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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04905	A sermon preached at Paules Crosse the Fryday before Easter, commonly called good Friday, in the yeere of our Lorde. 1579. By Iohn Knewstub	Knewstubs, John, 1544-1624.; Knewstub, John. Confutation of monstrous and horrible heresies, taught by H.N. aut	1579 (1579)	STC 15046; ESTC S101374	39,484	98

the knowledge of thy wayes What wickednesse were it either with the Papist to set a visour vpon the Lord his face and to make him looke as we list either els with the secure an carelesse Christian to let him looke as he liketh so we neede not to looke vpon him The Lorde hath planted the ministery of the woorde in his Church not onely to teach vs barely but also to comfort vs in our iourney and to quicken vs in our dueties yea and to feare vs also from sinne Who is the Almightie that we should serue him This is a second note of vngodlinesse an vsual speache of vngodly hearts howe so euer the tongue bee cleare of it For in deede they haue no inward acquaintaunce with him neither doe they in trueth see any suche desertes towardes them why why they shoulde be seruauntes vnto him The benefits they haue they see them common with other but as for any speciall regard had of them they doe not vnderstand of it and while they see nothing in God towarde them but that is generall vnto all they ascribe nothyng vnto him but a generall kinde of goodnesse which they take to be indifferently cast downe among men to be taken vp of so many as will. Besides this they neuer accquainte them with the sight of their sinnes and the desert thereof which shoulde leade them into a misliking of themselues let them see other wages then benefites to be by al equitie and right due vnto them Thus it falleth out that they would haue him shew wherin he hath so hounde them as hee might demaunde so great things of them as if they should call for a reckoning to see what is come in seeing the charges arise so great and the dueties laide vpon them so many and diuerse Thus while the vngodly receiue benefites but not as tokens of fatherly affections while in the vse of the benefite they are no whit confirmed in the peculiar care and affection which he beareth his elect they cannot but say Who is the Almighty that we should serue him What token haue we of his special good wil why we shoulde in such difficult matters serue him with such danger attend vpon him For in very deede he that shall get out more then ordinarie seruice had neede see more then common good will in him who shall exact it They enioy the benefite as other doe but so as they doe repose them in it and returne no speciall thing into the accountes of the benefactour wherby they might know hee maketh an other reckoning of them then of the cōmon sort euen such as a louing father doeth of his owne sonne Moreouer their sinnes are seldome or neuer in their sight I meane with this consideratiō that in iustice they doe deserue not onely the stopping of the course of his grace but euen to haue let in vpon them the fluddes of his wrath Which thing if it were truely seene could not but set a great price vppon those benefites that come in ouer suche desertes The minde of the geuer cōmendeth not the gift of them for they see not so far they ioyne them not as seales to his letters of free grace I meane to the free graunt of his grace notwithstanding we be forewarned of this diuiding of them and so straightly charged to vnite them Beware least thou say in thine hearte my power the strength of mine owne hand prepared me this aboundance but remember the Lord thy god For it is he which geueth the power to get substance to establish his couenant which he sware vnto the fathers as appeareth this day Is it not a great villanie to taste so liberally of his benefies and yet to perswade vs so sparingly of his good wil to haue so friendly dealing with his giftes so litle liking of him selfe that when we haue deucured so many benefites wee shoulde inquire of the Almightie who he is that wee shoulde serue him as if yet we had seene nothing to binde our seruice vnto him Can there bee more vnkindnesse then in so many benefits bestowed to gayne no good will so many benefits to be let out no good wil to come in with them agayne That wee may the more clearely see into his good will free mercy through his benefites wee must bee brought backe now then vnto our sinnes and the iust desertes thereof For then shal we reckon them to bee benefites in deede when wee see what doeinges they haue succeeded and beene ioyned withall Thus allayeth Moses the pride of the people of Israel and getteth GOD his due honor among them in the ix of Deuteronomie Speake not thou in thy heart after the Lorde thy God hath cast them out before thee saying For my righteousnesse the Lord hath brought me in remember and forget not how thou prouokest the Lorde God to anger in the wildernesse since the day thou diddest depart out of the lande of Egypt vntyl ye came vnto this place yee haue rebelled against the Lorde Hee calleth to minde sundry of their grieuous crāsgressiōs particularly reciting the time the place By these rules let vs trie who in matters of any weight laide vpō thē by the Lord are like to returne this answere Who is the Lorde that I shoulde serue him Euen so manie as doe finde no sweetenesse nor tast in him by his benefites as are no more confirmed by his blessings in his fatherly affection towards them such as get thereby no strength of fayth such as do not hold themselues the more bound vnto him as are not the more delighted in him as are not the more desirous to walke worthie of him as finde not their heart the more inyfull in him as finde them no better minded to his law to the which he hath set ouer his owne loue euen those I say that dwell in the benefites so they haue their desire they holde that their heauen and their happinesse that looke no further then the benefite that stay vpon it and inquire no further whether God do loue them and is become a father vnto them so as they may accounte vpon his benefites as giftes from a louing father those that thinke themselues then to vse his benefites best when God and all goodnesse is the furthest from their minde those that can finde no taste in these temporall blessings vnlesse the mention of him who giueth the taste and sauour vnto them be indented and conditioned withall to depart farre from them for that time which they haue to vse them those that will neuer set their sinnes in sight that they may further the accounte of the benefite and the good will of the benefactour Wee must denie this vngodlinesse that yet demaundeth Who is the Lord that wee should serue him After so long vse of his benefites Now would I knowe where we might haue a place for them that are lesse acquainted with him then they were manie yeares agoe who haue lesse comfort