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A10817	The day of hearing: or, six lectvres vpon the latter part of the thirde chapter of the Epistle to the Hebrewes of the time and meanes that God hath appointed for man to come to the knowledge of his truth, that they may be saved from his wrath. The summary pointes of every one of which lectures are set downe immediately after the Epistle dedicatory. Herevnto is adioyned a sermon against fleshly lusts, & against certaine mischevious May-games which are the fruit thereof. By H.R. Master of Artes, and now, minister of the word.; Day of hearing: or, six lectures upon the latter part of the thirde chapter of the Epistle to the Hebrewes.	Roberts, Huw, b. 1558 or 9.	1600 (1600)	STC 21089; ESTC S102956	70,687	163

same Moreouer let no man flatter himselfe thinke that he is safe from Gods iudgment● if he hath no● so tempted God as the Israelits did in the wilder●es or if he hath not so murmured against his ministers as they did but let him rather cōsider whether his faith and obedience hath bene so tried as the●●s was whether without murmuring distrust he hath gone through the fire water of temptation which they were brought vnto for their triall according as the scripture witnesseth thou shalt remember all the way Deut. 8. 2. which the Lord thy God led thee this fourtie yeare in the wildernes for to humble thee and to proue thee to know what was in thine heart whether thou wouldest keepe his commandements or no. Here we see that the Lord exercised the Israelits with great daungers and many difficulties of the terrible wildernes for to humble them and to know whether with sound and faithfull heartes they would cleaue to him abide his triall If thou hast not then bene exercised with diuers temptations as they were or if thou a●t not yet come into the day of triall perswad not thy selfe that all is well with thee because thou standest when none doth sight against thee Say not like the church of the Revel 3. 17 ●aodiceans that thou art rich because thou knowest not thy wretchednes pouertie and that thou hast neede of nothing because thou seest not thy nakednes It is an easie thing to ouercome where thei● is no battell to promise to thy selfe the victorie before thou a●t tried That lesson of the King of Israel is worthy to be remembred let not him 1. King 10. 11. that g●rd●th his har●es boast himselfe as hee that putteth it of And that of the Apostle is a notable warming let him that thinketh h●● 1. Co● 10. 1● standeth take heede least he fall Thirdly specially let vs here learne that if such sinnes iniquities as are equal to the sinns of the Israelits in the wildernes be not visited with the like plagues as theirs were they shall not therfore escape vnpunished For there is a iudgment to come the Lord hath sworne that the vnfaithfull vnrighteouse which disobey his word shall not enter into his rest This is a sure testimon●e that putteth away all doubt for if anoath for Heb 6. 16. confirmation among men be an end of all strif● as are the wordes of the Apostle how much more doth it take away al occasiō of doubting when the Lord almightie bindeth himselfe with an oath The interrogation which the Apost●e vseth in these wordes to whom sware hee that they should not enter into his rest doeth more significantly expresse the punishment of not obeying And here is also vsed a figuratiue kind of speech wherby lesse is said thē 〈◊〉 vnderstood wherby we gather that there are dreadfull punishments ordeined for all obstinate vnbeleeuing sinners For what ensueth from not ētering into the rest of immortality but to haue thy parte portion with them which are shut out of the citie of ●od what part haue they the holy Ghost declareth in these wordes the fearfull and vnbeleeuing and the abominable Revel ●1 8. murtherers wheremongers sorcerers and idolaters and all ●●ers shall haue their portion 〈◊〉 the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone which is the secon● death This is the wages of sin disobedience although the time of payment be deferred vntill the haruest of this world yet this cuppe of vengeance is prepared for all the workers of iniquitie which shall not enter into rest And therefore as one father saith he that doeth euill ought to feare the more if he be not punished in this world for then hee is to drinke the deeper of Gods wrath in the iudgment to come These things