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A15765	A summons for sleepers Wherein most grieuous and notorious offenders are cited to bring forth true frutes of repentance, before the day of the Lord now at hand. Hereunto is annexed, a patterne for pastors, deciphering briefly the dueties pertaining to that function, by Leonard Wright.	Wright, Leonard, b. 1555 or 6.	1589 (1589)	STC 26034.3; ESTC S121115	49,627	64

and contagious kinde of vermine as intollerable amongest men as wolues amongst lambes Rauens ease not men till they be dead but these smooth glozing Arch-parasites with two faces in one hood like Ianus two tongs in a head like Iudas and two harts in a brest like Magus do dayly eat men quicke become so familiar with the superior sort that they bring to passe euen what they list so as the world séemeth to be diuided betweene the secret dissembler and the open blasphemer These parasites are therefore possessed with some great captaine deuil they sléepe in sinne the Lord of his mercie conuert them least they perish themselues or of his iustice confound them for infecting of others This land is also most vildely corrupted with intollerable pride with such a confused mingle mangle and varietie of apish toyes in apparell euery day flaunting in newe fashions to deforme Gods workemanship in theyr bodies as greate monstrous ruffes starched in the deuils licour and set with instruments of vanitie doublets with great burssen bellies as though theyr guts were ready to fall out some garded lyke French men some fringed lyke Venetians some their heads Turkish their backes Spanish and their wastes Italian some theyr hayre curled and theyr beardes writhen to make them looke grimme and terrible as though they had séene the deuil with long daggers at their backes to kill euery one they méet prouder than themselues with such riotous excesse and vaine curiositie that I thinke they haue made a league with Satan a couenant with hell and an obligation with the deuill to marry his eldest daughter they sléepe in sinne and are as easie to be waked or reformed as the olde worlde was at the preaching of Noe or the latter age at the preaching of Christ. Pride is the mother of hypocrisie the enemie of deuotion the nursse of enuie and the fountayne of all vice sinne was the cause why God did first giue vs apparell not as badges of pride to féede the eies of vaine gazing fooles but to couer our shame and kéepe vs from colde Quid superbis terra cinis quid veste nitida gloriaris subter te sternitur tinea operimentum tuum erunt vermes haec tua vestis erit Againe our Countrie is most horribly choaked and ouergrowne with multitudes of dronken tospots vile lecherous whooremongers and filthie intising drabs which vices doe so greatly offend both the maiestie of God the lawe of nature and the common wealth that if the very stones in the stréete could speake they would crie out vpon it Yet by meanes of greasing bribing and corrupting of officers put in trust to punish them it is no more accounted of but a sporte or game to laugh at as though heauen and hell were nothing else but olde wiues fables to feare and flatter children withall These are no doubt possessed with deuils they sléepe in sinne and it is high time to awake them If filthy whooremaisters would waigh with themselues how God doth know the very secrets of the hart that of his iustice he wil leaue no sin vnpunished either in this world or in the world to come they would surely be afraid to do that in his sight which is so shamefull lothsome odious to be done in the presence of an honest earthly man It is a thing most filthy against nature that a professed Christian an adopted child of God a member of Christ temple of the holy ghost redéemed with no lesse price than by shedding the very heart bloud of the deare only beloued son of God should take that same body mēber of Christ make it y e mēber of an harlot S. Gregory compareth lechery to a firy furnace whereof the mouth is gluttony y e flame pride y e sparkles filthy words the smoke an euil name the ashes pouertie the end shame cōfusion at the last saith Salomon it biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an Adder Whoordome besides y e infamy of the world it wasteth y e goods withereth y e body decaieth y e health shortneth the life maketh a man stinke in the sight of God The vice of dronkennesse in like manner consumeth the wealth surfets the bodie dulleth the wit dimmeth the vnderstanding troubleth the senses without repentance bringeth both bodie soule into hell And therefore if either the feare of God the shame of the worlde the desire to be in their right wits to liue in health of body or to escape the miserable state of beggerie may moue them to repentaunce amendment it is now time to awake detest auoid such horrible wickednes which doe iustly merit a short life a shamefull death There was neuer more sincere preaching nor so litle following so great perswasions to honestie vertue so many giuen ouer to vice naughtinesse so much exhortation to loue and charitie so many stuffed with hatred enuy We greatly complaine of the vnfruitfulnes of the earth the corruption of the aire the vnconstantnesse of the world time that slips so fast away but we complaine not against our owne selues for whose sinful liues the very heauens doo wéepe we professe to be the followers of Christ yet in Christian behauior much inferior to y e heathen