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fire_n	cloud_n	night_n	pillar_n	4,723	5	10.5941	5	true

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18432	Fulfordo et Fulfordae A sermon preached at Exeter, in the cathedral church, the sixth day of August commonly called Iesus day 1594. in memoriall of the cities deliuerance in the daies of King Edvvard the sixt. Wherein is intreated of the goodnes of God toward man, and of the ingratitude of man toward God. By Iohn Charldon, Doctor of Diuinitie. In which also some fewe thinges are added, then omitted through want of time.	Chardon, John, d. 1601.	1595 (1595)	STC 5000; ESTC S107731	37,202	98

these wordes I haue nourished and brought vp children He declareth their ingratitude rebellion against him in these but they haue rebelled against me This their ingratitude and rebellion hee amplifieth in the verse following by way of comparison or example of brute and dul beasts The Ox knoweth his owner and the Asse his Masters Cribbe but Israel hath not knowne my people hath not vnderstand Thus you haue the summe of the complaint by which almighty God as a most vnhappie father with lamentable voice doth deplore and bewaile the vnkindnes of his people and withall doth recite what how great benifits hee had bestowed vpon them but to no purpose The complaint is verie short if we marke the words but verie haynous and weightie if wee diligentlie weygh and examine the thing it selfe For the Lord seemeth thus to say Oh what an vnhappy father am I to haue such vnthankfull children whome I neither could nor ought more to haue loued than if they had come forth of mine owne loynes For behold he brought them out of the iron furnace of Egipt Deu. 4.20 where their liues were bitter vnto them by sore labor in clay and bricke Ex. 1.14 He went before them by day in a piller of a cloude to lead them the way and by night in a piller of fire to giue them light that they might goe both by day and by night Exod. 13.21 He deuided the red sea in two parts and made Israell to passe through the midst of it which when the Egyptians attempted to do they were drowned Exod. 14.21 Psa 136.13 At their desire he brought Quailes and filled them with the bread of heauen Ps 105.40 in so much that as Dauid saith Man did eate the bread of Angels Psal 78.25 When they were thirstie and had no water to drinke Psal 105.41 he opened the rocke and the waters flowed out and ran in the drie places like a riuer For their sakes he smote diuers nations Psal 135.10 and slew mightie kings Psal 136.19 as Sihon king of the Amorites Og king of Basan and all the kingdomes of Canaan Num. 21.33 and gaue their land to be an heritage euen an heritage vnto Israel his people He made them a mightie nation a fearfull and a terrible to all the princes and potentates of the earth Deut. 32.10 He found them in the land of the wildernesse in a waste roaring wildernesse he led them about he taught them and kept them as the apple of his eye As an Eagle stirreth vp her nest fluttereth ouer her birdes stretcheth out her winges taketh them and beareth them on her wings So the Lord alone led them and caried them vp to the high places of the earth that they might eate the fruits of the fields and suck honie out of the stone and oile out of the harde rock Butter of kine and milke of sheepe with fat of the Lambes and Rams fed in Bashan and goats with the fat of the graines of wheate and drinke the licour of the red grape So in the second of Ieremie the Lorde ringeth in the eares of Ierusalem the summe of his benefits in this sort Iere. 2.2 I remember thee with the kindenesse of thy youth and the Ioue of thy marriage when thou wentest after me in the wildernesse in a land that was not sowne Israel was a thing halowed vnto the Lord and his first fruites chosen aboue all other to serue the Lorde onely and the first offered to the Lord of all other nations And by Ezekiel amongst other his benefites towarde Ierusalem thus saith the Lorde Ezech. 