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A17338	A sermon preached at Pauls crosse on Trinity sunday, 1571. By E.B.	Bush, Edward.; Bunny, Edmund, 1540-1619.	1576 (1576)	STC 4183; ESTC S107148	27,884	68

¶ A sermon preached at Pauls crosse on Trinity sunday 1571. By. E. B. Imprinted at London by Iohn Awdely 1576. I N ¶ A Sermon vpon a part of the .iij. Chapter of Paules second Epistle to Timotheus 2. TIMOTHEVS 3.16 ¶ All scripture is geuen by inspiration of God and is profitable to doctrine to reproue to correction to instruction which is in righteousnesse 17 That the man of God may be perfect instructed vnto all good workes AS al the holy scripture is profitable to teach trew sounde doctrine to confute false and erronious doctrine to instruct in good and godly life and to reproue vngodly and wicked life that the man of God may be profited prepared to euery good worke as the Apostle saith So righte honorable dearely beloued in our Sauiour Christ if I may make any comparisō betwene those diuine heauenly bookes the booke of Psalmes is a most precious pearle a most worthy worke conteyning most sweete comfortable doctrine for the soule and conscience of man And therfore whosoeuer he was that did write the first preface before the commentaries of s Augustine vpo● the Psalmes doth not vnworthely cal this boke Registrus totius sacra scripture c 1. A register of all the holy scripture and a perfection of all diuinity And s. Augustine himselfe in his owne preface saith that this booke of the Psalmes is Communis quidam thesaurus bonae doctrine aptesingulis necessaria Subministrans that is a certayne commune treasure or scholehouse of good doctrine ministring fitly to euery one those thinges which be necessarie for them A certaine worthy writer of our age calleth this booke an Anatomie of the soule for that ther is no affection passion nor motion vnto the which the soule of man is subiect but he may see the same most liuely expressed in thys booke of the Psalmes For whether wee be persecuted by open enemies or molested by those that haue seemed to be our friendes who haue gone vp into the temple with vs haue taken sweete counsel together or whether we be greeued with sickenes or troubled with the feeling of our synnes or in what other soeuer perplexity or distresse we be we may sucke out of thys booke of the Psalmes most swéete and comfortable doctrine ether for the amendment of our lyues or the comfort of our consciences And therefore S. Augustine saith very wel that thys booke of the Psalmes is scutuma nocturuis terroribus diurnorum requ●es laborum tutela pueris ornamentum adoiescentibus Solamen Senibus mulieribus aptissimus decor that is to say a shield against the terrors of the night a rest for the labors of the ●ay a defence for childrē an ornament for yong men I would to God the yong men would seeke to stay their fraile and slippery youth with the diligent reading of thys booke I would that old men would solace their wearysome old age with meditating on this booke I would women would trym and attyre themse●●e not with gold brodered heare as the Apostle saith but with the precious pearles iewels that are conteined in thys booke Surely S. Iereme in epitaphio Paule hath these words Neque emim licebat cuique Sororum ignorare Psalmos non de scripturis sanctis quotidie aliquid discere That is to say it was not lawful for any of the sisters that were with Paula to be ignorant of the Psalmes or not to learne euery day somewhat of the scriptures A godly exercise for women The same s Ierome writing to a gentelwoman called Data instructing her how to bring vp her doughter writeth thus Turpia verba non intelliga● cantica mundi ignoret adhuc tenera lingda psalmis dulcibus imbuator That is Let her not heare filthie talk let her not learne wordly songes but whilest her tounge is as yet tender let it be exercised in the swete psalms A godly education for children Here by the way I must show you how contrary the iudgement of S. Ierome is to the opinion of the papistes S. Ierome woulde haue not onely men but also women not onely women but also children yong girles to be exercised trained vp in the scriptures The Papistes haue k●pt the light of gods word vnder the busshell of a straunge tounge haue taken away the key of knowledge and haue shut vp the kingdom of God before men and neither wyl enter in themselues nor suffer