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A00800	A godly sermon preached at Paules Crosse the 31. day of October 1591. By VVilliam Fisher, Master and keeper of the hospitall of Ilford in Essex. ... Seene and allowed	Fisher, William, student of diuinitie.	1592 (1592)	STC 10919; ESTC S117556	27,863	65

yet euerye one that shalbe found written in the booke of lyfe shall be delyuered and to the same effect it is that this booke was ordained for this people to be as it were their Passeouer to auoid and escape the dayes of miserye which the Lorde did threaten to bring vpon them Prouide that the doore postes of your consciences maye be sprinckled with the bloode of the Lambe or that your repentaunce maye bee recorded in the booke of lyfe and you are sure of an euerlasting Passeouer to escape Gods most dreadfull vengeance But if you wll sée that prerogatiue which is Instar omnium in stéede of all other Then consider againe and againe of that which is written in 20. Apoc. ver 12. Wherin the glorious maiesty of our Sauiour Jesus Christ is moste truely described euen as he shall come to Judge the quick and the dead for it is said And I saw the dead both great and small stād before God and the bookes were opened another book was opened which is the book of lyfe the dead wer iudged of those things which were written in the bookes acording to their workes But now what are these bookes that shall be opened before the booke of lyfe be opened doubtles these thrée the booke of the Lawe the booke of the Gospell and the booke of Conscience First the booke of the Law shal be opened and laid before vs that it maye appeare what duetye we ought to haue done towardes God and man through loue And euen as Moyses commāded the Leuites to put this booke in the side of the Arke that it might be for a witnes against them when they disobeyed the same Deu. 31. So shall all the workers of iniquity in the fearefull day of the Lord find this booke a swift witnes against them And if Iosias rent his cloathes and wept for wo when he heard the law red and thereby sawe how much duety was required and how little he had performed what sorrow and heauines shall compas vs about and if it were possible dissolue our teares and turne them into drops of blood When in the presence of this our seuere Judge we shall both heare and sée not onelye what we haue left vndone in that book commanded but also what we haue done therein forbidden In the meane time therefore let vs not onelye be hearers of the Law but dooers also lest then we finde Gods fauour vnrecouerable and our repentance vnprofitable Secondly the booke of the Gospell shal be opened that thereby it may appear what mercy what grace what frée pardon what remission of sinne what imputation of righteousnes and what assuraunce of lyfe and Saluation you might haue had in Christ Jesus If you had bene so happye to haue sought it by repentance and to haue laid holde vppon it by faith At the opening of this booke shall you sée before your eyes all the swéete promises and tender inuitations which our Sauiour Christ offred vnto you through preaching of the gospell to haue drawne you to repentance Then shall all the benefites of his bitter passion be laid open before your eyes and you shall sée that he was debased himselfe to haue brought you to honour that he was wounded himself to haue healed your wounds of sinne and that he died himselfe to haue saued his enemies from death and to haue purchased eternal life to all penitent sinners And as the booke of the lawe shall shewe what wee ought to haue done so the booke of the Gospell shall shewe what we ought to haue beleeued and both to one end Christ knoweth that so much more Just and dreadfull may be our Judgement O ye proude contemners of the worde of trueth consider of this you which thinke the Gospell to base for your déepe wittes haue regarde vnto it lest the time come that you repent it and féele the smart of it And as the ritch man begde of Abraham that poore Lazarus might dip but the tippe of his finger in water to coole his tormented tongue so the day may come that you will be glad●● 〈…〉 e in your harts that the 〈…〉 rascall a●d ab●●ct minister among vs all as you 〈…〉 ●● vs might be suffered to bring y●u euen the least all drop of the water of lyfe ye a the least comfort of the Gospell to refresh your 〈…〉 〈…〉 les but it will be to late to late Thirdlye the booke of Conscience shall be opened