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A20262	A briefe & necessary instruction verye needefull to bee knowen of all housholders, whereby they maye the better teach and instruct their families in such points of Christian religion as is most meete. Not onely of them throughly to be vnderstood, but also requisite to be learned by hart of all suche as shall bee admitted vnto the Lordes Supper.	Dering, Edward, 1540?-1576.; More, John, d. 1592.	1572 (1572)	STC 6679; ESTC S114092	20,602	56

may be abolished Idolatrye rooted out Antichrist ouerthrowen Satan troden downe Hel may be confoūded the Gospel may encrease righteousnes maye shine and God may haue the glory This desire is the fruite of our lyse and ther is not in the world a better portion this we haue chosen and in this we wil dwel vntyl the fulnes of tyme that we shall say in our course Lord now lettest thou thy seruant depart in peace But we haue here not a litle feare and we sée the stumbling blockes that haue made our wayes daungerous True it is many men ar greatly to be beloued but this is as true there is none so good but Sathan wyll seeke to fift him Noe Lot Aaron Miriam Samson Dauid Martha Mary men and women of most excellēt vertue and such as the world was not worthy of and yet not one of these whom Satan wounded not yea almost vnto death The most glorious of all men subiect vnto synne was Adam him selfe and yet he was throwne downe into great confusion So that the Saintes of God for so I trust I may call them because of their great 〈◊〉 the Saintes I say that God hath sent vnto vs they haue great cause to feare ● to say wyth Paule VVho seemeth to stand let him take heede he fall not Sure they are ●f continual assaultes and euen at this present one aboue other shaketh all their faith Satan hath so rent a sunder the glorye of our Ministerie that fleshe and bloud is not halfe willing to beare the shame of the world that goeth after it He hath spoyled it of the due reward of al authoritie of al obedience loue reuerence honor that man should gene vnto it He hath layd vpon it much contempt many reproches great pouertie intollerable bondage so that though the calling be in deede the most precious inheritance vnder the sun yet the glory is so darkned vnto mortal eyes that al Nobility is quite fled from it the Gentlemen afraid to come vnto it the riche man rather chuseth any other kinde of life the men nest estate so hardly contented with it that S. Paule him selfe can finde but a few folowers that wyll cast away from them the clokes of shame not degenerate from the dignitye of their office But God shall once geue agayne vnto his Ministerie beuty in stéede of ashes and ritch apparel in stéede of sackcloth when he shal turne againe the captiuitie of Syon build vp the walles of the promised Ierusalē In the meane season we wyll lyue in hope and geue thankes vnto our God that hath brought vs hetherto One other assault of Sathan hurteth as much as this yea and so much the more because it is couered with the cloke of benefite sheweth vs a saluing medicine against the former wound For where as the Ministers liuing in most Churches is but smal he hath found this remedy that one man should haue many benefices whereas the reproche is not litle but euen the name is ful of disdain as to be called maister Parson Maister Uicar Syr Iohn a parish priest c. Agaynst this euyll he hath founde a remedye worse and geuen liberty to al that wyll to be Non residentes to forsake their charge to go where they wyl like masterles hounds to fyl the cōmon wealth with worse then any ydle or vagabond persons Loe this is the vessel of poyson that Satan hath set