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A10817	The day of hearing: or, six lectvres vpon the latter part of the thirde chapter of the Epistle to the Hebrewes of the time and meanes that God hath appointed for man to come to the knowledge of his truth, that they may be saved from his wrath. The summary pointes of every one of which lectures are set downe immediately after the Epistle dedicatory. Herevnto is adioyned a sermon against fleshly lusts, & against certaine mischevious May-games which are the fruit thereof. By H.R. Master of Artes, and now, minister of the word.; Day of hearing: or, six lectures upon the latter part of the thirde chapter of the Epistle to the Hebrewes.	Roberts, Huw, b. 1558 or 9.	1600 (1600)	STC 21089; ESTC S102956	70,687	163

they lived wee shall finde nothing whereof wee may glorie For indeede it was the Egypte of superstition and spirituall darkenesse and therefore as * Deering vpon the epistle to the Hebr. lect 24. one hath lefte in writing vpon this Epistle to the Hebrewes if wee goe after Baalims vvhich our fathers haue taught vs wee shall bee fedde vvith the wormwoode vvhich our fathers haue leaten Yea let vs assure our selues vvee shall bee beaten vvith more stripes then our fathers if vvee will wittinglie treade in their steppe● For as Bulliuger saith if thy forefathers Bulliuget vpon th● Apoc. set 35. bad had the like opportunitie vvhich then neglectest vvhat a space vvould they haue runne afore thee And therefore as it shall bee easier for Tyr●● Luke 10. 14. and S●lon at the day of iudgemente then for them that heard Christ and saw his miracles and were not the better therefore so I may say it shall be easier for our forefathers at that day then for them which bring forth no good fruite nor make profession of the trueth beeing preached and made knowne vnto them vvhich hath not beene so revealed to our fathers as it is now to the people of our daies The seconde cause why the Apostle reciteth 2 this scripture of David is that with the example and punishmente of them that tempted and hardened their heartes in the dese●te hee mighte terrifie the Hebrevves and make them more carefull to receiue the vvordes of exhortation and to obey the voice of Christ the mediatour of the new testament whose voice as he is greater then Moses so shall they draw vpon them great erpunishment which neglect to heare it The children of Israell of vvhom mention is heere made after they vvere delivered out of Egypt by Moses for al that they had seene the works of God his miracles which he wrought for them in Egypt at the redde sea yet they tempted him in the wildernesse and doubted of his ●goodnesse and providence towardes them and said is the Lord among vs or no because they had not Exod. 17. 7. water at their pleasure This was the provocation which is here mentioned wherewith the Lorde God was tempted in the vvildernes of his own people after that he had delivered thē out of the hands of their enemies And againe when they should haue gone out of the wildernesse into the land of Canaan to possesse it and to dwell therein where they should haue had rest peace and prosperity yet they beleeved not the worde of God * The chil-dren of Israel are cōmanded to goe vp and possesse the land which God had said before them but they say they will sende men to search out the land Deur I. 21. 22. and therefore the Lord s●●ll bearing with them biddeth them len Num. 1● ●3 how be it the event and issue of their sending declareth that it came from the people● disobedience to the word of God for the years in which they did b●●r● their iniquity in the wildernesse are measured with the number or the daies in the which they had searched out the land of C●naan Num. 13. 14. 33. 34. but sent twelue men a man out of every tribe of the children of Israell to search the land to know what maner of land it was and whether they might obtaine it or no as if the living God and Lorde of the whole earth which had done so many thinges for them shoulde not nowe bee able to subdue their enemies and to giue them the land according to his promise And when the twelue men returned after fortie daies from searching of the lande and brought with them of the fruite thereof to shewe to all the congregation of the children of Israell tenne of the twelue brought vp an evil report slander vpon the land to these ten men the whole assembly gaue credite and their words to them seemed to bee true And therefore they murmured against Moses and Aaron and would haue made a Num. 14. new captaine to bring them againe vnto Egypt but Ioshua and Caleb two of the twelue that had searched the land al the multitude would haue stoned with stones for the truth sake which these two men reported of the land because they perswaded the people not to rebel against the Lord. Thus the Israelites that came out of Egypt tempted the Lord in the wildernesse and provoked him to anger by following the counsels of their owne harts therefore the Lord saith of thē as it is in this text they erre ●ver in their hearts and what was then their punishments as I liue saith the Lord I wil surely do vnto you even as ye haue spoken in mine ears Num. 14. 