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A02793	Two godlie and learned sermons, preached at Manchester in Lancashire before a great audience, both of honor and vvoorship. The first, containeth a proofe of the subtill practises of dissembling neuters, and politique worldlings. The other, a charge and instruction, for all vnlearned, negligent, and dissolute ministers: and an exhortation to the common people, to seeke their amendment, by prayer, vnto God. By Simon Harward, preacher of the woord of God, and Maister of Arte, late of Newe Colledge in Oxfoord.	Harward, Simon, fl. 1572-1614.	1582 (1582)	STC 12924; ESTC S112568	108,746	262

amiable are thy Tabernacles My soule longeth yea and fainteth for the courts of the Lord for mine heart and my flesh reioyceth in the liuing God The sparowe hath found her a house and the swalowe a nest for her where she may ●ay her young euen hard by thine aultars O Lord of hoastes my King and my God Where the Prophete Dauid is gréeued that the sparowes swalowes had more accesse to the Church of God then he had There are many now a dayes which will say that they beare as good a soule toward God as they which resort so often to the Church and that they can serue God as well at home as in the Church But these must learne of the Prophete Dauid to prayse God not onelie at home but in the assemblies also as he ●ayteh vnto God Psa 68.26 Psa 22.22 I will declare thy ●ame vnto my brethren in the midst of ●he congregation I will sing prayses vnto thee For otherwise if we doo not séeke to ●et foorth the glorie of God as well publiquelie in the assemblies as pruiuatly in our Families our hearts are not aright before God Héere then they are condemned which béeing Land-Lordes and Men of Worshippe doo disdaine to come into the Congregation of God to cōfesse Gods name vnto their brethren and in the middest of the assemblies to sing prayses vnto him but will haue the Seruice of God done priuatlie in their Chambers and in their Closets These are farre vnlike to the holy Prince and Prophet Dauid the annointed of God Psal 42.4 who led the people into the house of God and accoumpted nothing so déere vnto him as openlie in the assemblies to cōfesse the name of God vnto his brethren And therefore he sayth Psal 26.8 Psa 27.4 O Lorde I haue looued the habitation of thine house and the place where thine honour dwelleth One thing haue I desired of the Lord that I will require euen that I may dwel in the house of the Lord all the dayes of my life to beholde the beautie of the Lord and to visite his holy Temple For although that cannot but be most true Math. 18. ●0 which our sauiour sayth that Whersoeuer two or three be gathered together in his name he will be in the midst of them and whatsoeuer they aske they shal receiue Yet this priuate praier ought not to take away publique prayer but much more establish it For if God will ●are the prayers of .ij. or .iij. being gathered together in his name how much more wil ●e heare a whole cōgregation Rom. 15.6 when with ●e hart one voice they shal glorify God ●e father of our Lord Iesus Christe If the prayers procéede frō a faithfull heart God ●ill heare Ezechias in his bed Hoster in ●er chāber Iob vpon the dunghill Daniel Isa 38.2 Hest 4.16 Iob. 2.8 Dan. 6.16 Ionah 2.1 Exod 15.1 Iosu 10.12 1. Reg. 17.20 19.8.9 Acts. 10.2 30. Luk. 6.12 Math. 27.46 ●n the den of Liōs Ieremy in the prison Io●s in the Whales bellie He will heare the people of Israel in the land of Egipt Mo●s and Aaron in the wildernes Iosua in ●is warres Elias in the house of the wid●ow of Sarepta in a Caue of the moūt Noreb Cornelius at home in his owne ●ouse Simon Peter in the house of Simon ●he Tanner Paule in the Ship and on the 〈◊〉 banke and our sauiour Christe on the moūtaines in the fields in the garden ●n the Crosse So that in euery place the ●ord is nigh vnto all the call vpon him I ●y vnto all that call vpon him in trueth Psal 145.18 notwithstāding this dooth God especially ●quire of euery christian that we should all ●ogether publiquely in the assemblies make ●en confession of our Faith in the Lord ●esus vnto the lande and praise of God And therfore miserable is their blindnes and intollerable is their arrogācie which thinke they may serue God sufficientlie in their houses and doo therfore abstaine from publique prayer and from the open confession of their faith in the Church of God wherin first they rob God of his honour and commit Sacriledge in kéeping back their tongues from the publique cōfessing their bodies from the open glorifying of the name of the Lord Iesus Secondlie they cut them selues off from the mysticall body of Iesus Christe for Christ is the head Ephe. 1.22 Ephe. 4.15.25 and we are the body one head hath but one body And thus as Paule sayth We are all members one of an other And therefore as one body we should be all of one faith all agrée in one trueth and all with one hart one voice lawde and magnifie the name of God and who soeuer by schismes deuisions dooth seperate him selfe from his brethren and cut him selfe off frō