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A14708	Certaine godlie homelies or sermons vpon the prophets Abdias and Ionas conteyning a most fruitefull exposition of the same. Made by the excellent lerned man, Rodolph Gualter of Tigure. And translated into Englishe, by Robert Norton. Minister of the worde in Suffolke.	Gwalther, Rudolf, 1519-1586.; Norton, Robert, minister of the worde in Suffolke.	1573 (1573)	STC 25010; ESTC S103038	125,106	338

wold be worshipped and had promised that he woulde there heare the prayers of such as cried vnto him It is truth in déed yet had hée neuer forbiddē but the in other places also prayers might be offred vnto him But as we euery where haue néede of his helpe so hath he giuen vs frée libertie to crie vnto him euery where Examples are extant which testifie howe holie men that reuerenced God prayed in all places whensoeuer occasion was offred The Israelites cryed betwéene the bricke and the claye and were hearde of god Moyses made his supplication at the redde sea shoare and forthewith heareth God saying vnto him Moyses vvherefore cryest thou And it appeareth euidently inough out of the Psalmes and holie historie that Dauid made his petitions in woods in dennes and vpon his couche We reade also that Daniels companions which wer in the fornace and Daniel himself being enuironed with Lyons were perfectely heard What néedeth it to speake here of Christe who as in his owne person he often prayed in the mountaines so he also sayth vnto vs Thou vvhen thou prayest enter into thy chamber c. This is excéedingly to our consolation that we are sure of Gods eares alwayes open to them that crie vnto him and therwithal it reproueth them that wold bind bothe Praying and Gods grace to certaine places This hath ben an olde errour and Christe himselfe confuteth it when as to the woman of Samaria mouing a question as touching this matter he answereth VVoman beleeue me the houre commeth vvhen as neither in this mountayne nor yet at Ierusalem ye shall vvorship the father But the houre commeth and novv is vvhen the true vvorshippers shall vvorship the father in spirite and truth And Paule commaundeth men to pray in all places and lifte vp pure hands vnto God. 1. Tim. 2. I knowe in dede that God in times past adorned his temple with excéeding ample promises and that Gods Churche hath their oratories wherein prayers may be made but those olde promises had respecte vnto Christ whome al that seruice of the temple did shadowe and at this day for the continuing of holy assemblies and publike prayers it is requisite to haue some certaine place which it is conueniente to kepe holy and sundred from all prophane vses Yet in the meane season we must constantly retaine that libertie whiche God hath granted to euery one whereby to call vppon him priuately at home and abroade as ofte as necessite heautly oppressing vs or the holy spirite secretly inspiring vs doth stirre vs vp to pray Thirdly is expressed very diligently at what time Ionas prayd In my trouble saith he I cried vnto the Lorde And againe Out of the bellie of the graue or of hell for the Hebrew word whiche he vseth here signifieth both did I crie This setteth out the most grieuous streightes and afflictions wherewith the Prophete was assailed at that season whereof at this time we néede not to speake for that he himselfe wyll afterwarde with more words set out at large what thoughts he had in his minde This one thing let vs diligently note that the distresses whiche he felte both of body and minde were so much the heuter bycause that he knewe God had laide them vppon him as being offended with hys sinne But he cried vnto the Lorde and was heard We sée then that afflictions are no lette but that we may call vppon God yea that then also is it lawfull for vs euen when we suffer punishemente as oure heynous sinnes haue deserued For as GOD in laying hys rodde vppon vs goeth not aboute oure destruction but amendement and as it is not the least token of oure amendement if wée tourne vnto him when he striketh vs crauing helpe at his hande So doth God also neuer caste them off who in this maner behaue themselues And bicause prayer appertayneth to the confession of our faith which fayth shineth out so muche the cléerer as the troubles wherout we couet to be deliuered are the gréeuouser it followeth that God can not but verie well accept suche kynde of prayers Let this then be oure consolation and staye vs vp when so euer the weighing eyther of our punishmentes or of oure sinnes shall goe aboute to withstand our prayers and accuse vs as vnworthie to be heard of god For euen then is it laufull tyme to