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A06874 A sermon preached at Paules Crosse the 13. of Iune. 1602. By M. Francis Marburie; Sermon preached at Paules Crosse the 13. of June. 1602. Marbury, Francis, d. 1611. 1602 (1602) STC 17307; ESTC S105434 29,109 90

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though they seeme neuer so spirituall yet reiect not the spirits of the zealous because they are zealous For as there is a doctrine that is of God so there are spirits that are of God in whom the holy Ghost worketh mightily Now if thou say to me that then it will follow that where the preaching hath no good effect there the Preacher spake not from the Spirit of God Vnderstand for answer that no such thing will follow For the holy Ghost may worke in a man and yet not worke by him vpon others but his prayer and his preaching may returne into his owne bosome And Noahs meaning in this prophecie was that the conuersion of the Gentiles shold be wrought through the holy Ghost by the perswasiue spirit of the teachers and the perswasible spirit of the hearers The Lord therefore increase among you men of a gracious perswasion that may confirme you with the confirmations of God in the religion of God And the Lord reueale his arme so in the ministerie that wee may haue occasion to ascend into that same speech of Saint Paule O the deepenesse of the riches of God wherein Augustine saith is contained the solution of that question August de●… spiritu libera cap. 34. why some are conuerted rather then some The third conclusion out of this text is concerning the meanes which the Lord vseth in drawing men to his kingdome to wit that because hee will conuert them therefore hee will conuert them by allurements The Lord shall allure Iapheth signifying that the allurements of God are in the doctrine of the Gospell and in Euangelicall examples For although wee reade how that the Lord hath laid violent hands vpon some as vpon Saint Paul in the way to Damascus Act 9. yet we must make a difference between his consternation which tended to his conuersion and his conuersion it selfe which was wrought when Ananias came with the word of comfort in his mouth It is true indeed that our word ought not to stand in the entising speech of mans wisedome 1. Cor. 2.4 for the allurements are spirituall But in the meane while they are allurements still For as the Prophet Hosea saith Hos 11.4 The Lord leadeth vs with the cords of a man euen with the bands of loue and is to vs as hee that taketh off the yoke from our iawes and layeth meate vnto vs. How kindly alluring his Church to let him in is Christ induced by Salomon Cant. 5.2 Open vnto me my sister my loue my doue c How amiably doth Saint Paul quite himselfe in his embassage 2. Cor. 5.20 We are saith he Embassadours for Christ as though God did beseech you through vs wee pray you in Christs steede that you would be reconciled to God It doth then appeare that the true doctrine of Iesus Christ is alluring doctrine and replenished with sweete inducements But here likely some man bethinketh him vpon occasion of this speech of allurement that it is then a course to be taken with the Papists that they might heare of this alluring attractiue But as Saint Paule saith in a matter not much vnlike Rom. 10.18 I demand haue they not heard Haue they not beene mercifully dealt with by her Maiestie and louingly entreated by their brethren The Lord be iudge betweene them and vs concerning this thing Whatsoeuer good course hath yet beene vnassayed which tendeth to their allurement the Lord direct the hearts of his fathfull seruants to take it Alwayes prouided that their lenitie be not abused and that foolish pity marre not the citie I cannot come after with any supply of new allurements but I doe onely repeate these two motiues The first that the Papists of this land which are aforehand brought and sold like sheepe by their false brethren the Papists beyond sea shall escape the Butcher by running from the Drouer The second that they shall returne to a God which will in holy mercie do that to them which a man may not doe for his wife if when he hath put her away for her lewdnes for a time to humble her she disdaine him and become another mans Shall he returne vnto her should not then this land be polluted But they haue played the harlot with manie louers yet turn again to me saith the Lord. But let vs come to the point It is confessed on both sides both by our aduersaries and by vs that the Gospell allureth But in the meane while the controuersie is growne on which side this alluring doctrine may be on their side or on ours It shal be therefore very pertinent both to the text and time if your attention will reuiue it selfe to discusse this point though not in such measure as it may indeede be discussed yet according to the measure of the gift of God The Papists haue alreadie furnished out maine confident allegations that their religion is most politicall going about by a long induction to conclude that it sorteth best with the good gouernment of the common wealth In which disputation as they do often goe beyond the profession of diuinitie so euen there where they keepe best compasse their diuinity is turned into humanitie For their verie arguments doe betoken but an earthly well being if they could haue hit that and they manifest themselues to haue forgotten that life is of