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A19306	The shield of our safetie: set foorth by the faythfull preacher of Gods holye worde A. Anderson, vpon Symeons sight, in hys Nunc dimittis. Seene and allowed	Anderson, Anthony, d. 1593.	1581 (1581)	STC 572; ESTC S100137	125,541	166

the Sacrifice for syn some of Reconcyliation of peace and all these Rites Ceremonies and Sacryfices were executed in the Hebrewe tongue by the ordinance of God which was the naturall language of the Iewes And if there were some sygnifycations there that concerned not the vulgar sort to know what is that to kéepe vs from the knowledge of the prayses of God in deuyne seruice which ought to be knowne of euery of vs We requyre not our people to vnderstand all secrets but we reprooue the Church of Rome bicause she doth so estraunge Gods people from the knowledge of his true seruice that she wil not spare them in that church so little as the vnderstanding of the bare wordes in their natiue spéeche Let them shewe vs the lyke warrante for this synne as the Iewish priests had for their holye Ceremonies all which were prescribed to them by the word of the Lorde and they haue saide something But this they cannot and therefore are most wicked and their seruice abhominable and to all that vnderstande not their Laten tongue improfytable Enchyrid Hosij cap. 34. Againe others with Hosius say where Paule sayeth He speaketh in vayne that speaketh to a congregation in an vnknowne tongue he in that place saye they speaketh of preaching and not synging or saying Gods deuyne Seruice but the wordes of the Chapter 1. Cor. 14. most manifestly doth conuince them For their is eftsoones mention made of praying in a straunge tongue Verse 14.15 and sayth he How shall the vnlearned to thy blessing that is to thy prayer of thankesgyuing say Amen if he vnderstand not what thou sayest Wherefore this defence is most slender and a falling proppe of Popery Neyther are they to be heard which saye the Church hath power to order thys matter 2. Cor. 14.37 For Paule in the Chapter sayth If any man think himselfe to be a prophet or spiritual whether prince Pope or priest let him acknowledge that the things which I write here against praying and preaching in a strange tongue are the commaundements of the Lorde And can the Pope then or maye he or generall Counsels change the Lordes Decrée in the Church and that against the Lorde and hys commaundements Hath the Church the wyfe such authoritie ouer Christ her husbande This is the duety of the beloued wyfe to heare The Churches office and duety and to obey her husband Heare O Israel hearken and giue eare Oh daughter sayth the Father to his church in the shadow of Salomons mariage to Pharaoh his Daughter consyder enclyne thine eare to Christ thyne husbande forget also thy fathers house Psa 45.10 and thy people the Romishe Church so shall the king haue pleasure in thy bewty For he is thy Lorde and reuerence thou him To heare to obey to forsake thine owne institution constitution Father Pope Popish people that giue thée the lawes of Romishe Egypt is the duetie of Gods Church But to change the lawes of God to comptroll the husband Christes commandement to keepe him vnder and set himselfe aloft in the Temple of GOD as doth the Romishe Church is the signe of a strumpet Iudge therefore good Reader now of thys Church of Rome and what she is which contrary to Christs commaundement in the church of God setteth vp hypocritical seruice in a strange tongue Againe some of them saye for children Mylke is the best bicause they are not able to digest strong men therfore the Laten tongue expedient in the church But I pray you Syr is it your purpose if we be Infantes so to kéepe vs styll For when shall your Laten seruice which you call Mylke be taken by your ordinance from vs And how proue you that your Laten seruice is mylke for Christian Babes Mylke nourisheth and feedeth but howe edyfyeth the Laten tongue mans christian soule when his inward hart cannot perceyue the meaning of hys outward words Againe your seruice is exhibited you say to GOD and wyll you feede the Lorde of truth with Popish Mylke Is not his Maiesty able to receiue stronger meate But from what breast I pray you procéedeth this Mylke Neyther from the espoused Syon or was it drawne from the Dugs of the fyrst mother the Primatiue church eyther in Rome Corinth Ephesus Antioche or else where Syon had her seruice in her owne tongue in Hebrewe the East Churches in the Gréeke tongue which was their natural spéech yea and Rome it selfe in the