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A00753	Comfortable notes vpon the bookes of Exodus and Leuiticus, as before vpon Genesis Gathered and laid downe still in this plaine manner, for the good of them that cannot vse better helpes, and yet are carefull to read the Scriptures, and verie desirous to finde the comfort in them. By the Reuerend Father in God Geruase Babington ... With a table of the principall matters contained in this booke.	Babington, Gervase, 1550-1610.	1604 (1604)	STC 1088; ESTC S100580	531,878	712

office let vs wait on the office or he that teacheth on teaching Or he that exhorteth on exhortation he that distributeth let him do it with simplicitie he that ruleth with diligence hee that sheweth mercy with cheerefulnesse To the Corinthians There are diuersities of gifts but the same spirit And there are diuersities of administrations but the same Lord And there are diuersities of operations but God is the same that worketh all in all c. To the Ephesians againe He therefore gaue some to be Apostles some Prophets some Euangelists some Pastros Teachers for the repairing of the Saints for the worke of the ministerie and for the edification of the bodie of Christ Till we all meete together in the vnitie of faith and that acknowledging of the Son of God vnto a perfect man vnto the measure of the age of the fulnesse of Christ c. Thus some men are indued with Gold some with Siluer some with blew silke some with purple and so forth that is with seuerall gifts graces all profitable in some sort for the building of the Sanctuarie such as God hath giuen such must they bring offer such shall be accepted For to this end also pleased it God to appoint such seuerall things that poore and meane persons might be able to offer and no man exempted for want of power the verie poorest being able to offer goates haire and that their meane gift to him was as welcome as the greater gifts of the rich To teach vs at this day to despise in no man what God himselfe accepteth well and despiseth not For had they in those daies that were able to offer Gold Siluer precious stones blew silke and so foorth disdained the poorer sort that brought Goates haire Badgers skinnes a little Shittim wood and such like grieuously would God haue béene displeased with it And so assuredly now if any man vpon whom God hath bestowed more shall proudly scorne and deride him that hath lesse ●et ioyning with his little to build Gods Sanctuarie as wel as he that hath much God will sée it abhorre it punish it Away then with all disdaine and scorne in this matter humbly acknowledge that as some men want what thou hast of Learning Wisedome Eloquence and other good giftes to build with all so dooest thou want as much of others who as farre excell thée as thou in thine owne opinion doost excell others O hatefull pride in this behalfe too much too much in some that should be wiser neuer since the world was more than now We trudge frō place to place to féede our fancies we choose wée iudge wée censure wée shoote our boltes in euery corner neuer remembring this and other places telling vs of the seuerall powers of men and GOD his good acceptance of the meanest Let it mend and let it end before God end vs and al this pride to our lasting paine Joy in them that bring any offering to this worke béeing the best they are able and knowe it as true as any thing is true that the harmelesse simplicitie of some shepeheards in the olde Church did sometimes more profit the Church than the great exquisite fine or delicate but a little too proud learning of some others A learned man of our time saith very wel Euery man must walk in his place contentedly Non omnes possumus esse Caesares They that brought not gold nor siluer nor precious stones yet did good Offices if they brought but wood or stone If we cannot attaine to be In primis to haue the first place yet it is praise worthy if wée may haue the second or the third In the building of the Temple after this Tabernacle they that laide the foundacions nay that digged places to lay the first stone in that hewed and squared the stone and the timber were of lesse reputation and account than those that carued guilded the Temple yet was the others worke and labour far more necessarie They that till the land and sow the séede that thresh and grinde the corne are of lower place than those that liue in Princes courts yet is their labour seruice far more néedefull In mans bodie the souereigntie is the head the eyes and eares as in place so in dignitie excelling the hands and feete yet cannot the eye say to the hand I haue no need of thee nor the head againe to the feet I may be without you The greater may not despise the lesse nor the lesse murmure against the greater c. Here therefore Basils spéech is good Attende tibi ipsi Looke to thy selfe For euery one hath in his own house accusatorē testem iudicem an accuser a witnesse a Iudge Accusat te conscientia testis est memoria ratio iudex Looke then to thy selfe to thy conscience to thy memory to thy reason and thou shalt censure thy selfe if thou liue not in thy place accordingly without either enuie of superior or cōtempt of inferior Surgunt indoctiet coelum rapiunt nos cum doctrinis nostris in infernum detrudimur The vnlearned rise and get Heauen saith S. Augustine and we with our great learning are cast into Hell Thus haue good men estéemed of their brethrens meaner gifts and not despised them They offered their earerings and Iewelles which were ornaments to them and obserue their zeale learning by it that nothing ought to be so deare vnto vs which we cannot finde in our hearts to bestow willingly to the seruice and honour of God Qnaeprius luxui iam Tabernaculo seruiunt Those things saith One that serued for superfluitie before now serue for Gods Tabernacle Euen so should our bodies that haue béene wanton sinfull seruing sinne serue the Lord in his holy feare and such humane learning as hath serued error may be applied to Religion and serue God c of which we spake in the spoiles of Egypt 3. But with what hart were these offerings to be made The Lord also expressed that when he saide Whose hart giueth it freely v. 2. in the 35. Chap. v. 5. Whosoeuer is of a willing heart let him bring this offering to the Lord. Againe v. 21. And euery one whose hart incouraged him or lifted him vp and euery one whose spirit made him willing And v. 22. as many as were free harted c. By all which Repetitions you sée what an eye God hath euer to the heart of one that dooth any thing to him yea although the thing it selfe be commaunded as héere such offerings were Forced seruice God regardeth not but will haue euer our wil concurre cheerefully hartelie Wherfore in that Great offering of Dauid and the people towards the building of the Temple which Salomon built note it and marke it diligently what a mention is made of such a hart as well as of such such gifts The people reioiced whē they offered willingly for they offered willingly vnto

