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The crie of England A sermon preached at Paules Crosse in September 1593 by Adam Hill Doctor of Diuinitie, & published at the request of the then Lord Maior of the citie of London, and others the aldermen his brethren
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Hill, Adam, d. 1595.
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disdaine them wee should speak to them gently and we speake roughly we should haue compassion on them and we are incompassionate towardes them we should do them good and we do them harm we should defend them from euill and wee smite them Are we mercifull to the poore ministers in these daies do we giue or rather pull away from them what mercy is shewed to poore scholers in Oxford or Cambridge what releefe haue souldiers who refresheth the bowels of huÌ„ger-starued Lazarus where these are spoiled or despised there God himselfe is spoyled and contemned If these shall be condemned that will not giue their owne what shal those be that take away from the poore what shall become of our Martinistes that abhorre Idlenes Rom 2.22 and commit sacriledge what shall become of the tirants of England which ioyne house to house Esay 5.8 and land to land that there may be no dwelling for the poore as wee see in manye desolate places of england What shall befall them which grinde the faces of the poore and bray them as it were in a morter what vengeance shal they receiue Mich. 3.2.3 which hate the good and loue the euill and plucke off their skins from them and their flesh from their bones and they eate also the flesh of my people saith God and flay off their skinne from them and they breake their bones and chop them in peeces as for the potte and as flesh within the cauldron Martin findeth fault that a Minister should haue two benefices but for a nobleman or Gentleman which hath sixe hee reprehendeth it not The Ministers saith he ioine house to house there be those in England that haue doe dayly pull downe houses wherein haue beene families like flocks of sheepe now there is nothing but a shepheard and his dogge for the fruitful land is become a wildernesse What is the reason he reproueth the ministers so sharply and leaueth the other vnreproued rete non tenditur accipitri nec miluo his qui malefaciunt nobis illis qui nihil faciunt tenditur the net is not laid for the hawke or the kite or theÌ„ that do ill it is laid for them that do no harme So no man speaketh against him that committeth sacriledge Vsurie violence and oppression which burne vp the vineyard Esay 3.14 Abac. 2.12 and haue the spoile of the poore in their houses and build vp Sion with bloud as a cage is full of birdes Ier. 5.27 so are their houses full of riches gotten by deceit thereby they are become great and rich Vnmercifulnesse is the sinne of Sodome much more is rapine and sacriledge violence and vsurie All these are in England therefore perpetuall desolation is at hand Will ye see the guilt of sinne remember Cain wandering Will yee see the fury of sinne remember Saul raging Will yee see the feare of sin remember Baltasar trembling Will yee see the ignominie of sinne remember Haman hanging Wil yee see the end of sinne remember Sodom and Gomorrha and the countries round about burning in the vengeance of eternall fire for euer The sinnes of Sodome were not onely manifest and many but also exceeding great The sinnes of Sodome are exceeding great and so are the sinnes of England and so are the sinnes of England Sin is aggrauated 1. by the multitude of sinners 2. by euil examples in Magistrates ministers and fathers 3. by impunitie 4. by encouragement in euill 5. by studie to do mischiefe 6. by perseuerance in sinnes In Sodome there was multitude of offenders for they did offend all of euerye age as children young and old men of euery sexe as men and women of euerie estate as the magistrate and subiect the priest and people the maister and seruant the father sonne and the husband and wife Children haue exceeding great sâ—â—…es Psal 22.31 First for our children I tremble to speake it being our seede that should serue the Lord after vs as soone as they are borne they are so accustomed to blaspheme that they fill euerie streete euerye house and euery high way with it and if it be true which the wise man saith that the plague of God departeth not from the house of the swearer then no doubt it will fall vpon the posteritie of our English nation Eccles 12.1 Yong men haue exceeding great sinnes Secondly for yong men which should remember the Lord in