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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01731	A sermon on the parable of the sower, taken out of the 13. of Mathew. Preached at London by M. G. Gifford, & published at the request of sundrie godly and well disposed persons	Gifford, George, d. 1620.	1582 (1582)	STC 11863; ESTC S118278	14,987	41

A Sermon on the Parable of the Sower taken out of the 13. of Mathew Preached at London by M. G. Gifford published at the request of sundrie godly and well disposed persons ¶ Imprinted at London for Tobie Cooke dwelling at the Tigres head in Paules Churchyard 1582. TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFVL M. Iohn Hutton Esquier George Gifford wisheth health and increase of worship IT is more then halfe a yere right worshipfull since I handled this parable of the Sower in a Sermon at London Being instantly vrged by a friend which heard mee to put it in writing althogh I was very vnw●●●ng for sundrie considerations yet I made some promise if lesure shuld serue Afterward when I wold very gladly haue ben released at her hands whom I promised I could by no meanes obteine it I haue therfore at the last so nigh as I could set down in writing that which I then vttered in speking I know that I haue omitted some things in the particular applications and exhortations which I made also I haue added sōewhat which either then came not to mind or els time did not serue to handle I am bolde to present dedicate this my poore trauell vnto your worship moued therto with diuers respects as thinking my selfe in duetie bound not onely with this common generall bond that ye are one which long time haue professed the glorious gospel of Iesus Christ but with diuers more speciall which are so wel knowne vnto you that it wer needlesse for me to recite them only thus much seeing I was born brought vp vnder you my parents receiuing benefits daily frō you I think I ought when as I am not able to make any recompence at least to shew some token of a grateful mind But especially I am moued heerevnto with consideration of the greatest blessing which all my kindred haue enioyed by you now so long in prouiding procuring their spiritual instruction I pray you accept of my good will account of mee as one which praieth to the Lord for you that he will multiplie increase his good giftes still in you to the glorie of his holy name the benefit of his Church your endlesse comfort in Iesus Christ Amen Yours for euer to commaund in the Lord George Gifford A Sermon vpon the Parable of the Sower Math. 13. 1 IN that day Iesus went out of the house and sate by the Sea side 2 And there was gathered vnto him a multitude so that hee entered into a ship and sate downe and the whole multitude stood on the shoare 3 And he spake many things vnto thē by Parables faieng Behold a Sower went forth to fowe 4 And as he sowed some seeds fell by the way side and the fowles came eate them vp 5 Other fel vpon stonie 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 grew vp and choked it 8 Other fell into good grounde and brought forth fruit one seed an hundreth fold another sixty another thirtie 9 He that hath eares to heare let him heare ALthough the Iewes at such time as our sauiour Christ came into the world had the word of God among thē had also the temple Sinagogues where they heard the same read expounded yet their state was very miserable for Christ saith they wer as shéep without a shepheard because their teachers the Scribes Pharesies being choaked with couetousnes puffed vp with vaine glory were become stark naught corrupt in manners and corrupting the word with their fond gloses their teaching also was so cold with so litle power euen in that which they taught truly that the people had no great list to heare thē But when Iohn Baptist the forerunner of Christ was raised vp to publish the beginning of the Gospell to prepare the way for the Lord he like a sounding shrill Trumpet with the power of his word shooke their hearts rowsed their drowsines so that frō his time the kingdome of heuen suffered violence When Christ Iesus himselfe vttered his voice in preaching and his diuine power in working wonders ther appered such a wonderful maiesty in his person as did amaze the hearers whervpon his fame was noised far néere so that they came running out of all quarters of the land by heaps for to sée heare him they séemed to forget thēselues their state in leauing al worldly affaires as the husbandmē their plough the Artificers their craftes sciences following him into the wildernes with their wiues their children laggering at their héeles so great was their zeale So that as before almost all did perish in that miserable state they were in now it séemed that the greatest part or at lest an innumerable multitude did with such care imbrace the heauēly doctrine as that they shuld be most happy come to eternal life but this was otherwise for our sauior Christ sheweth héere that of this gret heap rablemēt of people which wer so zealous trauelled so far to heare him ther wer thrée parts which did not profit by his doctrine but cōtinued stil damned forlorne creatures onely one parte of foure are true schollers And because we be ranke hipocrits prone redie to deceiue our selues Christ Iesus laieth open the matter so plainly in so familiar a kinde of teaching that vnles we wilfully blind our selues we cannot but sée how the case standeth in euery of vs each man in himselfe for he taketh a similitude from a sower of corne which going casting his séed abroad it lighteth vpon sundrie kinds of groūd some falleth by the way side where the path is trampled beaten smooth hard by mens féet is made like a pauement there it lieth aboue the ground altogether vncouered the Fowles come by and by and picke it vp Some falleth into stony ground or rocky or as S. Luke saith vpon a rocke where ther is a little thin crust of earth in the top some moisture in which the séed is a little couered because the earth which doth couer it is but shallowe it springeth vp quickly brauncheth is fresh gréene being so good séemeth to be forward corne such as would yéeld to the husbandman a plentifull haruest but because the roote can not spreade it selfe déepe inough to sucke iuice out of the ground for the nourishment of the blade when the parching heate of the Sunne lighteth vpon it then it is dryed vp and scorched and dyeth and neuer bringeth foorth fruite Some other doth fall among thornes there is deapth of earth for the séede to growe so that it springeth vp and not onely a blade but also a stalke and commeth so farre as to haue the eare but the thornes growe vp with