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spirit_n	bear_v	jesus_n	zachary_n	24	3	16.1861	5	false

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A00415	Certaine godly and learned expositions vpon diuers parts of Scripture As they were preached, and afterwards more briefly penned by that vvorthy man of God, Maister George Estey, sometimes fellovve of Goneuill and Caius Colledge in Cambridge. Late preacher of the word of God in Saint Edmunds Burie.	Estey, George, 1560 or 61-1601.; Estey, George, 1560 or 61-1601. Most sweete and comfortable exposition, upon the tenne commaundements, and upon the 51. Psalme.	1603 (1603)	STC 10545; ESTC S101734	265,746	444

beare where is the speciall manner and the time indefinit Beare the word vsed signifieth as wel to beget as beare the meaning is shall conceiue goe with child and in time be safe deliuered It had beene some comfort that she might haue helped to bring it vp as a dry Nurse but to beare it in her body was very much not only in respect of the great paines of child-bearing in any but especially of the first childe when the Mother is very old or very young there is great danger yet the spirit of God speaketh nothing hereof though it implyeth them 1 Mark that these outward burdens of bearing bringing vp children are common to the godly and wicked so as that the most godly shall not be freed from them 2 Women thinking of paines of child-bearing should renue repentance for the first fall remembring the curse euer since 3 Though Gods benefits be sometimes mingled vvith crosses and hardnesse wee must not be discouraged looke not at the hardnesse looke vpon the fauour The time is indefinitely set 1 to exercise his faith And yet God performed it as soone as might be so diuers times God dealeth with his The party to whom this gift is to thee O old and not very rich Zacharias Que. To me might Zacharias say and not to herselfe Aun Yes to her to but to thee as of thy body lawfullie begotten which thou in most speciall sort must thinke of for thy selfe because 1 How soeuer children are to the Mother they keepe and propagate the Fathers name to posteritie and stand in his stead 2 In old age begotten they are wont to be loued most as Gene 24 36 and Gene 37 3. For that the Father seeing them thinketh him selfe not altogether spent is delighted to refresh himselfe vvith such young things but especially if he haue but one and that prooue toward and likely to doe well so is it heere And it is to be marked that the Angell saith shee shall beare to thee and neuer forbeareth to tell him this in respect of his age or want of wealth 1 Thinke that if wee haue such ioy to haue a childe in our old age what pleasure doth GOD take in our beeing borne anew to him after long time 2 Euen Fathers ought to loue their children and the more because they haue had the lesse paines with them 3 We must not be discouraged if God send vs children when we are not likely to liue to see their bringing vp or if we haue not great wealth in that kind let vs doe our vttermost for the present and leaue the rest to God Salomon and loseph did not fare worst 4 Children are bound to increase mutuall loue between parents 5 Husbands should more loue theyr wiues for more children brought forth Looke Gene 29 34 1 Sam 1. The kind of benefit is a sonne A child is a benefit Especially to a Iew. Promised children in scriptures were excellent as Isaac Iosiah Christ Sampson the Shunamites child whom some thinke to haue beene Ionas the prophet Let vs thanke God for children and indeauour they may be good by praying for them giuing them to God vsing all meanes for their good Now followeth the further or more largely setting downe of the latter clause of his message and that 1 by the name 2 by the effects of this child For the name it is said thou shalt call his name Iohn Wherein we may consider the name the party who giueth order for it the meanes by whom it is The name is Iohn Iohn may some body say did the Angell speake English No but he signified such a name as our Iohn expresseth The name Iohn in the Hebrew or Siriack is of the name God Iah and a word which signifieth fauour fauoured of God Neither is this name thus but all for the most of scripture names are significatiue implying some good thing So should our names which we giue be Some offend in excesse as those who take names of God as Iesuits Emmanuel Of Angels as Gabriel Michael c. Of vertues as patience grace c. In defect as giuing names of flowers or stones or Heathen names to Christians Quest Is it not lawfull to giue any of these latter names noted Aun I thinke it not so conuenient for that there be other very good and we ought to vse what meanes of good we can c. The party who giueth this name is implied to be he who sent the Angell what is God so hath he giuen names to other choise persons in scriptures To teach vs to marke such notable personages whom God hath so called we shall find many worthy things in them As also that we should marke euen names and the least things in scripture much more the greatest