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A19265 A godlie sermon, preached on Newe yeeres day last before Sir William Fitzwilliam knight, late lord deputie of Irelande, Sir Iames Harrington knight, their ladyes and children, vvith many others, at Burghley in Rutlande. By the minister of God Anthony Anderson. Hereto is added a very profitable forme of prayer, good for all such as passe the seas: by the same author framed, and vsed in his aduentured iourney. Anderson, Anthony, d. 1593. 1576 (1576) STC 568; ESTC S108500 29,532 74

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forsaken or his seede begging their breade Helias following his vocation was forsaken of all men but dayly fed of God by the rauenous Crowes the poore wydowes meale when the riche gluttons of Israell were pined for want of necessarie foode Daniell seeking chiefly the glory of our God is cast into the hungry Lyons den in deede but preserued to lyue and to him is sent the prophet Abacucke with his dinner many a myle by the guide of an Angell The Iewes which folowe Christ into the wildernes are of him miraculously fed And to all is this promise gyuen Seeke first the kindome of God and the righteousnes therof and all other thinges shall be mynistred vnto you Now as concerning that the Lord frameth his peoples harts to be contented with their estate Paule for the body of the whole churche sayeth thus I haue learned in what state soeuer I am therwith to be content I can be abased I can aboūde euery where in all things I am instructed both to be full to be hungry to a bound and to haue want The wicked many tymes do florishe as the greene bay tree and haue the worlde at will great store of welth for them selues and childrē so that their sonne sonnes doo feede of the elder gotten bread but withall they haue their portion in this lyfe and after that can see no further cōforts And though the godly contrary do feele many wants and seeme in mans conceipt vtterly to decay yet far other is their state then externall shewe doth tell For the Lord is their sheperde whē they seeme to dye they lyue they are chastened but not killed they seeme in sorow to be swallowed vp but they alway reioyce they seeme poore but yet they make many rich depriued so of worldly comforts seeming to haue nothing they notwithstāding possesse all things Likewise their ende is farre otherwise then the worldly riche For the Lorde dealeth with them as the noble man with his fatted Oxe when he is well fedde is by the slaughter man committed to the axe of death his noble sonne abydeth many sharp yirkes and correcting blowes and after that enioyeth his fathers possessions Euen so the wicked in wealth are wrapped with Diues in hell and the beloued though payned Lazarus is caried by seruice of Angels into our heauenly Fathers kingdome our Christes inheritaunce belonging to the iust This is the marke that Dauid shooteth at when he sayth I shall not want It followeth He shall make me to rest in greene pasture he leadeth me by the styll vvaters All things necessarie shall the Lorde geue me sayth Dauid and that in no base sort or shall any trouble molest my feeding for I shal quietly be guyded and my prosperitie shall be continuing alwayes florishing greene and at no tyme dry or withered neyther shall his blessinges be taken from me with the rage of wicked men but as the shepe of her selfe weake needeth resting place and quiet riuers so shall all thinges come to the best and to my hartes desire in him But beloued in Christ our shepheard is spiritual therfore our pasture must be answerable and it is set downe to vs by our master Pastor thus He that heareth my vvorde and beleeueth on him that sent me hath eternall lyfe and he shall not come into iudgement but hath passed from death vnto lyfe Heere is the pasture of life the gospell of God The rest for mans soule fayth in God through Christe The still waters the holye spirite whiche dothe pacifie the troubled conscience and quietly establisheth vs in