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B08023	A notable discourse of the happinesse of this our age, and of the ingratitude of men to God for his benefites: written in Latine by that godly learned man Iohn Riuius, and now Englished for the comfort, and commoditie of the vnlearned, by W.W. student..; De seculi nostri felicitate, et hominum erga Dei beneficia ingratitudine, liber. English	Rivius, Johann, 1500-1553.	1578 (1578)	STC 21064.5; ESTC S94909	108,359	160

Item If yee doe not remitte and pardon other men their offences neither will your heauenlie father forgiue you your trespasses Hee that is giuen to riot and pleasures heareth the parable of the Rich glutton and Lazarus the begger Hee that is too carefull and busie in heaping vp riches heareth the parable of the rich man which woulde enlarge and builde his barnes greater and destine hereafter to his soule a quiet and blessed life Also hee heareth S. Paules wise admonition Hauing foode and raiment let vs therewith bee content For they that will bee riche fall into temptations and snares and into many vnprofitable and hurtefull desires which drowne men in perdition and destruction For couetousnesse or desire of monie is the roote of all euill Hee that doth not receiue the poore and straungers heareth this saying Bee not vnmindefull to enterteine straungers for by this hospitalitie some haue receiued Angels into their houses vnwares And againe Bee ye harborous one to an other without grudging Hee that is proude and ambitious heareth this saying Hee that exalteth him selfe shall be brought lowe And againe God resisteth the proude but hee giueth grace to the humble Hee that is a babbler a chatterer and a fonde talker heareth this saying Men shall giue account in the day of iudgement of euerie idle woorde that they haue spoken And againe Let no filthie communication proceede out of your mouth Hee which liueth secure and carelesse nor thinketh vpon the amendment of his life heareth this saying Bee yee also prepared therefore because the Sonne of man will come at an houre when ye thinke not Hee which is an vsurer heareth this saying Lend looking for nothing by it and your rewarde shall bee greate Hee that is giuen to wine heareth this saying Ouerlade not your selues with wine wherein is riot and excesse And againe Take heede that your heartes be not ouercharged with surfeting And againe Woe be to you that rise vp earely to followe dronkennesse and to you that continue swilling till night that you may bee inflamed with wine And againe Bee yee sober and watch because your aduersarie the Diuell as a roaring Lion walketh about seeking whome hee may deuoure Hee that is a whore-maister an adulterer or defiled with the like sinne and wickednesse heareth this saying Neither whoremongers neither adulterers nor vncleane persons shall inherite the kingdome of god And againe For this yee knowe that no whoremonger neither vncleane person nor couetous person which is an idolater hath any inheritance in the kingdome of Christ and of god And againe This is the will of God to wit your sanctification that you absteine from fornication And For to auoyde fornication let euerie man haue his wife Item Marriage is honourable among all and the bed vndefiled but whoremongers and adulterers God will iudge And againe Flee fornication Euerie sinne that a man doeth is without the bodie but hee that committeth fornication sinneth against his owne bodie Hee that passeth ouer the dueties of charitie towardes our neighbour heareth this saying Depart from mee yee cursed into enternall fire which is prepared for the Diuell and his Angels For I was hungrie and yee fedde mee not I was thirstie and yee refreshed mee not with drinke I was a straunger and yee receiued mee not into your house I was naked and yee did not cloath mee I was sicke and yee did not visite mee To bee briefe wee doe without end inculcate that sentence of the Apostle For wee must all appeare at the barre before the iudgement seate of Christ that euerie man may receiue the thinges which hee hath done in his bodie whether it bee good or euill Moreouer we daily make mention of the iudgement to come of the voyce of the Archangel and of the trumpet of God of the Lordes tribunall seate before which wee must all bee conuented there to