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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10324	The discovery of the man of sinne wherein is set forth the changes of Gods church, in her afflictions by his raigne. Consolations by his ruine. First preached in divers sermons to the Vniversitie and cittie of Oxon, by a reverend & iudicious divine IR. D. of Divinity and sometimes of Queenes College. And now published for the farther vse of both, and comfort of all that hate Antichrist and loue the Lord Iesus Christ wheresoever: By W.H.	Rainolds, John, 1549-1607.; Hinde, William, 1569?-1629. aut	1614 (1614)	STC 20609; ESTC S103451	47,096	56

they had borrowed We may thanke God for our sumptuous palaces ready prepared for vs. I would to God we were like to thē in other things At this time the kings of Israel had banished religion from amongst them these mē for the loue of the truth knowledge of God forsook their own dwellings contented to liue far frō all courtly preferment preferring their own buildings before the stately palaces of Samaria These men dwelt with Elizeus though the famine were great without murmuring so deare vnto them was it to heare the Covenant and be made partakers of the promise Elizeus was not behind for his part but as they were obediēt vnto him not to build without his leaue so went he in and out before them looking to them as the shepheard to his flocke not only instructing and teaching them but also in providing necessaries for them yea setting his owne meat provision before them So these men lived in this maner insomuch that I thinke if Saul had come into the midst of these men he would certainely haue prophecied among them But things goe not so among vs doe the Heads and Governours goe in and out before their children doe they take that which is sent them and set it before their Companies or rather take they not that which is appointed for others and devoure it themselues alone as though our Colleges were made only for Heads not at all for members We need not as Elizeus did part with our owne portions or not rece●ue as Nehemiah the bread of the Governour nay wee lay ou● hands on that which is none of ours as if we were come to a common spoile wee set all things to sale and make marchandise of that which wee should bestowe freely And what though vnder some such naughtie Governours there haue good men come vp this is no great commendation nor more wonder then that a Buffard should hatch good haukes As for the common order to contemne Statuts and all good and lawfull orders is the readiest way to any preferment Popery is indeed in some sort banished our Colleges so that I thinke there be not in any of them any manifest recusant yet are there such whom we may looke vpon as the Prophet did on Hazaeli with watry eies remembring the harme that he should do to Israel But let vs for all this abide in Gods feare and service such as are Governours and godly continue it considering what a worthie thing it is not only to beget children to God but even many Fathers to beget many children Let vs content our selues with the small portion which God hath allotted vs knowing that a little with the feare of God and his favour is better then all the world besides And as God did increase the widdowes oyle in her cruse so can he increase that little which we haue so that our hearts shall bee therewith more satisfied then when their corne and wine oile is encreased Let vs refuse no paines for pretious things Iacob served seauen yeares for his wife and it seemed a short while vnto him because he loued her yea though it should cost you twenty year●s service as it did him yet the delight which I hope you haue in it will make them seeme short vnto you Blessed is hee that seeketh after wisdome and findeth it Take that counsell which Ioseph gaue his brethren fall not out by the way And that of the Apostle Obey them that haue the governance of you If we shall doe this wee are to hope that in the midst of our want God will open the heart of some well minded men to enlarge his benefits as he sent the man to Elizeus but if wee hold on there is no doubt but as the wrath of God fell in abundance vpon Abbeyes wherein he was dishonoured which rased the foundation and left not a stone vpon a stone alienated their lands from doing good to his Church so shall it likewise fall vpon our Colleges when hee will remoue the light of our Candlesticke and bring vpon vs either Poperie or Barbaritie which the Lord grant that by hartie and vnfeigned repentance wee may turne away from vs. 13 But we ought to giue thankes alway to God for you brethren beloued of the Lord because that God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the spirit the faith of truth 14 Wherevnto he called you by our Gospell to obtaine the glory of our Lord Iesus Christ. The Apostle hath heretofore opened the rising and fall of Antichrist the place where he should set the pride of his heart how farre he should prevaile the righteous and severe iudgement of God vpon such as should refuse the truth take pleasure in vnrighteousnesse howbeit notwithstanding that multitudes should be caried away with the spirit of deceaueablenesse so that who so should looke vpon the outward face of the Church with a carnall eie might thinke that there were none left to call vpon the name of the Lord and pray with Eliah to take away his soule c. because that both smal and great had taken the marke of the beast in their foreheads yet the Apostle setteth out that in this generall backsliding the Lord will keepe a residue though in comparison of the rest they should bee but as a cluster in the vintage or as one grape of a cluster there should be some saued though they were not but as a leg or an eare caught out of the mouth of the lion as the Prophet speaketh that howsoever Antichrist should deceaue the world yet that there should bee a number to stand with the lambe on mount Sion and to accompany him whether soever hee should goe The Evangelist shewing that when our Saviour came into the world and among his own the world knewe him not his own receaued him not yet it there followeth that some there were that receaued him for to them that receaued him hee gaue power that they should be the sonnes of God Therefore the Apostle commeth here to speake of the comfortable state of the godly how God preserueth them in these great changes 1 First then in the person of the Thessal he sheweth from whence such as are preserued haue this grace in these 2 verses 2 Secondly he setteth downe a rule for them to rest vpon vers 15. stand fast 3 Thirdly declaring that as the beginning and meanes so the end also and continuance was from God he shutteth vp the whole matter with prayer vnto God But we ought to giue thankes c. in which wordes hee declareth that both the beginning meanes and end come onely from the mercy of the Lord therfore least the wi●e man should glory in his wisdome c. hee lets them vnderstand whence it is tha● they stand where other fall beginning with thanks that God hath from the b●ginning chosen you even as hee had done in the