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A08578	An explanation of the generall Epistle of Saint Iude. Delivered in one and forty sermons, by that learned, reverend, and faithfull servant of Christ, Master Samuel Otes, parson of Sowthreps in Norfolke. Preached in the parish church of Northwalsham, in the same county, in a publike lecture. And now published for the benefit of Gods church, by Samuel Otes, his sonne, minister of the Word of God at Marsham	Otes, Samuel, 1578 or 9-1658.; Otes, Samuel, d. 1683.	1633 (1633)	STC 18896; ESTC S115186	606,924	589

World for that is to become a vassall unto our servants it is an uncertaine service to serve the Flesh this master is so cholerick so weake so sickly that wee may looke every day to be turned out of doores and that which is worst of al he is least contented when he is most satisfied It is an unthrifty service to serve the Divell all his wayes are death the more service wee doe him the worse is our estate It is an irreligious service to serve Antichrist for such as have the marke of the Beast shall perish with the beast But he that serves God hath the greatest Lord who is most able and the best Lord who is most willing to preferre his followers and reward his servants Let us then serve him for we are his servants Iure creationis jure sustentationis jure redemptionis By right of creation sustentation redemption If every haire of our head were a life and every life as long as Methuselahs it were too little to serve God True it is that Cham was pronounced the first servant as I observed Gen 3. Gen. 8. before for man was made to rule and not to serve But as sinne brought in the first nakednesse and the first travell of women in paine and the first death and the first sorrow and the first flood so it brought in the first service Onely by Christ wee are Manumised Hominis dignitas in tribus splendet The dignity of Rom. 8. 15. man shineth forth in three things In imagine Dei in the image of God In ejus creationis ex nihilo in his creation of nothing In eius dominio super omnes creaturas in his dominion over all his creatures ut ergo tria haec per peccatum amisit sic per gratiam recuperavit as hee lost these three things by sinne so by grace hee hath recovered them dum Domino servit a quo defecit while hee serves God from whom hee fell Now therefore by grace wee are called servants and if that John 15. Iohn 3. Mar. 3. Gal. 3. be too little wee are called the Friends of God Friends of the bridegroome and if that be too little wee are called Brethren Sisters of Christ if that be too little wee are called The Sonnes of God if that be too little wee are called the Spouse of God the wife of the Apoc. 19. 7. Lambe And if all this bee too little wee are called the members of The Pope no Apostle of God yet cals himselfe servum servorum God and of Christ Iesus O the breadth and length and depth and heighth of the love of God towards us that we should be called not forreiners but servants not servants but friends not friends but brethren not brethren but sonnes not sonnes but wives not wives but members 1 Cor. 12. By the way observe here that the Pope not calling himselfe servum Dei the servant of God but servum servorum a servant of Gen. 9. servants calleth himselfe by a cursed title as Cham was and indeed he is a servant of servants that serveth not Christ But say some hee calleth himselfe a servant of servants to shew his humility Indeed hee is lowly in name as any Apostle but as proud in spirit as the Whore of Babylon that makes herselfe Lady over Kings and Emperours For did not Pope Zachary make Childerike the French King to trot by his bridle three miles together Did not Hildebrand cause Henry the fourth to stand three dayes at his gates with his wife and his child barefooted Did not Clement the fifth make Dandalus Duke of Venice to lye under his Table like a dogge to gather crummes Did not Alexander the third tread on the necke of that noble Fredericke in Venice Did not Innocent depose King Iohn of England Did not Clemens the seventh labour to depose Henry the eighth Did not Pius quintus send a Bull against our Queene Did not Clemens the eighth cause the French King to goe bare-footed to Saint Dennis as a Penitentiary The troubles of these five hundred yeeres past may bee ascribed to Popes all Grecia yet rueth it all Africa the mother of Martyrs feeleth it the German Emperours tossed like tennise balles may