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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01711	Certaine sermons, vpon diuers textes of Holie Scripture Whereof some haue been seuerally before published, and other some for the greater benefit of the godly reader are here now added. By M. George Giffard, preacher of the worde of God at Mauldon Essex.	Gifford, George, d. 1620.; Gifford, George, d. 1620. A sermon on the parable of the sower. aut; Gifford, George, d. 1620. Two sermons upon I. Peter 5. vers. 8 and 9. aut; Gifford, George, d. 1620. Foure sermons uppon the seven chiefe vertues of faith. aut; Gifford, George, d. 1620. A godlie, zealous, and profitable sermon upon the second chapter of saint James. aut; Gifford, George, d. 1620. A sermon preached at Pauls Crosse the thirtie day of May. aut; Gifford, George, d. 1620. A sermon on the third chapter of Saint Iames. aut	1597 (1597)	STC 11848.5; ESTC S120470	152,707	288

CERTAINE SERMONS VPON DIVERS TEXTES OF HOLIE SCRIPTVRE Whereof some haue been seuerally before published and other some for the greater benefit of the godly reader are here now added By M. George Giffard Preacher of the worde of God at Mauldon in Essex LONDON Printed by the Widowe Orwin for Thomas Man 1597. A briefe Summarie of such Sermons as are contayned in this booke A Sermon on the Parable of the Sower taken out of the 13. of Mathew vers 1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9 Two Sermons vpon the 1. Pet. 5. vers 8. and 9. wherin is shewed that the deuil is to be resisted only by a stedfast faith howsoeuer he commeth either against soule or body and that whosoeuer hath once attained the true and liuely faith it can neuer be vtterly lost but he is sure to get the victorie Foure Sermons vpon the seuen chiefe vertues or principall effectes of faith and the doctrine of election wherin euerie man may learne whether he be Gods child or no. Taken out of the first chap. of the second epistle of Saint Peter vers 1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.10.11 A godlie zealous and profitable Sermon vpon the second chapter of Saint Iames vers 14.15 16.17.18.19.20.21.22.23.24.25.26 A Sermon vpon Iames chap. 3. vers 1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.10.11.12 A Sermon preached at Paules Crosse the thirtie day of May. 1591. vpon Psal 33. A Treatise of true Fortitude TO THE RIGHT WORshipfull M. Iohn Hutton Esquier George Gifford wisheth health and increase of worship IT is more then halfe a yeare Right Worshipfull since I handled this Parable of the Sower in a Sermon at London Being instantly vrged by a friend which heard me to put it in writing although I was very vnwilling for sundrie considerations yet I made some promise if leasure should serue Afterward when I would very gladly haue been released at her hands whom I promised I could by no meanes obtaine it I haue therefore at the last so nigh as I could set downe in writing that which I then vttered in speaking I know that I haue omitted some things in the particular applications and exhortations which I made and also I haue added somewhat which either then came not to minde or els time did not serue to handle I ambold to present and dedicate this my poore trauell vnto your worship moued therto with diuers respects at thinking my self in duty bound not only with this cōmon and generall bond that ye are one which long time haue professed the glorious Gospell of Iesus Christ but with diuers more speciall which are so well knowne vnto you that it were needlesse for me to recite thē onely thus much seeing I was borne and brought vp vnder you my parents receiuing benefits daily from you I thinke I ought when as I am not able to make any recompence at least to shew some token of a gratefull minde But especially I am moued hereunto with consideration of the greatest blessing which all my kinred haue enioyed by you now so long in prouiding and procuring their spirituall instruction I pray you accept of my good will and account of me as one that prayeth to the Lord for you that he will multiplie and increase his good gifts still in you to the glorie of his holie name the benefit of his Church and your endles comfort in Iesus Christ Amen Yours for euer to command in the Lord George Gifford A SERMON VPON THE PArable of the Sower Matth. 13. 1 IN that day Iesus went out of the house sate by the sea side 2 And there was gathered vnto him a multitude so that he entred into a ship and sate downe and the whole multitude stood on the shoare 3 And he spake many things vnto them by parables saying Behold a Sower went forth to sowe 4 And as he sowed some seeds fell by the way side and the foules came and eat them vp 5 Other fell vpon stony ground where they had not much earth and by by they sprang vp because they had not depth of earth 6 And when the sun rose they were parched and because they had no root they withered 7 Other fell among thornes and the thornes grewe vp and choked it 8 Other fell into good ground and brought foorth fruit one seed an hundred fold another sixtie another thirty 9 He that hath eares to heare let him heare ALthough the Iewes at such time as our Sauiour Christ came into the worlde had the word of God among them and had also the Temple and Synagogues where they heard the same read expounded yet their state was very miserable for Christ saith they were as sheep without a shepheard because their teachers the Scribes and Pharisies being choaked with couetousnes and puffed vp with vaine glory were become stark naught corrupt in maners corrupting the word with their fond gloses their teaching also was so cold and with so little power euen in that which they taught truly that the people had no great list to heare them But when Iohn Baptist the forerunner of Christ was raised vp to publish the beginning of the Gospell and to prepare the way for the Lord hee like a sounding and shrill Trumpet with the power of his word shooke their hearts and rowsed their drowsinesse so that from his time the kingdome of heauen suffered violence When Christ Iesus himselfe vttered his voice in preaching and his diuine power in working woonders there appeared such a woonderfull maiestie in his person as did amaze the hearers wherupon his fame was noysed far and neer so that they came running out of al quarters of the land by heaps for to see and hear him they seemed to forget themselues and their state in leauing all worldly affaires as the husbandmen their plough the Artificers their craftes and sciences following him into the wildernesse with their wiues and their children laggering at their heeles so great was their zeale So that as before almost all did perish in the miserable state they were in nowe it seemed that the greatest part or at least an innumerable multitude did with such care imbrace the heauenly doctrine as that they should be most happy and come to eternal life but this was otherwise for our Sauiour Christ sheweth heere that of this great heap and rablement of people that were so zealous and trauelled so far to heare him there were three partes which did not profite by his doctrine but continued still damned and forlorne creatures only one part of foure are true schollers And because we be rank hypocrits prone ready to deceiue our selues Christ Iesus layeth open the matter so plainlie in so familiar a kind of teaching that vnles we wilfully blind our selues we can not but see how the case stādeth in euery of vs ech man in himselfe for he taketh a similitude from a Sower of corn which going casting his seed abroad it lighteth vpon sundry kindes of ground some falleth by the way side where the path is trāpled beaten smooth hard by mens