being most true let it not greeue thee that art a true Christian though sinners doe flourish for a time and though thou see the vncleane conuersation of wicked and profane people to abound in the earth and yet in the meane while thou thyselfe doest suffer affliction and art tried with diuerse adue●sities Remember for all this that God is good to Israel and the damnation of his enemies sleepeth not It cannot be denied but that many of those sinnes which God in former ages did so 〈…〉 ly punish for an example vnto the world do now reigne in the worlde and yet are 〈◊〉 visited vvith the like seueritie and puni●hment because as we reade God hath 〈…〉 a day in the which he will iudge the Acts 1●●1 world 〈◊〉 rightousnes And therefore as it is well obse●●ed of Chrysostome many of those sinnes for the which the world was drowned in the dayes of Noah are day he committed in the world yet ●od bringeth not Ge● 7. ●1 2● 23. a ●lo●d to drowne the world as he did then because there is a ●●ood of wrath ordeined for them in the world to come Many of those sins for the which Sodom Gomorrah were consumed with fire and brimstone from heauen are still practised in the world Gen. 19. 24. 25. and yet the Lo●d raineth not fire out of heaven to destroy them that do such thinges because he hath appoynted for them the ●i●e that ●hall neuer be quenched Many are they which speake against Gods word and persecute his church as Pharaoh did yet Exod. 14. 27. 28. are not choked with the sea water as Pharaoh and his ●eruantes were because the bottomlesse sea of perdition is reserued for them Many do murmur against heauen dislike of Gods ordināce as the Israelits did in the wildernes and yet are not destroyed with firy serpents with other plagues as Num. 21. 5. 6. they were because the worme that neuer dieth shall hereafter torment them Many there be which take bribes giftes vnlawfully as Gehaz● did yet they are not st●ikē with the foule disease of leprosie as he was 2 King 5. 27. because they shall be plagued after this life where there shall bee weeping and gnashinge of teeth And againe many do lye dissemble in matters of religion as Ananias Sapphira Act. 5. 5. 10. did and yet are not punished with suden death as they were because death immortall euerlasting waiteth for thē These thinges are thus applied of * Chrissostom 1 Chrysost in Act. Apo. c. 5. h●m 12. for this cause when the Apostle Peter saith that God spared not the angels that had sinned but east them downe into hell that 2 Pet. 2. 4. 5 6. he spared not the old world that he turned the cit●es of Sodom Gomorah into ashes hee doth not say that God did then with the like punishmēts cut of the false teachers of whom he speaketh such as walk● like the Sodomits after the flesh in the l●st of vncleannesse but he gathereth therby that the Lord knoweth

2. P●t 2. 9. how to reserue the vniust vnto the day of iudgment to be punished The heathen man as Iustine Martyr alledgeth Iust Mart. in h●de mo●●●chia was not ignorant of this ●udgment of the reckoning to come for he speaketh pl●●ly therof S●●ustus et ●mp●us eadem conditione futu 〈…〉 rape ●urare frauda misce if after this life there be no difference betweene the iust mā the wicked then go to catch what thou canst steale deceiue make confusion of all thing● s●derrarenol● but be not deceyued for saith he there is a●iudgment in hel beneath which God that is Lord of al things will doe whose name is so dreadfull that I d●re not name him Th●● and much more he alledgeth out of Phil●mo● other heathē writers which by the light of nature did set forth not onely the ommpotency of God the immortalitie of mans soule but also the reward of vertue the punishment of sin after this life how that God which as one of them saith is the eye of equitie that seeth all thinges doeth beare with the euill deedes of men in this life for that they shall come into iudgment hereafter The doctrine of the holy Psalmist is of singular force to this purpose who for the instruction of others confesseth that his f●●t● were almost gone that his steppes had wel-nigh slypt Psal 73. ●3 〈◊〉 5. when he saw the prosperitie of the wicked how they thriue in the world and are not in trowble ver 17. 18. 19. 20. as other men but when the Lord opened his vnderstanding he saw the ende of these men namelie that they are se●● in slippery places and are suddenlie destroyed horriblelio consumed as a dreame when one awaketh Iob Iob. 21. 