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A04931	A sermon preached by Iohn Knox minister of Christ Iesus in the publique audience of the Church of Edenbrough, within the realme of Scotland, vpon Sonday, the. 19. of August. 1565 For the which the said Iohn Knoxe was inhibite preaching for a season. To this is adioyned an exhortation vnto all the faythfull within the sayde realme, for the reliefe of suche as faythfully trauayle in the preaching of Gods worde. Written by the same Iohn Knoxe, at the commaundement of the ministerie aforesayd.	Knox, John, ca. 1514-1572.	1566 (1566)	STC 15075; ESTC S108139	37,230	132

in the tyme of quietnesse prosperitie can generally confesse that God is true in his promises but bring them to the extremitie and there ceasseth the hipocrite further to trust in God than he seeth naturall meanes whereby God vseth to worke But the true faithfull when all hope of naturall meanes fayleth then flye they to God himselfe and to the truth of his promise who is aboue nature yea whose workes are not so subiect to the ordinarie course of nature that when nature fayloth his power and promise fayle also therwith Let vs further observe that the Prophete here speaketh not of all deade in generall but sayth thy dead O Lorde shall liue In which wordes he maketh difference betwixt those that dye in the Lorde and those that dye in their naturall corruption and in olde Adam Die in the Lord can none except those that liue in him I meane of those that attaine to the yeares of discretion and none liue in him except those that with the Apostle can say I liue not I but Christ Iesus liueth in me The lyfe that now I liue I haue by the faith of the sonne of God Not that I meane that the faithfull haue at all houres suche sense of the lyfe euerlasting that they feare not the deathe and the troubles of this lyfe no not so for the faith of all Goddes children is weake yea and in manye thinges imperfect But I meane that such as in death and after death shall liue muste communicate in this lyfe with Iesus Christ and must be regenerate by the sede of lyfe That is by the worde of the liuing and euerlasting God which whosoeuer dispiseth refuseth lyfe and ioye euerlasting The Prophet transferreth all the promises of God to him selfe saying Euen my dead body shal arise and imediately after giueth commaundemēt charge to the dwellers in the dust that is to the dead carcasses of those that were departed for the spirit and soule of man dwelleth not in the dust that they should awake they should sing and reioyce For they should arise and spring vp from the earth euen as the herbes doe after they haue receyued the dew from aboue Tyme will not suffer that these particulars be so largely intreated as they merit as I gladly would And therefore let vs first consider that the Prophet in trāsferring the power and promise of God to him self doth not vendicate to himself any perticular prerogatiue aboue the people of God as that he alone should liue and arise and not they also But he doth it to let them vnderstande that he taught a doctrine whereof he was certayne yea and whereof they shoulde haue experience after his death As he should say my words appeare to you now to be incredible but the daye shall come that I shal be taken frō you my carcas shall be inclosed in the bosome of the earth and therfore shall ye be ledde away captiues to Babylon where ye shall remayne many dayes and yeares as it were buryed in your sepulchres But then cal to minde that I sayd vnto you before hand that my body shall arise Euen so shall ye rise from your graues out of Babylon and be restored to your owne cuntry and citie of Ierusalem This I doubt not is the true meaning of the Prophet The charge that he giueth to the dwellers in the dust is to expresse the power of Goddes worde Whereby he not onely giueth life where death appa●antly had preuayled but also by it he calleth things that are not euen as if they were Ture it is that the Prophete Isaiah sawe not the destruction of Ierusalem much lesse could he se the restitutiō of it with his corporall eyes but he leaueth this as it were in testament with them that when they were in the extremitie of all bondage they should call to minde what the Prophet of God had before spoken And lest that his doctrine and this promise of God made vnto them by his mouth shoulde haue bene forgottē as we are euer prone and ready to forget Gods promises when we are pressed with anye sorrow God raysed vp vnto thē in the midst of calamitie his Prophet Ezechiell vnto whome among manye other visions he gaue this