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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

taught in diuerse places of holy scriptures to haue a care of our brethren and to instruct them so Paule saith to the Thessalonians exhorte one another and edifie one 1 Thesse 5. 11. another even as ye doe And because he deserueth not the name of a Christian whosoever is ignorant of the ground of faith and religion contained in the sacred scriptures and is not able to edifie another nor to speake as the word of God Therefore the same Apostle writeth to the Romanes I am perswaded of you my brethren that yee also are full of goodnesse and filled with Rom. 15. 14 all knovveledge and are able to admonish one another The doctrine of the holy GHOST delivered by the Apostles as it appeareth in their writings is full of such exhortations as edi●ie one another exhorte one another be fulfilled with the spirite But Satan the enemy of all trueth hath alwaies too many of his side which are against this doctrine yea and in these dai●● some that haue the name to bee preachers I pray God they bee not for Baal whose vo●ce soundeth let not artificers husbandmen and menne vvithout learning busie themselues with holy scriptures and with matters of faith and religion let them not goe aboute to tell other men what they shoulde doe and to admonish other men of their errors tracte●● fabri●●a fabri let them meddle with those things they haue to doe and take no care of other men though they bee in an errour This is the wisedome of the flesh and here we see how contrary it is to the wisedome which is from aboue and teacheth vs to exhort to edifie and to admonish one another what calling vvhat trade of life or vvhat condition soever we be of For God hath alwaies required this duetie of mutuall exhortation of them that professe his name as it is written thou shalt not hate thy brother in Levit 19. 17 thine heart but thou shalt plainly rebuke thy neighbour and suffer him not to sinne For this cause Augustine saith that every Christian hath the August do verb. domini serm 16. keies in his hande to binde and to loose his brother vpon earth for when he giveth him warning and admonition if he heare him he hath won him but if he despise him he hath bound● him because the wordes of exhortation taken out of the doctrine of Christ and his holy scriptures are a favour either to life or to death by whomsoever they bee spoken or delivered For we haue learned that not only the minister of the word but also all Christians without exception are commanded to instruct and exhorte their brethren the greater that every one is in respect of his place or calling the greateri● his charge herein and the more cause hee hath to covet vvith that faithfull servaunt of the LORDE Moses that all the Num. 11. 29. Lordes people vvere Prophetes and that the Lorde woulde put his spirite vppon them that so they might be able to teach one another that none might perish for lacke of knowledge For the Lord complaineth that his people is go●e into captiuitie because they had Isa 5. 13. no knowledge If there be no knowledge there cā be no exhortation then no setting free from the captiuitie of s●nne The time to exhort and likwise to learne is while it is called to day It must not be deferred or put over till to morrow for the scripture saith yee cannot tell what shall be to morrow Iam. 4. 14. By the date in this place is not meant the whole course of our life as some haue taught vpon this text But the daie is taken for the acceptable time of grace in which the wisedome of God vttereth her voice amōg vs inviteth vs to the marriage of the kings son For not withstanding that no time while we liue vpon the earth is to late to amendment of life yet the Gospell of Christ which is the light of the world that teachceth vs faith and repentaunce may bee taken from vs and then it is night and no daie even as it is this day with the Turkes ●he Papistes and all other nations of the earth to whom the Lord hath not giuen the light of his holy worde thought they haue the naturall daie yet haue they not the daie of grace but they walke in the night of ignorāce superstitiō in which they goe out of the waie and perish VVe haue had this day almost this fortye yeares and yet so farre are we from beeing able to exhort one another that the most part of our elder men and women haue not yet learned the meaning of their baptisme oh how lamentably haue these people beene hardned through the deceitfulnesse of sinne And will you stil walke in this feareful darknesse not come into the light of ●he day now let the sunne of right cousnesse shine in your hearts For even this day it is called to day and we know not how long this day wil last but when it is past it will not be redeemed though wee would seeke it with teares Heb. 12 17. as Esau