Laten tongue Gods seruice ought to be to eche Nation in their commō language which is the auncient Romane language And there is no other greater reason in déede for the Laten seruice then that hereby they would séeme to challenge al Nations to be of their church and subiect to their Kingdome But God hauing all Nations vnder his gouernment doth speake to eche Nation in that tongue which they vnderstande Esay 6. Esay sawe the two Seraphins and heard them praysing God in a tongue that he vnderstoode Holy holy holy When Christ was borne in Bethlehem the Angelles were heard of the Shepheards Luc. 2.14 and vnderstood to syng Glory to God on highe in earth peace to men a good will Which song to Gods prayse had it bene sung in a straunge tongue the symple Shepheards had not vnderstood the same Sith therefore the ordinance of God the practise of his church the vse of the tryumphant Church to which we ought to be lyke doth syng and pray in a knowne tongue to them with whome and for whom they doe pray What church is that but Antichrists which degenerating from all these doth hyde the prayses of God in a straunge language Some Papistes are so hatefull that for warrante of their Laten seruice Romishe Churche Antichrists Church they abuse thys sentence of Christ It is not good to take the Childrens breade and to cast it vnto Dogs by which assertion vnwyllingly they confesse Mathew that to haue the seruice in a knowne tongue is to haue the bread of Gods children Wel then God hauing wrung this truth from your lyps we wyll accept the bread of our Lorde to say our seruice to vs Englishe men in the English tongue and doe leaue to your infancie A Popishe blasphemy most horrible your chyldishe Mylke of popishe Laten seruice But are those men for whome Christ hath shedde his precious bloud no better in your account syr but Dogs The spirite of God vseth not to dwell in the bodyes of Dogs but the children of God are the Temples of the holy Ghost O horrible blasphemy 1. Cor. 3.10 to call these holy Vassels caryon Dogs But ye are those dyrtie Dogs which be Canes muti ye can not speake the praises of God in a knowne tongue ye byte and deuour them which doe ye are the Deuils Mastyues which are reserued to eternall chaynes Iudae Epist if God graunt you not repentance For it is not the propertie of a Pastor to hyde the worde of god

money to haue bought the bodye of the Lorde which possyblie might as wel haue come to passe as the high Priests to corrupt the Souldiours for money Mat. 28.13 to saye that his Disciples stole him away by night This might fleshe bloude in infyrmitie of Nature haue perswaded this Princely Péere in God But the wisedome of God hath otherwise determyned and therefore at a sodaine changed the harte of Ioseph and of a priuie and quaking Disciple made hym an open and most Heroycall spirited Souldiour all which holy Luke testifieth of purpose in these words Luc. 23.50 Tum ecce vir nomine Ioseph c. As if he would saye beholde nowe a maruellous matter and sodayne mutation A christian courage in a Noble counsellour beyonde the expectation of all men come to passe When the matters of Christ the Lorde were thus in hande that he was crucyfied slayne and dead vpon the crosse and there hanging was of all men neglected his louers and friends for feare hyding themselues some other of them standing aloofe wéeping the miserable daye and beholding with grieslye griefe the most pitifull case of our despised Christ no man daring to offer himselfe for the glory of the father to honor the bloody body of his dead sonne Then euen then dyd this graue Councellour ritche seruant and faythfull Disciple caste of the cowardishnesse of his fleshe and armed wyth the spirite of God professed himselfe alone to be the seruaunte of Christe in the myddle of his enimies and at Pilates person he stowtely but wisely and with reuerent duety beggeth the bodye of his mayster not anye longer fearing the losse of goods credite office dignitie or caring for anye perrill that might to his Noble person or honorable house thereafter befall O Noble christian Counsellour And note well ye Noble seruants of Iesu the Lorde your mayster who hath the hartes of Kings in his hands and doth turne them as he doth the Tydes of the Sea Pro. 21.1 and Ryuers of water did so humble the harte of Pilate to hys Counsellors request that spéedily he obtayned his godlye desyre And that more is where Ioseph thought hymself alone to haue this cause in hand there the Lord of lyfe doth in the moment of tyme ioyne to him a most Noble Pharisie named Nicodemus