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A13205	Englands first and second summons Two sermons preached at Paules Crosse, the one the third of Ianuarie 1612; the other the fifth of Februarie, 1615. By Thomas Sutton Batchelour of Diuinitie, then fellow of Queenes Colledge in Oxford, and now preacher at Saint Mary Oueries in Southwarke.	Sutton, Thomas, 1585-1623.	1616 (1616)	STC 23502; ESTC S105186	67,811	260

swell with presumption and turnes euery symptome of feare into desperation and horrour Causa causa causa causati And if Logicke that is old bee not worne quite out of date thē Ignorance which is proued and conuicted to be the prime cause of sin cannot chuse but vsher and make way for punishment I appeale for proofe to the Oracles of God where I finde it punished sometimes with captiuity Esay 5.13 My people is gone into captiuity because they wanted knowledge Sometimes with desolation Esay 27. Sometimes with destruction Hosea 4.6 It maketh subiect to the curse Ps 79.6 It maketh strangers from the life of God Ephes 4.18 It debarres from the life of glory For they that know not one foote of the way to heauen how is it possible they should passe through so many winding Maeanders and perplexed passages vnto those fortunate Ilands of ineffable comfort Lastly Ignorance maketh lyable to the vengeance of God in the day of iudgement 2. Thess 1.8 Hee shall come in flaming fire to render vengeance vnto them that know not God And therefore the more to blame was the Councell of Trent Vse for setting lock key vpon the Scriptures that the Laitie might not look into thē but with as great and eminent danger as the men of Bethshemesh for looking into the Arke 1. Sam. 6. and Pius the fourth Pope of that name Pius 4. for censuring the sacred Oracles of Heauen amongst bookes prohibited marking them in the fore-head with the stroke of Noli me tangere God hath not dedicated the Bible to the Laitie Hosius and of Hosius a father in the Trent conspiracie that it is fitter for women to meddle with the Distaffe then with the word of God Suffer me to draw a little bloud out of this veine for whatsoeuer they doe or can pretend it is euident out of ancient Stories that in the Primitiue Church the word of God was not onely permitted to the Lay people to reade but also that translations were prouided of set purpose that they might reade it We reade in Socrates Socrat. lib. 4. cap. 24. that they were translated by Vlphilas Bishop of the Gothes that the Barbarians might learne them by Methodius into the Slauonian tongue Chrys Hom. 1. in Iohan. S. Chrysostome in his first Homily vpon Iohn remembers the Syrian the Egyptian the Indian the Persian the Ethiopian and many others And Theodoret in his first Booke Theod. de curan Graecorum affectibus lib. 15. De curandis Graecorum affectibus will beare vs witnesse that in his time the Bible was turned into all Languages in the world what one thing is more common among the Fathers then often to bee calling vpon the people to get themselues Bibles to reade and examine them Then the Laitie was acquainted with the Text of Scripture as well as the learned and then the doctrine of Hosius was not hatched So we reade in Socrates Socr. lib. 5. cap. 8. of Nectarius that of a Iudge and one of the Laitie he was made Bishop of Constantinople by the consent of an 150 Bishops And of Saint Ambrose Socrat. l. 4. cap. 25. who was translated from the gouernement of a Prouince to bee Bishop of Millain Of Gregorie the father of Nazianzene Of Thalassim Bishop of Caesarea that from priuate men they were remoued to sit at the sterne of the Church which shewes how painefull and how indefatigably diligent they had bene in the Word of God and in the search of Scriptures that being but Lay-men yet were supposed able to sustaine the office charge of Bishops Wee reade in Eusebius of Origen Euseb hist eccles l. 6. cap. 2. that hee was trained vp in the Scriptures from a child that hee got them without booke and was wont to question with his father Leonides about the difficult meaning of some places Of Macrina foster mother to S. Basil Basil Epist 74. that shee proposed vnto her selfe the example of Timothy and trained him vp in learning the Scriptures from his infancy S. Basil himselfe is our recorder in his 74. Epistle so wee reade in Nicephorus Niceph. lib. 8. cap. 14. his 8. booke and 14. chapter of Paphnusius a Lay-man and yet so renowmed for his singular knowledge in Diuinitie that he was accounted worthy to beare a part and be no small helper in the Councell of Nice And who knowes not that S. Hierome directs many of his Epistles vnto godly women Hierom. highly commending them for their labour in the Scriptures Or who knowes not that S. Iohn himselfe writ his second Epistle to his elect Lady Ioh. Epist 2. which Epistle is Canonicall Scripture And is it not a shame to thinke that hee would send her an Epistle which she might not reade It was indeed the reproach which Iulian the Apostata obiected against the Christians and from him it seemes that Hosius and Andradius and our blinde Romish guides haue borrowed it By all which it appeares that this muffling of mens eyes which the Trent men haue deuised is but a noueltie and a trick to win some credit to their Legend thevery shop and forge of lies and vnder the vaile and mist of Ignorance to send whole droues and legions of soules to hell But for you beloued I shall beseech God in the words of S. Paul and I beseech you vse the same prayer for your selues That the word of God may dwell in you plentifully in all Wisedome that the booke of God may neuer bee wrested out of your hand that hee would open to you the treasures of wisedome and knowledge which there are hid that you may bee like Apollos powerfull and like Tertullus learned in the Scriptures that you may rellish that heauenly Manna that you may long after the sincere milk of the Gospell that you may performe indeed as much as God gaue Ioshua in charge Iosh 1.8 That this booke of God may not depart out of your mouthes that you meditate therein day and night that you obserue and do all that is written therein for thus you shall make your waies prosperous you shall make your sorrowes easie your comforts many your vertues eminent your conscience quiet your life holy your death comfortable your election sure your saluation certaine and so I make poste haste to those fiue sins which I called positiue whereof the first is swearing Swearing 1 Positiue sin Zanchius Polanus Mercer Ribera out of Hier. Error Manich Anabap. Zanchius in 3. praeceptū ex Gratiano the Hebrew word Aloh may either signifie cursing and execration as Zanchius or Periury and foreswearing as Polanus or slandering detraction as Mercer would haue it I rather follow the exposition of Ribera out of Saint Hierome that here it is vsed to signifie rash idle swearing so that heere is no shroud for that doting humour of Anabaptists and Manichees which they wold gladly reare build out of the fift of Mathew