Christe who freeth vs from the Fathers iuslice the sentence of eternall death and giueth vs hys glorious Crowne and heauenly kingdome our inheritaunce in him Come to this pasture feede on this bread rest in this power drinke of this water So shall you no more thirst after the filthy puddles of Popishe poysoned Cuppes For in your selues by this spirite of Christe shall abundant riuers of spirituall goodnes flowe out of you that all men seeing your good workes may bee prouoked to prayse the Lorde This God graunt you for his sonne our sauiour Christ his sake Amen He shall conuert my soule leade me in the pathes of righteousnes for his names sake Three especiall thinges in this verse the Prophet teacheth moste notably Firste that we are by nature stubborne and estraunged from the nature belonging the sheepe of god Secondly that after regeneration by the spirite there remayneth yet in vs such matter of massy sinne that vnable we be to walke the pathes belonging to the children of god and therefore it behoueth vs to haue a leader into righteousnes Thirdly as many be the falles by sinne which Satan and the fleshe procureth to vs So sundrie be the fruites of the godly In whiche vertues as in sinne Satan seeketh our ouerthrowe if so he can make vs to reste in them as eyther satisfactorie to God or meritorious for their valor But the Lord by his Prophet here preacheth that our conuersion to god our walking dayly in godlynes is from by the Lorde and that also not for any preuenting foreknowne or succeeding graces in vs but only soly for hys names sake He shall conuerte my soule sayth Dauid The roote of the Tree beeing sounde and good feedeth hir braunches to hir fruitfull life So the soule of mans principall substaunce beeing made whole sounde can not but geue life to the whole body In this braunche also we are to note that vnles the inwarde man be turned vnto God thexternall partes can be but hipocriticall and seruing time So the Nobles in Ioash Court during the dayes of the good Byshop Jehoiada seemed moste religious but death had no sooner depriued the godly of this Priestes life then they diswaded the Prince to their earst ydolatrie perswaded they him Many be the mouthes that nowe confesse them selues changed frō Popish life but God continue our noble Elizabethes raigne and the Gospell safe progresse els doubt I that stormy dayes would sterue the smal store of liuing grace in many Englishe hartes of sundry callings But who so is turned in hart and minde vnfaignedly he ioyeth the dayes of dangerous death and soroweth to see the worldly solace the cause no doubt of all infinite woes He hateth that he loued first he lotheth at his former lyfe he is ashamed of sinne he casteth off from him the works of darknes and confessing Christe with his lippes because he beleeueth on him in harte he dayly walketh in the pathes of righteousnes after his leader Christ our lord And here with me note good Auditorie who it is that doth conuert mans soule him selfe or some other the Lorde our Shepheard Dauid sayth it is He shal conuert my soule In that we are conuerted it is not our action or in our power is it to become the sheepe of
Amen Laus Deo per Christum 1. Ian. 1575 Psa 77.21 Psal 80.1 Esai 40.11 Psa 110.1 Ma. 23. Act. 2.34 Io. 10.11 1. Pe. 2.25 Io. 5.24 Io. 10.15 Mat. 11.28 Io. 21.15.16.17 Act. 20.28 Luke 15.4 5. Mat. 18 12 Lu. 10.34 Esai 53. 1. Pe. 2.24 Ma. 12.20 Io. 15.2 Io. 15.2.3 Eze. 3.18 Act. 20.28 Zach. 11.17 Rom. 8 1. Pet. 2. Rom. 8. 1. Pe. 5. Io. 10. Esa. 53.7 Heb. 12.2.3 4. c. Psal 37.25 1. Kin. 17.4 5.6 1. Kin. 17.14.15.16 Dan. 14. story of Bell. Io. 6.11.12 13. Mat. 6.33 Psa 37.19 Phi. 4.11 Psa 37.2.3 Psa. 17.14 2. Cor. 5.8.9.10.11.16.17.18 2. Cor. 6.9.10 Luke 16 vers 2 Io. 5.24 Ioh. 7.39 Iohn 4.14 Math. 6. vers 3. Rom. 7.18.19.20 2 Chro. 24 17.18.19.20 Rom. 8. Io. 17.2.6 Rom. 8.29 Eph. 1.2.3.4 Rom. 8. Colos 3. Math. 3. 2. Co. 5.20 Luke 1.17 Psal 19 1. Co. 9.16 Pro. 29.18 Ro. 10.17 Rom. 8.37 Mark. 16 16 Esa. 56.10 11.12 Ephe. 1 Eph. 2.19 Eph. 2.12 Rom. 8.3.4 Tit. 2.11.11 Lu. 9.62 2. Cor. 3.5 Phil. 1.6 Ezech. 