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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03854	A sermon preached at Reyfham in the countie of Norff. the 22. of September, an. Do. 1588 And eftsoones at request published by R.H. minister of Gods worde.	Humpston, Robert, d. 1606.	1589 (1589)	STC 13969; ESTC S104324	28,218	58

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 proceede in their cruelties How dare bloudie Antiochus afflict the Church how dare cruel Iezabel murther the Prophets how dare prowd Sennacherib blaspheme the lining God ● Re. 19.2 how dare wicked Herode behead Iohn the Baptist how dare churlish Diues despise the wofull Lazarus Luk. 16.19 and how dare the wicked world set it self against God For he commeth where wilt thou hide thyselfe If thou clyme vp to heauen euen there he wil find thée If thou go downe to hell Amos. 9.2 his power wil preuent thée If thou make a way with the wings of the morning his presence onertakes thée If thou wouldest smoother sinne in the bottome of thy conscience there is a worme to gnaw and grind thée If thou call vpon the hilles to fall vpon thée or crye to the mountaines to hide and coner thée it will be in vaine it cannot preuail thée for God commeth a consuming fire a terrible Iudge a fierce reuenger And now shal the wicked find it as true as terrible Deut. 4.24 that it is a fearefull thing to fal into the hands of the liuing God Oh consider this ye that forget God lest he take you away in your wickednes for if his wrath be kindled but a little Blessed are all they that put their trust in him And thus at last I come to the Text which for order and memories sake I wil dispose to the vnderstāding of the simple Wherein obserue with me I pray these foure circumstaunces naturallye arising out of the words The first of the person Who cōmeth God The second of the place from whence From Teman mount Paran The thirde of the manner how in glory For his glorie couereth the Heauens The fourth last the end and why he commeth That the earth may be ful of his praise Who commeth Whence How and why he commeth Concerning the first to wit of the person I minde not to propound Hiero his question to Simonides Cicer. de nat deorū For Christians haue alreadie learned that touching the incomprehensible maiestie and essence of the great and eternall God Mans knowledge is too shallowe to comprohende the vnmeasurable depth of this hidden mysterie When Reason therefore woulde be ouerbolde and busie in this scutanie let Religion ouer-rule her for where reason leaueth religiō beginneth that religiō propoundeth faith apprehendeth that faith assureth hope holdeth and that hope enioyeth Loue shall accomplish But the interim who so shall saucelie prie with the Bethshamites into the Arke shall assuredly finde destruction 1. Sa. 6.19 and he that wil curiously gaze vpon the maiestie of the godhead shall be oppressed with the glorie thereof A lesson to be looked vnto in time to be learned of the secreat Arrians of our dayes whose proude and insolent spirites cannot be conteined within the limits of this religious compasse till wayward conceit haue carried them headlong into damnable heresies Wherof we haue dailie examples Epist ad Leand. It was a graue speach of Gregorie that the sacred Scriptures are like a déep foord where the Lambe may yet safely wade when the Elephant shall swimme And right well saide Augustine Humilitas omnia quecunque benefacimus precedat comitetur consequatur Epist 56. Humilitie is the entrance the middle and ende of all that is well done And thus we may be warned not ouerbusilie to pursue this point of the Essence and maiestie of God A second and safer way to better our knowledge and benefit our selues in this behalfe is by the names of God whereby it pleaseth him to manifest in some sort his existence all sufficiencie and mairstie as when he saith to Abraham I am Schad dai Gen. 17.1 all sufficient to vpholde and sustains the creatures in heauen and earth at whose almesbaket both King and Kaysar are brinen to begg their daily bread at whose hand the eyes of all creatures do expect their foode in due time and at whose mercie seate all mankinde must knocke and crye for grace and remission of sinnes To Moses I am Iehouah the essentiall name of God Exo. 3.6 to shewe as mans capacitie may beare it his essence and being of himselfe before all eternitie from whome all things haue their breath mouing and being Againe he is sometime called Theos of his