not forget it the Kings of France have felt it the States of Italy have beene shaken with it the Kings of England have beene deposed whipped murdered Let King Iohn speake Richard the second Henry the eighth and Queene Elizabeth Is this a servant of servants that will thus insult over Kings and Emperours Oh no no. But to leave him Are we with Iude the servants of Iesus Christ Then must we not onely apply our selves to serve him as I have already said but we must imitate the vertues of Iesus Christ and we must attend his pleasure But first wee must imitate his vertues In our Lord and Master Christ Iesus shined many excellent vertues Yea all vertues Love Patience Humility Meekenesse Mildenesse Mercie Puritie Pietie Constancie Obedience c. these must shine in us else falsely wee are called the servants of Christ Christiani nomen frustrà ille sortitur qui Christum minimè imitatur August de vita Christian● Quid tibi prodest vocari quod non es In vaine hath hee got the name of a Christian which doth not imitate Christ What doth it profit thee to bee called that which thou art not To bee called a Christian and not to bee indeed a Christian a Saint and not to bee Saint the servant of Iesus Christ and not to bee We must attend to Gods service We owe more to God than servants to their Masters the servant of Iesus Christ Qualis haberi velis talis sias If thou wilt be the servant of Iesus Christ thou must bee holy as hee is holy gracious as hee is gracious mercifull as hee is mercifull yea perfect as hee is perfect though not by adequation for that is beyond our power yet by imitation for that is all our duties Againe are wee Christs servants then must wee attend his Pleasure and depend upon his Will and performe all such holy offices as becommeth servants But as Peter Martyr saith wee In Rom. cap. 1. are contrary to servants we are rather Quarter-masters and checkemate with God for servants bestow all their time in their Masters businesse we no time or little time in Gods matters For our goodnesse is as the Morning cloud and as the Morning dew it Hos 6. 4. goeth away Servants beaten fall to prayers wee being chastised of God fall to murmuring and cursing like Iob that cursed the day of his birth Like Ieremy that cursed him that told his father of a man-child Servants are not familiar with their Masters Iob 3. Ier. 20. enemies wee countenance Gods enemies in all places Many Protestants are like Aesops Crow of divers feathers their Religions like Ioseph his party-coloured coat or like the rainebow of all colours we read how Iehoshaphat joyned with

opened her mouth to sing but she lost her meate by it Thus the flatterer aimeth at advantage at gaine at profit he maketh a shew he is thy friend and wisheth thee well but he is but a verball friend a friend from teeth outward a flattering friend a friend in shew but not in deed like Aristotles fallacions and falling starres which seeme to be and are not a friend only in name one that will give thee his hand but not the heart for he hath a tongue to commend thee but yet no longer then it is for his advantage like Hiena he hath a faire face but a false heart like Iael to Sisera We read in Theognis this saying Seeme with thy tongue to flatter all but in thy deeds love none at all O these flatterers they are lucritam cupidi so greedy of gaine that they have animam venalem a soule to sell for quid non mortalia pectora cogit auri sacra fames What doth not the cursed hunger of gold drive men to doe This sets them aworke to flatter lie sweare and forsweare and what not Salomon saith of the harlot that she will not leave a man worth a morsell of bread no more will these flatterers they will soake and sucke men as the Ivie doth the Oake and bring them at last into our Ladies bands and make them sing by beggery Chrysostome saith Sicut finis oratoris est dilectione persuasisse medici medicina curasse sic adulatoris est suavi loquio se ditasse As the end of an Oratour is to perswade in loue and the end of a Physician to cure by medicine so the end of the flatterer is with his sweethony-sugar-candy speeches to inrich himselfe and begger thee and the end of his clawing is gaine advantage I will conclude with the saying of Augustine Melius est a quolibet reprehendi quàm ab adulante laudari It is better to bee blamed of any then praised of a flatterer Augustine being asked What was the first second and third part of a good man of a Christian