17. 18. testifieth the like both of their momentary prosperitie and of their sudden destruction The seruants of God haue here a singular comfort that they may not be discouraged with tribulatiō and aduersitie and that they may not at anie time stumble at Gods long patience and benignitie toward reprobate and vniust men seeing that he rewardeth everie mā according as his deedes shal be though Rom. 2. 6. Rev. 22. 12. he be not hasty in punishing and though he doeth not in this life punish all mens sinnes alike Heere also secure worldlings and such as are slow to beleeue the word of truth may be moued to feare Gods iudgments and by amendment of life to withdrawe themselues out of the s●are of the deuill vvhich as the Apostle saith are taken of him at his 2. Tim. 〈◊〉 26. will And now if neither the promises of entering into eternall rest nor the testimonies of Gods fearfull iudgments reuealed against sin and disobedience can moue vs to repētance let vs yet make vse of Gods visitatiōs wherwith we heare and see the iniquities of these our dayes to be visited as in all ages God sheweth diuers tokēs of his displeasure and indignation against the vnrighteousnes and vnbeleefe of men For euerie plague ev 〈…〉 calamitie sudden death burning with fire 〈…〉 ther strange sicknesses famine euerie stood of waters ruine of buildings vnseasonable weather euerie one of these and of the like aduersities as oft as they happen in the world are a sermon of repentance to all that see them or heare therof For whensoeuer God punisheth some kind of sinns or punisheth some men more seuerely then others that haue sinned euen that his punishment is a warning a memento to euery one of vs to looke to our selues and to call to reremēbrance our owne sinns knowing that it is the same God that will take vengeance of eue●●e sinne and transgression of men that he will strike with a more heauie hand if his warning and example of his iustice be not regarded Wherfore to come to our selues We see that beside the pestilence and many other ●ignes of Gods anger where with this land of late yeares hath bene visited the Lord hath now for the space of three yeares together sent scarsitie of bread famine and penurie among vs And shall we thinke that the poore and the helplesse who for the most-part suffer these thinges are sinners aboue the rest that haue not yet tasted of this cup if we thinke so we vtterly deceiue our selues For we are otherwise taught of the Lordes Prophet in these words when the land sinneth against me by committing a trespasse then will I Eze● 14 13 stretch out my hand vpon it and will breake the staffe of the bread therof and will send famine vpon it We see that the Lords hand is after this maner stretched out and that the staffe of bread is broken We see and must needes know that the sinnes of the land are great and that the inhabitants therof from the greatest to the least haue not ob 〈…〉 the voice of the Lord to walke in all his waies and yet we see but some punished with the scourge of hunger and aduesitie The rest that are not yet touched are so farre from repētance newnesse of life that as the Prophet saith they drinke wine in bowles and anoynt themselues Amos. 6. 6. with the che●●●e oyntments but no man is sory for the afflections of Ioseph Few do weepe or haue that Christian-like affection to weepe with them that suffer afflictiō And will you still cōtinue in sinne and hardnes of heart shall not the afflictions of our brethren cause vs to feare to turne into the way of truth before that greater plagues be powred out vpon the land euen vpon euery soule that doeth euill and continueth in sinne and disobedience Euery mā may gather that the calamities of other men do testifie that the punishmēt of his owne sinns lyeth at the doore As to this effect the heathen Poet speaketh Et tua res agitur paries cum proximus ordet Horatius When thou seest thy neighbours house set on fire thou hast warning to looke to thine owne And for this cause the Lord sometimes cutteth downe the greene tree shewing therby what he will do to the vnfruitful fig tree that keepeth bar●ē the groūd of the vinyard though he let it stand for awhile That no man therfore might sleepe in his sinns or thinke himselfe to be the better man because he seeth other men punished himselfe not touched Christ teacheth vs most plainely by the cruell slaughter of the Galileans made by Pilat by the fall of the Luk. 13. 2. 3. 4. 5. towre vpon the men ●n Siloa●● that the worst men are not first punished but that if God shew such tokens of his iudgments vpō some few all other mē except they amend shall nothing the rather escape his heauie hand for that they be borne with for a time When we see therfore that God hādleth some men seuerelie and in his iustice we ought to feare examine our selues what we haue deserued so to consider that the lōger

