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A sermon preached at Paules Crosse the ix. of Februarie. Anno Dom. 1583. By I. Hudson, Maister of Arte, of Oxon
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Hudson, John, M.A., Oxon.
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A SERMON preached at Paules Crosse the 〈◊〉 Februarie Anno Dom. 1583. By I. Hudson Maister of Arte of Oxon. Through thy commaundementes I get vnderstanding therefore I hate all vvicked 〈◊〉 Psal. 119. Imprinted at London by Thomas Purfoote and are to be solde at his Shop ouer against Sainte Sepulchres Church 1584 Heb. cap. 10. ver 19. SEeing therefore brethren that by the bloud of Iesus wee maie bee boulde to enter into the holy place By the new and liuing way which he hath prepared for vs through the vaile that is his flesh And seeing we haue an high Priest which is ruler ouer the house of God Let vs draw neere with a true hart in assuraunce of faith sprinckled in our hartes from an euil conscience and washed in our bodies with pure water Let vs keepe or let vs hold fast the profession of our hope without wauering for he is faiâ—hfull that promised And let vs consider one an other to prouoke vnto loue and to good workes Not forsaking the fellowship that we haue among our selues as the manner of some is but let vs exhort one another and that so much the more because yee see that the daie draweth neere WHen Moses would exhort and stir vp the people of Israel to all diligent regard and accomplishment of their duetie described in the lawe after breefe rehersall of the great woonders and manifold benefices wherewith the lord God had both strengthned their wauering faith and susteyned their mortall liues in that their longe and wandring pilgrimage in the desart he speaketh as a most effectuall collection to excite them therevnto putteth downe the coÌ„tinual presence of God still ready to heare defend them with the excellencie and equitie of those there enioyned ordinaunces and lawes which should be their vnderstaÌ„ding their wisedome and glory among al people For what nation saith he is so great vnto whoÌ„ gods come so neere as the Lorde our God is neere vnto vs in al that we call vnto him for And what Nation is so great that hath ordinances and lawes so righteous as is all this lawe which I set before you this daye The same argument and reason inferred then as most forcible to worke obedience in the harts of those olde stubborne people vnder the lawe whiche had but a shadow of good things to come and was onely a Schoolemaister vnto Christ ought much more to be effectuall among vs in these daies and times of grace seeing the Lord commeth nearer vnto vs then he diâ— vnto them seeing we enioy the trueth body substance of those their figuratiue shadowes and haue precepts of doctrine ordinaunces and lawes by so much both more honorable and more profitable and higher then theires as they haue receaued a farre more excellent name and are seales and coÌ„firmations of better promises then they had For to theÌ„ God camâ— neare in fire and lightning in stormes and thunders and most terrrible manner on y e mountaine to declare his wrath against sin But vnto vs in fauor and goodnes in reconciled loue bowels of mercie freely pardoning and remitting our sinnes vnto them he spake by Angels and prophets and appeared by the ministrie of his seruant by whom he gaue a lawe But vnto vs by his dearely beloued and onely begotteÌ„ sonne by whom he hath giueÌ„ grace truth Unto them 〈◊〉 gaue the couenant of boÌ„dage of feare 〈◊〉 for a time Unto vs y e law of libert◠〈◊〉 â—doptioÌ„ eternal life for euer So thaâ—â—he declaration of sin coÌ„minatioÌ„ of pâ—â—â—â—hmeÌ„t to be inflicted by y e law were 〈◊〉 such price reuerence among theÌ„ much more should the promulgation of grace and free remission of sinnes be now acceptable vnto vs And if the ministration of condemnation as S. Paule saith figured in stone were glorious much more shall the ministration of righteousnesse by fayth in Iesus Christ exceede in glory And therfore seeing it is more directly saide and applyed vnto vs Christians now then it was euer to the Iewes that the Lord commeth so neere vnto no people as vnto vs Neither is there any Nation that hath ordinaunces and lawes so righteous so excellent and profitable as are all those wherein our Christian duetie is limited and described vnto vs It is also requisite that we duely consider and regarde the prerogatiue of this our calling vnto whome God in mercie stooping as it were so lowe doth discend and come neere and carefully obserue those his righteous lawes and precepts whereby wee