Now it is to be marked that it is said thou shalt call that is thou oughtest to call when I so appoint that though it be but a small matter thou doe not violate this charge Nothing is little which God commandeth One cannot be to precise in keeping the least of Gods appointments The meanes by whom this name is giuen thou that is his father So doe we see elswhere in scriptures so did Adam giue names to the creatures so did Iacob change Be-nonie to Beniamin And whereas mothers doe it it should be by the liking of fathers Wherefore Parents should not wholy put ouer this duty of name giuing to children to the witnesses And if the father should giue the name it is most meete he should be present at the giuing of it for that in his right the child is interessed in the couenant Now followe the effectes of this child and those 1 by themselues 2 in their causes By themselues verse Verse 14 14 which according to the diuersity of the parties are diuers One party is the father the other many The father was old and as it might seeme comfortlesse in this age yet God respecteth him as no doubt he doth others in the like case Ob. It may be demanded whether the mother should not haue comfort Sol. Yes but that is implied in the fathers ioy The things which are said to befall the father are ioy and gladnesse both which arise from conceit of some present or hoped good They differ not much saue that ioy may be said to be more inward gladnesse more outward ioy the lesle gladnesse the more These and such like affections are diuersly in the vnregenerate regenerate In the regenerate they are 1 in this which please God 2 stirred by the spirit of sanctification 3 kept in good measure It is otherwise in vnregenerate These were to be in Zachary in the best kind It is not said whence these should come certaine it is from GOD. Godly men are not Stoicks All reioycing is not lawfull The ioy we haue God giueth God giueth for comfort God promising outward things we are to looke for them by faith and the more he giueth vs the more must we be cheerefull in his

had all afflictions in the world as of Iob or Lazarus or whosoeuer 4 Nay grace comming to vs in this estate shall vphold vs teach vs to beare all and make them sweet and fruitfull to vs. Now followeth the speciall manner how By the reuelation of Iesus Christ. That is as was shewed before by Iesus Christ reuealing In which sence God that is the Father is likewise said to reueale Gala 1 15 16. The Spirit also 2 Cor 3 16 17 and Christ himselfe called a light for the reuelation of the Gentiles Luke 2 32. But most cleerly Paule speaketh Gala 1 12. that hee receiued the Gospell not by man neither was taught it but by the reuelation of Iesus Christ that is Christ Iesus reuealing as wee are to vnderstand it heere And in this speciall manner wee are to consider the name and nature of this matter with the enlarging of it The name and nature is that it is reuelation the enlarging of Iesus Christ. Reuelation is of a Latine word and signifieth as much as vncombering or taking away that which hindereth the sight as a curtaine scarffe or maske or any such thing So that heere it is a borrowed kind of speech from thinges in some such sort couered Peter in writing this might thinke of the sundry couerings in the Tabernacle and Temple and of the veile there or of that which couered Moses face Exod 34 in the end whereof Paule writeth 2 Cor 3.15 Howsoeuer certaine it is that things before Christ were not so reuealed or vncouered as afterward The Leuiticall ministery was most in shewes shadows some of the auncient Fathers haue a pretty resemblance to set this out When Thamar should be deliuered Gene 39 shee had twinnes the elder first put out his hand afterward drew it in againe then was his younger brother borne then the elder so say they there was a little shew of Christ and the New-testament as the putting out of a finger or hand but presently it was hid then preuailed a great while the Iewish politie in the end though followed Christ fully exhibited Neuerthelesse from hence wee must know 1 that howsoeuer these things heeretofore were hid yet for substance they alwaies were in the Church for indeed God neuer left the Church without meanes of saluation immediatly from the fall and afterward darkly I confesse yet truly none must denie Wherefore while this world lasteth men liuing may be saued 2 Indeede it is true things before had many couerings yet the godly and chosen of God pearced thorough them all that hindered not theyr saluation So should we neuer by the hardnesse or hidnesse of things be discouraged from seeking till we find and euen saluation 3 Since now things are cleerer if wee haue not a greater measure of sauing grace our fault is the greater 4 Nay surely things are so euident that if wee be damned wee can alledge nothing but we may iustle so be Hetherto the name and nature now followeth the enlarging of it it is the reuelation of Iesus Christ Iesus is a broken Hebrew word and signifieth as much as Sauiour and is the name of the sonne of God and the virgin Mary