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A20270	A lecture or exposition vpon a part of the. v. chapter of the epistle to the Hebrues As it was read in Paules the. 6. day of December. 1572. By Edward Deryng. Prepared and geuen for a new yeres gift to the godly in London and els where, for this yeare. 1573.	Dering, Edward, 1540?-1576.	1573 (1573)	STC 6691; ESTC S110854	21,886	68

¶ A Lecture or Exposition vpon a part of the. v. chapter of the Epistle to the Hebrues As it was read in Paules the. 6. day of December 1572. By Edward Deryng ¶ Prepared and geuen for a New yeres gift to the godly in London and els where for this yeare 1573. ¶ Imprynted at London by Iohn Awdely ¶ To his very louing friend Mayster M. F. THe outwarde afflictions and manyfolde troubles of a great number of Gods Chyldren whose trauaile and labour from day to day I had styll in experience and the inward feeling of many wounded spirites whose wofull sighes and bitter mourninges I beheld in other and had tryed in my selfe it made me verye desirous to seeke for remedies to stop the complaints of so grecuous cryings and to prepare our hartes in a strong defence that the firye dartes of the Deuyl might not wound vs Upon this occasion when I had to expounde that place of the Apostle full of notable comfort That Christ in the dayes of his fleshe offered vp prayers and supplications to hym that was able to saue him from death with strong cryinges and wyth teares and was delyuered from the thynges he feared I taryed the longer in that matter and declared more at large what great boldnes and assurance of hope was offered here vnto al that should obey the word Which when I had done as God gaue me vtterance the poore in spirite to whom I applyed my selfe one or two required me to set it downe in wryting that it might be profitable to many which was comfortable to them I durst not reiect such a good request but though some tyme I differred it yet I neuer forgot it tyll I had written all as I was required Which when I had done I purposed then with my selfe to make it yet more common and set it abroade in print Knowing assuredly wher God would geue it encrease it shoulde bring foorth the fruite of consolation that we myght stand vpryght in the day of euyll Thus hauing perfourmed both the request of other and myne own desire and the tyme fallyng out with the begynning of a newe yeare I thought it not amysse to offer my labour vnto you who I know well would accept it as a New yeres gyft though of no great price yet of great good wyll and though easely obtayned yet not litle to be esteemed And therefore my deare brother whom I loue in Christ and reuerence in the world as many wayes I haue cause so I offer it vnto you The Lorde for his mercies sake worke his own good pleasure that I may haue of you the fruite that I desire and you the grace that you stand in neede of that as God hath greatly blessed you and made you abound in many graces to the glory of his name the comfort of your friendes and the benefite of his people so your ioye that it myght be made perfect you might also abound in this to haue a strong fayth against the day of tryall Which God of hys mercye wyll surely graunt vnto you and finishe the good woorke that he hath begone Though I loue not to speake faire for feare of slatterie ▪ and deceitfull prayses I see what mischiefe they breede yet I feare not to beare you wytnes of your well doing the spirite of God hath planted humilitie more deepe in your brest then that pride and arrogancie can pul it out And in deede the better you are the more effectually you do see your own vnworthynes that all your righteousnes is as a defiled cloth and the more you approch vnto God the more you abhorre your selfe and know that in your flesh ther dwelleth no goodnes Abraham our father Iob Esay and many other ▪ men of excellent vertue in the syght of God they haue bene all astonished to see how their righteousnes hath bene scattered awaye as the cloudes of the heauens Paule cryeth out O wretched man that I am who shall deliuer me frō this body of death But because we haue an enemie that spareth not to display all our corruptions before our eyes to the ende hee myght make vs dispaire therefore we may be bold to the strengthening of our hope to set before vs againe the spirituall graces that woorke within vs to assure our selues that we be borne of god So our Sauiour Christ praysed many that beleued on hym so dyd hys Apostels so maye we And our heauenly father wyll ratefie and confirme our wordes when we speake the truth according to the measure of faith that euerye one hath receaued So S. Iohn byddeth vs all be bold and not be deceaued He that doth the thinges that are righteous him selfe is righteous and lyke vnto Christ in whom he is sanctified So may I say vnto you the grace of God hath wrought happely in you in these yeares and condition of lyfe that so vnfaynedly you haue sought the lord It can not be of your selfe who are not able so much as to think a good thought but it is of him whose seede abideth in you And although because you haue that treasure in a brittell vessell you see sometime the fruite of olde ●dam and the prickes of his transgression within your bowels yet feare not hys malice that hath wrought this wo. You are bought with dearer price then that syn may raygne againe within you and he that hath purchased you hee wyll not so suffer hys enheritaunce to bee spoyled It is necessary you should know your synne or you could not vnderstande how great were your redemption But your synnes cannot seperate you away from hym who hath buried them in the earth and wyll not see them anye more When you shall ascend to come into hys sight the earth wyll holde her own and keepe your synnes behynde you The pearcing Serpent shall not clyme to accuse you nor the crooked Serpent shall hyde your redemption from you Your care is cast vppon hym that careth for you you know hym who hath spoken All power is geuen vnto me in heauen and in earth You know hym who hath a name aboue all names that in the name of Iesus all knees shall bowe Euen hee hath bought you wyth a price and you are not your own If it be possible for you to perish then is it possible agayne that Christ shoulde suffer iniurie This boldnes you haue through hym who hath made manifest his grace vnto you that you denying impietie and worldly concupiscence should lyue soberlye purelye and godlye in this present lyfe and looke for the blessed hope that shal be reuealed when all secretes shall bee opened To whych issue and happye ende of lyfe the Lorde bryng both you and yours in the felowship of hys Sayntes to prayse hys holy name when he shal make vnto you hys glory vnspeakeable and crowne it wyth immortalitie AMEN Fare well in Christ Iesu and pray for me The. 26. of Decēber 1572. Yours in the Lord to commaunde Ed. De. ❧ An exposition of a part

