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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01332	A sermon preached vpon Sunday, beeing the twelfth of March. Anno. 1581, within the Tower of London in the hearing of such obstinate Papistes as then were prisoners there: by William Fulke Doctor in Diuinitie, and M. of Penbroke Hall in Cambridge.	Fulke, William, 1538-1589.	1581 (1581)	STC 11455; ESTC S117689	47,991	130

vnto God no man coulde please God no man coulde looke for rewarde of God without holinesse And this they testified euen in their manner of worshipping of GOD which although it were cleane contrarie to Gods expresse commaundement in visible shapes and bodily images yet they declared by their maner of consecrations dedications purifications and other lyke ceremonies of their owne deuising that such as will haue any thing to doe with God must be hallowed as God is holie and all thinges that apperteyne vnto him The Papistes also euen as the heathen whose religion and ceremonies in many thinges they followe in so many consecrations and sanctifications as they vse in their Idolatrous seruice meane to signifie euen so much And hereof commeth all that preparation pompe and furniture whiche they vse in woorshipping of their Images which they defende by the same reasons and worshippe after the same maner as the Heathen did their Images although nothing be more directly contrarie to the expresse commaundement of God The Papistes thinke their idolatrie to bée defended when they say that they worship not the stockes and stones the matter and fourme of their Images as Gods but worship God in them And did not the wiser sort of the Gentils bring the same reason to defende their Idolatrie Yes verely S. Augustine testifieth that one of them saide I worship not that stone nor that Image which is without senses for your Prophet could not know that it hath eies and seeth not and I be ignorant that this image neyther hath life nor seeth with eyes nor heareth with eares Therefore I worship not the thing but I adore that which I sée serue that which I sée not who is this A certaine inuisible diuine power which hath the preheminence of that Image Behold the Heathen man affirmeth that they worshipped not the Idolles but God by the Idolles euen as the Israelites in worshipping their golden Calfe pretended by it to worship the God that brought them out of the land of Egypt And Aaron proclaimed a holie day to be celebrated vnto Iehoua the only true God The multitude of their Gods which they worshipped also they excused euen as the Papists do for they acknowledge but one God as the principall highest and only gouernour of all the poeticall Gods euen as the Poet Horatius speaketh of Iupiter Qui res hominum ac deorum qui mare terras varijsque mundum temperat horis vnde nil maius generatur ipso c Which gouerneth all the affaires of men and Gods the sea and the lande and the whole worlde with diuers seasons wherefore nothing is brought forth greater then hée neither is ther any thing like him or seconde vnto him yet for all that Pallas hath obtained the next honour vnto him Sée what the opinion euen of the Poets was concerning the principall worship due vnto the highest God But the Philosophers and such as by the Christians were charged with worshipping of Images were yet more subtle and came nearer to the Papistes For they not only affirmed that they worshipped God by the Images as Chrysostome witnesseth but also béeing further vrged touching the multitude of Gods they answered that in Mars they worshipped the power of God in Pallas the wisedome of God in Venus the loue and pleasure of God and so of the rest yea they doubted not to affirme that those pettie Gods whom they worshipped as Augustine sheweth were the powers and Ministeries of that great God and euen the verie same which the Christians call Angelles To whom Augustine very well replyeth and saieth I woulde you would truely worship the Angelles you shoulde easily learne of them not to worship them Euen so I woulde the Papistes woulde truely worship the Angelles they should learne of them not to worship them worship God saieth the Angell to S. Iohn who fell downe at the Angelles féete to worship him for I am thy fellowe seruant and fellowe seruant of all the faithfull the Prophetes and them that kéepe the sayinges of this booke And yet Saint Iohn was not fallen into so grosse idolatrie that hée woulde worshippe the Angell as God but euen as the papistes he was deceiued by humane affection to giue some parte of the honor which is wholy dewe to God to the angell as to a diuine creature and messenger of God Yee I woulde the Papistes woulde ryghtlie worshippe all the saintes of God for then shoulde they learne of them not to worshippe them but God the authoure of theire sanctification to whome all Saynts ascribe all honour all glorye all powre all myght all riches all wisedome all hollynesse all saluation There canne no greater honour bee giuen vnto Sayntes then to honor their Lorde their Sauioure their Redeemer their God their Father their sanctifyer And it is greate contumely and iniury to the blessed Saintes to robbe God of his glorie to bestow vpon them Wherefore if the Papists woulde truely honour them then they woulde follow their faith their obedience their humilitie and all their godly vertues Whereby they should be sure to honour and worship none with spirituall and religious worship but God only whome they alone honoured and worshipped if they were not deceiued as Saint Iohn was in worshipping the Angell Well it is plaine enough by that which hath béen spoken that no man can haue accesse vnto God no man can please God no man can be ioyned vnto God without holines without the which as the Apostle saieth that no man shall sée God Séeing therfore that sanctification is so necessarie we must séeke from whence it is to bee had Our Sauiour Christ in the words of this prayer doth plainly teach vs from whēce all true holinesse doeth flow and by what meanes wée may bée consecrated from whence sanctification is to bée receiued namely from God only the only fountain of all holines as of all good things Sanctifie them saith hée in thy trueth In vaine therefore doe men séeke sanctification but in him that is all holines Our Sauiour Christ by this his prayer teacheth vs not only that holines is necessarie for all the children of GOD but also from whence they must obteine the same For he desireth not at the handes of God that thing which men may either haue of thēselues or of any other Authour then of God only Whereof it followeth that God only sanctifieth his elect by this holy spirite of sanctification through the meditation of his only sonne our sauiour Iesus Christ who as S. Paule saieth is made vnto vs by God wisedome righteousnesse sanctification and redemption Therefore they that seeke sanctification in themselues or by any meanes of their owne labour all in vayne neyther is it possible for them to approach neare vnto God Wherefore the Gentiles although they did know that holinesse was necessarie for them which should haue to doe with God or thinges apperteyning to God yet whilest they sought it in themselues they