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A sermon preached in S. Peters Church at West-Chester the XXV. of September, 1586 Containing matter fit for the time: by Edward Hutchins Maister of Arts, and fellowe of Brazennose College.
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Hutchins, Edward, 1558?-1629.
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A SERMON PREACHED IN S. PETERS CHVRCH AT WEST-CHESTER THE XXV OF SEPTEMBER 1586. CONTAINING MATTER FIT FOR THE TIME By Edward Hutchins Maister of Arts and Fellowe of Brazennose College PSALME 74. O deliuer not the soule of thy turtle-doue vnto the multitude of enimies vers 20. Arise O God maintaine thine owne cause vers 23. AT OXFORD â—â—inted by IOSEPH BARNES and are to be sold in Pauls Church-yarde at the signe â—f the Tygers head â—O THE WOORSHIPFVLL MAIster ROGER PVLESTON Esquire grace and peace in Christ ALthough there be in Sion numbers of such as haue do cast off their riches into the Lordes â—â—easurie such as are euerie waie â—â—reful able to disburse their two â—ence committed to theÌ„ for the cuâ—â—ng of the wounded man in Ierico â—hose labours or rather almes are â—orious on earth written in heaâ—en though I knowe my selfe to be one of them not worth any riches at onelie a mite rather wishing to â—ue then hauing to bestow the two â—nce of God yet haue I bin as beâ—â—re so now again by entreaty won bestow this short sermon though it bee but a mite though nothing to that which others cast into the treasury Whereof therefore as of all desire fauorable acceptation so oâ— your worshippe I am to craue it to whoÌ„ I haue bin bold yet of dutâ— bound to offer the same as a true though a smal tokeÌ„ of my dutiful thankfull remeÌ„brance of your sundrie benefits towards me from timâ— to time which the lord god requitâ— where I cannot who double muâ—tiplie his blessings vpoÌ„ you keeâ— you in al your waies and vs from those enemies that studie nothinâ— but how to disquiet vs. AMEN Your Worships in Châ—â—â—â— to commaund E. H. It is written in the 5. Chapter of Saint Pauls Epistle to the Galathians 12. verse I would to God they were cut off that doe disquiet â—ou AS SAINT PAVL RIGHT Worshipful dearly beloued in our deare sauiour was chosen of God to be his lampe a light of his golden Candelsticke so did hee performe the â—utie of light he bent himselfe to lighten them â—hat were in darcknesse wheresoeuer he came Hee was a lamp to the Thessalonians a lamp â—o the Corinthians a lamp to the Romanes a â—amp to the Ephesians a lamp to the Colossiâ—ns to omit the rest hee was a lampe to these â—eople of Galatia as appeareth by this Epistle which he penned first as many take it and first â—ent vnto theÌ„ Wherein appeareth that he had laied the skilful builder laid them on christ â—e corner stone of the teÌ„ple called coÌ„uerted â—hem from foolishnesse to wisedome from igâ—orance to knowledge from error to the truth â—om superstition to christian religion Howâ—eit where by his painfull care careful traâ—el amoÌ„g them he had thus brought theÌ„ to an â—â—ppy estate in Iesus Christ it grieued Saâ—n to see it therefore hee busied himselfe to put out the cleare light of Paul the lampe of Christ our sauior to pull out of the wall the liuely stones that Saint Paul his elect builder had laid vpon him Nay alas he did not only grieue at this prosperous estate of these Galathians wherein they stood therefore sent out such as should seek to ouerthrow the good that Paul had wrought among them but as hee attempted so hee tempted and by his tempting preuailed so far that the Galathians fell from light to darcknes from true wisedome to their former folly from truth to error from the syncerity of religion to superstition from christ to Moses by which meanes it came to passe that S. Paul their Apostle was in a maner forgotten and his truth almost forsaken of them and among them Which their miserable estate â— piteous the Apostle considering hee tooke thiâ— course to write this epistle to them thereby to warne them of their estate by him in the gospell of their folly in reuolting of his care to conuert them again from concision to the true circumcision from the ceremonies of the Laâ—â— to the truth of the gospel that so Iesus Chriâ—â— might profit them and hee bee a ioyful Apostlâ— ouer in them Many waies doth he moue thâ— I neede not to expresse the specials In thâ— verse he layeth before him the mischief greaâ— euill that the false Apostles wrought in the church how they were enimies to the estate of these Galathians how they brought them froÌ„ the breade of life to feede on leauen from the greene tree to the dry sticke from the body to the shadow from the kernell to the shell from Christ to the Law ceremoniall whereby they made theÌ„ sore where they were healed slaues where they were freed lost where they were before quitte by the gospell of grace and made Christ vnprofitable vnto them where they fought well before yet now to flee where they â—anne wel before yet now to stand where they were in the spirit yet nowe to end in the fleshe where they had yet nowe to loose the faith of Christ our sauiour Which their miserable coÌ„â—ition the Apostle pondering with himselfe how â—ttended to their destruction to the disglory of God whose gospell was despised that way for vntrueth and the blood of Christ was like â—o bee of no profite vnto them it did so grieue â—im on the one side to see their pâ—teous estate â—eale on the other side did so eate him vp to see â—he glorious gospel of peace so trod in the dust â—hat he burst out in these words which I haue â—ead vnto you Would to god they were cut off â—hat so disquiet you as if he shuld haue said O Galathians I begot you in the faith should be your father I brought you to the light anâ— should bee your starre I haue taught you the truth and should be your master and whereas the Church is an espoused virgin to one husband â— Cor. 11.2 that one husband is Iesus Christ the King of Kings the God of all glory I am the Bridegromes friend and so you ought to repute mee that haue brought you to the spouse your mother the Church in the Kings priuie chaÌ„ber Cant. 1.3 I haue brought you as SalomoÌ„ speaketh Cant. 1.11 to see the King at his repast your spikenard hath giuen the smell thereof O Galathians what shal I say I had an office I prepared my selfe to performe it yea I laide before you a vessell ful of the pretious blood of Christ to the purging of you froÌ„ your sins nay I haue taken the pains to wash you therein as whitâ— as euer was the snow in Salmon in a word I haue described Christ before you and preached him only a free and full Iesus vnto you yet and it was my ioie to see the happie fruites of these my labors among you that you were become the Lambes of Christ â—oh 10. Cant. 2.1 â—phe 5.23 and Christ your sheepheard the leaues of Christ and christ