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A08578	An explanation of the generall Epistle of Saint Iude. Delivered in one and forty sermons, by that learned, reverend, and faithfull servant of Christ, Master Samuel Otes, parson of Sowthreps in Norfolke. Preached in the parish church of Northwalsham, in the same county, in a publike lecture. And now published for the benefit of Gods church, by Samuel Otes, his sonne, minister of the Word of God at Marsham	Otes, Samuel, 1578 or 9-1658.; Otes, Samuel, d. 1683.	1633 (1633)	STC 18896; ESTC S115186	606,924	589

danger except he take great heed But wherein is wealth so dangerous I answer that it is very troublesome to the outward man the rich mans plenty will not suffer him to sleepe his wealth is like a long garment too side that a man treads upon it often and catcheth a fall So wealth maketh him many times to fall into many maladies and makes him obnoxious to envy and so subject to malice that none are more But to the soule the desire of wealth is most pernicious For first it makes the soule vainely confident The rich mans riches is a strong tower in his imagination Hee thinkes himselfe by them walled Prov. 10. 5. and moated about though indeed hee is as open to danger as other men Hee thinkes himselfe safe if he have Balaams wages wealth and puts his trust in his uncertaine riches The Prophet sayes they Sacrifice to their Nets and burne Incense to their Yarne the meaning is that the same 1 Tim. 6. Abac. 1. 16. confidence which by Sacrifice and incense wee protest to God they put in their wealth And it is noted to bee a passion of the covetous to delight in wealth to flatter themselves in their abundance as if gold were their Sun by day and silver their Moone by night The wise man saith Gold and silver fasten the feet that is the covetous man Eccles 40. 25. he thinkes he stands firme on no ground but on that which is paved with gold But there is yet more evill in wealth it maketh men proud Charge rich men saith the Apostle that they bee 1 Tim. 6. 17. not high-minded and Bernard saith that pride is the rich mans Cousin It is the nature of wealth when it falleth into vile mens hands to blow up the heart as a bladder Pride blowes up the heart is blowne with a quill And therefore Paul saith The rich fall into lusts and temptations To conclude from wealth growes security as a dead sleepe from drunkennesse Let us then beware of this sinne that wee never bee carryed away with the deceit of Balaams wages that wee be not covetous as hee was THE TWO AND TVVENTIETH SERMON VERS XI And perish in the gaine-saying of Core After Mercy followes Iudgement I Am come to the third sin which is the Rebellion of Core whose story is recited by Moses in the Booke of Numbers where is registred and set downe unto us how they rebelled Numb 16. against Moses in the Common-wealth and Aaron in the Church and how the earth opened and swallowed them up for as it can hardly beare any sinnes so most hardly a Rebell the Sunne would give him no light the Ayre would give him no breath the fire no heat the water no cleansing the earth no place but that God for a time disposeth of these creatures to draw men to repentance So saith the Apostle The Lord is not slacke but is patient towards us and would have no man to perish but 2 Pet. 3. 9. would all men come to repentance The Idolaters were slaine with Exod. 32. the sword but the Rebels were swallowed up of the earth as was Iericho and Hierapolis in the primitive Church and twelve Numb 16. Cities of Campania in the dayes of Constantine and many Cities Ios 7. in Greece in the raigne of Tiberius The Minister in the 2 Thes 2. 8. Church is Gods mouth and the Magistrate in the Common-wealth is Gods hand If Aarons Vrim and Thummim would have served Moses Rod and his staffe should not have needed but when the tongue could not perswade the Rod and the Staffe Exod. 32. compelled After a shepheards whistle commeth a dogge after Doctrine God the Author of Government commeth justice GOD led his people like sheepe by the hands of Moses and Aaron the one is to governe the soules the other the bodies of men in good order The Magistrate must kill sin Psal 80. with the Sword the Minister must destroy it with the Word The Magistrate must carefully protect and defend the Sacraments of grace the Minister must faithfully dispence and deliver the Word of truth The Magistrate must behold the outward person the Minister must regard the inward man the Magistrate must punish sinne the Minister reprove iniquity the Magistrate must respect the publicke peace of the Common-wealth the Minister the inward peace of the conscience the Magistrate must correct the body the Minister reforme the soule the Magistrate must prohibit outward wickednesse the Minister forbid the inward corruption of the heart the Magistrate must subdue with his hand the Minister reprove with his tongue the Magistrate must force with violence the Minister teach with patience and when Magistrate and Minister the Sword and the Word goe thus hand in hand together then Kingdomes prosper like the Apple Tree of Persia that beareth fruit monthly for then Are there thrones set for judgement even the Psal 122. 