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A68093	The practise of preaching, otherwise called the Pathway to the pulpet conteyning an excellent method how to frame diuine sermons, & to interpret the holy Scriptures according to the capacitie of the vulgar people. First written in Latin by the learned pastor of Christes Church, D. Andreas Hyperius: and now lately (to the profit of the same Church) Englished by Iohn Ludham, vicar of Wethersfeld. 1577.; De formandis concionibus sacris. English	Hyperius, Andreas, 1511-1564.; Ludham, John, d. 1613.; Orth, Wigand, 1537-1566.	1577 (1577)	STC 11758.5; ESTC S122044	265,657	396

necessitie be drawen and made apte of God to euery kinde of callinge Let vs take in hande an other example not historycall out of the epistle to the Romains the sixte Chapter As many of vs as are baptized into Iesus Christe are baptized into his death Wee are buryed then with him by baptisme into his death that like as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the father euen so wee also should walke in newnes of lyfe For if wee be grafte together in him by the likenes of his death wee shall in like maner be partakers of the resurrection Knowinge this that our olde man is crucifyed with him also that the bodye of sinne might vtterly bee destroyed that henceforth we should not serue sin For he that is deade is iustified from sinne And if we bee deade with Christ wee beleeue that wee shall also liue with him knowinge that Christ beynge raysed from the deade dyeth no more death hath no more power ouer him For as touchinge that he died he died concerninge sin once And as touching that hee liueth hee liueth vnto god Likewise reken your selues to be deade to sinne but aliue vnto God thorough Iesus Christ our Lorde The state is That those which are once iustifyed thorough faith and baptized into Christ ought alwayes after to liue godly and Christianly Which thinge the apostle also els where very often and with pithy reasons auoucheth This readinge therefore is ascribed to the kinde didascalick I. Here before all things is commended vnto vs baptisme as beinge instituted of Christ our Lord takinge effectes of his most pretious bloude and death and as that which is necessary to all beleuers forasmuch as by it they are engraffed into the Churche of God and by reason of it are named Christians II. The effectes of baptisme ough● exactely to be obserued especially that by baptisme we are made pertakers of the death of Christ and of all the benefites deriued therefrom to the beléeuers of which sorte are remission of sinnes passed lyfe euerlasting saluation c. Moreouer that it behoueth all those that are baptized to dye vnto sinne and liue only vnto rightuousnes For thus the Apostle reasoneth All we which are baptized are made pertakers of the death of Christ But Christ dying dyed vnto sinne Therefore are we also by baptisme deade vnto sinne And if we be deads vnto sin it were very conuenient for vs to couet to liue againe therevnto And certes it is true that we in baptisme do dye vnto sinne and sinne dyeth vnto vs forasmuche as in baptisme all our sinnes are washed awaye and the holy Ghost is giuen vnto vs by whom bothe the force of sinne and concupiscence is restrained and repressed and we not onely are induced to well dooing but also are vehemently holpen forward For this cause also all afore they be baptized doe openly before the church of God forsake the world and the diuel that brought sinne into the worlde to the intent they might therby declare that they will hereafter haue no maner of thinge to doe with them but will institute a newe and holy kinde of life III. they that are once babtized into Christ ought highly to estéeme all thinges that are put forth as touchinge Christ forasmuch as Christ is giuen vnto vs not onely to paye the price of our redemption out of the power of the diuell and also to be an example and whom wée should with al our endeuoure imitate and folowe in those thinges specially which may be conuenient for vs. Hitherto perteyne the two reasons whereby the Apostle plainly proueth that we for that we are baptized ought to be dead vnto sinne The one is taken of the effect and finall cause of the death of Christ You knowe saith he that this is the proper effect and ende of Christes death that sinne is abolished that to thintent we should not serue it any more But this effect of Christes death he séemeth to despise whosoeuer after remission of sinnes once receiued wyll returne againe vnto sinne Wherefore it is necessary● that we remayne styll dead vnto sinne The other reason is deriued of a similitude as touchinge ciuill seruitude which by the comminge of death taketh an ende As he that ciuilly is a bondeman so soone as he dyeth is deliuered from his power to whome hée was bounde Euen so we which were the bondeslaues of sinne séeinge in baptisme we dye once with Christ ought by no meanes to serue sinne any more Here therefore is set forth vnto vs the example of Christ himselfe whom both in dyinge once vnto sinne and liuinge againe vnto roghtuousenes we ought to imitate and folowe By this dilygent imitation we shall both be called and be in very deade perfect Christians These examples thus to haue propounded be it sufficient Further amongest the auncient writers of homilies very many thinges the same also right learned may of euery man be noted Chrisostom deuided his homily 60. vppon Mathewe entreating vppon those wordes of the. 18. chapter woe be vnto the worlde bycause of offences it must