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A07294 An other sermon preached before the king at Greenewich on Tuesday before Easter, being the 26. of March. 1605. By Anthonie Maxey, Bachelar in Diuinity, and chaplaine to his Maiesty. The points herein handled are these. 1. That there is an hardening. 2. That God hardeneth not. 3. How men become hardened. 4. The meanes to auoid it Maxey, Anthony, d. 1618. 1605 (1605) STC 17688; ESTC S105417 20,412 37

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Hee sendeth out his word and melteth them As when the frost doth giue and the showers fall which Iob calles in the same place The sweet insluence of Pleiades Both in nature and in the soule also there is a Resoluing and a Hardening Deut. 32. vers 2. The word is called Dewe and there is a thaw or spirituall melting when the heauenly dewe doth cause the soule to giue and to resolue into teares of Repentance so in the 2. of Kings 22.10 Iosias heart did melt when he heard the law read When King Dauid had committed murder and adultery very grieuous sinnes he neuer be thought himselfe of the matter but begann to congeale and to be Hardened in his sinne but assoone as the prophet Nathan had awaked him and his heart like Gedeons fleece had drunck vp the heauenly dew then presently Dauid began to relent his soule melted with sorrow and as appeareth in the 51. Psal he resolued into teares of Repentance Hezechias when God had giuen vnto him a sodaino and triumphant victory ouer the host of Zenacharib presently after in the pride of his hart he forgat God and began to congeale in sinne but assoone as the word of the Lord came vnto him by the prophet Esay then presently his heart melted the bloud of his soule flowed forth in his repentant teares as appeareth in the 38 of Esay he turned his face vnto the wall Esay 38.3 and wept bitterly Now as there is a Melting so also there is an Hardening in the soule and that is when the custome of sinne hath beaten such an hard tracke and so trampled the soule that the word of God the seede of life cannot enter This is expressed in the 13. of Saint Mathew by the parable of the seede which fell by the high way side where there was such an hard way such a beaten path made by the common entrance of sinne that the seede could take no roote but the diuell comes like an Harpie and deuoureth it before it can enter For example heereof we will take Cain and King Pharao whom my Text concerneth Cain hauing slaine his brother Abell and committed horrible murder the word of the Lord came vnto him saying Where is thy brother Abell did Cains heart relent did he confesse and say I haue finned or did he resolue into teares with Dauid no such matter but first he answered with a foule word I cannot tell where he is then he dispised the Lord to his face as if he should say you may goe looke him am I my brothers keeper marke but this answer of Cain and his cariage therein and you neede no other example of an heart that is Hardened neyther affection in kinred could touch him nor shame of the world check him nor the bloud of his slaine brother moue him nor the glorious presence of the Lord astonish him nor the guilt of his owne thoughts rase him nor at last the quickning word of God which is powreful to raise the very dead none of these could any whit reuiue him Triplex circa praecordia ferrum as Iob saith of Leuiathā ●orat Tob. 41.15 his heart was harder then the nether milstone Pharao whē the word of God came vnto him by Moses Aaron Pharao he was so far from yeilding that he seemed presently as though he would haue fought with GOD Who is the Lord I know no Lord neither will I let Israell goe And whereas the word and miracles ioyned with that word were sufficient to conuince any liuing Pharaohs heart was so stonie that though by a strange miracle al the water in the land were become bloud and did sauour most vnholsomely yet it is said Pharao went home Exod. 7 2●● and all this could not enter into his heart it could not pierce him When the Prophet cried to the Altar of Ieroboam O Altar Altar heare the word of the Lord the Altar heard and elaue a sunder 1. Kina 3. But the word of God which in Ieremie 23.29 is called an Hammer because it bruiseth the stonie hearts of men this Hammer with tenne miracles gaue tenne mightie strokes at Pharaohs heart and yet it could neuer bruise it Thus we may plainely see there is a watering by grace and a meiting by Gods word as appeareth by Dauid and Hezechiah who resolued into teares againe through want of grace there is a withering and by custome of sinne there is an Hardening as in Cain and Pharao whose hearts the word of God could not pierce but the more they were beaten on the more hard and flintie they became It remaineth in the second point to discusse whether this Hardening be of God In opening whereof it is strange to heare how vntruly how vncharitably we are charged by our aduersaries not onely Campion and Bellarmin but especially in certaine ARTICLES or Forcible Reasons lately published wherein it is directly set downe that the Protestants doe make God the author and onely cause of sinne that deride Gods permission Artic. 5. and plainly affirme God is worse then the diuell and so are bound in conscience neuer to aske God forgiuenesse of their sinnes Oh fearefull blasphemie and wordes vnseemely Christian eares Where is Modestie where is truth and Christian pietie Is this our doctrine doe we thus teach no verely both in word and writing we acknowledge the Lord our GOD to be full of compassion and loue the bowels of his merciesweete and amiable he would not the death of any he is gratious and kinde gentle and readie to forgiue and to the death we affirme more then most holy pure and iust are all his workes and waies therefore the Lord be iudge betweene them and vs and lay not this sinne vnto their charge Touching this doctrine how sinne first came to be how it came in where it first tooke beginning and that GOD is not the author of it I haue shewed heeretosore in handling the Golden Chaine the meanes of our saluation namely that the diuell was Primitiuus peccator Iohn 6. the first offender from him sinne first boyleth vp as out of the maine Sea from Sathan when it comes to Adam it ariseth as out of a Spring from this Spring it is reserued in nature as in a Conduit from nature conueyed to concupiscence as by a pipe and from thence doth flow all the mischiefe and wickednesse that is in the life of man Well then if sinne doe proceede from the suggestion of Sathan woorking through our owne coucupiscence and so GOD wholly freed from all imputation of euill why is it so often said in the Scripture Deut. 2.30 And the Lord hardened the heart of Sihon King of Heshbon and made him obstinate Ioshua the 11.20 It came of the Lord to harden their hearts and heere often in the booke of Exodus and the Lord hardened the heart of Pharao To make this plaine it is a poynt well knowne vnto the learned that this speech where it is said God Hardened