giue accomptes vnto God of our whole life who will pay vnto euerie man as hee hath deserued rewardes or punishments as both the Euangelicall and Apostolicall doctrine testifieth Yea and euerie one is diligently put in minde of his duetie by our Preachers The Prince and the Magistrate heareth this saying Hee beareth not the sworde for naught For hee is the Minister of God to take vengeance on them that doe euill And againe Princes are not a terrour to them that doe well but to them which doeyll The subiectes heare this sentence Let euerie soule bee subiect vnto the higher powers for there is no power but of god Whosoeuer therefore resisteth the power resisteth the ordinance of god And againe Ye must bee subiect not because of wrath onely but also for conscience sake Item Giue therefore to all men their duetie tribute to whome yee owe tribute custome to whome custome feare to whome feare honour to whome honour is due The married man heareth this saying Husbandes loue your wiues and bee not bitter vnto them And againe So ought men to loue their wiues as their owne bodies The wife heareth this saying Wiues submit your selues vnto your husbandes as vnto the Lord because the husband is the wiues heade And as the Church is in subiection to Christ euen so let the wiues be subiect to their husbandes in euerie thing Fathers heare this saying Prouoke not your children to wrath but bring them vp in instruction and information of the Lorde Children heare this saying Obey your parents in the Lorde for this is right The seruantes heare this saying Bee obedient vnto them that are your maisters according to the flesh with feare and trembling in singlenesse of your heartes as vnto Christ not with seruice to the eye as men pleasers but as the seruantes of Christ c. The maister heareth this saying Ye maisters shewe to your seruantes equitie and equabilitie knowing that you also haue a maister in heauen neither is there respect of persons with him The Preacher or Pastour of the Lordes flocke heareth this saying Feede the flock of Christ as much as lieth in you careing for it not by constraint but willingly not for filthie lucre but of a readie minde The rich man heareth this saying Charge them that are riche in this worlde that they bee not high minded and that they trust not in vncerteine riches but in the liuing God which giueth vs aboundantly all thinges to enioy that they doe good that they bee riche in good woorkes that they bee readie to distribute and willing to communicate to others laying vp in store for them selues a good foundation against the time to come that they may obteine eternall life The Publicane Customer or Toulner heareth this saying Exact and require no more than that which is appointed you The souldier heareth this saying Doe violence to no man accuse no man falsly but bee content with your wages Wherefore sith that our

shewe of good woorkes The thirde sorte of good workes which are good in deede To leade a Christian life consisteth in these woorkes 1. Thes 2. 12. vvho liueth no● Christianly Monkishe woorkes vvho liueth Christianly vvorkes meete for the regenerate Our aduersaries are agrieued that we reiect the first and second sorte of woorkes The Papistes are angrie with vs for that we ascribe our saluation only to Chist and not to mans merites The Papistes are grieued that wee condemne their superstition and idolatie 1. Cor. 10. 14. 1. Tim. 4. 7. 8 There are and haue alwayes bene some vndiscreete Preachers which haue not spoken wisely and discreetly ynough of good woorkes Augustinus Phil. 2. 12. Galat. 4. 21. The Papistes accuse vs vniustly as destroyers of good woorkes Monkes woorkes Matt. 6. 7. vvhat it is to refuse the worlde and to renounce the Diuell The Papistes finde great faulte with vs for that we call that a good woorke whiche euerie man doeth honestly in his vocation vvhat woorkes please God and what displease him The dressing of an horse how farre foorth it is a good woorke Eph. 6. 5. Coloss 3. 22. Tit. 2. 9. 1 Pet. 1. 18. How farre foorth it is a good woorke to be at a sermon VVoorkes which Monkes bragge and boast of An other obiection of the aduersarie The answeare There were no heresies in the Primitiue Church than are now There haue bene alwayes certeine which haue resisted wholesome doctrine 2. Tim. 3. 