needes be that offences come c. Into two partes whereof in the former he argueth very grauely certes and yet popularly and with great cunning as touchinge the cause of sinne in the later by reason of those wordes Take heede that ye despise not one of these litell ones he entreateth of the not contemning of our bretheren whence at the length he slippeth to a place as concerninge the care that parentes oughte to haue least their children be idely and filthily brought vp The same in his homilie 62. declaring out of the sayd Chapter of Mathewe the parable of the man that was a kinge which would take accountes of his seruauntes chooseth these pomtes most chiefely to discusse at large first that sinnes are not alike Seconde where as wée which offende against God deseruinge most excellently well at our handes and against men do couet notwithstanding to haue all our offences forgiuen vs that it is very good reason why we should in like maner forbeare others that haue by any meanes hurt or endammaged vs Third that it is better to suffer wrong whereby an other mollesteth thée then to offer or inferre iniury to an other But in these dayes specially thou shalt sé all the most notable preachers for the most part to deuide their Sermons which they haue vnto the people into thrée or fower chapters partes or common places I suppose therfore that those whom we haue taken in hand to instruct can not iustly complaine that they want any excelent authors whose counsayles and steppes they may followe But to procéede the partes after they be in this sorte once noted and disposed they are accustomed ofte times to explane more at large namely by inferringe as well proofes and sentences as also apte historyes out of the store house of the holy Scriptures Moreouer by applying similitudes comparisons and whatsoeuer els is of

the presence of Christ which he had pronounced before of Christ being absente Nothinge is to be altred or transposed in the substance of doctrine or foundation of faith The doctrine that hath once bene sounde and true must of necessitie alwayes be true like as God himeselfe also of whom all sounde doctrine doth procéede is altogether immutable XII Doctrine Here is a notable confession of the two natures in Christ when as Christ is described by the one to haue bene before Iohn and by the other to haue come after Iohn Therfore Iohn sheweth Christ openly and commendeth him takinge awaye the sinnes of the worlde as he is one person in which two natures are ioyned together For truely it behoueth vs that wee vnderstande Christe to haue accomplisshed accordinge to eyther nature the thinges that pertayne to our saluation For in cace Christ ought to haue executed the busines of our saluation onely after his diuine nature then it had in no wise bene néedefull for him to haue put on humaine flesh XIII Redargution By what meanes shall they defende their cause which affirme That the Worde or Sonne beinge the seconde person in the diuine essence did then first take his beginning when hée tooke vppon him mannes fleshe Iohn very wisely confesseth that he was before him God vndoubtedly begotten of God before all worldes in which respect Christ also himselfe said that he was before Abraham was borne XIIII Institution Of some peraduenture might be suspected so diligent and ofte repeted a cōmendatian of Christ by Iohn as though thorough a certaine humaine affectiō perhaps for kinredes sake Inasmuch as Elyzabeth Luc. 1. is accounted to be Maries cousin the one fawned vppon the other Iohn aunswereth How should I either by reason of flattery or any other sinister affection commend Christ when as I neuer before this time had any kinde of acquayntaunce with him neyther dyd I euer sée him till nowe I saith he knewe him not And it is very likely that Christ was vnknowe to Iohn not only bycause Iohn kept in the Countreye and in the defart far off and Christ lyued alwayes in townes néere to Hierusalem but also for that Christ vntill that present time wherein he was baptised had as yet gotten himselfe no name and renowne by reason of any myra●les But then did Iohn beginne to know Christ when he came to be baptised of him at what time Iohn was taught by diuine reuelation that Christe was present whiche had bene promised a redeemer to the fathers and of whom he longe before had begonne to preach Wherefore here are all men admonished and especially those that teach in the Church or that are occupied by any meanes about th affayres of religion that they both speake warely and deale wisely and put forth nothinge after the corrupte affection of minde Where if they smell any offendicles to be imminente then that they prudently turne them awaye with some Preoccupation or preuention by premonishinge all their hearers in time and finally that they labour by all meanes possible to bring to passe that all men may vnderstande that they sincerely and vprightely doe accomplyshe their dutie And let them in the meane season goe forwarde stoutly to execute the office ioyned them of GOD as Iohn also saith when he was commaunded to baptise he was then likewise cōmaunded to celebrate and preche Christ to the intent he might become knowen vnto all Israell For so was Iohn appointed by the prouidence of God that he shoulde informe the mindes of all men to the doctrine of Christ and also to the sacrament by Christ after to be instituted XV. Correction Woe therfore vnto them that bothe speake and doe all thinges after their owne fantasye and affection to the greate offence of all good men that I