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A03787	A sermon preached at Paules Crosse the ix. of Februarie. Anno Dom. 1583. By I. Hudson, Maister of Arte, of Oxon	Hudson, John, M.A., Oxon.	1584 (1584)	STC 13904; ESTC S116559	46,934	118

fastned vnto Rome as the Papistes maintaine and holde it But GOD hauing taken downe the partition wall in the reconciled bloode of his sonne hath chosen for the seede of Abraham all which haue the faith of Abraham and for the familie of Iacob all that worship the Lord in spirite and truth and for the materiall Temple the heartes of faythfull Christians The Church and house of God is called a Cittie hauing twelue gates opening vnto euerye corner of the worlde accepting all refusing none so that all the worlde is nowe indifferentlye without exception or perticion the Churche and Temple of the Lorde All Countries are Iudea all Citties are Hierusalem all houses all places all persons are the familie and house of God wherein Christe gouerneth and ruleth by faith in their harts This place would yeild if time did permit to speake thereof at lage very large and ample matter both touching the argument handled before for the new Priesthoode of Christ succeeding and abolishing the olde order of Aaron whereby as in manner of Applcation the whole doctrine of this place is shadowed out vnto vs most plainly prefigured as S. Augustine saith in the reiected priesthood of Ely the established priesthoode of Samuell as also touching the whole rule and gouernment of the church of God for euer to the composing of the greatest matters in controuersie at these daies For if there can bee but one head of the body and one husband of the spouse and one high priest a ruler ouer the house of God which is Christ I see not what title the Bishop of Rome can haue herein but as an vsurper by intrusion vppon the prerogatiue of Christ as had Absolon sometimes in Dauids kingdome which although it hath bin more then sufficiently and euen ad nausem discussed refuted and reiected by inuincible demonstrations proofes by disputing writing preaching in this place and in all places and euerie where and euery way to the tedious wearines of all indifferent eares Yet wante there not we see new rescues and supplies to defend it and such as would heale vp if it might bee that deadly wounde of the beast as S. Iohn before hath tolde vs. Among many other Doctor Stapleton of whom I spake before in the preface to his booke of Cōtrouersies called Principiorū fidei Doctrinalium demonstratio dedicated to Gregorie the .13 Bishop of Rome blusheth not to entitle him most flatteringly and falsely Basim et fundamentum Columnam et firmamentum totius Orthodoxae Religionis The ground woorke and foundation the piller and strength of all true Religion Generalem et oecumenicum Patriarcham nostrum Principem Our generall and oecumenicall Patriarch and Prince Omnium Ecclesiarum caput The head of all Churches Verticem et Coripheum Apostolicae Ecclesiae The top or crowne and ringleader of the Apostolique Churche Nay Coripheotatum et totius orbis magistrum The supereminent and incomparable ringleader and maister of the whole world Piscatorem maximum The greatest fiisher Confirmatorem fratrum The strengthner of his brethren Patrem familias et primo genitum pastorem gregis dominici The father of the house and the first borne shepherd of the Lordes flocke and at last according to the highest name and title giuen here to our Sauiour Christ himselfe Rectorem Domus Dei The ruler ouer the house of God And Supremum in terris numen The highest Godhead in earth And all these with manye more the lyke vnsauery and vnchristian speaches hee counteth not iniurious or derogatorie vnto Christ if they be smothed ouer with a little vntempered morter shadowed w t a few fig leaues of their own distinctions betwene Caput vitale Ministeriale as he saith or fundamentum principale and ministrans as Turrianus imagineth which both to reason to nature to the manner of speaking and all sounde Diuinitie are most repugnant And yet for all these so great and glorious tytles most peruercely collected out of the holy Scriptures and more blasphemouslly applyed contrarye to all sence and meaning of the Scriptures Melchior Canus a famous schoolemā of theirs after he had labored to proue the primacie of Peter aboue the rest of the Apostles wherein hee washeth an Aethiopian and plougheth in the sandes confesseth though not with a minde to confesse the truth but vrged by the inuincible force of truth that Romanum pontificem Petro succedere non esse quidem in sacris litteris reuelatum sed aliunde constare That the