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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05397	A sermon preached the thyrd Sondaye in Lente before the kynges Maiestie, and his honorable counsell, by Thomas Leauer	Lever, Thomas, 1521-1577.	1550 (1550)	STC 15548; ESTC S103745	23,406	90

some be true Prophetes and sheppeheardes in dede and some haue shepe skynnes and be raueninge wolues in dede The one taketh paynes in doyng of hys dutye and the other seketh gaynes in professyng of hys duty Take heede of those for they are erraunt theeues Alas if all those whiche take the names and professyons of offycers for desyre of luker and honor and do not execute the dutyes belonginge to theyr offyces wyth painful diligence be errant theues as they be in deede then is ther mani a strong erraunt theefe amongst thē y t be called honest worshipful and honorable men For they haue the names the authorytyes vauntages of those offyces gyuen payed vnto them the dutyes of the whyche be verye slenderly or nothyng at al executed amongest the people If I were in anye other place in al England I could and wold vse another trade of preachynge afore another audience but beinge called of God by your appoyntement vnto this place at this tyme my conscience doth compell me to vse this trade and no other afore this solemne audience Wherfore with dreede and feare of God with charitable pyty of the people with moste reuerend loue and homage vnto your honors I muste needes cry wyth the Prophete Esaye Principes Sodome populus Gomorre ❧ Heare the woorde of the Lorde ye Prynces of Sodome ye people of Gomorra Quo mihi multitudo uictinarum uestrarum What care I for the great number of your sacrifyces Dicit Dominus sayth the Lord rebukyng all the sacrifices Cerimonyes and feastes of the Iewes which he him self had commaunded to be obserued and kept by the which thyng left in wrytyng he doth teach and commaund me how to speake of your well doyng here in England Heare therfore ye Prynces of Sodome and ye people of Gomor thus sayth the Lord What pleasure haue I yea what care I for all your Englysh Bibles Homelies all your other bookes set forth no more godly seruice to honor me wyth I hate them al wyth my herte they are greuous vnto me I am wery of them Yea it is a great payne for me to suffer them Why O Lord these be good these be godly and these be necessarye thynges Truthe it is the faulte is not in the things that be set forth but in you y t haue set them furthe Manus enim uestre plene sunt sanguine For your handes are ful of bloud Your handes your seruyce and your houses be full of persons liuynges preachers liuinges and offycers lyuynges And by you the person hath his dyspensacion the preacher is put to scilence and the offycer vnpunyshed for neglectynge of hys dutye And so through the negligence of the kepers good order which is y e pale of the parke of this cōmunewelth dekated the dere therof most dearly bought wyth Chrystes bloude haue strayed oute of theire owne feedynge to dystroye the corne of all mens liuinges Where as very necessytye hath compelled you with such force to driue thē backe as must needes distroye manye of those dere Those people I mean whych you haue cheryshed kept as yet doo loue and pitie aboue al other iewels commodities and pleasures Alas these that take the liuinges and doo not the dutyes of Persons Preachers landlordes Bailyes and of other officers These flaterers these wolfes in lābes skinnes these deuils in mens vysers haue caused you to be thought and taken as cruell oppressers of those people whose furyous wylde rage ye dyd suppresse and keepe vnder of veraye charitable pitie towardes them all other whyche wyth that rebellious ragei shoulde haue be al togither distroied if the help of your power and authoritye hadde bene any longer differted Surely vntyl that these prollets for them selues these children of the dyuell these sowers of sedicion be taken out of the way either by reformacion or by distruccion your charitable pity and prouision for the people and theyr reuerend loue obedience towardes you shall neuer be sene felte and knowen Nowe as Helye was giltye of the whordome extorcion and abhominacion of his sonnes so are youre hertes ful of crueltye and youre handes full of bloude not so muche by doyng as by sufferynge all these euyls Wherfore Lauamini mundi estote Wash make your selues cleane with the teares of repentaunce Auferte malum cogitacionum uestrarum ab oculis meis Away w t the euyll of your thoughtes from afore myne eyes Open youre heartes that the sworde of Gods word maye come to wipe awaye couetousnes whyche is the roote of all euyll planted in youre hertes For yf that roote contyneue ther than cā no good springe from you but euen the most pure and holesome worde of God sette forth by you continuinge in couitousnes wyll be abhominable in the syghte of God offensyue vnto the people damnable vnto you your selues Wherefore Quiescite agere peruerse Seasse to perucrte manye thynges from euyll vnto worse Discite benefacere Learne to do wel in conforminge al thinges that be a misse vnto a good order Querite iudicium Serche for ryghteous iudgement which is almost banyshed out of Englande Alas what a iudgemente is thys a supersticious papiste whyche hath made the faulte shall haue a pension out of a Chauntrye so longe as he lyueth and a poore parysh whych hath greate nede and done no faulte shall lose and forfayte many Chauntries vtterly for euer Subuenite oppresso Helpe the oppressed people that be loaden with heuye burdeyns of payinge wages to manye offyces and faynte for lacke of releife dewe seruyce of the offycer Iudicate pupillo Iudge so to the fatherlesse chyldrens behofe that wardship mai be a good prouision for fatherles chyldren and not an vncharitable spoyle of yong mens lands Defendite uiduam Shielde the widow from al mens iniuryes and compell them not to mary your vnthrifty seruauntes Thus hath God by Esaye in hys tyme and by me at thys tyme described Rulers Faultes wyth a waye how to a mend them Therfore Principes Anglie Ye heade Rulers and gouernors of England fyrste see acknowledge amende your owne faultes and then perusynge all vnder offycers consyder and note how few shepheards and offyces doo feede and kepe ▪ by doynge dutyes and how many theeues and wolfes do robbe and spoyle the flockes by takyng sees here in Englande and then shall ye perceaue that there must nedes be manye sheepe that wyth theyr hertes myndes and expectacion do folowe the Kynges Maiestye and you of hys honorable counsel so farre past the houses and cities of their owne prouysion that if they haue not spedy reliefe at your handes manye of theim is lyke to fainte and decaye by the way Therfore thys considered and knowen as Christ liftinge vp his eyes dyd teach you to see and consyder the people so learne by that whiche foloweth in Christes dooynge what shalbe your dutye after that ye se and knowe the multitude the state and condicion of the people And he said vnto