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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04483	A viewe of a seditious bul sent into Englande, from Pius Quintus Bishop of Rome, anno. 1569. Taken by the reuerende Father in God, Iohn Iewel, late Bishop of Salisburie. Wherevnto is added a short treatise of the holy Scriptures. Both which he deliuered in diuers sermons in his cathedral church of Salisburie, anno. 1570	Jewel, John, 1522-1571.; Garbrand, John, 1542-1589.	1582 (1582)	STC 14614; ESTC S107782	85,989	232

exercise himselfe daye and night The Lawe of the Lord is perfect conuerting the soule the testimonie of the Lorde is sure and giueth wisedome vnto the simple This is the rule of our faith without this our faith is but a fantasie and no faith for faith is by hearing and hearing by the worde of God Therefore Christe saith Search the Scriptures they are they that testifie of me There shall ye finde testimonie of my doctrine there shal ye know what is the wil of my heauenlye Father and there shall you receiue the comforte for euerlasting life Againe He that followeth mee shall not walke in darkenesse but shall haue the light of life If a man keepe my word he shal know the truth hee shall neuer see death Therefore Baruch saith O Israel wee are blessed for the things that are acceptable vnto God are declared vnto vs. This is thy blessednesse herein hath God shewed his fauour vnto thée he hathe reuealed the secreats of hys will vnto thée and hath put his worde in thy mouth He sheweth his word vnto Iacob his statutes and his iudgements vnto Israell hee hathe not dealte so with euerie nation neyther haue they knowen hys Iudgementes Therefore the Prophet Dauid teacheth vs to pray vnto God for the knowledge of his worde Shewe mee thy wayes O Lord and teache me thy pathes Take not thy holie spirite from mee and incline my hearte vnto thy testimonies Giue mee vnderstanding that I maye learne thy commaundementes open mine eyes that I may see the wonders of thy Lawe And Lighten mine eies that I sleepe not in death that I maye discerne betwéene safetie and daunger that I may knowe truth to be the truth and error to be error Thus I haue declared parte of that profite which groweth to vs by the word of God but it doeth not onelye directe our iudgement in the triall of truth but dothe also graffe in vs a boldenesse and constancie in the defence of the truth Salomon saieth A foole chaungeth as the Moone He is alwayes vnstable and inconstant he knoweth not neither what to do nor what to beleue he is somtimes ful sometimes emptie turneth and changeth as the Moone He buildeth and layeth his foundation vppon the sande therfore his house falleth to the ground He halteth on both sides somtimes worshippeth God and sometimes worshippeth Baal he is neither hotte nor colde he ebbeth and floweth like the waues of the sea he doubteth and staggereth resteth in nothing He knoweth not the truth he knoweth not that the scripturs are the word of God so he wandereth in the darke and knoweth not the way in which he walketh He hath no féeling no hart no vnderstāding He is vnfaithful towards God and kepeth no faith towards man he is wauering in all hys wayes And why because he knoweth not the wil of God nor hath the light of his word to guide his féete But a wise man is one and stedfast as the sunne He buildeth his house vppon a rocke and that rocke is Iesus Christe the sonne of God Therefore his house is neuer shaken downe Be the storme or tempest neuer so rough yet it shall stand faste like Mount Sion because his truste is in the name of the Lord. He knoweth that his name is written in the Booke of Life he knoweth that he belongeth to the Lords Shéepefolde and that no man can take him away out of the Lordes hand In this boldenesse Dauid sayeth Thoughe I shoulde walke thorough the valley of the shadow of death I will feare no euill for thou arte wyth mee thy rodde and thy staffe they comforte mee And againe the Lord is my light and my saluation whome shall I feare And againe Except thy lawes had bene my delight I should now haue perished in mine affliction when Ezechias heard y ● proud message of Sennacherib sent to him his people by Rahshaketh that they should not obey Ezech. nor trust to him when he said The Lord wil deliuer you and let not thy GOD deceiue thee in whom thou trustest hee wente vp into the house of the Lord and prayed vnto the Lorde to saue hym and hys people out of their handes that al the