Ethnicks that knew not God who passed vs as far in good liuing as we passe them in good learning we greatly delight to beare the name of Abrahams children yet not so willing to kil one wicked affection y t offēdeth God as Abraham was at his cōmandemēt to kill his only beloued sonne It is said that the Castor the Elephant being hūted the one for the vertue of his genitors the other for his tooth the Castor biteth off his genitors and the Elephant findeth a meane to wrest out his tooth cast them away to saue their bodies but our people had rather both preacher pulpit were set on a fire then they would cast away their filthie vices to saue both bodie and soule The sea-man knoweth his tide the Swallow her time and the Crane her season but our people are senselesse the tempestuous windes the waues of the sea and the verie deuils themselues did heare and obey his word but they sléepe so soundly in sinne that neither the infamy and shame of the world can moue them nor al gentle admonitions allure them nor the terrible threatnings of hell torments once feare them nor the filthinesse of sinne that séemed so odious to the verie infidels withdraw them nor the continuall preaching of all creatures vnder heauen persuade them to repent and amend Saint Anthony being a man vnlearned had no other bookes but these and he that can behold these excellent bookes setting foorth the wisedome and goodnesse of almightie God without praysing and glorifying his name is worse then a bruit beast The Sunne Moone and Starres by whose heate light the whole world

scriptures is taken for requiescere to rest as our Sauiour Christ came to his Disciples and found them a sléepe Christ himselfe slept in the sterne of the Ship and Peter slept betwéene two souldiers Againe in some places it is taken to sléepe in sepulchro the graue as Dauid and Salomon slept with their Fathers Behold saith Iob I must sléepe in the dust and Saint Paule saith The faithfull that are dead are fallen a sléepe in Christ But that sléepe which the Apostle doth here speake of is to sleepe in ignorance darkenesse and sinne The way of the vngodly is called darkenesse and shadow of death To wake vp this kinde of sleepers and rebuke the world of sinne is my chiefe intent and purpose in this booke Which is no doubt a thanklesse office and a verie vnthriftie occupation veritas odium parit truth neuer goeth without a scratcht face he that will be busie with vae vobis let him looke shortly for coram nobis So long as Micheas prophecied victorie against the Assyrians he was a trim Prophet but after when he tolde them the contrarie they had him in great disdaine When our Sauiour Christ fedde the people they woulde haue made him a king but after when he began to rebuke their naughtie manners they desired to haue him crucified euen so in these dayes our daintie eares can hardly abide to heare our vices touched Much like the foolish Asse that when he is a loading standeth stocke still but in taking the load off his backe doth yearke out behinde It may aptly be saide vnto our people as Martiall the Poet saide once to his friends My friendes saith he you will imbolden me to speake the truth and the truth is this that you can not abide to heare the truth He therefore that will boldly vtter his conscience without feare or flatterie shall hardly escape without imminent daunger Notwithstanding how odious and despised soeuer Gods Prophets shall séeme to the eyes of the world they must not be afraid to speake the truth to beate down the infection of sinne and wickednesse How dangerous soeuer it be for Lot to reproue the filthinesse of the Sodomites yet must he not cease to say vnto them I pray you my brethren doe not so wickedly Though it cost Iohn Baptist his heade yet must he not forbeare to say vnto Herod It is not lawfull for thée to haue thy brother Philips wife Though Nathans message séeme neuer so perillous yet must he not be afraid to say vnto Dauid Thou art the man it is thou that hast done this déede Elias must not be afraid to say vnto Achab It is thou and thy fathers house that hath brought this plague vpon Israel Ionas must not refuse to crye out in the stréetes of Niniuie Yet remaineth fortie daies and Niniuie shall be destroyed Our Sauiour Christ sent forth his Disciples as shéepe amongst woolues I haue giuen thée a face of brasse as hard as a flint stone that thou shalt not be afraide to tell my people their sins and offences saith the Lord. As Christ himselfe tooke all our sinnes vpon him so ought euerie good christian to take the iniuries done to Christ as his owne The Lord hateth as well him that iustifieth the vngodly as he that condemneth the innocent O Lord saith Dauid I haue alwaies hated those that loue not thée and béene a straunger to those that haue forsaken thy law Amicum esse licet saith the Philosopher sed vsque ad Aras Dauid woulde haue no friendes but those that were Gods friendes nor enimies but those that were Gods enimies and hee that will beare with the vice of his dearest friendes wherein God is offended is vnworthie the name of a christian And he that rebuketh vices where amendment doth follow killeth the sinner that man hath made and saueth the man whom God hath made We reade in the Gospel of certaine people that were possessed with diuels which Christ himselfe did cast out and gaue power to his Disciples to doe the like But I thinke in no age from the beginning was there