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A19279	The true and perfect copie of a godly sermon preached in the minister at Lincolne, by the reuerend father in God, Thomas L. Bishop of Lincolne the .28. of August. Anno. 1575.	Cooper, Thomas, 1517?-1594.	1575 (1575)	STC 5691; ESTC S111168	25,439	76

and that of all other shal be moste grieuous endlesse sense of the wrath of that God and iudge before whom he standeth This maner of iudgement is as you sée most terrible the spéedie aproching thereof is verie certeine the signes and tokens can not deceiue vs they are vttered by the Prophete of God by the Apostles of Christe by Christe our Sauiour by the spirite of God by trueth it selfe that can not lye we therefore may be well assured séeing al things to be performed that the yere of our account is nigh that that dreadfull Judge is comming that the day of Gods wrath is at hande and euen in our neckes we know not how soone Therefore I most heartily pray you and in the feare of God and loue of your selues desire you spéedily to cast away the care of the worlde the loue of the fleshe the delight of sensuall pleasure and iolytie whiche holdeth your myndes in suche wicked and detestable securitie Set before your eies the image of his comming in such Maiestie and terror thinke you heare continually the voyce of the Archangell sounding in your eares If feare of punishment may driue you to it he is a seuere Judge If assurance of reward may encourage you he is a bountifull Lord If hope of forgiuenesse before hand asked may comfort you he is a mercifull Sauiour Delay not therefore nor loose not this time of repentance Séeing then it is most certein there shall be a general iudgement and that the time thereof must néedes be verye nighe and that before a Judge of so great Maiestie and the examination and account so straight to al them that shall neglect the time of their repentance It behoueth all that haue any sense of God to be carefull for their soules and to prepare them selues for the comming of that dreadfull daye Oure preparance consisteth in these thrée things whereof Christe him selfe warneth vs Mar. 13. Cauete Vigilate ●rate Beware watch pray The first is a caueat or a thing to take héede of for feare of that danger that may come thereby And what it is Christ had shewen a litle before False Christes sayth he and false Prophetes shall ryse and shall shevve signes and vvonders to deceiue if it vvere possible euen the verie elect Sed cauete but take heede beholde I haue shevven you all things before This is that we muste beware of in these latter dayes Of the like Christ putteth vs in mynd when he sayth in another place Bevvare of false Prophetes vvhich come vnto you in sheepes cloathing but invvardly they are rauening vvoulfes There can no more mischief and danger come to the people of God then by false and corrupt doctrine for without true fayth and religion no holynesse of lyfe séeme it to the worlde neuer so glorious can be acceptable in the sight of god Among these false teachers principally we haue to take héede of the Papist and of those shéepe skinnes wherewith he wrappeth him selfe least we be deceiued by them let vs lift vp his goodly apparell and we shall sée vnderneath the panche of a gréedie woulfe and the clawes of a cruell Lyon Bée not abashed then nor astonied when you heare the goodly names of the Catholike Church the greate multitude of suche as be of their opinion the long continuance of many yeres For if these had ben good groūds of mens consciences they might well haue serued for the Jewes and false teachers against the true Prophets of God in olde time and after for Annas and Cayphas against Christ him selfe and his Apostles For where were the Prophetes staine where was Christe put to death where were the Apostles persecuted and kylled was it not in Jerusalem the citie of God was it not among the Jewes the chosen people and in déede the churche of God had not they among them the lawe of God and his ordinances did not they crye against Jeremie the Temple of God the Temple of God is with vs we haue the couenant that God made to our forefathers euen as nowe the papistes doe alledge that the Church of God the Church of God is with thē they can not erre they haue the promises of Christ that his Spirit should neuer fayle them The false Prophets had a thousand for one that did folow the true Prophetes Yea Elias thought that he had bene left alone The Scribes and Pharises in the ende had a great number and in déede