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A20270 A lecture or exposition vpon a part of the. v. chapter of the epistle to the Hebrues As it was read in Paules the. 6. day of December. 1572. By Edward Deryng. Prepared and geuen for a new yeres gift to the godly in London and els where, for this yeare. 1573. Dering, Edward, 1540?-1576. 1573 (1573) STC 6691; ESTC S110854 21,886 68

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Lord wyll so is it done the name of the Lord bee praysed for euer Now might Iob be sure of the strong patience which should bryng forth hope that neuer should be confounded Our brethren before vs which so constantly haue holden the professiō of their faith that the flames of fire could not make it wauer they had a good witnes that their election was sure when they might speake by experience that neither life nor death could remoue them from the loue of god Thus the good grounde is knowen what it is when the heate cannot scortch it nor brears and thornes turne the good corne into weedes but through all stormes it wyl geue nourishment to the seede tyl it geue greater encrease to Gods honour and glory The best of vs all let vs thank God for this profitable experience for before it come vnto vs we know not how great the rebellion of the flesh wyl be The Apostels of Christ they bragged not a little that they would neuer forsake their Maister Christ he alone had the words of eternal life and they would not chaūge hym for an other They beleued hym they knewe hym to bee Christ the sonne of the lyuing God and ther was no other Sauiour But when they saw the swordes and staues the rulers offēded the people in an vprore the crosse at hand their courage fell downe they forsooke hym all fled away Peter was not a litle stoute as hym selfe was perswaded hee would neuer forsake Christ though he should dye for hys name and for proofe of his courage he drewe hys sword and stroke so vēterously that he had almost slayne one He seemed to be at a point fully resolued that he would not leaue his Maister tyl the sword should deuide them but alas thys boldnes was but a blast of wordes When there was no remedy but Christ must be had to Caiphas Peter began to faynt and to draw behinde When the peril was more encreased and they began to cry Crucifige Peter was more afraid and began to sweare he knewe hym not So great infirmitie is in mortall flesh experience is the greatest warrant to know what it can beare It is our bounden dutye and the Lord requireth it that we shoulde determine wyth our selues in all thinges to approue our selues the witnesses of his Gospel in pacience in afflictiōs in necessities in stripes in tumultes in labours in watchinges in fastings in honour in dishonour in good report in shame in lyfe in death and our comfort is great when we bee perswaded of these thynges that we would contemne them But how violently the flesh wyll fight agaynst vs we can not well declare tyll we haue made the triall We therefore dearelye beloued whom it hath pleased God so keepe in heauines through many temptations we haue here a salue agaynst the woundes of sorow Our afflictions do teach vs how farre we can obey the lord If in al griefe of body I can say with patiēce I haue held my peace O Lord because thou hast done it then I know that in all sorowes of flesh I haue glorified God and my hart rejoyceth If my mynd be full of anguish and sorow so that al hope be faint within me if I can say yet vnto my soule I wyll wayte patientlye for the Lordes leasure then I knowe assuredlye God hath made me obedient and he wil heare my praier So that this experience hath bred in me the hope that shall neuer be confounded I may speake the wordes which the heauens shal seale vnto wyth everlastyng truth Neither fire nor swoord nor principalities nor powers shal remoue me from the loue where with God hath loued me A sure token of this saluation I haue found in myne afflictions When I traueiled in sorrowe both of bodye and mynde I founde the grace to say O Lord do thy wil. This is no smal cause why we shuld reioyce when God doth make vs worthy to feele the trial of our faith So dearelye beloued faynt not in your mourninges but endure paciently you know not the happynes of that which seemeth your miserye Let thys be the first cause why wee should be glad of temptations And to th end we may help our cōmon infirmities let vs learne yet more why it is good for vs to be brought low A most notable commoditie the Apostle rehearseth where he writeth to the Romanes Those whō God hath foré knowen hee hath also predestinate to be made lyke vnto the image of his sonne Loe my deare brethren theese are the healthfull coūsels of the Lord toward vs that we should bee made lyke vnto hys sonne Christ in manye afflictions that at the last we might be also like him in eternal glory These are the ritches of Gods vnsearchable wisedome Death once raigned through s●n and he hath found a way to rise from it againe into greater glory This victorye because it was to great for Saint or Angel to obtain he hath apointed it to be the worke of his onely begotten Sonne who hath made it perfect in a most excellent conquest He hath taken vpon hym our nature to make it strong in his owne person hee hath filled it with the fulnes of miseries wyth al sorowes of flesh with all anguish of minde with persecutiō with death with synne with hel with condemnation from al these by the mightye power of his Godhead he is rysen againe in our fleshe ascended vp into glory and sytteth on the ryght hand of Maiestie and of power being a mighty Sauiour vnto euerye one that shal follow hym So that this is our glory in al afflictiōs we are fashioned by them into the similitude of Christ we are made lyke vnto him So it pleased God when he would bring many children into glorye to consecrate the Prince of their saluation through afflictions and to make both him that sanctifieth and those that are sanctified all of one that they that suffer wyth hym should also raygne with him they that dye with hym should also lyue with him So we whē we feele many troubles to rest vpon vs we may say now we are lyke vnto Christ especially whē we feele that greatest trouble fullest of bitter sorow that is the mynde oppressed it maketh vs especiallye lyke vnto hym that wee may say with Paule Now we supply in our flesh the remnant of the afflictions of Christ. Let me looke into the whole course of my life and what soeuer pleaseth me best health honour ritches fauour authority frendship wife children in all these thynges I cannot yet behold the liuely image of christ Affliction and trouble a minde broken with remembraunce of synne a troubled spirite these are the beginninges of great reioycinges wyth the horrours of death and a constience burdened wyth the wrath of god Here light shineth out of darknes and hope out of dispaire As I thincke my selfe furthest of from the Lord so in deede I am nearest vnto him And when I thinke
