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A21119	Sermons very fruitfull, godly, and learned, preached and sette foorth by Maister Roger Edgeworth, doctoure of diuinitie, canon of the cathedrall churches of Sarisburie, Welles and Bristow, residentiary in the cathedrall churche of Welles, and chauncellour of the same churche: with a repertorie or table, directinge to many notable matters expressed in the same sermons	Edgeworth, Roger, d. 1560.	1557 (1557)	STC 7482; ESTC S111773	357,864	678

in the noughty sorte of christen people deposirio sordium carnis a clensinge and wasshinge away of the filth of the flesh by the water of baptisme when they were christened but it preuayled not to eternall saluation because they lacked a faythfull conscience well instructed examined and tried towarde GOD by the resurrection of Christ from the dead that like as he rose from the dead so our consciences should ryse frome deade workes of synne to liuelye workes of grace and vertue no more to dye or synne agayne whiche is in the right hande of God swalowynge vp consuminge and destroyinge death that so we might be made inheritours of euerlastinge life That a man swaloweth he consumeth so that it shall no more appeare in the fourme and fashion that it was of afore so Christe made by his death that death shuld be consumed in as much as by his death the deuyl that is the auctor causer of death was ouercome his heart was burst He begilinge and deceiuyng oure fyrste parentes kylled them ▪ and made them and all theyr posteritie subiect to death but kylling the latter man the latter Adam our Sauioure Christe he loste the fyrste man oute of his snares whiche kylled his hearte and was verye death to him He had power to bringe all them to death that descended of Adam whome he hadde kylled yf they came of hym by carnall propagation takinge of him the spotte of sinne but abusinge his libertie and procuringe the death of our moost innocent Sauioure Christe that came not of the sede of Adam by generation betwixt two parentes nor had any spotte of sinne by Adam he was worthy to lose his libertie and so he loste an infinite numbre of them that he thought him self sure of and dayly loseth his expectation and none can gette but suche as wylfully wyll runne into his daunger After this victorye ouer the deuyll Christ went vp into heauen as S. Peter sayth here and had subiect vnto him Aungels potestates and vertues where S. Peter expresseth three orders of Aungels of heauen to be subdued and subiecte vnto Christ by them vnderstandinge al the residue of the Aungels which as S. Dionise in his boke de celesti Hierarchia writeth according to that he had learned of his maister S. Paule by whome he was baptised and also taughte in the catholyke fayth be diuided into .iii. Hierarchies Euery Hierarchie conteyninge .iii. orders of Aungels and so they make nine ordres in the whole Saint Dionise that wrytte his booke of these heauenly creatures was S. Paules disciple and scoler and learned of him that could best declare the truthes of theim in as muche as he was rapte into heauen and there sawe suche secretes as a man might not speake Notwithstandinge as muche as semed to agree to mortall mans capacitie for to knowe as was mete and profitable for men to learne he declared to this blessed S. Dionise and to others of his disciples that had theyr wittes illuminate aboue others whiche the sayde S. Dionise committed to writing in his boke rehearsed that the posteritie that shoulde come after him in Christes churche mighte be instructe by the same In the sayde boke he rehearsed the names of euerye order of aungels in euery one of the saide Hierarchies The fyrste and highest Hierarchie conteyninge the .iii. orders Seraphin Cherubin and Thronos The seconde conteyneth Dominationes virtutes potestares The thirde Hierarchie and lowest hath in it these thre orders Principatus Archangelos et Angelos As appereth by s. Dionise in the sayde boke Cap vi vii.viii .ix. And by S. Gregory Homil .xxxiiii. super Euangelia All these were subiecte and subdued to Christes manhod when he came to heauen by his marueilous ascension Of all these orders Saint Peter in this place rehearseth thre orders one of the loweste Hierarchie Angelis and two of the middle Hierarchie potestates et virtutes by them vnderstandinge all the other Aungels which though they were euer sith theyr fyrst creation subiecte and subdued to Christes Godheade yet here in this place he maketh speciall mention of theyr subiection to Christ that he might shewe that the humanitie of Christ was so exalted and set alofte by his ascension whiche Saint