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A21064 A sermon preached at Paules Crosse the 19. of Iuli 1579 setting forth the excellencye of Gods heauenlye worde: The exceeding mercye of Christ our Sauior: the state of this world: A profe of the true Church: A detection of the false Church: or rather malignant rable: A confutation of sundry hæresies: and other thinges necessary to the vnskilfull to be knowen. By Iohn Dyos. Seene and allowed. Dyos, John. 1579 (1579) STC 7432; ESTC S111984 61,205 176

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geuen all thynges c. sayth not learne of me to make the world or to rayse the dead but to be hūble méeke O wholsome comfortable coūsaile O faithful doctour humble Doctour Lord and Maister of mankind He would not teach that he was not he would not commaund that he him selfe did not Consider this you which with ill shepheards by force and cruelty gouerne And he sate down and taught the people out of the shippe Christ euery where and alwayes sheweth him selfe a Sauiour and is set forth vnto vs in the Gospell preachyng diuers and sundry wayes Walkyng on the land sittyng in the shyp paynefully trauailyng by the way sittyng vpon the well in the Synagogues in the stréetes in houses in wildernes vpō hils He healed the sicke he comforted the afflicted Doth not wisedome crie doth not vnderstandyng put forth her voyce She stādeth in the top of high places by the way in the place of the pathes She crieth at the gates of Cities and at the entries of mens doores These thynges accordyng to the letter are best spokē of Christ which preached the Gospell publiquely not onely in Synagogues and temples but also in other places where the people assembled together Vpon the moūtaine he made that excellent and passing Sermon written in Mathew In his iorneys he oftentymes disputed with his aduersaries taught the multitude and his Disciples sundry excellēt matters confirmed his doctrine with wonderfull miracles At the gate of the Citie Naim hee shewed him selfe by raysing the widowes sonne In priuate houses when he sate at the table he gaue heauēly instructiō and would not suffer somuch as that tyme to passe without doyng good When hee was but xij yeares old he sate in the tēple among Doctours hearyng thē and posing them so that all men which heard him had him in maruailous admiration for his singular wisedome and passyng vnderstandyng He made many Sermons publikly and openly in the temple at Hierusalem When he was brought bounde to Caiphas and of him demaunded concernyng his Disciples and doctrine He aunswered I spake openly to the world I euer taught in the Sinagogue and in the temple whether all the Iewes resort and in secret haue I sayd nothyng c. Briefly in all places he graciously sought meanes to instruct the people He calleth all mē he excludeth no man They that were not entred in Musike and Geometrie were not admitted into Platoes schole but the mercyfull goodnesse of Christ Iesus admitteth all mē into his schoole not excludyng euen children He teacheth all men out of the shyp of what soeuer age sexe state or condition they be Hee instructed Nicodemus familiarly Most gently he entreated the Cēturion albeit a Heathen man. Hee behaued him selfe mildly towardes the woman of Samaria sittyng on the well Notable sinners he despised not What kinde of dissease did he euer cry fie vpon or turne his face from He turned his mercifull face to Leapers to men possessed with deuils afflicted with bloudy flixes disseased with palsie and many other daungerous maladies and cured thē all He commaunded infantes to be brought vnto him agaynst the will and minde of his Apostles He taught that yoūg man whiche demaunded what good thyng he should doe that hee might haue eternall lyfe He reiecteth not the weake in fayth but he inuiteth allureth desireth all to come to him You haue heard how wisedome in this place and in all places cryeth to all men And at this day she slacketh not to cry and to put forth her voyce in England and many other places by Preachers by holy Scripture by signes and wonders What maters Christ taught in this place I finde not expressed A learned man sayth Nefas est quaerere quae in sacris Scripturis non traduntur It is wickednesse to search those thynges which are not taught in scripture Thus much touchyng the letter Foure things come to be obserued in this mistery The sea Christ in the shyp the people on the shore the shyp it selfe The sea is an Image of the world Christ is an image of true and sincere teachers The people on the shore an image of hearers the shyp an image of the true