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A15106	A godlie sermon preached the xxj. day of Iune, 1586. at Pensehurst in Kent, at the buriall of the late right honourable Sir Henrie Sidney Knight of the noble order of the Garter, Lord President of Wales, and of her Maiesties most honourable priuie councell, By Thomas White professor in diuinitie.	White, Thomas, ca. 1550-1624.	1586 (1586)	STC 25404; ESTC S101855	15,728	42

A GODLIE Sermon preached the xxj day of Iune 1586. at Pensehurst in Kent at the buriall of the late Right honourable Sir HENRIE SIDNEY Knight of the noble order of the Garter Lord President of Wales and of her Maiesties most honourable priuie Councell By Thomas White professor in Diuinitie AT LONDON Printed by Henrie Midleton M.D.LXXXVI To the Reader HAuing gotten the copie of this godly Sermon into my handes which containeth so excellent matter for al estates especially to beate down the pride of flesh with the consideration of their mortalitie to rayse vp the poore and distressed seruaunts of God in regard of their glory after this life I thought it my duety in consciēce to make it common to the church Wherefore so reade and remember the thinges that are written therein that thou maiest feare the Lord al thy daies reape thy life with ioy in the resurrection of the righteous A SERMON PREACHED the xxi day of Iune 1586. at Pensehurst in Kent at the buriall of the late right Honorable S. Henry Sidney knight of the noble order of the Garter Lord President of Wales and of her Maiesties most Honorable Priuie Counsell By T. W. Professor in Diuinity 1. Iohn 3. 2. DEerely beloued Now are we the sons of God but yet it doth not appeare what wee shall bee And wee knowe that when hee shall appeare wee shall be like him for wee shall see him as hee is 3. And euery man that hath this hope purgeth himselfe euen as hee is pure THis scripture right Honorable doth naturally diuide it selfe into three principall partes The first is an Euangelicall proposition of the Apostle Deerely beloued Nowe are wee the sonnes of God The second is an Anticipation or preuenting of an obiection But yet it doth not appeare what wee shalbe The third is an exhortation vpon the premises Hee that hath this hope in him purgeth himselfe euen as hee is pure The proposition or assertion is worthy to be considered and thought vpon nay to bee wondred and maruayled at which at this daie is admirable to the Aungells and Spirituall powers them selues 1. Pet. 1. 12. excepte wee shalbe found vngratefull vnto God and that that should bee respected of Angels and not of men which pertayneth to men and not to Angels Namely to bee the sonnes of God By nature there is but one onely sonne of God Iesus Christ by creation many euen all the Myllions of Angels good and bad Iob. 1. And by redemption not a fewe but an infinite number of men euen the sonnes of Adam as many as are elected Gal. 3. And for a certaine péece or spice of the glory and maiesty of God shyning in the gouernment of the world the kinges and magistrates of the earth are called gods as sonnes of God Psalm 82. So that albeit in creation Adam be inferior vnto Angels yet in the vnspeakable worke of our redemption he is superior for the sonne of God did take our nature and not theirs Heb. 2. 16. and made men the sonnes of God and not Angels he often appeared in their forme but neuer tooke their substance so that they all lie vnder the iudgement as many as fell and are reserued in chaynes vnto the darknes of death 2. Pet. 2. 42. And of many rebellious spirites not one shalbe saued but of all the race of Adam not one was despised of him that died for all though not all but many doe become the sonnes of God as more at large it might be cleared by the scriptures The proposition is indefinite equiualent to an vniuersall you are the sonnes of God for you are all the sonnes of God as it is expressed else where Gal. 3. 26. For there is neither Jewe nor Gretian bonde nor free male nor female there is no respect of persons in Christ and all the children of Adam are the sonnes of Abraham if they beleeue younge or olde riche or poore wise or simple The which although the Lord him selfe doe say and that very oft in scriptures nay albeit for our faith sake hée sometimes doe sweare that by two immutable things wherin it is impossible that God should lie wée might receaue strong consolation Heb. 6. 18. Yet notwithstanding it is and hath bene alwaies a Paradox vnto vs vntill the spirit doe bring his testimony to it in our hearts crying Abba father as it is Rom. 8. It is no maruaile therefore if one a most learned Rabby of the Jewes a ruler Nichodemus so long as he remained naturall in him selfe did not onely wonder and doubt of this principle of religion but plainely doate when hée sayd How can a man bee borne againe which is olde can hee enter into his mothers wombe againe and be borne Iohn 3. 4. For thus the braine of man might reason Whatsoeuer is borne of flesh is flesh and to repeate the birth is impossible in nature and further then the naturall course of thinges the heart of man can neither reach nor conceaue and therefore as ouercome in this care hée standeth still howe can it bee nay he is armed on the contrary side with many reasons and respectes Sprange wée not all of Adam came not hée out of the earth went hée not into the earth againe and is not this the way of all flesh how say you then wée are the sonnes of God I answere that this Generation is not after fleshe and bloude nor of the will of man but of God Iohn 1. That there came an Adam after Adam which was before Adam who came from God and God was with him and hée was God euen our Emanuell God with vs who himselfe was made man and the son of man that wée might be made the sonnes of God For as many as receaued him that is that belieued on his name he gaue them power to bee the sonnes of God Iohn 12. Wherefore call no man father vppon the earth saith Christ for one is your father in heauen Mat. 23. A father not for sunne and raine and no further but wée are heires and ioynt heires with Christ of his kingdome Rom. 8. In déede with the wicked God dealeth as Abraham did with y e sonnes of his Contubins hée geueth them certaine giftes and sendeth them away But he that shall inherite is Isaak the Childe of promise with whom wée are heires annexed of the same blessing and the excellency of this thing passeth y e poore measure of mans capacitie whether you respect the cause Gods merries or the effect thereof mans saluation especially if you fall into the consideration of the greatnes of y e price which can no more bee valued than God him selfe for he gaue himselfe which is God albeit Iudas plaid the traitor kindly to sell him for 30. siluerlinges yet Peter maketh him inestimable therefore doth reiect both siluer golde as base and corrupt Mettal You are redeemed saith hée not with siluer or gold but with the precious bloude of Christ as of a