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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

answere that prayer hindereth no labour it is opus animi non corporis a worke of the mind not of the body for why the husband-man at the plough the pilot at the helme the mariner at the oares the coblar at his Last the weaver at his Loomes the woman at her rock may pray and yet lose no time the heart may bee occupied as was Moses heart at the red Sea Epiphanius calleth Christians Bees that have Exod. 14. wax in their hands their clawes to note their worke and hony in their mouthes that is Hymnes Psalmes prayers to glorify God as is said of the Primitive Church These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication c. One calleth prayers Gods Grashoppers Gods Nightingales Onuphrius who praise him in the day and pray in the night and good men will pray alway with all manner of prayers and supplications in the spirit Ephes 6. 18. 2 Tim. 1. 6. and watch thereunto with all perseverancy c. O stirre up thy heart that is dull rowze it up to God blow the coale but spit not upon it Benajah is said to kill a Lion in the snow It is a great glory to kill a Lion greater to kill him in the snow when the hands are 2 Sam. 23. 20. cold and the body frozen that a man cannot draw his sword so the soule is cold congealed the spirit is dull the mind languishing in good things but if thou canst then put heate unto it to wrastle with the Divell that roaring Lion in prayer and meditation 1 Pet. 5. 8. it is thy glory with God men Angels In other vertues thou overcommest another in this thou overcommest thy selfe This world is a sea our soules are as vessels tossed on it our vertues Apoc. 15. as wares to be transported to the Haven prayer is as a prosperous wind to carry them forward Now as in the straites of Magellane of three shippes scarce one is saved so in the sea of this world of an hundred scarce one is saved for why Men pray not The Lord looked downe from Heaven upon the children of men to see Psal 14. 2 3 4. if there were any that would understand and seeke after God all are gone out of the way they are all corrupt there is none that doth good no not one doe not all the workers of iniquity know that they eate up my people as they eate bread they call not upon the Lord. On these God powreth out wrath For so the Prophet prayed saying Powre out thy wrath upon the Heathen that know thee not and upon the families that call not Ier. 10. 25. upon thy name Prayer is as a spirituall chaire wherein the soule sitteth downe at the feet of the Lord to receive the influences of his graces est porta regalis per quam Dominus in cor intrat prayer is the regall gate by which the Lord entreth into the heart the first fruits of future glory Manna that had in it Omne delectamentum the delicacy and taste of every sweet the Ladder of Iacob by which we must ascend into heaven By this note God distinguisheth his house from all houses My house shall bee called an house of prayer and his people from all Prayer comforteth in all estates the people of the world they are a people that delight in prayer and the praises of God are ever in their mouth others are houses Mat. 21. 12. of banqueting as the houses of Iobs sonnes or houses of sporting as the houses of the Philistins where Samson plaied or Iob. 1. 1 Reg. 16. Iudg. 16. Mich 3. Luk. 12. houses of cruelty as were the houses of the Iewes or houses of receit as the barnes of the foole or houses of destruction as those of Ieroboams and Baasha but Gods house is an house of prayer all other came to nought the houses of Iobs sonnes were blowne down with the winde the houses of the Philistins fell upon their heads and slew them the houses of the Iewes were turned into a field the barnes of the foole came to a strange heire the Palaces of Ieroboam and Baasha became a proverbe Prayer is a conjoyning of God and man together in doctrine God speaketh unto us and therefore the Word is called The Spirit 2 Thess 2. 8. of Gods mouth and in prayer wee speake to God and powre out our griefes into his lap Call upon mee in the time of trouble and I will heare thee and thou shalt glorifie mee Oratio est Deo sacrificium Psal 50. 15. Prayer is a sacrifice to God musicke unto the Angels a banket to the Saints an helpe to them that pray a remedy for the penitent a weapon against their enemies Te orante fugit daemon When thou prayest the Divell takes him to his heeles and is gone Resist the Divell by prayer and hee will flye from you Vis omnia patienter ferre sis homo precum Wilt thou carry all things patiently Iam. 4. 7. be a man of prayers Pray continually in all things give thanks Wilt thou roote up vices and be inriched with vertues Bee a 1 Thess 5. 17 18 man of prayers Cease not to pray to be filled with the knowledge of Gods will in all Wisedome and spiritual Vnderstanding Wilt thou overcome Col. 1. 9. troubles bee a man of prayer for Saint Iames will have thee troubled and afflicted to pray Wilt thou know the subtilty of Iam 5. 