say nothing of the huge losse and detriment of Churches and of the corruption of pure religion that doth follow therevppon Those that can not saye of them whom they commende I knewe them not do not well prouide doubtlesse for the behouse of the Church For I speake chiefely of them that are placed in the ecclesiasticall function albeit euen in the ciuile state also we maye perceye ouer many things to be determined and done after the corrupte affections of men which no doubt deserue sharply to be reproued XVI Doctrine Vocation to a certaine office is the gift of god Neither is any man apte to teach the Gospel or to accomplishe any thing as it ought to be excepte God himselfe will first call him For he assone as he calleth ministreth gifts also by which a man becommeth méete for his callinge And here vpon truely it commeth to passe that those men that thrust in themselues before they be called doe hardely proue euer fytte for the turne or at leaste doe féele by experience no happy successe to follow of theyr doinges XVII Institution They therefore that perceyue themselues to be called of God and especially to the function of preachinge the gospell let them take dilligente héede that they omitte not to doe those thinges that are beseminge for them In all their sermons and actions let them declare themselues to be desirous of nothinge more then that Christ may bee manyfested to Israell that is to say to the Church of God. Neither let them suffer themselues either by threateninges or flatteries of any men to be letted and sequestred from their godly purpose XVIII Correction They incurre reprehension that either doe not their office committed vnto them at all or els doe it neglygently neyther preache Christ but themselues and doe séeke more carefullye after the thinges that are their owne then after the thinges that are Iesus Christes Against which hipocrites the Apostle oftetimes very sharpely as they are worthy inueigheth XIX Doctrine These offyces are ioyned together to manifest Christ to Israell and to baptise with water that is to say to preach the worde and administer the sacramentes For doctrine and the sacramentes rightly ministred are two markes declaringe the true Church and of necessitie where Christ beareth rule there either office is dilligently exercysed with out intermissyon as Iohn also confesseth both of them to be committed vnto him of God. But there is moreouer in the words water a certaine 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 worthy to be obserued For Iohn signifieth that he is not the author of any new doctrine or baptisme but onely the minister of eyther of them and that the inwarde workinge therof is to bee loked for of an other more worthy namely of Christ himselfe true and very God which alone as it is saide a litle after baptiseth with the holy Ghost and ought alone to bee acknowledged the authoure as well of the Euangelycall Doctrine as also of the Sacramente of Baptisme ▪ Therefore by thys meanes Iohn maketh it knowen that he doth all thinges not after his owne arbitremente but by the commaundement of God himselfe Which thinge let al men worthily endeuoure to followe that

the Church comprised in the volumes of the prophetes and Apostles And thus much touching this euangelicall narration of Mark 16. There are in the thirde Chapter aforegoing certaine readinges out of the Euangelicall history explaned of vs in such order as we there handeled and set foorth and yet nothing letteth but that the very same may no lesse profitably then godly be expounded also in this forme wherof we nowe entreate Which thing truly I will not sticke héere briefely to declare That narration out of Mark. 6. as touching the multitude which was thrée dayes without méate through the desyre they had to hére the most holy sermons of Christ doth first of all wonderfully commend vnto all men the studye of learning and vnderstanding the worde of god Therfore we shall worthily accept this sentence in steade of the state In the second place is added the which declareth the al those the are touched with any desyre at al of profiting in the doctrine of true religion are cared for of god and the god will in no wise forsake them I haue compassion sayth he on the multitude Thirdly by the wordes of the disciples supposinge that it coulde not be that so many might be satisfied with breade in the wildernes may bée gathered that those which prepare themselues to the study of sacred and heauenly thynges are first hindered and oppressed with many griefes and temptations before they can attayne to their wished scope yea and ofte times they strike vpon the rockes as they saye euen in the very heauen it selfe and are haled awaye from their godly purpose But whereas christ in the fourth place demaūdeth of his disciples how many leaues they haue we are taught euidently thereby the God hath alwayes in a readines diuers apte and conuenient meanes whereby he may prouibe for the godly next after spirituall or heauenly benefytes minister also corporall or earthly For by the meanes the we least thinke off god succureth all those that labour and be in necessitie And therefore in the fyfte place Christ giueth vnto his disciples that they shoulde set before others for God sendeth alwayes in season teachers which maye with all fydelitie and diligence enstructe those that are desirous to learne Lastely and in the sixt place they all eate and are suffysed They that a litle before hongered and thristed after the knowledge of the trueth doe now happely profyt