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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A72063	A sermon preached at Paules crosse the firste Sunday after Newyeeres day, beeing the thirde day of Ianuary. 1580. By William Fisher student of diuinitie	Fisher, William, student of diuinitie.	1580 (1580)	STC 10920.3; ESTC S124925	28,377	84

inhibition at this day against a number of gospellers For many false Brethren abuse the gospell and make it a common Cloake for their Usurie Adulterie and Crueltie To them the Lord might say I wil haue Mercie and not the Gospell Noe not the Gospell so professed as they professe it The seconde kinde of Sacrifice mentioned in Scripture is the Sacrifice of Christ which the Lorde wil haue For howsoeuer hee tollerated the bloode of Gotes and the bloode of Calues for the time yet hee coul●e not bee pleased with any other but with this onely As for al other Sacrifices● they were but Shadowes this was the body They were but huskes this was the Kernel They were but Chaffe this was the Wheate They were but Leaues this was the fruite They were but signes this was the thing signified and the trueth it selfe For Christe Iesus beeing the brightnesse of the fathers glory and the ingraued forme of his person humbled himselfe vpon the Crosse and offred his body to affliction his soule to anguish all too purge our sinnes whereby hee hath wrought our atonement with God and taken away the cursse of the Lawe and destroyed the woorkes of the Deuill and tryumphed ouer hell it selfe O blessed Sacrifice No sauour but this could perfume our stincking soules No sacrifice but this coulde pacifie the wrath of God And heere deerely beloued we may see an other benefite which we haue and inioy in Christe who hath giuen him selfe a Sacrifice of a sweet smelling sauour to God that hee might purge our sinnes The Lorde make vs thankfull for this benefite and faithfully to take holde of it in all the assaultes of Satan The thirde kinde of Sacrifice is the Sacrifice of Christians which S. Peter calleth an especiall sacrifice acceptable to God for Christes sake and this kinde of Sacrifice is manifolde as may be gathered in Scripture The Sacrifice of a sorrowful heart The Sacrifice of God Psal 51. is a troubled spirite and a broken and contrite heart O God shalt thou not despise This sacrifice Christians ought to offer vp as often as they call to minde their wicked and sinfull wayes Secondly we haue the Sacrifice of Righteousnesse which is newnesse of life true godlines This sacrifice Christians are willed to offer by the prophet Dauid Psal 4. Offer to god the sacrifice of righteousnes put your trust in the Lord that is walke in the light as Children of the light haue no felowship with the vnfaithfull workes of darkenesse Resist the flesh liue in the spirit this is to offer sacrifice of Righteousnesse Thirdly we find in Scripture the sacrifice of Praise and thanksgiuing which is called the Calues of Christian lips Offer to God praise Psal 50. pay thy vowes vnto the most highe That is shew thy self mindfull of Gods benefits by thanksgiuing Fourthly we haue the sacrifice of almes whereof the Apostle speaketh To doe good and to Heb. 13. distribute forget not for with such sacrifice God is pleased And this sacrifise is to be offered of much plente●usly and of little diligently and it shall be accepted according too that a man hath and not according to that he hath not Lastly we haue the Sacrifice of obedience or reasonable seruice of God which Saint Paule commendeth I beseech you therfore Rom. 12. brethren by the mercies of God that you giue your bodyes a liuing Sacrifice holy and acceptable too God which is your reasonable seruice of God This Sacrifice we are to offer as often as wee celebrate the Lordes Supper For as the carnall Sacrifices of the Iewes were too foreshewe the blessed Sacrifice of Christ to come So muste this liuely Sacrifice of our soules and bodyes bee offred vp too testifie that it is already come that his body is already broken and his blood already shed for the remission of sinnes Heerevppon it is that the Schoolemen say that the Lordes Supper is a Sacramente and a Sacrifice It is a Sacrament in that we receiue the bread and Wine in remembraunce that Christ his body was giuen and his blood shedd for the remission of sinne It is a Sacrifice in that wee doe offer vpp our selues that is our soules and bodyes too shewe our thankfulnesse for so greate a benefite These are the Sacrifices which christians are of dutie to offer vnto God who will haue them and accept them for Iesus Christes sake And in respect of these Sacrifices Christianitie is a Royall priesthoode and Christians are Royall Priestes Their heartes are royall Aultars Their faith is Royall Incence And their feruent loue towards God and man is a Royall fire to make them haue a sweete sauour before God The Sacrifice of the Masse But what shall wee say of the Sacrifice of the Masse Is not that holy sacrifice to be numbred among those which the Lord will haue When the Church of Roome and all her Catholike children make so great accounte of it which is of force to releace the tormented soules in purgatory and to chace away Deuils from the possessed in Earth which whoso euer heareth as long as he heareth it he shall neuer wax olde which preserueth yong children in their mothers wombes deliuereth both olde and young from al imminent perils and daungers No I auouche and protest that the Lord will not haue it strugle the Catholicks neuer so mightely shuffle they neuer so cunningly for the magnifying of their Idol The Lorde will not haue it It is a worlde to see how euē of late they began to set vp their crests and to clapp their wings as if they would crowe the Pope day againe into England all because they imagine that their golden day begins to spring wherein the masse shal shine againe Yea they begin to looke vpon vs as if the Deuil should look ouer Lincolne and doe account it halfe heresie to speake to any man that is a known Gospeller They passe by vs humming mumming and whether they wishe out heads in their dishes or their swords in our bellyes wee cannot tell yea or noe But let them knowe that their sacrifice of the Masse is too full of Idolatrie abomination and blasphemie for the Lord to heare it And doe they thinke that her maiestie the Lords annoynted wil heare it God be thanked by the space of one and twentie yeeres shee hath bin a nursing and a naturall mother to the gospel and now will shee become a stepmother and fancy the Masse No it hath caused too many conspiracies and rebellions against her most noble persō for her maiestie euer to brooke it euen in pollicie And whereunto serue the Prayers of Gods children her faithfull subiects but euen to beseech God to continue her maiesties godly proceedings that shee may be so farre from backsliding as to growe from grace to grace from faith to faith that as shee hath planted nourished the Gospel so she may not be ashamed of the Gospel which is saluation to