13. Satan and vanquish his temptations Bee a man of prayers Pray with all manner of prayer and supplications and then neither rule nor power nor worldly rulers nor the governours of the darkenesse of this world shall cause thee to fall Wilt thou trample under-feet thy corrupt and evill affections Bee a man of prayers Watch and pray that yee enter not into temptation I never knew a man of much praying a man of much sinne no not of the superstitious Mat. 26. 41. sort touching the grosse sinnes of the world Per preces charitas pascitur fides augetur spes corroboratur spiritus exhilaratur cor pacatur detegitur veritas vincitur tentotio renovantur sensus totus homo immutatur fit melior by prayer Charity is fed Faith increased Hop strengthened the Spirit exhilarated the Heart pacified Verity discovered temptation vanquished the Senses renewed and the whole man is altered and bettered Paul prayed and God answered him My grace is sufficient for Prayer the food of the soule thee The Philosophers affirme God to bee the perfection of all creatures the creature then is so much the more perfect by how much he is neerer unto God in prayers and supplications 2 Cor. 12. 8 9. wee draw neerer unto God then at other times therefore the perfecter for we draw neere unto God not in walking but in loving not with the feete of our bodies but with the affections of our hearts Let us draw neere saith the Apostle

eternall the Psal 90. 1 Cor. 13. wombe of the mother is nothing to the world and the world is nothing to heaven seeing one starre is bigger than the earth Iob 38. Againe the difference of the inhabitants maketh a difference betwixt Heaven and earth that is full of living men this of dead Luk. 9. 2 Pet. 3. 13. Rom. 3. men that of iust men this of sinners this of men Rom. 3. 24. that of Angels Dan. 7. here dwell the penitent there the perfect here dwell the militant there the triumphant here dwell friends and enemies there friends onely and the elect there Hebr. 12. 23. Iob 7. Apoc. 14. God shall be plenitudo lucis nostro intellectui fulnesse of light to our understanding Multitudo pacis voluntati multitude of peace to our will Et continuatio aeternitatis memoriae and continuance of eternity to our memory It is said of the Swannes that they sing dying Cantator Cignus funeris ipse sui And we like Swans in the assurance of the glory that shall bee revealed to us should live and die reioycing For we shall be made an eternall joy and glory from generation to generation salvation shall The happines of Heaven set out by comparison bee our walles and praise our gate we shall have no more Sunne to shine by day neither shall the brightnes of the Moone shine unto us for the Lord shall bee our everlasting light and our God our glory our Sunne shall never goe downe neither shall our Moone be hidde for the Lord shall be our Esay 60. 15 18 19 20 21. everlasting light and the dayes of our sorrow shall bee ended wee shall bee all righteous and possesse the land for ever Wee shall come with Israel from Mount Horeb where was nothing but thunder lightning and clowdes to mount Thabor where wee shall injoy the glory of Christ Iesus and say with Peter Bonum est hîc esse It is Mat. 17. good for us to bee here Let them make account of this life who make the world their friend and are not onely in it but of it whose eyes the God of this world hath blinded that they looke 2 Cor. 4. 3. not for future things wee are here pilgrimes our Countrey is Heaven our friends the Angels our companions Apoc. 21. the Saints our City the new Ierusalem how can wee sit among the rivers of Babylon and not weepe to remember the heavenly Sion O curvae in terris animae coelestium inanes O crooked soules on earth and devoid of heavenly things Wee marvell at the Pigmaeans that are but a cub it high and live but seven yeeres and yet our life to eternity is not seven yeeres nor seven dayes nor seven houres nor one houre it is but a moment 2 Cor. 4. 17. so S. Paul calleth it Saturne one star is thirty yeeres in motion in circuit and we may goe round about the world in three yeeres and odde dayes so little a space is it What is a drop of water to the whole Sea An acre of land to the mappe of the world the light of a candle to the brightnes of the Sunne the life of a child to the yeeres of Methusalah the conceite of a foole to the experience of Noah who saw two Worlds or one drop of raine to all the waters in the Clowds which drowned a whole world Such is our life to eternity and the glory of this world to the glory of Heaven a thousand yeeres are but a day nay S. Iohn calleth 2 Pet. 3. all the time since Christs comming but an houre he maketh sixteene hundred yeeres but an houre to eternity to the dayes 1 Iohn 3. everlasting Oh thinke oftner of heaven and the glory of it Oh seeke the things that bee above where Christ sitteth at the right hand of Col. 3. 