the daies of their youth their heads are full of drunkennesse their eyes full of adulterie their toungful of filthy communication their eares full of ribaldâ—ie their handes full of bloud their feete runne to vanitie their vnderstanding is blinde their affection froward their heart is lewde and vnsearcheable If they learne not this lesson out of the Psalme Psal 25.7 O remember not the sinnes of our youth but according to thy mercie thinke vppin vs they must learne this lesson to their confusion Psal 14. â— destruction and calamitie is in our waies there is no feare of God before our eyes Concerning olde men Tit. 2.2 Olde men haue exceeding great sinnes they should be sober graue modest sound in faith charitie and patience They should be sober and they are giuen to drunkennesse chaste and they are giuen to wantonnesse discreete and they are most foolish sound in faith and they are as ignorant as horse and mule in charitie and they are full of enuie in patience and they are most waiward You haue heard of euery age now shall you heare of euery sexe that is of men and womeÌ„ It hath bene an ancient strife whether is the most excellent creature Men and women haue exceeding great sinnes the man or the woman but now they striue whether may excel other in vitiousnesse For men are recusant Papists so are women men are murderers so are women for they murder their own infants men are adulterers theeues slaunderers and couetous persons so are women In S. Peters time wiues vvere so subiect to their husbands that they which obeyed not the word 1. Pet. 3.1.2 might without the word be won by the conuersation of their wiues whilest they behelde their pure conuersation which was in feare 2 Tim. 1.5 In Paules time Lois and Eunice brought vp Timothie in the word of God Luke 8.23 In Christes time Mary Magdalene out of whome went seauen diuels and Ioanna the wife of Chuza Herods steward Susanna and many others ministred vnto Christ of their substance Though Nabal was a churle yet Abigail his wife was a vertuous woman But in our daies it is as it was in Sodome children yong men and olde yea men and women all do sin they sin often and they sin greeuouslye Magistrates haue exceeding great sinnes Iath 18.21 Jer. 4.22 Now let vs looke into all estates magistrates should be wise feare God loue the truth and abhorre couetousnesse But our magistrates are wise to doe euill to doe well they haue no knowledge They should feare
called Circus or the lamentable spectale of beasts yea although the solemnity of our birth happen vpon this day let it be deferred if anie man on this day shall haue anie accesse to spectacles or vnder the pretence of priuate or publike affaires shall be an Apparitor or Sergeant to anie Iudge violating or breaking these Statutes let him loose the commoditie of warfare and runne into the prescription of attainder The holie Prophetes and Apostles commend vnto vs the hallowing of the Sabaoth the Fathers exhort vs to the same the lawes of godly Princes commaund it yet we continue in England wilfull contemners of this precept The sanctification of the Sabaoth consisteth in foure things The sanctification of the Sabaoth consisteth in 4. things First of all holy men ought to enter into the Church where the Gospell must be expounded and declared by the which the Auditorie may learn what to thinke of God what is the true seruice of God and how the name of GOD may be glorified Secondly there must be praiers petitions made vnto God for the necessitie of all men Thirdly we must extoll the goodnes of God giuing thankes for his daily and inestimable benefites which giuing of thankes excludeth foure things first contempt of God secondly forgetfulnes of God thirdly malice fourthly the abuse of Gods creatures And the sacraments must religiously be celebrated if the time occasion and custome of the Church doo so require for it is chiefly required in the fourth precept that we should diligently obserue and deuoutly exercise the holy sacraments and holy rytes of the Church being lawfull profitable and necessarie Fourthly humanitie and beneficencie must take place in the Church all men must learne daily to be beneficiall in giuing of almes priuately but to be most liberall publiquely whensoeuer necessitie of the time and opportunitie shal so require Whereas we should spend our sabboth in hearing and reading of the word of God we spend it in reading of vaine wicked pamphlets wheras we shuld then make petition to God for our necessities we wander vp downe after deceiptfull vanities wher we shuld be thankful to god