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A08402	The sinne against the Holy Ghost discouered and other Christian doctrines deliuered: in twelue sermons vpon part of the tenth chapter of the epistle to the Hebrewes. By Sebastian Benefield ...	Benefield, Sebastian, 1559-1630.	1615 (1615)	STC 1872; ESTC S101615	138,488	190

for of iudgement and violent fire which shall devour them For if we sinne willingly after that we haue receaved the knowledge of the truth there remaineth no more sacrifice for sin But a fearefull looking for of iudgement and violent fire which shall devoure the adversaries By this fearefull looking for of iudgmēt is meant nothing else but the vexation of an evill conscience wherewith the wicked are and shal be in a fearefull sort tormented Her condition is to be pitied when no other eie can perceaue her shee will bee marked by her owne when nothing else in heaven earth pursueth her her owne foot shall chase her when shee is free frō the whole world besides her owne brest w●ll be full of witnesses If shee lay her downe her case will be as Iobs was chap. 7.4 She wil say when shall I rise she measureth the howers of the night shee is full of tossing to and fro vntill the dawning of the day And verse the 14. if shee say my couch shall relieue me my bed shalt bring comfort in my meditation thē is she feared with dreames and astonished with visions To such a conscience this looking for of iudgement can it be lesse then fearefull Who is able to conceiue the terrour of the Iudge St Iohn saw a great white throne and one sitting on it from whose face fled both the earth and the Heaven and their place was no more found Revel 20.11 Wonderfull is the terrour in this place resembled Earth and Heaven creatures without sense great and mighty creatures and creatures that haue not sinned they trēble fly and hide themselues from his presence as not able to endure the terrour of his sight and shall man seely and sinnefull man be able to abide the day of his comming and to endure when he appeareth Could man present himselfe spotlesse and without blame before the Lambe he should not need at all to feare but his condition is farre worse then so The Preacher chap. 7.20 doth assure vs that there is no man iust in the earth that doeth good and sinneth not so much doth Solomons question import Prov. 20.9 Who can say I haue purged my heart I am cleane from my sinne O saith Eliphaz vnto Iob chap. 15.14 What is man that he should be cleane and he that is borne of a woman that he should be iust Behold saith he God hath found no stedfastnes in his Saints yea the heavens are not cleane in his sight how much more is man vnstedfast how much more abominable and filthy greedyly thirsting after iniquity When the LORD looked downe from heavē to see if there were any childe of man that would vnderstand and seeke God Psal 14.2 could he finde any framed according to the rule of that perfection which he requireth He could not this only he found that all were gone out of the way that all were corrupt that there was none that did good no not one So sinnefull is man in his whole race sinnefull in his conception sinnefull in his birth in every deed word and thought wholy sinneful the actions of his hands the words of his lips the motions of his hart when they seeme to be most pure and sanctified yet then are they as vncleane things and filthy clouts Esaie 64.6 And shall man thus deformed approach vnto the throne and him that sits theron without feare Not so The kings of the earth the great men the rich men the chiefe captaines the mighty men bondmen and free men as many of al sorts as are not washed cleane in the blood of the slaughtered Lambe shall m Rev. 22 1● hide themselues in dennes and among the rockes of the mountaines if possible to be covered from the presēce of their iudge in the great day of whose wrath they know they cannot stand And therefore the looking for of iudgement must needs to them be most fearefull The next words of my text are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 read in the Vulgar Latin ignis aemulatio by Tremellius out of the Syriacke as it is in the Greeke ignis zelus by Castalio ignis saevitia by Beza Vatablus ignis fervor in the Rhemish translation rage of fire in our common English violent fire all describing the punishment which shall follow that great iudgement By the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in this place some vnderstand exceeding violence and parching heate I thinke that it may well signifie vehementissimam Dei iram as Tremellius explicates it the fierce anger of God for so much in many places of holy Scripture it importeth Ezech. 38.19 the Lord to signifie his anger conceived against the enemies of his people vseth the like phrase saith In my zeale and in the fire of my wrath haue I spoken And Ezech. 16.38 taking displeasure against his spowse for her filthines tels her that he will giue her the blood of wrath zeale And Zephan 1.18 3.8 the Lord tels vs that in the day of his wrath the whole earth shall be devoured with the fire of his zeale All which places to omit many other doe somewhat illustrate the words of my text Wherevpon St Chrysostome saith that as a wilde and savage beast provoked to ire never resteth vntill it hath seized vpon some prey or booty so this fire as it were enraged with zeale desireth to bee avenged vpon the adversaries of the Lord by devouring them And this fire so zealous for the glory of the Lord of hosts is the vnquencheable fire provided to burne the chaffe Mat. 3.12 that Hell fire never going out Mark 9.43 That flaming fire rendring vengeance vnto them that loue not God and are disobediēt to his Gospell 2. Thess 1.8 that eternall fire whose vengeance must be suffered Iude. 7. that everlasting fire prepared for the Devill and his Angels Mat. 25.41 Of what qualitie this fire is it is not expresly defined in the written word St Augustine de civitate Dei lib. 21. cap. 10. and St Hierome in his Epistle to Avitus and Aquinas contra Gentiles lib. 4. cap. 90. are of opinion that Hell fire prepared for the damned is a corporall fire This opinion is subscribed vnto by Zanchius part 1. de operibus Dei lib. 4. cap. 19. in his explications in cap. 1. ep 2. ad Thess and allowed of by the Divines of Magdeburg in their first Century lib. 1. cap. 4. and favoured as it seemes by Musculus in his comment vpon Mat. cap. 25. I leaue these and many other of the same opinion for my part do subscribe to Damascens resolution of this point who in his 4. booke de orthod fide cap. 28. writeth Ignem aeternum nō n 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 materiâ instar huiusce nostri constare that the fire of Hell is not materiall like our fire Esai 66.24 The Lord himselfe speaking of this everlasting punishment of the wicked saith Their worme shall not die neither shall their fire be quenched they shall

