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A10817	The day of hearing: or, six lectvres vpon the latter part of the thirde chapter of the Epistle to the Hebrewes of the time and meanes that God hath appointed for man to come to the knowledge of his truth, that they may be saved from his wrath. The summary pointes of every one of which lectures are set downe immediately after the Epistle dedicatory. Herevnto is adioyned a sermon against fleshly lusts, & against certaine mischevious May-games which are the fruit thereof. By H.R. Master of Artes, and now, minister of the word.; Day of hearing: or, six lectures upon the latter part of the thirde chapter of the Epistle to the Hebrewes.	Roberts, Huw, b. 1558 or 9.	1600 (1600)	STC 21089; ESTC S102956	70,687	163

among those murmuring people which obeyed the word of the LORDE as Moses and Aaron Caleb and Ioshua vnto those few we must haue an e●e and not vnto the multitude of sinners For the LORDE saith thou shalt not follovve a multitude to doe evill Exod. 23. 2. neither agree in a controversie to decline after manie and overth●ovve the trueth And therefore vvicked is that common saying vvhich hath beene alleadged of the Papistes communis error facit 〈…〉 s a common errour or consent in evill standeth for a law Notwithstanding that at all times and in all places the more parte of men which are evill giue euill examples to drawe others vnto sinne vvhich is the cause that Christ saith woe bee vnto the worlde because of offences for it must needes be that offences shall Mat. 18. 7. come c. Yet as the Apostle speaketh we are Heb. 12. 1. cōpassed about with a great cloud of witnesses or goode examples which we must imitate so lōg as we liue in the wildernesse of this world We haue the Patriarchs the Prophetes and the Saintes of the old testament Wee haue Christ himselfe the authour and finisher of nor saith we haue the Apostles Confessours and martyrs in the time of the new testament for an example to suffer persecution for righteousnesse sake and in all thinges to obey the will of God And vvithin the period of these last fiue hundreth yeeres euen in the florishing time of Antichrist we haue those faithfull co●ses●ours though they were but few in number that we haue heard of which haue resisted Antichristian iniquitie euen vnto blood we haue them I say for an example of loue and long patience witnessing vnto vs that in those dayes of desolation and popish tyrannie all did not prouoke the Lord nor fall away from the right saith For as in the dayes of El●ah when that 1. King 19. 10. wicked woman Iezebel hade persecuted the Lordes Prophetes and when the true worship of God seemed to bee vtterlie abolished o●t of the land seuen thousand were reserued though none of them was knowne ver 18. to El●ah which had not consented to idolatrie so in the dayes of our forefathers many thousandes did obey the Gospell of saluation did not defile their garmēts with Popish idolatrie and of them the Lord hath made some to bee knowne to the worlde and their memoriall to rema●ne as monumentes of his grace for our comfort and example And to come to examples neerer to our time to our selues I haue heard it credibli reported that when here in Englād within these * When this was preached i● was the yeare 1598. fiue fourtie yeeres many of the Saintes and true beleeuers did constantly suffer martyrdome for the testimonie of the word of God ther were here in Sussex whole parishes of men and women which for all the heat of that greeuous persecution in the The constancy of su●●ex people in the prosession of the Gospell dayes of Queen Mary came not at the false church not bowed the knee to the idole of the Masse beside those that were martyi● which with their blood haue sealed the confession of their faith And as it is best knowne to them that professe religion haue long knowne this countrie there were also diuers which testified their loue obedience to the Gospell by assembling together at cōuement times in woodes and ●●li●a●ie places where they had the word of saith pu●elie taught the sacramentes administered The Lord protecting thē from the cruelty of those daies These are as cloudes of witnesses for our example that we should follow their faith obedience to the word of God And now in our dayes notwithstanding that the love zeale of many doeth waxe colde and that the d●rnell and wilde oates do● over-growe the good corne that for the most parte wee canne see nothing but the multitude of luke-vvarme and irreligions people yet are there many faithfull witnesses sincere professoures of the Gospel of God among vs. But alas as the world is alwayes like it selfe we are so far from following the saith example of the Saintes that while they liue among vs we cease not to speake euil of them to persecute them ●hus we see that the Lord leaueth no time no not when it seemeth that the professors of his name are rooted out of the earth without worthy vvitnesses of his trueth whose steppes wee must tread in vnlesse we will runne in the broad waye that leadeth to destruction It followeth but with whome was hee displeased fourtie yeeres was hee not displeased with them that sinned vvhose carke●ses fell in the vvildernesse Heere commeth the long suffering and bountifulnesse of God to be considered who neuer destroyeth any people nor any childe of man for their wickednesse before they be sufficiently warned and haue time to repent and to turne from their evill waies if they will Before hee brought a stoode of waters to drowne the olde worlde hee gaue them that then had sinned the space not of fortie but of three times fortie yeares ●or ●epentance Hee Ge● 6. 