that God beareth with vs the more terrible will be his reuengment if we abuse his benignitie winke at the testimonies of his wrath shewed vpon others for our example Now hauing such euident testimonies of Gods seuere iudgmēts in al ages reuealed against the vnrighteousenes and vnbeleefe of men as the Apostle saith here of the vnbeleeuing Israelits we see that they could not enter in because of vnbeliefe so we see declare vnto you by the same word of trueth which we minister● that all obstinate and vnbeleeuing sinners which will not obey the trueth shall not enter in to the rest of life euerlasting or haue any part in the feliciti● of the faithfull Do we therfore iudge men no in no wise The word which we minister is the iudge and by it we denounce the iudgments of God against them which obey not this word instructing them with meeknes prouing i● God at any time will giue thē repēt●nce that they may come to the knowledge of his truth for this is the iudgment of the spirite of God hee that obeyeth not the sonne shall not see life but the wrath of God abideth ●o 3 36. on him and he that is in this vnbeliefe though he fasi from mea●● though he say many pra●ers though he giue much to the poore though he build churches and do many gloriouse workes doeth yet nothing acceptable to God while he beleeueth not in the sonne while hi● heart cleaveth not to the word of the Lord. For as it is written without faith it is vnpossible to please God and againe Heb● 11. 6 Rom. 14 23 what soeuer is not of faith is sinne So far is the carnal mā which is possessed with vnbeliefe frō pleasing of God that all his workes euen the best deedes that he doeth are nothing els but sinne Many there be which doe many thinges that haue in deed as the Apostle saith a shew Col. 2. 23. of wisedome in voluntary religion but if you aske these people from what faith their works do proceede and vpon what promises of God cōtained in his word their faith is setled they will commonly say that though they know not these things yet hope they to bee saued as wel as your selfe But be not deceiued for this hope is no hope It is not the auker of the soule both sure and stedfast And your faith is no Heb. 6. 19. faith so long as it be not built vpon the rocke of Gods worde which is the iewell that you should desire more then gold and finde to be sweeter then hony and the hony combe But while Psal 19 19. you builde vpon the devises of your owne heart your adversary when the day of triall cōmeth wil overthrow your whole building which is not grounded vpon the rocke but vpon the vnsure sand Wherfore if you wil enter into Gods rest dwel safely frō the feare of evill your heart must be purified by faith and as you heare dayly faith is by hearing hearing by the word of God Rom. 10. 17 If hitherto you haue beene dul of hearing or slow of heart to beleeue this word giue now the more diligence to heare and to exercise your selues therin least it be taken away from you for your former negligence vnthankfullnes For so the Lord threatneth by his Propher bebould the daies come saith the Lord God that I will send a famine in the lād Amo● 8. 11 12. not a famine of bread nor a thrist for water but of the hearing of the word of the Lord. And they shall wander from sea to sea from the North euen vnto the East shall they runne is fro to seeke the word of the Lord shall not finde it This is a famine more to be feared then any famine of materiall bread For this falmine of hearing the word of God is a tokē of reprobation a signe that God doth vtterly forsake cast away that people or nation where it is sent For when God taketh away the light of his word what shall we find but hell●●h darkenesse the shadowe of death this is the ●ust iudgment of God for the vnbeliefe of them that shall nos enter into his rest Beholde now therfore the accepted time behold 2. Cor. 6. 1. now the day of saluation For yet it is called to day yet wisedome vttereth her voice in the Heb. 3. 