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A00415	Certaine godly and learned expositions vpon diuers parts of Scripture As they were preached, and afterwards more briefly penned by that vvorthy man of God, Maister George Estey, sometimes fellovve of Goneuill and Caius Colledge in Cambridge. Late preacher of the word of God in Saint Edmunds Burie.	Estey, George, 1560 or 61-1601.; Estey, George, 1560 or 61-1601. Most sweete and comfortable exposition, upon the tenne commaundements, and upon the 51. Psalme.	1603 (1603)	STC 10545; ESTC S101734	265,746	444

the word of God be perswaded of the lawfulnesse of it and not doe it doubtingly then is it sin 2 I must take heede of giuing scandall But what if searching to finde out the nature of the thing commaunded I cannot finde it out in the particuler as my Prince commaunding mee to assist the distressed King of Portugall I see no further into it Aun I thinke I not onely may but should be perswaded of the lawfulnesse of it In this case I take it rather to be the Commaunders fault if there be any then the obeyers The kinde of the thing heere mentioned is honor shewing all manner of due respect euery way in the highest degree Honour conteineth all other duties in it and is if wee should speake as it is praise-much increased and enlarged declared by all other tokens In this place according to the sundry parties to whom it belongeth it is diuers to all euerie it is as much as is due We may consider of it as generall or speciall Generall wee may call that which belongeth to all parents and this is manifold 1 To iudge that they ought to be honoured for that excellencie God hath put vpon them Rom 1 13. 2 To iudge them better then our selues in that behalfe Phil. 2.3 Rom 12 10. 3 Purpose to shew them honour in all things 4 Commendable shamefastnesse in their presence Iob 29 20 21 22 which ariseth from the conscience of our owne vnworthinesse in comparison of those who are our betters 5 Care in all things to hide their infirmities Gene 9 22 23 24. We see how that displeased God Infirmities should neither make vs shew lesse honor nor procure vs to tell them to others 6 We must pray for them and giue thankes 1 Tim. 2 2. 7 Shew all reuerent behauiour to bewray our inward reuerencing of them and to cause others so to doe and that according to the word of GOD and honest customes of our country as 1 to stand and not to sit Leuiticus 19 32. 2 to be vncouered 3 to be silent and forbeare noise 4 to giue honourable titles But what meaneth that Iob. 32 22. I may not giue titles least my Maker should take me away suddainly Aun It is meant of flattering and glosing titles Therefore mark how Sarah called her husband Lord Elizeus Elias father Ioas Elizeus and such like therefore were the children torne in peeces by Beares for calling bald-head 5 We must preuent their good desires as farre as we may know them and not stay to shewe dutie till it be demaunded 6 Countenaunce gesture gate attire c must be thereafter Speciall followeth and is particular or proper Particuler which agreeth to some but not to euery kind and partie Therefore to naturall parents gardians magistrates maisters pastors 1 Care to please euen the froward 2 obedience to theyr commaundements 3 to haue a care as wel what they think of vs as what they doe to vs 4 to yeelde to their corrections without aunswering againe 5 to relieue them in their wants Christ blameth such who vnder pretence to giue to the offerings of God gaue not to their parents it is true of others 6 Not to dispose of our selues in mariage without due respect of euery of them as the word of God requireth 7 when we are out of their iurisdiction to keepe an honorable conceipt and affection to them So did Hester 2 20. Proper honour remaineth which belongeth to some one kinde And first to the naturall parents belongeth the common and particuler honour in greater measure so as not onely he that striketh his father Exod 21 15 but also hee vvho curseth his father should die Exod 21 17. Looke Prou. 30 17. The Mother bare the father and shee brought vp beare their infirmities relieue theyr wants more then others To the spirituall father 1 Thess 5 13 to haue them in singuler loue for theyr workes sake Yea Gala 4 15 that they would haue beene contented to plucke out their own eyes c. This is called 1 Tim 5 17 double honour which Chrysostome vnderstandeth for reuerence and things necessarie for life I thinke wee should not be curious about the number Double signifieth much and great honour so the Spirit doubled or a double portion 2 Kings 2 9 signifieth very much as the first borne was to haue a double portion All this honour is that the Pastor may with more authoritie preach the word and that the people with more fruite might heare it The first is that the spirituall father may be without feare 1 Cor 16 10. which is to be deliuered from vnreasonable and captious men Second that hee who is taught in the word make him who taught him partaker of all his goods Gala 6 6 thus were the Leuits prouided for The third Rom 16 4 that they aduenture to maintaine the preachers though it be sometimes to endanger themselues The fourth not to receiue an occasion against them but vnder two or three witnesses 1 Tim 5 19. The fift to vse them more secretly in cases of conscience then we will others To