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A04902	Lectures of John Knewstub, vpon the twentith chapter of Exodus, and certeine other places of Scripture Seene and allowed according to the Queenes maiesties iniunctions.	Knewstubs, John, 1544-1624.	1577 (1577)	STC 15042; ESTC S106684	202,339	374

nor yet what mercie is in Christe For beeing ignoraunt of the seuerall parcels they doe iudge amisse of the whole and therefore of the greatnesse of that benefite that hath discharged all Those men that are not acquainted with the often sighte of their seuerall sinnes by the lawe and commaundementes may fitly bee compared to a man that hath some sore in his body which he discerneth by some little hole appearing in the skinne yet so as he maketh nothing of it neither thinketh to be any greate benefite to be cured thereof for it appeareth to him to bee verye little by reason of the small quantitie of skinne that is broken but after that it beeing searched and lanced there is knowen to be so muche dead fleashe about it as beeing taken out maketh the hole tenne times greater then before then hee beginneth to thinke what daunger hee is in for the decay of his whole bodie if that parte bee not well healed and therefore taketh it for a greate and singular benefite to be cured thereof whiche before he did nothing at all esteeme No lesse necessarie is it for vs by searching into our seuerall corruptions by euery commaundemente to cutt away the dead fleashe of carelessenesse and good lyking of our estate or at the leaste of findeing no greate lacke in it whiche hindereth the true enterteyning of the free mercies of Christe For it is the burthen that wee feele of sinne by the lawe whiche maketh grace sweete and acceptable vnto vs and they that be loaden with the weight of sinne bee those whome the Lorde hath promised to ease as it is written in Matthew Come vnto mee all yee that are wearie and loaden and I will ease you For what are they that doe not well perceiue in what a miserable condition they should bee without him can neuer rightly esteeme of him One contrarie maketh an other better knowen Libertie is neuer so swete as when it commeth immediately after bondage One day of libertie is more made of while the burthen of bondage is fresh in memorie then two dayes are after when there is no remembrance lefte of the former condition It is miserie that maketh a right account of mercie It is miserie that maketh mercie to be mercie The lawe must let vs see our miserie that we may haue right regarde of mercie If it were so expedient for Paule to haue the messinger of Sathan to buffet him lest he should be exalted out of measure for the abundaunce of Gods giftes that praying often that it might departe from him he could not be heard to haue it taken cleane away as appeareth to the Corinth how necessarie is it for vs that are in much more daunger then he to bee exalted with the liking of our selues to be kept humble with the continuall sight of our infirmities in the lawe that we exalte not our selues against the free grace of our God In the booke of Iob it appeareth that the Lord to hyde the pride of man vsually bringeth them into some one great affliction or other and that sundrie times For there it is saide that GOD will worke thus twise or thrise with a man that he may turne back his soule from the pit For these are the wordes of the text in that place This doctrine vtterly ouerthroweth them that rest in their workes looking for righteousnes and iustification from their owne deseruings good deedes because they haue kept the lawe of God in their owne opinion and therefore may iustly lay clayme to eternall life for those their good deedes This doctrine also condemneth all secure men that haue no sense of sinne For the lawe should so lay open vnto vs the soares of our sinnes that the verie sight thereof might sende vs to Christe For the ende of it is so to charge vs with our owne woful estate that we may be driuen to giue ouer the strongest holde that we haue whiche is the opinion of our selues and fortifie our selues in Christ in his mercies alone It is the greatest worke of the Lorde to win this hold at our hands yet if we remaine in it we are but dead men and caste away euerie one of vs The Lord therefore meaning to hyde vs in his mercies and there to make a sure safe harboroughe for vs doeth shoote off this warning peece of the lawe so to shake this ruinous holde of our owne good deedes that we seeing in deede the weakenesse thereof may take vs to his mercies alone a holde that will holde in deede The practise of sathan by the Lawe is in extremities for either he woulde driue vs to despaire thereby or else touch vs not at all therewith But we are learned out of the worde of God that the office of the lawe is to ioyne vs to Christe and to keepe vs from bothe these rockes of securitie and despaire whiche are two daungerous rockes and therefore needefull for all men to take heede of in this voyage of Christianitie For either of them bothe doeth threat to make shipwracke of our saluation Let vs therefore require of the Lawe to do that which vnto it apperteineth that it would so let vs see our selues that we be no longer carelesse of our estate which must needes be vntill that warning peece haue awakened vs and scared vs out of our selues But if it shal presume to deal further with vs to driue vs to despaire remēber that that is more then it hath in cōmission for the law is charged with no more saue this so to humble vs that Christ may receiue vs For as an euill bodie must be prepared before the physicke that shal do good must be ministred so must the lawe by true humbling of vs and purging these hautie humours that we be full of make way for the medicine of his mercie to worke well vpon vs This doctrine giueth God his true mercie for to giue vnto them that be vnworthie is a thing worthie and beseeming God Dare indignis res magè digna Deo. It giueth vnto him true iustice for it ascribeth vnto him suche iustice and righteousnesse as no righteousnesse that is found in man is able to stande with all but muste yelde and giue ouer But the doctrine of the Churche of Rome offendeth bothe against his mercie and iustice ascribing neither perfect mercie nor righteousnesse vnto God. For it is no mercie to helpe him that hathe deserte in him selfe to be holpen that is iustice Neither is that iustice perfect and beseeming GOD that mans can matche withall and stande without checke before it That lifteth man too high abaseth God too lowe The law then teacheth vs true humilitie letteth vs see that it was the free and vndeserued goodnesse of God that hath begone whatsoeuer holinesse and righteousnesse of life is in vs Moreouer when we shal be assured that we haue verie well profited in Christianitie it is also necessarie for vs to beholde our selues often in the

