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A19717	A sermon preached before the Queenes Maiestie, by the reuerende Father in God the Bishop of Chichester, at Grenewiche, the 14. day of Marche. 1573. Seene and allowed according to the order appoynted; Sermon preached before the Queenes Majestie.	Curteys, Richard, 1532?-1582.; Browne, Thomas, ca. 1535-1585.	1573 (1573)	STC 6135; ESTC S116432	21,769	58

The graue is my house darknesse is my bedde I sayd vnto rottennesse you are my father I sayd vnto the wormes you are my mother you are my sisters What say some I haue in bank a hundred thousand pounds my plate my iewels my landes are worth as muche and yet must you say The graue is my house darknesse is my bedde yet muste you say to rottennesse you are my father and to the wormes you are my mother you are my sisters But I am able to ouerrule any case in the lawe I am able to be an Embassadour through the worlde I haue the knowledge of all toungs and learning I am able to serue any Prince in the field I am able to bée of Councell with anye Prince Christian. Yet must you say the graue is my house c. I am a gentleman a Noble man I came in with the conqueror I can fetche my pedegrée long before the Conquest a King was my father a Quéene was my mother a King my brother a Quéene my sister yet muste you say The graue is my house darknesse is my bed yet must you say to rottennesse you are my father and to the wormes you are my mother you are my sisters For the siluer threads sinewes shal stretche your golden caule and brayne-skinne shal shrinke your spring and hart your pipes and Arteries shal fayle your cisterne and whéele your liuer stomacke shal be dried vp and consumed and man shall goe to his long home and duste to earthe from whence it came And now followeth the thirde principall lesson That eche one shall rise agayne and giue an accompt to God of his doings THe earth is a mistresse vnto vs of our resurrection whose trées floures and hearbes doe dye in winter and reuiue in sommer The day the moneth the yeare the spring the sommer y winter do pass● returne againe teach our resurrection We our selues once in .24 houres do as it were dye in sléepe but the morning awaketh vs out of sléepe sheweth vs a manifest token of our resurrection But we maruel how the dry and rotten bones can be fetched out of the Sea out of the earth out of the ashes agayne He that fetcheth the sunne out of his caue euery morning ●e that as it were quickeneth the deade Moone euery moneth he that caused Aaron his rodde that had béene many yeres dried in one night to bud blossome beare ripe Almonds can also bring the dry bones out of the graue sea ashes cause them to heare ripe perfect flesh And why shuld we doubt that of the rotten body a perfect body may spring since we sée by dayly experience that of rotten corne perfect corne doth grow and that of rotten séedes kirnels perfect séedes kirnels do come which be clothed with stalke huske leaues and this mortalitie shall put on immortalitie and this corruption incorruption Iohn 5. The houre shall come when all that be in the graue shall heare the voyce of the Sonne of GOD and shall come foorth Rom. 8. If the power of him that raised vp Iesus from the dead dwelleth in you he that raysed vp Christe from the dead shall also quicken your mortall bodies For as in Adam all doe dye so in Christ all shall bée made alyue Apoca. 20. I sawe sayth S. Iohn a greate white throne and one that sate on it from whose face fled away bothe heauen and earth I sawe the dead bothe great and small stande before god For the sea gaue vp hir dead that were in hir and death and the graue gaue vp the deade that were in them and they were iudged euery one according to their workes Whosoeuer was not written in the booke of lyfe were caste into the fire As S. Iohn Baptist sayth he hath his fanne in hys hande and wyll make cleane hys floore a●d gather hys Wheate into his garner but will burne vp the chaffe with vnquenchable fyre In the tyme of Haruest in the ende of the world the Sunne of man shall sende foorthe his Angels and they shall gather out of his kingdome all things that offende and them that do iniquitie and shall caste them into a fornace of fire there shall be wéeping and gnashing of téeth Then shall the iuste shine as the sunne in the kingdom of the father The kingdome of Heauen is lyke vnto a draw nette cast into