kingdomes of the earth might know that hee is GOD alone Euen so the Apostle Whether wee liue or die wee are the Lordes And in this boldenesse our sauiour Christe setled himselfe to beare their reproches and to carry his Crosse Father if thou wilte take away this cup frō me neuerthelesse not my wil but thine bee done Thus they that are taught by the word of God to put their trust in the Lorde and are thereby rooted and setled in him can not be remoued by any practise of Sathan but stand fast and continue for euer Which shal more plainely appeare if we looke backe into the times of persecution and beholde the boldenesse of constancie of the Sainctes of God They were brought before Magistrates caste into prisōs spoiled of their goods cruelly murthered Some were hanged vppon gibbets some run through with swords some torn with wild horses some drowned in the water and some burnt in the fire They were hated of all men for the name of Christ. They were despised as the filth of the worlde and dung of the earth Yet continued they faithfull and constant They armed their heartes with the comforte of Gods worde therby wer they able to resist in the euil day They were faithfull vntil death therefore GOD gaue them a Crowne of glorie When they were called before Kings and Princes and others of auctoritie and commaunded to forsake the trueth they had learned and the comfort which they tooke in the truth they aunswered in this manner O my gratious Lorde I would faine do your commandement I am your subiect I haue done faithfull seruice with my body with my goods but I cannot serue you against God He is King of Kings Lord of Lords He is my Lord before whom I stande I haue put my life in his handes He hathe forbidden me to doe this thing whiche you commaunde I cannot therefore doe it Iudge vprightly whether it be méete to obey you rather than God My liuing my wife my children and my life are deare vnto me I am a man like others and haue mine affections Yet neither liuing nor wife nor children nor my life is so deare vnto me as the glorie of God I am but a pore worme yet am I the worke of his handes God hathe putte his worde in my mouth I may not deny it I may not beare false witnesse against the Lord. My life is not deare vnto me in respect of the trueth I knowe if I shoulde deny him to saue my life I shoulde lose it and if I lose my life for his sake I shall finde it That which your auctoritie shal lay vpon me is not done without his will All the haires of my head are

Did not our hearts burne within vs while he talked with vs by the way and opened to vs the Scriptures His words did possesse all our senses this talk was not like common talk we felt it forcible in vs as the worde of Israel hearde Peter declare vnto them at Ierusalem by proofe of the Scriptures that Christ was come they were not able to resist the worde of God but were pricked in their heartes and saide vnto Peter and the other Apostles Men and brethren what shall we do we acknowledge our errour the words which you speake are most true they are the words of life teach vs and instruct vs what we shal do They felt the force of it and yéelded vnto it they did acknowledge it was the word of God S. Augustine after he had continued long in errour and withdrewe himselfe into a secret place where he might make his prayer and bewaile his ignorance hearde a voice say vnto him Tolle lege tolle lege Take vp and reade take vp and reade And hee foorthwith tooke vp the Epistles of Saint Paul and opened them and secretely read the Chapter which he first lighted on euen these words Not in gluttonie and drunkennesse neither in chambring and wantonnesse nor in strife and enuying but put yee on the Lord Iesus Christ and take no thought for the fleshe to fulfill the lustes of the same Nec vltra volui legere saith he nec opus erat Statim quippe cum fin● huiusce sententi●e quasi luce s●curit atis infusa cordi meo omnes dubita●ionis tenebrae diffugerunt I woulde reade no farther for I needed not For when I had read to the ende of this sentence all the darkenesse of doubtfulnesse vanished away as if some cleare light of securitie were powred into my heart It was as if it had béene saide O man acknowledge thy miserie thou art naked couer thy filthinesse put vpon thée Iesus Christe And forthwith I felt a fire within me my heart was lightned the scales fell from mine eyes I was able to sée Thus was he comforted and staide by this the worde of God This profite of the worde