our spirituall mother we owe 1 to iudge that shee is the keeper witnesser interpreter of the Scriptures that the authoritie of the Church hangeth vpon the scriptures the scriptures not vpon the Church 2 We must keepe the peace of the Church 3 We must not depart from the Church if it hold the foundation 4 We must duly reuerence the iust censures of the Church To the father of the country that is the Soueraigne 1 not to curse him in our thought nor in our bed-chamber 2 To take lawes and money of his making 3 to be armed at his commaundement To the inferior Magistrate to assist him for the execution of iustice All schollers of neuer so high or great place must yeelde all seemely dutie to theyr Teachers Wiues owe to theyr husbandes subiection Ephe 5 24 submission 22 as to the Lord this is comlie Colo 3 18 and is from that lawe Gene 3 16. in the generall honour which was spoken of before For indeed the wife is the glorie of the man 1 Cor 11 7 that is she ought to doe to her husbands glory rather then her owne and that in her attire and such things which while they are costlier or gayer then their husbands is to his dishonour if it be with neglect of his commaundement to the contrary with impayring his estate leesing his authoritie ouer her To the nurce we must not be vnkind Maisters must haue theyr honour of fidelitie and counsell-keeping Looke vpon Abrahams seruaunt Gene 24 Vpon Ioseph in Egypt before he was in prison when hee was in fauor with Pharaoh looke vpon Iacob with Laban Let old men haue theyr due of experience neuer to vpbraide them with the faultes of age Looke Iob 32 6 7. To them who excell vs in gifts this honour is due 1 that we in honest and plaine meaning acknowledge such gifts without hiding lessening deprauing 2 We must

take it is of the Greeke Kyriake as belonging to the Lord for so it doth For better vnderstanding heereof consider the distinctions of the Church and some properties The distinctions are in words not of the scripture but of learned writers 1 As into generall The whole company particular A part The generall is meant in the Creede 2 Againe the whole hath parts So is the Church militant triumphant Militant is that which is warring in this life against the flesh the deuil and the world Triumphant is in glory in heauen Both together heere are meant 3 The Church is 1 visible that may be seene to be a Church 2 Inuisible that is not apparent to outward sence to be a Church The whole Church together in this life is inuisible Particular Church is sometimes visible inuisible The visible particuler Church hath hypocrites admixed The Creede speaketh of the whole Church together and so inuisible in this life Properties of the Church besides these named in the Creede 1 It is but one 2 It hath but one head Christ 3 Out of it is no saluation 4 It shal neuer decay Math. 16 18. 5 It is neuer seuered from Christ The markes in the Creede are holy Catholique Holy is free from sinne raigning and condemning One may be holy vnperfectly perfectly Vnperfectly by sanctification in this life Perfectly by imputation in this life sanctification in the life to come It is meant euery way heere Catholique is a Greeke word and is vsed in Wryters two wayes vnproperly properly Vnproperly and so it signifieth as much as orthodoxall In which sence sometimes the Fathers vse it So might Rome in former time haue been Catholique so is England Scotland c. Catholique now Where marke a cosonage of the Papists who would make the world beleeue that Catholique and Romaine Church is all one and for that Rome was sometimes in this sence Catholique it should be euery way now As well might they iudge the Catholique King to be King of all the world Properly it signifieth as much as vniuersall not tied to one people in one Country of one time of one condition c. So is it to be taken heere The Nicene Creede addeth Apostolique that is holding the Apostles doctrine This the Romanists wrongfully appropriat to themselues Iointly the words together carie this sence that euery one who professeth this Creede 1 Beleeueth that there is such a company as is specified before 2 That himselfe is of the same company Heb. 3 1.1 Cor. 12 13 Heb. 12 22 23. The things which we are to beleeue cōcerning the church are whatsoeuer the word of God teacheth which though we cannot reckon vp all in this short manner of teaching in short time and in right order yet in the most necessary we will endeauour 1 To iudge and thinke very highly of the Church euen next God not onely for the place it hath in the Creede and order after the holy Ghost but for the titles it hath house of God pillar and firmenes of truth body of Christ spouse or wife of Christ. Christ himselfe 1 Cor. 12 12. Yet heere we must take heed that we think not too highlie of the Church As to iudge First that it is aboue the scriptures as the Papists in words teach at least some of them and all that the authority of the scriptures to vs ward hangeth vpon the Church and can no otherwise be knowne The Church is founded vpon the scriptures and Christ not Christ vpon the Church The authority of the scriptures is from thēselues or God in them as the authority of a Princes deede is from the Prince himselfe not from any other witnes So doeth light cause it selfe to be seene as the euidence of scriptures shew themselues to be