euer so many possessed with diuelish spirits as in these our miserable dayes In old time Agar was more fruitful then Sara and in our time the Church is so barren the world so frutefull to bring forth huge swarmes of wicked impes that hard it is to finde one corner calling or kinde of life without them We reade of seuen principall or captaine diuels who haue alwaies borne a great sway amongst men The first called Lucifer the diuel of pride and presumption The second Belzebub the Lord of enuie and malice The third Sathan the maister of wrath and disdaine The fourth Abadan the patrone of sloth and idlenesse The fift Mammon the father of couetousnesse and snudgerie The sixt Belphegor the God of gluttonie and drunkennesse and The seuenth Asmodius the ruler of lecherie and whoredom And whosoeuer is infected with any of the saide vices be sure he is possessed with a great captaine diuel which must of necessitie be cast out or els of force the man must perish And surely the Clergie of long time haue beene verie careful and diligent in discharging their duetie herein so as the immortall seede of the Gospell since the Apostles time was neuer more plentifully sowne Notwithstanding the small testimonie of amendment declareth it to bee rather knowne then kept The people so louingly linckt in league with the diuel their eares are so deafe their sences so dull their willes so obstinate and their harts so barren as they haue neither sence to tast stomackes to disgest nor harts to credit except it feede their filthie infected humors I thinke if the preachers should go in sackcloth like Esay or with yrons about their neckes like Ieremie yet were there small hope of amendment If those good auncient Fathers who complained so grieuously of the wretchednesse of their time did sée the horrible abuses and vile corruptions of our age they would wonder at our follie and burst out in teares at our miserie Or if Saint Paule himselfe were here now to sée our pittilesse dayes when charitie is growne so colde and humanitie almost forgotten no doubt he would wonder and say Surely these people are possessed with diuels they sléepe in sinne and it is high time to wake them And first to beginne with the great rich giants and couetous prowling cormorants of this land aboundance of wealth hath so bewitched their vnsatiable mindes and taken such rooting in their flintie harts that neither the feare of God the infamie of the world nor hell mouth that gapes for them can once staunch their greedie desires There is such ioyning of house to house ground to ground fielde to fielde land to land farme to farme and liuing to liuing to maintain their proud backes golden heades and costly throates still scraping for superfluitie that the poore can

day so within the compasse of sixe thousand yeares he will gather his Church by the ministerie of his word and the seuenth kéepe holy his euerlasting Sabboth Againe that Henoch and Elias the one in generation the other in computation in yeares being the seuenth from Adam the first in not tasting of temporall death as y e other sixe fathers before him was a figure of the last day the second being taken vp in a fierie chariote did prefigure the ascention of the elect méeting their Redéemer in the cloudes Hereupon they conclude that the world shall not stand aboue sixe thousand yeares And to prooue it shall not stand so long they alleage the saying of our Sauiour Christ that for the elects sake the dayes of our affliction shalbe shortened againe where the Angel Vriell answered Esdras about thrée thousand and fiue hundred yeares after the creation of the worlde that the time past was much more then the time to come and where it was prescribed in the lawe that about the euening of the sixt day the Sabboth should beginne And as the Israelites were deliuered from bandage by Moses in the sixt yéere so shall the Christians be deliuered from their wearisom bondage of this wicked world by Christ in the sixe age Then come they to ayme at a certaine yeare comparing the time frō the birth of our Sauiour Christ vnto his passion being thrée thirtie yeares with the time that Luther and other godly men beganne to preach the Gospell till the great persecution of the members of Christ in Germany by the Pope and Charles the fift being the like quantitie of yeares And the time from his passion vntill the destruction of Ierusalem a figure of the end of the world being fortie yeares with the time from the said persecution till the yeare of grace 1588. the like quantitie of fortie yeares They note moreouer that in euerie 7. and 9. yeare of mans life called Climacterian yeares doe happen great alterations and dangers diuers famous men haue ended their liues in the same as Luther Melancthon Munster Peter Martyr with diuers others so haue there happened in euery seuenth age of the world great alterations and changes and in the saide yeare 1588. the age of the world being deuided by seuen maketh iust seuen times nine or nine times seuen Againe after seuen times seuen was alwayes the yeare of Iubile hereunto agreeth an old Prophecie recited by Melancthon and translated out of Germanicall rime into Latin by Cyprian and after Englished as followeth When after Christs birth there be expired Of hundreths 15. yeares eightie and eight Then commeth the time of dangers to be feared And all mankinde with dangers it shall fright For if the world in that yeare doo not