28. 2● your carkases shall sal in this wildernesse c. And so it came to passe for of the sixe hundreth thousand which came out of Egypt● and vvere able to discerne betweene good and evil none but two men Caleb the sonne of Iephiumeth and Ioshua the sonne of Nun which constantly as the scripture saith followed Num. 32. 12 the Lord did enter into the land of Canaan to inhabite it all the rest were consumed in the terrible wildernesse according to the worde of the Lord for Moses saith and the Lord was Num. 32. 13 very angry with Israell and made them wander in the wildernesse fourty yeares vntill all the generation that had done evill in the sighte of the Lorde were consumed And here the text saith therefore I sware in my wrath if they shoulde enter into my rest Where it is said in my wrath we are to vnderstand that God who is a spirite immortal infinite and incomprehensible with whome is 1am 1. 17. no variablenesse neither shadow by turning is not subiect to any of these passions which the scriptures seeme to attribute vnto him as wrath ielousie greefe repentance and the like But these things are figuratiuely applyed to God after the manner of men for our vnderstandinge sake vvhich are not able to conceiue of heavenly things without metaphors allegories ●arables and similit●●es borrowed from earthlie and naturall things which are therefore so much vsed in holy scriptures for ou●● learning And heere by the name of wrath or anger is set foorth the determinate sentence of Gods eternall iustice against sin and disobedience And when it is said that he sware it teacheth vs feare and consirmeth to vs that Gods threatnings fall not to the grounde without Augustine in Psal 95. full effect For as Aurelius Augustine saith vpon this place iurantem hominem debes timere thou oughtest to feare when a man sweareth least for his oths sake he should do that which is * As Herod did Mar. 6. 26. when he caused Iohn Bapsist to be beheaded against his will howe much more saith he oughtest thou to feare when God sweareth who can sware nothing rashlie his oath is a sure confirmation Wheras in deed as another father saith

thou hast hardened thine heart wouldst not obey his voice whē he offered thee his grace Consider therfore that this is the daie where in he calleth thee and speaketh to thee saying behold now the accepted time beholde now the 2. Cor. 6. 2. daie of salvation This time this day wherein he proclaimeth peace is but short and v 〈…〉 e redeeme it therfore with all readines of mind that thou maist be at peace with God for all eternity You that are diligent husband-mē are carefull to redeeme the time of faire weather in haruest because you know not how soo●e it wil raine And man whose life is cōpared to a vapour that appeareth for a little time and after vvarde vanisheth avva●● if hee liue to Iam. 4. 14. day knoweth not whether he shall liue to morowe And if it be permitted him to liue yet knoweth he not how soone the Lord will send a famine of hearing his holy word and send a darke night of ignorance in the which no man can worke no man can heare the glad tidings of the Gospell nor beleeue it though he woulde Let vs pray that our hearts may be mollified prepared as good ground to receiue the seede of the worde while it is yet called to day The fifth Lecture vpon the 16. and 17. verses of the wickednesse of mans nature all men are naturally bent to idolatrie vvee must imitate the faithfull though they bee but few in number or ●n one age whom God raiseth vp in al ages to confesse his name of Gods long sufferance bountifulnes towarde sinners of sinne and the fruit thereof 16 For some when they heard provoked him to anger howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses 17 But with whō was he displeased forty yeares was he not displeased with them that sinned whose carkeses fell in the wildernesse THe Apostle which was the Authour of this Epistles applying the exhortation of the Prophet before alleadged seemeth here to allude to that desperate provoking and disobedience of the children of Israel mentioned in the 14 of Num. When they beleeued those ten men that brought vp a vile slander vpon the land of promise and murmured against Moses and A●r●● and would haue stoned Ioshua and Caleb because they stood for the truth as it appeareth more 〈◊〉 large in the 14. of Num. this is therefore as if 〈◊〉 Apostle should say the whole assembly of them that came out of Egypt to the number of sixe handieth thousande men of vnderstanding even all of them vvithout ex●●●tion heard the word of the LORD and his promise concerning the lande of Canaan but some of them yea the greatest some the ●●h●le assemblie saieth the scripture and againe all the mul●●tua● notwithstanding 〈◊〉 4. 2. 〈◊〉 some are excepted vvhen they heard did not beleeue but provoked the ●o●d● to anger with their meredulous 〈…〉 ing and 〈◊〉 bellion And it is worthy to be noted that he saith when they ●●●rd they provoked him or hearing they provoked him● For as hee that is of God 10. 