8. The cause of heresies and tumultes is not in the Gospell but in the malice of Satan An obiection The Aunswere The cause of loosnesse of life Our Preachers labour to salue euerie sinne with a seuerall remedie out of Gods woorde Matt. 3. 2. 7. 8 1. Iohn 3. 16. Matt. 5. 22. Galat. 5. 20. 12. Matt. 5. 44. ●5 Matt. 6. 15. Luke 16. 19. Luke 12. 16 1. Tim. 6. 8. 9 Heb. 13. 2. 1. Pet 4. 9. Luke 18. 14. 1. Pet. 5. 5. Mat. 12. 36. Eph. 4. 29. Luk. 12. 40. Luk. 6. 35. Ephe. 5. 18. Luke 21. 34. Esai 5. 11. 1. Pet. 5. 8. 1. Cor. 6. 9. Eph. 5. 5. 1. thess. 4. 3. 1. Cor. 7. 2. Heb. 13. 4. 1. Cor. 6. 18. Matt. 25. 41. 2. Cor. 5. 10. How euerie man in our sermons is admonished of his duetie Rom. 13. 4. The duetie of the Magistrate The subiectes duetie Rom. 13. 1. 2. 5. 7. The husbandes duetie Coloss 3. 19. Eph. 5. 28. Eph. 5. 22. 23. The wiues duetie Parents dutie Ephe. 6. 4. 5. 6. Childrens duetie Seruantes duetie The maisters duetie The Preachers duetie 1. Pet. 1. 2. 1. Tim. 6. 17. Rich mens duetie The customers duetie Luke 3. 13. 14. The souldiers duetie 2. Tim. 4. 2. Christians in name and not in deede Hilarie The great corruption of this our age A vaine vaunt of faith without good workes Much professing now a dayes but small practising Tit. 1. 16. The doctrine of the Gospell is euill spoken of because of our yll liues The great ingratitude of this age Matt. 11. 12 1. Pet. 2. 9. Saint Paules sweete exhortations Rom. 12. 1. Calat 5. 24. Tit. 2. 11. 12. Eph. 5. 1. 2. Eph. 2. 10. Matt. 5. 16. 1. Pet. 2. 24. Tit. 2. 14. Galat. 1. 4. 2. Cor. 5. 15. Coloss 1. 22. Against those which sinne through hope of Gods mercie Psal. 13. 8. Psal. 34. 16. Exod. 20. 6. Ezec. 33. 11. Iohn 3. 15. Iohn 5. 29. Iohn 1. 29. Matt. 3. 2. 8. Act. 15. 11. Act. 3. 19. Iohn 3. 16. Matt. 7. 21. 1. Tim. 1. 15. 1. Cor. 6. 9. 10 How we may be thankefull to God for this great benefite of the Gospell Eph. 5. 19. 20. 1. Thes 2. 12 Our great vnthankefulnesse How great errours there were in the former age Purgatorie deuised out of the sixte booke of Virgils Aeneades The superstitious honouring of Saintes in the former age Saint Roch. Saint George Saint Nicholas Saint Erasmus Saint Vrbane Saint Apolline Saint Margarete The woorshipping of Saintes in the former age was not vnlike the idolatrie of the Ethnikes Ouide The peculiar Gods of seuerall cities and countries amongest the heathen nations Seuerall Saintes Patrones of seuerall cities at this day According to the number of thy cities are thy Gods. Iere. 2. 29. Seuerall trades haue seuerall Saintes to be their patrones and Protectours Manie countries are as yet drowned in darkenesse vvhat greate thankes we owe to God for restoring his Gospell The ingratitude of the common people The ingratitude of Noble men and Gentlemen The corruption of Princes courtes Some noble men take to themselues the Churche goodes wherewith Pastours and Preachers shoulde be mainteined Now it is well knowen which is the catholike Church All men saued onelie by faith in Christ Both we at this day and the Fathers in old time were saued by the same faith Apoc. 13. 8. The Gospell was from the beginning of the worlde Gen. 3. 15. 1. Iohn 3. 8. Gen. 12. 3. Deut. 18. 15 Act. 3. 22. vvhich is the true Church and Communion of Saintes vvhat kinde of societie the Church is How Christ ruleth and defendeth his Church The societie of the Church is perfect felicitie Psal. 84. 1. 2. 4. 12. The great comforte and consolation which a Christian man may receiue by meditating and musing vpon the Communion of Saintes Comforts which we receiue by Christ crucified for vs. Act. 10. 43. 1. Tim. 1. 15. Luke 19. 10. Esai 61. 8. Luke 4. 18. Iohn 3. 17. Coloss 2. 13. 14. Matt. 11. 28. Galat. 4. 5. Eph. 5. 2. Heb. 2. 14. Gal. 3. 13. Coloss 2. 15. Eph. 4. 8. Psal. 68. 18. Rom. 8. 34. 1. Iohn 2. 1. Heb. 9. 24. Eph. 4. 24. 1. Tim. 2. 5. Heb. 4. 16. Ioh. 1. 29. Ioh. 11. 25. 1. Cor. 1. 30. Esai 53. 5. Osee 13. 14 Iere. 23. 6. Esai 7. 14. Christ is the scope both of the law and of the Gospell Especially at this day men ought to be thankefull for the doctrine of the Gospell Coloss 3. 16. 2. Pet. 3. 18. Mans extreme ingratitude to God for his infinite benefites shewed by his wicked life The remembraunce of Christes benefites of what force it is with the godlie Rom. 8. 31. 32. 33. 