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A14690	A sermon preached at Pauls Crosse by Iohn Walsal, one of the preachers of Christ his Church in Canterburie. 5. October. 1578. And published at the earnest request of certeine godlie Londoners and others	Walsall, John.	1578 (1578)	STC 24995; ESTC S102702	33,978	86

scriptures of three sortes and kindes of Prophetes The first are such as were extraordinarilie stirred vp by the LORDE and vsed to aske counsell of the Lorde for the comfort of the Churche in her great extremities These Prophets were called Séers of whom it is spoken in the firste booke of the Cronicles as of God Dauids Séer and of Samuell the Seer The seconde sorte were also extraordinarily sente by the Lorde too interprete the lawe of God when the priestes ceased such were Isay Ieremie c. The thirde kinde of Prophetes are such as the Lorde hath blessed with abilitie and giftes to enterprete and applie the holie scriptures so that to prophecie or to bee a Prophete in this last sence is to open the worde of GOD by a sounde diligent playne and faithfull interpretation and to applie the same both for the ingendring encrease and confirmation of faith and also for the reformation and amendement of life such as some thinke were the Prophetes at Antiochia spoken of in the thirtéenth of the Actes In this sence all true preachers are prophets Thus likwise I take Salomons saying Where Prophesie fayleth the people perishe that is where there is not a faithfull ministery a true diligent interpretation a through application of the word there the people by heapes runne headlong into vtter destruction To this ende and in this meaninge doeth Moses vtter these wordes The Lord your God shall rayse vp vnto you a Prophete signifying a continuall ministerie of the worde for inlarginge the kingdome building vp the church of Christ Howbeit both Stephan in the seauenth and Peter in the thirde of the Actes doe so vse the testimonie of Moses that they doe more particularly restreigne the same vnto our Sauiour Christe For their purpose is to persuade the Iewes that to hearken vnto and beleeue in Christ is not repugnante and contrarie to the Lawe of Moses because Moses him selfe speaking of Christ sayth A Prophete shall the Lorde c. There is no contrarietie betwéene my first interpretation of this prophet for all the ministerie and my thus vnderstandinge of Christe by this Prophete For as this Prophete doeth generally importe the whole number of true ministers prophetes and preachers so it hath also an especiall relation vnto Iesus Christ the head and prince the butte marke the scope end of all the true ministery which euer was is presently or shall be hereafter vpon the whole face of the earth Beholde here then the comfortable signification and importaunte nature of this prophete euen that Iesus Christ by his might and mercie shall euer bee with his Church and that from time to time the Lorde will rayse vp and sende out true ministers for his Church This alone consideration and knowledge is fully fraught with singular comforte If we call to our remembrāce that an houshold with out a stewarde waxeth disordered that schollers wanting an instructour cannot be learned that a shippe destitute of a guide is vnlikely to be preserued we shall then easily perceiue and clearely sée the moste lamentable estate of the Church when it is depriued of true ministers which are the Lords stewards to dispose his secretes the Lords scholmasters to teach his people the Lords vnderguides to direct his flock of Shéep in to the sheepefold of Iesus Christe The faithfull among all other griefes reckon this for one of the greatest we see not our sagnes there is not one Prophet more But although for our sinnes ingratitude contempt and disobedience the Lorde in his displeasure doth often take away his worde and ministers in such sort as the worlde many times iudgeth the worde vtterly abandoned and the ministers thereof altogether destroyed yet euen in those times of hott afflictions the Lord hath continually raised vp true prophetes and preachers to his true hearted Israelites whereof this Citie hath often had most comfortable triall experience Therefore let vs faithfully holde in our harts as a sure ground and infallible principle for euer that if wee wil be diligent hearers faithfull beleeuers and obedient practizers of his worde The Lorde our God shall raise vp a Prophet vnto vs that is will still mercifully blesse vs with the presence of Iesus Christe and with sincere learned painfull discréete and godly interpreters ministers of his worde Moses procéedeth in the description of this Prophet and sayth of your brethren like to me Ye haue alreadie heard that Moses speaketh these words in generall manner respecting both Christe and his ministers but that Peter doth more particularly applie them vnto Christe and therfore it behoueth me to speake of the same wordes First as they generally concerne the whole ministerie Thē as they especially touch Christ To preserue and keepe the Israelites in them all Christians from béeing defiled with the impious maners of the gentiles to make them for euer wholy cleaue to the word of God Moses hath promised a cōtinual opening of the word wil of god therin comprised The people might haue said to Moses peraduenture thy meaning is that the Lord himself will teach vs in his owne person But this wee canne in no wise brooke For we founde his maiestie so glorious his voice so terrible his words so pearcing at the giuing out of the lawe vppon moūt Sinai that we looked for present death and therefore prayed that wee might no more heare the Lorde speake vnto vs in his owne person Moses to take away this feare telleth them that this prophet shall be of their owne brethren that is of their owne stocke bloude and kinred and like to him that is a man as he is in companie with thē as he is teaching them as familiarly as plainely as mildely as louingly as he doth Hence we are taught that as it is a great benifit to be rightly instructed in the will and way of the Lorde so the Lorde hath dealt gratiously with vs in that he teachech vs not in his glorious maiestie to confounde vs but in his great mercie to saue vs not fearefully by thundring lightening tempests to afraie vs but by men of our own countrie of our own nature of our own acquaintaunce to encourage aad allure vs. Now to vnderstād this speach of Christ as Stephan and Peter doe it must be thus construed that Christ touching his humane nature shoulde descende from the stocke of Abraham and bee borne among the Iewes And therefore ther was no cause at al why the Iewes shoulde either feare or dispise Christe sith by byrth he shoulde bee their owne countrieman and in familiar and louing instruction like to Moses But this Christes likenesse to Moses must not be so taken as if in Christe there coulde bee founde nothing more excellent then was in Moses For Moses was but a man Christ God and man Moses was a man

