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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05390	A fruitfull sermon made in Poules churche at London in the shroudes, the seconde daye of February by Thomas Leuer	Lever, Thomas, 1521-1577.	1550 (1550)	STC 15543; ESTC S120436	21,246	80

oure synnes do not cause God to thinke our realme vnworthy to enioye the treasure of so precyous a Iewell Manye other noble men there be as I truste some that I do certaynlye knowe whose tender heartes do muche lamente youre griefes and whose godlye prouision wyll be muche vnto youre comforte if your vnpaciente stubburnes do not disapoynte their good purpose If euer at any tyme God did send vnto any afflycted people releyfe comforte and prosperytye it came alwayes by good rulers at suche tyme as the people beeynge in afflyccyon dyd humble them selues in pacyence and cryed vnto the Lorde wyth prayer as is apparente in the houndreth and seuen Psalme Clamauerunt ad dominum cum tribularentur et de necessitatibus eorum liberauit eos When they were in trouble they called vnto thee Lorde and he deliuered them forth of their troublousesome gryefes And in the bookes of the iudges and of the kynges ye maye reade how that God to delyuer his people forth of miserye and to prosper them in wealth dyd reyse vp good rulers as Gedeon Barac Iepthe Sampson Dauid Samuel and suche other And wythoute doubte euen at this time here in England God hathe raysed vp a gracyous kynge some suche noble men as be neyther cruell nor couetous If ther be therfore in vs pacience humility thankfulnes prayer surelye we shall soone feele relyefe conforte and prosperitie Thei therfore y t as yet feele thē selues greued let thē cal vnto y e lord lokinge for his helpe in paciente suffering not prouoking his vengeaunce by vngracious rebellinge agaynste hys officers vnhappye resisting hys ordinaunce vnhappy resistyng may I well call it for vnhappye are all they that vse it purchasing thereby to them selues iudgement vengeaunce and damnacyon O howe vnhappye haue they been here in England whiche haue not quietlye suffered a confortable reformacion of their greatest griefes and harmes to procede from god to thē by his ordinaūce but vnpacientlye grudginge haue offēded god disquieted this realm and vndone them selues by resystynge goddes ordynaunce For the greatest griefe that hathe been vnto the people in thys realme hath bene the inclosing of comens as concernyng the whyche the powers ordeyned of GOD for th●● purpose made an acte of parlyamente forbiddynge anye man to enclose vnto hys pryuate vse that whyche of long tyme had bene taken and vsed as common And afterwardes the same powers dyd sende forthe proclamacions warnynge theym whyche contrarye to thys acte of parliament had inclosed groundes offendynge the people that they accordynge to these Proclamacions shoulde laye the same inclosed landes abroade agayne to satysfye the acte of parliamente and to releue the people And for because neyther of these wayes toke effecte there was immediatly further commissions dyrected to put suche men in authoryty as could easelye and woulde gladly and were purposed spedely to haue layed vnlawfull inclosed landes abrode agayne in such qui●●●orte as shoulde haue bene most to the kynges honour to y e w●●lth of thys realme and to the gr●atest comfo●t of tho●● whyche were most greued Now howe the people dyd take or rather how they dyd resyste and wythstand thys ye know And I shall rehearse whan as I haue telled you of one other thyng whyche beynge of longer contynuance in Englande hath done ferre more harme and yet the g●ye● ther offer lesse yea nothynge at all felt For the deadely wound therof dyd brynge the people past all felynge of gryefe And the venomous poys●n broughte the people in suche a Maze that th●y dyd not fele and p●●ceyue them ●elues to be in most hor●yble my●●rable wretchednes wh●n as the worde of GOD the 〈◊〉 of l●fe the sauyng health in Christ Iesu was ●aken away and in a straunge language shut and closed vp from theym so that they wythout felyng were led frō God by mannes tradicions vnto vayne ceremonis to be most venemously poysoned wyth dyuelishe supersticion Therefore whan as the mercyfull goodnes of God beholdyng the miseries of the people by the prouydence of the kynges maiestye his counsell purposely ordeined of God to confort healpe and amend the people of thys realme by the restoryng of goddes worde and settynge it playnelye forthe in the Englysh tong with the ryght vse and dew admin●stracion of hys sacramentes to be imprynted and confyrmed in our hartes Whan as I saye by these gracyous meanes and godlye order God hym selfe dyd offer vnto the people relyefe comforte and prosperitye Then the vngodlye vngracious ● vnhappye people beynge moost● vnkynde where as they shoulde haue bene mooste thankefull dystrusted GOD dyspised hys ordinaunce presumed of theyr owne wylfulnes so farre as they coulde or myghte to wythstand the ordynaunce of God refused the grace of God and pro●ured to theym selues the vēgeaunce of God Wherfore we hauynge thys terrible example in freshe memorye and seynge a gracyous Kyng and Godly rulars ordeyned of GOD to amende oure gryefes althoughe all that cannot be amended in one day whyche hath bene appayryng manye yeres yet let vs pacientlye suffer for a tyme not doubtynge but that that reliefe comforte and wealth whyche God hathe promysed vnto Englande by hys word offered of hys goodnes and begon by his ordinaunce shalbe brought vnto passe by hys wysdome and myghte in suche wyse as shall be moste for hys glorye the kynges honoure the wealth of the realme ●nd most to the conforte of theym that mooste pacyentlye in ▪ hop● truste to goddes goodnes These exāples haue I rehearsed to teach you as it were by experience howe true this saying of Paul is They whyche wythstande or resyste the powers ordeyned of God receyu● vnto theym selues Iudgemente whyche is vengeaunce and damnacion Let vs therfore amend our lyues and be good men and we shall not nede to hate and feare but haue greate occasion to loue and truste those whyche be nowe our chyefe rula●s For they be as Paule sayeth made rulars not to put theym in feare that do good but theym whyche do euyll so that none nedeth to feare these rul●rs but euell doers Whyche in euyll doynge haue deserued of th● r●lers to be punyshed and in resystynge theyr power ordeyned of GGD do hasten and agg●au●te towardes theym selues ▪ the ●or● vengeaunce of GOD. It f●loweth Wouldest thou be wythout feare of power do that whych● is good and thou shalte haue prayse of it for he is the m●nyster of God to do the good but y● thou do 〈◊〉 feare For he beareth not 〈◊〉 swearde wythout a cause but is the mynister of GOD to aduenge in wrath hym that doeth euyll All these wordes Peter concludeth bryefelye in the second of hys f●rst Epistle saying that those that haue rule and authorytye be sente ad uindictant malorum laudem ●ero ●onorum That is to saye to take vengeaunce of euell 〈◊〉 and to commende the good Whosoeuer thou arte therefore and of whatsoeuer degree or sorte thou bee yf thou bee a Subiecte thou muste remember and consyder