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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

darkenesse of their owne heartes before the light of the truth to examine them selues what ground they stand vpon For there shineth in many now-adayes a goodlie shewe of holines equitie in their dealinges and yet are they enemies to the Gospell glad if they can find occation to do hurt to slaunder the professours therof But if this sinne of wicked frowardnes disobedience to the worde that wee heare were farre from vs then all other sinnes would soone be corrected reformed Wherefore being compassed as we haue with a cloud of many witnesses whose example if we consider them leadeth vs to obedience to the will of God we pray that everie one of you shew the like diligence to the resisting of sinne euill examples of the worlde to grow to perfect knowledge in the word of God while it is yet called to day The sixth and last Lecture vpon the 18. and 19. v●rses of the punishment of them that obey not the Gospell though for a time they bee borne with and liue in a flowrishing state What the tokens of Gods iudgements which befal ●n the world 〈…〉 and wherewith so●e men are visited should pro●ite vs the worde of God is the iu●ge of men which word is to be obeyed while the day of grace lasteth 18 And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest but vnto them that obeyed not 19 So wee see that they coulde not enter in because of vnbeliefe WE haue already heard of thē which when they heard the word of God from the mouth of his ministers provoked him to anger with their rebelling and murmuring against him where it was noted how great the corruption and wickednesse of mans nature is which provoketh against the wisdome of the holy Ghost setteth more by superstitious vanities then by the worde of eternall life We haue also heard of sinne and the effect thereof The sinnes of the Israelites whom God delivered from the bondage of Egypt were the cause that within fortie yeares in which they abused Gods long suffering they were with diverse plagues destroyed and consumed in the wildernesse And now to declare a further punishment of sinne and rebellion then is the bodilie punishment and the evils of this life the scripture saith here that God sware to them that obeyed not that they shoulde not enter into his rest By which wordes repeated out of the scripture of the Prophet before alledged the Apostle putteth the Hebrewes in mind not of the rest of the land of Canaan which their fathers through disobedience and vnbeliefe had lost but of the rest of the heauenly 〈…〉 salem the everlasting inheritaunce of the Saintes whereof the earthly rest and peace in the land of Canaan as also the rest of the seuenth day was but a type or a shadow therefore he saith If Iesus or Ioshua Heb. 4. 8. had giuen them rest then would he not after this day haue spoken of an other For the Prophet Dauid in his exhortation made long after the possessing of the land of Canaan speaketh of the true and perfect rest which the faithfull do enter into which God hath promised Heb. 4. 3. from the begining of the world to them that obey his voice To be excluded from this rest through vnbeliefe and hardnes of heart is a wo●full case It is to haue thy portion with dogges Rev. 22. 15. enchanters whoremongers and murtherers idolaters and whosoever loueth or maketh lies The children of Israell to whom the Lord made his power so manifestly knowne in Egypt at the red sea and in the wildernesse were afterward when they sinned most fearfully punished destroied And moreouer as this scripture witnesseth the Lorde swa●e that they should not enter into his rest Here is the iust reward of sin disobedience that is to be deb●rred shut out for evermore from en 〈…〉 ng into the ●ords rest And this is heere declared in that he denyeth vnto those perverse people the signe or sacrament of his grace signifiyng therby that the grace it selfe is denied vnto thē for the not admitting of those obstinate and vnfaithful Iews into the land of Canaan sheweth that for then vnbeliefe they are not * As no sacrament 〈◊〉 instituted of God without significatiō of an invisible grace so the taking away of the sacramētes importeth a taking away of the grace that was signified thereby howbeit not so but that God may and doth extraordinarily saue some where the ordinary meanes of salvation and the sacraments cannot be had admitted into the perfect and eternall rest figured in the earthly rest of that promised land Which also in an other place the Authour of this Epistle whom we vnderstand to dispute here not of the shadow but of the substance not of the transitorie but of the perpetual rest inferreth with these words they to whom it was first preached entered not therein for vnbeliefes sak● Heb. 4. 6. This passeth all the temporary plagues punishments which befall men for their sinnes in this present life And yet this happened to them which in this world were reputed for Gods people for a time were partakers of all the signes tokens of Gods favour Wherefore that no man be deceiued in himselfe and thinke that he standeth fast because he is in the church of God when he is not of the church here we see that as Paule saith to be vnder the cloud to passe through 1. Cor. 10. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 3. 4. the se● to be baptized vnto Moses that is to be partakers of Gods sacraments vnder their captaine Moses to eate man●a to drinke of the spirituall rocke which as he interpreteth it was Christ did nothing profite the children of Israel for when they sinned and would not obey nor giue credite either to the comfortable promises or to the fearfull threatnings of God they were ouerthrown● in the wildernesse depriued of all hope of the rest promised to the faithfull seede of Abraham These things are written that we might learne vnderstand that our baptisme ministred to vs in the name of the holy trinitie our coming to church our common prayers our outward hearing of the word of God our receiuing of the communion of the Lords supper our names of Christians and whatsoeuer outward signes and markes of Christian religion we haue shall profite vs nothing to attaine eternall rest so long as our hearts be not cleane from the hipocrisie superstion of the flesh so long as we do not crucifie the olde Adam which is wont to rebel against the word of God because it reacheth vs things contrary to our owne wil. Whosoeuer therfore doeth not suffer the words of exhortation doeth not in sinceritie trueth obey the voice of Christ hath no part in the inheritance which is prepared for the sons of ●od notwithstanding that for a time he he partaker of the earthly sacraments and signes of the