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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

before that beene present at a collogue and conference at Marpurge his minde tooke such a tast of true Religion as that after hauing receiued his Dukedome hee procured carefully the same true Religion to be preached vnto his subiects Neither hath God vsed these meanes onely for the propagation and aduancement of his word but also many other courses that haue beene maruellous For I call Hungary to witnesse that euen Souldiers and men of Warre haue giuen furtherance to Gods word For whereas the Dutch Army brought thither by King Ferdinandus had in it many Lutheranes by their meanes that Kingdome better discerned of Popish Idolatry Italy also may testifie the like of it selfe when both the Army of Charles the fifth besieged the Pope and some dissentions began to growe betweene the Pope and the Venetians To the number of these other meanes I may also adde diuine and spirituall songs which hauing beene made by Preachers of the Gospell and accustomed to be sung by poore Schollers insinuated and closely conuaied the knowledge of the truth into an infinite number of men in Germany and the Low-countries and chiefely in Hungary where for the want of the Art of Printing this meanes was deuised that the songs which had beene endited by the teachers young boyes and schollers should deuoutely and sweetely sing not onely at mens doores but euen at feasts and banquets Moreouer I thinke that I may truely say that it hath beene a great meanes to further the knowledge of the trueth that particular Schooles haue beene founded and erected in many places and that disputations haue beene held by the professors of the Gospell with the Papists Of which sort are the disputations held at that time at Lipswick in the yeare 1519 1519. at Zurich and Bresla 1523 at Basile 1524 at Norimberge 1523. 1525 at Bathe in Switherland 1526 at Bern 1528 at 1524. London 1549 and such like 1525. 6 Another likenes betweene this age and the primatiue 1526. Church may bee in this that the enemies of 1528. the trueth set vpon the Christians of the primitiue 1549. Church sometimes with seueritie of edicts and proclamations after which grieuous punishments and at the length by open warre in the very like maner for the space of these hundred yeares grieuous Proclamations haue beene often published against true Religion and the professors of it And when they little preuailed they killed infinite multitudes of men by fire and water by the sword and by hanging and many other kinds of punishments and when neither these meanes had the like successe which they desired they came at length to this that strong Armies were leuied and brought into Germany the Low-countries and into France to haue rooted out true Religion if it had beene possible Further also as in that time the heathen Emperours whether they would or no heard the confessions and Apologies of the Christian faith which are extant and to be read in Iustin Martyr Athenagoras Tertullian and others Euen so in this our age Kings and Kesars haue of necessitie beene made to take notice and information of the trueth of the Gospell which in all things they did not approue of For who is ignorant that the Emperour Charles the fifth was present at the publicke reading of the confession of Ausburge so named of the Citie where this was done Likewise to King Ferdinandus a confession of their faith was both exhibited and read by the brethren and professors in Bohemia and Morauia We read likewise that Frauncis the first King of Fraunce heard with his owne eares the famous confession of the Christians of Merindole Also Theodore Beza in the conference at Poessy the King and the Queene yea all Fraunce in a manner hearing it deliuered the Articles of our faith so soundly and so effectually as that the Cardinall of Lorraine saide that hee wished that either Beza had beene dumbe or that all the States there present had beene deafe that day 7 Yet will we not stay heere but obserue another point of comparison for in the primitiue Church there were very many Christians who as the Ecclesiasticall History doth witnesse professed the truth of the Gospell with the losse of their goods and also of their very life it selfe So likewise in these hundred yeares last past God hath set before our eyes notable and famous examples of Christian constancy in an infinite number of most worthy persons men and women rich and poore learned and vnlearned noble and vn-noble The regard of the time will not suffer me heere to enlarge my selfe yet can I not by any meanes passe by in silence in Germany the houses and the families of the Electors to wit that the house of Brandeburge Saxony and the Palatine haue brought forth those heroicall persons to whom you may truely apply the speach which by the Apostle is vttered of Moses that they esteemed the reproach of Christ to be greater riches then the treasures of the Egyptians First let vs goe to the house of Brandburge and call to minde George the Marquesse of Brandenburge who being then to King Lewis the great Prefect and Gouernour of his Court retained with his helpe and defended with his aide the Christians in Silesia Bohemia and Hungary being charged and burdned with diuers slaunders After also when the Emperour Charles the fift in the assembly at Ausburge published a seuere edict and Proclamation with a most grieuous punishment added to it charging all men to abandon the Religion of the Gospell the saide Lord Marquesse had this honourable report of his constancy that fearing nothing the Emperours indignation hee boldly saide kneeling before his Maiestie that he had rather yeeld his head to be smitten and cut off then to depart the least iot from the truth which he had once acknowledged and receiued which when hee once had spoken openly they say that the Emperour answered that the cutting off his head was not sought for Will yee goe from Brandeburg to Saxonie There we shall see Duke Henry the progenitour of the two most gratious Electors Mauricius and Augustus worthily shewing how deepe rootes the loue of the Gospell had taken in him For when his brother George Duke of Saxony who was a most earnest defender of the Popish Religion a litle before his death hauing caused it to be signified to him by messengers sent for that purpose that hee would make him his heire vpon condition that he would forsake the Religion Euangelical reformed but if he refused to performe the condition that he would giue all his dominions to King Ferdinandus Duke Henry of whom I spake answering presently saide plainly and expresly to him this your message euidently representeth and bringeth into my minde that which is written in the holy Scriptures when Sathan promised to Christ the Kingdomes of the whole world vpon condition that falling downe at his feete hee would worship and adore him Doe you thinke that I esteeme any worldly riches

