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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14015	A sermon preached on Palme-Sunday, before King Henry the VIII by Cuthbert Tonstall ...	Tunstall, Cuthbert, 1474-1559.	1633 (1633)	STC 24323; ESTC S1387	33,985	52

obedience he hath received high honour to have a name above all names And for his patience and passion he hath received power over all that all creatures doe bow down to him And for his infinite charity against mankinde he doth receive of all faithfull people laud praise and glory And thus have we hitherto declared the literall sense of the Epistle of this day by which ye may see that the humility and obedience of Christ doth furmount all examples of humility and obedience of the old testament as farre as the bright shining of the sunne is above the dimme light of an old lanterne For if we should compare the humility and obedience of Abraham who left his Country of Chaldee by Gods commandement and went forwards not knowing whether he should goe to the humility and obedience of Christ who descended from heaven to be incarnate and suffer death for us in forme of man there is almost no comparison for where all the world is full of misery Abraham went but from one wretched place therof to another much like But Christ being the Sonne of God from the beginning ever in glory and in heaven with his Father where no misery never was nor none can be came downe from heaven to be incarnate and to live in this wretched world knowing it before to be the vale of misery Likewise if we should compare Isaac who when his father went to sacrifice him bare the fagot that should make the fire of his sacrifice to Christ bearing his Crosse when he went to his death whereof Isaac was a figure The obedience of Isaac is farre beneath Christs obedience For Isaac going with his father knew nothing what his father did meane when he bade him beare the faggot which appeareth by that when he asked his father where the sacrifice was that should be burnt But Christ the Son of God before he was incarnate knew all the counsell and secrets of the Father of heaven and yet he was content willingly for our sake to be incarnate and to suffer death upon the Crosse and shewed before to his Disciples that he would and should so doe so that in comparing the great and infinite humility and obedience of Christ with the humility and obedience of other that were in the old Testament we shall finde them to be as Saint Paul saith but figures and shadowes as figures of men painted be farre under the living bodies of men And as the living body of a man farre passeth in substance the shadow of the same so the vertues of Christ so farre doe exceed the vertues of good men that were in the old Testament figures of him that his vertues be further above theirs than heaven is above the earth HItherto we have declared the true sense of the Epistle of this day read in the Church containing so great humility and obedience of our Saviour Christ that neither by the tongue of man it can be worthily expressed nor yet in any wise by mans thought comprised But now let us somewhat speake of the vice and sinne of Disobedience which shall more set forth the incomparable vertue of Christs humility and obedience and also open unto us how farre they be from Christ and how contrary to his doctrine that doe give themselves to disobedience Which disobedience was the first sinne that man after his creation did commit and is alway joyned with all other sinnes as a companion never departing from them For every sin that men doe fall in is done against Gods law so that the transgression and disobedience of Gods law is coupled with every sinne For if we obey Gods law as we ought to doe then we should not sinne And that disobedience was the first sinne done by man after his creation it plainely doth appeare in the third chapter of Genesis where after Adam was put in Paradice by Almighty God and commanded to eate of all the fruits in the same except the tree of knowledge of good and evill which he was commanded to forbeare and not to touch nor eate of the fruit of it the devill in the Serpent said to Eve God that forbade you to eate of that tree knoweth that what day soever ye doe eate of that tree your eyes shall be opened and ye shall be as gods knowing good and evill By which false perswasion the woman induced did eate of the tree forbidden and gave unto her husband who eate also of the same disobeying Gods commandement who commanded that in no wise they should touch it upon paine of death to follow for their disobedience for which disobedience not onely they were forthwith expelled out of Paradice but also they and all mankinde was by the sentence of Almighty God made subject to death and to mortality Disobedience hath also pride evermore annexed unto it which maketh him that disobeyeth to contemne to obey and to care nothing at all to disobey as doth appeare by the fall of the devill described unto us by the holy Ghost in the person of Nabuchadonozor the very childe of the devill in the 14. chapter of Esay where Lucifer an high and bright Angell full of beauty and all cleerenesse as soon as he was create not giving thanks to Almighty God for his naturall gifts given to him in his creation but by pride reputing to have them of himselfe and not of God said in his heart I shall ascend into heaven I shall exalt my seat above the starres of God I shall ascend above the height of the clouds I shall be like to Almighty God But his fall and ruine is forthwith there described where the Prophet addeth saying But yet for all this thou shalt bee plucked downe to hell into the bottome of the lake And Christ also in the Gospell of Luke in the 10. chapter testifieth his fall saying I saw Sathan fall from heaven as a lightning So we see that disobedience of the devill not keeping the order of his creation but surmounting farre above it and contemning the degree that his Maker had put him in was the cause of his fall Now what shall we say of those whom God hath create to be subjects commanding them by his word to obey their Princes and governours Who not onely doe refuse to obey Gods commandement but contrary to his word will be above their Governours in refusing to obey them and furthermore also will have their Princes prostrate upon the ground to whom they owe subjection to adore them by godly honour upon the earth and to kisse their feet as if they were God where they be but wretched men And yet they looke that their Princes should doe it unto them and also all other christian men owing them no subjection should of duty doe the same doe not these as ye thinke follow the pride of Lucifer their father Who make themselves fellowes to God contrary to his word But who I pray you be these that men may know them Surely the Bishops of Rome bee those whom I