1. God set your affections upon Heavenly things and not upon earthly Paul prayed for the Ephesians that they might see the hope of their calling Ephes 1 17. the riches of the glorious inheritance And pray you for it for as yet these things are hid from our eyes videmus tantum terrena we behold onely earthly things If in a golden game some should step aside and runne after flies and feathers would wee not count them mad so is it in Christianity our life is a race wee all are runners heaven is the goale eternall life the prize but many step aside after flies and 1 Cor. 9. vanity We tire our selves in the way of wickednes and destruction and Wisd 5. 7 8 9. wee have gone thorow dangerous wayes but we have not knowne the way of the Lord what hath pride profited us Or what profit hath the pompe One day in Heaven more ioyous than many in the greatest honour of riches brought us All these things are passed away as a shadow and as a poast that passeth by If a man knew the thoughts of Alexander Magnus when hee died of the poison of Styx after all his victories or the thoughts of Iulius Caesar receiving in the Senate 52. wounds and all deadly after that hee had conquered the world hee shall see that they tooke little pleasure in their former honors and victories Philip Mornay saith of Carolus quintus whom of all men the world judged most happy that hee cursed all his honors in his old age his victories trophees riches saying Abite hinc abite longè Get yee hence get yee away a sarre off hee found more joy in one dayes contemplation of Heaven than in all his Imperiall life Then then was his mourning turned into joy and his sacke loosed and hee girded with gladnesse Hee that knew the Psa 30 11. thoughts of the soule of the rich man in hell hee shall see that hee crieth Woe woe to all the wealth honour pompe and glory of the world and had rather bee one day in Paradise than tenne thousand yeeres in this world hee curseth gold house land credit and saith Vae domni lut●ae ob quam perdidi auream in coelis Wo to this house of clay that hath made me lose an house 2 Cor. 5. 1. of gold in Heaven In Saint Lukes Gospell wee doe reade that when some spake of the temple how it was garnished with goodly stones and consecrate things O saith our Saviour are these the things that yee looke upon The dayes will come when a stone shall not bee left upon a Luk. 21. 6. stone So say I O then looke up higher Againe in Heaven is the presence of glory As there is no light but that which is derived from the Sunne so there is no glory but that which is derived from the glory of God that is true everlasting glory As there is no right Balme but in Gilead no right incense but in Sheba so there is no true glory but the Heavenly glory Gloria mundi ut fumus The glory of the world is but

heart is as the kitchin wherein things are prepared for God the vessell is at tilt when dregs and lees wanton and filthy speeches bee drawne from the heart the quiver is empty when never an arrow can bee drawne out never a word that savoureth of goodnes but all our speeches are for our profit or our pleasure wee are men of polluted lippes CHRIST is the fountaine of the water of life and Esa 6. Esa 35. faith in the heart is as the leads or pipes that receive it and hold the water and confession is as the cocke of the conduite Rom. 10. the spowte that lets out the water to all commers Earthly men seldome talke of CHRIST but wee have not so unfruitfully learned CHRIST nor so unhappily given witnesse of his trueth but better things belong to us in better wayes wee will runne our course in a better hope lay downe our bodies Let them talke of the world that make it their portion wee looke for a City whose builder and maker is God Let the Aegyptians talke of their walled The godly talke of God and praise him Cities Nabuchaduezzar of his buildings the foole of his barnes the voluptuous of his hawks and hounds wee will speake of God and our care shall bee to glorify him hee is a God of glory and his is glory to him will wee give glory and honour and thanks for evermore THE ONE AND FORTIETH SERMON VERS XXV To God onely Wise and our Saviour bee Glory Majesty Power and Dominion How Majesty is ascribed to God THere bee six Attributes here in this verse of God Wisedome Salvation Glory Majestie Dominion and Power Wee have handled and heard of three of them that is of his Wisedome Salvation and Glory and I am to speake of the other three Majesty Dominion and Power Majestie is his incomprehensible greatnesse which worketh wonders and bringeth forth most excellent and rare workes to ascribe therefore unto God a power and an incomprehensible might whereby hee doth the workes of wonder is to render majestie to God Hereupon said David Blessed bee the Lord God even the Psal 72. 18 19. God of Israel which onely doth wondrous things and blessed bee his glorious name for ever and let all the earth be filled with his glory so bee it Therefore is David so earnest with the tyrants and great men of the world to give this Majesty to God and addeth often Vno oris halitu that the voyce of the Lord doth all Give unto the Lord O yee mighty give unto the Lord glory and strength give unto Psal 29. 