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A03598	Tvvo sermons vpon part of S. Judes Epistle, by Richard Hooker sometimes Fellow of Corpus Christie College in Oxford	Hooker, Richard, 1553 or 4-1600.; Jackson, Henry, 1586-1662.	1614 (1614)	STC 13723; ESTC S104194	35,221	66

how wonderfull I would faine learne the mysterie of the eternall generation of the sonne of God saith Hilary Whom shall I seeke shall I get me to the schooles of the Grecians why I haue read vbi sapiens vbi scriba vbi conquisitor huius seculi These wise men in the world must needs bee dumbe in this because they haue reiected the wisdome of God Shall I beseech the Scribes and Interpreters of the law to become my teachers how can they knowe this sith they are offended at the crosse of Christ It is death for me to be ignorant of the vnsearchable misterie of the sonne of God of which misterie notwit standing I should haue been ignorant but that a poore fisherman vnknowne vnlearned new come from his bote with his cloathes wringing wet hath opened his mouth and taught me In the beginning was the word and the word was with God the word was God These poore sillie creatures haue made vs rich in the knowledge of the mysteries of Christ. 7 Remember therefore that which is spoken of by the Apostles Whose words if the children of this world doe not regard is it any marvaile They are the Apostles of our Lord Iesus not of their Lord but of our It is true which one hath said in a certaine place Apostolicam fidem seculi homo non capit a mā sworne to the world is not capable of that faith which the Apostles doe teach What meane the children of this world then to tread in the courts of our God What should your bodies doe at Bethel whose hearts are at Bethaven The God of this world whom yee serue hath provided Apostles and teachers for you Chaldeans wisards Southsayers Astrologers and such like Heare them Tell not vs that yee will sacrifice to the Lord our God if wee will sacrifice to Ashteroth or Melcom that yee will read our Scriptures if wee will listen to your traditions that if yee may haue a Masse by permission wee shall haue a Communion with good leaue and liking that yee will admit the things that are spoken of by the Apostles of our Lord Iesus if your Lord and Master may haue his ordinances observed and his statutes kept Solomon tooke it as well he might for an evident proofe that she did not bear a motherly affection to her child which yeelded to haue it cut in diverse parts He cannot loue the Lord Iesus with his heart which lendeth one care to his Apostles and another care to false Apostles which can brooke to see a mingle mangle of religion and superstition Ministers and Massingpriests light darknesse truth and errour traditions and Scriptures No we haue no Lord but Iesus no doctrine but the Gospell no teachers but his Apostles Were it reason to require at the hands of an English subiect obedience to the lawes and edicts of the Spaniard I doe marvaile that any man bearing the name of a servant of the servants of Iesus Christ will goe about to drawe vs from our allegeance Wee are his sworne subiects it is not lawful for vs to heare the things that are not told vs by his Apostles They haue told vs that in the last daies there shall be mockers therefore wee beleeue it Credimus quia legimus we are so perswaded because we read it must be so If we did not read it we would not teach it Nam quae libro legis non continentur eanec nosse debemus saith Hilary those things that are not written in the booke of the law wee ought not so much as to be acquainted with them Remember the words which were spoken of before of the Apostles of our Lord Iesus Christ. 8 The third thing to be considered in the description of these men of whom wee speake is the time wherin they should be manifested to the world They tolde you there should bee mockers in the last time Noah at the commaundement of God built an Arke and there were in it beasts of all sorts cleane vncleane A husbandman planteth a vineyard looketh for grapes but when they come to the gathering behold togither with grapes there are found also wilde grapes A rich man prepareth a great supper and biddeth many but when hee sitteth him downe he findeth amongst his friends here and there a man whom he knoweth not This hath beene the state of the Church sithēce the beginning God alwaies hath mingled his Saints with faithlesse and godlesse persons as it were the cleane with the vncleane grapes with sowre grapes his friends and children with aliens and strangers Mervaile not thē if in the last daies also yee see the men with whom you liue and walke arme in arme laugh at your religion and blaspheme that glorious name whereof you are called Thus it was in the daies of the patriarckes prophets and are we better then our fathers Albeit we suppose that the blessed Apostles in foreshewing what manner of men were set out for the last daies meant to note a calamity speciall and peculiar to the ages and generations which were to come As if he shoulde haue said As God hath appointed a time of seed for the sower and a time of harvest for him that reapeth as he hath givē vnto every hearb every tree his own fruit and his own season not the season nor the fruit of another for no man looketh to gather figs in the winter because the Sommer is the season for them nor grapes of thistles because grapes are the fruite of the Vine so the same God hath appointed sund●ie for every generation of men other men for other times and for the last times the worst men as may appeare by their properties which is the fourth point to be considered of in this description 9 They told you that there should be Mockers He meaneth men that shall vse religion as a cloake to put off and on as the weather serveth such as shall with Herod heare the preaching of Iohn Baptist to day and to morrow condescende to haue him beheaded or with the other Herod say they will worship Christ when they purpose a massacre in their hearts kisse Christ with Iudas and betray Christ with Iudas These are mockers For as ishmael the sonne of Hagar laughed at Isaak which was heire of the promise so shall these men laugh at you as the maddest people vnder the sunne if yee be like Moses choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God then to enioy the pleasures of sin for a season And why God hath not given them eies to see nor harts to cōceiue that exceeding recompence of your rewarde The promises of salvatiō made to you are matters wherein they can take no pleasure even as Ishmael tooke no pleasure in that promise wherein God had said vnto Abraham In Isaac shall thy seed be called because the promise concerned not him but Isaac They are tearmed for their impiety towards God mockers and for the impurity of their life

