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A17590	A sermon preached before the right honorable Earle of Darbie, and diuers others assembled in his honors chappell at Newparke in Lankashire, the second of Ianuarie. Anno humanæ salut, 1577	Caldwell, John, parson of Winwick.	1577 (1577)	STC 4367; ESTC S107405	29,430	86

Christ but whoremongers shal be shut out and be cast into the lake which flameth with fire and brimstone Now if god spared not the whole world if he showered downe fier and brimstone from heauen vpon Sodom and Gomorra if foure and twentye thousand were destroyed and all for whordome let vs not thinke that he will spare this realme of Englande if we continue still from one yeare to another in whoredome neuer finding anye time to repent Wherefore as many as will liue vprightly and walke honestly must detest abhorre this vice And to the end that we be not defiled therewith we must bannishe queanes and harlottes and not suffer them to eate our breade and to lodge within our gates A serpent is a daungerous thinge to be kept in a mans bosome and we cannot dayly kéepe companye with euill persens without great daunger he that toucheth piche shal be defiled Therfore he that will liue vprightly must shunne whordom all things that are prouocations therevnto The third thinge that we must shunne is strife and enuyinge vnder which two names is comprehended al thinges that striue against brotherly loue and godly peace and quietnes For out of al doubt good agréemēt and freindshippe amongest men is as pleasaunt a thinge vnto God as can bée Therefore saith the psalme Ecce quā bonum et quam iucundum habitare fratres in vnum Beholde howe good and ioyfull a thinge it is brethrne to dwell together in vnitie it is like the dewe that fell downe from heauē vpon the grounde to giue norishment vnto it and like vnto the oyle that dropped downe from Aarons bearde so as the sent of it was shed ouer all his raiment Whereby it plainely appeareth that god loueth peace and amitie amongest men and is well pleased when one embraceth an other with hartie loue S. Paule therefore here doeth exhorte vs to loue and telleth vs that we can not liue vprightly if wée be readye to snatch at one another like cattes and dogges and to cut one anothers throte And yet neuerthelesse ther are some so giuen to dissention and quarrelinge that they care not what mischeife they commit so that they may satisfie their cruell hartes and lustes of reuenginge And whereas we are commaunded to ouercome euill with goodnes and if our enimy honger to féede him if hée thirst to giue him drinke Yet are we so farre from performing of it that at euery litle and small trifle we are readye to goe to the lawe to drawe out our swordes and to fyght it out one with an other But if we woulde a litle consider the fruites that springe out of enuie contencion brawlinge chidinge and such like or if we could now open our eies and looke vpon the warres that are inflamed throughout al christendome the bodies that haue bene slaine the bloud that hath bene spilt and the Cities Townes and Kingdomes that haue bene rent and torne in sunder through enuie and contencion it were ynough to moue vs to hate and detest this vice aboue all others Let vs thē a litle consider the fruites that spring out of this trée First if a man be enuious or at debate with his neighboure he cannot eate and drinke in rest he is alwayes readie to hurt and harme the partie whom he enuieth he reioyceth at his fall and pyneth away at his prosperitie Agayne we sée howe diuelishe men become when they are once chased For they are then readye in furious wise to runne headlonge into destruction then they suffer theyr naughty affections to haue the brydle and to ouermaister all wyt and reason Yea and though they bée neuer soo wyse yet in theire anger they will beehaue them selues lyke verye fooles For is not hée a verye foole whiche wyll goe about to make the fyer to burne better which is kindled to much alreadie If a man sée hys house on fyer he will crye out straight way for water but if he féele him selfe set all on fyer with enuie hée séeketh not to quench it but putteth more matter vnto it to make it to burne the more Wherefore Paule doth tell vs that wée cannot please GOD vnlesse we shake of all ill wyll and treade all strife and contencion vnder foote And here wée haue to note that although he setteth downe strife before enuye yet in order is enuie first and the springe heade as it were from whence stryfe