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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A72063	A sermon preached at Paules crosse the firste Sunday after Newyeeres day, beeing the thirde day of Ianuary. 1580. By William Fisher student of diuinitie	Fisher, William, student of diuinitie.	1580 (1580)	STC 10920.3; ESTC S124925	28,377	84

losse of his life will at all times bee willing to minister the same to the glory of his name Therefore oh my soule be of good comfort and cheere thy selfe in the Lord for if thou maist but touch the hemme of his vesture by faith thou shalt be whole And this deerely beloued is one of the benefites and blessed Tryumphes which we inioy through Christe and his Gospel That he is our Phisition which is bothe willing and able too heale all our diseases of sinne be they neuer so greeuous which indeede is a benefite without comparison The Lorde make vs thankfull for it and open our eyes that wee may see it cleerely in the cloudy dayes of desperation The seconde comparison The whole neede not c. The seconde comparison heere to bee noted is that the Pharisees be lykened to whole men which kinde of comparison we must so much the more diligently marke how much the more straungely it is made For he calles them whole not because they were so indeede but in derision because they were so perswaded of them selues smoothing vp their foule faultes with selfe loue and selfe lyking In the like sense Elias called the abhominable Idol Baal God not that hee was so but because his Priestes did so account of him Likewise Paule calleth Satan the God of this worlde not that he either made or redeemed or ruled the worlde but because worldlings serue him more duely then the liuing God After the same manner our Sauiour in the third answere calles the Pharisees righteous euen because they were so bewitched with the workes of their owne hands that they made no accounte of the righteousnesse of God There cannot be a more especiall token of reprobation then when the Lorde falles to laughing and scorning his enemyes as you shall finde in perusing the 2. Psalme A man that had seene these Pharisees outwardly woulde haue thought that our Sauiour had beene in good earnest when he cōpareth them to whole or sound men For none had more regarde of Moyses law then they they would not abrogate one ceremony there commaunded None fasted more then they twise in the weeke was the least None prayed more then they in euery street they went babling mumbling their prayers None gaue almes more then they they soūded trumpets to haue the greater resort of the pore None payd tithes better then they they left nether Mint ne Cūmin vntiched yea if you looked in their handes you shoulde see scrowles wherein the lawe was written If you looked in their forheads you might see the law written If you looked vpon their doore postes ye might see the Lawe written If you looked in their garments you might finde thornes and needles too make them remember the the Lawe written They had alwayes in their mouthes Templum Domini Templum Domini You coulde no sooner aske them of their Proginie but they would be ready to answere Pater noster Abraham And when any inquired of their inheritance they would tel him Nos haeredes terrae promissionis What a wonderfull matter was this were not these men whole and sounde Indeede to the outward appeerāce they were but what they were inwardly those manifold woes which our sauiour Christe pronounced against thē Mat. 22. may at large testifie And now you may see that it is one thing for a man to be whole in the sight of God an other thing in the sight of the world He is whole in the sight of god which beleeueth that Iesus Christ is able willing to heale his disease of sin But he is whole in the sight of the worlde which thinks that the works of his owne hands do make him sound And this is such a kind of health as I pray God neuer any good christian haue set the Pope neuer so greate store by it assuredly it is farre worse then any sicknesse in the worlde If the rules of Phisicke be true That there is no disease like too that when a man thinkes him selfe whole and yet is hearte sicke I might heere stande in comparison betweene the Pope and the Pharisees and shewe you that they bothe are alike whole sound but it is no matter of such importaunce as I haue to speake therefore to the thirde comparison The thirde comparison The sicke neede c The third comparison is of the Publicanes and sinners vnto sick men which haue neede of the Phisition These Publicanes had beene as very cut●hrotes and Catchpoules as euer lyued But as he goes farre that neuer returnes so they at the length hearing our sauiour preach repentance and remission of remission of sin had remorse of conscience in so much that their disease had cleaued faste vnto their bones had they not hearde of a Phisition which was bothe willing and ready to helpe them The panges of sinne pricking the conscience are euen as the fittes of sicknesse gryping the heart causing many a deepe sigh and many a pitious grone Dauid beeing in the agonie of sinne bemones him selfe after this manner Haue mercie vppon mee O Lorde for I am weake O Lorde heale Psal 6. me for my bones are vexed My soule is also soretroubled but Lorde howe long wilt thou delay And Paule was no sooner griped at the hart with the remembraunce of his sinne but hee cryed mainly out saying O miserable mā c Yea and all the godly considering howe many wayes God hath blessed them and howe vnthankfully they haue behaued themselues considering againe their dayly trespasses and offences and howe long the Lorde hath looked for their amendment and how often he called them to repentance by and by they fall sicke grone so rufully that you would lament too heare them O my tender Father whome I haue displeased O my sweete redeemer Christe Iesus whome I haue crucified againe O my soueraigne comforte the holy Ghoste whome I haue greeued O the time that I haue mispent O the grace that I haue dispised O the creatures of God that I haue abused Wo worth my vncleaue thoughts Woe worth my idle wordes Wo worth my damnable workes O howe bitter is the cursse of the lawe Howe heauy is the burthen of my sinne Howe horrible is y● sight of death How intollerable are the paines of hel Ah my soule begins to faint therfore help me to a phisitiō or els I perish I dye Do you not think deerly beloued that a Phisitiō should not be welcome well intreated among such sicke soules as these yes neuer hart so thristed after the Riuers of waters as they long after Iesus Christ Such men haue nede of the Phisition and therefore they will seeke vnto him as these Publicanes did yea and because of their necessitie they will honor him likewise in calling him to their houses biding him to their feasts they are so desirous of health saluation In whome wee haue a notable president how to behaue our selues in our sicknesse of sin First that we must seeke our Phisition