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A09659	A godlie exposition vpon certeine chapters of Nehemiah, written by that worthie byshop and faithfull pastor of the Church of Durham Master James Pilkington. And now newly published. In the latter end, because the author could not finish that treatise of oppression which he had begonne, there is added that for a supplie, which of late was published by Robert Some, D. in Diuinitie	Pilkington, James, 1520?-1576.; Foxe, John, 1516-1587.; Some, Robert, 1542-1609. Godlie treatise of the church. In the ende .. a treatise against oppression.	1585 (1585)	STC 19929; ESTC S114273	162,441	172

Moses and Aaron Gods true ministers Moses committing the reuenge of it to the Lord warned the people to depart from their companie lest they perished with them by that straunge death and streight waies the earth opened swallowed vp them their goods and tents where they 〈◊〉 quicke into hell Nay weomen were not spared for Marie Moses sister was smitten with a leprosie for railing on Moses her brother Gods liefetenant ouer them As the magistrate therefore both with word and sword must defend Gods cause his Religion temple people ministers and doctrine so must the preacher and those that be learned with their paine praier preaching and all other meanes that they can yea if our goods or liues were required for the defence of it no state of man ought to refuse it For this end are we borne and liue to glorifie our God and set forth his praise for this purpose are all things giuen vs and therefore must not be spared but spent and bestowed when his glorie requireth For this cause Esaias the Prophet gaue his bodie to be sawen in sunder with a sawe of yron For this cause Ieremio was cast into a dungeon of Mire and filth Daniel into the Lions denne Saint Paul pleadeth his cause oft in chaines at Ierusalem at Rome afore Festus Felix and Agrippa and our Lord and master Christ Iesus afore Annas Caiphas Pilate and Herod Iohn Baptist lost this head for this quarrel no good man wil thinke any thing to deere to spend in Christ his masters cause For this cause Tertullian Ireneus Iustinus Athanasius Chrisostons Nazianzenus haue written great bookes against the heathens which railed on our Religion What infinite number of Martirs haue stoode stoutly and giuen their liues in the same quarell he that hath seene anie learning can better tell where to begin then where to make an end of reckoning the number is so infinit and our late daies haue giuen sufficient proofe there of vnder that bloody butcher Bonner that the most ignoraunt yf he will open his eares and eies might heare and see great plentie But alas the fierie fagots of those daies were not so greeuous then as the slandrous tongues be now in our daies Nebuchadnezzer made a law that if anie did blaspheme the God of Sidrach Misach and Abednego he should be slaine and his house made a dunghill Moses made a lawe that euerie blasphemer should be stoned to death Seeing God and Princes haue made such straight lawes against such lewd railers good Rulers should see some correction done and not with silence to suffer ill men to talke their pleasure on Gods citie Religion ministerie While others possibly made courtesie to speake and aunswere these busie braggers and quarrelers Nehemiah steppeth forth boldely defendeth this cause stoutly answereth their false accusation truelie incourageth the people manfullie to goe forward with their worke despiseth their brags telleth them plainly that they haue no parte nor right nor are worthie to be remembred in Ierusalem The effect of Nehemiahs answere was that the God of heauen had giuen them good successe hitherto in mouing the harts of king Cirus Darius first to the building of the temple now of Artaxerxes to restore the citie they were his seruants worshiped him end he stirred them vp to this worke for of them selues they were not able to do such things They serued no Idoles nor false gods they needed not to be ashamed of their master the God of heauen was their Lord and they his people he was their master and they his seruants he their King and they his subiects they would goe forward with their worke they must haue a Citie to dwell in to serue their God who would defend them in this their well doing these men had no authoritie to stoppe or forbid them to worke they had nothing a do in Ierusalem nor any authoritie they would not obey them but with all diligence applie this worke vntill it be finished The Apostles when they were forbidden preached and would not obey but said they must obey God that bad them Thus must all they that take Gods worke in hand confesse it to come from God and that he blesseth their doings that all the praise may be his and that they of them-selues be weake vnable to doe such things without his special grace and assistance All good men in such enterprises will saie with Dauid Not vnto vs O Lord not vnto vs but vnto thy name giue all the glorie If these wicked men had had anie worldy shame or feare of God in them they would haue quaked trembled as the good men reioiced to haue God on their