swiftnes and presence Act. 17.24 passing through the secrete corners priuie places of the heart vnderstanding our thoughts long before Sometime the Lorde of Hostes Psa 46.8 11. to expresse his almightines with Frogges and Flyes subduing Kings and conquering Nations at his own will Here he is called Elohah and the holy one all verie sweete and significant to set foorth the power of God and to perswade the feare of his most holie name Where wee must be warefull lest wee become sotted with Popish superstitions or inchanted with Romish sorceries as though the wearing or bearing about vs these names of God written in virgin parchement with crosses and caracters were of force to cure maladies to chase away bugges and cast out diuels which in truth is blasphemously to abuse and take in vaine the holie name of God to our owne destruction But learne we rather to harbour and carrie the power faith of this name deepe in our hearts So shall it be to our comforts and victorie in al temptation For this is our victorie that ouercommeth Sathan sinne the worlde euen our faith 1. Ioh. 5.4 A third and verie good way to help yet in this case is by consideration of the offices attributed to the persons in the Godhead as Creation to the Father and therein his wonderfull wisedome disposing and transposing all things to his owne will in the frame of whese prouidence all the actions and accidents among the sonnes of men are daily wrought and come to their appointed end Redemption to the sonne and therein his inspeakable mercie towardes mankinde most willingly affording the dearest droppes of his heart bloud for the raunsoming of wretched sinners Sanctification to the Holy ghost and herein the ineruaylous and powerfull hand of our God in changing and renuing the hearts of men raising vs daily from the death of sinne vnto the life of righteousnes Uerye comfortable be these also to expresse and manifest the great care and goodnes of our God Psa 86.15 by nature mercifull long suffering slowe to wrath and readye to pardon wickednesse It is his mercye to take awaye the burthen and wayght of our sinnes but it is his great mercie to renue vs with indumentes of grace in this life and to crowne vs with glorye in the life to come And hitherto of the first circumstance And now to the second to wit of the place From Teman and from mount Paran Where whether you take Taeman for that Citie of Idumaea buylded by Teman one of the Tukes of the sonnes of Esau and threatened by Ieremie with vtter extirpation Gen. 36.1

he is faithful that hath promised His will is stable his gyfts without repentance ●o 11.29 In which confident assurance the anciēt Patriarks the good kings the holie Prophets and penitent sinners of euery sort haue always deriued their comfort from this free fauour of God the onely fountaine cause efficient of all saluation Where learne we first to loath and detest Pelaganisme doctrine of Poperie set a broche by the merite-mongers the enimies of the grace of God who struggle to erect a Babell ●en 11.4 whose top may reach to heauen and to stop the streame of this most auncient doctrine contrarie to all course of scripture example of the Saints who in euery age occasion dealing with God in this case do wholly abandon the mention smother all thought of merit a point so well knowen or at least so often taught that a man would denie it altogether néedeles to speake more expressely in this behalfe The vse benefit of this lesson we digested wil be this much Luk. 18.11 That while our aduersaries dare stande vp with the Pharesie to bragge and implead workes in barre before the Iudge depending in part vpon desert building partly vpon their owne foundation and therfore stil tottering in their doctrine of doubtfulnes ●a 1.6 carried as the waues of the sea one while vp to heauen suddenly down to hell as inconstant in all their wayes Wee contrarily acknowledge with Iob ●ob 9.30 our vncleannes with Ieremie our wickednes Ier. 2.22 pitching Christ our one and only foundation Psa 71.16 with the Psalmograph making mention of his righteousnes only Iusticia omnia exceptione maior made ours by imputation shal sing care away with the king Why art thou so heauie Oh my soule Psa 42.11 trust in God c. and say with S. Paul therefore iustified by faith We are at peace with God through Iesus Christ our Lord c. yea it is God that iustifieth and who shal condemne There is now no condemnation to those that be ingraffed into Christ c. In which sweete confidence we