Deum appellatum It is well knowne that of the godly Prince Constantine the Pope was called God So in the Counsell of Lateran this proude Antichrist suffered one of his Parasites to say Tu es alter Deus in terris Thou art another God in earth Many other such Stories there are which I passe ouer wishing in my heart that men would obserue and sée what is so manifest before their eyes that although the Pope by their distinction be not an absolute God or an absolute Christ yet certainly hee is a very absolute Antichrist I end then this Note with that exposition of Alexander of Hales our wittie Country-man Scriptura non dicitde Mose constituite Deum sed Deum Pharaonis hoc est potentem super Pharaonem diuinitus The Scripture saith not of Moses I haue made thee God but I haue made thee Pharaohs God that is of power and strength aboue Pharaoh through the hand of God which is with thee Nothing therefore I say do Moses words helpe the Pope to iustifie his blasphemous pride and insolencie 2. And Aaron thy brother shal be thy Prophet That is as he said in the 4. Chapter thy mouth thy Interpreter thy Speaker to vtter that eloquently or in good words which thou shalt appoint him Thy Prophet saith Theodoret as if God should haue said looke how I speake to the Prophets the Prophets to the people so shalt thou speake to Aaron as to thy Prophet he vnto the people Where we sée the incōprehensible Counsell wisedom of God who though he could haue giuen to Moses as well a rowling tongue as a wise hart yet he would not but to the one brother giueth one gift to the other another that either might haue néede vse of another neither of them be exalted in contempt of the other This is that which the Apostle speaketh when he saith Now there are diuersities of gifts but the same Spirit For to one is giuen by the Spirit the word of wisedome and to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit And to another faith by the same spirit to another the gifts of healing by the same spirit And to another the operations of great works and to another prophecie to another the discerning of Spirits and to another diuersities of tongues and to another the interpretation of tongues And al these worketh one and the selfe same Spirit distributing to euery man seuerally as he will The holy vse whereof wee shall take if reuerently we estéeme one anothers gifts enuying none despising none carping cutting nipping no man but with an humble heart glorifying God our selues and beséeching him that in all our brethren also together with their seuerall charges he would glorifie his great Name A Grace so much the more precious by how much it is rare too rare in these last daies wherein the Spirit hath foretold vs Men shall be louers of themselues couetous boasters proud cursed speakers disobedient to parents vnthankfull vnholy Without naturall affection truce-breakers false accusers intemperate fierce despisers of them that are good Traytours headie high minded louers of pleasures more than louers of God 3. Thou shalt speake all that I commaund thee So will God euer haue his Ministers faithfull to kéepe nothing backe of his will deliuered to them for feare or flatterie of any man but truly to discharge the credite reposed in them leauing the successe to him that sent them and disposeth of all hearts at his pleasure Thus protesteth the Apostle very carefully we sée when he tooke his leaue of the Elders of Ephesus saying I haue kept back nothing that was profitable but haue shewed you all the Counsell of God Thus running our race wee shall rest one day in eternall comfort deliuered from a bitter world from euill men and euil natures taking alwaies our best endeauours in the worst sense and rewarding true affection with black enuie most vnfit for Christians 4. But I will harden Pharaohs heart Heathens could say A Deo perfecto nihil malum nihil turpe est From a perfect God no euill nor foule thing commeth Againe Deus malorum causa non est cum bonus sit God is not the Author of euill when as he himselfe is good Therefore concerning this hardning of Pharaoh some vnderstand it by permission that is he suffered him to be hardned as wee say in the Lords Prayer Leade vs not into temptation that is suffer vs not to be led Gregory saith Non duritiem contulit sed exigentibus eius meritis nulla infusa timoris sensibilitate molliuit Hee did not impose hardnes but his merits so deseruing hee softned him not by any infused sense of feare Augustine saith God did it ratione poenae for a punishment And wee all knowe the Lord is not tyed to giue his grace to any man but it is his mercie it is his loue and most frée he is to doo with his owne what he will The consideration whereof should euer worke in vs care and zeale to craue at Gods hands fleshie hearts which may tremble at his Judgements and taste his mercy saying with Samuel Speake on Lord thy Seruant heareth and with Dauid O my God I am content to doo it yea thy lawe is within my heart Marke also héere how God fore-tolde them againe that Pharaoh would not heare them A thing so bitter to the faithfull Minister of God as many fore-warnings are néedefull vnto him to giue him strength against this temptation O therefore that wee may euer haue patience who labour in the word and doctrine God will doo his will God ought to doo his will our dutie is knowne wee may not prescribe to him if wee performe what is our part sweete is our sauour saith the blessed Apostle as well in them that perish as in those that are saued and it is enough O Lord let it be enough to euery groaning heart of thy true Ministers wishing and séeking to haue them saued whō thou hast created and bought with such a price Thou canst make it enough if it please thée to blesse with thy holy Spirit the remembrance of it to them that are sliding to impatiencie 5. Thus warned and thus armed these two brethren Moses and Aaron went vnto Pharaoh and did euen as the Lord had commaunded and Aaron casteth forth his rod before Pharaoh and it was turned into a Serpent The vse of which myracle hath béene tolde before euen to strike a feare into Pharaohs heart that hee might the better attend to what was spoken to giue him assurance that though with his eyes he sawe but the persons of two men neither glorious nor terrible in themselues yet with them was the power and strength of the Almightie God whose hand could shiuer him in pieces if hee rebelled So standeth it still with Gods Ministers that faithfully doo their dutie to the flockes committed vnto them and