especially on that day for his benefits we misspend our time in idle pastimes lastly wher we shuld be liberal to the poor we are prodigal to minstrels bearkeepers plaiers to al masters of vanities for asmuch then as al diuines godly princes haue approued the sanctification of this day now all sorts of people prophane the same the old aswel as the yoÌ„g the father aswel as the son the master aswell as the seruant the minister aswel as the auditory the magistrate with the priuate maÌ„ neither the commaÌ„dement of God is feared nor the example of our maker imitated nor the admonitions of the prophets regarded nor the counsels of the apostles followed nor the repreheÌ„sions of the fathers esteemed it caÌ„not be but this prophanatioÌ„ of the Sabaoth so generall so frequent so continuall crieth to the Lord for a perpetuall desolation for the vengeance of eternal fire Murther also is another sinne that crieth for vengeance Gen. 4.10 The voice of thy brothers blood saith God crieth vnto me from the earth Murther a manifest sin that crieth for vengeance To loose our wealth it is greeuous but to loose our good name more greeuous but to loose our life that is most greeuous of all First it is an heinous offence that one man should kill another secondly it is more hainous when a superior killeth an inferior thirdly it is a most hainous offence when one brother killeth another as Cain killed Abel fourthly it is more detestable when a wicked man killeth a righteous fifthly that for the sincere worship of God sixtly if he doo it of a pretended hatred and seuenthly if he doo it after admonition In England man killeth man the lord the tennant the brother his brother the wicked the good that for the true worship of God and of hatred and after godly admonition Therefore as the blood of Abel cried from the earth vnto the Lord so doth the blood of the Saints shed in the late daies of Queene Marie crie for vengeance against the wicked Gen. 9.6 Who so sheddeth mans blood by man let his blood be shed for after his owne image God made man First heere wee learne that man was made to praise God whosoeuer then killeth man hindreth the glorie of God Secondly how was man created in righteousnes holines mercie truth these vertues being essentiall in God are accidentall in vs whosoeuer therefore murthereth a man destroyeth those vertues wherein man dooth participate with the nature of God Thirdly sith God made man after his owne likenesse here we learne that God loueth man aboue all the creatures of the world we ought not to hate him whom God loueth Fourthly sith man is the image of God and doth excell all creatures whosoeuer murthereth him destroyeth the most excellent workmanship of God But how little we regard these things it is manifest by the wilfull murthers often coÌ„mitted in and about London whose blood no doubt crieth to God as Abels did out of the earth For first God is the Iudge of the quicke and the dead Secondly he is the auenger of all euill for albeit men will wink at murther yet God will not And therfore the Prophet Dauid crieth out Psal 94 1â—â— O God to whoÌ„ vengeance belongeth thou God to whom vengeance belongeth shew thy selfe arise thou Judge of the world and reward the proud after their deseruing Thirdly the iust as Abel was do peculiarly belong to God Psal 10.16 The poore committeth himselfe to thee for thou art the helper of the fatherlesse Zach. 2.8 He that toucheth you saith the Lord toucheth the apple of mine eye Precious therefore is the blood of the Saints in Gods sight and shall be of God himselfe in time auenged Sodometrie whoâ—dome crie for vengeance Sodometrie also and vnnatural lust crieth to God for vengeance punishment King Henry the eighth of famous memorie when he visited the Abbies of England by Thomas Lee Richard Layton and Thomas Bedel Archdeacon of Cornwall being Doctors of the Law by Thomas Barthlet publique Notarie in the yere of our Lord God 1538. In the Abbey of Battell were found 16 Sodomites in Christ-church at Canterbutie 9. and in euery Abbey were found some to be Sodomites others to be adultrers some hauing foure some fiue some ten some twentie harlots as in a Book called a Breuiarie of those things that were found in Abbeyes Conuents c. it doth at large appeare And because that Sodometrie and whoredome had made them verie infamous one of their owne friends thus wrote of them Non male sunt monachis grata indita nomina patrum Cum numereÌ„t natos hic vbique suos The acceptable names of fathers were aptly giuen to Monkes for they were able to tell their children both