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A09659	A godlie exposition vpon certeine chapters of Nehemiah, written by that worthie byshop and faithfull pastor of the Church of Durham Master James Pilkington. And now newly published. In the latter end, because the author could not finish that treatise of oppression which he had begonne, there is added that for a supplie, which of late was published by Robert Some, D. in Diuinitie	Pilkington, James, 1520?-1576.; Foxe, John, 1516-1587.; Some, Robert, 1542-1609. Godlie treatise of the church. In the ende .. a treatise against oppression.	1585 (1585)	STC 19929; ESTC S114273	162,441	172

Moses and Aaron Gods true ministers Moses committing the reuenge of it to the Lord warned the people to depart from their companie lest they perished with them by that straunge death and streight waies the earth opened swallowed vp them their goods and tents where they 〈◊〉 quicke into hell Nay weomen were not spared for Marie Moses sister was smitten with a leprosie for railing on Moses her brother Gods liefetenant ouer them As the magistrate therefore both with word and sword must defend Gods cause his Religion temple people ministers and doctrine so must the preacher and those that be learned with their paine praier preaching and all other meanes that they can yea if our goods or liues were required for the defence of it no state of man ought to refuse it For this end are we borne and liue to glorifie our God and set forth his praise for this purpose are all things giuen vs and therefore must not be spared but spent and bestowed when his glorie requireth For this cause Esaias the Prophet gaue his bodie to be sawen in sunder with a sawe of yron For this cause Ieremio was cast into a dungeon of Mire and filth Daniel into the Lions denne Saint Paul pleadeth his cause oft in chaines at Ierusalem at Rome afore Festus Felix and Agrippa and our Lord and master Christ Iesus afore Annas Caiphas Pilate and Herod Iohn Baptist lost this head for this quarrel no good man wil thinke any thing to deere to spend in Christ his masters cause For this cause Tertullian Ireneus Iustinus Athanasius Chrisostons Nazianzenus haue written great bookes against the heathens which railed on our Religion What infinite number of Martirs haue stoode stoutly and giuen their liues in the same quarell he that hath seene anie learning can better tell where to begin then where to make an end of reckoning the number is so infinit and our late daies haue giuen sufficient proofe there of vnder that bloody butcher Bonner that the most ignoraunt yf he will open his eares and eies might heare and see great plentie But alas the fierie fagots of those daies were not so greeuous then as the slandrous tongues be now in our daies Nebuchadnezzer made a law that if anie did blaspheme the God of Sidrach Misach and Abednego he should be slaine and his house made a dunghill Moses made a lawe that euerie blasphemer should be stoned to death Seeing God and Princes haue made such straight lawes against such lewd railers good Rulers should see some correction done and not with silence to suffer ill men to talke their pleasure on Gods citie Religion ministerie While others possibly made courtesie to speake and aunswere these busie braggers and quarrelers Nehemiah steppeth forth boldely defendeth this cause stoutly answereth their false accusation truelie incourageth the people manfullie to goe forward with their worke despiseth their brags telleth them plainly that they haue no parte nor right nor are worthie to be remembred in Ierusalem The effect of Nehemiahs answere was that the God of heauen had giuen them good successe hitherto in mouing the harts of king Cirus Darius first to the building of the temple now of Artaxerxes to restore the citie they were his seruants worshiped him end he stirred them vp to this worke for of them selues they were not able to do such things They serued no Idoles nor false gods they needed not to be ashamed of their master the God of heauen was their Lord and they his people he was their master and they his seruants he their King and they his subiects they would goe forward with their worke they must haue a Citie to dwell in to serue their God who would defend them in this their well doing these men had no authoritie to stoppe or forbid them to worke they had nothing a do in Ierusalem nor any authoritie they would not obey them but with all diligence applie this worke vntill it be finished The Apostles when they were forbidden preached and would not obey but said they must obey God that bad them Thus must all they that take Gods worke in hand confesse it to come from God and that he blesseth their doings that all the praise may be his and that they of them-selues be weake vnable to doe such things without his special grace and assistance All good men in such enterprises will saie with Dauid Not vnto vs O Lord not vnto vs but vnto thy name giue all the glorie If these wicked men had had anie worldy shame or feare of God in them they would haue quaked trembled as the good men reioiced to haue God on their side to further them so they whē they heard the god of heauen named to be against them and that it was his doing they would haue forsaken their Idoles and haue furthered this building or at lest haue sitten still and not hindered it For who is able to withstand his will or hinder that he will haue forward The Deuils in hell quake and tremble at the naming and considering of Gods Maiestie but these wicked Imps not onelie now but sundrie times as appeereth hereafter in this booke most cruellie spitefullie and craftelie goe forward in their olde malice and by all meanes seeke the ouerthrow of this building So farre worse is a Deuil incarnate in an ill man then by him-selfe in his owne nature When the Deuill will worke anie great mischiefe he taketh commonlie one man or other Angel or creature to doe it by knowing that he shall doe it more easily that waie then if he should attempt it by himselfe Howe is euerie murther false witnesse whoredome robberic c committed but when the Deuill stirreth vp one man against another Let euerie good man therefore take heed vnto him-selfe how he yoaldeth vnto sinne For in that doing he maketh him-selfe a slaue to the Deuill and his instrument to worke by One Deuill will not offer that villany to another Diuell to make him his slaue but if he canne bring man vnto it there is his reioycing Take heede therefore O man In that they confesse them selues to be the seruants of the God of heauen it is as much to say as they wrought not for them-selues nor at their owne appointment nor for their owne profit they wrought for their masters cause and for his glorie Good seruants in al their doings will seeke their masters profit and praise not their owne they liue not for them-selues but al the profit of their doings returneth to their masters If they take any thing to them-selues more then their master giueth them they be theeues vnto him they doe him no true seruice Let all the builders of Gods house therefore whether they be rulers in the common wealth as Nehemiah was now or of the learned sort in the ministrie or els where not onely confesse in words that they be seruants to the God of heauen but most

