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A03949	Bromelion A discourse of the most substantial points of diuinitie, handled by diuers common places: vvith great studie, sinceritie, and perspicuitie. Whose titles you haue in the next page following.	S. I., fl. 1595.; Bèze, Théodore de, 1519-1605. Summa totius Christianismi. English.	1595 (1595)	STC 14057; ESTC S107410	412,250	588

shall heare indéed but ye shall not vnderstand ye shall plainly sée and not perceiue o The Genena note vpon that place Whereby is declared that for the malice of man God will not immediately take away his word but he wil cause it to be preached to their condemnation when as they will not learne thereby to obey his will and be saued Hereby he exhorteth the Ministers to do their dutie and answereth to the wicked murmurers that through their owne malice their heart is hardened Mat. 13. 14. Act. 28. 26. Rom. 11. 8. Verse 10. Make the heart of his people fat make their eares heauy and shut their eies lest they sée with their eies and heare with their eares and vnderstande with their hearts and conuert and he heale them And to bring this to passe he vseth partly their owne vile concupiscences to the which hee hath giuen them vp to be ruled and led by Rom. 1. 26. For this cause God gaue them vp to vile affections c. Sée more in that chap. And Esay 64. 7. And partly also the spirit of lies who keepeth them wrapt in his snares 2. Thess 2. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. Euen him whose comming is by the working of Sathan with all power and signes and lying wonders and in all deceiueablenesse of vnrighteousnesse among them that perish because they receiued not the loue of the truth that they may be saued And therefore God shall send them strong delusion that they should beléeue lies That all they might be damned which beléeued not the truth but had pleasure in vnrighteousnesse Iohn 3. 19. And this is the condemnation that light is come into the world men loued darknesse rather then light because their déedes were euill Ezay 63. 17. O Lord why hast thou made vs erre from thy waies and hardned our heart from thy feare Ro. 11. 32. For God hath shut vp all in vnbeliefe Acts. 7. 42. Then God turned himselfe away and gaue them vp to serue the host of heauen 1. Kin. 22. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. The Lord said Who shal intice Ahab that he may go fall at Ramoth Gilead And one said on this maner and an other said on that manner Then there came foorth a spirit and stoode before the Lord and said I will entice him And the Lord said vnto him Wherewith And he said I will goe out and be a false spirit in the mouth of all his Prophets Then he said thou shalt entice him and shalt also preuaile goe foorth and do so Nowe therefore behold the Lord hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these thy Prophets and the Lord hath appointed euill against thée 2. Cor. 4. 3. 4. If our Gospell be then hid it is hid to them that are lost In whom the God of this world hath blinded the mindes that is of the Infidels that the light of the glorious Gospel of Christ which is the image of God should not shine vnto them By reason of their corruption from the which as out of a fountaine issueth a continuall flowing riuer of infidelitie ignorance and iniquitie 2. Tim. 2. 26. And that they may come to amendment out of the snares of the diuel which are taken of him at his will Whereby it followeth that hauing as it were made shipwracke of their faith 1. Tim. 1. 19. Hauing faith and a good conscience which some haue put away and as concerning faith haue made shipwracke Can by no meanes escape the day which is appointed for their destruction that God may be glorified in their iust condemnation Prou. 16. 4. The Lord hath made all things for his owne sake yea euen the wicked for the day of euil Rom. 9. 21. 22. Hath not the potter power of the clay to make of the same lumpe one vessell to honour and an other vnto dishonour What and if God would to shewe his wrath and to make his power knowne suffer with long patience the vessels of wrath prepared to destruction The sixt Chapter Of the last and full accomplishment of Gods eternall counsell as well towards the elect as the reprobate FOrasmuch as God is iustice it selfe it is necessary that The full execution of god counsaile he should saue the iust and condemne the vniust Now they among men are only iust who being by faith ioined to Christ grafted rooted in him and made one bodie with him are iustified sanctified in him by him Wherof it followeth that the glory to the which they are destinate to the glory of God appertaineth to them as by a certain right or title On the other part they which remaine in Adams pollution death are iustly hated of God and so condemned by him not excepting so much as thē which die before they sin as Adam did But both these manners of executing Gods iudgements as well in these as in the other which are elected are in thrée sorts whereof we haue already declared the first For