the duall number In this point likewise they are verie out-bearing and the successe which they haue found in their allurements hath made them arrogant enticers For they are indeede though verie scorpions yet such as Saint Iohn saith whose faces are like the faces of men and they haue haire as the haire of women Reue. 9.7.8 And to confesse the truth what affliction soeuer they pretend to haue beene imposed vpon them yet they haue enioyed so much peace and pampering that they haue thriuen by it in eloquence and in the musicke of Marmaids euen like the Naphthalites with ease and prosperitie they haue learned ●o giue goodly words Gen. 49.21 But the question betweene them and vs is not who are ●he cunninger enticers or the better painters they or we but whose doctrin hath more reason to allure the child of God theirs or ours As let the contētion first be whether a man being compos mentis as we say wil rather be allured to Gods free grace which the Spirit of truth teacheth by vs but of Gods holy word or to his owne merites which the spirit of errour teacheth by them out of their own braine They say that we sell Paradise good cheape because we hold it at the Lords expresse rate as it standeth in the Prophecie of Isaiah where we are called to buy indeed but to pay nothing hauing nothing to pay as he saith Isaiah 55.1 And we say that they sell hell verie deere when they make men to pay their merits for it which otherwise cost-free that is without that blasphemous arrogācie should haue it ouer soone for their
of pietie to me For although there shall be a long and a grieuous departing away of Iapheths posteritie from Shem with whom shall remaine the truth of religion with the oracles thereof of whom the Messiah shall descend so that their Gentilisme and idolatrie shall alienate them and Satan shall a long time entise in the ill part from the true God of Shem so farre that they shall be past all mans recouerie yet the time in due season shal come that the Lord himselfe shall take the matter into his hands and by the omnipotent vertue of his holy Spirit shall conuert them And for the manner of conuerting them it shal not be done by violence but as I said by entising and by the sweete allurements of almightie God euen by the Gospell of Iesus Christ and the godly endeuours of the seruants of Christ who shall both by their life and doctrine allure them And these are the meanes which the Lord will sanctifie by the might and grace of his holy Spirit to their conuersion And wherto shall the Lord allure Iapheth euen to dwel in the tents of Shē that is in the Church of Christ which is the statiō of felicitie and the greatest benefit that God can bestow on man who otherwise is the mirrour of wretchednesse In these tents of Shem the Lord shall allure them to dwell that is they shall come thither and abide there when they are come so that the Church shall not be remoued from the Gentiles though some parts thereof shall be greatly ecclipsed And this shall be the first blessing to communicate with Shem in the blessing of Christian religion And to this there shall be added a second blessing wherein he shall communicate with Shem likewise by succession from the Iewes to the Gentiles and that is in the dominion ouer such enemies of the Church as shall be in their seuerall times For as the verie nation of the Canaanites shal be subiect to the Iewes which descended of Shem so those which shall succeed the Canaanites in enmitie to Gods Church of 〈◊〉 nation soeuer they be shall bee brought in subiection And their subiection shall consist not only in suppressing them from vsurping authoritie but also from vsurping libertie and impunitie in their maliciousnesse And this second blessing shall be so annexed to the former that it cannot be enioyed apart But so long as Iapheth shall dwell in the tents of Shem so long shall Canaan bee their seruant But when their loue of religion shall quaile their enimies shall preuaile against them This is the exposition of this oracle now it remaineth to make our obseruations according to it and there are sixe conclusions to bee drawne out of this Text. The first conclusion is that whereas Noah vrgeth Iapheths posteritie with an argument taken out of the signification of his name Iapheth wherewith also hee polisheth his speech saying Iepth Iapheth as much as by like agnominatiō the allurable shall bee allured 〈…〉 Ghost propoundeth vnto vs thereo●● the edification of names that it is our duty to edifie our selues by those names of importance which the Lord by his prouidence ordinance hath allotted vnto vs. And amongst the rest by this particular name of Iapheth which is ours by descent to edifie our selues in the grace of tractablenesse and easinesse to be allured to our owne good that we may be Iapheths indeede as well as in name The holy Scriptures are found to haue a great felicitie in these notations agnominatiōs in their originall both by the like sound of words which pleased well and also for the deriuations sake as those that can skill may see in many places of the originall Thus it is Zepan 2.4 thus Isai 24.4 thus Act. 8.30 thus Rom. 12.3 and thus Iacob in his blessing both decketh his speech and also maketh matter of the seuerall names of the Patriarkes Genel 49. And yet alwayes with the sobrietie of wisedome not giuing libertie to make matter of Etymologies without a cause nor to