the Church that man dooth cut him selfe off frō the misticall body of Iesus Christ Thirdly they shew intollerable pride and arrogancie for what proude wretches are they which take vpō them to condempne the congregation of Christe which is assembled togeather in his holy name and to accoumpt them he●tiques for whome Christe shedde his ●ood and howe vilie doo they thinke of ●eir brethren Psal 22.22 which will not vouchsafe 〈◊〉 pray to make confession of their faith ●gether with them They are wurse a ●reat deale then the Phariseis for they ●though they were proude hautie and ●d aboue all others disdayne the Publi●nes yet they did not refuse to come to ●e Temple because the Publicans re●rted vnto it For S. Luke sheweth how ●e Pharisey the Publican Luk. 18.10 came bothe 〈◊〉 the Temple together And therefore ●ey which denie or disdaine to come to ●e Church eyther they make vs wurse ●en Publicans or else they them selues ●e wurse then Phariseis Fourthlie they giue great offence vnto ●hers by their yll ensample especiallie Psa 42.4 〈◊〉 they be such as should leade the people to the house of God I meane Land●des and Gentlemen for if they pray ●elie at home the poorer sort say straight ●ayes within them selues why may not ●e pray also at home séeing we haue all ●e Lord and Maister in heauen for in●riours are called Apes of superiours Herodian ●cause whatsoeuer they sée done of them they thinke that they may doo the like Seneca and Graauissimus morbus est qui a capite diffum ditur That disease is most perillous which commeth from the head And therefore Woe be to him by whome offences come Mat. 18.6.7 it were better for him that a myll stone were hanged about his necke and that he were drowned in the bottome of the sea Last of all they which refuse to come into the Congregation of God Psal 22.22 to confesse the name of God amongst their brethren they condemne and despise the holie ordinaunce of God For God hath ordained in holy woord commaunded That his people should come together to

whom we must be gathered Iohn 10.7 and brought home vpon his shoulders the onely doore by whom we must enter Math. 9.12 Math. 17.5 Iohn 1.4 5.26 1. Cor. 3 11. Ephe. 2.10 the onely Phisicion to cure our maladyes the onely Maister whom we must heare the way the trueth the lyfe the light the foundation and chéefe corner Stone on whome onely wee must builde our onely hope and consolation our wisdome iustification Math. 12.21 1. Cor. 1.30 Math. 11.27 Ephe. 2.18 1. Tim. 2.5 Iohn 4.10 7.38 sanctification and redemption the only Mediator and Aduocate betwixt God and mā whose bloude onely dooth purge vs from all our sinnes We must confesse hym to bee the onely giuer of the warer of lyfe whereof whosoeuer tasteth shall neuer thirste Iohn 6.51 but it shall bee in his belly as a Fountaine springing vp to eternall lyfe the onelye bread of lyfe whych came downe from Heauen of whom whosoeuer eateth shall liue for euer Rom. 13.14 Gal. 5.16 the onely riches whereby our pouertie must be releeued the onely rayment wherewith our nakednesse must be couered The victorious Lion of the Tribe of Iuda Gen. 49.10 1. Cor. 15.55 by whom all our enemyes are subdued the Diuil unchained Hell gates destroyed death swallowed vp in victorie Ephe. 2.16 Colos 2.14 the wrath of God slaine the law crucifyed sinne vanquished and abolished and we our selues made partakers of the euerlasting Crowne of glorie Ephe. 2.22 4.15 2. Cor. 11.2 We must confesse him to be the onely head of the body the onely husband of his deare Spouse the Church The Alpha and Omega the beginning and the ending which was and is to come euen the almighty for euer the holy and true Apoc. 1.8 3 7. which hath the Key of Dauid which openeth and no man shutteth and shutteth and no man openeth who by his incarnation natiuity circumcision exile Baptisme fasting temptation doctrine miracles agonyes bloudy sweate paynefull passion Math. 16.27 Luk. 24.52 Hebr. 8.1 10 12. 1. ●hes 4.16 death resurrection and ascention ouercame all our enemyes and now sitteth at the right hand of God the father almighty making intercession for vs and shall come at the laste day to iudgement in the twinkeling of an eye with the blaste of a trumpet and sound of an Archangell to iudge bothe the quicke and the dead If we thus confesse the Lord Iesus héere in earth Math. 10 3● then haue we a comfortable promise that he will likewise confesse vs before his ●ther which is in Heauen Hebr. 2.11 he will not be ashamed to call vs brethren he will giue vs this honourable title to be called Heires of God fellow Heires with Iesus Christ Rom. 8.17 And thus much of the first part how euery Christian muste with his mouthe confesse the Lorde Iesus Of the second part which is that we must beleeue in heart that God raysed him vp againe from the dead because it conteyneth the Article of iustification a matter large and waighty not lightly to be posted ouer but requiring a longer discourse as béeing the cheefest principle of Christian Religion I am therefore purposed God willing to intreate therevpon to morrow at the firste