1 2 3 4 10. the Lord glorie due unto his name worship the Lord in his glorious Sanctuary Miracles admired for the the rarenesse The voice of the Lord is upon the Waters The God of glory maketh it to thunder the Lord is upon the great Waters the voice of the Lord is mighty the voice of the Lord is glorious c. The Lord sitteth upon the floud and the Lord doth remaine King for ever Hee repeateth one thing often over for wee passe over all the workes of God without consideration like horse and mule that have no understanding and they are buried in the grave of oblivion Wee Psal 22. will not confesse before the Lord his loving kindnesse and his wonderfull workes before the sonnes of men They that dwell in darknesse and in the shadow of death being bound in miserie Psal 107. 8 10 14 15. and yron hee brought out of darkenesse and shadow of death and brake their bands asunder Let them therefore confesse before the Lord his loving kindnesse and his wonderfull workes before the sonnes of men The like hee saith of the sicke whose soule abhorreth all manner of meate and they are hard at deaths doore and of the mariners which goe downe to the Sea in ships and fee the wonderous workes of God and to all these one and the same conclusion is repeated Let them confesse before the Lord his loving kindnesse and his wonderfull workes before the sonnes of men Wee see many wonders but wee give not God praise in them a wonder lasteth but nine dayes Vilescunt omnia Dei miracu●● all Gods miracles are vile and are not regarded Augustine said God doth not now miracles ob duas causas for two causes First Ne vilescant miracula as I said before Secondly Ne terrena semper Aug. lib. 9. de civitate Dei quaeramus that wee should not alwayes seeke after earthly things it is as great a miracle to governe the World as to feed Iohn 6. five thousand men with five loaves and two Fishes Et tamen illud ownes mirantur hoc nemo yet all men wonder at that none at this Non quia majus sed quia rarum not because it is the greater but because it is rare it is as great a miracle to raise a barley kernel as to raise a dead body out of the grave Vilescit tamen 1 Cor. 15. ob assiduitatē yet this is not respected because of assiduity whereas the other is thought impossible The Israelites saw the light of Aegypt turned into darkenesse the waters into bloud the dust into lyce the bitter waters of March into sweete the Psal 105. Heaven open to give them Manna the rocke open to give them drinke the flint stone turned into a well yet doubted of Gods Psal 78. Majestie in giving them bread The Pharisees saw and perceived the blind to see the deafe to heare the dumbe to speake the lame to walke the dead to live yet blasphemed God The Luke 7. Iewes saw the fiery and cloven tongues yet railed on the Apostles as men not full of the Spirit but full of new wine Wee Act. 2. in England have seene wonders in Heaven as strange starres never seene before blazing Comets at other times and wonders in Anno 16. Eliz. the Sea as fishes at the I le of Tennet two and twenty yards long and wonders in the Earth as trees to remove in Dorset-shire and Hereford-shire yet have wee ascribed to God no Majestie Nay God reveales himselfe six wayes greater wonders than these have we seene for God did restore to us the light of the Gospell in the greatest darkenes of the world hee did unhorse the Pope in the time of King Henry the eighth and increased the light of it as the noone-day in the dayes of Edward the sixth and after it was eclipsed hee restored the light of it in the daies of Queene Elizabeth he hath put down the Northerne tumults hath drowned the Spanish Navy Oh that men would therefore praise the Lord for his goodnesse and declare the wonders that hee doth for the sonnes of men But alas we have eyes but wee see not eares and heare not wee have hearts like mules and understand not wee see no more than beasts wee are as stockes and blockes what folly hath Ier. 5. 21 23. wrapped up all our

sustaineth the souldier but hope of victory and the mariner but hope of arrival and the husband-man but hope of harvest and the prentise but hope of freedome And shall not the hope of eternall life sustaine us Dum spiro spero whilest I breathe I hope this is the poesy of a Christian the hope of salvation we must put it on as a helmet though we sowe in teares we shall reape in joy Paul 1 Thess 5. 8. Psal 126. 5. setting downe the parts of a Christian life to sweeten the actions of it they being hard to flesh bloud propoundeth the blessed hope saying The grace of God that bringeth salvation to all men hath Tit. 2. 11 12 13. appeared and teacheth us to deny ungodlinesse and worldly lusts and that we should live soberly righteously and godly in this present World looking for the blessed hope appearing of the glory of the mighty God and our Saviour Iesus Christ It is a blessed hope a blessed place that we looke for it is mount Garisim not mount Hebal Hee is a blessed God Deut. 27. 1 Tim. 6. 16. Rom. 9. 