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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15107	A sermon preached at Pawles Crosse on Sunday the ninth of December. 1576. by T.W.	White, Thomas, ca. 1550-1624.	1578 (1578)	STC 25405; ESTC S119910	24,628	74

lye by it and that for theyr transgression And the Angell Gabriel reuealed to him afterward that the Lord in mercy would yet restore them seuen fold again that is .70 times seuen which amoūteth or multiplieth in accoumpt to 490 yeres and then this Messias should come Ieremy here speaketh indefinitelye and sayth the time commeth where the present tyme is put for the future as I take it not to expresse the shortnesse but the assuraunce of the tyme when Christe shoulde come The Wyse man sayth all thinges haue a time and it is a high poynt of wisdome to knowe the tyme of all thinges but to knowe this tyme of all tymes is wisdome of all wisdomes The Prophetes foreshewed it to the Iewes but yet he was chieflie receyued of the Gentiles for he came to his owne his owne knew him not I pray God for the second triumphant kingly cōming it fall not out so that to whō he is most preached they be least prepared How long was it I pray you that Israel longed to come out of Egipts bondage and how lōg loked Iuda to be deliuered frō Babilons captiuity But for the great fréedom indéed from the perpetual euerlasting thraldom by this onely Messias there were very few or none Right so play we in these dayes we are very carefull for the times and seasons concerning our worldlie affayres A prisoner duely wayteth his delyueraunce a prentise styl thinkes on his fréedome and both keepe iust accoumpt of euery day yea the sicke man leteth not one houre escape nor misseth not a minute but styll longeth for his health but for our great delyuerance departure hence it is not only the last but the verie least care when friendes Phisitions forsake vs we trust yet in our selues for no man is so olde but he thinks he may be older and no man is so sick but he hopes he may recouer and the last messenger shall styl be for the Mynister the daunger sure is verie great and euerie man is not sure to be at Christes right hande iuste when he dieth and repētance is not in our own hands thou trustest to thy ende thy end bringeth distrust for the greatest assault is in thy weakest estate As I would not haue any mā to distrust god no not specially in the ende so woulde I not haue any to tempte God and trust onely to the ende and yet I saye all is well that endes well This example is plaine inough of Christes cōming to the Iewes prophecied prophecied againe and yet not vnderstood So the naturall example of our mortalitie and dayly dropping away might moue reasonable men to take hede if warning woulde serue to teache vs to watch waight for his comming or to be prepared prouided for our going Sayth the Lord. Looke what the Lord hath sayde and that is sure to come to passe in al pointes as he hath sayd it for God is not as man is mutable in repenting his promises albeit he is sayd to repēt that euer he made man Gen. 6. It is but to expresse the hartie hatred he beareth against sinne against their sinnes of the olde worlde or else why do we so confidentlye buylde and constantly assure our selues of the inexplicable comfort of euerlasting saluation but bicause of his woorde which is immutable hath he sayd it nay he hath sworne it he that commaūded the heauens they were made and but spake the woorde and they stoode fast standeth styll vpon his honour and wyll perfourme what he promiseth in number waight and measure as he hath giuen his woorde for some testimony and examples Why dyd not the fyre consume those thrée thrust into the burning Ouen was it not hote enough or did it not burne when the verie flames did lycke vp those tormētors that put them in and what is the reason but that it shall be so and why did the Seas so spie the Lord why ranne they backe and were afraide became as a wall to Israel and ranne together againe to drowne Pharao all his hoast 114. Psa. but this that it shall be so Why did not the Lyons in theyr den snatch Daniel rather before he came to the grounde teare him in péeces than lye styll before him as Lambes no Lyons but this the water may not wette though it be a great Sea fyre may not heate though it be a flaming fyre many Lyons many hungry Lions may not touch a seely man when the Lord hath sayde it shall be so for heauen and earth shall perishe and vanish as a scroule but his woorde endureth for euermore That I wyll raise vp the right braunch Dauid This alludes to that raysing of séede to a mans brother if he dye without issue as it is in the lawe Here we must note howsoeuer God promised to Adam the Womās séede shal breake the serpentes head Gen. 3. Howsoeuer to Abrahā in blessing I wyl blesse thée and in multiplying I wyl multiply thy seede as the starres of heauen or as the innumerable sandes of the shore and howsoeuer to Dauid thy seede shall endure for euer thy seate as the Sun c. That is how so euer the couenauntes or mercifull promises of God made to our Forefathers did differ in circumstaunce yet do they all agree in effect substaunce Againe howe soeuer the Prophetes dreamed dreames or sawe visions whether they prophecied some plainer some darker some as it were farther off and mysticall some more euident and neare as the spirite gaue them vtteraunce Yet all inspired from aboue spake in effect one and the same thing And there can not be founde any contrarietie in al the doctrine of the Prophets of God thā is possible to be in the spirite wherewith they were inspired The marke they all shotte at is Iesus Christe the ende of the whole lawe and the Prophets which were vntyll Iohn and this partycular Prophecie which I haue in hande as I tolde you concerneth the pacte or couenaunt with Dauid but not in the Iewish sense But looke howe it was promysed of God so is it prophecied of Ieremie and right so hath it bene perfourmed in Iesu Christe for the vnitie of Gods spirite is styll one and indiuisible as the dietie Why some Iewe may obiect is it not plaine that Salomon Ezechias and Iosias being lawfull Sonnes and succeders of Dauid were raysed of God as righteous braunches I aunswere that it is God in deede by whose power all Princes do raigne and through his authority they haue their seates It is he which rayseth them vp and raseth them out againe at his pleasure which turned out Nabuchodonezer as a Beast in his iustice and in his mercie made the sheephooke of his seruaunt Dauid to be a Scepter ouer Israell But all that propagation or Princely posterity raysed of God was not without the meanes of man and this is immediatly of