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A03926	A sermon preached at Yorke before the right Honorable, Henrie Earle of Huntington, Lorde President of her Maiesties councell established in the north, and other noble men, and gentle men, at a general communion there, the 23. of September in the eightienth yeare of her Maiesties raigne: by Mathewe Hutton Deane of Yorke.	Hutton, Matthew, 1529-1606.	1579 (1579)	STC 14034; ESTC S104336	25,148	72

old way wherein the Prophet exhorteth vs to walke this is the way which Christ by his Prophets his Apostles word hath taught vs this indeed is the oldest way In comparison of which the corruptiō in Poperie is new and lately inuented as will appeare if we doe make a briefe discourse through the principall points of religion now in controuersie And firste to beginne with our iustification The scripture teacheth that we are conceiued in sinne borne in sinne brought vp and nousied in sinne by nature the children of wrath death damnation bondmen slaues vnto Sathan The olde way and onely true way to be deliuered from death and to bee receiued into Gods fauour againe is by our Lord and sauiour Iesus Christ Who alone is the seede of the Woman that broake the Serpentes heade Who alone is the seede of Abraham Isaac and Iacob In whome all the nations of the earth are blessed Who alone was wounded for our transgressions and broken for our iniquities Who hath troden the wine presse himselfe alone and of all the people there was none with him Who in the fulnesse of time came as it were out of the bosome of his father toke vpon him our nature was borne of the virgin Marie without sinne and in our nature did not onely fulfill the Lawe of God most absolutelie which we should doe and can not doe by reason of the corruption of our fleshe but also in the same nature did most obedientlie suffer most cruell death vppon the crosse to that end that if we effectuallie beleeue in him his punishment should stande in steede of our punishment his righteousnesse in liew of our righteousnesse in the sight of god This is the old and only good way for sinners to obteine gods fauour againe For the Scripture teacheth it So God loued the world that he gaue his onely begotten sonne that whosoeuer beleueth in him should not perish but haue life euerlasting Come vnto mee all ye that trauell and are heauie laden and I will refresh you Wee are iustified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Iesus whom GOD hath set forth to bee a reconciliation through faith in his blood By grace are ye saued through faith and that not of your selues it is the gift of God not of woorkes least anie man shoulde boaste himselfe If anie man sinne wee haue an aduocate with the father Iesus Christ the righteous he is the propitiatiō for our sinnes By which places and such like it appeareth plainly that the efficient causes the fountaine and welspring of our iustification is the loue mercie of almightie God the matter and fourme price and merit is Christes obedience death passion the finall ende is the glorie and praise of God and our endlesse saluation in Christes kingdome the instrument or hande wherewith God dooth reach vnto vs saluation from heauen in Christ Iesus is the Gospell and the preaching thereof The instrument or hand whereby we take hold of Christe and his merites is a true and liuely faith in Christ our Sauiour The fruites of the spirite woorking in vs and the true effectes of a iustifying faith are vertuous and charitable deedes Of which Saint Augustine saith Sequuntur iustificatum non praecedunt iustificandum Good workes followe in him that is iustified but goe not before in him that is iustified If this be the best and oldest way whiche ascribeth all our saluation wholy to Christe his merites it followeth that that is an erronious and lately founde out way of the Papistes which attribute some parte of our saluation to our owne worthines to the merits of Saintes to the woorkes of supererogation to the sufferinges of Martyrs laide vppe in the Popes treasure house For though the sufferinges of Martyrs be the sufferinges of Christe and in them Christ doth suffer in his misticall bodie yet this suffering is not the price of our redemption nor anie parte of it but his death and passion and blood that he shed in his naturall bodie vppon the crosse once for all Saint Augustine tract in Iohann 84. Etsi fratres pro fratribus moriamur tamen in fraternorum peccatorum remissionem nullius sanguis Martyris funditur Albeit one brother die for an other yet is the blood of no Martyr shed for remission of sinnes And in the same place Imitari quis potuit morientem nemo autem redimentem In dying some man might followe Christ but in redeeming no man coulde follow him Leo also a Bishoppe of Rome in three places affirmeth the same Epistola 97. ad Leonem Augustum Epistola 83. to the Bishoppes of Palestine in the twelfth Homilie of Christes passion That no Saint by his death did pay an other mās debt For that was onelie the office of Christ as Basill saith who alone was voide of sinne and he alone the vnspotted Lambe of God that taketh away the sinnes of the worlde As for the sufferinges of Martirs they are saith Leo Patterns of Patience to others but merit no righteousnes And this he sayeth to the greate impouerishing of the treasure-house of merites and no small discredite to Popishe pardons Let vs therefore follow the counsel of the Prophet Ieremy Stand vpon the wayes and consider c. It is an old way shewed vnto vs by GOD him selfe that all men ought to read and learne the Scriptures Christ saith This is eternal life to know thee the only true God and whom thou hast sent Iesus Christ And he commandeth To search the Scriptures for they are they that beare witnes of him And Hierome sayeth in the Preface to the Prophete Esaias That not to know the scriptures is not to know Christ And Chrisost vppon the epist. to the Coloss 3. willeth Lay men to gette them the Bible into their houses as the wholesome medicine of their soules If not the whole Bible yet the new testament at the least Audite obsecro seculares omnes comparate vobis Biblia animae pharmaca c. And he imputeth the cause of all euill to the ignoraunce of the scriptures Therefore it is a new way lately founde out that ignoraunce is the mother of deuotion Let vs therefore folowe the Counsell of the Prophete Stand vpon the wayes and consider c. It is an old way wherein Gods children haue walked to beleeue that al things needefull to saluation are conteined in the worde of god This Saint Iohn teacheth the cap. 20. Many other thinges did Iesus which are not written in this booke but these are written that you might beleeue that Iesus is the sonne of God and that in beleeuing you might haue life by his name Which woordes Cyrillus expoundeth thus Non omnia quae dominus fecit conscripta sunt sed quae scribentes tam ad mores quám ad dogmata putarunt sufficere All is not written that Christe did but so much as the writers thought sufficiēt as