scriptures Que. Doth the Church nothing to the scriptures Aun Yes 1 It keepeth the Roles and Records of the scripture 2 It discerneth canonicall from Apocriphall it maketh none canonicall 3 It publisheth the scriptures like a Crier 4 It expoundeth and openeth the scriptures Secondly to hold that the Church cannot erre For better vnderstanding whereof wee must know that some part of the Church is in heauen and that indeede can not erre the other is on earth of this doe we speake heere this can and doth erre being a visible company wherein are mixt bad with good Yea it may erre iudicially as the false Prophets to Achab the Scribes and Pharisies against Christ So as that it is no good saying this saith the Church therfore it is to be beleeued Thirdly to hold that the safest way from all error is to hold to the Church True it is indeede it is safe being in the Church visible whereof this is said but the safest is to hold to Christ and the scriptures 2 Neuer to doubt but that there is and shall be a Church for euer So as that it is not possible it should all alwayes be feene for some part are vnborne some are in heauen and very few sometimes haue beene on earth and could not be knowne to be of the Church 3 Thoroughly to take knowledge of the nature of the Church which wee beleeue and is not onely a company professing Christian faith hauing the same Sacraments and lawfull pastors vnder one head the Pope but as we heard before predestinate to glory in time called iustified sanctified and glorified 4 That Christ is the onely head of this Church 5 To know the proper markes of a true visible Church These are the word sacraments prayer good life When I say the word I meane the pure text in the pure sence of it and the sacraments in lawfull administration Que. Whether then is the Church of Rome a true visible Church Aun No For though it keepe a coppie of the Bible text yet it is with great corruption neither in the true and proper exposition For their body of doctrine which they would fetch from the scriptures ouer-turneth the foundation in their idolatry of the masse worshipping saints creatures their iustification by works c. Obiect They haue baptisme Aun They should haue it with the word so haue they it not 2 They haue Baptisme as a theefe might steale away the great seale without authority set it to writing no otherwise 6 That we should ioyne in communion with a true visible Church a true visible Church I call that hath the marks as before holding the foundation of saluation as before and must not seuer our selues there from Indeede we must not consent to sinne or discent in loue 7 That wee must labour to be true members of this Church which heere we beleeue So shall we doe by giuing all diligence to make our calling and choosing sure Calling implieth setting in sauing knowledge faith and obedience 8 That the Church is not appropriated to any people place time So as the Romanists doe fondly who would haue vs beleeue the Catholique Romaine Church As if one shold say the French Paris or English London church

of Creede in English I take it arose frō the abuse of the first word in Latine Credo Where on theyr beades they were inioyned to say so many Auemaries Paternosters and Credoes wheron this was called creed Which is a Latine word and doth signifie as much to say I belieue my creede that is that which I doe belieue whereof vvee shall haue better cause to speake by and by So then the creede is that which one by direction of the word of God doth and ought to belieue The parties are the Apostles whose it is said to be The Apostles are those twelue sent out by GOD into all the world to preach the Gospell Some thinke it is called theirs as beeing in matter and forme penned by them by diuine inspiration after the holy Ghost came vppon them before they departed from Ierusalem to preach the Gospell So as some set downe what euery Apostle did set downe This is not so for then it were Canonicall Scripture which it is not for the Romanists themselues graunt it to be but tradition Others think that it is said to be the Apostles as consonant to theyr doctrine as an abstract abridgement thereof So is it though this be not all for I iudge that this name is added to put a difference betweene other formes of creeds vsed in the church as the Nicene I belieue in one God Athanasius Whosoeuer will be saued Now for difference this is called the Apostles as of their doctrine Now touching this title some questions may be asked 1 Que. What authoritie is this Creede of diuine or humane or how bindeth it Aun It is diuine for matter though not for forme for the Apostles did not pen it And therefore so far bindeth as it is agreeable to the Scriptures And therefore when a thing is saide to be as true as the Creede it is onely for the matter 2 Que. Whether all things to be knowne necessarily to saluation are contained heerein Aun I thinke they may be said to be implied though not expressed And if God reueale and giue meanes of knowledge of no more these may suffice otherwise not Wee must belieue all that God will haue vs. 3 Que. vvhether is it certaine damnation not to beleeue euery of these Aun vvee must distinguish betweene articles of the foundation and others Articles of the foundation beleeued may suffice when others are not reuealed Againe we must consider for