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A04510	An homilie of Saint John Chrysostome vpon that saying of Saint Paul, Brethern, I wold not haue you ignorant, what is becom of those that slepe, to the end ye lament not. &c. With also a discourse vpon Job, and Abraham, newely made out of Greke into latin by master Cheke, and englished by Tho. Chaloner.; De dormientibus nolo vos ignorare fratres. English	John Chrysostom, Saint, d. 407.; Cheke, John, Sir, 1514-1557. aut; Chaloner, Thomas, Sir, 1521-1565. aut	1544 (1544)	STC 14637; ESTC S103722	12,341	54

what frute geuest thou me when thou pluckest vp the rootes how assurest me thou of nephieus and cōmandest my onely sonne to be slayne who euer sawe the like who dyd the lyke I am begiled I am betrayed Abraham truly againsaide nat gods commandement nor stode nat in termes of why and wherfore with him but when he had ones herde Take thy dere and welbeloued sōne Isaac make of him sacrifice to me vpō suche an hille as I shall apointe the with as good a will he wente aboute it as if more had ben commanded him he wold haue done his vttermost for he both kepte this secrete from his wyfe and from his seruantes cōmanding them to tarye at the foote of the hille and taking with him only Isaac for his oblation went vp nat with a faynt hert but gladsomely aboute the execution of gods cōmaundement Thinke therfore howe harde a case this was when no man beyng by he did question perchaunce with his sonne aparte whiche might make his hert the rather fowndre into pitie and a more vehement heate of loue nat in one or two daies but in many daies to be quickenid in him inasmuche as to haue dispached gods byddyng out of hande was sure a very great and hard enterprise but nat of suche maistrye as by respite of so many daies to haue his minde temptid specially beyng beseagid with soo greate a loue as he bare towardꝭ Isaac For therfore dyd god apoynte him a place of further distance where he shuld do his oblation to the end the w●estlers styfnes might be the better assaied And in dede a stiffe wrastler was Abraham with no man but with the very lawe of nature For what eloquēs is liuely inough to set afore our eyes his stoute hert He led away his sonne he bounde him laide him on the heape of wod drewe his sword was ready to strike him I can nat tell I howe nor by what meanes to describe all this He only knew it who toke vpō hym to do it For no paynted wordes maye sufficientely sette oute colours in this behalfe For howe was nat his hande astonied How did nat the force of his synewes weaken Howe could nat the desirable presence of his dere childe edge him to compassion And then agayne that that Isaac dyd how wonderus was it For as Abraham obeyed god so obeied he his father as when god bad Abraham slea him he axed nat after the cause wherfore lykewise Isaac his father constrayninge him and offringe him vpon the aultar enquired nat of him why he did it but was subiect to his will and pleasure Here nowe may we see the father a sacrifice of his sonne a sacrifice yelden vp withoute bloudshedynge a burnt offring withoute fyre for a figure of the death and resurrection He slewe his sonne and nat slew his sonne nat with his hand but with his intention he slewe him And god cōmanded thus muche nat for effusion of blouddes sake but to manifest vnto vs the obedience of Abraham and that hys promptenes mighte ouer all be notyfyed to our teachynge and instruction Howe that gods cōmandemētes ought to be preferred nat onely before our children the lawe of nature briefly all other thynges but euin our very owne lyues And therfore came he down to let Abrahams hande hauing Isaac as a liuing witnes of this acte What forgyuenes then shalt thou obtayne or what excuse can thou bring seing such a man as Abraham was with so good an hart to haue bowed him selfe and in all poyntes to haue geuin place to god and thou in this small case wilt nat take it well but stubbernly For neyther alleage thou thy mourning nor yet y e gretnes of thy calamitie but rather thinke howe Abraham was stronger then so excedyng great and far passynge a sorowe For it was inough that gods commandement had some thing troubled and cast his mind into perplexitie togither with this that god had assayed his faythe in other proofes aforetimes Fo. who excepte Abraham selfe wold nat haue reputed gods promis as touchynge the multitude of his generation nephieus to haue ben but disceite and trompery And yet this natwithstanding we ought to haue Iobs patience and his