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A15108	A sermo[n] preached at Pawles Crosse on Sunday the thirde of Nouember 1577. in the time of the plague, by T.W.	White, Thomas, ca. 1550-1624.	1578 (1578)	STC 25406; ESTC S111738	33,572	100

it as we doe But as the good Phisition to heale the body doth minister many things agaynst the minde so muche more shoulde we to heale the soule deale playne agaynst the body especially séeing that Quo grauior est causa eo intentior esset cura The cause béeing greter there shuld be better care I pray you sée how he calles the best Beastes héere what are the rest then iudge you and not only vnder Manasses but also vnder Iosias a good king were naughtie Rulers to be found And héere are names of purpose méete for them whatsoeuer other titles they take to them selues As a roring Lion and a hungry Beare so is a wicked Magistrate ouer tho poore people sayth the wise king The prouerb of a slouthful slouen is written in the .22 of the Prouerbs that euer when he should doe any good there is a Lion in the stréete But and it be true in déede that a Lion sittes in iudgement to deuoure whom he shoulde defende then equitie shall haue a colde suite and therfore among many other things it was wisely sayd of Salomon There the common welth doth flourish where the good do beare rule but where the wicked strike the stroke there the godly hide their heades We haue a most mercyfull and gracious prince Elizabeth God in mercy long preserue and keepe hir Amen She is a Lambe and no Lion and where she giues the Lion it is to be wished that in this sense she had many Lions I meane men of courage and valour But as she hath hands ynowe so I pray God she haue many harts and then we shall doe well ynough Héere is the picture of Ierusalem a monstrous body a roring Lions head a rauening Wolues throte a Camels neck a Cormerants hart neuer an eye but starke blinde not a right hande or foote but talants like the Diuell so that you might rightly borrowe the Poets verse to say Monstrum horrendum informe ingens cui lumen ademptum And all this is for the crueltie in the Princes the couetousnesse in the Priestes and corruption in the people Suche a foule body was it that frō top to toe there was no whole part from the head to the héele no sound place for from highest to lowest they were all set on couetousnesse And héere I could wishe one property yet of a Lion in all our Rulers They saye the Lion quaketh at the crowing of a Cocke So I pray God that the threatnings of the worde may worke with them and quayle them that the spirite of Elias doubled vpon Elizeus maye bee raysed in Iohn and that suche men may be founde out as méetest messangers for them whiche goe not about the bushe neither are blaunchers but as playne as a packe staffe whiche put them in remembraunce what they are that as the Lyon though he be the King of beastes yet at length is made a pray to small birds and then is that saying veryfied Better is a liue Dogge than a dead Lion. So they although they be greate in authoritie yet at the last they are but a bayte for the small wormes And her Iudges are as Wolues in the euening I wil not stand on the curious distinctiō of these degrées but only shew you some difference of the beasts to whom he resembles thē A Liō prayeth in the day a Wolfe in the night a Lyon catcheth stoute beastes a Wolfe killeth Lambes a Lion takes no lambes as an Eagle takes no flies A quila non capit Muscas If a beast humble himselfe to a Lion he is the lesse cruell but do it to a Wolfe and hee is the more fierce A Wolfe hath a more rauenous nature for though he bee ful of spoyle yet he takes pleasure in the bloud for he thrustes his snoute into the bowels of a lambe rooting and noufling for the hart and therefore in scriptures the enimies of the Church are often called Wolues and for no vnlike qualitie are wicked Iudges here resembled to them Whatsoeuer is rightly done of the magistrate may be sayde to be done of god himself I haue said you are gods Take héede therfore what you do sayd Iosaphat a good captaine when he ordayned Iudges for you execute not the iudgments of men but of God and ther is no vnrighteousnesse with him Sit not with his authoritie then to practise your owne crueltie if you do you haue lost your warrant and it is of your self you are no magistrate but a Wolfe and the widow crie and the fatherlesse wéepe for his ryght the lambe is fallen into the Wolues iawes But the bloud shal crie for vengeāce and neuer cease and reuenge shal be redy neuer sleep for hee that made him shall heare hym Now as that Iudges case is cléere that iudgeth thousands in truth and equity so is his moste grieuous that condemneth but one vniustlye Remember the righteous God that hath no respect of persons but is a iust Iudge remember that Potentes potenter punientur the mightie shal be mightily punished and mercy is graunted to the lower sort but the magistrate shall haue a sore triall Wyl you knowe who hath set you in youre seate that same God that raised iudges vnto Israel 2. Iudg. Uerse 16. Wil you know to what end it is to do away euil from among his people and to iudge thē with iust iudgement Put to your helping hand then in the name of God and let two scales fal from al your eyes that haue to deale in iustice the one is couetousnesse that you may sée right the other is cruelty that you shew no wrōg and as much as you can by clemencye pittie and mercy auoyde the name of Wolues But against the wicked be Lions and spare not as Iethro counselled his son in law Moses to picke out men of courage men that feared God and hated couetousnesse to gouern the people You had néede of stomack and courage and to be Liōs some times for you shal méete wyth diuels else now thē Here is suche cutting and flashing as if men were Oxen and not Christians I thinke the sworde you cary should be able to commaund vppe euery sworde into his sheath or if they cannot rule theyr handes I am sure you haue authoritye for theyr legges I reade in the 4. of Genesis that hee that killed Caine a murtherer should bee punyshed seauen folde I am sorie it is made so light a matter in our time I speake not vnto you to make new lawes I knowe you cannot but to execute olde lawes to bee more exquisite on the tryall of him that hath cutte a throte than of hym that hath cut a purse Oh Lord that a murtherer shoulde finde any one friende in a Christian common weale but of nobles of Iudges of magistrates it were to intollerable a poore théefe packes to Tyborne but a manne kyller a murtherer can shyfte hys legges oute of the shackle and

