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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18384	A sermon preached at Farington in Barkeshire, the seuenteene of Februarie, 1587 At the buriall of the right Honorable the Ladie Anne Countes of Warwicke, daughter to the Duke of Sommerset his grace, and widowe of the right worshipfull Sir Edward Vmpton knight. By Bartholomew Chamberlaine, Doctor of Diuinitie.	Chamberlaine, Bartholomew, 1545 or 6-1621.	1591 (1591)	STC 4952; ESTC S118615	11,801	34

shewed vnto vs. O that wée could remember thrée thinges past What good thinges wee haue omitted what euill things we haue committed what time we haue lost O that we could consider thrée thinges present The breuity of our life The difficulty to be saued The paucity of them which shall be saued O that we could foresée thrée thinges to come The houre of death then which no thing more vncertaine The resurrection to iudgement then which nothing more terrible The paines of hell then which nothing more intollerable Remember the ende and thou shalt neuer do amisse The end of sinne is death Here is a spectacle a Ladie by birth a Countes by mariage by title right honorable a widow of a vertuous life a woman of many yeares a mother of good children whose bodie death hath killed whose soule Christ hath taken whose bodie must to the earth whose soule is in the hands of God Beholde in her the ende of all flesh for as we are so was she and as she is so shal we be that her trusty Seruants that her faithfull frendes that her worshipfull déere and louing children seing God hath wrought his will vpon her as in time also he will vpon you and vpon all flesh by calling her from earth to heauen from men to Saintes to Angels to the fruition of his most glorious presence praise God for her Let your lamentations be mixed with moderation because she is gone from a vale of miserie to a hauen of all happines and when Christ which is her life shall appéere then shall shée also appeare with him in glorie For though her bodie be sowen in corruption yet it shall be raised in incorruption Though it be sowen in dishonor yet it shall be raised in glorie Though it be sowen in weakenes yet it shall be raised in power Though it be sowen a naturall body yet it shall be raised a spirituall body when this corruptible hath put on incorruption and this mortall hath put on immortality Who may stand in thy sight when thou art angry THe earth which drinketh in the raine that cometh often vpon it bringeth forth hearbes meete for them by whom it is dressed receiueth blessing of God But that which beareth bryars and thornes is reproued and is neare vnto cursing whose end is to be burned who so heareth Christes wordes and doth the same is likened to a wise man which hath builded his house on a rocke and the raine fell and the floudes came and the windes blewe and beat vpon that house and it fell not for it was grounded on a rocke But whosoeuer heareth Christes wordes and doth them not is compared to a foolish man which builded his house on the sand and the raine fell and the flouds came and the windes blew and beat vpon that house and it fell and the fall thereof was great If any heare the word and doth it not he is like vnto a man that beholdeth his naturall face in a glasse for when he hath considered himselfe he goeth his way and forgetteth immediatly what manner a one he was But who so looketh in the perfect law of libertie and continueth therein he not being a forgetfull hearer but a doer of the worke shall be blessed in his déede When a woman with a lifted vp voice had saide to Christ Blessed is the wombe that bare thée and the pappes which gaue thée sucke he answered yea rather blessed are they which heare the word of God and kéepe it He that hath my commaundements saith Christ and kéepeth them he is he that loueth me He that hath them saith Augustine in his beliefe and kéepes them in his life he that hath them in his wordes and kéepes them in his workes he that hath them by hearing and kéepes them by doing He that hath them by doing and kéepes them by continuing in doing he and none but he loueth Christ The fruitles trée is good for nothing but to be cut downe and cast into the fire That saucy marchaunt which intruded himselfe into the marriage of the kinges sonne without his wedding garment was not onely checked but also commaunded to be bound hand and foote to be taken away and cast into vtter darkenesse where shall be wéeping and gnashing of téeth The figge trée which had leaues but no fruite was by our Sauiour accursed for euer The foolish virgins which had lampes without oyle though they cryed Lord Lord open vnto vs yet they receiued a short and sharpe answere verily I say vnto you I know you not That euil slouthfull and vnprofitable seruant which hid his maisters talent in the earth had it both taken from him and was cast into vtter darknesse where shall be wéeping and gnashing of téeth That therefore we may be doers of the word and not hearers onely deceiuing our owne salues that the word may be vnto vs not the sauour of death vnto death but the sauour of life vnto life That the worde may be vnto vs liuely and mighty in operation and sharper then any two edged sword and enter through euen to the deuyding a sunder of the soule and the spirit and of the iointes and the marow and may be a disterner of the thoughts and intents of our harts so that all thinges in vs may be new let vs by humble prayer looke vp to almightie God in the glorious face of Iesus Christ When sinners once begin to despise the riches of Gods bountifulnesse and patience and long sufferance not knowing that the goonesse of God leadeth them to repentance when walking in the vanitie of their minde in darkenesse of their vnderstanding in straungenesse from the life of God through the ignorance in them in hardnesse of their hart and being past féeling shall giue them selues vnto wantonnesse to worke all vncleannesse euen with gréedinesse when they shall turne the grace of our God into wantonnesse and deny God the onely Lord and our Sauiour Iesus Christ ledde with sensualitie as natural brute beastes walking after the flesh in the lusts of wantonnes when they shall thinke it lost labour to serue God and no profit to kéepe his commandements neither to walke humbly before the face of the Lord of hostes when they shall say to them selues our life is short and tedious our breath is as a smoke in our nostrels our wordes as a sparke raised out of our harte our spirits vanish away as the soft ayre our bodies shall be turned into dust our life shall passe away as the trace of a cloud our time is as a very shadow our workes shall soone be forgotten our name no man shall haue in remembrance come on therefore let vs enioy the pleasures that are present let vs be partakers of our voluptuousnesse let vs leaue some token of our pleasure in euery corner let the law of vnrighteousnes be our strēgth let vs eate and drinke for to morrow wee shall dye when neither often warnings by his preachers nor faire promises of rewarde nor

