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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

AS there is nothing set downe in the worde of God which is not in his singular wisedome propounded vnto his children either to teache them the will of the Lord and the religion that they must professe or to furnish them with sufficient armour to conuince their aduersaries or to instruct them how to frame their liues and conuersation according to hys will or to reproue them that walke inordinately or lastly to comforte them being distressed and afflicted in this world so there is no example set before our eyes in the whole booke of God more necessary for vs continuallie to be meditated vpon then this of Peters fall For in the same is firste painted out vnto vs the miserable estate of man being left vnto himselfe then the excéeding mercie of God towards man Secondly we may sée in it the beginnings procéedings and manner how all men doo sinne whether it be the godly falling by infirmitie or the wicked transgressing thorough infidelitie and then how and by what degrées the godly be reclaimed and restored againe So that in this historie we haue two things offered to our considerations First Peters fall Secondly his rising againe In his fall we note the causes that mooued him therevnto and the maner how it was The causes be either in himselfe or accidentarie without himselfe within himselfe his presumption in departing from the word of God and leaning vppon his owne power and his slowe following the causes without himself be his companie the high Priests seruants and the place where he was y e warme fire The maner how he did fall is first in bare deniall then with binding it with an oth and lastly by curssing himselfe if euer he knew Christ. In his rising againe are likewise the causes and the maner how the causes without himself and within himselfe without himselfe the crowing of the Cocke the looking back of Iesus within himselfe his remembrance what Christ had said and what he had done the manner how he rise his going out and his sorrowing The firste cause of his fall as you sée was his presumption and that is also in two things The first is in not leaning vnto the wordes of his Lorde and maister For Christ told him that he should denie him But he notwithstanding being either blinded with the consideration of his owne power as hereafter shall appeare or else carried away with a preposterous zeale to follow him whether soeuer he went replyed that though all men should forsake him yet he would not And surely this is most worthy the consideration For if we beginne at the first man that euer was and continue thorough out the whole scriptures we shal finde that the little regarde giuen vnto the worde of God was the beginning of their fall The father of mankinde the firste founder of his misterie Adam hauing receiued this especiall commandement of the trée of knowledge of good and euill thou shalt not eate Yet this béeing put out of his heart partly thorough the subtiltie of Sathan wherewithall he was assayled partly by the prouocation of the woman whome greatly he loued and partly with the beautie and delicacie of the Apple with whiche he was allured He notwithstanding did take of it and eating of the trée forbidden fell from the Lorde his God and was cast out of that place of pleasure where before he dwelled So did Caine forgetting the commandement of God yea and the law of nature kill his brother Abell Lamech not considering that the Lord God had made man and woman to bée one flesh tooke vnto him two wiues and so fell from the Lorde Saule hauing receyued a precept to destroy Amalecke and all that pertayned vnto them that he should haue no compassion on them but shoulde slaie both man and woman both infant and suckling both Oxen and Shéepe and Camels and Asses yet directing not hys dooings according to hys commission but yéelding vnto hys owne fantasie in sparing the King Agag and the better Shéepe and fat Oxen to sacrifice as was pretended vnto the Lorde was rewarded with depriuation from his Kingdome The lyke may be said of the rebellious Israelites in the wildernesse who hauing the promise of Gods speciall protection yet murmured often times The same is playne in the rebellious Iewes in the tyme of the Prophetes and brieflie thorough out the whole booke of God that when soeuer the Prophetes be resisted the Apostles persecuted or any other sinne whatsoeuer committed whether it be of the godlie falling by infirmitie or by the wicked offending of obstinacie The first originall and beginning is this that the worde of the Lorde in that respecte is eyther not knowen or not remembred and therefore Sathan strooke verie déepe and in verie déede at the surest roote of mans safegarde when he put it into the head of his sonne and heire Antichrist the childe of perdition the Pope of Rome to keepe the people from the knowledge of Gods word for he knew well ynough that the worde of God béeing manifest vnto all the world as the instrumente to kéepe man from grosse sinnes for verie shame and feare of punishment and many in faith and obedience vnto the Lord for loue and zeale vnto his glory and desire of their owne saluation whiche otherwise shoulde wander in darkenesse and in the shadowe of death because that they béeing blinde for want of knowledge should haue swallowed many moates of iniquitie but to let him goe and come nearer vnto our selues what is the cause that euen in this light and glorious Sunne beames of Christ his Gospell so many be so softed and drowned in idolatrie and superstition that they are not ashamed with whorishe faces not blushing to maintaine and defend the heathenish fashion of worshipping of God in Images for theyr owne shame hath fomed out the worshipping of the Image it selfe but only this that the seconde Commandement is blotted out of theyr heart and also out of their bookes and the true exposition that our sauiour Christ giueth vnto the same that the true worshippers shall worship in spirit and truth that as he is a spirit requiring spirituall seruice is either not knowne or else misconstrued or what is the cause that the blasphemer of Gods name hath such delight and pleasure in swearing cursing and prophaning or rather renting in péeces the dreadfull name of the most glorious God but only this that the commandement is not before his eyes which is enioyned vnto all them that be or be desirous to be called the children of God that they neuer presume to take his name into theyr mouth without a singular reuerence of hys Maiestie or the threatninges therevnto annexed For GOD pronounceth them that sweare by those which were no Gods to be none of his for he saith they haue forsaken him in so doing also a man that vseth much swearing shall be filled with wickednes and the plague of God shall not departe

