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A00769	A sermon had at Paulis by the co[m]mandment of the most reuerend father in god my lorde legate, and sayd by Ioh[a]n the bysshop of Rochester, vpo[n] qui[n]quagesom sonday, concernynge certayne heretickes, whiche tha[n] were abiured for holdynge the heresies of Martyn Luther that famous hereticke, and for ye kepyng and reteynyng of his bokes agaynst the ordinance of the bulle of pope Leo the tenthe.	Fisher, John, Saint, 1469-1535.	1526 (1526)	STC 10892; ESTC S109701	31,994	64

many great errours One errour suffiseth to spill and to distroye any mannes faithe but moche rather many great errours and specially suche as here before haue bene condempned by many generall counsayles had in the churche At the whiche counsayles were present great noūbre of honorable fathers assembled to gether by the holy gost men of singular lernȳg and excellent holynes the whiche was confirmed by many great miracles Wherfore the faithe of the Lutherans and the faith of the churche can nat agree but be clene repugnant one agaynst an other And therfore if they bothe be true faithes than shall there be two faithes the whiche saynt Paule vtterly denyeth sayng Dnus dominus vna Ephe. 4 fides Wherfore also they want this seconde condiction that is to say honestie and beautie of faithe The thyrde condition is bono that meaneth the The thyrd condition towardnes of a good wyll to brynge forthe the frute of good workes For withouten that all fayth is nought as sayth saint James Fides sine operibus Jac. 2. mortua est It suffiseth nat for a christen man to beleue the doctryne of the churche but he muste also worke bringe forthe some encrease of good frute This frute they bryng nat forth as it more playnly shall appere here after Wherfore they want also this condition of the good erthe But what thā be they Surely they be the trodde erthe in the high way and the stones and the thornes wherof the gospell here speketh Saynt Peter in his seconde Epistole where he prophiseth of suche heretickes hath ● Peir●● expressedly discribed the Lutherans and telleth iij. conditions of them Wherby they Howe the Lutherās maye be knowen may be clerery knowen The fyrst is this Qui carnem sequentes in cōcupiscentia polutionis ambulant That is to say they folowe the wayes of theyr flesshe walke in the vnclene disires of the same Thus Luther doth withoutē doubt and they all whiche be of his secte for he sayth it is necessary for euery man and woman to haue the carnall vse of their body as it is to eate or to drynke But where this carnalite reigneth there the wicked spirites haue full dominatiō and there they kepe their haūte and make that soule and herte as cōmune a trodde as is the high way These be the byrdes of the ayre whiche eate vp the sede of the worde of god they leaue nothynge but the veray hulle of that sede the vertue o● it they conuey away The fayre speche the eloquece the knowlege of languages these be but the veray hulle of the scriptures This hulle these heretickes haue But the veray pithe and substance of the sede is piked out of theyr hartes by these euyll spirites that kepe them in this carnalite The seconde condition is Dominationem contenmūt audaces prefracti That is to say they dispise al gouernours and them that be ī auctorite they be stiffe heedy in their wayes be nat the Lutherans thus who is more styffe yea more furious than Luther is For he dispiseth kynges princes popes bisshoppes and all auctorite both spirituall and temporall And what is this but a veray stonynes indurate of pride and obstynacie The thyrde condition is this Qui gloria precesientes non verentur cōuitus incessere That is to say they drede nat nor be a shamed to skoffe and checke and to rebuke yea to teare scratche and rente the fames and lyues of noble men And this the Lutherans also do and Luther hym selfe principally and thus they shewe them selfe to be very thornes and briers whiche as the gospell sayth doth strangle the good sede Nowe thā to you my bretherne whiche be abiured I must direct my speche For as moche as by this collectiō ye perceyue that the erthe ment in this parable is the true christen people whiche haue Christe amonge them accordyng as the gospel of the miracle telleth and that this people hath continued their succession hitherto fro the see of Peter and that also they haue in them iij. conditions that is to say they be of one harte by true doctryne they be of one honesty by the brightnes of faith And thyrde they be of one good wyll to brynge forthe ēcrease of good