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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14585	A fruitfull and godly sermon preached at Paules crosse before the Honourable audience and assemblie there, this present yeare 1592. Vpon the 5. chapter of the prophesie of Zacharie, 1, 2, 3, 4 verses. By A.W.	Willet, Andrew, 1562-1621.	1592 (1592)	STC 24899; ESTC S119640	29,840	80

which is described by twoe adiuncts one of the qualitye it is a swifte or flieng booke the other of the quantity it is 20. cubites long and 10. cubits broad This booke is the decree of the iudgments of God which are both speedy and swift and general likewise large comprehending all the wicked of what state soeuer they be In the interpretation firste the sinnes or matter of Gods iudgement is set downe namelye those twoe stealing and false swearing conteining manye other sins as diuers waters issuing from one streame many branches springing from one roote Secondly the iudgement of god against their persons they shall be cut off in the 3. verse and againste their substance it shall be consumed sticke and stone with the manner also of the Lords iudgment it shal enter in no secret corner into the which it shall not pierce it shal also tarry there they shall not be rid of the plague when it hath once taken holde of them This order I will obserue God willing in the handling of these wordes But first of all somewhat would bee touched concerning visions and apparition of aungels for all this was shewed to the Prophet by an Angell in a vision First therefore that angels were seene in times past of the Patriarchs and Prophetes euen with the eies of theyr flesh no man can doubt that is yea but a little exercised in the reading of the holy scriptures But whither they appeared with very materiall and fleshelye bodyes at some time for alwaies it is certain they did not it is a greater question and yet we may soone bee resolued of this point remembring howe that the angels did eate and drink with Abraham Gen. 18. their feete were washed in Lots house Gen 19. Iacob wrastled with an angell Gen. 32. All this could in no wise bee if they had not had materiall sensible palpable bodies And of this iudgement is that great and learned father Augustine Quanquam non nati ex faeminis saith hee though they were not borne of women Deus tamen illis corpoream creaturam subdidit yet God gaue them power to assume the corporall creature of bodies for a time For this we shall read to haue beene the difference betweene the appearing of good and badde angelles that they were indued with power from God to appeare sometimes in humaine bodies but the other that wee reade of neuer were seene of men but in shewe onelye and outward appearance as Augustine thinketh that it was Phantasma Samuelis a shew onelye or phantasie of Samuell which was seene of Saule and not Samuell himselfe 1. Kinges 28. For the Apostles were afraide when they sawe Christ walking vpon the waters thinking that they had seene a spirite the word is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mark 6 49. And Luke 24 37. they were likewise afraid as if they had seene a spirit the worde there vsed is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 all one with the other and our Sauiour in that place doth comfort them vsing this as an argument a spirite saith he hath not flesh and bone as you see me to haue that is an euill spirit such as you imagine me to be of the which you are afraid for the Apostles would not haue feared the presence of good angels thogh they might be our sauiour vseth not to appeare with flesh and bone as I haue for if Christe had meant al angels in so speaking then would it followe that they neuer appeared in humane bodies which the scripture setteth downe to haue beene otherwise And concerning the very moment and instant of their appearing it is no matter whether the flesh be appropriate to their nature as it was onely in christ or assumed onelye for the present as in the Angels Now for visions we read in the scripture that they were of three sorts according to the three faculties of the soule for there is the outwarde and externall sense the inward internall called the phantasie and the intellectuall and vnderstanding part which properly we cal the minde so according to this distinction some visions were shewed to the outward sense as when the yoong man with the prophet hauing his eies opened saw all about vpon the mountains fierie chariots and horsse 2 kin 6. some are seen with the inward and interial sense as the visions of the seuen fat and leane kine and the eares of corne which appeared to Pharao in his dreame some are altogither spirituall in the mind they are of two sorts either by the abstracting rauishing of the minde as in an exstacie or trance such was that of Peter Act. 10 and Paules 2. Cor. 12. or by the secret instinct inspiration of the spirit as 2. kin 20 1. The word of God came to Isai the prophet being gone out from Hezekia before he was come to the middle court There was no sound or voice herd from heauen but the word of God was secretly infused into him This vision which the prophet saw in this place seemeth to haue been altogither spiritual as Stephēs was Act. 7 55. Who being in the counsell house Act. 6 15. saw the heauens open and Iesus sitting at the right hande of God which sight he beheld not with his bodily eies being in the house and therefore it must be vnderstoode of his spirituall sight Before wee leaue this place let vs make some vse of this which hath bin said We learne that howsoeuer the prophets in times past were instructed by visions yet nowe we are not to looke for such extraordinary reuellations hauing a moste perfect rule of the word vnto the which we ought to flie and appeale in all doubts and controuersies whatsoeuer Wherefore away with all other Anabaptisticall dreames and reuelations and all popish traditions which both doe derogate and detract much from the integritie and perfection of the scriptures It is the Priuilege that Iesus Christ our heauenly Doctor hath beyond al other prophets and teachers that vnto them God spake diuersly and at sundry times not one of them being able to deliuer a perfect and absolute fourme of doctrine but nowe in these last times he hath spoken vnto vs by his sonne not manye times but once for all not diuersly but after one and the selfe same manner by him deliuering an absolute and intier patterne and fourme of doctrine which shoulde remaine without any addition alteration or change to the end of the worlde Indeed the word spoken by Moses was so perfect that if a man regarded it not neither would he heare a man speaking ab inferis from the deade Luke 16. 31. But the Gospell is lefte vnto vs in such perfection that an angell from heauen a superis speaking against it is not to bee heard Now we see as in a glasse with open face 2. Corint 3. 18. Hee therefore that would leaue the worde and cleaue to vncertaine reuelations is as one that not contented to see his face in a steele glasse would behold it in