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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19143	The sermo[n] of doctor Colete, made to the conuocacion at Paulis; Oratio habita a D. Ioanne Colet ad clerum in convocatione. English	Colet, John, 1467?-1519.; Lupset, Thomas, 1495?-1530.	1530 (1530)	STC 5550; ESTC S111695	9,978	44

The sermō of doctor Colete made to the Conuocacion at Paulis YE are come to gether to daye fathers and ryghte wyse men to entre councell in the whiche what ye wyll do and what matters ye wyll handell yet we vnderstande nat But we wysshe that ones remēbrynge your name and profession ye wold mynde the reformation of the churches matter For hit was neuer more nede And y e state of the churche dyd neuer desyre more your endeuours For y e spouse of Christe y e churche whom ye wolde shulde be without spotte or wryncle is made foule and euyl fauord as saith Esaias The faithfull cite is made an harlotte And as saythe Hieremias She hath done lechery with many louers wherby she hath cōceiued many sedes of wyckednes and dayly bryngeth forthe very foule frute wherfore I came hyther to day fathers to warne you that in this your councell with all your mynde ye thynke vpon the reformation of the churche But for sothe I came nat wyllyngly For I knewe myne vnworthynes I sawe besyde howe harde it was to please the precise iugement of so many men For I iuged it vtterly vnworthy and vnmete ye and almost to malapert that I a seruāt shulde counsaile my lordes That I a sonne shulde teache you my fathers Truely it had bene meter for some one of the fathers y t is to say you prelates might haue done it with more graue auctorite and greatter wysedome But the commaundement was to be obeyed of the most reuerent father and lorde the archebysshoppe presydent of this councell whiche layde vpon me this bourden truly to heuy for me we rede that the prophette Samuel sayde Obedience is better than sacrifice wherfore fathers and ryghte worthy men I praye you and beseche you that this day ye wold susteyne my weakenes with your goodnes and pacience Farthermore to helpe me at the begynnyng with your good prayers And before all thynge let vs praye vnto god the father all myghty Fyrste remembrynge our most holy father the pope and all spirituall pastours with all christen people farthermore the moost reuerēt father and lorde the archebishoppe president of this coūcell and al bishops and al the Clergie and all the people of Englande Remembrynge fynally this your cōgregation desirynge god to inspire your myndes so accordyngly to agre to suche profyte and frute of the churche that ye seme nat after the councell fynysshed to haue ben gethered to gether in vayne without cause Lette vs all saye Pater noster To exhorte you reuerent fathers to the endeuour of reformation of y e churches estate bicause that nothynge hath so disfigured the face of the churche as hath the facion of seculer and worldly lyuynge in clerkes and prestes I knowe nat where more conueniently to take begynnyng of my tale than of the apostle Paule in whose temple ye are gethered to gether For he writynge vnto the Romanes and vnder their name vnto you saith Be you nat conformed to this worlde but be you reformed in the newnes of your vnderstandynge that ye may proue what is the good wyll of god well pleasing and perfecte This dyd the apostell wryte to all christen men but most chiefly vnto prestes and bysshops Prestes and bysshops are the light of y e worlde For vnto them sayde our sauiour you are the lyghte of the worlde And he sayde also If the lyghte that is in the be darkenes howe darke shall the darkenes be That is to say if prestes and bysshops that shulde be as lyghtes ronne in the darke way of the worlde howe darke than shall the secular people be wherfore saynt Paule sayde chiefly vnto prestes and byshops Be you nat conformable to this worlde but be ye reformed In the whiche wordes the apostle dothe two thinges Fyrst he doth forbyd that we be nat conformable to the worlde and be made carnall Farthermore he dothe cōmaunde that we be reformed in the spyryte of god wherby we are spirituall I entendynge to folowe this ordre I wyll speke first of confirmation than after of reformation Be you nat sayth he conformable to this worlde The apostle calleth the worlde the wayes and maner of secular lyuing the whiche chiefly dothe reste in foure euilles of this worlde that is to say in diuilisshe pride in carnall concupiscence in worldly couetousnes in secular busines These are in the worlde as saynt Iohn̄ the apostle witnesseth in his pistell canonicall For he saythe All thynge that is in the worlde is either the concupiscence of the flesshe or the concupiscence of the eies or pryde of lyfe The same are nowe and reygne in the churche and in mē of the churche that we may seme truely to say all thynge that is in the churche is either cōcupiscence of fleshe or eies or pryde of lyfe And fyrste for to speake of pride of lyfe howe moche gredynes and appetite of honour and dignitie is nowe a dayes in men of the churche Howe rōne they ye almost out of brethe from one benefice to an other from the lesse to the more from the lower to the hygher who seeth nat this who seynge this sorowethe nat More ouer these y t are in the same dignities the moost parte of them doth go with so stately a coūtenāce and with so hygh lokes that they seme nat to be put in the humble bysshoprike of Christe but rather in the high lordship power of the worlde nat knowing nor aduertisinge what Christe the mayster of all mekenes sayd vnto his disciples whom he called to be bysshoppes and prestes The princis of people sayth he haue lordshyp of them and those that be in auctorite haue power but do ye nat so but he that is greatter amonge you let him be minister He that is highest in dignitie be he the seruāt of all men The sonne of mā came nat to be minystred vnto but to ministre By whiche wordes our sauiour doth playnly teache that the maistry in the churche is none other thynge than a ministration And the hygh dignitie in a man of the churche to be none other thing than a meke seruice The seconde secular euyll is carnall concupiscence Hath nat this vice so growen and waxen in the churche as a fludde of their luste so that there is nothyng loked fore more diligently in this moost besy tyme of the most parte of prestes than that that dothe delite please the senses They gyue them selfe to feastes and bankettynge They spēde them selfe in vaine bablyng They gyue them selfe to sportes playes They applye them selfe to huntynge and haukynge They drowne them selfe in the delytes of this worlde Procurers fynders of lustes they set by Against y e whiche kynde of men Iudas the apostle crieth out in his pistel sayeng wo vnto them whiche haue gone the way of Cain They ar foule bestly festing in their meates without feare fedyng them selfe fluddes of the wylde see fomynge fomynge out their confusions vnto whom the storme of