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A68093	The practise of preaching, otherwise called the Pathway to the pulpet conteyning an excellent method how to frame diuine sermons, & to interpret the holy Scriptures according to the capacitie of the vulgar people. First written in Latin by the learned pastor of Christes Church, D. Andreas Hyperius: and now lately (to the profit of the same Church) Englished by Iohn Ludham, vicar of Wethersfeld. 1577.; De formandis concionibus sacris. English	Hyperius, Andreas, 1511-1564.; Ludham, John, d. 1613.; Orth, Wigand, 1537-1566.	1577 (1577)	STC 11758.5; ESTC S122044	265,657	396

necessitie be drawen and made apte of God to euery kinde of callinge Let vs take in hande an other example not historycall out of the epistle to the Romains the sixte Chapter As many of vs as are baptized into Iesus Christe are baptized into his death Wee are buryed then with him by baptisme into his death that like as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the father euen so wee also should walke in newnes of lyfe For if wee be grafte together in him by the likenes of his death wee shall in like maner be partakers of the resurrection Knowinge this that our olde man is crucifyed with him also that the bodye of sinne might vtterly bee destroyed that henceforth we should not serue sin For he that is deade is iustified from sinne And if we bee deade with Christ wee beleeue that wee shall also liue with him knowinge that Christ beynge raysed from the deade dyeth no more death hath no more power ouer him For as touchinge that he died he died concerninge sin once And as touching that hee liueth hee liueth vnto god Likewise reken your selues to be deade to sinne but aliue vnto God thorough Iesus Christ our Lorde The state is That those which are once iustifyed thorough faith and baptized into Christ ought alwayes after to liue godly and Christianly Which thinge the apostle also els where very often and with pithy reasons auoucheth This readinge therefore is ascribed to the kinde didascalick I. Here before all things is commended vnto vs baptisme as beinge instituted of Christ our Lord takinge effectes of his most pretious bloude and death and as that which is necessary to all beleuers forasmuch as by it they are engraffed into the Churche of God and by reason of it are named Christians II. The effectes of baptisme ough● exactely to be obserued especially that by baptisme we are made pertakers of the death of Christ and of all the benefites deriued therefrom to the beléeuers of which sorte are remission of sinnes passed lyfe euerlasting saluation c. Moreouer that it behoueth all those that are baptized to dye vnto sinne and liue only vnto rightuousnes For thus the Apostle reasoneth All we which are baptized are made pertakers of the death of Christ But Christ dying dyed vnto sinne Therefore are we also by baptisme deade vnto sinne And if we be deads vnto sin it were very conuenient for vs to couet to liue againe therevnto And certes it is true that we in baptisme do dye vnto sinne and sinne dyeth vnto vs forasmuche as in baptisme all our sinnes are washed awaye and the holy Ghost is giuen vnto vs by whom bothe the force of sinne and concupiscence is restrained and repressed and we not onely are induced to well dooing but also are vehemently holpen forward For this cause also all afore they be baptized doe openly before the church of God forsake the world and the diuel that brought sinne into the worlde to the intent they might therby declare that they will hereafter haue no maner of thinge to doe with them but will institute a newe and holy kinde of life III. they that are once babtized into Christ ought highly to estéeme all thinges that are put forth as touchinge Christ forasmuch as Christ is giuen vnto vs not onely to paye the price of our redemption out of the power of the diuell and also to be an example and whom wée should with al our endeuoure imitate and folowe in those thinges specially which may be conuenient for vs. Hitherto perteyne the two reasons whereby the Apostle plainly proueth that we for that we are baptized ought to be dead vnto sinne The one is taken of the effect and finall cause of the death of Christ You knowe saith he that this is the proper effect and ende of Christes death that sinne is abolished that to thintent we should not serue it any more But this effect of Christes death he séemeth to despise whosoeuer after remission of sinnes once receiued wyll returne againe vnto sinne Wherefore it is necessary● that we remayne styll dead vnto sinne The other reason is deriued of a similitude as touchinge ciuill seruitude which by the comminge of death taketh an ende As he that ciuilly is a bondeman so soone as he dyeth is deliuered from his power to whome hée was bounde Euen so we which were the bondeslaues of sinne séeinge in baptisme we dye once with Christ ought by no meanes to serue sinne any more Here therefore is set forth vnto vs the example of Christ himselfe whom both in dyinge once vnto sinne and liuinge againe vnto roghtuousenes we ought to imitate and folowe By this dilygent imitation we shall both be called and be in very