3. burned not the cities of S●dom and Gomorah with fire and brimstone from heauen Ge● 19. 24. 25. 〈◊〉 Pet. 2. 8. before hee had giuen them time to amend and warning from day to daie by righteous Lot And of that vngodlie woman Iezabell the Lord saith I haue giuē her space To what end to repent of her fo●nication shee repented not so Rev. 2. 20. 21. here the holy Ghost saith that forty yeares he was displeased with the Israelites after they came out of Egypt So long endured hee their maners and intollerable rebelling against his word in the wildernesse Here we may learne as the Apostle warneth vs to walke circumspectly to ●edeeme Eph. 5. 15. 16. the time remembring also what hee saith of them that abuse the time of repentance despises● thou the riches of Gods bountifulnesse and Rom. 2. 4. patience and long sufferance not knowing that the bountifulnesse of God le●●eth thee to repentance ●et a Christian therefore be careful to vse wel the time wherein he liuet● considering that while he is in this world he is in a wildernesse of innumerable dangers and temptations whe●e it be hooveth him to watch and to be circumspect or els he is in a desperate case heapeth vnto himselfe wrath against the day of wrath whosoeuer he be that despiseth Gods long patience Fortie yeares This number fortie is oftentimes vsed in the holy scriptures and is commonly applied to the time of repentance● of abolishing of sinne and stablishing of righteousnes And it teacheth vs that the works of God are perfect and that when he beginneth he maketh an end As here fortie yeares he was displeased with the Israelites in the wildernesse according to the number of the Num. 14. 33. 34. daies in the which they had searched out the land of promise

THE DAY OF HEARING Or SIX LECTVRES VPON THE latter part of the thirde Chapter of the Epistle to the Hebrewes of the time and meanes that God hath appointed for men to come to the knowledge of his truth that they may be saved from his wrath The summary pointes of every one of which Lectures are set downe immediatly after the Epistle dedicatory Herevnto is adioyned a Sermon against fleshly lusts against certaine mischievous May-games which are the fruit thereof By H. R. Master of Artes and now Minister of the word Ioh. 3 19. This is the condemnation that light is come into the world and men loved darkenesse rather then light because their deedes were evill Printed at Oxford by Ioseph Barnes and are to be sold in Paules church-yard at the signe of the Bible 1600. TO THE RIGHT HONOVrable SIR THOMAS EGERTON Knig●● Lord Keeper of the great seale of England one of her Ma●esties most Honourable pr●v●● counsell my especiall benefactor the increase and co●tinuance of all spiritual blessings with that true honor which is from God lasteth for evermore DVTY binding me Right ●onourable to shew some testimonie of a thankfull mind towards you I haue presumed so farre as to offer to your good Lordship this small exercise of mine such as it is which I haue taught and written according to the ability that God hath givē me as the charge committed to me required The Apostle Paule instructeth his scholer Timotheus and in him all ministers that haue the charge of teaching to shew themselues approved vnto God 〈◊〉 Tim. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as workemen that neede not to be ashamed dividing the word of truth aright For in so dividing of the word consisteth the life force of the ministery that all mē what age or conditiō soever they be of which wil be fed to liue everlastingly may haue their portiō of meate givē thē out of that word that in season or cōueniently that it may be savoury pleasant as the venifon of Iacob was vnto his father Isaac and not vnsavoury as the sonnes of Elie made the offering of the Lord to be abhorred But such is the vntowardnes of this age which in respect of the time should haue abounded with all knowledge necessary to salvation that not only countrey people specially where the worde hath seldome beene divided aright but also the inhabitants of townes cities in too many places of this lande haue neede to be taught the first principles of the word of God For now in the latter daies on the one side the pride of life Atheisme the custom of sin hath so bewitched the world that the heartes of most men are become fat their eares are dul of hearing that the word which they hear doth not profit thē neither do the manifolde tokens of Gods anger revealed against the impiety vnrighteousnes of this age as the pestilence the late dearth sundry new strang sicknesses nor the present troubles of wars beside other innumurable exāples of Gods displeasure daily seene among vs any thing moue secure worldlings and such as are hardened in vngodlines to turne frō their own waies to obey the gospell of God while it is yet called To day And on the other side the poison of the whorish church of Rome hath so spred