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A11824	A secular sermon concerning the doctrine of the Gospell by the goodnes and power of God restored in the fifteenth age from the birth of our Lord Iesus Christ. Made by the reuerend and worthy precher Mr. Abraham Scultetus, in the High-dutch tongue. After by another translated into Latin, and now out of Latin into English	Scultetus, Abraham, 1566-1624.	1618 (1618)	STC 22124; ESTC S106166	22,063	46

Christs Disciples into diuers parts of the world And the same course hath God obserued euery wherein our time In the yeare 1522 that noble Gentleman Frauncis Sickingen had gathered so many worthy men into his Castle of Landscale as might seeme to haue beene sufficient to haue furnished some Vniuersitie and famous Schoole For at one and the same time hee had with him Iohn Oecolampadius Martin Bucer Iohn Schwebelius Iaspar Aquila Now no long time after when he was besieged by certaine Princes he left it to the pleasure of those Diuines to goe for their best safety and securitie where euery one of them would By which occasion of that siege of their dispersion Iohn Schwebelius going to the Count-Palatine Lewes Duke of Bi●ont he laid there the first stone of the Euangelicall reformation Martin Bucer went to Strawsborowe which with what fruit and benifit of the Church he did it is manifest by the common voice and testimonie of all Germanie Iohn Oecolampadius tooke his iorney to Basile to which Citie he so made knowen and apparent his learning and pietie that he was invited and desired with most earnest request to take paines to read and preach vnto them Wherevnto after that he had yeelded in the space of a few yeares he so aduanced the cause of Religion that the said Citie greatly reioyced at the sight of a full reformation procured by him amongst them Iasper Aquila he went to Thuringia and there furthered the edification of the Church of Christ with great zeale and happy successe A like occasion almost about the same time fel out at Treptqaine a place in Pomerland which was this There florished a certaine Colledge that was famous by the learning of certaine men of which Colledge Iohn Bugenhagius was the Rector Now it fell out that Luthers booke of the Babylonicall captiuitie being sent from Lipsia were deliuered there to Bugenhagius to be read ouer who hauing slightly looked vpon it is reported to haue said to his fellowes bretheren the Sun did neuer see a greater Heriticke then Luther But after a few dayes looking more diligently and attentiuely into the said booke he chaunged his opinion and testimony of him openly before the same bretheren and said that all the world had bin drow●ed hitherto in most palpable errours Which he a●terwards set so clearely before them as that they all consented in iudgement with him Which after that the Bishop of Camintum came to the knowledge of by and by as the manner is he began fiercely to persecute them Wherefore they began all to fly and prouide for the safety of their life And Bugenhagius going to Wittenberg tooke an Ecclesiasticall charge and afterwards reformed the Churches of Hanborow and Lubeck and of all the Kingdome of Denmarke Andrew Cnophius went into Leif land and there brought the Cittie of Riga to acknowledge and to receaue the truth of the Gospell which at the beginning brake out into so great flames that straightwaies Darbetum and Reualia came thither as it were from the brightnesse of it to kindle their light The rest of them flying from Treptum bestowed themselues abroad in the towne of Pomerland and handled the cause of the Gospell so happily with so great successe as that by the authoritie and commaundement of Barnim and Philip Dukes of Pomerania the states of the land being assembled together in that towne by common councell and decree Popish abuses were banished out of all Pomerland Now let vs view France and namely Meaux in France there Bishop Bricomet with great earnestnes vndertooke to maintaine the cause of the Gospell And hauing called together thether very many learned men and amongst them Iohn Faber Stapulensis a man of eminent and great name he commanded them publickely to preach the true doctrine of the Gospell But after when the Bishop being terrified and put in feare fell away from true religion all the ministers also were compelled to forsake the countrye whereof some went into the Kingdome of Nauarre and some to Paris and althougth priuately and in secret places they instruct the people by their Sermons Many of them also in the Citie of Metz whither they had fled began the building of that goodly Church which euen to this day doth continue and flourishe Others also wēt to other places of that Kingdome where they made Christ and the doctrine of the Gospell more famous And is there any man who herein may not acknowledge admire and publish the wisedome of God especially considering that he then sheweth forth his mightie power for the helpe and aduancement of his Church when we thinke it most of all abandoned and forsaken The like thing hapned also in Italy which for the profession of the Gospell banished many godly persons from Naples Luca Pisa and Locarne All which persecutions the wisedome of God directed to that ende that by the seruice of the same men which had beene banished from these places the building vp of the Churches in other countries might be excellently raised vp The same we know to haue beene done at Geneva Zarick London in England and in other places In like maner the small Caldian warre being finished the brethreen and professors which were driuen out of Bohemia and Morauia came to Pole-land where they who had beene refused by King Sigismond found a very gratious patron of Albert Duke of Borussia Yet some of these turning backe againe into Polonia were receiued by diuers noble men in Pole-land And what came of their returne In the space of eight yeares there was so much effected by their industry and labour as that Peter Vergerius hauing ben sometimes Bishop of Iustinopolis and the Popes legate in Germany by the writings of our men which hee had vndertaken to confute was brought to the acknowledging of the truth euen he confessed that hee found in Pole-land forty Churches established in good order by those brethren which they neuer thought would come to passe who had banished them with so great cruelt●e Moreouer it cannot be denied but that the persecution in the Low-countries furnished the dominion of the Palatine Elector with many teachers and Preachers of the word adorned with all kinde of good learning and knowledge whose godly labours did greatly aduance the worke of reformation begun by Frederick the third Elector The like also fell out in this countrey For when as after the blessed decease of that most worthy pious and vertuous Prince some alteration in Religion had driuen and dispersed Ministers of the word into other places by these ministers in like manner the doctrine of the truth was propagated and spread into other places Furthermore by what meanes thinke we that the most famous Dukedome of Wirtenberg was brought to the acknowledging of the Gospell was it not when the Duke Huldrick himselfe was dispossessed and cast out of his Dukedome for whereas hee liued priuately with Phillip the Landgraue of Hassia and there heard the teachers of the sincere Religion preaching had