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A00670	A treatise against the necessary dependance vpon that one head, and the present reconciliation to the Church of Rome Together with certaine sermons preached in publike assemblies, videlicet 1. The want of discipline. 2. The possession of a king. 3. The tumults of the people. 4. The mocke of reputation. 5. The necessitie of the Passion. 6. The wisdome of the rich. By Roger Fenton Doctor of Diuinitie, late preacher of Graies Inne.	Fenton, Roger, 1565-1616.; Utie, Emmanuel, d. 1661.	1617 (1617)	STC 10805; ESTC S102068	104,035	162

one must run into another or they must bee finite on one side 2 When I consider how Dauid speakes of ancient Idolaters Psal 115. Psa 115.8 They that make them are like vnto them how Esay describes them cap. 44. vers 16. They bake bread with one peece Esay 44.16 rost meate with another warme themselues with the third and of the residue make a god How in Baruc the 6. Baruc. 6.19 Cats and Owles do redeeme their Gods from their enemies Rats and Mice that would deuoure them I conceiue the most sencelesse kinde of idolatry and howsoeuer Aaron might seeke to refine it in the 5 verse in proclaiming an holy-day to Iehouah the true God yet sure the people themselues conceiued it in grosse The like difference may bee taken in matters of inferiour superstition betwixt the schoole distinctions and the practise of the vulgar Non colitur imago sed Deus in imagine colitur Imago sed alio cultu cultu eodem at nō vniuocè sed analogicè reductiuè distinctions well filed and refined in the braine but alas the people in whom is greatest daunger who are not able to distinguish betwixt Aarons Beard and the Beard of Aaron must of necessity fall into extremity howsoeuer Aaron in this place might helpe them with references and reductions to Iehouah yet in the peoples intention this idolatry was very grosse 2 To what end to goe a Procession to goe before vs did not the Cloud goe before them by day and the pillar of fire by night yea the Lord himselfe went before them in the pillar and the cloud in the 13. Chapter vers 21. yea and that at this present verse the 22. he tooke not away the cloud by day nor the pillar of fire by night from before the people This will not content them they must haue a Calfe a costly Calfe and when all cost and caruing is bestowed vpon it it cannot goe it must bee carried before them whereas the cloud and pillar of fire moued without their helpe See how men please themselues in their owne deuices be they neuer so foolish more then in Gods owne institutions be they neuer so full of Diuine wisedome But whither should it goe before them I thinke themselues scarce know whether whither they meant to roue vp and downe in the wildernesse sit downe to eat and drinke and rise vp to play but if they intended a set iourney it was eyther toward Canaan or as I thinke rather backe againe into Aegypt else why should they thinke of a Calfe but in alluding to the Aegyptian Apis that pide Bull they meant to goe into Aegypt therefore they must haue an Aegyptian God to guide them These be thy gods ô Israell that brought thee out of the Land of Aegypt as strangers when the Aegyptians desired vs to be gone and these shall conduct vs backe againe But that which perswades mee most is in the Acts of the Apostles they turned in their hearts backe againe into Aegypt Acts 7.39 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saying make vs gods Their harts were in Aegypt already they wanted nothing but a God to guide them If all things in the wildernesse were in figure vnto vs 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Cor. 10.11 This history most of all all of vs were vnder the bondage of Aegypt subiect to sin death and hell taskemasters of that spirituall Pharaoh who hath power ouer death Heb. 2.14 Our true Master Christ hath deliuered vs out of Aegypt and brought vs vnder hope of enioying that celestiall Canaan In the meane time he is gone vp to the mountaine to God the Father to mediate for vs and to write the Gospell is the Law of Christians the new couenant he hath left his deputies beneath Ciuill Ecclesiasticall to gouerne vs in his absence Hee hath left Sacramentall representations as the cloud did represent his humanity the fier his diuinity but his absence is so long not a few weeks but many hundred years that we carry vs in this life as if we knew not what is become of him where is the promise of his comming 2 Pet. 2.4 in the 2. of Peter and the 3. Thus we sit downe to eate and drinke rise vp to play Euery one hath