a broch the cup of whoordome which the Pope hath begun of vnto al the world This is the head and fountaine of all spirituall darknes the roote from which the glory of Antichrist dyd first aryse the filthy spring of al abominations which by pestilēt encrease hath ouerslowed kingdomes with most shameful slauery brought Princes into contempt set a vile person in the Monarchie of the world And yet at thys day it doth so dull the spirites of many excellent mē that their hartes are full of surfeting and yet they foole not their disease they wallow as I said in their own vomit and yet they see not their shame The hainousnes of this syune it is so displeasant in the sight of God that he hath reuenged it with one of his greatest plages in hardening the offenders hartes that they should haue eyes to sée not sée and eares to heare not heare and hartes to vnderstand and yet not vnderstand For wher as in many thinges they heare the voyce of God follow humbly his calling yet here they be deafe euen as the Serpent that stoppeth his eares that he may not heare the Charmer charme he neuer so wisely It is plaine y the spirit speaketh Be diligēt to know the state of thy flock and take hede to thy heards for riches remain not alway nor the crowne from generatiō to generation But yet the loue of riches gorgeous shew of honor hath so deceiued many that in many yeares they sée not their flocke nor care not at all in what pastures they be fed So much in vayne it is that the Apostle speaketh vnto them He that hath an office let him attend on his office The charge that S. Paul geueth to the Ministers of the Church of Ephesus is as plaine as may be spoken yet they cānot vnderstād it Take hede saith he vnto your selues to all the flock of which the holy Ghost hath made you ouersears to feede the Church of God which he hath purchased wich his own bloud Oh that this precept were written in our harts with an yron pen or a claw of Adamant that we could neuer forget it The often remēbrance that we haue bound our fayth vnto the spirit of God that hee hath called vs for the instruction of his people and that they are the price of the blood of Christ would make vs at the last so to loue our duty that the Sunne and Moone should be ashamed at the sound of a Nonresident the name of that parson should be odious vnto vs y would take vpon him a charge and looke not after it The Prophet saith that if the Minister declare not the iudgements of God against hym that synneth the wycked man shal dye in hys syn but his blood shall be required at the hands of the negligent watchman And the Apostle to the Hebrewes speaking of the faithful Minister sayth that they watch ouer the soules of those that are committed vnto them as they that shall geue accompt if any of them perish If these two be sufficiēt witnes that according to the law the truth should be estéemed by their woord most certain it is that our negligent Pastors who haue couered them selues as Salomon sayth with thicke clay and multiplyed their benefices tyll they be many in number they must needes thinke they haue an heauy accompt against the day of christ Neither gold nor siluer nor the pride of honor shall be acceptable in stéede of the soules of their brethren But so