a generall consent in comparison of that litle number and sinall flocke that folowed Christe and his Apostles Therefore take héede of these things y you be not miscaried by them they are but lambe skinnes wherein the wolfe of Rome hydeth him selfe to deceiue thée Remēber that all which say they haue Abraham to their father are not by and by the true séede of Abraham Remember that the Scribes and Pharises sometime sit in Moses chayre and beare the countenance of the lawe of god Remember that Saint Paul telleth thée and doth giue thée warning that the sonne of perdition Antichrist himself shoulde in the latter dayes sit in the Temple that is the Churche of god Remember that the same Paule telleth for certeintie that in the latter dayes should come certeine teaching the doctrine of deuils hauinge their consciences marked with an hot iron forbidding to marrie and to eate such meats as God hath prepared to be receiued vvith thankesgiuing Consider whether the Pope hath forbidden Priests to marrie and denounced it a grieuous sinne if men doe eate flesh vpon certeine dayes and then gather whether they be the Churche of Christ or vnder that colour in déed the Synagogue of Antichrist Oh say they the doctrine of the Gospel now taught is a new doctrine neuer heard of in y Church before these late yeres This is not a sheepe skinne good people but it is a venimous tuske of a poysonous Bore with blasphemous lying striken into the Gospell of Christe thereby to wounde it and make it hatefull But the Gospel that we teache is the same Gospel that was first from the beginning by the Spirit of God reueiled to the Patriarkes and Prophets and after spred into the worlde by Christ himselfe and his Apostles So that our doctrine is as auncient as the Prophets as Christ himselfe as his Apostles yea as the worlde is auncient For it procéeded from God himselfe at the beginning when he spake to the Serpent and sayd That the seed of the vvoman should breake the head of the Serpent That is that the true Messiah should come of the séede of the woman and destroy the kingdome of siune and Satan This Gospell was renued vnto Abraham and confirmed with the seale of circumcision When he said In thy seede all the nations of the earth shal be blessed c. This Gospell was preached by Father Jacob in his death bedde saying This scepter shal not depart from Iuda c. Vntill Silo come he shal be the expectatiō of the Gentiles

This Gospel preached Moses also The Lord thy God saith he to the children of Israel shall rayse vp to thee a Prophet out of thine own people and from among thy brethren and him shalt thou heare This Gospel was renued by God himselfe vnto Dauid most euidently and afterward by al the Prophets Esaie Ieremie Ezechiel Daniel and al the residue So that our doctrine and the Gospel that we preache as I haue said is as auncient as the Apostles as the Prophets and Patriarkes as the worlde it selfe is auncient For our Gospell is none other but this that we haue remission of sinnes and are reconcyled to the fauoure of God onely by Christ and by his death that he onely is the mediatour and intercessour betwene God and vs That he onely is propitiation and full sacrifice for our sinnes that by him onely we be made the children of God and heires of eternal lyfe All doctrines agréeing with this we receiue all doctrines repugnant to this we reiecte say with S. Ambrose Quaecunque Christus non docuit iure damnamus Whatsoeuer Christ hath not taught we iustly and worthily condemne Therefore doe we iustly condemne the most part of the papistical doctrine as newe and phantastical because it doth not agrée with this auncient Gospell of Christ vttered from the beginning by God himselfe but resteth vpon the obseruation of mens traditions and vnwriten verities deuised within the space of a fewe hundred yeres vtterly against and beside the worde of God. Satan in these latter dayes to worke suspition to the doctrine of the Gospel at this time by Gods great goodnesse renewed hath raised also manie other peruerse and wicked teachers as the Arrians denying the deitie of Christ The Anabaptistes beside manie other errours improouinge the grace and strength of baptisme in infants The Libert ines dissoluing all true confession of faith and practise of godly life The familiars of loue in whome Satan turneth himselfe into an Angel of light and vnder pretence of holy life bringeth in most pernitious errours and heresies Therefore I saye vnto you of al these beware and take héede that you be