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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04576	Dauids teacher, or The true teacher of the right-vvay to heauen Discouering erroneous teachers and seditious sectuaries. Preached at Paules-Crosse the 3. of September. 1609. By Ro: Iohnson, M. of Arts, chaplaine to the Right Reuerend Father in God, the L. Bishop of Lincolne.	Johnson, Robert, chaplain to the Bishop of Lincoln.	1609 (1609)	STC 14694; ESTC S107451	26,498	52

DAVIDS TEACHER OR THE TRVE TEACHER OF THE RIGHT-VVAY TO HEAVEN DISCOVERING ERROneous Teachers and Seditious Sectuaries Preached at Paules-Crosse the 3. of September 1609. By Ro Iohnson M. of Arts Chaplaine to the Right Reuerend Father in God the L. Bishop of Lincolne LONDON Printed by T. Haueland for Mathew Law and are to be solde at his Shop in Pauls Church-yard neere S. Austins-gate at the Signe of the Fox 1609. TO THE RIGHT REVEREND FATHER IN GOD THE LORD BISHOP OF LINCOLNE ⸫ TO make triuiall Apologies for publishing bookes in these times were idle since the reasons some alleage for their defence therein are common and ouer-worne And therefore if I should with others vrge the earnest entreatieo friends for a coppie of this Sermon as a reason for publishing thereof rather then the expresse commandement of some which haue authoritie therein and vnto whom I am most obliged in all dutie I could not bee free from such suspition also In which respect since as it was preached so being now published as both my dutie and loue bindeth mee I present it vnto your Lordship with all due respect Humbly desiring that as vnto my vnworthy selfe so also vnto this you would bee pleased to vouchsafe your Patronage If not your pardon But howsoeuer I hope your acceptance since I offer it with a truely deuoted loue I beare towards your Lordship in all dutie And so addressing still my praiers vnto God for your Lordships long health aud prosperitie Irest Your Lordships in all obseruance and dutie ROBERT IOHNSON A SERMON PREACHED AT PAVLS CROSSE THE third of SEPTEMBER 1609. Psalm 119. 33. Teach me O Lord the way of thy Statutes and I will keepe it vnto the end AS the Psalmes of Dauid are rightly entitled The holy Psalmes of Dauid so this Psalme Pellican stileth Sacratissimus Psalmus a most sacred or holy Psalme First holy in respect of the subiect which is the holy law of God and then holy in respect of the Author therof which is the holy Spirit of God that directed the pen and heart of this Psalmograph for the composing thereof And this Psalme is compiled after an alphabeticall order to helpe the memorie And although there be in this Psalme 176. verses yet in euery one of these verses is found one of these ten words according to the number of the ten Commandements of Almighty God viz. the Law the Way the Word the Righteousnesse the Truth Iudgements Precepts Statutes Commandements and Testimonies And this is Dauids ten-stringed Lute wherewith he did solace himselfe and in euery one of these verses he touched one of these strings Neither is this to be thought any absurd tautalogie or idle repetition that these words are so often repeated in this Psalme and one of them found in euery verse For it sheweth vs The wonderfull affection loue and zeale that the children of God haue vnto his lawes and word Therefore Dauid heere out of his loue and zeale that way saith Teach me O Lord the way of thy Statutes and I will keepe it vnto the end Nay such is his affection to the Law of God that he will not rest so but proceedeth further Direct mee in the path of thy Commandements Nay such is his loue that hee will not stay heere Incline my heart vnto thy testimonies Nay more so great is his zeale to the Commandements of God that he maketh it demonstrable with an Ecce demonstrable in it selfe verse 40. Ecce behold I desire thy Commandements hee stampeth the carecter Ecce vpon it in testimonie of his great loue vnto the Law of God And therefore as all the other verses deserue a carefull and respectiue meditation so this verse which I haue proposed to be handled is most worthy our considerations both propter dignitatem subiecti the excellencie of the subiect which is the Law of God and also propter necessitatem vtilitatem so necessary as nothing is more requisit then hoc vnum this one thing and so profitable if wee respectiuely apprehend it that it cannot but sway our best and worthiest thoughts vnto the loue thereof Teach me O Lord because he was ignorant he desireth a Teacher and because hee would bee sure to haue a good teacher he praieth the Lord to teach him and because he