13. Pro. 1. 20. streets open assemblies of our people promiseth that whosoeuer obeyeth her shall ver 33. dwel safely be quiet frō the fear of euil Be hold now the Lord stadeth at the d●●re knockee●● saying if any man heare my voice opē the Rev. 3 20. doore I will come in vnto him and will supp● with him he with me To this Lord that hath made his voice to be heard among vs now aboue fourty yeeres long and yet continueth vnto vs the glorious day of his grace be praise in the church throughout all generations for euer Let vs humble our selues before the thrōe of grace and pray FINIS A GODLY AND NECESSARY SERMON against fleshly lustes and against certaine mischievous May-games which are the fruite thereof Preached vpon the first Sabbath day in Maie in the yeere 1598. By H. R. Master of Artes and now Minister of the word Gal. 5. 17. The flesh lusteth against the spirite and the spirit against the flesh and these are contrarie one to the other Printed at Oxford by Joseph Barnes and are to be sold in Paules church yard at the signe of the Bible 1600. To the Reader THis sermon Christiā Reader should haue bene published together with another of the sufferings agon●es of our sauiour Christ of his victorie over death but that some which would be counted the soundest clarkes and yet br●ach not the soundest doctrine to the world want not their fauourers and meanes to stoppe the way of all such things as do not concord say amen to whatsoeuer they haue sayd fastened vpon the world for truth Omitting therfore things that must be deferred I haue here adioined to these six lectures ●ntitled the day of hearing a sermon vpō a text of the Apostle Peter exhorting to abstaine from fleshly lusts For as the sonne of S●rach forbiddeth vs to keepe backe our counsell when Eccl. 4. 23. it may do good so the afore named Apostle of Christ commanudeth vs euerie man as he hath receiued the gift to minister the same one to 1. Pet. 4. 10. another Wherfore as time place required as God ●nabled me to be an instrument of his mercy I haue br●fly intreated of the perillous bondage and thraldo●e into the which we are brought through the lusts of our owne flesh that seeing our selues to be in a dangerous case we may be the more s●irred vp to watch by Gods gar●● to haue victori● against such inuincible aduersaries And whē I taught these

combates temptations of the world least they should waxe de●●tie slouthfull or ●●●e vnprofitable to other men and therfore he doth not pray to h●ue them taken out of the world but hee Io● 17. 15. prayeth to haue them kept from evill that in the middest of dangers they may not be wounded to death and that his power may be made perfect in weaknes For it is manifest that in the holiest men of this world the flesh is weake and lusteth after evill thinges I know saith the Apostle that in me that is 〈◊〉 Rom. 7. 18. my flesh dwelleth no good thing If the flesh were not corrupt full of evill lustes man should be free from all kinde of dangers for the● Sa●han could haue no power ouer him the world could not deceiue him and the vanities of this life could not enti●e him But the flesh which euerie man heareth about with him so long as he is a pilgrim vpon earth is as a huge heape of all v 〈…〉 is like t● a puddle of water ful of 〈◊〉 ●●t in the bottome which as sone a● it is s●●red infecteth and fowleth all the water that it becommeth vnholesome both 〈◊〉 man and beast So ●●than finding store of corruption and sinnefull lustes within mans body and flesh st 〈…〉 th vp the same and kindleth them evermore ministring occasion to commit on● sinn● or other that the soule may be de●iled and be made lo●thsome i● the sight of God 〈◊〉 is the roote of evill and here is the puddle of deadly poyson even the flesh which ever l●st●th against the 〈…〉 is And for this cause the holy Ghost hath not concealed from vs what wil be the end if we suffer the flesh to haue the vpper hand For he telleth vs plainly if ye 〈◊〉 after the flesh ye 〈◊〉 but if we wil Rom. 8. 13. escape th●● d●ath hee warneth vs to play the Souldiers and to kill that wee our selues bee not killed hereafter 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith hee Col. 3. 