others that would But to returne againe to my purpose if this booke of the Psalms be so worthy a worke ought not we worthely vse it Yes verely And how shall we worthely vse it If we do reuerently vse it if we study and meditate vpon it if we breake the shell and get the kernall that is if we seeke the simple sence of the holy ghost and applie the same vnto our selues ether to amend our lyues or to comfort our consciences if we do thus vse it we shall worthely and frutefully vse it But I feare me we do for the most part abus● it we reade it but we little regard it we do but run ouer it we tosse it from one syde to another lyke tennis balles with small comfort to our selues and lesse profit to others Thus to vse gods holy word is not rightly to vse it but rather to abuse it For whosoeuer doth vse the word of God to any other ende then to that to the which the spirit of God did indite if and the holy prophets and Apostles did write it do abuse it and then shall render an accompt to God for it I pray God for his mercy that our hastye handling of his holy word do not hasten his iust iudgement to depriue vs of it But some man peraduenture may heare say What meane you to speake thus much vpon the Psalmes Because dearely beloued I purpose by the assistance of gods grace holy spirit to intreate on a psalme for considering that that part of scripture which is apointed this d●yte be ●●ad for the Gospel hath bene of late very largely handeled in very puplike solemne place by others and that the other part of scripture is taken out of the reuelation more meete to be handeled by a méeter man and by one that hath more learning and leasure thē I haue for these considerations I say I haue omitted them and at this time present haue taken my selfe to a Psalme Psalme LXXV ¶ VVe wyll praise thee O God we wyll praise thee For thy name is nere● therefore they wyll declare thy wondrous workes THis Psalme may be deuided into foure partes whereof the first conteyneth a vow and promise of the godly to praise the name of God and to declare his wonderfull workes for that his name is euer neare both to be are also to saue deliuer them 2. The second part conteyneth an answer in the person of almighty God wherein is declared that God when he shal see a conuenient tyme wyll iudge

and eased of their synnes These beleue that almighty God for Christ Iesus sake wil be merciful to their synnes and forgiue them their iniquities And thus by faith Christs obedience is made their obedience Christs fulfilling of the law is become their fulfilling of the lawe Christes righteousnes is their righteousnes and couereth all their vnrighteousnes So that although they be vnrighteous synners in themselues yet before God they be righteous for Christ Iesus sake I pray God we all may be in the number of this sort of synners These synners God loueth and heareth The eies of the Lorde are ouer the righteous and hys eares be open vnto their prayers But there is another sort of synners which commit syn without griefe of mind ●r compunctiō of hart which delight in syn ●nd run forward in synne like the stoned ●orse in the battel wallow in wickednes ●yke the sow in the myre They haue not ●hys lyuely faith which is an assurance of Gods loue towardes vs in Christ Iesus 〈◊〉 lyuely apprehension of Gods mercyes in Christ These cannot prayse God nay the ●nger of almighty God hangeth ouer them ●o route then out Let vs beware and take ●éede that we be not in number of these syn●ers These god heareth not but hath as it ●s in the Psalm Odisti omnes qui operatur ●niquit●tem 1. Thou hatest al those the work wickednes But rather let vs rent our harts not our garments and turne to the Lord our God who is gracious and mercifull flow to anger and of great gooones Here also I wyl show you that the papists ●annot praise god and yet they boast much of prayer and say that praier is despised neglected of vs But I trust any man may easily perceyue partly by the earnest zeale of Godly men in praier partly by the earnest exhortacions of good men to prayse lastly by the Godly bookes that we haue written or prayer that thys is no true reporte by them to deface gods touth and to bring vs into hatred with the people In deede as our Sauiour Christ dispised the hipocritical praiers of the papistes We condemne their vnfruitefull numbling in a straunge tounge and their vngodly calling vpon creatures which