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A16698	A verye fruitful exposicion vpon the syxte chapter of Saynte Iohn diuided into. x. homelies or sermons: written in Latin by the ryghte excellente clarke Master Iohn Brencius, [and] tra[n]slated into English by Richard Shirrye, Londoner.	Brenz, Johannes, 1499-1570.; Sherry, Richard, ca. 1506-ca. 1555.	1550 (1550)	STC 3603; ESTC S122244	97,256	320

¶ A verye fruitful Exposicion vpon the syxte Chapter of Saynte Iohn diuided into x. Homelies or sermons written in Latin by the ryghte excellente clarke Master Iohn Brencius trāslated into English by Richard Shirrye Londoner Inclyte Ioannes Germane gloria gentis Qui toties magno resonasti pectore Christum ●…ternum viuis non inuida tempora nomen Obscutare tuum poterunt per secula foelix O quàm dulce fluit colamus tibitum bone Brēti Cum seruatorem placidus depingis Iēsum Quae tu Germanis Anglis ego munera grata Ferre meis curiens sermones transfero denos Quos conscripsisti sextum in caput alti Ioannis ¶ To the right Honorable Lorde Wentworth Lorde Chamberlaine one of the Kynges mooste honorable Counsel Rycharde Schirrye wisheth health euerlastynge WHā I had fynyshed thys trea tise which I toke in hande to trāslat of good zeale toward y e most sacred and holy worde of God deuisynge wyth my selfe vnder whose proteccion the same beyng printed myght be published abrod althoughe I knowe not youre Lordship by any cōuersaciō acquaintaunce but only by a general fame that maketh you to be gra cious acceptable to the worlde for thys cause specially that you fauoure all good letters and chiefelye the holie scripture w t those expositours whyche moste sincerelye and purelye expounde the same I coulde fynde out none to whome for the sayde respectes I thoughte more conuenient to dedicate this my trāslaciō than to your good lord shyp To whom although I be vnworthi to offer this presente boeth for my basenes of degre and also of learninge yet is the worke it selfe of suche pryce that it maye iustelye chalenge so worthy a patrone In thys Chapter ben certaine textes whych beynge cropped oute from the reste haue ministred to learned men muche matter of argumentacion some expoundynge them one waies some an other And forasmuche as there is nothynge but by euyll enterpretacyon it maye be depraued and that in all al cōtrouersies to find out the trueth ther is no rediar waies thā to heare the hole tale tolde I thoughte it a dede worthy the labour to set out in our English tōge the exposiciō of y e righte excellent Clarke Iohn Bren cius which he writeth vpō the sixt Chap. of Iohn not leapyng out from one text to an other but thorowely expounding it euē in y e selfe same order in whyche the Euāgelist wrot it so y t the circūstaunces shal not a litle helpe to the true sence vnderstādig therof which māer of exposiciō is much to be cōmēded And contra ri thei are worthi dispraise which rashli plucking out the texts as thei come first to hād not wayinge thē w t the rest that eyther folowe or haue gone before make thē serue to their own pur pose and apply theym to suche an exposiciō as they thē selues haue conceyued before in their own mynd Wherupon often time ariseth much altercaciō i wor des whych wold easely be auoided if at y ● begynnyng had bene laied a suar fundacion of reasonyng But thys expositour Brencius declareth hys mynde in ●…o clere an order that auoydynge all confusion the diligente reader maie sone perceyue howe iustlye one thynge dependeth vpon an other so that for thys poynte that is in declarynge howe the textes shoulde ryghtly be vnderstande by the iudgemente of well learned menne he maye be compared to the beste interpretoures that haue bene in anye tyme longe before What shuld I speake of hys eloquence whyche maye be sooner maruayled at than folowed If it please youre Lordshyppe fauourablye to accepte these my laboures not a litle shall I be incouraged to goo forwarde wyth the reste of the Homelies or some other thing of lyke Profite and acquaynte my selfe agayne wyth those studyes whyche beynge begunne of me in youth and so continued forthe certayne yeares haue bene a longe season althoughe not quyghte left of yet very much remit ted and slacked The liuyng God whyche nowe of hys infinite goodnes hath sent vs peace frō mortal bodili war giue vs also concorde of myndes y ● agreyng in one sound doctryne we may be vnited and knyte as mēbers of one misticall body to our head Iesus