5. M●●tifie or kill your members which are on the earth VVhat members fornication vncl 〈…〉 sse 〈…〉 te affection evill conc●●●scence and c 〈…〉 sse But wee haue no members that are named with these names VVee thinke so indeedes but the spirite of GOD see●● more then vvee doe and therfore signifieth vnto vs that sinne hath taken so deepe roote in vs that for the most part it ouer●uleth vs in so much that it calleth the affectiōs of our flesh by the name of mēbers And therfore you cānot here an exhortation more necessarie for Christians then is to mortifie or to abstaine from the deedes of the flesh and whosoeuer is adoer of this on lesson is a profitable scholler i●● the schoole of Christ but when should we abstaine frō these lustes and mortifie them there is no time nor day of our life not any hower in the day but some of them do fight against our soule for they are so many in nūber as you heard before as there be diversi●●es of sinns ●f you will know thē by name the lust of pride is one the lust of vncleanes is another the lust of anger wrath is another the lust of couetousnes is another the lust of back biting and slandering is another the lust of enuy or euil wil to your neighbor is another the lust of glu●●ony drunkēne● is another the lust of sweating of slouthfulnes of filthy talking with a number moe are the lusts that lie still in our flesh whithersoeuer we go and euerie one of them when opportunitie serueth will shew it selfe an enemie to our soules These are the children of ●abilon which lead the children of Israel captiue happy is he that taketh them and 〈…〉 th them against the stones Beate them downe therefore while they be young and put ye on the spiritual ●r●●ou● take to you the shield of faith that ye may be able to withstand thē You that wil be actiue seek to excel one another at games pla●es you that thinke it a disgrace to put vp I●●uri● to be abused at the handes of mē wh●e are ye faint hearted herein and wh●e will ye not see it when these enemies of your soules do abuse you and make you their slaues while yee serue them a●e led by them to committe sinne many of them need not fight against you for you ge●e place to them without resistance do vtterly forget the vowe made in your baptisme which is to forsake them not to be led by them It is seene that they which are the souldiers of earthly princes when they come to the wa●res can prepare themselues euery man in his place to sight and none must bee idle when his captaine putteth his life in hazard Because they are then to deale with their bodily enemies at whose handes if they be vanquished nothing but death or bōdage is to be looked for And shall the souldiers of Christ sleepe when they should watch shall they play when they should fight shall they be careles whē they are beset with so many enemies which intend to bring the soule to destruction and bondage to the Deuill his Angells Christian men are always in this danger and there is no hope of victorie against these aduersaries vnlesse we will with manly courage sight against them vnder the banner of our captaine Christ according as we haue promised at the tyme of our baptisine his banner example that he The meanes or the weapons whereby we must fight against fleshly lust● left vnto vs is sob●ie●●e watching earnest praiers teares abstinence and abstaininge euen from all appearance of euill● These things he being free from sinne all fleshly lusts exercised in his life that he might leaue vs an example with what weapons we must ouercome our enemies saue our selues from their lying in waite for our blood How then will they be counted Christians or Christ his souldiers that neuer imitate him nor exercise any of these meāes This is the cause that so few obtaine the victorie to be crowned kinges and so many dayly perish in their sinnes by imitating the world and obeyinge their owne lustes For as one father saieth wh●t LORDE or master would take it in good pait at the handes of his seruant that when 〈◊〉 himselfe did lacke and suffer hunger did labour and watch his seruant should then giue himselfe to eate and drinke to sleepe and liue at ease the seruants of Christ haue no such priuiledge for the saith that the s 〈…〉 is not greater then his Lord I● 15. 20. Wherefore whosoeuer immitateth him not cannot be his seruant but is a seruant of his owne lustes wherevnto hee yeeldeth and obeyeth for so the Apostle witnesseth k 〈…〉 not that you are his seruants to whom Rom. 6. 1 yee obey whether it be of sinne vnto ●eath or of obedience vnto righteousnes Consider therefore brethren whether ye be