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A14690	A sermon preached at Pauls Crosse by Iohn Walsal, one of the preachers of Christ his Church in Canterburie. 5. October. 1578. And published at the earnest request of certeine godlie Londoners and others	Walsall, John.	1578 (1578)	STC 24995; ESTC S102702	33,978	86

the day then to daunce vpon the Saboth daye If we had grace that one exāple of the murdering of innocent Iohn Baptist by occasion of wanton dauncing might set before our eyes how daungerous a matter it is to frequent the cōmon dancing places And how streightly the holy ghost doth commaund mortification subduing of our wanton affections holinesse in thought wordes workes eyes tongues generally and particularly this ye haue learned by the often hearinge and readinge of the scriptures and therefore ye cannot be ignorant but must néedes knowe and confesse howe vnséemely how vnchristianlike how displeasant to God and offensiue to good men the accustomed dauncing of men women vppon the dayes before named is yea and that their maner of dancing may verie well truely be called as Augustin calleth it a flattering Diuell a sweete poyson a sinfull pleasure or a pleasaunt sinne And so far are thoy from hope to reformo this deformed dancing as we lamentably see many placed in authoritie to like well thereof and rather maintaine irreligious dancers then estéeme and hearken vnto the iust complaint of godlie preachers which openly in sermons priuatly by supplications euery waye haue laboured for the suppressing of this notable cause of many mischeuous inconueniences It is déepely layed to our charge that we speake against al manner of recreations And yet it is well knowen that we like and vse recreations In déed we say this that both wée and all that feare the Lorde muste not alone in earnest and weightie affaires but also in our verie sportes and mirth and pastimes séeke the glorie of god by endeuouring to put of the olde man of sinne and to shewe foorth liuely fruites of true regeneration that whatsoeuer we say or doe it may thereby appeare we haue béene baptised as with water so likwise with the holy ghost and fire that is inwardly and effectually wherof they can neuer truely and comfortably assure themselues which let loose the bridle of their affections and as it were sell their bodies and soules to riotous vnchaste and vngodly dauncing and such other carnall delightes so horribly frequented by the common sort of people in many places of this Realme to the frustrating of oure labours the hinderance of the gospell the increase of wickednesse therfore to the greate ioy of Sathan and all his adherents The Lord in mercie giue suche strength and courage to all magistrats that setting a side frendship respect of gaine care to be popular and all earthly considerations they may throughly friendly ioyne their temporall sworde with the woorde of God whiche is the sworde of the spirite for the cutting downe of what soeuer thinges shall be founde any manner of impediment and let to the inlarging of Christes kingdome And the same Lord turne the froward harts of many people that wheras now they bende themselues to nothing so much as to erect and set vp vanities and to vexe molest and grieue the heartes and discredite slaunder and stain the names euen of their learned godly teachers they may spéedily shew harty repentāce become obediēt hearers followers of God his word And as in the countrie minstrels thus seduce bewitch the people so it hath bene sayd I trust it be reformed that vaine plaiers haue had about this citie of London farre greater audience then true preachers This vniuersal lothing of Christes holy gospell doth prognosticate a famine not of bread and water that is not of corporall foode but as the Prophet sayth a famine of hearing the worde of the Lorde It woulde pearce through our heartes with intollerable griefe to féele our selues and sée our children perish with wāt of bodily sustenance This was the miserable condition and estate of the wicked Iewes at the finall destruction of that moste famous Ierusalem Then the Parentes sawe the pitifull famine and staruing of their children the children of their Parentes one of an other Almost all things they layd hands vppon though most vnnatural thei vsed as meat The tender hearted mother spared not with her own hands to slea her own innocent and natural child and with his vnpleasāt flesh to nourish her famishing body to stay her vnreasonable hungrie appetite Verilie this is a sorrowful narratiō But another maner of griefe shal the famine of God his word bring with it when as by means therof manie fathers and mothers with their children manie maisters with their seruaunts many gouernours with their people shall pine away and perish euerlastingly with the eternal death of body soul This will be a dolefull daunce and to this ende without heartie and present amendement the vsuall contemptuous dauncing the despising of the Gospell the sinnefull delightes the disordred life of the vngodly the profanatiō of holy dayes the loue of playing the lothing and hatred of preaching will bring our happie and golden dayes if God bee not verie mercifull to vs Thus haue ye heard that in these first sort of carnall Protestantes there can be found no obedience and therfore no liuely faith and so consequently they are no fruitfull hearers of the worde Another sort of lippe prefessours are zealous in religion feruentlie bente against poperie great talkers of the scripture pretenders of much honestie but yet among them ye shall finde vnmercifull vsurers couetous oppressours extreame dealers in worldly thinges insatiable cormorantes filthie Epicures these men wil vse faire words but haue foule hearts they will sweare and yet lie they make a shew of simplicitie and for all that are full of deceipt they can talke of mortification yet vse meanes as it were with bellowes to blowe vp and kindle the fire of carnall conuersation The case of these men are most miserable Better they had neuer knowen the worde of god Better they had neuer bene borne Better a milstone had ben hāged about thier neckes then so to haue offended Christs litle ones Their owne knowledge of the word and yet disobedience to the worde pronounceth sentence of iust condemnation against them These are such as Christ speaketh of Not euerie one that saieth vnto mee Lord Lorde shall enter into the kingdome c. These are foolish lookers into the glasse of God his worde hearers only deceiuing their owne selues These are cloudes without water carried about of windes corrupt trées and without fruite These are chaffe whiche the winde driueth away Yea that chaffe which Christ will burne with vnquenchable fire These are figge trées which beare leaues only no fruite and therfore vnable to endure the presēce of christ In the seconde booke of Samuell it is written that King Dauid sent some of his seruants to comfort Hanun king of the Ammonites lamenting for his fathers deth But Hanun perswaded by his noble men that Dauids seruantes came rather as espialles then as

