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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

the Apostle Peter 2. P●● 1. 10. 21. witnesleth know this that no prophecie in the scripture is of any private 〈◊〉 for the prophec came not in olde time by the will of 〈◊〉 but h●l●● 〈◊〉 of God spake as they were mooved by the holy Ghost And likewise when of sinne is by the faithfull pastour collected and preached out of the sacred scriptures we are to teceyue the same and to esteeme of it as if God himselfe did speake vnto vs who then sheweth his face vnto vs so far as we are able to abide it but his glorious voice our fraile nature cladde with sinne and transgression cannot endure to heare without the ministerie of men as it appeareth in the Israelits who say to Moses talke Exod. 20. 19. thou with vs and we will heart but i●t not God talke with vs least we die And yet when we are taught by Gods ministers it is the holy Ghost that teacheth vs Of whose wysedome the Apostle saith vvee haue this treasure in earthen vesselles 2. Cor. 4. 7. even heauenly treasure pure and vndesiled for as we see the water of a fountaine when it is put into the earthen vesselles doeth not chaung his nature and qualitie that it had before And the light of the sun though it shine through a window into a darke place doth neverthelesse retaine that vertue operation which it hath from the body of the sun so the ministery of men which are the organes or instruments of the holy Ghost altereth not the nature and propertie neither diminisheth the authoritie of those thinges which they minister VVee must bevvare therefore that vvee giue not the lesse credue to the vvisedome of the holye Ghost because vvee heare it at the mouth of men For it is vvritten God 2. Cor. 4. ● that commaunded the light to shine out of darkenesse is hee vvhich hath shined in the heartes of his Ministers to giue the light of the knowledge of the glorie of GOD in the face of IESUS CHRIST And therefore vvhosoever beleeveth not men teaching as they are taughte of GOD the same beleeveth not the spirite of GOD vvho hath made them able Ministers of his holye vvill revealed in his vvoorde For CHRIST hath given that commission to his true Ministers that hee sayeth of them hee that heareth you heareth Luke 10. 1● mee and hee that despiseth you despiseth mee Novve seeing that the Canonicall scriptures are the sayings of the holy Ghost who yet speaketh to vs 〈◊〉 oft as we heare them ministred and taughte shall wee not giue greate heede to so great a Doctour that his woordes maye perswade and take place in our heartes to the winninge of the soule for this cause this scripture vvith the rest of that Psalme of Dauid was vsually song among the lewes vppon the sabbath dayes when the church came together that it might stirre them vp to a more attentiue hearing of the law and the Prophetes And so likwise this psalme is wont to be read or song in our chruches in these dayes before the common praires and diuine exercise of the other scriptures as a preparatiue to the estectuall hearing of Gode voice And not to giue place to evill thoughtes and worldly cogitations which are wont to harden mens heartes and to cause manie to depart out of the church as wyse and with as litle knowledge as they came to it To omitte now the particulare handling of these words of the Prophet for they are afterwardes repeated and applied by the Apostle as we shal see in the handling therof let vs here consider three especiall causes why this scripture is here alledged wherof the first is that the Hebrewes might haue no I cause to glorie of their farhers and progenitours after the ●lesh For those their fathers which as they boast of had eaten Manna●●● Ioh. 6. 31. the wildernesse tempted God faith the Prophet and therefore he exhorteth their posteritie and all that heare the same worde of saluation which was preached vnto those fathers by Moses not to harden their heart ●s as they did There is nothinge so common in the mouth of vanie and superstitious men as the prayse of their fo●efathers and of the dayes that are past as if it were inough for vs if we could but follow the example of our fathers neuer examining how they beleeued ●r how they heard the word of God or whether they haue heard it at all And wee thinke that our sins sh●l not come into iudgment yf wee haue learned them of our fathers But doe we not heare that God faith in the seconde commaundement that he is is a ie●ouse God visiting the sinns of Exod 20. 5. the fathers vpon the children vppon the third generation and vppon the fourth of them that hate him that is as a worthie teacher expoundeth Bullinger vpon the second cōmādemēt it yf the children walke in the crooked stepps of their fathers and thinke that their iniqu●tie ●hall not be punished because they haue learned it of● their fathers yet God will ●harplye reuenge it in the children although he touched not their fathers when they committed the same iniquitie The people that vvere left from the captivitie of Babilon obiect against the Prophet Ieremiah that vvhen they and their fathers did burne incense vnto the Queene of Ier. 44. 17. 18. heaven and powre out drincke offeringes vnto her they had plentie of victuals and all was well with them But when they left of that service wee haue had say they scarcenesse of all thinges and haue beene consumed by the svvorde and by the famine The Prophete replyeth that because they and their fathers vvith their Kinges and Princes h●dde doone such thinges therefore the LORDE coulde no longer forbeare Ier. 44. 20. 21. 22. it but broughte those plagues vpon them And thus doe the frovvarde people of our dayes vvhich vvincke at the lighte deceiue themselues obiecting that our fathers vvhich as they saie vvere of the olde religion had plentie of all thinges and felte no vvant And because they are touched vvith the evilles of these dayes vvhich notwithstandinge are nothing so greate as the obstinacie and vvillfull ignoraunce of this age hath deserved they run into that note of follie vvhy is it that the Eccle. 〈◊〉 12. former daies vvere better then these This hath beene the olde complainte of all ages The heathen * Ovid fastlib I. laudamus veteres sed nostri● vtimut annis Poet saith laudamus veteres wee are vvonte to praise the yeares of our forefathers This commeth from the darkenesse of our nature that we iudge foolishlie of those thinges whereof vvee bee ignoraunte according to this saying of a learned teacher because vvee Bishop lewell feele not our fathers evilles therefore wee imagine they had no evil at al. But though it vvere true that our fathers haue had the peace and posperitie of this worlde yet if wee will looke into that age wherein

