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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12165	A verie godlie and necessary sermon preached before the yong countesse of Cumberland in the North, the 14 of Nouember, 1577. By Christopher Shutt.	Shutte, Christopher, d. 1626.	1578 (1578)	STC 22470; ESTC S103003	33,188	104

hire Sir Iohn Lackelatine to sing or say the seruice howe shall the Gospell haue good successe whilest Church to Church is ioyned and non residencies borne withall and well liked what can go forewarde in the building of the Lorde where preaching is but once a quarter I say not where it is seldome or neuer which I might or once a moneth which some thinke more thē needes if it be eche Saboth it is counted a worke of supererogation how can the people be reclaimed from their vanities or kept within the fold in dew obedience Go to what springes of such contempt in these estates euen effusion of all ryot and running into sinne of the inferiour sort For as the wall within and eke without is made of squared stones betweene the which the lesse stones are contained to make the building vp euē so the minister within the Churche the Magistrate in the common weale should support and vpholde the meaner sort in dewe obedience If then the squared stones within or els with out fall downe the lesse can neuer long endure because they lacke their stay And of cōtempt in these degrees it comes to passe that lacke of discipline good liuing is the cause of many sinnes both in the Church and commō weale Neither woulde I haue this forgotten that whilest ecclesiasticall officers may for money dispense with offendours and also vayne pitie in the common weale maye shadowe iniquities the Churche can not go well Surely Surely it is with Englande as the Prophet Osee saide it was with Israel The Lord hath a controuersie with the people of the land because there is no mercy no truth no knowledge of God in the land But by swearing lying killing stealing and whoring men break out and blood toucheth blood therfore shal the land mourne c. How ripe the sinnes of England be for the sickle of Gods vēgeance euerye Christian eye can testifie And yet for all this we are fast a sleepe with the carelesse world in the time of Noe. We eat drinke we marie giue to mariage most like vntill the flood shall take vs hence wee lye vpon our soft couches and put away the euill day farre frō vs we blesse our selues when wee heare the threatnings of the Lord and curses of his law and say We shall feele none euill we are drunken with foolish Nabal vntill Abigail bring vs word that we must dye We spoyle and make our selues merie with the goods of other men as the Amalekites did in Ziklag vntill Dauid Gods scourge come vpon vs to wounde vs to death and make a reskewe We drinke with Balthasar in bowles vntill the Medes take away our kingdome we enriche our selues also enlarge our barnes and laye vp treasure in store for many yeres and yet this present night our soule must be taken away and then who shal possesse our substance we waste and spoyle our masters goodes liue vnmindfull of our duetie vntill we be called to render an accompt of our stewardshippe we sleepe full harde with the foolish virgins and our lampes quite put out till that the bridegrome be gone in and the doore fast locked that we can not enter We sit like the proud strumpet Babylon feede our selues with folly that we shall feele no sorowe nor widowhead yet al sorows shal sodainly come vpon vs Finally we say Peace peace all things quiet euen when the end is at hand Nay rather let vs watche pray and haue our lampes of righteousnes burning that we may enter into rest with the bridegrome at his comming leaue betimes our great securitie least we perish with the wicked It is reported of Tamberlane the king of the Parthians who tearmed himselfe Iram dei orbis vastitatem to haue set vp three seueral dais three seueral kinds of tents wherof the first was white betokening mercie if his enemies would that day yeeld the secōd day the tēts were red betokenīg the bloodshed of the rulers the thirde was black signifying the burning and destruction of the citie neyther was there hope of mercie when the white tents were takē down although they humbled themselues with lawrell Let vs goe foorth with lawrell braunches in this our time and day of grace for it is a fearefull thing to fall into the hands of the liuing God who is a consuming fire let vs be admonished by the woorde of trueth or els the same will condemne vs with the wicked But the time is past I haue wearied you to much I wil therfore note one worde or two of the last wordes and so make an ende He was made the heire of righteousnes which is according to fayth This is nowe the acceptation reward of Noe his faith who first was receiued into fauour by beleeuing the promise of God and thereby had God a mercifull father Of whō this his obedience was accepted not for anye the worthines of flesh blood which was none but by the free grace of God accepting in good worth what he did For when faith beleueth the promises of God concerning saluation apprehendeth the adoption of the children then foloweth the inheritaunce of our righteousnesse for that we being by fayth the children of God are heires euen felowe heires with Christ of his kingdome For after we beleeue we are sealed with the spirit of promise which is the earnest of our inheritance vntill the redemption of the possession purchased vnto the praise of his glorie This is that which the Apostle saith that wee being iustified by the grace of God should be made heires according to the hope of euerlasting life And for this cause is Christ the mediatour of the newe Testament that through death which was for the redemption of the transgressions which were in the former Testamēt they which were called might receiue the promise of the eternal inheritāce Blessed be God therefore let vs all say euen the father of our Lord Iesus Christ which according to his aboundant mercie hath begotten vs againe vnto a liuely hope by the resurrection of Iesus Christ from the dead to an inheritance immortal and vndefiled reserued in heauen for vs. This inheritance of righteousnes Abraham behelde with the eyes of fayth whē he forsooke his owne countrey looking for a better and euerlasting in heauen reioycing in spirite to see the day of Christ the Messias This inheritance Dauid longed after when like as the Harte desired the water brookes euen so his soule longed after the Lorde hoping to see the goodnesse of the Lorde in the lande of the liuing This inheritance the Apostles beleeued to haue when they confessed Christ to bee the Sonne of God and to haue the woordes of Eternall life This inheritance the Saints in the reuelatiō cast their eyes vpon when with patience they endured the tormentes of death because

