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A15434	Thesaurus ecclesiæ: that is, the treasure of the church consisting of the perpetuall intercession and most holy praier of Christ, set forth in the 17. chapter of the Gospel by S. Iohn: which in this treatise is plainly interpreted, with necessarie doctrines enlarged, and fit applications enforced.	Willet, Andrew, 1562-1621.	1604 (1604)	STC 25704; ESTC S102754	86,296	210

signifieth to lift vp which was a note of singular attention to marke what was contained in the verses so marked and that the voice should be exalted and lifted vp in the singing Hierome out of Origen reporteth diuerse acceptions and takings of this word the Septuagint Theodotian and Symmachus interpret it Diapsalma the chaunge of the tune or song Aquila and the fift edition semper alwaies the sixt edition iugiter infinem continually or to the end Whereupon Hierome giueth this note Ex quo animaduertimus hoc verbum docere sempiterna esse quae dicta sunt whereby we marke that this word sheweth that the things vttered are eternal that is for euer to be remembred So should we continually remember the holy instructions so carefully cōmended in Scripture as this here twice beaten vpon by Christ that we should not be of the world as Christ is not of the world That these and the like holy precepts and counsels we should as the wise man saith bind them to the necke and write them vpon the table of our heart Prou. 3. 3. that is keepe them most diligently as precious and costly iewels The thirteenth Lecture Vers. 17. Sanctifie them with thy truth thy word is the truth AS hitherto Christ hath prayed for the preseruation of his Apostles so now he moueth his Father by these his heauenly prayers for their sanctification which is of two sorts either generall to be sanctified by the word of God that is made truly obedient to his will as euery faithfull man must be or speciall in making them able and sufficient for their calling whom now he sent vpon his embassage into the world ver 18. Then the reason and ground of this request is shewed which is the sanctification of himself vers 19. 1 Here then by this Scripture it is euident that our hearts and affections are reformed sanctified consecrated vnto the will and seruice of God onely by the truth reuealed in his word So saith the phet Wherewith shall a young man redresse his way in taking heed according to thy word Psal. 119. 9. the reforming and redressing of our waies is wrought by the word of God The Apostle also saith that the Scriptures are profitable to teach to improue to correct and instruct in righteousnes 2. Tim. 4. 16. 2. The Prophet Dauid herein sheweth his owne experience I vnderstood more then the ancient because I kept thy precepts I haue not declined from thy iudgements for thou didst teach me Psalm 109. vers 100. 102. Zacheus by the voice of Christ was conuerted and of a meere worldling made the child of Abraham Luk. 19. 8. So was the Eunuch cōuerted by the preaching of Philip Act. 8. and Lydia by hearing of Paule Act. 16. 3 Neither were the waters of Iordan so wholesome to cure Naamans leprosie 2. King 5. 14. nor the poole of Bethesda to heale the lame Iohn 5. 3. nor the lump of figges Hezechiahs sore 2. King 20. 7. as the word of God is sufficient to purge all our spirituall diseases There is nothing searcheth purgeth and purifieth as Gods word doth as a fire it consumeth the stubble of mens affections as a sword it cutteth off the put●ified parts as salt it seasoneth that which is otherwise vnsauourie 4 For the proper worke of faith is to purifie our hearts Act. 15. 9. which is as the eye salue of the soule by the annointing whereof our spirituall blindnesse is cured Reu. 3. 18. which faith is wrought in vs by the hearing of the word of God Rom. 10. 17. 5 First in that our Sauiour saith thy word is the truth We are taught that all truth necessarie to our sanctification and saluation is contained in the Scriptures contrarie to the doctrine of the Church of Rome who hold many traditions necessarie to saluation not expressed nor reuealed in the Scriptures And lest they might haue this euasion that there is some part of Gods word vnwritten beside the Scriptures Our Sauiour himselfe sendeth vs to the Scriptures Search the Scriptures for in them you thinke to haue eternall life and they are they which testifie of me but ye will not come vnto me that ye may haue life If the Scriptures then declare Christ and Christ giueth life and if in the Scriptures we may find eternall life what other doctrine is necessarie to saluation beside the truth reuealed in the Scriptures Secondly if the word of God do sanctifie vs then they are vnprofitable hearers which by the preaching of the word are not sanctified If salt will not season a man what can If the finger of God which did write his law in the tables of stone cannot write the same in our hearts then are they harder then flint or stone Gods word is as his pen as Ambrose well saith vpon these words Psa. 45. My tongue is the pen of a readie writer Vide ne scriba velociter scribens sit verbum