is not warranted but cōdemned by the word of god But as for true prayer which is a lifting vp of our soules and a pouring forth of our harts before God an earnest inuocation of his holy name in the only name of hys deare sonne Christ Iesus our sauiour we greatly cōmend earnestly exhort al men vnto it But howsoeuer the papists glory in their prayer I wil proue vnto you by gods grace that they cannot frutefully praise God for howe can they fruitefully prayse God who dishonor God and spoyle Christ Iesus of hys glory Christ Iesus was appointed annointed of his father to be our king who onely should conquer and ouercome Sathan sinne death and damnation who only shoulde rule hys vniuersall church with hys spirite and word who onely should be the head of hys church and gyue lyfe vnto the same being his body But the papistes ●aue robbed him hereof for they haue deui●ed many other meanes ●o ouercome sinne 〈◊〉 Satan besides Christ You heard of late ●n this place how that the papistes affirme ●hat Christ died only for originall synne ●nd that for other synnes wee our selues must mak● satisfaction you heard also how ●hat Pigghius the papiste doth confidently ●uouch that originall synne is not synne ●ut onely so called because it floweth and ●ommeth from syn So that of this doctrine 〈◊〉 must needes folow that Christ died for ●hat which is not in deede synne but hath ●nly the name and title of synne They ●aue commit the regiment of Christs vni●ersall church to one man who hath bene ●uer so vnable to ●usteine so great a charge ●hat hetherto he was neuer wel able right ●y to rule that one city of Rome nor his col●edge of Cardnals Him they haue made ●ead of the Church in whom as they say ●he vnity of the Church consi●teth vpon ●hom the safety of the Church dependeth ●o that he which is not in thys Church whereof the Pope is head is out of Noes ●rke out of peters ship cannot be ●aued ●ut must néedes be drowned Thys is th●●● doctrine by the which they depriue Christ Iesus as much as in them lieth of that function vnto the which his heuenly father t●o appoint him Christ was annointed and appointed to be our onely prophet and scholemaister whom onely we shuld haue as his heauenly father did testify of hym saying Hic est silius meus dilectus in quo mihi benae complacitum est ipse andite 1. This is my welbeloued sonne in whom I am wel pleased heare him He hath deliuered vnto vs his holy word and gospell which is able to saue our soules and also to make the man of god perfect prepared to euery good work this he hath sealed and confirmed with his bloud Yet notwithstanding the papistes do affirme that all things needeful and necessary to our saluation a● not conteined in the scriptures but that we must receyue many traditio●s which yet are but triffles and beleue many vnwritten verities And thus in effect they take from hym the office of being our prophet to instruct vs Christ Iesus was annoynted of God to be our hi● priest where with the sacrifice of his body and bloud once offered hath payd the price and raunsome of our sinnes who entred once into the holy place and found eternal redemption who with one sacryfyce once ●ffered hath made perfyt al those that shal be saued who died once the righteous for the vnrighteous and bare our sinnes vpon the wood But the Papistes haue brought in a fained forged sacrifice of their owne deuise auailable as they saye not onely for the synnes of thos● that are alyue but also for them that are dead Thys feyned sacrifice as it hath no warrant at al in the word of God so is it a great derogation to the death and passion of Christ coniured by the Pope Peccatum ●rangit vt Christi Sanquis et augit It breaketh and greueth synne as wel as the bloud of Christ For thus ful rudely or rather blasphemously dyd Pope Vrbane runne to Fre●erick the Emperor They say that holy water is aueileable ad salutem animae et corporis to the saluation of the soule and body They haue taught vs to say and pray Iesu bonae per Thoma merita nostra nobis demitte debita i. Good Iesus for the merits of Thomas forgiue vs our debtes that is to say our synnes And againe Tu per Thoma sanguinem c which in a rude rime they thus translated make vs Christ to clime whether Thomas did ascend Thus we may plainely perceiue that the papistes ascribe that which is only proper to the merites and bloud of Christ Iesus the sonne of God to the merites and