The hande of the Lorde first ledde him in a place which was ful of dry and dispersed bones The question was demaunded of the Prophet if these bones being wonderous dry shuld lyue The Prophet answered● the knowledge thereof appertained vnto God Charge was giuen vnto him that he shoulde speake vnto the dry bones and saye thus sayth the Lorde God to these bones beholde I shall giue you breath and ye shall liue I shall giue vnto you sinewes fleshe and skinne and ye shall liue And while the Prophete spake as he was commaunded he heard a voyce and he sawe euery bone ioyne in his marowe He saw them couered with flesh and skin albeit there was no spirit of lyfe in them he was commaunded againe to speake and to say thus sayth the Lorde God come O spirite from the foure quarters blow in these that are slayne that they may lyue And as he prophecied the spirit of lyfe came They liued and stoode vpon their feete Nowe doth the Lorde interprete what this vision ment saying Sonne of man these bones are the whole house of Israell Behold they say our bones are dryed our hope is perished we are playnely cut of but beholde sayth the Lord I will open your graues I will bring you forth of them ye shall liue and come vnto the lande of Israell and ye shall knowe that I am the Lorde This vision I say giuen to the Prophete and by the Prophete preached to the people when they thought that God had vtterly forgoten them compelled them more diligently to aduert what the former Prophetes had spoken It is no doubt but they caryed with them both the prophecie of Isaiah and Ieremie so that the Prophete Ezechiel is a commentarie to these wordes of Isaiah where he sayth thy dead O Lorde shall liue with my body they shall arise The Prophet bringeth in this similitude of the deawe to aunswere vnto that part of their fidelitie who can beleue no further of Gods promises than they are able to apprehende by naturall iudgemēt As he wold say think ye this impossible that God shall giue lyfe vnto you and bring you to an estate of a commō wealth agayne after that ye be dead and as it were rased from the face of the earth But why doe ye not consider what God worketh from yeare to yeare in the order of nature sometimes ye see the face of the earth decked and beautified with herbes floures grasse and fruites Againe ye see the same vtterlye taken awaye by stormes and vehemencie of the winter What doth God to replenishe the earth againe and to restore the beauty thereof He sendeth downe his small and soft dewe the droppes whereof in their descending are neyther great nor visible

is to purge the land from bloud and as it were to sanctifie it The earth I say shal purge her selfe of it and shew it before the face of god yea the beasts foules and other creatures whatsoeuer shall be compelled to render that which iniustly they haue receyued be it flesh bloude or bones that appartained to thy children O Lorde which altogether thou shalt glorifie according to thy promise made to vs in Iesus Christ thy sonne to whom with thee and the holy Ghost be honor praise and glory for euer and euer Amen Let vs now humble our selues in the presence of our God and from the bottome of oure heartes let vs desire him to assist vs with the power of his holy spirite that albeit for our former negligences God giue vs ouer in the handes of other than suche as rule in his feare that yet he let vs not forget his mercy and that glorious name that hath bene proclaymed amongst vs but that we may loke throughout the dolorous storme of his present displeasure and see aswell what punishment he hath appointed for the cruell tirants as what rewarde he hath layde in store for such as continue in his feare to the ende that it would further please him to assist that albeit we see his Church so diminished that it shal appeare to be brought as it were to vtter extermination that yet we maye be assured that in our God there is power and will to increase the number of his chosen euen while they be inlarged to the vttermost coastes of the earth Giue vs O Lorde hearts to visite thee in time of our affliction And that albeit we see none ende of our dolors that yet our faith and hope maye conduct vs to the assured hope of that ioyfull resurrection In the which we shal possesse the fruite of that for the which nowe we trauaile And in the meane season graunt vnto vs O Lorde to repose our selues in the sanctuary of thy promise that in thee we may finde comforte till that this thy great indignation begonne amongst vs may passe ouer and thou thy selfe appeare to the comfort of thy afflicted and to the terrour