5. Iohn 16. Mat. 25. Apoc. 21. Deut. 27. Exod. 19. Numb 21. Exod. 10. Gen. 3. cap. 13. Zach. 14. Christ is a blessed Saviour the holy Ghost a blessed Comforter wee are blessed Children Heaven is a blessed Kingdome There is mount Garisim without any curse mount Horeb without any thunder the wildernes of Sinai without any serpent the land of Goshen without any darkenesse a Paradise without any serpent Eden without any weeds Ierusalem without any Canaanite there is day without night Summer without Winter riches without measure fulnesse without hunger pleasure without loathing life without death The faith and love of the Colossians sprang from the hope of Heaven therefore Paul tels them that hee thanked God for them and prayed for them ever since hee heard of their faith in Christ and of Col. 1. 4 5. their love towards the Saints for the hopes sake which is layd up for them in Heaven This stayd Iob in all his extremities when his cattell were stollen his houses blowne downe his children slaine his friends grieved his body wounded his wife alienated from him I am sure saith hee my Redeemer liveth and Iob 19. 25. I hope to finde him my deliverer and Saviour yea the Lord Iesus for the joy that was set before him indured the Crosse God will put a Hebr. 12. 2. difference one day betweene his children and bastards betweene them that say that it is but vaine to serve God and what profit is it that wee have kept his Commandements and that wee walked humbly Mal. 3. 14 15. before Lord of Hoasts and those that feare God the Corne shall bee gathered into the Garner the Chaffe shall bee burnt the Mat. 3. Goats shall bee separated from the Lambes the vessels of Clay shall bee broken Here is a mixture of sonnes and of bastards Ma● 25. of Corne and Chaffe of Goates and Lambes vessels Apoc. 2. of Clay and of Gold but in Heaven shall bee a difference and Body and soule shall be glorified in all parts and powers if that were not wee were the most miserable even Tully would not bee rocked againe in his Cradle Amas vivere quoth Aug. in vita aeterna Doest thou love to live everlastingly Hope with David to see the goodnesse of the 1 Cor. 15. 19. Aug. Lord in the land of the living In this life quoth Bern. erit mira serenitas plena securitas aeterna foelicitas wonderfull serenity full security eternall felicity then the whole man shall bee renewed our soules shall bee fully reformed to the Image of God as touching the two powers thereof From our understanding shall be dispelled all darkenesse and it shall be filled with new light and that of her selfe she shall know God and the will of God without preaching without praying without Sacraments without bookes and writings to instruct her for preaching shall have an end prayer an end Sacraments an end wee shall bee as the Angels of God understanding all things Now we know but in part 1 Cor. 13. 12. but then shall wee know even as wee are knowne Our will also shall want all wicked lusts and shall bee filled with all true Love both towards God and man and this love shall never bee interrupted To conclude all the faculties of the soule shall bee filled with God and with his power so as the soule shall nourish the body without meate drinke sleep because hee shall bee replenished with God and God shall be all in all Erimus cives Coeli socij Angelorum Ephes 2. 3. cohaeredes Christi we shall bee Citizens of Heaven fellowes of Angels coheires with Christ Citizens with Saints and of the houshold of God As touching the body the other part of man it shall also bee glorified nulla illius erit senectus nulla mors nullus morbus nullum peccatum No old age shall molest it nor death nor disease nor sinne our bodies shall be like the glorious body of the Lord Iesus Nemo ibi irascitur nemo invidet nemo laeditur there is no man angry no man envieth no man is any way hurt or harmed No lust doth annoy no divell doth terrify there is a Sunne without setting life without dying labour without wearinesse pleasures without tediousnesse there we shall see God as he is in the sight 1 Iohn 2. 3. Aug. of whom wee shall doe foure things wee shall know wee shall love wee shall rejoyce and wee shall praise wee shall know the secrets of God which is a depth without bottome wee shall love God above all and our neighbour as wee should wee shall rejoyce for in Heaven there is fulnesse of joy and at the right Psal 16. 11. hand of God there is pleasure for evermore and we shall praise God without ceasing For saith David Blessed are they that dwell in thy Psal 84. 1. house they shall alwayes bee praysing of thee there our joy shall be full all joy here is at an ebbe but there is the flood of joy perfection Iob 15. 11. fulnesse of joy Againe here all joy is mixt with paine Health with Sicknes Life with Death Summer with Winter the Spring with the Autumne Libertie with bondage there is all solace no sorrow The joyes of of heaven unspeakable incōprehensible the first sorrow cast out into shame But as touching this eternall Life whereof Saint Iude here speaketh a man may well thinke of it and talke of it but hee Apoc. 21. 4. can never thinke nor talke of it as it is Paul saith The eye hath not seene the eare hath not heard the heart of man cannot conceive the 1 Cor. 2. 9. joyes of this life The eye of man What can it not see How little a sound will the eare heare What great matters can the tongue utter What wonderfull things can