not Christians so to profite by hearing learning that they may be able as it is required in these places of scriptures Col. 3. 16. Rom. 15. 14. Heb. 3. 13. 1. Thess 4. 18. 5. 11. to teach to edifie to admonish and to comfort one another with the word of God but if the knowledge of these thinges had any place in the heart● of vaine mē they would abhorre to be at their prayers or to speake their owne wordes when they should be intentine to heare the word of faith Let vs beware therfore as Origen saith least there bee a vaile laide over our heartes not onely when Moses is read Super Exod ho●il 12. but also when Paul is read And without doubt if we be negligent in hearing and set not our mind to learne and to understand not onely the scriptures of the law and the Prophets but also the scriptures of the Apostles and Evangelists are covered with a vaile that we shall not vnderstand thē Thus saith O●●gen And surely as the lews reiected the Gospell of the new testament and boasted that they were the see 〈…〉 Abraham and 〈…〉 〈…〉 2. C●● 〈◊〉 14. 15. the disciples of M●ses when is in the reading of Moses their ●●nds wer● h●●d 〈…〉 the vaile of vnbe●ie●e was la●d over th 〈…〉 〈…〉 es that they did not vnderstand the old testament so do ●ost ●en in these d●●es being content with the b●te name of 〈…〉 with the blinde customes receiued from their fathers harden their hearts in sin stop their ea●es against the same Gospel of grace But wo be to the security of these men Now seeing that to pray or to be otherwise exercised in the congregation then the time and place requireth when mē come into the church is not the least 〈◊〉 which argueth if men will pe●sist in it being admonished that they harden their hearts in ignoraunce and will not bee ready to come to Christ vvhen hee calleth take heede that you giue not the lesse credite to this or any other doctrine confirmed with the trueth because you heare it frō young men or from your inferiours in the estimati● of the world For hee that despiseth the preceptes of life ministred by men despiseth not man but God 1. Thess 4. 8 saith the Apostle Satan is a most subtill adversarie and goeth about by all meanes to keepe you vnder the vaile of darkenesse naturall ignorance if other meanes faile him he can work by perswading you to measure your faith to the word of God with the fame and estimation of the minister and so either to receiue or reiect his doctrine according as the world iudgeth of the man Hereof we haue a manifest example in the ninth of Iohn where when the mā that was borne Io. 9. 30. 31. 32. 33. blinde began to preach vnto the Iewes of Christ known by his diuine power in opening his eies the Iewes shew their pride and disdaine to learne of such a one and say vnto him thou art altogether borne in sinnes and ver 34. doest thou teach vs saith an ancient Christian doctor vpon these wordes it is seene that Cy●ill greater men do commonly disdaine to learne of their inferiours this proceedeth from the dangerous disease of pride whereby man perswadeth himselfe in his owne conceite that he hath sufficient knowledge when he is ignorant and he is ashamed to learne of them that are of lesse reputation in the iudgement of men then himselfe least he should seeme to be ignorant or to haue lesse learning then that man hath of whome he is taught But if our minde were indued with true humility we should not be ashamed to learne a quovis puerulo of any child saith he that could teach vs the thing which we knowe not For the truth is to be embraced heard of whomsoeuer it may be learned These at the words of a worthy teacher And of this humilitie which ought to be in all Christians to learne we haue a notable example in Apollos a mā eloquent and mightie Act. 18. ●4 25. 26. in the scriptures and yet humble to be further instructed of Aquila Priscill● a poore tent-maker and his wife here euerie one that wil be the seruant of Christ may learne humilitie and be prepared like the men of Berea with all readinesse to receiue the word Act. 17. 11. which is able to saue his soule and of the seruant of sinne to make him the seruant of righteousenesse It is yet called to day And yet we may heare the voice of the bridegrome Christ Iesus And is there is one day of seuen appointed for men to rest And to heare his voice and as there is a time of that day for men to heare and not to be otherwise occupied then in hearing let no man abuse that time let no man thē speake his owne words Art thou dull of hearing and canst hardly setle thy minde to learne● yet be carefull to heare from the beginning to the end and thou canst not goe away without some good leslon laide vp in thine heart Hast thou a good memory and a●t thou apt to learne thē spend all the time of hearing in hearing thy knowledge shal be the more increased Wi●● thou be iustified by ●aith be made partaker of Christ thou hast heard that saith cōmeth by hearing and Rom. 10 17. now thou m●ist heare now is the day of hearing so lōg 〈◊〉 the Lord calleth Hereafter wil be the daie of reiecting for them that would not hear when they were called In that day men cannot learne though they would for wisdome warneth thē which sleepe out the time of grace when learning is offered vnto them when affliction and anguish shall come vppon P●o. 1. 27. 28. you then shal they cal vpō me but I wil not answer they shall see●e me early but they shall not find me the reason is added why wisdome wil not be found of m● at their pleasure because they h●ted knowledg did not chuse the fear of the Lord. If therfore thou wilt not in this day of his g 〈…〉 hea●● his voice to thy salvation thou shalt hereafter in the day of his wrath heare it to thy condemnation if now in the day of his calling his voice cānot awake thee out of the sleepe of sin security it shal hereafter in the day of his iudgment awake thee to thine eternal confusion though thou sleepe in the earth though thou be returned into dust doubt not of this for the ●ord speaketh it the houre sh●l● come in the which all that 10. 5 28. 29. are in the graues shall heare his voice And they shal come forth that haue done good vnto theresurrection of life but they that haue done evil vnto there surrection of condemnation In that day shall every scripture every sermon every word of exhortatiō which thou hast heard or read be a witnesse against thee how