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A03628	A funerall oratyon made the xiiij. day of Ianuary by Iohn Hoper, the yere of our saluation, 1549. vpon the texte wrytyne in the Reuelatyone of Sayncte Iohne. Ca. 14.	Hooper, John, d. 1555.	1549 (1549)	STC 13753; ESTC S109471	9,380	42

of Christe As he muste nedes be that in his seykenes seketh health by this medicine prescribed by S. John That by four wordes helpeth the greateste and damigerouse desperation If credite and fayeth be geuen vnto them The firste word is I harde a voyce The seconde from heauen The thyrde Wryte The fourth Blessed be the deade that dieth in y e Lord. If ye learne it well it shall not only make you blessed at y e hour of death But also moderate y e sorowes murninges whiche otherwyse ye shall suffre while yelyue here for youre frendes that dye Lykewyse it shall assuyre you of the state and condicion of your frendes departed that they haue the fauoure and presence of God And better at ease in heauen wyth God then ye be in the earth with menne Learne to dye well therfore by this lesson ye mortall men And leaue not the medycyne prescrybed and taught by God the father made and tempered wyth the bloude of Christe minystred in to the soule of man by the holye ghoste broughte from heauen by an Angel writen vpon and to the people of the earthe by holye Sayncte John For the medycynes appoynted by manne as Masse Dirige Peregrinacions Pardons other mennes merytes when ye be gone Tryntalles Anniuersaries Inuocation prayers of and to sayntes departede Auriculare confessyon and suche other mennes inuentiones whyche cannot ease nor quyet the conscience of the poore sekemanne But the more of thys trysles is promysed vnto the conscience of the afflicted man the more wretched creatoure he desyreth As youre conscyence shall knowe at the tyme and houre of your sekenes and daunger And then shall ye fele when all othere thynges be to lytle that the precyouse bloude of Christe is ynoughe and where as wythoute dowte youre owne conscyens shall bare you recorde do you and all othere men for you whatsoeuer may be done ye are culpable and worthye deathe euerlastynge So shall Christes spyryte if he be in you by fayth bayre record with youre spyryte that yeare for Christes sake onelye the heyres of eternall lyfe This is the only way to quyete euerye trouble and afflicted conscience in the daye of death As Saint John sayeth Blessed are the dead that dye in the Lord. But seynge the deuell can not bare this doctrine A man to be saued in Christ for the promes of Goddes sake He goeth aboute to persuade thys word of God to be false that sayeth He that dyeth in the Lorde is blessed And so wyth the moste parte of men he subuerteth this Godly consolation Ether he maketh the syke to dispare of his saluation for y e greatnes of his sinne Ether causeth hym to seke vnsufficiente and vnlawfull meanes to remoue his synnes And that you and I be subiecte vnto this temptacion Read Mathewe .27 Luke 23. And se what the deuell aduentured to persuade vnto Christ himselfe And wolde haue borne hym in hande he was not the sonne of God nether that God caryde for hym seinge he suffered hys enemyes thus to preuale agaynste hym And the same temptationne he burdened the holy prophete Dauid wyth all Psal. 3. If he coulde obiect and bourdeyn the sonne of God w t argumentes that he could not be blessed that dyed in the lord How muche more doth he yee or maye he not onelye swade attempte but also perswade ouercome oure myserable and weake condycyonne Ile preparyd God knoweth of a thowsande sorttes of temptationne to sustayne of them the leste Wherefore learne by tyme or tyme deceaue yow how to lyue withoute tyme of none ye may learne so wel as by the lyfe and death and also the doctryne of the Patryarkis Prophetes Christe the Apostles Whose example yf ye follow not here incase hereaftre ye neuer come where they be thanke youre selues And that ye take vpon you to vse another remedys yea and as manye men sayeth bettre to warraunte stonde at the tyme of deathe agaynste the tyrannye of syne hell the deuel and the wordle If after youre departure from hens it be worse wyth yow then it is wyth them blame none but youre selues And the bettre blame worthy be ye so many tymes admonyshede yet not a dele the bettre Juge other mē as they lyste thus I beleue He that dyeth as an Apostle shall hereaftre lyue lyke an Apostel And he that beleueth as an Apostle shalbe saued lyke an Apostle Understonde what I saye It is of theyr doctryne suffycient lernynge y t I speake of whyche is fully suffycientlye able to leade a man in to all treuth 2. Tymo 3. Augu. lib. confess 6. Cap. 5. If any Counsale general or prouyncyall If anye lernynge of man coulde shewe you how bettre to lyue more godlye to dye then the wryttynges of the Prophetes and the Apostles in whose wrytynges ye haue aplate bothe of there lyfe also of there death I woulde comede it vnto you But you know there is none Seynge ye be thys perswaded of them alow so muche there holynes name dyseable not there doctryne leste peraduenture those that ye now accōpte to be youre frendes here after shalbe testes and recordes of youre Juste damnatyon bycause ye comende there name and persecute there blode in suche as offeryth you there doctryne The ignorancye of thys trew doctryne to teache men to lyue and dye well hath broght in that false vntrewe opinione of fayned purgatory The whyche inducyd foure greate Iles. The fyrste it causeth the deathe of a mannes frynde to be more paynefull The seconde it abolysheth one of the chief artykles of our e belyefe Whyche is I beleue the remission of synne The thirde is that it brought the workes and deseruynges of men into greater estymatione then the merites of Christe The fourthe it causeth men to lyue in a greater securyte libertye of lyfe Bycause there opynione is that there freyndes doynges for them after deathe shall helpe to there saluatione Beware therfore of this doctryne of purgatorye as of a moste pestilente Ile and seyng all oure saluatione restethe in thys that we dye in the Lord whyles we be in helthe let vs learne thys doctryne well and exercyse the same It is not a Christiās part to slepe in synne as an Ile souldyer tyll the trompe blowe Nether yet to prouyde for weapone tyll hys enymye be vpon hym But to haue it readye that it serue as tyme and necessyte requyreth And so we be admonyshed to do by the horryble example of the fyue folyshe vyrgynes in y e. 25. chap. of S. Mathew that neglectyng there oune bounde dewtye to know and lyue well and trustynge to the helpe of others were shut out of y e Joye eternall For whyles they wer a byinge other mēnes merites they loste there owne saluatiō The aduersaries of y e trueth dothe vse to obiecte agaynste thys doctrine of God that such as dye in the Lorde shoulde strayghtway be blessed wyth hym in heauen say we