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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

Lordes supper haue yee not houses to eate and to drincke 1. Cor. 11. 22. in So I may say to such mē if you wil pray alone and pray privatly haue yee not houses and privat places to pray in ought yee not at home and before yee come from home to prepare your selues to remember that going to church you go to appeare before the Lorde to heare his voice for the attaining of faith and to praise him with the congregation And for this cause as a learned painfull teacher in these daies hath writtē ought M. Perki●s vpon the fourth commandement wee on the Sabboth day to arise early in the morning that wee may prepare our selues to the better sanctifying of that day And this preparation as he saith consisteth in private prayers and taking account of our severall sinnes but no man can be ignorant that privat prayers must be referred to privat places and time convenient For as Salomon saith to all thinges there is an appointed t 〈…〉 Eccle. 3. 1. But if you thinke that the temple or materiall house where we assemble our selues for diuine exercise can make your prayers more holy then your heartes from whence they proceed can make them yee are then indeede super 〈…〉 For the Lord of heaven and earth dwelleth not in temples built Act. 17. 24. with h●●ds Neither is one place of the earth in respect of the place it selfe more acceptable to him then an other For now the temple at Ierusalem which was called the house of prayer hath an end And as the scriptures affirme you your selues if yee be true Christians are the temple of the liuing god 2. Cor. 6. 16 1. Cor. 6. 19 No place therefore as one father saith doeth sanctifie or make holy the man that is in it but rather the man the place yet for the defence of this evill custome of praying in preposterous maner some say it is a decent order for mē whē they come into the church to kneele downe and pray The cōtrary is rather true for it is an affected disorder and betokeneth what of reuerence to the word of God his ordinance for some mē to be at their own praiers whē the whole assembly doth either heare the word or pray otherwise with one accord This is not according to the rule o● the Apostle with one mind and with one ●onth to prayse God except they Rom. 15. 6. that wil pray by themselues when time and place serue not therevnto haue another God beside the father of our Lord ●esus Christ Where Luke writeth how the Apostles recemed the holy Ghost vpon the day of Pentecost he saith that then they were all with one Act. 2 1. accord in one place And for this cause hath Christ promised to be in the midst of them that Mat. 18. 20. are gathered together in his name assuring vs of his spirituall presence to be with vs if ther be vnitie of faith Christian concord in our assemblies And this vnitie is when as the Apostle exhorteth all speake one thinge are knit together in one minde and in one iudgment without distentions But for al this some mē 1. Cor. 1. 10 because they will not seeme to do otherwise then they haue bene accustomed can cavill say that because praier is good it is good to pray alwaies therfore they wil repeate their praiers when they may be seene of mē and when other men pray not These are like the Heretickes which were called Euchites Euchits or Psalliapist●s for that they were wōt to spend much time in praying and to repeate their praiers as it is recorded of them so hastely and with swi●tnes of tongue as if God had beene to be serued with lippe labour This is contrarie to the rule of the Apostle Iames which saith let ever●e man be swifte to heare slow to Iam. 1. 19. speake And the sonne of Sirach saith to the same effect ●e swift to heare good thinges For Eccl. 5. 1● shall the naturall men of this world be swift ready to hear the coūsel of a lawyer or advocate in some earthly matter shall not Christians be more careful ready to he are the counsell of God which is able to make them wise vnto salvation Yet some will say that when they pray they are carefull to serue GOD and they meane well and therefore they will do it at church and regard no time But as one hath truely said a good meaning doth not excuse an evill act and this we may see to bee most true if wee remember the punishment of V●zah who without doubt meant well in that he put his hand to the arke of God and helde 2 Sam. 6. 6. it because the oxen which drew it did shake it But because he had no warrant from God so to do the Lord smote him that he died in that place And it is probable that Saul meant well in his owne opinion when he spared the fat beasts and the best of the sheepe and of 〈…〉 15. 〈◊〉 the oxen of the Amalekites because he would sacrifice them vnto the Lord. But what saith the oracle of God to him hath the Lorde as ver 22. great pleasure in burnt offerings and sacrifices as when the voice of the Lord is obeyed behold to obey is better then sacrifice and to harken is better then the fat of Rammes Beholde here how acceptable a sacrifice it is to harken to the voice of the Lord. And contrariwise learne of Salomon how abhominable the praier of them is which will pray and wil not heare the law of the Lord he that Pro. 28. 9. turneth away his ●are from hearing the law even his praier shal be abominable Let no man therfore harden his heart and preferre superstition before truth that his praier be not abominable but acceptable beeing offered in due season and proceeding from faith knowledge which is by hearing and hearing by the Rom. 10 17. word of God As the ministery of the newe testament is principally divided into the ministration Act. 6. 4. of the word and praier so in the time of teaching the minister is the mouth of God vnto the people and in the time of publicke praiers he is the mouth of the people to offer their sacrifice to God● and he that despiseth or regardeth not these things despiseth not man but God For these very words of the text if yee heare his voice harden not your harts declare vnto vs that when we heare that doctrine wih●h teacheth vs faith in the son of God and repentance from dead workes it is God that speaketh vnto vs by the mo●th of men and he requireth at our handes that s●l●ng as it is sa●a to day that is so long as we may heare the voice of the new couenant of grace we be more neere to heare it then to giue the sacrifice of fooles For ought

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