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A02793	Two godlie and learned sermons, preached at Manchester in Lancashire before a great audience, both of honor and vvoorship. The first, containeth a proofe of the subtill practises of dissembling neuters, and politique worldlings. The other, a charge and instruction, for all vnlearned, negligent, and dissolute ministers: and an exhortation to the common people, to seeke their amendment, by prayer, vnto God. By Simon Harward, preacher of the woord of God, and Maister of Arte, late of Newe Colledge in Oxfoord.	Harward, Simon, fl. 1572-1614.	1582 (1582)	STC 12924; ESTC S112568	108,746	262

fruite shall the Trée be knowne Euery good Tree bringeth foorth good fruite and a corrupt tree bringeth foorth corrupt fruite Doo men gather Grapes of Thornes Gala. 5.6 or Figges of Thistles Paule will haue the faith of euery Christian to woorke thorough charity For if the faith of a Christian be compared to a Trée then euen as the roote of a Trée sucketh Iuice out of the earth the body receaueth of the roote the braunch taketh of the body and the fruite shooteth out of the braunche euen so the faithe of a Christian must firste be rooted and grounded vpon the death and passion of Iesus Christ then must it send vp the Sap of loue and loue must blossome foorth in good woorkes And thus if our faith be not a dead faith but a liuely faithe not a barren faithe but a fruitfull faith not an idle faith but a working faith a faithe working thorow charitie then are we pure spiritual Wheate for the Barnes of the Lorde The Church héere ye sée is compared to a Haruest thē if we bring foorth nothing but Tares of sinne and wickednesse we can looke for no other but to be gathered by the Reapers Math. 13.30 into a bundell and to be throwne into the Furnace of euerlasting fier Isa 5.2 It is compared also to a Viniarde which the Lord hath hedged and gathered out the Stones and planted it with the best Plants and built a Tower in the midst thereof and made a Wine Presse therein then if in stéede of the swéete Grapes of holynesse and righteousnesse we bring foorth nothing but the wilde Grapes of sinne and wickednesse that the Lorde may saye vnto vs as he saith vnto the Iewes Isa 5.4 what could I haue done to my Viniarde which I haue not done and beholde now when I looke for Grapes it bringeth foorth nothing but wilde Grapes then haue we a seuere iudgement denounced against vs by God himselfe he will breake downe the Hedge of the Viniard he wil lay it waste Math. 7.19 he will let in the wilde Boare to deuour and spoile it yea he will hew downe the trees and cast them into vnquencheable fier We are compared also to ground on which the sower doth sowe his seed Luke 8.5 then if we be that harde ground whereinto the Seede of Gods woorde cannot enter but that it is pluckt away by Sathan euen as seede by the high wayes side is snatcht away by the Fowles of the ayre or if we be that drie grounde whervpon the fruite dooth wither away because it wanteth the moysture of the dew of Gods holy spirite or if we be the thorny grounde whereupon the fruite is choaked with the bryers and brambles of cares and ritches and voluptuous liuing then are our hartes euill and vnfruitfull ground Mark 11.13 ●● therefore before God accursed euen as the Fig tree which had florishing leaues without fruite was by our Sauiour Christ accursed dried vp by the rootes for euer but if we desire to be blessed of the Lord we must indeuor to be good groūd that is Luke 8.15 as our sauiour dooth himselfe expoūd it with a good honest hart to heare the word of god to keep it to bring forth fruite with patience not to be idle and fruitlesse hearers to let it in at the one eare and out at the other eare to heare it in the Church and leaue it in the Porche but to heare it to kéepe it Rom. 2.13 and to bring foorth fruite with patience for not the hearers of the woord but the dooers shall be iustified Not euery one that saith vnto me Lord Lord Math. 7.21 shall enter into the kingdome of heauen but he that dooth the will of my Father in heauen Luke 11.28 Blessed are they which heare the woord of God and keepe it So then with hearing ye must ioyne kéeping with talking we must ioyne walking with professing expressing with exhortation conuersation with science conscience with faithe charitie For it shall not be asked in the dreadfull day of iudgement what we haue heard nor what we haue learned nor what we haue read but how we haue beléeued Math. 7.19 and what we haue doone and that same Tree which hath not