his gods his dearling affections his desires his deuices though as wise as Calues Deus est suacuique cupido these foolish desires leade vs back againe into Aegypt there to make bricke or gather stubble for that 's the Dicotomy of this world we are either making bricke to build or plant our selues on earth or gathering stubble picking the strawes of vanity and pleasure in which return if we hold on we had better we had neuer been deliuered for Christ will come as suddenly as Moses did from the mount eyther himselfe in iudgement or by his messenger Death giue vs our portion make vs drinke the powder of our Gods wrath The dregs of sinne which will turne into the gall of Aspes Hee that presumes Christ will be long a comming and that death is a farre off hee will surely come to him vnlooked for The Master of that seruant will come in an houre when he is not aware Luk. 12.46 There bee three Parables St. Luke ioynes in an excellent order The Parable of the Prodigall Sonne the vniust Steward and the rich Glutton The Prodigall by prodigality became miserable by misery was drawne to repentance But because men when they haue runn themselues out of breath in wickednesse presently haue the parable of the prodigall childe in in their mouthes He addes vnto that the vniust Steward who had short warning to giue vp his stewardship he wisely cast in his minde what to doe Quid faciam and neuer ceased casting till he resolued Scio quid faciam and presently put it in execution set downe quickly and because euery man should not expect any speciall admonition before hand he addes vnto that the Parable of the rich man who thinking his Master would belong a comming follows his pleasure in momento descendit in infernum died and was presently in hell before hee lift vp his eyes vnto heauen So doth sudden destruction euer follow presumptuous sinnes Therefore these golden glistring calues that we propose vnto our selues to follow bee it the Calfe of wealth or pleasure or ambition let vs breake them in peeces and stamp them to powder by true repentance before the Lord come and breake them for vs let vs drinke the powder in the teares of sorrow and contrition that iudging our selues we may preuent the iudgement of God that wee may redeeme the time we haue so vainely spent in doubling the workes of a good life and happy is that man whom the Lord when he commeth shall find so doing Which happines God grant vnto vs for his Sons sake Iesus Christ our Lord To whom with the Father and the blessed Spirit be al Honor and Glory both now and for euer Amen THE MOCKE OF

Dauid will haue God to put off his sacke-cloth and gird him with gladnesse must himselfe put it on and mourne with sorrow Capernaum sayes our Sauiour which art lifted vp to heauen shalt bee brought downe to hell for if these things which are done in thee had beene done in Tire and Sidon they would haue repented in sacke-cloth and ashes therefore the onely way to keepe Capernaum out of hell is sacke-cloth and ashes when the Iudge of the world shall giue sentence at the last day see the goodnesse of God to mankinde euen in the sentence of condemnation Goe yee cursed into hell fire prepared for whom for you no for the Diuell and his Angels when thou wilt become one of Lucifers Angels mount thy selfe into the seat of God Esay 14. Ero similis altissimo become a God like one of vs Then shalt thou fall from heauen like lightning pierce the clouds as a thunderbolt and come downe with such a vengeance Therefore let vs tread the steps of our Lord that hath broken the Ice and trod out the way for vs who desires vs to learne but one lesson of humility for the rest of our soules It may seem a strange speech deliuered from Christ When I am lift vp I will draw all men vnto me Iohn 12.31 signifying what death he should die is it like that himselfe hanging vpon the crosse could entise others to that cursed tree It must be a great humiliation surely and so it must be Non decet sub spinoso capite membrum esse delicatum If the head of Christ wore a crowne of Thornes It is no dishonour for the foot to catch a thorne let it not grieue vs to tread the steps of the eternall Sonne of God and king of glory but learne of him euen of him that ridde vpon an Asse was mounted vpon a Crosse to be humble and so you shall finde rest vnto your soules The peace of God which passeth all vnderstanding shall possesse your humble soules and the Prince of Peace descend like a shower into a fleece of wooll into your meeke and gentle soules Then shall the dew of heauen water your contrite and broken soules with