God gyueth good successe to godly labours farre beyonde all expectation a teacher of the Law that so both estates Spiritual and Temporall may perceyue that the Lorde doth keepe them in power and fauour with princes and potentates bicause they shoulde with courage doe the Lorde seruice yea euen in dangerous seasons if Christ be eyther accused prysoned or anye waye else euill dealt withall The heroycall hartes then of christian Counsellours and Noble Christians Courtyers and Gentlemen of credite should though alone make humble and earnest and eftsoones peticions to the Deputie of our head Christ for the godly members of the same God will ioyne with them and enclyne the hartes of the hardned for his sonnes glory and graunt ayde vnto you in his businesse beyonde your expectation and your selues shall finde fauour wyth God for your labors in his Christ Now in Ioseph his person and also in Nicodemus there are two things to be well and déepely considred for want wherof many doe to their great hindrance from God take euill example not rightly giuen First therfore we are to consider what be the thinges in these men to be followed of Noble men women others Secondly the hyndring euill A righte eye is to be had in the deeds and lyues of godly men which manye doe presumptuously take as offered in the persons of these men to be receyued without reproofe The thing to bée followed that so this faythfull seruice to God may appeare to the more Noble christians is that they be endowed with their exampler Ioseph his spiritual quallities and christian habite which maketh them truely braue and bewtifull yea so as neyther Silkes Veluets Syluer or Golde can doe and that is that they be in person honest not giuen to the notable vices folowing for the most parte forreyn Nobilitie so I call al those by carnall byrth enobled in whose hart God by his spirite and worde beareth not the soueraigntie as Idlenesse the mother of al euill surfetting dronkennesse whoredome chambring wantonnesse blasphemous othes filthy and rybaldous talking and couetous cruelty ouer their sore oppressed Tenants and inferior people and such lyke but that they be giuen to the custome of honest and chast lyfe sobrietie of minde and manners comlynesse of apparell agréeable his dignitie moderate dyet and frugall hospitality louing harted and vsing vpright dealing with all men assured that as their persons doe farre excell the lower sorte so God requireth more regard of them Luc. 12.48 For to whom much is giuen of him shall be much required And let them make thys reckning if they hunte counter herein the verye heathen Nobilitie shall ryse agaynst them to iudgement It is sayde of the seueritie among the olde Romaynes in iudgement that if an olde person or famous Senator al if greatly for hys desertes were to be renowmed became in any sorte to be the example of yll to the common weale he should haue seuere censure Lucius Antonius Lucius Antonius was cast out of the Senate house for that hauing maried a Mayde he cast her off by deuorce wythout the counsell of his friends Fabritius Lucius Censor adiudged Cornelius Rufinus Cornelius Rufinus who had bene twise Consul and twise Dictator vnworthy the fellowship of Senators bycause he had ouercuriously decked his Cubborde wyth Syluer plate as gyuing thereby a superfluous example to hys fellow brethren and others Duronius Duronius also was remoued the Senate for that being Tribune he did dissolue that reasonable lawe set downe before by the Senate which dyd restrayne the lashing prodigalitie in fumptuous feasts and banquets These and such other examples the Stories delyuer vs. But who thinketh these men were they in these dayes worthye such seuere censure being Noble and well deseruing Or who is of Iulius Caesars Iulius Caesar iudgement holding it most honorable for a noble man or of higher calling by vertues to excell others and also so to guyde his family that his housholde maye be frée from all suspition of euill O that our christian Gentrie were come to this heathen mans perfection in this poynte Or that our Byshops would in all their houses beginne thys daunce What is asked of the Nobilitie Well Ioseph must beginne to doe it and also to be iuste in his dealing with all men which consisteth in the equall gyuing to euery man his owne and to doe to others as they would they should doe to him And to the vtterest of his authority and power Mat. 7.12 he must follow the counsel of the noble prince and Prophet Dauid hymselfe to defende the fatherlesse and people in righteousnes and the poore