the trueth of the Gospell But within a yeare after the multitude of professors appeared in so great number as a man would haue thought that all those had beene risen from the dead and restored to life againe Neither are there wanting like examples in Hungary Bohemia Morauia Silesia Aus●ria For about some thirteene yeares agone these aduersaries with very great endeauours desired to cut off all meanes of exercising the Religion reformed But vtterly in vaine God withstanding them who sending them his helpe from heauen brought the matter to that passe that greater libertie was granted to these countries then they euer enioyed in any time before Finally for the last point of this comparison In the primitiue Church God by manifest signes and tokens shewed the seueritie of his iust iudgement vpon many tirants and persecutors of the Church by their fearfull ends and tragicall deaths In like maner Sigismund the Emperour 200. yeares agone hauing burnt at Constance Iohn Husse a most pious and godly Preacher together with him burnt and consumed all his owne royall estate For deceasing without heire male Ladislaus his Grand-sonne by his daughter succeeded him and so hee confined the celebritie and honour of his name in the space of a fewe yeares So likewise in this last age wee haue receiued by report and seene with our eyes that vengeance hath followed them at their heeles which bearing impietie and vngodlinesse in their hearts and shewing it openly by strange crueltie went about with all their power to assaile and to plucke vp by the rootes the pure doctrine of the Gospell In the yeare 1546. George Wisehart a Preacher of the Gospell in Scotland after burnt to ashes by the commaundement of Cardinall Beton in the midst of the flames of fire prophetically foretold the Cardinall of the death and ouerthrow that hung ouer his head And that not in vaine for hee was killed that very yeare and that so as in the same place where the stake and ashes of that constant Martyr had beene seene not long before in the same place so soone after the dead body of that tyrant was to be seene exposed to the hate and scorne of all men With him reckon also Steuen Gardner who being Bishop of Winchester and Cancelor to Queene Mary emploied his seruice power very busily to destroy the Christians But his punishment followed not long after for being taken with a sore disease and despairing of the fauour and mercy of God he cried out alasle for me I haue sinned with Peter but I haue not wept nor seriously truly repented as Peter did In Fraunce remember Minerius making war with the innocent men of Merindoll and miserably killing and murthering them with more then Scythian and Barbarian cruelty What art thou sorry and doest thou sigh and lament to heare it stay a while and thou shalt see and acknowledge the wonderfull iudgment and vengeance of God vpon him For this tyrant Minerius falling into a most grieuous and fearefull sicknesse ended his vngodly life with horrible crying and howling Kings also furnish vs with some examples of tragicall ends For Fruancis the first king of Fraunce in the agony of death felt how heauily the blood of the Wald●nses and Merindolians lay vpon his conscience wherefore hee gaue commandement and charge to his sonne Henry that hee should put to death Iohn Monke by whose counsell and perswasion he had begun the persecution which Monke perceiuing speedily fled and so escaped the present danger Likewise we haue heard that Henry the 2. King of France hauing often threatned and said that with his own eies he would see Burges to be consumed burnt with fire vpon a wound taken in the eye in his running at-Tilt ended his life with very great torments Neither was the end of Frauncis the second of that name any better who hauing denied the Christians free exercise of the Religion of the Gospell who by supplication had requested it hee also by an Apostume risen in his braine and running at his eare died with his eare putrified and rotten And thou also Charles the ninth King of Fraunce goe thou also and defile thy hands with the blood of thy subiects Thou also didst miserably perish in thine owne blood And you two tirants I speake of Henry the third and the Duke of Guise doe you also take paines in the hainous crime of the massacre and slaughter at Paris doe you also kill murder and destroy but with what successe euen and issue haue you done it either of you ended your life with a violent and bloody death but the reformed Religion you haue not driuen out of Fraunce But what doe I speake of these things the Emperour himselfe Charles the fist hee confessed that hee had vsed and emploied all his force and power to establish the authoritie of the Pope and to maintaine his dignity but that his endeauour had beene all in vaine that his mony and treasure was spent which losse was tollerable and might be borne but that which was altogether intollerable he had lost his honourable name amongst men and his estimation dignitie the losse whereof was not to be recouered by any meanes Heere it were worth our labour to note marke the perfidious falling away of Apostatates and the infirmity of the faithfull Heere also intestine and inward dissensions and discords were to bee touched and to be compared with the contentions of the ancient and primitiue Church but the regard of this present time doth not suffer me so to doe Therefore let it suffice to haue heard that Christ the Lord hath most effectually expressed and accomplished really and in powerfull act and deede the name of Iesus and Sauiour that was giuen him by order from God in that hee doth so fatherly gather so wisely gouerne so mightely preserue and so iustly protect his Church against all the aduersaries and enemies of it Now let the Iesuits goe and vain-gloriously boast of the miracles which they say haue beene done in the East and West Indiaes but wee most worthily publish and magnifie the miracles iustly to be admired wondred at which God hath done in our own dayes and in the age of our fathers in Germany England Spaine Italy Fraunce Hungary Bohemia Pole-land Denmark and Swed land For these are indeed that which they are said to be miracles That God hath wrought so great things by so meane and base instruments That the doctrine of the Gospell within so fewe yeares hath like the lightning enlightned so many countries and Kingdomes That by meanes altogether contrary to the reason of man the sinceritie and puritie of the doctrine of the Gospell flourisheth at this day being propagated and spread faire and neare That by how much the greater the crueltie of tyrants hath beene in blood sheding in burning hanging of the godly so much the further hath the sound of the Gospell bin heard passed into more places That a most puissant and mighty Emperour going