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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04931	A sermon preached by Iohn Knox minister of Christ Iesus in the publique audience of the Church of Edenbrough, within the realme of Scotland, vpon Sonday, the. 19. of August. 1565 For the which the said Iohn Knoxe was inhibite preaching for a season. To this is adioyned an exhortation vnto all the faythfull within the sayde realme, for the reliefe of suche as faythfully trauayle in the preaching of Gods worde. Written by the same Iohn Knoxe, at the commaundement of the ministerie aforesayd.	Knox, John, ca. 1514-1572.	1566 (1566)	STC 15075; ESTC S108139	37,230	132

and yet thereby are the pores and secrete vaynes of the earth which before by vehemencie of frost and colde were shut vp opened againe And so doth the earth produce againe the like herbes floures and fruits Shal ye then thinke that the dew of Gods heauenly grace shall not be as effectuall in you to whome he hath made his promise as that it is in the herbes and fruites that from yeare to yeare buddeth forth and decayeth if ye doe so the Prophet would say your incredibility is inexcusable bicause ye doe neyther rightlye waighe the power nor the promise of your God The like similitude vseth the Apostle Paule against such as called the resurrection in doubt bicause that by naturall iudgement they coulde not apprehende that fleshe once putryfied and resolued as it were in other substance shoulde arise againe and retourne againe to the same substance nature O fole saith he that which thou sowest is not quickened except it dy that which thou sowest thou sowest not that body that shall be but bare corne as it falleth of wheate or some other but God giueth it a body as it pleaseth him euen to euerye seede his owne bodye In which wordes and sentence the Apostle sharpelye rebuketh the grosse ignorance of the Corinthians who began to call in doubt the chiefe article of our faith the resurrection of the fleshe after that it was once resolued bicause that naturall iudgement as saide is reclaymed thereto He reproueth I say their grosse ignoraunce bicause that they might haue seene and considered some proufe and document thereof in the very order of nature For albeit the wheat or other corne cast in the earth apeareth to die to putrifie and so to be lost yet we see that it is not perished but that it fructifieth according to Goddes will and ordinaunce Now if the power of God be so manifest in raysing vp of the fruits of the earth vnto the which no particuler promise is made by god what shal be his power and vertue in raysing vp of our bodyes seeing that thereto he is bound by the solempne promise of Iesus Christ his eternall wisdome and the veritie it selfe that can not lye yea seeing that the members must once comm●nicate with the glorye of the head howe shall our bodyes which are flesh of his flesh and bone of his bones he stil for euer in corruptiō seeing that our head Iesus Christ is now exalted in his glory Noyther yet is this power land good will of God to be restrayned vnto the last and generall resurrection onely but we ought to consider it in the maruellous preseruation of his church and in the raysing vp of the same from the very bottome of death when by titauntes it hath bene oppressed from age to age Nowe of the former wordes of the Prophet we haue to gather this comforte that if at anye tyme we shal see the face of the church with in this realmeso defaced as I think it shall be soner than we looke for when we shall see I say vertue to be dispised vice to be mayntayned the veritie of God to be impugned lyes and mens inuentions holden in aucthoritie and finally when we shall see the true religion of our God and zelous obseruers of the same to be troden vnder the feete of suche as in their heart saye there is no God Let vs then call to minde what haue bene the wonderous workes of our God from the beginning that it is his proper office to bring forth lighte out of darkenesse order out of confusion lyfe out of death finally that it is he that calleth thigs that are not euen as if they were as before we haue hard And if in the day of our tēptation which in my iudgemēt approcheth fast we be thus armed If our incredibilitie can not vtterly be remoued yet shal it so be corrected that dampnable desperation oppresse vs not But nowe let vs heare howe the Prophete proceedeth Come sayth he thou my people enter within thy chambers shut thy dore after thee hide thy selfe a very little while vntil the indingnation passe ouer Here the Prophet bringeth in God amiably calling vpon his people to come to himselfe and to rest with him vnto suche time as the furie sharpe plagues should be executed vpon the wicked and inobedient It maye appeare at the first sight that all these words of the Prophet in the person of God calling the people vnto rest are spoken in vaine For we neyther finde chambers nor rest more prepared for the dearest children of God so farre as mans iudgemēt can discerne than there was for the rebellious and inobedient For such as fel not in the edge of the sworde or dyed not of pestilence or by hunger were eyther caryed captiues into Babylō or else departed after into Egipt so that none of Abrahams feede had eyther chamber or quiet place to remayne within the lande of Canaan For the resolution hereof we must vnderstand that albert the chambers whereunto God called his chosen be not visible Yet notwithstanding they are certaine offer vnto Gods children quiet habitation in spirite howsoeuer the flesh be trauayled and tormented The chambers are then Goddes sure promises vnto the which gods people is commaunded to resorte yea within the which they are cōinaunded to close them selues in the time of greatest aduersitie The maner of speaking is borowed frō that iudgement foresight which God hath printed in this our nature For whe that men espie great tempestes appearing to come willingly they will not remayne vncouered vpō the fields but straight way they will drawe them to their houses or holdes that they maye escape the vehemency of the same And if they feare any enimy to pursue them they wil shut their dores to the ende that sodainely the enimie shall not haue entry After this same maner God speaketh to his people as he shoulde saye the tempest that shall come vpon this whole nation shall be so terrible that nothing shall appeare but exterminatiō to come vpō the whole bodye But thou my people thou I saye that hearest my worde beleuest the same and tremblest at the threatenings of my Prophetes now when the world doth insolētly resist let such I say enter within the secrete chamber of my promises Let them conteyne themselues quietly there yea let them shut the dore vpon them and suffer not infidelitie the mortall enimie of my truth and of my people that depend therupon to haue free entrie to trouble yea rather to murther my promise And so shall they perceyue that my indignation shall passe and that such as depend vpō me shall be saued Thus we may perceyue the meaning of the Prophete Whereof we haue first to obserue that God acknowledgeth them for his people that are in greatest affliction yea such as are reputed vnworthy of mens presence are yet admitted with the secrete chamber of God Let no man thinke that fleshe and bloude