the elect in that same moment that they In the elect haue receiued the gift of faith haue after a certaine sort passed from death to life whereof they haue a sure pledge But this their life is hid in Christ till this corporall death make them to steppe a degrée further and that the soule being loosed out of the band of the body enter into the ioy of the Lord Finally in the day appointed to iudge the quicke and the dead when that which is corruptible and mortall shall be clad with incorruption and immortalitie and God shall be all in all things then they shall sée his maiestie face to face and shall fully enioy that vnspeakable comfort and ioy which before all beginning was prepared for them which is also the reward that is due to the righteousnesse holinesse of Christ who was giuen for their sinnes and raised againe from death for their iustification By whose vertue and spirit they haue procéeded and gone forward from faith to faith as shall manifestly appeare by the whole In the Reprobate course of their life and good workes Whereas altogither contrary the reprobate conceaued and brought vp in sin death wrath of God when they depart out of this world they fall into an other gulfe of destruction and their soules are plunged in that endlesse paine vntill the day come that their bodies soules being ioyned againe they shall enter into euerlasting fire which is prepared for the diuell and his Angels Then by these two waies which are The glory of God cleane contrarie one to an other the last issue and end of Gods iudgement shall set forth manifestly his glory to all men foramuch as in his elect he shall declare himselfe most iust and most mercifull Most iust I say for that he Perfectly iust and perfectly mereifull hath punished with extréeme rigour seueritie the sinnes of his elect in the person of his sonne neither did receiue them into the fellowship of his glory before

gospell that toward the latter end of the world heresies and errour shall so abound that if it were not for Gods grace and his instructing spirits euen the elect should bee deceiued and togither with the rest should be danmed For damnation is the effect of superstition and heresie and the diuell blinding vs and deceiuing vs dooth vse that forcible meane to draw vs from the knowledge of God and of our owne saluation Which thing the Apostle writing to the Thessalonians 2. Epistle chapter 2. dooth witnesse vnto vs that false teachers shall come vnto vs to deceiue vs ●y the working of the diuell But among whome shall they preuaile among none but them that perish because they receiued not the laue of the truth that they might be ●●ued And therefore God shall send them strong delusion that they should beléeue lies and that all they might be damned which beléeued not the truth Many are the heresies that are sprung vp in the worlde and where the word of God is not their guide and the spirit of God doth not teach them there is nothing but wandring going astray in the vanitie of their thoghts For the true God the heathen worship the Sun the Moone and the Starres the Turke his Mahomet another people fall downe before Images créepe to crosses goe in pilgrimage to the reliques of Saintes put the only hope of their saluation in their good workes and if that serue not they make account that the praiers of them that are liuing shall doo them good after they be dead and release them being in torments They make their praiers vnto Saintes and thinke by pardons and indulgences and such meanes to haue their sinnes forgiuen them bee they neuer so many so great so hainous and so gréeuous But when the grace of God dooth teach vs instruct vs and lighten our mindes then all blind superstitions and vngodly heresies vanish away at the triall of the truth euen as the fogges and mistes doo breake away when the Sunne appeareth in his force And well may such false opinions vanish away because they are but vanities Copper beareth a shewe of golde and may bee flourished ouer to deceiue the eye of the simple but when it commeth to bee tried by the touchstone it appeareth to be a vaine thing and a thing of no account in comparison of gold So all superstition and heresies may goe for true religion in the mindes of simple and ignoraunt people but when they come to the touchstone the true triall I meane the word of God then if the grace of God do worke in our hearts by the reading and hearing of the word then wee beginne to denie the vngodlinesse of false religion and daily more and more wee growe in this grace and in the knowledge of his truth The ignorant mindes of the Heathen worshipping the Sunne the Moone and the Starres when GOD graunteth them of his knowledge as no doubt GOD vouchsafeth some they shall vnderstand that the Sunne the Moone and the Starres are but Gods creatures and that there is a Creator that made them and a Redéemer that died for them For the mercy of God shall be preached throughout the world and then shall the end of the world come The Turkes although many of them and that the most part of