therof Abraham staggered not at the promise of God through incredulitie but being made strong by faith gaue the glory to God conceiuing a certaine perswasion that he which had promised was able also to performe So is it read Rom. 4. we may therfore argue in this sorte God hath promised ergo hee will vndoubtedly performe Héere also must héede be taken whether any maner of condition be annexed to the promise 17 Of a prophesy or propheticall prediction The Euangelistes doe very frequently commend vnto vs this place of inuention so oft namely as they shew this or that thing to be therfore accomplished in or by Christ forsomuch as it was necessary those thinges shoulde be fulfilled which were spoken before of the Prophets touchynge the same 18 Of the truth of a diuine or propheticall determination The thinges that are once pronounced and decreed of God or of some notable Prophet by Gods commaundement those thinges must of necessitie be accounted certain and sure He that vnderstandeth how to argue conueniently of a generall sentence shall also well perceiue the vse of this place 19 Of the person of one good man to the person of all the godly So gathereth the Apostle Rom. 4 Abraham was iustified by faith therefore shall all that beléeue lykewise be iustifyed by faith It is not written saith he for his cause onely that it was imputed vnto him but also for our sakes to whom it shall be imputed if we beleeue c. 20 Of the person of one vngodly man to all The hardeninge of Pharao came of God therefore commeth the hardenyng of all other wicked persons of GOD likewise 21 Of a type or figure to the truethment thereby The bones of the lambe that was eaten at Easter might not be diminished ergo neither ought the legges of Christe hanging on the Crosse to be broken And the tipes of the prophet Ionas and of the brason serpent erected in the wildernesse Christ interpreteth of hymselfe So then we may elegantly gather they that behelde the serpent in the desart were healed ergo those also that beléeue and hope in CHRISTE shall obtayne saluation 22 Of an allegory to the thing signifyed The prophet Esay Cap. 54. by an allegorye and in many wordes teacheth how wonderfully the Churche encreaseth Reioyce thou baren saith he that bearest no Children breake foorth and cry thou that trauailest not for shee that is desolat hath many mo children then she which hath an husband And the Apostle intending to demonstrat that albeit the Iewes raged neuer so much yet it would come to passe that the churche collected of the Gentiles should be increased and amplyfyed yea euen then when by reason of troubles and contentioÌ„s if should be supposed to be vtterly destroyed applyeth the same allegâ—ry very fifly and saith If she that was baren despised as Sara doth yet bring forth children and hir posteritie encreaseth beyonde all mens expectation why shoulde we not beleeue that the Church though small and abiecte receiueth dayly encreasement also These places therefore if not alwaies all yet at the least a greate sorte of them and one while these an other while those doe they rightly vse that haue to speake in sacred assemblies And then verily do they vse them when as they shall entreate either of a certaine place or sentence of holy Scripture or of busines offred by occasion of time or else of a theame simple or compounde like as afterward we will once againe admonishe when wée shall come to the addinge to of some peculiar examples They haue néede vndoubtedly of a right iudgement and of some wisdome and experience in this behalfe gotten by the continuall readinge and â—earinge partly of the Scriptures partly of some faithfull and probable interpreters He truely shall beste prouide for himselfe and may at the length be able to performe some thinge worthy of prayse and commendation who so will dilligently obserue the profes and reasons extant in the didascalick Sermons of the prophetes Christ and Apostles and will enserch the places out of which they are taken and deduced and fynally beinge night and daye studious of imitation will endeuour after hys power and abilytie to practise the same Now vnto this kinde forsomuch as it is weighty and diffyculte and no small wisdome is required therein wée will worthely adioyne like as wée vndertooke to doe certayne Cantions whereby euery man may bée premonisshed to vse dilligent héede and circumspection in his procedings Which wée haue in lyke maner determined to doe in the other kindes followinge I In doctrines or princyples of relygion to bée taught before the people it is very requisite to be considered what maner of persons the hearers are how far forth traded in the knowledge of diuine matters For it is necessary that all the order of teaching so oft I saye as it is thought good to examine any sentence be tempered accordinge to their capacitie Christ himselfe that we should be circumspectâ— in this behalfe hath admonished vs when as he said to his Apostles I haue many thinges to saye vnto you but ye can not beare them away now And the apostle I could not speak vnto you brethren as vnto spirituall but as vnto carnal as vnto babes in Christ I haue nourished you with milke and not with meate For ye could not as yet away with it neither can yee as yet It is certayne therfore that the thinges whiche are true vndoubted and taken out of the worde of God are to be taught and set forth vnto all men And albeit a man taketh in hand one and the selfe same doctrine to handle and entreate off yet truly ought he to attempt all thinges far otherwise among the hearers and Citizens of an ample citie hauing now of long time ben accustomed to hare men excellinge in learninge and eloquence then in an obscure place where men of rude wits and maners can neuer attayne to any thing but that which shall very grosly be inculked and beaten into their heades To whiche effecte well nere S. August hath somewhat in his treatise 98. vpon the gospell of Iohn II What hearers soeuer shall betide let the tractation of those poyntes be eschewed and pretermitted whiche doe smally conduce vnto godlynesse and the inquifition and knowledge whereof doe make the hearers rather curious then godly disposed Whervnto pertayneth that whiche Thapostle writinge in diuers places vnto Timothye and Titus forbiddeth any place to be giuen in the church to doctrine which is not after godlynesse to foolishe and fantasticall questions to contencions and striuings about the law which are vnprofitable and superfluous and which do rather procure deuision then edifiyng III After thou hast chosen out suche a sentence or assertion as is holsomelye to bee handled and entreated off it is requisyte that thou dilligently enserche and perpende the doctrine contayned in the bookes of the prophetes and Apostles touching the same whiche onely is