Christ our lord to whom be glory for euer ¶ The Preface to the Reader IN these oure dayes whan the monimētes of soexcel lente wyttes so plentifullye come abrode that therebye it maye ryght well be knowen ther be ryghte manye not onely perfectlye seen in all humayne sciences but in speciall in the moste fyrme and vndouted Christian religion no doute there is greate cause vnto all good men and to al suche as loue knowledge greatly to reioyse And yet to followe these principal guides and chiefe leaders not a fewe are put in dout either for that y ● iudgementes of men be so various and the wylles of most part so froward y ● to vp hold either this opinion or y t I wot not whither it may seme lesse apt to receiue thanke or more redy to daū ger of euil speach extreme ieoperdy Which thing of some men is so feared y t it boeth taketh away theyr wittes wylles to do good therefore passe their life in silence But if this mind should be to al that cā do wel y t is that for feare of such diuer sitie in iudgement of al sorts of mē they should leaue of to do such profit as they myght do than myght it fortune to be a greate while or euer the truth were spread abrod and or knowledge should haue the vpperhand of ignoraunce Which thyng certaine persons encouraged by the spirit of God right wel perceiuyng haue valiantly put forth thē selues aduentured y e daungerous charge of euil tonges secretly regarding ra ther y e right iudgemēt of a fewe thā discōforted by obloquie euil spech of a great many Thus dyd y t noble Poet Horace whan he was content with the assent of a few wel learned to whom he recited his worckes as appereth in his sermons Thus do also nowe a dayes suche as seke not for y e vaine praise of the multitude but onelye to rest in y ● bosome of the wel learned But sith talkyng there of is so cōmon wittes so manye diuers ther semeth to lacke nothig rather than a iudge to giue sentēce of this great diuersitie which riseth not so much by douts in seculer science as by sondry opinions in most waightie cōtrouersies of our faieth religion Of these is nowe al mēs talke I say they talke of diuinitye yea the learned the vnlearned the woman as wel as the man the rych w e the pore Unhappy be we christian men if in this our religion we be more vncertaine than were the heathe in their doctrine What is more displeasant to man touching the bo dy than darknes what to the mind more greuous thā ignoraūce Thā if it be so what can be on the contra

a kynge of it selfe be exceptable to God yet shuld good●…ē thorow humilitye flie mannes glory and maiestie and cast theym selues into some vyle kynd of lyfe as Christe speaketh at an other tyme learne of me for I am meke lowlye in herte Naye the goynge awaye teacheth not thys nother For althoughe Christe do bydde vs folowe the example of hys humilitye yet is it no humilitye rashelye to caste awaye hys lawefull vocacion and to take vpon hym a more abiecte kynde of liuynge wythoute the commaundemente of God but it is verye humilitye to serue obedientelye to Goddes wyl and hys ordinaunce in euery vocacion be it no ble or vyle Thus lowlye was Iob that is obedyent to the wyll of God aswell in ryches as in pouertye whan he sayed GOD hath gyuen God hath taken awaye the name of God be blessed Thus was Dauyd lowlye that is obediente to the wyl of god whether he were in his kingdome or banyshement For he sayd If I fynde grace in the eyes of the Lorde he wyll brynge me agayne But if he saye thou pleasiste me not I am tedye lette hym do that he thyncketh good wyth hym selfe so Christe hym selfe the verye Dauyd was lowely For whan he was called by GOD to beare hys crosse he bare it obediently Afterwarde be ynge called to recey●…e the heauenly maiestie in the kyngdome of his father he toke that also obedientlye This is verye humilitie whereby you cast not awaye your lawfull vo cacion but that in euery lawful vocacion thou obeist thy Lord thy god Wherfore Christ would not by this goynge away teache good men that either they ought not to take vpon theim the doynge of a kinges office if they be lawfully called vnto it or that thei shuld rashly and w tout the callynge of God cast it away if they haue taken it vpōthē before what is the matter than that he fled awaye and woulde not be made a Kynge And verelye if you consider his doctrine he toke vpō him much greater and nobler thynges than if he had a uaūced him selfe an outwarde kyng of Israell He preached that he was