8 47. heareth GODS vvordes so they that are c 〈…〉 lly minded and haue their vnderstanding darkened doe neuer provoke the LORDE so much as when his word and his counsell 〈◊〉 p●e●ched vnto them which because it is contrary to the wisdome of the 〈…〉 h ●●st●●eth vppe the naturall man ●o●e●ll and to oppose himselfe against the wisedome of the holy GHOST accordinge as it is vvritten the vvisedome of Rom. 8 7. the flesh is enimitie against GOD. And againe the naturall manne perceiveth not the 1. Cor. 2 14. thinges of the spirite of GOD for they are foolishnesse vnto him neither canne hee knovve them because they are spiritually discerned For Satan who worketh in the children of disobedience vvill rather su●●er them to consent to any thing then to that doctrine which ostereth vnto them the peace and favour of God And for this cause our Saviour CHRIST saieth that hee came not to sende peace into Mat. 10 34. the earth but the svvorde A sworde as we knowe cutteth asunder and maketh a separation And CHRIST although hee bee the very authour of our peace yet when his peace is preached vnto the world the vvicked and disobedient vvhich before seemed to bee quiet and calme doe nowe shewe foorth their bitternesse and corruption of nature by contending against this peace and against the messengers and professours of the same And so CHRIST by their malice is made the occassion of t●multe and discorde They provoke him not before they hear him for the wickednesse of mans nature is like fire that lyeth hid in quicke lime which never boyleth nor sheweth his heate vntil you put water to it which being of a contrary nature and quality causeth it to burne and cost out heate It is also like to the vapours of the earth which appeare not so long as the vertue and heate of the sunne is not on the earth but when the sunne ariseth then they arise and ascend not from the sun but from the earth Thus is the case with the vnregenerate earthly minded man If there be no worde of faith preached there is no provoking but if the word bee ministred to exhorte to improue and to rebuke then the wisedome of the flesh which is enimitie against God beginneth to bee vnquiet and to provoke The high Priest of Ierusalem and the Scribes never provoked so furiously as when they heard the wordes of Christ saying hereafter shall yee see Mat. 26. 64. the sonne of man sitting on the right hande of the heaven Then the high Priest rent his cloathes ver 65. Act. 7. 54. And againe The stiffe-necked among the Iewes provoked never so madly as when they were sharpely rebuked of the holy Ghost by the mouth of Stephen for then as Luke saith their hearts did cleane for anger and they guashed at him with their teeth So king Ahab provoked most of all when he heard the Prophet Michaiah 1 King 2● 17. 18. at what time he told him the trueth from the Lord signified the event of the warre which Ahab waged against the king of Syria to goe against him And the remnant of the Iewes which were left from the captivity of Babilon although they had protested Ier. 42. 5. 6. vnto Ieremiah that they woulde obey the voice of the Lorde whatsoever woulde come of it yet when the same Prophet told them from the Lord that if they did set their Ier. 17. faces to enter into Egypt to dwell there they should die by the sword by the famine and by the pestilence and none of them should remaine nor escape from the plague which the Lord would bring vpō them At the hearing of these things they disobey and say that Ieremtah speaketh Ier. 43. 2. falsely and they will goe into Egypt whether he wil or no. So the multitude in the wildernesse of whom the Apostle speaketh here provoked

then most desperately when Caleb and Ioshua rebuked them that they shoulde not rebell against the Lord neither feare the people Num. 14. 6. 7. 8. 9. of the land of Canaan who should bee but bread for them knowing that the Lorde whose word is a sure rocke would giue them the land according to his promise These thinge when they hearde they so proucked that they woulde haue stoned Caleb and ver 10. I●s 〈…〉 By these examples we may learne how cōtrarie and repugnant the wisedome of flesh and blood is to the wisedome of the holie Ghost for it is not subiect as saieth the Apostle Rom. 8. 7. to the law of God neither indeed can be And for this cause the Lord saith as the heauēs are Isa 55 9. higher then the earth so are my waies higher then your waies and my thoughts aboue your thoughts This is it therefore why the nations of the worlde and the most part of men in all ages haue affected sought after false counterfeit religions as most agreeable with the corruption of mans nature at the hearinge whereof no man might be displeased nor made to prouoke Such were the inuentions of the Heathē they were content to receiue subscribe to any religion or rather idolatrie except the religion of the true euerliuing God The Egiptians as it is recorded of them worshipped so many fayned Godes that their seuerall sacrifices and ceremonies are said to haue beene more then sixe hundreth sixtie in number The Grecians imitated them The old Romans in processe of time exceeded