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ground_n	body_n	young_a	youth_n	22	3	7.8632	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19717	A sermon preached before the Queenes Maiestie, by the reuerende Father in God the Bishop of Chichester, at Grenewiche, the 14. day of Marche. 1573. Seene and allowed according to the order appoynted; Sermon preached before the Queenes Majestie.	Curteys, Richard, 1532?-1582.; Browne, Thomas, ca. 1535-1585.	1573 (1573)	STC 6135; ESTC S116432	21,769	58

kind thankfull to him and his agayne The God and father of heauen earth hath entayled and assured the lande of eternall ioy to vs bys children Their good friende and brother Christ Iesus hath giuen them himselfe to be borne of a virgin to hunger thirst to be spitted on and scurged to be rent and torne to suffer death death of the crosse to heare the paynes and forments of hell and Gods wrath He hath giuen them his holinesse his righteousnesse his truth his pacience his mercy and the inheritance of his glorious kingdome And therefore they ought to be obediēt to so good a father and to be thankfull to so louing a brother The Oxe dothe knowe his owner and the Asse his masters cribbe and muche more ought man to know the mightie Lord and mercifull God. The sunne setteth riseth the Moone kéepeth his full his wane and change the sea dothe ebbe and flowe the earth yéeldeth grasse and corne and fruite for man as God hath made them and appoynted them to do And shall not man labour and watche pray and fast be mercyfull iust holy and true as God hath made him and appoynted him to be The frowarde sayth we may do what we li●t but the holy ghost sayth thou shalt only do that I cōmaūd thée The Epicure saith Let vs eate and drinke and be mery for to morowe shall we dye But the holy ghost sayth Meates are ordeyned for the bellie and the bellie for meates but God shall destroy bothe it and them The reiecte sayth It is as good to sitte idle as worke idle it néedes not or it bootes not But the holy Ghost sayth All these blessings shall come vpon thee and take holde of thée if thou shalt kéepe my worde Blessed shal●e thou be in the citie and also in the fielde blessed shalt thou be when thou goest forth and when thou cōmest in blessed shall be the fruite of thy body and the fruite of thy grounde and the fruite of thy cattell and all that thou settest thy hande vnto But if thou do not kéepe my lawe Cursed shalt thou be in the Citie and also in the fielde cursed shalte thou be when thou goest foorth and when thou commest in cursed shall be the fruite of thy body and the fruite of thy ground and the fruite of thy cattell and cursed shall be all that thou settest thy hande vnto The time of our remembrance IN the dayes of thy youth The Hebrue word Bakarah signifieth youth or a thing chosen of the roote Bakar For that a yong man is chosen and apte for any worke or any thing So the time of ●ur remembraunce is our young yéeres our flourishing days the time of prosperitie y time of this our life whilest we may be framed to remember God. In the morning sowe thy séede make no tarying to turne vnto the Lord and put not off from day to day for sodaynly shall the wrath of the Lorde breake forth and in thy security thou shalt be destroyed and thou shalt perishe in the dayes of vengeance for man dothe not knowe his time but as the fyshes that are taken in an euill nette and as birdes that are caught in a snare so are the children of menne besnared in the euyll tyme when it falleth vpon them sodaynly Ecce venio sicut fur Beholde I come sodaynly lyke a theefe Blessed is he that watcheth and kéepeth his garmentes What soeuer thy hande can doe doe it by and by For there is neyther worke nor inuention nor knowledge nor wisedome in the graue whither thou goest Worke while day is for nyghte wyll come when no body can worke Cast thy bread vpon the waters for after many dayes thou shalt finde it Giue a portion to seuen and also to eyght for thou knowest not what euill shall be vpon the earth Noah buylded the Arke whylest the wether was fayre Ioseph made barnes and grayners and layde vp grayne and corne in the s●uen plentyfull yeres The Ante hauing no guide master nor ruler prouideth meate for hir selfe in sommer Ante languorem adhi●e medicinam Before sicknesse take phisicke and before iudgement trye thy selfe and thou shalte finde fauour in the sight of God. The fiue wyse Uirgins tooke oyle in their vessels with their lampes and were readie when the Bridegrome came foorth and went in with him to the mariage The Lord prayseth the vniust Stewarde for that be had done wisely and Chryste willeth his to make them friendes of the Mammon of iniquitie that when they fayle they may receyue thē into euerlasting tabernacles Nowe for oure particular instruction God hath deliuered England from forren bondage the burden whereof as we may beholde in our neighbours on euery side so haue we domesticall glasses to sée it in Howe the Danes ouerrunning this lande caused the Englishe men to eare and sow● their lande and doe all other labours and the Danes did vse their wiues daughters and seruants at their pleasure and if any Englishe man had met a Dane vpon a bridge the Englishe man might not stirre one foote before the Lord Dane was past and if the English man had not made low curtes●e to the Dane at his comming by he was sure to be sharply punished The Normands hauing title by English bloud and spéeding by the good will of the most of Englishe nation yet burdened them with great tribute and exactions tooke to themselues the chiefe possessions of the lande ordeyned newe lawes and newe coynes ouerthrew the houses of the Nobilitie and filled all Churches with strangers God hathe delyuered hys Englishe Church from the Romish Pharao whiche dyd not onely kéepe it vnder with the burdens of Annates Electiōs Preuentions Totquots Tollerations Bulles Seales Signatures Smokefarthings and Peter pens and such like But also loaded their consciences with the straw and clay of superstition errour and ignorance God hath caried the chiefe of England the Nobles Ministers many other good folk vpō the Eagles wings through maruelous dangers miraculously preserued them as their owne consciences doe best knowe For remember what Athalia and hir bloudy priest Matham what Balam of Italie his persecuting kings Balaac and Sehon what his cruell Dukes ●absache and Holoferne what Ado●ias and Abisac had deuised and what their Balamites answered them from Sittim to Gilgall from the beginning of thornes and troubles to the whéele type of rule and dominion God hath planted his English Churche in a pleasant fertile and healthfull soyle he hathe giuen it plentie of all manner of vittailes he hathe endued it with peace and concorde aboue all countreys rounde about it He hath hedged it with his Gospell the séede of grace which sowen in the ●urrowes of Christian hearts encreaseth and multiplieth excéedingly the precious iewell more deare to the godly than all