the Sea that gathereth of all kinde of things which when it is full men drawe to lande and sitte and gather the good into vesselles and cast the bad away so shall it be at the ende of the worlde The Angels shall goe foorth and seuer the good from the badde and shall cast thē into the fornace of fyre there shall be wayling and gnashing of téethe When the Sonne of man commeth in his glorie and all the holy Angelles with him then shall be gathered all Nations and he shall separate them one from an other as a shephearde separateth his shéepe from the Goates And hée shall sette the Shéepe on hys ryghte hande and the Goates on the lefte Then shall the Kyng saye to them on hys righte hande Come yée blessed of my Father enherite yée the kingdome prepared for you from the foundation of the worlde Then shall he saye to them on the lefte hande Depart from me yée cursed into euerlasting fire whiche is prepared for the Diuell and his Angelles And therfore S. Paules rule to the Corinthians is very necessary where he sayth Let euery man take héede howe he buyl●eth for other foundation can no man lay than that which is layde whiche is Iesus christ And if any man buylde on this foūdation golde siluer precious stones tymber ●ay or stubble euery mās work shall be made manifest for the day shall declare it bicause it shall be reuealed by the fyre and the fire shall trye euery mans worke of what sort it is If any mans work that he hath buylt vpon abide he shall receiue wages if any mans worke burne he shal loose Beholde the Lorde will come with fire and his chariots like a whirle winde that he may recompence his anger with wrath and his iudgement with the flame of fire for the Lorde will iudge with fire and with his sworde all flesh Thou after the hardnesse of thy heart whiche can not repent heapest vnto thy selfe wrath in the day of wrath and of the iust declaration of the iust iudgemēt of God who wil reward euery one according to his works that is to them which by continuance of well doing seeke glorie honour immortalitie eternall life But vnto them that are contentious ● disobey the truth and obey vnrightuousnesse shall be indignation and wrath tribulation and anguishe vpon the soule of euery man that doth euill For we must all appeare before the tribunall seate of Christ that euery man may receiue the things that are done in his

the treasures of the world the spirituall sworde that cutteth the hearts and parteth the flesh from the spirite the heauenly Nette that encloseth and bringeth togither the children of God the water of life which washeth away our sinnes the sacr●d fyre that burneth away the superfluous humors of worldely desires the wholsome leauen that seasoneth and edifyeth the soule the swéete bread that ●éedeth the man of God And the true keye that openeth to vs Christ Iesus the doore of the kingdome of heauen God hath buyld●d in it the sincere and substantiall walles of the Sacraments of Baptisme and the Lordes Supper the seales of fayth the watche words of Christian souldiers the images of our Resurrection and the pawnes of our saluation He hathe pickte out the stones of errour and heres●e God hath set ouer it Miriah ▪ ●o set foorth his glory to cause his worde to be taught to aduaunce vertue to punishe vice to be a nurse and fosterer of his people to write out his booke and to reade on it continually to keepe his commaundementes not turning from them to the lefte hande nor to the right He hath set ouer it many good Moyseses that many stande in the gappe to turne away Gods wrath to guide gods people in the wildernesse of these perillous dayes and to iudge them from morning to euening and many good Aarons to ring the golden belles of the Law and Gospell in Gods Sanctuarie and Churche to present sacrifices of thankesgiuing and to giue light to Gods people by his worde He hath pla●●d in it kéepers and watchemen preachers ministers whiche fe●d● his flocke plowe his grounde and sounde the trumpet of his worde so godly so learnedly and paynefully as thys 〈◊〉 seldome or neuer hathe tasted the lyke Although Cicer●es dogges that should barke at the Romish● wolues begi● to snatche at the christian Belwethers He hath made a winepresse of Iudges Iustices and Magistrates to presse the husk of controuersies and suites from the iuyce vi●e from vertue falshoode from truthe And al these hath he done to moue vs to beléeue that he