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Verba dierum, or, The dayes report of Gods glory As it hath beene delivered some yeeres since, at foure sermons, or lectures vpon one text, in the famous University of Oxford; and since that time somewhat augmented; and is now commended vnto all times to be augmented and amended. By Edward Evans, priest and minister of the Lord our God.
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Evans, Edward, b. 1573.
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Tongue the Speech as is most approued that first was in the world and in the which Gods Word was written in the midst not only of that Babels Confusion nor only of the Aegyptiacall Affliction of the Hebrewes but also of that after Confusion Mixture of the Language of the Hebrews in their Idolatrous Familiaritie Commerce with the Assyrians and in their Babylonish and Chaldeish Captiuities It appearing thereby and One Day telling another That not only The Word of the Lord endureth foreuer but also that Speech and Language in which The Worde of the Lord Spake or was Deliuered is so farre forth kept inviolable to the End of the world One Day telleth a Word or Speech vnto another Hereout issueth now farther into our discourse and consideration Extraordinarie Miraculous Speech whereby GOD for the farther Ordination of his praise hath afforded vnto men most wonderfull Instructions That so they with whom the Word of GOD spoken by the Ordinarie Admirable Speech and Language of Men of the World will not prevaile yet by the vttering of it by Extraordinarie and Miraculous Speech aboue the Speech of Men or the Personous Personated Speech of the World may bee enforced to the Ever Hallowing of his Name Hence was the Guift of Speaking Diverse Languages so miraculoussy bestowed on the Apostles Act. 2. for the Promulgation of the Glorious Gospell of Iesus Christ and of the wonderfull Workes of GOD. To which as to a most strangely vouchsafed meanes we that are partakers of the Gospell and of the Spirit of Grace owe no lesse then that Participation and therefore owe the giuing of Great Glory vnto God in that behalfe In respect whereof One Day doth so tell the Glory of GOD vnto another That diverse induced also by that Rom. 10. 18. Where the 4th verse of this Psalme is alleaged haue by the Dayes here in my Text vnderstood Christ and his Apostles Christ Telling his Apostles as formerly ye heard or else Christs Twelue Apostles who like vnto the Twelue Houres of the Day by that Light that he the Brightest Sunne infused into them especially by the Effusion of His Holy Spirit and conferring the Guift of Diverse Languages vpon them Preached The Knowledge of Saluation to people of All Tongues and Languages And here wee may note their vnthankfulnesse and rash iudgement who contrary to the Rule of the Apostle 1. Cor. 14. 39. dislike and forbid Speaking with Tongues so farre forth as that one Word or Sentence in the Church in another Tongue then theirs although with Interpretation annexed doth offend them They being of like Superstition for their owne Tongue as others are and haue beene for the Hebrew Greeke and Latine And they who before could not be suffered to haue any Service in their owne Tongue now not willingly suffering any one Word in Sermon or Bible to be out of their owne Tongue When as the retaining of some Words in another Language especially by common vse and Explication vnderstood maketh much for A dification and for the Glorious Building of Gods Praise For to omit many other reasons those Wordes yea or Sentences are they not like vnto the Reserved Manna a Signe and Memoriall vnto vs that Beleeue of Gods Good Will towards vs in that he hath made choice of vs also to call vs to the knowledge of the Truth by meanes of Diuerse Tongues Vnderstood and Interpreted in that from former Darknesse he hath brought vs to such plentie of Light in him and hath by the Report of his Glory so richly and Superabundantly furnished vs with Knowledge in our own Tongue That we haue now somewhat to spare from our owne necessarie vses to lay vp in his Glorious Golden pot in Signe of Thankfulnesse Like as doth our Mother Vniversitie whose Latin seemeth now to bee turned into Gold Gold of GODs Glory whilst in the time of the Spirituall Vintage of Good-Wine it doth of late make Latine Hymnes of GODs Glory to be the Prefixes of the Latine Sermons of His Glory Wherein among other commēdable ensignements appeareth a Signe of Thankfulnes