them mocke and scoffe at our crucified Christ yet the seale of God remaineth sure and some are called to the knowledge of the truth and God forbid y● the grace of God should be denied vnto them although thousands of them do perish They may be inwardly touched and God may vouchsafe them of fauour and make them partakers of his mercy and they may beleeue althogh they make not so ample profession of their faith and beliefe Those whom we call Papists who are deceiued concerning the truth of religion and the certaintie of their saluation and giue their names and consent vnto falshood before they haue had iust triall of the truth many of them are not perswaded nor euer will yéeld to be perswaded because the grace of god to them hath not as yet appeared For why they are carried away with high conceits of their owne deceiued mindes They thinke their owne inuentions and traditions to be of equall force with Gods word whereas they should in all humble sort submit themselues the● unto they thinke so highly of themselues that by their owne good workes they may deserue heauen so that the saluation of God which commeth by his grace and mercy is troden vnder their féete What are pilgrimages and reliques and praiers to saints and purgatorie but mans inuentions Which they can neuer approue to be good neither shall they euer finde warrant for them in Gods word The grace of God teacheth them to deny the vngodlinesse of mens deuices inuentions and traditions and so much the more because God hath pronounced a curse to them that shall adde or put too or diminish and take away any thing from his word I protest saith the spirit of of God vnto euery man Reu. 22. 18. 19. that heareth the words of the Prophecie of this booke if any man shall adde vnto these things God shal adde vnto him the plagues that are written in this booke And if any man shall diminish of the words of the booke of this prophecie God shall take away his part out of the booke of life and out of the holy citie and from those things which are written in this booke Daungerous therefore are the deuices and traditions of men and likewise in a most dangerous estate are they who are ruled by them because that in them are contained many thinges that are contrary to the will of God and to his word What is it for vs to be perswaded that we shal be saued by our good workes although good works be necessary and commanded when the truth of Gods word shal direct vs that only by the grace and mercy of God we are saued and not by good workes let them beare neuer so glorious and glistering a shewe in the sight of men and séeme neuer so much to be approued Ephe. 2. 8. By grace are ye saued through faith that not of your selues it is the gift of God not of workes least any man should boast himselfe The most righteous men next vnto our sauiour Christ that euer liued when they make their praiers vnto God what say they Say they with the Pharisée I fast twise a wéeke I giue almes to the poore I pay tithe of all that euer I possesse No they come not in with such titles and with so glorious a stile B●t as we reade Dan. 9. O Lord be mercifull vnto vs that haue sinned we haue committed iniquitie and done wickedly yea we haue rebelled and departed from thy commandements O Lord righteousnesse belongeth vnto thée and vnto vs open shame As Daniel so also righteous Abraham confesseth of him selfe I am but dust and ashes and as one of no account God regardeth the humble

their sinnes and wickednesse deserue that Gods word should be hid from them for the knowledge of God entereth not into a sinfull soule or who stubburnly refuse it and will not bee taught thereby or who are of such a faithlesse heart that will not beléeue it and yéeld themselues thereunto Such are not onely blinded through their owne naturall weaknesse but moreouer God for a punishment vnto them doth giue them vp to a contrary sence to beléeue lies vanities vntruthes and such deceits that in so doing they may procure vnto themselues damnation because they wold not receiue the loue of the truth that they might be saued Indéed some things there are in the scripture according Some matters hard as we reade in the Epistle of S. Pet. cap. 3. v. 16. that are hard to be vnderstood No doubt to make vs not to thinke lightly of them or that our wisedome is able to comprehend them without the helpe of the spirit of God and also to make vs humble in our owne conceit and diligently and earnestly to craue of God in our daily praiers that he would make vs partakers of the knowledge of his wil. Many things are hard to be vnderstood which they saith the Apostle that are vnlearned and vnstable wrest and peruert as they do also other scriptures vnto their owne destruction The faults being remoued wherewith vnskilfull readers are ouertaken there is no cause to say that the scriptures are hard The vnskilfull and the vnlearned reading the scriptures and giuing that interpretation that their owne sancie or want of wisedome doth affoord them they may soone wrest and peruert them and easily