would be sure to learne a good lesson hee desireth the knowledge and practise of Gods Law and because he would not discourage his Teacher by teaching a non proficient hee promiseth to keepe it and that vnto the end The wisdome heerein contained First Doce Teach There 's his ignorance Secondly Teach mee There is the ignorance of the elect themselues without continuall instruction Thirdly the way the narrownesse and difficultie thereof Fourthly of thy statutes the firmnesse and stabilitie thereof I will keepe it There 's his promise respectiuè First I will There 's his free will by grace Secondly keepe it There 's his treasure Thirdly vnto the end There 's his time limited his perseuerance So then 1 Heere is a request 2 And heere is a promise A request to be taught a promise to keepe his lesson Teach me O Lord There 's his request And I will keepe it There 's his promise In the request obserue 1 The subiect of the request in Doce Teach 2 The pattie making request in mee 3 The person vnto whom he maketh this request O Lord. 4 The summe or totall desired The way of thy Statutes In the promise obserue 1 The person promising I will 2 The matter promised keepe it 3 The continuance and time limited how long Vnto the end Let vs now therefore not stay any longer at the doores of my text but let vs enter in to behold the riches and furniture contained therein And if it please you to lend me the hand and goe along with mee I will bee your conduct into the still-yard and storehouse of Gods children and there ye shall take a view of all their treasures which are wonderfull and cause admiration in the true beholders thereof for so he saith vers 129. Thy testimonies are wonderfull therefore doth my soule loue them 1. Wonderfull in respect of the Authour whose name is wonderfull the mighty God the euerlasting Father the Prince of peace Isay 9. 6. Secondly wonderfull in respect of the wisdome contained in them Rom. 11. 33. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 O the deepnesse of the riches both of the wisdome and knowledge of God How vnsearchable are his iudgements and his waies past finding out Thirdly wonderfull in respect of the continuance of their time verse 144. The righteousnesse of thy testimonies is euerlasting These treasures will continue when all other decay and perish For all other treasures vanish away like smoke and are like Zeuxes painted grapes deceiuing poore birds with the onely semblance of grapes when a man thinketh hee hath fast hold of them then they are presently gone from him doe what he can Or like vnto the apples of

busie-bodies in such matters as doe not sometimes appertain vnto them They will with the Pharisies find fault with the disciples of Christ if it be but for the rubbing of the eares of Corne or for not washing their hands this cacoethes or euill custome is most apparant in them 4 Fourthly by this marke ye shall know them they will speake euill of their Pastors and teachers that are regular and are not of their stampe Nay they will conspire against them and this the author heereof may say as Dauid did Saue me O Lord from the conspiracie of the wicked and saue me from the insurrection of the wicked doers which haue whet their tongue like a sword and shoot out their Arrowes euen bitter words By their slanders and conspiracies and combinations ye shall know them 5 Fiftly ye shall know them by this mark they smell of Hypocrisie and heerein they sympatnize and symbolize with the deuill himselfe Apud Indos aes adeo lucidum c. Amongst the Indians there is a kind of brasse of that claritie and perfect golden colour that it can by no meanes be discerned from golde but by the smell thereof onely These seditious sectuaries much resemble that brasse for they set such a golden colour vpon themselues of singularitie and purenesse that by no other meanes they can be discerned from the true children of GOD but by the smell onely of these aforenamed defects of malice slander conspiracy and hypocrisie therfore by their smell ye shall know them Therfore I would not haue you mistake me here that I doe heere condemne the godly zealous man which tenderly loueth Gods word and walketh vprightlie in his waies with Dauid for by these aforesaid markes ye shall know them and by these marks ye may easilie distinguish and put difference betweene the vpright religious and zealous man and the masterlesse seditious and pernitious sectuarie These marks characters are stamped vpon them and make them demonstrable to the world these are principles and first heads of disorder and breake the parke-pale of the gouernment of