dead in our mortall bodies and we be rysen vp into newnes of lyfe And in whom so euer Baptisme hath not this woorke he may wel haue the name but in dede he is no Christian. Question What strengthening of our fayth doo we finde in the vse of the Lordes Supper Aunswer The Supper of the Lorde doth strengthen my fayth that I should not doubt but as surely as I receiue the bread and wyne into my body to become of perfect substance with my flesh so Christ hath giuen him selfe wholy to become mine nourisheth my soule to euerlasting lyfe his death and passion is my delyuerance from syn his ryghteousnes is my iustification euen so surelye confirmed vnto me as if I my selfe had perfourmed in myne own body that most holy obedience vnto his father which he alone fulfilled Thus I receaue the Sacraments as signes and seales of the righteousnes that is by faith Question Sithe that this is then the doctrine of saluation that when we were dead through syn God of his great mercy sent his sōne to be made mā and dye for our syns and to fulfil all righteousnes that he myght bring againe lyfe into the worlde and so geue that life vnto euery one whosoeuer should receiue the holy Ghost to beleue that so we might be saued by fayth who before were condemned by our workes Wherto then now serueth our well doing or what auaileth it to do good works ▪ Aunswer True it is our good woorkes deserue nothing at Gods hand for in his sight our good workes are not good but all our ryghteousnes is like a defiled cloth And were they neuer so many yet by them God receiueth nothyng at our handes and all our well doyng extendeth not vnto him therfore if we wyll aske any thing by workes we must aske of them of whō we haue deserued it at the hands of God we can aske nothing And therfore as touching merite we wil let our workes alone But we haue greater causes of well doyng which ought more to enforce vs then eyther lyfe or death Wee must doo well first to shew our thankfull hartes to our Sauiour Christ and to testefie our loue towardes hym wyth keeping of his commaundementes Againe we ought to do wel that our example may call out brethren vnto righteousnes that they also may become with vs of the houshold of faith But the greatest cause of all other is that in our wel doing we set forth the glory of God and hys holy name is praysed in our good workes Thys ought to be so precious in our eyes that ten thousand hels and heauēs should not so much mooue vs This is the excellencie of vertue that God in it is gloryfied thys is the great horrour and confusion of synne that God in it is dishonoured Question Because that prayer is the especiall meanes which God wyl haue vs vse to encrease in faith tel me what belongeth to true prayer Aunswer It is requisite in true praier fyrst that we pray onely to God Secondly that we be inwardlye touched with the nede of the thing we aske Thirdlye that we grounde our prayer vppon Gods promyse Fourthly that we continue though straight we obtaine not Lastly that we aske not what we wyll but suche thinges as we are sure God hath commaunded vs to aske lyke as we haue example in the Lordes prayer Question Rehearse the Lordes prayer Aunswer Our father which art in heauē c Question What desirest thou in this praier Aunswer I desire of my heauenly Father that his holy name may be glorified among vs both in his excellent works in our liues That he onely may be had in honour all other set asyde Secondly I desire that his kingdome may florish that is that his holy spirit may beare rule within vs to all heauenly delights and that his woord may haue the preeminence to be our onely law of righteousnes which we may all obey Thirdly that we may willing ly resigne our selues to him wythout all murmuring whatsoeuer he shal do Fourthly that he wyll minister of his great ritches althings necessarye for our vocation Fiftly that our consciences maye be quiet and we haue hope that our synnes ar pardoned and blotted out of memory euen as we pardon all whosoeuer haue offended vs Lastlye that God would strengthē vs with his holye spirite and encrease