35.30.31 Ephe. 2.18 Rom. 8.15 Apoc. 7. and 14 Eph. 4.30 1. Io. 5.10 Rom. 8.33 2. 1. Pet. 2.21 Rom. 8.14 Rom. 7.19 2. Pet. 2.19 Eph. 3.16 Eph. 4.19 20. Eph. 5.4 1. Cor. 11.1 Luk. 2. Sap. 5. Esa. 40 Esa. 30.22 Esa. 64 vers 6 Psal 31.4 1. Sa. 12.22 Esa. 48.9 Eze. 20.9 Eze. 36.32 vers 4. Psa 34.19 Eph. 5.7 2. Cor. 4.13 Exo. 14.22 Dan. 3.25 Gen. 20.3 2. Sa. 12.1 Psa 22.24 Gene. 17. Iona. 1.17 Act. 12.8.9 2. Cor. 2.3 Zach. 11. 1. Cor. 11.32 Ezech. 18. Psal 103.8 Heb. 12.10 and 2.17 Esa. 5 4.7 Hebr. 12.5.6.7 Psal 39.11 Luke 13.2 Psal 2.9 Ps. 78.45 2. Sa. 10.12 1. Para. 18.19 Esa. 37.36.38 2. King. 6.14.18 2. Kin. 7.6 2. Ki. 6.25 2. Tes 2. Mat. 21.44 2. Cor. 10.4 Ioh. 14.1 Mat. 21.43 Zach. 11.7 Deu. 4.6 Gualterus in zachari Psa 2.12 Prou. 20. Ps. 78.70.71.72 Zac. 11.16 Ps. 61.2.5 1. Co. 10.4 Psa 122.1 1. Cor. 10. Ioel. 2.16 17. 1. Cor. 10.17 1. Cor. 14.23 1. Cor. 10.1 2.3.4 Rom. 15. Rom. 4. In the Sacrament two things are conceiued Cipriani de vnct Chrism Ambro. de sacra li. 4. cap. 4. Origen in Matth. August in Io. tra 20. Gen. 17.10 Exod. 12. August in Leuit. 17. Gen. 41.26 Augu. de doct chri lib. 3. Deut. 4. Exo. 12.12.13.28.29 Ro. 4.11.12 2. Corinth Rom. 12.2 Psal 119.32 To the right vvorshipfull Syr William Fitzwilliam Knight late Lorde deputie of Irelande A. Anderson the minister of Christes holy Gospell vvisheth Christ our Lorde vvith his vvhole merites CAll vppon me sayth God in the day of thy trouble and I will deliuer thee Greater troubles with lesse comfortes than in the raging Seas can not be founde as those with Dauid must confesse which occupie their busines in greate waters This daungerous Iourney as among many others ye are in the Lordes name to aduenture so vouchsafe this preparatiue to your godly hart and by and with the same in assured hope of Gods assistaunce for his Christ approche his mercy seate The hast we haue and gaping hope for Westerly winds will not permit long leysure to proyue this sodayne frame Take it Right Worshipfull as it is and accept the good will of the Geuer vse it at your neede to the Lordes prayse and your present comfort which is my harty desire And I shall dayly pray the Lorde for you and vs that we may speedely imbarke and safely arriue in Englande through Christes ayde the master of our ship At Holme Patricke in Irelande 17. October 1575. Your Worships in Dom. A. Anderson A forme of prayer for sea-men and passengers to vse in the sayling Shippe ¶ A confession of our sinnes to God. O Almighty God and most righteous we thy deare children here encompassed with these thy mighty creatures the windes the huge seas and sayling ship do acknowledge and confesse our selues and euery of vs to be miserable sinners and from our first cradles depely to haue offended thy diuine maiestie Our seuerall thoughtes be corrupted our sundry hartes and acts are polluted our synnes cannot be hid from thee We hartely confesse them O Lord els should our consciences condemne vs because our transgressions beare witnes against vs But thou art the God of our saluation and to vs thy children the beste father full of mercyes riche in compassion slowe to wrath and most ready to forgiue the penitent sinner calling vpon thee And sithe it is the worke of thy most holy spirite to mollifie the stony harted and to chaunge the fleshly hart into a spirituall soule Eze. 36. We most humbly besech thee for thy Christes sake to graunt vs thy holy spirite takē from vs our stony and gyue vs hartes of fleshe and into them power thy graces turne vs vnto thee Thy holy law imprint in our soules and giue vs to walke in thy statutes during these our naturall lyues Bow downe thine eare and heare vs and with thy fauourable countenance loke vpon vs behold our place and cause of cry Our ship is subiect to subuersion if thy holy hande direct vs not in mercifull prouidence Gyue O lord the sweete and plesant gale in thy name of vs to be desired in vehement stormes by thee called to punish and