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A03949	Bromelion A discourse of the most substantial points of diuinitie, handled by diuers common places: vvith great studie, sinceritie, and perspicuitie. Whose titles you haue in the next page following.	S. I., fl. 1595.; Bèze, Théodore de, 1519-1605. Summa totius Christianismi. English.	1595 (1595)	STC 14057; ESTC S107410	412,250	588

one sort the other thinke that they néede no repentance yea they thinke that heauen is their due and that they haue deserued it and thinke that they shall haue greate wronge if they be put beside it Are the eldest therefore alwaies heires or do not the youngest sometimes take place Doubtlesse the yongest are often heires and the last are accepted as first I meane sinners are made heires such in whome is repentance and faith for whome it might be thought that there is no roome nor any place kept and reserued for them in heauen But howe falleth it out that séeing God hath an heire of his glorious inheritaunce Iesus Christ the sonne of God of whome he pronounceth This is my welbeloued sonne in whom I am well pleased how falleth it out that their should be more heires and that we should be heires Surely as God amongst all creatures made most account of mankind and séeing that al were lost by iust desert yet in mercy it pleased him to make some his children and for the further setting foorth of his glory to make them also heires In the nature of man he had no children because all were gone astray all had corrupted their waies and were strangers from the Common-wealth of Israel Yet as his wisdome was and is most infinit so the way to his mercy was euident to him although hid from the world and impossible to flesh blood which sat in darknesse and in the shadow of death For God so loued the world that he hath giuen his only begotten sonne that whosoeuer beléeueth in him should not perish but haue euerlasting life And God sent not his sonne into the world that he should condemne the world but that the world through him might be saued So it falleth out with vs after the custome of men that yoonger brethren come not to inheritance without the death and decease of the elder Neither in any respect worldly consideratiō may we know how we come to our inheiritāce as by the comparison of the death of the elder brother which doth fitly shew vnto vs how by what meanes we are made heires Who is it among the sonnes of men that would willingly die that his brethren might enter into his inheritance nay is it not their chiefe desire that their daies may be prolonged that they may enioy their treasures and pleasures and liue in their possessions Which the wise man noteth in these words O death how bitter is the remembrance of thee to a man that liueth at rest in his possessions vnto the man that hath nothing to vexe him and that hath prosperitie in all things yea vnto him that is yet able to receiue meate Who is it not that saith vnto his soule as the rich man in the Gospell Soule thou hast much good laide vp for many yeares take thy rest Who would leaue this life if he might kéepe especially enioying possessions and being an heire But beholde the liberallitie and bountifulnesse the wonderfull charitie and great good will of our elder brother who desireth yea and reioyceth to haue vs to be fellowe heires with him and rather then his life should bee anie hinderaunce to our inheritaunce hée is content to sheade his dearest blood and to loose his life for our good euen in the floure of his age and in his best yeares hée gaue himselfe to death to make vs heires This is our elder brother who disdaineth not to call vs brethren For he that sanctifieth and they that are sanctified are all one Wherefore hée is not ashamed saieth the Apostle Hebr. 2. 11. to call them brethren How great is our dignitie in that we haue Christ to be our brother who after he had suffered his passion and rose the third day said vnto the women vnto whome hee appeared and vnto whome it pleased him to shewe himselfe Goe saith he and tell my brethren Altogither contrary to the course of the world for the rich are so farre from calling the poore their brethren that they disdaine them and so farre from giuing them inheritance with their children that they cannot vouchsafe they should kéepe them company Well with God there is no respect of persons and the poore are as dear to him as the rich nay oftentimes he hath greater care for them and prouideth for them a greater and larger inheritance if not in this world yet in another A wealthie man that hath great landes and possessions if he haue but one sonne is neuer awhit displeased neither doth he séeke after more to adopt them and to make them partners with his sonne But rather reioyceth in his mind that his sonne shall not in time to come be constrained to diuide the inheritaunce with his brethren Whereby the loue of god aboundeth towardes vs who hauing one beloued sonne would yet haue more to beare him company and more on whome he might bestowe this royaltie as to make them heires with his sonne Setting forth the riches of his grace as also how much we are bound vnto him making vs of sinners citizens of heauen and heires with his beloued This heauenly inheritance is neuer awhit diminished although many thousands be partakers as we reade in the Reuelation of such and such a Tribe were sealed twelue thousand and besides these loe a great multitude which no man can number of all nations people and tongues but rather it appeareth in greater glorie whereas this earthly inheritance being parted and diuided would bréed strife and impouerishment and it so falleth out in the world that diuision is with hatred Our gréedie mindes being such that they runne all on this point All or none But in the heauenly inheritance we shall reioyce one at anothers preferment neither shall we grudge or thinke too much that which other haue And as we are willed In giuing honor go one before another so in this inheritance we shal be glad that other also are heires and we shal be readie willing to giue eueryone his place For all shal be satisfied and the best shal be preferred and placed some at the right hand and some at the left hand in the kingdome of the father for whom it is reserued And it was promised vnto Iosua who was made the eldest of all gods children because it pleased god to promote him vnto the highest honour and place of credit account and dignity that he should diuide the inheritance among the people Iosh 1. 6. and among his brethren so to comfort his disciples and in them all the rest of the godly Christ our elder brother he saith Let not your harts be troubled what misery soeuer fall out vnto you in this world Ye beleeue in God beleeue also in me For in my fathers house are many dwelling places Iohn 14. 1. If it were not so I would haue told you I go to prepare a place for you and euery one of you that all may bee heires and that euerie one may receiue his inheritance Which is