5. thrones of the house of David And therefore Ieremy lamented the overrhrow of the Kingdome and of the Priest as the decay of Ierusalem the Eclipse of all their light God governed his people Exod. 12. Acts 13. of Israel first with a Prophet then with Iudges foure hundred and thirty yeeres Thirdly with Kings as 1 Sam. 8. Fourthly with Dukes and Nobles after the captivity but what the superiour be Hag. 1. it skilleth not so there be a superiour Nam malum quidem est ubi nullus est principatus it is passing evill whereas there is no government For when as there was no King in Israel every man did that which seemed good in his owne eyes The learned make three kindes of Government and all to bee obeyed As first a Monarchie Secondly an Aristocracie Thirdly a Democratie To the which they oppose Tyrannidem Oligarchiam Anarchiam Our regiment is a Monarchy that of the Germanes and Switzers seemeth to be an Aristocracie that of the Low-countries a Democratie which of these three is the best is not agreed upon among the learned Some doe advance the government of many because many are not so soone corrupted as one may be even as a great quantity of water will not so soone putrifie as will a small portion But these must on the other side consider that it is a great deale more hard to find many good than one Reasons why Monarchy is the best forme of government and it is most likely that such an one will prove best whom the Nobility of Royall bloud and Princely examples of predecessors doe invite unto vertue Others doe advance the government of one because it is first most agreeable to nature as Ierome doth witnesse saying In apibus principes sunt grues unum sequuntur ordine literato Imperator unus Dux unus provinciae in navi unus gubernator in domo unus dominus c. Bees have their chiefe governour the Cranes doe follow one another in an exquisite order there is one

Give me riches take all the rest to thy selfe speaking unto the Divell Faith Hope Charitie body and soule and what thou wilt for many are cold in faith and many are utterly ignorant in the faith and regard no faith they are like Horse and Mule in whom is no understanding Psal 32. but are men Omnium horarum as one saith like the raine-bow of all colours like the Troianes tun to hold all liquors like the Israelites that cried haile King Salomon haile King Adonia So they have cried haile Queene Marie haile Queene Elizabeth they can live in all times for they can shift their sailes for all windes they regard no faith but are fit for all faiths all Princes yea for the Divel as the men of Calecut at this day they have two faces with Ianus two tongues with Iudas two hands with Ioab Psal 78. one to embrace withall the other to stabbe withall they have two hearts with Israel a double heart a heart and a heart Paul compareth a Christian to a husband-man to a wrestler to a souldier all which labour hard or else they get nothing No man that 2 Tim. 2. 4 5 6. warreth saith Paul entangleth himselfe with the affaires of this life because he would please him that hath chosen him to be a souldier if any man also strive for a masterie he is not crowned except he strive as he ought to doe the husbandman must labour before hee receive the fruites Such like similitudes he hath in another place know yee not that they which runne in a race runne all c. In this sense saith Salomon Buy 1 Cor. 9. 24 25. Prov. 23. 23. the truth purchase it redeeme it with the losse of all that thou hast But wee will give all gold and silver for lands but not a Ministers must maintaine true faith to death penny for Gods truth and Religion that ware is out of request So Christ saith Strive to enter in at the straite gate for many shall seeke to enter and shall not be able The Antithesis is betweene seeking and striving some seeke and have some cold desire but they Luk. 13. strive not Paul therefore calleth it The fight of faith and he 1 Tim. 6. 12. 2 Tim. 4. 7. Iude v. 9. 1 Pet. 5. 8. saith of himselfe I have fought a good fight I have kept the faith c. The Divell never so strove with Michael for Moses his body as he doth with us for faith therefore resist him in the faith Thus Ambrose said to Valentinian Prius animam quàm fidem auferes mihi ô Imperator O Emperour thou shalt first take away my life before my faith Hic hic occidite here here kill me and doe with me what 1 Reg. 21. thou wilt Si Naboth vineam patrum tradere noluit if Naboth would not depart from the vineyard of his Fathers Absit ut vineam Domini tradam God forbid that I should depart from the vineyard of the Lord So Ierome said to Ruffine Si veritas est causa discordiae mori possum tacere non possum If truth be the cause of discord and jarre I may dye but I may not hold my peace thus Chrysostome would not