articles or doctrines not of the foundation whether they be cleerely reuealed or not if they be not they shall not preiudice Againe whether wee erre of simplicitie or wilfulnesse vvilfull error damneth simple doth not in things not of the foundation Things of the foundation I call faith and repentance most necessary 4 Que. Are we bound to sunder them into twelue Aun No. Remember that as God reuealeth man must belieue This for the title the contents follow from the beginning to the end These contents haue the profession the assent Profession in all to the particle Amen Assent in the word Amen In the profession is the manner and matter The manner is I beleeue The matter the rest Wherof before we can as we should speake of any some generall rules are to be remembred for all 1 We must build our faith in euery of these points vpon the written word of GOD not onely the wordes of this Creede and therefore Acts 24 14 Luke 24 44 must vnderstand all according to the scriptures 2 Euery one must make it for himselfe Iob 19 25 Gala 2 20 Iohn 20 28. 3 To euery clause in heart this I belieue must be adioyned though it be not expressed in word 4 Wee must labour more and more to grow in fuller assurance of euery parcell Mar 9 24 Luke 17 5. 5 Our life must be aunswerable to the profession of faith Iames 2 18. Therefore saith Irenaeus to belieue Lib 4 14. is to doe as God will 6 Though wee cannot dissolue all doubts Lib. 15 de trinitate capit 2 wee must not shrinke from the profession First belieue after you shall more and more vnderstand Faith seeketh saith S. Augustine vnderstanding sindeth out 7 The Creede is no prayer Hetherto the generall rules the manner of profession foloweth I belieue Whereof wee may consider feuerally in it selfe and ioyntly with the matter following And first wee must consider the groundes of scriptures whereof in this point to belieue and personally I belieue wee may note these heads 1 Commaundements to belieue Iohn 20 27. 2 Promises made to belieuers Mar. 9 23. 3 Rebuking of vnbeliefe Math 6 30 Math 8 26 Math 14 31. 4 Commendation of parties for their beliefe sake Math 8 10 Math 15 28. Whereupon men are often noted by this in the New testament that they are belieuers 5 The meanes appointed by God to worke increase true faith the worde and Sacraments and euen the vvhole ministerie The same meanes are for personalitie as I may call it First therefore this I belieue is that I haue beliefe Beliefe is sometime put for a thing which I doe belieue sometimes for a gift whereby I doe belieue For a thing which I doe belieue as 1 Tim 1 19 Iude 3 So is it not barely to be taken heere For a gift whereby I doe beleeue Mark 9 23. So is it taken heere and thus doe I say I belieue as Philip 1 19. Now for the better vnderstanding of this manner of profession wee must consider 1 what parties haue faith 2 where faith is in such parties as haue it 3 vvhereabout faith is hestowed as about her proper matter 4 vvhat be the parts thereof 5 vvhat properties it hath 6 lastly how it is wrought The parties who haue faith are reasonable 1 God who is said to be faithful in keeping his promise This to belieue is to belieue a promise 2 Creatures 1 Angels 2 Men. In mankinde infants haue not faith So as deuils haue a kind of faith Neuerthelesse there is difference of Angels and deuils faith and mens Angels faith is in God the Creator legall no other then Adams was Mens faith must be likewise in the Redeemer Angels are not properly said to be redeemed but rather confirmed by Christ as some Diuines hold Deuils faith is onely of the truth and power of God in generall out of themselues For the second point faith is said to be in the hart Rom. 10.9 10. Acts 8 37. Ephe. 3 17. Now so is it said to be in the hart as to be conueied into the whole man especially into the chiefe powers of the soule Whereof the one is the minde the other is the will In both which I doe iudge that this faith is All agree for the minde some doubt for the will which may thus be prooued First because it is said to be in the hart which implieth the whole soule Secondly for that faith knitteth to God Thirdly fayth and hope differ not I take it in place hope is an affection This is

who can deserue and if the Angell admonished her thereof it is good for vs to admonish one an other and surely there is good vse heereof To teach vs humility and to make great account of the gifts of God The latter forme of salutation is the Lord with thee is or be It was an vsuall manner of salutation among the Iewes Iudges 6 12 Ruth 2 4 Psal 129 8. And wisheth all good Now marke wherein is good in that the Lord is with vs that is in euery sort fauoureth vs. So as our selues must labour for this must indeauour one to an other And if this be wished to Mary much more had euery one of vs need thereof This is said of liuing and to present not of the dead Euen our ordinary salutations should sauour of grace The other title is blessed among women The like is Iudg 5 24 that is in comparison or aboue other women This being blessed signifieth that God doth fauour her in speciall sort And that men doe praise and shall praise her For so blessing being blessed in diuers respects doth signifie Blessed of God is fauoured of men is praised Now God did fauour her not in giuing her onely sauing grace but in choosing her to be