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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13966	An apologie, or defence of our dayes, against the vaine murmurings & complaints of manie wherein is plainly proued, that our dayes are more happie & blessed than the dayes of our forefathers.	Trigge, Francis, 1547?-1606.	1589 (1589)	STC 24276; ESTC S103280	42,588	50

against her daughter and the daughter against her mother the daughter in lawe against her mother in lawe and the mother in lawe against her daughter in lawe And euen nowe the world marueiles slaunders and complayneth at these discentions of sonnes and fathers against the Gospell and name of Iesus This thing in my opinion that Sathan goeth about is that he might quite abolish and take away credite from the Gospell Our Sauiour Iesus hath foretold vs the same thing so often that we should not be offended thereat The Lorde by this meanes tryeth some whether they will rather sticke to their olde father Zebebe mending his nettes or with Iames and Iohn forsake al and following Iesus Christ calling them Whether at the Lordes commaundement they woulde forsake Sodome with Lot and his daughters or for their owne pleasure with his wife they would looke backe and be turned into a piller of salt Other some by this meanes the Lorde quite refuseth and casteth of who being well brought vp of their parentes and in true religion yet they had rather quite cast off the feare of God and obedience to their parents to shake hands with the Prince of darkenesse Gods vtter enimie then to tread the trace of Gods holy commaundements and of their fathers holesome instructions And are not such children both of God their father of man their father iustly to be forsaken Neither the agreemēt concord of al men in the darkenesse and ignorance of the Popes religion whereof they bragge so greatly doeth auaile anye thing to the confirmation and trueth of that blinde and superstitious religion For in the night season if wee marke wel as thinges are quiet and peaceable Naye the quietnes and peace of the night is farre greater then the quietnes of the daye But who woulde then therefore commende the night before the daye Such was their blinde and darke peace concorde and agréement which they had Againe Sathan himselfe hath a certaine kinde of vnitie in his kingdome as our Sauiour witnesseth in the Gospell If Sathan should rise against Sathan and be deuided saith he he could not continue but should haue an ende Sathan therefore in his kingdome hath a peace and surely to our outwarde senses a farre greater peace then the Church of God hath which outwardly in this worlde like a shippe is tossed hither and thither and is neuer at rest But he lacketh that inwarde peace that peace of conscience which the Church and housholde of God onely enioyeth Though Sathan his members do make a faire shewe of peace and quietnes outwardly yet they are tormented and vexed inwardly So that outward peace is no argument of trueth but rather that other inward peace For that craftie serpent créepeth softly and goeth stilye and bringeth in vnder hande like a craftie iuggler without any noyse without any wordes all his trishe trashe But this peace ouerthrowes the workes of God denounceth warre to his worde this creeping stealeth the worde of God from the heartes naye from the eares from the eyes and knowledge of all Christians Hitherto tendeth all his stealing steppes to this end his quiet times Such was the vnitie or securitie or drowsines rather of the former times And here by the waye because they finde fault with our agreement I praye you note the consent and agreement of the diuell and of the Pope together most manifest that no man of indifferent iudgement can denye The diuell sayeth our Sauiour When the worde is sowen in the heart of man he comes priuily and stealeth it awaye lest it shoulde take roote there The Pope he stealeth and plainly conueyeth the worde out of the Churche so that it shall neither come into the eares nor into the heart And is not this manifest Doeth not the Pope forbid the worde of God to be read in the Church but in Latine in a tongue vnknowen to the hearers So that it were as good not redde to them at all they are neuer a whit the better for the reading of it And shall wée not saye then that the Pope and diuell in stealing Gods worde from our heartes doe agrée Is not this too too manifest Such is their peace and agréement they haue quite contrarye to Iesus Christe But the house of Iesus Christe is buylt vppon an hill it hath manye cold blastes and sharpe stormes His shippe sayling in the Sea of this world hath manye stormes quicke sands and rockes That same Whirlewinde whereof Saint Marke speaketh in his fourth Chapter which from out of the earth is suddenly carryed vpwarde to Heauen woulde as it were blowe the shippe out of the worlde All Gods children all his seruauntes are of the daye and of the light they sustaine troubles cares they are vexed they are pinched They carrie