give place to Arcadius Eudoxia but went into exile and Calvin said in a like case to the Syndici of Geneva Exarescet hoc brachium pr●●squ●m coenam Domini indig●i● praebere velim this arme of mine shall first wither before I will give the supper of the Lord to the unworthy Hemingius saith that there Libro de Pastorum is a foure-fold fight and a fourefold-flight in Ministers his words are these Quatuor modis sunt mercenarii cum se non apponunt Sophisticae tyrannidi flagitiis Hypocrisi exponant Sophisticae veram doctrinam seu fidem tuendo tyrannis tum voce tum precibus non adulando flagitiis ea accusando quartò hypocritis eorum larvam detrahendo Men become hirelings foure manner of wayes c. Quia tacuisti fugisti tacuisti quia timuisti because thou wert silent thou fled'st thou wert silent because thou fearedst Aug. Thirdly they must strive and that earnestly even strive unto death so saith the Wiseman Strive for the truth unto death and defend justice for thy life and the Lord God shall fight for thee against Eccles 4. 28. Esa 59. 4 5. 14. thine enemies God complaineth of the want of this saying No man calleth for justice no man contendeth for truth they trust in vanitie and speake vaine things they conceive mischiefe and bring forth iniquitie they hatch Cockatrice egges and weave the Spiders webbe he that eateth of the egges dieth and that which is troden upon breaketh out into a serpent therefore iudgement is turned backeward and iustice standeth farre off for truth is fallen in the streete and equitie cannot enter In Gods matters we must be earnest say Be strong and let us be valiant for our people 2 Sam. 10. 12. and for the Cities of our God and let the Lord doe that which is good in his eyes Even so let us fight for our God the Gospell and the sacraments of our God If every haire of our head were a life and every life as long as Methusalah's all are to be ventured for the faith of Gen. 5. our God every drop of blood must bee powred out So the Apostle telleth the Hebrewes yee have not yet resisted unto blood striving The earnestnesse of Idolaters must make us zealous against sinne yet had they striven much and long and therefore the Apostle telleth them that they had endured a great fight in afflictions partly whiles they were made a gazing stocke both by reproches and afflictions and partly while they became companions of them which were so tossed to and fro he putteth in Heb. 12. 4. this word Earnestly because of the adversaries that will so earnestly impugne it Who use their profession as Iehu used his chariot he drove as if he had beene madde who plead for Baal 2 Reg. 9. 20. as Crassus pleaded for Pompey who brake his sides and died within three dayes after for they are earnest in all errors The Israelites gave all their Iewels to make an Idoll a Golden Calfe The men Exod. 32. Ier. 44. 19. Act. 19. 1 Reg. 18. 28. Mat. 23. Levit. 20. in Ieremies time were at great cost and burnt incense to the Queene of heaven and powred out drinke offerings unto her made Cakes c. The Ephesians yelled together Great is Diana of the Ephesians Baals priests cried loud and cut themselves as their manner was with knives and Lancers till the blood gushed out upon them The Pharisies compasse Sea and Land to make one Proselyte The Canaanites burnt their children to Moloch The Pagans did eate Cyrils heart or liver with salt The Turkes in the service of their Mahomet on fridayes houle that yee may heare them 〈…〉 off The Aethiopians tread not

39. Exod. 15. Cap. 16. Num. 20. Deut. 8. Num. 21. were drowned He spread a cloud to be a covering and fire to give light in the night for God went before them in a cloudy pillar by day and a fiery by night he made the bitter waters sweet for their sakes and fed them with Angels food Hee turned the rocke into a river and the flint stone into a springing well their foote swelled not and their cloathes waxed not old in forty yeares travell and when they were bitten with fiery serpents he cured them with a brasen serpent a figure of Psal 136. 19 20 21. Christ Hee slew great Kings for their sakes as Sehon King of the Amorites and Og the King of Bashan and gave their land for an heritage even an heritage to Israel his servant hee dried up Iordan that they might passe thorough it Whereupon the Psalmist useth a most elegant Prosopopopeia Psal 114. 5 6. saying What ayleth thee ô thou Sea that thou fieddest and thou Iordan that thou wert driven backe Yee mountaines why leaped yee like rammes and yee hils as Lambes God gave them Canaan a land that flowed with milke and hony as Iacob prophecied of Gen. 49. 11 12 13. Iuda saying Hee shall bind his Asse foale to the vine and his Asses colt unto the best vine Hee shall wash his garment in wine and his cloake in the blood of grapes his eyes shal be red with wine and his teeth white with milke For the land of Iudah of all lands it was the fruitfullest Moses calleth it A good land and the goodnesse of it afterwards hee describeth at large and saith A land in which are rivers of Deut. 8. 