greatlie detested so likewise when he goeth about to perswade any man to adultery he will not at the first throw him into the harlots bed but bring him to behold her then to haue a liking of her then to haue familiarity with her then lastly to commit the hainous fact of whoredome if he go about to bring one man to murther another he doth not bring him vnto it at the firste but beginneth by sowing of discord then of hatred last of all to actuall murther his practise is the like in all other sinnes especially if he deale with those that séeme to make some conscience of sinne and haue in their heart anie detestation of iniquitie Such was his dealing in erecting vp the kingdome of Antichrist for it was a thousand yeares at the least in patching before it came to his height and top of iniquitie Therefore let all them that desire to auoide the actuall sinne endeuour also to cut off all occasions of his beginning If thou wilt not commit adultery cut off thy wanton lookes If thou be loth to murther any man pull downe thy haughtie heart and roote out the affections of disdaine from thy mind and learne out of Gods worde how to apply thy selfe to singlenes and humilitie let the example of yong Daniel neuer go out of thy remembrance who refused euen the portion of meate that was allotted vnto him by Nabuchadnezar which of it selfe was lawfull to be receiued with giuing of thanks because the King shoulde not entice him thereby to forsake the true God and leane to his religion so it is our duty not only to kéepe our selues vndefiled from euery sinne but also frō euery thing that may be a meanes to bring vs vnto it Thus we sée the causes that moued Peter to fall and indéede they be the same that moue all mē to sinne whether it be the godly that fal through infirmitie or the wicked that procéede on in sinning daily and neuer returne vnto the Lord. And we sée also by what steps and degrées Peter came to the height of his offence whose trace we doo all treade so oft as we fall although euerie one go not so farre as he did because Gods grace preuenteth him sooner beholde then in him thine owne frailtie But now we come to make a separation betwéene them that fall and neuer rise againe and them that be renued by repentance And immediately while he was a speaking c. Nowe we come to the beholding of the excéeding mercie of oure good and gratious God who though he suffer vs for a time to goe after our owne fantasies yet at the last his out-stretched arme will helpe those that be his he suffered Peter to fall into sinne yet he is readie to help him vp againe yea euen when Peter was a curssing God entended towards him a blessing and surely it is not without the speciall prouidence of the spirit of God set downe héere by Luke that while Peter yet spake or was a speaking the Cocke did crowe because the enemies of Gods grace and their owne saluation the Papistes who will play at small game rather then they will sit out when they can not wring it from vs that man hath frée will to do well or merit his own saluation yet they must haue it graunted that we be copartners with GOD in that worke I hope they will graunt vnto vs that Peter who was called and nowe is fallen had as muche power and did as muche further his restoring againe as they that haue neuer tasted of the swéetenesse of Gods worde and grace Now Christ did begin Peters conuersion when the Cocke did crowe and what was Peter then doing helping yea helping himselfe to hell-warde for he was then curssing himselfe So that if Peter coulde not helpe himselfe into Gods fauour againe sure it is that none can away then with that fonde imagination that any thing is in man to further his owne saluation for God must first conuert vs and then we shall be conuerted God must be mercifull vnto vs and then we shall be saued The cock crew c. This is y e first cause that God setteth forward towarde the conuersion of Peter For the Lord beholding in what desperate case he was went about to deliuer him out of it and that in all haste for God knewe verie well that if he should continue any space in the swéetenesse wherein sinne had swadled him for it is swéete to all them whose hartes God hath not called from it by the grace of his holy spirite he had béene hardened in the same as the wicked sorte of the world be who tasting thereof and finding their corrupte and sicke senses delighted with it committe the same with gréedinesse and doo so greatly please themselues with it that they conceiue an earnest lothing of all godlinesse and vertue and that is the cause that many of whome we may reade who hauing once tasted of the swéete word of God and after reuerted from the same haue become the greatest enemies that euer the Churche of God hath had at any time and if it were Gods will I would we felt it not in present experience and therefore the Lord God as he is most carefull for his children maketh haste to deliuer Peter quickly This crowing of the Cocke was the same vnto Peter that the preaching of Gods Ministers is vnto vs. For God doth not alwaies vse his ordinarie meanes so that when soeuer we haue the word of God preached at what time soeuer we heare our sinnes laid open before vs and rebuked we must thinke with our selues that God doth with vs as he did to Peter namely vseth meanes to call vs frō sinne bring vs to repentance amendmēt of life This meanes the Lord vseth generally vnto all for his Gospell must be preached throughout the whole world for a witnesse vnto all nations and yet we knowe though many be called yet few are chosen Therefore it behoueth vs to know whether y e Cocke doo crowe vnto vs to our saluation or no and the first triall consisteth in this that the Cocke of Gods word croweth vnto all men and yet onely they imbrace his sound aright that shall be saued if then thou féelest thy selfe to heare the same with all due reuerence if thou beléeuest the promises therof to belong vnto thée with all stedfastnes and endeuourest to frame thy life according to the same with al diligence thou maist assure thy selfe that thou art the child of God for they be of God that doo thus heare his word contrariwise if thou hearest the word preached and perceiuest thy secrete sinnes thereby laid open and thy owne conscience in thy selfe is witnes that thou art conuinced and yet art so farre from beléeuing it or framing thy life according to it that thou doest both mocke it as manie nowe a daies delight to doo and also séeke to pull the cocke downe from the pearch that