of the. v. Chapter to the Hebrues as it was read in Paules the. vj. day of December 1572. By Edward Dering Hebr. 5.7 ¶ VVhich in the daies of his flesh did offer vp praiers and supplications wyth strong crying and teares vnto him that was able to saue him from death 8 was also heard in that which he feared And though he were the sonne yet learned he obedience by the thinges which he suffered 9 And being consecrate was made the Autor of eternall saluation vnto all them that obey hym THe Apostle in this chapter beginneth to proue our Sauiour Christ to be the onely hie Priest of the new Testament And because the people of Israel had so great affiance in the Priesthood of Aaron that they could hardly be drawen away from the deteining of it thine-king assuredly that vnto that priesthood the law testimonies of God had bene tied for euer not knowing that all the Ceremonies of the law were ordayned vntyl the tyme of reformation in whyche Christ shoulde appeare and chaunge that Priesthood to become him selfe vnto vs a Priest of a better Testamēt therfore the Apostle first setteth forth the properties of the Priesthood accordyng vnto the law and after by comparisō applieth thē vnto Christ in whō they al shine in a much more excellent sort then before in Aaron and therefore it cannot be neyther breach nor dishonour vnto the law of God nor the Priesthoode of it if the shadow the figure which was Aaron shuld now be taken away the body the truth which is Iesu Christ shuld be established for euer The properties which the Apostle speaketh of necessarilye appertayning vnto euery Priest as vnto one that must be a Mediator are these that first he shuld be man as we are as Aaron and hys posteritie were For neyther Angel nor Archangel nor principalities nor powers can do this woorke to present flesh and bloud vnto the maiesty of God whē them selues are but Spirites And therefore Christ that hee myght be hye Priest tooke not an Angels nature but was made of the seede of Abrahā lyke vnto vs that as there is but one God so ther might be but one Mediatour betwene God and man euen the man Christ Iesus in this respect as able to be hie Priest as Aaron him selfe beyng as naturally and as truly clothed with our flesh as Aaron was The second propertie of the Priest is that he should be ordayned not onely for him selfe to make his own attonement but also for other men to accomplishe whatsoeuer was betweene God and them that where they were before enemies straungers they might by hym be reconciled and haue free accesse vnto the throne of grace to finde mercy and succour in due tyme And for thys cause Christ alone is a perfect priest more excellent thē Aaron who was encombred with his own synnes to make first reconciliation for them therfore could not profit other And as this was the Priests office to be a Mediator for other so the meanes he must vse and the mediation to be wrought in thys worke was to offer vp giftes and sacrifices for syns that is to present vnto God the sacrifice of righteousnes pure holye in his sight in which he myght be pleased and the sinnes of the people might be taken away The whych sacrifice because it must bee so pure that in it they for whō it was made must be sanctified and so precious that it must be a sufficient purchase to redeeme man from al transgression therfore it could not bee made wyth the bloud of Calues or Goates which cannot take away synne nor wyth gold nor siluer which cānot redeme our Soules nor with meates and drinkes which profited not them that were exercised therein nor in any such carnal rites for which the Priesthoode of Aaron was ordayned and therefore an other Priest must make this sacrifice which cannot be any other then Iesu Christ who beyng made hye Priest of the good thinges to come by a greater tabernacle a more precious sacrifice euen by his own bloud hath obtained for vs an euerlasting redēption and therefore is nowe to be acknowledged our onely Priest the first Priesthood and the first law being altogether abrogated One other property of the Priesthood is that none thrust in him self beyng not appoynted nor take vnto him selfe this honour being not called vnto it And God euer shewed him selfe a ready reuenger agaynst all such as should defile his Priesthood to take to them selues the dignity to which they were not apointed But this calling also was geuen vnto Christ from God hys Father as before vnto Aaron both by word and by oth that no flesh shuld resist it euen as it is wrytten The Lord hath sworne and wyll not repent thou art a Priest for euer after the order of Melchisedech So that in this behalfe our sayth must be euer strong that the calling of Christ is of the Lord euen as the callyng of Aaron was and wyth so muche the greater iudgement it shall bee reiected because it was confirmed wyth an othe The last propertie in this comparison is that the hye Priest of the law should haue an inward compassion towarde them that were ignorant and were deceyued in which perfect knot of vnfayned loue hys ministery was accepted of God and his sacrifices receyued and accompted holy And lest he should cast frō him this brotherly affection God printed in his owne body the infirmities of hys brethren that accordyng to the measure of grace which he had receued he might in dede be moued with hys brothers harmes as with hys owne So that he dyd not withdrawe hym selfe from the seruice of the Sanctuary but put on the holy garmentes was anoynted with the holy oyle bare the names of his brethren before the Lord presented their sacrifices abstained frō wine strong drynke mourned not for his friendes that were departed taught diligently the people praied for their transgressions and bare the burden of hys people as God had layd it vpon him But yet thys propertie exceeded more in Christ then in all the tribe of Leuie and the bowels of all compassion wer more large within him then the vtmost braunches of it in any other creature And this the Apostle noteth in thys place whyche now we haue in hand in which we may see as in a most lyuely glas the perfect beutye of all excellent loue The thinges they were not lyght nor the sorowes small nor the sighinges few in number nor the prayers faynt nor the anguish of spirite litle nor the death easy by which he hath sealed it vnto vs that hee had compassion on his people but as the Apostle sayth In the dayes of his flesh while he was here clothed in mortalitie lyke vnto one of vs to the ende he might be faithfull for our sakes he did offer vp praiers supplications with strong crying and teares vnto hym that was able to saue hym from death