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A10817	The day of hearing: or, six lectvres vpon the latter part of the thirde chapter of the Epistle to the Hebrewes of the time and meanes that God hath appointed for man to come to the knowledge of his truth, that they may be saved from his wrath. The summary pointes of every one of which lectures are set downe immediately after the Epistle dedicatory. Herevnto is adioyned a sermon against fleshly lusts, & against certaine mischevious May-games which are the fruit thereof. By H.R. Master of Artes, and now, minister of the word.; Day of hearing: or, six lectures upon the latter part of the thirde chapter of the Epistle to the Hebrewes.	Roberts, Huw, b. 1558 or 9.	1600 (1600)	STC 21089; ESTC S102956	70,687	163

taught in diuerse places of holy scriptures to haue a care of our brethren and to instruct them so Paule saith to the Thessalonians exhorte one another and edifie one 1 Thesse 5. 11. another even as ye doe And because he deserueth not the name of a Christian whosoever is ignorant of the ground of faith and religion contained in the sacred scriptures and is not able to edifie another nor to speake as the word of God Therefore the same Apostle writeth to the Romanes I am perswaded of you my brethren that yee also are full of goodnesse and filled with Rom. 15. 14 all knovveledge and are able to admonish one another The doctrine of the holy GHOST delivered by the Apostles as it appeareth in their writings is full of such exhortations as edi●ie one another exhorte one another be fulfilled with the spirite But Satan the enemy of all trueth hath alwaies too many of his side which are against this doctrine yea and in these dai●● some that haue the name to bee preachers I pray God they bee not for Baal whose vo●ce soundeth let not artificers husbandmen and menne vvithout learning busie themselues with holy scriptures and with matters of faith and religion let them not goe aboute to tell other men what they shoulde doe and to admonish other men of their errors tracte●● fabri●●a fabri let them meddle with those things they haue to doe and take no care of other men though they bee in an errour This is the wisedome of the flesh and here we see how contrary it is to the wisedome which is from aboue and teacheth vs to exhort to edifie and to admonish one another what calling vvhat trade of life or vvhat condition soever we be of For God hath alwaies required this duetie of mutuall exhortation of them that professe his name as it is written thou shalt not hate thy brother in Levit 19. 17 thine heart but thou shalt plainly rebuke thy neighbour and suffer him not to sinne For this cause Augustine saith that every Christian hath the August do verb. domini serm 16. keies in his hande to binde and to loose his brother vpon earth for when he giveth him warning and admonition if he heare him he hath won him but if he despise him he hath bound● him because the wordes of exhortation taken out of the doctrine of Christ and his holy scriptures are a favour either to life or to death by whomsoever they bee spoken or delivered For we haue learned that not only the minister of the word but also all Christians without exception are commanded to instruct and exhorte their brethren the greater that every one is in respect of his place or calling the greateri● his charge herein and the more cause hee hath to covet vvith that faithfull servaunt of the LORDE Moses that all the Num. 11. 29. Lordes people vvere Prophetes and that the Lorde woulde put his spirite vppon them that so they might be able to teach one another that none might perish for lacke of knowledge For the Lord complaineth that his people is go●e into captiuitie because they had Isa 5. 13. no knowledge If there be no knowledge there cā be no exhortation then no setting free from the captiuitie of s●nne The time to exhort and likwise to learne is while it is called to day It must not be deferred or put over till to morrow for the scripture saith yee cannot tell what shall be to morrow Iam. 4. 14. By the date in this place is not meant the whole course of our life as some haue taught vpon this text But the daie is taken for the acceptable time of grace in which the wisedome of God vttereth her voice amōg vs inviteth vs to the marriage of the kings son For not withstanding that no time while we liue vpon the earth is to late to amendment of life yet the Gospell of Christ which is the light of the world that teachceth vs faith and repentaunce may bee taken from vs and then it is night and no daie even as it is this day with the Turkes ●he Papistes and all other nations of the earth to whom the Lord hath not giuen the light of his holy worde thought they haue the naturall daie yet haue they not the daie of grace but they walke in the night of ignorāce superstitiō in which they goe out of the waie and perish VVe haue had this day almost this fortye yeares and yet so farre are we from beeing able to exhort one another that the most part of our elder men and women haue not yet learned the meaning of their baptisme oh how lamentably haue these people beene hardned through the deceitfulnesse of sinne And will you stil walke in this feareful darknesse not come into the light of ●he day now let the sunne of right cousnesse shine in your hearts For even this day it is called to day and we know not how long this day wil last but when it is past it will not be redeemed though wee would seeke it with teares Heb. 12 17. as Esau sought the blessing and yet was reiected because the day was past Now that which hardeneth vs is the deceitfulnesse of sinne If sinne were not deceitfull it could not overcome nor prevaile against so many men and all sortes of people and all ages as it doeth It prevaileth against old men which in respect of time ought to be teachers and deceiveth them that notwithstanding they be come to that age that their strength is but labour and sorrow yet wil they not giue over the loue of this world for it is with them as Cicero saith there is none Cicero lib. de s●nectu●e so olde which doeth not thinke himselfe able to liue one yeare And so deferring from yeare to yeare and from day to day the hoare head is childishly deceiued and al his experience cannot draw him out of the snares of sinne It deceyueth youth and middle age and telleth them it is time inough to serue God and to be religiouse when old age shall approch and being deceyued they will not heare veritie which saith remember now thy creator in the dayes of thy youth For when age Eccle. 1. 12. cometh then are the evill dayes and the yeares wherin thou shalt say I haue no pleasure in them Sinne is so cra●tie and deceitfull that it deceyueth euen the wyse and the prudent of this world it is obserued in the little beast Chameleon that it can change it selfe into all coloures that it si●teth vpon except white But there is no colour or ●hew of vertue which sinne cannot chaunge itselfe into For therby it deceyueth and hardeneth all sinners It cometh to the coneteouse man hauing the colour and name of good husbandrie and not of coueteousnes and so hardeneth him It cometh to the drunkard not vnder the ●ame of drunkenes but of good felowshippe and hardeneth him so that