and contencion sloweth What is the cause that one séeketh the ouerthrowe of another Marry the enuie and spight that one beareth towardes a nother Sathan enuyinge that good and happye estayte of our fyrst parentes was neuer contente vntyll he had brought them out of felicitie into greate myserye Caine enuyinge his innocent brother Abell sought meanes to take awaye his life and bicause there was no bodye to stay him he brought his wicked purposse to passe The sonnes of Iacob beinge moued with enuye sold Ioseph and went about to destroye him Saule enuied Dauid and would haue killed him vnles that GOD had delyuered him out of his bloudy handes Herodias enuied Iohn Baptiste and therfore she sought his death For they beinge the childrne of the diuell coulde not abide the childrne of GOD. Therefore let vs take héede of enuye and embrace one another with brotherly loue and let ther be such a band of friendshipe amongest vs that wée may be knit tied together as mēbers of one bodie let vs detest dronkennesse and wantonnesse with all other vices and nowe at the length after so many admonytions threatninges and warnynges learne to walke honestly as in the day and to do those things that beccommeth the true seruauntes of GOD and disciples of Christ Last of al after y the Apostle hath exhorted vs to cast away the workes of darkenes and put of the old man hée setteth before vs a new garment and wylleth vs to take no thought for the flesh to fulfill the lustes of it Wherein fyrst we haue to consider howe that the apostle calleth Christ a garment This similitude of clothinge and allegorie of garmentes is often vsed in the holy scriptures The garmentes giuen to our first parentes had these properties to couer their shame and nakednes to defende them from could and weather and so sorth Euen so Iesus Christ is here compared to a garment and we are wylled to put him on bicause he is the weddinge garment spoken of in the gospell whose rightuousnes doth couey our vnrightuousnes whose innocensie doth hide our filthinesse whose bloude doth wash away our sins by whom we are defended from death hell and euerlasting damnation For Christ is the white rayment and apparell spokē of in the Apoca. which doth hide and cloth our filthy nakednsse that it doth not appeare And he is y apparell which we are cōmaunded to kéepe least we walke naked and men sée our filthynes He that hath put on this garment needeth not to séeke for any other thinge to couer and hyde

wickednesse and so sinne agaynst god Susanna walked also honestly whē as the wicked Iudges would haue de flowred hir For she would not by any meanes cōsent vnto thē but being in great distres she sighed said I am in trouble on euery side for if I doe this thing it is deth vnto me if I do it not I cannot escape your hands Sed melius est mihi absque opere incidere in manus hominum quam peccare in cōspectu domini it is better for me to fall into the handes of men and not doe it than to sinne in the sight of the lord Zacharias the Priest Elizabeth his wife walked honestly for they were both iust before god and walked in all the commaundementes of the lord All which examples teache vs that if we will walke honestly we must endeuour to kéepe the cōmaundements of God and althoughe we sée great store of corruptions raigninge euery where yet must not we suffer our selues to be defy●ed with them neyther must we saye as men commonly are wont to doe tush we must néedes doe as other men doe but we must folow the aduise that Paule giueth vs in this place that is to walke honestly as in the day and not suffer the world the flesh and the diuell to haue rule ouer vs. The second part setteth down what we must shunne and auoid if we will liue vprightly and walke honestly The thinges that we must shun be gluttony and dronkennesse chambering wantonnes strife and enuying For whosoeuer they be that are infected with these vices walk disorderly and their lyfe is odious and hatefull in the sight of god And although many men doe thinke these to be no vices or at leastwise smal faultes yet the Apostle doth condemne them for horrible and gréeuous sinnes and doth playnly tell vs that ther is no honesty nor any feare of God in them that spend their liues in these vices But let vs examine these vyces and speake of them orderly as they lye in the texte and then shall we better iudge whether they bée sinnes or no. The first is gluttony and dronkennesse the which two vices are to common at this daye in this realme and for the