it selfe over the worlde that as certaine wilde beastes of which Cicero writeth Den●l deor lib. 2. whē they be hūted are wont with an intollerable filthy sent to driue frō thē the hūters so the leavē of Antichrist though he be now hunted to his place hath infected all that way where hee hath gon that the vnholesome savor there of cannot yet be purged with the bright fire of Gods word no not in those places where the word hath of a long season beene divided aright not withstāding the cōtinual diligence of faithful Pastours in their ministery the vnreproueablenes of their conversation and the godly writings of many learned and zealous men For mine owne part being one of the least last among my brethrē in this so weighty a calling as afflictions are the assigned portion of a Christian I haue beene weakned with Gods visitation of sicknesse chastened with the adversities of this life that little was the good that could be done by such as I am I rejoice of mine infirmities knowing as * Mar●i● 〈…〉 h●r one that was sufficiently tried with afflictions hath writtē for the cōfort of others that experience practise in bearing the crosse is that which maketh a right divine a true Christiō indeede Howbeit having now aboue a yeare since at several times according to that measure of grace that I received exercised vpon the latter part of the 3. Chap. of the ●ipist to the Hebrewes supposing that setipture to bee most fit to bee handled in these daies and among those people whō I was to instruct I thought it my duty and the rather being requested to publish the same to the benefite of others specially of such as hunger after good things accept of that portiō of meat which curious ful stomackes haue no lust to I haue added thereto a sermon the matter whereof the cause of annexing it to these Lectures is briefly specified in the preface to the reader if profane writings as histories of profane mens liues bookes of lustful loue invented fables tricks of vaine mens wits which helpe to builde the Babel of pride to fortifie the Egypt of sin be so favourably received studied on in the world much more is Christian doctrine to bee regarded of Christian men And whereas greate clerkes and graue divines do out of the treasure of their many yeares studies bring their gold and blew silke to the building of the Lordes sanctuary let goates haire be accepted at the handes of younger and Poorer men so it bee fit for the building and be offered of a willing heart as the Lord requireth It 〈◊〉 ●55 skilleth not what prowde and envious men iudge of our enterprise so long as we haue the testimony of a pure conscience The world is alwaies like it selfe ful of scorpion like scoffers And it is no new thing to see the commō evil of envie so to reigne in most men that they haue other mens doings in obloquje ●●eke to depratie them And this they do as the Poet saith ducunt Vel quia nil rectum nisi quod placuit sibi 〈…〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Vel quia turpe putant parere minoribus either because they count nothing well done but that which pleaseth their humo● or else because they thinke it a foule disgrace that their inferiours should go before them But that I bee not tedious vnto your honour as I haue founde vndeserved favour at your handes so being not othervvise able to testifie my loue to you I am bolde to present vnto your Lordship this litle fruite of my labour hoping that of your wonted

then most desperately when Caleb and Ioshua rebuked them that they shoulde not rebell against the Lord neither feare the people Num. 14. 6. 7. 8. 9. of the land of Canaan who should bee but bread for them knowing that the Lorde whose word is a sure rocke would giue them the land according to his promise These thinge when they hearde they so proucked that they woulde haue stoned Caleb and ver 10. I●s 〈…〉 By these examples we may learne how cōtrarie and repugnant the wisedome of flesh and blood is to the wisedome of the holie Ghost for it is not subiect as saieth the Apostle Rom. 8. 7. to the law of God neither indeed can be And for this cause the Lord saith as the heauēs are Isa 55 9. higher then the earth so are my waies higher then your waies and my thoughts aboue your thoughts This is it therefore why the nations of the worlde and the most part of men in all ages haue affected sought after false counterfeit religions as most agreeable with the corruption of mans nature at the hearinge whereof no man might be displeased nor made to prouoke Such were the inuentions of the Heathē they were content to receiue subscribe to any religion or rather idolatrie except the religion of the true euerliuing God The Egiptians as it is recorded of them worshipped so many fayned Godes that their seuerall sacrifices and ceremonies are said to haue beene more then sixe hundreth sixtie in number The Grecians imitated them The old Romans in processe of time exceeded them in the number of superstitious religions But for all that the Romans woulde neuer consente to worshippe the GOD of Israel nor to receiue the religion of that people because they knew that hee must bee vvorshipped accordinge to his commaundemente and not as they would The religion of Mahomet which now the Turkes doe mainetaine was patched togither of the inventions of