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A68093	The practise of preaching, otherwise called the Pathway to the pulpet conteyning an excellent method how to frame diuine sermons, & to interpret the holy Scriptures according to the capacitie of the vulgar people. First written in Latin by the learned pastor of Christes Church, D. Andreas Hyperius: and now lately (to the profit of the same Church) Englished by Iohn Ludham, vicar of Wethersfeld. 1577.; De formandis concionibus sacris. English	Hyperius, Andreas, 1511-1564.; Ludham, John, d. 1613.; Orth, Wigand, 1537-1566.	1577 (1577)	STC 11758.5; ESTC S122044	265,657	396

iudgement when as wretched man is so many wayes euery where beset with perils and for the causes that he least supposeth found giltie of sinne For by this meanes the whole worlde is in daungered to God and God concludeth al men vnder vnbeléefe which neuerthelesse we may not so interpret to be done that he shoulde destroy all men and damne them for euer but rather that he shoulde haue compassion vpon all men and by that meanes set forth and make knowne his goodnesse euery where Howbeit these thinges doe admonishe all the sorte of vs that we should be sober vigilant ware circumspect and that we should studiously avoyde not onely open and manifest but also priuy and secret sinnes yea all occasion of sinne and euen suspition also We are lilke vnto Pilgrimes or to those that trauaile in a straunge and vnknowne country by waies in which we are euery moment in daunger of théeues wilde and venemous beasts waters downe falles such lyke hurtful and perillous things The diuell the worlde and our flesh doe neuer cease to lye in awayt for vs they séeke by a thousand wiles to draw vs into their nets and snares But we must resist valiantly striue against thē by faith prayers fastings by the word of God and other spiritual weapons which Christe the inuincible confounder of all vices and wicked spirites hath prepared hath vouched safe to shew vs how we should vse them 1. Pet. 5. Ephe. 5. Math. 4.17 c. Thou séest what great plenty of things doe offer themselues and how large fields are opened vnto him that wyll procéede after this maner Wherfore we will make an ende In asmuch as the other questions may be reserued tyll an other time namely that touching the causes of sinne and another touchinge the effectes of which sort in the scriptures are handeled no smal number and alas wretches that we be in so many troubles and calamities of our times great store may dayly be obserued But forasmuch as death also is numbred amonge the effects of sinne we will adde lykewise an example but briefely handeled as thouching this He that will speake therfore of death may aptly prefixe two questions out of which he shall finde sufficient plenty of matters that he may declare to the commodytie of his hearers Let them therfore be these What death is and what the effects of death For a description or definition of death this may be had Death is the penalty of sinne iustly inflicted of god vnto al men like as al men also are sinners It is deriued of the causes and aboundantly proued by the testimonies of the scriptures God threateneth the payne of death vnto sinners The reward of sinne is death Through one man sinne entred into the world and through sinne death and so death came vpō al men inasmuch as al we haue sinned In which place are touched the chiefe causes of death man I say sinne whervnto may be added out of Gene. 2. the the Serpent also or the diuell is the author of death which to the Hebrues 2. is sayd to holde the empier of death Heb 9 it is saide This is appointed to all men that they shall once dye and after that commeth the iudgement Out of which places diuers and sundry things may be drawen to demonstrate more amply what Death is And by like industrye may the godly be excited to true humilitie of minde to the contempt of carthly thinges to passe theyr lyfe in the feare of God to call vpon Gods mercy for the intigation of the paynes whiche we through our sinnes haue deserued c. When he shall come to the question of the effectes it shal be necessary to discerne the effects of death in the Godly from the effects of death in the vngodly and that partlye by this meanes first The godly are perswaded that death shal in no wise happen vnto thē to their condemnation destruction but rather to their health and saluation inasmuch as the sentence of dampnation now long since pronounced agaynst vs is by the death of Christe vtterlye cancelled and rased out The law of the spirite of lyfe through Christe Iesus hath made me free from the law of sinne and death Christe by his death hath abolished the power of death Christe