and shewe what abhominable sinnes we haue done and committed Conscientia Codex est in quo quotidiana conscrib 〈…〉 r peccata ●aith Chrisost in Psa 50. The conscience is a booke where in a mans dayly sins are written Therfore keepe this boke well cleare frō the blots and blemishes of sinne and then the reward thereof will be so strong and substantiall on thy side y ● it is called mille testes a thousand witnesses Sillogismus practicus a conclusion of Experience Cordis scientia the knoweledge of a mans owne hart It is murus Aeneus as Horace saith a brasen wall It is maxima consolatio rerum incōmodarum The greatest cōfort in aduersity saith Tully nay it is ger Benedictionis the field of blessing Hort is delitiarum The garden of pleasures Gaudium An 〈…〉 m The ioy of Angels Habit 〈…〉 m Spiritus sancti The habitation of the holy Ghost saith Hugo de Anima Lib. 2. Cap. 9. But suffer this booke to be 〈…〉 and ●●lluted with sinne and what is it then It is formidinis mater saith Chrisostome the Mother of all feare It is confusionis tabula saith August It is the table of confusion And of all other bookes in the world you can not abyde to look into the book of your guilty consciences This made the Father I meane Adam a cr●ep●ish in Paradice and this made him say Abscondi me Gen. 3. This made the sonne I meane Caine a runnagate and so restlesse that hee durst abide noe where for feare his throat should be cut Gen. 4. This made Ionas conuey him selfe into the bottome of the shippe thinking there to hyde him selfe from the booke of his owne Gauled conscience This made Iudas betake himselfe to the halter because he coulde not abide to see the abhominable treacherye hee had committed against the innocent bloode of Jesus This made Ecebolus that turne cote heretike to cast him selfe downe before the Church and to detest him selfe saying Calcate me in sipidum salem Trample vpon me vnsauorye salt that I am Now then if it be such a feareful horrible thing to looke into the booke of a guilty conscience in this life what shame and confusion shal ouerwhelme vs in the lyfe to come when nothing shall be concealed when all pleates and wrinckles shall be vnfolded when al coūsels and secrets shal be discouered when there is not an idle word of our tongues or a wicked thought of our herts that shall escape our accompt and when all our falts shall appeare vppon record

against vs euen in the bookes which we our selues haue caried in our owne bosomes Alas alas who shall endure it and not desire that the déep may swallow him vp or that the mountaines maye couer him or that the hilles may fall vpon him Haue a ●are then good people and an eye to your bosome booke I meane the conscience the verye register of all your secrets Now all these bookes being opened the booke of the Law to show what wee ought to haue done The booke of the Gospell to shewe what we ought to haue beleeued and the book of our owne consciences to shew what abominable sins we haue committed that we haue neither by loue satisfied the Law nor thorow faith relyed vpon the gospell what followeth Then shal the booke of lyfe which is here called the booke of Remembraunce be opened wherein the Lord hath set downe vpon record whatsoeuer good thing we haue done for the obtaining of the crowne of lyfe and the auoiding of the snares of death and namely these foure things First the Names of all Gods Saints and seruants and this is apparant by the wordes of Moyses Exod. 32. 32. If thou wilt not forgiue thē I pray thee race my name out of the booke of lyfe which thou hast written And Daniell praieth that the wicked may be raced out of the boke of lyfe and that they may not be written with the righteous Psal 69. So that as Assuerus had his booke of rememberaunce wherein the names of such as had don him hye seruice at any time wer vsually written and as he finding that Mardocheus had discouered two traitours which sought to laye violent hands vpon the King caused him to be honored by putting on his owne rich apparel and by wearing his royall crowne vpon his head Ester 6. In lyke maner our heauenlye King séeing the good that we haue done for the supplanting and subuerting of the enemies of his trueth will he not recorde our names in his book will he not giue vs the rich robes of his innocencie and the royall crowne of his euerlasting glorye Read you the 2. of the Re and you shall see that the Lord doeth professe this fauour Very notably he tolde the Church of Ephesus that heknew her workes her labor and her patience c. And so he tolde the church of Smirna the Church of Pergamus and the Church of Thyatyra that he knew not onely what yet they had done but also did remember and recite in particuler their good reckoning with them for the one and promissing to rewarde them for the other Secondly in this booke of Remembraunce we shall finde written the teares of our affliction and therefore Dauid saith Thou haste counted my wandrings put my teares into thy bottle are they not in thy register Ps 56. 