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end_n	day_n	keep_v	sabbath_n	2,898	5	9.9995	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15765	A summons for sleepers Wherein most grieuous and notorious offenders are cited to bring forth true frutes of repentance, before the day of the Lord now at hand. Hereunto is annexed, a patterne for pastors, deciphering briefly the dueties pertaining to that function, by Leonard Wright.	Wright, Leonard, b. 1555 or 6.	1589 (1589)	STC 26034.3; ESTC S121115	49,627	64

like Symon Magus that walked with Phillip as a disciple yet wrought with mony like a worldling Achabs wife would neuer put on demure apparell but when she spake with the Prophets nor our dissembling Protestants bee neuer holy but at Sermon times They heare and desire like Saints but liue deserue like deuils they can looke and speake holily whereby they séeme glorious before men but their workes are naught and therefore odious in the sight of God whose outward behauior is much like cloudes without raine whereby God himselfe doth mocke such fruitles showes These hypocrites therefore are possessed with deuils thy sléep in sinne and it is high time to awake them Though the obseruing of the Sabboth day touching bodily rest do belong to the Ceremonial lawe and shadowes which had an end in Christ being therefore altered from Saterday do Sonday yet as the Iewes did celebrate theirs in remembrance of the creation of the world so ought wee to obserue and kéepe our Sabboth in remembrance of the resurrection of Christ and as a figure to confirme our hope in the resurrection of our owne bodies and our spirituall rest in glorie to come as also for a comely and decent order to bee vsed in the Church that in resting from bodily work we may charitably assemble together to the end the Lord by the preaching of his word may bring forth his worke in vs to his owne glorie and our saluation but our Sabboth in many places is so vilely abused as though it had bene rather ordained to serue Bacchus and Venus the people beeing growen so carelesse negligent and licentious to feast when they should fast play when they should pray and laugh when they should wéep for their sins as though there were neither God nor deuill heauen nor hell As euerie honest nature hath affection good will to his natiue soile and place of birth so ought euery good Christian to haue a godly desire to the soile of his regeneration place of his new birth by Baptisme which is the temple of God the schoole of Christ nurse of Christianitie to make open confession of his sinnes and rehearsal of his faith to intreate for pardon pray for things necessary giue thankes for benefites past to celebrate the Sacramentes to heare and learne his duty and right way to saluation to beléeue truly liue honestly and walke vprightly If the ground yeeld not sappe to the tree it will soone seare and wither away if the lampe be not fed with oyle it must needes goe out if any liuing thing bee kept from nourishing it cannot liue euen so if the faith of a Christian doe not receiue continual sap and moistnes of the heauenly word fed with the oyle of swéet promises in Christ and nourished with the wholesome bread of life it cannot continue but consume and die The séede of the Gospel must stil be sowne in our harts or we cannot reape the haruest of eternal life where prophesie faileth the people perish When the Lord of a manor appointeth his tenants a day to come to his Court the rolles are laide open the Stuard is ready prepared to giue the charge the tenants are dutiful to come attentiue to heare and diligent to execute their Lordes will and if any shall chaunce to be absent or come after the charge be giuen no doubt the Lord wil be very angry and set a fine vpon his head euen so the Lord of all Lords of whom and at whose will we haue receiued and do hold all that euer we haue doth euery Sabboth day kéepe his court at his temple Church or house of praier his rolles the sacred Bible is layd open the Stuard or Minister is ready to giue the charge and tel euery man his dutie and if any of his tenants or people be absent and refuse to come no doubt the Lorde himselfe will be angry or if they come after the charge when seruice or sermon is done they were as good not come at all Againe such a dutiful tenant as desire to stand in his Lordes fauour will nowe and then prepare and bring him a present such as he knoweth his Lord loueth but no present is more pretious in the sight of our heauenly Lord than the praiers thankes of an humble penitent hart and therefore he that will please him and stand in his fauor must often féde his appetite with such presents The Papists of a blind zeale in time of darknesse would not stick to rise vp at midnight to publike praier fast with bread and water suffer hunger and colde run some times an hundred mile bare footed and bare legged to séeke a dumbe image but our professed Protestants hauing the true light of the Gospell their praier and deuotion is faint colde as ise and their disobedience greater than their fathers ignorance When they come together it is rather of compulsion custome or fashion sake than of any godly zeale much like a sullen stubborn and froward seruant that when his maister calleth him commeth grudging with a sowre moiling countenance mumbling a dogs pater noster and with lesse reuerence than those thréehalfepeny seruants that Esop hired to heare him recite his fables The Apostle S. Paul saith that forasmuch as man is the image of Gods glory he ought not in time of prophesying or prayers to couer or dishonor his head and in another place At the name of Iesus euery knée shall bow and the Prophet Esay Al knées shal bow vnto me saith the Lord. The méetest gesture and séemliest behauior at praier and thanksgiuing is knéeling so praied Daniel Paul and Christ himselfe but our people are growen so stubborne wilfull and wayward that in stead of humilitie and reuerence they fall to kicke at their dutie thinke scorn to vncouer their heads in time of sermon or seruice for hurting their cappes Or to knéele at the name of Iesus for wresting their ioynts Or looke vp to heauen when they pray for wrinkling theyr ruffes These people are therfore possessed with deuils they sléepe in sinne and it is high time to awake them In times past he that had learned the seuen liberal artes as Grammer the key of knowledge Logike the rules of reason Rethorike the mother of eloquence Musicke the swéet recreation of wearied minds Astronomie the secret knowledge of nature and course of the heauens Arithmetike the arte of numbring Geometrie to worke by rule compasse waight and measure he had obtayned and gotten euen a worlde of wealth treasure But in these our wretched daeis the eight liberall science called Ars adulandi the golden art of flattery hath wonne the gole and sitteth in fortunes lap so that without skill in that arte though neuer so well séene in the rest a man shal hardly finde meanes to shift in the world Qui nescit simulare nescit viuere These flattering clawbacks students of brazen face colledge are no doubt a most dangerous