frute The Lutherans wāt these iij. conditions they be nat of one harte and of one doctryne with this multitude Nor they haue nat one faithe with them And as for any frute they care nat as shal be clerely shewed in the fourthe collection Wherfore they be nat this good erthe but they rather haue the conditions of thornes and stones and of the clonge erthe as it manifestly appereth by the prophecy of saynt Peter as ye haue herde Wherfore it shal be expedient that ye from hensforth fle their company adioyne you with the good erthe with the catholike people and folowe the doctryne of Christis churche that I may repete vnto euery of you the wordis aboue rehersed Respice fides tua te saluum fecit Open thyn eies this thy faith nowe beleuynge as the churche beleueth hath made the safe The fourth collection concernynge the encreace of good frute THe fourthe and the laste thyng to be marked in this parable is the encreace of frute ▪ the whiche in the gospel of Mattheu is tolde more expressely ▪ Aliud quidē centuplam aliud sex●●●agecuplum Mat. 1● aliud trigecupsum In some erthe this sede bryngeth forthe an hundred folde encreace in some sixtyfolde in some thyrtyfolde This diuersite of encreace betokeneth vnto vs diuerse degrees of spiritualnes whiche the sede of the worde of god workethe in our hartes more or lesse accordynge as our hartes better or worse be disposed The hart that is more towardly disposed is made more spiritual and the hart that is lesse towarly is lesse spirituall The same diuersite of frute was signified in the gospell of the myracle For there all that multitude that folowed Christe was nat elyke nygh vnto Christe euery one of them Wherfore tho that were nexte vntyll hym betoken the most perfect tho that were farther of lesse perfecte and tho that were farthest of the leaste perfecte But we shall nowe speke of the diuerse degrees of encrease of frute Conceyue me what I meane Ye se that though the grounde in the feeldes by the dylygence of men be neuer so well broken and seasoned yet if there be no good seede sowen in it it bryngeth nothynge forthe of it selfe but weedes and all his naturall moysture tourneth in to weedes But whan some good sede is caste in to hit than that sede by his naturall vertue and by the influence of the heuens so myghtily draweth that erthely moysture of the grounde and chaungeth it and assembleth it in to his owne substaunce in so moche that in some well prepared erthe there spryngeth nat one weede but all the moysture of the grounde is tourned in to corne In some other be fewer or mo weedes accordyng

to the goodnes of the erthe or better or lesse diligence in preparyng of the same In lyke maner it is of the sede of the worde of god and of the harte of man An harte that is nat sowen with the worde of god but lefte vntyll his owne nature bryngeth nothyng forthe but the weedes of carnalitie carnall thoughtes carnall affections and carnal workes But whan the worde of god is sowen and the spirite of god gyueth the influence of his grace than that sede of the worde of god by his supernaturall vertue and by the gratious influence of the holy spirite of god worketh in that harte and chaungeth the carnalitie therof in to a spiritualnes accordynge as the harte is better or worse disposed by thre maners of degrees The lowest degree of this spiritualnes is in the state of matrimony where though there be many weedes yet there is moche ēcrease of frute if this sacrament truely be kepte there the encrease of frute is thyrtyfolde The myddell degree is in the state of wydowheed the whiche hath fewer weedes more frute Here the encrease of frute is thre skore folde The thyrd is ī the state of virginite whiche hath The state of virginite veray fewe weedes or none at all but all is frute and this encrease is an hundred folde so moche Fyrst than let vs begynne to speake of this high state of virginite The worde of god with the influence of grace so worketh in the hartes of true virgins that in maner it leaueth no carnalitie there but chaungeth all in to a spiritualnes that it maketh them to dispise all thoughtes all affections al workes that be carnall saue only these whiche be necessarily requisite vnto the bodely lyfe that is to say to kepe the soule and the body together Of this virginite our sauiour gaue example hym selfe the same folowed his blyssed mother and saynt Johan the Euangelist lykewyse whiche for his clennes was singularly beloued of our sauiour and for the same he cōmysed the custody of his mother vntyll hym And lykewyse to saint Paule he gaue