answered Humility so if I were asked What were the first second and third part of a vile man I will answere Pride and he hath pride whose mouth speaketh proud things And of all mouthes let the Popish mouthes goe in the quintessence of pride and bragging they speake of merits workes of Iustification and supererogation enough for themselves and their neighbours wherein they injure both the Iustice Mercy of God for his Iustice cannot be perfect if he take for satisfaction either all or part of that which proceedeth from a The Popes and their flatterers the proudest vaunters sinner they injure his mercies For it is not perfect absolute if he forgive not all the debt but receiveth part of us But his bloud clenseth us from all sinne originall and actuall sinnes secret and open sinnes sinnes of omission sinnes of commission his bloud clenseth all purgeth all doth away all But to proceed 1 Iohn 1. 7. the Canonists say that Papa potest dispensare contra jus divinum jus naturae contra Apostolos contra omnia praecepta Dei The Pope can dispense against the Law Divine the Law of Nature against the Apostles against all the Commandements of God Let God men and Angels judge what mouth now speaketh proudly The great Cham of Tartaria after he hath dined soundeth a trumpet and giveth leave to all Christian Princes to goe to dinner and by this prety conceit maketh himselfe head over Kings and Emperours because Peter said Ecce hîc sunt duo gladij Behold here are two swords Thus this Italian Priest is not ashamed to be called Dominus Deus noster Papa our Lord God the Pope to be kneeled unto with these words Agnus Dei qui tollis peccata mundi miserere nobis Lambe of God that takest away the sinnes of the world have mercy upon us As was Martin the fifth Harding calleth us Goliah and themselves litle David but forasmuch as they have neither Davids sling in their hands nor Davids stones in their scrip they must not looke that the wise Ladies of Israel will with their lutes and timbrels sing before them that David hath slaine his ten thousand but he is Goliah that 1 Sam. 18. crieth I cannot erre Habeo omnes leges in scrinio pectoris I have all lawes in the closet of my brest I am above Councels I judge all no man judgeth me Sum rex regum I am King of Kings I can doe whatsoever Christ could doe All power is given unto me But let us deale with the Papists as Agesilaus did with his enemies Mat. 28. hee pulled off their bombasted coats and shewed their apish wearish bodies to his souldiers saying Ecce ingentia corpora Ecce magna illorum ossa behold their mighty bodies behold their bigge bones The Pope calleth himselfe servum servorum the servant of servants but can hee that is carried on Noble mens shoulders that caused the French King to trotte by his bridle as Zacharie did Childericke the Emperour to hold his stirrop Noble men to kisse his feet bee servus servorum the servant of servants I need not name Hildebrands usage to Henry the fourth at Canusia nor that of Clemens the fifth to Francis Dandalus nor that of Alexander the third to Fredericke the Emperour nor that of Innocentius the third to King Iohn of England nor of Pius Quintus to the Queene But to leave the man of sinne himselfe and to come to the frogges that creep out of his mouth what a croking doe they make How doe their mouthes exceed in pride Staphilus calleth our people hogges dogges Harding calleth our Bishops and Ministers Cumane Asses Martin calleth them novos Oratores Popish Priests and Iesuites notorious railers new Orators Stultos adolescentes Foolish yong men non tam disertos in errore quàm desertos à veritate not so cunning in errour as ignorant of the truth Bellarmine calleth our writers Pecudes Gigantes Monstra Beasts Giants Monsters and saith that they give no honour to Christ nor Angels nor Saints Thus they disgrace us in words and their mouthes speake proud swelling things when they cannot confute us they raile on us and deale with us as Nero dealt with the Christians who hurled them to dogs to be devoured and when the mastives would not touch them he clad the Christians in Beares skinnes to kindle the fury of the dogs that they might take them to bee beasts and not men so they impute all lewdnesse to us to make men thinke that we are that which we are not they are like the beast Bonosus mentioned by Aristotle who having his hornes reflexed not being able to defend himselfe with them three or foure furlongs off poysoneth the dogges with his dung which is so hot as it burneth off all their haire So when they cannot hurt us with truth they defile us with the durt and dung of their calumnies this veine of railing