side to further them so they whē they heard the god of heauen named to be against them and that it was his doing they would haue forsaken their Idoles and haue furthered this building or at lest haue sitten still and not hindered it For who is able to withstand his will or hinder that he will haue forward The Deuils in hell quake and tremble at the naming and considering of Gods Maiestie but these wicked Imps not onelie now but sundrie times as appeereth hereafter in this booke most cruellie spitefullie and craftelie goe forward in their olde malice and by all meanes seeke the ouerthrow of this building So farre worse is a Deuil incarnate in an ill man then by him-selfe in his owne nature When the Deuill will worke anie great mischiefe he taketh commonlie one man or other Angel or creature to doe it by knowing that he shall doe it more easily that waie then if he should attempt it by himselfe Howe is euerie murther false witnesse whoredome robberic c committed but when the Deuill stirreth vp one man against another Let euerie good man therefore take heed vnto him-selfe how he yoaldeth vnto sinne For in that doing he maketh him-selfe a slaue to the Deuill and his instrument to worke by One Deuill will not offer that villany to another Diuell to make him his slaue but if he canne bring man vnto it there is his reioycing Take heede therefore O man In that they confesse them selues to be the seruants of the God of heauen it is as much to say as they wrought not for them-selues nor at their owne appointment nor for their owne profit they wrought for their masters cause and for his glorie Good seruants in al their doings will seeke their masters profit and praise not their owne they liue not for them-selues but al the profit of their doings returneth to their masters If they take any thing to them-selues more then their master giueth them they be theeues vnto him they doe him no true seruice Let all the builders of Gods house therefore whether they be rulers in the common wealth as Nehemiah was now or of the learned sort in the ministrie or els where not onely confesse in words that they be seruants to the God of heauen but most

the matter euery man what he hath to doe Such as be builders may take example of those good builders therof whome we read that with one hand they builded and with the other they held their weapon that is the spirituall sword of Gods word to keepe of the enemie Such workmen the Lord send into his vineyard to be diligent labourers not loyterers nor braulers but builders labouring and working not with one hand but with both hands occupied And likewise vpon these labourers the Lord send good ouerseers such as this good Nehemiah who not regarding his owne priuate charges and expenses bestowed all his care in tendring and setting forward the erection of the Lords house to encourage the workemen to prouide for their necessities to defena them from enemies to keepe them in good order from strife and variance For as euery good building there best goeth forward when the workmen in one consent ioyne them-selues together So contrariwise nothing more hindreth the setting vp of any worke as when the workmen are deuided among them-selues Albeit during the time of 〈◊〉 we sinde no great sturs among the people or if there were any it was seene composed by the wise handling of that good gouernour as in the fift chapter may appeare wherefore for the better example to le taken of these distressed dales I thought it not amisse in this so daungerous building vp of Christs Church in the perillous latter times this treatise of Nehemiah compiled by the right reuerend and famous prelate M. Iames Pilkinton of blessed memory to be published and commended to Christian readers wherby all good labourers and ouerseers of Christ his Church may receiue some fruitfull aduertisement to consider in these soe great affayres of the Lord his busines what is to be done and looked vnto THE BOOKE OF NEHEMIAH Benignè fac DOMINE in bonavoluntate tua Sion vt aedificentur muri Ierusalem Non nobis DOMINE non nobis sed nomini tuo da gloriam Non moriar sed viuam narrabo opera DOMINI THE ARGVMENT VNPERfect and so much thereof as was found is here put downe ANd because both the bookes of EZRA and NEHEMIAH entreate only of such things as were done vnder the Kings of Persia which fewe other parts of the Scripture doe it is not amisse something to touch the maner of liuing behauiour both of the Kings people nature of the countrie that thereby things may better be vnderstood as STRABO in his booke LEOVICIVS in his Varia Historia others haue left them in writing SVSIA was that parte of the countrie which laie towards BABILON wherein was also the cheife citie SVSA which was like in building vnto BABILON These were a quiet people neuer rebellious therefore Kings loued it the better and CYRVS was the first that made his cheifest abode there Other houses the King had which were strong and costlie where there treasure was kept At SVSIS they lay in winter at ECBATAVA in sommer at PERSEPOLIS in haruest in the spring at BABILON PAGASABIA GABIS other houses were not