fall If sea and land then perish ne decay Yet Empires all and kingdoms alter shall And man to ease himselfe shall finde no way But leauing these learned men with their learned coniectures whose iudgements are yet more tollerable then those mockers which S. Peter speaketh of who shall come in the latter dayes and say where is the promise of his comming for since the fathers died all things continue in the same estate wherein they were at the beginning and let vs content our selues with the words of our sauiour Christ of that day and houre knoweth no man no not the Angels in heauē nor yet the sonne himselfe saue the father onely the day of the Lord wil come as a théef in the night as it was in the daies of Noe and Lot so shall it be in the day when the son of man will come they eate dranke married and were married and the floud and the fire came and destroied them all Yet our louing Redéemer of a singular affection to comfort his poore afflicted members hath forewarned vs of certaine signes and tokens which should appeare before his comming by the course whereof we may easily coniecture the euents following as the comming of Antichrist and his false prophets rumors of warres hungers and pestilence persecutions troubles abounding of wickednesse eclips of Sunne and Moone and the vniuersall preaching of the Gospell and left vs an example of the figge trée which beginning to bud doe manifestly shew that summer is neare And as beholding a man whose eyes waxe dim his eares deafe his head bald his face wrinckled his haire white and hoarie his backe crooked his legges twofold vnder him his tongue to falter his téeth to fall out of his head his bloud to be cold and his bodie féeble and sickely which are all incident to humaine nature they be euident tokens to shew that the ende of his naturall life is at hand Euen so when we sée these signes aforesaid come to passe they doe most certainely premonish and forewarne all the people vpon the earth whom the endes of the worlde are come vpon that the day of the Lord is not farre behind That Antichrist is reuealed and all these signes and tokens past alreadie all christendome haue felt the smart therof and our present age can witnesse So many authours of sects and brochers of deuilish heresies were neuer heard of before in any age from the beginning who hath not either felt or heard what rumors of wars vprores and blood shed in all lands For hunger and famine Samaria Ierusalem and Sanxurie with a number of other places where through extremitie they haue béene driuen to eate not onely venemous beasts and their owne ordure but also their owne children can testifie Again who hath not read or hard what wonderful strange eclips of sun moone terrible blazing stars glistering comets dreadful coniunctiōs of planets strange flashing of fire in the elements alteration of the heauens resembling as it were the coūtenance of the angry Iudge What raging swelling of the floods feareful trembling quaking of y e earth horrible tempests vehemēt winds vnseasonable wether what lothsome monsters other prodigious sights contrary to y e course of nature so as it seemes that al y e creatures of God are angry and threaten our destruction All which no doubt are Gods Heralds of armes to shew vnto the world that himself is not farre behind Againe the vniuersall preaching of the Gospell in spight of Antichrist and his cursed crew so as no Nation can iustly excuse it self and say they haue not heard the sound thereof And yet notwithstanding such grieuous abounding of all wickednes that if the Lord should not come quickly no flesh should be saued againe the earth it selfe waxeth weake and féeble for age therefore not so fruitfull as in times past plants and herbes haue lesse vertue Againe the yeares doe change their natural course euery yeare bringeth foorth new tidings euery liuing creature liueth shorter time then heretofore this is called aetas decrepita and therefore euen by course of nature it must néedes be that the day of the Lord is at

hand that our Redéemer is euen readie comming to iudge the earth to kéepe his generall Parlement of reformation to search Ierusalem throughout with candle light to reuenge the bloud of his seruants recompence their enemies as they haue serued them reward thē according to their wickednes He commeth triumphing in maiestie honour accompanied with Angels Arch-angels and all the hostes of heauen he commeth with the voice of a fearefull trumpet at whose terrible sound the very heauens shall m●oue the seas shall roare the cloudes shall rent and the earth shall tremble and quake a consuming fire shall go before him and a mightie tempest shal be stirred vp round about him when great Iericho shal be cast down with the blast of Iosuaes trumpets when none shall scape safe but the house or Rahab the harlot which receiued the messengers that is to say those penitent sinners which obediently receiue the message of the Gospel when all soules shall be ioyned to their bodies and gathered from the foure corners of the world to receiue iust reward celestiall or infernall when euery one shall be called to yéeld account of his talent how he hath imploied his welth wisdom strength or beautie to the benefite and profite of his brethren howe he hath ruled his affections mortified his appetites and behaued himselfe in his calling When his obedient children shall be deuided from the wicked reprobates and go méete