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A09031	A plaine exposition vpon the whole 8. 9. 10. 11. chapters of the Epistle of Saint Paul to the Romans Wherein the text is diligently and methodically resolued, the sence giuen: and many doctrines thence gathered, are by liuely vses applyed, for the benefit of Gods children performed with much variety, and conuenient breuitie: being the substance of neere foure yeeres weekedayes sermons.: By Elnathan Parr, Bachelor in Diuinity, and preacher of Gods Word.	Parr, Elnathan, d. 1622.	1618 (1618)	STC 19319; ESTC S114074	348,782	462

Horeb he goes for more safetie and to meet with the Lord. There passeth by him a mightie wind an earthquake and fire representations of Eliahs zeale But God was not in them Then comes a still voice to teach Eliah patience saying What doest thou here Eliah Eliah answered Lord I haue bene iealous for the Lord of hoasts complaining according to the words here vsed by Paul verse 3. In this storie it appeares that Eliah was a man subiect to infirmities as other men are being ouerheate in his passion his life being in danger by Iesabel yet his zeale in regard of the cause of it is exceeding commendable and for our imitation doctrine We are to be zealous for the Lord. So was Elias Moses Samuel Dauid as appeares in their stories Vse When thou seest God dishonored and religion troden vnder foote be not senslesse Would it not moue a man to see altars throwne downe prophets killed miracles take no effect as in Eliahs time Iames 5. ●7 Or now to see the Sabboth profaned the preaching of the Gospell contemned and many notwithstanding dayly admonitions to runne out some to drunkennesse some to whoredome some to pride c Surely we want an Eliah Whosoeuer hath but a dram of his spirit these things to him are as a dagger at his heart Meeknesse in our owne causes but in Gods zeale and earnestnesse become vs. Yet be not ouer zealous few I confesse are sicke of this disease ●et Elias was and we may be also for we are more sure we haue his passions then his grace Excesse of zeale is intollerable yea it hath bene found lesse dangerous to the Church when men haue come short of the due proportion of zeale then when they haue exceeded Auda Bishop in Persia in an excesse of zeale throwing downe a Temple of the Pagans was the cause that the King thereby insensed threw downe all the Temples of the Christians Theod. lib. 5. There are two things whereby we may discerne whether our zeale exceed due limits and bounds or no 1 If thou make thy selfe a partie so much is it in the wrong Elias was the more hot because his owne life was in danger So if there be a disordered person who hath prouoked vs then wee crie its pitie but he should be presented indited punished But when vnder a colour of zeale against sinne we reuenge our owne wrongs it s more passion then zeale Secondly Zeale should consume the faults not the persons of offenders if thine feeds on the persons not on the faults it s naught Quench it against the person inflame it against the fault Iames and Iohn would haue had the wicked Samaritans by and by to be consumed with fier from heauen but they are reproued by our Sauiour Luc. 9.53 And here Elias was somewhat faultie comming short of Moses and Samuell who made intercession for not against their people Eliah makes intercession against his people Moses and Samuell for them These rather then Eliah are to be imitated of Ministers It s a lamentable thing to see a father wringing of his hands ouer his child and complaining of his stubbornesse wishing he had neuer bene borne So it is very greeuious to heare an Eliah complaine to God of the stubbornesse of his people We are your fathers so liue you that we may haue no cause to sue against you either in the court of heauen or earth but rather to reioyce oueryou which we shall doe with much cheerefullnes praying for you if you forsake your sinnes and turne vnto God obeying his word If we in our prayers haue cause to complaine of you it will be vnprofitable to you for what followed Eliah his complaint The Lord speakes to him as if hee should say Eliah I see thou art in a moode well goe annoynt Hazael King of Aram Iehu King of Israel and Elisha Prophet in thy roome him that scapeth the sword of Hazaell shall Iehu slay and him that escapeth Iehu shal Elisha slay Of such force are the complaints of the Prophets and Ministers of God against their stubborne people as also are their prayers effectuall on the behalfe of such as beleeue and obey Now I beseech you presently to reforme