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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02551	The hypocrite Set forth in a sermon at the court; February, 28. 1629. Being the third Sunday in Lent. By Ios: Exon.	Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656.	1630 (1630)	STC 12677; ESTC S103697	19,353	86

will giue them repentance that they may recouer themselues out of the snares of the Diuell and Repentance is you know a maine part of Godlinesse If euer therefore ye be dispossessed of that euill one it is the power of Godlinesse that must do it What speake I of power I had like to haue ascribed to it the acts of omnipotencie And if I had done so it had not bin much amisse for what is godlinesse but one of those rayes that beames forth from that Almightie Deitie What but that same Dextra excelsi wherby hee workes mightily vpon the soule Now when I say the man is strong is it any derogation to say his arme is strong Faith and Praier are no small peeces of Godlines and what is it that God can doe which Praier and Faith can not doe Will yee see some instances of the further acts of Godlinesse Is it not an act of omnipotence to change nature Iannes and Iambres the Egyptian Sorcerers may iuggle away the Staffe bring a Serpent into the roome of it none but a Diuine power which Moses wrought by could change the Rod into a Serpent or the Serpent into a Rod Nothing is aboue nature but the God of nature nothing can change nature but that which is aboue it for nature is regular in her proceedings will not bee crost by a finite power since all finite agents are within her command Is it not a manifest change of the nature of the Wolfe to dwell quietly with the Lambe of the Leopard to dwell with the kid of the Lion to eat straw like the Oxe of the Aspe to play with the child How shall this be it is an idle conceit of the Hebrewes that sauage beasts shall forgo their hurtfull natures vnder the M●ssias No but rat●onall beasts shall alter their dispositions the rauenous oppressor is the Wolfe the tyrannicall persecutor is the Leopard the venemous Hereticke is the Aspe these shall turne innocent and vsefull by the power of Godlinesse for then the earth shall bee full of the knowledge of the Lord Esay 11. 6 7. Is it not a manifest change of nature for the Ethiopian to turn white for the Leopard to turne spotlesse This is done when those doe good which are accustomed to euill Ier. 13. 23. and this godlinesse can doe Is it not a manifest change of nature for the Camel to passe through a needles eye this is done when through the power of godlinesse ye great and rich men get to heauen Lastly it is an easie thing to turne men into beasts a cup too much can doe it but to turne beasts into Men Men into Saints Deuils into Angels it is no lesse then a worke of omnipotencie and this godlinesse can doe But to rise higher then a change Is it not an act of omnipotencie to create Nature can goe on in her tracke whether of continuing what shee actually finds to be or of producing what she forbids to be potentially in pre-existing causes but to make new matter transcends her power this god linesse can do here is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a new creatre 2. Cor. 5. There is in nature no predisposition to grace the man must bee no lesse new then when hee was made first of the dust of the earth that earth of nothing Nouus homo Eph. 4. 21. How is this done by Creation and how is he created In righteousnesse and holinesse holinesse to God righteousnesse to men both make vp Godlinesse A regeneration is here a Creation Progenuit is expressed by Creauit Iam. 1. 18. and this by the word of truth Old things are passed saith the Apostle all must be new if wee will haue ought to doe with God our bodies must bee renued by a glorious resurrection ere they can inioy heauen our soules must bee renued by Grace ere wee can inioy God on earth Are there any of vs pained with our heart of stone Wee may b●e well enough the stone of the reines or bladder is a woful paine but the stone of the heart is more deadly hee can by this power take it out and giue vs a heart of flesh Ezec. 12. Are there any of vs wearie of carrying our old Adam about vs a grieuous burthen I confesse that which is able to weigh vs downe to Hell doe wee groane vnder the load and long to be eased none but that Almightie hand can doe it by the power of godlinesse creating vs anew to the likenesse of that second Adam which is from heauen heauenly without which there is no possibilitie of saluation for flesh and bloud cannot inherit the Kingdome of God In a word would wee haue this earth of ours translated to heauen it is only the power of godlinesse can doe it And as this power of godlines is great so no lesse beneficiall Beneficiall euery way both here and hereafter Here it frees vs from euill it feoffs vs in good Godlinesse is an Antidote against all mischiefe and miserie yea such is the power of it that it not only keepes vs from euill but turnes that euill to good All things worke together to the best to them that loue feare God saith the Apostle lo all things Crosses sinnes Crosses are blessings sinnes are aduantages Saint Pauls Viper befriended him Saint MARTINS Ellebore nourisht him Saluti fuere pestifera as Seneca speakes And what can hurt him that is blessed by crosses is bettered by sins It feoffes vs in good Wealth Honour Contentment The Apostle puts two of them together Godlinesse is great gaine with contentment 1. Tim. 6. 6. Here are no iffs or ands but gaine great gaine and gaine with self-sufficiencie or contentment wickednesse may yeeld a gaine such as it is for a time but it will bee grauell in the throat gaine farre from contentment Length of dayes are in the right hand of true wisdome and in her left hand riches and honour Prou. 3. 