therein yea and so far forth doe they eftesoones procéede the there remayneth vnto them what they may giue an imparte vnto others and at the length may either publikely or priuately teach the doctrine of pietie vnto the rest Nowe that history likewise of Mathew 2. as touching the wise men that come from the East to worship Christ it shall be very easye to applye wholy to the tractation of one common place The state or common place maye aptly bee prefixed as concerninge vocation or callynge This state beinge assigned first of all shall bee declared whensoeuer God calleth any man by a signe either externall or internall or rather by them both to the knowledge and confession of the Gospell or els to some certaine kinde of lyfe in which he may dayly serue God and profyte his neighbour that he ought not to refuse but with chéerefull harte to come and deuoutly obaye vnto the caller In the seconde place where it is reported that Herode and the whole citie was troubled thou shalt not without cause inculke an exhortation to ouercome temptations For thus commonly it commeth to passe assoone as any is elected and called of God to a godly worke Sathan by and by together with his conspirators the fleshe and the worlde worketh wiles and leaueth nothinge vnattempted whereby they may withdrawe him from his good and holy purpose But their followeth in the thirde place the which in this kinde of conflict bringeth an excéeding great comforte namely that against the most fierce and bitter temptations a present remedie is to be sought for out of the holy Scripture The lawe the prophetes and Apostles doo certifie the conscience as touchinge thinges doubtefull they shewe most apparauntly where Christ is to be founde and where the minde finally may rest in safetye For it is euen the holy Scripture alone that confirmeth and susteyneth thée in the knowledge and confession of the Gospell in sincere faith in puritie of life and conuersation Fourthly where the subtelty of Herode priuily calling the wise men vnto him is disclosed shall very well be added that after the first and most grieuous temptations are ouercome and after the minde is confirmed and that by the ayde of Gods worde in hir calling holy purpose there remayne as yet successiuely newe daungers which hipocrits which false teachers or heretickes which tyrauntes and such kinde of aduersaries of true religion will forge and contriue For as longe as we liue here in this life ther is nothing but perils vppon perils and euen as if a certaine rancke of troubles were linked togither with chains so doth one distresse after an other fasten vppon the godly But yet we ought in no cace to be discouraged in our minds through the frequency or greatnesse of the perills Hitherto perteineth that which followeth in the fift place as touching the departure of the wise men and the starre againe going before them Thou shalt here not vnexpertly add that he which by valiaunt striuinge bath already escaped the daungers of the first and seconde sorte doth nowe lye as it were at anchor and rest in a quiet baye For let the Champion of Christ constantly ensue the first signes of his callinge but most diligently let him folowe the scripture which doth assure him of his vocation and all the order of his dutie he shall vndoubtedly come vnto that place where hee shall see Christ in his glory and obteyne thorough him euerlasting life He that endureth to the ende shal be saued Thou seeste therefore all the partes hereof not vnaptly to be reduced to one common place as touching calling or vocation and perseueraunce in the same Againe in lyke maner the historye out of Luke 2. as concerning the confession which as well Simeon as Anna made of Christ shall fruitfully be expounded by declaring out of it how necessarye it is that all the faithfull whensoeuer oportunitie will serue shoulde render an account or that which is all one make confession of theyr faith And the this is the state of the sayd reading it shal truly vs auouched as soone as mencion shal be made of Simeon Secondly at the wordes of Siemon in which he pronounceth Christ to be put for the ruine and vprysinge agayne of many and for a signe which is spoken agaynst moreouer that a sworde shoul perce Maries soule shal aptely be intreated as touchinge that poynte that a confession made is alwayes pursued with offences sondry mocions contencions and great daungers The world neuer ceaseth to bringe the godly confessors into peryll and hazard Thirdly

iudgement when as wretched man is so many wayes euery where beset with perils and for the causes that he least supposeth found giltie of sinne For by this meanes the whole worlde is in daungered to God and God concludeth al men vnder vnbeléefe which neuerthelesse we may not so interpret to be done that he shoulde destroy all men and damne them for euer but rather that he shoulde haue compassion vpon all men and by that meanes set forth and make knowne his goodnesse euery where Howbeit these thinges doe admonishe all the sorte of vs that we should be sober vigilant ware circumspect and that we should studiously avoyde not onely open and manifest but also priuy and secret sinnes yea all occasion of sinne and euen suspition also We are lilke vnto Pilgrimes or to those that trauaile in a straunge and vnknowne country by waies in which we are euery moment in daunger of théeues wilde and venemous beasts waters downe falles such lyke hurtful and perillous things The diuell the worlde and our flesh doe neuer cease to lye in awayt for vs they