the lyghte of the worlde that he was the lyfe and resurreccion He saied he was the sonne of god yea and equal to God hym selfe These thynges in dede be muche greater more excellent than if he had taken vpon hym the maiestye of a Kynge amongeste men Why is it thā that he refuseth thys and taketh vpon hym that other The callynge of GOD is the cause and his office For Christ was not sente from heauen into yearthe for thys entente to do the office of a kyn̄ge in thys worlde and to beare rule vpon the yearth after the maner of a kinge but he was sent to be a prophet and a preacher of y ● Gospel in Israell and as Paule calleth hym a minister of circumsicion for the truth of god to confirme the pro mises of the fathers For the Lorde sayeth by Moses of Christe I wyll rayse vp a prophet in the myddes of his brethren lyke to the and I wyll put my wordes in hys mouthe and he shall speake vnto thē al thynges whych I shall commaunde hym I wyll sayeth he rayse vp a prophete y t is to say a preacher not a worldly kynge or chiefe gouernoure And I wyl sayth he put my wordes in his mouth not a corporal sweard in his hande And he shal speake vnto thē he sayeth not he shal correcte theym by outward and corporal violence And in Esaye The spirite of the Lorde is vpon me because that he hath annoynted me and sente me to preache the gospel to the lowely he sayeth not He hath sente me to rule amonge men after the fashion of a Kynge but to preache the Gospel to theym that be in sorowe and misery For althoughe the Prophetes do sometyme so describe the kyngdome of Christe as thoughe it were a corporal kyngdom yet is y t discripcion so defenced wyth circumstaunces ine speciallye whan they saye that hys kyngdome shal be euerlastyng that nedes you muste vnderstande that his kyngedome is not corporal but spirituall neyther yearthlye but heauenly and that he will gyue not externall but eternal gooddes name ly forgyuenes of synnes eternall iustice euerlastynge lyfe and filicitye Wherefore that Christe foloweth not the peoples mynde and taketh not vpon hym the princely maiestie of thys worlde and yet for all that teacheth that he hym selfe is y ● verye sonne of God yea and god hymselfe whyche is greater than al the maiestye of man boeth thynges he doeth accordynge to hys offyce and the vo cacion of God And by hys example he teacheth vs that no manne should folowe the common peoples delier to synne agaynst god neyther that we should take vpon vs an other vocacion wythout the cōmaundement of god For it cannot be that he that foloweth another mans plea sure wythout goddes callynge in ta kyng vpon hym to exercise common matters should haue any happye or prosperous successe of hys purpose For what cold be happy w t out god Thei haue raigned saith he but not by me they haue bene princes but I haue not knowen thē And he sayeth straight way Now wyl he remēber their iniquites viset their sinnes And a litle after I wil send fier into ther citis it shal deuor their houses Wherfore eueri mā ought diligētly to studie for this that what so euer he taketh in hand he may take it by goddes callynge that he maye call vpon God in faith and in that that he hath taken vpon him to be occupied with a good cōsciēce We haue heard what he did vpon the land let vs hear now what was done vpō y ● sea When it was euening sayth y ● euangelist his disciples wente downe to the sea toke ship passed ouer the sea and came to Capernaum For after that Christ had perceyued the commē peoples purpose tomake him a kinge he wolde not suffre his disciples to tarie anie lenger with the cōmen people but forthwyth cōpelled thē as Mathew Marke sai to take ship go before him vnto y ● other side of the bancke vntill he hadde sente awaye the multitude For peraduenture he sawe y t if his disciples shuld tary amōg y ● people stil in his absence thei wold haue be come helpars of this sedition in cho sing him a king because y t they also thought y t Christes kingdom shuld haue bene worldely Wherefore althoughe they thought it more wysdome either to tarye among the peo ple or wyth Christe yet are they con trarye to their mynde and whether they woulde or no compelled to go a waye and that for a verye good pur pose of Christe partly y t they should not wax sedicious wyth the people and partly that by risyng of the tem pestes in the sea they myght the better knowe the power and maiestie of Christe by whyche exampel we are warned to take pacientely if to the