be vaine in affecting the sound of words but shewing their completenes in ioyning sweet and profitable together Specially this is so in these ample Oracles which were certain * Holy grauings Hieroglyphicks as they were wont to call other conceits in the Church of God grauen in the memory with a diuine skil Heere the holy ghost dispēseth with the impropriety of the word for the pleasant affinity of the soūd for to say the truth this verb Iepht properly signifieth to intise in the il part or to deceiue as Exo. 22.16 but because it sweetly soundeth with the name of Iapheth he vseth it in the good part So thē this name of Iapheth which we haue now vnder hand wherewith the holy ghost chargeth the conscience of the Gentiles of Europe descended from him to whom the gospell is tendered and amongst the rest specially of these verie Ilands as some men vndertake to particularize it ought to moue vs as we haue said to tractablenes that there be not a stubborne and vnflexible mind in vs that will not be allured to true religion that we be not as Dauid saith Like the deafe Adder that will not heare the voice of the charmer Psal 58.4.5 though he charme neuer so cunningly We must saith Salomon cause our eares perforce to heare Pro. ● 1.2 and encline our hearts to vnderstanding It is an heauie iudgement of God to be hard hearted This sinne is the punishment of another sinne euen of continuance in sinne And it is vnspeakablie horrible to be giuen ouer to a reprobate sense that is to hold a lie in our right hand after demonstratiō of the truth He is indeed a foole as Salomō saith that beleeueth euerie thing Pro. 14.15 and is caried vp and downe with euerie wind of doctrine But he is a worse and more wofull foole that sheweth his vntractablenes against God and his stubbornnes against his word whē he goeth about to reclaime him There is a better stifnes to be stiffe in the truth The Papists defame the land with a pretence of praise that they find many tractable persons in the same but who so is of a wise heart will disdaine the deuils prayses and will remember that amongst whoremongers austeritie is the defence of chastitie Well I am sure that there are many poisoned with a preiudice against the religion of Iesus Christ and they will not heare with any patience what may be said for the truth And there are againe which although they will heare will not be perswaded to an effectuall conuersion Moued they are but not remoued The stifnecked Papists if they will suffer themselues to beare their denomination where they haue their dependence I means of the Pope are grieuous offenders in this kind by name in this sinne of obfirming hardening themselues against counsell and perswasion They haue the propertie of the Adders before mentioned in the Psalme which as Augustine and Cassiodorus say
impenitencie of dead works What man that is not bewitched out of the wit of a man will forsake the doctrine of trusting in Gods free grace but once to leane to trust to himselfe Wee in the sacrament of the Supper doe offer Christ spritually to the faithful receiuer They offer him carnally that is monstrously and irksomelie and that to the vnfaithfull On which side is the better allurement They offer the pardons of men wee offer the pardon of God to the penitent They require bodily penance for sins and put in contrition for fashions sake We require spirituall as the acceptable sacrifice and value bodily exercise at a lowe rate We teach that the preaching of the worde must bee heard which pierceth and entreth into the soule They teach that masse must be heard which biteth not for this is the hypocrits comfort missa non mordet As for their preaching it is the hūming of a Drone without a sting except they be disposed to playe the Termagants against the truth We teach that a mans purgatorie consisteth in respect of merit in Christs death and in respect of spirit in the mortification of our corruptions whiles we liue here by the power of Christs death They teach that if the Priests be not be better paid a man must abide in purgatorie long after his death Let as many as are not sophisticated with the diuels mists see with their eies ●ea let them feele with their hands which of these doctrines are more likely to be true But let vs to it againe They say that priestes may not marrie with a good conscience And we say that all those of them which cannot liue continently are bound in conscience to marrie Their reason is an vnlawfull vow Our reason is that they their praiers and their preachings may not bee polluted with damnable hypocrisie by reason of their wilfull pollutions They alleadge that we teach voluptuousnesse when we teach thus the auoiding of fornication But we alleadge that they by consequence teach stolen voluptuousnesse which burneth and wasteth the conscience for thus to frequent relapses is to cauterize the spirit and vastare conscientiam as the schoolemen aptly tearme it Are there any but bewailed wretches that cannot see on which side the truth standeth Their doctrine is that it is presumption by any meanes to be rid of the feare of damnation ordinarily Our doctrine is that whosoeuer loueth the Lord out of a pure cōscience that is out of a conscience inlightened by Gods word and not offended by liuing in sinne against the conscience so inlightened may iustly vpon that groūd receiue from the holy ghost assurance of his saluation