your liues that wee may mutually ioyne together to blesse God you for vs and we for you that we may be all crowned together at the comming of Christ VERSE 3. Lord they haue killed thy Prophets and digged downe thine Altars and I am left alone and they seeke my life IN these words is set downe the complaint of Eliah more particularly in which are two things First the person to whom he complaines Lord. Secondly the matter of the complaint which is twofold First The killing of the Prophets Secondly The digging downe of Altars Both these aggrauated from the miserable estate of Eliah which appeared two waies first He is left alone in his owne opinion secondly They seeke his life also They not onely bellua multorum capitum the vulgar but Ahab Iesabel Nobles Commons and all from the highest to the lowest Especially Iesabel a diuellish and wicked woman who added to the Idolatry of the Israelites the abomination of the Sydonians and whose hatred against true religion was so great that it came into a prouerb such being called Iesabels Apoc. 2. Thy Prophets Thy is added for more detestation of the fact The Embassadors of a meane Prince are not to be wronged but they haue killed Thy Prophets Thine Altars An Altar was a building or Instrument of earth stone or other stuffe reared vp for the offering of Sacrifices Quest But what Altars means he God cōmanded that there should be no Altar in ordinary after the building of the Temple but at Ierusalem where only Sacrifices were to bee offered which is the cause that now the Iewes offer no sacrifices because they want their Temple Ahab could not come by the Altar at Ierusalem being out of his Kingdome What Alter then meanes Ahab Answ Some say that the signe is put for the thing signified and by Altars meant Religion which was by Ahab and Iesabel abolished But as the killing of the Prophets was a matter of fact so also I take this to be rather then of signification only They threw downe material Altars built in Abrahams Isaaks Iacobs Iosuahs and Samuels time before the Temple was builded and the Altars which were by Elias himselfe and other Prophets by speciall commandement after the building of the Temple set vp which were called afterward high Places and the good Kings of Iudah commended for pulling them downe 1. Kin. 18.4.22 Obiect Why should Eliah complaine of the doing of that by Ahab which done by others is commended Answ Those Altars remained as monuments of Gods worship and Elias complaines not simply against their demolishing but because it was done in despite of true Religion that no foot-step thereof might remaine to put the people in minde of the true God which if it had bin done in

now feeles it is likely hee would neuer haue committed that villany Mortification is tedious but heauen is sweet Men are content to goe all day after their hounds and hawkes to endure hunger thirst c. for their pleasure and what get they in the end some silly creature that is scarce worth the hauing But Heauen is worth the hauing refuse not a short labour for the obtaining so infinite a reward VERSE 14. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God are the sonnes of God THe latter part of the verse going before is here prooued namely that such as mortifie the deeds of the bodie by the Spirit shall liue The argument is taken from the proper subiect of the life before spoken of that is the sonnes of God Thus The Sonnes of God shall liue But they which mortifie c. are the sonnes of God Therefore they shall liue The Minor is proued thus They which are led by the Spirit are the sons of God But they which mortifie c. are led by the Spirit Therfore As many as are led by the Spirit that is by the holy Ghost Led Those things are said to be led which are mooued by a superiour instinct a Aquin. in locū which is either Common or Proper of the common all men the Reprobate yea beasts are partakers The beasts come to Adam b Gen. 2.19 to Noah c Gen. 7.8,9 the Beare slaies the Children d 2. Reg. 2.24 the Lyon the old Prophet e 1. Reg. 13.24 by this common instinct The proper is that whereby the elect children of God are mooued to beleeue repent c. This is here meant Are led Not furiously but mildely and familiarly not as bruite beasts but as reasonable creatures Not as though we doe nothing but lest we should doe no good thing we are actuated by the good spirit that we may doe Neither are we led violently and against our will but willingly and yet were we not willing before we were led but in the leading made willing to be led so willing that when God hath once