proue vs assist vs with thy strength and spirite of comfort Loke vpon our mediatour Christ and through him pitie vs and in the bowels of thy mercy conduct vs to the hauen of vs desired if it be thy will. Then shall we sing and prayse thy name and shew thy wonders in the deepe and our soules shall confesse that though the seas be mightie Psa 93.5 yet thou O God art of most might ouer them Let vs not be tempted further gracious God then that our strength in thee shall counteruaile and graunt the euent prosperous Glad our hartes with safety on shore and make vs mindfull of thy mercies Gyue vs we beseche thee true fayth firme hope and feruēt loue in thee keepe vs alwayes thine and graunt thy Christ for euer ours in whose name for our selues and all other in our condition with the rest of thy churche we call vnto thee thus O our father which arte in heauen halowed be thy name c. A psalme Psa 93.5 The waues of the sea are mighy and rage horribly but yet the Lord that dwelleth on high is mightier Psal 107. 23. They that go down to the sea in ships occupie their busines in great waters 24. These men see the workes of the Lord and his wonders in the deepe 25. For at his worde the stormy wind ariseth which lifteth vp the waues therof 26. They are caried vp to heauen downe againe to the deepe their soule melteth in them because of their trouble 27. They reele to fro and stagger like a dronken man are at their wittes ende 28. So when they cry vnto the Lorde in their trouble hee deliuereth them out of their distresse 29. For
vnto all men appeared and teacheth vs that we shoulde deny vngodlynesse and worldly lustes and that we should lyue soberly and righteously and godly in this worlde loking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of the mightie God and of our Sauiour Iesus Christe who gaue him selfe for vs that he might redeeme vs from all iniquitie and purge vs to be a peculiar people vnto him selfe zealous of good workes Into both of these Christe leadeth vs for of our selues we are vnapt inable and moste vnworthy had we power to enter into the firste to winne the latter Dayly we be looking backe from the plough where vnto we are brought by Christ therefore vnapte of oure selues to his kingdome wee haue not so much power as to think a good thought but that sufficiencie which seemeth to be in any of vs the same is of God who doth both beginne the worke of God and performe the same in vs The better learned we be in God the more fully we see our vnworthines to be accompted members of his righteousnes As the Prophet Ezechiell sayth I will deliuer you from all your filthines c. Then shall yee remember your own wickednes and your deedes that were not good shall iudge your selues worthy to haue bene destroyed Zacheus was the best disposed man in that people and the more graces he had with the Centurion the more vnworthy he thought him selfe of Christes presence at his house but beeing comforted by Christ he tooke most ioy therein Finally let vs note the valor of this worde He leadeth vs. That we are righteous before God it is that Christe our shepheard leadeth vs by his spirite and fayth vnto the throne of grace where he presenteth vs as deare children to God his father and teacheth vs to crye vnto him Abba deare father Into which state by his spirite brought we firmely see our saluation to rest in him and that we are sealed to the Lordes saluation Yea and the witnes euen Gods holy spirite from that Throne is set strongly in our harts and within vs doth beare witnes against Satan sinne and the worlde that following our God by the fayth of Christ we are become his children so righteous that no man can condēne vs because our god hath in his Christe set vs free To the seconde he leadeth vs in him selfe first as Peter sayth Christ suffered for vs leauing vs an example that we should followe his steps vvho did no sinne neyther vvas there any guyle founde in his mouth vvho vvhen he vvas reuiled reuiled not agayne vvhen he suffred he threatned