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church_n	hear_v	let_v	publican_n	3,418	5	11.3775	5	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15109	A sermon preached at Paules Crosse the 17. of Nouember An. 1589 Inioyfull remembrance and thanksgiuing vnto God, for the peaceable yeres of her maiesties most gratious raigne ouer vs, now 32. By Thomas White professor in Diuinitie.	White, Thomas, ca. 1550-1624.	1589 (1589)	STC 25407; ESTC S102142	24,989	73

amated and amazed in soul like poore soules they crie out What shall we doe Thirdly For the manner how they do propose it They are nowe in iest either to please themselues or to displease other as the Athenians handled Paul in mocking him Actes 17. Neither speake they so gloriouslie as the foolish young man doth Mat. 19. Maister what shall I do for eternal life They haue no great hope of heauen yet their case is rather how to auoide hell whereof they are afraide Much lesse speake they malitiously for to intangle Iohn as the Pharises and others often delt with Christ they are safe inough from intangling Iohn themselues tumbling in Iohns nette Beeing at a full point and driuen to the stand and albeit at the first remoue they come not so far as those which heard Peter preach in the 2 of the Acts where three thousand had their harts wounded cry Men and brethren what shallw doe who being instructed beleeued and baptized were added to the Church yet they are in the way a light is risen vnto them and they begin to grope and feele after it As yet they seeme somewhat to sauor of themselues for the Multitude giuen alwaies to extreames either to madnes or feare say VVhat shall we doe then The Publicans accustomed to flatter an vsual thing in Officers which gain more by licking than by byting they speake faire Maister VVhat shall we doe The Souldiers hoat and rough fellowes speake after their fashion bluntly And what shall wee doe The Multitude is called a Beast with many heads if euer it might be saide of any Multitude surly it might be said by right of the generatioÌ„ of the Iews of that same seede which is saide to bee innumerable for Multitude Gen. 16. 10. You may haue a patterne of this Multitude in the desert heere by them which were before in the wildernes with Moses where forty yeares long they did nothing else but grieue the Lord and his seruant Moses or if they shal be thought better afterwards when they were in Canaan not one of the Prophets will say so Isay saith they are a people whose necke is Iron and their browe brasse Isay 48. 4. And that is more then Moses cals theÌ„ out of Gods owne mouth a people of a stiffe necke Exo. 32. But peraduenture being taught the law so long and by so many Prophets it is otherwise with them now Read the holy story and by them measure these I confesse that of the two they were better then their Rulers and yet they runne ahead following the streame despising both Iohn and Christ as Christ himselfe vpbraideth them vnderneath a parable of Children sitting in the market place and playing to their fellowes who would neither mourne nor be merry for ought that they coulde do Mat. 11. They mocked and more then mocked Christ when they assisted Iudas the Traitor to take him and brought him before Pilate following the cause with wonderfull importunity crying Crucifie him Crucifie him neuer ceasing vntill the the only sonne of God were slaughtred And with what successe Christ laboured among them with all his miracles and mercies and whole three yeares preaching the Church gathered of 120. soules or there abouts doth witnes Act. 1. 15. And doth note the Multitude to be both pestilent and peruerse And surely the religion and life of these here coulde not be better then theirs there where all things were so corrupted as they were yet of this Multitude some were woonne vnto the Gospell Then came the Publicanes men worse then the Multitude for you may iudge of their honestie when you shal alwaies see them fellowed with Harlots in the scriptures so that a man of good name and fame would not willingly be seene with them and it was obiected vnto Christ as a falt when at the conuersion of Mathew the Publicane hee did sit in his house and eat with them it was saide that hee was a friend to Publicanes and harlots Matth. 9. 11. They were not Iewes these but officers for Caesar among the Iewes They tooke the tribute If it please you to see a proud Painter that cannot see himselfe and yet can draw other mens faces true inough read yee the 18. of Luke where a Pharise standeth praying in the Temple and praising God for that hee was not like to other men as an Extortioner vniust or an adulterer and pointing to the poore Publicane painteth him out thus nor as this Publicane where hee maketh him worse then the former which needed not neither did the Pharise so much brande the Publicane there as Christ himselfe which proposed that parable to the Pharisees rather to shew theÌ„ their shame then to note the others sinne But in the 18. of Mathew where he sets an order to reconcile men being out would haue a man to deale priuately with his brother and to tell him of his fault alone and if hee will not heare thee then to take with thee one or two witnesses and if he will not heare thee yet then to complaine to the Church but if hee will not heare the Church let him be vnto thee as an Heathen a Publican that is worse than a Pagan So that it appeareth there cannot be a worse man then a Publicane which will do wrong wil heare no man nor the Church that is neither God nor men and yet such are caught here by the word Thirdlie come the Souldiers and if it be possible thrise worse then the former too not for their calling but for their condition And if you will trie these by their fellowes also which liued after theÌ„ and were better taught and yet were the worst meÌ„ aliue you may safely conclude that these could not be much better for meÌ„ exercised in blood without the great grace of God doe growe barbarous and beastlie Who platted the crowne of thornes and set it on the heade of Christ Who stript him out of his cloathes and roabed him in derision but after robbed him in earnest of all his cloathes so speaketh Iohn 19. 24. The souldiers did these thinges indeede Who so vilde as to mocke him in all the anguishes of his soule when he hanged the most miserable one that euer was striuing betweene life and death heauen and hell for the Redemption of the worlde and then to giue him Vineger and Gall for his last draught Who so bolde to take a speare and to thrust it into his side till bloud and water followed after Who so impudent for monie to lie and say that his bodie was stolne by his Disciples out of the graue to blind the world from seeing the Sonne rising which was as apparant to them that saw him as the Sunne shining Read yee consider ye and wonder for souldiers are ouercome here not with weapons or wounds but with words onely Where the vnspeakable force of the word appeareth that albeit the multitude hated the Publicanes and the Publicanes the multitude and