persons in respect of whom as of the true meaning in which it is here said to be a fearefull thing to fall into the hands of God For the persons it is out of doubt they are not the faithfull For many excellent things being spoken of them by the Holy Spirit in the word of truth as that t Ephes 2 19. they are citizens with the Saints and of the houshold of God the u 2. Cor. 3.9 husbandry of God and his building the x 2. Cor. 6.16 Temple of the living God a y 1. Pet. 2.9 holy nation z Ephes 5.8 children of the light the a 2. Cor. 8 23. glory of the Lord the b Rom. 8.29 image of Christ with all which and other like beautifull titles they being gloriously decked and adorned it cannot bee that they should feare to fall into the hands of God I may rather say they much desire it It was Davids choise his choise was good 2. Sam. 24.14 Let vs fall now into the hands of the Lord for his mercies are great and let me not fall into the hand of man Vpon the mentiō of this chice of David a learned and zealous c Dr RAVIS Deane of Christ-Chruch Professour not * This Sermon was preached in St Maries Church Dec. 2. 1602. long since speaking out of this place for maintenance of your religion against Iesuitisme and the heat of the Popish or Spanish faction made his prayer vnto the LORD and I assure my selfe your hearts went with him as he said O LORD let vs fall into thy hands and not into the hand of the cruell Spaniard You that liue by faith and haue your building of God not made with hands but eternall in the heavens doe you feare to fal into the hands of God Why should you feare it You know knowe full well that with him there is mercy and plenteous redemption Psal 130.7 that he hath healed your rebellion turned his anger away from you and now loues you freely Hos 14.4 that he is o Zach. 1.14 iealous over you with a great zeale tenders you as the apple of his eye Zach. 2.8 therefore yee may be well assured that his hand shall never bee sore vpon you to destroy you as it was vpon the men of Ashdod 1. Sam. 5.6 For such indeed as for al his enimies he hath a heavy hand a hand to minister severitie of punishment but for you whose sinnes though like crimson and red as scarlet he hath punished to the full in the death of CHRIST he hath an easie hand a hand sometimes of fatherly Correction but for evermore a hand of mightie Protection This protecting hand of God is spoken of Psalm 37.24 Though a man fall he shall not be cast off for the LORD putteth vnder his hand Though you fall grievously and dangerously you shall not be cast off either finally in the end or vtterly at any time for the LORD whose e Ierem. 31.20 bowels are troubled for you he puts vnder his hand he vpholds you Wee see now for the faithfull that to them it is no fearefull thing to fall into the hands of God It lights therefore of necessitie vpon the faithlesse To the faithlesse and vnbeleeuing man to the vnregenerate man to mā in the state of depravation corruption it is a fearefull thing to fall into the hands of God Infiniti ad finitum nulla proportio What proportion cā there be betweene that infinite essence and a house of clay that vnlimited power and a tabernacle of earth that incomprehensible maiestie and dust or ashes Man is no better in comparison of the ever being Almightie incomprehensible God then clay earth dust or ashes and that in the holy and reverend conceits of f Gen. 18.27 Abraham g Iob. 4.9 Iob and h 2 Cor. 5.1 Paul The Prophet David in the like conceit of Gods supereminencie and excellencie aboue all things abaseth discountenanceth mans nature and his whole race as in many other his Psalmes so in his 22. and 6. vers where either in his owne name regarding the miserie and contempt wherein he was held or in the person of Christ whose figure hee was he speakes as if it were robbery for him to take vpon him the name or nature of man I am saith he a worme and not a man Now who will set i Esai 27. ● briars and thornes in battell against the LORD Did ever man harden himselfe against him prosper Is it possible that pitchers of clay should come to encounter the vnspeakeable Maiestie of God and not fall asunder Well if the k Amos. 3.8 Lion once roare all the beasts of the forrest shall tremble And man vnbeleeuing man vnregenerate man corrupt man let his courage be the stowtest and his prowesse the manliest vpon the earth let him haue girded vp his loines with much strength and decked himselfe with greatest glory yet if God at any time shall strike him or but hold forth vnto him the rod of his indignation it shall fare with him as it did with Belshazzar king of Babylon Dan. 5.6 his countenance shall be changed his thoughts shall trouble him the ioynts of his loynes shall be loosed and his knees shall smite one against the other Such shall bee the measure of his feare and at that day wherein it shall be said l Luk. 23 25. Blessed are the barren and the wombes that never bare and the papps which never gaue sucke then shall he in much more feare feare mixed with hatred malice contumely and reproach seeking to hide himselfe from the sight of God say vnto the mountaines fall on me and to the hills cover me his soule and conscience bearing witnesse to the truth of this scripture that it is a fearefull thing to fall into the hands of the living God You haue heard of the feare and horrour set before vs in the first words of this verse I must now speake of the thing to bee feared implied in the next words It was my second note The thing to be feared is this to fall into the hands of God The letter killeth See my 14 ●●ct●re vpon A●os 1. p. 153. but the spirit giueth life saith S. PAVL 2. Cor. 3.6 St Augustine de doctrinâ Christianâ lib. 3. c. 5. vpō those words adviseth vs to beware that we take not a figuratiue speech according to the letter For saith he when we take that which is spoken in a figure as if it were spoken properly it is a carnall sense neque vlla mors animae congruentius appellatur neither is there any thing more rightly called the death of the soule If a figuratiue speech be properly taken or if the letter be vrged against the spirituall meaning that which was spoken to giue life to the inward man may subvert the faith indanger the soule A trope vpon good reason to be admitted not admitted is a