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A01678	Not so new, as true Being a verie necessarie caueat for all Christians to consider of. VVherein is truelie described the iniquitie of this present time, by occasion of our confused liuing: and iustlie approued the world to be neuer worse, by reason of our contagious leaudnes. By Charles Gibbon.	Gibbon, Charles, fl. 1589-1604.	1590 (1590)	STC 11816; ESTC S120320	20,683	34

their example be animated to euill for better it were to decide one mēber than indanger the whole body And this is tollerable by the warrant of Gods word as may appeare by these directions * The Minister of God beareth not the sworde for nought but to take vengeance on him that doth euill Rom. 13.4 That man that will doo presumptuously not harkening vnto the Priest that standeth before the Lord thy God to minister there or vnto the Iudge that man shall die and thou shalt take away euill from Israell so all the people shall heare and feare and doo no more c Deut 17.12.13 And hereto agreeth that godly act which is recorded by Ezra Whosoeuer will not do the Lawe of God and the Kings Lawe let him haue iudgement without delay whether it bee vnto death or to banishment or to confiscation of goods or to imprisonment d Ezra 7.26 I could dilate the confirmation hereof by manie other approbations to the like effect but seeing it is alreadie sufficien the proued it were not so superfluous for me to insert as it wil be friuolous for you to replie and so I leaue it to your consideration Nican Albeit I was somewhat willing to defend the weake I was neuer so forward to iustifie the wicked or so foolish to stand in my owne conceit for as the word of God is the perfect touch of all trueth Mens reasons are but tickle but the written trueth can neuer ouerturne so I euen refer my reasons to that rule at this time submit my self to your sayings not for want of matter to make further obiection but because it is altogether impertinent to proue your first opinion therfore I pray shew me what moues you to say the world was neuer worse being alreadie partlie approued to the contrarie Alph. Then I pray tell me what are become of these auncient Monuments statelie Monasteries and huge buildings that were wont to bee where the poore might haue continuall accesse for reliefe and the stranger free resort for succor are these not defaced but their free stones haue bewtified most of our faire buildings * The high places were not taken away out of Israel yet the heart of Asa was perfect all his daies 2. Chro. 14.17 We feede the poore with faire showes in steede of foode Where are become all the reuenewes and lands that belonged to them which by report were large are not the better sort inriched with their liuings Yea no doubt superstition set apart this season were incomparable to it We haue now sumptuous houses but slender hospitallitie for all the smoke comes out of one chimney great substance but small charitie for euerie one is for himselfe now hospitalitie is turned to prodigalitie all bountie to brauerie then was good faith amongst all folkes The time hath been when more words were vsed thā writings and yet better dealing than at these daies trueth went by tallies their dealing was soo simple now nothing will serue men are so subtill then was good neighborhood without nicenes now giuen ouer for griplenes or little vsed without curiousnes all things then 〈…〉 gather thy grapes cleane after thee but they shall bee for the stranger fatherles and widowe that the Lord thy God may blesse thee in all the works of thy hand q Deut. 24.19.20.21 Such was the good prouidence of God that somewhat should be left by the way of reliefe to the distressed but in these daies we are growne so hard that wee neither leaue sheaues rakings nay hardly gleanings for the poore to gather and as for fruite many keep them till they rot and giue them to hogs rather when they are good impart them to the poore If hospitalitie were not necessarie why did the Apostle put the Romaines in minde to giue themselues to it r Rom. 12.13 Or admonish the Hebrewes not to be forgetfull of it ſ Hebr. 13.2 Or exhort vs to be harberous one to another without grudging t 1. Pet. 4.9 If hospitalitie bee hurtfull why haue those prospered that haue performed it as Abraham Lot who in shape of men receiued Angels into their houses u Gen. 18.2.3 As the Shunammite who by intertayning Elisha according to hir desire had a sonne x 2. King 4.14 If hospitalitie were not good why are those plagued that pretermit it as Nabal who for the hardnes of his heart to Dauid in his distresse and for the vnthankfulnes of his deliuerie being in great danger the Lord abridged his daies y 1. Sam. 25.38 As the rich man who not tendring Lazarus extremitie was tormented with intollerable paines in hell z Luk. 16.22 What mooued our Sauiour Christ to say I was an hungred and ye gaue me no meate I was astranger and ye tooke me not in I was naked and ye clothed me not sicke and in prison and ye visited me not c. Verelie I say vnto you in as much as ye did it not to one of the least of these ye did it not to me depart from me ye cursed into euerlasling fire a Math 25.41 c. Surelie not that wee should presume our saluation depends vpon works or merites but that we should learne to liue within the compasse of charitie and not so lightly to accompt of hospitalitie It was this that made Iob in his innocencie to burst foorth and say If I haue restrained the poore of their desire The true vse of hospitalitie is to make prouesion for the poore or haue caused the eyes of the widowe to faile or haue eaten my morsels alone and the fatherles haue not cate thereof If I haue seene anie perish for want of clothing or anie poore without couering If his loynes haue not blessed me because he was warmed with the fleece of my sheepe If I haue lift vp my hand against the fatherles when I sawe I might helpe him in the gate let my arme fall from my shoulder and be broken from the bone b Iob. 31.16 c. We haue such indeed amongst vs that will make bounteous fare for their betters sumptuous feastes for their friends costlie cheere for their kindred and yet will scarse afford a little bread or broth to the poore Hospitalitie consists not in superfluitie or in preparation of great dilicates for our owne diots is not this as we terme it basting the fat hogge where they may bee acquited with like cost and curtesie Call you this hospitalitie then Diues did well for he fared delitiouslie but if we take his course wee shall neuer come in heauen Our Sauiour Christ sheweth vs the true vse of hospitalitie When thou makest a feast saith hee call the poore the maimed the lame and the blind and thou shalt bee blessed because they cannot recompence thee c Luke 14.13 Hereto agreeeth that same notable saying of the Prophet Esaias 〈…〉 he delt by Iob who hauing aboundance of wealth they were sodainlie