brought forth good fruite shall be hevven downe and throwne into vnquencheable fier they which in the haruest do prooue to be tares shall be bound together by the Angels of God Math. 13.30 and cast into the Furnace of eternall death where the worme neuer dyeth and the flame neuer goeth out We are called also by the Apostle Paul Gods Husbandrie 1. Cor. 3.9 Vos estis Agricultura dei ye are Gods Husbandrie Whereby we are admonished of our dutie that the more that we are husbanded by the worde of God the more plentifull ought we to be in good workes or otherwise our condemnation will be the greater We cannot alledge the ensample of our forefathers nor of any others in this time which haue not the like Husbandrie bestowed vpon them For Mat. 25.20.22 to whom the Lord committeth but two Talents of him he will looke for but the increase of two But to whomsoener he committeth fiue Talents of him he will looke for the increase of fiue The Scholemaister will not require Latin of him that neuer learned any but he which hath learned it he must giue an accoumpt for it When a Maister dooth sende foorth his seruaunt in the night time if he haue missed his way a little he will not deale so rigorously with him but when hee sendeth him in the day time if he misse his way then he shall more hardly be excused Where the Husbandman dooth take great paines in husbandrie there will he looke for much fruite but where he neuer tooke any paines there it will greeue him the lesse to haue some thornes and thistles briars and brambles And therefore consider good people how the Lord hath dealt more mercifully with you of this Towne of Manchester then euer he did with your forefathers or then now he dooth with any place about you He hath giuen you a large Talent he hath reuealed his holy will most plainely and plentifully vnto you he hath sent you foorth in the daye time euen in the light of his glorious Gospell he hath sent his seruaunts early and late to husband your hearts and to sowe therein the seede of his most holy and blessed worde take héede therfore that your fruites be aunswerable therevnto or otherwise assure your selues that your cōdemnation shall be the greater Luk. 1● 47.48 for he that knoweth the will of his Maister and will not doo it he shal be beaten with many stripes and to whom soeuer much is committed of him shall much be required And thus dearely belooued ye see how these allegoryes so often vsed in the Scriptures of Haruest Trées Viniarde Grounde Séede Husbandrie doo all admonish you of Gods great mercy towards you

and by Saint Iohn 1. Ioh. ● not to receyue them into their houses nor to bydde them God spéede much lesse to ioyne them selues in any league or amitie with them or to suffer such to haue any dealing vnder them Abraham refused to take of the King of Sodom so much as a thread Gen. 14.23 or a sho● latchet least he should say E●dr 4.3 I haue enritched Abraham Zerobabell would not suffer the Samaritanes to lay lyme and stone in the building of the Lord. 1. Reg. 13.16.18 The young Prophete for eating bread with the wicked olde Prophete was denowre● of a Lion Euse lib. 4. Cap. 14. Nicepb lib. 3. Cap. 14. Euse in vit Const lib. 1 Cap 11. Iohn the Euāgelist would not tarie in the same house with the heretique Cerinthus Constantinus to trie his men commaunded that all which would not doo sacrifice to Idolles should be thrust out of his seruice and when many for feare obeyed the cōmaundement he put them all away Psa 110.6.7 for he would suffer none to serue him which would not also serue the Lord and he knewe that they could not be faithfull to men which were vnfaithfull vnto God Theo. lib. 2. Cap. 6. Liberius going into banishment refused all the gifts of the Emperor and his wife saying Let them giue those thinges to Auxentius and Epictetus their Arrian heretiques Ephe. 5.11 2. Cor 6.14 we must haue no fellowship with the vnfruitfull workes of darknesse nor any way yoake our selues with Infidelles Leuit. 