wonderfull moderation in greate price namely his ouerturne and fall beinge so piteous as it was in that a man of that excellente vertue after so many almes dedes and so great hospitalitie kept when he neither had prouoked gods wrath vpon him self nor on his children shuld with his eyes behold so miserable a misfortune so strange and so vnloked for yea and suche as in longe tyme falleth nat vpon the wickedest men that be Nor for all this did he nat as commonly men wont to do neither iudged vertue vnauaylable ne yet reputed his former life well led to haue ben spent in vain Eche of these therfore we muste nat prayse onely but folowe also and do after their vertue But some will saye naye they were men that passed Ye truely they passed and were meruaylous men Natheles at our handes is required a greatter religion then at theirs was whoo folowid but the olde fourme of lyuinge onely For vnles your iustice be farre more habundant then that of the Scribes and Pharises ye shall nat entre into the kyngdome of heauen Therfore in any wise vse we moderation and callyng to our mynde these and those thinges whiche of the generall resurrection of these holy men haue been repetid let vs euer caulme our mindes nat only whē cause of mournyng is obiectid vnto vs but also when wear fre from any maner sorowe For to the same purpose I at this present what tyme none as I thinke is in sorowe haue yet grounded my theme therupon that when we haue iuste cause of doole yet being armed with remembrance herof we may receyue comefort accordingly That like as souldiours in tyme of peace do practise feates of warre that when warre is ones proclaymed and the tyme requireth expertnes they maye then at neade shewe furthe their conning learned in tyme of reste So likewise prepare we both our weapons and medecines all beyng yet quiet that if at any tyme these greate troubles miseries or sorowes do assault vs. We on the other side being wel armed strongly defensed agaynst all the dyuels bruntes may with muche maistrie repulse them backe sheld our selfes with godꝭ word right reason and example takyng at the good For in so doyng we may lede this lyfe in muche tranquillitie of mynde and afterwardes be partners of heauins kingdome with CHRIST IESVS vnto whom with the father and the holy goost be all honour and imperie worlde without ende AMEN LONDINI in officina Thomae Bertheleti regij impressoris typ●s excusum Anno. M. D.XIIIII uicesimo nono die mensis Martij Cum priuilegio ad impr ●mendum solum

this laste to make vp his mouthe specially he beyng so louing a father and his children suche as deserued no lesse For wher as one leseth by death his vnthrifty children well may it cause him to regrete a litle nat that the anguishe so hotely scaldith him chiefly because the vngratiousenes of such as deceas may well be in cause why that sorowe settithe nat her tethe so sharpely in vs. But if theyr goodnes he commendable then thrilleth the that deape wounde with continuall remembraunce and the incurable euyll breadeth two maner thornes in thy hert That one is the remorse of nature and kynde whiche we that liue haue the other is the vertue the deceased persone was of Then that Iobs chyldren were of much towardnes may be gathered by this in that their father toke much care about their bringing vp and made ofte sacrifice for them hauing doubte at leaste vpon their hidden sinnes For nothinge was dearer to him neither more tendid on then his childrens bryngynge vp an euidente argument nat onely of their good demeanour but also of his fatherly affectiō Inasmuche therfore as Iob was a father yea and so tendre a father as nat onely expressed his naturall loue but also the feare he toke for them besydes that they that died were of such an aproued honesty trebly were those panges of sorowes leuelid at him Whiche in case they had ben put to one by one so might the pecemealeshype haue geuin place to som maner cōsolation as when the presence of the surviuours couerith the sorowe conceiued for the deade But where as the hole flocke decayeth whome canne he susteyne to loke vpon that before was father to so many children and nowe hath nat so muche as one left him And here now I might bring in his fifte sworde of sorowe in that they all at ones so sodainely were bereuid of their life For and if their death had vetid within space of .iiii. or .v. daies so might his wifes and at his neighbours haue borne him feleship in lamenting with him that in so short space and so vnlokid for so goodly a meiny