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A19271	A briefe exposition of such chapters of the olde testament as vsually are redde in the church at common praier on the Sondayes set forth for the better helpe and instruction of the vnlearned. By Thomas Cooper Bishop of Lincolne.	Cooper, Thomas, 1517?-1594.	1573 (1573)	STC 5684; ESTC S108660	415,743	738

wherein I can be worshipped but onely the * expresse Image of my Deitie my sonne Christ Iesu your Sauiour and the true Messias Wherefore yet agayne I say vnto you beware of the Idolatrie of the Gentiles and cleaue fast vnto me For * my deuises shall stedfastly be established and I will fulfill all my pleasure and whatsoeuer I haue declared to you by my Prophets for your comfort Yea euen as I haue promised you I will bring a Birde out of the East that is a noble king of the Persians that shall with great power breake into Babilon trausferre the Empire from them and restore you to your Countrey againe And not onely this but I wil also in conuenient and short time bring forth my iustice and sauing health and set my saluation in Sion and my glorie in Hierusalem by the comming of the Messias and Sauiour of the worlde The 2. Sunday after the Epiphanie at Morning prayer Esay 51. HEarken vnto me ye that holde of righteousnesse and ye that séeke the Lord take héede to the stone wherout ye are hewen and to the graue wherout ye are digged 2 Consider Abraham your father and Sara that bare you howe that I called him alone and blessed him and increased him 3 Therefore shall the Lorde comfort Sion and repaire all hir decay making hir desert as a Paradise and hir wildernesse as the garden of the Lorde Myrth and ioy shall be founde there thankesgyuing and the voyce of praise 4 Haue respect vnto me then O my people both highe and lowe and laye thine eare vnto me for a lawe and an ordinance shall go forth fro me to lighten the gentiles 5 It is harde by that my health and my righteousnesse shall go forth and the people shall he ordered with mine arme the Ilandes that is the Gentiles shall hope in me and put their trust in mine arme 6 Lift vp your eyes towarde heauen and loke vpon the earth beneath for the heauens shall vanishe awaye lyke smoke and the earth shall ware olde lyke a garment and they that dwell therem shall perishe in like maner but my saluation shall endure for euer and my righteousnesse shal not cease 7 Hearken vnto me ye that haue knowledge in righteousnesse thou people that hearest my lawe in thine heart feare not the reuylings of men be not afraide of their blasphemies 8 For wormes and mothes shall eate them vp like cloth and weell but my righteousnesse shall endure for euer and my sauing health from generation to generation 9 Wake vp wake vp and be strong O thou arme of the Lorde wake vp like as in time past euer and since the the worlde beganne 10 Art not thou the same arme that hast wounded the prowde and hewen the Dragon in péeces Art not thou euen the same which hast dryed vppe the déepe of the Sea which hast made plaine the sea ground that the deliuered might goe through 11 Therefore the redéemed of the Lorde shall turne againe and come with ioy vnto Sion continuall ioy shall be on their heade and mirth and gladnesse shall be with them and sorrowe and wo shall flie from them 12 Yea I euen I am he that in all things giueth you consolation what art thou then fearest a mortall man and the childe of man which goeth away as doth the floure 13 And forgettest the Lorde that made thée that spreade out the heauens and layde the foundation of the earth but thou art euer afrayde for the sight of thine oppressour which is ready to doe harme where is the wrath of the oppressour 14 The exile maketh haste to be loosed that he dye not in prison and that his bread fayle him not 15 I am the Lorde thy God that diuide the sea and his waues shall rage whose name is the Lorde of hosts 16 I haue put my wordes in thy mouth and haue defended thée in the shadowe of my hande that I maye plant the heauens and lay the foundation of the earth and saye vnto Sion Thou art my people 17 Awake awake and stande vp O Ierusalem thou that from the hande of the Lorde hast drunken out the cup of his wrath thou that hast supped of and sucked out the slumbring cup to the bottome 18 For among all the sonnes whome he hath begotten there is not one that maye holde it vp and not one to leade it by the hande of all the sonnes that he hath nourished 19 Both these things are happened vnto thée but who is sory