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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11924	A Godlye sermon preached before the Queens Most Excellent Maiestie vpon the 17, 18, 19 verses of the 16 chapter of S. Mathew vvherein is contained the conclusion of a dialogue betweene Christ and his disciples, shewing breefely that the authoritie which the Pope of Rome doth challenge to himselfe is vnlawfully vsurped : very necessarie for these perilous times wherein the simple may perceiue their intollerable impietie, vsurping that office and action which euer appertayned vnto Christ only : published at the request of sundry godly and well disposed persons.		1585 (1585)	STC 22237; ESTC S2330	39,008	98

I will put my Spirite within you and cause you to walk in my statutes and ye shall éepe my iudgements and doe them Ezech. 36 26 In which wordes Ezechiel attributeth the whole worke of our regeneration vnto the gift of God he it is that taketh away that olde stonie heart whereby we are giuen to all iniquitie and hardnesse from giuing eare vnto any cōmaundement of God he giueth a newe heart an heart of flesh whereby we become apt to receiue the commaundements of God a new spirite which leadeth vs both to the knowledge of the will of God and to the obedience thereof Likewise Moses in Deuteronomie Deut. 36.6 setting foorth the great goodnesse of God to his people Israel he ascribeth the circumcision of the heart to the operation and working of the Lorde For God promiseth that if they returne vnto him and obey his voice the Lord God shal circumcise their heartes and the heart of their séede after them that they may loue the Lorde their God with all their heart with all their soule And to conclude this matter which néedeth no further proofe that which the Euangelist Saint Iohn writeth in the first of his Gospell Ioan. 1.12 howe iumpeth it with this that our Euāgelist affirmeth here and how euidently doth it confirme both those pointes wee haue hereto stoode vpon where he assereth that such as receiued Christ beléeued in his name were borne not of bloud nor of the wil of flesh nor of the will of man but of God By which words both the knowledge of Christ and the beléeuing in his name is denyed to man giuen to God alone The verie worde 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 vsed here of our Euangelist being well weyed doth sufficiently argue that all heauenly things are hid from vs vntil they be opened and manifested by God For this word being attributed vnto God doth signifie a reuealing by him of such things as were quite before hidden frō our knowledge vnderstanding Now if this general doctrin shall be proued by particular example Deut. 29.30 what can be required for the further certaintie and truth hereof Moses in the 29. of Deut. obbraideth the people of Israel for their obliuiō forgetfulnes of the graces mercies god had shewed them in the land of Aegypt yet therwithal he there noteth that they could not take any profit by these things but thorough the working goodnes of God Ye haue seen sayth Moses al that the Lord did before your eyes in the land of Aegypt vnto Pharao vnto al his seruāts vnto al his land The great temptations which thine eyes haue séen those great miracles wonders yet the Lorde hath not giuen you an heart to perceiue eyes to sée and eares to heare vnto this day And in the 13. of Math. Christ hauing taught many things by parables his disciples came to him and demaunded why he spake thus in parables he made answere Mat. 13.30 because it is giuē to you to know the secrets of the kingdom of heauen but to them it is not giuen therefore speak I vnto thē in parables because they séeing do not sée hearing they heare not neither vnderstand c. Thus we sée how the people of Israel although they saw the great wonders miracles which God did for them in Aegypt notwithstāding they reap no cōmoditie therby because the Lorde did not open their eyes to behold them to profit neither yet their eares to attende vnto such things or their hart mind to cōceiue the goodnes of God obedience thankfulnes which they ought to perfourme vnto God therfore The disciples of Christ they vnderstood the doctrine of Christ they profited encreased in knowledge therby but why or by what meanes because to them it was giuen to knowe the secretes of the kingdom of God The Iewes they were not able to perceiue the doctrine of Christ they learned nothing therby but rather be came more blind obstinate the reason is added because to them it is not giuen So that it wholy dependeth vpon the gift of God Cleophas and the other disciple in the 24. Chapter of Luke Luc. 24.27.45 when Christ ouertooke them going to Emaus although Christe rebuked them for their slowenesse in beléeuing all that the Prophetes had spoken And accompanying them began at Moses and the Prophets and interpreted vnto them in all the Scriptures the thinges which were written of him yet were their eyes so holden that they knewe him not whome before they had often séene neither yet vnderstood they the Scriptures vntill such time as God opened their eyes and vnderstanding both to knowe him and vnderstande the Scripture Euen as the disciples of our Sauiour Christ had no knowledge no vnderstanding vntill God gaue it them so fareth it with all the rest of the children of God heare they neuer so much his Apostles preache yea Christ himselfe personally sounding in their eares yet except the Lorde open our heartes and mindes as he did Lydia the sicke womans in the Actes Act. 16.14 it auayleth not one iot wherefore flesh and bloud reuealeth not Christ vnto vs but our Father which is in heauen It remayneth nowe wée weight and consider what commoditie and profite wée ought to reape by this doctrine to what vse it ought to serue vs. First if God be the authour and fountaine and sole giuer of all knowledge faith and all other heauenly gifts it must kindle in vs an earnest and feruent desire to prayer to desire him to giue vs knowledge and fayth and vnderstanding for that otherwayes we cannot attaine therevnto The consideration of this heretofore hath moued the saintes of God to be feruente in prayer vnto almighty God for the obtaining of these graces Among others how often and how vehemently doth the Prophet Dauid praye for this at Gods hands as in the 119 Psal Psal 1 19 18.27 33 34 35 36. Open thou mine eies O Lord that I may see the wondrous things of thy law make me to vnderstand the way of thy commandements so shall I talke of thy wondrous workes And againe Teach me O Lorde the way of thy statutes and I shall keepe it vnto the end giue me vnderstanding and I shall kéepe thy law make me to goe into the path of thy commaundements encline my hart to thy testimonies c. and in the 51. Psalme Psalm 51. that God would make him a cleane heart and renew a right spirit with in him that he would throughly wash him and clense him from his sinne And the Apostle S. Paul prayeth not onlye for himselfe but for the Churche of the Ephesians Ephe. 1.16 17.18 that the GOD of our Lorde Iesus Christe the father of glory might yéeld vnto them the spirite of wisedome and vnderstanding through the knowledge of him that the eyes of their vnderstanding maye bée lightened that they maye knowe the hope of his