Dei quod animae vitia procurrat penetret inscribat dona gratiae See if the Scribe swiftly writing be not the word of God which pierceth the soule and discouereth the errors thereof and writeth there the graces of Gods spirit If Gods pen then cannot graue his will in mens hearts no other writing can do it Verse 18. As thou didst send me into the world so haue I sent them into the world Now followeth the speciall sanctification of the Apostles to their office Christ sendeth them into the world and whom he sendeth he furnisheth with all graces needfull for that function wherein they are employed 1 Therfore the Apostle alleaging out of the Psalme saith he hath ascended vp on high c. and hath giuen giftes vnto men c. he therefore gaue some to be Apostles some Prophets some Euangelists some Pastors some Teachers Ephes. 4. 8. 11. God hath not onely appointed these callings and offices in his Church but hath also giuen gifts answerable to some Apostolicall to some Propheticall to other Pastorall and Doctorall gifts 2 Thus Moses was furnished of God both with the power of miracles and the gift of vtterance I will be with thy mouth and teach thee what thou shalt say Exod. 4. 3 12. Thus Isay his lips were touched with a cole frō the altar Isa. 6. 6. Our sauior Christ in his baptisme receiued the holy Ghost descending vpon him in the likenesse of a Doue Mat. 3. The Apostles before they were dispersed in the world to preach the Gospell were assisted by the holy spirit which came vpon them in prayer in the likenesse of fierie clouen tongues 3 For to send an vnfit messenger not enabled with gifts is as if one should send a lame man of his errant He that sendeth a message by a foole that is one that is vnwise and not qualified with gifts is as he that cutteth off the legs Pro. 26. 6. The Prophet Isay compareth such messengers to dumbe dogs that delight in

righteousnesse Secondly we must not thinke that the prediction of the Scripture was the cause of Iudas perdition as though Gods prescience imposed a necessitie vpon mens actions But as Augustine well saith Des praescientiam non cogere hominem vt talis scit qualem praesciuit Deus sed praescire talem futurum qualis futurus erat quamuis sic non cum fecerit Deus Gods prescience forceth not a man to be such as he is foreseene but foreseeth him to be such as he is like to be though God made him not such Vers. 13. And now come I vnto thee and these things speake I in the world that they might haue my ioy fulfilled in them This is alleaged as another reason why our Sauiour maketh this prayer in the hearing of his disciples not for any necessitie which he had but for the comfort of his disciples that heard him for the hearing of Gods word bringeth true ioy and comfort 1. So our Sauiour saith elsewhere Ioh. 6. 4. These things haue I told you that when the houre shal come ye might remember that I told you them it is a great comfort when we see things to fall out according to the word of God 2. In like manner our Sauiour hauing prayed for Lazarus said Father I thanke thee because thou hast heard me I know that thou hearest me alwaies but because of the people that stand by I said it that they may beleeue that thou hast sent me 3. Like as Peter though he had laboured all night and caught nothing yet was encouraged to let downe his nets againe after Christ had bidden him to let them downe to make a draught because he knew he should not any more labour in vaine Luk. 5. 5. so the Apostles here conceiued great ioy being themselues eare-witnesses of Christs prayer 4. The reason may be gathered out of our Sauiours words Mat. 24. 25. Behold I haue told you before that is being warned before of dangers we are better prepared to beare them when they come and being afore assured of Gods assistance we conceiue the greater ioy in our deliuerance 5. If then the hearing of Christ in his word as the Apostles here heard his voice do worke such great ioy and comfort iudge ye what a great benefite they are depriued of which are ignorant of the word and are not acquainted with Gods promises neither know the familiar and earnest prayers and requests which Christ maketh vnto God for his Church And as Saint Paule saith Whatsoeuer things are written are written for our learning that we through patience comfort of the Scriptures might haue hope Rom. 15. 4. No maruell then if men ignorant of the Scriptures and not being acquainted with Christs comfortable words are void and destitute of all true ioy and comfort in their afflictions Dauid saith I remembred thy iudgements of old O Lord and receiued comfort Psal. 119. 52. that is he found comfort by meditating of the examples of Gods mercie and iustice declared in his word Their case therefore is much to be pitied that either wilfully contemne or carnally neglect the reading meditating in Gods word which is called by the Apostle the sword of the spirit Ephes. 6. 