Mahomet and of the devises of certaine prophane and vvicked men in such vvise that the ignoraunt multitude might haue no cause to dislike of the same that so they might drawe the more people to ●ome with them in their sect But the doctrine of CHRIST and his Apostles they sought by all meanes to slaunder and treade vnder foote and they doe still provoke as oft as they heare it because it is the doctrine of truth We cānot deny that our forefathers withal the adherentes of the false church of Rome haue most fearefully provoked the Lord for the space of fiue hundreth yeares at the least by consentinge to suppresse the holye scriptures that they shoulde not bee published to the vnderstanding of the common people and by persecuting and killing the little flocke of Christ which professed to be saued by faith alone in Christ Iesus and not by the law nor by workes It is too well knowne that such hath beene the fruit of Antichrist making ignorance the mother of deuotiò devising so many new Gods or dead mē to be called vpon praied vnto for help that in number the Gods of the heathen haue not exceeded thē With these the like impreties that sonne of perdition the bishop of Rome hath of long time provoked the God of truth and mightely bewitched the vnthankefull world For as it is written in the Popes owne * Gratian as distinct 44. si papa law he hath not onely bee●e remisse and negligent of his owne and his brethrens salvatiō but perversitas Papa 〈…〉 m● rabiles populos catervatim secum duxit ad gehe●nam the Popes maliciousnes hath drawne with him to hell innumerable people by heapes And what shall we say of the provoking of these daies in which the people of this land being brought out of the Popes Egypt of darke ignorance and superstition and having heard the doctrin of Moses of the Prophets of Christ and his Apostles now fortie yeares long even so many yeares as the children of Israel heard the same doctrine of faith in the wildernesse yet Atheisme superstition and contempt of the truth are so rife every where that Caleb and Ioshua the messengers of the truth cannot perswade men to forget Egypt and to set their minde vpon the land of promise Surely this must be the greater condemnation of the world that Io. 3. 19. light is come into the world and men loued darkenesse more then light Here we see that all men are naturally inclined to superstitiō and idolatrie And therfore no man that continueth in sinne and neglecteth the calling of God shall be excused because so many ages and so many people our fathers and our forefathers haue so liued yea haue so prouoked the Lord and walked in the broad way that leadeth to destruction all such examples of disobedience if we wil sinne after them shal as hath beene already said aggravate our punishment because the Lorde hath caused them to come to our knowledge for our admonition For whosoever shall follow the wicked fact of Caine to shed innocent bloode shal be punished seaven folde more then Caine was because Gen. 4. 15. he is warned by Caines example to abstaine from murther And all those plagues which happened vnto the Israelits in the wildernesse for their infidelitie mur●u●ing came for examples sake ar● written saith Paul to a●monish vs vpon whom the ends of the 1. Cor. 10. ●1 worlde are come And f●r this ●●use the Lord would h●●e his dreadfull iudgments which haue bene executed against the sinnes of former times to be in al ages tould and preached vnto the worlde that men might be warned thereby to amend their liues as we may see by those messengers which came to Iob one a●ter another to tell him of Gods iudgmentes shewed vpon his ca●●ell his servantes his children Everie one of these messengers saith I onely a● escaped alone To Iob 1. 15 16 17. 19. what end or wherefore are they escaped it followeth to tell thee And to the same effect the Lord saith by Eze●●el I will leaue a litle Eze. 12. 16. number of them from the sworde from the famine from the pestilence To what end that they may declare saith he all these abominations among the heathen where they come We are then sufficiently admonished by the examples of former ages what will be the punishment of euill are taught what examples we must follow to wit the examples of good men wherof we haue some in all ages of the world The Apostle saith here that not all which came out of ●gypt by Moses provoked VVee must looke on them that provoked not but obeyed the word of the Lord though they be but few among many thousandes of disobedient and vnfaithfull people It seemeth that the younger forte which were vnder twentie yeares olde among Num. 14. ●9 the childrē of Israel provoked not the Lord or if they did yet by the testimony of the Apostle here there was a remnant left