sought the blessing and yet was reiected because the day was past Now that which hardeneth vs is the deceitfulnesse of sinne If sinne were not deceitfull it could not overcome nor prevaile against so many men and all sortes of people and all ages as it doeth It prevaileth against old men which in respect of time ought to be teachers and deceiveth them that notwithstanding they be come to that age that their strength is but labour and sorrow yet wil they not giue over the loue of this world for it is with them as Cicero saith there is none Cicero lib. de s●nectu●e so olde which doeth not thinke himselfe able to liue one yeare And so deferring from yeare to yeare and from day to day the hoare head is childishly deceiued and al his experience cannot draw him out of the snares of sinne It deceyueth youth and middle age and telleth them it is time inough to serue God and to be religiouse when old age shall approch and being deceyued they will not heare veritie which saith remember now thy creator in the dayes of thy youth For when age Eccle. 1. 12. cometh then are the evill dayes and the yeares wherin thou shalt say I haue no pleasure in them Sinne is so cra●tie and deceitfull that it deceyueth euen the wyse and the prudent of this world it is obserued in the little beast Chameleon that it can change it selfe into all coloures that it si●teth vpon except white But there is no colour or ●hew of vertue which sinne cannot chaunge itselfe into For therby it deceyueth and hardeneth all sinners It cometh to the coneteouse man hauing the colour and name of good husbandrie and not of coueteousnes and so hardeneth him It cometh to the drunkard not vnder the ●ame of drunkenes but of good felowshippe and hardeneth him so that

that God beareth with vs the more terrible will be his reuengment if we abuse his benignitie winke at the testimonies of his wrath shewed vpon others for our example Now hauing such euident testimonies of Gods seuere iudgmēts in al ages reuealed against the vnrighteousenes and vnbeleefe of men as the Apostle saith here of the vnbeleeuing Israelits we see that they could not enter in because of vnbeliefe so we see declare vnto you by the same word of trueth which we minister● that all obstinate and vnbeleeuing sinners which will not obey the trueth shall not enter in to the rest of life euerlasting or haue any part in the feliciti● of the faithfull Do we therfore iudge men no in no wise The word which we minister is the iudge and by it we denounce the iudgments of God against them which obey not this word instructing them with meeknes prouing i● God at any time will giue thē repēt●nce that they may come to the knowledge of his truth for this is the iudgment of the spirite of God hee that obeyeth not the sonne shall not see life but the wrath of God abideth ●o 3 36. on him and he that is in this vnbeliefe though he fasi from mea●● though he say many pra●ers though he giue much to the poore though he build churches and do many gloriouse workes doeth yet nothing acceptable to God while he beleeueth not in the sonne while hi● heart cleaveth not to the word of the Lord. For as it is written without faith it is vnpossible to please God and againe Heb● 11. 6 Rom. 14 23 what soeuer is not of faith is sinne So far is the carnal mā which is possessed with vnbeliefe frō pleasing of God that all his workes euen the best deedes that he doeth are nothing els but sinne Many there be which doe many thinges that haue in deed as the Apostle saith a shew Col. 2. 23. of wisedome in voluntary religion but if you aske these people from what faith their works do proceede and vpon what promises of God cōtained in his word their faith is setled they will commonly say that though they know not these things yet hope they to bee saued as wel as your selfe But be not deceiued for this hope is no hope It is not the auker of the soule both sure and stedfast And your faith is no Heb. 6. 19. faith so long as it be not built vpon the rocke of Gods worde which is the iewell that you should desire more then gold and finde to be sweeter then hony and the hony combe But while Psal 19 19. you builde vpon the devises of your owne heart your adversary when the day of triall cōmeth wil overthrow your whole building which is not grounded vpon the rocke but vpon the vnsure sand Wherfore if you wil enter into Gods rest dwel safely frō the feare of evill your heart must be purified by faith and as you heare dayly faith is by hearing hearing by the word of God Rom. 10. 17 If hitherto you haue beene dul of hearing or slow of heart to beleeue this word giue now the more diligence to heare and to exercise your selues therin least it be taken away from you for your former negligence vnthankfullnes For so the Lord threatneth by his Propher bebould the daies come saith the Lord God that I will send a famine in the lād Amo● 8. 