their crosse with their Master Iesus Christ They are neuer as long as they continue in this wildernesse frée from the pinchings of hunger thirst and scarsitie from the perils of enimies both at home as of Corah Dathan Abiram and abroad as Amalech Balacke and such like They are stil in the field their life is a warfare and this is their tryall this is their crowne this is their victory This is the wisedome of the serpent which the Gospel commaundeth who stop their eares to all the voyces of the charmers charme they neuer so wisely that they may heare their Iesus alone which beléeue not the doctrines of these false Prophets for al their miracles which wil nat depart from the word of the Lord Deut. 13. For the Lord suffreth some time false Prophets to do myracles as Moses doeth teach vs to trye vs whether wée will sticke to his worde alone or no. Hereby their Egles eyes are tryed whether they can beholde Iesus Christ the true Sunne without twinckling of their eyes or no Onely the Eagles can do so The eyes of other birdes cannot endure it these turne their eyes aside to flyes and mottes in the Sunne to fat prayes which the tempter castes in their way The Christian Eagles respect onely the glorie of Iesus Christe Therefore Dauid prayed O Lorde turne away mine eyes lest they behold vanitie and quicken mée in thy way These vanities these flyes these motes in the Sunne are left in the ayre to trye the zeale of true Christians Deut. 33. The which Moses taught before his death all the Leuites of Israell and our Sauiour Iesus all his disciples which saye to their father and mother wee knowe you not aus to their brethren we care not for you no not for their owne children But they kéepe the word of the Lord and his couenant These faithfull Leuites preferre Iesus Christ and his Gospell to all Counsails Fathers yea to their owne natural fathers to their beloued wiues to their deare children yea to their owne soule and life This great courage of theirs could not so clearly appeare without some light skirmishing at home amongest their brethren And without open warre abroad against

but they haue lyingly and falsly taught him vnto the people they haue limited and set boundes to his infinit mercy that they might sell their masses their pardons and their reliques dearer that men might trust in them that they might get and prouide them But marke I beséech you how greatly the world was blinded The good workes of others which was commanded of God in his law can profit none but them selues And doe we thinke that their workes then which were not commanded of God for the most part can profit any When as the Apostle Paule saith plainely we must all appeare before the iudgement seat of Christ 2. Cor. 5. ver 10. and euery one whether he bee monke or masse Priest or Pope himselfe or people shall receiue according to those thinges which he hath done in his owne bodie and not according to those thinges which other hath done for him or according to those things which he hath left by his will to be done for him after his death While life remaines according to our Sauiours doctrine there is a day allotted to euery man in the which he may labour in the which he may worke and bring forth the signes of faith merits of mercie and fruites pleasant to the Lorde But when death commeth then it is night in the which no man can worke any more Wherefore all their workes done after death done for them bought so dearely prouided for so carefully done so deuoutly in truth were nothing worth were vnprofitable vnto them did them no good and were of no force with the Lorde What profiteth any man that is deade without faith without repentance now being in torments masses himnes songes meat to be deuided yearely in remembrance of him or some dayly for his sake After death there is no place of prayers no place of repentance no place of translation or alteration no place of teares and good workes to any man as the Story of the rich glutton and Lazarus doth plainely teach vs wherefore we must worke our selues in our owne bodies the workes that must doe vs good at the day of iudgement When the trée is once hewed downe where it falles there it lyeth whether it be towards the North or towards the South that is whether it be in the pleasures of heauen or in the colde stormes of hell Eccle. 