our church neither doe I hereby disswade any from hearing any mans Sermons whom they affect for heare all men that preach the Gospell as much as thou maiest He that refuseth to heare his praier shall bee abhominable but to this end partly because a number of the laitie the roes and hinds of the field which will start aside at the cracking of a sticke will refuse their owne parish Churches and to heare their own Pastors preach be they neuer so learned or well habited in speech because they weare a Surplisse and make a crosse vpon a childe and wil runne after and get them a heap of teachers that speake euill of them that are in authoritie these are truce-breakers false accusers intemperate fierce despisers of them that are good that wil raile against Bishops and curtaile the title of kings as in their praiers oftentimes as is most manifest And partly because many of my brethren of the ministerie that haue excellent parts and gifts and are called into the Lords haruest to labour in the Vineyard in their callings will notwithstanding rather then they wil weare a Surplisse or submit themselues to authoritie commanded by Gods ordinance leaue that magnum opus that great worke of preaching the Gospel vndone yea vtterly disclaime and renounce their callings to the hindrance of the Gospell and vndoing of themselues and their families Alas Christ which preached heere on earth rather then he would disclaime his calling of preaching the Gospel would notwithstanding his purple robe his Crowne of Thornes his Scepter of reede that was imposed vpon him in derision preach the Gospel still That same triple exaggeration of Christ vnto Peter should be me thinks a great motiue vnto all vs of the Clergie not to renounce this worke for any respect Peter louest thou me Peter louest thou mee c. and it is wel noted by one that Peter was sorrie that Christ should aske him the third time Peter louest thou mee Simon Peter answered Lord thou knowest all things thou knowest that I loue thee And shall not we be as sorrie that Christ shall so often taxe vs by his loue and thereby inioyne vs vnto the exigence of this dutie that we haue notwithstanding left it vndone Let vs not therfore my brethrē I beseech you in the fear of God be so peruerse vnto god his ordināce but let vs with Dauid learn to be in the accusatiue case and to come after the verbe as hee did when he said Teach me O Lord. And let vs not leaue this work of preaching the Gospell for any respect and renounce our callings offend our good God and cause an amazednesse in the Roes and Hindes of the field an apostasie and relapse in the ignorant simple and heereby let them stand stock-stil in piety vertue and godlinesse but be rather all of one mind and loue as brethren and submit themselues vnto the ordinance of God as Dauid did Teach me o Lord follow the verbe and be subiect to authoritie And so let vs come to the secōd part which is the promise I will keep it with my whole heart Promises are made either absolutè or respectinè as we distinguish either absolutely or conditionally Dauid doth not make his promise absolutely but cōditionally he saith not I will learne and keepe thy law without teaching but first teach me and then I will learne keepe it wherein out of this copulatiue and we may obserue Grace alwaies hath the precedencie and goeth before good workes and righteousnesse We cannot walke in the lawes of God before we bee inabled by grace Dauid could not so much as make a promise of keeping the Law of God before the Lord had taught him Paul could not preach before he was called by grace and therefore knowing the necessitie and vtilitie heereof in all his Epistles first wisheth them grace Grace be with you and peace c. 1 For there is gratia praecedens or operans a grace going before that worketh in vs and bringeth vs from that blindenesse and ignorance that is in vs by our originall corruption to the schoole of regeneration true knowledge of Christ. And of this grace Paul saith Not I but grace that was in me 2 Then there is gratia cooperans a grace working together with our wills and our wils working together with grace And this is that which Paul speaketh of And his grace which was in me was not in vaine not in vaine as it was giuen not in vaine as it was receiued for euen as the raine falling on the earth mollifieth the same and both worke to bring forth fruits so the grace of God being distilled into the will and minde of man worke both together to the bringing foorth of the fruites of righteousnesse So Dauid heere Teach me O Lord instill this grace into my heart and I wil keep thy