not but committed it to him that iudgeth righteously Secondly by his holy spirite he conducteth vs into all goodnes For eyther are we lead by Satan and fleshe vnto euill or by his spirite and grace into all godlynes In our selues there is no power of passing to good or will to stay from euill Of whom soeuer a man is ouercome his seruaunt he is sayth the Apostle whether of sinne vnto death or of grace vnto lyfe And those which be the sonnes of God are lead by the spirite of God and strengthned in the inner man Christ dwelleth in their harts by faith they are rooted and grounded in the loue of God they are by Christ coupled one to another in him through him they receiue the increase of the spirituall body edify one another and therefore they walke not as other Gentiles or them selues earst did in the vanitie of their mynde with darkened cogitations in blynde hipocrisie but they caste of the old man and passed conuersation and being thus renued they put on the newe which is created in righteousnes true holines after the will of God. Thus they folow by the spirite the commaundement of Paule in Christ saying Be ye followers of God as deare childrē And him self going before hath giuen vs a rule to measure the saintes imitatiō saying Folow you me as J folowe Christ The Lord graunt vs his grace and spirituall strength by prosperitie and aduersitie sycknes and health lyfe death thus to folow our leader and pastor Christe Iesus in true holinesse and righteousnes before him all the daies of this our present lyfe I dwell in speche to teach the sheepe of God onely and therefore I leaue to set you forth the pathes of the wicked goates whiche knowe not God nor can be accepted of him They runne through the pleasures of this lyfe and lyue at luste till death do sūmon their soules to the tribunal throne whence they are caste to euerlastinge torments and woe But or we passe this verse we ought depely to consider the conclusion of Dauids words which are This hee doth for his names sake From the beginning the godly haue felt his defending and guiding hande by his spirite they haue bene fedde and ledde the wayes to lyue in him but neuer was there any one or could the worthines of all being layd vp into one lumpe demerite the lest his benefits or euer challenge cause beyonde his owne names sake to moue his so greate mercy to his chosen churche and children For his names sake he hath conuerted and ledde vs that is for his owne glories sake and not our worthynesse hath hee thus blessed vs Then thus the Prophet sayth That the Lorde is our shepheard that he hathe chosen vs from the wicked woorlde to be of the nomber of his elect children and sheepe of his pasture that he temporally feedeth vs that he by his spirite and the ministerie of his gospell conuerteth vs that he maketh vs righteous before his Father in him and leadeth vs by the hande into all godly actions and christian lyfe that he conducteth vs into safetie from the furie of our crooked foes and euery way blesseth vs it is not for the excellencie of our beautie for that is but grasse not for our righteousnes for that is to his eyes as a filthy mēstrous cloth But it is for the same cause wherwith he hath euer bin prouoked and that is for his owne glories sake So haue the Fathers from time to time confessed condemning them selues for sinne and accepting his benefites for his mercye sake and his holy names sake This is that the Prophet would haue vs to reste in when he sayth that the name of god is a strong Towre of defence For his names sake he will leade vs and nourish vs for his great names sake he will not forsake his people and for his names sake he will farre hence remoue his anger from vs The same shall cause him to preserue his truth among the gentiles And that he continueth his gospell our gracious Queene and this quiet gouerment ouer vs it is not for our worthynesse who be all for our dayly sinnes most vnworthy of his mercyes as the Lorde for euer speaketh to all fleshe thus Be it knowne vnto