and conversation walkers after their owne vngodly lusts S. Peter in his second epistle and 3. chapter soundeth the very depth of their impiety shewing first how they shall not shame at the length to professe themselues prophane and irreligious by flat denying the gospell of Iesus Christ and deriding the sweet and comfortable promises of his appearing secondly that they shall not be only deriders of all religion but also disputers against God vsing truth to subvert the truth yea scriptures themselues to disproue scriptures Being in this sort mockers they must needs be also followers of their owne vngodly lusts Being Atheists in perswasion can they choose but be beasts in conversatiō For why remoue they quite from them the feare God Why take they such paines to abandon and put out from their harts all sense all tast all feeling of religion but only to this end and purpose that they may without inward remorse and grudging of conscience giue over themselues to all vncleanenes Surely the state of these mē is more lamentable then is the condition of Pagans and Turkes For at the bare beholding of heaven and earth the infidels heart by and by doth giue him that there is an eternal infinite immortal and everliving God whose hands haue fashioned and framed the world hee knoweth that every house is builded of some man though he see not the man which built the house and he considereth that it must be God which hath built and created all things although because the number of his daies be few he could not see whē God disposed his workes of old when he caused the light of his clowds first to shine when he laid the corner stone of the earth and swadled it with bands of water and darknes when he caused the morning star to know his place made barres and doores to shut vp the sea within his house saying hitherto shalt thou come but no farther he hath no eie switnesse of these things Yet the light of natural reason hath put this wisdome in his reines and hath given his heart thus much vnderstanding Bring a pagan to the schooles of the prophets of God prophecie to an infidell rebuke him lay the iudgements of God before him make the secret sinnes of his heart manifest and he shall fall downe and worship God They that crucified the Lord of glory were not so far past recovery but that the preaching of the Apostles was able to moue their hearts and to bring them to this Men brethren what shall we doe Agrippa that sate in iudgement against Paule for preaching yeelded notwithstanding thus farre vnto him almost thou perswadest me to become a Christian. Although the Iewes for want of knowledge haue not submitted themselues to the righteousnesse of God yet I beare them record saith the Apostle that they haue a zeale The Athenians a people hauing neither zeale nor knowledge yet of them also the same Apostle beareth witnesse yee men of Athens I perceaue yee are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 some way religious But mockers walking after their owne vngodly lusts t●ey haue smothered every sparke of that heavenly light they haue stiflled even their very naturall vnderstanding O Lord thy mercy is over al thy workes thou savest man and beast yet a happy case it had beene for these men if they had never beene borne and so I leaue them 10 St Iude hauing his mind exercised in the doctrine of the Apostles of Iesus Christ concerning things to come in the last time became a man of a wise and staid iudgement Grieued hee was to see the departure of many and their falling away from the faith which before they did professe grieved but not dismayed With the simpler and weaker sort it was otherwise Their countenance began by and by to change they were halfe in doubt they had deceiued themselues in giuing credit to the Gospell of Iesus Christ. St Iude to comfort refresh these silly lambs taketh them vp in his armes and sheweth them the men at whom they were offended Look vpon them that forsake this blessed professiō wherein you stand They are now before your eyes view them marke them are they not carnall are they not like to noysome carrion cast out vpon the earth is there that spirit in them which cryeth Abba father in your bosomes Why should any man be discomforted haue you not heard that there should be mockers in the last time These verily are they that now doe seperate themselues 11 For your better vnderstanding what this severing and separating of themselues doth meane we must knowe that the multitude of them which truly beleeue howsoever they be dispersed farre and wide each from other is all one body whereof the head is Christ one building whereof he is the corner stone in whom they as the mēbers of the body being knit as the stones of the building being coupled grow vp to a man of perfect stature and rise to an holy tēple in the Lord. That which linketh Christ to vs is his meere mercy and loue towards vs. That which tieth vs to him is our faith in the promised salvation revealed in the word of truth That which vniteth and ioyneth vs amongst our selues in such sort that wee are now as if we had but one heart and one soule is our loue Who be inwardly in heart the liuely members of this body and the polished stones of this building coupled and ioined to Christ as flesh of his flesh and bones of his bones by the mutuall bond of his vnspeakable loue towards them their vnfained faith in him thus linked and fastned each to other by a spirituall sincere and hartie affection of loue without any manner of simulation who be Iewes within and what their names be none can tell saue he whose eies doe behold the secret disposition of all mens hearts We whose eies are too dimme to behold the inward man must leaue the secret iudgement of every servant to his owne Lord accounting and vsing all men as brethren both neere and deare vnto vs supposing Christ to loue them tenderly so as they keep the profession of the Gospell and ioyne in the outward communion of Saints Whereof the one doth warrantize vnto vs their faith the other their loue till they fall away and forsake either the one or the other or both and then it is no iniurie to tearme them as they are When they separate themselues they are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not iudged by vs but by their owne doings Men do separate thēselues either by heresie schisme or apostasie If they loose the bond of faith which then they are iustly supposed to doe when they frowardly oppugne any principall point of Christian doctrine this is to separate themselues by Heresie If they breake the bond of vnitie whereby the body of the Church is coupled and knit in one as they doe which willfully forsake al externall communion with Saints in holy