thinge we then also made mention when as we heaped together some thinges as touchinge the places of the kinde didascalick in the seconde Chapter of this present booke But to come to examples where a full furnyshed explanatioÌ„ of one place or sentence is to be seene we haue none uâ—ore famous in the whole bodye of the holy Scriptures then in the Epistles and Thapostle Paule Which albeit they be rather writen in a scolasticall then in a popular kinde of speaking yet doe they import vnto vs no small helpe to the due framinge of Sermons to the people The first example very notable thou shalt finde in the fourth Chapter of the Epistle to the Romans where this short sentence or place out of Genesis 15. Abraham beleeued god and it was imputed vnto him for rightuousnes is with wonderfull prudence and dexteritye expounded at large The wordes truely are very fewe if thou respectest the nomber but if thou lookest into the sense thou shalt perceyue in them to be most strongely proued that men are iustified by fayth and that great plentye of argumentes are ingendered therein The state of the whole disputation the Aposte had prefixed before in the 3. Chapter saying We suppose that a man is iustified by faith without the workes of the lawe To the confirmatioÌ„ therfore of this state he iudgeth the noble example of the iustification of Abraham to bée most fitte and conuenient to the intent he might gather by order of reasoninge that all other men also are in like maner iustified by fayth Which his pourpose he himselfe doth not obscurly declare when a litell after he sayth that it is not so written for him onely that it was imputed vnto him for rightuousnes but also for vs to whom it shal be imputed if we beleeue in him that raysed vp our Lorde Iesus from the deade c. Howbeit not contented to haue showed in this wise that the said sentence agreeth wondrously well to his enterprised busines he deuideth it into partes and out of euery parte draweth forth newe argumentes Wherefore forasmuch as in that sentence wherein it is sayde that Abraham beléeued and in beleeuinge was iustified by and by out of the worde beleeue is this argumente subtelly contriued If Abraham be iustified for that he beléeued it followeth of necessitie the he was not iustified by workes In asmuch as faith and workes are after a sorte repugaunte the one to the other Now the Apostle rendreth this argument thus If Abraham were iustified by workes he hath wherein to glory but not with god For what saith the scripture Abraham beleeued God and it was conuted vnto him for rightuousnes From hence the Apostle bendeth the ernest contemplation of his minde to the signification of the word Impute out of which he produceth the seconde proofe to this effect To him also that worketh not but beleeueth in God that iustifieth his faith is by grace counted for rightuousnes But it shoulde not bee sayde to bee counted by grace for rightuousnes if he had deserued it by workes for then it shoulde rather bee called wages or debte Iustification therfore coÌ„meth not by workes but freely by grace Like as in the former argument consideration is had of the antithetons to worke and beleeue so here wages or debte is set against imputation Thirdly the Apostle exactly noteth the forme of speaking To count or impute for rightuousnes For it commeth to his remembraunce howe in the Psal. 31. that man is called blessed holy and rightuous to whom the lorde impueth not sinne Wherefore he determineth that to impute vnto rightuousnes is euen all one with not to impute sins For to remit or not to impute sinnes is as much as frely to pardon theÌ„ or to iudge one eightuous without desert Iustification therefore commeth by grace and not by workes And this is it that the apostle so studiously saith That God imputeth vnto man rightuousnes without workes Wherefore out of euery worde we sée notable reasons to be drawen Howbeit the apostle procéedeth yet further and as we admonished in the 2. obseruation he diligently enquireth what time faith was imputed vnto Abraham for rightuousnes Nowe he findeth that thinge to be done about fourtene yeres before Circumcision Of this circumstance therefore of time he gathereth in the fourth place well néere after this maner If Abraham had bene iustified by workes then chiefely by circumcision But by this he was not iustified forasmuch as rightuousnes was imputed vnto him longe time before he was circumcised Therfore in no wise commeth rightuousnes by workes The wordes of the Apostle as they stande in the text are playne Furthermore Thapostle interlaceth foorth with the fifte argument taken of the vse and signification of circumcision Abraham receyued the signe of circumcision as a seale of the rightuousnes of the saith which he had when he was vnsircumcised Which we maye take euen as if he had sayde Circumcision is not therefore receyued to the intent any man shoulde be iustified thereby but that it might be a seale of the assuraunce of rightuousnes nowe before receyued by fayth For a man must alwayes first beleeue and confesse his faith or euer he can rightly vse any sacrament instituted of god and vnlesse a man alredye indued with faith doe receyue the sacramentes there is no cause whye he should hope that they will become holesome vnto him There is no man that knoweth not the sacramentes to be signs of the couenaunt made before with God and that they are added as seales of our reconciliatioÌ„ with God like as after the bargainers are agreed betwixt them selues writings and seales are accustomed to be made The sixt argument followeth of that the we shewed to be digested in the fourth place Seeing nowe it appereth that faith was imputed vnto Abraham for rightuousnes before he was circumcised whilest he was yet vncircuÌ„cised it is a plaine cace that the Gentiles also which are not as yet circumcised neyther dare chalendge to themselues any good worke may be iustified by fayth and generally that vnto all men whether they be circumcised or vncircumcised rightuousnes shal be imputed so that by the example of Abraham which is indifferently the common parent and prince of all beléeuers as well of the circumcised as hauing vncircumcision they repose their faith and confidence in God. Hee receiued saith he he scale of the rightuousnes of the fayth which he had when he was vncircumcised that hee shoulde bee the father of all them that beleeue not beinge circumcised that rightuousnes might bee imputed to them also And the father of circumcision not vnto them onely which are of the circumcision but vnto them also that walk in the steppes of the fayth of our father Abraham which he had when hee was vncircumcised Moreouer in the seauenth argumente he declareth that rightuousnes before god happeneth by faith forasmuch as it can not be that rightuousnes shoulde be
receyued by the Lawe Of which thing he rendreth also in the causes For where the lawe is there imediately followeth transgression for such is our imbecilitie and weakenes that wee can neuer exactely fulfyll the lawe And where transgression is what I beseech you is to bee loked for but the wrath of god By the lawe therfore or by workes wee can by no meanes atteyne vnto rightuousnes But to the intent he might the more easyly perswade the same thinge he inserteth two inconueniences which if rightuousnes were not to be loked for but by the lawe should of necessytie follow If rightuousnes or the inheritaunce of spirituall benefytes shoulde then onely be receiued when the law were of vs throughly fulfilled our faith no doubt should be void the promise of god of none effect But that it is a very absurde matter in cace any should auouch it thus to be euery man perceyueth For GOD vndoubtedly performeth that which he promiseth as he that neuer ceasseth to be true and iust of his worde And where as is the certaine fyrme infallible promise of God ther our faith ought in no wise to wauer or doubt Let these thinges therfore he taken in steade of the eight argument But nowe againe the Apostle stayeth somewhat at this that the holy scripture testyfieth that the promises belong not onely vnto Abraham but also vnto an his séede In which consideration beinge occupyed he remembreth that in the olde Testament the Gentiles also are conteined in the séede of Abraham For it was saide vnto Abraham Gen. 17. I haue appointed thee to be the father of many nations Wherfore herevpon