7. Like as then a souldier set in the midst of his enemies without his sword and other warlike weapons is in danger to be deuoured and destroyed of them euen so as much vnable is a Christian to stand against the temptations of Sathan being not armed spiritually with the knowledge of the word which as one well saith Si tribularis consolatur te si laetaris accumulat gauda● si iracūdus es mitigat te si paupertate deprimeris erigit te If thou art afflicted it doth comfort thee if thou be merrie it addeth to thy ioy if angrie mitigateth thy mood if pressed with pouertie doth raise thee vp The eleuenth Lecture Vers. 14. I haue giuen them thy word and the world hath hated them NOw followeth another reason of our Sauiours prayer for his disciples taken from the great perils which they are subiect vnto and their enemies which are set against them which are the world that is the generation of the wicked vers 14. and euill or sinne which is readie to catch hold vpon the best in this life from the which he desireth them to be kept vers 15. In this verse two reasons are giuen of the hatred of the world because they haue the word and professe the truth because in respect of their righteous life they shew themselues not to be of the world for these two things the world cannot abide Truth and Innocencie By the world here neither the whole companie of men comprehending both good and bad is vnderstood as it is sometime taken as Heb. 1. 6. When he bringeth in his first begotten Sonne into the world nor yet for the number of the faithfull which are also called the world Ioh. 1. 29. Behold the lambe of God that taketh away the sinne of the world but the vniuersall companie of the wicked onely is here insinuated As 1. Ioh. 5. 19. The whole world lieth in wickednesse We are here then taught that the faithfull in this life are hated for the word of God and the truths sake for nothing is more irkesome or vnpleasing vnto them then Gods word 1. As the Prophet Isay speaketh of the people of his time They would not heare the law of the Lord which said vnto the Seers see not and to the Prophets prophesie not vnto vs right things c. prophecie errors 2. Thus Ahab hated Micaiah because he spake the truth vnto him and flattered him not 1. King 22. 8. For the same cause did Herodias procure Iohn Baptists death because he would not dissemble with her in her sinne Mark 6. This was the cause of Saint Paules trouble at Ierusalem they obiected against him that the did teach against the law and the temple Act. 21. 28. 3. Like as the Philistims striued with Isaacs seruants for the wels of water which they had digged especially for one well of liuing or springing water Genes 26. 19. so do the children of the world contend with the faithfull about the waters of life which issue frō the word Therfore our Sauior saith I am come to put fire on the earth and what is my desire if it be already kindled Luk. 12. 49. The word of God is as a fire that enflameth the wicked it maketh thē to rage and fume as though they were mad as the people that could not endure to heare Saint Paule but cast off their cloathes and threw dust in the aire Act. 22. 23. 4. The reason is euident Euery one that euill doth hateth the light neither cometh to the light lest his euill deeds should be reproued Ioh. 3. 20. The wicked cannot endure to be reproued and therefore they abhorre the word that discouereth them they are angrie with the looking glasse that bewrayeth the wrinkles and

to our knowledge to ad affection to our iudgement zeale to our vnderstanding cōscience feeling Many seeme to know much but there is withall a coldnesse in their heart Happy it is with those that when they heare the word do not onely conceiue and vnderstand it as Herode did Marke 6. 20. but their hearts are inflamed as the two Disciples while Christ preached vnto them found their hearts burne within them Luke 24. The Prophet Dauid saith O how I loue thy law Psal. 119. 97. whereof Ambrose well saith Diligere amplius est quàm custodire hoc necessitatis est timēs illud charitatis To loue is more then to keepe this is of feare and necessitie that proceedeth of charitie So o●r obedience to God should proceede from a willing affection and louing heart That as God delighteth in the faithfull My delight is with the children of men Pro. 8. 31 so our delight may be in God that we may say with the prophet The desire of our soule is to thy name and to the remēbrance Isa. 26. 8. So shall we be sure that if we desire his waies now the Lord wil delight in vs for euer and cause vs to enter into his euerlasting ioy FINIS Iud. ● 4● lib. 〈…〉 Cantic 1. 2. Psal 134. Lib. 5. in L●● 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ad Cel●●tium 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Psal 56. 8. Luk. 〈…〉 1. Thes. 5. 17. 〈◊〉 de obit Theodo●ii Xen. lib. 1. de Cyri 〈◊〉 Prou 4 23. aduer Luciferius 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 King 3. ●d C●esiphon● 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mark 11 3● 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 11. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lib 1. de Genes 〈◊〉 Ioh. 11. Math. 26. 1. Thess. 5. 17. Math. 14. 31. Luk. 22. 61. Mar. 10. 4● 1. King 8. E●●d 17. 2. King 2. Apoc. ●● Numb ●1 9. Act. 7. 