morning prayer In the meane time let vs meditate vpon this which we haue learned alreadye that not onely our soules but our whole bodyes are made to glorifie God the Creator 1. Cor. 6.19 Christe Iesus the Redéemer and the holy ghost the sanctifier and as all the body so especially the tongue Phil. 2.11 that euery tongue should confesse that Iesus is the Lord to the glory of God the Father we haue heard also where we must confesse the Lorde Iesus as in all places Psalm 22.22 so especially in the middest of the congregation and amongst our brethren because we are not borne to our selues 1. Pet. 4.11 1. Thes 5.11 but first to the honour and praise of the name of God and then to the edification instruction and comforte of our brethren Ephe. 6.4 and last of all to the godly bringing vp and reléeuing of our selues and our familyes in the feare and nurture of the Lorde We haue hearde all those reasons aunswered which are drawne from the example of Naaman Paul and Nicodemus to cloake and couer that dissembling in religion which is flatly and plainely condemned by the worde of God because that if Christ doo dwel in our harts by faithe Ephe. 3.17 it is vnpossible that the Diuell should be in the tongue and the other mēbers of the body which haue their life of the heart and are gouerned by the heart and also because God béeing a iealious God Exod. 20.5 will suffer no part of his Spouse to be giuē to any but to himselfe alone we haue heard also the sundry sorts of the policies of worldly wise men which are all contrarie to the true and constant confessing of the Lorde Iesus therewithall the manner how they must repent and amēd which is by casting away all respect of feare or fauour of mē or of the losse of lande liuing yea and of the life it selfe constantly with the mouthe to confesse the Lord Iesus and so much the rather because if anye trouble or persecution should come Rom. 8.28 yet all things will worke for the best to those that loue God We haue heard the plagues and heauie iudgements of God shewed all vpon those which for any worldly respect haue renoūced the Lord Iesus as also vpon thē which haue sought by violence to enforce others therunto Titus 1.16 And last of all we haue heard the manner howe we must confesse him not onely in worde but also indéede that he is our Iesus that is our Sauiour and therefore will saue vs is also able to saue vs being the heire of all things in Heauen in earth and therefore that without all wauering Actes 4.12 we hope assuredly to be saued by him looke for no saluatiō in any other if we thus confesse him in this world he will also confesse vs before his father Luke 12.8 Hebr. 2.11 Rom. 8.17 before his holy Angels in Heauē he wil acknowledge vs to be his brethrē fellow heires whē he shal pronoūce the ioyfull sētēce Come ye blessed of my father inherit you the kingdō prepared for you frō the foundations of the world Then shall we be with the Lambe and go whether he goeth then shall we make an other ioyefull confession with heauenly Harmonie and moste pleasaunt melodie when we shall accompany the Archangels Thrones Powers Dominions Cherubins Seraphins Patriarks Prophets Apostles Martyrs Virgins Confessours Angels Elders and innumerable thousands of Saints and with a new Songe for euer glorifying our Lord Iesus saying Apoc. 4.8 5.11 Thou Christ which was slaine art worthy to receiue power and riches and wisdome and strength and honour and glorie and blessing Holy

lyfe and all shall be iudged at the last day of the same Iudge wtout respect of persons And therefore let there bée no contention amonge vs wée are fellow-seruantes we are Brethren Dauid compareth Loue to the precious oyntment which was powred vpō Aarons head Psal 133 2. running downe vpon the Bearde and from thence vnto skirts of his clothing Signifiyng thereby that loue can neuer be in the borders of the Garment that is in the common people vnlesse it first be in the heads that is in the Maiestrats Ministers therefore that it ought first to be powred vpō Aarons head vppon the Rulers of the common wealth and vppon the Ministers of the Church of God least the heades beinge infected the whole body be the worse for it we especially ought to take héede that wée agrée one with another comfort one another assist one another as it were goe hand in hand together in the worke of the Lord. Againe in that the Disciples were sent out by two and two we are to consider the equalytie which ought to be in the Ministers of the word of God Christ graunteth to none of them any prymacie or supremacye but sendeth thē forth with equall authoritie two by two Apoc. 21.14 The Church is said to haue twelue foundations the twelue Apostles of the Lambe where Peter is made no head corner stone but all the Apostles equaly Eph. 2.22 foundations as Paul sayth Ye are built vpon the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets Iesus Christ himselfe being the chiefe corner Stone And our Sauiour seemeth to signifie an equallity when he saithe Math. 19.28 that they shall sit vpon twelue Thrones iudging the