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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

¶ A sermon had at Paulis by the cōmandment of the most reuerend father in god my lorde legate and sayd by John̄ the bysshop of Rochester vpō quīquagesom sonday concernynge certayne heretickes whiche thā were abiured for holdynge the heresies of Martyn Luther that famous hereticke and for the kepyng and reteynyng of his bokes agaynst the ordinance of the bulle of pope Leo the tenthe Cū priuilegio a rege indulto Fyrst here foloweth an Epistole vnto the reder by the same byshop My dere brother or syster in our sauiour Christe Jesu who so euer ye be that shall fortune to rede this queare our lorde for his great mercy graunt you his grace that the redyng therof some what may proffit your soule Fyrst I shall beseche you nat to misconstrue myn entēt in puttyng forthe this queare to be printed but that ye take it to the best For verily my wyll and mynde is that some frute myght ryse by the same vnto the christē people whiche be the spouse of Christe Unto whom though vnworthy I am ordeyned a minister for my lytell porcion My duty is to endeuer me after my poure power to resist these heretickes the whiche seasse nat to subuett the churche of Christe If we shall syt styll and let them in euery place sowe theyr vngratious heresies and euery where distroye the soulis whiche were so derely bought with that moste precious blode of our sauiour Christe Jesu howe terribly shall he lay this vntyll our charge whan we shal be called vntyll a rekenynge for this matter It shal be moche rebukefull and moche worthy punishement if we for our party shall nat gyue diligēce for the defence of the true christen people fro these heresies as these heretickes gyue for the corruption of the same specially whan we be certayne that our labour shall nat be vnrewarded as saint Paule dothe promyse sayeng Vnusquisque propriam mercedem accipiet secūdū suum laborem Euery 1. Cor̄ 3. man shall take his owne rewarde accordynge to his labour And so moche the more diligence we muste gyue bicause that the wretched nature of man is more prone to euery thynge that nought is than it is to that whiche is of greatter frute The dry tēder is nat more redy to be kendled with the leaste sparkell of fyre than we be redy to be incensed to all euyll Our hartes by the olde corruption of synne be of that molde that they withoutē any great diligence of them selfe brynge for the all maner of vices but nothynge that vertuous is withouten a great labour And assuredly these herelies be lyke the stynkynge weedes the whiche ī euery erthe sprynge by them selfe for as these euyll weedes nede no settynge no sowynge no waterynge no wedynge nor suche other deligence as the good herbes require but sprynge anone withouten all that busines and where they haue enteres ones in any grounde it is veray herde to delyuer that grounde from them euen so it is of these heresies they nede no plantynge they nede no wateryng they nede no lowkyng nor wedyng but rankly sprynge by them selfe of a full lyght occasion Contrary wyse it is of true doctryne of god this is lyke vnto the good herbes whiche wil nat euery where lightly growe but they must be set or sowen in a chosen erthe they must be watred they muste be weded and haue moche attendaunce orels they wyll anone myscary Ye may se this euidently by the begynnyng of Christis churche Our sauiour whan he hym selfe dyd sowe his doctryne he complayned of the vntowardnes of mennes hartes and sayd Sermo meus Jo. ● non capit in vobis This sede of my worde taketh no rote in the erthe of your hartes And vpon a tyme a great nombre of his disciples forsoke hym and cast hym vp For theyr hartes coude nat sauour his doctrine If this doctrine sowen by this most myghty and counnynge sower toke none effecte in these persons hartes ye may se that the erth● of our hartes by it selfe can nat receyue this sed● ▪ Saint Paule the whiche in lyke maner gaue his diligence to plante and to water this sede yet as moche as he proffitted by his preachynge in one place he lost by his absēce in an other place Doth he nat crye out therfore vpon the Galathes bicause that this doctrine whiche he had sowen amonge them sone after his deperture from them dyd wyther in theyr hartes O insensati Galathe quis ●a● ● vos fascinauit nō obedire veritati O ye folishe people who hath thus witched you that ye do nat obey vnto the trouth And euery where the same saint Paule fighteth agaynst the heretickes and is veray solicite and carefull lest the flocke of Christe shal be corrupted by theyr heresies In so moche that he sayth vnto the Corinthies Timeo ne sicut serpēs ● Cor̄●1 Euam seduxit astucia sua ita sensus vestri corrumpantur a simplicitate que est in Christo I drede me lest as the serpent desceyued the fyrste woman Eue by his wylynes so your sences shal be corrupted by these heretickes and so fall frō the symplicite of faithe whiche ye haue in Christe And therfore a litel after he calleth them Pseudo apostolos oꝑarios subdolos ● Cor̄ 11. trāsfigurātes se ī apostolos Christi that is to say fals apostles disceytful workers pretēdyng to be the messangers of Christe and be nat in veray dede If ther were suche perill of heretickes in the tyme of saint Paule as it dothe appere in all his epistoles and if the heresies thā so lightly toke roote in the hartes of men And if the sede of the doctryne of Christe with suche difficultie did sprynge growe in the hartes of the people whiche were in that maruelous plentuous tyme of all grace What wonder is it that lykewyse nowe in this miserable tyme these heretickes multiply and theyr heresies do sprede Whan hit was prophesied before nat onely by our sauiour Christe but also by saynt Peter in his epistoles and by saynt Paule in his bothe and by saynt Jude that suche heresyes shulde ryse and specially towarde th ende of the worlde Nowe therfore whan so litell diligence is done about the ministryng of this true doctryne it is necessary that all tho that haue charge of the flocke of Christe endeuour them selfe to gaynestande these pernitious heresies Wherin doutles the moost Reuerend father in god my lorde legate hath nowe meritoriously traueiled and so entendeth to perseuer and to continue to the full extirpatiō of the same For heresy is a perillous wede it is the sede of the deuyll the inspiration of the wicked spirites the corruption of oux hartes the blyndyng of our sight the quenching of our faith the distruction of all good frute and fynally the mourder of our soules And therfore some what to resist this wicked sede by the mocion of dyuerse persōs I haue put forth this sermon to