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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15107	A sermon preached at Pawles Crosse on Sunday the ninth of December. 1576. by T.W.	White, Thomas, ca. 1550-1624.	1578 (1578)	STC 25405; ESTC S119910	24,628	74

righteousnesse For the Prophecie TO stande vpon the prayses of Prophetes and their excellent office being one of the chiefest instrumentes though extraordinary that Christ ordained in his Churches Ephesi 4. he gaue some Apostles some Prophetes some Euangelistes and some Shepherdes Teachers to gather together the Saintes c. Or to shew you their dilligence in sparing no labour fearing no losse vēturing their very lyfe for the prophecying preaching of the trueth or on the other syde to recken rippe vp Dauids sundrie vertues that man according to Gods owne harte it was not so directlye to this purpose Therefore I will turne straight to the prophecie which is concluded by the best learned interpreters without all controuersie to be vnderstood of the Messias and his kingdome Albeit the hungrie Iewes do blyndlie snatche wrest it to the scepter of Dauid and dreame it of his temporall seate The Lorde made a couenaunt with Dauid in déede as in the .89 Psalm I will set thy dominion in the sea and thy right hande in the flouds and thy seede shall abide for euer thy throne as the dayes of heauen I haue sworne once by my holinesse I will not faile Dauid my seruaunt and his seede shall endure and his seate shal be as the Sunne Likewise .2 Sam. 7. by the mouth of Nathan the Prophet Thy house thy kingdome thy throne shal be established for euer What tyme therfore that they were led away captiues to Babilon as in the .4 King. 25. Iere. 34. 2. Cron. 36. Esai 1. appeareth when Iheronias was takē prisoner by Nabuchodonezer and Zedechias led awaye captiue into bondage when the kingdome was spoyled the Temple burned the people subdued in miserable seruitude and besides neuer any man after of Dauids loynes left to sit on his royal seate for though Zorobabel Neuew to Iheconias was captaine yet he was not King of Iuda and there were other valiaunt men and principall leaders of Israel but no Prince nor scepter they were so vnder the Meades and Persians and Macedonians c. Nowe the Iewes doting groslie buylding of an earthlie scepter and a temporall seate of Dauids seede were iustly scattered in their owne imaginations and dyd blindlie thinke the promises of God to be of none effect Here is the barraine fruite of mans owne braine see howe perilous a thing it is to receyue the spirituall promises of God carnallie that is according to our owne vnderstanding what discorde it bréedes and what confusion it brings euen this that our expectation and accoumpt shall be cleane frustrate voyde and of none effect in the ende the letter kylleth it is the spirite that giueth lyfe Yet the Lorde mercifullye saued a great sorte of that people and deliuered them by Cyrus who fought against the Assirians and tooke Babilon and deliuered the Iewes as they had many Oracles before that a man should doo it and is named too of Esaie in his prophecie Esai 44. many yeares before his byrth I am thy God which say Ierusalem thou shalt be inhabited and you Cities of Iuda you shal be buylt Cyrus shal be my heardman c. In due consideration of that I haue shortly sayde it is manifest that the promise must be otherwise than of Dauids house for our earthlie kingdome onelie or else farre off be it from blasphemy with feare I speake it the promise must be of none effecte And hath God said and wyl he not performe it or hath he at any tyme spoken the woord and shall he not do the déede Yes verely God is true and al men are lyers the Iewes are deceiued for God is righteous that he may be cleare whē he is iudged Psal. 51. But yet let vs procéede to a more néere examination and playner pondering of the matter and it shall easier bring vs to the perfect sense Beholde is a noate of demonstratiō often vsed by the Prophets to prepare attention when they speake of any great Mysterie or of any serious matter of importance and weyght as now of the Messias to come than the which there is none greater for all the promises of God to Israel had their strength and performance in him through him and for him without whome the faith of the Fathers had bene voyde and not full This caryeth a certaine awaking or quickning of the dull senses of the Iewes with whome the promises of God by little and little dyd slippe out of remembraunce and verie rawlie and coldlie they looked for Christes first cōming as they shoulde doo Which as it was then so is it nowe a most pestilent practise of Satan to make many which should liuely beholde onely blindely to dreame for his seconde and most glorious appearing The children of God should behold Gods promises of things to come as if they were nowe present for that is the true nature of faith The eye is the suttlest sense of all the fiue as it sooner pearceth his obiect than any of the rest whether Extramittendo or Intramittendo let Philosophers saye So it iudgeth more surer of the same this dignitie it caryeth aboue the rest to be the quickest and perfectest sense of all For example of the first in the tyme of thunder a man shall sooner sée the lyghtning than he shal heare the ratling if he haue any sight at all though he haue neuer so good an eare and yet the lyghtning is the latter of the two being caused of the fraction or rupture or thundering noyse of the Clowde so broken Or more familiarly you shall sée if you marke in a Gūne discharged the pellette flee some space before you heare the sounde and yet it is plaine they can not be a sunder For the other the example of Isaack in the .27 Gene. Wyll shewe you euery sense deceaued for lacke of this chiefe sense And albeit the soonenesse of Iacobs returne in bringing the Kyd had almost marred al his voyce made some suspition in the matter yet olde father Isaack was beguiled neyther his smelling nor tasting coulde iudge of the venison which was but Kyds flesh nor his hearing nor feeling finde faulte with Esau which was but Iacob not without cause in lawe Oculatus testis caryeth credite they that sawe it with theyr eyes are best assured Euen so the Prophete speaketh here Beholde euen as perfectlie though not as presētlie as Saint Iohn the Euangelist séeing our Sauiour poynted at him and sayde Beholde the Lambe of God which taketh away the sinnes of the worlde so with the eyes of your Fayth being farre more excellent than the eyes of the body if you wyll awake and not sléepe watche and not slumber Beholde the tyme commeth c. Daniel doth calculate the tyme .9 of his Prophecie being a notable worthy Prophete yet he perused and read Ieremies bookes as it seemeth and foūd out the Prophecie of the peoples captiuitie .70 years which he calles wéeks that so long Iuda shoulde