example hȳ selfe of clennes and continency of his body And therfore he dothe wisshe that other wolde do the same and persuadeth ther vnto sayeng thus Velim omnes homines esse sicut et ipse sū And a litel after 1. Cor. 7. Bonsi eis est si manserint vt et ego Of suche also our sauiour speketh in the gospell and preyseth them sayeng Sunt enuchi qui se castrauerunt propter regnum Mat. 19. cesorū There be some whiche haue splayde them selfe spiritually that is to saye haue cutte from theyr hartes the carnall affections of theyr bodi es for the loue of the kyngdome of heuen A trouth it is all wyll nat do thus and so our sauiour sayth in the same place Non omnes capiūt ver●● hoc This worde worketh nat in euery harte Yet neuerthelesse he doth exhorte ther vnto sayenge Qui potest capere capiat He that may take this worde and kepe his virginite let hym take it But thus dyd a great nombre of christen people in Alexandria whiche by the preachynge of saint Marke consecrate their virginite vnto Christe both men and women as Philo the Hebrewe telleth Suche were also great nombre of women the whiche in Hierusalem lykewyse vnto Christe dyd consecrate their virginite as telleth Euseby ī his story And these thus dyd by the prechynge of the apostles Innumerable suche also both men and women were in the desartes of Eyry of Egypte Ethiop All these by watche fastyng prayer contempned theyr flesshe chastised theyr bodies and kepte them lowe to th entēt that they myght kepe their soules clene vnto Christe And it is nat to be douted but that there is in Christēdome at this day many thousandes of religious men and women that full truely kepe their religion their chastite vnto Christ. For whan Hely the prophet had supposed that so great a persecutiō was made agaȳst the true seruauntes of god that he was lefte alone it was answered vntyll hym by almyghty god as saith saint Paule Adhuc reliqui mihi septē milia Ro. ●● qui non curuauerunt genu ante Baal I haue yet reserued vnto me seuen thousande the whiche hath done none idolatry before Baall And if almyghty god dyd reserue in that lytell porcion of Jury so great a multitude beyonde the estimation of this prophet Hely what nombre suppose ye doth yet remayne in all Christēdome of religious men and women nat withstandynge this great persecution of religious monasteries bothe of men and of women done by these heretickes by this moste execrable doctryne It is nat to be doubted but in all Christendome be lefte many thousandes whiche at this houre lyue chaste and truely kepe theyr virginite vnto Christe Nowe let vs se whether the sede of god worke this The frute of Luthers doctrine high frute amōge the Lutherans or nat No. no. nothȳg lesse Halas it will make a true christē mās harte to blede blody teares within his breast for to here their lyuȳg The prestis of his sect which shulde kepe theyr handes and hartes clene for to mynister the blessed sacrament folowe the luste and carnalite of their flesshe The religious men forsake their religion and retourne vnto the world and take them queanes The virgins that were consecrate vnto god had promysed to kepe them selfe selfe as true spouses vnto Christ nowe gyue their bodies tyll all wretched pleasure and suffre them selfe to be stuprate and abhomynably defyled and soused in all carnalite O Jesus this is the frute that commeth of the wicked sede whiche this vngratious hereticke hath sowē amōge them Howe far is this from the example of Christe and from the other blessed fathers innumerable whiche both lyued chaste them selfe procured likewyse that other shulde do the same If the deuyll haue nat excecate our eies we may se by this euidently that this doctryne commeth nat from aboue For than it shulde nat be contrary vnto the counsayles of Christe and of saint Paule and of the other scriptures of god but it cometh playnly from the deuyll And yet he is nat ashamed to write that al his doctryne he hath of god Thus moche for the fyrste frute By this fyrst ye may iudge what his mynde and The frute of widow ●ed sentence is concernyng the seconde frute that is to say as touchȳg wydowes He that calleth virgins to forsake their virginite wyll but a lytell regard the state and frute of wydwohed And herein also he teacheth contrary vnto the counsaile of saint Paule whiche coūsaileth wydowes to kepe them sole and specially to th entent that they may in a more liberte serue god For as he saith Innupta 1. Cor. 7. curat ea que sunt domini vt sit sancta quum corpore tum spiritu Contra. q̄ nupta est curat ea que sūt mūdi quomodo placitura sit