father that euery one of vs may with a good conscience and truly say with holy Dauid Not vnto vs ô Lorde not vnto vs but vnto thy name giue the glorie c. And with Saint Paul God forbid that I should glory or reioice but in the crosse of our Lord Iesus Christ whereby the world is crucified vnto me and I vnto the worlde Thinke not right Christian Ladie that these words are vttered so much to instruct you as to enforme the reader of this letter vnto you For by good experience I haue comfortably found both in the right honorable my very good Lord your wise and louing hous bande and in your good Ladiship his Godly and obedient espouse such care of Gods glorie in aduauncing true religion in demeaning your selues in the educatiō of your children in gouerning your family in countenauncing of vertue and learning in cherishing the poore and needie as I might deseruedly be deemed vnwise if I had not obserued it carelesse if I did not remember it vnthankefull if vpon offred occasion I would not testifie it But thanked be the king of eternal glorie this your care of GOD his glory is so vniuersally knowne to the whole realme so ioyfully acknowledge of the Godly therein that I neede not produce my self for an experienced witnes of the same Wherfore to conclude this branch I will heartily offer vppe mine incessant prayers to the Lorde God in the name of his sonne our sauiour CHRISTE that both you and all Christians may daily and continually growe not onely into such contempt of vaine glory and al vaine thinges but also into such loue and longing of his true glorie and all heauenly things as in these euill dayes ye may haue the sure testimony of your owne consciences that you haue zealously sought GOD his glory and in the end through Christ be made partakers of his eternall glorie As this care of Gods glorie hath drawen others to desire and me to publish this sermon which I trust will preuent the vncharitable suspiciōs of some and stay the rash tongues of others so me thinketh I am to be blamed neither by you nor of any other for dedicating the same to your Ladishippe For notwithstanding nothing be therin taught which you haue not long ago learned and nothing in such manner deliuered by me but hath ben and may be much bettered by others yet your Ladiship by perusing thinges alreadie learned shall not be altogether vnprofitably occupied and at the least this my fact shall make some outwarde shewe of mine inwarde heartie thanksgiuing for the benefits bestowed vpon and the trust reposed in me your humble and faithfull seruaunt And when I considered that by my Lorde and your La. I was first called from the vniuersitie to teach your two sonnes and those such children as for the true feare of God zealous affection to his word obedience to their parents reuerence to their superiours humility to their inferiours loue to their instructour I neuer knewe any excell them also that by the same meanes I was likewise first called from teaching of children to enstruct men verely I coulde not but dedicate the first fruites of these my so generall labours to some of that house whence I was first sent out to be a poore labourer in the Lords great haruest You shall here find no profounde learning no exquisite art no curious eloquēce to delight your learned eares but finde you shal the simple truth now imprinted as it was then vttered to comfort your Christian hearte And I am throughly perswaded that as I haue the sure warrant of Gods expresse worde for confirmation of the trueth herein conteined so the holy spirite of God will in such wise affect you with a like and loue thereof that he will compel your heart to think and your toung to say Amen Yea and to confesse that albeit a sinnefull man was the homely vtterer yet the holy Ghost is the vndoubted authour of the same Nowe least the portall shoulde be as great as the house and the preface as long as the treatise I will conclude and cease from further troubling you But I trust not to surcease from hearty praying the Lord God so to deuor the harts of your good La. of your children and whole family with the holy fire of his heauenly spirite that ye may dwell in his court and be satisfied with the pleasure of his house euen of his holy temple that the zeale of the Lordes house may eate ye vp that with good consciences and ioyfull spirites ye may truely say ô Lord I haue loued the habitacion of thy house and the place wher thine honour dwelleth Finally that ye may be of that bright heauenly wheate whiche shall bee gathered into the celestiall garner by the Lorde Iesus who for euer mightily protect and mercifully preserue you At Easeling by Feuersham in the Countie of Kent Your Lad. heartie Orator and humble seruant Iohn walsall ❧ A SERMON preached at Pauls Crosse by John Walsall one of the preachers of Christs Church in CANTERBVRIE the fifte of October 1578. Actes 3. 22 For Moses sayde vnto the Fathers the Lorde your God shall rayse vp vnto you a Prophet of your brethren like vnto me yee shall heare him in all things whatsoeuer he shall say vnto you 23 For it shall be that euery person which shall not heare that Prophet shall be destroyed out of the people IF right honourable worshipful and welbeloued in our sauiour Iesus Christ either the principall cause author of this scripture or the instrumentes and seconde causes vttering the same or the matters therein comprehended if all or any of these be duely considered of vs we shall finde this present texte to bee of verie great authoritie and fully replenished with heauenly profite and comfort Our custome and manner is carefully to respect the authour both of wordes spoken and déedes done and as he is learned or ignoraunt wise or foolishe well affected or euill disposed so wée commonly receiue or reiect what soeuer procéedeth from him for the most part still measuring in temporall thinges the matter by the man I say in tēporal things bicause in matters spirituall not so much the men that speake as the matters spoken are to be regarded according to that of our Sauiour The Scribes and Pharises sit in Moses ch●●● Al therefore whatsoeuer they bid you obserue that obserue and doe but after their workes doe not for they say and do not But the authour of this scripture is of such learning wisedome holines as we may safely and are commaunded streightly not alone to credite and beleeue his wordes but also to conforme and fashion our selues after his workes For as of all the sacred Canonicall Scriptures so of this nowe in hand the holy Ghost that spirite of truth that comforter of the elect that director of the faithfull i● the cause and authour To this ●nd Paul in the laste