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A08443 Sermons of the ryght famous a[n]d excellent clerke Master Bernardine Ochine, borne within the famous vniversyte of Siena in Italy, nowe also an exyle in this life, for the faythfull testimony of Jesus Christ Ochino, Bernardino, 1487-1564.; Argentine, Richard, d. 1568. 1548 (1548) STC 18765; ESTC S105735 22,415 64

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vs / the faith hope / charité feare and other vertues They comforte vs in our troubles / and in prosperite exhorte vs to be temperate They discouer the vanities of the world / our miseries ād the bountie of God And who that studieth them must of forie recyre or withdrawe him self from the worldly thoughtes / and settle his minde to mortifie his vices / inordinate desires and affections So that the studie of them is very proffitable to them that duely vse it But it behoueth not to studie as the Iewe who fyxeth hī in the vttermust rynde of the letter / whiche as Paule saith killeth / and beholding Moses wyth the face couered / ande not entering into Sancta Sanctorū / but as the true Christian / to whome is geuen the knowledge of GODS celestiall Reygne or Kingdome / without parables / that with the lyuely spyrite doth penetrate to the lyuelie taste ande fealing of GOD in Christ / beholding hym with lyuely faith in the face discouered / ande entryng into Sancta Sanctorū / to see wyth clere supernaturall lyght / the hygh resplendent secretes of God To whome be geuē all laude / honour and glory by our Sauyour Iesu christ Amen Sermon v. Of thinconueniences that are happened and dayly happē by the abuse of the holy Scryptures T The holy Scriptures of them selues be the good giftes of got and of the holyghoost Neuertheles they maye be vsed of vs wel or euell / as by experiēce it is manifest For where as Gods elect serue thē selues of it to Gods honour / the reprobate contrary wyse serue thē selues of it to his dishonour / through their owne faute ād not of the scriptures In so moch that in respect of their wicked malignité it hath per chaunce done hurte in some wayes to the worlde / though at length / god of his infynite bounté reduceth all thīges to his honour ād glorie For first the scriptures ād specially the holy scriptures / haue ānoied thē who haue been diligēt to gather to gether manie bookes / and negligēt to studye thē Thīking thē selues fully learned whē they haue had their librarie full of bokes Other some studying / haue not attayned to imprynte the trueth that they founde in theyr mindes / and therfore haue wrytten it in papers / so that / resting moost ignoraūt / all their learnīg cōsysteth in their wrytinges / ād loosing them / they also loose their science Which was one of the Argumentes that caused Plato to cōdempne lettres / sayinge that before scripture was founde / the men were moche better learned then sence / because they were forced to write in theyr mindes that that afterwardes they haue written in paper I passe ouer that many haue cōsumed theyr time in the dishonour of god / in readīg ād wrytyng of thinges curious ande pernicious to the health And that manie transported of Curiosyté / haue willed to see so many bookes that in the ende they remained confused wythout frute As doth the felde wheron they cast ouermoch seede And of some that by those meanes haue lost their wittes But that which importeth moche more is that they thynke the true knowledge of Theologie or diuinité cōsisteth in lettres / which is vtterly false / because they giue not true and lyuely light of the supernatural thiges that can not otherwise be knowen of vs but by spyrite / reuelation / faith spirituall taste / lyuely vnderstanding and sure experience For like as the Phylosopher without experience can haue no knowledge although he beare in minde all that is written / ande nor hauing practysed / he must rest onely in opynion grounded vppon Aristotle / Plato and the other Philosophers / whiche moueth hym to beleue theyr wrytyng to be true / being neuertheles in very dede more ignoraunt then is the poore paisaunt or husbandman / that by labouring of the Earth / without sekinge lettres / fyndeth the operacion of many naturall thynges / that proueth his science to be somwat and theirs none / though well they study for euer ād wante experyēce So likewise one symple ydeote without learning / if he haue faith / lyuely taste / and spirituall vnderstanding of God / is a greater diuine then all the learned men of the worlde that be wythout spirite Yea he is a diuine ande they none For that of the heauēly supernaturall thinges he knoweth so moch as he tasteth / and exper●n●ateth by faith 〈◊〉 the learned mā hath onely a barraine / y●le colde ād d●ade opintō which stādeth without faith in desperaciō / accompained of euery vice Nowe therfore it appereth that of this errour / by thiking that true Theologie or diuinite cōsisteth in learning / there are innuaerable inconuemēces growē / and chefely that many / wantīg letters / ād not hauing tyme to studie / thinking that by other wares it is impossible to become diuines / haue not disposed them selues to demaunde of God with meke harte ande feruent desyreth lyght of the diuine thinges And moreouer they haue fledde ande withdrawen them selues from the intelly gence or vnderstāding of the holy scriptures / as from a terrible ruyne / because their wyse learned and holy men haue persuaded them that no man may vnderstand it but they onthe that are learned Condēpning them that write in the vulgare tongue / as if the true diuinite depended of the Hebrue Greke or Latin lettres / or of that witte that hath well studied them Beholde nowe therfore whether this be not a moost rawe ād wicked opiniō / beig the very cause that hath moued me thus to write ī my natural tōgue to thintēt that knowing the true Theologie to be opē to euery langdage and to the symple our owne natiō shulde not be priuate / who haue none other but the mother tongue Ther be many that / studying the holy scriptures without spirite / lyuely faith and supernarall light / haue not onely not attayned the true knowledge of the bountie of God ād theyr owne propre miseries / but the more they haue studied / the more / by the drie ād deade letter / they are become blynde of God and of them selues Yea vnfaithfull / vnkind / proude arrogaūt presumptuous contentious ande repleate of all other byces Where as the supernaturall true Theologie or diuinité stewing the great bounté of God / and declaryng in our selues our owne myseries maketh vs faithfull / thankfull / iuste / humble / modest / gentle / quiet and conformable And moreouer they be so blynde that not knowing theyr owne wretchednes / they not onely forbeare to hūble thē selues before God / ād of him hartely to demaūde helpe lyght and grace / but also leauing praier for their studie / and the spirite for theyr learnig / they presume to be masters of the others as Paule wryteth / ande so inflambed of theyr science / haue staundered the worlde where as charyte edifieth Rom. 2. And being consequently without spyryte / they study