16.6 When thou wast polluted in thy owne bloud to wit when thou wast in thy filthinesse and forsaken of all men I tooke thee and gaue thee life for I saide vnto thee thou shalt liue I caused thee to multiplie as the budde of the fielde and thou hast increased and waxen great and thou hast gotten excellent ornaments thy breasts are fashioned thine haire is growne verse 11. I decked thee vvith ornaments and I put bracelets vppon thine handes and a chaine on thy necke I put a frontlet vppon thy face and earings in thine eares and a beautifull crowne vppon thine head Thus wast thou deckt vvith golde and siluer and thy raymâ—nt was of fine linnen and silke and broidered worke thou diddest eate fine flowre and Honie and Oile and thou vvast verie beautifull and thou diddest growe vp into a kingdome And to bee shorte what benefite was there which the Lorde bestowed not vppon his people What could hee haue doone more vnto his Vineyarde Esay 5.4 which he did not doe vnto it He planted it in a very fruitfull hill he hedged it and gathered out the sâ—ones of it he planted it with the best plantes hee built a tower in the middest thereof and made a wine presse therein This did the Lorde for his Vineyard Surelye the Vineyarde of the Lorde of hoasts was the house of Israell and the men of Iudah were his pleasant plante verse 4. Then the Lorde looked that his Vineyarde shoulde bring foorth sweete Grâ—pes but it brought foorth wilde and sowre grapes hee looked for iudgement but beholde oppression verse 7. for righteousnesse but beholde a dolefull crying for obedience but behold a rebellion I haue nourished brought vp chillldren saith he but they haue rebelled against me I haue nourished and brought them vp I haue done the duty of a father I haue performed what was required of my part I haue caried them out of all danger I haue made them the lot and portion of mine inheritance I haue fed them with the best and cheefest things of the earth I haue bestowed many and infinite good turnes vpon them as before expressed and yet see this is the recompence which they yeeld vnto me for all that I haue done They haue rebelled against me But it may seeme that the Lord doth not iustly charge his people with ingratitude and disobedience for they offered many sacrifices Esa 1.11 they offered the burnt offrings of rammes the fat of fed beasts the bloud of bullocks of Lambes and of goats They did what the law could require They obserued the new moones vers 13. Sabbaths and solemne dayes They had their assemblies and appointed feasts they stretched out their hands and made many praiers And yet for all these which they did or could do they are counted a sinfull nation a people laden with iniquitie a seed of the wicked corrupt children which had forsaken the Lord prouoked the holy one of Israel to anger ver 4. and in such sort as that he hated abhord their feast daies would not smel in their solemne assemblies Amo. 5.21 nor accept their burnt offrings meate offrings nor regarde the peace offerings of their fat beasts and all was because they did these and such like without faith and mercie euen in the full measure of hypocrisie and dissimulation King Vzziah himself called also Azariah 2. Kin. 15.1 in whose time this our

prophet begaÌ„ to prophesie after that God had blessed him maruellously had giuen him many notable victories thereby was grown to be strong lifted vp his heart and vsurped the priests office and went into the temple of the Lord to burne incense vpon the altar of incense and when he was willed to leaue off would not but waxed wroth as it is in the second of Chronicles and 26. chap. v. 19. Ierusalem a faithfull citie and which had promised fidelitie vnto God as a wife to her husband is now become a common harlot and a filthie strumpet Esa 1.21 She was once full of iudgement and iustice was lodged within her brest but now she is full of rauen crueltie and deceit verse 22. Her siluer is become drosse and her wine is mixt with water The testimonies of the Lord which sometime were pure and without drosse like vnto siluer that is tried with fire are now defiled with pharisaicall traditions and doctrines of men The commandements of the Lord which were like vnto pure wine reioycing the heart through watery dregs haue lost their strength colour and beautie verse 23. The princes of the people were rebellious and companions of theeues they loued giftes and followed after rewardes they iudged not the fatherlesse neither did the widowes cause come before them Ierem. 2.8 The Priests said not so much as where is the Lorde and they that should minister the lawe knew not God Deut. 32.15 He that should haue beene vpright when he waxed fatte and grose and was laden with fatnesse spurned with his heele and forsooke the Lorde that made him regarded not the strong God of his saluation And therefore the state and condition of Iudah Ierusalem being thus corrupt whom neither the benefits of God could win nor his punishments amend the Lord by his Prophet dooth iustly charge them with ingratitude and disobedience in this sort They haue rebelled against me Wherein they did rightly imitate and follow their forefathers Psal 78.8 a stubborne and rebellious generation a generation whose heart was not aright and whose