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A14708	Certaine godlie homelies or sermons vpon the prophets Abdias and Ionas conteyning a most fruitefull exposition of the same. Made by the excellent lerned man, Rodolph Gualter of Tigure. And translated into Englishe, by Robert Norton. Minister of the worde in Suffolke.	Gwalther, Rudolf, 1519-1586.; Norton, Robert, minister of the worde in Suffolke.	1573 (1573)	STC 25010; ESTC S103038	125,106	338

diligence in trauell and paines for their fidelitie in true handling and vttering their Embassage they bee well to bee thought of and worthy of their iust cōmendation by whose meanes we haue receyued the will of God the worde of eternall life But some thinke the Prophetes and the Bokes of the old Testamēt pertayned to the Iewes only and are now abolished and permine nothing to vs to what purpose should wee keepe thē or labor to vnderstand them Cōcerning the ceremonies of the olde Law we know that literally they be fulfilled by Christ and in him finished and vtterly abolyshed yet spiritually we are bound to obserue them still as the spirituall circumcision spirituall sacrifices spirituall sabboth or rest from sinne and such like the Moral law is the lawe of nature and the eternall lawe of God and therefore for euer to be kept of vs vnder the new Testament the Prophecie of Christ and his Churche c. as they were promised in the olde Testament so are they truely performed in the newe Therefore the olde Testament and the newe containe both one thing the times are changed he shall come and he is come the matter is one in this word come as the olde Testament is the fountaine where out of the new doth issue as the same liuely water of the spring so is the newe Testament the lighte and brighte shine of the olde What is the newe Testament but a plaine exposition of the olde we may not so expound the newe scripture that we take awaye the olde whereon the newe is grounded If the old scriptures are abolished why doe the Apostles apply them to the Gentiles whom they laboure by the scriptures to make the people of God why are the noble men of Thessalonica cōmended Act. 17. for searching the olde scriptures thereby proued Paules doctrine to be true If the olde scripture be abrogate why did Paule affirme before king Agrippa Act. 26. that he preached to serue their owne deuises and woulde seeme to see something that neuer man saw before them Concerning them that cauill the scriptures to be hard and obscure and therfore not to be studied the plaine contrarie is true For if a thing necessarie be difficult the more paine is to be taken for the obtaining of the same The scriptures are like vnto the sea whiche hath a shallowe shore where the lambe may drynke and refreshe him selfe and a bottomlesse depth where the Elephant and other great beastes may swimme and feele no bottome so hath the scriptures plaine lessons to nourish all men though they be but babes and deeper mysteries wherin greater learned men may bee occupied still and yet not in thys life come to the fulnesse of knowledge but euery one according to the measure that God hath giuen Euery art and science is hard to him that neuer studied for it No man is borne an artificer but by studie he commeth to knowledge of artes some difficultie there is in scriptures to thē which bee not conuersaunt therein by reason of straunge phrases figures tropes and vnacquaintance with the tongue wherin they were written And as Gregorie sayth the obscuritie of scripures bring vtilitie that a mans witte may bee exercised and being weried with labour may bee enlarged And he that so is exercised may perceyue and vnderstand that which an ydle man cannot vnderstande Yea and this difficultie hath yet a greater thing For if the vnderstanding of the scriptures in all things were plaine it woulde waxe vile and of no estimation but when the sense is founde in certaine obscure places it so much delighteth more with a greater sweetnesse as the seeking thereof did wearye the mynde wyth paynefull labour Christ therefore willeth as well for the knowledge of the worde as other necessaries aske and ye shal receiue seeke and ye shal find knock c. Aske by prayer seke by reding and studie knock by perseuerance and it shall be opened Psal. 119. Maruellous are thy testimonies O Lorde and therefore my soule searcheth them exceedingly Againe blessed are they that searche his testimonies and seeke him with their whole hearte Iohn 5. Searche the scriptures for in them c. He sayth not reade them or say them with lip labour or for a custome or negligently but search and seeke out the true vnderstanding of them Christ opened the scriptures to the two disciples whiche went to Emaus bycause they were talking conferring and searching the scripture Phillip was commaunded to teach the Chamberlaine by the spirite the true meaning of the Prophete Esay bycause he was diligēt in reading searching that which as yet then he vnderstode not wherefore the scriptures are not difficulte to the Children of God which praye laboure seeke and knock to God for the opening of them but to the wicked as Peter writeth that in Paules epistles some things are hard to be vnderstand but he sheweth to whome they be so for he addeth whiche they that be vnlearned and vnsteadfast do wreast as the other Scriptures to their owne destruction so that to the vnlearned the vnexercised the malicious the corrupted the slothfull and sluggish they be only harde and difficult and to such as loue not the truth for he that doth euill hateth the light and this is condemnation that lighte is come into the world and men loued darkenesse more thā light 2. Corinth 1. Jf our Gospell be hid yet c. loke the place the scriptures are not darknesse but light Psalm 119. 2. Peter 1. therefore they are not to be lightned of darknesse but to lighten the darkenesse Therefore the holy ghost that gaue the scriptures hathe his working in hys Church to open and make playne the same to his that in sinceritie search them But to come to the second sorte although the scriptures be playne vnto the elect yet are they so by laboure and studie and not by idlenesse and negligence Gregory compareth them to a stone in whiche there lyeth fire hid for the stone being holden in the hand is colde but being striken with iron it glistereth with fire which will burne the hand so the scriptures caried only in the hands or in the tong are but colde but beaten with exercise they kindle the harte and set it on fier with true loue Luke 24. did not our hart burne within vs while he talked with vs sayde the two disciples They are also like a treasure hid in the field as one said to his sonnes on his death bed my children there is a great treasure hid in this litle close if ye cā find it After his death they did plough vp the grounde thinking there to finde golde but when they found none they sewe the ground with wheat it yelded great increase and so continued from yeare to yeare till in deede they had thereout of greate treasure So the scriptures being trimmed bring greate frute which being neglected they will not doe There is fine flower in the corne but it must be thresht and