his feet Hee rebuketh the Sea drieth it he drieth up all the rivers The mountaines tremble for him and the hills melt and the earth is burnt at his sight yea the world and all that dwell therein who can stand before his wrath if his wrath be kindled yea but a little blessed are all they that put their trust in him God telleth the Idumaeans Though thou exalt thy selfe like an Eagle and make thy nest among the starres thence will I bring thee downe saith Obadiah vers 4. the Lord. Paul applieth the example of Gods justice on Israel to the Church of Corinth and all Churches I would not have you ignorant quoth he that all our fathers were under the cloud and all passed thorough the Sea c. but with many of them God was not pleased for 1 Cor. 10. 1. 5. 6 7 8 9 10 11. they were overthrowne in the wildernesse Now these are examples to us to the intent that wee should not lust after evill things as they lusted neither be yee idolaters as were some of them As it is written the people sate downe to eate and drinke and rose up to play Neither let us commit fornication as some of them committed fornication and fell in one day three and twenty thousand neither let us tempt Christ as some of them also tempted him and were destroyed of serpents neither murmure yee as some of them murmured and were destroyed of the destroyer Now all these things came unto them for examples and were written to admonish us upon whom the ends of the world are come The continuance of Gods mercy for a long time doth not assure us of perpetuall safety but of greater destruction if we beleeve not Quantò gradus altior tantò casus gravior the higher we are in dignity the more grievous our fall and misery as was said of the whore of Babylon Inasmuch as shee glorified herselfe and lived in pleasure so much give yee to Apoc. 18. 7. Mat. 11. 23. Ier. 18 18. 21. her torment and sorrow And so Capernaum that was lift up to heaven was threatned to bee throwne downe to hell The Iewes thought that the dignity of their Priesthood should have continued for ever and therefore they said The law shall not perish from the priest nor counsell from the wise nor the word from the Prophet Therfore saith God deliver up their children to famine and let them drop away The higher exalted the lower dejected if impious by force of the sword and let their wives be robbed of their children and be widdowes and let their husbands be put to death and let the yong men be slaine with the sword in the battell They bragged of Moses that he was their teacher they boasted of Abraham and a succession from Abraham but Iohn answereth them saying Say not to your selves wee have Abraham to our father For God is able of these stones to raise up children to Abraham of them came the Fathers of them came Luk. 3. 8. Christ yet were they not all Israel that came of Israel neither are they all children because they are the seed of Abraham This augmented the punishment of Israel that God had beene so good unto them for every blessing is as good as a bill of enditement preferred against us at the great Assise-day for listen what God himselfe saith O my people what have I done unto thee Michea 6. 3. 14 15. or wherin have I grieved thee testify against me surely I brought thee up out of the land of Aegypt and redeemed thee out of the house of servants I have sent before thee Moses Aaron Miriam And thus the Lord goeth on intimating unto them that hee never hurt them but bestowed infinite blessings and benefits upon them but because they misused them God threatneth them That they shall eate and not be satisfied and thy casting downe shall be in the middest of thee meaning that they shall be consumed with inward griefe and evill and further he threatneth them saying Thou shalt sow but not reape thou shalt tread the Olives but thou shalt not annoint thee with oyle and make sweet wine but shalt not drinke wine This also augmented the punishment of Eli's house that whereas God did chuse him out of all the tribes of Israel to bee his Priest and to offer upon Gods Altar and to burne Incense and to weare an Ephod before God yet because he honoured his children more than God God 1 Sam. 2. 28. 