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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14015	A sermon preached on Palme-Sunday, before King Henry the VIII by Cuthbert Tonstall ...	Tunstall, Cuthbert, 1474-1559.	1633 (1633)	STC 24323; ESTC S1387	33,985	52

of Luke proveth the same where a man having a Vineyard and in the same a Figge tree that bare no fruit bade cut it downe And at the request of his Gardiner suffered it yet longer to see if dung laid to the root would helpe it As oft Almighty God being the Lord of the Vineyard suffereth us being barren to have space to repent and bring forth fruit of good works For it is written in the third of Matthew that every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit shall be cut downe and cast into the fire After as our deeds be so shall our judgement be as Christ saith in the 16 of Matthew the Sonne of man shal come in the glory of his Father with his Angels and shall reward every man after his workes Saint Paul in the 2. chapter to the Romans saith also likewise that God will reward every man after his deeds good or evill And in the 4. chapter of the first Epistle to the Corinthians he saith that every man shall receive his hire after as his labour is so that for good deeds done with faith he shall receive reward and for evill deeds done after faith or out of faith he shall receive punishment Therefore those that say that God ragardeth not our workes done with faith doe say against Christ and his doctrine given to us by him and by his Apostles for since our workes done with faith be the measure of our reward to be greater or smaller as they shall be found to be greater or smaller who so saith that God regardeth not them saith he regardeth not the measure of our reward and yet he saith it shall be measured after our deeds done with faith and so he saith against Christ Saint Paul saith also in the 2. chapter to the Ephesians that by faith which is the gift of God we be of new create in Christ and in good workes that we may walke forwards in them and since he hath created us in good workes to walke in them hee must needs regard them or else he cared not what hee created which is blasphemy and denyall of his high providence Now this holy weeke we be bidden and called to come to the great supper of our blessed Lord Christ Iesus and to eate of the heavenly meate and of the bread of life that came from heaven the blessed body of our Saviour Iesu Christ in the Sacrament of the altar unto which we may not goe in our filthy and spotted coate lest we comming thither not having the cleane garment of our soule that we received at our Baptisme be expelled out of the feast And therefore we must make cleane our garment before we be bold to goe thither But I feare me sore lest many shall make such worldly excuses as be written in a parable in the 14. chapter of Luke some saying they be new married and therefore they may not come Which doe signifie men given so to carnall pleasure of the body that they care not to come to heaven some saying they have bought five yoake of Oxen which doe signifie those that follow the sensualitie of their five senses and worldly businesse some saying that they have bought a Village which signifie those that purchase lands here in earth and care not by faith and good living to purchase heaven All which sort of men shall not taste of that supper as it is there written but God forbid that any of us should be of that sort and therefore let us every man prepare our selves and make cleane our spotted and filthy garment Let us purge and purifie the Tabernacle of our soule and make it a lodging worthy to receive Christ into our house and not to disdaine us for the filthinesse of our uncleane living But how may this be done and by what meanes surely surely by no meane but by penance and repentance and calling for mercy to Almighty God with a sorrowfull heart that we having received so innumerable benefits of God so little have regarded our obedience to his commandements proudly and unkindely despising him and more regarding our own wretched concupiscence pleasure in all worldly delights then God Let us follow the exhortation of Almighty God spoken to us by the mouth of Ioel in the 2. chapter saying Turne ye sinners againe to me by fasting by weeping by much lamenting your miserable estate and teare asunder your hearts and not your cloathes Almighty God will rather regard a sorrowfull and contrite heart to dwell in it then all the Temples that we can build for him as it is written in the last chap. of Esay Let us acknowledge confesse our own faults first before we be accused of them at iudgement Let us weepe for our ungracious life and sure it is God will regard our teares David saith in the 55. Psalme Almighty God I have shewed my life to thee and thou hast put my teares in thy sight We that have used our eyes all the yeere in regarding worldly pleasures so that through vehement joy sometimes the teares have burst out with much laughing now let us weepe as David teacheth us in the 118. Psalme saying to Almighty God The teares have burst out of my eyes because they have not regarded and kept thy law Let us follow the counsell of Saint Paul in the 6. chapter to the Romans saying to us As ye have given your members to serve to injustice to doe wrong so likewise give your members to serve justice to your sanctifying David saith also in the 6. Psalme I have travailed in my wayling I shall wash every night my bed with weeping teares And after that he saith God hath heard the voyce of my weeping for GOD doth regard teares comming forth out of a sorrowfull and contrite heart If thou say thou canst not weepe thou dost confesse thy folly for if thou lose by example any substance of worldly goods as if thy house be robbed thy ship laden with merchandise perished in the Sea thy wife that thou didst love departed thy sonne dead then thou canst weepe much more then enough and where thy soule is by sinne departed from Almighty God which departing from him is the very death of the soule and lyeth stinking in sinne not foure daies as the body of Lazarus did in his grave but much more then foure moneths ye thrice foure moneths canst thou not weepe Surely thou hast great cause to lament thy selfe For what exchange canst thou devise to make so deere to thee as thy soule is Wherefore let us with the sword of the Spirit which as Saint Paul saith is the word of God make a quicke sacrifice of our selves with a sorrowfull heart because wee have broken Gods commandements applying the sharpe word of God to our sinfull life that we may therewith kill our concupiscences and all fleshly and worldly lusts and so making of our sorrowfull heart a sacrifice to Almighty God obtaine his mercy thereby as he hath promised to us by David in the