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A12991	A sermon preached at Paules Crosse on Barthelmew day, being the 24. of August. 1578 Wherin, besides many other profitable matters meete for all Christians to follovv, is at large prooued, that it is the part of all those that are fathers, householders, and scholemaisters, to instruct all those vnder their gouernement, in the vvord and knovvledge of the Lorde. By Iohn Stockvvood scholemaister of Tunbridge.	Stockwood, John, d. 1610.	1578 (1578)	STC 23284; ESTC S106625	73,966	202

farre ouer vnto the subie●ion of others that they were nowe not ●●ely vnder the rule of Presidentes and ●eputies but also hadde in al their Ci●es bandes garrisons of forrē souldi●rs amongest the which albeit some ●nes they mette with some one suche as ●is oure Cornelius which was a thing ●oste seldome yet the miseries that vn●●● those other they suffered were won●●●full and suche as they can better re●ēber that sometimes haue liued vnder the gripings of the sharpe talants of those eagree and gréedy Hawkes I meane the violence of forraine Souldioures than I am able to expresse and the Lorde if it be his will graunt that we Englishmen haue neuer laste nor experience of the like Lette vs therefore here-out learne t● be thankefull vnto God for placing ouer vs in great mercie so godly gratious 〈◊〉 Quéene vnder whose most quiet peaceable gouernment notwithstandyng the wi●ked foretellings and lying Prophesies o● false ●arted papists of hir maiesties det● at the end of this seuen and that seauen besides their malicious practises to accomplishe it for the whiche some of the● heades haue bin worthily exalted as ● truste the reste if they maye be know● shall be as they well deserue to be W● haue thus long enioied the cleare shini● lighte of the Gospell and GOD gran● hir to his good will pleasure many yer●● more to raigne ouer vs stil for the bett●● and more plentifull furtheraunce of t● preaching of his worde lette vs I say learne to be thankfull and not giue oc●asion throughe oure greate contempte ●nd disobedience and godlesse and farre ●nchristian liuing that God in his great ●rath and hote anger take hir maiesty ●waye from vs and with hir also his ●orde as in oure remembraunce for the ●●ke sinnes he didde oure vertuous King Edward hir Graces moste deare and ●odly brother We were vnworthy of ●im then we are vnworthye of hir now ●e contemned the worde preached vnder ●im then we are wearie of it preached ●nder hir Maiesty now there was much ●●aching vnder him then and small folo●ing there is more teaching vnder hir ●owe and a great deale lesse following For oure not folowing then he tooke frō●s oure zealous Iosias and scourged vs ●y a Marie his arme is not shortened he ●an againe for oure not following nowe ●ake away our vertuous and godly De●ora and punish vs with the like Pray ●ray and most hartily beloued pray that ●e doe it not as oure sinnes haue wel de●erued that he shoulde doe it For if he do it as this and farre greater plagues he hathe threatned to those that are contemners of his worde by the miseries that heretofore you haue suffered in the late dayes of afflictiō you may easily gather what shal bée the state of the godlye vnder all wicked Athaliahs and mercilesse Tyrantes suche as GOD vseth to sende vppon those that haue not learned to be thankful and obedient vnto vertuous gentle and godly Gouernoures Wherefore if in the former daies of trouble wyth greate and grieuous sobbes and sighes we haue lamented oure vnthankefulnesse towardes the worde when we had it Nowe the Lorde to trie vs hath once againe sent it lette vs remember to be thankfull if then in oure miseries we coulde consider howe greate a plague it was to be punished with a Tyraunte lette vs nowe weigh● howe greate a blessyng it is to be gouerned by so gentle merciful a Quéene if then we longed to be deliuered from the heauie yoke of forraine crueltie let vs nowe poure oute oure moste harty●● prayers for the continuaunce of oure ioyfull libertie vnder the long and prosperous raigne of oure Soueraigne Ladye if when in times before we hadde the Gospell wée broughte foorthe no fruites of the Gospell lette vs hauing nowe againe the Gospell praye to oure GOD that oure conuersation and liuing may be agréeable to the Gospell least as before I noted oure hainous offences worthilye prouoke oure GOD in greate displeasure to take from vs oure gratious Gouernesse vnder whose Christian regiment we haue thus long enioyed it and many yeares longer God graunt we may haue both hir it and in a holy and vertuous walking expresse followe it leaste for oure ingratitude we taste of the like sause that the Iewes did