Sermon Preached at Paules Crosse the 17. of Nouember An. 1589. In ioyfull remembrance and thanksgiuing vnto God for the peaceable yeres of her Maiesties most gratious Raigne ouer vs now 32. By Thomas White professor in Diuinitie Printed by Robert Robinson and Thomas Newman 1589. To the reader I Coulde not Christian Reader deny so many requests reasoÌ„s of my friends for the printing of this poore Coppie though they were onely moued by affection therevnto yet because the matter is so needfull for our age and world wherevnto this little treatise tendeth as to vnitie and loue both in Church and coÌ„mon weale to hartie thanksgiuing and praier vnto God for the blessed raigne of our most Noble and Christian Queene ELIZABETH I was and am the more willing to yeld vnto their desires herein to make it common for the benefite of our couÌ„trie not regarding my selfe so much as to vse anie addition or alteration but simplie to send it foorth as it was deliuered to the people Praying God to giue it that successe in the hearts of the Readers printed as it seemed to haue in the mindes of the hearers preached and so it shalbe double printed which the Lord graunt to whom I do euer coÌ„mend thee in Christ. Luke 3. 10 Then the people asked him saying what shall wee doe then 11 And he answered and said vnto them Hee that hath two Coates let him part with him that hath none And he that hath meate let him doe likewise 12 Then came there Publicanes also to be baptized and saide vnto him Maister what shall wee do 13 And he said vnto them Require no more then that which is appointed vnto you 14 The Souldiers likewise demanded of him saying And what shall wee doe And he said vnto them Doe violence to no man neither accuse anie falselie and bee content with your wages THis text Right Honorable and beloued in the Lorde maie be diuided into two partes A Question and an Answere for I doe not take it to be anie Dialogue or discourse but a plaine Question moued by the Iewes to Iohn the Baptist in the wildernes of Iudea by the waters of Iordan From the building of the second Temple vntill now they lacked Prophets and well worthie they were to bee without them for they had killed all that were sent vnto them as Steuen challengeth them Acts 7. 52. Which of the Prophets haue not your Fathers slaine Nowe Iohn comming and preaching according to the Prophecies that went before of him not after the old and ordinary manner of the Prophets but crying Repent for the kingdome of God is at hand and Baptizing in the wildernes the common people as their maner is to follow new things and to see a Prophet hauing seen none a long time before they run out of all places and come vnto him and not the people only but the Pharises the Saduces also Mat. 3. 7. Now wheÌ„ Iohn saw the Pharises the Hypocrites of the world come to his Baptisme he mends his stile and welcomes them as Hypocrites shoulde be welcommed with O Generation of Vipers c. And so performed one part of his office which was to cast downe mountains But because the way was not yet plaine for the Lord except he filled the valleys also and the valleys trembled nowe as it were with an earthquake from the hils for the common people beeing smitten through with feare for the words which he spake to the Pharises they come and say what shall wee doe then And hee answereth them mildely as it followeth in the Text comming to a lower kaie And this was their Question The reprehention of the Pharises Now if this place seeme to any man vnmeete for our cause and occasion this day which is to reioice and not to heare reproofe who altogether are or ought to be in thankesgiuing for benefites before the Lorde as wee all and euerie one haue infinite cause Surely he thinketh no other thing then I my self sometimes did thinke but when I doe remember the world wherein we liue and the prouerbe It is good to be merrie and wise and call to minde that the Prophet where hee willeth Kinges to serue the Lorde in feare hee woulde haue them to Reioice with trembling also Psal. 2. I durst not sunder that which hee had ioined so together Therefore that wee might haue a better sight of our selues and a more full sence of him with whom this day wee haue to doe I thought I coulde not better giue you exhortation to thankesgiuing then ioined with some precepts of those dueties which doe most of all expresse the same that neither I might runne nor you reioice in vaine and that the wise man might not reioice in his wisedome nor the rich man in his riches nor the strong man in his strength but that he that reioiceth might reioice in the Lord as it is in Iere. 9. 23. And then I say not onely with the Apostle 1. Thess. 5. Reioice alwaies But as he speaketh in the 4. Phil. 4. Reioice alwaies and againe I saie Reioice and if there were such neede I woulde sing with the Prophet in the 118. Psalme This is the daie which the Lord hath made Come let vs reioice and bee glad in it or I would daunce with him before the Arke or doe any thing that might prouoke you to ioy But our God requireth not such outwarde things now let vs therefore offer him our soules and to giue the Prince this day both Grace and Glorie as shee well deserueth at our hands in the name of God let euery good man striue and straine himselfe so that he bee found thankefull vnto God In the Question brieflie you may note these thinges First who moued it Secondly what is the matter moued Thirdly the manner how they doe propose it Where the force of the worde appeareth at large Likewise if you please you may obserue in the Answere 1. Who made it 2. How hee giueth it 3. What it is in substance Where the scope and purpose of this place doth shewe it selfe vnto you within the compasse wherof are rainged many dueties of the Minister and the Multitude of the Prince and of his Officers of the Captaine and his Souldiers that is of both states of the church CoÌ„mon-wealth and in both conditions of Peace and Warre For the first who they were that came vnto Iohn generally they were the Iews but more specially they are said to be of the Multitude of the Publicanes of the Souldiers that is some of no Vocation as the Multitude Some of publike calling as the Publicanes And some as it were between both as the Souldiers Mathew recordeth that there were some of the Rulers there also but belike they were too wise to bee lured so soone Luke reporteth nothing of them here Secondly what woulde they haue they seeme to aske somewhat but they cannot tell what For beeing troubled in minde and ouercome as it were

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