A zealous SERMON, Preached at AMSTERDAM, By a Jew, Whose Name is Not-rub, It being a Hebrew Word, you must read his Name backward.  Cancros Imitare Legendo. Text, he that hath ears to hear, let him hear. 
By John Austin.  
Printed at Amsterdam. Anno Dom. 1642.   

A zealous SFARMON PREAEHEDAT AT AMSTERdam bya Jew whose name is Not-rub.  
Text, He that hath ears to hear let him hear.  
DEarly beloved not to make any long preamble, or to use many circumlocutions but to fall aboard with my text, thes words are not literally to be understood but typically for this is a prophetic saying of our Mr. that their shall be many in the latter days that shall have no ears but lose them for the testimony of a good conscience, and for the gospel's sake, of which sort I and my other brethren which suffered with me are three, distempered and dismembered members. Yet beloved sister mistake me not I do not mean dismembered in my principal member, the virge of generation, no this might well have gotten a loathing in you toward me, but is the loss of the tips of my ears.  
There are many have ears to hear beastly and profane tails, songs, and ballads with a great deal of contentation, and think not this time long or ill spent, but they have no ears to hear of piety and godliness, they thinkean hour a day, and a day 7 years yea they lock up the doors of their ears, you may see their long lock hang over them, they have no ears to hear of the four Cardinal virtues. And here I cry the Lord hearty mercy, and it would have made my ears to tingle (if I had them) that I should so far over-shoot myself, to approve virtues to be Cardinals, when I will by no means allow men to be Bishops, as Fortitude, Temperance, &c. And here again I cry the Lord hearty mercy, that I should once name or mention that brand of the Beast on the near Buttock, that &c. which we so solemnly condemned, and damned with their new Synodokical Canons by the Common hangman; but here we see, though the spirit is willing, the flesh is weak.  
he that hath ears to hear, let him hear, is meant by the ears of the new man, for there are many walk altogether after the flesh, the new man is hardly yet in the embryo, it hath neither form nor ears, to these as yet it is not given to hear or understand the hid mysteries, &c. and here also Idolatry is utterly abolished; Those must be prayed unto, that have ears to hear our prayers, but idols have no ears to hear, ergo they must not be prayed unto, the Minor is proved by another infallible and undeniable text, they have ears, and hear not, eyes and see not, and these Glosses I take to be the true and genuine sense of the text.  
1 use. From whence I may raise many uses of Comfort and Consolation, of Comfort, Dearly beloved, is this, I take and reap a great deal of Contentation, that when I preach, you (I say) dearly beloved Brethren and sisters will come 9 or 10. miles to lend the your ears, thus as the lopping off the top of a tree, the cutting off of one head begets many, even so, not only the Saints themselves, but their very limbs also do increase by loss.  
2 use. Of Comfort, dearly beloved brethren and sisters, that I reap from hence, is this, That although I have lost my ears, yet through your bountiful liberality, as pledges of your most affectionate love towards me, I have their weight in gold, yea doubled and trebled, that if my adversaries knew all, they would lose theirs for half the moneys, this then in the second place must needs be a great rejoicing to my heart to have my ears tipped with gold, and both my pockets lined with the same.  
3 use. Of Comfort that I raise is this, from the mildness of my censure and punishment, for these wolves in sheep's clothing, these fat bulls of Basan, might as well have plucked out my tongue by the roots, as to have cropped my ears for then the staff was in their own hand, they wanted not ability to do it, but my God would not suffer it, but mollified the hearts of the Lions, that they should not thereby stop my mouth for ever, and to have made me, as I often called them, a dumb dog.  
4 use. Of comfort, dearly beloved, that I make, is this, from the not making away, or burying of my ears (and indeed I had entreated them, but that the wicked should not think I did mourn and make a funeral for the loss of my ears) and therefore I say, I have preserved them, and have made open rejoicing for the loss thereof, and since God hath endowed them with great virtue, that I have miraculously done many cures with them, especially they are a present and sovereign balsam (being imbalmed) for sore throars and to tell you the truth truly I am a Jew, a very Sabaterian so that they are perfect Jews ears and hearin I may glory with the best of the Catholic relics.  
5. use. Of comfort dearly beloved brethren and sisters, I reaped from the effusion of my blood on● the pillory, that you would not suffer a drop to fall on the ground, but licked it up with your hand-kerchif●s and do keep it in greater esteem than jewels or Diamonds, and I am persuaded that you may find accult virtues even in that blood also if you would make experiments hence I say I have taken great joy, that you keep and have it in so high honour, yet I must needs confess ever and anon I receive a check from my conscience that I should so much inveigh against popish relics, and yet so contrarily suffer my own to be kept, here we see that the best of the brethren play ship wrack of salvation on the rocks of vain glory.  
6. use. Of Comfort, dearly beloved brethren is this, do you remember the humble humble humble Bee (I know you do) that gave me a vis●●●… the pillory, and when the s●●ffing Jews and Ishmalites spit their poison in mocks & scoffs to season their wormwood word, she shit honey in my mouth; and her Bom Bom was a little bow bell, yet big enough to ring the passing peal for the little tips of my prick ears, thus you see to our further comfort when men are silent, God makes beasts to celebrate the funeral obsequies of his Saints or the loss of any member of them.  
7. use. Of Comfort that I reaped is this, when I returned from banishment to make amends for my disgraceful departure from this metropolitan City thousands of you came forth to mete me with rosemary and ribbons in your hats to bring me in with allollity to my long sequestered and widowed wife, and gave us a large offering of three thousand pound as if our nuptial day were again to be solemnised neither should I have been against it to have been married again to leave out those superstitions and Idolatrous ceremonies especially these two with this ring I thee wed, and with my body I the worship although I love my wife well yet I would be loath to make a God of her, but out alas this our glorious and triumphant return was much eclipsed the other day by those Irish Rebels that had 2000 for our one, and thouh they did not go and ride forth with rosemary in their hats, yet by reason of their forwardness of the spring, thousands ushered them in with palms in their hands this I say beloved a great damp to our glory that we should be brought in like men, and such number their Rebels.  
Now a word or two of one or two observ:  
1 ob. The loss dearly beloved of our ears is a Infillable symptomy of a true child of God, and I should not be sorry, yea I could heartily wish that every sheep of this fold had thy ear mark, and then the wicked mouths were stopped to call us prick-ears.  
2. Object. This is the shortest and sweetest Sermon that ever I made, but the time was over-shot before I began, and Mr. Gaudy-dinner in a great forwardness that I cannot proceed to application, reasons and motives to stir you up not to be backward to lose your ●ase for the holy Cause, but if you can relish this, I will proceed with the rest, and for this time, to wind up all in two lines, 
Thus, thus you see, for all the wicked fears,  
Man may, and not hear, that hath, and hath not ears.   
FINIS.