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A03598	Tvvo sermons vpon part of S. Judes Epistle, by Richard Hooker sometimes Fellow of Corpus Christie College in Oxford	Hooker, Richard, 1553 or 4-1600.; Jackson, Henry, 1586-1662.	1614 (1614)	STC 13723; ESTC S104194	35,221	66

faith to the conservation of the soule For they that fall away from the grace of God and separate themselues vnto perdition they are fleshly and carnall they haue not Gods holy spirit But vnto you because yee are sonnes God hath sent forth the spirit of his sonne into your hearts to the end yee might knowe that Christ hath built you vpon a rocke vnmoueable that he hath registred your names in the booke of life that hee hath bound himselfe in a sure and everlasting covenant to be your God the God of your children after you that hee hath suffered as much groned as oft prayed as heartily for you as for Peter O father keepe them in thy name ô righteous father the world hath not knowne thee but I haue knowne thee and these haue knowne that thou hast sent me I haue declared thy name vnto them and will declare it that the loue wherewith thou hast loued me may be in them and I in them The Lord of his infinite mercy giue vs hearts plentifully fraught with the treasure of this blessed assurance of faith vnto the end 14 Here I must advertise all men that haue the testimonie of Gods holy feare within their breasts to consider how vnkindly and iniuriously our owne countrimen and brethren haue dealt with vs by the space of foure and twentie yeares from time to time as if we were the men of whom S. Iude here speaketh never ceasing to charge vs some with schisme some with heresie some with plaine and manifest apostasie as if we had cleane separated our selues from Christ vtterly forsaken God quite abiured heaven trampled all truth and all religion vnder our feet Against this third sort God himselfe shall pleade our cause in that day when they shall answer vs for these words not we them To others by whom we are accused for schisme and heresie wee haue often made our reasonable and in the sight of God I trust allowable answers For in the way which they call heresie wee worship the God of our fathers beleeuing all things which are written in the law the Prophets That which they call schisme wee knowe to bee our reasonable service vnto God and obedience to his voice which cryeth shrill in our eares Go out of Babylon my people that you be not partakers of her sinnes and that yee receaue not of her plagues And therefore when they rise vp against vs hauing no quarrell but this we need not to seeke any farther for our Apologie then the words of Abiah to Ieroboam his armie 2. Chr. 13. O Ieroboam and Israel heare you me ought you not to knowe that the Lord God of Israel hath giuen the kingdome over Israel to David for ever even to him to his sonnes by a covenant of salt that is to say an everlasting covenant Iesuits Papists heare yee me ought you not to knowe that the Father hath giuen al power vnto the some and hath made him the only head over his Church wherein he dwelleth as an husbādman in the midst of his vineyard manuring it with the sweat of his owne browes not letting it forth to others For as it is in the Canticle Solomon had a vineyard in Baalhamon he gaue the vineyard vnto keepers every one bringing for the fruit thereof a thousand peeces of silver but my vineyard which is mine is before me saith Christ. It is true this is meant of the mysticall head set over the body which is not seene butas he hath reserved the mysticall administratiō of the church invisible vnto himselfe so hee hath committed the mysticall government of cōgregations visible to the sonnes of David by the same couenant whose sonnes they are in the governing of the flock of Christ whōsoever the holy ghost hath set over thē to goe before them to leade them in their seuerall pastures one in this cōgregation another in that as it is written Take heede vnto your selues and to all the flocke whereof the holy ghost hath made you over seers to feed the church of God which hee hath purchased with his owne blood Neither will ever any Pope or Papist vnder the cope of heaven bee able to proue the Romish Bishops vsurped supremacy over all Churches by any one word of the covenant of salt which is the Scripture For the children in our streets doe now laugh them to scome when they force thou art Peter to this purpose The Pope hath no more reason to draw the charter of his vniversall authoritie from hence then the rethren had to gather by the wordes of Christ in the last of S. Iohn that the Disciple whome Iesus I ued should never die If I will that he tarry till I come what is that to thee saith Christ Straight waies a report was raysed amongst the brethren that this disciple should not die yet Iesus said not to him Hee shall not die but if I will that he tarry till I come what is that to thee Christ hath said in the 16 of S. Matthewes Gospell to Simon the sonne of Ionas I say to thee thou art Peter Hence an opinion is held in the world that the Pope is vniversall head of all Churches yet Iesus said not the Pope is vniversall head of all Churches but Tues Petrus Thou art Peter Howbeit as Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat the servant of Solomon rose vp and rebelled against his Lord and there were gathered vnto him vaine men and wicked which made themselues strong against Ieroboam the sonne of Solemon because Roboam was but a child and tender hearted and could not resist them so the sonne of perdition and man of sinne being not able to brooke the words of our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ which forbad his disciples to be leke princes of nations They beare rule and are called gracious it shall not bee so with you hath risen vp and rebelled against his Lord to strengthen his arme he hath crept into the houses almost of all the noblest families round about him and taken their children from the cradle to be his Cardinals he hath fawned vpon the kings and princes of the earth by spirituall coufenage hath made them sell their lawfull authoritie and iurisdiction for titles of Catholicus Christianissimus Defensor fidei and such like he hath proclaimed sale of pardons to inveigle the ignorant built seminaries to allure young men desirous of learning erected Stewes to gather the dissolute vnto him This is the rocke wherevpon his Church is built Hereby the man is growne huge and strong like the Cedars which are not shaken with the wind because Princes haue beene as children over tender hearted and could not resist Hereby it is come to passe as you see this day that the man of sinne doth warre against vs not by men of a language which we cannot vnderstande but he commeth as Ieroboam against Iuda bringeth the fruit of our owne bodies to eat vs

