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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05083	Here begynnethe the lanterne of lyght; Lanterne of lyght.	Grime, John, attributed name.; Hardy, William, fl. 1535, attributed name.	1535 (1535)	STC 15225; ESTC S108268	79,115	148

than the soule is dede gostely within the house of the body / and this deth is signyfyed by a parsons doughter that was dede within her fathers house / Christe by myracle gaue her lyfe Math. 9. Mar. 5. Luc. 8. Some norysshen theyr couetyse tyll it sprynge into a dede / as a carreyne opynly dede / that lyeth by the way effectyng the people / and this is taught in the wedowes sonne that was borne deed on a bere without the gates of the cyte for to put him in his graue Luke 7. Luke 7. Christe ●ered him by hys myracle / and gaue hym agayne to hys moder Some feden theyr foule couetyse with lust and delectacion / in thought / in word / in werke / and this moste abhomynable / for it waa shewed in Lazarus Io. xi that lay .iiii. dayes in hys graue And Christ by myracle / Io. 11. to tourne the Iewes rered vp his body and gaue him the spirite All these thre ben agaynste thys commaundement of god / and ben worthy endeles payne / but yf god thorough his gracious mercy moue them to vertue and to very penaunce / that ben deed in these forsayd foule couetyses / that is to say / in couetyse of hert / of dede / and of custome And therfore the wyseman sayth Eccli xviij Go not away from thy god after thyne owne couetyses Lorde howe shulde he kepe hym from a vycyous dede that doth not out of hys herte the couetyse therof Certes it is as impossyble as to saue the house from brennyng that thou settyst afyre with thyne owne hādes A wede may not be distroied but yf it be drawen vp by the rotes No more may synne be lefte / but yf the delectable couetyse of synne be pulled out of the herte For yf theyr abyde any parte of this foule couetyse vndrawen vp in herte / anone theyr spryngeth vp therof / thefte / false purchase / and suche other And therfore sayde Moyses vnto the chyldren of Israell Deut. xix Thou shalt not take / ne thou shalt not passe the termes or the bondes of thy neybour the which thyne elders haue set in thy possessyon that thy lorde god shall gyue to the / for who that takythe away his neybours grounde / that is to say / lande or place / wode or water / corne or grasse / in fylde or in towne thorough any of these forsayd couetises he standeth in that a cursed of god and hys lawe / for thus it is wryten Deut. xxvii Cursed be that man or woman that passyth the bandes of lawfull measure betwene theyr neyboures them Agayne this cōmaundement the fende with hys cautyles hath larged this couetyse to all the estates that vnneth any man takyth hede howe that he come by good that he were ryche Commyns haue purchased at Antechristes proctour to be fermours of the churche and all for couetyse of wynnyng / by this parysshons ben brought in many customes / that dystroyen peace / norysshen debate / and quenchen goddes lawe / but who so euer sayth or byddeth besydes goddes wyl / that is not ꝓued in holy wryt / openly declared / he is a false wytnesser / and doth cursed sacrilege / so sayth saynt Austen whan the lorde god hathe sayed in his gospell I am trouthe / he sayd not I am custome Than whan the trouth is shewed custome muste nedes geue steed to trouth Peter that circumcysed consented to Paule prechynge the trouth Therfore sithen Christ is trouth we owen moche more to sewe trouth than custome / for euermore reason and trouth shullen exclude custome whan reason and trouth excluden these fermoures and all theyr false customes he is a very membre of the deuyll that maynteneth the contrary / and makyth the house of Iesu Christe the cōmen shoppe of marchandyse But lordes here ben more to blame that shulde chastyce this synne / for some bene fermoures them selfe / and fauoren for theyr couetyse that the person shall haue leue in grutty places as an hogge in the myre / and leue hys cure vnkepte The lordes in these dayes bene so smytten with couetyse that they holden false goten goodes agaynste theyr owne conscyens / and fele sythys reren stronge hande armyd in stronge wodenesse to call men bothe slepynge and wakynge to encrease theyr lordshypes Kynge Acab for couetyse of Nabothys vineaerde that he desired to haue had