mistake For the wisedome of man is but foolishnesse in Gods matters But when we settle our selues to the reading How the scriptures are easie and how to reade them to profit by them of the scriptures we ought therewithall to frame our selues to praier that it would please God to lighten our vnderstanding that otherwise is altogither darke and foolish by nature to open our eyes which are shut vp in the compasse of our own ignorance And thus reading the scripture with praier for Gods assistance that it would please God to grant vs wisedom to vnderstand them and that we may not be ouerruled by our owne foolish fancies when we read them with an earnest desire to profit by them then shal the scriptures be easie to vs which before thought them to be too hard Again in reading of the scriptures we ought not to be ouer rash to giue our iudgement out of hand especially in waightie matters but to compare one sentence and place of scripture with an other and alwaies to haue an eye that they agrée to the articles of our beliefe And if we cannot so be satisfied but that still doubts do arise we ought to haue recourse to them that haue further knowledge If there be any strife about landes and possessions we craue the sentence of the Iudge if any disease be in the bodie straightway we sende for the Phisitian So if any doubt or controuersie doo arise in matters of religion the learned Minister is to aunswere and resolue them by the word of God and to shew them the true meaning thereof Many thinges are harde to them that are vnsiable and vnconstant such as are readie to bee carried away with euerie winde of vaine doctrine alwaies wauering sometimes in one minde and sometimes in an other to such it is no maruell if the scripture be hard and little for their profite The nature of man as it is giuen to heare newes so it is maruellously inclined to searche out all secretes yet none are more confounded in their owne wisedome and none more driuen to vncertainties then they bee But as for those matters whiche are for our saluation and for the instruction of our liues they are most easie to be read knowne and vnderstood euen of the meanest and simplest that search thereafter in all humblenesse of minde The second principall matter which I noted vnto In them ye thinke to haue eternall life you in this portion of scripture wherehence my text is taken is the effectuall reason to moue vs to performe the commandement of our Sauiour Christ Search the scriptures The commandement is great For in them ye thinke to haue eternall life And they are they that testifie of me Health is more to be desired then wealth and a man will giue all that he hath for his life yet the life here spoken off doth farre excéede this life as farre as the heauen doth the earth and the way to procure that life is more easie then to preserue this mortall and transitorie life No way so easie as to search and finde to read and to be comforted to vnderstand wherein true life consisteth and to enioy it And because we should not finde this easie way and to kéepe vs from all searching therefore the diuell caused the word to bee closed vp in an vnknowne tongue and in the meane time we were carried away with vanities and held in darknesse and ignorance lest when we should heare others or read Gods word our selues we might vnderstand and beléeue that so we might be saued He blinded the world and cast a mist of ignorance before their eyes and kept away the comfortable sunshine of the word hindred the message of glad tidings and carried away the light of the glorious Gospel of Christ in a cloude that it might not comfort our hearts consciences that we might not be partakers of the blessed benefits of God toward vs in Christ Iesus As the forgiuenes of our sins the fauour of God a holy life a quiet conscience a stedfast hope of euerlasting life and of the ioyes that are to come We were hindred from this searching that we should not tread the right way to euerlasting life and saluation but that we should goe a by way to euerlasting death and condenmation In the latter times there shall be many false teachers so that if it were possible they should deceiue the verie elect And this deceit is no meane sleight but the indaungering of our soules that we shall neuer be partakers of euerlasting life And therefore we are willed to trie the spirits to trie such false teachers by the touchstone of Gods word and to examine their doctrine whether it be agréeable to the scripture Search the scriptures for in them ye shall haue life that is ye shall be assured that ye shall not be deceiued in the way of life Therefore the scripture may be compared vnto the starre that led the wise men vnto Christ so that when they came where he was it stood still Musicke doth not onely alaie raging and furious mindes but doth drawe them also to a further desire thereof so the word of God doth not only asswage and beate downe the euill inclinations of our hearts but also bréedeth in vs a minde to order our steppes aright to liue well to refraine from