Peter here speaketh of that it was preferred and set aboue the excellencie of all the Aungels of heauen Accordinge to the sayinge of the Prophet Omnia subiecisti sub pedibus eius And Saint Paul phil Dedit illi no men quod est super omne nomen vt in nomine Iesu omne genu flectatur celestium terrestrium infernorum GOD the father hath geuen hym a name aboue all names that to his name all creatures in heauen in earth and of hel shall bowe the knee and be subdued and obediente vnto him To whome be all honour and glorye for euer Amen The .xiiii. treatise or sermon The fourth Chapiter CHristo igitur passo in carne vos eadem cogitatione armamini quia qui passus est in carne de siit a peccatis c. The blessed Apostle Saynt Peter in diuers places of this epistle that we haue in hande vehemently extolleth and cōmendeth the most aboundant mercy of God by whiche he hath regenerate and gotten vs agayne to lyfe where we were afore by oure carnall parentes gotten to death And we see by experience that one that hath a greate affection or vehement loue to any thinge wyll be euer busie as it were one that coulde neuer haue done or that woulde be euer gladde to speake of it So Saint Peter coulde neuer geue thankes ynoughe he euer inculcateth bringeth in the remembraūce of the benefyt of oure redemption because we shoulde euer haue it in minde And because it is not ynough to remember it but we must also in our liuinge conforme oure selues to the same holynes he geueth vs manye holesome morall lessons and fatherly exhortations teachinge vs to lyue vertuousely and holyly contrarye to vices and vicious liuinge And because our regeneration and sanctification cōmeth by baptisme whiche taketh his efficacitie and strength of Christes bloude shedde in his payneful passion therfore euer amonge he speaketh of the excellente mysterye of the sayde passion of Christe and of his gloryous resurrection by whiche as he sayd in the ende of the thyrde Chapiter whiche I declared in my laste sermon vpon the same he swalowed vp drowned and consumed death of the soule to make vs heyres of lyfe euerlastynge And in as muche as the worlde and the spyryte be aduersaries and euer at variaunce euen so be worldlye and carnall personnes enemyes to spirituall personnes Spirituall I call good lyuers that worketh accordynge to the inclination and styringe of the holye spyryte the holye gooste Then considerynge that the carnall people be the more sorte and the greater number and the good lyuers be fewer in number it is no ma●ueyle that good people suffereth muche wo vexation and trouble in this worlde that were able to ouerthrowe a

to saue them selues that they should not lose their place and the people Ioh. xi Lest if the Romaines should heare of such a man to be in their coūtrey that had so great a retinew of disciples as Christ had they might peraduenture surmise a conspiracie consequently some cōmocion rebellion against the Emperours power which might be occasiō that he should send an army into the coūtrey destroy the countrey and take them all 〈…〉 captiuitie This was a far cast 〈…〉 was not the gift of counse●● cōming of the holy gost therefore it proued not with thē but went all against theym for the feare that they feared fortuned to thē cleane cōtrary to their miscōtriued counsell For in deede the Romai●s came at length and destroyed the coūtrey toke the ●ople into miserable captiuitie because none that had to do in thys matter should scape vnpunished the vengeaunce began at the great men that were taken for chief Iudges in the condempnation of Christ. For Herod● was depriued of his kyngdome by Caius the emperour and was banished perpetually to Lions in Fraunce and with him Herodias his incestious concubine by whose meanes blessed S. Iohn baptist was beheaded As Iosephus antiquitatum lib. xviii ca. xiiii writeth And Pilate after he had ruled in Iewrye ten yeares was dryuen home to Rome by Vittellius general gouernour of Siria to answer to such iniuries and tirannye as he had done in the countrey As Iosephus writeth Antiquitatum lib. eodem cap. vii And at Rome because he was an vniust Iudge against Christ he was vexed and put to so much trouble sorowe and mischiefe that desperatlye he beat hym selfe to death with his owne handes as Eusebius wryteth in the ecclesiasticall storye the second boke and .vii. chapter And the citie of Ierusalem and the people of the Iewes for their iniquitie against Christ were by the Emperour Vespasian and Titus hys sonne subdued and destroyed euen in the time of theyr P●sch●l feast at which time they had done their malice ●gainst Christe because the tyme of vengeaunce