11 12. not a famine of bread nor a thrist for water but of the hearing of the word of the Lord. And they shall wander from sea to sea from the North euen vnto the East shall they runne is fro to seeke the word of the Lord shall not finde it This is a famine more to be feared then any famine of materiall bread For this falmine of hearing the word of God is a tokē of reprobation a signe that God doth vtterly forsake cast away that people or nation where it is sent For when God taketh away the light of his word what shall we find but hell●●h darkenesse the shadowe of death this is the ●ust iudgment of God for the vnbeliefe of them that shall nos enter into his rest Beholde now therfore the accepted time behold 2. Cor. 6. 1. now the day of saluation For yet it is called to day yet wisedome vttereth her voice in the Heb. 3. 13. Pro. 1. 20. streets open assemblies of our people promiseth that whosoeuer obeyeth her shall ver 33. dwel safely be quiet frō the fear of euil Be hold now the Lord stadeth at the d●●re knockee●● saying if any man heare my voice opē the Rev. 3 20. doore I will come in vnto him and will supp● with him he with me To this Lord that hath made his voice to be heard among vs now aboue fourty yeeres long and yet continueth vnto vs the glorious day of his grace be praise in the church throughout all generations for euer Let vs humble our selues before the thrōe of grace and pray FINIS A GODLY AND NECESSARY SERMON against fleshly lustes and against certaine mischievous May-games which are the fruite thereof Preached vpon the first Sabbath day in Maie in the yeere 1598. By H. R. Master of Artes and now Minister of the word Gal. 5. 17. The flesh lusteth against the spirite and the spirit against the flesh and these are contrarie one to the other Printed at Oxford by Joseph Barnes and are to be sold in Paules church yard at the signe of the Bible 1600. To the Reader THis sermon Christiā Reader should haue bene published together with another of the sufferings agon●es of our sauiour Christ of his victorie over death but that some which would be counted the soundest clarkes and yet br●ach not the soundest doctrine to the world want not their fauourers and meanes to stoppe the way of all such things as do not concord say amen to whatsoeuer they haue sayd fastened vpon the world for truth Omitting therfore things that must be deferred I haue here adioined to these six lectures ●ntitled the day of hearing a sermon vpō a text of the Apostle Peter exhorting to abstaine from fleshly lusts For as the sonne of S●rach forbiddeth vs to keepe backe our counsell when Eccl. 4. 23. it may do good so the afore named Apostle of Christ commanudeth vs euerie man as he hath receiued the gift to minister the same one to 1. Pet. 4. 10. another Wherfore as time place required as God ●nabled me to be an instrument of his mercy I haue br●fly intreated of the perillous bondage and thraldo●e into the which we are brought through the lusts of our owne flesh that seeing our selues to be in a dangerous case we may be the more s●irred vp to watch by Gods gar●● to haue victori● against such inuincible aduersaries And whē I taught these

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 men 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 immediatly after the Epistle dedicatory Herevnto is adioyned a Sermon against fleshly lusts against certaine mischievous May-games which are the fruit thereof By H. R. Master of Artes and now Minister of the word Ioh. 3 19. This is the condemnation that light is come into the world and men loved darkenesse rather then light because their deedes were evill Printed at Oxford by Ioseph Barnes and are to be sold in Paules church-yard at the signe of the Bible 1600. TO THE RIGHT HONOVrable SIR THOMAS EGERTON Knig●● Lord Keeper of the great seale of England one of her Ma●esties most Honourable pr●v●● counsell my especiall benefactor the increase and co●tinuance of all spiritual blessings with that true honor which is from God lasteth for evermore DVTY binding me Right ●onourable to shew some testimonie of a thankfull mind towards you I haue presumed so farre as to offer to your good Lordship this small exercise of mine such as it is which I haue taught and written according to the ability that God hath givē me as the charge committed to me required The Apostle Paule instructeth his scholer Timotheus and in him all ministers that haue the charge of teaching to shew themselues approved vnto God 〈◊〉 Tim. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as workemen that neede not to be ashamed dividing the word of truth aright For in so dividing of the word consisteth the life force of the ministery that all mē what age or conditiō soever they be of which wil be fed to liue everlastingly may haue their portiō of meate givē thē out of that word that in season or cōueniently that it may be savoury pleasant as the venifon of Iacob was vnto his father Isaac and not vnsavoury as the sonnes of Elie made the offering of the Lord to be abhorred But such is the vntowardnes of this age which in respect of the time should haue abounded with all knowledge necessary to salvation that not only countrey people specially where the worde hath seldome beene divided aright but also the inhabitants of townes cities in too many places of this lande haue neede to be taught the first principles of the word of God For now in the latter daies on the one side the pride of life Atheisme the custom of sin hath so bewitched the world that the heartes of most men are become fat their eares are dul of hearing that the word which they hear doth not profit thē neither do the manifolde tokens of Gods anger revealed against the impiety vnrighteousnes of this age as the pestilence the late dearth sundry new strang sicknesses nor the present troubles of wars beside other innumurable exāples of Gods displeasure daily seene among vs any thing moue secure worldlings and such as are hardened in vngodlines to turne frō their own waies to obey the gospell of God while it is yet called To day And on the other side the poison of the whorish church of Rome hath so spred it selfe over the worlde that as certaine wilde beastes of which Cicero writeth Den●l deor lib. 2. whē they be hūted are wont with an intollerable filthy sent to driue frō thē the hūters so the leavē of Antichrist though he be now hunted to his place hath infected all that way where hee hath gon that the vnholesome savor there of cannot yet be purged with the bright fire of Gods word no not in those places where the word hath of a long season beene divided aright not withstāding the cōtinual diligence of faithful Pastours in their ministery the vnreproueablenes of their conversation and the godly writings of many learned and zealous men For mine owne part being one of the least last among my brethrē in this so weighty a calling as afflictions are the assigned portion of a Christian I haue beene weakned with Gods visitation of sicknesse chastened with the adversities of this life that little was the good that could be done by such as I am I rejoice of mine infirmities knowing as * Mar●i● 〈…〉 h●r one that was sufficiently tried with afflictions hath writtē for the cōfort of others that experience practise in bearing the crosse is that which maketh a right divine a true Christiō indeede Howbeit having now aboue a yeare since at several times according to that measure of grace that I received exercised vpon the latter part of the 3. Chap. of the ●ipist to the Hebrewes supposing that setipture to bee most fit to bee handled in these daies and among those people whō I was to instruct I thought it my duty and the rather being requested to publish the same to the benefite of others specially of such as hunger after good things accept of that portiō of meat which curious ful stomackes haue no lust to I haue added thereto a sermon the matter whereof the cause of annexing it to these Lectures is briefly specified in the preface to the reader if profane writings as histories of profane mens liues bookes of lustful loue invented fables tricks of vaine mens wits which helpe to builde the Babel of pride to fortifie the Egypt of sin be so favourably received studied on in the world much more is Christian doctrine to bee regarded of Christian men And whereas greate clerkes and graue divines do out of the treasure of their many yeares studies bring their gold and blew silke to the building of the Lordes sanctuary let goates haire be accepted at the handes of younger and Poorer men so it bee fit for the building and be offered of a willing heart as the Lord requireth It 〈◊〉 ●55 skilleth not what prowde and envious men iudge of our enterprise so long as we haue the testimony of a pure conscience The world is alwaies like it selfe ful of scorpion like scoffers And it is no new thing to see the commō evil of envie so to reigne in most men that they haue other mens doings in obloquje ●●eke to depratie them And this they do as the Poet saith ducunt Vel quia nil rectum nisi quod placuit sibi 〈…〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Vel quia turpe putant parere minoribus either because they count nothing well done but that which pleaseth their humo● or else because they thinke it a foule disgrace that their inferiours should go before them But that I bee not tedious vnto your honour as I haue founde vndeserved favour at your handes so being not othervvise able to testifie my loue to you I am bolde to present vnto your Lordship this litle fruite of my labour hoping that of your wonted

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