Bishop of Rome is Peters successor whereuppon dependeth the whole state and substance of their supremasie is not at all declared in holye Scripture but is prooued by other meanes wherein besides the irrecouerable foyle hee geueth to that their ruinous and declining cause hee is flatlye agaynst Stapleton who in the sixt booke and fifteenth Chapiter of his forenamed Controuersies of purpose though indeede to little purpose there vndertaketh to prooue the same by Scripture But Canus woulde helpe it out againe with a generall rule and Maxime which must helpe them at all assaies Lib. 7. De Aucto Sanctorum where inueying against Caieton who preferred reason proofe before authority hath these words Although perhaps of Philosophers you may well require a reason of their philosophicall positions or conclutions in sacrarum tamen litterarum intelligentia maioribus nostris debes etiam nulla ratione habita credere et quas sententias de lege de fide deque religione ab illis accepisti defendere Yet for the vnderstāding of the Scriptures you must beleeue our forefathers euen without all reason and whatsoeuer opinions of the law of faith and religion you haue receaued from them to defende Nowe the Minor must be added but you haue receaued from your forefathers as a matter of faith and religion the Popes supremacie and rule ouer the house of God and therfore euen without all reason as here and besides all scripture as before you must maintaine and defende the same wherin he pleadeth as wel and deserueth as much see of the Iewes and Turks for patronage and protectiō of their Talmied and Alcoran as hee doth of the Papistes for defending the Popes supremacie and rule ouer the house of God To which and other their lyke absurdities whereof I may truely say as Sainte Augustine dyd sometimes of the Manichees Obsaena illorum misteria in lucem protraxisse hoc erat vicisse To bring their filthie secretes and misteries into light was sufficiente to refute and ouerthrowe them I cannot more fitly and breefely returne them answere then by their owne speach and place abused out of Saint Augustine by their owne Gregory Martin in the preface to his discouery Dulcissime vanos esse non peritos sed perituros nec tam disertos in errore quam desertos a veritate That they are verie plausiblie vaine not abounding in knowledge but neare vnto destruction neither yet so elloquent in defēce of their errors as vtterlie forsaken and giuen vp

vs to loue and charitie to vnity and agreement to peace and concorde one with an other And on the other side let vs beholde our owne defects herein the manifold strifes the vaine and friuolous contentions and suites the dispightfull practises the extreame and rigorous dealing the implacable malice enuie hatred and hartburning that raineth among men sometimes smothering inwardly in rancour of hart sometimes foming out into intemperate heate both of raging wordes and vncharitable deedes euerie man in selfe loue and priuate regarde of his owne wealth and welfare liuing looking to himselfe alone no man almost considering another to his benefite and good And wee shall not choose but confesse that howsoeuer we beate our braines and spende our time and trauell about strifes and questions about intricate and hidden misteries about controuersies and complaints yet that there is no point of Christian doctrine more needefull or more profitable to bee vrged and enforced to bee againe and againe reiterated that it might take effect then this That we shoulde be knit together in vnitie of minde and so consider one another to prouoke vnto loue and to all good workes I beseeche you brethren saith S. Paule by the name of our Lorde Iesus Christ That yee all speake one thing that there be no dissention among you but be ye knit so together in one minde and in one iudgement We see howe Turkes howe Iewes howe theeues will conspire and hold together how beastes will agree and euerie one loue his like how Papistes can vaunt of vnitie to our reproche and Diuels settle themselues together seuen Diuels in a man naye a whole legion together in a man and keepe themselues at concorde for preseruing of their kingdome and shall not we that professe one Lorde one faith one baptisme one doctrine and name of Christ the authour and God of peace be ioined together in one and so consider one another to the prouoking winning one another vnto loue and vnto good workes We see againe the great hurt and ruine that discord hath procured to manie flourishing countries and kingdomes and to the Church of God from time to time wee see the carping aduersaries still readie to take occasion to reproche