might answer agree to the time of the muse of the same At the paschal time they s●ed the most innocent blood of Christ euen then the vengeance for his bloud fel vpō them vpō their childrē and issue according to their own desire saying Sanguis eius super nos super filios nostros Let the vengeaunce for his bloud sayd they lye vpon vs and vpon our children And so it did for euen at the same time of the yere .xlii. yeres after the Emperoure Vespasian and his sonne Titus after they had destroyed the chiefe Townes and strongest fortalicies and holdes of the Realme came to besiege that citie and in the whole tyme of that battaile toke prisoners lxxxxvii thousād And at the same siege were slaine and that dyed by famine and moreyne commyng chiefely of the stinche of the dead corpses liyng vnburied to the number of a .xi. C. thousand as Iosephus writeth in the seuenth boke of the Iewes battayle and .xvii. Chapter Therfore it foloweth in the psalme rehersed Qui habitat in coelis irridebit eos Almightye God that dwelleth in heauen wyll laugh thē to scorne as he did in dede whē he rose frō death to life againe notwithstandyng y ● they thought him sure inough being once dead notwithstandyng al the kepers that were set to kepe his body frō stealyng Et dūs subsannabit eos Our Lorde will wring the nose at thē which wordes importeth a greater indignation anger then derision dothe and was put in execution at thys moste horrible strage and destruction of that citie and at the takyng away of the saide prisoners whiche they feared when they said that if they let Christ scape their handes the Romayns would come and take their citie and carye away the people Here you may see what it is to take coūsaile against god The wise mā saith Pro. xxi Non est sapientia non est prudentia non est consiliū contra dominum There is no sapiēce there is no wittines there is no counsayle against our lord God Sapience is the cognition and iudgement of diuine and high causes which is not amonge heretiks that soweth cocle yl sedes among the corne settyng forth sectes and diuisions Suche wisdome how well learned so euer it semeth to be is not the true sapience because it is againste our lord God which is the god of peace and not of dissention Also be thy capacite neuer so quicke to perceiue and vnderstande the lessons of holye scripture Yet if thou haue amarū zelum a bitter affectiō trustyng by thy learning to checke rebuke other men or to allure other to thy sect factiō or opinion as some mē haue done reasoning agaynst Purgatory because they would by that destroye prayers for the dead and so cōsequently put downe abbeys chauntries whiche were founded for such praiers or if thou glory to much in thy learnyng al this maketh contra dominum against God and is not the true vnderstandyng or wittines that is the gifte of the holye goste And likewise of the thirde gyfte of whiche wee nowe entreate Donum cosilii As longe as thy caste leaneth ouer muche to mannes imagination and setteth not God afore but rather worketh agaynste God as ye hearde of these that compassed and counsayled for the deathe of Christe so to saue theim selues it is not the counsaile that is the gyfte of the holye Gooste for it is agaynste our Lorde GOD. It leaueth to muche to worldlinesse and to mannes caste grounded on malyce and euyll will therefore it coulde not holde Accordynge the faiynge of Gamaliell that honourable learned manne among the Iewes whē the chiefe rulers among thē laied their heads together toke theyr counsayle how to put y e apostles to death for preching the fayth of Christ Up stode this Gamaliell and gaue thē better counsayle aduertisyng thē to beware how they ordred these men meanyng the apostles of Christe not sodainly to precipitate their iudgmēt against thē for this precipitacion of sentence sodaynelye wythout mature deliberation or aduisement is the contrary to the gyft of counsayle that we now speake of that is the thirde gyfte of the holye gost Thys he persuaded by two examples firste of one Theudas whyche after Iosephus vsynge superstitious craftes toke vpon hym to be a great Prophet and so deluded the people that he made manye of theim to sell their goodes and care for nothynge but to folowe hym And so brought a greate multitude after hym to the water side of Iordane to the noumber of foure hundred disciples where he promised them wythin thre dayes nexte folowynge to deuide the water and to go ouer with them drye shodde as Iosue did wyth hys companye But whyle they were tariynge for thys myracle came on them the Capitayne of the countrey wyth hys Armye and strooke of Theudas heade and destroyed and