{"id":15541,"date":"2016-08-18T13:32:30","date_gmt":"2016-08-18T18:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/halesir-matthew\/"},"modified":"2016-08-18T13:32:30","modified_gmt":"2016-08-18T18:32:30","slug":"halesir-matthew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/halesir-matthew\/","title":{"rendered":"HALE,\nSIR MATTHEW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> (November 1, 1609\u2013December 25, 1676), was Lord Chief-Justice of the King\u2019s Bench, a position of high influence in England. He testified:<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>There is no book like the Bible for excellent wisdom and use.&#65279;259&#65279;<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Every morning read seriously and reverently a portion of the Holy Scriptures, and acquaint yourselves with the history and doctrine thereof; it is a Book full of light and wisdom, and will make you wise unto eternal life.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Who was it that thus suffered? It was Christ Jesus, the eternal Son of God, clothed in our flesh; God and Man united in one person; His manhood giving Him capacity for suffering, and His Godhead giving a value to suffering; and each nature united in one person to make a complete Redeemer; the Heir of all things; the Prince of Life; the Light that lighteneth every man that cometh into the world. As touching His Divine nature, God over all, blessed forever; and as touching His human nature, full of grace and truth; and in both, the beloved Son of the eternal God, in whom He proclaimed Himself well pleased.&#65279;260&#65279;<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Mary Washington, George Washington\u2019s mother, had in her possession Sir Matthew Hale\u2019s <i>Meditations Moral and Divine,<\/i> published in London, 1679. The chapter which she had especially marked and studied, was entitled, \u201cThe Great Audit With the Account of the Good Steward\u201d:<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>The Great Lord of the World hath placed the Children of Men in this Earth as his Stewards; and according to the Parable in Matthew 25, He delivers to every person his Talents, a Stock of Advantages or opportunities: to some he commits more, to some less, to all some. \u2026 <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>That in that due and regular employment, each man might be in some measure serviceable and advantageous to another. That although the great Lord of this Family, can receive no Advantage by the Service of His Creature, because he is Perfect and All-sufficient in himself; yet he receives Glory and Praise by it, and a Complacency in the beholding a Conformity in the Creature, to his own most Perfect Will. \u2026 <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Lord, before I enter into Account with thy Majesty, I must confess, that if thou shouldst enter into Judgement with me, and demand that Account which in Justice thou mayst require of me, I should be found thy Debtor: I confess I have not improved my Talents according to that measure of ability that thou has lent me: I therefore most humbly offer unto thee the redundant Merit of thy own Son to supply my defects, and to make good what is wanting in my account: yet according to thy command, I do humbly render my Discharge of the Trust thou has committed to me, as followeth.&#65279;261&#65279;<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:9.0pt;line-height:normal'><b>Rich, Richard<\/b> (fl.1610), was an Englishman who traveled to Virginia with Captain Christopher Newport. He recounted his voyage in a narrative poem, consisting of twenty-two eight-line verses, entitled, <i>Newes from Virginia: The Lost Flock Triumphant, <\/i>published in London, October 1, 1610, by Edw. Allde. The poem contained the account of their shipwreck on the \u201cBermoothawes\u201d (Bermudas), which is the probable inspiration for Shakespeare\u2019s play, <i>The Tempest.<\/i> Richard Rich wrote:<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:18.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal'>God will not let us fall \u2026 <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:18.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal'>For \u2026 our work is good,<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:18.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal'>We hope to plant a nation,<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:9.0pt; margin-left:18.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Where none before hath stood.&#65279;262&#65279;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(November 1, 1609\u2013December 25, 1676), was Lord Chief-Justice of the King\u2019s Bench, a position of high influence in England. He testified: There is no book like the Bible for excellent wisdom and use.&#65279;259&#65279; Every morning read seriously and reverently a portion of the Holy Scriptures, and acquaint yourselves with the history and doctrine thereof; it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/halesir-matthew\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;HALE,<br \/>\nSIR MATTHEW&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}