for their disobedience whiche as I haue hadde verye fitte occasion by theyr subiection vnto others to note so I beséeche you praye all hartilye to GOD that wée maye be warned and learned by it For truely beloued vnlesse we bring forth better fruites of Christianitie than hitherto we haue done it can not be chosen but that God must néedes punish vs with this or some other farre greater punishement if any can be greater You muse peraduenture to sée mée so fearefull and I muche more wonder to sée England so carelesse If you wil aske of me why I thinke that GOD wyll visite vs I answere for the multitude of oure sinnes and offences whiche daylye are cōmitted expresly against his word and for many of them being notorious suche as he himselfe hathe commaunded to be punished with death either they are often lette passe vnpunished or else there is no punishement for them at all or if there be it is so toyishe I had almoste saide Popishe that it rather cherisheth than kylleth the sinne And bycause you shall not thinke my wordes to be as it were but a skar Crow or that I haue made muche ado aboute nothing I wil note vnto you in a worde some of them and leaue to youre iudgement whether that I haue spoken that whiche I haue spoken withoute cause or no or also as not appertayning to my matter in hand of the Iewes at Cesarea and other places being in subiection for their sins to forreine power that we may auoyde the great sinnes whyche we dayly runne into for feare of the like or greater punishment by howe much our knowledge and teaching is greater and clearer than theirs Swearing and blaspheming the name of God as it is a figure that clearly toucheth the honour of God so in hys worde is it expressely forbidden and also commaunded to be punished with death yet how outragiously and commonlye is it vsed amongst all degrées and states of people from the Lorde to the begger and from the Courtier to the Carter yea to the yong chylde of thrée yeares olde besides that I fear me a great number this Fayer and at other times doe laye their soules to paune to the Dyuell by feareful othes for their gaynes sometimes but of a pennie in vttering their wares and what punishmente I praye you is there for it It is written that the Plague shall neuer departe from the house of the swearer and thinke you then that it hangeth not ouer the lande in whiche is such terrible swearing in the cleare light of the Gospell and the offendours not touched with so much as a fillip if there were no moe but thys it is not without cause

and hathe broken the yoake of their Tyrannie from this and manye other nations his name be praysed for it and in the ende with the breath of his mouth wil vtterly confounde them As you haue séene in these Iewes a fearefull example of God his wonderfull iustice in casting them off for their offences so in receyuing of the Gentiles you haue to consider a notable proofe and experience of hys surpassing loue and vnspeakeable mercie For what was there in the Gentiles ouerwhelmed with errour blynded wyth ignoraunce prone to all kinde of superstition and straunge Idolatries ouertaken with all sortes of filthynesse and moste horrible and outragious wickednesse that mighte procure hym to fauour them or to shewe hymselfe so bountious a father vnto them Of hys loue therefore of his loue and moste frée fauour was it that he vouchsaued to call them out of this greate darkenesse vnto so maruellous light and knowledge of his truth in his sonne Christ Iesus our moste louing God and mercifull Sauiour There is not therefore anye cause of boasting of our selues or of any thing in our selues for that we are nothing else indéede but a huge masse and heauy lumpe of sinne Let vs therefore ascribe all the whole glorie of our callyng vnto God that mercifullye hath called vs from errour vnto trueth from darkenesse to lighte from wickednesse to holynesse from condemnation to saluation frō death to life yea frō Hel to Heauen for vnto all these and a greate manye moe enormities are we by nature enthralled Let vs therefore enter the déeper into a true consyderation of our selues and into a thorough examination of our owne soules and consciences and then finding in our selues what indéede wée be of our selues we shall learne to set lesse by our painted sheathes and to make better accoumptes of GOD hys infinite and endlesse mercie who hath thoughte good to place vs in the roome of his owne peculiar and chosen people Agayne we sée in the consideration of the manner of GOD his calling vs of the Gentiles to the knowledge of hys Christ not requiring at our handes that we shoulde be circumcised or otherwise tyed to the obseruation of the