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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11824	A secular sermon concerning the doctrine of the Gospell by the goodnes and power of God restored in the fifteenth age from the birth of our Lord Iesus Christ. Made by the reuerend and worthy precher Mr. Abraham Scultetus, in the High-dutch tongue. After by another translated into Latin, and now out of Latin into English	Scultetus, Abraham, 1566-1624.	1618 (1618)	STC 22124; ESTC S106166	22,063	46

A SECVLAR SERMON CONCERNING THE DOctrine of the Gospell by the goodnes and power of God restored in the fifteenth age from the birth of our Lord Iesus Christ MADE BY THE REVEREND AND WORthy Preacher Mr. ABRAHAM SCVLTETVS in the High-dutch tongue AFTER BY ANOTHER TRANSLAted into Latin and now out of Latin into English LONDON Printed by William Iones dwelling in Red-crosse streete neare S. Giles Church Anno 1618. A SECVLAR SERMON MADE IN THE Arch-Palatine court in the yeare 1617. And of Ianuary the first a Seculum i 〈…〉 tin signifieth 〈…〉 age contain 〈…〉 an hundered yeares There 〈…〉 this Sermon 〈…〉 called secular 〈…〉 cause it cont 〈…〉 neth the story 〈…〉 the last hun 〈…〉 yeares whe 〈…〉 the Gospell 〈…〉 restored from 〈…〉 yeare 1517 〈…〉 this yeare 〈…〉 THat which is written by the Kingly Prophet Dauid wee see Psa 145. certainely helpeth at this present The mercy of God is ouer all his workes For from this mercy wee doe freely acknowledge that wee haue receiued this benefit that we liue and in good health begin this new yeare From this mercy it is that being free from pestilence and death wee haue not seene bloody warres nor other publicke calamities From the same mercy we haue receiued it that by the celebration of the Natiuitie of Christ which we haue heere liberty solemnly to keepe we ioyfully vnderstand how for our good Christ was borne at Bethlehem how the Angels sweetely delighted vs with their hymnes how the shepheards of Bethlehem daunced with a holy ioy and how Simeon and Anna entertained with kisses the Sauiour newly borne Goe too then O Palatinate magnifie the Lord thy God with due praises and thou O Heidleberg with pious affection publish his name and glory which is most worthy to bee worshipped and adorned And because now this is the hundred yeere since which time the euerlasting and Almightie God looking vpon our Auncestors with the eye of his grace and fauour deliuered them out of the horrible darknesse of Popery and brought them into the cleare and faire light of the Gospell let vs also looking backe to these times behold and consider how gracious God hath declared himselfe to his Church in the saide hundred yeares and how mercifully hee hath gathered it together hauing beene before dispersed and scattered heere and there and being gathered how wonderfully hee hath preserued it vnto this present time 2 For so it will be made manifest that the Lord Iesus Christ doeth worthily and agreeably to his proceeding beare the name of Iesus that is a Sauiour that was giuen at his Circumcision expressing it by really sauing his people and to be our true Iesus and Sauiour not onely by the excellency of his merit but also by the vertue and power of his effectuall operation and working which he sheweth out most mightily in and towards his Church and people Moreouer also as I perswade my selfe here will be matter and occasion aboundantly ministred vnto vs for the celebration and praise of the name of God where we shall behold his wisedome omnipotency goodnes and iustice euery where most clearly shining in his gouernment of the Church in this century or last hundred yeeres And that I may shortly comprehend all this matter euen as God in times past reformed the world by the Apostles and their faithfull successors So likewise in the fifteenth hundred yeere from the birth of Christ God I say began to order the reformation and gouernment of his Church All which things my purpose is at this present euidently to shewe and demonstrate vnto you 1 Whereas it behoued that Christ should be borne one thousand sixe hundred and seuenteene yeeres agone God sent Iohn Baptist as a forerunner that hee might prepare and make ready a way for the Lord In like sort when the same Christ was as it were to bee borne againe it pleased God that diuers preparatory helpes and furtherances to the rest that was to follow should be furnished before he tooke in hand the reformation it selfe of Christian Religion Amongst which meanes of preparing way to the saide reformation most worthily I may name and account first the liberall arts and sciences and the daily exercises of good sciences and chiefely of the three learned tongues and languages as instruments to make way to the reformation that was to follow In the next place I nominate and ranke Vniuersities and particular Schooles as they call them which by a commendable purpose and worthy example for imitation and following were in that time partly founded and erected and partly also preserued and enlarged To these I adde also the inuention of the Art of Printing which before had ben vtterly vnknowne and by meanes whereof it came to passe that Doctor Luthers bookes being dispersed and spread into diuers and most large countries and nations came into very many mens hands and were euery where read and diligently studied Here also amongst the aforesaide meanes the translation of the Scriptures is not to be passed by but attentiuely to be considered For in the yeere one thousand fiue hundred and fifteene the olde Testament sawe the light that was to bee wished for being published in print in the originall Hebrew tongue by Frauncis Ximenius being Arch-bishop of Toledo and a Cardinall and so likewise was the new Testament printed in the yeere next following Which bookes opened the eies of many and maruelously raised their desire so that being inflamed with a zeale diligently to knowe and search out the heauenly trueth they might easily discerne how far the Popes of Rome had departed from the puritie of the Scripture 2 In time past also when Christ went about the reformation of the world hee called not to that seruice the Scribes and Pharisees which were of great authoritie but hee chose vnto it twelue Disciples men despised by the world and esteemed base which for the most part were fisher-men So likewise one hundred yeeres agone Christ taking in hand the worke of a new reformation vsed not thereunto any purple-cloathed Praelate nor Cardinall whose names were most florishing and famous but he raised vp hereunto for this seruice Martin Luther a Monke of the order of the Augustinians Phillip Melanchthon a professor and reader of the Greeke tongue in the Vniuersitie of Wittenberg and two Priests of small account to wit Huldrich Zwinglius and Iohn Oecolampadius 3 Moreouer the doctrine of the Gospell breaking out at the first publishing of it by the Apostles with a diuine and most powerfull force suddenly like the lightning enlightned the vniuersall world so as euen in the time of Irenaeus reported to haue bin taught by Polycarpus scholler to Iohn the Apostle Christ came to be famously known by the nations and people both of the East and West parts of the world euen so when as one hundred yeeres agone after that the Idolatry of the Papists running as if they had beene mad or bewitched after the worship of Images being discouered the