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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

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

cryme aboue all others abhominable For to what ende is it that God erecteth his throne among vs but for that we shoulde feare him Why doth he reueale his holy will vnto vs but that we shoulde obey it Why doth he deliuer vs from trouble but that we shuld be witnesses vnto the world that he is gracious and mercifull Nowe when that men hearing their duety knowing what God requireth of them doe malepertly fight against al equitie and iustice what I pray you doe they else but make manifest warre against God yea when they haue receiued from God suche deliuerance that they cannot deny but that God himselfe hath in his great mercye visited them and yet that they continew wicked euen as before What deserue they but effectually to be giuen ouer into a reprobate sence that hedlong they may runne to ruine both of body and soule It is almost incredible that man should be so enraged against God that neyther his plagues nor yet his mercy shewed should moue them to repentaunce but bicause the scriptures beareth witnesse of the one and the other Let vs cease to meruell and let vs firmely beleue that such things as haue bene are euen presently before our eyes albeit manye blinded by affection can not see them Ahab as in the boke of the kings is written receyued many notable benefits of the hande of God who did visit him in diuers sortes some tymes by his plagues sometimes by his worde and sometymes by his merciful deliuerance He made him King and for the Idolatry vsed by him and by his wife he plagued whole Israell by famyne He reuealed to him his will and true religion by the Prophet Helias he gaue vnto him sundry deliuerances but one moste speciall when proude Benhadab came to besiege Samaria and was not content to receiue Ahabs gold siluer sonnes daughters and wyues but also required that his seruaunts shoulde haue at their pleasure whatsoeuer was delectable in Samaria true it is that his elders and people willed him not to heare the proude tirant But who made vnto him the promise of deliuerance and who appointed and put his armye in order who assured him of victorie The Prophet of God onely who assured him that by the seruantes of the Princes of the prouinces who in number were onely 232 he should deface that great armie in the which there were .32 Kings with all their forces As the Prophete of God promised so it came to passe Victorie was obtained not once only but twice and that by the mercifull visitation of the Lorde But howe did Ahab visite God againe ▪ for his great benefit receyued Did he remoue his Idolatry did he correct his Idolatrous wife Iesabel No we find no such thing but the one and the other we find to haue continued increased informer impietie But what was the ende hereof The last visitation of God was that dogges licked the bloud of the one and did eate the flesh of the other In fewe wordes then we may vnderstand what difference there is betwixt the visitation of God vpō the reprobate and his visitation vpō his chosen The reprobate are visited but neuer truly humbled nor yet amended The chosē being visited they sobbe and they cry vnto God for mercy which obtained they magnifie Gods name and after declare the fruites of repentaunce Let vs ●herefore that heare these iudge●ents of our God call for the assistance of his holy spirit that how soeuer it pleaseth him to visite vs that we may stoupe vnder his merciful hands and vnfainedly cry to him when he correcteth vs. And so shall we knowe in experience that our cryes complaintes were not in vayne but let vs heare what the Prophet sayth further Lyke as a woman sayth he with childe that draweth neere to the trauayle is in sorow and cryeth in her paines so haue we bene in thy sight O Lorde we haue conceyued we haue borne in vayne as thoughe we shoulde haue brought forth the winde Saluations were not made to the earth neyther did the Inhabitants of the earth fal This is the seconde parte of the Prophets complaint in the which he in the person of Gods people complayneth that of their great affliction there appeared no ende This same similitude is vsed by our master Iesus Christ for when he speaketh of the troubles of hys church he compareth them to the paynes of a woman trauayling in her childe birth But it is to another ende For there he promiseth exceding and permanent ioy after a sort thoughe it appeare