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A73031	Certain godly and learned sermons, preached by that worthy seruant of Christ M. Ed. Philips in S. Sauiors in Southwarke: vpon the whole foure first chapters of Matthew, Luc. 11. vers. 24. 25. 26. Rom. 8. the whole, 1. Thess. 5. 19. Tit. 2. 11. 12. Iames 2. from the 20. to the 26. and 1. Ioh. 3. 9. 10. And were taken by the pen of H. Yeluerton of Grayes Inne Gentleman	Philips, Edward.; Yelverton, Henry, Sir, 1566-1629.	1607 (1607)	STC 19854; ESTC S114640	484,245	625

1.8 the wild honie was such as Ionathan found in the wood 1. Sam. 14.25 The meaning whereof is that his apparell was very base and his diet such as grew of themselues Where obserue that this was no fancie of selfe-conceit in Iohn to binde and banish himselfe from the comforts of this life but it was the appointment of the Lord that he might be conformable to Eliah whom as hee was to succeed in his spirit so likewise in his apparell Againe he did it by the Lords will formerly reuealed for it was prophesied Num. 6.2 Luk. 1.15 that he should be a Nazacite foretold his parents he should drinke no strong drinke wherein was implied that his fare should be of the meanest so as this must not be tied and prescribed to the Ministers of these daies as if their cup might neuer ouerflow but that their houses and prouision must b●as the heath and barren ground for 1. Tim. 5.23 Timothie may drinke wine for his stomackes sake as Paul bids him And if after the example of the Apostles the world will haue men preach for nothing then must they doe as it was then call such as neuer studied and then must they likewise haue both assurance of Gods prouidence to sustaine and of his graces to enable them as the Apostles had Looke how the Leuites were prouided for Numb 18.21 the tenth in Israel was giuen them for an inher itance yea euen Iohn Baptists father had liberally whereon to liue for they that serue at the altar must liue of the altar not as of almes but of duty 1. Cor. 9.11 as Gal. 6.5 them that teach you in the word make them partakers of all your goods and Rom. 15.27 if the Gentiles be made partakers of their spirituall things their dutie is also to minister vnto them in carnall things and 1. Tim. 5.17 The Elder that rules well is worthy of double honour but now they giue them double reuerence but single maintenance which sheweth how lightly men esteeme of the gaine of godlinesse when the Ephod seemeth so vile and base in their eies For Balaam shall neuer bee called vnlesse the King Numb 22.6 haue some speciall worke for him to doe and if he follow not his humor when he comes hee may goe home againe without his charges And few there bee can boast at this day of the beneuolence of their people as Paul did of the Corinths 2. Cor. 9.2 who according to their power abounded in rich liberality towards him and would euen haue pulled out their eies to haue done him good Howbeit as Ministers may not go in sacke-cloth like beggerly Friars so must they not be arraied in silkes and fine linnen like pompous prelates as many be which win more credit for their garments then for their graces but there must bee a moderation and so briety obserued and Baruch must bee humbled more in his persecution then otherwise Ier. 45.3 Lastly by this apparell and diet of Iohn learne that the meaning of the Lord was not onely to driue and send Iohn to austeritie and strictnesse by this kinde of life but his speciall end was to conuince the Iewes of their malice and frowardnesse of their hearts For Iohn hee is precise and austere there is no pleasure in his lookes but hee shakes as it were the rod continually Christ he commeth after a cleane contrarie man● he eates and drinks with them and is glad and willing to come to any euen as the Physitian to the patient Whereupon the Iewes are tried whether by any vsage they might bee reclaimed and drawne to repentance but they take exceptions against both Iohn for his ansteritie is a diuell for the world euer hated precisenesse Christ for his familiaritie is a drunkard and too good a fellow Matt. 11.16 Luk. 7.31 so as though Iohn wept the solemne and dumpish note of repentance they would not mourne and though Christ preached and piped the melodie of mercie they would not daunce What more then could the Lord do to this vineyard which he did not laying soile as it were to the roote to keepe the sap warme and pruning and cropping the branches that they might haue spred to haue beene as it were the Lords shadow and his delight But they stopped their eares and prospered not by their labor bringing foorth bloudie and vnfauorie fruit killing the Prophets and at length crucifying the heire of the vineyard the Lord Iesus for which the Lord did meet them in iudgement so as to this day they remaine rooted out of his garden And how c● we thinke the like iudgement should leape ouer and escape vs that haue continued so long so vntamed and as if we had ne●● seene the yoke doe start and hang backe from humbling out selues before the king of Israel who hath come to vs by