for it yea destruction wasting hunger and sworde but who will comfort thée 20 Thy sonnes lye comfortlesse at the heade of euerye stréete like a taken venison and are full of the terrible wrath of the Lorde and punishment of thy God. 21 And therefore thou miserable and dronken howbeit not with wine heare this 22 Thus sayth the Lorde thy Lorde and God the defendour of his people Beholde I will take the slumbring cup out of his hande euen the cup wyth the dregges of my wrath that from henceforth thou shalt neuer drinke it more 23 But I will put it into their hand that trouble thée which haue spoken to thy soule Stoupe downe that we may go ouer thée make thy body euen with the grounde and as the stréete to go vpon The Exposition vpon the. lj Chapter of Esay Hearken vnto me ye that holde of righteousnesse and ye that seeke c. THe good and godly people in the time of Esay seeing themselues fewe in number and hearing by the Prophetes that they shoulde be ledde captiue into Babilon greatly feared that all faythfull and true worshippers of GOD should in that persecution be vtterly consumed Therefore God here speaketh to them and comforteth them signifying that he will not onely in that trouble of Babilon preserue his chosen and elect of the Iewes but also not long after greatly encrease the number of his Church by the* accesse of all Nations that he would call to the light of his truth and to his true worship by the promised Messias and Sauiour of the seede of Abraham And first he willeth them to consider The rocke wherout they were hewen and the denne whereout they were digged that is as he expoundeth himselfe Abraham their father and Sara their mother of whome they discended and that God called Abraham being but one man* out of his Countrey and suffered him to liue in Chanaan to the age of an hundred yeres and his wife fourescore without children and yet that he so encreased him that his issue prooued innumerable as the * sande of the sea And by this example he willeth them all other faithful to vnderstand that though his Church people appere to the world to be neuer so much afflicted or to be brought to so low an ebbe yet he will increase and multiplie it with exceeding numbers and bring them out of miserie and trouble vnto great ioy

bring the innocent seruants of God into daunger when otherwise for disobedience to their Prince in matters lawfull or for any other dishonestie or vngodly lyfe they are not hable to fasten any lykely accusation vpon them When Daniel sayth They cryed our accusation of the Iewes he noteth their hatefull and eger mindes against them comming to the king as we say with open mouth and leauing nothing vndone or vntold that might aggrauate their fault or pull them into displeasure The extolling of the kings ordinance and decree the straite charge that he gaue to haue it obserued That they which disobeyed were Iewes that is Straungers and in deede of themselues odious as captiues That they shewed themselues vnthankfull to the king who had set them in place of hononr and made them great Rulers in his Prouinces That they shewed contempt and disdaine towarde the lawes of the Countrie wherevnto all the residue of his Subiectes with great reuerence did obey By this part of the historie we are taught that the seruauntes of God and those that will truely worship him shall not wante in this worlde accusers and Malicious persons that with all Spite shall draw them into daunger seeke their confusion They that will liue godly in Christ Iesu sayth Paule shall be sure to haue persecution Satan the Prince of the worlde will alwaye raise his Ministers to vexe and trouble the members of the Church of God and that commonly vnder the * colour of their holynesse and religion consisting in outward superstition and Idolatry Is there any greater matter at this day wherefore the enemies of the Gospell doe persecute the Professours of Gods true worship then because they will not acknowledge a peece of breade to be God nor will not worship their Images set vp in the Churches nor runne on Pilgrimage to stockes and stones wrought with mans hande and other lyke Idolatrous and supersticious wickednesse Therfore good men haue by this example great occasion to comfort and strengthen their fayth that it be not shaken with the terrour and feare of their cruell dealings This also is here to be obserued that onely Three poore Iewes to the maintenance of Gods true worship doe set themselues and hasard their liues against the King his Nobles