19.19 We are commaūded by the lawe of God not to plowe with an Oxe and with an Asse nor to sowe our ground with diuers seede nor to make our garmentes of Linsey wolsey Wherefore we must auoide all mingling of contraie Religions and in no wise ioyne our selues with the wicked but endeuour our selues that we may say with Dauid Psal 110.6.7 Mine eyes shall be vnto the faithfull of the lande that they may dwell with me he that walketh in a perfite way he shall serue me There shall no deceiptfull personne dwell within my house he that telleth lyes shall not remayne in my sight O Lorde doo not I hate them which hate thee Psa 139.21.22 and doo not I earnestly contend against those that rise vp against thee yea I hate them with a perfect and vnfeyned hatred as they were mine vtter enimies But what is the cause why these pollitique worldlie wise men doo so familllarlie ioyne them selues with the wicked and so many wayes withdrawe them selues from the true confessing of the Lorde Iesus Surely this is onelie the cause for that they are afeard least a chaunge should shortlie come whereby they might be compelled eyther with shame to turne their coates or else incurre great daunger of suffering for the name of Iesus Christ Saint Iohn sheweth Ioh. 12.48 howe many of the chéefe Rulers beléeued in Christe but because of the Phariseis they durst not confesse him least they should be cast out of the Sinagogue for they looued the prayse of men more then the prayse of God As many there are nowe which would gladly professe the true faith of Christe and yet because they are eyther Tenaūts to such Landlordes or Seruaunts to such Maisters as are backwarde in Religion and frowardlie bent to superstition or else because they are afeard of afterclaps and perilles which may héereafter ensue they dare not with their mouth confesse the Lord Iesus These doo not consider that which our Sauiour Christe sayth That who soeuer will be his Disciple Math. 16.24 Luk. 14.27 must take vp his crosse and followe him Nor that which the Apostle sayth That we must through many afflictions Acts. 14.22 enter into the kingdome of God and that they which will liue godlie in Christ Iesu must suffer persecutiō Neither doo they consider 2. Tim. 3.5.12 that trouble and affliction is profitable yea and necessary for the Church of God For whome the Lord looueth he chasteneth Pro. 3.11 Apo. 3.17 Hebr. 12.6.7.8 and scourgeth euerie Sonne that he receyueth If ye endure chastening God offereth him selfe vnto you as vnto sonnes For what Sonne is he whome the Father dooth not chasten If therfore ye be without correction whereof all are partakers then are ye bastardes and not sonnes Psa 119.67.71 Before I was afflicted sayeth Dauid I went astraye but nowe I keepe thy woorde it is good for mee that I haue beene afflicted that I may learne thy statutes Iohn 15.2 When the Vine groweth out of order it must be husbanded pared and drest when the bodie aboundeth with euill humours Eccle. 2.5 1. Pet. 1.7 it must be purged Golde must be tryed in the fire before any precious worke be made thereof Stones must be hewed and Tymber must be squared before wée can rayse vp any buylding Corne must be thresht Grapes must be prest before we can haue eyther bread or wine And all this is wrought in vs by trouble and affliction for affliction is the sickle which dooth pare and dresse the braunches it is the purgation which doth purge our soules from our former wickednesse and driue vs to repentaunce and amendment of life it is fire wherein the Golde is tried it is the toole whereby we are hewed and squared and made sit for the building of the Lord it is the instrument whereby we are thresht and prest and made as pure spiritual wheate fit for the Garner and storehouse of euerlasting ioyes And therefore Ignatius sayde when he was brought to be cast into the den of Lions Thus it behoueth me to be grounde with the teethe of Lions that I may be made a sweete manchette for the Lord. The Faith of a Christian is compared to Camamill which the more it is tread vpon the more it dooth florishe and the better it dooth prosper as Paule sheweth Howe the outward man must perishe before the inwarde man can be renued 2. Cor. 4.10.16 and we must beare in our bodyes the dying of the Lorde Iesus that the lyfe of Christe maye be made manifest in vs. And what is the cause now why many doo liue so careleslie and carnallie setting their mindes wholie vppon the glorie and riches and vaine pleasures of this world and hauing no care at all eyther of the honour due vnto the name of the immortall God and the setting forwarde of the glorious Gospell of Christe or of the saluation of their owne soules Surely the cause is onely this for that they are drunken with too much prosperity the outward man dooth not perishe they doo not carie about in their bodies the dying of the Lord Iesus For I am fullie perswaded that there are a great nūber in England which nowe doo shewe them selues carnall and carelesse which if GOD should laye vppon them his rodde of correction would become much more holie and farre more zealous for the trueth of God Our Lord God hath two waies