the mother of God The like fauours of God are we to acknowledge in our selues and others And though we doe not bodily beare Christ yet if wee plant him or beare him in our harts by faith it is a great mercy which we must acknowledge in others and in our selues 2 God when it pleaseth him euen bestoweth vppon his children true praise in the iudgement of his Church so as we may know we shall haue it if God thinke it good for vs. Otherwise let vs not looke for it 3 This acknowledging heereof in the Angell sheweth that there is a time when one may be put in minde of the true praise he hath 1 True praise For false I take it he is not to be acquainted with That is whē the partie told hath such grace as to ascribe the glory to God 2 When the thing praysed is a most excellent and manifest gift of God 3 When the partie praysed had neede to be hartened incouraged in God 4 When the partie praysing doth it that GOD may haue the glory not to flatter c. 4 Women may learne what is theyr true praise To haue fauour with GOD and to conceiue Christ in theyr harts by faith not their gay coates and other tricks The speech of comfort followeth 29 30 ver Verse 29 Where is the occasion and matter of it Occasion verse 29. Her being troubled This is set out by two meanes thereof and the effect The meanes are the sight of the Angell and his speech Shee saw him for that hee assumed some body wherein likewise glory appeared This is extraordinary and must not be looked for now The best apparitions are in the Word and Sacraments So as to them must we runne and not to reuelations Shee was troubled Troubling as before in Zacharias it is taken from stirred water and signifieth perplexitie of thoughts when one cannot tell what resolutely to thinke VVhere marke 1 To what passe and perplexitie Gods children sometime may come 2 As that they doe not slightly consider great things 3 But consider Gods workes with feare FINIS AN EXPOSITION vpon the 1. of Peter 1 Peter 1 13. ¶ Trust perfectly on the grace that is brought vnto you by the reuelation of Iesus Christ. AMong the sundry duties in this Epistle and other Scriptures inioyned Christians this in this place is not least and should not be last which for that the seuerall words doe signifie diuersly is not all vnderstood alike of all had need in generall to be cleered that way before we can in due sort profit thereby Trust in the Greeke word is hope and is taken sometimes properly and other times vnproperly Properly it signifieth to looke or waite for a thing to come Vnproperly it is the same with belieue trust in a vvord promise or speech and the doubt heere is which way we should take it Also grace for sound is a Latine word of gratia signifieth fauour or liking and is put sometimes for the welspring of all good things from God to vs as in the beginning of diuers Epistles Grace and peace otherwhiles for some particuler loue token that commeth from thence And that not yet after one sort for often it signifieth such a loue token which we haue heere which vsually is called grace and more sildome for that which is afterward in the life to come as in 1 Pet 3 7 it seemeth to be Now though it be certaine that some speciall loue token be heere most chiefely intented yet all doe not agree whether such as is in this life or afterward Againe brought may be said to be that which now is brought at the instant and present time or that vvhich shortly shall be So Math 3 10 euery tree is said to be hewed downe for shal be hewed downe And Reuel 22 20. I come quickly for I will come quickly because hee will certainly come and it will not be long ere hee come so for grace brought eyther now or afterward Last of all reuelation of Christ when Christ is reuealed that is gloriously at the last day or when Christ reuealeth himselfe by his word or Spirit now in this life The sundry senses of these wordes haue caused that diuers learned men haue thought diuers wayes of this Scripture and taken the meaning to be not the same Some thus Looke for the glory that shall shortly be brought vnto you at the glorious appearing of Iesus Christ Others thus Trust on that present grace that now is brought vnto you by Iesus Christ himselfe reuealing and opening the same Both are good and agreeable to Scripture and each haue the countenaunce of learned men Yet one place can haue but one proper meaning Neither must wee onelie care that interpretations be true but that they be fit and stand on theyr owne bottome I iudge that the latter is the better 1 Because it more agreeth with the plainnesse of the wordes so as that scarce one is taken out of the owne proper signification 2 It is very rare not twice that I know that grace is put for glory as it should be heere by some mens iudgements 3 Seeing Peter had mentioned the last end before verse 4 5 it is most likely that now heere hee should set downe the way and meanes that bring thereto 4 If the former should be meant then must the Apostle repeate that heere which he had set downe aboue verse 7 which is not likely so soone considering how short and presse Peter in his writing is without needlesse tantologies 5 It seemeth that the order of his writing should point to the later for being afterward to intreat of obedience he heere layeth a golden foundation of faith before from whence the building of all good workes is