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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A92765	Gods warning to England by the voyce of his rod. Delivered in a sermon, preached at Margarets Westminster, before the Honourable House of Commons, at their late solemn fast, Octob. 30. 1644. By Henry Scudder, Rector of Collingborn-Ducis in Wiltshire. Published by order of the said House.	Scudder, Henry, d. 1659?	1644 (1644)	Wing S2139; Thomason E18_20; ESTC R209986	35,861	47

mouth for they were Messengers of the Lord of Hosts as well as the Prophets Mal. 2. 7. to deliver what they received from God in the word written by the Prophets as were the Prophets who received what they wrote by immediate revelation from God And ordinary Ministers of the Gospel are in the Scripture said to speak to men by 1 Thess 4. 15. Heb 13. 7. the word of the Lord and to speak the word of the Lord as well as the Prophets who were immediately inspired of God The people then had a Test a Rule to try whether that which the Messengers of God spake were his Message or no To the Law and to the Testimony saith God if they speak not according to this Isa 8. 20. word it is because there is no light in them But if they spake according to that word it was to be received as the very word of God God hath left as sure a means nay in respect of us a more certain way of knowing the will of God namely the Scripture of 2 Pet. 1. 19. the Prophets and Apostles whereby Ministers may know what God would have spoken in his Name and people may know whether God speak by them or no. Therefore all men are bid to trie the spirits the Doctrines whether they be of God or no as the Bereans 1 Joh. 4. 1. Acts 17. 11. did searching the Scripture daily whether the word spoken by Paul were so and finding it to be so they received it as the very word of God and believed Wherefore though it be true that it is possible that Ministers may sometimes erre both in their Doctrines and Application and when they erre that is to be rejected because it is not the will and word of God yet they are to be heard as men speaking in the Name and stead of God and what they speak according to his Word is to be received as if God himself spake unto you I do with all earnestnesse presse this upon you that you be convinced of this truth so as undoubtedly and firmly to believe it I mean not onely the Doctrines we teach whereby we shew you what is true what is false what is good what is evil are to be received as if God spake them himself but all reproofs of your vices all redargutions and confutations of your errours all exhortations unto and instructions in righteousnesse also all threats promises and consolations when they are all applied according to the Doctrine of truth and godlinesse they are to be received as reproofs corrections exhortations threats promises and consolations of God For the word is profitable for all these purposes as you may reade 1 Tim. 3. 10. and 2 Tim. 4. 2. I do therefore now as I have just cause reprove a great fault and Vse 2. sin in most men who when they come to hear they come not to hear God speak but man and when they hear they receive what they hear but as the word of man they hear not the voice of God they receive it not as the Word of God I would to God that you would now hear God reproving you for this great sin Most hearers of the Ministers of the word of God receive and regard what they teach but according as they have an opinion and esteem of the man that speaketh As men are endued with rare parts and gifts and shew themselves witty and learned as carnall men count learned if they shew much of this in rarity of invention and elocution in that excellency of speech and wisedom with the entising words of mans wisedom which wise eloquent ● Cor. 2. 4. and learned Paul purposely shunned their Sermons do take with them accordingly but commonly their fancies and not their hearts are taken therewith Those who thus hear may receive all that is of and from man in that Sermon but little or nothing of that which is of and from God in it Therefore many hear much and learn little they are not taught of God when they so hear because they do not hear God speak in him that teacheth These men should humble themselves before God for that they have not heeded nor regarded God speaking to them by his Ministers God complaineth of and reproveth all such hearers I sent all my Prophets but they hearkned not to me saith the Lord He saith Jer. 7. 25 26. not They hearkned not to my Prophets but They hearkned not to me Know you that a time will come when you shall be called to an account for your hearing if you have not heard and obeyed but have despised what the Ministers of God though frail and mean men have spoken unto you in the Name of the Lord you Luke 10. 16. shall answer for it as if God himself had immediately spoken unto you for you have slighted and despised him according to that of our Saviour He that heareth you heareth me and he that Luke 10. 16. despiseth you despiseth me and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me Let me therefore intreat and perswade you that you will both now while you are hearing of me and when hereafter the Lord shall please to speak unto you by any other of his Messengers that you would receive what is spoken from God to you by us not as the word of man but as it shall be found to be indeed the Word of God See and hear God in his Ministers instructing reproving commanding and exhorting when you are instructed reproved commanded and exhorted by them remembring and considering well that they are Gods Ambassadours that come not in their own name but in Gods Name If before you hear you would as Cornclius did set your selves Acts 10. ●● before God in the presence of God to hear not what a Peter should say but whatsoever Peter should be commanded of God to speak unto you then the Word would be powerfull to convert you and save you as it did him and those that with like faith heard Acts 10. 44. Peter preach the Word unto them If a mean man bring a Message or a Command from a King or from any that have power over us be it a Constable or other Officer we do not receive the Message or the Command according to the meannesse or greatnesse of the man that bringeth it but according to the esteem we have and obedience we owe to him whose Message and Command it is When the Thessalonians received the Word thus not as the word of man but as it was indeed 1 Thess ● 13. the Word of God then it wrought in them mightily Did you believe and consider that it is no other but the voice and word of God it would perswade and command your belief you would not choose but believe it without doubting or gainsaying because you know that cannot but be infallibly true which the God of Truth speaketh Christ saith to his Father John 17. 1● The Word is