everie word of God ought to be takē for anoth And this phrase of they shall outer doeth aggravate the threatning For here is an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is a concealing of that that would bee vttered after the maner of men when one through indignation or anger or otherwise moved with some passion of the minde vttereth not out his meaning to a full and perfect serce And the meaning of this is if they shall enter into my rest my word is of no force or I am not to be beleeved when I speake Our saviou● Christ mourning for the Pharises because of the hardnesse of their heartes vseth the same phrase of speech in the gospell by Marke saying● verilie I sa●● vnto you if a signe Mar. 8. 12 shall be given to this nation as if he should saie if a figne bee given them there is no truth in me or let me be a deceiver Thus as M. Beza● wri●eth when God sweareth by himselfe he suffereth his truth In Mar. ca. 8. ver 12. and his glory to bee iudged of according to the words which he assirmeth And what doe these things teach vs forsooth they confirme Gods iust iudgementes to overtake them which harden their hearts and obey not his voice that we therby might be taught to feare brought to obedience For to vs is now preached the same Christian verity and religion that the Apostle preached to the Hebrewes in this Epistle Seeing therefore how fearefully the children of Israell were punished for their provoking and disobeying the word which was brought vnto them by the servant of God Moses how great then shall their punishment bee which harden their hearts set light by that word of grace which was brought into the worlde by the sonne of God himselfe surely as one faith we if we harden our heartes shall be Eralmu● so much the more greeuously punished by how much the greater he is that hath vouch safed to speake vnto vs in his owne person Seeing therfore that Christ the mediatour of the newe testament who by his owne testimony is greater then lonas greater then Salomon and greater then all the Prophets that went before him hath vttered his voice vnto vs with his owne mouth and yet the same voice is heard in our eares howe then shall we escape if we neglect so great salutation Lastly the rest mentioned in this scripture The thirde cause why this scrip-ture is a●leadged of the Apostle in this text to the He-brewes doth notably expresse the rest and promise of God set forth in the new testament as a figure most agreeable to the thing figured For the external rest wheronto the children of Israel were to be brought was the land of Canaan The rest of the gospel is the celestiall Ierusalem the citie of the huinge GOD described in the twentieth and one of the Reuelation into the which none vncleane thing shall enter And now as the murmuring Israelites were depriued of entering into the land of Canaan because they beleeued those tenn men which brought avile slander vppon the land and would giue no credite to the other two Caleb and Ioshua which stood for the truth so we if we go after Baals Prophets false teachers and deceiuers which are mo in number then Elyab or Caleb and Ioshua and so follow the multitude and decline from the truth shall be excluded from the rest euerlasting and shall haue our portion with the multitude of Hyppocrites and vnbeleeuers The Papistes that are against vs do bragg of the multitude of people and nations which haue followed the church of Rome and receyued their traditions but this proueth not the truth to be of their side but rather the contrarie For Christ calleth his church a little flocke And he saith that wide Luk. 12. 32. Mat. 7. 13. is the gate and broad is the way that leadesh to destruction So the whole world in the dayes of Noah consented togeither in vngodlinesse confirmed by the custome of many ages but Noah and his familie is all the Gen. 7. 1. slocke that was CHRISTES and that hadde not consented to the vngodlinesse and custome of those evill daies And L●● alone is founde righteous in a whole cittie of wicked people Caleb and Ioshua even Gen. 19. two men are found faithfull and constant in all that greate multitude of Gods owne people which came out of Egipt And in the reuelation the Lord calleth his seruants my two witnesses as yf they were the fewest in Revel 11. 3. number of all other Now here are two wayes set before thee Yf thou wilt go to hell Follow the multitude and thou art neuer out of the way But if thou wil● enter into life follow the example of good men though they be but one or Luke 13. 24. two amoug many thousand for Christ faith to thee striue because the gate is so straight that it is hard and most difficult to enter in there at Yet harden not thine heart neither regard what thy forefathers haue done before thee but regard and obey the Lords voice and walke not after the flesh but after the spirite and thou arte in the way to that gloriouse rest which remayneth to the people of God purchased with the blood of the mediatour of the newe testament to whom be praise in the church throughout all generations for ever The second Lecture vpon the 12. and 13. verses of the fruit of an evill heart of mutuall exhortation and of the deceitfulnesse of sinne 12 Take heede brethren least at any time their be in any of you an evill heart and vnfaithfull to depart away from the living God 13 But exhort one another daily while it is called to day least any of you be hardened through the deceitfulnesse of sinne THese wordes my brethren haue a relation to that scripture which continueth from the seventh v●●se of this chapter to this twelfth verse of the same taken out of the Psalme of David as an excellent sermon of the holy Ghost and so applied by the Apostle to declare as you haue heard that the authority of men and examples of fathers can be no ground nor stay of faith or religion to any man because the best of thē haue erred as al those fathers of the Hebrews who after they had seene the glory of God and were delivered out of Egipt with signes and wonders even the whole company of them two or three men excepted provoked God in he wildernesse and would not beleeue the worde which was preached vnto them VVhere we haue also learned that if Moses the servant of the house and the lawe given by him could not bee despised without punishment for they which obeyed not were deprived of the promised rest and overthrowen in the wildernesse much more shal they bee punished which will not heare the sonne of whom Moses did beare witnesse and whose voice inviteth to a more glorious rest then the earthly rest of the lande of