strong winds and strange earthquakes by the fire of many plagues which haue burnt vp whole families and by his still and soft voice of the Gospel intreating vs while we haue time to be at peace and to agree with him and yet we will not MATH chap. 3. vers 5 6 7 8 9 10. verse 5 Then went out to him Ierusalem and all Iudaea and all the region round about Iordan verse 6 And they were baptised of him in Iordan confessing their sinnes verse 7 Now when he saw many of the Pharises and of the Sadduces come to his baptisme he said vnto them O generation of vipers who hath forewarned you to flie from the anger to come verse 8 Bring foorth therefore fruit worthy amendement of life verse 9 And thinke not to say with your selues We haue Abraham to our father for I say vnto you that God is able euen of these stones to raise vp children vnto Abraham verse 10 And now also is the axe put to the root of the trees therefore euery tree which bringeth not foorth good fruit is hewen downe and cast into the fire HERE followeth a sixt circumstance wherein is set downe the frequent concourse of the auditory and people that came to heare this extraordinarie Priest Iohn Baptist who was of the tribe of Aaron and how hee entertained them first receiuing so many as would subscribe in iudgement to beleeue their saluation in the bloud of the Messias Secondly for them that came as led with emulation hearing his fame and were induced to come by reason of the strange report went of him and not for zeale and conscience to profit by his ministery the spirit reuealing to Iohn their hypocrisie swelling with their owne righteousnesse and bragging that they were of the naturall seed of Abraham as men not yet fit to bee baptized he takes them vp roughly as euill egges of euill birds comming of them that persecuted the Gospell that hee might the deeper pierce into their consciences so as they might see their owne vilenesse as if he should say is it possible that you can come to heare the word of God with a right heart

and prostrateth it selfe before God in Christ vpon confession that the soule is Satans due and deserueth to bee bound hand and foote and to bee cast into prison as vnable to pay the debt it intreateth that this obligation may bee taken from Satan it wrastleth with death and damnation and terror of conscience Coloss 2.14 and craueth a pardon bringing nothing but the very heart blood of Christ And euen as the very looking vpon the Serpent healed them in the wildernesse Num. 21.9 and nothing else could appease the tempest Ion●h 1.15 but the very casting of Ionah into the sea and the sinnes of the people Leuit. 16.22 were laid onely vpon the Goate so faith in this petition of forgiuenesse brings nothing but commeth emptie and laieth all vpon the shoulders of Christ But now betweene men and men on earth faith worketh by loue so as if we bring nothing to men but faith it is certaine wee neuer brought faith from God for since thy heart is not discernable and the spirit and piety of the heart is vnsearchable in respect of men and good to God wee cannot doe our faith vpon earth must be as busie before men in workes as it is before God in the blood of Christ And as Martha and Mary Luk. 10.39 dwelled in one house one onely to heare Christ the other working and labouring to entertaine Christ euen so our faith with Mary must onely kneele at Gods feet to heare that comfortable voice of the pardon and absolution of our sinnes in the blood of Christ but our faith on earth must labour with Martha by loue and good works to entertaine and helpe our brethren Besides wee must consider that things may worke together but not together in the same worke Euen as Christ in the worke of mediation must haue two natures a diuine humanity and an humane diuinity and we say not that Christ as God onely nor as man onely is Mediator but by these two concurring together and as wee saie that Christ is not Mediator without flesh and as truely we saie that hee raised not vp his flesh by his humanitie but suffered in the flesh and was raised vp by the power of his diuinitie onely and that his diuinitie died not but his flesh onely and in this they worked seuerally in the flesh to be ouercome of death and in the spirit onely to ouercome death yet these two in the worke of our saluation doe worke together Euen so faith worketh with loue in bringing foorth sanctification and a holy life but in the verie apprehending of Christ his bloud this power to iustifie is of faith onely Like as the roote of it selfe giues life but the roote with the branches bring foorth fruite And as the fire maketh warme by heate and light and yet the heate of the fire warmeth alone but light is inseparable from it so no faith can worke well without workes but yet there are none iustified by the power of workes but by faith onely Now where it it said Faith wrought with his workes and through the workes the faith made perfect obserue that this is meant onely of a declaration to men for we are perfectly iustified in the sight of God by the bloud of Christ And though