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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14690	A sermon preached at Pauls Crosse by Iohn Walsal, one of the preachers of Christ his Church in Canterburie. 5. October. 1578. And published at the earnest request of certeine godlie Londoners and others	Walsall, John.	1578 (1578)	STC 24995; ESTC S102702	33,978	86

scriptures of three sortes and kindes of Prophetes The first are such as were extraordinarilie stirred vp by the LORDE and vsed to aske counsell of the Lorde for the comfort of the Churche in her great extremities These Prophets were called Séers of whom it is spoken in the firste booke of the Cronicles as of God Dauids Séer and of Samuell the Seer The seconde sorte were also extraordinarily sente by the Lorde too interprete the lawe of God when the priestes ceased such were Isay Ieremie c. The thirde kinde of Prophetes are such as the Lorde hath blessed with abilitie and giftes to enterprete and applie the holie scriptures so that to prophecie or to bee a Prophete in this last sence is to open the worde of GOD by a sounde diligent playne and faithfull interpretation and to applie the same both for the ingendring encrease and confirmation of faith and also for the reformation and amendement of life such as some thinke were the Prophetes at Antiochia spoken of in the thirtéenth of the Actes In this sence all true preachers are prophets Thus likwise I take Salomons saying Where Prophesie fayleth the people perishe that is where there is not a faithfull ministery a true diligent interpretation a through application of the word there the people by heapes runne headlong into vtter destruction To this ende and in this meaninge doeth Moses vtter these wordes The Lord your God shall rayse vp vnto you a Prophete signifying a continuall ministerie of the worde for inlarginge the kingdome building vp the church of Christ Howbeit both Stephan in the seauenth and Peter in the thirde of the Actes doe so vse the testimonie of Moses that they doe more particularly restreigne the same vnto our Sauiour Christe For their purpose is to persuade the Iewes that to hearken vnto and beleeue in Christ is not repugnante and contrarie to the Lawe of Moses because Moses him selfe speaking of Christ sayth A Prophete shall the Lorde c. There is no contrarietie betwéene my first interpretation of this prophet for all the ministerie and my thus vnderstandinge of Christe by this Prophete For as this Prophete doeth generally importe the whole number of true ministers prophetes and preachers so it hath also an especiall relation vnto Iesus Christ the head and prince the butte marke the scope end of all the true ministery which euer was is presently or shall be hereafter vpon the whole face of the earth Beholde here then the comfortable signification and importaunte nature of this prophete euen that Iesus Christ by his might and mercie shall euer bee with his Church and that from time to time the Lorde will rayse vp and sende out true ministers for his Church This alone consideration and knowledge is fully fraught with singular comforte If we call to our remembrāce that an houshold with out a stewarde waxeth disordered that schollers wanting an instructour cannot be learned that a shippe destitute of a guide is vnlikely to be preserued we shall then easily perceiue and clearely sée the moste lamentable estate of the Church when it is depriued of true ministers which are the Lords stewards to dispose his secretes the Lords scholmasters to teach his people the Lords vnderguides to direct his flock of Shéep in to the sheepefold of Iesus Christe The faithfull among all other griefes reckon this for one of the greatest we see not our sagnes there is not one Prophet more But although for our sinnes ingratitude contempt and disobedience the Lorde in his displeasure doth often take away his worde and ministers in such sort as the worlde many times iudgeth the worde vtterly abandoned and the ministers thereof altogether destroyed yet euen in those times of hott afflictions the Lord hath continually raised vp true prophetes and preachers to his true hearted Israelites whereof this Citie hath often had most comfortable triall experience Therefore let vs faithfully holde in our harts as a sure ground and infallible principle for euer that if wee wil be diligent hearers faithfull beleeuers and obedient practizers of his worde The Lorde our God shall raise vp a Prophet vnto vs that is will still mercifully blesse vs with the presence of Iesus Christe and with sincere learned painfull discréete and godly interpreters ministers of his worde Moses procéedeth in the description of this Prophet and sayth of your brethren like to me Ye haue alreadie heard that Moses speaketh these words in generall manner respecting both Christe and his ministers but that Peter doth more particularly applie them vnto Christe and therfore it behoueth me to speake of the same wordes First as they generally concerne the whole ministerie Thē as they especially touch Christ To preserue and keepe the Israelites in them all Christians from béeing defiled with the impious maners of the gentiles to make them for euer wholy cleaue to the word of God Moses hath promised a cōtinual opening of the word wil of god therin comprised The people might haue said to Moses peraduenture thy meaning is that the Lord himself will teach vs in his owne person But this wee canne in no wise brooke For we founde his maiestie so glorious his voice so terrible his words so pearcing at the giuing out of the lawe vppon moūt Sinai that we looked for present death and therefore prayed that wee might no more heare the Lorde speake vnto vs in his owne person Moses to take away this feare telleth them that this prophet shall be of their owne brethren that is of their owne stocke bloude and kinred and like to him that is a man as he is in companie with thē as he is teaching them as familiarly as plainely as mildely as louingly as he doth Hence we are taught that as it is a great benifit to be rightly instructed in the will and way of the Lorde so the Lorde hath dealt gratiously with vs in that he teachech vs not in his glorious maiestie to confounde vs but in his great mercie to saue vs not fearefully by thundring lightening tempests to afraie vs but by men of our own countrie of our own nature of our own acquaintaunce to encourage aad allure vs. Now to vnderstād this speach of Christ as Stephan and Peter doe it must be thus construed that Christ touching his humane nature shoulde descende from the stocke of Abraham and bee borne among the Iewes And therefore ther was no cause at al why the Iewes shoulde either feare or dispise Christe sith by byrth he shoulde bee their owne countrieman and in familiar and louing instruction like to Moses But this Christes likenesse to Moses must not be so taken as if in Christe there coulde bee founde nothing more excellent then was in Moses For Moses was but a man Christ God and man Moses was a man