though the Fathers of Trent condemne this perswasion neuer so much They affirme that a man hath free will to do things truely good which is a deuise of the deuill to teach men to presume of that they haue not that they might erre vnto perdition We teach that a man hath no free will in his nature to doe any true sanctified and spirituall good that men acknowledging their bondage may seeke free will of God To be briefe concerning the scriptures whereby all must be tried they teach that the vulgar translation which is so grosly faultie is onely authenticall Wee teach that the originall text in Hebrewe and Greeke is onely authenticall These differences are so manifest and these faces are of so cōtrarie hue that it is no maruell if the holy ghost say that men must be first drunke before they can be deceiued in them Reuel 14.8 17.2 Otherwise their delusions are as easie to discerne as that Iezabel had borrowed her face then she looked out at the window The whore of Babylon is highly mounted finely painted and terribly armed and these be her allurements The doctrine of the gospell hath beautie in it selfe inward comfort and constant colour and these are her allurements But peraduenture some man will say vnto me I pray you what allurement is in your doctrine of mortification which you so much vrge And which you extend so far that a man can haue no peace in his conscience that fauoureth and retaineth any sinne in himselfe against his conscience Which determineth that a man is in a damnable case whatsoeuer good deedes seeme to be in him if he yeelde not to the worke of the holy ghost for a leauing but of any one knowne sinne which fighteth against the peace of his conscience Dearely beloued I beseech you in the bowels of Christ to take this answere cast it into the balance and marke well the scales I confesse in deed to begin withal that this doctrine fawneth not vpon hypocrites but remooueth them to their wo and the weale of the Church But why is it is it not because they are hypocrits To the rest may it not be truely said of this doctrine Matt. 11 29 30. that it is an easie yoke and a light burden Is it not an alluring doctrine that hath but one onely difficultie and is otherwise accompanied with most certaine consolation The difficultie is to shake off the vnconscionable sin that cleaueth so fast to vs and tarrieth behind to mischiefe vs. Were it not damnable doctrine to dispense with that which admitteth no dispensation should we take vpon vs to heale with sweete wordes like witches Be strong in the Lord and of a good courage in throwing away that sin and then the maine brunt is ouer and the worst is past Holde thee there and thou maiest enioy perpetuall that is vndiscontinued consolations notwithstanding a thousand infirmities For so long as the power of mortification destroyeth thy sinfull affections as they rise and so long as thou art vnfainedly displeased with all sinne and doest mortifie the deedes of the body by the spirit thy case is the case of saluation And when thou art once soundly confirmed in this resolution thou art not onely in the case but also in the state of saluation thou shalt liue not die What would a man haue more then this But the Papistes haue found an ease for this matter For they which accuse the doctrine of the gospell to be a doctrine of libertie because of the article of iustification by faith only do themselues by indulgences by pardons by merits of Saints and by setting of good deedes against ill teach foolish virgins that oyle is to bee begged or bought wherby they are induced into a damnable sleepe and securitie It would allure a pyrate indeede to be of their religion if he might be sure to buy out his punishment after his death with the robberies and rapines of his life In the meane time such doctrine as this hath brought Atheisme into the world and that also of the vilest kind For a Popish Atheist is an hideous mungrell euen a verie Centaure As to say the very truth Poperie and Atheisme are very coincident and their differences very obscure Poperie is a sensuall dissembling with Gods Atheisme is a sensual mocking of God The
Papist is a make-god and the Atheist is a mock-god And you may be sure that the maker wil be so bold as to be a mocker in time The Papist deludeth his conscience and the Atheist derideth his conscience Poperie being copia cornu of sensuall ceremonies for euerie sense a play-fellow a merrie religion the good-fellowes religion comforteth the flesh Atheisme suppresseth the spirit Brethren obserue it well and you shall find that Poperie to them that haue heard the Gospell soundly and sincerely taught marke well what I say to them that haue heard the Gospell soundly and sincerely taught hath nothing in it to allure anie but hypocrites nor anie thing in it to detaine anie such in that religion but those which are in a faire forwardnesse to degenerate into Atheisme But peraduenture it will be alleaged that there are manie euen in the bosome of the Realme that after the hearing of the Gospell are drawne away in their verie consciences to Poperie But I aske who are they Are they not they of whom a man may say O how great is that darkenesse when their verie Mat. 6.33 light is become darkenesse when the candle of their conscience is put out Are they not they which are giuen ouer to a forlorne sense whose thoughts and conscience as Salomon saith