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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06874	A sermon preached at Paules Crosse the 13. of Iune. 1602. By M. Francis Marburie; Sermon preached at Paules Crosse the 13. of June. 1602.	Marbury, Francis, d. 1611.	1602 (1602)	STC 17307; ESTC S105434	29,109	90

confession of the truth of it is not much more generall then the disauowing and reiecting of the practise For how manie are there which hold off and almost take a pride to be vnstayed in the matter of religion How manie which by pretence of disagreements in the Church cannot tell what to make of themselues The Papists they haue sought vp their gods againe which they had cast to the backes and to the moules they frequent Masse in corners and they behaue themselues so as the Familists in their assemblies and that company of them which are called Iesuites may more worthily bee called Adamites which were the first founders of the Familists For these Masse-monges watch Tammuz in the nights and these night-birds keepe little better then the feasts of Isis Osiris in this citie As for the rest if the name of Recusant should be taken strictly for euerie one that refuseth so to dwell in the tents of Shē as the Lord would take in good part the Recusants of this land are innumerable When we consider how long the Gospell hath continued amongst vs and compare it with the great heapes of people in this City which make no difference of the Sabboth day at all for cōscience sake we may truly cry out of a prodigious wickednes It can not be denyed but that there are now more sufficiēt preachers of Gods word amongst you then euer there were But the ignorance of the most that professe and the rudenesse of the troupes of those that scorne to professe is very offensiue and loathsome There are they say belonging to diuers seuerall paririshes many thousand people peraduenture more to some then the parish church can contayne though I know not the case yet I propound it to you And how do you thinke are a greate parte of this people occupied when they shoulde bee present at the hearing of the word I would demaund of the frowardest man in all this presence whether he do not thinke in his conscience that the greatest part of them are so frarre from being in the tents of Shem that they are in the tents of Cham. For I pray you tell me are not these drunken Tauernes and victualling houses these play-houses and brothell houses the tents of Cham where all the rest of their villanies are accomplished and made vp with the scoffing at Noah Assuredly dearely beloued if that which is called cōscience be any better thē a iest that which is called Gods word be any better then a stale these are damnable things to be done and therfore horrible things to bee suffred I confesse vnto you that my skil extendeth not duly to limit forth the blame of the rulers to lay it iustly where it is Vnfainedly I speake it I forbeare that particular course for no other cause but because I would not reproue sinne with sinne by speaking into a matter before I know it But well I am sure that if they which are charged with the reformotion of this abuse by the places which they sustaine did busie themselues therein more zealously then yet they do they should please God better then in anie thing els for the most part wherein they are forward They that come out of the world into the Church come out of a desert and they that come into the Church as most men are come in come into a desert are like sheep without a shepheard This great forrest of London is full of couert for wandring creatures and there are too manie priuiledges for sinners I beseech you heare me this one thing with patience and vouchsafe to weigh it well The Magistrates being annoyed with the disorders of loose and wicked persons which swarme about this citie do performe a laudable office indeede in reuising the orders of Bridewell and in vrging better execution of the good lawes which tend to a remedie But except the tents of Shem were surueyed likewise and the apparance there were better vrged it is to small purpose to endeuour this externall reformation For this one thing be sure of that these loose persons these disguised conycatchers haue informed themselues of their state what it would bee if they should change their course with that which the Magistrate would vrge to wit that it would be both more poore and more painfull And therefore they are resolued rather to venture the vttermost penaltie then to submit themselues to this change So that there is nothing that can effectually reclaime them but onely this to marshall them to the tents of Shem. For there they shall find allurements to quiet their minds in obedience They shall finde that they are not bidden to losse but that they shall better their state by the change For to dwell rightly in the tents of Shem is in some measure to dwell in heauen And I would the magistrates would duly consider how much they are beholding to the Ministers of the Gospell in this behalfe assuredly the Magistrates are vnthankfull if they vse them not respectiuely and kindly And I would the Ministers would likewise endeuour to bring hither their forces For so should they directly satisfie their owne duties in bringing men to Gods Church and consequently assist the Magistrate in the reformation of the common-wealth And as for the people themselues which are runne wild be they poore or rich I would they would consider what wrong they doe themselues with this out-lying what benefit it would be to them to come and dwell in these tents And it were to bee wished that some euen of those which resort to Paules Crosse and will not come at their owne Church and when they are here delude the law with walking and talking were better ordered for their resort hither is like the piller-prayers of manie which kneele downe only for fashion sake I say I would not onely the poore but also the rich offenders would obserue it of what qualitie soeuer For as Augustine saith Quisquis ille est qualiscunque ille est Aug. serm 181. de tempore Christianus non est qui in Christi Ecclesia non est Be what he may be he is no Christiā that is not in Christs Church though his head were of brasse Pardon my libertie of speech of these Libertines These Conycatchers and vagrant Caines which haue gotten a perpetuitie of haunting Tauernes and infamous house without difference of dayes and without respect of the time either of prayer or preaching are no better then the diuels rogues But if they would come to Shems tents their priu●ledges should be great For first Ephes 2 12. wheras they are now a sort of maisterlesse hounds and Atheists in the world as S. Paul saith they should be receiued into the seruice of God and so come vnder his tuition which would bee a rowling away of their shame for this non apparance is a shamefull crime of irkesome reproch Secondly by being in checke-roll in his tents they should be capable of the benefite of his seruants to