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A00800	A godly sermon preached at Paules Crosse the 31. day of October 1591. By VVilliam Fisher, Master and keeper of the hospitall of Ilford in Essex. ... Seene and allowed	Fisher, William, student of diuinitie.	1592 (1592)	STC 10919; ESTC S117556	27,863	65

against vs euen in the bookes which we our selues haue caried in our owne bosomes Alas alas who shall endure it and not desire that the déep may swallow him vp or that the mountaines maye couer him or that the hilles may fall vpon him Haue a ●are then good people and an eye to your bosome booke I meane the conscience the verye register of all your secrets Now all these bookes being opened the booke of the Law to show what wee ought to haue done The booke of the Gospell to shewe what we ought to haue beleeued and the book of our owne consciences to shew what abominable sins we haue committed that we haue neither by loue satisfied the Law nor thorow faith relyed vpon the gospell what followeth Then shal the booke of lyfe which is here called the booke of Remembraunce be opened wherein the Lord hath set downe vpon record whatsoeuer good thing we haue done for the obtaining of the crowne of lyfe and the auoiding of the snares of death and namely these foure things First the Names of all Gods Saints and seruants and this is apparant by the wordes of Moyses Exod. 32. 32. If thou wilt not forgiue thē I pray thee race my name out of the booke of lyfe which thou hast written And Daniell praieth that the wicked may be raced out of the boke of lyfe and that they may not be written with the righteous Psal 69. So that as Assuerus had his booke of rememberaunce wherein the names of such as had don him hye seruice at any time wer vsually written and as he finding that Mardocheus had discouered two traitours which sought to laye violent hands vpon the King caused him to be honored by putting on his owne rich apparel and by wearing his royall crowne vpon his head Ester 6. In lyke maner our heauenlye King séeing the good that we haue done for the supplanting and subuerting of the enemies of his trueth will he not recorde our names in his book will he not giue vs the rich robes of his innocencie and the royall crowne of his euerlasting glorye Read you the 2. of the Re and you shall see that the Lord doeth professe this fauour Very notably he tolde the Church of Ephesus that heknew her workes her labor and her patience c. And so he tolde the church of Smirna the Church of Pergamus and the Church of Thyatyra that he knew not onely what yet they had done but also did remember and recite in particuler their good reckoning with them for the one and promissing to rewarde them for the other Secondly in this booke of Remembraunce we shall finde written the teares of our affliction and therefore Dauid saith Thou haste counted my wandrings put my teares into thy bottle are they not in thy register Ps 56. 8. Can there be a greater comfort then this when wee are brought to the stake to bee burnt or to the sworde to be cut as flesh to the potte or to the wilde horsses to be torne in a thousand peeces Let the butcherlike tirants glut their hartes by making ashes of our bodies or foules meat or dogs meat of our flesh what care wee They can not scrape our teares out of the booke of Remembrance nor race our bloode out of the register of lyfe Thirdly In this booke of Remēbrance we shall finde written the works of our compassion for so much doth the wordes of our Sauiour Christ importe Math. 25. Who shall say to them on the right hand Come ye blessed of my Father inherite ye the kingdome prepared for you frō the foūdation of the world for I was an hungred ye gaue me meat c. Then shall the righteous aunswer him and say Lord When sawe we thee anhongred c. Then shall he answer and say Verely in asmuche as you haue done it to one of the least of these my brethren ye haue done it vnto me And so much doth the woordes of Iob import Cap. 31. ver 35. Where he saith that the Almighty will witnes his pitty towardes the poore albeit his enemy should write a booke against him And so will he doe for vs If wee giue but a cuppe of colde water for his names sake we shal not lose our rewarde We see that Princes haue their bookes of Subsidies of Beneuolence of priuye Seales wherein they set down whatsoeuer good they receiue at the hands of their Subiects by free gift or vpō lone or lending And so it is with our heauenly potentat I warrant you if you releeue the poore he sets it down in his book for a subsidy or a beneuolēce don to him if you lend to the poore needy he sets it downe for a priuy seale lent to him he will become your debter and sée it discharged to the vttermost Therefore ye rich men out with your subsidie extend your beneuolences and send abroad your priuye seale money the Lord will not forget it he will not faile but set it downe in his booke of Remembrance And heere right Honorable and beloued in the Lord I cannot but put you in minde of a necessary Beneuolence and a Christian subsidy to be supplyed in respect of the Godly preachers called and appointed for this place which as you know is vsually and best furnished with learned men from both the vniuersities But how hardlye and vnwillinglye they ar drawen hither it is but to wel known And why because they are faine to come at their owne great coste and charge which can not stand with their poore and small abilitye For I speake not for my selfe and other● my brethren which thankes be to God are prouided for sufficiently to do any seruice appliable to our calling without beeing chargeable to you But for fellowes in Colleges and other poore students in the vniuersities men of rare knowledge and singuler guifts which being enioyned to supply this place are not more often sent for then commonlye they refuse to come And for my parte I cannot greatlye blame them for why should they labour and haue no hyre Or tread out your corne with the Oxe and haue their mouthes musted No man is hound proprijs stipendiis militare to make warre at his owne charge Why should not he that preacheth the Gospell liue of the gospel Or why should not they which sowe spirituall things reape your temporall things Might it therfore please you the right honorable the Lord Maior and the read● the right wor●●●●full your brethren and Maie●●trats of th● famous cittie of London ●● impar●●●ou 〈…〉 berality and ye●rly contribution in 〈…〉 〈…〉 I know●●●o●e learned 〈…〉 godly B●shop which in my hearing hath not onely promised before 〈…〉 but 〈…〉 ed before God to giue a good portion for●●er towardes thi● so good a purpose 〈…〉 I am sure it will bee a● freelye and thorowlye performed make triall when you please And albeit perhaps you will not pre●ent him yet the cause being so reasonable and important I hope