also he produceth an other argument which is framed in this sort The promised spirituall benefyts shal redound also to the seede of Abraham But the Gentiles are knowen to be the seede of Abraham Ergo the promised benefits shal come in like maner to the Gentiles though destitute of the lawe and voide of good works Be this therfore the ninth argument taken of the proper signification of the worde Gentiles or Nations and it belongeth to the places of inuention of whiche mention was made in the fift obseruation X The tenth argument is added to deriued of the nature of the things themselues which kind of proofes we shewed to be méete and requysyte in the fourth obseruation Abraham saieth he aboue hope beleeued vnder hope that hee shoulde be the father of many nations according to that which was spokeÌ„ to him So shal thy seede be And he not weake in the faith considered not his owne body c. The apostle in déede describeth the nature force of the faith which is imputed for rightuousnes and sheweth that it was very excellent in AbrahaÌ„ and far greater then any man could beléeue He saith the true and perfect faith doth assuredly vndoubtedly lay hold vpon those things that excéede mans reason the by no menes are iudged to be hoped for besids that it neglecteth dispiseth vtterly remoueth al things that are thought to be a let or hindraunce vnto it For it alwaies leaneth vpon God to when nothinge is impossible to be done Such and so great a faith therefore seeinge it shined forth in AbrahaÌ„ it pleased god with merciful eyes to behold it before al other works to impute it for rightuousnes XI Last of all the holy Apostle going about to bring his explanation to all end auoucheth that the same meane or way that Abraham was iustified by ought also to be applyed vnto vs for therefore were those thinges writen of Abraham to the ende we might know that we in like maner by the example of Abraham shoulde without workes be iustified by faith And thus much touching the interpretation of one short sentence The seconde example being no lesse notable then the first is extant Galat. 3. where euery word of the most knowen promise made vnto Abraham Gene. 22. In thee all nations shall bee blessed is so expounded and declared that it likewise teacheth that men are iustified before God not by the workes of the law but by faith sBut yet far away surmounteth the third example which occurreth Heb. 5. 7. where euery member of the fourth verse of the Psalm 110 The Lorde hath sworne and will not repent thou art a priest for euer after the order of Melchisedec is with such great arte industrye grace opened and explaned that I néede not doubt to affirme that no mans wit without the speciall direction of the holy ghost is able to immitate the like For truely the apostle with many diuers proofes takeÌ„ out of the one testimony of scripture plainly teacheth in the same chapter in the thrée following first that Christ is the true priest after the order of Melchisedec and the the said prophesie of the Psal. 110. doth most chifely agrée vnto him secondly that the priesthod of Christ is far more excelent theÌ„ the priesthod of the law which was after the order of Aaron or Leuiticall thirdly that by the priesthod of Christ appointed established through the patefaction of the Gospell the priesthode of Aaron is abolished fourthly that by the priesthod of Christe once constituted and confyrmed the olde ceremonies and sacrifices yea and the law it selfe take an ende What man would haue thought that out of one verse or clause might haue bene drawen matter of so many weighty poyntes of Christian doctrine and so diuers and sâ—ndry proofes for euery poynte But thus it is to whom the holy ghost becommeth a scholemaster vnto those all things are easye playne penetrable and ready The thing it selfe speaketh that all that are placed in the Ecclesiasticall ministerye are not so far for the enstructed of the holy ghost that they may be counted equal with the Apostles or other pillers of the Church wherfore it is very requisite that the study diligence of immitation should appéere and shine forth in them and when they perceyue themselues not able to atteine the vertue and maiesty of the Apostolike phrase of speaking then let them diligentlye next after the Apostles follow the steppes of the holy fathers whiche we know with great laude and fruite in the kinde didascalick to haue explaned sentences or single places of scripture in the Church Chrisostom in his first Tome learnedly expoundeth in a iust homilie those words of Gene. 3. I will put enmitie betwixt thee and the woman betweene thy seede and hyr seede c. There is also an homilie as touchinge these words of the Psalm 9. I will declare all thy wonderous works Another of the words out of the Psalm 25. Leade mee in thy trueth and teache mee Agayne of the wordes out of the Psalm 27. The Lorde is my light and my saluation whom then shall I feare Moreouer of these wordes out of the Psal. 85. Be not angry with vs O Lord for euer Item out of the Psalm 122. Peace be within thy walles and plentiousnesse
as it is required of vs that we should expound a parte of an holy boke or also some certaine place taken out of the holy Scripture it is by all meanes very requisite that we expresse the state or summe of those thinges whereof wée will entreate in one theame compounde And that the like thinge happeneth somtimes when entreatie is made of an entier booke of Scripture wée haue already by examples brought as touchinge Ecclesiastes Cantica Salomonis and the Gospell after Iohn aboue declared Besides when any thinge falleth out by occasion to be talked off in the pulpit it is necessary that the same be propounded in a theame compounde Of this sorte it is if I say Honger or drouth is paciently and quietly of vs to be endured God by his iust iudgement sent the calamitie that fell through haile Of the one Theame Basilius Magnus most grauely entreateth of the other Gregorius Nazianzenus Now hereby it maye plainely appeare that the vse of those thinges which are to bée touched in this Chapter is of very great importance in the Church of god In the meane time it shall be lawfull briefely to absolue these thinges forasmuch as very many pointes doe accorde herevnto which are sufficiently at large discussed in the former Chapters I. Where if so bée therefore thou be determined to handle a theame compounde when a whole booke is taken in hande to be declared or a part out of any booke of scripture is proposed to the multitude there is no man that seeth not the very text of the diuine wordes which are recited in the sacred assembly to minister and suggest by it selfe many and diuers things which may both godly and relygiousely be vttered and through euery part thereof be aptly dilated and amplified It shall then therefore be best to imitate followe some one of those orders of expoūding which we haue comprised in the 3.4.5.6 chapters of this present boke II. But where as no reading or lecture of holy Scripture ouer longe shall goe before but onely either a briefe sentence or a place out of some sacred booke shall be taken in hande or els no wordes at all be premised out of the scriptures thē truely it shall be expedient thoroughly and exactly to consider all those thinges in order which we haue in certaine obseruations comprehended noted in the seauenth Chapter as touchinge the maner of handelinge one place or sentence of scripture For it is conuenient that the same consideration be had as well of a sentence as of a theame compounde A proufe hereof is this that oftentimes those that are