Church Touchyng the first The sea hath his name of bitternes Isidorus sayth Propterea Mare appellatum quod eius aquae sunt amarae The sea hath his name Mare in Latin of the Latin worde Amarum which signifieth bitter because the waters therof are bitter The sea is very bitter notwithstandyng to fishes nourished in the same it sauoureth swéetelye Right so the world is very bitter yet to worldly men chiefly delighting in the same it sauoureth swéetely But woe be to them which make sowre swéete and swéete sowre which call euill good and good euill whiche make darkenes light and light darknes The sea is bitter the dealynges of the world are bitter Pride is bitter couetousnesse is bitter vsurie is bitter adulterie fornication cosenyng swearyng forswearyng deceitfull vilanie traiterous treacherie murther are bitter These horrible and hatefull vices with many moe ouerflow the world The world is bitter The sea is inconstāt it ebbeth and floweth The world is inconstant it chaūgeth euery day Some be borne and some dye Some be sicke some be whole Some grow toward mans estate Some drawe in age Sometymes commeth good tydynges some tymes heauy To day in fauour to morow quite out of credite To day a man to morow none The sea is full of daungers daungers of windes pirates Mermaidēs rockes quickesandes other daungers There are thynges creepyng innumerable both small great beasts There is that Leuiathan whom God hath made to play therein They that sayle ouer the sea tell of the perilles therof and whē we heare it with our eares we maruaile thereat They that go downe to the sea in shyps and occupy by the great waters they sée the wordes of the Lord and his wonders in the depe They sée as it were a thousand deathes In the sea no rest can be had The world is full of daūgers in the world a thousād deathes in the world no rest Daungers in the world more then in the sea The world hath tempestuous windes Pirates rockes waues Mermaidens quicke sandes and many moe daungers thē can be numbred Moe perishe in the world then in the sea The sea is tēpestuous the world is tempestuous If the sea seme neuer so calme yet looke for a tēpest If the world séeme neuer so prosperous it may looke for a tempest of aduersitye The world hath neuer long stode without stormes and tempestes The case is cleare and S. Ambrose calleth them Procellae mundi Tēpestes or stormes of the world The same wordes hath S. Cyprian and many other Here is tēpest of euil tongues tempest of lying tempest of slaunder tempest of aduersitye tempest of sicknes tempest of losse of frendes and good
vnitye to the Church of Roome and to their Byshop the head thereof the aduersary of Christ and vtter enemy to his crosse boldly braying and bragging that out of the vnitye of this bodye and head of theirs no man can be saued For these miserable men ought to vnderstād that this necessary vnitye without which no man can haue saluation is not that vnitye whereby members are ioyned to members bunches to bunches monsters to monsters and the deceiued to Antichrist the deceiuer but that it is that vnitye wherby the true members of the true bodye are conioyned to the true and onely one head Iesus Christe our mediator and Sauiour The tyranne of Roome is not the head of the true church I proue thus He hath not the worde of God for his warrant Ergo he is not the head of the true church Christ sayth that he himselfe is the onely vniuersall Shepheard The prophets haue prophesied so of Christ Esai 40. Ezech. 37. 34. Hierem. 30. Psal. 33. c. The Apostle so nameth him Christ himselfe not long before he left this world● sayd to his disciples I will pray the father and he shall geue you another cōforter that he may abide with you for euer euen the spirite of truth Here we learne what vicar Christ hath substituted Not the Pope but the holy ghost So writeth Tertul. Barnard and others This place of Iohn I am the good shepheard S. August expoundeth of Christ So doth Chrisost So doth Nicholas Lyra as simple an interpretour as he was Fiet vnus pastor id est Christus There shal be one shepeheard that is to say not the Pope but Christ The Apostles had no knowledge of this monstrous head The Nicene Councell knew it not The Councell of Carthage excommunicated cursed him to the deuill that called him selfe vniuersall Byshop or chief Priest The whole Councell of Aphrica condēned the attempt of this vsurped iurisdiction and called it the smokie pride of the world The Romish Prelate doth subuert corrupt prophane the doctrine of Christ and his Sacraments manifestly maintaineth Idolatrie Therfore he cā not be the vniuersall Shepheard