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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

¶ 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. ¶ Imprynted at London by Iohn Awdely ¶ To his very louing friend Mayster M. F. THe outwarde afflictions and manyfolde troubles of a great number of Gods Chyldren whose trauaile and labour from day to day I had styll in experience and the inward feeling of many wounded spirites whose wofull sighes and bitter mourninges I beheld in other and had tryed in my selfe it made me verye desirous to seeke for remedies to stop the complaints of so grecuous cryings and to prepare our hartes in a strong defence that the firye dartes of the Deuyl might not wound vs Upon this occasion when I had to expounde that place of the Apostle full of notable comfort That Christ in the dayes of his fleshe offered vp prayers and supplications to hym that was able to saue him from death with strong cryinges and wyth teares and was delyuered from the thynges he feared I taryed the longer in that matter and declared more at large what great boldnes and assurance of hope was offered here vnto al that should obey the word Which when I had done as God gaue me vtterance the poore in spirite to whom I applyed my selfe one or two required me to set it downe in wryting that it might be profitable to many which was comfortable to them I durst not reiect such a good request but though some tyme I differred it yet I neuer forgot it tyll I had written all as I was required Which when I had done I purposed then with my selfe to make it yet more common and set it abroade in print Knowing assuredly wher God would geue it encrease it shoulde bring foorth the fruite of consolation that we myght stand vpryght in the day of euyll Thus hauing perfourmed both the request of other and myne own desire and the tyme fallyng out with the begynning of a newe yeare I thought it not amysse to offer my labour vnto you who I know well would accept it as a New yeres gyft though of no great price yet of great good wyll and though easely obtayned yet not litle to be esteemed And therefore my deare brother whom I loue in Christ and reuerence in the world as many wayes I haue cause so I offer it vnto you The Lorde for his mercies sake worke his own good pleasure that I may haue of you the fruite that I desire and you the grace that you stand in neede of that as God hath greatly blessed you and made you abound in many graces to the glory of his name the comfort of your friendes and the benefite of his people so your ioye that it myght be made perfect you might also abound in this to haue a strong fayth against the day of tryall Which God of hys mercye wyll surely graunt vnto you and finishe the good woorke that he hath begone Though I loue not to speake faire for feare of slatterie ▪ and deceitfull prayses I see what mischiefe they breede yet I feare not to beare you wytnes of your well doing the spirite of God hath planted humilitie more deepe in your brest then that pride and arrogancie can pul it out And in deede the better you are the more effectually you do see your own vnworthynes that all your righteousnes is as a defiled cloth and the more you approch vnto God the more you abhorre your selfe and know that in your flesh ther dwelleth no goodnes Abraham our father Iob Esay and many other ▪ men of excellent vertue in the syght of God they haue bene all astonished to see how their righteousnes hath bene scattered awaye as the cloudes of the heauens Paule cryeth out O wretched man that I am who shall deliuer me frō this body of death But because we haue an enemie that spareth not to display all our corruptions before our eyes to the ende hee myght make vs dispaire therefore we may be bold to the strengthening of our hope to set before vs againe the spirituall graces that woorke within vs to assure our selues that we be borne of god So our Sauiour Christ praysed many that beleued on hym so dyd hys Apostels so maye we And our heauenly father wyll ratefie and confirme our wordes when we speake the truth according to the measure of faith that euerye one hath receaued So S. Iohn byddeth vs all be bold and not be deceaued He that doth the thinges that are righteous him selfe is righteous and lyke vnto Christ in whom he is sanctified So may I say vnto you the grace of God hath wrought happely in you in these yeares and condition of lyfe that so vnfaynedly you haue sought the lord It can not be of your selfe who are not able so much as to think a good thought but it is of him whose seede abideth in you And although because you haue that treasure in a brittell vessell you see sometime the fruite of olde ●dam and the prickes of his transgression within your bowels yet feare not hys malice that hath wrought this wo. You are bought with dearer price then that syn may raygne againe within you and he that hath purchased you hee wyll not so suffer hys enheritaunce to bee spoyled It is necessary you should know your synne or you could not vnderstande how great were your redemption But your synnes cannot seperate you away from hym who hath buried them in the earth and wyll not see them anye more When you shall ascend to come into hys sight the earth wyll holde her own and keepe your synnes behynde you The pearcing Serpent shall not clyme to accuse you nor the crooked Serpent shall hyde your redemption from you Your care is cast vppon hym that careth for you you know hym who hath spoken All power is geuen vnto me in heauen and in earth You know hym who hath a name aboue all names that in the name of Iesus all knees shall bowe Euen hee hath bought you wyth a price and you are not your own If it be possible for you to perish then is it possible agayne that Christ shoulde suffer iniurie This boldnes you haue through hym who hath made manifest his grace vnto you that you denying impietie and worldly concupiscence should lyue soberlye purelye and godlye in this present lyfe and looke for the blessed hope that shal be reuealed when all secretes shall bee opened To whych issue and happye ende of lyfe the Lorde bryng both you and yours in the felowship of hys Sayntes to prayse hys holy name when he shal make vnto you hys glory vnspeakeable and crowne it wyth immortalitie AMEN Fare well in Christ Iesu and pray for me The. 26. of Decēber 1572. Yours in the Lord to commaunde Ed. De. ❧ An exposition of a part

