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hand_n	body_n	foot_n	member_n	6,594	5	8.0095	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

abstaine from such enemies Strangers and pilgrims doe commonly stand in more feare of enemies thē they that dwell in their knowne country and among their acquaintance as it appeareth by Iacob howe Gen. 34. 3 〈…〉 he feared the Cananites when his sonnes had slaine Hamor and Sechem He feared because he was a stranger in the land few in ●●mber in comparison of his enemies So Lot is despised of the Sodomites because Gen. 19. 〈◊〉 he was a stranger and one that had not been borne in that country therefore they regard not his praiers nor his intreaty he made vnto them but bid him bee pa●king as a stranger This pride of insulting against strangers lyeth as poison within vs all what nation soeuer we be of and vpon any light occasion sheweth it selfe It pleased God therefore Acta 10. 34. who is no accepter of persōs to bridle such insolencie by his holy word as it is written loue the stranger and againe thou shalt loue the Deut. 10. 19 stranger as thy selfe With a memento that wee haue iust cause so to do For yee were strangers Levi. 19. 34. ●n the land of Egypt Io 〈…〉 hes brethren do behaue themselues in the lande of Egypt with greate humility and a 〈…〉 nde at the rough wordes of Ioseph which they woulde not haue done but for that they were st●●gers in the land few in number And that is it that should cause al strangers and pilgri●s to looke to their owne wa●es to liue warily because they are cōp●●led about with strange people of strange conditions which are many in nūber they few Now the state of all true Christians here vpon earth is by the condition and nature of strangers most ●i●ly expressed For in the sacred scriptures ●hey are called strāgers The Prophet speaking in the person of the faithfull confes●eth that they are so saying I am a Psal 119. 19 Psal 39. 12. stranger vpō earth And againe I am a stranger with thee a soiournor as all my fathers were in another place where he cōfesseth his own and his peoples vnworthines he saith we are strangers before thee so●ourners ●ike all our fathers our dates are like the shadow vpon the earth 1 〈◊〉 29. 15. and there is none abiding We see that this is true for man so long as hee dwelleth in the tabetnacle of his flesh dwelleth as a stranger among his spirituall enemies vvhich are the lustes of his flesh daily fighting against him and wounding his soule more deadly thē the multitude of any strange and barbarous people can wound or hurt his bodie vvhen they are mooved to fight against him Man can kill but the bodie but fleshly lustes kill both the soule and bodie too This the Apostle Paule sheweth where hee saith if yee liue after the Rom. 8. 13. flesh yee shall die VVee reade in an heathen vvriter that D 〈…〉 C 〈…〉 de b●th Tre. lib. 4. the arrowes of Hercules had beene d●pt in the blood of the venimous monster Hidr● And therefore whosoeuer was shot of wounded with any of them perished and dyeil without recovery The lustes of the flesh may be compared to such Arrowes for the flesh of al men hath euer since the fal of Adam been infected with the vemme of ●lie old serpent the Deuill And therefore the lustes thereof ●lay the soule with endlesse death of they be not refisted with great vigila●ty For as Iames saith when lust hath conceived Iam. 1. 15. it bringeth forth sin sin when it is finished bringeth foorth d●ath Here is the wounde that lust giueth to the soule to w●t death which shall neuer haue an end againe the s●n●e Apostle saith from whence are vvarres Iam. 4. 1. and contentions among you● are they not hence even of your lustes that sight in your members here note that he saith your lustes and in your members For if they were not in our members within our bodies we might be safe from the danger of them if they were in our garmēts we might haue them washed out or change and put on such as shoulde bee cleane or if they were in some one kinde of meate wee might abstaine from that and liue by other meate But the Prophet saith of them that had fasted from meate your lust remaineth still Isa 58. 4. Or if they were as a plague in some towne or citie or in some mens houses the inhabitants there of might change their dwelling and so avoide them Or if they were in some one countrey more then in another men would be content to leaue that as a wildernesse rather then to die in it even as Abraham forsooke Gen. 12. 10 Canaan and went into Egypt in time of a famine Nay if these lustes were but in some one outward member of the body as in the hand or the foote some men would bee content to cut of that member to saue the rest of the body from infection or death But the scripture saith the heart is deceitfull and wicked Ier. 17. 9. aboue all thinges who can know it here wee see that the principall part of the fleshis infected even the heart and no man can make him a newe heart no man can go out of his own flesh nor change the dwelling place of his soule so long as this life lasteth Luther writeth of one that was grieued Martin Luther of one that intended to bee an Heremite with himselfe for sinne weary with seeing hearing the iniquities of the world which made him forsake the societie of mē goe into a desert place thinking there to be safe from evill frō all occasion of sinne but herein he was greatly deceyued for being in the desert he had with him an earthē vessell to hold water in this vessell with often falling downe from the place where he would haue had it to stand did moue him to such anger● that at the last it caused him to breake it in peeces Then he beganne to consider what his nature was saw that he could haue no peace with himselfe though no mā disquieted him If this be true as most true it is that in mās flesh dwelleth no good thing Rom. 7. 18. what excellēt thing do the Heremits such people as forsake the felowshipe of men vnder a pretense of religion if they abstayne from offending when they want occasion to offende you know that the theese cannot steale so long as nothing is les●e in his way If ther be no battell there cā be no victorie but we see that the Christians victorie is not gotten by alte●●ng the dwelling place of his body o● by going out of the wo●ld that is out of the ●o●ie●●e of men but it must be in the world by ●e●i●●ing his dayl●e aduersaries to keepe himselfe as ●●mes s●●th vnspo●ted of the Iam 1 27. world For Christ will not haue his disciples to be exemp●ed from the