purposed to declare a theame compound doe gladly borrowe some sentence out of the scriptures which may be agreable to their purpose doe prefixe it before their Sermon or in any wise insert it The Apostle to the Romaynes 4. intendinge to proue that man is iustified by faith taketh that sentence out of Gene. 15. Abrahā beleeued god it was imputed vnto him for rightuousnes In the Epistle to the Galathians handeling the same matter he produceth out of Geneses 22 the promise of god made vnto Abraham In thee or in thy seede shal al the nations of the earth be blessed Moreouer in the two sayd Epistles in that to the Hebrues is prefixed a theame compounde or briefe sentence out of the prophet Abacuc 2. The iust man shall liue by fayth That the same craft or cunning therfore is aptly to be applied to the tractatiō of a theame cōpound which a litell before we shewed to be requisit to the discussing of a sētence or place of holy scripture ther is no cause why any man should doubte III. And forasmuch as wée then also admonished that it is somtime very necessary in case a resolution of a sentence or place taken out of the Scriptures be had and all the partes therof examined a parte it shall be profitable also to vse the like experience in the tractation of a theame compounde When this thinge is to be done it shall be conuenient not onely to goe that waye to worke which we haue shewed to bee open vnto vs in the holy Scriptures and that truely very excellent but also wée shall gette furniture of teachinge both substanciall and plentious out of those thinges whiche in the former Chapter bée of vs declared as touchinge the explanation of simple theames For certes the places which deuided into two formes or orders we shewd to be attributed to the kinde didascalicke doe giue occasion of deuising and finding out great and weightie thinges of euery theame that is offered Wherfore wee shall not without cause require ayde and succoure of them As touching all which thinges here to repeate againe with many wordes that which hath bene already sayd would bée very superfluous IIII. And surely séeinge the multitude and varyetie of thinges is infinite that are treated off in the Church so ofte as the vse and order of time doe require there can no better counsaile or aduice be giuen then that euery man haue a speciall regarde vnto their Sermons which haue most aptely and holily handeled theames compound and that he endeuour so far forth as lieth in him to render and expresse in his sermons that which he perceyueth to haue most force and grace in them Such Sermons are with great care and exacte iudgement to be pervsed to the intente thou maist examaine euery thinge occurrent in them and that which is best to bee liked choycely digest and put in order as things to be adioyned to thy household stuffe to be vsurped as thine owne when time and occasion shall serue To make any futher declaration it is not necessary But examples wherein theames compounde of the kinde didascalick are most learnedly explaned these inespecially be commended in the sacred Scriptures In the Epistle to the Romaynes the Apostle declareth at large that men are iustified by faith without the workes of the lawe Againe cap. 9.10.11 That the Iewes are reiected of god and the Gentiles called to be the people or Church of god In the first Epistle to the Corinthes cap. 15. it is proued by stronge argumentes that the deade doe all rise or reuiue againe In the Epistle to the Galathyans it is againe confirmed that men are iustified by fayth without the workes of the lawe in the last part of the second Chapter and also in the 3.4 and some parte of the 5. Chapters In the Epistle to the Ephesians Thapostle teacheth in thrée Chapters that men by the onely grace of God in Christ are elected called iustified and glorified The author of the Epistle to the Hebrues in two Chapters declareth with wonderfull perspicuitye that Christ is true God and true man. In the same Epistle cap. 7.8.9.10 out of one sentence of scripture are drawen fower distinct theames compounde and euery one of thē is with certaine and assured reasons established and explaned whereof the first is that Christ is a preist after the order of Melchisedec
it was also conuenient to the intent all men might clerely vnderstande that Esay prophesied simply without any ambiguitie of Christ himselfe and of that very state of thinges which then was And albeit the applicatioÌ„ as Christ did exhibit it be not committed to writinge but onely the summe or state thereof expressed yet that it was very fitly and congruently prepared it appereth sufficiently by the wordes that the Euangelist addeth And all saith he gaue witnes vnto him and marueled at the grace of his wordes which proceeded out of his mouth Moreouer when the vngodly scoffers and deriders harde the Apostles speake with diuers tongues they were not ashamed to say that Thapostles were droncke and ouerladen with wine But Peter remoueth the vice of dronkeÌ„nes both from himselfe and from the rest of the Apostles and as the case then required interpreteth the prediction of Ioell the prophet to be fulfilled These are not droncke as yee doe suppose seeing it is but the thirde hower of the daye but this it is that was spoken by the prophet Ioel And it shall bee in the later daies sayth God I will poure out my spirit vppon all fleshe c. And so a litle after he applyeth them vnto those thinges that had happened sayinge Yee men of Israell here these wordes Iesus of Nazareth a man approued of God among you in miracles in signes and wonders which God did by him in the middest of you as you your selues also know him by the determinate counsell c. And againe Hee beinge therefore axalted on the right hande of God and hauinge receyued of his father the promise of the holy ghost hath shed forth this which ye now see heare c. But least any man should obiecte and saye that those prophesies were in such sort vttered in times past of Esay and Ioel as that they could not be expounded of any other thinges then those the happened in the time of Christ I will produce other examples that stretche further and may not vnaptly be referred to all times Saint Paule entending to shew how that men are iustifyed by faith without the workes of the law taketh a most strong and valyaunt reason of the example of Abraham whom the scripture pronounceth to be iustified by faith saying Abraham beleeued in God it was counted vnto him for rightuousnes And after diuers sundry reasons deduced out of the same testimonye he applyeth the very order of iustification to all sorts of men vniuersally of euery age and time in these words It is not written saith he for him onely that it was imputed vnto hym but also for vs to whom it shall be imputed if we beleeue in hym that raysed vp our Lord Iesus froÌ„ the dead Agayn to the Rom. xi Thapostle confirming that God hath not vtterly forsakeÌ„ the people of the Iewes whoÌ„ he knew before but that alwayes some of them shall be saued Knowe ye not saith he what the scripture saith of Elias How he maketh intercessioÌ„ to god against Israel saying Lord they haue killed thy prophets subuerted thine altars I am left alone they ly in await for my life But what saith the answer of God vnto hym I haue reserued vnto my selfe seauen thousand men that haue not bowed their knees to the image of Baal So therfore eueÌ„ at this time also are some left according to the election of grace And we sée the same example to be transferred of writers to the elect and true Church of all times But a most proâ—er and elegant forme of appilcatioÌ„ Saint Paule