pray yea then most of all is it conuenient to lifte vp our minds wholly and instantely to wearie the eares of God neyther must we doubt at all of the fatherly goodnesse of God whiche then chiefly extendeth it selfe when hée perceyueth that his owne children are in dangerous estate of miscarying Fourthly let vs also mark the maner of Ionas prayer Héerevnto belongeth it that is mēcioned of Ionas how he prayed vnto God whome afterward also he nameth his god This is an excéeding argument of Faith sith that although hée knewe he had gréeuously offended yet euen in the middest of his punishmentes he acknowledgeth GOD for his owne whiche thing fleshely reason will neuer be hable to doe vnlesse it be lyghtened with the light of fayth Againe he sayth that he not onely prayed but also cryed yea that he brayed out or rather began a tumult in himselfe For he vseth suche a worde here as dothe not signifie simply to crye but to be troublesome to one with crying and yelling It expresseth therfore his feruente and vncessant prayers as wherwithall if any suche thing mighte truly be applyed vnto God he euen tired God himselfe Notable was this change and full of admiration which hapned in Ionas For he who not long before fled from the presence of God and slepte in carelesse securitie nowe béeing found out in his vngraciousnesse cryeth and yelleth out vnto him And by this example we are admonished that in praying before al other thinges faith is required without the which it is vnpossible for vs to drawe néere vnto god Hovv shall they call vpon him sayth Paule on vvhome they haue not beleeued Rom. 10. And Iames in his first chapter testifieth that they shall obtaine nothing which pray without faith It will therfore greatly be auaylable for vs diligently to be conuersant in the consideration of Gods promises and benefites done of olde tyme therby to confirme our selues in faithe But for that God sometime deferreth his ayde when as he séeth it néedfull eyther to haue vs longer corrected or our faith still exercised together with this confidence in praying there is also a constant inuincible perseuerance required Therof doth Christe put vs in remembrance whereas he willeth vs not only to pray but also to knock and séeke And hereto chiefly tendeth the parable of the widowe who by hir importune and continuall crie at length ouercame the eares euen of the wicked iudge Heinous therfore and verie hurtfull is their errour which will prescribe God certaine limites and if they be not fauourably heard incontinently dare call in doubt the goodnesse and power of

Certaine godlie Homelies or Sermons vpon the Prophets Abdias and Ionas Conteyning a most fruitefull exposition of the same Made by the excellent lerned man RODOLPH GVALTER of Tigure And translated into Englishe By ROBERT NORTON Minister of the worde in Suffolke Imprinted at London by Henrie Bynneman for Rafe Newberie dwelling in Fletestrete a little aboue the Conduite ANNO 1573. ¶ To the worshipfull my good friēd master VVilliam Blenerhaiset esquire Iohn Walker Doctor in diuinitie wisheth perpetuall felicitie in Christ IT is no lesse benefite that wee haue knowledge of our creation redemption preseruatiō eternall saluatiō how to beleue loue worship honor and shewe our selues thankefull vnto our creator redemer preseruer c. than that he hath bestowed these great and inestimable giftes vpon vs of his mercie and free goodnesse Neither auayleth it vs to bee borne and made men and not brute beastes and that Christ hath died risen again and ascended into heauen if we know not the ende of our creation and redemption to be to glorifie god to set forth his prayse and to tell of his wonderfull works This is eternall life saith Christ to know thee the only and true God and him whom thou hast sent Iesus Christ. We had neuer knowne God we had neuer knowē Christ except he had inspired his holye ones with hys spirit and enforced them to write the holy scriptures wherein he hath reueled himselfe and manifested his will in all things necessarie towardes vs Wherefore we ought first of all to bee moste thankefull to God and in all things to blesse his name both for his fatherly fauor which he beareth towards vs and also for reueling the same by his worde Secondly they be also worthie of their due cōmendatiō which as Gods instrumēts and workemen of God haue laboured with him to set forth the same worde of the knowledge of saluation There are great and weightie causes which haue moued God to vtter himselfe in his worde First that he might set forth his loue wisedome omnipotencie goodness fidelitie to the world which we had neuer knowne without his word God