of him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that he was greatly afraid all together astonished euē fainting for great anguish of mynde and full pensiue sorowes For his father had broken him with one breaking vpō an other so he kyndled hys wrath against him and accompted hym as one of his enemies The heauy hād of God was so greeuous vpon hym that it brused his verye bones and rent his raines asunder hee coulde finde no health in his flesh but was woūded vnto death as without recouerye The Euangelist hym selfe beareth witnes of this miserye addyng vnto hys lowde crying thys sound of wordes My God my God why hast thou forsaken me Thys sorow because it was not as waged with wordes he cried out alowd because in silence he could finde no case his face was wrinckled wyth weeping and the shadowe of death was vpon his eyes For what griefe coulde be lyke vnto this Or what condemnation coulde be so heauye when there was no wyckednes in his handes and when hys prayer was pure when he was the brightnes of glory and the sunne of ryghteousnes that shined in the worlde yet as it were to see hys daies at an end and his enterprises broken his carefull thoughtes to bee so deepe grauen in his brest that they chaunged euen the daye into nyght vnto him and all light that approched in to darknes thys was a sorrowe aboue all sorrowes When his excellencie was such aboue all creatures that the world was not worthye to geue him breath yet he to bee made a woorme and not a man a shame of men and the contempt of the people all that saw hym to haue him in derision and to shut vp hys lyfe in shame and reproches so vnworthy a reward of so precious a seruaunt how could it but shake all his bones out of ioynt and make hys hart to melt in the myddest of his bowels How could his strēgth not be dryed vp like a potshard and his toūg not cleaue vnto the iawes of his mouth Who hath bene euer so full of wo who hath bene brought so low into the dust of death His vertues wer vnspeakeable and righteous aboue all measure yet was he accompted among the wicked His temperancie in perfect beutye his appetites bridled with all holye moderation yet they sayd of him behold a glutton and a drinker of wyne His behauiour honest without al reproofe and his conuersation vnspotted yet they sclaundred hym as a friende of Publicans and synners and reported him as a companion of theeues He loued the law of his father wyth such fulnes of desire that he would not suffer one iote nor one title vnaccomplished and yet they accused him as an enemye vnto Moyses a breaker of the law a subuerter of the Temple and a teacher of newe doctrines such as were not of god He harkened vnto his Father in all humility loued him with al hys hart and with al his soule so that he was obedient vnto hym vnto death yea euen the death of the crosse yet they sayd of him presumptuously that he blasphemed and robbed God of hys honor He was an enemy of Satan euen vnto death and by death ouer came hym that brought death into the world he hated him with so perfect hatred and held stedfast the enmitie that was betwene them vntyl he had spoyled his principalities and powers and triumphed ouer them in an euerlasting victorye yet horribly they reproched him by the naine of Belzebub sayd he had a deuill and by the power of Satan hee wrought all hys miracles O the depth of all abominations and the bottomles pyt of al vncleanes Who could once haue thought so lothsom a sincke to haue bene couered in the hart of man O God ryghteous in iudgemēt and true in word is this it that the Prophet hath tolde before that the thoughtes of manye hartes should be made open Then create we beseche thee new hartes within vs and take not thy holy spirite for euer from vs. And you dearelye beloued if these were the causes that Christ had to complaine then thinke not that hys cryinges were aboue his sorow to see so nere vnto his hart euen in his own person innocency blamed vertue defaced ryghteousnes troden downe holines prophaned loue despised glory contemned honour reuiled all goodnes shamed faith onpugned and lyfe wounded to death How could he yet abstain frō strong crying and teares when the malice of Satan had gotten so great a conquest If iust Lot dwelling among the Sodomites and seing and hearing such a wicked people vexed frō day to day his righteous soule with their vngodly dedes what shal we thinke of Christ liuing in such a generation But O my brethren beloued of the Lord open the eyes of your fayth and you shal see these thynges they were but the begynnings of sorow What shal we think was his grief of minde for the Iewes his brethren that wer thus poured out vnto wickednes How did hys great loue boyle in sorowes of hart to see their destruction If Moses when he beheld the anger of God against his people in great compassion of their miseries praied earnestly vnto the Lord Forgeue them O God or rase me out of the booke that thou hast wrytten If Ieremye in foreseing the captiuitie of Ierusalē had so great griefe that he cried out O that my head wer ful of waters myne eyes a fountayne of teares that I might weepe day and nyght for the flaine of the daughter of my people If Esay in like aboundance of loue bewayled his brethren that woulde needes perish wyth these words of complaynt Turne away from me I wyll weepe bitterly labour not to comfort me because my people perish If Paule that most excellent Apostle hauyng receiued but his portion of the great loue of Christ called God to witnes that he spake the truth howe he had great heauynes and continuall sorowe of hart for hys brethren and that for their sakes him selfe wished to be separate from Iesu Christ what maner of teares shall wee thinke were those which Christ him selfe poured our whē he wept ouer Ierusalem what sorow of mynde which then interrupted hys speeches made thē vnperfect How deepe was that angry griefe printed in his bowels when he beheld the blindnes of his people and was sorowful for them What maner of affliction was it that in the middest of so great reproches and mockes could neuer bee chaunged but prayed stil Father forgeue them they know not what they do If it bee greeuous vnto vs to lose the thing that is most deare vnto vs in thys earthlye tabernacle howe much more did this sorrowe pearce euen through the bowels of our sauiour Christ to see man taken from him vnto destructiō for whose sake hee would so willynglye sacrifice vp his lyfe This is an other spectacle in which we may behold hys great dolour and anguish to knowe the paynes hee