the people Surely beloued in the Lord you haue not done wel your sin lyeth before the doore as well as ours you haue plowed wickednes and how shoulde you but reape the rewarde of iniquitie For what cursed thing is there but you haue reached your hands vnto it and delighted your hearts in it as wel nay ill as Israel Is it sorcerie Is it adulterie Is it falseswearing Alas if ther were no other sorcerie but the subtill inchaunting of their circumuenting tongues it were too much for thereby as with the sin of witchcraft you abuse the wise and defraud the simple yea thereby you reape as much profite as by patrimony or frée-land the bread of such deceit is the sweetest morsel that commeth into some of your mealy mouthes And then for Adulterie it is the disease that cleaueth fast to your bones and lyeth festring in your bowels and hath rooted it selfe betwéene your brestes insomuch that the father defloureth a woman and to make her amendes marrieth her to hys owne sonne Amos. 2. 7. And so may I say of periury For affection malice feare and lucre doe at wil suppresse and smother all truth and supplye and suggeste all falshoode when you come to speake vppon your oathe And I doe not see to what end there should be anie either admission or tolleration of them whom you call knights of the Post and surely not amisse for it is thought they haue no more conscience what they sweare many times than a verye poste and I pray God that suche Posts ●● post to pleasure men with their false oathes haue not firebrands another day in hell for burning is a fit end for all such rotten blasphemous Postes And the damnable wretchednes of our time wherein is it not sutable with the wickednes of Israell Neuer pride more disdainfull neuer ambition more presumpteous neuer couetousnes more insatiable For there are some suche merciles oppressours among you that build fair houses with the bloody sobs and sighs of their poore neighbours whose liuinges they haue taken ouer their heads and whose liuelyhoode they haue wringed out of their hands There are some suche deuouring Vsurers among you that purchase statelye manners and sell the poore for olde shooes to make vppe their sommes and euē strip the skinnes of the needy ouer head eares to fit their purposes There are some suche pilling extorsioners that if it were possible they could finde in their hartes with Flauius Vespasianus vectigall ex vrina capere There are some such infatiable and intollerable Church leaches or rather sponges that suck and soaken vp both the bloode of the Mother and the milke of the children yea with Achilles they can finde in their heartes to set on sale the dead bodye of Hector ●ay rather the deare bought soules of Gods saints They are not ashamed with Cirus in hope of gaine to dig vp the very graues of the dead nor with Dionisius to deface the most auncient goodly monumentes that are nor with Iulian to ransacke churches colleges hospitall hospitals yea hospitality to the vtter ruine and wrack of all Religion learning and christian reléefe To be shorte there are some and the most parte of you al grown to such cursed Atheisme and infidelity with these Israelites that no Religion hath any relish in your heartes but that which sauoureth of gaine to your purses And albeit your tongues be mute silent for very shame yet your deeds speak without sound of woorde say with this People It is in vaine to serue God what profit is it that we haue kept his commandement that we haue walked humblie before the Lord of Hostes O strange infidelity the roote and branches of all misery alas how hath this hellish bramble ouergrowne and ouerspread the Lordes vyneyarde here in England O the plague of all plagues our vnbeleeuing hartes this makes you that ye will not be warned but do as you do or rather that you care not what you do this hath made you more incredulus then the diuils in hell Qui credunt et contremiscun● which beleue and tremble And by reason hereof are you not at this point If a méere stranger or a common lier or a starke Idiote should but bring you tydings that you and all other magistrates you and all other lawyers you and al other marchants you and al other riche men you and all other Artificers you and all other Husbandmē are what in a flat praemunire you woulde then looke about you and lay your heads together and speake euery one to his Neighbour and finding it true would neuer eat meat that should do you good nor take any good nights rest vntill you had found meanes to obtaine your pardon and were quite out of daunger Heereby then maye you measure the misthiefe of infidelitye for all our preaching teaching as verye fooles and Idiotes as you accompt vs is to no other end but to tell you and giue you notice of a dangerous and a most dānable praemunire whereinto you are fallen all the sorte of you yea euery mothers sonne thorowe your desperate and rebellious sinnes against the almighty and yet you do not once offer to sue for your pardon or to séeke for mercye at his hands whose Maiestye you haue so highly offended Now then beloued in the Lord al this considered is it not hye tyme or rather more then time for vs to growe to such a gratious conference as Israell did for the amendement of all that is amisse The wise man seing the plague comming hideth him selfe but the foole goeth on forward and is snared Pro. 22. Let vs be wise now at the length and learne to hyde our selues in tyme vnder the sackcloath and in the ashes of repentaunce Let vs discharge that duety which the Apostle requireth Heb. 3 which is to exhorte one another and to edifie one another whiles it is called to day Let vs be aduised by Saint Iude euen to edifie our selues in our moste holy faith knowing this for an assured trueth that they which turne many to righteousnes shall shine as the stars for euer Daniel 12. 3. And that he that conuerteth a sinner from going astray shall saué a soule from death and shall hide a multitude of sinnes Iames. 5. ver 20. This duety therefore as we owe one to another and euery mā to his Neighbour so the Lord make vs carefull to performe it that we may be partakers with Israell of such grace and fauour as doeth belong vnto it Pars. 2. ANd the Lord hearkned and heard it ● Here you are to consider of a thréefolde comforte and encouragement which they receiued from the Lord. Whereof this is the first because he vouchsafed to heare them A maruellous grace they no sooner began to repent but the Lord gaue eare and heard them Who would not frame him selfe to the lyke conference and penitent conformity No no dearely beloued our God is not like to Baall he can