of our heauenly Father * 2. Euerlasting life called saluation wel knoweth that this transitorie life of ours is subiect vnto many calamities and therefore for our incouragement he calleth euerlasting life a Mat. 10.22 Mat. 13.13 Saluation whereby vndoubtedly he would haue vs to know that euerlasting life is that blessed state wherein we shall be deliuered from all calamities of the body all griefes of the mynde all corruptiō of our nature from sinne from death from Satā So shall our bodies b 1. Cor. 15 which now are corruptible 42 become incorruptible which now ar ignominious 43 become glorious which now are weak 44 becom strōg which now are natural 54 become spiritual which now is mortal 73 become immortal And this Saluation is that life euerlasting which christ hath promised to giue to thē c Mat. 10.2 Mar. 13.13 which perseuere in patience vnto the end I therfore cōclude with the Apostle a 1. Co. 15.57 Thākes be vnto god which hath giuē vs victory through our Lord Iesus Christ 58. Therfore my beloued brethren be ye stedfast vnmoueable aboundaunt alwayes in the worke of the Lord for as much as ye know that your labour is not in vayne in the Lord. Christ our Sauiour regarding the grossenes of our capacitie in heauenly mysteries compareth euerlasting life els where to b Luc. 22 29 30. a kingdome wherein we shall eate and drinke at his table and sit on seates and iudge the twelue tribes of Israell By these earthly and corporall benefites Christ signifieth heauenly and spirituall blessinges assuring vs that in the world to come we shall haue the fruition of the Lord and with him the fulnesse of felicitie And this is euerlasting life But know this that this onely belongeth to them c Luc. 22 28. whiche continue with Christ in his tentations * 3. Euerlastting life compared to a kingdome To set foorth vnto vs the exceedyng glorie of eternall life d 1 Co. 9.25 2. Tim. 4.8 Paule e Iam. 1.12 Iames f Reue. 2.10 and the Spirite in the Reuelation liken it to a Crowne or Gar●and which was wont to be set in ho●ourable maner vppon their heades * Euerlasting life compared to a Crowne or Garland which in making masteries got the ●est But withal hereby they forewarne vs that except a 2. Tim. 2.5 wee striue for the maisterie and that lawfully we may ●ot looke to bee crowned b 1. Cor. 15.54 O noble ●ictorie atchieued for vs by Christ where Satan hell sinne the fleshe the world and all the enimies of our saluation at once were thoroughly subdued so that now he triumpheth ouer them in eternal blisse Let vs therfore fight manfully vnder his standard that we may bee crowned gloriously in his kingdome But since the ende is alwaies fresh in the eye of the minde c 1. Cor. 2.9 as is before sayd Paule vndoubtedly much meditated vpon the ende of our spiritual walking * Euerlasting life compared to ioyes not seene not heard not conceiued whiche is as I haue shewed eternall life And yet his excellent reuelation notwithstanding as one not able in wordes to describe euerlasting life he leaueth it to the meditations of our mindes shewing vs that c 1. Cor. 2.9 the thinges which God hath prepared for them which loue him are suche and so excellēt as the eye hath not seene neither eare hath heard nor hath come into the heart of man And to conclude we haue a moste excellent portrature of this eternall life in the 21. * 6. Euerlasting life compared to a goodly citie chapter of the Reuelation of Iohn where it is cōpared to a citie curiously built garnished with golde and pretious stones beautified within

the sacrifice of himselfe but beleue vs when wee teach that a Luc. 22 19 1. Cor. 11.24 25 thereby the memory of his death is continued vntill his comming according to the institution of Christ himselfe Now since Christ hath loued vs more than hee hath loued his body his bloud his soule his life all the which he gaue for b 1 Co. 6.20 the price of our redemption 7 23. let vs loue one an other c Eph. 5.2 as hee hath loued vs and so become the followers of God as deare children And this much concernyng the Substance of the Sacrifice which is Christ himselfe * 2 The qualities of the sacrifice were an holy oblation an obedient suff●yng d Heb. 10.1 The ceremoniall lavve had the shadovv of good thinges to come and not the verie image of the thinges Therefore Paule knowing that e Rom. 10.4 Christ is the ende of the lawe f Mat. 5.17 whiche hathe fulfilled the law of commandementes through his obedience g Eph. 2.14 and performed what soeuer was figured in the law of ceremonies for our redemption calleth him in this text h Ephe. 5.2 an offering and a Sacrifice The kindes of Sacrificers in the lawe of Moses were manie and sundry not deuised by Men i Leu. 1.1 Num. 7.89 but ordayned by god to signifie partly the filthinesse of sinne in vs a Esa 59 2 vvhereby vvee be deuided from god and partly the expiation of sinne through Christ b Heb 9 14 vvhereby vve be reconciled vnto god All these kyndes Paule reduceth vnto two c Eph. 5.2 An oblation and an hoast both the whiche hee termeth Christ to be And not without cause For such was Christ the sacrifice in true performance as wer these in shadowed figure So by the nature of them we may learne the qualities of the sacrifice which is Christ For first Paul calleth Christ d Eph. 5.2 Prosphoran an oblation an holy offering Secondly he