hath left vnto vs i. Corin. x. where he affirmeth that the fathers in the olde Testament vsed in déede holy misteries which might worthily be compared with oures but when they abstayned not from wickednes they were seuerely punished according as thei had deserued and were ouerthrowen in the wildernesse And these were figures saith he to put vs in remembraÌ„ce least we should couet after euill thinges as some of theÌ„ coueted And least wee should be worshippers of images as some of them were as it is writen The people sate downe to eate drinck and rose vp to play And that we should not be defyled with fornication as some of them were defyled with fornication and fell in one day three and twenty thousand And that we should not tempt Christe as some of them tempted and were killed of serpents Neyther murmer as some of them murmured were destroied of the destroyer Al these thinges happened vnto them by figures But they are writen for our learning vpon whoÌ„ are come the ends of the worlde Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heede least he fall c. These therfore and many other examples moe in like maner handeled we may perceiue to be applied to exhort and perswade men of all ages which through a certayne confydence they haue that they are once registred in the Church of God and doe vse in common the Sacraments are séene to become the more boulde vnto all kindes of sinne With no lesse diligence the Apostle to the entent hée might proue them the beléeue the Gospell and are iustified by faith to be frée from the burdens of the law declareth that it was long time before signified by an exquisyt type or figure of the two sonnes of Abraham the one borne of a bondmaid the other of a frée woman Of whom neuerthelesse he we omit many thinges for breuities sake betokening the law and those that séeke to be iustified by the lawe is commauÌ„ded with his mother to be cast out but to this imbracing the Gospel is the inheritaunce giuen to enioy He applyeth those wordes to his purpose in the beginnng saying Tell mee yee that will be vnder the law doe ye no heare the law For it is writen that Abraham had two sonnes c. Very wittely doubtles and pythyly to make them attent Againe in the ende Wherfore brethren we are sonnes not of the bondwoman but of the free womaÌ„ Stand therfore in the lybertie that Christ hath purchased for vs and bee not againe tangeled in the yoke of bondage Thapostle likewise by the way in serteth somwaht touchinge the vnquencheable haters and contentions of the same brethren and transferreth it to his yea and to our times and to all the posteritye of the Church saying Like as then he that was borne after the flesh percecuted him that was borne after thâ— spirite euen so it is nowe But ther is no néede that any thinge should further bée added séeinge euery man nowe may easely perceiue how and after what sort it behoueth vs to followe and imitate holy and diuine writers Howbeit if any man be desirous to knowe what maner of sayings chiefely out of the scriptures may and ought to be applied vnto things present and matters incident We briefely make him this answere that what thinges soeuer are occurrent in the canonicall Scriptures are rightly and duely to bée vsed so that as
our necessitye enforceth vs. Except ye see signes and wonders III. A weake and wauering faith in men displeaseth God yet God according to his mercye voucheth safe to make the same more stronge and perfect Faith is the gift of God and he encreaseth it being giuen Wherefore wée ought with the Apostles to praye ofte times vnto God and saye Lorde encrease in vs our faith There be very many places of the scripture which testifie that there ought to be distinguished certaine degées as it were and encreasements of faith and one while an infirme weake vnperfect an other while a stronge stedfaste and perfecte fayth to be noted Lorde goe downe before he dyeth IIII. Faith being somwhat encreased by the grace of god proceadeth more franckly to entreat and call vpon god Through pure and earnest inuocation all things are obteyned at Gods hande Goe thy waye thy sonne liueth V. The faith as yet not fully perfect God mercifully looketh vppon rendereth vnto it according as it desireth And through faith men obtaine of God most ample benefites like as spirituall so also corporall The man beleeued the worde VI. Fayth by the worde and promises of God is erected receyueth strength and is made perfect Nowe as hee was goinge downe VII Man becommeth dayely more stronge in faith that after the erample of Abraham he may euen without hope beléeue vnder hope whylest namely the certaintie of gode promises doe alwaies more and more appere and god neuer ceasseth with new benefites to bewtify adorne the godly And he beleeued and all his householde VIII The incomparable force and effecte as well of the worde of God as of Fayth For both the certaintie and truth of Gods worde beinge made manifest doth stirre vp faith in a greate number and also the notable fayth of one man beinge put forth for an example vnto others inuyteth euen these also after a sorte to beléeue In respecte whereof wée may sée the eramples of the faith of the holy Saintes in the Scriptures worthy of imitation to be set before our eyes Thou séeste therefore howe aptely it is declared throughout the whole narratio Ì„ by what meanes faith is ingendered at the lenght becoÌ„meth perfit One example more if wée shall add wée will so make and ende That shall be taken out of Marke 16. After that he appeared to the eleuen as they sat together reproued them of their vnbeliefe and hardenes of harte bicause they beleeued not them that had seene him beinge risen vp againe And he sayd vnto them Goe yee into all the worlde and preach the Gospell to euery creature Hee that shall beleeue and bee baptized shal be saued but hee that will not beleeue shal be damned And these tokens shall followe them that beleeue In my name they shall cast out diuells and shall speake with newe tongue and shall driue awaye serpentes and if they shall drincke any deadly thinge it shall not hurt them they shal laye their hands on the sikle and they shall recouer So after the lorde had spoken vnto them he was receyued into heauen and sate on the right hand of god And they went forth and preched euery where and the lord wrought with them and confirmed the worde with signes that followed Séest thou not howe Christ vpbraideth his sluggish disciples with their incredulitye hardenesse of hart Therefore least we at any time be reproued for the like wée must take diligent héede that after we haue harde beléeued ad imbraced the Gospell we cleaue constantlye to the same Wherfore let the state of this reading be that the Gospell is constantly and fréely to be cleaued vnto As for those thinges that folow in the texte they shall aptely be taken in stead of arguments or reasons confirminge the same Neither truely shall it be a hard matter so to axplane all the partes thereof as that they may be agreable to our purpose Bycause they beleeued not them that had seene him being risen agayne I The first reason We ought to sticke fast vnto the Gospell of Christ for the authorities sake and testimony of those men that haue séene hard and declared the same vnto vs For thus faith Christ Act. 1. to his apostles Ye shal be my witnesses not onely at Hierusalem but also in al Iury Samaria euen to the worldes end Peter like wise Act. 2. saith This Iesus hath god raised vp wherof we are all witnesses And Iohn in his first epist. cap. 1. That which was froÌ„ the begining which we haue heard which we haue sene with