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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13809	A sermon preached the 26. day of May. 1584. in S. Maries Church in Shrewesbury before the right honorable the Earle of Leicester, accompanied with the Earle of Essex, the Lorde North, diuers knightes, gentle-men of worshypfull callyng, the worshipfull bayliues, aldermen and burgesses of the towne of Salop. By Iohn Tomkys publick preacher of Gods word there: now first published by the authour. Seen, perused, and allowed accordyng to her Maiesties iniunctions.	Tomkys, John.	1586 (1586)	STC 24110; ESTC S118479	38,851	98

A SERMON Preached the 26. day of May. 1584. in S. Maries Church in Shrewesbury Before the right honorable the Earle of Leicester accompanied with the Earle of Essex the Lorde North diuers Knightes Gentle-men of worshypfull callyng the worshipfull Bayliues Aldermen and Burgesses of the towne of Salop. By Iohn Tomkys publick preacher of Gods word there Now first published by the authour Iam. 3.2 In many thynges we offend all Seen perused and allowed accordyng to her Maiesties Iniunctions AT LONDON Printed by Robert Walde-graue for William Ponsonby Anno. 1586. ¶ To the right honourable the Lord ROBERT DVDLEY Earle of Leycester c. one of her highnes most honourable priuy Counsayle and Chancellor of the Vniuersitie of Oxford grace mercy and peace in Christ Iesus be multiplied I Haue bene requested right honourable by one whose motion in honest causes is vnto me as a commandement to bestowe vpon him that simple Sermon which by Gods assistaunce I made before your Lords●ip in S. Maryes Church 〈◊〉 ●●ewesbury the 26. of May ●584 Although my maner haue bene hetherto for the most part rather to delyuer vnto the Church through my laborious translations the learning of other then in this learned age to offer to publique viewe myne own poore trauels yet because the aucthority of the requester then one of my hearers was so great and his wisedom so graue that it stoode with dutifull modestie rather to yeeld than to deny I foorthwith called my selfe to remembraunce what I had vttered as God vouchsafed to inhable me and committed the same to writing as leisure did serue me My trauayle again by me perused seemed in mine eies so seelie that casting it aside as an vntimely bearthe hitherto I haue detracted the performaunce of my promise But nowe considering that a promise aduisedly made may not rashly be broken I find myselfe in duety forced to do that which in Christianitie I was then required And acknowledging it my duetie to vse my tongue and my penne rather to the benefit of my country then the winning of credite I haue boldly resolued so to keep promise that the good of my sermon by the benefite of the print may become common to al the godly Although the matter therein contained be warrāted by Gods word and the doctrine therin taught be necessarie for the tyme yet because the maner of the deliuerie there-of is homely and base it is altogether vnworthy in your L. name to be published who worthely are become a patron of the workes of the best learned Neuerthelesse since your Lordship in this my labour hath the best interest because except you had vouchsafed that time to haue heard me I had not that daye spoken being no ordinary day of my weekly exercise and that it pleased you of your singular humanitie to prooue my dutifull indeuour I make bolde in humblenesse to offer that nowe to your eyes which in dutifulnesse I sounded then in your eares If I were able to deliuer vnto you a more worthy monument of my duetifull thankfulnesse for the manifold benefites by me vndeserued which vpon me you haue largely bestowed verely I would be inferiour to none of your debters in will which haue them all my superiours in habilitie And therefore I hope your H. wil accept that which I can seeing I cannot that which I would Our memory cannot commit to obliuion how curteously you accepted that meane and yet wel meant intertainmenr which the towne of Shrewsburie in dutie gaue vnto you L. And the posteritie no doubt shall heare of your thankefull accepting of many wel-comes your cheerful hearing of many orations your circumspect view of the situation and buildings of the towne your graue conference with the Magistrates in the gouernment there of your comfortable going into the free Grammer schoole to experience the towardlinesse of the youth there your Christian presence in the Church at the Sermon your painefull trauell in arbitrating controuersies your large giftes vnto maister Bayliffes officers your liberall rewardes vnto the scholemaisters your charitable almes vnto the poore all the whiche vertues did then shine in you as in a moste cleare mirrour of true nobilitie Neither did you forget in that your progresse that you with the rest of Gods children in earth are strangers and passengers in this world (a) Gen 47.9 as our fathers were (b) Heb. 13.14 which haue not here a continuing citie but seeke one to come Therefore as a prouident peregrine you carefully tooke your spirituall repast in euery of your mansions in feeding vpon the worde of God preached before you for the better refreshing of the soule In this your christian pertaking of the heauenly foode it pleased GOD of his gracious prouidence aboue myne expectation to vouchsafe that I did twise serue at his spiritual table once in the countie of Stafford where I was borne and once in Shrewsburie where I haue my charge The dishes whiche I offered to the gestes were not dainty I do cōfesse yet because they were wholesome and sauorie being well seasoned with the salte of Gods word I make bold vnder your honourable protection to offer the one of them to the taste of the godly that by this meanes the feast may be still continued I doubt not but they will take it in good part which haue learned that God (a) 1. King 19.6 which fed ELIAS with bread and water (a) Ioh. 6.11 and refreshed hys people with barly loues and small fishes will that wee craue at hys handes not dayntie (b) Mat. 6.13 Luc. 11.3 but dayly bread contenting our selues with homely yet wholesome foode From others if there be any as I doubt there be manie whose taste is so curious that they will not or stomacke so lothing that they cannot find any sweetnesse in the word of God (c) Deut. 8.3 Mat. 4.4 Luc. 4.4 whiche is the foode of the soule I expect no suche thing but referring them to the Lord I humbly desire him of his mercy if it be his will so to purifie their heartes by the operation of his spirite (d) Psal 34.9 that they may taste and see how good the Lordis (e) Luc. 14.15 So shall wee be blessed eating our bread in the kingdome of God God long preserue your honour and so guide you with his holy spirite that you may more and more set foorth his glory benefite hys Churche and profit your Country Salop the 24. of October 1585. Your honours moste duetifull bound in the Lord. IOHN TOMKYS A Sermon preached in Shrewesburie before the Earle of Leicester by Iohn Tomkys the 26. of May 1584. Ephesians 5.1.2 (a) Eph. 5.1.2 Be ye therefore followers of GOD as deare children And walke in loue euen as Christ hath loued vs to be an offering and a sacrifice of a sweete smelling sauour to God * The care of God for his people OVr heauenly father is so carefull for our spirituall sustenaunce right honorable worshypfull and