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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17331	A sermon preached in the Cathedrall Church in Norwich, the xxi. day of December, 1589. by W. Burton, minister of the word of God there. And published for the satisfying of some which took offence thereat	Burton, William, d. 1616.	1590 (1590)	STC 4178; ESTC S114179	33,638	90

A SERMON PREACHED in the Cathedrall Church in Norwich the xxi day of December 1589. by W. Burton Minister of the word of God there And published for the satisfying of some which took offence thereat Iob. 27. 5. God forbid that I should iustifie them vntill I die I will neuer take away ●yne innocencie from my selfe To the Reader BEcause we are in all holy duety to giue no offence to lew Grecian nor to the church of God and this Sermon hath been taken so vnkindly as that the author therof is for it accounted an enemy to Caesar is turned out of liuing interdicted of his ministery for a sabboth of yeeres and by a publique acte disabled from all kinde of scholasticall function throughout the whole land the deliberation of Iob seemed good in this behalf Oh that I had some to hear me but behold my signe that the almighty will witnes for me though my aduersary shoulde write a booke against mee 36. Would not I take it vpon my shoulder and binde it as a crovvne vnto me 37. I wil tell him the number of my goinges and goe vnto him as to a prince And therfore hath it been publ●shed to s●tisfie both the church of God to whose censure no doubt he submitteth himselfe sitting as a prophets sonn● at the feete of the Prophetes to be iudged by the spirit that speaketh in the prophets also to preserue his innocencie intire and inu●olable that the mouthes of others might be stopped for God forbid that he or we should take away a mans innocencie from himselfe Therfore is his booke set vpon his shoulder and lifted vp ●s a standard on high that they which heare and reade may testifie vnto him loe his owne words are his witnes hee hath ge● uen a bill against himselfe he hath told his ad●ersaries all his goinges his wordes ar● now ●ritten and written in a booke to the view of al they are grauen with an iron pen as it were wrought in lead or stone to remaine for euer If all this will not serue t● stop vp the open sepulchres of mens throates that are stil wide open as common Innes ready to receiue all surmises that come then his resolute consolation withall in the like case is this Behold we endeuoured to giue no ocasiō of offēce in any thing that our ministery should not be ropr●ued purposing to approoue our selues as the ministers of God in much patience 4 in afflictions in necessi●ies in distres 5 in stripes in prisons in tumultes in labors 6 by ●a chings by fastings by knoledge by puritie by long suff●ring by kindnes by the holy Ghost by loue vnfained 7 by the word of truth by the power of God by the armor of righteousnes on the right hand on the left 8. by honor dishonor by euil reporte and good reporte as decei●ers and yet true 9. as vnknowne and yet knowne as dying and behold we liue as chastned and yet not killed as sorrowing yet alwaies reioycing as pore yet making many rich as hauing nothing yet possessing all thinges Leauing the aduers●ries to the merc●e of God which we beartely wish them as we looke our selues to be forgeuen of God in anything and putting them in mind of that heauy doom that they may fear before him Wherof Esay speake●h saying The cruell man shall cease the scornful shalbe consumed all that hasted to iniquitie shalbe cut off 21 Which made a man to sinne in the worde and tooke him in a snare which reprooued them in the gate and made the iust to fal without cause Crauing of the rest that they wil not cease to striue in all manner of supplication till they ouercome that though me● thrust out labourers out of his haruest keeping in the loytering nonresident idoll shepheard yet hee will thrust in seuen wayes pastors according to his owne heart which may haue the sweet milke of knowledge and vnderstanding in their owne breastes and may feede his people therewithall that not one of his may perish for want of gathering amongst vs. As for the sermon it selfe hee protesteth as in the sight of God that it is faithfully translated from the pulpit to the pen sauing that some pointes hee hath now more enlarged then hee could then for want of time but as for those things whereof he was accused and which were taken so gree●ously they be set downe euen as they were vttered so nigh as he could word for worde without adding or detracting without changing or altering perswading himselfe that there is nothing to be gotten by licking him selfe whole as it is thought some would haue done and therefore leauing them to God which would make the worlde beleeue that the hares eares be hornes calling good euil and euill good groping for the light at noone day he also committeth himselfe and his cause this Sermon and the euent thereof ●nto the God of heauen and earth that iudgeth all hearts and wil iudge all people in equitie and trueth The same God make our loue to abound yet more and more in all knowledge and iudgement that we may discerne things that differ and that wee may ●e sincere and without offence vntil the day of Christ filled with the fruites of righteousnes which are by Iesus Christ vnto the glory and praise of God A SERMON Ieremie 3. verse 14. O ye disobedient children turne againe saith the Lord For I am your Lord. THESE words be part of an exhortation be gun in the 12 ve of this chapter which was made to the children of Israel beeing captiues in Assiria in the yeare of Hoshea king of the ten tribes as appeareth in the second of the kings the 17. chapter the 6 verse And it did grow vpon a complaint against Iuda because that Iuda did not profite by the iudgementes of God vpon Israel which being ended God here commādeth him to exhort the 10. tribes in captiuitie to profite better by those afflictions which wer vppon them to returne to God by true and timely repentance Which if they did then God doth also promise for his part to forget all their sinnes past and to place them in their former estate againe In this exhortation we are to consider of two circumstances The first is of the persons the second is of the matter subiect The persons be twoo fold First exhorted Secondly exhorting The persons exhorted are the captiue Iewes described in the two first wordes the first is disobedient the second is children The persons exhorting are two fold The Lord by Ieremie and Ieremie in the name of the Lord that appereth in these words sayth the Lord. The matter subiect is two fold First what they are exhorted vnto in these wordes turne againe Secondly a reason why in these wordes for I am your Lord. In the names giuen to the persōs exhorted appeare first the wisedome of God Secondly his mercie His wisedome appereth in ripping vp