stall and die in the streates in the tyme of the Gospell vndoubtedly there muste néedes be crueltie with extremitie you will say therfore surely I say that as this Citie is lamentable for the multitude of the poore and wretched mē so is it more to be lamented for the miserable riche mē why did Iames else say wéepe howle for the miseries that shal fal vpon you you riche men but that bicause you eate Gods people as bread your selues shall be eatē as flesh you shal be but a pray to the enimy auēger come to a miserable ende for it But some will say vnto me what néedes all this I am sure we kéepe good houses spēd largely deale liberally and therfore this is a slaūder in a mater of truth say I for the greatest number In déede there is a miserable sparing you will auoyde that well inough there is an vnmeasurable spēding you ar wise inough for that too but there is an vnmercyfull profusion and what say you to that the Prophet Amos saith of thē in his time they lye in beds of Yuory not so costly a woodde at that time as is to be found in the beddes of our age cōparing time with time and place with place or howsoeuer they bettered vs in that wood we passe thē all for curious work the prophet names no doune beds nether perhaps the fethers was thē the only vse but now nicenesse is more daintie thā so couetousnesse more cunnyng for the turne theyr drinkyng of wine in bolles doth shewe that curious wrought goblets and counterfaite Hypecrice was not then knowne of olde they noynted themselues with swéete odors but we perfume our selues with the déerest muske they did eate the fat calues out of theyr stalles the yonglings out of theyr flockes but wée are farre beyond them for Ueale and Mutton is to grosse for our diet nay the Sea with all his fishe the ayer with all his byrdes and the earth with al hir beasts cannot satisfie our beastly appetites A Cooke among prophane menne was a straunge arte and banished out of some common weales as a superfluous science to make menne eate more than néedes but in England it is a great occupation and in London a very riche company I speake it not agaynst the necessary vse of them but agaynst the néedelesse abuse of such as are cunning and curious and very costly to no purpose he is counted the finest Cooke now adays that cā inuent new fashiōs new deuises new disguises None of al this could Amos charge Israel withal and with al this is Englande too truly to be charged Well lette vs sée what this wrought in them surely this that no man was sory for the affliction of Ioseph and can there be any lesse effect in vs the cause being greater or is not the Diuell so wise nowe as he was then Surely riche men to spende are franke and frée but the poore fare neuer the better So Diues spente largely for hée fared deliciously euery day but Lazarus coulde not gette a crumme for all that hée spéedes well that gettes a cruste in these dayes But you will say in déede he was harde harted and mercylesse and wée trust that there is none suche now I pray GOD there be not I marke this yet whether to cause your Charitie or to condemne your crueltie GOD doth so appoynt it that the story of Diues and Lazarus is the oftenest Grace at euery riche mans table I hope for the beste I will helpe you a little to my power and put you in remēbraunce of this least you should deceyue your selues bycause that Diues is dead and yet hée is aliue and so of Lazarus who is dead and yet he is aliue also for though Lazarus be in Heauen yet Lazarus is on earth and Diues is on earth and Diues is in Hell. Goe to now you riche menne take héede and beware of cruelty and pray for charitie you are but stewardes lay it out you are no Lordes you may not lay it vp Make you fréendes of the wicked Mammon whyle you haue time for your tyme is not for euer and perhaps it is not long She heard not the voyce I wil runne ouer the particular causes as briefly as I can for I haue bene long and I am afrayde of the tyme. This firste faulte is the Originall cause of all erroure bothe in Religion and liuyng and it hath bredde monstrous Heresies and mischieuous enormities at all tymes especially in the Churche whyle wée haue lefte the voyce and when Hierusalem had committed those two euils to forsake God the Well of lyfe and to digge broken Cysterns that woulde holde no water it was no maruayle that God gaue them ouer to strong illusions and to beleue lies to knéele to euery péece of wood and say these are our Gods. First they harde it not bicause the greater sort gaue no eare to the Prophets so London heareth it not for though here be a great assembly yet what are you to all the rest This is a general plague that the fewest flocke to the church in euery place Secondly bicause they hard it not effectually so wée are guilty too We preache not my brethren bicause you should heare vs only for no other end For so wée wer as good hold our peace or make a noyse with our féete as with our tongues but that you should do also for none are blessed but they that heare the worde and kéepe it Whiche fault is greater iudge you not to come at all or to come and not to heare or to heare and not to follow as good neuer a whitte as neuer the better the audience of the dead bodies vnder your féete is as great and greater is as good and better than you excepte you minde to folow that you heare for so Christ said let the dead bury the dead but followe you me If the worde be the power of God as it is Hebrews 4. Let it worke somewhat in you for shame I can tell you thus much you shal gyue accompt for that you haue hearde thys ninetene yeares long GOD will call a repetition you can expresse no greater contempt agaynst God than so lightly to accept of his worde For our liuing Thy word O Lord is a Lanterne to my féete saith Dauid and a light vnto my steppes whereby then shall a yong man or an olde man or all menne safely direct themselues but by the worde of God whiche layeth downe rules for all estates ages persons degrées Here is the Fathers dutie the sonnes the maisters and the seruauntes the Princes and the peoples the Magistrates the Mynisters which while Ierusalem heard not shee cared not which hande shée tooke for the vngodly haue no feare of God before theyr eyes bycause they know nothing of the worde as they ought to knowe