knowing indeede that he which indureth to the end shall bee saued a Matt. 24.13 and obtaine a crowne of life b Apoc. 2.10 But to the matter as for the free libertie of the glorious Gospell amongst vs God maintaine it with her Maiestie for as she doth vse all the meanes that may bee to increase the light so God knowes how manie there bee which vpon a mischiefe would extinguish it and as it was in the time of Poperie If God be on our side who can be against vs saith Paule although superstition was generallie established and allowed and yet all did not affect or followe it but some would rather suffer than do so Euen so it is in these religious daies of ours although Gods word be amongst vs publikelie maintained A priuie Papist is worse than a professed because he sheweth himselfe to be but luke-warme yet no doubt there are manie that priuilie mislike it as there bee some that openlie oppose themselues against it Haue wee not had amongst vs such as terme themselues the Familie of Loue Iesuites Seminarie Priests and such like sottish sects These thinke there is a day comming which they accompt their Iubile Is there not among vs at this day opinatiue persons Papists and such like sorts What should I say I pray God it bee not verified by the people of England as it was by the children of Israel Though their number were as the sand of the sea yet shall but a remnant be saued e Rom. 9 27. Esay 10.21 I feare me the most if their faith should come to triall by fire would keepe their bodies from the brands they would as wee commonlie say rather turne than burne A true Christian is not knowne in peace but in persecution All that will liue godlie in Christ saith d 2. Tim 3.12 Paule shall suffer persecution Not when 〈…〉 Nican These daies I must needes confesse bee dangerous m 1. Tim. 4.1 and it is come to passe as Christ himselfe prophesied that after his departing grieuous woolues should enter into his flocke n Luk 10.3 Act. 20.29 no doubt there is now as hath been at all times the good and bad together as Paule saith vessells of honor and dishonor o 2. Tim. 2.20 and no meruaile for it is common to see the corne and cockle growe together on one ground the flower and the weed in one gardaine the blossome and the blast both on a tree You shall reade in the Scriptures that wheate and tares shall growe both together vntill haruest The wicked shall wander with the godlie vntill the end of the world that the sheepe and the goates shall go together vntill the last separation and that the godlie and the wicked shall walke together vntill the end of the world When the seruants would haue gathered the tares from the wheate our Sauiour Christ would not suffer them least saith he while ye go about to gather the tares ye plucke vp also with them the wheate but let both growe together till haruest p Matth. 13.29 So that of necessitie the wicked must remaine because it is impossible to roote them out or verie dangerous to remooue them Your next discourse touching hypocriticall dealing as it is a supposition vncertaine to mans censure so being so tedious I will say little to it I detest such as double in Religion but I cannot detect any to be an hipocrite and although we ought to abstaine from all appearance of euill q 1. Thes ● 22 yet wee must not iudge alwaies according r Ioh. 7.24 to appearance especiallie in this secret of the heart Omne simile non est idem seeing it is only reserued to God neither may I iudge euill of my brethren when I deeme none worse than my selfe considering God shall iudge vs all but if there bee any such as you set downe this is most certaine as euerie fatt doth stand of his owne bottome so euerie sinner shall beare his owne burthen ſ Galat 6.5 and as the tree lieth as it falleth so shall he bee iudged as he dieth t Heb. 9 27. Besides if the righteous scarslie be saued u 1. Pet. 4.18 as it is fearefull to all sinners so how horrible wil it be for the hypocrite to appeare whose portion is to suffer the extreamest paines of hell x Iob. 36.13 As for your conclusion concerning the sufferance of such as haue libertie to doo well and will not Truelie such is the good pitie of our Prince that where heretofore some haue burned such as were godlie for a good cause she beares with such as bee vnreformed for a further consideration not tendering their case to their confusion A godlie prince extēdeth mercie in hope of amendment but intending a care of their conuersion staying oftentimes where she might strike in hope of amendment yet striking sometime where she must needes for feare of a mischiefe Oh Princely patterne of patience oh worthie mirror of mercie Remembring alwaies to set good against euill to beare with the weake and to forbeare the froward a while as vncertaine in what houre GOD may call such into his vineyard y Matth. 20.1 c. considering he is both miraculous and mercifull in his calling who although he leaueth the wicked to their owne lustes a time he eftsoone doth conuert them to goodnes by his grace as he did the Gentiles z Act 14 16. that walked in their own waies as he did the prodigall child a Luk 15 11. that lauished all he had 〈…〉 consequent if they be not cut off ouercome Nican The companie of the good and bad together as it is common so I must needes confesse it is dangerous and as supersticious errors heresies and such like are vtterlie to bee condemned so in some sort they are to bee admitted as may appeare by that saying of S. Paule to the Corinthians There must be heresies saith he amongst you that they which are approued among you might bee knowne p 1. Cor. 11.19 Not that heresies and errors are to bee allowed or followed but that by them the infallible trueth may the better be discerned Though error be admitted it is not to be imitated and more esteemed of the elect for this is certaine when contraries are opposite the good hath his better appearance euen as blacke appeareth best being drawne of a white border so vertue is then most visible when it is inuironed with vice and what may more moue vs to regard the excellencie of the word of God The inconuenience of error is an instigatiō to goodnes in the godlie than to set before vs the enormitie that may insue of error God sometimes to prooue his children will place them amongst the wicked to see whether they will followe their waies as he did by the Israelites q Iudg. 2.22 yet he doth it not to that end we should incline to