all celestiall graces Then shall we reape euery graine we haue sowed in teares and these soules that haue mourned and turmoy led themselues in this cloddy and mirie earth of sinful flesh shall returne with ioy to the Father that gaue them carry their sheaues with them from which sorrow to which ioy hee deliuer vs and bring vs that hath redeemed vs and bought it for vs les us Christ the righteous to whom with the Father and the blessed Spirit be all honour and glory from this time forth and for euermore Amen THE NECESSITY of the PASSION A Sermon on good Friday at the Crosse LVKE 24.46 So it is written and so it behoued Christ to suffer and to rise againe from dead the third day and that repentance and remission of sinnes might be preached in his name among all nations beginning at Ierusalem THIS is one of the little Gospels of Christ reuealed now in plain words hidden before in Moses and the Prophets euen from the Apostles and Disciples till it pleased our Sauiour Christ to open their vnderstanding that they might vnderstand the Scriptures and then to deliuer these words which now by Gods prouidence in the Euangelicall writings be come vnto our hands For God in his Diuine dispensation thought it meete that Moses face should shine through the vaile that the Arke of the Couenant should be couered that the Tabernacle should bee ouershadowed with a Cloud that there should be a vaile of the Temple which should bee as a wall before the Holy of Holies vntill the fulnesse of Time came that his owne Sonne should bee manifested in the flesh to speake face to face to vs. Vntill the couer of the Arke that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as it is called Romanes the 3. should be opened at the Passion that we might looke into it Rom. 3.25 and see what it behooued Christ to suffer vntill the Sonne of righteousnesse should rise againe the third day to dispell the cloud of the Tabernacle vntill the vaile of the Temple should be rent that wee might behold the Mercy-seate of God in stead of iudgement that we might see the Cherub with stretched wings ready to flie with the glad tidings of Remission of sinnes to all Nations beginning at Ierusalem So that the Remoouing of those vailes was nothing but the reuealing of these mysteries which my Text declares That Sonne of God our Sauiour who opened the vnderstandings of the Disciples to see so much remooue the vaile from your hearts that you may discerne as much and rightly apply the same And that it may the better sticke by vs and worke vpon vs obserue the order of the Holy Ghost in the Text deliuered in foure distinct points The Proofe of the Redemption The Worke of the Redemption The Fruites of the Redemption The Ministration of the Redemption 1 The Proofe a Testimony of Scripture So it is written 2 The worke consisting in two things the Suffering 2 The worke consisting in two things the Resurrectiō 3 Out of these two spring two fruites Repentance out of the Passion 3 Out of these two spring two fruites Remission out of the Resurrection For as the Passion of Christ workes in vs Repentance which is the Passion of a Christian so the Resurrection dissoluing the bands of Death doth absolue vs from the chaines of sinne which is the Resurrection of a Christian 4 The ministration of it to the world by publique proclamation The text calls Preaching 2 This preaching with authority in his name 3 This authority giues a large commission to all Nations 4 Yet not confusedly but in orderly proceeding beginning at Hierusalem This I conceiue to be the most easie and plaine tract of this Scripture So it is written and so it behooued c. So it is written The proofe This sword of the Spirit Christ did take vnto him when hee first entred the lists with Sathan in the 4. of Matthew and so now after his resurrection taking his leaue off the Church armeth his Disciples with the same sword So it is written and as Sathan at the first laboured to wrest it out of the hands of Christ so euer since hee hath endeauoured to driue vs from it knowing it to bee safest for vs and the most deadly weapon against him So it is written 1. Great Loue of God Magnus amor that hee vouchsafed to feede his Church in the infancy so famlliarly with Reuelations but a greater Loue when the is Reuelations are vpon record that posterities might haue recourse vnto them to iudge of Reuelation and decerne of Spirits by So it is written No maruell therefore though writing the Law made the Diuell so madde that he set the people a madding vpon a Calfe hoping by that stratagem to put their Captaine Moses into