31. threatned to cut off his arme and the arme of his Fathers house and that there should not be an old man in his house for ever Esay and Michah prophesied unto Iuda sixty yeares Hosea and Amos in Israel seventy yeares yet God sealed neither the one nor the other an obligation of perpetuall mercy The one was carried into Assyria a captivity irreturnable the other into Babylon where they 2 Reg. 17. 6. Psal 137. Amos. 8. 10. could not sing the Lords songs in a strange land God turned their songs into mournings and their feasts into lamentations The Papists speake of our overthrowes in Ireland as the Syrians said that God was the God of Israel in the mountaines but not in the vallies So they say he is our God in England but not in Ireland they say that hee was a God in the beginning of the Queenes raigne but not now Zidkia of Rome the Iesuites have made them hornes of iron as 1 Reg. 22. 11. saying that they will push England Herod of Rome hath sent us word of our destruction but if wee repent we may answere him as Christ did Herod Goe yee Luk. 13. 32. Mat. 9. 15. and tell the Foxe c. Wee are the children of the wedding and therefore cannot mourne yet The arrow of our deliverance is as yet in the Kings hands against the Aramites the Papists If wee Where God spareth long he punisheth more if impenitent repent all our enemies shall be but the Thistles of Lebanon but if we bring not forth the fruits of the Gospell wee may rather weepe with Elisha to thinke what evill Hazael the Papists will doe to the Church of God Surely God will do to us as to Israel God bare long with them but afterwards he destroyed them 2 Reg. 14. 9. 2 Reg. 8. 11 12. God hath hands of iron and feere of lead hee commeth slowly but when he commeth he payeth surely Deus tardus est ad iram sed tarditatem gravitate poenae compensat God is slow to anger but he recompenseth his slownesse with grievousnesse of punishment Hereupon saith Paul But thou after thy hardnesse and heart that cannot repent heape unto thy selfe wrath against the day of Rom. 2. 5 6 7 8 9. wrath and declaration of the iust iudgement of God who will reward every man according to his works To them which by continuance in wel-doing seeke glory and honour and immortality eternall life but unto them that

Church For they are appointed for the punishment of evildoers And he is the minister of God To take vengeance of them that doe evil Even so they deny all use of weapon and all warre Nam arma nostra inquiunt illi sunt praeces lachrimae our weapons are prayers and teares They alleadged the words of our Saviour By your patience Luk. 21. 19 possesse your soules And the words of Paul Bee not overcome of evill but overcome evill with goodnesse And againe they alledged the The Pope depose some rayle on others and despise all Magistrates words of the Prophet of God Esay They shall breake their swords into mattockes and their speares into Sithes Nation shall not lift up a sword against nation neither shall they learne to fight any more At Magistratus gerit gladium saith Paul the Magistrate beareth the sword And Saint Iohn biddeth not souldiers deponere gladios to lay away Rom. 12. 21. Esa 2. 4. Rom. 13. 4. Luk. 3. 14. Acts 10. their swords but to doe violence to no man neither to accuse any falsely and to be content with their wages Neither did Peter bid Cornelius leave his warring Other vile heresies they have they deem it to be a Church without excommunication they deny all use of an oath which heresies first spread by Coppine and Quintinus in France and Persevallus and Pocquinus in Germany have infected many as Monsieur Iohannes Lidencis Kinperdoline who raised wars wherein perished 100000. men in Germany Secondly the Papists clip the wings of all Magistracy subjecting them to the Italian Priest making him the Ministeriall head of the Church calling him Deum terrenum an earthly God Harding Qui ligat Regis in catenis which bindeth Kings in chaines and Nobles in linkes of iron as it is in the Psalme 149. 