are litle worth Prou. 10 20 because as Saint Paul saith themselues being defiled Infidels nothing is pure to them Tit. 1.15 but euen their mindes and consciences are defiled It is no great matter which way the consciences of these men doe wagge I will tell you dearely beloued what may be obserued of many that are sodainly reconciled Papists in this kingdome that if there were no other respect but the losse of them for the good that was in them when they were Protestants they are better lost thē found and become that Synagogue better then this Church for they suite it better Men of a proditorious imperious and luxurious disposition But what should I talke of conscience seeing that kind of religion is the refuge of the vnconsc̄ionable whose trade is first to promise what they lust thē to make heretikes whom they lust and at the last to breake promise with them when and how they lust Their religion it selfe is spied well enough by many of the professors of it And there are manie that are Papists euen against their conscience if conscience were to bee stinted at this apprehension that Poperie is a false and fraudulent religion haeresis Catholica impostura magna the imposture of the world But to say the truth they are not Papists against their conscience because they haue no conscience secundum sensum And therefore as for the examples and liues of men whereby wee are to allure one another they neede not to boast so much as they do considering that their religion consisteth by consequence of the profession of many great crimes Against the third commandement they professe resolution of periurie if it serue their turne when they are sworne to those that they call here-tikes Against the fist commandement they professe disobedience to their princes if their holy father incite them to it Against the sixt commandement they professe murther vpon the like warrantie Against the seuenth commandement by barring mariage and expresse preferring the faults of single life before it they professe filthinesse and vnchastitie in those that ought to bee most pure Against the eight commandement they professe making merchandize of soules Against the ninth commandement vnder pretence of reconciling to the Church they professe alienation of subiects from their natural princes and are the most renowmed artificers of mischiefe and debate that euer were heard of All these they doe directly or indirectly professe besides the rest As for vs which professe the Gospel it behooueth vs on the other side to allure by our example in better maner then we do and not to cause the name of God to be blasphemed by these Papists through vs but rather to let our light so shine before men that they may glorifie our father which is in heauen Matt. 5.16 For the truth is that wee are to too short in this kind of allurement The doctrin which we professe is indeed Gods alluring doctrine but our examples are not such The workes of the Papists especially many of their Antichristian piles are monuments of their errours And our works are monuments of the prophanation of Gods truth as our antisabbatarie play-houses But who doth anie common good The merits of an arrogant Papist are caried after him with a dolefull Item fit for a black Sanctus that they will not go for payment And our works if we repent not will follow after vs and giue vs our payment because we in our generation haue not beene so gracious in alluring as the Papists haue beene witching in theirs The Lord giue vs grace to repent The fourth conclusion out of this text is that all those true Iapheths whō the Lord shall take in hand to allure shall dwell in the tents of Shem that is shall come to the true Church and shall abide therein If God be not mercifull vnto vs in this thing all his mercies are frustrate vnto vs. And vnto this blessing he after a sort exhorteth them to wit to lay hold vpon it For it is the greatest fauour that God bestoweth vpon men in this world to make them true members of his true Church And this is the grace if wee bee not vtterly vngratious which aboue all worldly things we will desire and affect though it should cost vs all we are worth to purchase this field As Dauid saith One thing haue I desired of the Lord that I will require and will not alter this petition into another Psal 27.4 5 that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the dayes of my life to behold the beautie of the Lord and to visit his temple For as he saith Psal 48.2 3 Mount Sion is the ioy of the whole earth to wit as farre as God hath any people in the earth belonging to his election For in it saith the Prophet he speaketh forth all his glorie This is the Arke Psal 29.9 out of which there is no saluation all else is a floud fifteene cubits aboue the highest mountaines They therefore which cannot be allured to come and dwell in the tents of Shem must perish For euen the children of God themselues are no better then wretches so long as they are withheld from hence Whose state is represented in the prodigall sonne that was faine to feed on swill and swads Luk. 15.15 16. And Dauid complaineth of his banishment from the Church which yet he was not guiltie of Psal 120. Wo is to me saith he that I remaine in Meshech and dwell in the tents of Kedar But you will say vnto me that I shal not need to vrge this point because it is alredie confessed But I am constrained to replie that the