11. ver 3. as the wise man teacheth vs. After it be cut downe it can flourish no more neither can it beare fruit any more No more no doubt can we this trée is a parable of vs. Then besides this these Huxters these selles of merits and workes and Masses they doe not onely beguile others but they beguile themselues For though perchance you will say they are Virgins and liue straitly and punish themselues more then other men doe Math. 25. Yet they are but foolish Virgins as the Gospell doth plainely teach vs. The wise Virgins durst not deminish or lend any of the oyle of their good workes no not one droppe And what fooles are these then that dare bee so bolde to doe it They durst not giue any of their oyle which was a worke of mercy commended and commaunded of God him selfe in his lawe And these dare sell theirs They feared least they shoulde want themselues but these thinke that they haue ouerplus and to spare for others and doe make the dearest and gainefull occupation of selling their workes No occupation euer got or purchased so much lande as they did by this their trade of selling their Masses and merites All the Saintes of God crye and sigh with Dauid euen from their hartes Enter not into iudgement with thy seruantes O Lorde for in thy sight shall no man liuing bee iustified And in another place If thou Lorde wilt bee extreeme to marke what is done amisse O Lord who may abide it And with Iob wee are not able to answere one for a thousand And hauing learned that good lesson of their maister Iesus Christ in the Gospell all his seruantes whether they bee Virgins or married folkes or Martyres say when they haue done all what they can wee are vnprofitable seruants wee haue done but our dueties Wherefore this hope in trusting to other mens workes is death this staffe of leaning to other mens merits is the staffe of Egypt it woundeth his hande that trusteth vnto it The other staffe of Iacob with the which alone hee passed ouer that Iordaine of this life that is Iesus Christ and to trust to his merits to his workes to his death and passion is a sure staffe Psal 3.5 Psal 3.8 ver 15. Psal 3.9 ver 8. Psal 18. ver 29. is the staffe of all the Saintes of God With this staffe Dauid leaped ouer the wall Pleade thou my cause O Lorde saith hee with them that fight against mee and thou shalt answere for mee O Lorde my God And in another Psalme And now truely what is my hope truely my hope is euen in thée and with the helpe of the Lorde my GOD I shall leape ouer the wall This staffe our Fathers catching euen at the pitte brinke of death Wee doe not doubt but they were saued by this they went ouer Iordaine with Iacob safely by this they leaped ouer the wall of their sinnes and former superstition which did separate them from God with Dauid by this with the théefe of the crosse they passed from death to life All their former sinnes were couered and they were euen that day with Iesus Christ in Paradise Thus wee hope of our Fathers and this was their saluation Wherefore let vs imbrace the Gospell and be thankefull to God for the same Our Fathers nay many Kings and Princes nay the auncient Fathers haue not séene the thinges that wee haue séene this great light shined not in their dayes Let vs expresse in our liues and conuersations Let vs doe all the thinges it commandeth In times past how many thinges woulde they obserue for mens pleasures now let vs bee obedient for the Lordes sake Let vs forsake that Romish Babylon with her Antichrist and all his trumperie They haue not one title nor iot for testimony of thy truth in the word of God But as you see all their doctrine is flatly condemned in the same Let vs venture our liues for Iesus Christ his Gospel not for the pope and his Church as his Iesuites doe We haue no such commandement in the word of God Let not the wickednesse of the worlde or of some carnall gospellers which say and do not any whit dismaie vs or make vs stumble There hath béene such and shal be such alwaies The séede is good but the ground is naught Let vs be of the small flocke of Iesus Christ which heare his word and kéepe it Let vs in all thinges which chaunce vnto vs either in the weather or in our wealth and goods or in our bodies blesse and praise the Lord with blessed Iob. Let vs possesse our soules with patience Let vs arme our soules to temptation for the Lorde will trye all that be his Wilt thou be a Paule thou shalt haue an Angel of Sathan to buffet thée Wilt thou be a Dauid thou shalt haue Saule to persecute thée Wilt thou be Peter thou shalt haue Sathan to sift thée And to be short as many as will liue godly in Christ Iesus shall suffer persecution Let vs now waite for the comming of the bridegroome The Cockes haue crowne a great while the day dawneth great knowledge and light is in the world surely the Sunne is not farre off I meane Iesus Christ Luke 12. ver 35. he is euen now in a rising Let our loines be girded vp not flaunting with our vaine garments and our torches of faith and good workes in our handes and let vs be as seruants euery day and houre waiting when our maister will come from the marriage who hath promised he will come quickly And surely he will kéepe his promise And the spirit Apoc. 22. ver 17. and the Bride saide Come Lord Iesus And let him that heareth say Come and let him that is a thirst come And let whosoeuer will take of the water of life fréely Euen so come Lorde Iesus as thou hast promised and make vs all readie against thy coming and make vs thirst and long for the water of life which is thy holy worde that we bée not fruitlesse and deade at thy coming To thée the Father and the holy Ghost be all praise power and saluation for euermore Amen FINIS