calleth him Thusian an host a slayne sacrifice By the first we learn Christes e Luc 1 35 holinesse by the second wee learne Christes f Psal 22 1 Mar. 27 46 Mar. 15.34 suffering It was meete that this sacrifice shoulde be holy that it might sanctifie the vnholy It was meete that this sacrifice shuld suffer that it might beare gods wrath due for sinne The offering in the olde lawe is therfore reputed holy because it was such as god which is holy appointed to bee offered The slayn sacrifice in the same law is iustly termed to suffer because it was a sensible beast or a sensible birde appoynted by God to be slayne Muche might be sayde of the figures whcich are these but for want of time I will onely speake of the trueth whiche is Christ * Two qualities of the Sacrifice to be considered And in him two things here are to be considered First his Holinesse Secondly his suffering * 1. Christs holines It was most necessarie that this sacrifice shuld be holy for otherwise a Mat. 5.13 Mar. 9.50 Luc. 14 34 it had not bene fit to haue bene offered to the most holy God It had not benefit to put away our vnholinesse It had not bene fit to haue sanctified vs. If the salt in it selfe had not saltnesse a Mat. 5.13 Mar. 9.50 Luc. 14 34 it could not season the things that it seasoneth If the fire in it selfe had not heat it coulde not heate those things which ar before it If the sun in it self had not light it could not lighten the superioure and inferiour bodyes No more coulde this sacrifice Christ make vs holie in the sight of god were it not that it is holy of it selfe For if reason require that the thing which is to imparte a qualitie with another bee first fully indued with the same it selfe then must it necessarily be required that Christ whiche was to make vs holy be first in himselfe moste holy Nowe let vs consider the gracious prouidence of God to vs-ward That Christ might become an holy sacrifice to make vs holy vnto our God a Mar. 1.18 20. Lu. 1.35 he was conceiued without sinne by the holy Ghost b Mat. 1.25 Luc. 2.7 he was borne without sinne of the virgin Mary c Mat. 5.17 1. Pet. 2 22. he liued without sin in true obedience d Mat. 27.24 Luc. 23 47 he dyed without sinne an innocent death For these causes Christe is called e Luc 1 35. the holye thinge f 1. Pet. 2 9. by whom we are become a chosen generation a royall priest-hood and holy nation a people set at liber-tie But to what end verily that g 1. Pet. 2 9. we shoulde shew forth the vertues of him that hath called vs out of darkenesse into merueilous light And what coulde we not be saued were it not that our sacrifice Christ were in this absolute manner most holy No verily For God will not that man-kind be saued except by Man his law giuen to mankinde bee fulfilled That is God will so bee found mercifull towards mankinde in remitting of sinne that he wil stil remayne iust in requiring of mankinde obedience to his lawes Therfore when all mankinde was gone astray so that a Ro. 3.10 there was none righteous no not one 11. None that vnderstood None that sought after god the sonne of god himselfe became innocent man that in the nature of man hee might obey the lawes of God that b Rom. 5 19 as by one mans disobedience manie were made sinners so by one mans obedience manie might be made righteous as also before I proued * Two lessons to bee learned And here we may learne two lessons * 1 the greatnesse of our sinnes The one The greatnesse of sinne which could not be put away but by the death of the Sonne of God * 2 The assurance of our saluatiō Leu. 11 44 The other the assurance of our saluation whiche standeth with the iustice of God Let vs therefore so hope for life euerlasting that c 1. Pet. 1.16 wee he holy as our redeemer is holy And this much of the first qualitie of the sacrifice which is absolute holinesse 2. Christs fferyng The second qualitie of this sacrifice which is Christ our Sauiour is his suffering This his condition Paule putteth vs in remembrance of when in the texte hee calleth him Thusian an hoast a Sacrifice The thinges whereof this sacrifice stoode was either a Psa 50.13 a bull or b Leu. 1.2 an Oxe or c 3 1 an heffer or d Num. 19.2 a calfe or e Leu. 4 3. a Ram or f Gen. 22.13 an ewe or g Leu. 3.7 a lambe or h 9.3 a goate or i 1.2 a turtle doue or k 12.8 a young pigion which was appointed by the law first to be l 12.8 slayne thē m 3 2. to

be offered by the priest vnto god for the sines of the people Mat. 27.35 Hereby was signified n Ioh. 19.34 the suffering of Christ o 33 the sheddyng of his bloud p 30. his death vppon the Crosse whereby hee might become q, 30. a propitiatorie sacrifice for the takyng away of the sinnes of the world The Patriarches the Prophetes and all the children of God from Adam to Christ as they set the eyes of their bodies in the exercise of religion vppon these sacrifices and oblations so dyd they set the eyes of their mindes vpon Christ then to come Thus did Esay interprete these ceremonies when he foreshewed that t Esa 53 3 Christ shoulde be such a man as shoulde haue a good experience of sorrowes and infirmities 4 that Christ onely should take on him our infirmitie and beare our payns 5 that Christ should be wounded for our offences and smitten for our wickednesse that the payne of our punishment might be layd vpon him and that with his