neglected although destroyed with the kingdome shortlie after by Alexander Magnus The riches of the kings were greate For when all was brought to ECBATAVA men reporte that there were 180. Talents This country of SVSIA was so fruitful that their barly wheate would bring forth an hundreth folde or 200. as much as was sowne Their kings be of one kindred and whosoeuer obeieth not he hath his head arme cut of and cast awaie They marrie many wiues keepe many harlots The kings yearely giue rewardes to them that haue gotton most sonnes The children come not in their fathers sight before they be 4. yeares old Their mariages are made in March From. 5. yeares old vnto 14. they learne to shoote picke dartes ride chiefly to speake trueth Their Schoolemasters be men most sober applying all things to the profit of their schollers They call their schullers together afore daie by ringing of a bell as though they should go to warte or to hunt They make one of the kings sonnes their ruler or some great men ouer 50 in a bande and commaund them to follow their Captaine 30. or 40. furlongs when he runneth afore them They aske account of those things that they haue learned exercising their voice breath and sides to hear colde raine and passing of riuers They teach them to keepe their Armour cloathes drie and to feed liue hardlie like husbandmen eating wilde fruits as acornes and crabbes Their dailie meate after their exercise is verie hard bread Cardanum salte and flesh rosted Their drinke is water They hunt on horsebake with picking their dartes shooting their shaftes or casting with their sling In the forenoone they are exercised with planting of trees or digging vp the rootes or make harnesse or applie them-selues to working ofline or making of nets The kings giue rewards to those that get the best game at running and other games which they vse euerie 5. yeare They beare office plaie the souldiers on foote and horsse from 20. years olde vnto 50. They be armed with a shield made like a diamond Besides their quiuer they haue their crooked falchion and daggers vpon their head a steeple-cappe vpon their breast a coate of plate Their Princes haue their breeches triple folde and a coate with wide sleeues lined with white and syde to the knee and the outside coloured Their apparel in some is purple or els of diuers coloures in winter of diuers coloures Their cappes like vnto the Miters of their southsaiers their shooes high dubble The common sorte weare a lined coate to the mid-leg about their head a role of sindal Euery man vseth his bowe sling The Persians fare daintilie hauing manie and diuers kindes of meate and their tables shine with their plate of gold siluer They debate their weightie matters at the wine if they meete their fellowes or acquaintance by the waie they kisse them if they be poorer they make curtesie Their southsaiers they leue vnburied to the birds The greatest riches that the kings had were in buildings and they coyned no more monie then serued the present neede The people were temperate in their liuing but their kings passed in excesse The kings attire of his head was of myrrhe and other sweete gommes They kept commonlie 300. women which slept in the daie sang daunced all the night If the king would goe to any of them the floore was couered with fine arris He rode seldome but in his chariot If he suffered any man to come to his speache he sate in a throne of gold standing on foure pillers with precious stones At the head of his bed were 5000. Talents of gold which where called the kings pillowe at his feete were 3000. Talents of siluer which was called his footestoole ouer his bed was a golden vine withgolden branches and grapes drawne with pretious stones Thus farre the

Mathew sayeth that diuers dead bodies after the resurrection of our Lord and Master Christ Iesus rose out of their graues came into the holie Citie and appeered to many This holines came not by holie-water casting or hallowing of popish Bishopps which halowed Church or Church yeard but by gods appointing choosing it for his dwelling place where he would be worshipped as the Psal. teacheth The Lord hath chosen Sion he hath chosen it for adwelling place for him-selfe this is my resting place for euer heere will I dwell because I haue chosen it So on gods behalfe and appointing it for a place where he would be worshipped it was holie though the wickednes of the people had defiled it and iustlie procured gods anger to destroy it Christ Iesus our Lord finding his temple ful of all vsurers buiers and sellers gata whip and draue them out saying my house is a house of praier but ye haue made it a denne of theeues So by Gods appointing it was a house of prayer and by mans misusing of it a denne of theeues And he seeing the wickednes of the people in it wept for it and said Ierusalem which killest the Prophetes and stonest to death them which are sent to thee how oft would I haue gathered thee as the henne doeth her chickens vnder her wings and thou wouldst not The Prophets of old time for the wickednes of the people in it haue likewise rebuked Ierusalem sundrie times