afore him were buried in a place kept for that vse onelie And the Gospel teacheth that with the money which Iudas solde Christ our Lord for they bought the potters fielde to burie straungers in These places were sometimes within Cities some-times without as Iesus Christ our Master was buried in a garden without the citie Ierusalem and he met the poore widow of Naim at the gates of the Citie going farther to burie her sonne It was long after afore they vsed either Church or Church-yeards Like wise mourning for the dead would be bridled that it be not to much and seeme to grudge at Gods doings in taking our friends from vs. Dauid wept for his childe and praied whilest it was sick but after it was dead he wept no more Our sauiour Christ cast the minstrels and mourners both out of the dores when he raised vp the young woman in her fathers house By which we are taught that we should not daunce with minstrels for that is to barbarous against nature nor to be greeued with the death ofour friends nor desperatlie mourne with the heathen as though there were no life after this I would not haue you ignorant saith S. Paul of them that sleepe in death that ye mourne not as they that haue no hope to rise againe Sirach appointeth a reasonable time for reasonable mourning saying mourning for the dead is two or three dases and before he addeth or seauen daies at the most The cost that is made for the dead is rather as S. Aug. saith ful wel a comfort for the liuing then help for the dead For sure it is comfortable to all good folke to see our freind in his life-time to haue behaued him selfe so honestlie that his neighbours beare him so good will after his death that they will see him buried and it strengthneth our faith of the resurrection when the bodies are not cast away as beastes bodies be And although this generall doctrine of comelynes be most true comfortable yet many times the case falleth out so that manie a good man cannot enioy this kinde of burial In persecution many good martyrs haue bene deuoured of wylde beastes many torne in peeces hanged on gibbets manie burned their ashes cast into the water yet these good mē were nothing the worsse for wanting their graue For the kingdome of God standeth not in outward things but in true faith in God by Christ. For as it profiteth not an euil mā any thing at al to be solemnly buried so it hurteth not a good mā to want it in these cases if he cannot get it Euerie one shal receiue then as he hath done in his life not after his death nor his costlie burial We read of the rich glutton that he was buried no doubt costlie as all his life was gorgious but poore Lazarus gatt little cost at his death that could finde so little mercie in his life yet was the glutton in hell for al his pompe and poore Lazarus in Abrahams bosome in ioy But among all other foolishnes in Poperie I cannot but marueile at this that in their great solemne singing for the dead they would not vse but forbid Alleluyia to be songe If the Romish Church be the true Church and all well that they commaund why should the late Synagogue of Roome deface that which the best Bishoppes of Roome alowed of I erom writeth in his 30. Epistle called Epitaphium Fabiolae that at the buriall of that noble woman the people of Roome were gathered to the solemne funerall and there the Psalmes did sound aloud and Alleluyia rebounding with his Eccho on high did shake the gylded seelings of the Temple On one side a company of yong men on another side were old men which songe forth the prayses and deedes of that good woman And no marueile said he if men reioyce ofhir saluation of whose conuersion the Angels in heauen were glad The like is written in the 27. Epistle ad Eusto chium for her mother Paula In this I note the olde Church of Roome that at such solemne sunerals they sang Alleluyia on high as the Papists doe now on Easter day Then they praysed god for the dead for so Alleluya signifieth and now they pray god for the dead to get money with-all Then they reioyced of their saluation now they weepe for feare of the Popes purgatory Blessed are thoy that dio in the lord saith Saint Iohn Why then they goe not from paines here to miserie there Why should the new Romish Synagogue mislike that good ancient order the one of them must needs erre which manie thinke cannot be and specially in this our age There be other controuersies in these our dayes abroad which might haue beene verie well left vntouched if the quietnes of Gods Church had bene dutifullie sought as it ought to be As whither the ministers should burie the dead as the common order appointeth and whither burial-sermons are to be suffered and vsed c. This place giueth no great occasion to intreat of such matters and therefore I shall let them passe I loue not contention but doe earnestlie require euery one in his calling for Gods cause to seeke peace with all their might those that professe Iesus Christ I desire the Lord that they would ioyne with their Breethren in pulling downe the Romish Antechrist the common enemy of all Gods doctrine and Religion leauing such vnprofitable contentions which breede deuision And if they haue to many burial sermons in the citie God graunt vs some moe in the countrie Thus much haue I spoken by occasion of Nehemiahs mourning for the place of his fathers burial not for the losse of the houses Citie or walles or that he was troubled with such superstitious opinions of thinking any holynes in the place or that the dead folke weare any thing worsse in wanting their couering in the earth but that he was greeued to see the Citie which God chose him selfe to be worshiped in and those good men whose bones did rest there or had faithfullie serued the Lord in their life now to be giuen to heathen mens hands Gods Religion neglected the state of the common-wealth and good lawes ouerthrowne Gods enemies to triumph ouer them as though their god could not or would not restore them This shouldgreeue all Christians in all ages when they see the glory of the liuing God any waies blemished God graunt vs this zeale vnfeynedlie 4. And the King sayd After that the King vnderstood the cause of his sorowe and sadde countenance he both pitied the case and his mans heuie heart and God so mooued the King to fauour his sute that he asked him what he wonld haue When Nehemiah perceiued the kings good inclination towards him his sute afore he would declare his petition he turned him vnto the God of heauen praied him that he would so guide his tongue that he should speake nothing