implying the vertue and effect of his office to whomsoeuer he is thoroughly reuealed for indeed hee perfectly faueth them Christ is Greeke and signifieth annointed that is fulfilled with the holy Ghost to be the Prophet to teach the Church The Priest to make reconciliation to bring into the fauour of God and intercession to keepe in his fauour The King continually to rule and is that which in Hebrew Messias is So as that wee might read it thus of Iesus the Messias These names shew two things 1 that Iesus reuealeth 2 that he reuealeth himselfe Hee reuealeth himselfe as the Authour of this reuelation as to the woman Iohn 7. To Paule Acts 9 3 4 5. To the Disciples going to Emaus To Paule Gala 1 12. This he doth by himselfe 1 personally as in the former ministerially by others as to the Eunuch by Philip to Cornelius by Peter to Paule by Ananias I take it this latter way is chiefly meant heere though the other may be true And Christ is said to reueale this 1 for that hee himselfe began first to reueale 2 for that hee sendeth other reuealers 3 And he it is who blesseth all reuealing Must not then this thing which so great a personage by himselfe and others taketh care to reueale be of great importance It was most necessary he onely should reueale as beeing able and beeing of credit Or can a man not make much of Reuealers since they come from Christ Pharao honoured Ioseph greatly for lesse reuelations Gene 41 45. He reuealeth himselfe as the chiefest fauour Any thing frō him is excellent himselfe aboue all in him are all without him all things are nothing Forget not then that Christ is the pith and substance of all the Bible 2 And that we can neuer heere to much and to often of him 3 Neither can we know him but by himselfe light maketh me see light 4 When he is reuealed you haue the greatest fauour in the world God in great loue let Moses see Canaan a far of one day of the sonne of man a great good how much then his whole selfe Hetherto hath beene that where-about endeauour is to be bestowed now followeth the endeauour it selfe Trust perfectly on the grace The which we may consider as it is in it selfe trust perfectly and as it is applied to the thing for so must the trust be as that it be vpon the grace The endeauour in it selfe hath two things The vertue or affection of trusting and the qualitie of it perfectly The word which is translated trust is in the Greeke hope Thus hope perfectly To hope is taken in scripture two wayes properly somewhat vnproperly Properly it signifieth to looke for a thing to come which yet one hath not as was shewed before Vnproperly it signifieth to beleeue or trust As in this place so is it taken Math 12 21. Philip 2 91 1. Tim 4 10 and 5 5.1 Pet 3 5. Where howsoeuer in English it be read trust the word in Greeke is hope Which the learned haue thought good to English trust And not without iust cause for such consanguinitie is there betweene faith and hope as that often the one is taken for the other They are like the blood and spirits in the body neuer a sunder like the two cherubims alwayes the one looking vpon the other indeed to speake as it is hope is a fruite of faith but for the like nature and vse of both they are confounded our English word of trust will fit either hope or beliefe Well then doe we reade it trust which is the action or practise of faith Which before we well can vnderstand we must learne to know what faith is that may we doe by a short setting out of the nature of faith and some other truthes tending thereto Faith is a gift of God

that we need not enuy them neither thinke these outward things the best 2 Know that if vnder an euill Prince Zachary and Elysabeth were good what should we be in good lawes and Gouernours 3 And seeing that Iudea came to Herods gouernment let vs take heed least that by our sinnes we procure the like iudgement to our selues and if the same befall vs let vs labour beforehand for so much grace as may make vs hold out therein Question But why is Herods being King mentioned Answer To shew that Iacobs prophecie Genesis 49 10 is fulfilled Question Was not the scepter gone from Iuda in the Machabees time who were of the Tribe of Leui Aun They were but keepers thereof in dangerous times Againe it is not meant I take it that the Gouernour should alwayes be of Iuda but that among the people of the Iewes in this Herods time who was the first king of Iudea it was others 1 Heere we see the certainty of things fortold in the scriptures 2 That promises to the Church for outward things are not for euer 3 This were enough to proue to a Iew that Christ were come Thus much for the time the next mentioned is the man for his kind of life generally that he was a Priest A Priest was as is discribed 5 Heb 1 and represented Christ He was of the order of Aaron this order ended when Christ dyed Priests were not in that time contemptible but of good regard succeeding into the roome of the duty of the eldest sonne so was Aaron the elder brother Priest Quest Are there no Priests now Aun If you speake of Priests vnproperly to