56. H●b 9. 14. Leuit 1. 15. Leuit. 2. 13. Doctr. 1. Plutarc de garrulitat In L●c. ca. 11. Doct. 2. Difference betwixt the pr●uer● of Ch●●st and of his members Christ praieth not in heauē now as he did in the earth Tract 10● in Ioann● How Christ is the Mediatour of his church How Christ appe●eth before God for vs. Lib 22. mo●al cap. 13. Doctr. 3. Ad Eusta●h●●m Vers. 1. Doct● 1. The gesture required in prayer God Christs father otherwise then ours Doct. 2. Pray with confidence Doct. 3. The appointment of times is from God Against Astrologers We must wait the acceptable time All gifts must 〈◊〉 vsed to Gods glory The Pope not Christs Vicar Lib. 2. de vocat gent. cap. 6. Ser. 19. in Psal. 119. Doct. 2. ●ternall life onely giuen to those that are giuen to Christ. Christ died not for all ●lection certaine In Mat. Homil 13. Doctr. 1. What things make the life o● man miserable Enemies to euerlasting life confuted The desire which we ought to haue to euerlasting life Doct. 2. Of the necessitie of the knowledge of God Heretickes enemies to the Trinitie confuted Against Atheists Ignorance dangerous Doct. 3. No saluation without faith in Christ. Diuerse heresies against the natures person of Christ. De Isaacho cap. 8. Doct. 1. Man cannot chalenge any thing from God by his merits Doct. 2. Continuance to the end Doct. 3. Christ merited not for himselfe Doct. 1. The word of God profitable onely to the elect The attentiue hearing of the word a marke of our effectuall vocation In Psal. 119. Doct. 2. In 2. Tim. cap. 1. Doct 3. Examination of doctrines Doct. 2. Gods word is chearfully to be heard Doct 3. Our knowledge of Christ must be certaine Against carnal professors Doct. 4. The Minister must be assured of his calling How Ministers are acertained of their calling Doct. 1. Christ a Mediator onely for the elect There is a world onely of the elect and faithfull Lib. 5. in Luc Whether the wicked may be prayed for Worldlings without the compasse of Christs praier Doct. 1. Christ God of himselfe August tract 19. in Ioann No accesse to God without Christ. De Fide lib. 3 cap. 3. Doct 3. All must be re●erred to Gods glorie which we ask in our praiers Doct. 1. Christ not present now in the world in his flesh The reasons of Christs bodily absence Against the carnall presence in the Sacrament Our desires must be in heauen Doct. 2. Our comming to God is by prayer Against neglect or discontinuance in prayer Against hypocriticall prayers Conc. 2 in Psal. 33. Doct. 3. Man hath no power of himselfe to keepe himselfe Against free will De Ecclesiast docum c. 56. Doct. 4. The loue of Christians must be in the truth Doct. 1. They which are once truly graft into Christ cannot finally fall away Iustifying faith cannot be lost Doct. 2. Some reiected from the beginning The doctrin of Predestination a spur to godlines Doct. 3. The certaintie of Gods word Gods foreknowledge not the cause of mens workes De Predest lib. 1. cap. 15. Doct. 4. Gods word worketh true comfort The danger of those that are ignorant of the word Doct. 1. The faithfull hated in the world A dangerous thing to hate the seruants of God 1. Chro. 16. 10. Hom. 11. in Exod. Doct. 2. Against separation from the Church Cont. Cres● lib. 3. cap. 35. 3. degrees of worldly men Doct. 3. Life not corruptly to be desired Serm. 20. in Psal. 119. Against a pre posterous desire of death Why the Scripture vseth repetitions Of vaine and idle repetitions Of the word Selah vsed in the Psalmes Hierom. Marcella Tom. 4. Doct. 1. The word of God onely conuerteth Mat. 3 11. Col. 4. 6. Heb. 4. 12. All truth necessarie to saluation to be found in Scripture Doct. 2. God sendeth none but enabled with gifts Ad Furiam Doct. 3. All gifts deriued vnto the Church by Christ. Ephes. 4. 16. 〈◊〉 merited not for himselfe Lib. 5. de fid cap. 7. Doct. 1. Christ praieth for all beleeuers to the end of the world Care of posteritie Doct. 2. Faith a rare thing where is no preaching Doct. 3. Augustine Doct. 4. Why God would haue the holy life of his faithful knowne to the world Mat. 18. 6. The dange● of giuing of●ence Doct. 1. We are elected to walke in good works ●lection not of workes but by grace Two books the booke of life the book of a m●ns conscience Three kinds of false peace Paulin. Tom. 4. Doct. 3. Gods loue best knowne by the graces of sanctification Doct. 1. The prayer of Christs mediation Doct. 2. The faithfull shal be in the same place with Christ in heauen Doct. 3. They that wil see Christ face to face in heauen must see him by faith here Hom. in Mat. 13. Heb. 6. 19. Doct. 4. Christ how said to be predestinate Assurance of heauen is neither impossible nor yet easie to be had The blindnes ignorance of the world Lib. 5 in Luc. Ignorance a sufficiēt cause of condemnation Doct. 2. Al holy knowledge deriued from Christ. A vaine labor to seeke for true wisdome without Christ. Amb. serm 14 in Psal. 1 19. Doct. 3. God will neuer leaue his Church destitute of his word Ambros. Epist 60. Doct. 4. Knowledge without sense and feeling fruitlesse We must not onley vnderstād the word but ioy in it Serm. 20. in Psal. 119.