his Isaac youth and to perish in the sloure of his age tried also with famine in a straunge land This thought of minde grieued him being among strangers whose dispesition he knewe not but shrewdly did suspect what would fall out It may be saith he to his wife I shall die for thée because some other would possesse thy beauty So he perswaded her to call him brother His last and no doubt not the least sorrowe was to sée his desire preuented For he thought to poure aboundance of blessings on his eldest sonne Esau but God turned it otherwise What passions and seas of sorrowe possessed his hart to heare his sonne Esau whome he made so great account of to cry out in bitter teares and that out of measure Insomuch that betwixt feare and anger his mind was sore vexed For he was stricken with a maru●lious great feare and his anger enforced him to say who and where is he And after long absence when Iacob came to sée his father we reade not of any comfortable words that his father gaue him Yet was this Iacob for all his fathers Iacob blessing a patterne of sorrowe Iobe and Iacob all one The very first time of his sorrowe two mightie distresses the hazard of his fathers curse and the feare of death by his brother Esaus sword Next he that should be heire of so great possessions and blessings must vnder go a seruile life for seuen yeares and for seuen watching night and day in heate and cold a faithfull seruant and yet mistrusted to be false he that should haue béene most plentifully rewarded groind and grudged at and pursued with hatred His heart and cheefest ioy for whome he serued fourtéene yeares taken away in bitter sorrow of child-birth His sorrowe increased with w●●ull griefe to sée his eldest sonne Reubin to commit incest his daughter Dina to be de●loured by a stranger Two other of his sonnes imbruing their hands with murther and thereby putting him in feare of his life Pincht with famine brought into a strange country where his posterity should liue in sorrowe And if his youngest sonne Beniamin be taken from him then do they bring his heare head with sorrow to the graue As though he had begunne and ended his life in sorrowe Ioseph put Ioseph in feare of his life among his owne brethren solde vnto merchants and as it were vtterly bannished from the presence of his father and all his kindred falsly accused and slaundered cast out of fauour and throwne into prison in a strange country wher was no hope of help to be looked for Moses in his youth like to be cast away and drowned like Moses to be put to death by withstanding the mighty king Pharao hated of his owne people who being sent for their deliuerance thought him to be the cause of their oppression whom they grudged against saying Why hast thou brought vs into the wildernesse to slay vs enuies reprochfully vsed especially of Core Dathan and Abiram the princes of the people My penne would faile mée and I should be too tedious vnto you if I should write this matter to the full And what should I more say for the time will not serue mée to tell of Dauid and all his troubles being worst thought on Dauid of whome he best deserued his guiltlesse blood sought for of him whose honour and life he had preserued readie to be cast out of his throne by him whome he could haue vouchsafed his throne his rebellious sonne Absolon and for whom he wept bitterly Murther and incest among his owne children Oh sorrows more then tragicall Iobs sorrowes Iob. are knowne to euerie one losse of goods the vntimely death of his children greuous sores on his body from top to toe the heauie temptation of his wife the strangenesse of his familiars enmitie of his friends Yea his sorrow was so great that he cursed the day of his birth Michaiah Ieremiah Daniel and all the prophets examples of sorrow to Prophets Christ succéeding ages Our sauior Christ fainting and as it were ouercome of sorrowe his sorrowes being surpassing great Apostles and more then straunge and wonderfull The Apostles appointed hereeunto especially the Apostle S. Paule who may stand for all the rest and in whome you may perceiue all the sorrowes that might befall them As is worthely set downe 2. Cor. 11. 23. In stripes aboue measure in Paul prison plentiously in death oft once stoned and left for dead night and day in the déepe sea and almost cast away by shipwracke In perils of waters in perils of robbers in perils of mine owne nation in perils among the Gentiles in perils in the cittie in perils in the wildernesse in perils among false brethren In wearinesse and painfulnesse in watching often in hunger and thirst in fastings often in cold and in nakednesse A learned man writing of the sorrowes of the godly in this worlde compareth them vnto a shippe tossed on the sea hauing alwaies weather and winde against them Our life is but short and in this shortnesse good Lord how many chaunges how many stormes and how many tempests Abel Abraham Isaac Iacob Ioseph the Israelites chasticed in the wildernesse of the Lord and in continuall stormes warre and battaile before they could be placed in the land of Canaan And when they were come thither and long had dwelt there in the end their temple was spoiled their people murthered their cities rased and they led captiues into straunge countries Let euery one looke into himselfe and behold what cause of sorrow our own rebellious and disordered desires which neuer suffer vs to enioy any long rest of mind which bring vs sometimes more sorrow thē we can put off moue vs vnto Some are troubled with one vnquietnesse some with an other Some cannot rest for cares of the world som swel with pride and come to their fall some boile in rancer consume themselues some fry in lust and end their daies in sorowful diseases being spectacles of sorow some carried away headlong with anger and sléepe goeth from their eies to thinke howe they may bee reuenged Such procure sorrowe to themselues and néede no sorrowe to be laide vpon them The daies of this world to the godly are nothing else in a manner but dismall daies and sorrowfull times yea the estate of all in this world is but sorrowfull Either we are hated of the world or else which is worse of God assaulted of Sathan subiect to the manifold diseases both of body and soule the one miserable the other most daungerous and intollerable Many in number and diuers in nature are the sorrowes that fall out in the world Some are afflicted by exile and banishment some by captiuitie and imprisonment some by famine and nakednesse some by perill persecution some by slander and reproachfull contumely some by rackings tearing in péeces some by slaughter sword some by fire and fagot some by