things to come nor height nor deapth nor anye other euent are shal be able to seperate vs from the loue of God which is in Christ Iesus our lord Yea greater boldnes then this if it be possible to dwel within vs the Apostle here hath offered it in Christ iesu If all the syns were vpon hym and all sorowes in his flesh and yet frō them al God hath heard his praiers why should we not be sure that our syns sorowes they shall be done away Why shuld we not be sure that God him self hath appointed vnto al that mourne in Syon as the Prophet saith to geue vnto them beutye for ashes the oyle of ioy for mournyng the garment of gladnes for the spirite of heauynes Let vs therefore be bold dearely beloued for he was wounded for our transgressions broken for our iniquities the chasticement of our peace was vpō him These prayers are ours these supplications for vs auailable for moe synnes then we are able to commit This is our victory that shall ouercome the world euen our fayth In all miseries and multitudes of woe we are not sonken so deepe in sorow as he that for our sakes made prayers and supplications wyth strong cryinges and with teares and was delyuered from his feare The seconde poynt that we haue here to learn in this example of our Sauiour Christ is to knowe vnto whom we should make our prayers in the day of trouble which the Apostle testifieth in these words that Christ made his prayers vnto hym that was able to saue him frō death A rule to be kept of vs in all maner of our peticions and supplications whatsoeuer to make them knowen vnto him that can graūt our request that is vnto god Thys rule was kept of the Church of God from the begynning When men were once turned from their Idoles then in all their prayers they began to call vpon the name of the lord And God him self at no time doth more sharplye reproue hys people then when they woulde aske of those that had no power to helpe them This lesson that poore Leaper so defiled in flesh had yet humblye learned and wyth a pure hart hee prayed accordingly Lord if thou wylt thou cāst make me whole Vpon thys foundation our sauiour Christ hath built vp all the prayers of his true Disciples adding it as a special clause vnto the prayer that he taught them For thine is the kingdome the power and the glorye for euer and euer Amen Then let vs learne so manye as wyl pray in spirit to make our praiers vnto hym alone who is able to saue vs It is the sacrifice of the new Testament that he hath appoynted vs that we should offer vp vnto him and not vnto other the fruit of our lyps which may confesse his name And because this doctrine hath ben troden downe vnder feete and defited by the man of syn wyth all spiritual vncleanes I beseche you adde vnto this one reason or two more that you may answer the aduersary be able to stand in the day of euill When our sauiour Christ was purposed to teache his Disciples a true forme of prayer a perfect paterne vnto which they must frame their peticions or it is vnpossible they shuld be accepted he teacheth them that their begynning must be frō hence Our Father whych art in heauen What blessyng so euer wee woulde haue or from what plague so euer we would bee delyuered hee alone must be the person of whō we craue to whom thys name callyng doth belong Our Father whych art in heauen If thys name bee none of his hee is no Patrone to bee called on or if we wyll needes call vpon him we geue hym thys name whether it bee his or no. Christ is our good warrant who hath made this the beginning of al christian praier Our Father whych art in heauen Therfore the Idolaters of all ages that haue made thē selues Saintes to pray vnto according to the number of their prayers so they haue multiplied their Idoles the Chyldren of God to whom they haue sacrificed they shall wytnes agaynst them in the day of christ And you my deare brethren agaynst all your enemies defend thus the holynes of your praier that you know no other waye of speakyng then as you are taught Our Father Adde yet vnto this one reason more which you learne of S. Paul and I doubt not but you shall be well established in this present truth We know al and do confesse that we are able to doo no good thing of our selues but all our sufficiencie is of God we are not able so much as to thinke a good thought Yea the very wisedome of the flesh is enmitie vnto all ryghteousnes so true it is that the Prophet sayth Euerye man is a beast in his own vnderstāding And how much lesse then are wee able to offer vp vnto God that most precious sacrifice of praier and thankes geuyng to make it acceptable in his sight if we consult with our own flesh and bloud after the wyl of man so make our praiers vnto God We must needes acknowledge our own infirmities and confesse with S. Paule that we knowe not what to praye as we ought but it is the spirite of God that maketh request for the Saintes accordyng to the wyl of God and in thys holy spirit alone we must pray if we loke for the mercy of our Lord Iesu Christ to eternall life The spirit that beareth rule in our hart he must teache vs althinges or els we can doo nothing that God aloweth Now the voyce of this spirite that alwayes soundeth within vs it speaketh not thus either Sancta Maria or Sancta dei genitrix neyther S. Paule praye for vs nor S. Peter pray for vs These are but the spicinges of the dronken cups of Rome the soūdes of words which the spirites of errours haue blowen But the holy spirit of God that teacheth vs how to pray it crieth thus in our hartes Abba Pater Our Father whych art in heauen As Christ hym selfe hath beene our scoolemaister of no other prayer so the spirite that he hath geuen vs it knoweth no other sound but Abba Father these are the beginninges of our praiers If we speake not vnto hym to whom doo wee bow our knees If we wyll make the spirite subiect to any other let vs take hede that we greue not the holy spirite of God by which we be sealed agaynst the day of redemption Thus much I haue added to the example of our sauiour Christ who made his prayers to his Father who alone could deliuer him that he might the more assuredly be bold to abide in his steps It followeth in the text with great cryinges and wyth teares Here we haue to note in what measure our sauiour Christ was afflicted euē so far that he cried out in this bitternes of hys soule This the Euangelistes do expresse in moe woordes testifiyng