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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18432	Fulfordo et Fulfordae A sermon preached at Exeter, in the cathedral church, the sixth day of August commonly called Iesus day 1594. in memoriall of the cities deliuerance in the daies of King Edvvard the sixt. Wherein is intreated of the goodnes of God toward man, and of the ingratitude of man toward God. By Iohn Charldon, Doctor of Diuinitie. In which also some fewe thinges are added, then omitted through want of time.	Chardon, John, d. 1601.	1595 (1595)	STC 5000; ESTC S107731	37,202	98

sana Gloria secli Haec via certa Vna manebit Haec via pastus Arx paradisi Diriget omnes Caetera fumus Hâcque beatas AD VRSVLAM THOMAE Fulfordiconiugem Orthodoxam Vrsula funesto flerem tua carmina fata Biblia si scirem te coluis●e parum Ast munit contra falsi praeludia mundi Messiae pectus pagina sancta tuum AD EANDEM Lesbia cantabat lasciua poemata Sappho Vrsula coelestis clara trophęa Dei. Lesbis amica chelyn Phoebo dedit Vrsula Phoebo Vota feret fido pectore clausa suo Vrsula Sola Deo tua sit seruire voluptas Gaudia vera putes gloria sinis erit AD EANDEM Vrsula collectos cernis flaccescere flores Et verno nit●das deperi●sse rosas Anglorum spectas marcescere lilia peste Quae fuerant oculis lilia digna tuis Hinc subolere potes quaenam sit gloria mundi Quae tacitè tenues soluitur in cineres IT IS VVRITTEN IN the first Chapter of the Prophet Esaie 2. 3. Heare O heauens and hearken O earth for the Lord hath saide I haue nourished and brought vp children but they haue rebelled against me The Oxe knoweth his owner and the Asse his Masters Crib but Israel hath not knowne my people hath not vnderstand OF these you expect the interpretation and meaning but first let vs pray together that God of whome is euery good giuing and euery perfect gift may giue vnto you eares to heare his worde with frut may open vnto me the dore of vtterance Coll. 4.3 to speake the misterie of Christ that I may vtter it as it becommeth mee to his glorie to your comfort to the increase of his church O Eternall GOD and mercifull father wee thy poore seruaunts present our selues before the throne of thy Diuine Maiestie entirely desiring thy fatherly goodnes to graunt that thy worde may take such deepe roote in our hearts that it may fructifie bring forth an hundreth sixtie or thirtie folde so much as shall seeme best to thy heauenly wisedome And next vnto this we pray thee O Father to bee gratious and mercifull to thy whole militant Church dispersed farre and wide vppon the face of this earth especially to the two principall members of the same 1. Tim. 2. 1.2 England and Ireland And whereas by thy holy Apostle Paul we are willed to make praiers and supplications for all men for Kings and Princes and for all that are in authoritie we humbly and hartily pray and beseeche thee to blesse and preserue thy chosen seruaunt our dread Soueraigne Elizabeth by thy grace of England France and Ireland Queene defendresse of the true auncient and Apostolike faith and in all causes and ouer all persons within these hir Maiesties Dominions next and immediatly on earth vnder thee supreame Gouernesse Blesse O Lord we beseech thee both hir and all hir most Honourable Councellors against all domesticall and forren foes that thy Church so prosperously begunne may bee builded and fullie finished according to the platforme of thy most sacred and holy word And to this ende wee pray thee also O Lorde to visite comfort and cherrish with the spirit of thy grace the Archbishops Bishops and all other inferior Ministers to whom thou hast assigned the preaching of thy Law and the charge of thy chosen that they may bee found good Stewards o● thy will and true disposers of thy secretes and that by their labours sanctified of thee thy poore sheep which wander and goe astray in the vale of darkenes and shadow of death may bee brought home to thy sheepe sold vnder one shepheard thy sonne Christ the great shepheard of the sheepe and Bishop of our soules Wee recommende likewise to thy fauour and goodnes O Lord all the Rulers and Commons of this Realme that the Rulers with courage and in a reuerent feare of thee according to the trust committed vnto them may carefully and truely iudge thy people at all seasons and that the Commons in their seuerall degrees may liue and abide in Christian duety and obedience toward their superiors and in Godly loue and charitie one towards another We beseech thee O Lord that in like measure of thy grace thou wilt vouchsafe to water with the dewe of thy blessing the two notable Vniuersities of this Lande Oxford Cambridge that from age to age they may send forth Bezaleels and Aholiabs filled with the spirit of wisedome vnderstanding and knowledge to worke together with all the wise hearted all maner workemanship for the seruice of the Sanctuary for the vniting of the Saints for the worke of the Ministery and for the edification of the body And here O Lord for as much as we are all thy children sheep of thy pasture we call vppon thee for all our poore and afflicted brethren which by any meanes any where do grone vnder the Crosse for the testimony of thy eternall truth that according to thy promise it woulde please thee to giue them the fulnes of consolation patience and constancie that they may chearfully abide whatsoeuer fierie tryall it shall please thy heauenly wisdome to put them vnto that both by their life and by their death thy truth may be sealed Antichrist that man of sinne ashamed and the Kingdome enlarged of thy deare sonne Iesus Christ For these and all other thy graces what so euer which thou knowest to be needfull and necessary for vs and thy whole Church we make our humble hearty praier vnto thee our God and father which art the father of mercies and the God of all comfort according to that maner and forme which Christ thy sonne our Master in his Gospell hath taught vs. Our Father c. A SERMON PREACHED AT EXETER Esaie 1. verse 2. 3. Heare O heauens and hearken O earth for the Lord hath saide I haue nourished and brought vp children but they haue rebelled against me The Oxe knoweth his owner and the Asse his Masters Crib but Israel hath not knowne my people hath not vnderstand THese words which I haue read vnto you Men Fathers and Brethrē beloued in the Lord diuide themselues into two parts an exclamation and a complaint The exclamation is conteined in the first part of this second verse and is made not vnto men but vnto the heauens aboue and vnto the earth beneath Heare O heauens saieth the Prophet and hearken O earth For because the Iewes refused to tread the paths of the Lord and to walke in his waies because they were like vnto the serpent the deafe Adder that stoppeth his eare at the voice of the charme rcharme he neuer so wiselie Psal 58.4.5 Therefore now by the Lords appointment hee speaketh vnto deafe and dumbe creatures and saith Heare O heauens and hearken O earth As if he should haue saide because the ingratitude and impietie of men is such that they will not heare nor hearken vnto the voice of the Lorde I will speake vnto the heauens and earth and the heauens though