roome to receiue in my fruites This wil I do I wil pul downe my barnes and set vp larger in their places and therein wil I gather my fruites my goods No mention of a thankful mind no consideration of God no regarde of the poore neighbour but how to enlarge the barns to gather in his fruites horde them vp then I wil say to my soule soule thou hast goodes layde vp in store for many yeares liue at ease eate drinke take thy pastime He remembreth not God he forgetteth death he trusteth in māmon he maketh account of many yeares he purposeth to line in sensualitie in ease in eating in drinking in pastime But God heard him and answered him O foole thou makest account of many yeares this night wil they fetch away thy soule from thée then whose shall all these thinges be which thou hast gathered together euen so saith our Sauiour by the way of applicatiō is it with him which is rich in this world and is not rich in God Some are rich in God but not in the world as Lazarus was some rich in the world but not in God as this Diues was some both rich in the world and rich in God as Abraham was some neither rich in the world nor in God as those poore beggers which haue nothing yet doe contemne the word of God Heare another parable There was a Iudge in a certaine Citie which feared not God nor reuerenced men And there was a widow in the Citie which came to him saying Do me iustice against mine aduersary and he would not for a time but afterwarde he saide within him selfe though I feare not God nor reuerēce men yet because this widow troubleth me I will doe her right lest at the last she come and make me weary He saide it within him selfe but the Lord heard him and answered saying Heare what the vnrighteous Iudge saith and shall not the Lord auenge his people which crye vnto him day and night yes surely he wil do it though for a time he differ Comfortable to the godly it is that God heareth all their sayings and terrible to the wicked it may be that the Lord heareth all their wordes As there is in God no corporall member so is he voide of passions which procéed from infirmity The gifts and calling of God are without repentance I am the Lord I am not chaunged with God there is no variablenesse nor shadow of turning God is not as man that he should lye neither as the sonne of man that he should repent hath he saide and shall he not do it and hath he spoken and shall he not accomplish it God in nature can not be chaunged but in quality he may whatsoeuer is in God is of his substance Nullum accidens cadit in Deum In God is knowledge without ignorance wisedom in perfection iustice without respect of persons mercy without measure and what els not that pertaineth to excellency and all these are of his substāce God is not sometime forgetful sometime mindeful sometime pleased sometime displeased as man is These things are spoken for mans capacitie He is saide to be forgetful when for a time he withdraweth his supporting hand from his for their tryall he is saide to be mindful when he deliuereth such as call vpon him faithfully He is saide to be pleased when he poureth his blessings vppon his seruants He is saide to be angry whē he punisheth the wicked delighting in sinne God spared not the Angels that had sinned but cast them downe into hell and deliuered them into the chaines of darknesse to be kept vnto condemnation God spared not the olde world that had sinned but saued Noe y ● eight person a Preacher of righteousnes brought in the floud vpon the worlde of the vngodly God spared not the cities of Sodome Gomorrah that had sinned but turned them into ashes condemned them and ouerthrew them and made them an example vnto them that after should liue vngodly If God spared not the Angels that had sinned if hee spared not the old world that had sinned if he spared not the Cities of Sodome and Gomorrah that had sinned if he spared not the natural branches shal we thinke he will spare vs which are as proude as Lucifer as voluptuous as Sardanapalus as enuious as Cain that first murtherer as malicious as Esau as cruel as Phalaris as lecherous as Amon which defiled his own fister as mistrustful as Ananias as couetous as Iudas which for money betrayed his Lorde and maister as sinfull as the olde worlde as filthie as Sodome as much giuen to lying as euer was Saphira Dearely beloued let vs not deceiue our selues forasmuch as we say Lord Lord yet doe not the wil of our heauenly father and do acknowledge the way of righteousnesse yet do turne from the holy commandement giuē vnto vs and haue a shew of godlinesse yet haue denyed the power thereof forasmuch as our sinnes are growne ripe crye to heauen for vengeance therefore we may feare destruction If ye refuse the word of the Lorde as ye do and be rebellious against him as ye are ye shal either be deuoured with y t sword or killed with the pestilence or cōsumed with fire or starued with hunger for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it But if ye wil take away the euil of your workes from before the eyes of the Lord of hostes cease to do euil and learne to do wel ye shal both eat the good thinges of the land as hetherto ye haue done and though your sins were as crimsin they shall be made white as snow though they were red as scarlet they shalbe as woll otherwise ye may feare suddaine destruction For when no other meanes may preuaile then the Lorde striketh suddenly Suddenly hee threw the proude angels out of heauen suddenly he drowned the olde sinful world suddēly he burned the cities of Sodom Gomorrah for iniquitie suddenly he stroke dead Ananias and Saphira for lying suddenly hee consumed Herod with wormes for robbing him of his glory The day of the Lorde shall come as a théefe in the night that is suddenly wherein the heauens shall passe away with a noyce the elements shal melt with heat the earth and the workes that are therein shalbe burnt vp séeing therefore that all these things must be dissolued what maner persons ought ye to be in holy conuersation godlines But what manner of people are the greatest part proude without humility malicious without charitie cruel without compassion couetous without measure vaine without vertue vilde without the feare of God like to y e horse and mule in whom there is no vnderstanding and therefore heare the iudgements of God The indignation of a prince is death saith Salomon If the indignation of a mortal prince be death to the subiect the displeasure of the king euerlasting immortal inuisible of God only wise the king of kings and Lord of Lords is euerlasting