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A68802	Iaphets first publique perswasion into Sems tents, or, Peters sermon which was the first generall calling of the gentiles preached before Cornelius / expounded in Cambridge by Thomas Taylor, and now published for the further use of the Church of God.	Taylor, Thomas. 1576-1632.	1612 (1612)	STC 23830.5; ESTC S118155	214,432	413

the more account of him it pleaseth him to deale herein as a mother with her child who although shee be tender enough ouer it will sometimes get her out of sight and behind a doore in the meane time the child falleth and getteth some knocks and all this to make the child perceiue it owne weakenesse and depend vpon her so much the more Example hereof we haue Cantic 3.4 when the Church had sought her beloued in her bed in the streetes among the watchmen and found him not at last after much seeking and sorrowing after him she findeth him whom her soule loued then shee tooke hold on him and would not let him goe till shee had brought him to the house of her mother Vse 1. Tedious and heauie afflictions may not be an argument of Gods hatred It is a simple opinion of simple people that God loueth not that man who is exercised with any strange crosse especially if it be more lasting and lingring vpon him Why dost thou not consider ignorant man that the Lord suffered his owne welbeloued sonne to lie in the graue till the third day before he raised him vp what sayest thou to the Israelites in Egypt did they cease to be the people of God or to be deare to God when the heauiest taskes were laid vpon them Whose blood was it that Manasseh made the streetes of Ierusalem runne with but the Saints In the persecutions of the Primitiue Church we read of thirty thousand of the deare Saints of God put to death in seuenteene dayes vnder the tyrant Maximinian and as many cheined vnder mettalls and mines Who was it that asked if the Lord would absent himselfe for euer and whether his mercie was cleane gone for euermore was not this the voice of Dauid a man after Gods owne heart wouldst thou heare the style of Gods children in the Scriptures thou hearest them called wormes of Iacob dead men of Israel Wouldest thou knowe their state neither is that vnanswerable to that stile read Heb. 11. from verse 35. to the 39. they wandred in sheepe skins and goat skinnes and they of whome the world was not worthy were banished the world as vnworthy to liue in it Impossible therefore it is as Salomon teacheth to knowe loue or hatred by any thing before a man A man may be a Diues and a deuil or little better another may be a Lazarus and a Saint Fatte pastures for most part threaten slaughter when leane ware neede nor feare the butcher 2. In tedious and heauie afflictions and graues of miserie prescribe not vnto God neither the time nor the manner of thy release but leaue all to him in whose hand times and seasons and meanes of deliuerance are We would not by our good wills lie one day no not one houre vnder affliction our spirits are as short as Iehorams was what shall I attend any longer vpon the Lord is not this euill from him And hence are all those murmerings and complaints oh neuer was any in such miserie or so long as I am But the Lord knoweth what hee doth and whom hee hath in hand Hee seeth perhappes 1. that thou hast strong hidden corruptions thy hard knots must haue hard wedges as hard bodies strong potions 2. It may be thou wast long in thy sinne before thy conuersion and thy crosse is the longer to be a meanes to bring thy old sinnes into fresh memorie that so thou maist renew thy repentance 3. It may be thou hast since giuen some great scandall to the Church and so thy correction abideth till thou hast testified thy repentance 4. Thy heart perhaps can tell thee that some other crosses of some other kind haue bin neglected or would not haue smarted halfe so much therefore the Lord will haue this to sticke by encreasing the smart and withdrawing his comforts till thy great heart be made to stoupe 5. Looke whether some lust as yet not denied lendeth not a sting to this crosse aboue all the former whether thy heart be ouer-maistered or fretfull and peeuish for euen so we deale with our children who when a little smart doth but set them on frowardnesse we meeken and ouercome with more stripes 6. Or else the Lord in mercie lingringly doth correct as thou art able to beare to bend thee and worke thee to good whereas if he should bring his chastisements roughly and at once it would breake thy heart great cause therefore hast thou to subscribe to his wisedome whose wayes are all iustice and mercie 3. Hence we fetch out assured comfort that as God deliuered his Sonne the third day so will he also seasonably deliuer vs. What if we seeme to be dead in our graues despised neglected and forgotten one day yea the second yet the third day commeth Hos. 6.2 After two daies hee will reviue vs and in the third day hee will raise vs vp and we shall liue in his sight This made Abraham hope aboue hope In wayting I wayted saith Dauid that is I continued wayting on God Iob after darknesse hoped for light It may be the third day is not yet come Thou art not yet come to the mountaine where God will prouide nor thou art not yet in that extremitie which is Gods opportunitie Isaak must not sit at home but take a iourney of three daies to be slaine hee must not be sent backe the first or second day but the third day yet not before he be bound on the altar and the stroke of death a fetching is hee taken from off the wood Is the Lord a killing thee yet trust in his mercie God seemeth indeed not to know his owne children sometimes but to be deafe at their prayers to haue broken the bottell wherein hee was wont to preserue their teares but hee knowes vs well inough saith Paul though we thinke our selues vnknown and therefore we are sometimes as dying but yet we liue chastened but not killed yea killed but not ouercome Hee seemeth now to know none better then the wicked but the third day commeth and putteth as great a difference betweene them as it did betweene Pharaohs baker and butler the third day shall lift vp the head of the one and restore him to his office but the same third day shall take the head from the other and shall hang the bodie on a tree for the birds to eate the flesh from it And caused that hee was shewed openly 41. Not to all the people but vnto the witnesses chosen before of God euen to vs which did eat and drinke with him after hee arose from the dead Now we come to the manifestation of Christ his resurrection Which is described first by the persons to whom hee was so manifested set downe 1. negatiuely not to all the people 2. affirmatiuely but to vs who were chosen of God to be witnesses Secondly by the facts of Christ towards these witnesses which are two the former in this verse in that hee