twelue Tribes of Israell And a little after when the rest of the Apostles beganne to disdaine Iames and Iohn he reprooued thē saying Math. 20.25 The Lords of the Gentils haue dominion ouer them and they are great and exercise authoritie but it shall not be so among you but whosoeur will be great among you let him be your seruaunt and whosoeuer will be chiefe among you let him be your Minister euen as the sonne of man came not to be serued but to serue Mat. 28.19 and to giue his life for the raunsome of many And when he gaue vnto them the commission and authoritie of their Apostleship he gaue it equally and generally to them all saying Go therefore and teach all nations Baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Sonne and of the holy Ghost And Saint Iohn saithe Ioh. 20.19.22 that Christe stoode in the midst of his Disciples and sayde Receaue the holy Ghoste who so euers sinnes ye remitte they are remitted and who so euers sinnes ye retaine they are retayned He leaned not to Peter nor to Iames nor to Iohn but stoode in the midst of them neither did hée giue the authoritie of binding and loosinge particulerly to Peter but generally to them all and when the holy Ghost came doune in clouen tongues Act. 2.3 like fyre the Text sayeth It sate vpon ech of them and they were all filled with the holy Ghost and began to speake with diuers Languages euen as the same spirite gaue them vtteraunce It hath bin taught in times past that the absoluing of sinnes did consist in the worthynesse of the person a simple Priest might absolue but certen small sinnes other greater did belong to the Byshop the Archbyshop claymed an other higher sort but the greatest and fowlest sinnes were reserued to be forgiuen onely by the Pope and his Cardinals But this deuision was brought in by their greedy coueitousnesse to enrich them selues and not by any warrant of the worde of God For we know assuredly that the authoritie of binding and loosing by the word of God the administration of the Sacramentes and the efectuall operation of the spirit by the preaching of the Gospell is equally committed to all Ministers whether they bee Archebyshops or Byshops or Pastours by what name or title so euer they be called Ministers haue better knowledge and vtteraunce some then other but their Ministerie is of equall dignitie And therfore the Priuiledges and superiorities which Byshops haue aboue other Ministers are rather granted by man for maintaining of better order quietnesse in common wealthes then chalenged by the office of their Ministerie They may haue some thing in commission from the Prince which wée are bounde to obay not for feare but for Conscience sake and how so euer for the auoyding of disorder and confusion there may be some Bishops and Superintendents as it were particuler heads of certene congregations yet this dooth nothing prooue 1. Pet. 5.4 Eph. 1.22 4.15 that any man may challenge to him selfe the name of vniuersal Byshop or head of the whole Church which is only proper to our Lord Sauiour Iesus Christ And therfore whosoeuer dooth arrogate to him selfe this name or title he must néedes be that lying Antichrist 2. Thesa 2.4 whiche as Saint Paule sayth Doth exalte him selfe against all that is called God or that is worshipped so that he dooth sit in the Temple of God as God shewing himselfe that he is God Greg. Mag. Epist 30. ad mauritum Imper. and therefore it was well sayde of Gregory Ego confidenter dico quod quisquis se vniuersalem sacerdotem vocat vel vocari desiderat in elatione sua Antichristum proecurrit quia superbiēdo se coeteris praeponit In that our sauiour Christ dooth sende forth seauentie Disciples where as before he sent foorth but twelue we haue moreouer to consider that the multitude of Ministers is bounde to no certaine number Some affirme that there ought to bée no more Ministers then there are Congregatiōs and indéede to haue any vacabound Ministers to wāder about without charges I fynde it altogether repugnaunt to the worde of God yet notwithstanding séeing that the Congregations and Parishes in this Countrie are so vnequally deuided that some may be better gouerned by one then others may bee with ten it is necessarie that many pastours amōgst vs should haue many assistants and therefore good people maruaile not though there be many Ministers at this time to bee ordained before you to whō I am now to giue their charge but rather séeing that there are none admitted but such as are called to their seuerall flocks as I my selfe dare auouch beinge oculatus testis hauing séene the same testified by the Letters of diuers worshipfull who as my Lord is perswaded will in no wise abuse him I beséech you praye to god together with vs that he will prowre vpon them the dew of his holy spirit and so blesse them with the heauenly giftes of knowledge with wisdome zeale and vtteraunce that they may become profytable labourers in the Lords Haruest for the Haruest is great and the Labourers are but few Moreouer in that Christe did sende foorth his seauētie Disciples before him into euery