shall attaine the quiet rest blessed securitie of Gods saintes The knowledge and assurance whereof God for his Christes sake daily more and more increase confirme and seale vp vpon our consciences to his euerlasting glorie and our endlesse comfort Hetherto of the occasion Nowe a worde or twaine of the Phrase and so to my text God commeth from Teman Blind Balaam did say therefore could say Nu. 23.19 God is not a man that hee shoulde repente c. Where lest we should fall into the heresie of the Anthropomorphitae we must learn that the actions of the bodie as to go to behold to come the passions of the mind as to reioyce to be greeued to repent such like so often in holy scripture ascribed vnto God are not so to be taken as though these motions perturbations could fall into the godhead God forbid but are to be vnderstoode in a figure verie apt to helpe our dulnes and significant to expresse Gods readie mercies alwayes at hande to relieue wretched sinners too apt in Moses absence to fall to Idolatrie ●xo 32.1 and with the Bethulians in the point of perill to prescribe vnto God ●udith 7. Therefore because we are flesh ●en 6.3 and the Lord remembring that we are but dust ●sa 78.39 it pleaseth him in great mercie to stoupe to our infirmitie and to condiscend to our capacitie speaking as a man vnto mortall men and to make his mercies palpable afoording vs all the helpes of familiar phrases of figures parables and similitudes in holie writt together with the Sacraments ceremonies and rites of holy Church besides thus by all possible meanes to establish our hearts in assurance of his sauing health and by due consequence to conduct vs in the course of a holie and Christian life Moreouer marke I praye in the Prophets phrase the transposition of the Temple where speaking of the glorious presence of God in the Mount at the giuing of the Lawe which was long and many a day before the time of this prophesie Neuertheles he setteth it downe here as a thing in esse and fresh in viewe before their eyes God commeth Where I take this to be his drift namely to assertaine this people right shortly to be plunged in distresse that God is nowe as neare and euen comming to releiue and release them in Babylon as euer in former time ●xo 19.20 he was a God at hand to their fathers in the mount ●xo 44.22 at the read sea yea alwayes in time of neede and therfore he would not haue them daunted nor dismaide nor yet to faint vnder the burthen of their afflictions For God commeth Yea when the spite and rage of the enimie is at the highest and the calamitie and grief of the godly at the heauiest then God commeth A noble lesson fit for Princes Ladies for rich and poore men for Maiestrates ministers and euery Christian sith no worldly wight conuersing in this vale of teares can purchase immunitie from thrall and humane miserie Art thou in pouertie in sicknes in sorrowe in prison in daunger yea in death it selfe God commeth at whose presence sorrowe departeth and dread shall flye backe For he is a God almightie no power can let him a God all mercifull no stay can preuent him He commeth skipping ouer the mountaines Cant. 2.8 ryding vpon the wings of the winde Gen. 3.8 To Adam with the promise in time of dispaire Gen. 22.11 To Abraham with supplye in time of sacrifice Gen. 26.3 To Isaack with reliefe in time of famine Gen. 39.2 in time of exile with honor to Ioseph 1 Re. 19.8 in time of persecution with comfort to Eliah Iud 1.7.0 in time of battaile with a hand in Gedeons hilt 2. Re. 19.6 and in time of inuasion with triumph to Ezechia Dan. 6.22 to Daniell among the Lions Susan 60 to the children in the fornace to Susanna at the stake Act. 16.26 to the Apostle in the gaole Luk. 23 4● to the theefe vpon the crosse in the moment of death yea the bandes of death shall breake and the paines of hell shall leaue holde for Veniens veniet He shall come at a pinch His wrath endureth but the twinckling of an eye beauines may last for a night or anoy for an houre but ioye commeth in the morning Oh therefore whatsoeuer be thy case or condition tarrie patiently the Lordes leasure and he shall make the ende happie Psa 27.16 For God commeth A short but verie sweete lesson and sweeter than the Lute to driue dumps from the heart and to abandon in wealth wickednes in health wantonnes in mirth forgetfulnes in want distrustfulnes in losse pensiuenes and in death fearfulnes Againe God commeth Howe dare then these 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