trouble But here is the trouble long vehement albeit the fruite of it was not sodainely espied He speaketh no doubt of that long dolorous tyme of their captiuitie in the which they continually trauayled for delyuerance but obtained it not before the compleate ende of 70 yeares During the which time the earth that is the land of Iuda which sometymes was sanctified vnto God but was then giuen to be prophaned by wicked people gat no helpe Nor perceyued any deliuerance For the Inhabitants of the world fell not that is the tirantes and oppressors of gods people were not taken away but still remayned and continued blasphemers of God an troublers of his church But bicause I perceiue the houres to passe more swiftly then they haue done at other tymes I mind to cōtract that which resteth of this text into certayne points The Prophet first fighteth against the present desperation After be introduceth God himselfe calling vpon his people And last of all he assureth his afflicted that God will come and require accompt of all the bloude thirstie tirants of the earth First fighting against the present desperation he sayth thy dead shall liue euen my bodye or with my body shall they arise awake and sing ye that dwell in the dust For thy dew is as the dew of herbes The Prophere here pierseth throughe all impedimentes that nature coulde obiect And by the victorie of faith he ouercōmeth not onely the common enimies but the great and last enimie of al to wit death it self For this would he say Lorde I see nothing to thy chosen but miserie to follow miserie and one affliction to succede another yea in the ende I see that death shal deuour thy dearest children But yet O Lorde I see thy promise to be true and thy loue to remaine towards thy chosen euen when death appeareth to haue deuoured them For thy deade shall liue yea not onely shall they liue but my verie dead careasse shall arise And so I see honor and glory to succede this temporall shame I see ioye permanent to come after trouble order to spring out of this terrible confusion and finallye I see that lyfe shal deuoure death so that death shall be destroyed and so thy seruauntes shall haue lyfe This I say is the victorie of faith when in the middest of deathe throughout the light of Goddes worde the afflicted see lyfe Hipocrites

theues we haue tacks by them we haue interest and title to tithes and for loue of the spoile we mainetaine their murthers in oppression of the pore Let vs not be deceyued deare brethren There is no lawe made by man that can make these lawful neyther yet the substance of one to be the iust possession of an other without a iust title The tenthes were once appointed by God to the Leuites to the pore to the widow fatherlesse and straungers and the lawes of Emperours Kings and Princes did after Christ appoint the same to the like vse to wit to the sustentation of such as trauaile in the Church for the reliefe of the pore and for maintenaunce of learning Nowe say we to transfer the tythes from these vses the persons before named not being prouided for is both to commit theft sacriledge yea the spoile of the pore is in the houses of so manye as vniustlye possesse them and who they are ye haue before heard neyther shall they in the ende escape that sentence of the Prophete The malediction of the Lorde is vpon the house of the thefe But yet brethrē let vs suppose that in no sorte we did consent with those oppressiōs but that we opponed our selues vnto them to the vttermoste of our powers and yet we were oppressed in our iust cause by the tirannie of vniust lawes should we yet be excused before God if we communicate not with the necessitie of the ministers of Iesus Christ Let vs be moste assured that we can not for that sentence of our Lorde and iudge standes euer in force Worthy is the laborer of his wages And againe you shall not mussell the mouth of the Oxe that treadeth forth the corne The execution of these precepts he wil alway require of you howsoeuer we flatter oure selues in our owne imaginations neyther doth extremitie of lawes nor corruption of tymes excuse vs before God of the duetie he requires of vs. Which thing did Abdias seruaunt to Achab and Iesabell rightly consider for when by them but Iesabell chieflye the Prophets of the Lord were destroied he hid in caues an hundreth Prophets of the Lorde and fed thē with bread and water that is liberallye and sufficientlye for then was water more scant in Israel than ale or wyne is as yet amongest vs. Did