our eyes which we haue loked vpon our hands haue handeled of the worde of lyfe and shewe vnto you that eternal life God will haue therfore the testimony of such men to be accounted of most great weight and importaunce amongest all men Goe into the whole world and preache II. The second reason of the â—dicte or coÌ„maundement of Christ Christ gaue in charge to his apostles that they should publishe the gospell to all nations By the same diligence no doubte it is commaunded also vnto vs that we should with all our endeuour imbrace and reteyne the same Hee that beleeueth and is pabtized III. The thirde reason of the promise and threateninge which are annexed to the commaundemente of God. In like maner we sée promises and comminations adioyned to the preceptes of the Decaloge And these tokens shall folowe them that beleeue IIII. The fourth reason of the manifolde giftes whereby God vnto this end and purpose garnisheth and illustrateth his Church that the certaintie and excellency of the Euangelical doctrine might be approued So the Lorde after hee had spoken V. The fift reason Whatsoeuer thinges haue bene hitherto spoken are established and confyrmed by the ascention of Christ himselfe into the heauens and by his syttinge at the right hande of the father For by these two signes or markes he signified vnto all men how great his power and dignitie were And vndoubtedly to ascende by his owne proper power into heauen and to sitte at the right hand of the father are most assured argumentes of his deuine nature in respecte whereof he is in all pointes coequall with his father And they went forth and preached euery where VI. The sixt reason of the effectes that folowed The apostles like as they were commaunded published the Gospell They preached also euery where Wherefore the knowledge of the Gospell hath of necessitie come euen vnto vs also and to ours No signes and wonders neither the wonderfull power of the holy Ghost ne yet any thinge els was lackinge All these things therefore doe conuince yea and euen compell vs that wee should ascribe all glory vnto the gospell and vnto God the author of the gospell that wée should coÌ„stantly cleaue vnto the same For héere vndoubtedly are remembred those thinges by which men of all former ages haue bene most chiefely perswaded to imbrace and highly estéeme the holesome doctrine of
to forsweare themselues But I cease to make any further annotations vppon that place furnyshed with all kynde of conninge and conueigâ—aunce By these thinges it may sufficientlye bee perceyued that amplyfications are ofte times gathered out of those places whiche Diuinitye challengeth as proper to it selfe The same Chrysostom in his homilie 46. vpon Genesis with wonderfull prudence and dexteritye amplyfieth like as did Origen also before him the fayth of Abraham and his obedience deriued of faith being readye to offer vp his onely sonne Isaac the discourse wherof whosoeuer will attentiuely reade he shall hardly I am sure refrayne hym selfe from teares Agayne in his homilie 14. touching the temerarious othe of Saule wherein he swore that who so euer dyd taste any bread before the euening should dye the death it is an easy matter to obserue many mo amplifications deriued out of diuers and sondry places of Diuinitie I cannot choose but that I must néedes adde this also by the way and as ye would say minding of some other matter Some there be that propounde vnto the youth in Scholes arguments in which thei may exercise their stile and make a tryall of the towardnes of their wit but those for the most parte are taken out of fables or certes things vayne and friuolous that I say not somtimes filthy or otherwise huâ—â—fillâ— But how muche better should the Scolemasters doe if they woulde oftentymes prescribe vnto their Scollers committed to their charge to those inespecially that are enformed to the study of diuine letters argumentes taken out of the holy Scriptures and woulde commande them to explicate and in explicating to adorne the same one while by amplifications an other while by other formes of exercises accordinge to the imitation of Chrysostom or some other excellent diuines Of mouinge of affections Cap. XVI THe Preacher shall not employe his least care in mouinge of affections forsomuch as all the learned sorte doe confesse that he staÌ„deth of no one thing more in néede then he doth of this one onely faculty They that teache no otherwyse in the temple then professors are accustomed in the Scoles it cannot be that they shoulde be the authors of any greate spirituall fruites and very fewe or none are séene to bee induced with such Sermons to repentaunce and amendement of lyfe Wherefore whosoeuer he be that hath once taken vppon him the office of teaching in the church must with great industry apply himself vnto this that he may at the lengthe féele himselfe able to performe somewhat worthy of commendation in this behalfe Wée in the meane tyme will add to some thinges that serue vnto this ende and firste verily wee will declare when and what tyme it is conuenient to moue affections then next where or in what parte of the Sermon lastly in what places or with what practise it may be done It is well knowen out of the bookes of the Rhetoritians that the common affections are accounted to be fower Gladnesse Hope Feare Griefe And vnder gladnesse are ordinarily placed deletation vaunting or bosting vnder hope desire indigeÌ„ce or néede Vnder feare slouthfulnesse shamfastnes terrour timorousnes trembling preturbatioÌ„ Vnder griefe are enuy ire euill will hatred emulatioÌ„ pitie sorrowe lamentation carefulnesse paynefulnesse desperation c. Now the Preachers doe not accustomably vse to excite the myndes of their hearers to euery of the kyndes of affections nowe reherced but vnto those moste chiefely which euery man at the first sight may knowe distinctly to be most conuenient and as it were destinate to diuine affayres that is to say to thinges perteyninge to the eternall saluation of mankinde They induce therfore their hearers most specially to the care of obteyning saluation to sorrowe or indignation for offences committed to the lothsomnesse and hatred of sinnes to the loue of vertue to the feare of gods iudgement and of punishment to the hope of mercy to be obteyned with God to compassion and loue towardes our neighbour and vnto those affections besides that are vnto these moste semblable but scarcely to any other Wherefore the mener of mouinge of affections assigned vnto Preachers in the Church is not altogither lyke vnto that that the Orators vse in their Forum or Consistory To the intent therefore thou mayest knowe when and at what tyme it is méete and conuenient that affections be moued of the Preacher before all thinges the partes of the whole Sermon and the principall places which are specially to be touched therein ought effectually to be comprised in the mynde and reduced to a perfect order For the tractation of what place soeuer thou shalt iudge to be most profitable and necessary either to the state of the Church or to the tyme and causes incident in the illustration thereof chiefely beyonde the rest thou shalt employ thy dilligent labour and also endeuour thy selfe to moue the affections of the hearers The effecte of our meaninge is this Thou expoundest some entier booke of Scripture or some parte of a booke in the wordes that come nexte to hande are founde peraduenture touched diuers and sondry profitable places wherof some doe conteyne manifold doctrine othersome redargutions other institucions other corrections or consolations And in these