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B11962	Certaine godly and necessarie sermons, preached by M. Thomas Carew of Bilston in the countie of Suffolke ...	Carew, Thomas, Preacher.	1603 (1603)	STC 4616; ESTC S118335	148,213	348

maruelous consideratition that subiects had sinned and the Lord must be beaten that seruantes had offended and the maister must die that the guilty should be spared the innocent punished and yet Gods iustice not impeached On the other side if he had not beene God almighty how could he haue encountred and conquered the deuill hell sinne death and all the great enemies of our saluation that were too strong for mā to battell with all if he had not beene euerlasting God how could he by temporall suffering haue discharged vs of eternall torment and how should the merite of his suffering haue reached to those that liued long before long after his death if he had not beene infinite God how should the father haue accepted so many sinners in him and him for so many sinners which he was angry withall and how should he be present with his people throughout the world therefore it was necessary he shuld be both God and man that being man he might be sufficient to suffer whatsoeuer was due from God do whatsoeuer was being God he might be all sufficient to make that acceptable and effectuall which was suffered and done for vs. Therfore this is a great mistery that God was manifested in the flesh 1 Hereof comes that neere coniunction that is betweene Christ and his Church set forth in the Scripture by many similitudes he is called the head and we the body not Col. 1. his naturall body but his misticall body as all true Christians are the body of Christ so euery one is a member of his body not hipocrites for they are no more true members 1. Cor. 12 of Christes body then a brasen noase or a woden leg is a member of a mans body but true christians that are by faith and the spirit of regeneration vnited to Christ for though Christ be in heauen and we in earth yet as the foote which is a great way distant from the head is by certaine sinues and vaines springing from the head ioyned to the head so Christians are by certaine spiritual vaines as faith hope loue c. ioyned vnto Christ he is also called the husband the Church is called his wife therfore as the wife looses her owne name and beares the name of her husband so we loose our owne name and beare the name of Christ and are called christians and as a Acts. 14. wife is indowed with the goods of her husband so are we with the riches of Christ He is called the vine we the branches Iohn 15. from whom we receiue spiritual iuce and vertue to bring forth fruite acceptable to God profitable to men for as Adam did not only make vs guilty but also corrupt vs so Christ doth not onely make vs innocent but also sanctifieth vs. 2 Hereof comes that misticall and spirituall aliance and kindred that is betweene Christ and his people therefore he calles those that doe his fathers will his mother Mat. 12. his brother and sister how poore or base soeuer they be in the world yet if they be of the right streine of christianity they be of the most royall blood and more honorable then they which come of the houses of Valoys of Austria or any earthly discent because they haue God for their father the Church for their mother Christ for their elder brother and are made kings and Queenes of heauen as one saith Those that be noble by their first birth in the worlde doe become vnnoble by vices so those that be vnnoble by their first birth may become noble by a new birth and by vertues therefore Peter calles the faithfull a chosen generation a royall Priesthood a holy nation a peculiar people 1. Pet. 2. 3 Hereof comes that mutuall exchange that is betweene Christ and vs hee was made with vs the sonne of man that wee might be made with him the sonnes of God he by imputation and communication tooke on him our sinnes and miseries that they might be imputed to vs his vertues and merites as the Apostle saith he 2. Cor. 5. was made sinne for vs that we might be made the righteousnesse of God by him This is a great mistery that his pouerty should be our fitches that his bondage 2. Cor. 8. 9. should be our liberty that his condemnation before Pilate should be our iustificatibefore God that his stripes should be the Rom. 8. 2. cure of our woundes that he should bee Esa 53. 5. ioyned with theeues and robbers that we might be ioyned with Saints and Angels Luk. 23 Gal. 3. 13 that his curse should be our blessing that he should ouercome death by dying and that his death should be our life that hee He. 2. 14. should discend into hell that is into hellish tormentes that he might lift vs vp to Mat. 26. heauen and happinesse Therefore we are saide to be crucified with him to be buried Gal. 2. 19 Rom. 6. 4 Col. 3. 1. Ephe. 2. 6 with him to be quickned with him Eph. 2. 5. to be raysed vp with him Col. 3. 1. to be ascended into heauen with him for at the first Adam was not a priuate but a publike person in whome all mankinde was included so Christ the second Adam was not a priuate but a publike person in whom the whole Church is to bee considered therefore in Christes death and satisfaction in Christes resurrection and iustification in Christes ascention and glorification we must see the death resurrection and ascention of the whole Church for as he hath done and suffered all these things for the Church so the Church hath done and suffered all those things in him and shal at the last receiue the fruite of those things by with him this is a great mistery that God is manyfested in the flesh therefore he is called our Sauiour which is set foorth in his Mat. 1. 21 1. Tim. 2. 5. name Iesus he is called our mediatour to make intercession for vs where by the way noate that the Popish booke called the Ladies Psalter made by Bonauenter is blasphemous because it appoints other mediators besides him he is called our Lord to 1. Cor. 8. 6. Ioh. 10. 9 defend gouerne vs he is called our dore and way to bring vs to the father he is called our Phisition to cure our spirituall diseases Mat. 9. 12 and to restore vs to health he is called Iohn 10. 11. Iohn 6. our shepheard to gather vs into the Church he is called the bread of life to norish vs to life euerlasting he is called our Ephe. 2. peace to pacific our conscience he is called Tim. our hope because he is all in all vnto vs. Therefore it is said we are complet in him Col. 2. 16 and therefore Paule saith I desire to know Cor. nothing but Iesus Christ and him crucified Phil. 3. 8. I count all things dung that I may winne