deade perfect Christians These examples thus to haue propounded be it sufficient Further amongest the auncient writers of homilies very many thinges the same also right learned may of euery man be noted Chrisostom deuided his homily 60. vppon Mathewe entreating vppon those wordes of the. 18. chapter woe be vnto the worlde bycause of offences it must needes be that offences come c. Into two partes whereof in the former he argueth very grauely certes and yet popularly and with great cunning as touchinge the cause of sinne in the later by reason of those wordes Take heede that ye despise not one of these litell ones he entreateth of the not contemning of our bretheren whence at the length he slippeth to a place as concerninge the care that parentes oughte to haue least their children be idely and filthily brought vp The same in his homilie 62. declaring out of the sayd Chapter of Mathewe the parable of the man that was a kinge which would take accountes of his seruauntes chooseth these pomtes most chiefely to discusse at large first that sinnes are not alike Seconde where as wée which offende against God deseruinge most excellently well at our handes and against men do couet notwithstanding to haue all our offences forgiuen vs that it is very good reason why we should in like maner forbeare others that haue by any meanes hurt or endammaged vs Third that it is better to suffer wrong whereby an other mollesteth thée then to offer or inferre iniury to an other But in these dayes specially thou shalt sé all the most notable preachers for the most part to deuide their Sermons which they haue vnto the people into thrée or fower chapters partes or common places I suppose therfore that those whom we haue taken in hand to instruct can not iustly complaine that they want any excelent authors whose counsayles and steppes they may followe But to procéede the partes after they be in this sorte once noted and disposed they are accustomed ofte times to explane more at large namely by inferringe as well proofes and sentences as also apte historyes out of the store house of the holy Scriptures Moreouer by applying similitudes comparisons and whatsoeuer els is of

iudgement when as wretched man is so many wayes euery where beset with perils and for the causes that he least supposeth found giltie of sinne For by this meanes the whole worlde is in daungered to God and God concludeth al men vnder vnbeléefe which neuerthelesse we may not so interpret to be done that he shoulde destroy all men and damne them for euer but rather that he shoulde haue compassion vpon all men and by that meanes set forth and make knowne his goodnesse euery where Howbeit these thinges doe admonishe all the sorte of vs that we should be sober vigilant ware circumspect and that we should studiously avoyde not onely open and manifest but also priuy and secret sinnes yea all occasion of sinne and euen suspition also We are lilke vnto Pilgrimes or to those that trauaile in a straunge and vnknowne country by waies in which we are euery moment in daunger of théeues wilde and venemous beasts waters downe falles such lyke hurtful and perillous things The diuell the worlde and our flesh doe neuer cease to lye in awayt for vs they séeke by a thousand wiles to draw vs into their nets and snares But we must resist valiantly striue against thē by faith prayers fastings by the word of God and other spiritual weapons which Christe the inuincible confounder of all vices and wicked spirites hath prepared hath vouched safe to shew vs how we should vse them 1. Pet. 5. Ephe. 5. Math. 4.17 c. Thou séest what great plenty of things doe offer themselues and how large fields are opened vnto him that wyll procéede after this maner Wherfore we will make an ende In asmuch as the other questions may be reserued tyll an other time namely that touching the causes of sinne and another touchinge the effectes of which sort in the scriptures are handeled no smal number and alas wretches that we be in so many troubles and calamities of our times great store may dayly be obserued But forasmuch as death also is numbred amonge the effects of sinne we will adde lykewise an example but briefely handeled as thouching this He that will speake therfore of death may aptly prefixe two questions out of which he shall finde sufficient plenty of matters that he may declare to the commodytie of his hearers Let them therfore be these What death is and what the effects of death For a description or definition of death this may be had Death is the penalty of sinne iustly inflicted of god vnto al men like as al men also are sinners It is deriued of the causes and aboundantly proued by the testimonies of the scriptures God threateneth the payne of death vnto sinners The reward of sinne is death Through one man sinne entred into the world and through sinne death and so death came vpō al men inasmuch as al we haue sinned In which place are touched the chiefe causes of death man I say sinne whervnto may be added out of Gene. 2. the the Serpent also or the diuell is the author of death which to the Hebrues 2. is sayd to holde the empier of death Heb 9 it is saide This is appointed to all