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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14189	Peters fall Two sermons vpon the historie of Peters denying Christ. Wherin we may see the causes of mans falling from God, and the manner how, both of the wicked thorough incredulitie, and of the godly by infirmitie: and also the way that God hath set downe in his worde to rise againe. By Iohn Vdall, preacher of the word of God at Kingston vpon Temmes.	Udall, John, 1560?-1592.	1584 (1584)	STC 24503; ESTC S101285	38,462	103

PETERS FALL ¶ Two Sermons vpon the Historie of Peters denying Christ. Wherin we may see the causes of mans falling from God and the manner how both of the wicked thorough incredulitie and of the godly by infirmitie and also the way that God hath set downe in his word to rise againe By IOHN VDALL Preacher of the word of God at Kingston vpon Temmes Prouerbs 24 16. A iust man falleth seauen times and riseth againe but the wicked fall into mischiefe ¶ Printed at London by Iohn Windet and Thomas Iudson for Nicholas Lyng Anno. 1584. To the right Honorable Lord Frauncis Earle of Bedford Knight of the noble order of the Garter one of her Maiesties most honorable priuie Counsell IOHN VDALL wisheth increase and continuance of vertue and godlines THE greatest difference that the Philosophers could finde right Honorable betweene man and beast was the rule of reason wherby they could perceiue that man could giue iudgement of things present and things past and comparing them together could after a sort prognosticate of things to come which moued them according to theyr power and vnderstanding to labour night and day in continuall meditation of the excellencie of the same to seeke the adorning and beautifying thereof with all those things which brute beasts for lacke of reason coulde not haue as namely the continuall searching out of naturall causes the daily consideration of the effects and operations of things in this world and the particular qualities of euery seuerall beast bird fish tree herbe worme fruite stone and euerie other creature whatsoeuer The benefite of whose diligēce redoundeth euen to our great good and consolation as the Physitian verie well knoweth and the diseased patient sensibly feeleth yea and which more is they stayed not themselues in this alone but labouring still to beautifie that same diuine part of mans mind I meane reason they inuented another kynde of flower whiche they called Morall Philosophie wherewithall their meaning was to haue the effects of reason rightly ruled to shine foorth most brightly in euery particular action of mans life putting all their contemplations by this meanes in assiduall and dayly practise wherein how excellent they were and how forcibly they vsed it in their conuersation and also how equally it directed all their deedes by iustice and equitie their owne writings remaining yet and their notable acts recorded in histories do better more plentifully declare then either I can or my present purpose may suffer me Onely thus much is to be saide that their vertues were so excellent that we aime stil at them and their common wealths so well ordered that we make them our continuall platforme patterne and the nearer we come vnto diuers of thē the better we thinke our gouernment established Now it is not vnknowne vnto your honor nor to any other that haue the true feeling of Gods grace working in their hearts and the Sunne of righteousnes shining in theyr consciences that the Lord our God the creator of all things our redeemer preseruer and sanctifier hath giuen vnto vs not only the knowledge of all these things in some measure which they had in great aboundance but which more is a farre surpassing and more excellent difference to seuer vs withall from the rest of his creatures then euer they had or once thought of to wit the knowledge of his loue and fauour towards vs in his Sonne Iesus Christ. For albeit it be true that reason is the essentiall and formall difference as they call it betweene man and beast yet we see euen in them some sparke and as it were some speciall kind of reason for to try the same in particular effects we see that a Dog can discerne his maister from another man yea though he be twenty yeares from him if it be true that Homer reporteth of Vlisses his dog him that vseth to hurt him he can shun and can fawne on him that cherisheth him The bird also can foretell whē raine wil fall The Emit in the time of sommer maketh prouision for winter Many there be such like as these which we reade of in Pliny Aristotle writing of the nature of beasts and whiche by our owne experience we daily see But this is so farre from seeming to be reuealed to any other creature that it is a paradox and a strange thing to many of vs that differ frō bruite beasts by reason therfore which is the drift of this whole discourse it standeth vs vpon which professe the name of Iesus Christ which do acknowledge him to be giuē of God the Father and sealed vnto vs by God the holy Ghost for our eternall saluation to haue an especiall care that as Christ sayth of the wicked that they be wiser in their generation then the children of light so it be not sayde of vs that the Paganes Heathen and Gentile Philosophers be not found in the sight of God more diligent in their humane profession then we in the profession of Iesus Christ I meane more glorious in shewing foorth the fruite of their Philosophy in their actions then we of our diuinitie in our life and conuersation And surely I would to God that we could truly and rightly follow their steps in one thing which is this I reade of them that the more knowledge they obteined in their Philosophy the more they abandoned themselues from the vanities of the world so that one casteth his gold into the sea another carried all his substance with him wheresoeuer he went another contented himselfe with a tub or tunne to dwell in in steede of his house all of them whatsoeuer they possessed they did willingly employ it to the encrease of knowledge in themselues and others But do we so no. We seeke how to serue God and Mammon too we labour to become religious in shewe and couetous in deede We desire to come to Christ by night with Nicodemus for feare of worldly losses we seeke to crie Lord Lord but we haue no care to do the works of the Lord. We make a shewe of godlinesse but we denie the power thereof we wish to sit at the right and left hand of Iesus in his kingdome but we are loth to drinke of his cup. All in one word We professe Iesus Christ but turne the grace of God into wantonnesse Hence it is that wickednesse doth so abound that Sathan hath preuailed so much and that so few endeuour a godly life euen for that the enemie can perswade them that profession will serue that a shewe is sufficient But howsoeuer it be that so many be drunke with this cup of Sathans poison against whome in truth the Heathen Philosophers that neuer knew God shall rise in the day of iudgement and condemne them for that they haue beene more carefull to shew the fruite of their profession in vpright dealing though it was in vaine then these haue bene yet it behoueth all them that see these