agayne this knyghtes wyll / layd him selfe gronyng on his bed and wolde not taste any mete / for Nabothe sayed he wolde not chaunge ne sell hys kynde herytage But zezebell the wycked quene gaue the kynge suche counsayle that they casten this knyght deth by a false sclaundre / and thus brought them to an ende and reioysed hys vyneaerde God sente worde to Achab Iezebell by the ꝓphete Hely / that for they had thus couetously agaynst his cōmaundemēt ther blode shulde beshede on the erthe / and handes shulde lyke it And more god toke vengeaunce for greuous synne vpon the sede that came of them into the thyrde and fourthe generacion / and yf that we toke hede howe lordes haue slayne eche other / in shedynge of theyr blode in the fylde for couetyse of lordynge / we shulde not wonder though godes hande be stretched ouer his people to smyte with vengeaunce as he dothe / and no man may auoyde it Couetyse of lordynge hath / is / shal be cause of moche bloude shedynge And yf thou wylte wete what is this vengeaunce God saith by the prophete Osee iiii That his vengeaunce is whan he withdrawith hys chatysynge and the yerde of amendyng and suffrith his enemyes to raigne in theyr synne tyll theyr deth day / and after to dampne them body and soule euer without ende And to this accordyth saynte Gregory in hys moralles vpon Iob. God sparyth to some in thys lyfe that he may smyte them withouten ende And Iob sayth .xxi. why lyuen wycked men auaunced and comforted in rychesse The sede of them dwellyth before them / and the cōpanye of nye frendes and cosens in theyr syght theyr houses bene sekyr / and the yerde of god that is cleped his chastysynge / is not vpon them theyr eekfare conceyued / cast not her frute or tyme / theyr ko●…e bare her frute / and was not berafte the profyte of her womb There strepelynges gone afore them as flockes of beastes / theyr youngelynges ioyen in pleys in gāmes they holden the tymbre and the harpe / and they ioyen at the sounde of the Organne They leden theyr dayes in goodes / that is to saye / in helthe and in welthe / and in worldly worship / and sodenly in a poynte they dyscenden or gone downe to helles / but agaynwarde Salomon in his prouerbes .iii. And saynt Paule to the Hebrues .xii. Sayen that god reproueth chastyseth all them that he loueth / and receyueth to blysse And therfore sayth Iohan. 2. Math. 6. It is a token

god hereth our prayer in a specyall maner / and bowyth his eare to his seruaunt in fourme as he graūted Salamō / sayeng ☞ Re. 9. Parali 7. Myne eyen shal be open / and myne eares shal be lyfte vp to the prayer of thē that hathe iustely prayed in thys place / and this is cleped a materyall place / but it is made by mānes crafte of lyme / timber / stone / with other necessaryes that longeth therto / for mannes profyt thys place is made / but not so / man for the place Math. 12. Mar. 2. Luce. 6. And thys Chryst marketh in the gospel for man shuld not be begyled sayenge that the sabot is made for the man / not man for the sabot / for man by vertue of goddes word / hallowith this place / but this place may not hallowe man But man be first in cause / as Ierom sayth The place halloweth not the mā / but the mā halloweth the place Alas then what wodenes is this to bost of holy places / and we our selfes vicious foles Lucyfer was in heuē which is the most holy place / but for synne he fell into hell / the place myght not holde hym Adam was in paradyce / the moste mery place / and for his syn was dryuen thens / the place myght not defende hym Thou that arte not in heuen nor in paradyce / but in thys wretched worlde where wenyst thou to fynde a place to hallowe the that leuyst not thy synne Be thou seker as god is in heuen it wyl not be / for god is in no place fayre seruyd / but there as his lawe is fayre kepte of hys people Saynct Ambrose sayth Adam that was the more worthy was made without paradice in the vnworthyer place Eue that was the lesse worthy was made within paradice in the worthyer place / moche people demeth a medefull warke to make amendes agayne with curious buyldynges / and many fayre musters in the church / but Ierom forbedeth this thyng to be done / and dampneth hit vtterly for greate syn nowe in this tyme of Christes gospell sayenge Many buylden walles / pillers of the church / they vnder putten with shyninge marble stones / the beames glystern