34. vvhat greate consolation redoundeth to a distressed conscience by the right remembraunce of Christes benefites Gal. 3. 13. 1. Iohn 1. 7. Iohn 11. 25. Coloss 2. 15. vvhat comfort of conscience there was in time of Poperie vvhat great thankes we owe to God for the renouation of Ecclesiasticall doctrine A part of thankefulnesse to acknowledge from whence we came Psal. 50. 14. VVhat kind of sacrifice God requireth at our handes By what things we ought to declare our thankefulnesse towards God. From what darkenesse ignorance we are deliuered An obiection Some doe impiously lay the cause of all calamities vpon the renouation of this celestiall doctrine Ciuil warres in Germanie An aunsweare The wicked opinion of Porphyrius August lib 2. de ciuitate dei Cap. 3. So did Demetrian complaine as it appeareth by S. Cyprians reprehension Tertullian Our age may be called happie although calamities come vpon vs For the renouation of the Gospell counterpaiseth all calamities Iohn 17. 3. 2. Cor. 5. 2. 1. Cor. 7. 31. Phil. 1. 23. Luke 2. 29. How the godlie are moued with calamities Calamities come not by fortune but are sent of God. Publike calamities are as it were the voyce of the lawe VVherefore and to what end calamities are sent of God. Matth. 3. 2. Mark. 1. 1● Calamities are tokens and witnesses of Gods wrath against our sinnes VVhat fruit the godlie reape of calamities Psal. 6. 1. Ieremie 2. The ioy of the Gospell preached is greater than all calamities Rom. 8. 28. Afflictions happen for the best vnto the godlie How the godlie suffer calamities Orofius A godlie Prayer 1. Thes 2. 12 1. Cor. 1. 10. Phil. 2. 2. Actes 19. Matth. 9. ¶ Imprinted at London at the three Cranes of the Vintree by Thomas Dawson for Tobie Cooke and Philippe Eede dwelling in Paules Churchyard at the signe of the Tygres head

doctrine comprehended verie briefly in fewe woordes the verie same which is taught amongst vs Whereby you may easily learne what hath bene amended in Ecclesiasticall doctrine Now wee will proceede to declare what hath bene either chaunged or quite taken away in Ceremonies but first we will speake somewhat of the Pope or Bishop of Rome All men well nigh heretofore did beleeue as their Creede that the Pope was by Gods lawe head of the Church But wee after the iudgement of S. Paule doe affirme that Christe alone is the head of the Church For the place out of the Epistle to the Ephesians and of the Colossians is well knowen Wee denie not this that the Bishop of Rome may by the generall consent of the other Bishops bee appointed as it were a certeine superintendent or ouerseer of the Churches and a president of the Christian common weale that hee may both bee and also seeme to be as it were a Censour of mens manners a maister of Ecclesiasticall discipline if so bee hee woulde vse his authoritie graunted not to get any Lordship or souereigntie ouer others but to the profit of the Church not to bring in superstition but to establish true religion and if hee woulde throughly doe the duetie belonging to the function taken in hand finally if hee woulde bee bounde to certeine lawes of gouernement neither would permit as he hath done heretofore that his owne lust and licence should stand for a lawe Our men verely hitherto haue made warre onely with the Popes kingdome and with the Romish ruledome and with that power which would aduance it selfe both aboue the Scripture and the Church and almost aboue God him selfe neither seeme they to graunte vnto any mortall man whatsoeuer as long as they can helpe it to be able to doe more than the woorde of God and the Church Otherwise I knowe full well they will not refuse the authoritie of the Bishop of Rome if hee will take paines to see that Christian Religon bee instaured that superstitions bee taken away that the Churches bee reformed that the manners of all estates bee corrected and amended And if that authoritie of the Bishop which at the beginning was graunted for the better preseruation of Christianitie of consent in doctrine had not bene turned into domination or rather tyrannie our men truely would neuer haue bene persuaded to haue violated cast off and to haue banished as it were out of the Church that authoritie Therefore no other man but the Bishop of Rome him selfe is the cause why that Apostolicall seate