the spirit of God consumeth and comes to nought like as a paper arke or ship of leaues had bene a vaine deuise against the water to saue Noe and his familie so is the whole religiō of Antichrist in vaine to saue our soules What a foolish paradise delight they in which make their arke or ship of the rotten boardes of mannes traditions which can neuer hold together howe loathsome an ensigne hath that vessel which caryeth the marke and Image of the beast How lightlie how perilously howe vainely is he fraughted that makes the chaff of bulles and pardons his surest traffique What loose anchre hold hath he trow ye that rests rides vpon his owne merits and sinfull workes Howe vncertaine is his course who directeth his race to saile to heauen by the mediation of saintes What a cowardly maryner is he that alwayes is afraid at the paper rockes and painted fyers of purgatorie What vaine ordinance is holy bread and holye water to fight against the powers of hell What foode or nourishmēt can his beades his palmes his cādles his oyle his ashes and other reliques minister vnto him What an vncertaine trumpet is sounded where the vanitie of organes is good seruice finally how cā he euer saile in safety who hath none sitting at the stearne but only Antichrist whose purpose is to ouerthrowe the ship In such a naughtie arke and ship they saile that row on forward without let in their owne inuentions and rotten ship of papisme and Idolatrie but the arke ship of God is made of the pyne trees of his word pitched within without with the assured grace of Christ marked with the spirit of God and faith fraughted with the weighty merits of Christs passion casting sure anchor in his promises directed by his mediation to the father emboldened with his blood against the rocks and gates of death defēded with the ordinance of Christian armour against the force of Sathan and nourished with the woorde and foode of life Let vs no more then sayle with them nor yet retaine any of their abominations But let vs addresse and prepare our selues with Noe to bee warned let vs with readinesse of fayth obey and let our good life expresse the same in furthering the buylding of the Church in our seuerall callings in all thinges being gouerned by the woorde of God and then with Noe we be wel admonished And thus much of the former part whence it came that Noe was mooued to make the Arke The Lorde giue you vnderstanding in all things and he that hath eares to heare let him heare Hee prepared the Arke to the sauing of his housholde The Lorde welbeloued hath diuers means to saue his people from destruction and therefore the Arke is said first to haue had this effect that Noe his family might bee saued thereby For like as in the burning of Sodome the litle towne Zoar was a refuge for the safetie of Lot and his two daughters Chaldea for Gods people in the destructiō of Iewrie and Aegypt for Ioseph Marie the childe Iesus against the furious assaultes of Herode euē so the Arke was now the means which God would vse for Noe his refuge to saue him his frō drowning This is the louing care which God hath ouer his people in defēding them vnder the shadow of his wings frō falling with the wicked Let vs then cast our care vpon him for he is carefull for vs and then in the perishing of the wicked wee shall be safe within the Arke Neyther must we thinke that the Arke was able to haue preserued Noe and his family from drowning No no it was the grace of God who had receiued him into fauour which grace hee did assure him of by preseruing him aliue within the Arke Which thing the Apostle Peter doth declare where he compareth Baptisme and the Arke together for like as in Baptisme not the putting away of the filthines of the flesh saueth vs but a good conscience that maketh request to God by the resurrection of Iesus Christ euen so not the outward making of the Arke but fayth beleeuing the promise of God vnto saluatiō iustified preserued Noe whereof the Arke was a holy signe or sacrament for the confirmation thereof wherby we must obserue not to giue that vnto the Sacramentes which is proper to the grace signified therby For Sacraments neyther of them selues nor in them selues include the grace of God for that belongeth to the Creator and not vnto the creature But they be as instruments seales pledges and confirmations of Gods promises whereby he doth make more strong his graces in our hearts the fruits whereof we do receiue by a liuely fayth For the saluation of Gods chosen resteth not in sacramentall signes but in the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and good pleasure of God. Abraham to whom the promise was made was iustified in beleeuing the woorde of grace long time before he receiued the signe or Sacrament of Circumcision which afterward was added for the confirmation of the promise Iacob was chosen when he was yet vnborne neuer had hearde of any Sacramēt Cornelius and his cōpanie beleeuing the words of Peter were endued with the holy ghost bef●●●●hey were baptized Whereby wee learne that our saluatiō resteth not in the outward Elementes but in the promise of Gods free mercie grace in Christ who before the fundations of the worlde were layed chose vs by him to bee adopted vnto saluation which grace hee sealeth in our hearts by the Sacramentes for our more behoofe the vertue whereof we do receiue by fayth Neyther herein must wee beloued abbridge or extenuate the dignitie of the Sacraments and thinke they be but onely signes of grace as the papists falsely slander vs But as we saye not with the Iewes nor with the papists that the Sacramentes doe giue grace and so with them commit Idolatrie so doe wee not saye that they are onely bare signes vnto the godlies fayth but rightly hold the meane betweene them both belieue assuredly with the sacramentall signe that grace is present vndoubtedly to the faith of him that doth receiue the same aright And thus ye see that not the Arke but the grace of God preserued Noe and his familie for whose saluation and deliuerance the Arke was made an instrument and meanes It is not without good consideration that the Arke was for the safetie of Noe his housholde for it doth expresse the right gouernement of his well disposed family wherein the feare of God did florish and continue For like as when the head is wel sound and also the stomacke pure from hurtfull humours the bodie is commonly well affected euen so where the head or chief of any family is founde in fayth and feareth God it commonly goeth wel with all the housholde For this cause Moses gaue