séeke by a thousand wiles to draw vs into their nets and snares But we must resist valiantly striue against thē by faith prayers fastings by the word of God and other spiritual weapons which Christe the inuincible confounder of all vices and wicked spirites hath prepared hath vouched safe to shew vs how we should vse them 1. Pet. 5. Ephe. 5. Math. 4.17 c. Thou séest what great plenty of things doe offer themselues and how large fields are opened vnto him that wyll procéede after this maner Wherfore we will make an ende In asmuch as the other questions may be reserued tyll an other time namely that touching the causes of sinne and another touchinge the effectes of which sort in the scriptures are handeled no smal number and alas wretches that we be in so many troubles and calamities of our times great store may dayly be obserued But forasmuch as death also is numbred amonge the effects of sinne we will adde lykewise an example but briefely handeled as thouching this He that will speake therfore of death may aptly prefixe two questions out of which he shall finde sufficient plenty of matters that he may declare to the commodytie of his hearers Let them therfore be these What death is and what the effects of death For a description or definition of death this may be had Death is the penalty of sinne iustly inflicted of god vnto al men like as al men also are sinners It is deriued of the causes and aboundantly proued by the testimonies of the scriptures God threateneth the payne of death vnto sinners The reward of sinne is death Through one man sinne entred into the world and through sinne death and so death came vpō al men inasmuch as al we haue sinned In which place are touched the chiefe causes of death man I say sinne whervnto may be added out of Gene. 2. the the Serpent also or the diuell is the author of death which to the Hebrues 2. is sayd to holde the empier of death Heb 9 it is saide This is appointed to all men that they shall once dye and after that commeth the iudgement Out of which places diuers and sundry things may be drawen to demonstrate more amply what Death is And by like industrye may the godly be excited to true humilitie of minde to the contempt of carthly thinges to passe theyr lyfe in the feare of God to call vpon Gods mercy for the intigation of the paynes whiche we through our sinnes haue deserued c. When he shall come to the question of the effectes it shal be necessary to discerne the effects of death in the Godly from the effects of death in the vngodly and that partlye by this meanes first The godly are perswaded that death shal in no wise happen vnto thē to their condemnation destruction but rather to their health and saluation inasmuch as the sentence of dampnation now long since pronounced agaynst vs is by the death of Christe vtterlye cancelled and rased out The law of the spirite of lyfe through Christe Iesus hath made me free from the law of sinne and death Christe by his death hath abolished the power of death Christe hath once suffered for our sinnes the iust for the vniust that he might bring vs to god We know that if our earthly māsion of this tabernacle bee destroyed wee haue an other building of God a mansion not made with handes but eternal in heauen But as touching the vngodly● they know that death is appointed to them as a moste bitter paine doe féele vndoubtedly the heauy iudgement of damnation by reason whereof it commeth to passe also that in temptations but chiefely in their extreame conflictes they are vehemently troubled afflicted and doe miserably faint and giue ouer I will not say for the most parte vtterly dispayre For what can they els doe in whom remayneth no hope or confidence at all touching the remission of their sinnes Euill shall slea the vngodly and they that hate the rightuous shall be desolate Secondly The godly forasmuch as they suffer continually many aduersities and so long as they liue in this worlde are vexed of the vngodly doe willingly longe after death and with ioyfull mindes imbrace it as they that are not ignoraūt that by it is giuen vnto them an entraunce to a happy blessed life I desyre saith Saint Paule to be dissolued and be with Christ We mourne inwardly in our selues for the adoption looking for the redemption of our body We grone in this our tabernacle longing to be translated into that which is from heauen And after a few words Wee truste and doe better lyke to be farre away absent from the body and to be present with God. And 2. Pet. 1. Death is called the putting off of this tabernacle On the other side the vngodlye for that they enioy héere in this life wealth prosperitie and all thinges happen vnto them for the moste part after their hartes desyre are plucked away sore against their willes and doe take it very grieuouslye if a man doth but once make mention of death vnto them But what followeth When they flatter themselues most of all and thinke to settle themselues heere most sure sayinge O soule thou haste great aboundance of wealth enioye it at thy pleasure Not long after yea the very same time when they least do suspect they héere it sayde Thou foole this night shall they fetch thy soule from thee And generally both of the godly and vngodly we reade 2. Thes 1. It is a rightuous thing with God to render vnto those that persecute you afflictiō vnto you that are persecuted peace tranquilitie with vs when our lord Iesus shall be reuealed from heauen And moreouer Abrahā saieth vnto the ritch man Luk. 16. Sonne remēber that thou in thy life time receiuedst