not seduced and settle your consciences vpon that sure foundation and stronge rocke of Christes Gospell whereof before I haue tolde you The next parte of our preparance is ▪ Uigilate which precept Christ often and in sundrie places repeateth S. Peter also Sobris estote vigilate Be sober and vvatche and S Paule vvatch and be stronge in faith to the Thes Let vs vvatch and be sober To watch is to be carefull and diligent vtterly contrarie to that securitie and carelesse wretchednesse wherewith the worlde at this daye is ouerwhelmed drowned as it were in the delights and lustes of worldly pleasures We are willed therefore to cast away this sinfull securitie and to haue an earnest care of our selues Well saith Chrisost Decet nos esse sobrios vigiles c. It becommeth vs to be sober and vvatchful and to haue a perpetual and continuall care of our soules For it is the part of a Christian alvvay to stand in battaile against the lustes of the flesh and that the louers preachers of our Lord and master should alvvay ring in our eares And againe Omnes vos vigilare sobrios esse oportet c. It behoueth you al to vvatche and be sober and neuer to sleepe in securitie Because there is no set time vvhen our enemie vvil assault vs Therefore let vs alvvay be vvatchful let vs alvvaye be carefull of our saluation and so vve shall neuer bee taken vpon the sodaine Christ our Sauiour teacheth vs how we should watch and after what maner we should be in readinesse Let your loynes be girded about you and your lights burning in your handes and ye your selues be like vnto men that vvaite for the comminge of their Lord vvhen he vvill returne from the vvedding that vvhen he shall come and knocke they may open vnto him immediatly Happy are those seruants vvhom vvhen the Lord commeth he shal find vvaking In that he saith we must haue our loynes girded he speaketh after the maner of the East coun●reyes where they vse long garments and when they goe any iourney they girde themselues and trusse their garmēts about them that they may iourney more hastely and readily By this therefore we are taught that in this worlde and vale of miserie we are but as pilgrimes and wayfaring men and as Paule saith haue no citie nor place long to abide in For our countrey dwelling place is in heauen whence we looke for our Lord and Sauiour Christ Jesu VVe be citizens of Heauen and of the housholde of God Where we belieue assuredly for euer to dwel We must therefore cast away the loue the care and y remembrance of this life dayly go on in our way to heauen there to enioy the heritage of that kingdome where Christ our Sauiour after his resurrection and ascention hath taken possession to our behoufe For as he naturally so we by adoption are heires of Eternall life So long therefore as we be here going on our iourney we must remember S. Paules counsaile that is That the time of this life is short and therefore they vvhich haue vviues must be as if they had none and they that vveepe as though they vvept not and they that laugh as though they laughed not and they that vse this vvorlde as though they vsed it not Whereby it is ment that we must vse the things of this life onely of necessitie for the time and that neither aduersitie or wéeping nor prosperitie and laughing nor marriage nor the pleasures and possessions of this life should so occupy our hearts that they shoulde make vs to forget our countreye and kingdome vnto whiche we are passinge through the wildernesse of this wicked and sinful worlde Our Conuersation as Paule saith should be in heauen our whole or principall care shoulde be vpō heauenly things neither must y immoderate loue of this world cause vs ouer gredely to loke back to the delights pleasures therof as Lots wife did to Sodom least as she was turned to a Salt stone without sense So the iust iudgement of God d●e cast vs of as reprobates and turne vs into stony hearts that shal haue no sense of God and godlinesse let vs therefore guide our selues and go on constantly in our purposed iourney But vve must haue light in our handes that is we must haue the knowledg of Gods holy word and our mindes must be diligently instructed therewith For that is the light that doth teache and instruct vs and in deede truely directe vs which way we shal take to heauē Thy word saith Dauid Is a Lanterne vnto my feete and a light vnto my steppes By the worde of God onely we are directed the true way If we be guided by the duskie light of mans reason vndoutedly we shall wander out of the way and