offer spirituall sacrifices all Christians are Priests but if you speake properly there are none since Christ Quest What thinke you of the Priests of the Romish Church Aun As of Ierobohams Priests they haue filled their owne hands and haue no calling and whereas they pretend to be after the order of Melchisedec they shew themselues vnlearned and wicked for there was no order of Priest-hood according to Melchisedec but as Melchisedec is mentioned without father mother genealogy so is Christ againe so to be dooth properly belong vnto Christ 1 Know from all this there is no reconciliation without Christ whom the Priest did represent 2 That then Priest-hood was no disgrace why should ministry now be 3 Vse wisely the name of Priest of Prest or Proestos not of Sacerdos 4 Since Zachary executed the Priests office in such times when he saw litle fruit and might be discouraged let vs all learne to keepe our stations wherein we are set of God going cheerfully on in our duties committing successe vnto God though many discouragments incounter vs. Particularly he was of the course of Abia. For better vnderstanding heereof looke 1 Chron 24. Whence it appeareth that Dauid ordained 24 courses of Priests euery one to serue his weeke or fortnight as may appeare 2 Chron 23 8. The course of Abia was the eight of those 24. Dauid distinguished these thus not only by his Princely authority but in spired by the holy Ghost being to giue his best directions to Salomon who should build the Temple whereto Gods solemne worship should be tyed after a long time it had beene in a flitting Tent or tabernacle Thus hee dooth 1 That no Priest though there were many should be idle 2 That the burden beeing borne by course and not alwaies lying vpon one might be the better borne with longer continuance 3 That things beeing done by course none might be grieued troden downe too much or grow insolent being lifted vp aboue his brethren but all might be done louingly and brotherly 1 Kings may doe no more in Church matters then they haue warrant for by Gods word and Spirit 2 No Minister in the Church should be idle but worke in due time 3 It should be prouided they might so worke as that they might continue the longest for the most good of the Church 4 There should be no inordinate superioritie among them His name was Zachary wherein we may consider the very name and why it is recorded so to be Zachary signifieth remembring GOD. Some thinke it was he mentioned Math 23 35 slaine betweene the Temple and the Altar but they haue no warrant so to think Sure it is this name was well liked for that the friendes would haue had Iohn to be thus called It shall therefore concerne those who giue names to giue such as may put in mind to the caller called or hearer some good It is here recorded so to be First because there were but few at that time so godly 2 To shew that God keepeth a record of his 3 That we might haue them as Presidents whom we might follow and be like It followeth that hee had a wife which meaneth that as himselfe so his wife was maintained by his Priests office not onely so but their whole charge Que. It may be demaunded whether it be not as lawful for such as attend the word and Sacraments now to haue wiues as it was for the Priests Aun Yes all alike for that there is nothing against it in the word but for it as might be shewed and cannot be denied by the Papists themselues who teach that to forbid as they speake Priestes marriage is not diuine but Apostolique or Church-law They know that none of vs now doe take the vow Quest But what say you of their Priests whether may they lawfully marry or no An. If they made a vow of single life and cannot keepe it they ought to marry But see their reasons whereupon out of Scripture theyr Church inioyneth single life 1 They abuse this very place Luke 1 23 and 1 Chron 24 for that they say when they ministred they were from their wiues Aunswere They were indeede from theyr vviues especially those vvho dwelled not in Ierusalem where the seruice was to be performed not for any thing but that the distance of place hindered as such as goe to the Tearme at London leaue theyr wiues at home 2 That 1 to Titus a Bishop must be Sophron the vulgar translateth continent Aun Vnproperly for Paul requireth the same in vviues 1 Tim 3 11 and in young men not disswading mariage but that they should be of sound mind and graue cariage 3 The 2 Tim. 2 4 None that goeth on warfare entangleth himselfe with the businesse of this world Aun This may concerne Leuiticall priests as well as any whose seruice is called warfare and yet they were married It is spoken of all Christians who war against satan the world the flesh Hee who doth but vse Gods ordinance no more entangleth himselfe this way then he who eateth and drinketh Indeede if he wrap himselfe in an vnequall match he entangleth himselfe but if beeing sufficient and dooing his dutie if he be faine to seeke maintenaunce it is the Churches fault 4 The 12 of Exod 11 they who eate the Passeouer had their loynes girt the loynes beeing the seate of