How is this faithful Citie which was ful of iustice now become an harlot And againe heare thou harlot speaking to Ierusalem Thus one thing by Gods appointing it to a holie vse may be called holie and by mans misusing of it become most vnholie But the place it selfe maketh nothing holie as it is written God chose not the man for the place sake but the place for mans sake and therefore this Citie did not make the dead men holie that were buried in it nor anie thing the worsse if they were buried out of it Therefore the papists are both wicked in teaching the people that one place is more holie then another to be buried in as in the Church rather then in the Churchyeard neere the high altar rather then in the body of the Church and they are theeues also in picking poore mens purses for the same In these were many abuses as in any one thing But he that wil keepe these three rules shall not erre First That he doe not cast out the dead bodies vnburied to be deuoured of wilde beasts nor burie them in dunghils ditches or such like places where none else is buried Diogenes when his friends asked him How he wolud be buried bad them cast him out it skilleth not how Why saie they the beasts will deuour thee Nay then saieth hee lay my stafe by me and I shall driue them awaie A barbarous saying and meete for a heathen man Yet I thinke the laying of the metyarde in the graue with the dead man came vp on some such like cause or else to driue away deuils Socrates whē he was asked the like question answered more honestly and bad burie him so as were moste easyfor his friends The second is to auoid great cost sumptuousnes as Shrines Tombes Tapers Torches Candles mourning-coates feastings c. which do no good to the dead are to chargeable vnprofitable to their friends Yet if Ciuil pollicy adde some solemnitie to Princes noble men as their coate Armoure flagge sword heade-peece recognisaunce I dare not vtterly condemne it and yet would wish it more moderatly vsed then many times it is As there was difference in them while they liued from the common sorte state so there may be in their burialls for polliciessake but for no religion or holines at al. The third thing to be obserued is that no superstition should be cōmitted in them wherein the Papists infinitelie offend As in masses diriges trentalls singing ringing holi water halowed places yeares daies moneth mindes crosses pardon-letters to be buried with them mourners de profundis by euery lad that could saie it dealing of money solemnlie for the dead watching of the corps at home bell and banner with manie moe then I can reckon These three abuses taken awaie remaineth that comely order which Christian charitie requireth as to haue neighbours quietlie to accompanie the corps to the graue as it was in the poore widowes sonne of Naim Brotherlie to comfort those that lost their friends as the Iewes did Marie Martha for their brother Lazarus to confirme faith in the resurrection of the dead in the selfe same bodie that there is put in the earth to prepare them-selues to die daily not knowing when our course shal come To praise the Lord that graunted the man so long a life among vs with honestie and in the end gaue him a stedfast faith to seeke his saluation onelie in Christ Iesus who hath conquered death hel sinne by his owne death and by his rising from death hath iustified vs and will raise vs vp from the graue in the end to liue with him in heauen without end The comely vsing ofthese in Gods Church is a great comfort to all good Christians and the want of them a token of Gods wrath and plague Abraham was promised burial in his ripe age as a blessing from God Iosias was promised that he should be buried in peace and not see the plagues that should follow the Gabeonites are praised of God and rewarded also of Dauid for that they buried King Saul and his sonne though the father was an ill man contrariwise to King Ieroboam and Achab was threatned for a plague that he and his posteritie should not be buried but deuoured of beasts and to King Ioachim was fore-tolde it that he should be buried as an asse for his falling from God Tobias was cheifelie commended for burying the dead bodies of his countrie men that were cruellie slayne Thus burial is commended to want it was great reproofe Ieremy threatneth them that for their wicked life they should be pulled out of their graues The place of burial needeth no bishoppes blessing nor Popish halowing but euerie comelie place is holy enough so it be reserued for that vse onelie It is called in the Greeke Coimiterion that is a sleeping place and in the hebrew Beth-haiaim that is the house of the liuing thereby to teach vs that the body sleepeth the soules liue as Salomon saith the earth shal goe to the earth from whence it was and the soule shal returne to him that gaue it Abraham bought a feeld to burie his in and there was he and his posterity buried and that was a common custome continued long after by the iudges and kings of Iuda So Gedeon and generallie the rest were buried It is said of King Osias that he was buried in the feeld where the other Kings