7 8 9 10. waters and fountaines and depths that spring out of vallies and mountaines a land of wheat and barly of vineyards and figge-trees and pomegranats a land of oyle olive and honie a land wherein thou shlat eate bread without scarcenesse neither shalt thou lacke any thing therein A land whose stones are iron and out of whose mountaines thou shalt digge brasse But especially God gave them his Law to convert their soules and his testimonies which gave wisdome unto the simple Psal 19. 7 8 9. his statutes that rejoyce the heart and his Commandments that give light to the eyes his feare which indureth for ever his iudgments which be righteous altogether great in one word was their preferment Gods bounty to England For to them were committed the Oracles of God To them also appertained The adoption and the glory and the covenants and the giving of the law and the service of God and the promises of whom are Rom. 3. 20. Cap. 9. 4 5 6. the fathers and of whom concerning the flesh Christ came who is God over all blessed for ever What should I speake of Iosuahs trumpets Ios 6. Iudg. 7. Iudg. 3. Cap. 15. 2 Sam. 1. which blew downe Iericho of Gedeons pitchards that discomfited the Madianites Of Shamgars oxe-goad which slew heapes upon heapes Of Sampsons iaw-bone that killed a whole army of Philistines Of Ionathans bow and Sauls sword that never returned emptie Let us apply all this to our selves whom God hath laded with blessings so that we have cause to say with the Israelites Praysed be the Lord even the God of our salvation which ladeth us daily with benefits For God hath turned the captivity of our English Sion as Psal 68. 19. Psal 126. 1. the rivers of the South As after a Nero God gave a Vespasian after Commodus a Severus after a Sisera a Debora after a Saul a David after an Ahaz an Ezechias and after a Domitian a Trajane and a Nerva So after a Marie an Elizabeth a princely Iames under whose governments we have sate safely these many yeares under our figge-trees and vine-trees from Dan to Beersheba from the one end of the land unto the other his eyes have beene over us as over the land of Chanaan from the beginning of the yeare to the end of it Hee hath troden downe the Northerne rebells with Parrie Somervile Ardington Lopas Hacket Madder Burney hee hath put their life downe to the ground and laid their honour in the dust he hath made them a portion for the Foxes they are passed as water molten c. Psal 58. Of late Balak of Spaine had devised our destruction Balaam of Rome had cursed us at his commandement subtle Achitophel had conspired abroad unnaturall Absalom rose up at home and aspiring Adonia would have the Shunamite to wife but from all these God hath delivered us We have seene France massacred Flanders with civill warres distressed Germanie grieved Scotland divided onely we stand still as an oake of Bashan Pray that God stretch not over us the line of Samaria as 2 Reg. 21. 13. God hath blessed us above many others his wise mercy is in our Parliaments Reg. 21. 13. and governments as in Israel Deut. 4. His learned mercie in our Schooles and Vniversities as in Naioth 2 Reg. 2. His strong mercies in our Castles and bulwarks as in Iuda Soph. 1. His peaceable mercies in our Townes and Cities as was said of Ierusalem Mich. 4. 3 4. Zaeb 8. 4. 5. They shall breake their swords into mattockes and their speares into scithes nation shall not lift up sword against nation neither shall they learne to fight any more But old men and old Women shall dwell in the streets of Ierusalem and every man his staffe in his hand for very age and the streetes of the Citie shal be full of boyes and girles playing in the middest thereof His rich mercies in our fields and granaries for he maketh our vallies so thicke with corne that men doe laugh and Contemners of Gods mercy grievously punished sing he crowneth the yeare with his goodnesse and the clouds drop fatnesse they drop upon the pastures of the wildernesse and the hills shall be compassed with gladnesse Would God wee were halfe thankefull for so great blessings that every one of us could say with David Psal 65. 11. Praise the Lord ô my soule and all that is within me praise his holy name Praise the Lord ô my soule and forget not all his benefits Psal 103. 1 2. Yee heard before of Gods mercy in delivering the people now are we come to Gods iustice in destroying them yee once know this that after the Lord had delivered the people out of Aegypt he destroyed them First God shooteth paper secondly bullet if men yeeld not primùm ubera deinde verbera ostendit first he openeth his brests after shewes us his rods first by his Ministers as by heraulds he proclaimeth pardon after he sendeth an army to destroy The Lord saith the Prophet is slow to anger but he is great in power and will not surely cleere the wicked the Lord hath his way in the whirlewind Nahum 1. 3 4 5 6. and in the storme and the clouds are the dust of