the hand be leprous yet it can receiue sound meate so though our faith be imperfect yet our iustification is perfect For there is but one pardon in heauen through that one death and passion of Christ and before a man be perfectly iustified he cannot do a good worke for we must first be in Christ before wee haue faith and must haue faith before wee can worke for these are fruits of faith And as a Toade is not therefore a Toade because it poisons but therefore poisons because it is a Toade nor a Serpent is not therefore a Serpent because it stings but stings because it is a Serpent so we are not ingrafted into Christ because we are good but being ingrafted into Christ wee are made good Lastly obserue in the wordes that wee are not iustified because wee worke but because wee shall be saued therefore wee worke Zaccheus Luke 19.8 had not saluation because hee restored foure-fold and gaue halfe his goods to the poore but because the Lord was come into his house and had taken possession of his heart therefore hee wrought these works of faith Neither was the poore man in the Gospell healed because he should sinne no more Iohn 5.14 but Christ faith Thou art healed therefore in signe of thankfulnesse for thy health looke to thy life that thou sinne no more for heauen shall not be giuen to workes but to workers and promise of eternall life is made to the workes of the iust as they are iustified Gal. 3.11.12 and they are iustified onely in Christ for in euery worke there is imperfection not but that the spirit could worke perfectly but that euery thing is receiued according to the measure of that that doth receiue it and wee in this life are able onely to receiue the first fruites and not the fulnesse of the spirit for the spirit is like the Sea that is able to fill any vessell but no vessell is able to containe it Now in the 23. verse two parts are to be considered first the purpose of the Apostle in alledging this Scripture secondly the sense of the matter deliuered For the first if Saint Iames cited this place to proue that Abraham was imputed righteous in the sight of God by this work of sacrificing his sonne hee must needes haue wrested this Scripture which were blasphemy to say being written by the singer of God for Abraham had this imputation of righteousnesse through his beleefe giuen him and pronounced by God himselfe Genes 15.6 before either Ismael or Isaak were borne so as then the meaning of the Apostle in alledging this scripture is onely to shew that that testimony which God gaue Abraham of the excellency of his faith was declared and approued to bee true by the performance and execution of this speciall worke Now for the second point concerning the sense of the place cited namely that Abraham beleeued God and it was imputed to him for righteousnesse here we see that it is agreeable to the scripture that the obedience of the sonne which stood in two parts first in fulfilling the law secondly in satisfying for our sins is onely inherent in the sonne and was in him euen from the moment of his conception to the moment of his ascension and that wee haue onely his obedience allowed vnto vs and through the imputation thereof we are made iust not that it abideth in our selues for we are no better then Abraham but we haue it by imputation as Abraham had And this is a doctrine of great comfort and necessitie to be beleeued that wee haue it by imputation and not of our selues for now wee are sure it shall neuer faile vs nor wee shall neuer lose it as Adam at first lost

the liuing God though he had the warrant of the King of Ashur to doe it but in these and such like sinnes they hazard and aduenture their owne soules therefore let euery of vs keepe the ground that Balaam at first stood vpon Numb 24.13 not for a house full of gold to passe the commandent of the Lord yet I doe not say rebell but obey not Let Saul himselfe fall vpon the Priests if he will haue them slaine and let not vs assist him Let Iesabel her selfe sit in iudgement vpon Naboth but let not vs condemne him we are bound to do good to the saints of God much lesse to persecute them And it is said in the Gospell hee that clotheth a poore prisoner Mat. 35.36 clotheth the Lord Iesus Now what shall we say then of him that standeth vp like Tertullus against Paul Act. 24.5 to plead against him and to reproch him with the name of a pestilent and seditious fellow For if they shall bee condemned that haue not ministred to the necessity of the saints Luke 16.25 but haue been ashamed of their bands If Diues shall hang in hell for not refreshing Lazarus at his gate what shall become of them that take the bread from Lazarus and put Paul into bands or else enforce crimes against him to retaine him in bands Looke Iudg. 5.23 Cursed be Meroz because they helped not the Lord nor stood in defence of his truth A double curse then shall light vpon them that oppose themselues against the truth Obediah against the expresse edict of Iezabel 1. King 18.4 hideth the Prophets and Rahab Iosh 2.3 ventureth her life to preserue the spies Exod. 