8. Can there be a greater comfort then this when wee are brought to the stake to bee burnt or to the sworde to be cut as flesh to the potte or to the wilde horsses to be torne in a thousand peeces Let the butcherlike tirants glut their hartes by making ashes of our bodies or foules meat or dogs meat of our flesh what care wee They can not scrape our teares out of the booke of Remembrance nor race our bloode out of the register of lyfe Thirdly In this booke of Remēbrance we shall finde written the works of our compassion for so much doth the wordes of our Sauiour Christ importe Math. 25. Who shall say to them on the right hand Come ye blessed of my Father inherite ye the kingdome prepared for you frō the foūdation of the world for I was an hungred ye gaue me meat c. Then shall the righteous aunswer him and say Lord When sawe we thee anhongred c. Then shall he answer and say Verely in asmuche as you haue done it to one of the least of these my brethren ye haue done it vnto me And so much doth the woordes of Iob import Cap. 31. ver 35. Where he saith that the Almighty will witnes his pitty towardes the poore albeit his enemy should write a booke against him And so will he doe for vs If wee giue but a cuppe of colde water for his names sake we shal not lose our rewarde We see that Princes haue their bookes of Subsidies of Beneuolence of priuye Seales wherein they set down whatsoeuer good they receiue at the hands of their Subiects by free gift or vpō lone or lending And so it is with our heauenly potentat I warrant you if you releeue the poore he sets it down in his book for a subsidy or a beneuolēce don to him if you lend to the poore needy he sets it downe for a priuy seale lent to him he will become your debter and sée it discharged to the vttermost Therefore ye rich men out with your subsidie extend your beneuolences and send abroad your priuye seale money the Lord will not forget it he will not faile but set it downe in his booke of Remembrance And heere right Honorable and beloued in the Lord I cannot but put you in minde of a necessary Beneuolence and a Christian subsidy to be supplyed in respect of the Godly preachers called and appointed for this place which as you know is vsually and best furnished with learned men from both the vniuersities But how hardlye and vnwillinglye they ar drawen hither it is but to wel known And why because they are faine to come at their owne great coste and charge which can not stand with their poore and small abilitye For I speake not for my selfe and other● my brethren which thankes be to God are prouided for sufficiently to do any seruice appliable to our calling without beeing chargeable to you But for fellowes in Colleges and other poore students in the vniuersities men of rare knowledge and singuler guifts which being enioyned to supply this place are not more often sent for then commonlye they refuse to come And for my parte I cannot greatlye blame them for why should they labour and haue no hyre Or tread out your corne with the Oxe and haue their mouthes musted No man is hound proprijs stipendiis militare to make warre at his owne charge Why should not he that preacheth the Gospell liue of the gospel Or why should not they which sowe spirituall things reape your temporall things Might it therfore please you the right honorable the Lord Maior and the read● the right wor●●●●full your brethren and Maie●●trats of th● famous cittie of London ●● impar●●●ou 〈…〉 berality and ye●rly contribution in 〈…〉 〈…〉 I know●●●o●e learned 〈…〉 godly B●shop which in my hearing hath not onely promised before 〈…〉 but 〈…〉 ed before God to giue a good portion for●●er towardes thi● so good a purpose 〈…〉 I am sure it will bee a● freelye and thorowlye performed make triall when you please And albeit perhaps you will not pre●ent him yet the cause being so reasonable and important I hope