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A03598	Tvvo sermons vpon part of S. Judes Epistle, by Richard Hooker sometimes Fellow of Corpus Christie College in Oxford	Hooker, Richard, 1553 or 4-1600.; Jackson, Henry, 1586-1662.	1614 (1614)	STC 13723; ESTC S104194	35,221	66

minister vnto Idoles applie this exhortation to thē whom god hath appointed to feede his chosen in Israell 32 If their be any feeling of Christ and drop of heavenly dewe any spark of Gods good spirit within you stirre it vp be careful to build and edifie first your selues then your flockes in this most holy faith 33 I say first your selues For he which wil set the hearts of other men on fire with the loue of Christ must himselfe burne with loue It is want of faith inour selues My Brethren which maketh vs retchlesse in building others We forsake the Lords inheritance and seed it not What is the reason of this Our own desires are setled where they should not be Wee our selues are like those women which haue a longing to eate coales and lime and filth we are fed some with honour some with ease some with wealth the Gospell waxeth loathsome vnpleasant in our tast how should we then haue a care to feed others with that which we cannot fancie our selues If faith wax cold and slender in the heart of the Prophet it will soone perish from the eares of the people The Prophet Amos speaketh of a famine saying I will send a famine in the land not a famine of bread nor a thirst of water but of hearing the word of the Lord. Men shall wander from sea to sea and from the north vnto the east shall they runne to and fro to seeke the word of the Lord and shall not find it Iudgement must beginne at the house of God saith Peter Yea I say at the sanctuarie of God this iudgemēt must begin This famine must begin at the hart of the Prophet He must haue darknes for a vision hee must stumble at noone daies as at the twi-light and then truth shall fall in middest of the streets then shall the people wander from sea to sea and from the North vnto the east shall they runne to and fro to seeke the word of the Lord. 34 In the second of Haggaie speake now saith God to his prophet Speake now to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel Prince of Iudah to Iehoshua the son of Iehozadak the high priest to the residue of the people saying who is left among you that saw this house in hir first glory and how doe you see it now is not this house in your eies in comparison of it as nothing the prophet would haue all mens eies turned to the veiw of thēselues every sort brought to the consideration of their present state This is no place to shew what dutie Zerubbabel or Iehoshua doth owe vnto God in this respect They haue I doubt not such as put them hereof in remembrāce I aske of you which are a part of the residue of Gods elect chosen people Who is their amongst you that hath takē a survey of the house of God as it was in the daies of the blessed Apostles of Iesus Christ who is there amongst you that hath seen cōsidred this holy temple in her first glory how do you see it now Is it not in comparison of the other almost as nothing whē ye look vpō thē that haue vndertakē the charge of your soules know how far these are for the most part growne out of kind how few there be that tread the steps of their ancient predecessors yee are easily filled with indignation easily drawne vnto these cōplaints wherein the difference of present frō former times is bewailed easily persuaded to think of thē that lived to enioy the daies which now are gon Surely they were happy in cōparison of vs that haue succeeded them were not their Bishops mē vnreprovable wis● righteous holy tēperat wel reported of even of those which were without were not their Pastours guids teachers able willing to exhort with wholsōe doctrine to improue which gainesaid the truth had they priests made of the refuse of the people were men like to the children which were in Niniveh vnable to discerne betweene the right hand the left presented to the charge of their congregation did their teachers leaue their flocks over which the holy Ghost had made them overseers Did their Prophets enter vpon holy things as spoils without a reverend calling were their leaders so vnkindly affected towards thē that they could find in their hearts of sel them as sheepe or oxen not caring how they made them away But beloued deceaue not your selues Doe the faults of your guids and pastours offeud you it is your fault if they bee thus faulty Nullus qui malū rectorē patitur eū accuset quia fuifuit meriti perversi pastoris subiacere ditioni saith S. Gregory whosoever thou art whom the incōvenience of an evil governor doth presse accuse thy selfe not him His being such is thy deseruing O yee disobedient children turn again saith the Lord the wil I giue you pastours according to mine own hart which shall feed you with knowledge vnderstading So that the only way to repaire all ruines breaches offensiue decaies in others is to begin reformation at your selues Which that we may all sincerely seriously and speedily doe God the Father grant for his sonne our Saviour lesus sake vnto whom with the holy Ghost three persons one Eternall and everlasting Gon be Honour and Glory and Praise forever Amen FINIS a Lib 4 ca 6. de doct Chr. b Rob. Tolet. l. 4 cap 5. c 2 Pet. 1. d P●aef in orat D. Rainold * Parsons in 3. Convers. e Malac. 2 7. f Canus locor lib. 11. c. 6 Vives lib. 2 de corrupt art Hard. lib 4. Detect g Pag. 1903. edit 1570. h In the third part of 3. conversions of England in the Examine of Foxes Sainte cap. 14. §. 53. 54 p. 215 * Sect 55 k Plut in Demosthen l Liv. dec 1. lib. 2. an V. C 60 m 1. Tim. 2. 8. n Annal to 1 Ann. 57. n. 109 110 .10 2. An. 132. num 5 o S. Paulus de sua salute incertꝰ Richeom Iesuit lib. 2. c. 12. Idololat Huguenot pa. 119. in marg edit lat Mogunt 1613. interpret Marcel Bompar Iesuitâ p Witnesse the verses of Horatius of Iesuite recited by Possevin Biblioth Select part 2. lib. 17. cap. 19. Exue Francis cum tunicâ laceroque cucullo Qui Frāciscꝰ eratiam tibi Christus erit Frāc●sci exuviis si qua licet indue Christum Iam Franciscus erit qu imodò Christus erat The like hath Bencius another Iesuite q 2. Cor. 5. 1. Of the spirit of prophecie receaued frō God himself Of the Prophers māner of speech Iob. 15. 2. 3. Wisd. 9. 16. Esai 49. 2. Ezechiel 3. A naturall man perceaveth not heavenly things Iam. 2. Act. 12. Act 1● We must not halt between 2. opinions Mockers in the last time Mockers Mockers worse then Pagans and Infidels Act. 2. Act 26. Rom. 10. Iudas vir sapiens certi iudicii Threefold 〈◊〉 1 Heresie ● Schisme 3. Apostasy infallible evidence in the faithfull that they are Gods child●●̄ The Papists falsly accuse vs of Heresie and Apostasie Act. 25. Apoc. 18. Cant. 8 11. Act. 20. The Popes vsurped supremacie Consil. delector Cardin. Laurent Surius Commde reb gest à Pio 5 Franci●cus Sansovin de gubernat regnorū Rerumpub lib 11 cap. de Iud Marescal Soldan 2. Chr. c. 13. Ver. 12. Gen 6 3 13 Gen 6 8 18 Gen 19. 12. Gen 19. 15. Ver. 16. Ver. 18. Eccles. 5. The sacrament of the L. Supper Lam. 2. v. 13. Ephes 1 Ioh 4 1. Ioh. 5. Mat 7. Rom. 11. 1. Joh ● No pleasing of God without faith Psal 69. Rom. 11. Psal 18. v. 14. Rom 11. 20. Ver. 22. Hos. 1. 9 not my people Ver 6. not obtaining mercy * Carelesse Amos 8. 11. Ver. 12. 1. Pet. 4. 17. ier 3. v 14. 15.