a man feede an hundered seruauntes of the Lorde and in that tyme when things were most scant and yet both the King and the Queene sought the subuersion of true religion and the destruction of all Gods true seruants and shal not a thousand of vs and moe that haue professed the Lord Iesus with in this realme vpon our charges sustaine two or three hundereth of such as haue trauailed and yet trauaile to aduance the kingdome of Iesus Christ amongst vs if we doe not fearefull shall the sentence be that shall be pronounced against vs by him whose voyce we shall not then be able to gainstand whē from his throne he shall saye Depart from me ye workers of iniquitie for I was hungry and ye fed me not thirstie ye gaue me no drinke naked ye clothed me not I lacked harbrowe and ye receyued me not into your house Playne it is that Christ Iesus in his owne person neyther suffers hunger nor thrist he needes neyther clothes nor house but as him selfe in the same place saith whatsoeuer ye did not to the lest one of these that ye did not to me Let vs deare brethren ponder these wordes and let vs nowe beginne to shew the fruites of repentance and vnfaynedly to magnifie the worde of our saluation Let the bowels of our mercye be opened to oure brethren Let neuer the pestilente Papists haue cause to reioyce ouer vs that they shall hereafter saye that our own ingardenes banished Iesus Christ from vs. Which thing if without hipocrisie and of good courage we begin to doe then no doubt but God shall blesse the labors of our hande he shall restore to vs our former courage strike the hartes of our enimies with the same feare that they haue felt before It is we deare brethren it is we that hath exponed the glorious Euangell of Iesus Christ to this daūger within this realme for while that the moste parte of vs studied for the building of our own house the house of the Lord was neglected and dispised And in the meane time hath the enimie so preuayled that we and it stand in equall daūger saue that the spirituall house of God can neuer vtterly be suppressed But we may fal both temporally and eternally if we dispise the sermon of exhortation which calles vs agayne to our first profession If we heare obey his voice there is mercy power and good will in our God Mercy to pardon our former negligence power to represse the pride of our enimies and good will to maintaine the cause of his truth that once of his mercy he hath made to prosper in our handes O Lorde for thine owne name sake moue our heartes to consider our dueties Preserue the flock to whome thou of thy mercy hast reueled thy selfe Purge this realme of damnable Idolatry and continewe to our posteritie the light of thy worde in the same puritie that thou haste offered it vnto vs. Take our rude exhortatiō in good part deare brethren and be bolde vpon vs in all thinges not repugning to god The grace of our Lord Iesus rest with you and vs now euer At Edingbrough in our generall assembly the laste cessions thereof the .28 of December 1565. Iohn Knoxe at the commaundement of the brethren before mencioned ❧ The dispotion Ver. 13. Psal. 82. Rom. 13. Deut. 17. Iosua 1. What is required of a King or Prince The authoritie power of kings is Limmitted The dutie of Gods people ●che 20. 2. Reg. 17. Isai. Iere. 9. Eccle. 3. Isa. 3. Verse 14. Verse 15. Ezech. 8. Apoca. Verse 15. Verse 16. ●osu 24. Rom. 9. Daniell 1. Daniell 2. Daniell 3. Daniell 6. 1. Esd. 1. 1. Esd. 6. A prayer Verse 16. Psal. 119. 1. Iohn 2. 1. Reg. 22. 2. Reg. 9. Verse 17. Verse 18. Iohn 16. Verse 19 20. Verse 19. Gala. 2. 1. Pet. 1. Ezech. 37. 1. Corin. 16. Ephe. 5. Psal. 14 1. Iohn 5. Ephe. 1. Apocal. 1● ●●ele histo ●●omoni 〈◊〉 5. ca. 5. Verse 2● ●●al Psal. A terrible but moste true sentēce The castle ●f Eden●rough was ●●ooting a●ainst the ●xiled for ●hrist Iesus ●ake The an●were is the Quene can ●pare no●hing This is the commaundement of the spirit o● God Hebr. 13. Act. 2. Rom 15. 2 Corint 9. Galat. 4. Phil. 4. Let euerie mā descend within him selfe Act. 6. ●t Scotlād ●duert ●ho are ●●ey that ●●uerence ●●t the euā●●list of Ie●●s Christ. ●●●od 22. Leuit. 27. Nu. 28. Deut. 12. Hebr. 4. Rom. 8. As Christ was crucified amongest the Galathians Gala. 3. Rom. 12. Deut. 17. Math. 2. Cor. 12. ●ph 4. ●et yet Scot●and ad●ert Rom. 10. Gala. 6. Pro. 3. Or Leases Howsoeuer ▪ the worlde mocke this God shall aproue it Zacha. 5. ● Corin. 9. 1. Reg. 25. Math. 25. 〈◊〉 graūt ●hat this ●ay yet ●e vnder●●ande for ●ft before it was heard and mocked of manye