who is faythful sayth August Psa 110. hath made him selfe our debtor not in taking any thing of vs but in promising vs so great things It seemed but a small thing to promise but hee hath also bounde himselfe with scripture as it were making with vs a handwriting of his promises He hath not onely made a writing with men that they might beleue but he hath further appoynted his only sonne to be a mediatour of his fidelitie and truth Wherefore all the worlde is of dutie bounde to giue most heartie and immortall thankes to God the onely authour and reueler of so great benefites howsoeuer otherwise the world do contemne neglect and abuse this knowledge Secondly that the remembrance of this most holy couenant betwene God his church might bee more durable the promise might be more certainly set forth to all posteritie And therefore he hath charged the things to be written taught and learned of them that were present at the promulgation of his worde and of them that should come after c. Psal. 102. Let these thinges be written in another generation that the people whiche shall bee borne hereafter may prayse the lord Adam as Iosephus testifieth in the first booke of his antiquities set vp two tables or pillers of stone and wrote in them the beginning of the creation the fal of man and the promise of Messias After the floud wrote Moses and the rest of the Prophets inspired and led by the spirit of god After the Apostles and Euangelists by the same spirit whose bookes the deuill and all his angels though they greatly despited and impugned them were neuer able either vtterly to destroy or cast them out of the hands of the people of God bycause God woulde haue his couenant to remain in his Church and so will haue them to the worldes ende Rumpantur ilia Codro though the deuyll do burste his guttes c. Thirdly that God will haue hys Church which is the piller and stay of the truth 1. Tim. 3. as in many other things to differ from sectes factions vaine opinions and superstitious of other Gentiles so in this poynt chiefly to bee a keeper and as it were a librarie of the bookes of his Prophets and Apostles wherein he hath declared himselfe to the worlde Wherefore all men are bounde that will bee of the true Church of God to keepe reade and exercise them selues in the true vnderstanding practising of these bookes Fourthly that the keeping and profession of these bookes may be a notable and certain testimonie of the truth and of the will of God in all matters of Religion and a strong fortresse both agaynst all superstitious mans feigninges and deuises and also agaynst al vaine phantasticall spirites preferring their owne dreames and fonde imaginations before the certaintie of Gods scriptures Our gracious God therefore knowing the necessitie and the inestimable profite of the scriptures will haue them sette forth kept and exercised of his Church for euer The scripture is the worde of truth of life the gospell of health the power of God to saluation c. the foode of the soule the light to our feete the sword of the spirite the breath of Gods mouth which who so wanteth runneth into errour into death and destruction is without all comfort of helpe perisheth for foode wandreth in darkenesse standeth naked agaynst his armed aduersaries destitute of Gods grace and spirite which who so wanteth is none of Gods people Rom. 8. The holy mē of god ought to haue their iust cōmendation which were the iust instruments of gods spirit in writing these scripturs not to take any glorie from God and ascribe it vnto men which were meere Jdolatrie and woulde make men arrogant and glorye in them selues but to encourage men to laboure with the Lord and to knowe that their laboure in him is to set foorthe his glorie to profite his Churche and that they them selues shal be pertakers of eternall felicitie Dani. 12. They that be learned shall shine as the sunne they that haue instructed many in wisdom shal be as the stars for euermore these haue not spoken of them selues nor the wisdome of mā but of God He. 1. God hath spoken in alder time many and sundrie wayes to our fathers by his Prophetes c. He sayth not they spake of them selues but God by thē they came not with their owne worde nor their owne authoritie but euer they sayde Haec dicit dominus Thus saith the lord Paule saith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 all the scripture is inspired by the holy ghost c. 2. Pet. 1. We haue a sure certain worde of the Prophets which saith he was not brought in by the will of man but the holy men of God haue spoken being cōpelled by the spirite of god Therefore for their obedience to Gods spirite for their