S. Cyprian declareth Si ad diuinae tradi●ionis caput originem reuertamur cessat omnis error humanus If wee returne to the heade and the beginning of the Lordes traditions all errour of man must needs giue place Theophilactus writing vpon these wordes in the Gospell by Sainct Iohn Hee that entreth not in by the doore into the Sheepefolde but climbeth vp an other waye he is a theefe and a Robber sayth non ingreditur per ostium hoc est per Scripturas Non enim vtitur Scripturis testibus neque Prophetis Nam profecto scripturae ostium sunt per quas adducimur ad Deum illae lupos non permittunt intrare prohibent haereticos vt nos securi simus de omnibus rationem dant de quibus voluerimus Fur igitur est qui non ingreditur per scripturas in stabulum ouium ita per illas deprehenditur Sed ascendit aliundè hoc est aliam sibi viam insolitam parat Talis erit Antichristus He entreth not in by the doore that is by the Scriptures For he doth not vse the Scriptures nor the Prophets as witnesses For indede the Scriptures are the dore by which wee are brought to God and they suffer not the Woolues to come in they kepe of heretikes that wee may be in safetie they teach vs the reasō of any thing wherein we woulde be instructed therfore he is a theef which entereth not into the shepefold by the Scriptures And by the Scriptures it apeareth he is a a theefe that climbeth vp an other way that is maketh himselfe an other waye a way which was not knowen nor beaten Such a one shall Antichrist bee What greater profite they bring vs to God teache vs the trueth and giue vs reason of all things they kéepe vs in safetie suffer not Wolues to deuour vs kepe off Heretiques bewray a théefe and make knowen who is Antichrist Therefore vppon the Gospell by Sainct Luke he expoundeth these words Let your lights bee burning that is haue not your being in the darkenesse and bee yee not voide of Iudgement but take vnto you the light of Gods word which wil teach you what things you shoulde doe and what things you ought not to doe And as the worde of God is the light to directe vs and to bewray errours so is it also the standerde and beame to trie the weightes of trueth and falsehoode Chrysostome writing vppon the foure and twentith of Sainct Mathew sheweth it were vnpossible for a mā to stay himselfe and finde out which is the true Church but by the worde of God For it could not be tried by working of myracles bicause the gift of working miracles is taken away and such false myracles as carrie some shewe are rather to be found among false Christians nor yet by their conuersation and life because Christians liue either as il or worse than Heretiques Nulla probatio potest esee verae Christianitatis neque refugium potest esse Christianorum aliud volentium cognoscere fide● veritatem nisi tantummodò per scripturas There can be no triall of true Christianitie and Christians which desire to know the trueth wherevpon they may builde their faith haue no other refuge but to trie and learn this by the Scriptures For sayth he Heretiques haue the counterfaite and likenesse of those things which are proper to Christ. They haue Churches they haue the Scriptures of GOD they haue Baptisme they haue the Lords Supper and al other things like the true Church yea they haue Christe himself He therefore that will knowe whiche is the true Churche of Christ howe maye he know it but by the Scriptures Therfore our Lord knowing that ther should be such confusion of things in the latter dayes commaundeth that Christians whiche liue in the profession of Christian faith and are desirous to settle them selues vppon a sure grounde of Faith shoulde goe to no other thing but to the Scriptures Otherwise if they had regard to other things they shoulde bee offended and perishe and not vnderstande whiche is the true Church The maister of the Ship when he is on the maine Sea casteth his eye alwayes vpon the Loade Starre and so directeth and guideth his wayes Euen so muste we which are passengers and straungers in this world euer settle our eyes to beholde the worde of God So shall no tempest ouerblowe vs so shall we be guided without danger so shal we safly arriue in the hauen of our rest The Prophet Dauid therefore saith Blessed are they that keepe his testimonies and seeke him with their whole heart Their faces shal not be ashamed they shal not bee confounded which haue respect vnto his commaundement Blessed is the man whose delight is in the law of the Lord and in that lawe do the