as they call it hath bene so despised neither can the Bishop accuse any man for that matter more iustly than him selfe For who can thinke it tollerable that hee should call him selfe The vniuersall and Oicomenicall Bishop who hath the right to ordeine and to confirme to displace and remoue from their office all the Bishops and Pastours in the whole world that hee doth arrogate vnto him self the authoritie of making lawes concerning the seruice and woorship of God concerning the chaunging of the Sacraments concerning Ecclesiasticall doctrine that hee doth thinke his owne decrees to be equall with Gods lawes so that all mens consciences are necessarily bounde to the obseruing of them if they will see to their owne saluation that hee doth sit in the Temple of God as God as S. Paule saith of Antichrist and that hee doth take vnto him the right of chaunging the doctrine of Christ and the woorshippes appointed by God that hee doth suffer him selfe to bee iudged of no man and that hee doth preferre his owne authoritie before the iudgement of Councelles and of the whole Christian Church that hee doth not suffer Ecclesiasticall controuersies to bee decided rightly and orderly and that in Synodes hee doth not suffer any thing to be iudged and concluded against his sentence that hee challengeth vnto him selfe the authoritie to translate from one to an other both kingdomes and Empires that hee sticketh hard to this how that by Gods lawe hee is Lord of all the kingdomes of the worlde finally that hee boasteth how that hee is the Emperours lawfull successour when the Empire is vacant and that hee doth confirme this howe that it is necessarie to saluation to beleeue it But let vs come now to Ceremonies In baptising infantes wee had rather vse our owne vulgar tongue than the Latine because verie few vnderstand this but all vnderstand the other that is both the Godfathers and Godmothers which are brought thither and adhibited as witnesses at the baptisme of the childe and also the rest of the congregation if any bee present and lastly the Priest him selfe which doth baptise the childe Now it is verie profitable and necessarie that all shoulde vnderstand that language wherein the childe is baptised namely to this end both that the Godfathers may knowe what they doe professe and promise to God in the childes name and also that the rest which stand aboute may not bee ignorant what matter is in hande how serious how diuine and how full of mysteries it is finally that the Prieste may bee occupied in that holie mysterie with greater attention of minde that he may thereby bee excited to a more exquisite diligence and that hee may bee forced the better to doe his duetie for shame of all those which are present vnderstanding now what is done Iustinian the Emperour maketh for vs in his Nouellis Constitutionibus de capitibus Ecclesiasticorum sumptuum whose woordes I doe omitte lest I should bee longer than needed As concerning that vngodlie rite and custome of baptising belles and of hallowing water with salte brought into the Church by superstitious men wee thought good in any wise to reteine it no longer Concerning Penance and Confession if the abuses which haue crept in bee taken away wee both thinke and teach verie highly of it For wee doe clearely and plainely testifie that there can bee no way any true faith in a man without repentance that is but in him who is truely sorrowfull and greatly greeued for his sinnes but in him which repenteth seriously and from his hearte and which feeleth the wrathe of God against his sinnes but in him which purposing now to liue godly doth call to God for mercie doth goe vnto the Minister of the Church and confessing his sinnes doth desire absolution of him Wee verely doe nothing regarde that their carefull curious and scrupulous enumeration or reckoning vp of their seuerall sinnes with all the cirumstances perteining to it as what was done with what minde with whome at what time howe long where howe often wherefore howe much howe farre foorth with what reason and other such like this wee reiect as both full of superstition and also euerie way vnprofitable and as it were a certeine snare or rather a butcherie and crosse of miserable consciences Neither doe wee approue or allow those manifolde errours concerning