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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13407	A godly, zealous and learned sermon vpon the 18. 19. 20. 21. verses of the 10. chap. to the Romaines. Wherein is set foorth vnto vs the greate mercy of God in the calling of the Gentiles, and his iust iudgement in the reiecting of the vnbeleeuing Iewes, & vs also, if vve vvith like obstinancie contemne his profered mercies. By Frauncis Tayler preacher of Gods word.	Tayler, Francis, preacher.	1583 (1583)	STC 23719; ESTC S100546	17,263	46

it be but fleshly for all the wisdome in the worlde if it bee separate from the knowledge of god in Christe Iesus it is but foolishnes as Paule doth affirme 1. Cor. 3.19 Sapi. 9.6 And though a man be neuer so perfect saith Salomon among the children of men yet if the wisdome of God be not with him he shal not be regarded Thirdly of the gentiles it is said by Esay that they sought not after god c. They knew there was a God and in their wisedome they were very diligent to seek out that knowledge of that God but they sought him not as they ought they sought him not in his word where only he was to be foūd and therfore it is said they sought him not and in deede whosoeuer will seek the true knowledge of God any other where then in his worde it is but labour lost and therfore it is a necessary lesson which Christe doth giue to his aduersaries and to vs all Search the scriptures Iohn 5.39 for in thē ye thinke to haue eternall life these are they whiche testifie of me These things I passe ouer lightly as not directly pertaining to the Apostles purpose and yet I touch thē because they lye in my way and hereafter I shall apply them And vnto Israel hee saith All the day long haue I stretched foorth my hand c. ver 21. Of the gentiles hee hath saide they were not worthie the name of a people they were foolishe and they sought not God Now for Israel he saith That God hath stretched foorth his hande vnto them all the day long c. When hee sayth God stretched foorth his hand he doth set foorth the great care that God had to bryng them to saluation whē he saith all the day long hee doth tell vs howe great diligence God did vse to bring this to passe And when hee saith that Israel was a disobedient and a gaine saying people hee wyll set before vs the great negligence and backewardnesse whiche was in them Nowe drawe all these together and make one doctrine of them all it is thus The negligence and dulnesse of man in well doing is great But such is the mercie of GOD towards man and so careful and diligent is God for man that all the day he doeth stretche foorth his hande that is continually his mercy doeth stryue and wrastle with our backewardnesse if it bee possible to ouercome it As we see in Adā in Cain and in many others who when they were fallen from God they sought not to God to bee reconciled againe but God sought vnto them yea and when they hyd themselues yet God found them out But aboue the rest it is notable to this purpose that is written in the 19. of Genesis where it is said that the angell doth charge Lot and his familie to depart speedily out of Sodom Gen. 19.16 and yet they lingered and the text saith That as they prolonged the time the men caught both him and his wife and his two daughters by the handes the Lord being mercifull vnto him and he brought him forth and set him without the Citie See here the backwardnesse of mans nature in Lot but chiefly beholde the forwardnes that is in god to striue and wrastle with man that by his mercie hee may ouercome mans wickednes So heere the Iewes are fallen from god they are rebellious and vnbeleeuing and yet God doth still offer thē saluation he stretcheth foorth his hand vnto them hee continueth his mercie he doth it all the day lōg Nowe of all this that the Apostle heere setteth downe both of the vntowardnes of the Gentiles backwardnes of that Iewes let vs conclude with that which the Apostle doth heere driue vnto which is the iustice of God in reiecting the Iewes the mercy of God in calling the Gentiles that doth appeare thus The Gentiles are no nation or not Gods nation a foolishe people and such a people as seek not after God and yet they are saued by gods mercie To the Iewes God doth streth out his hand and offer saluation still and yet they continue vnfaithfull disobedient and so are cast of by Gods iustice So then that which we haue here to conclude which Paule would haue the Church of Rome to learne of all this that hee saieth of the Iewes and gentiles is but this that the gentiles were called to bee partakers of gods graces not of their merite but of gods meere mercie and therefore all the prayse and glory of their saluation is to be giuen to God alone and nothing to them selues the reiecting of the Iewes is of gods iustice for their owne wickednesse And therefore all the blame of that to bee laide vpon themselues and nothing at all vpon God If I coulde or might make of this a generall doctrine it would teach vs all thus much that the saluation of all Gods people is of Gods only mercy without any deseruing of man and that the condemnation of all the wicked is of theyr owne desart onely without any faulte in God according to that which God sayth by the Prophet Hose 13.9 Thy destruction O Israel is thine owne but thy saluation is of me alone Thus then we see that Israel dyd heare that is had the worde and yet they were iustly reiected of God because they heard not with fruite but contemned the worde and where they thinke they can alledge for themselues that they were profitable hearers because it is said the knew God Paule saith that some of them knew God and they were not cast off but the most part knew not were reiected and for the saluation of the gentiles and whosoeuer els is saued it is of Gods mercy without mans deseruing as also the condemnation of the wicked is of gods iustice through mans wickednes without any vniustice or fault in God God for his sonne Iesus Christes sake continue amongst vs the vse of his worde make vs not idle hearers but profitable doers of the same giue vs faith and eternall saluation in the death and merites of Christe Iesus the sonne of God To whom with God the father and God the holy ghoste bee all honour glory prayse and dominion for euer more Amen ¶ Imprinted at London at the three Cranes in the Vintree by Thomas Dawson for Thomas Wodcock 1583.