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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A69227	A sermon preached at Paules Crosse, the sixt of February. 1596 In which are discussed these three conclusions. 1 It is not the will of God that all men should be saued. 2 The absolute will of God, and his secret decree from all eternitie is the cause why some are predestined to saluation, others to destruction, and not any foresight of faith, or good workes in the one, or infidelitie, neglect, or contempt in the other. 3 Christ died not effectually for all. By Iohn Doue, Doctor of Diuinitie.	Dove, John, 1560 or 61-1618.	1597 (1597)	STC 7087; ESTC S111946	36,520	88

A SERMON preached at Paules Crosse the sixt of February 1596. In which are discussed these three conclusions 1 It is not the will of God that all men should be saued 2 The absolute will of God and his secret decree from all eternitie is the cause why some are predestinated to saluation others to destruction and not any foresight of faith or good workes in the one or infidelitie neglect or contempt in the other 3 Christ died not effectually for all By Iohn Doue Doctor of Diuinitie Printed by T. C. for R. Dexter 1597. To the Right Honorable Sir Thomas Egerton Knight Lord Keeper of the great Seale of England RIght Honorable my singular good Lord Your integritie in bestowing spirituall liuings and making choyse of learned men vpon whom you bestow them hath satisfied the common expectation and fully answered that great hope which the Cleargie of Englande hath conceiued of you It is the voyce of all them which are religiously affected that God in his mercy hath raysed you vp to bee an especiall instrument of his glorie My selfe among many other of both the Vniuersities had set my heart at rest as one resolued to die within the precinctes of the Colledge like a Monke shut vp in his cell or an Heremite mured vp within the compasse of a wall without hope of euer being called to any Ecclesiastial preferment in this corrupt and simoniacall age had I not bene by your Honor preferred VVherfore in dutie I could do no lesse thē for my poore portiō of learning to offer vnto you this my labor as a schollers myte which here I humbly present vnto your Honour as vnto my good L. vnto whom I am especially bound It may please your Lordship to weigh it not accorcording to my skill which is but weake but according to the soundnesse of the doctrine therin conteined which is warranted by the authoritie of the scriptures the same scriptures being rightly vnderstood as it appeareth by the analogie of the scriptures the consent both of the Fathers of the primitiue Church and the new writers of our times which do concurre in iudgement and agree vpon the same interpretation The Lorde continue this your great loue of godlinesse and singular zeale in furthering of religion that here you may liue long to his glory and hereafter liue for euer to your owne euerlasting comfort Your Honours in all humble dutie Iohn Doue A Sermon preached at Paules Crosse the sixt of Februarie 1596. Ezech. 33. 11. As I liue sayth the Lord God I haue no delight in the death of a sinner A Protestation against the house of Israel In which three things offer themselues to our consideration The maiestie of the person which doth protest the maner how he maketh his protestation and what hee protesteth The person beeing God the maner by swearing by himselfe he protesteth that he hath no delight in the death of a sinner Of the person I say with Augustine Huius mysterij profunditatem mens humana non potest concipere nec oratoria lingua narrare nec bibliothecarum volumina explicare si vniuersum mundum libri repleant His maiestie is an hidden mysterie whose depth bottom the wit of man can not sound the tong of sinfull man can not vtter the whole world beeing supposed to bee but one librarie of bookes would bee a briefe and compendious epitomie not large and voluminous enough to expresse it To whom Abraham the nearer hee approached the more hee perceyued himselfe to bee but dust and ashes at whose presence the Cherubins and Seraphins do hide their faces as not able to behold his glorie at whose appearance the Moone shall be abashed and the Sunne ashamed whose face Moses could not see without present death who is wise in heart mightie in strength remooueth the mountaines out of their places causeth the pillars of the earth to shake commaundeth the Sunne and it riseth not closeth vp the stars as vnder a signet spreadeth out the heauens and walketh on the height of the sea maketh the starres Arctuarus Orion and Pliades and the climates of the South whose wonderfull workes are infinite and without number whose perfection is higher then heauen deeper then hell longer then the earth wider then the sea When the Prophet sawe the Lorde sitting on an high Throne and the Seraphins stoode vppon it and one cryed to another and sayde Holie holie holie is the Lorde God of hoasts the whole worlde is full of his glorie and the lintils of the doore cheekes mooued at the voyce of him that cryed and the house was filled with smoke hee sayde wo is mee for I am vndone because I am a man of polluted lips for mine eyes haue seene the King and the Lorde of hoasts Then flewe one of the Cherubins to him with an hote cole in his hand which he had takē from the aultar with the tongs and he touched his mouth and sayde Lo this hath touched thy lips If the Cherubin had sanctified my lippes as he did the Prophets in this place if he had giuen mee the tongue of the learned as hee did vnto him in another place or if he had put his words into my mouth as hee did to Ieremie yet should I not be able to expresse it for neither Esay nor Ieremie could expresse it For betweene his reach and the shallownesse of mans heart there is as great a wirlepoole or swallowing pitte as that which is betweene hell mouth and Abrahams bosome If I shoulde wade in the channell thereof I should sinke into as deepe a gulfe as the water of Ezechiel which the first time came vp to his ankles the second time to his knees the third time to his loins the fourth time it was a deepe riuer and and not to bee passed ouer that hee was faine to bee brought backe againe to the brinke therof so that the farther he waded the deeper he was plunged The Philosophers compare him to a circle because he is infinite without beginning and without ending but such a circle as is repugnant to the principles of Geometrie whose centre is euery where but his circumference is no where his throne is heauen his footstoole earth his holy citie Ierusalem He is al eye for he seeth all things all eare for he heareth all things all arme for he comprehendeth al things and yet he is none of al these for he is a spirit and in spirit to be worshipped He is great without quantitie good without qualitie euerlasting without time in his greatnesse infinite in his power omnipotent in his wisdome inestimable in his counsels terrible in his iudgements iust his thoughts secret his wordes true his workes holy inuisible yet seeing all things immutable yet chaunging all things immoueable himself yet in whom all other things haue their being and mouing As I liue saith the Lord God We reade of many Gods in the holy scriptures for Satan is