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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06874	A sermon preached at Paules Crosse the 13. of Iune. 1602. By M. Francis Marburie; Sermon preached at Paules Crosse the 13. of June. 1602.	Marbury, Francis, d. 1611.	1602 (1602)	STC 17307; ESTC S105434	29,109	90

be preferred to the grace of the holy Ghost For these wild men these Faunes and Satyrs as I may say are a kind of demo niacks and are not so much as capable of the Spirit of God til they haue submitted themselues to bee members of Gods Church And thirdly by tarying their turne they should be not only capable but it shold euen be vnto thē according to their faith And there would be a maruellous change worthy to be celebrated with a song of Angels Wheras now they are oftē incōbred with the horrors of conscience so that the sound of fear is euer in their eares Against this Satan cānot otherwise succour them then by teaching them to make out a power of blasphemies and derisions both of heauen and hell or to earth themselues in the caues of obliuion that the iudgemēt to come may not come into their mindes Then they should be able to pacifie their consciences with sound arguments of their saluation and the grace of God would perswade their consciences to take part on their side And when their heart was become their friend it would perswade their affection to dine and sup with their conscience Which would be a royall amends to the poorer sort for the hard fare they should find in the world by changing their course and a dish beyond all their dainties to the rich This second part was not vttered for lacke of time but was likewise by authoritie thought fit to be annexed in the print NOw followeth the second parte of the text of Iapheths participating with Shem or rather his succeeding of Shem in dominion ouer Canaan And Canaan shall be their seruant that is let Iapheth continue in the tents of Shem and then he shall hold Canaan in seruitude For the seruitude of Canaan vnder Iapheth is annexed to Iapheths dwelling in the tents of Shem. And so groweth the fift conclusion out of this text that the subduing of ours and Gods enemies is a benefit tyed to our constancy in true religion It is cleare enough that they which are helde in seruitude being of Canaans broode doe foster disdaine and enmity But in the meane while as Salomon sayeth When a mans wayes please God Prou. 16.7 his enemies shal bee contented to bee at peace with him Therefore the Psalmist sayeth O that my people had harkened vnto me and Israel had walked in my wayes Psal 81.13.14.15 I would soone haue humbled their enemies and turned my hand against their aduersaries The haters of the Lord should haue beene subiect vnto him though fainedly and their time of ruling should haue endured for euer On the other side the scripture sayeth Deut. 28.43.44 That when wee cease to walke in the wayes of the Lord whereof a principal part is to vphold his religion our enemies shall bee the head and wee shal be the tayle And such likewise are the examples of the word When Eli suffered Gods seruice to be corrupted by his sonnes ● Sam. 2.30.32 the Lord remooued him you know howe and saide vnto him Them that honour me will I honor and they that despise me shal be despised And further he sayeth to him And thou shalt see anguish in the habitation of the Lord in stead of al those things wherwith God would haue blessed Israel And of the children of Israel the scripture sayeth Iudg. 2 13.14 They for sooke the Lord and serued Baal and Ashtaroth and the wrath of the Lord was hotte against Israel And he deliuered thē into the hands of spoilers and solde them into the handes of their enemies round about them so that they could no longer stand before their enemies So we read of Salomon 1. King 11.14.23.26 how he went to wreck when he had once yeelded to the corruption of religion at the instigation of his wiues The Lord stirred vp enemie vpon enemie against him euen those which before serued him In the recitall of these scriptures we haue neede to make vse of two worthie sayings of S. Paul The first Rom. 15.4 That Whatsoeuer things are written are written for our learning to comfort and animate vs to holde our religion The second that these examples of Gods vengeance on them that forsooke it are ensamples to vs to terrifie vs from once meditating of such a sinne 1. Cor. 10.6 Let it not come into our mindes that there is any wisedome in yeelding any thing from the truth of God Let vs not think that others will thinke that wee deale wisely if wee take that course For the scripture affirmeth that our strict holding of our religion is our wisedome Deut. 4 6. and our vnderstanding in the sight of the people Great is the praise of Queene Elizabeth for holding her owne or rather Gods owne in this behalfe especially when we consider how she hath beene vrged The lawes which haue beene made for the repressing of idolatry are all still in force and we doe yet abide in the tents of Shem. And assure your selues brethrē that as the thoughts of God are tender towardes vs if wee will serue him so the thoughtes of Queene Elizabeth his seruant and daughter our Queene and mother are tender towardes vs in this matter of preseruation of religion If we will be quietly zealous and charitably tractable we shall see that as her entrance was graced with the restoring so her proceeding shal be honoured with the constant conseruing of religion So long as weekeepe vs within the limits of wise zeale and descend not to the heady courses of the vast vulgar but do maintaine the true seruice of God as followers and not forerunners of wise gouernment not preuenting it by headinesse wee shal be able to keepe these Canaanites in subiection though they did exceede vs in number neuer so much If any say that our holding religion will not holde downe our enemies because the most religious at some times are oppressed I answere that martyrdome is but in particular places or of particular persons But the like cannot be made to appeare of a whole land by any story It Iapheth dwell in Shems tents Canaan shall surely serue him The word of God ought to suffice to confirme vs in the truth of this point But let vs wade into the matter by reason because reason as they say impugneth it seeing the Papists are so many Our entrance into the first reason is out of an vsuall saying that wee haue amongst vs that one true man is too hard for two theeues by reason of his confidence This certainly is most true in the matter of religion that confidence giueth courage This is an only grace to daunt these theenish Canaanites Iosh 1.7 as the Lord said to Ioshua Onely be thou strong and of a most valiant courage According to the promise in the Law Deut. 28.7 The Lord shall cause thine enemies that rise against thee to fall before thy face Iosh 23.10 They shall come out against thee one