hath once suffered for our sinnes the iust for the vniust that he might bring vs to god We know that if our earthly māsion of this tabernacle bee destroyed wee haue an other building of God a mansion not made with handes but eternal in heauen But as touching the vngodly● they know that death is appointed to them as a moste bitter paine doe féele vndoubtedly the heauy iudgement of damnation by reason whereof it commeth to passe also that in temptations but chiefely in their extreame conflictes they are vehemently troubled afflicted and doe miserably faint and giue ouer I will not say for the most parte vtterly dispayre For what can they els doe in whom remayneth no hope or confidence at all touching the remission of their sinnes Euill shall slea the vngodly and they that hate the rightuous shall be desolate Secondly The godly forasmuch as they suffer continually many aduersities and so long as they liue in this worlde are vexed of the vngodly doe willingly longe after death and with ioyfull mindes imbrace it as they that are not ignoraūt that by it is giuen vnto them an entraunce to a happy blessed life I desyre saith Saint Paule to be dissolued and be with Christ We mourne inwardly in our selues for the adoption looking for the redemption of our body We grone in this our tabernacle longing to be translated into that which is from heauen And after a few words Wee truste and doe better lyke to be farre away absent from the body and to be present with God. And 2. Pet. 1. Death is called the putting off of this tabernacle On the other side the vngodlye for that they enioy héere in this life wealth prosperitie and all thinges happen vnto them for the moste part after their hartes desyre are plucked away sore against their willes and doe take it very grieuouslye if a man doth but once make mention of death vnto them But what followeth When they flatter themselues most of all and thinke to settle themselues heere most sure sayinge O soule thou haste great aboundance of wealth enioye it at thy pleasure Not long after yea the very same time when they least do suspect they héere it sayde Thou foole this night shall they fetch thy soule from thee And generally both of the godly and vngodly we reade 2. Thes 1. It is a rightuous thing with God to render vnto those that persecute you afflictiō vnto you that are persecuted peace tranquilitie with vs when our lord Iesus shall be reuealed from heauen And moreouer Abrahā saieth vnto the ritch man Luk. 16. Sonne remēber that thou in thy life time receiuedst

within thy palaces In the second tome is read an homilie concerninge those words of Math. 25 That which ye haue done to one of these little ones ye haue done vnto mee In the thirde tome are expounded in entire Sermons these places out of Iohn 4. The true worshippers shall worship the father in spirite and trueth Out of Iohn 15. Yee are my friends if ye doe whatsoeuer I commaund you which sentence he explaneth in two homilies Out of the i. Cor. xi There must be heresies that the approued might be knowen Out of other writers other examples may be had Howbeit whensoeuer the members of a sentence or any place be in that order which is spoken off expounded and declared it is the parte truely of a wise interpreter to consyder what speciall poyntes bene expedient out of them according to the state of the church and the publike vtilitie or necessitie either largely or compendiouslye to be handeled This thing is also to be vnderstoode that those to whom it apperteyneth to preache of present businesse affaires offered by occasion doe sometimes excerpte some sentence or place out of the scripture and apply it to their purpose somtimes agayne vse no place of scripture at all in the beginninge What time therefore they prefixe to their Sermon any place of Scripture they shall very aptlye haue recourse vnto that forme of interpreting whiche in this presente Chapter we haue indeuoured to shew and commend vnto all men ¶ A simple Theame how it ought to be discussed in the kinde Didascalick Cap. VIII OFt times in this didascalik kind in which we are yet busy hauing one while no reding or sentence of the holy scriptures going before an other while agayne after the somewhat hath bene declared out of the scriptures it behoueth vs to handle simple theames and to entreat somtime more largely somtime more briefely of faith loue hope the law sinne death of the Gospel and such like Luke reporteth Act. 24. that Saint Paule disputed before the president Felix as touching iustice and temperaunce of the iudgement to come Which disputations would god we might haue had they would haue bene no doubt greatly for our commodyty Neuerthelesse we will