their louing redéemer in the cloudes of whom they shall heare that ioyfull sentence pronounced with a chearefull countenance Come ye blessed of my father inherite the kingdome prepared for you from before the foundation of the world was laid when the wicked shal heare that dreadful sentence pronounced of their angry Iudge depart from me ye cursed into euerlasting fire prepared for the diuell and his angels when they shall sée and féele without them the worlde burning with fire within them the worme of conscience euer gnawing aboue them their vnappeasable Iudge condemning them beneath them the horrible confusion of hell torments prepared to deuour them on their right hand their sinnes accusing them on their left hand the cruell enemy readie to execute Gods eternall sentence agaynst them then will they confesse but too late that the Iudgements of God are true say did not wée heare of this then will they cry vnto the Lord but he will not heare them and desire the mountains to fall vpon them but all in vaine they will not doe them so much pleasure fire and brimstone storme and tempest this shall be their portion to drinke there shalbe wéeping wailing and gnashing of téeth whose dolefull lamētable shrikes horrible gréeuous grones déepe hollow sighes terrible lothsome lookes sorrowful mourning complaints sad melancholy thoughts and heauie pensiue conceits no tongue is able to expresse for they goe to frie in perpetuall torments wiithout remission and vtter confusion without redemption The dreadful place appointed for the execution of Gods vengeance hath diuers names in the holy Scriptures most terrible to our senses tending all to expresse vnto vs the grieuousnesse of punishment as horrible darknes vnquenchable fire vnsatiable hunger and the gnawing of a worme to signifie the miserable oppression hurling downe it is called Infernus a dungeon of Gods wrath or bottomlesse pit to signifie the intollerable paine without ceasing or end it is compared to a burning lake the burning whereof is fire and much wood and the vreath of the Lorde as a riuer of fire and brimstone doth kindle it it is also called Gehenna of Ge and hinnum which signifieth a vallie nigh vnto Ierusalem wherein was a Chappell wherein the Idolatrous Iewes did offer and sacrifice their children vnto a brasen Image called Moloch which being made hote inclosed them in the hollownes therof and so slue them and lest their shriking should moone any to pitie them they made an hideous noise with tabrets and drums whereupon the place was called Tophet thus will the Lorde speake to his enemies in his wrath and vexe them in his sore displeasure when his faithfull obedient children shal passe the Emperiall heauens with their louing redéemer to ioye in felicitie for euer with Abraham Isaac and Iacob with all the number of godly Patriarks the goodly fellowship of the Prophets the glorious company of the Apostles the noble armie of Martyrs with Angels Archangels al the ioyfull troups of heauenly powers The ioyes of heauen are pleasant ioyes our eies cannot sée them our eares cannot heare them our hearts cannot conceiue them nor our tongues expresse them as if a man should promise his horses a good banquet they coulde imagine no other but prouender and water to be their best cheare because they know no daintier dishes euen so the natuall man accustomed to the puddle of fleshly pleasure his minde can mount no higher to perceiue discerne or vnderstand the things that be of God so as the ioyfull plaeasures of heauen are hidden frō his senses But séeing the wise men that came so far from the East did ioy so much to sée Christ in the poore manger it must néeds be much more ioyful to sée him in his state of glory Séeing our vile corruptible bodies receiue of his goodnesse so many benefits and pleasures to abreuiate our wearinesse in this wretched vale of miserie where euery of his creatures doe serue vs in their kinde no doubt our heauenly palace where we shall sée him face to face conteineth maruellous great and ioyfull pleasures Séeing wée receiue so many comfortable blessings in the day of sorrow and mourning much greater shall our pleasures be in the ioyfull day of marriage Séeing the prison and painfull pilgrimage contain such things much more shall we finde in our heauenly paradice when we shall depart from paine and miserie to ioy and felicitie whē death sorrow and griefe shall be cleane taken away all teares wiped from our eyes If a séely poore man wandring alone vpon the mountaines out of his way in the midst of a darke tempestuous night voide of companie destitute of money beaten with raine terrified with thunder wearied with trauel striffe with cold famished with hunger and wrapt in all kind of misery should presently vpon a sudden be placed in a goodly rich pallace with cleare light warme fire swéete smels soft beds daintie meats pleasant company and delightfull Musicke to comfort and cheare him who could expresse the sudden ioy of that poore miserable wretch yet is it nothing in comparison of those vnspeakeable ioyes prepared for Gods elect children in his heauēly paradice where is no serpent to tempt vs any more but glory without comparison riches without measure day without night life without death libertie without thraldome solace without cessing and ioy without ending to which kingdome the eternall God the father the sonne and the holy Ghost bring vs. A prayer HElpe Lord for