He is not worthy to be called a Shepheard A Shepheard nay a fleashéepe A Byshop a Butcher a Pastour a Pyrate a Prelate a Pylate a Vicar of Christ a Vicar of Venus a Cephas Caiphas Phocas that execrable murtherer was he that first proclaimed the Byshop of Rome to be head of the vniuersall Church about vj. hundred xiij yeares after Christ was borne This Phocas beyng but a common souldiour did by treason and conspiracie lay hands vpon his liedge Lord and Maister the Emperour Mauritius and in cruell sort did him to death and so by trayterous vilanie he aspired to the Empire The maner of his crueltie was this First he commaūded foorth the Emperours yongest sonne and caused him to be slayne euen in the fight of his father and so the second and then the third and afterwarde the Empresse Mauritius heauely lookyng on lamentyng saying vnto God Righteous art thou O Lord and rightfull is thy iudgement Last of all he vsed the like tyranny also vpon the Emperour and layd him his wife and his iij. children on a heape together After that he had thus liued and cōmitted sundry murthers and other great mis●●●●● the people tooke him slue him ▪ 〈◊〉 ●●ew him in to the fire Here you ma● sée the first promotour a holy promotour of the Popes holynes A murtherer ●●e finder out of supremacie And Sup●●●●cie foūded and builded vpon murther S. Cyprian calleth Stephen and Cornelius Bishops of Rome brethrē and companions And whereas certaine Schismatickes yelded them selues subiect to the Byshop of Rome perswading them selues that the Bishops of Aphrica had lesse power thē the Byshops of Rome Cyprian called them desperate wicked persons for so doyng I frame this Argument out of Chrisost Quicunque desyderauerit primatū in terra in Coelo inueniet confusionem Whosoeuer ambitiouslye desireth supremacy vpon earth shall finde in heauen confusion The Byshop of Roome ambitiouslye desireth supremacye on earth Therefore he shall finde confusion in heauē The Pope is Antichrist Ergo he is not the head of the Church He which auaūceth himself aboue all that is called God is Antichrist The pope doth so Ergo the Pope is Antichrist Irenaeus a most auncient doctour of the Church who liued almost fiften hundred yeares since disputyng of Antichrist sayth thus Antichristus cum sit seruus tamen adorari vult vt Deus Antichrist notwithstāding he be but a slaue yet he will be worshipped as if he were god Ioachimus Abbas saith Antichristus iam pridem natus est Romae altiùs extolletur in sede Apostolica Antichrist is long since borne in Rome yet shall he be higher aduaunced in the Apostolick sea Antichrist sayth Gregory is he that shall clayme to himselfe to be called the vniuersall Byshop and shall haue a garde of priestes to attend vpon him S. August sayth Babylō is the first Roome and Rome the second Babylon And to come nearer the matter S. Iohn sayth Antichrist shall sit in the Citye that is built vpon seuen hilles and so is the Citie of Roome And Sybilla sayth that the greatest terror and furye of his Empire and the greatest woe that he shall worke shall be by the bankes of Tyber and there is Roome He that hath eyes to sée let him see he that hath eares to heare let him heare Agayne Christ was humble the Pope proude Christ was poore the Pope rich Christ patient the Pope impatient Christ merciful the Pope vnmercifull Christ vsed admonitiō the Pope imprisonment Christ communication the Pope extirpation Christ all manner of clemencie the Pope all manner of tyranny briefely you shall finde the Pope in all vertue seuered from Christ you shall finde him to Christ Beliall to light darcknes to truth falshode Are not these and such lyke the very fruites of Antichrist the trée is knowne by his fruite Whereas these shakers of the ship of Christ vrge Antiquitie Vniuersalitye and Succession to make much for them I aunswere these thinges make nothing for them but rather agaynst them Notwithstanding their Vincentius Lirinensis whome they haue in so high price This is Vincentius pretious assertion In ipsa catholica Ecclesia magnopore curandum est vt id teneamus quod vbique quod sēper quod ab omnibus creditum est In the Catholick Church we must haue especiall care to hold that which euery where alwayes and of all men is beléeued Yet to helpe his credite the Church of Roome was not so deformed with heresies at the time when he did write which was a thousand yeares more since as it is mentioned Antiquitye doth not preiudice or hinder trueth Their antiquity is no marke of the Church Their Antiquitie is iniquitye Tertull. sayth nothing can prescribe agaynst truth neither time nor authoritye of