what wickednesse and contempt of the grace of God That man therfore that learneth not to abate the care for outward daungers and necessities to come can neuer in trueth pray vnto the Lord that he would giue him this day his daily breade For these wordes of daily bread and this day doe cutt off the care and torment of times farre off By the promise whiche in this petition we doe trust and depende vppon the holie Ghost to the Hebrues cureth couetousnesse willing them to be content with that they haue to see that their conuersation be without couetousnesse because the Lorde hath saide I will not leaue thee nor forsake thee This promise of the Lord that he will not forsake his in the day of their necessitie is set as a bulworke to beate backe their feare of want and carefull coueting that ariseth therevpon that they may hold them wel content and apaide with their present state and condition The holie Ghoste maketh a great diuersitie betwene the godlie and wicked touching these earthly thinges for they come to the godlie as it were sleeping for so doeth he tearme their quiet laboure that wayte assuredly for the successe frō the Lord in respect of the careful toile that the vngodly are tormented with as if their liuing lay onely in their trauels There is a secrete blessing of the Lorde which must be sought for at his handes by faithfull prayes without the which all care and trauel that can be taken wil not auaile It is the blessing of the Lord that maketh riche sayeth the holie Ghost There is more in that then our fleshly and mistrustfull heart can easily be persuaded of Let vs therefore learne to lessen our mistrustfull care that we may testifie to the worlde the increase of our faith in the persuasion of his mercie towardes vs according as this petition doeth admonishe vs For in praying vnto him for these outward commodities we doe acknowledge that they be at his disposing and that all the labour in the worlde will not fetche them vnlesse it please him to giue successe Wherefore we may plainely see that when we haue trauelled or vsed those outward meanes wherby commonly benefits are procured we haue but accomplished one part and the least part of that that bringeth the benefite in deed Prayer must also be vsed and the Lorde he is to be intreated and this is not the least but the chiefe parte The godly tempt not the Lord by refusing his meanes but euen then when they doe vse those meanes they are muche in prayer for the successe and going forward of them whether it be labour counsell or friendshippe that they they vse to compasse their matter by For the want of this we see it fall out in common experience that the wisest men haue had suche successe with their deuises as the most foolish man that is could not haue made a madder matche then often times falleth out euen there where their care and counsell hath beene the greatest whiche teacheth vs to giue the Lorde his due to acknowlege him the Lord and gouernour of those temporall commodities to begge them at his handes by true and vnfeigned prayer and by faith to depend vpon him and not vpon our trauel no not where it is the greatest and promiseth the moste vnto vs. Worldly men that depend wholy in the persuasion of their heart vpon the help of their hands their wisdome or their wealth or friendship do dissemble with the Lorde in this request For they seeke that at him as his gift whiche their heart telleth them that they haue alreadie at home Couetous men that wold gather faster then he will giue how can they in trueth seeke it at his hands when they are not at any time content with that measure or portion that he doth giue neither rest in his distribution hauing such a hungrie desire as would prescribe the Lord and not be limited or prescribed by the Lord The oppresser hard cruel dealer that pretendeth to beg his bread temporal cōmodity of the Lord in the meane time is the purueyer and prouider for him selfe by suche oppressing and vnmercifull meanes as the Lorde abhorreth doeth dallie with the Lorde deceiue him selfe and maketh his praier a curse vnto his owne soule and a witnesse in the day of iudgment against his own conscience in that he hath professed in this prayer that to be the Lords gift whiche he sought of sathan by suche wayes and meanes as he approueth but the Lord abhorreth them We pray here for others aswell as for our selues he therfore that professeth to pray for others their good estate concerning temporall thinges and yet conueyeth that whiche is others or withholdeth it eyther by violence or deceipte with what conscience doeth he offer this petition to the Lord The children of God haue their faith declaring it selfe by outward thinges while they doe depende vppon him for them wherein the vngodly bewray their wante howsoeuer they boast of their inward persuasion of his goodnesse For if the Lord speede them not to their contentation they will not sticke to prouide for themselues by suche either open or secrete oppression as he hathe plainely forbidden as if he were onely the God of the soule and not of the bodie also whole man to prouide for both according to the good pleasure of his will and wee by faith to depende and wayte for a speciall blessing from him euen in outward thinges which the vngodly cannot see into For they binde the Lord so vnto the instrumentes whereby hee worketh his will that in truth they haue the glorie and he is altogether depriued thereof They be only his children that in truth acknowledge him the giuer of these outwarde benefites therfore wil vse no meanes besides those which he hathe approued The other in seeking helpe by meanes forbidden of him doe plainely speake in those their doings that they haue no faith nor cōfidēce in him we may in faith good hope aske those thinges because they make for the glorie of God who doth reigne and rule in earth by giuing vnto his their wantes euen in these outward and temporal things according as we may learne in the Psalm Where after many words declaring that God executeth iustice for the oppressed giueth bread to the hungrie loseth the prisoners kepeth the strangers relieueth the fatherlesse ouerthroweth the way of the wicked immediately it followeth The Lord shal reigne for euer ô Sion As if the Lord should not be known to reigne if he should fayle his seruants calling and depending vpon him in their distresses For we may not think that he faileth his seruants when he giueth them better benefites then those which they doe aske As if they craue deliuerance out of present daunger and he by taking them in mercie out of this life worketh a final riddaunce out of all daunger shall we say that the Lord hath not heard them Likewise if their