vnto GOD. Without which it is to be feared least GOD returne vs among others That Signe of his displeasure To speake vnto vs with men of other Tongues and with other Lips and that the rather because of our Iudaizing that is our Obstinacie our Vnbeleefe and Disobedience in regard of The Report of GODs Glory which Every Day bringeth vnto vs both in our Owne other Languages In so much that still it may bee said of all in generall They haue not all Obeyed the Gospell and Lord who hath beleeued our Report Yea When the Sonne of Man commeth shall he finde Faith on Earth notwithstanding so many wayes of speaking and so many kindes of Tongues and Languages by the Hearing and vnderstanding of which in all their variety variety Extraordinary and Miraculous GOD hath laboured to make Men to Beleeue For hence it is too that GOD hath divers times spoken vnto Men by Angels Angels And would no other serue the turne Would not all the Speach and Languages spoken by all the People of the Earth and manie of them Priests and Prophets too suffice Is man so bad a Scholler so dull of Hearing and of vnderstanding Then hath he so much the more to answere for if nether the Speach of Angels may make the word of God to fructifie within him For the word of God Spokē by Angels was stedfast and every Transgression and Disobedience received a iust recompence of reward And If so saith the Apostle How shall we escape if we Neglect so great Salvatiō which at the first begā to be Spoken by the Lord c And chap. 1. ver 2. God hath in these last Dayes Spokē vnto vs by his Sonne c his Sonne Heire whose speach of all others we should Reverence Here is the Speach of one that is Greater then the Angels And will you heare the Speach of those that are Lesser thē the Angels All shewing forth the powerfulnesse of his Speach that is the Greatest and conferring a still Apposite Apposition to his Glory One Day telleth another For that God hath sometimes made the Dumbe to speake and taught an Infant in an Instant to Speake wisely And whē not to speak of All the Dumb that Christ endowed with Speach he made the Children to Cry in the Temple Hosanna to the Sonne of David Mat. 21. 15. To which Christ him selfe vers 16. applyeth that of the 8. Psalme Out of the Mouth of Infants or Babes and Sucklings hast thou Prepared Ordeined Fitted Fitly composed and according to the Hebrew Founded thy praise A weake Foūdation to build vpon especially Such a worke of Such a Founder The Foundation being sometimes no better then a Babell or Confusion But so did he sometimes out of a lesse matter by as much as Nothing is lesse then Any Thing make All Things
Time of our Redemption By and through a Word vnspeakeable O how we Loose the Day and truely doe the Truants play When nothing we assay as Treasure Trovants of That Day Which to Kings Treasuredue of Heavēs Prayses may accrue Whilst Day is still in view whē Word did Happy Dayes renue Such Word of Such a King Word King Word God Such Being King End and Beginning of Words Works Worlds and Ev'ry thing O might Liues Thankefull Ryme in Deede to vs Redeeme the Time Lost by Vnthankefull crime In Words For Words Redeeming Time O word of our Redemptiō ô Omer our true Rome and Strength of our Redemption ô our Redeeming Homer too And therefore our true Divine Homer too most worthy of so high an Aspiration most worthy of the Attribution of Divine Titles and of the Immortal and Heavenly Nature Which if by a profuse Hyperbole to make the best of it they haue beene ascribed that by some Christians too to Homer of the Infidels to the Almost Adoring of him Thē much easier I hope it will be to perswade all men to ascribe and that without any Hyperbole to this Christ-Homer of vs Christians True Divinity the Divine and Heavenly Nature perfect Deity and Equality with God and so to proceede from Almost to Altogether worshipping of Him This also is enforced by vertue of his being as every Day exceedingly vnto Gods glory Reporteth of him the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 word of God the word of his Mind the word of his Counsell the word of his Wisdome and Intelligence For saith the Apostle What man knoweth the things of a Man saue the spirit of man which is in him Even so the things of God knovveth no Man but he that is of the same Nature with God No not Those Deepe things of God which are Revealed vnto vs are Searched or Reuealed but by the Spirit of God much less are All things yea Those Deepe Things of God which are