stripes we might be healed That the Lorde would throw vppon Christ all our sinnes 6 7 That Christ should suffer violence and be euill intreated and should not open hys mouth That christ should be led as a sheepe to be slayne and yet should be as still as a lambe before the shearer and not open his mouth That christ should be ●aken from the prison and iudgement 8 ●hat he should be cut off from the ground ●f the liuing which punishement should ●oe vpō him for the transgressiō of gods ●eople That christ should haue his graue ●iuen him with the condempned 9 with ●he riche man at his death whereas hee ●●ould neuer doe violence nor vnright ●either should there be anie deceiptfulnes 〈◊〉 his mouth Neuerthelesse 10 that it should please the Lord to smite Christ with in●●●mitie that when he had made his soule an offering for sinne hee might see long lasting seede 11 That Christ should see the fruite and labour of his soule and be satisfied who being the righteous seruaunt of the Lorde with his knowledge shoulde iustifie the multitude for he should bear their sinnes 12 And that therefore the Lord would giue him his part among the great ones and that he should deuide the spoyle with the mightie because he hadde giuen ouer his soule to death and was reckoned among the transgressours which neuerthelesse should take away the sinnes of the multitude and make intercession for the misdoers And that I hold you not longer dearely beloued either in the figures or prophecies of the old Testament whiche concerne christes suffering whereby he became * Eph 5 2 a slayne sacrifice for sine let vs call to minde what thereof is reported in the New a Ioh 4.6 Then shall wee finde that christes whole life was a perpetuall suffering where in he was a wearied b mat 21.18 hungred and c Io 19.28 thirsted wherein hee was d 2.13 bannished e Mat 11 18. slandered and f 22 46 Luc. 3 29 persecuted wherein hee was g 4 1 tempted h Mat. 5 2 fasted and i 26 40. watched wherein hee laboured a Luc. 4.31 preached and b 22.44 prayed wherein hee c Mat. 26 38 sorowed d Mar. 14 33 greeued and e Luc. 22 44 swette water and bloud wherein he was f Mat. 29.49 betraied by Iudas g Mar. 14.50 sorsaken by his Apostles and h Mat 26.57 apprehended by the souldiours wherein he was without cause i 27 40. exclamed against wrongfully k Mat. 26.60 accused and vniustly l 27 24 condemned wherein hee was m 27.28 stripped n Mat. 27.30 buffeted and o 27.30 spitte vpon wherein he was p Luc. 23.64 blinde-folded q Luc. 23 29 mocked and disdainefully r 23 29 crowned with thorns wherin he was ſ Mat. 27.35 crucified t Mat 27.29 tormented and u Io 18 25 wounded wherein he became x Gal. 3 13 accurssed of God y Mat. 27.46 susteined his wrath and a Phil. 2.8 died a most shamfull death But what was the cause that Christ the b 1. Pet. 1 19 innocent lambe of god should thus suffer for our redemption verily to pacifie Gods wrath and to satisfie his iustice who would not suffer the sinne of man-kind vnpunished in mankind Therfore it was expedient that c 1. Pet 3 18. the iust should suffer for the d Ioh. 10.11 vniust that the shepherd should giue his life for his sheep that the Lord should redeem his people * In the sacrifice christ shineth as in a merror Gods wisdome extendyng his mercy maintainyng his iustice O the vnsearchable wisdome of God our gracious Lorde whiche by the holines and suffering of Christ his Sonne hath both extended his mercy and maintained his iustice Extended his mercy * 1. Gods mercy extended in forgiuing his elect their sinnes and that through Christs Holines * 2. Gods iustice m●intained Mainteined his iustice in punishing the nature of man for the sinnes of men that through christs suffryng And thus much concerning the Second qualitie of the Sacrificer which is the suffering of Christe our Lorde * 4 The sacrifice was offered for vs. The fourth circumstane in our redemption to bee obserued is Who they are for whom this Sacrifice was offered Paule layeth that downe when hee vseth these wordes a Eph 5.2 For vs. In the wordes before the Apostle exhorting the Ephesians to leade a godlie life speaketh vnto them in this manner b Eph. 5 1 Bee yee folowers of God as Children and walke yee in loue but describing the manner of loue wherein we should walke by the example of Christ he altereth the person ioyning himselfe which wrote with the Ephesians to whome hee wrote and addeth c. 5.2 Euen as christ hath loued vs and giuen himselfe for vs. Hereby we learne that the beleeuing Iwes as was the writer and the beleuing Gentiles as were they to whome the Epistle was written are they for whom Christ offered himself * Christ offered for the beleeuyng 1 Iewes 2. Gentiles But here more deepely must bee considered the state and condition of both And that shall we finde when by Gods word we learne what wee are by nature * we are by nature the children of wrath a Luc. 6.44 the lances must bee such as is the tree b Iam. 3.11.6 the surges must be such as is the fountaine But Adam c Gen. 3.6 fallen from god by transgression is the tree from whence wee spring Adam d 3 7. stayned with sinne is the fountayne from whence wee slowe So are wee by our parentage alienated from God and stayned with sinne e Gen. 5.3 being descended from Adam after his fall Suche were wee for whome Christ gaue himselfe So many Sacrifices