spirit was not faithfull vnto God For no sooner had God brought theÌ„ out of Egipt out of the house of bondage with a mighty hand and stretched out arme Psal 106.7 but they forgate his great goodnesse and rebelled at the Sea euen at the red Sea Exo. 16.3 In the wildernesse of Sin they grudged for bread and flesh Exod. 17.2 and in Rephidim for water They made a calfe in Horeb Exod. 32.4 worshipped the molten image Psa 106.19 They maliced Moses Aaron the holy one of the Lord. v. 16. They would haue stoned Caleb and Ioshua Nom. 14.10 They ioined themselues vnto Baal peor did eat the offrings of the dead Psa 106.28 They sacrificed their sonnes and daughters vnto deuils shed innocent bloud euen the bloud of their sonnes and daughters whom they offred vnto the idols of Canaan Deut. 32.17 gods whom they knew not new gods that came newly vp forsooke the Lorde God of their fathers which brought them out of the land of Egipt and followed other gods as Baal and Ashtaroth the gods of the people that were round about them and bowed vnto them Wherefore the wrath of the Lord was hote against Israel and he deliuered them into the hands of spoilers that spoiled them and solde them into the hands of their enemies round about them Notwithstanding the Lord raised vp Iudges which deliuered them out of the hands of their oppressours ve 16. but they would not obey their Iudges for they wet a whoring after other gods and worshipped theÌ„ Iudg. 10.6 as the gods of Aram Zidon and Moab the gods of the children of Ammon and of the Philistins forsooke the Lorde God and serued not him And thus they rebelled and their posteritie to the dayes of Iohn the fore-runner of Christ and his Apostles insomuch that of Christ before him of Iohn the Baptist they are called Progenies viperarum the generations of vipers Mat. 3.7 And because they were the children of them which murthred the prophets fulfilled the measure of their fathers Mat. 23.31 the lord vpbraideth casteth in their teeth not onely their owne but also their fathers malice Many a time would the Lord haue gathered them together Matt. 23 37. as the hen doth her chickens vnder her wings but they would not And therefore did Stephan to their faces charge them with stubbornesse and rebellion calling them Act. 7.51 stifnecked and of vncircumcised hearts and eares alwaies resisting the holy Ghost as their fathers did So that though Israel and Iudah after a sort could colour their rebellion and stifnesse of heart against the Lord and against his annointed with the multitude of sacrifices Esa 1.11 with the burnt offerings of Rams and fat of fed beasts with the bloud of bullockes of Lambes and of goates with the obseruation of new moones Sabbaths and solemne daies with the stretching out of hands and making many praiers yet we see what they are and the Lord who alone looketh into the harts of all by the prophet here chargeth the very Rulers to be rebellious companions of theeues ve 23 yea and the whole packe of them for their impietie and wickednesse to be like vnto the princes of Sodoma and people of Gomorah The application And now to applie these former points vnto our selues before we come to the exaggeration of this peoples ingratitude and vnkindnesse let vs take some short view whether our condition be the same with the condition of Israel and Iudah or whether ours be better than theirs was The Lorde our God as yee all know hath nourished and brought vp vs his children in as good and ample manner as euer he did the Iewes his elect and chosen people He hath giuen vs for our comfort Psa 8.7.8 the beasts of the field the foules of the ayre and the fishes of the sea He brought vs out of the yron fornace of Romish Egipt at what time the Egyptian tyrants made vs wearie of our liues with sore labourin the clay and bricke of hellish superstition and with all maner of bondage which they laide vpon vs most cruelly Hetherto the Lorde hath gone before vs by day in a pillar of a cloude and by night in a pillar of fire to lead vs the way and to giue vs light that we might go both by day and by night out of all danger He hath giuen vs Manna froÌ„ heauen not Manna of which the Fathers did eate in the wildernesse and are dead but a liuing Manna a Manna that giueth life vnto the world a Manna of which he that truly eateth shall liue for euer Ioh. 6 38. The Israelites after they had drunke of the water out of the rocke thirsted againe but of the water which he shall giue vs if we once drinke we shall neuer be more a thirst Joh 4.14 for it is the water of life euen the grace and loue of God in

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