8. Who justifieth the dealing of Innocentius the third against King Iohn and that of Alexander the third against Fredricke the second and that of Clemens the seventh against Henry the eighth and that of Pius Quintus against our Queene Now Allen compareth the Priesthood to the Sunne the Princedome to the Moone that receiveth light from the Sunne the Priesthood to the soule the other to the body which is quickned of the soule the one to gold the other to lead a course metall Pighius dat principibus potestatem facti non juris power to see Lawes executed not to make them All late Papists have railed on the Queene in the spirit of Shemei their tongues cut like rasors their words are as the coales of Iuniper for Bristowe in his sixth motive calleth the Queene a Schismaticke her Nobles Heretickes her peo●●e Apostataes Sanders saith that Haeretica princeps non est ●●●nceps Libro 2. cap. 4. de visibili monarchia an Hereticall Prince is no Prince to which he addeth ●●e Minor that the Queene is hereticall now then ye can ●●t to the Conclusion Marke the feature of this Cub looke upon the face of this Babe and tell me who is his Syre did ever any Protestant hold the like Rebellion is not a fruit of the Gospell as saith Staphilus but a whelpe of that popish litter an egge of that Cockatrices nest the most treasons and rebellions have sprung from Papists upon this ground that the Pope may depose Princes ad placitum at his pleasure Thus Henry the second was made a private man and restored to the Crowne by the Popes Legat Pandulphus King Iohn was deposed and at the last poysoned Cardinall Poole stirred up the Emperour and French King against Henry the eighth Anselme ●he Archbishop of Canturbury set himselfe against King William Thomas Arundell Archbishop set himselfe against Henry the second Popish Bishops have deposed Princes Richard Scroope Archbishop of Yorke was in field against Henry the fourth Stephen Lancton Archbishop of Canturbury interdicted the whole Land and made the King become the Popes tenant I need not to speake of Parrie Somervile Ardington Babington No treason in this Queenes dayes but hath issued from Popery as from the Trojane horse Let the Prince of Orange speake let Condie speake let Henry the third the French King speake murdered of a Iacobine let Henry the fourth speake murdered by Raviliacke let all the world speake and they will say that all these late troubles for five hundred yeeres past since the dayes of Hildebrand may be ascribed to Popes and Papists All Graecia yet rueth it all Africa the mother of Martyrs feeleth it the Germane Emperours with foule treading upon their neckes may not forget it the Kings of France felt it till pragmatica sanctio was made the States of Italy have bin shaken with it the Kings of England have been poysoned whipped murdered did Gardiner Tonstall Bonner who forswore the Pope in Henry 8. dayes shew any truth in Queene Maries dayes Remember the massacre in France and the late murders in Cleveland and Germany and the Low-Countries since Gregory the 13. daies This Axiom is holden Da mihi cor tuum fili give me thy heart my son and the Papists reserved for a further mischiefe Yet Stapleton is not ashamed to charge Luther that he said That a good Prince was Rara avis a seldome bird that most of them are either principall fooles or the most wicked knaves on the earth but this is proper to Papists to speake thus But it is worth your noting that Iude saith not they deny authority and government as the Anabaptists doe as you have heard but they despise it they shal put it out of his place and they shall 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 take away even government it selfe challenging it to themselves And hath not the man of sinne and sonne of 〈◊〉 done thus Gregory the 7. excommunicated Henry the 4. ●●imated his Subjects to rebellion and when as by these meanes ●e could not prevaile he went about secretly to murder him and ●o that end hired one to let a stone fall from the top of the Church upon the Emperours head as he was a praying but God prevented the practice by punishing the murderer who was crushed in pieces with the same stone Paschalis the 2. raged in the same manner against the said Emperour and in the end caused his owne sonne to rebell against him Clemens the 5. excommunicated Francis Dandalus Duke of Venice tied him like a dog about the neck with a coller to gather crums under his table Vrbane the 4. dispossessed Conrade sonne to Conrade the Emperour of the Kingdome of Sicilia and gave it to Charles Earle of Anjou Boniface the 8. of whom it is said Intravit ut vulpes regnavit ut Leo mortuus est ut Canis that he entred like a Fox reigned like a Lion and dyed like a dog offered the French King Philips Where no government is there is confusion kingdome to Albertus the Emperour Zachary deposed Childerick the French King and placed Pipine Celestine crowned the Emperour Henry the 6. with his foot