16. Lo honour wealth are but gifts of the left hand common and meane fauours Length yea eternitie of daies is for the right that is the height of bountie Godlinesse hath the promises of this life and of that which is to come saith the Apostle the promise that is enough Gods promises are his performances with men to promise and to pay are two things they are one with God To them that by patient continuing in wel-doing seeke glory and honour and immortalitie eternall life Rom. 2. 7. Briefly for I could dwell here alwayes it is godlinesse that only can giue vs the beatificall sight of God the sight yea the fruition of him yea the vnion with him not by apposition not by ad haesion but by a blessed participation of the diuine nature 2. Pet. 1. 4. I can go no higher no the Angels and Arch-angels cannot looke higher then this To summe vp all then Godlines can giue wisedome to the foole eyes to the blind life to the dead it can eiect Diuels change the course of

sinners did truely apprehend an hell there would be more danger of their despaire and distraction then of their securitie It is the Diuels policie like a Rauen first to pull out the eyes of those that are dead in their sinnes that they may not see their imminent damnation But for vs Tell me yee that heare me this day Are ye Christians in earnest or are yee not It yee be not what doe yee here If ye be there i● an hell in your Creed Ye do not lesse beleeue there is an Hell for the godlesse then an Earth for men a firmament for starres an heauen for Saints a God in heauen And if ye doe thus firmely beleeue it cast but your eyes aside vpon that fierie gulfe and sinne if yee dare Yee loue your selues well enough to auoid a knowne paine we know there are Stockes and Bride-wells and Iayles and Dungeons and Rackes and Gibbers for malefactors and our verie feare keeps vs innocent were your hearts equally assured of those hellish torments yee could not ye durst not continue in those sins for which they are prepared But what an vnpleasing and vnseasonable subiect am I fallen vpon to speake of Hell in a Chrstian Court the Emblem of Heauen Let me answer for my selfe with deuout Bernard Sic mihi contingat semper beare amicos terrendo salubriter non adulando falaciter Let me thus euer blesse my friends with wholsome frights rather then with plausible soothings Sumenda sunt amara salubria saith Saint Austin Bitter wholsome is a safe receipt for a Christian and what is more bitter or more wholsome then this thought The way not to feele an Hell is to see it to feare it I feare we are all generally defectiue this way we doe not retire our selues enough into the Chamber of Meditation and thinke sadly of the things of another world Our Selfe-loue puts off this torment notwithstanding our willing sinnes with Dauids pla●ue non oppropinquabit It shall not come nigh thee if wee doe not make a league with hell and death yet with our selues against them Fallit peccatum falsa dulcedine as Saint Austin sinne deceiues vs with a false pleasure the pleasure of the world is like that Colchian hony wherof Xenophons soldiers no sooner tasted then they were miserably distemperd those that tooke little were drunke those that tooke more were mad those that tooke most were dead thus are we either intoxicated or infatuated or kild right out with this deceitfull world that wee are sensible of our iust feares at the best we are besotted with our stupid securitie that wee are not affected with our danger Woe is mee the impenitent resolued sinner is alreadie falne into the mouth of hell and hangs there but by a slender twigge of his momentanie life when that hold failes he fals down head-long into that pit of horror and desolation Oh yee my deare brethren so many as loue your soules haue mercie vpon your selues Call aloud out of the deeps of your sins to that compassionate Sauiour that he will giue you the hand of faith to lay hold vpon the hand of his mercie and plenteous redemption and pull you out of that otherwise irrecouerable destruction Else yee are gone yee are gone for euer Two things as Bernard borrowes of Saint Gregorie make a man both good and safe To repent of euill To abstaine from euill would yee escape the wrath of God the fire of hell Oh wash you cleane and keepe you so There is no lauer for you but your owne teares and the blood of your Sauiour Bathe your Soules in both of these and bee secure Consider how many are dying now which would giue a world for one houre to repent in Oh be yee carefull then to improue your free and quiet houres in a serious and heartie contrition for your sinnes say to God with the Psalmist Deliuer me from the euill man that is from my selfe as that Father construes it and for the sequell in steed of the denying the power of Godlinesse resolue to denie your selues to denie all vngodlinesse and worldly lusts and to liue soberly righteously godly in this present world that hauing felt and approued the power of godlinesse in the illuminating our eyes in raysing vs from our sinnes in eiecting our corruptions in changing our liues and creating our hearts anew we may at the last feele the happie consummation of this power in the full possessing of vs in that eternall blessednesse and glory which he hath prepared for all that loue him to the perfect fruition whereof hee bring vs that hath dearly bought vs Iesus Christ the righteous to whom c. FINIS Errata FOr Scaene read Scene pag. 12. l. 2. Haillardu● r. A●●●lardus p. 18. l penult none 〈…〉 marg p. 20 such r much p. 25. l. 19 for aids r finds pa. ●4 20 p. 27. l 15. r. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p 34. 5. or as in steed read as No Creature is more humble then God The Temple of the Lord. Neat in words if foule in fact Heauy eare Deafe eare Herod within Iohn without Either all or none all The whole world is set in euill Wickednesse blinds the vnderstanding The right hand of the most high They told truth and yet lyed