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A08578	An explanation of the generall Epistle of Saint Iude. Delivered in one and forty sermons, by that learned, reverend, and faithfull servant of Christ, Master Samuel Otes, parson of Sowthreps in Norfolke. Preached in the parish church of Northwalsham, in the same county, in a publike lecture. And now published for the benefit of Gods church, by Samuel Otes, his sonne, minister of the Word of God at Marsham	Otes, Samuel, 1578 or 9-1658.; Otes, Samuel, d. 1683.	1633 (1633)	STC 18896; ESTC S115186	606,924	589

me Satan thou art on offence unto me because thou understandest not the things that are of God but of Men. Where let mee distinguish Mat. 16. of knowledge that there is a naturall knowledge and a spirituall knowledge the first of these the Apostle calleth the Wisedome of the flesh the second the Wisedome of the spirit the Rom. 8. 6. end of the first is death the end of the second life and peace The reason hee setteth downe also saying The Wisedome of the flesh is enmity against God for it is not subject to the law of God neither indeed The naturall man come short of beasts in use of his knowledge can bee c. Many know naturally like beasts and no more like horses and mules that have no understanding The naturall knowledge saith par pari referto offer like to like an eye for an eye a tooth for a tooth but spirituall knowledge Mat. 5. 38. Rom. 12. saith Bonum malo rependite Recompence good for evill So did the Apostles 2. Cor. 4. Naturall knowledge saith Enjoy the pleasures that are present as said the gallant of the World Wisd 2. the other saith flye from the lusts of youth as Paul 2 Tim. 2. charged his Scholer Timothy Naturall knowledge saith give us that which is present let God alone with that which is to come as the Epicures said A living Dogge is better than a dead Lion the other saith Give mee the things that are above where ●●cl 9. 4. Col. 3. 2. Christ sitteth at the right hand of God The one saith that it is good sleeping in a whole skinne as Peter said Master favour thy Mat. 16. Mat. 5. 10. selfe the other saith Beati qui persecutionem patiuntur Blessed are they that suffer persecution c. Yea naturall men know not oftentimes so much as beasts Beasts know them that give them meat as doe Oxen and Asses but men doe not So saith the Prophet The Oxe knoweth his owner Esa 1. 3. and the Asse his masters cribbe but Israel hath not knowne my people hath no understanding Beasts know how to provide for themselves as doe pismyres For in the plentie of Sommer Prov. 6. Luke 15. they provide for the dearth of Winter Men doe not but spend all like 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the prodigall Sonne Beasts know the time of their trouble as the Crane the Storke and the Turtle so saith Ieremy The Storke in the ayre knoweth her appointed times the Turtle Ier. 8. 7. Luke ●9 42. and the Crane and the Swallow observe the time of their comming Men doe not as is said of Ierusalem that shee knew not the time of her visitation Beasts feare their proper adversary and that will hurt them as the Sheepe the Wolfe the Lion the Fire the Ambr. Elephant the Mouse the serpent the Iron the Faulkon the Eagle Men doe not but joyne with Satan and will not know the truth That they may come to amendment out of the snare of the Divell which are taken of him at his will Beasts know their evils their remedies 2 Tim. 2. 26. the Adder being sicke seeketh serpentine grasse the Dogge being sicke seekth trifolie the Swallow caelidine the Hart dictanie the Beare pismyres the Ape moaths But men seeke for nothing that may doe them good in this life and in the World to come Christ said that Ninive and the Queene of the South should rise in judgement and condemne the Iewes but I say Mat. 12. that beasts shall condemne us in the day of judgement For they know more by the instinct of nature than wee by doctrine O miseri O miserable men that wee are that beasts shall condemne us like Balaams Asse his master And could they speake now as Ascanius his Popenjaie and Augustus Parat spake Numb 22. they would speake against us And yet all spirituall knowledge is not profitable For the Beastly minded men like beasts learned distinguish it into a knowledge of judgement and knowledge of election and choyce A knowledge of judgement is a bare knowledge of good from evill as in the idolaters Who when they knew God glorified him not as Rom. 1. 21. cap. 2. 23. God In the Iewes Which knew the Law and gloried in the Law and yet through breaking of the Law dishonoured God In the Cretians They did professe they knew God but by their workes they did deny him being abbominable disobedient and unto every good worke reprovable Tit. 1. 16. A knowledge of choyce is to doe good the one is Scientia the other is Conscientia When the Gospell the word of truth is fruitfull from the day we heard of it and when our conversation is such as becommeth the Gospell of Christ Iesus It is Col. 1. 6. Mat. 23. 3. one thing to know another thing to know truely Praedicant multi de virtute non habent Many preach of Vertue and have it not praise it and love it not For with the Pharisees they say but doe not Lastly he compareth them to beasts for in many things the wicked are as beasts if not worse by creation little inferiour to the Angels by convesation much inferiour to bruit beasts For the Oxe doth know his owner the Asse his masters cribbe but Israel Psal 8. 4. Esa 13. Mat. 7. 6. Luk. 13. hath not knowne my people saith God hath no understanding Christ compareth carelesse men to Swine hee called Herod a Foxe Paul calleth false teachers Woolves Peter calleth adulterers Dogs that returne to their vomit Act. 20. 9. 2 Pet. 2. Luke 3. 7. Ier. 2. 2. Soph. 3. Psal 5. 8. Iohn calleth the Pharisees Vipers Ieremy compareth the Iewes to Dromedaries and wild Asses Sophonie calleth Tyrants Lions David compareth the contemners of his word to Adders Man should beare the Image of God therefore saith the Apostle Put on the new man which after God is shapen in righteousnesse Ephes 4. 24. and true holinesse In deed we ough to put on the new man which is renewed in knowledge after the image of the Almighty but most men doe not Well therefore said a learned man that the proud beare the image of a Lion the greedy of a Woolfe the subtile of a Foxe the ignorant of a horse and mule the voluptuous of a Dromadary or wilde Asse the Apostata of a Dogge Esay hath a notable Prophecie insinuating that many men by nature are beasts but by grace they are cured tamed and made good Where note by the way that there be divers kinds Esa 11. 6. of wicked men though all agree in evill and meete in one place that is Hell yet they differ in the kinds of evill all are not alike yet all hurtfull Some are stout as Lions some greedy as Woolves some cruell as Beares some spightfull as Aspes some ravenous as Leopards some hurt by pricking some by stinking Worse to be beastly than to be a beast some