of thine enimies Let vs pray with heart mouth Almighty God and merciful father c. Lord in thy hands I commend my spirit For the terrible roring of Gunnes and the noyce of armour doe so pierce my heart that my soule thirstith to depart The last of August 1565. at .4 at after noone written indigestly but yet truely so far as memory would serue of those things that in publike preaching I spake vpon Sondaye the .19 of August For the whych I was discharged to preach Be mercifull to thy flocke O Lorde and at thy good pleasure put ende to my miserie Iohn Knoxe The Superintendents Ministers and commissioners of the Churches reformed within this realme of Scotlande assembled in Edenbrough the .xxv. daye of December .1565 to all faithfull within the same realme desire grace and peace from God the Father and from our Lorde Iesus Christ with the perpetual cōfort of the holye Ghost THE SOROWfull complayntes of all Ministers in generall and of some nowe more to be lamented in others in particuler being considered in this oure last assembly beloued in the Lord Iesus diuers men were of diuers iudgementes howe the griefe and pouertie of such as faithfully trauayle in their vocation within the Church of God might somewhat be relieued After long reasoning it was concluded that a supplication shuld be direct to the Quenes Maiestie requiring that respecte might be had to the extreme necessity of our Ministers But bicause that the necessity of our brethren is great and their pouertie present and that the remedie can not be sodaine nor yet certaine it was thought expedient that a generall admonition should be made to all the faithful to haue respect to the necessitie of the Ministers vniuersally But especially that the faithfull in euery parish haue consideration to the necessitie of suche as trauaile amongst them in true doctrine holsome exhortatiō which admonition whosoeuer dispiseth dispiseth no doubt the chiefe dutie of a christian For alas with what conscience can we eate oure owne bread and know the bowels of such as offers to vs the breade of lyfe and minister to vs spirituall things to craue of God and vs but a reasonable sustentation and yet can not finde suche fauour at oure handes as Turkes finde amongest Turkes and Iewes amongest that blinded nation Alas where are the bowels of mercy that sometyme were founde amongst the faithfull How farre is this our filthye auariounesse distant from that liberalitie which appeared in the primitiue Church when that the faithfull cast their substance at the feete of the Apostles Where is that charitie which moued the Churches of Macedonia and Achaia and other cuntries to make most liberall collectours and to send the same to relieue the indigence of the pore at Ierusalem and in Iudea Where is the zeale that was in the Galathians Philippians of whome the one would haue giuē their eyes to the Apostle Paule if that might haue supported him the other spared not to sende to their preacher being prisoner in Rome their supporte and comfort most liberally If we thinke to be partakers with suche men in glorye why studye we not to followe their vertues If this be the same Euangel of saluation as no doubt it is that the Apostles preached that now of Gods great mercy is preached to vs alas why brings it not forth some part of the former fruites if we thinke they are but men and not Apostles that nowe preach vnto vs let vs consider that the Apostles were men and receyued of men support and comforte and also that others than the Apostles were grounded for by the liberalitie of the faithfull as in the Actes of the Apostles maye be seene We haue not Paule to write vnto vs newe Epistles neyther yet Mathewe Marke Lucas or Iohn to dite vnto vs a newe Euangell bicause things written are sufficient if we vnderstande and followe the same but of Gods great mercy we haue men that open and explane vnto vs not onely writings of the new but also of the old testament We haue the seruaunts of God indued with rare and notable graces whom if we contempne it is to be feared that God shall so punish our ingratitude that he shal take from vs the light of his worde and the true messengers of the same and suffer darkenesse agayne to apprehende vs and the slaues of Sathan tirannously to impire aboue vs then woe to vs and our posteritie For better it had beene that the word of lyfe had neuer bene shewē vnto vs thā that we in our default shoulde suffer our selues to be defrauded of so great a benefite Let vs therfore begin to reuerence the blessed Euangell of our saluation Reuerence nor magnifie it wee can not when that