goddes D 〈…〉 was in hazard to be set at nought and reiected they haue no better weapons to defend her then the shield of custome example of the multitude A● A. Act. 19. 27. ●i● say they and the world worshippeth her We can be cōtent whē we come to church to here this and the like scriptures but we● thinke that the preacher is out of his text if he apply them to vs or to the abuses 〈…〉 ous time for we haue gotten the name of Christians therfore we thinke that whatsoeuer we do is f●r enough from idolatry Thus ar● most men through the blindnes of the 〈…〉 hearts hardened in their sinnes There is no common-wealth so wel reformed but for the mos 〈…〉 in all place● t●● greatest nūber of me●●●e lovers of the wo●ld more thē lovers of God every tr●e 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 stian hath iust cause to be greued to see that after fourtie yeares preaching of the Gospell in this land men should still cary these and the like idolles in their heartes For whereyee see these may-poles stand there shall you finde that either the word of God is cōt●ned or else it hath not as yet been powerfully taught among the people of that place It hath beene seene in some places of this land that men haue beene so desperatly dispose to maintaine their maytriumphes that they haue set vp with thē the Queene● arms intending by this colour to intrap such men as would speake against them or go about to haue thē downe as if the Queenes maiesty had allowed her arme● to be set on may-pols Lo here the childrē of this world are in their generation wiser thē the childrē of light Oh that magistrates would looke better to these abuses 4 Some mē that haue ●●●s to see do yet winke at this matter and say that the setting vp of a pole is no sinne that it cannot hurt if other abuses did not follow it But they might see that the thing it selfe is an abuse that there is nothing in it which is not sin For it is not of the nature of those things which God alloweth for the mainetaininge of mans life as sleepe meat drinke and appatrell These thinges are necessarie and without the vse of them we cannot liue and yet whē we abuse them or exceed in any of them it is sin but the setting vp of a pole after the maner that we speake of addeth one sinne to another contrarie to the counsell of the sonne of S●rach which forbiddeth to bind Eccl. 7. 8. two s 〈…〉 together First it is an abuse of Gods creatures for God created not the trees of the vvoode to be cut downe and set vp againe for gazing stockes to no other vse but to satisfie mens fleshly lustes God crowneth the yeare vvith his blessings and satisfieth every tree with moisture making it to be greene and pleasaunt and to bee fruitfull after his kinde But vaine and gracelesse men destroy the most flourishing trees and sette them vp to bee drye and vnfruitfull like themselues Secondly the deede done is an idle deed and not only so but also a deede of offence and a stumbling blocke to drawe away many that are weake to cause them to speak● good of evil and to take pleasure therein But every idle deede is more then an idle word And every idle word is sinne or else Christ would not haue said tha● men shal giue Mar. 12. 36. account thereof at the day of iudgement Therefore every idle deed is a greater sin And every offence which hindreth the faith of others is such a sin that he saith it were better for the author therof that a milstone were ha●god Mat. 18. 6. about his necke and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea Thirdly the May-polers are caterpillers to the commō wealth for they make destruction of the fairest young ●ree● which if they were suffred to grow would in time be good timber for necessary vse● Thus in the act it selfe not speaking of the mischievous sequels thereof we may see many sins bound togither as the abuse of Gods creature a deed vnprofitable hurtful offensiue to others and finally an hindrance to the cōmon wealth which is a breach of charity 5 Who can tell whether the setting vp of these poles proceedeth not from the leaven of our adversaries the Pope his seminari●●● for it is not vnknown to them that wheresoeuer such banners do stand there are many wavering ignorant people not yet instructed nor setled in religion which if they might haue their defite woulde quickly b●● perverted to go after Ba●l and to like better of the Masse then of the Gospell 6 To them that aske what recreation may be lawfull for them and what exercise yong men shall haue we canot appoint any which the word of God doth not allow Christians are commanded to abstaine from al appearance 1. Thess 5. 22. of evill Howbeit according to mans wisdom which saith of evils the lesse is to be chosen of bodily exercises such may be vsed as are profitable to the common wealth not offensiue to religion notwithstāding the chiefest exercise of Christian-men whether they be young or old should at all times bee in the law of the Lord. For therein the godly man as David saith doth exercise himselfe day night Psal 1. 2. And that is the exercise wherewith the wisdome of God would haue a young 〈◊〉 to redresse his way like the young men of whom S. Psal 119. 9. Iohn writeth that they were strong and that they had the word of God abiding in them 1. ●o 2. 14. had overcome the wicked But alas the contrary may be saide of most young men in these daies Let them therefore consider what master they serve let them shake of the voke of sinne and abstaine from fleshly lustes redressing their waies according to the word of God that so they may become the servants of Christ to whom they haue made avowe in their baptisme Let vs pray for the assistance of Gods holy spirite that we may subdue all fleshly lustes And pray we that magistrat● such as ●re in authoritie may haue a greater care to reforme maners to see what ought to be reformed FINIS