all in golde / the aulters ben dyuersly arayed with precious stones / but of the ministers of god ther is no choyse No riche man bye to me the temple in Iury / bordes / lanternes / sensers / pannes / cuppes / morters / and such other made of golde / for than these thynges were approued of the lorde whan prestes offred hostes and blud of bestes was remyssyon of sinnes / though all these thynges went afore in fygure neuertheles they be wrytten to vs into whome the endes of the worldes be come Nowe truly Chryste our poore lord hath hallowed the house of the churche of our pouertye bere we the crosse of Chryste / riches accompte we as clay Vpon this writteth a great clerke sayenge that suche men semen to tourne the breade of poore men into stones / and in that they ben more crueller than the deuyll / that asked stones to be tourned into brede To thys accordeth sayncte Barnarde sayenge O vanyte of all vanytees / and nomore vanite thā asmoch madder / the church shineth in walles she nedeth in the poore / her stones she lappeth in golde / and her owne sonnes she forsaketh naked of the charges expēces of the nedy is made a vayne seruys to the yes of ryche men But our newe fayned sectes / in thys be moste to blame / that maken great buyldynges / there leste nede were / as Monkes / Chanons / and Fryers / Nōnes / Systers spytlers / for people shulde drawe to parysshe churches / and here the worde of god ther as god hath lymyted / and elles they ben to blame Lorde what meaneth these waste places of these hyd Ipocrytes / but to tell men by theyr synagoges where Satans sete is / there lurken to gethers many rauysshynge wolues / that spoylen the people with theyr falce sines for reasons of holy wryt declared of doctours shulde teche you of this great defaulte yf that ye wyll amende But here me dredeth as Paule fayeth / that the god of this worlde that is called Mammon / hathe caste hys pouldre afore your eyen and blent your gostely lyght / Cor. 4. that ye may not knowe the gospell to the true vnderstandynge / and that one payne of your greate synne / tyll this sentence be fulfylled / eche corruptible / or eche worke that is rotten in the rote shall fall in the ende / and he that is founder of suche vngrounded worke shall fall and worthe to nought therwith in the last ende God plāted neuer these sectes in neyther of hys lawes neyther approued such maner of lyfe Chryst in his lyfe pulled them vp by the rotes / that were ī his dayes as Asseys / Saduceyes / Pharysees and dampned theyr ordenaunce and sayd when they growe agayn in Monkes / Chanons / Fryers that they shulde be drawen vp agayne by the rote / as the gospell wytnessyth where Chryste sayde That eche plante that my father of heuen hath not plāted shalde rent vp by the rotes For all synneful inuencyons in man or in place / that is amonge the people of the whiche god is not auctor / though it growe fast for a tyme / it shal be distroyed The fyrst reason that we shal make is shewed in thys maner These sectes ben ded from thys worlde / as they saye in worde / yf thys be sothe / then shall they haue poore cotes of mournynge to tell in dede that thys dethe is true in them / and in theyr workes and fle the maner of thys worlde in suche sterynge vanyte is as Paule teacheth in hys pystle vnto the Collosenses sayenge Ye that ben dead / from the maners of thys worlde / Collo 3. your lyfe is hyd with Chryst in god / therfore mortefy ye / and make ye deed your members that vpon the erthe the which ben fornicacyon of your members vnclennes of foule desyres with corrupte lykynge of flesshely lustes and foule couetyce of your hertes / and auarice of gredy gatherynge whiche is seruice of ydolles and very ydolatry For these thynges comethe the wrathe of god vpon the sonnes of mysbeleue / yf ye sectes forsake thys lore / the wrathe of god shall sone assayle you The seconde reason that we maken agaynste suche buyldynges is sayde thus / busynes aboute suche costely buyldynges with many afolde worldly occupacyons to reparell them / when they payren and to holde them vp In the same fourme bryngethe in neclygens of gostelye maners quenchynge of vertues / and good thewes As Bernarde sayeth That holye monke / that sued the steppes of Iesu Chryst / and wolde not vary from the gospell to blame these sectes that gon awaye / I se sayde he that maye not be seen / without