our faith that we maye ouercome the world and quench the firye dartes of Satan and so at the last be partakers of his glory Question Tell me now briefly the effect of all that thou hast confessed Aunswer By the ten commaundements I see my synne and howe I haue deserued the wrath of God euerlasting damnation From which because I coulde not be delyuered by mine own strength the holy Ghost bi the preaching of the Gospel hath wrought in me fayth in Christ my Redeemer by which I am assured that he hath borne the punishment of my syns made me heyre wyth him of euerlasting life And of this that I should neuer doubt he hath geuē me two Sacraments as outward signes and tokens to be seene and felt of me that as surely as I see my selfe made partaker of them outwardlye so the holye Ghost inwardlye enstructing me I shoulde not doubt but inwardly to be partaker of Christ him selfe with al his benefites that in hym and through hym I shall haue lyfe euerlastyng And thus beyng regenerate into this liuely hope by the holy Gost my waies should be directed by the same spirit to walke in holynes righteousnes al the daies of my lyfe FINIS Act. 19. 29. a Iere. 36. 23 b An. dom 290. sub Dioclesianus et anno 1559 sub Paulo 4. 3. Pet. 4. 13 Col. 3. 16. Heb. 6. 1. Esa. 11. 19 Esa. 44. 2 Deut. 1. 15 Exo. 18. 21 Nu. 27. 21 Iere. 9. 1. Mat. 5. 13. Mat. 5. 14 Mat. 6. 22 Mat. 9. 38 Mat. 22. 3 Ma. 23. 34. Ma. 25. 16 Lu. 24. 48 1. Cor. 4. 1 Mathew 24. 45. Ro. 15. 16. 1. Cor. 3. 5 1. Cor. 3. 9 Ac. 20. 28 Ro. 10. 14 Psal. 19. 5. ● Tim. 32 Iere. 2. 8. Mich. 2. ●● Zech. ii 13 2. Chroni 15. 3. ● Cor. 4. 2 Pro. 27. 23 Ro. 12. 7. Ac. 20. 28 Ezec. 3. 18 33. 8. Heb. 13. 17 Psal. 132. 2 Apo. 19. 2 a Pro. 16. 4. Esay 6. 3. a Rom. 3. 7. b Rom. 3. 7. c Ro. 20. 4. a Iohn 3. 4. b Rom. 6. 23 Exod. 20. 1 a Deut. 6. 4. b Deut. 6. 13 c Deu. 10. 20 d Deut. 8. 19 e Deut. 13. 1. f Deu 18. ●5 g Deu. 12. 32 a Deut. 4. 15. Act. 17. 29. b Leui. 26. 1. c Ioh. 4. 23. d Deu. 12. 32 a Leui. 19. 12 b Eccles. 5 1. c Deu 28. 58 d Iere. 4. 2. e Deut. 6. 13. f Ierem. 5. 7 g Exo. 23. 13 Psal. 16. 4. h Deu. 28. 58 a Act. 20. 7. b 1. Cori. 14. 18. c Num. 29. 7 a Leuit. 19. 3 b Exo. 22. 28 c 1. The. 5. 12 d Leui. 19. 32 a Iohn 3. 15. b Leui. 15. 17. c Deut. 21. 1. d Mat. 5. 44. a Leui. 18. 22 b Deut. 22. 12 c Deut. 22. 21 a 1. The. 4. 6 b Leui. 19. 11. c Deu. 24. 14 d Exo. 22. 21. e Deu. 10. 17 f Leui. 19. 35. g Pro. 27. 27. a Leui. 19. 16 b Mat. 18. 25. Leuit. 5. 1. a Ro. 7. 7. b 1. Cor. 15. 50. c Ro. 8. 6. a Ro. 6. 23. b Apo. 20. 6. 21. 8. c Mat 25. 41 Mark. 9. 44. a 2. Cor. 1. 3 b Eph. 3. 10. 1. Ioh. 3. 2 c Rom. 2. 2 a Ap. 18. 12. b Luc. 17. 10 c Col. 2. 23. d Psa. 49. 8 a Rom. 3. ●5 b Ac. 26. 18 c Gal. 3. 13. 2. Co. 5. 21 Col. 1. 29 Eph. 3. 18 a Heb. 2. 9 b Rom. 1. 4 c Psa. 49. 7 Psa 59. 1● Ps. 107. 13 d Ez. 14. 14 e Gen. 36. f Iude. 6. g Ioh. 8. 44 h 2. Pet. 2. 4 i Ephe. 2. 4 k Rom. 8. 3. l Colo. 2. 9. m Cor. 5. 19 a Iob. 4. 18 ▪ 25. 5. b Heb. 2. ●● c Heb. 2. 14 Gal. 3. 13 d Eze. 18. 4 e 1. Sam. 1● 29. f Heb 9. 14 g Heb. 4. 15 a Deut. 4. 32 Ephe. 4. 6. b Mat. 28. 19 1. Iohn 5. 7. c Deut. 4. 12. Act. 17. 25. a Ephe. 3. 15. b 1. Ioh. 4. 9. c 1. Tim. 2. 5. d Gala. 4. 6. e 2. Cor. 1. 22 Ephe. 1. 14 f Collo 2. 11. a Heb. 11. 39. a 1. Iohn 1. 3. b Psal ▪ 132. ● a Eccle. 12. 7. b Iob. 19. 25. c Phil. 3. 21. a Cor 15. 54 b Eph. 3. 17 a Ephe. 2. 8. b 1. Cor. 12. 3 c Iohn 6. 6● d Galat. 3. 2. Rom. 8. 7. e Rom. 4. 11. a Act. 22. 17. b i. Pet. 3. 21. c Rom. 6. 4. a 1. Co. 10. 16 b Rom. 4. 25 c 2. Cor. 5. 21 a Esay 64. 6. b Iob. 35. 7. c Psal ●6 2. d Collo 3. 15. e 1 Iohn 5. 2. f 1. Pet. 2. 12. g Mat. 5. 16. a Psa. 50. 13. b Iaco. 4. 3. c 2. Cori. 1. 20. d Luk. 18. 2.

