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Hearing and doing the ready way to blessednesse with an appendix containing rules of right hearing Gods word. By Henry Mason, parson of S. Andrews Vnder-shaft London.
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Mason, Henry, 1573?-1647.
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that hee despiseth publik hearing or so honoreth the word preached that hee neglecteth the word read I may say to him and all such as hee is as (a) Iam. 2.4 11. S. Iames said in a like case Ye are partiall in your selfes and are become Iudges of evill thoughts For he that said Heare the word preached said also Heare the word read yea and reade it in your privat dwellings and therefore if ye heare it preached will not heare it read ye are become transgressors of the Law The conclusion is They that will be blessed may not make a divorce betweene those ordinances which God hath made joint helps to a blessed life 2. If necessitie do at any time force us to forbeare some of these helps wisedome must teach us to make the more diligent use of the rest For example if sicknesse or some unavoidable necessitie do keepe us from hearing in the Church wee must bee the more diligent in reading at home And if want of education in our younger dayes hath left us unable to reade Scriptures by our selves wee must be the more carefull to heare them read by others And if attendance on children or other necessary occasions cause us to keepe our servants at home when others are busied in the service of the Church we should do our endevour to supplie the losse of publik instructions by our privat admonitions and by rehearsing to them at home those good directions which our selves did receive in the publik ministerie And he or she that is carefull thus to make up their wants and defects though sometimes they be hindered by occasion yet will gaine good opportunities which will guide both themselves and their people to true blessednesse and eternall glory CAP. VIII The keeping of Gods word is an other meanes to make a man blessed Cap. 8 HItherto I have spoken of hearing of Gods word the former meanes commended by our Saviour for attaining happinesse and eternall life Now followeth the second which is the keeping of the word heard For clearing of which point two things are necessarie to be knowen 1. How farre wee may and must keepe Gods word that we may be blessed 2. How this keeping of Gods word is availeable for blessednesse and eternall life §. 1. I. How farre wee may and must keepe Gods word For unfolding of this doubt three questions are to bee solved 1. What it is to keepe Gods word 2. how farre in this life a man is able to keep it and 3. Whence we have abilitie to keepe it in such sort 1. Quest What it is to keepe Gods word Ans This word to keepe when it is applied to speeches or doctrines as in this place it is hath two uses in Scripture For it signifieth either to keep in minde and memorie or to keep in our life and practice In minde and memorie we kepe it when with care we committ and laie it up in memorie do often think on it and revolve it in our mindes Thus the blessed Virgin kept what shee had heard concerning her Sonne and our Saviour For so it is said that the Shepheards of Bethleem upon the vision that they had seene and the words that the Angels had spoken unto them concerning the birth of CHRIST Came to Bethleem with haste and found Mary and Ioseph the Babe lying in a manger And when they had seene it they made knowen abroad the saying that was tould them concerning this childe Then the Text addeth But Mary kept all these things and pondered them in her heart Luk. 2.16 17 19. And in the same chapter ver 51. When shee had found her Sonne JESUS being then but twelve years of age sitting in the Temple and reasoning and disputing with the Doctors and alledging for his so doing that he must be about his fathers businesse his Mother saith the Text kept all these sayings in her heart The meaning is shee layed them up in her memorie and often thought on them in her minde Secondly we keep Gods word in life and practice when we do that which God in his word requireth to be done by us Thus the word is used 1 Kings 11.10 where it is said of Solomon that hee * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 kept not that which the Lord commanded him And in this sense is the word frequently taken in the Scriptures as Ezek. 20.19 Walk in my statutes and keepe my judgements and do them And so Genes 18.19 Abraham will command his children and they shall keepe the way of the Lord to do justice and judgment And Exod. 15.26 If thou wilt hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God And wilt keep all his statutes I wilt put none of these diseases upon thee c. And in the new Testament All these commandements have I kept from my youth up saith the yong man Matt. 19.20 And yee have received the Law by the disposition of Angels and have not kept it saith S. Stephen to the Jews Act. 7.53 And so in many other places both in the old and new Testament so that I may safely say that this is the common and usuall acception of this word Now of these two uses of the word * Rivet in Exo. 20.8 pag. 157. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Deut. 5.12 est à 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quod est servare sive cōservare etiā tenere retinere quod fit memoriâ indicatque hoc verbum curam sollicitudinem diligentiam ne emittatur vel effluat aut excutiatur quod observandum est Hoc sensu verbo custodiendi vel servandi usus est Dominus Beati qui verbum Dei audiunt custodiunt illud 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Luc. 11.28 Doctor Rivet maketh choise of the former as fitt for this place When our Saviour saith Blessed are they that heare the word of God and keepe it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he thinketh that heere is meant a keeping in memory or a care and sollicitude that the word which wee have heard do not slipp from us and be forgotten But to my thinking the Angell in the Revelation construeth it in the later sense or signification when uttering for substance the very same sentence that our Saviour used in this place he expresseth it in these words Blessed are they that do his commandements that they may have right to the tree of life c. And surely the common use of the word in this sense and the intention of our Saviours speech being compared with other like speeches in Scripture and the generall streame of Interpreters who run this way may perswade any man and do give mee sufficient warrant to understand this word in the later sense and to say that to keep Gods word in this place is as much as to do it and obey it Notwithstanding I will grant thus much to D. Rivet that the sense which he putteth upon the word may be included or implied in this place if wee construe the words to this