one there is most apte to styrre vpp the myndes of menne vnto vertue verye requisite in the lyfe of man and chiefely in respecte of present considerations therefore thou shalte vnderstande that this same place is in suche sorte to bée declared of thée that thou mayste endeuoure thy selfe to moue the affections either more vehement or moderate according as thou shalte sée it expedient At what tyme therefore thou shalte perceyue men to be giuen to drounkennesse and excesse if there happen any wher in the Sermon a place of sobrietie and temperance or agaynst superfluitie in this verily thou shalte longest tary and through exhortation or reprehension so styrre vp the affections of the hearers that they may both couet sobrietie and abandon excesse Moreouer wher many of the common sort are oppressed with pouerty and that there is euery where greate scarcitie of vittayle and yet in the meane tyme charitie very colde and vnneath any where to bée founde if then a conuenient place offer it selfe touchinge liberalitie thou shalte wyth all thy power goe aboute to explayne it at large and wyth as greate industry as thou canst induce the myndes of the hearers to bountifulnesse and compassion towardes the poore Furthermore there happeneth peraduenture a place wherby it is signified that God woulde haue littell children to come vnto him Héere very fitly shall bee entreated of the loue of parentes towardes their childrne yea and with some vehemence also and prouocation of myndes shall the parentes bee vrged to sende their childrne to Scole in tyme conuenient and prouide that they maye rightely bee enstructed in the principles of godlynesse To be short if at any tyme an history or precepte or sentence be purposed
Lorde sayde vnto my Lorde sitte on my right hande If Dauid calleth him Lorde howe is he then his sonne 3 Of the significatioÌ„ of the wordes to the sentence or meaninge of the speaker It behoueth this most chiefely to be obserued in figuratiue spéeches albeit euen where no figures bée at all yet some obscuritie may séeme to lurke Nowe this must bée remoued by searchinge the authors mynde out of the circumstaunces or out of the thinges either antecedent or consequent 4 Of wordes goinge afore and comminge after This also is a helpe in no wyse to be neglected For where it séemeth good out of some place of Scripture to confirme a doctrin or sentence it is requisite forthwith to marke as well the wordes antecedent as consequent and out of them to declare the sentence to bée true which wée proponed 5 Of a generall sentence in Diuinitie Such a one is this Deut. 10. God is no respecter of persons Therfore Peter Act. 10 gathereth herevppon that the Gentiles also in cace they feare God and giue themselues vnto rightuousnesse may bée accepted with God. 6 Of the thinges atributed to god God is true therfore will he performe his promyses proue vs to be liers God is rightuous wherefore of him shall the worlde be iudged 7 Of the signe to the thinge signified We are baptised therefore are we clensed from our sinnes by the bloode of Christ 8 Of one tyme to an other or of the tyme of the lawe to the tyme of the Gospell Rom. â—â— it is shewed how at all tymes some are elected by the grace of God to saluation and therefore that we ought not to cast away all hope touching certayne of the Iewes to be saued and that by this argument out of the â— Reg. 19. Knowe yee not sayth he what the Scripture sayth of Elias Howe he crieth vnto God agaynst Israell sayinge Lorde they haue killed thy prophetes and broken downe thyne altars and I was lefte alone and they lye in awayte for my lyfe But what aunswere maketh God vnto him I haue reserued vnto my selfe seauen thowsande men that haue not bowed their knees to Baall Euen so in this tyme also haue some remayned according to the election of grace 9 Of one tyme to all tymes I will haue compassion on whom I haue compassion and I will haue mercy vpon whome I haue mercy It is knowen that these wordes were thus spoken of God when he threatened destructioÌ„ to the Israelites by reason of their vprore in the absence of Moyses their worshippinge of the golden calfe But the Apostle doubteth not to vsurpe those wordes which God then pronounced in his anger for the cause about-sayde to proue that God at all tymes choseth some and of his mercy when it pleaseth him willingely saueth them 10 Of the head to the members Christ the sonne of God hath receyued an heauenly inheritaunce the same therefore shall those also receyue that beléeue which truly by adoption are the sonnes of God. 11 Of the members to the head Some thinges that bée attributed in the body of the Church to the members are not vnaptely transferred also to Christ the heade of the Church Heb. 4. and 5. The highe Priestes that be chosen of men forsomuch as they are compassed aboute with infirmitie are moued also with the feelinge of other mens infirmities The man Christ therefore beinge made an highe Prieste and tempted in all thinges is moued with the feelinge of our infirmities But in no wyse may humayne matters bee applyed vnto Christe in which is to bee séene the corruption of sinne 12 Of a thinge corporall to a thinge spirituall The promyses made of GOD to our fathers touching temporall benefites caused them to laye holde vppon spirituall and euerlasting benefites Inasmuch as these carnal things are after a sort shadows tiâ—es of things spiritual eternal By faith AbrahaÌ„ departed into the lande of promise as into a strange couÌ„try whan as he dwelled in tabernacles with Isaac and Iacob coheires of the same promise For he loked for a citie hauinge a sure foundation the buylder and founder whereof is God. Of which place this is the summe By fayth Abraham wente out of his owne Couutrey and came to the lande of promise therefore by fayth likewyse must we come to heauen or to the heauenly Citie 13 Of a thinge spirituall to a thinge corporall Esaye Cap. 59. the Lorde sayth My house shal be called the house of prayer amongest all people That mention is there made of the spirituall house of God that is to say of the Church or congregation of the faythfull whom it behoueth continually to worship God a right and truly to call vpon the name of the Lorde it is manifest by other things which in that place doe both goe before and also followe after And certes Christ whilest he throweth the byers and sellers out of the materiall Temple of Hierusalem applieth the same wordes to his purpose and argueth in this sorte In the Church or spirituall house of God it is meete that inuocation of the Lordes name be exercised without ceassinge Ergo therefore in the materiall Temple also it behoueth prayers continually to be made Séest thou not therefore howe that is deduced to a thinge corporall which before was simply spoken of a thinge spirituall 14 Of a thinge earthly to a thinge heauenly The author of the Apocalypes Cap. 7. transferreth the words which Esay the Prophete had vsurped Cap. 49. touchinge the felicitie to followe when the Gospell shoulde bée divulged into all the prouinces of the worlde to celebrate the reste and glory which the Sainctes that dye for the confession of the truth doe obteyne in the lyfe to come in heauen The wordes are these They shall not honger nor thirste any more neither shall the Sunne rise or fall vppon them nor any heate For the Lambe which is in the myddes of the throne as one that pitietâ—e them shall leade them forth to the comfortable springs of water The wordes therefore spoken of these thinges that ought to be done in earth are translated to those that come to pas in heauen This forme of reasoninge doth not much differ from that which a little before we intituled of a thinge corporall to a spirituall 15 Of the threatning of God to the effect thereof Thapostle affirmeth the time to be at hande wherein the Iewes ought to be reiected and excluded from the church of God and the Gentiles to be called and to succéede the Iewes addinge to a grieuous communication published of God in time past touchinge that matter I will prouoke you to enuy by a people which is no people by foolishe nation will I stirre you vnto wrath That which God hath once determined coÌ„cerning the punishment of wicked men muste of necessitie be accomplished except peraduenture some condition be either openly or pryuily adioyned to the threatning 16 Of the promise of God to the effect