Concealed frō vs and Vnsearchable and the Inward Essentiall Things of God much lesse I say are they Searched but by GOD who knoweth thē without Searching Who knoweth the Mind of God but Himselfe Who hath beene his Counseller or Man of his Counsell but Himselfe Who of His Knovvledge and Wisedome but Himselfe In a word who is in the Bosome of the Father as S. Iohn speaketh but such a one His Sonne as is of the Same Nature with Himselfe Moreover Saint Iohn saith plainely and without Trope or Figure that That word was God God And what more can be said to shew the excellencie of this word Word And what lesse then is a word to bee a God And therefore he must needs be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the word or that word a word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in an eminent sort Whose Glorious Eminencie as it is at once deciphered by S. Iohn Ioh. 1. 14. When he saith we saw the Glory thereof as the Glory of the only begotten Sonne of the Father so also shal it be shewed in all that followeth Whilest we shal farther declare how by this word or Sonne of God we are brought to the rightest knowledge of God and that in him is Gods Glory most resplendent Isai 9. 6. He is called Counseller As who only is pri vie to Gods Counsell and can best Counsell vs in things concerning GOD. He is as yee haue heard our right Hermes and our Homer too To whom both Princes and Peoples Muses should bee addicted and affixed Whose Healing Leaues and words of wisedome ought still to lie in and vnderneath our heads On whom our best way and Method is ever to relie and set vp our Rest for Knowledge and for Learning On whose Supportation if we recline our dull and heavy heads as S. Iohn did when he lay and leaned on his Breast we shall both take Sweete and Safe and Satisfying Rest and also take Best Counsell of our Pillow For that is our true Sibylla too out of whose Words and Works we are best instructed in the whole Will of God In as much as GOD himselfe is best able to Declare his owne minde vnto vs. The Poet Claudian de laude Christi speaking of the comming of Christ maketh this to be the End thereof Vt possis monstrare Deum ne lubricus error Et decepta diu varij solertia Mundi Pectora tam multis sinerent mortalia seclis Autorem nescire suum That men might rightly know God their maker Which knowledge of GOD by Christ Iesus we that are indeede Christians know to be as much worth as Felicity it selfe according to that Ioh. 17. 3. This is life eternall to know thee the only true God and him whom thou hast sent Iesus Christ To know thee by Iesus Christ In whom whatsoever the Father hath he would haue heaped and hoarded vp that so he might both communicate himselfe wholy vnto vs and might glorifie his name Hence saith Christ I and my Father are one And He that seeth me seeth my Father And No man commeth to the Father but by me And No man knoweth the Father but the Sonne and he to whome the Sonne will reveale him And I am the Way And I am the Doore And I am the Light And Ioh. 1. 9. He was the true Light which lighteth every man that commeth into the World For t' is by him that the lustre of his Fathers Glory best of all bebeameth the whole world Hence the Apostle 2. Cor. 4. 6. placeth and reposeth the Light or Illumination of the knowledge of the Glory of God in the face of Iesus Christ when he saith God hath shined in our hearts to giue the Light of the Knowledge of the Glory of God in the Face of Iesus Christ In the Face of Iesus Christ For he is the liuely Image of his Father The Image of the invisible God Col. 1. 15. and 2. Cor. 4. 4. The Brightnesse of his Fathers Glory and the very Image of his Substance Heb. 1. 3. And as t' is in the 7 th of Wisdome verse 25 26. He is a pure influence that floweth from the Glory of the Almightie the Brightnesse of the everlasting Light The vndefiled Mirrour of the Maiestie of God and the Image of his Goodnesse We spake before of other Images and Resemblances of Gods Glory All which come infinitely farre short of this Image For Man himselfe herevnto compared is not so much the Image of God simply as hee is said to be made rather after the Image of God Indeede 1. Cor. 11. 7. Man is there called The Image and Glory of God But elsewhere he is said to be made after the Image of God Why The Image And yet why After the Image The Image because he is indeede like vnto GOD. Againe After the Image because of the vnlikenesse or vnperfectnesse of this likenesse in that he doth