bee worne no where else but in the court but there yee shall be sure to finde it If those that be of low calling weare high apparell it must needs shew pride for there must be some difference between the Maiestrate and the subiect between the master the seruant between a Iack a Gentleman between Joane my Lady Againe if those of poore estate weare rich apparell it must needs shew folly vanity neglect of their family for there must be some differēce between Cressus Codrus In the book of Martirs it is reported of one of the kings of England who commaunded his man to buy him a paire of hoase of a marke but now a meane subiect will weare a paire of hoase of twenty marke and euen those that be of calling and ability though they may weare costly apparrell yet they must not weare it at all times for in the day of humilation commaunded to the people of Israell or in the day of a publike fast none might put on their best apparrell therefore it was wont to be a common fault in gentlewomen when they came to a fast they came in the brauery and curiosity of apparrell as if they went to a feast and as there be some restraintes in the Sciripture touching the matter of apparrell so touching the forme and fashion of it it is forbidden men to weare womens apparrell Deu. 22. women to weare mens apparrell because it is a confusion and dangerous occasion of sinne it is also forbidden both men and women to weare strange apparrell like Zeph. 1. monsters as many now a dayes will haue other faces or complexions other haire and other bellies then God hath made them they are not content with the french Hoode with the Italian Ruffes with the Dutch hoase with the Indean shooes but they must haue euery day new and forraine fashions that they are growne out of fashion They doe not onely borrow the mat●er of their apparrell from diuers creatures ●s beastes foules fishes wormes but they borrow the forme of their apparrell from diuers countries but Paule saith fashion not Rom. 12. 3. our selues like vnto this world there are no perticuler rules set downe in the Scripture for the fashion of apparrell but generally the Scripture saith it must agree with com●nesse modesty and sobriety a paterne whereof we must fetch from the Churches that is from the practise of Christian sober modest persons for in a question of womens attyring their heades the Apostle 1. Cor. 11 saith they had no such custome as some of the Corinthias vsed neither the churches of God therefore when young women that should haue sober mindes or ould women that haue young mindes shall weare nothing vpon their heades but their haire and that set vp a fore like a forehorse toppe I meane not a little which some sober women vse but set vp a great deale ilfauoured haire and immodestly when they shall weare monstrous vardugales which as it is saide were inuented by a strumpet to couer a great belly which requires more stuffe and takes vp more roome in meeting then some of them are worth and worthy of when they be exceeding curious in their colors cuts let them behold and inquire if such such that be religious wise sober and modest women go so apparrelled and inquire why they do not they shal finde it is because religion sobriety modesty wherewith they are indewed will not suffer them to doe so for shame but they that want religion and vertue cannot iudge of the vnseemelines vanity of these things whose apparrelling let it not be outward he opposes the outward apparrel to the inward apparrell which is the hid man of the hart that he speakes of afterward his meaning is not so much to condemne the outward apparrell as to commend vnto them the inwarde apparrell therefore hee saith to the Christian women whose apparrell let it not be outward but inward as if hee shold say thinke not that your chiefe beauty and brauery standes in decking of the body but in garnishing of the minde as our Sauiour Christ saith Labour not for the Ioh. 6. meate that perishes but for the meate that indures to euerlasting life Hee forbides not labour for that but requires the chiefe labour for the other hee would not haue them thinke their chiefe dyet to bee the foode of the bodye but the foode of the soule When our sauiour Christ bids his disciples Mat. 6. not lay vp treasure for themselues in earth but in heauen hee would haue men thinke that their chiefe riches is not goods but goodnes so when he saith here Whose apparrelling let it not bee outwarde but inward hee meanes they should not thinke the garmēts of the body but the vertues of the minde their chiefe ornamentes When Adam Eue fell their soules were naked aswel as their bodies so it is with al their posterity as it is said in the Reuelation the Reue. 3. third chap. to the church of Laoditia thou seest not how thou art miserable and naked they were not naked in their bodyes but in their soules As God appointed our first parentes skins to couer their bodyes so he appointed his owne sonne and his owne image to couer their soules which the scripture willes al men to put on Paul saith to the Romā put on the Lord Iesus Rom. 13. Christ to the Ephesiās put on the new man which after God is created in righteousnes Ephe. 4. true holines yea the soule is more naked thē the body for there be some parts of the body that haue some comlines in thē and neede no couering as the face and 1. Cor. 12 handes but the soule is vncomely and naked in euery part the vnderstanding memory conscience will affection and all both of men and women haue need to be apparrelled regenerated and sanctified therefore as when any part of the body is naked either armes legges or feete wee seeke to get apparrell for it sleeues hoase shooes so much more must we doe for the nakednes of the soule Is any proude seeke for the garment of humility is any incontinent seeke for the garment of chastity is any couetous seeke for the garment of lyberality is any malicious seeke for the garment of charity and as the Scripture doth will vs to be moderate and incomparison carclesse of the attire of the body because we are too much giuen to it so it willes vs to bee carefull yea curious as I may say in these things of the soule as Peter 2. Pet. 1. saith loyne moreouer to your faith vertue to vertue knowledge and to knowledge temperance and to temperance patience and to patience godlinesse and to godlinesse brotherly kindenesse and to brotherly kindenesse loue and to the Thessalonians Paule willes Christians to increase more and more in them but in this place the Apostle setteth downe the attire of Christian