full of corruption Looke wher we wyl among the people of the Lord how hardly shall we funde the dwellyng place of the godly Pastour If Ieremie were now aliue he would take vp againe his old complaintes O that myne head werefull of water and mine eyes a fountaine of teares that I might weepe day and night for the slayne of the daughter of my people For looke what agrement hath righteousnes with vnrighteousnes and what fellowship hath light with darknes what concord Christ with Belial or what part the beleuer with the Infidel the same societie is betwene a great number of our English Parsons and Uicars with the true Preachers Ministers of the Gospell Your selues good Christian Readers make the comparison and be your own Iudges what cause we haue to complaine The true Minister is the salt of the earth to drye vp corrupt and noysome humors and to preserue the substance pure that the world may be offered vp a swete sacrifice vnto God But our Uicars and Curates we haue some of them yet of the old morowmas Priestes whose salt is vnsauerie with much popish leauen that there is no taste in them of the Gospell of christ Most certaine it is that the popish Priesthoode is no calling for a Minister of the Gospell And therefore they that haue not openly forsaken that and haue geuen a new promise vnto Christ they may well haue the lyuing but they cannot be the persons whom God hath called nor yet the salt to season his elect and chosen The true Minister is the light of the world which holdeth foorth the Gospell of Christ in his hand as a lanterne to lighten the steps of a great number how to walke vnto Christ but what daylight I beseche you shineth in the Ministers of our making They are better séene in their seueral occupations then in the knowledge of the word which they should dispence vnto others The true Minister is a fisher of men by whom the parish is stirred vp to all loue to God first and then mutually one to another but the Parsons nowe haue either nets so broken or their baytes so yll that we sée the effect is no gatheryng together but a wofull dispersion both of Priest people How many examples do we sée of a continual dissipation in sutes and controuersies the Parson against the Uicar the Uicar against the Parson the Parish against both and one against another and al for the belly Among whō neither people Parson Curate Uicar one nor other hath anye care for the Gospel of christ As the Lord doth lyue this is no other fishing but to suffer that roaryng Lyon to catch al by his enchauntmentes that he may haue large pasture in the Church of god The true Minister is the eye of the body the woorkeman in the haruest the Messenger that calleth vnto the Mariage the Prophet that telleth the wyl of the Lord the wyse man that teacheth to discerne betwene good and euyll the Scribe that doth expound the law the Seruant that occupieth his Maisters talentes vnto gayne the Wytnes that beareth testimony of Christ to all people the dispensers of the misteries of God the Stew ard that geueth meate in due time vnto the residue of the houshold the Sacrificer of the Gospel of God to make the oblation of hys flocke acceptable the Minister by whom the people doo beleue the Labourers of God to tyll hys husbandrye and make vp his buylding the Shepheard to féede the Church of God which he hath purchased with his blood But alas and wo for vs if we can sée our sorrow what one of these excellent vertues shineth in our Pastors I speake the truth and God in his good time wyll geue vs eyes to sée his iudgementes Scarce one Parish of an hundred hath found such a Minister or scarce two and thrée in a Shéere whom God hath so blessed If S. Paule say true or if the voyce of God be fearfull in our eares that we cannot beleue except we heare and we cannot heare wythout a Preacher where is our glory that we are the people of the Lord Or where is our reioycing that the Gospell is amongest vs Were it not that the woorkes of the Lord preached dayly vnto vs and their voyce had come into our eares as fully as to our forefathers euen in the strongest of our people it would make their faith to wauer For about vs in our Countrie wher dwelleth that Minister or where is his name that shall strengthen the weake harted and rayse them vp in hope He must faith S. Paule he must be apt to teache that is made Minister but we haue made the old saying true Oportet non habet locum they are we may say they are more meete for the plow that dwell in the personage Say the Apostle what he say wyll he must or ●e must not he shall be made Minister now that pleaseth the maker Euen thus it is both high and low as many as God hath sealed with a god spirite they complayne of it They say all with Ieremy The Priestes say not where is the Lord and they that should minister the law they know nothing The men among vs that would be our leaders they may say as of olde time I wyl prophecie vnto thee of wyne of strong drinke but of the lawe and the testimonies they can no skil So heauy is the hand of our God ouer our synnes vntyl we be amended He hath broken hys two staues of happy féeding both bewty and bandes and geuen in stéede of them the instrumentes of a foolyshe Shepheard and hath raysed vs vp Pastours which looke not for the thinges that are lost nor seeke the tender Lambes nor heale that that is hurt nor féede that that standeth vp And therfore we may boldly say God himself being our warrāt that the Israel of the Lord is without his Pastour But some perhaps wyll thincke this complaint to be gréeuous God hath not delt thus with vs but rather hath multiplied a great manye of learned and godly Ministers vnto vs euen now in great aboundance as in any age before vs Most certainly true it is that God hath raysed vp in our dayes men of singuler hope full of excellent giftes whose vertues in yong yeares hath shined farre aboue the gray heares of their forefathers Would God we were halfe thankfull inough for so manyfolde blessinges The ioy of the whole earth and the gladnes of al the world that is the blessed hope of the Gospel it shineth not a litle euen in their countenances The Lord encrease them a thousand thousand fold and geue them double his spirit that they may be greater then all their enemies abyde faithfull euen vnto death that through them the Prince may reioyce the Magistrate maye be glad their fellowes may be encouraged that peo ple may be taught al may haue hope syn