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A13809	A sermon preached the 26. day of May. 1584. in S. Maries Church in Shrewesbury before the right honorable the Earle of Leicester, accompanied with the Earle of Essex, the Lorde North, diuers knightes, gentle-men of worshypfull callyng, the worshipfull bayliues, aldermen and burgesses of the towne of Salop. By Iohn Tomkys publick preacher of Gods word there: now first published by the authour. Seen, perused, and allowed accordyng to her Maiesties iniunctions.	Tomkys, John.	1586 (1586)	STC 24110; ESTC S118479	38,851	98

his callyng c Io 10 34 confuted his aduersaries d Luc 24 27 instructed his Disciples And if wee diligently reade his Sermones and Epistles of the Apostles recorded in the booke of the Newe Testament we shall finde that what they taught e Rom 4 6 they confirmed by the holie Scriptures For they knewe f Io 5 39 that in the Scriptures is eternall life and that they are they which testifie of Christ They knewe g 2 Tim 3 15 that the holie Scriptures are able to make men wise vnto saluation through the faith which is in Christ Iesus They knewe that h 16 the whole Scripture is giuen by inspiration of God and is profitable to teach to conuince to correct and to instruct in righteousnesse i 17 That the man of God may bee absolute being made perfect vnto all good workes They knewe k 2 Pet 1 20 that no prophecie of the Scripture is of anie priuate interpretation (a) 21. and that the prophecie came not in olde time by the will of man but that holie men of god spake as they were mooued by the holy ghost And if this rule No further to followe Men then they followe Christ had bine precisely followed from the time of the Apostles vntill our age Poperie had neuer bene so vniuersally receiued in Christendome as to the losse of many soules it hath For what is Popery Poperie discribed but an hypocriticall Religion brought in by the doctryne of Men with-out the warrant of the worde of god And this much concernyng the imitation of god in his Sainctes * 2. God is to bee imitated of vs because wee are his deare children Now it followeth to shew the cause which is the second principal point why God wil that we immitate him Paule yeeldeth the cause heereof adding (b) Eph. 5.1 As deare childrē And in these wordes the Apostle vseth a most vehement persuasion whether wee way them by naturall reason or in them call to minde the great benefite which god hath bestowed vpō vs. For it stādeth with naturall reason that the naturall childe imitate the naturall father in expressing not his vices but his vertues that he may be as well the mirror of his good maners as the glasse of his cōtenaūce Ought we not then which are a Ioh. 1.12 the spirituall children of god b Heb. 12.9 the Father of spirites to folow him in all things wherein he hath set forth himselfe as a paterne to bee folowed that in our manners we may resemble him by bringing forth the fruites of the spirite whereof anone we will speake And least we should thinke that hee requireth impossible thinges at our hands Behold his fatherly dealing with vs hee requireth no workes of vs but such as himself his sonne and his saints haue done before vs for our example Now if the remēbraunce of benefites receiued may stirre vs vp to duetifulnesse Paule would haue vs to knowe that since god hath vouchsafed to make c Ioh. 1.12 vs by grace his beloued children whiche d Ephe. 2.3 by nature were the children of wrath our duetie is with all readynesse to imitate him our louyng Father a 5.1 as becommeth deare children * Two thinges insinuated in the Greeke wordes But for so much as the Apostle by vsing chosen woordes in the greeke tongue wherein hee wrote this Epistle b Ephe. 5.1 Os tecna agapeta hath insinuated both the meane whereby we become the children of god and the fruite thereof I will briefly speake of those two pointes and so conclud this part * 1. The mean wherby we are made Gods children is a spirituall birth The meane whereby we become gods children is c Ioh. 1.13 a byrth not of bloud nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man but of god This birth Christ calleth d 3.3 5. a new birth which is wrought by gods holy spirite e Heb. 9.14 which clenseth our consciences from dead workes f Mat. 3.11 and inflameth our hartes with the loue of the truth And that we may know that this byrth is altogether spirituall Iames telleth vs that g Iam. 1.18 god of his own will begate vs with the word of truth And Peter teacheth vs that h 1. Pet. 1.23 we are borne a new not of mortall seede but of immortall by the worde of god who liueth and indureth for euer So thē since euery thing in this birth is most excellent a. Iam. 1.18 the father God b 1. Pet. 1.23 the seede his word c Ioh. 3.5 8. the worker his spirite d 1.12 the fruite his children the due remembraūce of this gracious meanes wherby we receiue this priuilege to bee e 1.12 the sonnes of god ought to moue vs effectually to bee f Ephe. 5.1 folowers of god our Father as beseemeth deare children * 2 The fruit of this spirituall birth is our fauoure with God The fruite and commoditie which insueth vnto vs by the meanes of this spirituall birth is exceeding great For thereby we become g Ephe. 5.1 Agapetoi that is amiable diligible acceptable and pleasaunt in the sight of our god in whom hee taketh full delight as a father in his childrē And this is more then Agapoumenoi beloued For amōg men some time children are beloued of their parentes affectionately when their cōdiciōs deserue no loue at all h Gen. 27.6 as was Esau of Isaac But by meanes of this new birth there is cause why god loueth them whom he hath so regenerate For thereby we become the members of that holy body whereof a Ephe. 4.15 Iesus Christ is the head And the● cā it not otherwise be but as b Luk. 1.35 Chris● the head is holy of it self so must tru● Christians the members of that head c Rom. 6.5 1. Cor. 6.11 participate by grace the holynesse o● their head wherby they become acce●ptable amiable vnto God This moued Paul the Apostle to teach vs that d 1. Cor. 1.30 we are of god in Christ Iesus Who of god is made vnto vs wisedome and righteousnes and sanctificatiō and redēption And as the whole body of Aarō became fragrāt by the meanes of the precious e Exo. 30.30 ointement f Psal 133.2 which distilled from his head to the hemme of his garmentes as his whole body was glorious through his g Exod. 28.2 beautifull attire so is the whole body of Christ h 1. Cor. 6 15 whereof we be members sweete in the presence of god through the sanctification of his spirite glorious before him through the righteousnesse of his sonne For through Christ we as i 1. Pet. 2.5 liuely stones be made a spirituall house an holy Priesthode to offer vp spirituall sacrifices acceptable to god by Iesus Christ k 9 yea we are a chosen generation a