men that they shall once dye and after that commeth the iudgement Out of which places diuers and sundry things may be drawen to demonstrate more amply what Death is And by like industrye may the godly be excited to true humilitie of minde to the contempt of carthly thinges to passe theyr lyfe in the feare of God to call vpon Gods mercy for the intigation of the paynes whiche we through our sinnes haue deserued c. When he shall come to the question of the effectes it shal be necessary to discerne the effects of death in the Godly from the effects of death in the vngodly and that partlye by this meanes first The godly are perswaded that death shal in no wise happen vnto thē to their condemnation destruction but rather to their health and saluation inasmuch as the sentence of dampnation now long since pronounced agaynst vs is by the death of Christe vtterlye cancelled and rased out The law of the spirite of lyfe through Christe Iesus hath made me free from the law of sinne and death Christe by his death hath abolished the power of death Christe hath once suffered for our sinnes the iust for the vniust that he might bring vs to god We know that if our earthly māsion of this tabernacle bee destroyed wee haue an other building of God a mansion not made with handes but eternal in heauen But as touching the vngodly● they know that death is appointed to them as a moste bitter paine doe féele vndoubtedly the heauy iudgement of damnation by reason whereof it commeth to passe also that in temptations but chiefely in their extreame conflictes they are vehemently troubled afflicted and doe miserably faint and giue ouer I will not say for the most parte vtterly dispayre For what can they els doe in whom remayneth no hope or confidence at all touching the remission of their sinnes Euill shall slea the vngodly and they that hate the rightuous shall be desolate Secondly The godly forasmuch as they suffer continually many aduersities and so long as they liue in this worlde are vexed of the vngodly doe willingly longe after death and with ioyfull mindes imbrace it as they that are not ignoraūt that by it is giuen vnto them an entraunce to a happy blessed life I desyre saith Saint Paule to be dissolued and be with Christ We mourne inwardly in our selues for the adoption looking for the redemption of our body We grone in this our tabernacle longing to be translated into that which is from heauen And after a few words Wee truste and doe better lyke to be farre away absent from the body and to be present with God. And 2. Pet. 1. Death is called the putting off of this tabernacle On the other side the vngodlye for that they enioy héere in this life wealth prosperitie and all thinges happen vnto them for the moste part after their hartes desyre are plucked away sore against their willes and doe take it very grieuouslye if a man doth but once make mention of death vnto them But what followeth When they flatter themselues most of all and thinke to settle themselues heere most sure sayinge O soule thou haste great aboundance of wealth enioye it at thy pleasure Not long after yea the very same time when they least do suspect they héere it sayde Thou foole this night shall they fetch thy soule from thee And generally both of the godly and vngodly we reade 2. Thes 1. It is a rightuous thing with God to render vnto those that persecute you afflictiō vnto you that are persecuted peace tranquilitie with vs when our lord Iesus shall be reuealed from heauen And moreouer Abrahā saieth vnto the ritch man Luk. 16. Sonne remēber that thou in thy life time receiuedst

contriued and couched togyther but other places much more holesome and fitte for the enformation of the hearers such as are these of preparation vnto death that death is the penaltye of sinne of the miseries of mannes lyfe of the delyueraunce from them by death of the contempt of the world and all earthely things of desiring the felicitie of the lyfe to come of the immortalytye and eternall blessednes of sowles of the resurrection of bodyes of the last iudgement how an accompt is to be made therin of all the life past of Gods mercy open to all sinners if they repent but euen at the last gaspe againe that the deade are not immoderately to be bewayled or lamented but that GOD rather is to be thanked which hath deliuered them out of the most filthy prison of theyr body that the death of the sayntes is pretious in the lordes sight that they are all happye and blessed to whom it is giuen to sléepe in the LORDE that is to saye in the confession of a true fayth and who is able to recken vppe the residewe II. Where if so be it be thought good after these places declared that somewhat be sayde of the brother which is brought to buriall then add they briefely and as ye woulde say shamefastely some thinge touchinge the kinde of life that he imbraced and shewe how deuoutly he serued God therin by diligent performinge of those thinges that were his dutye to doe Wherby the hearers also are giuē to vnderstand what great industry it behoueth them to employe to the intent euery of them in their callinge and kinde of life may become acceptable to God. III. Peraduenture also they