maie approche and draw â—eere in all obedience vnto him againe Both which wee haue heere accordinglâ— set downe vnto vs in the scope of this present Scripture conteining a short abridgement and recapitulation not onely of this present Epistle to the Hebrues but euen of all the whole Gospell it selfe and of all our Christian life and duetie as wherein the effect and summe of all is contriued and knit vp Which although it contain matter more copious and plentifull then can exactly be discussed at one time Yet for our better and more orderly proceeding in so large a fielde and compasse may well be deuided into two generall partes and braunches First a theoretical position or doctrine of knowledge respecting our beleefe and faith as how neere the Lorde in mercie by the reconciliation of his sonne commeth downe vnto vs And secondly an application of this doctrine or hortatorie illation to the performaunce of all suche dueties as are answerable thereunto and requisite to the direction of our conuersation and life The first againe conteineth chiefely two thinges First the abrogation of the Iewish Priesthoode of their dayly sacrifices and legall obseruations and rights and secondly a confirmation of our finall attonement wrought with God and redemption by the bloud of Iesus once offered for all vpon the Alter of the Crosse wherby he hath made perfect for euer those that shall bee saued Both which bicause by way of allution or collation they are here set downe and deliuered in one I will also so proceede ioyntly to handle them in one and not deuide them in discourse of my speache In the second part again to be performed in our behalf whereby wee shall approche and come neare in obedience vnto God are required specially three thinges faith to enter and conduct vs in the way hope to strengthen and vphold vs to the end and thirdly loue and charitie to the comfort and encouragement both of our selues and other Our faith must not be naked or solitarie but clothed and accompanied with attendaunce of these properties a true harte and a good conscience so as both â—ur bodies and mindes maye be sprinckled and washed from all contagion of sin our hope must not bee wauering and vnconstant fitting and turning like our earthly affections after the variable nature of the obiect wheron they are placed but stedfast and vnmoueable grounded on the faithfull and vnchaungeable promises of almightie God And our loue must not
be famed ydle or vnfruitfull in pretence and outwarde showe but in all points such as is described to quenche all bitternes and discord and to fructifie and spring forth into all practise and exercise of godlinesse and good woorkes whereuntoo for conclusion is annexed a forcible motiue the rather to induce vs thereunto for that the ende it selfe approcheth and the day draweth neare Touching the first parte the Apostle after diuers infallible demonstrations and proofes alleaged to his purpose throughout his whole Epistle and discourse goeing before after manie obiections answered the aduersaries refuted and the trueth on eache side clearly discussed For an Epilogue or summarie conclusion of all his former disputation and doctrine inferreth this sure collection pitched faste downe for euer as an vnmoueable rocke of trueth That the bloode of Iesus abolishing all figures rites and ceremonies all shadowes and sacrifices of the Mosaicall Lawe hath taken awaie the pertition the couering and vayle wherein all Nations were wrapped and hath made free passage entraunce with boldnes vnto the throne and mercie seate of God euen vnto vs and vnto al as many as were farre of seperated by our sinnes and sitting in darkenesse and in the shaddowe of death Which high and heauenly mistery that he might the better and more significantly expresse as also that we should not thinke those rites and ceremonies of the lawe to haue beene vtterlie vaine and fruitles but lawfull and profitable in their appointed time and vse and y t yet now by the blood of Iesus shed vpon the Crosse they haue attained their ful purposed perfection and scope and lastly that there should seeme nothing to want in the bodye and fulnesse of the Gospell which was so greatly in price and honor in their shadows of the law he fitly here applyeth them as figuratiue predictions to our Christian Religion and furnisheth out a most liuely description of our fayth with the spoiles with the titles and prerogatiues wherein they so greatly gloried and wherewith their holies were adorned So that though their excellencie were great and their preferment singuler aboue all Nations of the world as vnto whome the Adoption and the