breathed his grace vnto vs we cannot resist but earnestly desire to bee led And yet is not the nature of the will ouerthrowne nor naturally so determined to one side that as heauie things mooue downeward by an inward beginning so the will absolutely can only affect this one thing But as Orators by their Eloquence doe rule in the minde of their Auditours so God much more effectually drawes vs to desire Christ and affect the Gospell If a couetous man were offered to take what hee would of a heape of Gold no man doubts but hee would gladly embrace such occasion though simply and absolutely it were in his power to refuse it So our heauenly Father doth so commodiously shew vs the Riches of his Grace so louingly doth he inuite vs to receiue it and so aptly doth hee exhort vs that he doth perswade vs without any impairing of our wills so a Beast with prouender Children with Nuts and euery one is led or drawne by his pleasure We are then led being willing not before but after grace receiued Are the Sonnes of God not making vs such but declaring vs to be such The Sonnes that is Children as verse 16. for sonnes and daughters are in the Couenant doctrine They which follow and obey the counsell prescriptions and precepts of the Spirit are the sonnes of God Ioh. 1.12 Ioh. 6.45 1. Ioh. 3.9 Now it is the Spirit which workes faith teaches and begets vs. Vse 1. Take knowledge of thy Impotency to good things without the spirit As a guide to a blinde man or as a Nurses finger to a little Childe so is the Spirit to vs without the which we can neither discerne or walke in the good way Without the Spirit wee catch many a knocke by stumbling and falling at euery sinne As therefore the little childe when it would first goe reaches for the Nurses hand so craue thou the Spirit to bee led into the knowledge and practice of the Truth The Israelites that would presently goe towards Canaan without Moses were all slaine Num. 14.45 so is it not safe to attempt any thing without the Spirit which is to bee our Counsellour and to vs as the piller of the Cloud was to the Israelites the Rule of their marching and pitching their tents Vse 2. If thou yeeldest thy selfe and thy reason and affections to he led by the Spirit thou art the Child of God so cōtrarily which that thou mayst the better discerne obserue 2. things first the way wherein Secondly the minde wherewith thou walkest First Are drunkennesse whoredome c. thy waies who led thee into these waies The Spirit no the Diuell leades thee for these are his waies Are Faith Repentance Humility c. thy wayes How camest thou into these wayes The diuell would neuer bring thee into them nor thy selfe neuer haue chosen them Surely if these bee thy waies thou art led by the holy Spirit whose waies these are Secondly what is thy minde Doest thou walke in the way of Prayer hearing the Word Repentance c. willingly and cheerefully Thou art then led by the Spirit for though we may be found in these wayes yet if we walke in them as a Beare is drawne to the stake we are not led in them by the Spirit for the Spirit makes vs delight in such things Euery thing liues according to the breeding water-fowles are euer paddling in the water Land-fowles are feeding on the dry ground So if thou hast a spirituall breeding all thy delight will be in spirituall things if a carnall onely then in carnall VERSE 15. For yee haue not receiued the spirit of bondage againe to feare but yee haue receiued the Spirit of Adoption whereby we cry Abba Father IN this verse the Apostle prooues that those which are led by the Spirit are the children of God by an effect of the Spirit in them which is to call God Father Which is amplified by an opposition of their former estate which was an estate of seruile feare As if he should say by an Occupation It may bee you feare in regard of sinne inhabiting But the profiting you haue made is not in the addition of such slauish feare wherwith formerly you were possessed but that which you haue now receiued is a more excellent effect of the same Spirit which is the Grace of Adoption Heere two effects of the Holy Ghost are opposed for in some the Spirit workes feare in other loue and assurance and first feare then assurance that we may stirred vp to seek assurance Feare the signe of the spirit of bondage Confidence and assurance in God as a Father the proper effect of the Spirit of Adoption You haue not receiued the spirit of bondage Paraeus Not the Diuell nor the Law as some haue interpreted but the Holy Ghost To feare Seruilely Againe that is yet still or more