17.12 Psal 106 23. And what better spies can there bee then Preachers which stand in the gap betweene God and vs as did Moses which watch ouer the soules of the people and shew vs the way to heauen Ionathan being often incited by his father to kill Dauid 1. Sam. 20.2 protesteth Dauids innocencie though Saul perswaded him that Dauids glorie could not bee without Ionathans ruine and would not be drawne to doe it And if hee would not compasse such a mischiefe at the commandement of Saul which had a threefold force in it first as proceeding from his Father secondly from his Soueraigne thirdly being ioyned with the temptation of a kingdome much Iesse ought we to gratifie the State with the affliction of Gods Saints for we must rather Act. 4.19 obey God then man yet disobey not the Prince for his commandement standeth on these two feet either to doe the thing or to sustaine the punishment for not doing it Fourthly obserue that assoone as Christ is borne there is trouble and commotion ciuill and forren warres yet is not Christ the cause of it but the wickednesse and peruersenesse of Herods heart for righteousnesse must not yeeld to iniquity and Christ must be borne and being borne must raigne though the diuell rage and the world swell neuer so much Certaine it is no Gospell teacheth so much peace as this of Christs for it teacheth peace betweene God and man betweene man and man yea betweene man and his inward soule and maketh the wolues to become lambes and the Lyon to lodge with the Beare But Herod would haue the Gospell abolished and Christ murthered which cannot be Shall Dagon 1. Sam. 5.3 yeeld to the Arke or the Arke to Dagon Shall the ten Tubes go to Iuda or Iuda to them Ishbosheth to Dauid 2. Sam. 2.16 or Dauid to him Herod loues not Christ therefore hee murthers the children and Dauid especially being king must not yeeld to Saul house nor Iuda goe to the ten tribes nor Christ giue place 〈◊〉 Herod but if his Crowne cannot stand with the gouernment of Christ well may he harbour murther in his thought against him but iudgement shall fall on his owne head for God will wate● ouer his owne sonne and fight for his owne truth So as whe●● religion hath beene granted by Parliament and suppressed by priuate commandement there may the subiects stand on the part defensiue to ward the blow being smitten but if it hath not beene established by publike authority then may they not take vp armes to set it vp Out of the murther it selfe gather that though there be many flaine yet Christ escapeth and that in the greatest persecution yet Christs religion shall neuer bee abolished For heere is great bloudshed yet Christ liueth great persecution yet the Gospell flourisheth When Iezabel thought she had had her hands full of bloud and that she had rooted out all the Lords Prophets you and when visibly there was no face at all to be seene so as Eli●● thought himselfe onely to be left then the Lord 1. King 19.18 reserued seuen thousand to himselfe that had not bowed the●● knees to Baal And when by scattering the sheepe and smiti●● the shepheard the diuell thought himselfe flush and that 〈◊〉 Christ sleepe in the earth he had vtterly stung him to destruction then was his resurrection most glorious and then did the Churches of God increase daily For such is the nature of the Gospell that the more it is troden downe the higher it riseth the more it is maligned the broader it spreadeth and wh●●● seemeth to be dead then is there most life in it For the third point which is the prophesie Ieremy chap. 13.15 to declare the greatnesse of Gods mercy in the deliuery of the Iewes sheweth them that they were like to the Be●●●mites or Israelites that is vtterly destroyed and caried away insomuch that if Rahel the mother of Beniamin could haue ri●●● againe to seeke for her children shee might haue wept 〈◊〉 want of them but she should haue found none remaining Th●● doth the holy Ghost bring in heere as a butchery foretold 〈◊〉 the end that none might either wonder or be offended at it for it might haue beene said Is this the consolation of Israel nay he is the discomfort and destruction of Israel his birth hauing kindled such a fire as neuer was the like before leauing so many sad hearts for their lost children And how may we hope he shall be our Sauiour when his beginning is with this bloud And the more to increase the cruelty of it the holy Ghost speaketh excessiuely bringing in Rachel dead many yeares before howling and wringing her hands at the rufull spectacle of this bloudy tragedy as if the calamitie of the liuing might seeme to touch and affect the dead That therefore this might not seeme strange the spirit of the Lord recorded it long before that when it came to passe they might digest it as a thing foreseene in the wisedome of God necessary to fall out MATH chap. 2. vers 19 20 21 22 23. verse 19 And when Herod was dead behold an Angell of the Lord appeareth in a dreame to Ioseph in Egypt verse 20 Saying Arise and take the babe and his mother and goe into the land of Israel for they are dead which sought