was quite fordone But muche more cause of sorowe had Iob who nat in thre in two or in one day but in a moment was euenly depriued of them al. For a mishap long loked for albeit it touchith a man to the quicke Yet for that the euill cōming is forseen it is wont to be more tollerable but when y e same chancith bothe at ones and at vnwares then is it intollerable When so euer then a thynge is greuous of it selfe and therto doth opresse one beyonde his expectation that is surely a greate enforcement of his sorowe Nowe therfore repute with thy selfe howe intollerable Iobs sorowe was and how it passed the common grief felte in like passions But wilt thou hear now the sixte throwe of Iob he lost al his children in the floure of theyr youthe and pardie ye wote howe sore mens deathes afore their time of ripenes are wont not onely to trouble theyr frendes but also in sundry meanes to trouble them then this of Iobs children was nat onely an vnripe death but therto a violent deathe whiche violentnes may be takē for his seuenth calamitie for he sawe them nat yeldyng their gostes and laste breathes in their bodies but they were al oppressed with the ruine of the house wher they banketted Nowe put case some one as he digged amonges those ruines shuld plucke out now a stone then a limme of some one of them perchaunce one hande holdynge the cuppe on other in the platter with all the shape of the bodye quashed asūder the nose frushed downe the head crased the eyes quisted oute the braine dispercled and the hole proportion of the body with the diuersnes of the bruses so disfygured that the poore father myghte vnnethes discerne the desyred sight of one of his children from an other At the rehersall onely of this tragedie yeare moued to compassion and teares What thincke you then by him that sawe this gere For seing we now so long time sins can not so muche as heare with out teares so miserable a chance as this was yea and that nothing ꝑtaining vnto vs What maner a man and of how stony an hert was Iob trow ye who seyng all this with his eyes nat in an other mans aduersitie but in his owne coulde so refraine and mortifie his courage For he neither repined therat no nat somuche as ones openid he his mouth in grudge As what meanith this is this the recompēce of my mekenes to this therfore hath my house stood open to all straunge gestes that I shuld se the graue of my children haue I therfore vpon those extendid all gentilnes that these shulde suffre this death None of all these muttringis vttred he no nat somuche as ones thought them but after a longe debatynge with him selfe toke he all in good wourth For like as a cunnyng founder whē he castith an image of gold doth proportion and make fete the moulde with all diligence soo he with proportioninge and feting brought his courage to a good poynte And as a painful husbandman watrith byndith and hedgith in the graffes of palme and Oliuertrees likewise Iob ceased nat with all his studie to bring vp eche of their soules as a fruiteful Olyue tree to a greater encreace of vertue And hauyng all done when the storminge of the wicked sprite had disturbed and beaten them to the ground with a miserable ende of theyr liues lotted vnto thē yet vsed he no kinde of blasphemie but thanking god of al gaue so the dyuell a clap at the auauntage But now if thou wilt say that his sorowe for losse of many chyldren is nat to be compared to his that had and lost his onely childe thou speakist well and I wyl wel so be it For nat euen but muche greater was Iobs sorowe For who can gesse the benefite risinge to the father of many chyldren and perconsequent the wound receiued in many bodies must nedes engender a more manifest calamite and sharper heuynes But now if thou desyrest an example of him who hauing but one only sonne shewed neuertheles as great as Iob or rather greater cōstance Then loke thou on the Patriarch Abrahā who in dede sawe nat his sōne Isaac die but was cōmaunded whiche thyng was far more piteous and miserable was commaunded I saye with his owne handes to kylle him yet this bidding he withstode nat neither toke it heuily nor vsed none of al these wordis To this thē hast thou made me a father that I shulde be myne owne childes queller better had it ben nat to haue geuen him vn to me then in this wise to redemaund him But if thou wilt nedes haue him to what purpose I besech the wilt thou haue him slayne of me and my hand to be his bludsheder was it nat thy promes howe in this boye my sede shulde store all the worlde and