assay to exhibit a certayne order of examining those theames profytable and easye to be knowne to all men It must bee called to remembraunce that there were two formes or orders of places of inuention once attrybuted of vs vnto this kinde in the former wherof we reherced the diuine places of vs afterwarde termed somewhere generall that is to say doctrine redargution institution correction and consolation in the latter we disposed partly the places which commonlye after the receyued maner they call logicall and reduce them to certayne questions partelye other also taken out of Diuinitie it selfe Now therfore let vs sée howe by the direction and ayde of those places a single theme may and ought to be expounded with the fruite of the hearers But to the intente all this deuise may become the more cléere and euery man the sooner perceiue it wee will comprise in certayne obseruations whatsoeuer conduceth therevnto I It séemeth good by all meanes that he that wyll declare a simple theme doe prescribe to himselfe following the example of the Logicians a certayne order of questions and exactly serch First What it is of which the sacred Sermon is appointed secondly what partes or how many formes be thereof thirdelye what the causes bee fourthly what the duties or effectes fyftely what thinges be of aliaunce therevnto sixtly and lastely what contraries it hath Neither shall any man thinke this order to be dispised séeing it is very much profytable as well for the teacher as also for the learners to haue a certayne method reteined and kept But me thinketh I here some man obiecting vnto me that this forme of entreating which I speake off is more frequented of Aristotle and of his followers the Logicians then of the Diuines And that very seldom or neuer among the prophets or holye fathers are to be founde any sermons simply declared in this method Verily I wyll say that which is trueth To the enserching and drawing forth of the nature of euery thing out of darknesse as many certes as are wisely occupyed in the office of preaching so oft as they wyll entreat of simple theames doe set before them as a rule this order of questions But yet this difference is to be marked betwene a Logician or philosopher and a diuine preacher The Logician truely by his owne proper right as he the vndertaketh and promiseth that he will vtter bring forth whatsoeuer may probably be sayde of euery argument that is offered imagineth the he hath disciples desyrous to bee come philosophers very curiouslye and subtelty pursueth the course of all the saide questions But the Diuine and specially the Preacher whiche professeth himselfe to be the teacher of the whole multitude and in it of a greate number of vnlearned suffereth not his oration to be enclosed in so narrow straightes but as one raunging in a champion fielde choseth those questions onely to be explaned whiche he supposeth to be moste congruent to the vnderstanding of his hearers and also most fyt for the place and time Wherfore albeit be premeditating at home in his studye what thinges are expedyent to bee propounded in the Church haue those questions before his eyes as the moderators of his thoughtes yet after that hee hath some while debated the matter he sticketh faste in the inuestigation onelye of one or two or els of thrée questions at the most Herevpon therfore grew the custome whereby for the most part the pastors of churches do in the first place learnedly discouer what the thing is of whiche they purpose to entreate Where if they be perswaded that the thing is knowen already to the hearers then with good cause pretermit they that question From thence they procéede to an other question whiche they déeme to be most conueniente for the place time and persones and doe alledge somewhat peraduenture of the thirde question whiche is as touching the causes This being accomplished they passe to that whiche is the fourth in number namely concerninge the duties or effectes And in this wise with the explication of two or haply of thrée questions they make account to satisfy their hearers Somtimes and that not seldome there happen thinges which in no cace doe admit all the said questions in Diuinitie As for example there is offered a thing that can be deuided into no parts or formes Why then should there be a question prefixed of diuers partes or formes In lyke maner when there can be giuen no contraryes of a thing doubtles it were very ridiculous to assigne a question to be discussed of contraryes To be short there may happen also such a theame as may easely be conueighed through all the orders of questions yet notwithstandinge the godlye Preacher forasmuche as he enioyeth as I sayde frée