ceremonies of Moses lawe but onely that we shoulde repente and beléeue the Gospel we sée I say euidentlye hereby that we are not saued by the Lawe nor yet by the workes of the Lawe but onlye by fayth in Christe accordyng as it is written The iuste manne shall ●iue by fayth And againe By the workes of the law no flesh can be saued or iustified by how muche the more so often as I thinke on it and truely I doe manye times thinke on it I doe greately maruayle what madnesse hath ouertaken our Arch-Papistes to besotte themselues and others with a vaine and wicked perswasion of their owne righteousnesse and an arrogante trusting to scale the highe forte of heauen by the broken and rotten ladder of man hys merytes and the corrupte workes and inuentions of their owne idle fancies For if Christe and hys Apostles neuer charged anye with the obseruations of the Mosaicall Lawe as a thing necessarye to saluation and that as appeareth in the wrytings of the Apostles it hath alwayes béene accounted an infallible note of false Apostles to pleade workes and that of GOD hys owne Law in the matter of iustification let then this second note drawn from the manner of God hys callyng of the Gentiles without inioyning them the obseruations of hys owne lawe bée sufficient in a worde to touch the shamelesse boldnesse of the Catolikes that dare shuffle in drosse trumperie of their own forging to claime righteousnes withal that I stand no longer to cōuince those as iniurious to the death and bloudsheading of Christe Iesus who teache that they haue workes sufficient not only to purchase Heauen for themselues but also a surplus and ouerflow to help others withall that will pay swéetely for them in as muche as their owne conscience euery nighte when they goe to bed maye teache them if they truely examine it that of themselues they are not able to thinke so much as one good thought and therefore muste néedes ascribe saluation to the only and alone frée mercie of God in Christe laide holde on by the sure and strong hand of a constant faith workes being no maner of cause thereof at all the whiche Fryer Ferus a man of theyr owne writing vpon this tenth Chapiter of the Actes in moste plaine words doth confesse saying For so in that firste and moste great calling of the Gentiles they oughte to haue beene made equall with the Iewes without all manner of helpe of the Lawe that it mighte be now manifestly knowne that righteousnes commeth of the onely grace and election of God and not of workes than the which what can be spoken more truely more agréeable to the truth The Lord if it be his wil open their eies that in this and all other pointes they maye bowe and yéelde vnto the trueth Thus muche of the reiection of the Iewes and calling of the Gentiles by occasion of GOD his calling Cornelius being a Gentile to the knowledge of his trueth In the seconde braunche of this firste general commeth to be considered Cornelius hys profession and trade of life whiche oure present texte sayeth to bée a Capitaine of the Italian bande at Cesarea for it was an vsuall thing among the Romanes to place in the gret towns or Citties that they wonne garrisons of armed men and souldiours as well to defende them agaynste the inuasions of the Parthians whome besides manye other ennimyes they were often and verye daungerouslye encombred wythall as also to wythstande and kéepe vnder rebellion and tumultuous vproares of the Iewes if at anye tyme they shoulde attempte an insurrection and further that if néede shoulde requyre they mighte vppon shorte warning oute of these garrisons placed in euerye Towne and Cittie gather a iuste and ful army being assaulted to defend themselues These bands consisted some of more and some of fewer Souldioures some footemenne and some horsemenne The fyrste or chiefe bande contayned commonlye a thousande footemenne ouer whych was a Generall and euerye Centurye or hundreth hadde besides hys seuerall Capitayne whyche of the number of Souldiours vnder his conducte was commonlye called a Centurion or Capitayne ouer an hundreth menne Such a one was oure Cornelius who in that he is termed to be Ruler of the Italian bande we maye gather that he was bothe an Italian himself and also in good estimation with the Emperoure For as the Romaynes g thered their garrisons out of sundrye Countrie men of the whyche also they had their names like as this consisting of Italians is thereof called the Italian band so likewise did they make greatest accompts reposed most confidence in the garrisons of their own countreymen out of which also for the most part there were chosen Captaines suche as best liked the Emperoure It is I saye therefore verye