commende and set before them the be aliue to be followed one or other vertue wherin the brother deceassed excelled or some notable acte done by him for the behoofe of the Church for the common wealth for redressinge the calamities of the poore or his confession of Faith made in the very conflicte of death Further as touchinge the Doxologiae whereof wee made mention before they are not now in vse They were bestowed altogether in aduauncinge and cōmendinge of gods goodnes towarde mankinde and in times past were premised in the sacred assemblye to the intent the people might with more willinge mindes and with greater deuotion sing holy himnes vnto God giue thankes to him for his most ample benefites poured vppon them as well spirituall as corporall But now commonly for the most part in some partes of the Sermon is commended and set foorth after the same rate the goodnes and clemency of God his iustice seueritie wrath power prouidence and other poyntes to him attributed and that verily to the ende men might be moued and induced to thankes giuinge to eschewe vice to repentaunce to amendement of life to put their trust and confidence in God. But how these partes ought to be absolued and accomplished it may be knowne out of those thinges that bée already saide Bée it therefore sufficient to haue in this wyse giuen enstruction touchinge all these thinges now will wé add certayne Cantions and then afterwarde examples I. The first Cantion The Preacher must not endeuour himselfe to perswade any thinge to the multitude but that which is necessary and showeth foorth presente profite and vtilitie II. In perswasions or exhortations there must appers in the speaker a francknes or libertie ioyned with a certaine fauourable simplicitie For the one addeth weight or importaūce and vehemently moueth the other putteth away al suspicion that the preacher be not thought either craftily to handle his cause or otherwise to séeke his owne priuate commoditie Some there be that endeuour to set foorth certaine things and doe cunningly pretend a certaine veyle of religion but by litell litell they bewraye themselues to tender more their owns gaine and lucre then the furtheraunce of true religion Of which sorte of craftesmen our age alas the while hath brought foorth to to many whom the successe hath openly proued to be such as haue sought meanes to pamper their gréedy paunch and to gaine not soules to Christ but money to the vnsaciable God their helly III. By like reason he must take héed that in any wise he be not perceyued to submit and abase himselfe in perswading more then is méete for that truely is the point not of teachers with grauitye but of flatterers with great leauitye He that teacheth the multitude ought not to be carelesse in defending of his owne authoritye IIII. Further as our exhortations ought to be-voyde of all rude inciulitye so againe must we prouide that we séeme not ouer nice secure colde or timerous V. Neither certes shall a man thincke that he doeth as much as he néedeth to doe when he once or twise putteth his hearers in minde of any thing or exhorteth them to doe this or that but he must often times and with great feruentnes repeate the selfe same cause and that so longe till he shall perceyue owe fruites to followe Chrisostome that it ought so to be declareth in many wordes in his sixt homilie vppon the first Epistle to Timothye And we may sée in the Sermons of the sayd father diuers and sondry admonitions sometimes also very longe and applied to the mouing of affections as touching the selfe same matters This likewise must not be forgotten Where there be many ministers in one Churche to sustayne the laboures of teaching there they shall viligently common and entreate amonge themselues of those affayres which they shall iudge to be profitable and necessarye for the behouse of the Church that with like study and agréement they may handle the same before the people VI. Again he that purposeth the time so requiring to publishe and set forth the prayses of some holy men shall doe it very sparingly yea and shall purposely auoide fond and fabulous histories and the vaine rablement of miracles There be some stories of Saintes carried about which are altogither vnsauory and vntrue some also openly reiected as it may appere Distinctione XV. C. Sancta Romana Paule the Apostle to the Romaines 15. reporteth that he by the power of Christ had done many signes and wonders and yet Luke in the Actes toucheth very fewe Let vs therfore likewise followe here in the wysdome of Luke II. In the prayse and commendation of déedes and of thinges nothinge must in any wise be spoken for fauour or flattery But as in other thinges so also in prayses ought a meane and measure to be prefixed VIII Besides in all prayse he must be sure to obsteine from such comparisons as may engender enuy grudge For comparisons are wont for the most part to procure hatred and offence euen in prophane matters Wherefore ther is no cause why thou shouldest hope that they will bée well thought off and allowed in diuine matters IX And with the same modesty prudence it behoneth him to procéed in funerall Sermons in which some thing is inserted to