and conversation walkers after their owne vngodly lusts S. Peter in his second epistle and 3. chapter soundeth the very depth of their impiety shewing first how they shall not shame at the length to professe themselues prophane and irreligious by flat denying the gospell of Iesus Christ and deriding the sweet and comfortable promises of his appearing secondly that they shall not be only deriders of all religion but also disputers against God vsing truth to subvert the truth yea scriptures themselues to disproue scriptures Being in this sort mockers they must needs be also followers of their owne vngodly lusts Being Atheists in perswasion can they choose but be beasts in conversatiō For why remoue they quite from them the feare God Why take they such paines to abandon and put out from their harts all sense all tast all feeling of religion but only to this end and purpose that they may without inward remorse and grudging of conscience giue over themselues to all vncleanenes Surely the state of these mē is more lamentable then is the condition of Pagans and Turkes For at the bare beholding of heaven and earth the infidels heart by and by doth giue him that there is an eternal infinite immortal and everliving God whose hands haue fashioned and framed the world hee knoweth that every house is builded of some man though he see not the man which built the house and he considereth that it must be God which hath built and created all things although because the number of his daies be few he could not see whē God disposed his workes of old when he caused the light of his clowds first to shine when he laid the corner stone of the earth and swadled it with bands of water and darknes when he caused the morning star to know his place made barres and doores to shut vp the sea within his house saying hitherto shalt thou come but no farther he hath no eie switnesse of these things Yet the light of natural reason hath put this wisdome in his reines and hath given his heart thus much vnderstanding Bring a pagan to the schooles of the prophets of God prophecie to an infidell rebuke him lay the iudgements of God before him make the secret sinnes of his heart manifest and he shall fall downe and worship God They that crucified the Lord of glory were not so far past recovery but that the preaching of the Apostles was able to moue their hearts and to bring them to this Men brethren what shall we doe Agrippa that sate in iudgement against Paule for preaching yeelded notwithstanding thus farre vnto him almost thou perswadest me to become a Christian. Although the Iewes for want of knowledge haue not submitted themselues to the righteousnesse of God yet I beare them record saith the Apostle that they haue a zeale The Athenians a people hauing neither zeale nor knowledge yet of them also the same Apostle beareth witnesse yee men of Athens I perceaue yee are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 some way religious But mockers walking after their owne vngodly lusts t●ey haue smothered every sparke of that heavenly light they haue stiflled even their very naturall vnderstanding O Lord thy mercy is over al thy workes thou savest man and beast yet a happy case it had beene for these men if they had never beene borne and so I leaue them 10 St Iude hauing his mind exercised in the doctrine of the Apostles of Iesus Christ concerning things to come in the last time became a man of a wise and staid iudgement Grieued hee was to see the departure of many and their falling away from the faith which before they did professe grieved but not dismayed With the simpler and weaker sort it was otherwise Their countenance began by and by to change they were halfe in doubt they had deceiued themselues in giuing credit to the Gospell of Iesus Christ. St Iude to comfort refresh these silly lambs taketh them vp in his armes and sheweth them the men at whom they were offended Look vpon them that forsake this blessed professiō wherein you stand They are now before your eyes view them marke them are they not carnall are they not like to noysome carrion cast out vpon the earth is there that spirit in them which cryeth Abba father in your bosomes Why should any man be discomforted haue you not heard that there should be mockers in the last time These verily are they that now doe seperate themselues 11 For your better vnderstanding what this severing and separating of themselues doth meane we must knowe that the multitude of them which truly beleeue howsoever they be dispersed farre and wide each from other is all one body whereof the head is Christ one building whereof he is the corner stone in whom they as the mēbers of the body being knit as the stones of the building being coupled grow vp to a man of perfect stature and rise to an holy tēple in the Lord. That which linketh Christ to vs is his meere mercy and loue towards vs. That which tieth vs to him is our faith in the promised salvation revealed in the word of truth That which vniteth and ioyneth vs amongst our selues in such sort that wee are now as if we had but one heart and one soule is our loue Who be inwardly in heart the liuely members of this body and the polished stones of this building coupled and ioined to Christ as flesh of his flesh and bones of his bones by the mutuall bond of his vnspeakable loue towards them their vnfained faith in him thus linked and fastned each to other by a spirituall sincere and hartie affection of loue without any manner of simulation who be Iewes within and what their names be none can tell saue he whose eies doe behold the secret disposition of all mens hearts We whose eies are too dimme to behold the inward man must leaue the secret iudgement of every servant to his owne Lord accounting and vsing all men as brethren both neere and deare vnto vs supposing Christ to loue them tenderly so as they keep the profession of the Gospell and ioyne in the outward communion of Saints Whereof the one doth warrantize vnto vs their faith the other their loue till they fall away and forsake either the one or the other or both and then it is no iniurie to tearme them as they are When they separate themselues they are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not iudged by vs but by their owne doings Men do separate thēselues either by heresie schisme or apostasie If they loose the bond of faith which then they are iustly supposed to doe when they frowardly oppugne any principall point of Christian doctrine this is to separate themselues by Heresie If they breake the bond of vnitie whereby the body of the Church is coupled and knit in one as they doe which willfully forsake al externall communion with Saints in holy