take trial of this poynt it is not hard for Moses in the election of Iudges and of a King describeth not onelye what persones shall be chosen to that honour but doth also giue to him that is elected and chosē the rule by the which he shal trie himselfe whether God raygne in him or not saying when he shal sit vpō the throne of his kingdō he shal write to himself an examplar of this lawe in a boke by the priests the Leuits it shal be with him and he shall reade therin all the dayes of his life that he may learne to feare the Lord his god and to kepe all the words of this law these statuts ▪ that he may do them that his hart be not lifted vp aboue his brethrē that he turne not from the cōmaundement to the right hand or to the left Thesame is repeated to Iosua in his inanguration to the regiment of the people by God himselfe saying let not the boke of this lawe depart fro thy mouth but meditate in it day night that thou mayst kepe and do according to al that which is written in it For then shall thy way be prosperous and thou shalt do prudently The first thing thē that god craueth of him that is called to the honor of a king is the knowlege of his wil reuealed in his word The second is an vpright and willing minde to put in execution suche things as God commaundeth in his lawe without declyning eyther to the right or left hande Kings then haue not an absolute power to do in their regimēt what pleaseth them but their power is limitted by gods word So that if they strike where god commaundeth not they are but murderers if they spare wher GOD commaundeth to strike they and their throne are criminal and giltie of the wickednesse that aboundeth vpon the face of the earth for lacke of punishment O if Kings and Princes shuld consider what accompt shall be craued of them as well of their ignoraunce and misknoweledge of Gods will as for the neglecting of their office But nowe to returne to the words of the Prophet In the person of the whole people he doth complayne vnto God that the Babilonians whō he calleth other Lordes besydes God both bycause of their ignoraunce of God and by reason of their crueltie and inhumanitie hadde long ruled ouer them in all rigor without pitie or cōcompassion had vpon the aunciente men and famous matrones For they being mortall enimies of the people of God sought by all meanes to aggrauate their yoke yea vtterlye to haue exterminate the memorie of thē and of their religion from the face of the earth After the first part of this dolorous complaynt the Prophete declareth the protestation of the people saying neuerthelesse onely in thee shall we remember thy name others reade it Put wee wyll remember thee onelye and thy name But in the Hebrew there is no Coniunction copulatiue in that sentence The minde of the Prophete is playne to wit that not withstanding the long sustayned affliction the people of God declyned not to a false and vayne religion but remembred God that sometime appeared to them in his mercifull presence which albeit then they saw not yet would they still remēber his name that is they would cal to minde the doctrine and promise which sōetimes they hard albeit in their prosperity they did not sufficiently glorifie God who so mercifully ruled in the midst of them The temptation no doubt of the whole Isralites was gret in those dayes They were caryed captiues from the land of Canaan which was to thē the gage pledge of Gods fauour towardes thē For it was the inheritaunce that God promised to Abrahā to his seede for euer The league couenant of Gods protection appeared to haue beene broken They lamentably cōplayne that they sawe not their accustomed signes of Gods merciful presēce The true prophets were fewe the abhominatiōs vsed in Babylon were exceding many And so it might haue apered to thē that in vayne it was that they were called the posteritie of Abrahā or that euer they had receyued law or form of right religion frō god That we may the better fele it in our selues the temptatiō I say was euē such as if God shuld vtterly destroy al order policy that this day is withī his church that the true preaching of the worde should be suppressed The right vse of sacramēts abolished Idolatry papistical abhomination erected vp again And therwith that our bodies should be takē prisoners by Turks or other manifest enimies of God of al Godlynesse ▪ Such I say was their temptatiō How notable then is this their cōfessiō that in bōdage they make to wit that they wil remember God onely albeit he hath appeared to turne his face from them they will remember hys name and will cal to minde the deliuerance promised Hereof haue we to consider what is our duetie if God bring vs as for oure offences and vnthankfulnesse iustely he may to the like extremitie This confession is not the fayre flattering wordes of hypocrites lying and bathing in their pleasures but it is the mightye operation of the spirite of God who leaueth not his owne destitute of some comfort in their most desperate calamities This is then oure duety not onely to confesse our god in the time of peace and quietnes but he chiefely craueth that we auowe him in the middeste of his and our enimies And this is to doe but it behoueth that the spirite of God worke in vs aboue all power of nature And thus we ought earnestlye to meditate before the battayle rise more vehement which appeareth not to be farre of but now must we enter in somewhat more deepely to consider these iudgements of God This people entreated as we haue heard was the onely people vpon the face of the earth to whō God was rightly knowen among them onely were his lawes statuts ordinaunces and sacrifices vsed and put in practise They onely inuocated his name and to them alone had he promised his protection and assistance What then shoulde be the cause that he shoulde giue them ouer into this great reproche and bring them into suche extremitie as his owne name in them shoulde be blasphemed The Prophet Ezekiell that saw this horrible destruction forespoke by Isaiah put in iust execution giueth an aunswere in these wordes I gaue vnto them lawes that were good in the which whosoeuer shoulde walke should liue in them But they woulde not walke in my wayes but rebelled against me and therefore I haue giuen vnto them lawes that are not good and iudgements in the which they shal not liue The writer of the bookes of kings and cronicles declare this in more playne words saying the Lorde sent vnto them his prophets rising early desiring of them to retourne vnto the Lorde and to amende their wicked wayes for he would haue