Commons all the power of the Babilonicall Empire Which manifestly declareth howe little credite in matters of Religion should be gyuen to the reasons of Multitude Number and Generall consent For commonly the greater part in the world is the worse Gods Church is but a small flocke Elias stoode alone against Achab and all Israel So did Micheas against all the false Prophetes The Prophets onely against the whole Church of the Iewes Christ his Apostlēs against the Scribes and Pharaseis and all the learned Philosophers and mightie Princes of the worlde Then Nabuchodonosor in his anger wrath commaunded that Sydrach c. Nabuchodonosor is greatly mooued to see his ordinance and decree disobeyed and therefore maketh streight inquisition vpon the offenders In which he vseth all meanes that maye be to perswade them First with curteous wordes he signifieth that he could scantly beleue any such vnthankfulnesse or Disobedience to be in them and therefore willeth them against a time appointed seing he had set them in place of so great honour to declare themselues to be such men as will not to the euill example of other disobey his lawes Or if they would not consent to the worshipping of the Image which he had made that they should immediatly be cast into an hote fierie Furnace and thereby be made a Terrour to all such as woulde with contempt disobey his authoritie In the ende he added words of prowde blasphemie That there was no God that coulde delyuer them out of hys handes Whereby it maye appeare how Mutable Princes are and howe soone they are caried by the glorie of the worlde from the true feare and honour of God. In the .2 Chapiter when Daniel by the spirite of God interpreted the dreame which astonied all the wise men and Soothsayers of his Countrie Daniel was then greatly esteemed Sidrach Misach Abednago by his counsaile were set as Iudges in the Prouinces and Daniels God was declared to be The God of Gods the Lorde of Kings and the reuealer of secreates But nowe thorowe the incensing of wicked enimies the lyuing God is dishonoured an Idoll is set vp to be worshipped and the seruauntes of God and his owne faithfull Officers are brought to the fierie Furnace to be burned Such doting chaunges oftentimes hapneth to them that set their eyes onely vpon the power and glorie of earthly kingdomes Sidrach Misach and Abednago answered the king and saide c. The temptation of the Faithfull Encreaseth and the strength of Gods spirit encreaseth in them Wherefore there followeth now in this great danger a bolde and constant answere made vnto the King without flatterie or dissimulation without hypocrisie or worldly pollicie onely made in simplicitie and constancie of fayth As if they had said In all things lawfull we euer haue and will vnfaynedly obey thee as the Minister that is appointed by God to gouerne vs but if thou set vp thy selfe against the lyuing God who hath aduaunced thee to this great power and seeke by thy authoritie to drawe vs from his true worship to the honouring of Idols and false Gods he thou assured O king that we will not in that obey thee * For we are taught in matter of faith and holynesse to * obey God and not man. And we know right wel that that God whom thou bewitched with the glorie of thy worldly power doest blaspheme can deliuer vs out of thy handes from all thy strength if he see it to be to the glorie of his name But if his wisedome thinke it not meete so to doe for he will not doe alway that he can doe we let thee vnderstande without dissimuling or flatterie that we wil not serue thy Gods nor worship thy goldē Image Then was Nabuchodonozor full of indignation so that the countenance c. Here let vs consider what stormes of affliction the true professours of the syncere worship of God doe sustaine at the handes of cruell persecutors First they fal into the high indignation of Princes with whom they were before in great estimation Secondly when they come to punishment they are more cruelly vsed then any other offenders There were in the kingdome of Babilon theeues robbers adulterers murtherers extorcioners drunkardes and other like and yet we read of verie slacke punishment that they had But the seruants of God which neuer offended the king in any worldly Iustice but had bene his faythfull and profitable officers onely because they will not offend the liuing god and worship a golden Image haue the kings rage so greatly agaynst them that the fornace is cōmaunded to be made seuen times Hoter then it was woont to be