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A16557	The third part from S. Iohn Baptists nativitie to the last holy-day in the whole yeere dedicated vnto the right religious and resolute doctor, Mattheuu Sutcliffe, Deane of Exeter / by Iohn Boys ...	Boys, John, 1571-1625.	1615 (1615)	STC 3463.3; ESTC S728	114,320	152

light of the word shines in the hearts of his elect and it is Gods iustice that it is hidden among those which are lost I am come said Christ vnto iudgement in this world that they which see not might see and that they which see might be made blind And Rom. 11. 8. God hath giuen them the spirit of slumber eyes that they should not see and eares that they should not heare that the Gospell in it selfe a shining light and the power of God vnto saluation should be hidden among the lost and so become the sauour of death vnto death is an heauie yet an holie iudgement For as they regard not to know God euen so God deliuers them vp vnto a reprobate sense suffring their eyes to be blinded least the light of the Gospell should shine vnto them As by the bright beames of the sunne waxe is softned and yet dirt is hardned euen so by the preaching of the word the hearts of such as shall be saued are mollified but the hearts of such as are lost are further hardned To day then euen while it is called to day suffer the words of exhortation if thou haue an eare to heare harden not thine heart but harken vnto Gods voice speaking in the bookes of his Scriptures and by the mouthes of his Prophets vnto thee Other vnderstand this of Satan here called the god as elsewhere the prince of this world that is seculariter viuentium of the wicked of the world in whom he ruleth and worketh as yelding to his suggestions It is not Satans power that makes him a god and a prince but only the weaknesse of the wicked admitting him as a lord of mis-rule for he saith Paul is our master to whom we submit our selues as seruants Christ is the Lord of heauen and earth by a threefold right iure creationis merito redemptionis dono patris but the deuill is god of this world only quoth Aquine imitatione because the wicked of this world are his followers as hauing their vnderstanding darkned and their minds blinded and hearts hardned thorough his entising temptations And so Paul in this present epistle chap. 11. vers 3. I feare least as the serpent beguiled Eue thorough his subtletie so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicitie that is in Christ. The Gospell is a glasse wherein we may behold Christ and Christ is an expresse character and image of God as himselfe said he that hath seene me hath seene my father and this is eternall life to know God and whom he hath sent Iesus Christ Iohn 17. 3. If then thou heare the word often and yet continue still in vnbeleife the fault is not in God or his Gospell but in thy selfe and Sathan who blinds the minds of such as are lost c. We preach not our selues least he should be thought arrogant in commending his sedulous and sincere preaching he confesseth humbly that himselfe and his fellowes were not principall agents in their conuersion but instrumentall only Christ is the Lord and we your seruants for his sake for it is God that commands the light to shine out of darknesse which hath shined in our hearts for to giue the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Iesus Christ. And we haue this treasure in earthen vessels that the excellencie of that power might be of God and not of vs. See epistle 3. Sun in Aduent and 1. in Lent This scripture may be tearmed aptly manipulus Curatorum 1. Instructing all such as haue cure of soules to be diligent in their ministrie considering the worthinesse of their function and the goodnesse of God in making them apt to teach and in calling them vnto such an high office 2. To be rather solide then subtle preaching plainly to the conscience 3. To be humble not as though they were lords ouer Gods heritage but in meeknesse of spirit behauing themselues as seruants for Iesus sake The Gospell MATTH 9. 9. As Iesus passed foorth from thence he saw a man named Matthew c. IN this text 2. points are more cheifly regardable namely the Calling of Matthew wherein obserue the Bountifulnes of Christ in calling hee saw a man named Matthew c. Duetifulnesse of Matthew in comming he arose and followed him Cauilling of the Pharisees and in it Their accusation Why eateth your master with Publicanes and sinners Christs excusation answering for himself by groūds of Reason they that be strong neede not the Phisition Religion goe yee rather learne c. As Iesus passed foorth from thence we may not slightly passe ouer the passing of Iesus here from place to place doing good and acting works of mercie and miracle Craftie polititians thrust themselues into the center of the world as if all times should meet in their ends neuer caring in any tempest what becommeth of the ship of estate so they may be safe in the coc-boat of their owne fortune But Christ here neglecting his priuate boat was all for the publique ship of the Church being not only painfull in his owne person all his life but also carefull in calling apostles who might as cunning masters and pilots guide the Churches ship after his death By this example princes which ought to be nursing fathers vnto the Church are taught not only to see that matters be well ordered for the present but also to foresee such things as may be for the good of the Church in time to come They must especially maintaine the schooles of the prophets as the seminaries and nurseries of the Clergie that there may be from time to time Peters and Matthewes apt and able labourers in the Lords haruest As for you which are men of meane qualitie though it be true that yee can not found Colledges or endue the Church with any large reuenewes yet ye can pray for the peace of Hierusalem and wish hartily that plenteousnesse may be within her pallaces And therefore when any sute concerning the Clergie shall be tried by your verdite forsake not the Leuite as long as thou liuest vpon earth Let no malignant humour cause thee to rob God of his due the Minister of his dutie that the Gospell may not only florish in our dayes but that there may be still a succession of learned men in all ages to come who may comfort Hierusalem at the heart and withstand all her enemies in the gate He saw a man named Matthew sitting at the receit of custome He saw Matthew not as then he saw many moe with his corporall eyes only but also with his all-seeing eyes of prescience knowing that he was a pearle in a dunghil a chosen vessell vnto the Lord from all eternitie And with his pitifull eyes of mercie euen with the verie same eyes he saw the grieuous troubles of his children in Aegypt and with the same eyes

