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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07876	The excellencie of the mysterie of Christ Iesus Declared in an exposition, or meditation vpon the 16. verse of the first epistle of Saint Paul vnto Timothie.	Moffett, Peter, d. 1617.	1590 (1590)	STC 18247; ESTC S114252	40,698	147

with faith beleeuing that euerie promise Heb. 4.2 and threatning of the word shall surely come to passe After such a forte the people in Nehemiah his time heard the word both read Nch. 8.1 c. opened and applied by Ezra and the Leuits For then whilst the Lawe was in reading the cares of all the people were attent in the time of praier they lifted vp their hands and bowed downe their bodies Finally when the threatnings of the word were applied by Preaching they fel a weeping and when againe they were comforted by their teachers they reioyced But now although our attention and reuerence should exceede theirs Heb. 2.1 as the Apostle sheweth yet it is farre behinde the same Nay what confusion and irreuerence almost in euery congregation it not to be seene amongst vs Doe not vsuallie O irreligious times some talke in the midst of the exercises of Religion some run out of the Church before the Sermon be ended some sleep in their pewes some turne the eyes of all vpon them by their strange and masking appatell Finally almost all shew some signe of neglect or contempt of the word of God or other But to let these passe the true Christian heater will not onely bee carefull to heare the word in a right manner but to resort therunto with an holy intent and affection For as Salomon sheweth Pro. 21.27 The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination vnto the Lord how much more when he offereth it with an euill mind The Christian then desireth the sincere milke of the Word not to cauill at it no nor to knowe it onelie but to growe thereby This if it were considered 1. Pet. 2.2 as it ought to bee would make those who often resort to the hearing of Sermons not onely talkers Iam. 2.26 but practisers of Religion not onely discerners but haters of sinne Psal 119.104 not onely such as delight in good exercises but performers of holie dueties Psal 119.9 not praisers onelie of their teachers in wordes but commenders of them by their liues and conuersations 2. Cor. 3.1 2 For in deede he is the best hearer which washing his specks and spottes by the Lawe of libertie is by hearing transformed into the image of Christ and hee most commendeth his teacher whose heart and life is written and grauen with the letters of faith and repentance Now to come to the last point or note of the excellencie of the Gospell it is affirmed here to bee great by one assent True it is in deed that a great number of prophane people make no account of the Gospell being either Dogges or Swine Mat. 7.6 despising and abusing pearles and holy things But as concerning the true members of the Churche euerie one of them with heart and hand subscribeth to this Doctrine so that according as Esay notablie expressing this matter hath foretolde This man saieth I am the Lordes Esay 44.5 and this man calleth himselfe by the name of Iaacob another writeth with his hand I am the eternals and nameth himselfe by the name of Israel Euident it is also 1. Tim. 4.1 that manie Heretickes haue oppugned and doo denie the verie articles of our faith But what the instruments of Satan say or gainsay is not to be regarded This is that which here our Apostle would declare namely that al the Lords faithful seruāts messengers haue with one voyce receiued and published and are with their liues and bloud ready to seale the truth of the Gospell To conclude it cannot be denied that there are diuers truthes in the word Ro. 14.1 2. which true Christians with one consent yeeld not alwaies vnto For either they vary one from another in the exposition of some places of Scripture or they differ in iudgement about questions of lawfulnes or vnlawfulnes 1. Cor. 14.31 32 33. of order or disorder 1. Cor. 7 8 9 10 11. chapters or they dissent in some inferiour points of trueth If I maie so speake which yet are not to bee oppugned Mat. 5.19 yea are by all meanes on the contrarie side to be imbraced Exo. 10.26 held fast and preferred before golde or siluer or the whole World But oftentimes it is to be seene that euen those who in interpretations of certaine sentences in the word Act. 15.39 and in opinions touching things lawfull or vnlawfull differ furthest asunder concur and consent together most nerely and fully in the Articles of the faith the principles of the Gospell and all the fundamentall grounds of Christian Religion Whereby it appeareth that the vnitie of the members of the Catholick Church consisteth not in thinking the same things alwaies or liking the same persons but in the generall consent Ephe. 4.13 which is giuen vnto the mysterie of Christ Iesus In deede all are to labour to the vnitie of the spirit to iudge and speake euen al one thing 1. Cor 11.19 but in this world such a perfect knot shall neuer be knit But although Christians disagree sometime in affections or opinions yet there is alwaies among them sound vnitie in deede Ro. 12.4.5 because they maintaine one maine veritie Neither by reason of diuisions which must be and haue been in al ages among beleeuers and professors of the Gospell is there iust cause giuen vnto any to departe from the Church of GOD or to doubt whether there bee at all any certaine sauing trueth or to saye there are such dissentions in the World that a man cannot knowe what to beleeue The Virgin Marie Simeon Luk. 1 2 3. chap. Elizabeth and the Disciples saw the sauing and the certaine trueth when the sinagogue of the Iewes erred euen touching the Messias and was diuided into diuers most pestilent and contrarie sects The Christians in the daies of the auncient Fathers sawe the truth and walked in the right way when the Arrians Eutichians and such other Heretickes spread their poyson throughout the whole world Now then to doubt whether there bee any certaine trueth whē the articles of the faith are receiued by one assent and the Churches of England France Scotland Har. con apolo eccl Angl. and the Lowe Countries subscribe vnto the Doctrine of the Gospell and when manie Martyres haue of late sealed the Doctrine of faith with their bloud yea diuers liuing Martyrs confirme the same by word and deede is to call into question whether there be a Sun in the Skie and to doubt whether it shine in the firmament at noone day Thus wee see the former parte of this sentence laide open before our eyes wherein that excellencie of the Gospell is by sixe wordes plainelie affirmed the which in the second part of this verse is confirmed or prooued effectuallie by sixe forcible reasons All these arguments together with the former words may briefelie be cast after this sort into one frame of proofe whereby the whole matter intreated of in this sentence may yet more