is God almightie the first and the last the God of Gods Lorde of Lordes and that besides him is none To moue vs to feare the profoundnesse of his riches wisedome and knowledge Who is greater than our hearts and knoweth all things who yéeldeth wrath in the day of wrath to euery one according to the hardnesse of his heart who if we will not turne hath whe● his sword bent his bow and prepared the arrowes of deathe To loue him as true and faythfull as gentle and mercyfull who hath not dealte wyth vs after our sinnes nor rewarded vs after our iniquities But looke howe wide the East is from the west so farre hath he set our sinnes from vs. All these hathe he done to moue vs to séeke the Lorde with all our hearts to be zelous in the truthe of the ieolous God whiche giueth not his glorie to an other whiche will haue vs all or no part of vs and casteth the luke warme oute of hys mouth To kéepe our spirites soules and bodies pure and without blame to the comming of our Lorde Iesus Christ. To be faythfull and constante that we may receyue the crowne of life To labour to ouercome that we may eate of the hidden Manna to be clothed with whyte aray and to be made pillers in the Temple of God. All these hathe he done to moue vs to girde our selues with truthe to binde it about our neckes and to write it in the table of our heartes to flye the softe pillowes of flatterie the paynted cloake of dissimulation the sharpe rasors of slandering and speake the truthe eche one to another To arme our selues with righteousnesse and to make good good and euill euill darkenesse darkenesse and lighte lighte swéete swéete and sowre sowre To put on the shoes of peace the chayne that lincketh Christians togither wyth the bonde of loue the Image of Christ● grauen in mans heart the swéete dewe o● Hermon and the precious oyntment of Aaron to the Leuites and seruaunts of god To moue vs to kéepe the garments of innocencie to labour the wo●ke of God in the day of this life to cast ou● bread vpon the waters to deale our breade to the hungry to bring the poore that wander into our houses when we see the naked to cloth them to loose the bandes of wyckednesse to take off the heauy burdens to let the oppressed go free to breake euery yoke of the vngodly to helpe the blind and lame the widow and fatherlesse the staunger and friendlesse All these hath be done to moue vs lyke prudente Noahs to bu●lde the arke of a good conscience before the floud of Iudgement doe ouerflowe Like prouident Iosephs to lay vp the grayne of godlynesse in the barnes of our heartes before the dearth of mercy shall be Like paynefull Antes to prouide the foode of th● soule before the winter of Iustice approche Lyke tractable patients to take the preparatiues of repentance before the pangs of deathe do come Likewise virgins to haue readie the lampe of fayth and the oyle of vertue before the bridegrome Christe Iesus doe shutte the doores Lyke good Stewardes to prouyde for the Tabernacle of heauen before we loose the office of this life In the dayes of fayre wether of plentie of Sommer of health of oportunitie of this life to remember our maker and to serue him dutifully And thus much of the first principall lesson Trouble age sicknesse and death be Gods Bay●●ffes BUt the nature of man is so crabbed and frowarde that commonly the mercies and graces of God do little preuayle with him and therefore when man forgetting the goodnesse of God beginneth to waxe secure and carelesse God hathe certayne Bayliffes and scourges as trouble sickenesse age and deathe whiche he sendeth foorth to arest them to come to his Court of Iustice th●re to be warned of their duties 〈…〉 for their offences As the holy ghost dothe teache in the .28 of Deuteronomie by Moyses If they will not obey the voyce of the Lorde their God the Lorde shall sende vpon them trouble cursing and shame The Lorde shall make the pestilence cleaue vnto them the Lorde shall smite them with pouertie sicknesse and colde drought blasting and meldewe the heauen that is ouer their heads shall be brasen and the earth that is vnder them yron In the .32 of Deuteronom Thou haste forsaken th● mightie God that begatte thée and haste forgotten the Lorde that made thée Th● Lorde then sawe it and was angry and sayde I will hide my face from thée and thou shalte bee consumed wyth hunger and burnte with heate and bitter destruction I will also sende vpon