most part they are committed at prodigal fastes and banquetes and at suche tyme as this is I meane Christmas For in Christmas tyme and at great feasts gluttons and dronkerdes thincke they maye eate and drinke as much as they will and that it is lawfull for them to speake and doo whatsoeuer they thinke good Behold them therefore and you shall sée them to passe the bandes of all measure to commit such disorders as though there were no iudge in Heauen nor hell to swallowe vp wicked men after this mortall life Fr●t they sit downe to their meate like brute beastes without any calling or thincking vpon the name of God ▪ neuer destryng god to blesse their meates They eate and drinke more then is méete and conuenient for thē and oftentimes so much as they cannot disgest You shal sée them to play the gluttons egregiously and to ●ramme themselues like swine and they neuer leaue liftinge of the pottes and caroussinge one to another till they bée out of theyr wittes like beastes And when they haue thus armed thēselues they regard neither friend nor foe but dare speake and doe what so euer commeth to minde Agayne these dronkerdes dryue GOD from theire table and companie they cannot abide to heare the name of God spoken of vnlesse it bée to take it in vayne and to blaspheme it wyth horryble and cursed swearinge Their talke and communication is nothinge else but of ribaldrye and wantonnesse of backbytynge they re neighboures and of practisinge mischeyfe agaynst this man and that man. Loe what euils dronkennes bryngeth with it But yet you shall here more abhominations then these strong drinke they esteme of more price valew thē their owne soules their god is their belly therfore they make not hast to come to the church to heare gods worde but as the prophet saith they rise vp early to goe to the wine and tauerne wheras they spend the whole day and manye times a great part of the night in swallowinge and deuouring gods benefites without order or measure If any man yet thinke that dronkēnes is no sinne then giue me leaue to tel you in fewe wordes what mischiefes and inconueniences procéede thereof A trée is knowne by the fruite soo iudge of dronkēnes by the fruites that spring threof First it hurteth the body it marreth the minde and consumeth the substance for by it many men fall into horrible disceases and soundrye times into gréeuous mischaūces sometimes being slaine with suddayne death as it appeareth by the miserable ▪ ende of dronken Holiphernes whose heade was cut of in his dronkennes by the hand of Iudeth The bodye with all the partes therof are so distempered that the earth thē the which ther is nothinge more stable and sure is to dronken men vnstable in so much that they thinke it moueth and goeth round and the plaine way is vnto them like a caue diche the heade is brought into that case that it cannot rule and gouerne the féete the eyes are made dimme and firie they marre their faces and put out the true pi●tor y god hath made they heat their lyuers and set them all on fire What causeth the head to ake the handes to trimble the tongue to stammer and that no member of the body can discharge and do his duety dronknes Therfore truely saith Salomon to whom is woe to whom is sorrowe to whom is strife to whom is murmering to whom are woundes without cause to whom is rednes of the eyes euen to them that tarie longe at the wine It also bringeth mē vnto whordome and into great daunger For the eyes of dronkerdes shal looke vpon straūge women and theyr hart shal speake proude thinges and they shall bée as they that sleepe in the top of a mast of a shippe Though the Lord speake vnto them and say awake oh ye drōkerdes wéepe and houle all ye that drinke wine vnmeasurably yet are they nothing moued there with for it were almost as good to speake to a deade man as to a dronkerde Secondly the mynde is marred and sore hurt by it for dronkerdes commonly are stricken with the spirite of blockishenes and they are like vnto madbedlomes and men that haue lost their wittes It maketh them like vnto bruit beastes takinge away from them all theyr wit reason and vnderstandinge Verily it woulde be a pitious sight to sée a man to take hys knife to cut of his owne fingers and to cast them from him But a dronkerde taketh away from himselfe his owne witte reason yea and the very minde it selfe Herevppon sayth the wise man that wine taketh away the harte of man and leadeth wisemen out of the way Thirdly and last of all it consumeth the substance and bringe