as heare with faith to beléeue in Christ and his worde and with obedience to followe Christe and his worde then both idolatrous Papistes and carnall protestantes I will not once name Atheistes are quit clean excluded out of the number of true right Christian hearers That Papists hear not Christ his ministers in this sense of hearing that is that they do not conforme their religion according to the doctrine conteined in and deliuered vnto them out of the worde of God this is a matter so manifest as all the faithfull do lamentablie and with griefe of hearte beholde the same And to giue themselues if any be present some taste thereof I will here ioyne battell and incounter with them vsing that onely sentence vtterred by our sauiour in the sourth of Iohn for the weapon whereby I am sure I truste the greatest number present will confesse that their whole religion or rather superstition is wounded at the hearte and stricken quite dead For Christ in that place talking with the woman of Samaria telleth her the God is a spirit and they that worshippe him must worshippe him in spirit and truth If we either looke on the whole body of their religion in grosse or dismember and rippe the same into péeces and beholde euerie member euerie ioynt euerie sinewe euerie veine euerie arterie euerie muscle thereof we shall be enforced to confesse that among them there is no worshipping of God in spirite and trueth but that all their worshippe and religion is corporall externall and ceremoniall Whosoeuer shall with iudgement indifferētly view their Religion shall in déede perceiue it to be nothing else but an apishe and counterfeite imitation of the ceremoniall law Hence they fetch their alters candlestickes Sensours Perfumes garmentes Oblations festiuall dayes solemne feasts difference of times obseruation of meates purifications sacrifices and a number of the like nature But as in all these and the residue they haue no sauour of spirite and trueth agréeable either to gods nature discribed or to the doctrin of the Gospell deliuered by Christ so in their following of the lawe they doe shamfully halte To giue yee an instance they celebrate their masse at the Altar but Christ ministred his laste supper at a table I cannot denye but the lawe Ceremoniall doeth commaunde Altars howbeit such Altars as shall be neither of hewed stone nor haue any steppes ther vnto belonging But the Romish Altars are of hewen stowne and haue steppes as is apparant in their Sinagogues and as appereth by steppes yet remayning in many of our Temples whereby either longing for that heathenish superstition or at the least colde affection to aduance true religion is vndoubtedly signified But admitte their whole religion were fully in euery pointe correspondent and answerable to the law ceremoniall what else shoulde that bée but a full and flatte deniall of Christes death and passion and of all the merits of the same This is most substancially proued by our sauiour Christ and by his seruaunt Paule Christ in that former scripture before cited saith that God is a spirit and therefore they that worshippe him must worship him in spirit and trueth In that place Spirit truth are opposed and set against the ceremonies of the law and the words of Christ so vttered to the woman of Samaria importe thus much Before the incarnation of me the then promised and nowe perfourmed sauiour ye worshipped God in shadowes in figures in ceremonies in sacrifices but I béeing nowe come who am the body of those shaddowes the trueth of those figures the substāce of those sacrifices the matter of those ceremonies nowe that externall worship ceaseth and ye muste now worship God onely in spirite and trueth Here Paule saith in his Epistle to the Ephesians the second chapter He that is Christ is our peace which hath made of both one and hath broken the stop of the partition wall in abrogating through his flesh the hatred that is the law of cōmandementes which standeth in ordinaunces c. Again writing vnto the Collossians he hath the same in effect and meaning By both these places we are taught that Christ by his death and passion hath abrogated taken away the whole law of ceremonies that place also in the last to the Hebrues is verie notable to this end and purpose We haue an Altar wherof they haue no authoritie to eat which serue in the Tabernacle Whereby it is concluded that such as yet dwell in ceremonies of the law much more of mens deuising are strangers frō Iesus Christ who by his one sacrifice of his own body once offered for al hath cancelled the obligation and handwriting of the ceremoniall lawe which was against vs By these the like testimonies of holy scripture we sée that such as worship God either after the ceremoniall law of God or after the ceremoniall deuises of men do therby deny the force of Christs death yea they deny that Iesus Christ is come in the flesh Of such mē S. Ioh. speaketh in his first epistle Euery spirit that cōfesseth not Iesus Christ to be come in the flesh is not of god but this is the spirit of Antichrist c. I referre the néerer application of this sentence to their own consciences praying the lord to giue them grace effectually to sée cōfortably to fele faith fully to acknowledge the Lord Iesus togither with the mightie force of his most effectuall death passion Plinie in the eight booke of his naturall historie reporteth the Swallowes vse to make the blind soare eyes of their yong ones to sée by rubbing the same w an herbe called Celandine so named some say of the swallowes first finders and such vsers therof some say quia confert caelestia dona bicause it hath heauenly vertues The papists eyes are very sore blind they cannot abide to looke vppon Iesus Christ the glorious sonne of God thus brightly shining amōgest vs The Lord in his mercie giue thē his heauenly Celandine I mean his holy spirit that therewith their blind eyes may bee opened their darke vnderstanding lightened their hard harts mollified softened If as in grosse we haue viewed the whole bodie of their religiō so nowe we looke vppon the same by piece meale shal we therein finde any spirite and truth shal we not finde it altogether deuoid of spirite and trueth and wholy corporall carnall and earthly Spirite and truth will haue the Lord God alone worshipped and serued they worship and serue Saintes creatures Reliques bootes buskins nailes c. Spirit trueth will haue God alone to be prayed vnto they pray to Saintes to creatures to Images to stockes and stones Spirite and trueth will haue our praiers procéede from an vnderstanding hart they teach charge the people to pray in a strange and vnknowen language Spirite and trueth will haue