them in the number of superstitious religions But for all that the Romans woulde neuer consente to worshippe the GOD of Israel nor to receiue the religion of that people because they knew that hee must bee vvorshipped accordinge to his commaundemente and not as they would The religion of Mahomet which now the Turkes doe mainetaine was patched togither of the inventions of Mahomet and of the devises of certaine prophane and vvicked men in such vvise that the ignoraunt multitude might haue no cause to dislike of the same that so they might drawe the more people to ●ome with them in their sect But the doctrine of CHRIST and his Apostles they sought by all meanes to slaunder and treade vnder foote and they doe still provoke as oft as they heare it because it is the doctrine of truth We cānot deny that our forefathers withal the adherentes of the false church of Rome haue most fearefully provoked the Lord for the space of fiue hundreth yeares at the least by consentinge to suppresse the holye scriptures that they shoulde not bee published to the vnderstanding of the common people and by persecuting and killing the little flocke of Christ which professed to be saued by faith alone in Christ Iesus and not by the law nor by workes It is too well knowne that such hath beene the fruit of Antichrist making ignorance the mother of deuotiò devising so many new Gods or dead mē to be called vpon praied vnto for help that in number the Gods of the heathen haue not exceeded thē With these the like impreties that sonne of perdition the bishop of Rome hath of long time provoked the God of truth and mightely bewitched the vnthankefull world For as it is written in the Popes owne * Gratian as distinct 44. si papa law he hath not onely bee●e remisse and negligent of his owne and his brethrens salvatiō but perversitas Papa 〈…〉 m● rabiles populos catervatim secum duxit ad gehe●nam the Popes maliciousnes hath drawne with him to hell innumerable people by heapes And what shall we say of the provoking of these daies in which the people of this land being brought out of the Popes Egypt of darke ignorance and superstition and having heard the doctrin of Moses of the Prophets of Christ and his Apostles now fortie yeares long even so many yeares as the children of Israel heard the same doctrine of faith in the wildernesse yet Atheisme superstition and contempt of the truth are so rife every where that Caleb and Ioshua the messengers of the truth cannot perswade men to forget Egypt and to set their minde vpon the land of promise Surely this must be the greater condemnation of the world that Io. 3. 19. light is come into the world and men loued darkenesse more then light Here we see that all men are naturally inclined to superstitiō and idolatrie And therfore no man that continueth in sinne and neglecteth the calling of God shall be excused because so many ages and so many people our fathers and our forefathers haue so liued yea haue so prouoked the Lord and walked in the broad way that leadeth to destruction all such examples of disobedience if we wil sinne after them shal as hath beene already said aggravate our punishment because the Lorde hath caused them to come to our knowledge for our admonition For whosoever shall follow the wicked fact of Caine to shed innocent bloode shal be punished seaven folde more then Caine was because Gen. 4. 15. he is warned by Caines example to abstaine from murther And all those plagues which happened vnto the Israelits in the wildernesse for their infidelitie mur●u●ing came for examples sake ar● written saith Paul to a●monish vs vpon whom the ends of the 1. Cor. 10. ●1 worlde are come And f●r this ●●use the Lord would h●●e his dreadfull iudgments which haue bene executed against the sinnes of former times to be in al ages tould and preached vnto the worlde that men might be warned thereby to amend their liues as we may see by those messengers which came to Iob one a●ter another to tell him of Gods iudgmentes shewed vpon his ca●●ell his servantes his children Everie one of these messengers saith I onely a● escaped alone To Iob 1. 15 16 17. 19. what end or wherefore are they escaped it followeth to tell thee And to the same effect the Lord saith by Eze●●el I will leaue a litle Eze. 12. 16. number of them from the sworde from the famine from the pestilence To what end that they may declare saith he all these abominations among the heathen where they come We are then sufficiently admonished by the examples of former ages what will be the punishment of euill are taught what examples we must follow to wit the examples of good men wherof we haue some in all ages of the world The Apostle saith here that not all which came out of ●gypt by Moses provoked VVee must looke on them that provoked not but obeyed the word of the Lord though they be but few among many thousandes of disobedient and vnfaithfull people It seemeth that the younger forte which were vnder twentie yeares olde among Num. 14. ●9 the childrē of Israel provoked not the Lord or if they did yet by the testimony of the Apostle here there was a remnant left