much more concerning this argument which willingly I forbeare 3. that they might vnder this title acknowledge him according to the Scripture to be the rod of the stocke of Iesse and a plant going out of his rootes which by the same word is signified Isai. 11.1 4. That they and we might hence gather that he was sanctified and set a part vnto most holy purpose beeing a true Nazarit neither by vowe nor commandement for then he might neither drinke wine nor touch the dead which he did and caused others also to doe the same nor yet cut his haire which in likelihood both by the custome of the Iewes and Pauls speach 1. Cor. 11.7.14 he did but by most perfect holinesse and absolute puritie of his whole man whereof those Nazarites were but shadowes that so he might be a perfect Sauiour and high Priest separate from all sinners Heb. 7.26 Whence note how the prouidence of God in ouerruling euery particular circumstance is manifestly cleared The very particular places assigned for this and that purpose are accuratly set downe to shew how those seauen bright eyes of Gods prouidence which goe ouer all the world haue beene euer waking and watchfull ouer both predictions and accomplishments to bring them iust together in the iust point and period foreappointed Christ must not be borne neither in Egypt nor in Nazaret nor in his fathers house but in a iourney and in an Inne at Bethlem because it was so foretold that Bethlem the least of all the cities of Iudea should be made the highest in this priuiledge Againe Christ though the sonne of Dauid must not be brought vp in Bethlem the citie of Dauid nor yet beeing of the Kings seed in Ierusalem the citie and seat of the Kings but in Nazaret that he might be called a Nazarite Whatsoeuer therefore God hath promised in the Scriptures waite in faith for the accomplishment this prouidence will not suffer it vnaccomplished but make not hast he hath a due season for it which thou must patiently expect and the patient abiding of the iust shall not miscarie 2. Note hence that Christ was the only true Messiah and could not haue beene so if he had not beene of Nazaret and such a Nazarite as the Prophets foretold The Iewes tooke offence hereat as too base a place for the Messias whom they expected to rise out of euen Nathaniel himselfe could aske if any good could come out of Nazaret and this was in scorne added as a part of his stile and title written in three tongues vpon the crosse Iesus of Nazaret King of the Iewes and as they delt with the head so also with the members for presently after the death of Christ the Christians were in scorne also called Nazarits that is silly fooles that did beleeue in such a Messiah as came from Nazaret But we must know that the wisedome of God would haue him hereby generally proclaimed the Messias and Sauiour of the world both to Iewes and Gentiles as also confirme our faith and affiance in him made knowne to vs to be such a one as in whom we also become Nazarites that is sanctified and consecrated vnto God 3. Note hence that the Messias must needes be come alreadie because he must be a Nazarite by education as of Bethlem by birth which places haue beene long since destroyed and hopelesse of euer beeing builded vp againe or that in them the Iewes should euer recouer any authoritie And is it not a wonderfull blindnesse that the Iewes should still looke for their Messias out of a towne which hath beene destroyed a thousand and fiue hundreth yeares agoe the very place of which cannot be assigned Our request to God must be for them that he would remooue that thicke vayle which to this day is drawne ouer the hearts of his owne ancient people Secondly By whom was Christ called to this office By God who anointed him for that which is said of one part of it namely his preisthood is true of the whole No man taketh this honour to himselfe but hee that is called of God so neither Christ tooke this honour to himselfe but expected that voice Thou art my Sonne How often did Christ witnesse of himselfe that he came not of himselfe but was sent by his Father Ioh. 5.37 My Father that sent mee witnesseth of mee and in that chapter because the Iewes obiected that he came of himselfe he telleth them six times that his Father sent him yea hath sealed him his commission as he saith Ioh. 6.27 Him hath God the Father sealed that is made his commission authenticall as men doe their deeds by their seale and set vpon him an impression or character anointing him with oyle of grace aboue all his fellowes yea himselfe beeing an expresse image of his Fathers substance in him he hath laid vp all treasures of wisedome and knowledge that from his fulnesse we might receiue grace for grace Whence 1. we learne that no man ought to thrust himselfe into any office or function nor runne before he be sent but wait till God giue him a calling thereunto For shall Christ who had the spirit of God without all measure waite his Fathers leysure and expect his fathers voice and shall we who haue receiued the spirit scarce in any measure runne and ride and shooue and thrust in before we haue any commission drawne or sealed by God who euer carried such post-hast happily How miserably perished proud Absolon who though it not inough to be the Kings sonne vnlesse he thrust his Father out of his kingdome Corah and his complices would haue beene Rulers but that the earth would not suffer them aboue it What shall I speake of Vzza Vzziah and the rest who found the Lord as good as his word against such which goe on any arrand and he send them not they found the Lord comming many waies against them as he often threatneth in Ier. 23.30.31 c. 2. If God haue called Christ to this office we must carrie our selues dutifully and reuerently vnto him whom as the Father hath called so he will defend and establish in his place and reuenge such as rebell against him This is that the Prophet teacheth in Psal. 2.2 that if the greatest Kings band themselues together against the Lord and against his Christ the Lord out of heauen will laugh them to scorne he will speake to them in his anger and vex them in sore displeasure and the ground of all this is laid downe vers 6. Euen I haue set my King vpon Sion as if he had said shall I set vp a King and dare ye rebelliously resist him or seeke to displace him Let vs take heede it befall not vs as it did the Iewes taxed in the parable of the King letting out his vinyard which sent his seruants for his rent to the husbandmen and afterwards his sonne but they beat the one slew the other acknowledged neither surely no more grace remaineth for