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truth_n	apostle_n	know_v	teach_v	1,736	5	5.8816	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B00537	An exhortation vnto the gouernours, and people of Hir Maiesties countrie of Wales, to labour earnestly, to haue the preaching of the Gospell planted among them. There is in the ende something that was not in the former impression..	Penry, John, 1559-1593.; Waldegrave, Robert, 1554-1604, printer.	1588 (1588)	STC 19605.5; ESTC S94666	73,347	118

22.15 or else you can haue no inheritance among 4 them that are sanctified but bee excluded out of the citie of God amongst dogges theeues murderers and inchanters if you be not wrought vpō by their hands whom the Lord hath sanctified to that office I am bolde therefore in the cause of Gods honour and of your own saluation to intreat you 4 as you meane to haue anie fellowship and communion in heauen with the blessed saints and angels as you intend to haue anie part in that kingdome which the Lorde Iesus hath purchased with his owne bloud as you woulde haue any interest in him and his sacred passions that while you haue time you labour with might and maine to prouide your selues of the meanes whereby you may bee translated out of the kingdome of darknes wherin you now liue vnto the blessed possessiō of sweet Sion the citie of the liuing God In which cause if your endeuours wil be colde and backeward I pronounce vnto you that you shal as surelie perish and bee damned as the Turkes Heathens or any other Idolaters who cannot abide the name of Iesus Christ Be afraide therefore as the apostle a Heb. 4.1 admonisheth you least by forsaking the oportunitie of being saued which at this day is offered vnto you you be depriued of your saluation How shal you be able to beare it when in the day of vengeance you shall see your selues arraigned of high treason before Gods tribunall seate for reiecting the pardon he offreth in Christ Iesus vnto you Would you but vouchsafe to seeke the same in the worde preached In the worde preached I saye for if you will imbrace Christ and haue pardon of your sinnes by his passions you must haue that brought to passe by preaching Christ I graunt may be otherwise taught but as the apostle saith b Ephe. 4.21 not as the truth is in Iesus and therefore wythout comforte and wythout saluation The small reckoning my brethren that hitherto you haue made of Christ truely taught vnto you testifieth vnto your faces that you haue not knowen the Lord c Iere. 4.22 that you are foolish children wise you may be to doe euill but to do well you haue no knowledge as saith the prophet Yea it testifieth that you declare your sinnes as Sodome and hide them not and out of al doubt it will bring woe vnto your soules d Esay 3.9 vnlesse you haue preaching for you haue rewarded euill vnto your selues For Christ his sake then for your owne felieities sake acknowledge in the practise of your liues that the Lorde hath tied 5 the foode of vnderstanding and knowledge vnto the mouthes of those pastors 5 e Ier. 3.15 who at the 6 least in regard of gifts 6 are according vnto his owne heart 7 The Apostle proclaimeth 7 vnto the Colossians f Gollos 1.20.21 that as it was the good will pleasure and decree of the eternal to reconcile all men vnto himselfe by Iesus Christ so he neuer purposed to make this reconciliation knowen vnto any but by the word preached a vers 23.28 he telleth 8 b Rom. 16.25 1. Tim. 3.16 1. Cor. 2.7 vs in many place 8 that saluation is a mystery so of necessitie must haue some wider opening than the withered hands of bare readers can reach vnto 9 Blessed Peter sheweth in plaine wordes that our newe birth can no way be wrought in vs 9 but by the worde preached c 1. Pet. 1.21 Those great and 10 hidden secretes which the very Prophets themselues coulde not attaine vnto wythout greate inquirie 10 d 1. Pet. 1.10 can be made knowen vnto you belike contrarie vnto the expresse word of the holie ghost e vois 12. by those who can not preach the Gospell 11 In what 11 a desperate case then is my deare country the place of the sepulchres of my fathers f Nehe. 1. who hopeth for saluation and hath no meanes to be brought into the knowledge of the truth g 1. Tim. 24. by the publike ministerie And what a publike miniscerie or miserie rather is that in whose handes saluation is not because the knowledge of the truth is not in their handes Ieroboam 12 woulde thou haddest againe thy vnlearned priests 12 h 2. Chro. 13 9 For it is out of controuersie that they are sit to be the ministers onelie of them that woulde haue no God i 2. Cro. 15.3 but we would haue Ichouah for our God 13 and serue him Timotheus 13 to the ende he might be made more fit to cal men to saluation was commaunded to take heede vnto himselfe and vnto learning and to continue therein k 1. Tim. 4.13 15 16 but our Ministers if they can reade are able without any further learning to make saluation knowen vnto vs. Is reading 14 the way whereby the Lord will bestow vpon men the spirite of wisedome 14 and reuelation thorough his knowledge l Ephe. 2.17 No no 15 downe therfore vnto hell with that doctrine whence it sprang 15 and issued that seeketh saluation vnto men by reading of that which canner be vnderstoode without an expounder a Act. 8.30.32 And here I would 16 know of you which so long haue cōtented your selues with bare reading 16 whether for the space of nine and twenty years complet you haue selt either in your selues or perceiued in others the woorde to haue bene so powerfull as it is said to be b Heb. 4.12 If you haue not bee you assured that it is not the worde whereof the apostle speaketh in that place which worketh those effectes in some of the hearers either vnto death or vnto life For the word of God is liuelie as hee there setteth downe and mightie in operation and sharper then anie two edged swoord and entereth through euen to the deuiding asunder of the soul and the spirit and of the ioynts and the marrow and is a discerner of the thoughts and the intents of the heart Besides that wofull experience sheweth that the spirite of God meaneth not the word read in this place the second verse of the chapter euidentlie conuinceth that it must needes bee the woorde preached vnto whome these imperiall titles as I may say are ascribed But saye the holie ghost what it will say the people of Wales had rather be lims of the deuil to bee euerlastinglie destroyed then labour to haue the woorde that by meanes thereof they might be made the members of Christ and so eternallie saued 17 Though 17 the or dinaunce of God be to demde the worde aright c 2 Tim. 2.15 vnto the seuerall vse of the hearers though 18 saluation be a thing that must be learned 18 euen of them who can read d Colos 15.7 our reading Baalites scane able to reade 19 19 though the decleration of the same bee such a thing as euerie christian who