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A learned sermon preached before the King at VVhitehall, on Friday the 16 of March: by M. Doctor Field: Chaplaine to his Maiestie; Learned sermon preached before the King at Whitehall, on Friday the 16 of March.
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Field, Richard, 1561-1616.
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partakers of it For the Apostle Saint Paule protesteth against this frensie saying Knowe you not that the vnrighteous shall not inherit the Kingdome of God And againe bee not deceaued neither fornicators nor idolaters nor adulterers nor wantons nor couetous persons nor extortioners shall inherit the Kingdome of God Touching this matter there were foure dangerous errors in the primitiue Church the first of Origen who thought that all euen the deuils themselues after certaine reuolutions of times shall ãâã saued the second of them who not daring âing to proceed so farre as Origen did âet thought that all men shall in the end be saued as by fire The third that not âll men but all Christian men notwithâtanding whatsoeuer wickednes Schisâe or Heresie shall in the end bee saued The fourth that not all Christians but âll Catholique Orâhodoxe and right âeleuing Christians shall in the end bee âued as by fire holding the foundatiân of a right profession This last error âany of the fathers fell into as appeareth ây very pregnant places in Hierome and âhers tending to that purpose and by âustines owne confession where hee âriteth against it calling it a mercifull âror of some Catholique diuine Against this error Austine opposeth himselfe but very fearfully professing ãâã he will not peremptorilie denie but at a mitigation or suspension of the âânishments of the wicked may be obââned after they are departed out of this âârld so that their punishments bee ânfessed to be eternall And if this will ââ satisfie them from whom he is vnâling to dissent he sayth that though men professing the faith being wholy wicked and voyde of loue cannot bee saued as by fire but must perish eternally yet hee dareth not deny but that men that doe beleiue aright and haue loue though mingled with much imperfection may bee saued by a kinde ââ purging fire after this life which whether it be so or not he cannot tell Thus wee see in what sort Austine was driuen vpon the opinion of purgatory and how doubtfully he speaketh ââ it yet was he the first that euer spake ââ this kinde of purgatorie in the Churcâ of God So doubtfull a beginning haââ this article of the Romanistes faith whââ yet rest not in the iudgment of this fâther that only some lighter sinnes aâ wasted and consumed away in this puâging fire but imagine that the iusticed God in it is satisfied and the punishmeââ of mortall sinnes suffered the faulâ anâ not the punishment being remitted ãâã this life which things Austine neâ dreamâ of But to returne to the wordes of the Apostle Saluation is sayde to be commââ â absolute vnto all but vnto them that âre called and sanctified of GOD and âserued in Christ Iesus As in nature the best things things âf necessitie are eyther absolutely and âqually or at least in some mediocritie âmmon vnto all but thinges of ornaâent delight are proper to some fewââ is it in the matter of fayth and saluatiââ Among the things of nature vvhat better then ayre fire water earth âowers of raine the fruites of the fielde âuses to dwell in garments to put on âalth and strength of bodie length of âyes comely proportion and statuâe body quicknes of sence sharpnes of ââ and faithfulnes of memory the vse ââd benefit of these is in some sort comâon vnto all and the poore man often âoyeth them with more contentment ân the rich neyther is there any man ând to be so great a Tyrant as to deâ to enioy these common benefits aââ but gold pearles precious stones ât aray and thinges of that kinde are ãâã peculiar lot portion of some few likewise in the matter of fayth and grace the Law the Prophets the couenaunts of Grace the sufferings of Châist regeneration the Gospell the giuing of the Spirit Faith Hope Loue and eternall Saluation are common vnto all that are called and sanctified of GOD noâ as Manna in a certaine measure but euery one taketh as much of them as heâ will the gyfts of tongues myracles prophecie the degrees of ministerie ãâã like are proper to some few VVhen the Law was giuen vppoâ Mount Sina Moses the Elders onâly went vp the people though prepâred and sanctified to meete the Lorde had boundes set vnto them and migââ not so much as touch the Mountaine Moses only entred into the clowde coâmuned with GOD and receiued froâ him the tables of the Law but vvhâ Moses came downe from God the Laâ the Couenaunts the Sacrifices ceremânies and all that Moses learned of Goâ was imparted and communicated to ãâã the people Thus much of the Apostles diligenââ in writing The matter whereof he wââteth followeth It was necessary for me to writ vnto you to exhort you to contend c. In the matter whereunto the Apostle exhorteth them three things are to be obserued For first they must contend secondly they must contend earnestly thirdly they must contend for the maintenance of the faith It may seeme a thing very needles to exhort men to contend For the world is and euer was to full of contentions The contentions of Christians haue scandalized many they haue beene the cause of the ouerthrow of many famous Churches and the remouing of those golden Candlestickes in the midst whereof the Sonne of God someâime walked So that all good men disswade from contentions and seeke to extinguish the flames of that fire which hath alreadie wasted and burnt downe so many so worthy parts of the house of God Austine vnderstanding of the bitter invectiues that Hierome and Ruffinus had published one against another breaketh forth into these words expressing the sorrow of his hart Hei mihi qui vos âlicubi simul inuenire non possum fortè â nunc moueor vt doleo vt timââ prâcidârem ad pedes vestros flerem quantum vâlârem rogarem quantum amarem ãâã vnumquenque vestrum pro seipso nunc vtrumque pro alterutro et pro alijs et mâximè infirmis pro quibus Christus mortââs est qui vos tanquam in theatro huius vâtaâ cum magno suo periculo spectant ne de vobis ea scribendo spargatis quae quandoque concordes delere non poteritis Woe is me saith he that I can no where meet with you two togeather for if I could as now I stand affected as I sorrowe for these beginnings and feare what will be the issues of things so ill begunne I would fall at âour feete and weepe till I had dryed vp the Fountaine of teares I would entreate you so long as the affection of loue that raigneth in me could suggest vnto me one word of entreatie noâ entreating and beseeching each of you for himselfe now either of you for other and for others most of all the weake for whom Christ dyed which not without great periââ behold you in these your contentions brought vpon the stage of this world to be gazed on I would entreate you not to publish