to be the Lord and our selues your seruants for Iesus sake Seeing that we haue such an office Two things especially caused Paul to be diligent in his office 1. The worthines of his Ministry seeing that we haue such an office 2. The goodnes of God in calling him to such an high calling euen as God hath had mercy on vs. The ministration of the Gospell as he shewed in the Chapter before doth excell in grace and glory the ministration of the law In grace for the letter killeth but the spirit giueth life the law being the ministration of condemnation but the Gospell the ministration of righteousnes In glory both in respect of countenance for it is more honorable to be the minister of mercie then executioner of Iudgement and in respect of continuance for Moses glorie is done away but the Gospels ministrie remayneth all Moses glorie was but a type of Christs glorie now the substance being come the shadow vanisheth all the Prophets and the law prophecied vnto Iohn but Truth and grace came by Iesus Christ. As far then as the sunne doth obscure the lesser lights euen so farre the Gospell exceedes in glorie the Law for when that which is perfect is come then that which is imperfect is abolished The second thing that made Paul constantly diligent in his function is Gods mercie shewed on him in his office being an Apostle not of men neither by man but by Iesus Christ put a part to preach the Gospell by the will of God I was saith he 1. Tim. 1. both a blasphemer and a persecutor and an oppressor but Christ receiuing me to mercie put me in his seruice by whose grace I am whatsoeuer I am 1. Cor. 15. 10. wherfore seing we haue such an excellent office so gracious so glorious and seing God hath out of the riches of his mercie not out of any worth of our owne merite called vs vnto such an office we faint not in this our ministrie for any tribulation or trouble whatsouer So Paul expounds himselfe in this present Chapter we are troubled on euery side yet not distressed in pouerty but not in despaire persecuted but not forsaken cast downe but not cast away therefore we faint not for though our outward man perish yet the inward man is renewed daily for our light affliction which is but for a moment causeth vnto vs a far most excellent and an eternall weight of glorie while we looke not on the things which are seene but on the things which are not seene for the things which are seene are temporall but the things which are not seene eternall as if he should say seeing our work is excellent and our reward when we haue fought our fight and ended our course most excellent we slacke not our duetie for any crosse or care but approue our selues as the ministers of God in all things in afflictions in necessities in anguishes in stripes in strifes in labours c. by honour and dishonour by bad report and good report as sorrowing and yet alway reioycing as poore yet making many rich as hauing nothing and yet possessing all things We haue cast from vs the cloakes of vnhonestie For as much as the deuill is the most diligent preacher in the whole world walking about as a roaring lion seeking whom he may deuoure his agents compasse sea and land to make men of their profession our Apostle to his industrie further addeth in his preaching sinceritie we cast from vs the cloakes of vnhonestie c. that is we haue renounced as a father vtterly forsakes a disobedient sonne not onely notorious and open crimes but also those which are hidden and as it were cloathed with cloaks and colours of excuse for so Paul construeth himselfe in the clause following we walke not in craftinesse c. that is we deale not as the false Apostles in hypocrisie comming vnto you in sheeps clothing but inwardly are rauening wolues neither handle we the word deceitfully that is as he said in this epistle before we doe not as many make merchandise of the word We preach not for gaine or glorie for such are hirelings Iohn 10. 12. neither doe we sophisticate the word as they who mingle heauen and earth and ioine the ceremoni●…s of Moses law with the Gospel of Iesus Christ as necessarie to saluation for such are wolues We preach neither flattringly nor falsly but open the truth and commend ourselues to euery mans conscience in the sight of God that is we haue deliuered the word so plainly so purely neither adding any thing to it nor diminishing any thing of it as that our deeds speaking for our doctrine we appeal to the consciences of all such as haue heard vs and to God himselfe who seeth all things and vnderstandeth euery secret of our heart so well as euery word of our mouth euen he that knoweth all things knoweth that I lye not If our Gospell be yet hid it is hid among them that are lost Here Paul preuenteth an obiection if you faint not in opening the truth vnto the consciences of all men how commeth it to passe that many beleeue not your Gospell He doth answere directly that the fault is not in the Gospell it selfe for that is a shining light to such as are in darknesse but in vnbeleeuers whose minds are blinded by the god of this world least the light of the Gospell of the glorie of Christ which is the image of God should shine vnto them That is euery mans god in this world which he likes best and loues most as gold is a couetous mans god and belly cheere a voluptuous mans god and preferment an ambitious mans god And these gods blind the mind of vnbeleeuers that they should not in this world see the light of grace nor in the world to come the light of glorie So we read Luk. 14 when a certaine man had ordeined a great supper and inuited many saying come for all things are readie the first said I haue bought a farme and I must needs go to see it Honor was the god that blinded his eyes Another said I haue bought fiue yoke of oxen and I goe to proue them Riches was the god that blinded his eyes A third said I haue maryed a wife and therefore I cannot come Pleasure was the god that blinded his eyes See Gospell 2. Sun after Trinitie Other vnderstand this of the true God which is the God of this world for that he made it according to that of Dauid The earth is the Lords and all that therein is the compasse of the world and they that dwell therein And God is said to blind the minds of vnbeleeuers Non inducendo malitiam sed merito potius demerito praecedentium peccatorum subtrahendo gratiam It is Gods mercie that the