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A18356 Sixe sermons. Preached by Edward Chaloner Doctor of Diuinitie, and Fellow of All-Soules Colledge in Oxford Chaloner, Edward, 1590 or 91-1625. 1623 (1623) STC 4936; ESTC S107651 125,612 381

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Language of C●naan and sweare to the Lord of Hoasts which liueth and raigneth one God and three persons world without end Amen NAIOTH OR THE VNIVERSITY CHARTER A Sermon preached at the Act vpon Sunday in the fore-noone at Saint Maries in Oxford Anno 1620. BY Edward Chaloner Doctor of Diuinitie and Fellow of Allsoules Colledge in Oxford LONDON Printed by William Stansby 1622. NAIOTH OR THE VNIVERSITIE CHARTAR AMOS 7.14 Then answered AMOS and said vnto AMAZIAH I was no Prophet neyther was I a Prophets Sonne but I was an Heardsman and a gatherer of Sycomore fruit IT is the beaten policie of Satan that olde Serpent when he cannot master the Truth by meaner Agents to interest great ones in his cause 1. King 18. Iudg. 21.20 Iohn 19.12 and to pretend the Kings Title Eliah's must be thought Enemie to Ahab Christ a Corriuall with Caesar and Amos in this Chapter Amos 7.10 a Conspirator against Ierobeams person at least a figure-flinger of his Fortunes rather then Amaziah the Priest of Bethel should haue his Traffique decay or his Kitchen by reason of the others preaching hazard freezing Politique Idolatry is euer supported by pillars of the same stuffe and making What other Oratory doe the Priests of Bethel now two thousand yeares since this Embleme perished pierce the eares of Princes with all then that they are their trustiest Guard and securest Pensioners and that in maintayning of them their owne safetie and assurance doth depend What other streines doth their pretended Zeale resound then what Amaziah with the voice of a Trumpet chaunts in the Court and amidst the Counsellors of Ieroboam It is not priuate lucre that makes him by profession of Priest-hood deuoted to peace and quiet at length to sustayne that odious and vngratefull office of a Promoter the Swords of Amos his Complices hang ouer thy head O Ieroboam this this is that which makes Amaziah an accuser and in accusing vehement You see then Beloued how Satan beginnes first with violence and crueltie if this take not effect as here it did not then puts hee off the frocke of a Woolfe and as our Sauiour foretold makes his next encounter in sheepes clothing False priests are his best Chaplaines Matth. 7.15 and follow him neerer at the heeles then any other Amaziahe enters now into priuate parlie with Amos and seekes if possibly he can to rid his iurisdiction of him by good counsell He first suggests vnto him the danger he was in and vpon this ground counselleth him to flye into Iudah Secondly he presents before him the duty and reuerence hee ought the King and therefore wisheth him vpon a double respect to forbeare Bethel his Diocesse as Hugo Cardinalis termes it the one religious because it was the Kings Chappel Hug. Card. ad locum the other ciuill because it was the Kings Court Vnhappy Ieroboam in whose Chappell Amoses are silenced and in whose Courts Prophets are proscribed and banished the Verge But God will not suffer Mankind to be miserable though it would be miserable Let Ieroboam repine and his priests conspire to fortifie their workes of malice with the Kings Signet yet hoc vnum necessarium this one thing is necessary for thee Amos it is the command of the Lord of Hostes that great Captaine that thou shouldst stand Centinel in Bethel lye Perdu in Israel what euer betyde thee True it is that Amaziahs counsell was of as good touch as the flattering lips of worldly friends do vse to impart who begges not attention or inoculates not his faithfull endeauours into his Friends Creed and Beliefe with a Tale of vtile profit commoditie But when God hath made it thy calling to prophesie vnto his people Israel there is nullus consultandi locus no choice left thee that Roman magnanimitie now challengeth to find place in thee Necesse vt cas non vt vinas it is necessary that thou goest and prophesiest to Israell it is not necessarie that thou liuest And this was indeed the mayn substance of Amos reply vnto Amaziah it is contayned in the 15. Vers of this Chapter as for my Text it is a Prolepsis or remouing of an Obiection which might be thus framed against such an Answere Thou sayest that God sent thee and that he bid thee prophesie vnto Israel how shall this appeare God is the God of order and not of confusion Nor may any man take the honour of the Ministerie vnto himselfe Heb. 5.4 but he that is called of God as was Aaron who gaue thee this authoritie Produce thy Commission shew thy Orders The Orders of Prophets whose calling is extraordinary as they are written in the Court hand of Heauen so are they sealed with Miracles Of Moses wee find Exod. 4. tha● he requiring of God some testimoniall of his sending God gaue him the power of turning his Rod into a Serpent and 2. Kings 2. the Sonnes of the Prophets which were to view at Iericho seeing Elisha part the waters of Iericho with Eliahs Mantle sayd The spirit of Eliah resteth on Elisha thus were these mens callings reade in these Miracles as in Characters of Gods writing nor is it lesse miraculous that an Herdsman should suddenly proceed a Seraphicall or illuminate Doctor it was that one argument which put the subtile and profound Masters of the Iewes to a non plus Iohn 7. How knoweth this man Letters seeing hee neuer learned and to say the Truth it is an Epitome and an abridgement of all other Miracles whatsoeuer In this the blind so come our soules into the World are made to see the wo●derfull things of God in this the dumbe so poore Grammarians are wee by nature that we salute the ligh●s with none but inarticulate sounds haue the gift of tongues in this a Steward and Dispenser of Gods Word hath the abiltie to feed fiue thousand soules at once with the same Barley Loafe to awaken the very dead out of their graues of corruption and to rayse vp euen of stones Children vnto Abraham If therefore any in this Assembly prize the Learning required in a Teacher at that low rate that they conceiue the purchase of it to bee but a few idle houres worke or otherwise that by Gamesters it may be found sitting in the fields let them know that Amos here was of another opinion and that such slender prouision of theirs for a worke consisting of so many parts requiring such varietie of Tongues dexteritie in Arts profoundnesse in Sciences may be as conuertible an Argument to prooue them no Prophets Sonnes as it is in my Text vrged to proue Amos a Prophet Then answered Amos and said to Amaziah I was no Prophet neither was I a Prophets Sonne but I was an Heardman and a gatherer of Sycomore fruit The summe you see of Amos his Answere as concerning my Text is a confirmation or proofe of his extraordinary calling to the Ministerie from the meanenesse and simplenesse of his education which hee