alwaies an entier booke not alwaies a parte of a booke is offered to be declared but ofte times it behoueth the Sermon to bée framed to the people of one onely sentence or of one place of Scripture and the same also not very largely stretchinge But that the same order of gatheringe diuers common places shoulde héere bée vsurped which we haue shewed to be profitable in the premisses it can by no meanes bée What then will some man saye remaineth to bée done In what maner and method shal one place or one certain sentence bée fruitfully declared Wée so far forth as we maye will set forth a most syt and absolute forme which excepte any shall deuise a better it shall bée expedient for him to folowe and as well for breuities sake as also that it may become the more clere and euident we will comprehende the same in certaine obseruations I. Before all thinges it is conuenient very carefully to consider and to declare vnto the people vppon what occasion or to what ende the author of the sacred booke out of which the place or sentence is taken spake and pronounced those wordes And that for this cause that whilest wée declare of what matter wée will speake and what our purpose is we may credibly auouche that we will in no wise abuse an other mans sayinge neither transfer it vnto other purposes theÌ„ is méete but vsurpe it altogeher in the same or at leaste in the like cause for which the author himselfe did so speak After this maner we may sée Peter Act. 2. intendinge to interprete certayne wordes taken out of the Psalme 16. as touchinge Christe risynge againe from death prudently to add some thinges of Dauid and of his meaninge and iudgemente in those wordes And truely it standeth vs very much vppon to deale faithfully and vprightly in this behalfe For it is a greuous offence yea and the holy Ghost is moued with vnspeakeable reproch in cace a man doth force or wreste any sentence out of the scriptures to any other ende or purpose then becommeth him He that shall be founde to haue done this but once doth quickly loose all his authoritie with the hearers and afterwarde yea euen then when he alledgeth the Scriptures aright he shall hardely bee credited To apply aptely and properly the Scriptures to present busines and affaires is the principall vertue that belongeth to a preacher II. Where it is nowe discouered of what matter wée minde to entreate and declared that the sentence taken out of the holy scripture accordeth to our purpose the next poynt is that we diligently consider whether that very sentence as it standeth in the sacred writer doth minister any proofes at all of causes circumstaunces signes or discriptions agréeable to the busines of which entreaty is made As many as are founde to be such shall worthily before any other be brought forth and as those that be of greate weight and importaunce forasmuch as they answer to the minde and method of the author from whiche it is not lawfull vnaduisedly to depart and doe in all pointes agrée with our matters shall studiously be digested adorned and inculked Neither is it a hard matter to drawe forth such kinde of proofes or argumentes partly out of the thinges that lye hid and are included in the sentence it selfe and partely out of those things that either goe before or folowe after the same Of this kinde I would affyrme it to be tht Peter Act. 2. in that Sermon whereof mention is made before to the intent he might shew the he rightely vsurpeth the sayinge of Dauid reduceth into memory howe Dauid in that he was a prophet knewe before hand that Christe after the flesh should take his beginning out of his posteritye and therfore also by the inspiration of the holy Ghost prophesied before of Christes rising againe And whosoeuer is but meanely exercised in the holy scriptures may easely perceyue that in the same Psalme as of the death and great deiection of Christ so also certaine thinges are ioyntly spoken of his resurrection It is not much vnlyke that the Apostle Galat. 3. speakinge of the Gentiles that should be blessed in the séede of Abraham affirmeth those that are of faith to be the sonnes of Abraham and howe it was longe before tould vnto Abraham that it would please God to iustifie the Gentiles by fayth againe where he addeth that the inheritaunce was giuen vnto Abraham by promise III. Moreouer it is very profitable to make as it were a certaine resolution of the whole sacred sentence and to examine in a iust balaunce euery words therein and diligently to ensearche the significatioÌ„ force and vse of them And that to thintâ—nt out of euery of them may be gathered certaine argumentes or proofes agreable to the state of th appointed Sermon and may afterward be oportunely applied to teache and instruct the hearers Of which craft and diligence I meane in drawing foorth of proofes out of euery worde well nighe of any one sentence we haue the holye Scripture it selfe as a moste expert maistres and most faithfull teacher Which thing we will straight wayes make playne and euident III. After the wordes wisely weighed and considered it is requisite that we procéede with like industrye to a more exacte contemplation of the matters themselues or affayres which in euery sentence are signified For it is not very lykely that there shoulde any where happen thinges of them selues so barren that a man may not out of theÌ„ if at least he be not altogither endued with a blount and blockishe witte deuise and excogitate some profes profitable to teach He that hath once throughlye sifted and examined the thinges whereof he entreath may easely finde the meanes to make his oration become both frutefull plentious and delectable We see in this behalfe the Apostle Paule after arguments draweÌ„ out of euery worde of one peculiar sentence to heape vp still a plentifull matter of other proofes and the same flowing out of the nature of the thinges themselues The examples which we will a litell after touche shall plainely testifie this thinge to he true V. Last of all to him that feareth and suspecteth that he shall want sufficient matter of speaking we giue this aduice namely that he put before his eyes the places of inuencion which he knoweth to be attributed vnto that kinde of Sermons to which the sentence of the sacred author appertayneth For euery kinde of sermon as is afore sayde hath certayne proper and peculiar places of inuention the order whereof beinge attentiuely considered we are eftsones admonished of many thinges which maye aptely be spoken of eche kinde of busines taken in hande Therefore him that shall speake of a sentence or state of the kinde didascalick we remitte to the places of inuentioÌ„ as well diuine as other not diuine that he may so longe exercyse himselfe in them as that he maye procure for his true méete and sufficient furniture therby Of which