couenance and the law and the glorie and the promises then onely apperteined of whoÌ„ were the fathers and of whom as concerning the flâ—sh Christ came who is God ouer all blessed for euer more Yet if it bee compared whatsoeuer was then so glorious vnder the yoke of Moses lawe to this incomperable perfection of libertie and prerogatiue of grace in the freedom of the Gospell it must needes giue place and yeild as darkenesse to light as shadowes to the body as figures to trueth as weaknes to perfection and as disposing preparatiue meanes to their finall and prefixed consummation and end They had a holy place made with handes seperated by pertition and shutte vppe from the rest of the Temple but wee haue the highest heauens and celestiall throne of grace a tabernacle not made with handes whiche God and not man pight into their sanctuarie none might enter but the Priestes alone but wee all without exception haue free libertie and accesse and are made a holy Priesthoode to offer vp spiritual sacrifice acceptable vnto God by Iesus Christ. They were permitted to enter but once euery yeare wee euery daye and at all times without restraint or limitation Their passage and way was made with the blood of manie slayne offeringes of beastes but ours by the vndeficient and eternall blood of him that liueth for euer the immaculate Lambe of God Their high Priest was mortall compassed with infirmities and sinnes but ours is holy harmelesse vndefiled seperated from sinners and made higher then the heauens Their Priestes were many still chaunging in succession because they were men Ours one and euerlasting abiding for euer because hee is the sonne of God Their entraunce was by a bodily vaile which made the seperation but ours by the reuiued body of Christ which maketh the attonemente and reconciliation And is therefore moste aptlye called a vaile or couering beecause as that their materiall vaile hanging downe did shut vp and couer the secrete place of the Sanctuarie froÌ„ the sight of those that were without so the humaine body of Christ did hide his diuine nature from the obstinate carnall Iewes and all those that beleeued not in him And as the vayle againe beeing lifted vp made entrance and passage into the holy place which before was shutte and closed So Christ ascending vp on high and lifting vp the vaile of his flesh to the right hande of GOD hath opened the hidden treasures of his mercie grace and fauour which before through our sinnes as a carnall vaile hanging downe were fast sealed vppe and closed from vs. For as the children of Israell coulde not beholde the shining face of Moses when hee had talked with God on the Mount for the exceeding brightnesse thereof but couered with a vaile where through they did beholde him So no man hath seene GOD at anye tyme or canne beeholde the face and presence of the deytye but so farre as it is both vailed and reuealed by the bodye and humayne fleshe of our Sauioure Christ Iacob prophesing of Christ which shoulde come of the Tribe of Iuda sayth Lauabit in vinâ— stolam suam Hee shall washe his garmente in Wine and his mantle in the bloud of the grape Which Prophecie saith Theodoret was truly theÌ„ fulfilled when our sauiour did shed for vs his most precious blood vpon the Crosse which issuing aboundantly out of his perced handes and side did euen washe his body which was as it were the Mantle sayth hee and vesture the vaile and couering of his deitie and godhed By which other like applications wee may plainely see it verified which is spoken by S. Augustine That of all those holy men and Fathers which in time were before the natiuitie of Christe not onelye their words and speeches but euen their whole liues their mariages their children their deedes and actions were a prophecie of these our times wherein the Churche by faythe in Christ is gathered of all Nations And as Iacob sayth hee when hee shoulde be borne first put forth his hande out of the wombe after followed the head and then necessarily the rest of the members and body but so as the head excelled still both the hande that went before and the body that came after as from whom they both had their life sence and vitall powers and which though not in time of appearing yet in order and dignity of nature and being was first and before them both So our Lorde Iesus Christ before he appeared in the flesh and came foorth from the wombe of his secrete and eternall Counsell into the sight of the world a mediatour betweene God and man reached out in the holy Patriarkes and Prophets and other his peculier people appointed for that purpose a certaine parte of his body or hand as a