and vpbraide the truth wee see the daies of this our lyfe and pilgrimage to bee shorte and euill the worlde it selfe declining and euen at the vaine the Diuell fearcely raging because his tyme is shorte the ende of all thinges approching the sentence of the Iudge ineuitable and hell fire harde at hande prepared for euill doers and can wee yet sleepe secure and carelesse in our sinnes shall wee not watche and make vs readie for the comming of the Bridegrome with our loynes girt and our Lampes burning that wee maye enter in with him to the wedding shall not the due remembrance of these and such like motiues rouse vs vp from this securitie and sencelesnes of sinne wherein wee seeme to be drown●d shall it not represse and quenche in vs all vnnaturall and vnkinde affections which are bent to the hurte of hinderance of our neighbour and stirre vs vp in the bowels of Christian compassion to bee curteous pitifull and louing to be mercifull and good one towardes another so as wee maie consider and exhort and prouoke one another vnto loue the band of perfection and vnto good workes the fruites of our Christian fayth Esse Christianum grande est saith Saint Ierome non videri non vocari To be a Christian and to performe those deedes dueties those good works and actions which Christianity requireth is a waightie matter but not so to seeme not so to be called When the seruantes of King Ahazia beeing sent to enquire at Belsabub for the recouery of his health Returned with message from Elias whom they mette in the waie assuring him that hee shoulde dye and not escape the King demaunded what manner of man he was that tolde them these thinges they aunswered an heyrie man and girte aboute with leather then saide hee straight it is Elias the Thesbit In like sort such should also be our manners and proceedings our wordes our workes and all our actions of life In loue in ioy in peace long suffering gentlenes goodnesse meekenes temperance and all other good works and fruites of the holie Ghost that when reporte of vs or any of vs is made vnto the worlde it may be straight auouched that wee are Christians hauing our fruite in h●lines and the ende eternall life For 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith Iustine Martire 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The matter and businesse of our seruing of God Religion standeth not in wordes but in workes It is a rueled case of Christ. A good tree cannot bring foorth badde fruite and the faith of a Christian is most aptlye resembled vnto a tree which beeing rooted in the passion of Christ and watered with his blood spreadeth out on each side his braunches A true harte and a good conscience waxeth strong against all stormes groweth vp and flourisheth in hope and so through the inwarde sappe and norishing iuice of loue sendeth foorth most sweete and seasonable fruites good workes which are though not precedent causes yet necessary effectes and signes of the goodnesse of the tree But as Catterpillers sometimes and blasting doe frette and annoye the braunches that the sappe cannot haue his course and so the fruite faileth which seemed faire to the eye so rancour and displeasure diuision scisme and seperation amonge men beeing no lesse then noysome windes and Catterpillers to our Christian faith eate vp and drye awaye many times the sappe or iuice of loue and charitie whereby the expected fruite of good woorkes is withered in the braunches And therefore it is required that wee consider not euery one himselfe alone but euery one another also to prouoke vnto loue and vnto good woorkes that so wee maye bring foorth fruite in Christ and walke worthie of the Lorde who gaue himselfe to redeeme vs from all inniquitie and to purge vs a pecuculier people vnto himselfe zealous of all good workes For if yee knowe saith S. Iohn that God is righteous knowe yee also that hee that doth righteouslie is borne of him wee are the workemanshippe of God created and ordeined to good woorkes which hee hath prepared for vs to walke in If then we walke on in the stubbornesse of our owne hartes in the lust and concupisence of the flesh howe farre doe wee degenerate from this perfection and ende of our creation Wee are called the Lordes haruest if then wee bring not foorth good corne but tares of sinne and wickednesse what other can bee looked for but to bee gathered by the reapers into bundles and cast into the fire Wee are resembled to the grounde If drinking in the raine and blessinges of GOD that come so ofte vppon vs wee bring not foorth good hearbes but thornes and bryers wee are neare vnto cursing whose ende is to