qualitie a sacrifice for the quicke and deade a woorshipping a reseruation and such like superstitions and abhominations antique I graunt and olde borne in respect of these times but neither they nor their mother conceiued in respect of the Apostles time These pointes that I haue but in a woorde or two noted are plainely and learnedly handled in this Sermon I trust in the mercie of God to the redeeming of manie from errour that heard it or without a set iudgement against the truth shall diligently reade it Others that alreadie embrace the truth and yet in opinion rather then in reason and iudgement of which sort I would there were not many may heere receiue reasons out of the woorde of god to confirme their good zeale and iudgment to answeare for themselues and their religion when they shal either be asked a reason of their hope and faith of the brethren or otherwise shall be assayled of the aduersarie For good Reader labour and prouoke others to labour especially those vnder thy charge for abilitie to answeare for theire religion and to shew better euidence for their inheritāce in heauen then any man can shew vppon record for his inheritance on the earth Therfore I desire thee not so much in these wordes which I haue written in loue to the matter the Author as I craue it in my heart at thy hand to make thy fruite of this sermō first preached to kindle flames of zeale in the hearers to their increase of knowledg a good conscience And nowe allowed to the print in the same godly purpose to nourish preserue the same zeale with great increase in all the readers especially of those that haue already heard it may now reade the same againe which will be as the former and latter raine to make the fruite ripe and full in Christ Iesus Which fruite that thou maist reape I leaue thee to the woorke and instruction of Gods holy Spirit praying thee when in hearing or reading these Sermons thou findest the rich treasure of knowledge and faith to pray earnestly to God that the same most rich treasure of his woorde may be plentifully bestowed vppon all men in all places farre and neare to the euerlasting glory of Gods holy name in gathering those that are to be gathered and in keeping them that are alreadie gathered in Christ Iesus Amen Ierem. 6.16 State super vias videte interrogate de semitis antiquis quae sit via bona ambulate in ea inuenietis refrigerium animabus vestris Stand vppon the wayes consider and inquire of the olde wayes which is good and walke therein and ye shall finde rest vnto your soules IN the time of the Prophet Ieremie there was greate contention amonge the preachers of the woorde the true teachers of the people of God and the false Prophets For th one threatened warre and captiuitie vnto the people for the great wickednesse of the land the other said Pax pax All should bee well Thone said Templum Domini templum Domini The Temple of the Lord the Temple of the Lord that the Lorde would neuer destroy that holy place the other cried that the house of God was become a denne of theues the Lord would surely visit that place The one cōmended the ceremonies rites of the law exhorted the people to offer vp their sacrifices as most sweete pleasant to the Lord the other said that their incense oblations burnt offerings were to him an abhomination because they were offered without faith the only salt seasoner of al our works The one cried the traditiōs of thelders the traditiōs of the fathers the other answered that they worshipped God in vaine teaching for doctrine the ●●ceptes of men In this cōtentious tim● there were manie especiallie of the su●…est sort that doubted whom to beleeue ●…hō to mistrust which way to auoid w●●h to walke in And therefore the Prophet● ●…e bringeth in in this place almightie ●●d himselfe speaking to the people tel●… thē what they should doe State super ●…s videte c. Stand vpō the waies ●nsider c. In which wordes he wille●…ē not to be carelesse in things touching ●…ir saluation but studious painfull la●…ous Stand vpon the waies cōsider inquire c. 2. He sheweth them where to seeke the best way not in newe wayes founde out of late but in the waies that haue bene of old time Aske of the old waies c. Thirdly he would not haue thē thinke euerie old way to bee walked in therfore willeth thē among the old waies to search the best walk therin last of al to incorage thē to folow his coūsell he telleth thē what they shal gaine thereby And you shall finde rest vnto your soules The same doctrine is as needefull to vs now as it was then to them seing the same occasiō is among vs at this time that was among them For while there is great disputation euerie where in matters of religion while the Papistes shew one way to saluation the Protestantes an other the papistes say Tēplum Domini templum Domini The holy Church of Rome the holy catholik church of Rome the protestāts replie Facta est meretrix vrbs fidelis that she is now become the whore of Babilon the papists say The cōstitutions of the church the traditiōs of our mother the church the Protestantes answere that they worship god in vaine teaching for doctrine the preceps of mē ther are many that haue wauering minds know not what way to take To them no doubt the Coūsell of the Prophet is verie good Let them stand vpon the waies consider and inquire of the old wayes which is best walk therein they shall finde rest vnto their soules The text conteineth these two pointes the Counsel and the Commoditie ensuing The Counsell is To stande vppon the wayes and consider to aske of the olde wayes which is best to walke therein The fruite that will grow thereof is That wee shall finde rest vnto our soules But because I can not speake of euery parcell at large I haue chosen to intreate onelie of these two pointes shewed vnto me by the text and by the time required at my hands First verie briefly that we must seeke the good waie among the olde waies and yet not euerie olde way to be walked in Secondlie by a briefe discourse through the chiefest pointes of religion I will declare that that olde way is the best wherein our Fathers walked by the commaundement of almightie God and that also that is the Oldest way of all that corruption of Poperie is a way of later time foūd out The which thing that I may do so that the name of God may be glorified and wee that be here present edified I shall desire you to assist me with your hartie prayer c. STand vppon the wayes and consider c. Hee would not haue vs negligent in