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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

¶ 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 Psal 37. Marke the vpright man and behold the iust for the ende of that man is peace ¶ Imprinted at London by Thomas Purfoote for Lucas Harison dwelling in Paules Church yarde Anno Dom. 1576. ¶ TO THE RIGHT worshipfull Sir William Fitzwilliam Knight late Lorde deputie of Ireland Sir Iames Harrington Knight Master Ihon Harrington his sonne and godly heire their vertuous Ladies Wiues and faithfull children Anthony Anderson Preacher of Christs Gospell wisheth all health in Christ our Lorde THough I vse not more thē briefe notes to write my sermons yet right worshipfull for that of some of your godly religious children I was more then earnestly entreated to set downe this Sermon my simple newyeares gift bestowed in comon amongst you I after lōger sute then there was great cause graunted and haue penned downe the same so neare as I can call to my memory the manner of my speche The order and disposition I haue exactly obserued and not omitted any note or authoritie of scripture by me then alledged And as it is vnpossible for him that penneth not his Sermons to set them downe euen so and with the selfe same words in all places as he spake them So to all my possibilitie haue I performed as neare as may be my order and speech And some thing haue I added in some place which want of tyme trained me from at that present And if any lesse ye nowe lyke then when you herde the same consider then the difference betwixt reading preaching the selfe same truth and matter Gods grace did thē assist the preachers spirit voice gesture and disposition likewise your hartes by his spirite were made to hunger this holy bread And now you haue the liuing wordes but seuered from the lyuely voyce which neuer can bring like profit to the godly hartes vnles greate thirste of the matter cause the resemblaunce of the maner howe to stande as freshe before your eyes The Lord graūt it to profit as much as my good will is then shall my small labour be fully recompensed I haue ioyned here to the forme of prayer which I gaue to your worship good Sir William at Holme Patricke in Irelande very good for all such as passe the seas as our selues haue tasted by good proofe the comforts receiued in our late ariual the lord be praised therefore Take the small gyft with the geuer all yours as he may in the Lorde to whome vvith dayly thanks for your great curtesie to me in Irelande I in my prayers commende you the rest vnfainedly Ian. 3. 1575. Your worships in the Lord Anthony Anderson The Lord is my sheperd therfore shall I want nothing He maketh me to rest in greene pasture c. RIght worshipfull and dearely beloued brethren it hath from auncient dayes bene receaued that in the first of the newe yeare eache friende doth salute his other with some token of friendship and therwith wisheth to such his friende all helth good prosperitie in god Which cyuill custome in Newyeares gyfts I do allowe in ciuill sort and hauing so many freinds here assembled haue purposed to benefite you all at once and with suche a speciall gift as of euery of you the same being worthely receaued I shall be deemed to haue satisfied my office belōging my boūden amitie to you all The gift I exhibit is a portion of Gods heauenly treasure fully sufficient from this first day of the yeare to enriche you aboue measure in Christ so that you vse the same wyth the spirituall instrument of faithfull and obedient practise continually in your hartes And this treasure forth of the Psalmists treasury I haue receaued and by the same spirit deliuer it to you in the Lord whose grace the Lorde vouchsafe to be oures in this holy actiō for his Christes sake The treasure it selfe is the .23 Psalme of the Prophet Dauid the which Psalme was made by that holy king after the receipt of his kingdome and Crowne wherto he confesseth God to be his onely helpe and promiseth to him selfe by the former receyued benefites an absolute warrant of Gods heauenly prouidence in his succeding Regiment The words are thus The Lord is my sheperd therfore shall I want nothing He maketh me to rest in greene pasture and leadeth me by the still waters And so forth to the ende of the Psalme I purpose hauing thus by prayer called vpō god to giue you the Psal by verses and of euery of them such comfortable lessons as the Lorde in mercy shall gyue me to vtter vnto your Christian hartes and with as much breuitie as may be because of the extreme cold that so we may more speedely approche the Lordes holy Table to receiue his heauenly mysteries The Lord is my sheperd c. The prophet calleth his God a shepherd because of his prouident care ouer him one of his chosen lambes which word sheperd importeth an office of continual feeding of dayly care of feruēt loue to the flocke vnder his charge of watching guiding and defending to the best safety of his sheepe All which the noble Dauid by the spirite of Gods instructiū knoweth to be in the Lord his our god therfore he giueth his maiestie this most apt tytle The Lord is my sheperd Dauid the prophet vseth the phrase which God by his holy spirite giueth to him his other Prophets in calling the Lord a sheperd as thus Thou diddest lead thy people lyke sheepe by the hand of Moses and Aaron Againe O thou sheperd of Israell herken which leadest Ioseph lyke a sheepe And when God will by his Prophet foretell in what sorte he will visite his people he promiseth his visiting Christ by this name saying He shall feede his flocke lyke a sheperde he shall gather the lambes with his arme and cary them in his bosome and shall guide them with young Lykewise in the Prophet Iere. 23.4 Ezec. 34.10.12 This sheperd Christ is Dauids sheperd and lord The Lord said vnto my Lord sit thou on my right hand vntil I make thine enemies thy footestole In which place Dauid calleth Christ his lord which is to hsm to all the chosen children of god the appointed sheperd of their soules as Christ him selfe doth witnes saying J am the good sheperd the good sheperde giueth his lyfe for his sheepe And Peter in his first epistle thus Ye were as sheepe going astray but ye are returned now vnto the sheperd and byshop of your soules In a good sheperd are to be required these things all which are most