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A04808	A sermon made at Blanford Foru[m] in the countie of Dorset on Wensday the 17. of Ianuarij last past at the session holden there, before the honorable and the worshyppefull of that shyre, by William Kethe minister and preacher of Gods word. 1571.	Kethe, William, d. 1608?	1571 (1571)	STC 14943; ESTC S106665	14,345	54

A SERMON made at Blanford Forū in the Countie of Dorset on Wensday the 17. of Ianuarij last past at the Session holden there before the honorable and the worshyppefull of that Shyre by William Kethe Minister and Preacher of Gods word 1571. AT LONDON Printed by Iohn Daye dwellyng ouer Aldersgate ¶ Cum gratia Priuilegio Regiae Maiestatis ❧ To the right honorable my very good Lord Ambrose Earle of Warwike Baron Lisle of the most noble order of the Garter Knight general of the Q. Maiesties Ordinaunce within her highnes Realmes and dominions his most humble seruaunt William Kethe wisheth grace mercy and peace in the Lord. WHen as I considered right honorable how many godly and notable workes had ben set forth by excellent learned men to the great vtility and profite of such as should with an vpright iudgement studiously reade them I determined with my selfe and thought it sufficient for discharge of my cōscience if I wholy imployed that simple talent committed vnto me in preathing the word though simply yet sincerely according to that function wherunto I am called And so it came to passe by the good prouidence of God that on wednesday being the 17. day of this moneth of Ianuary I preached at Blādford Forum in the Countie of Dorset at the Session holden there where both the honorable and many of the worshipfull which harde me tooke my simple trauels in very good part as both then and sithence I haue well perceiued Neuertheles sundry not onely of the multitude but some of higher calling so much misliked my sayd Sermon that they thought I spake somwhat more then became me but yet I prayse God that those which take the matter most greuously are but potte companions who thinke that I haue done them an exceeding great miury for that I opened to the Magistrates how shamefully the Saboth day which God would haue to be kept holy was prophaned with druncken and vngodly reueling and all kinde of iniquitie in so much that some are cast I know not how into such a heate therewith that it seemeth they want but the chaynge and turne of tyme to put me in a greater heat then they themselues would be in willingly who also by their sinistrall reportes of my Sermon would very faine cause others which heard me not to be of their owne corrupt and peruerse iudgementes I haue therefore thought it expedient and not without aduise counfaile to call to my remembraunce my sayd Sermon and to commit the same to writing and to the iudgements of the godly wherin I haue vsed such diligēce if I be not much deceaued that such as heard it shal finde not very many things added but yet lesse left out or omitted certenly to my knowledge not one sentence And now right honorable if I should follow that laudable custome of the learned which commonly do dedicate their works to such personages as they thinke to be most worthy and to such as be of honour or worship beyng desirous to further vertue and the sincere religiō of Iesus Christ with the fauourers of the same To whom should I dedicate these my poore simple trauels but to your honour who being not onely my especiall good maister and Lorde as full oft I haue felte but also vnder God and the Queenes Maiestie one of my chiefe protectours and defenders agaynst all such as would offer me iniury And although I should laye a part all those respectes yet my case standing as it doth I know not to whome by better right I should dedicate this my Sermon then to your honour who among many other both honorable and worshipfull cā witnes with me that for the tyme I was with you in Newhauen the minister and preacher there and also this last yeare with you in the North partes one of the preachers of the Queenes Maiesties armie I vsed at both places when occasion was offered to speake plainely before your honor and the rest and yet not forgetting I trust before whome I spake yea and when I sawe that great necessirie so required and that duetie draue me thereto I practised your honour well knoweth a certeyne kind of discipline euen vpon those that by birth and parentage were farre aboue me I do willingly and of set purpose put your honour in mynde of these thinges which otherwise might full well haue bene buried in obliuion to the entent that when such as so stomake me for telling truth shall vnderstand that as well your honour as a great many of other men of high calling in this common welth Gentlemen and Captaynes of great worshippe actiuitie courage valiantnes besides the multitude of common Souldiers were not onely well pleased with my plaine speach among thē in preaching against abuses but also willing to redresse the same and to shew them very honorable worship full towardes me both in word deede for my plainenes with them It may be that these men by such a president before their eyes will somewhat qualifie and content thēselues forasmuch as betwene such as I haue named and them if the question be for worship office or dignitie I see not well how there may be any comparison Our heauenly father preserue your honour with all yours and graunt you the continuaunce of his loue and fauour Amen At Childockford this xxix of Ianuary 1570. Your Lordships most humble seruaunt William Keth minister of Gods worde ❧ A Sermon made at Blanford Forū in the Countie of Dorset on Wensday the 17. of Ianuari last past at the Session holdē there c. If I had not come and spoken vnto them they should not haue had sinne but now they haue no cloke for the yr sinnes c. OUr Sauiour Christ in this xv of S. Iohn doth not onely put his Apostles in mind what great troubles wer to come vpon them for the profession of his name but he also sheweth what shuld moue those persecutours so to vexe to trouble them Haec omnia facient vobis propter nomē meum quia non nouerunt eum qui misit me All these thynges shall they doe vnto you for my names sake bicause they haue not knowen him which sent me But least any mā should thinke that those wicked persecutours should vnder coulour of ignoraunce excuse thē selues Christ our Sauiour in these woordes that I haue read vnto you cōuinceth them by iij. notable reasons or Arguments prouyng their ignoraunce not to be simple but rather wilfull and malitious much lyke vnto such as at noone day will of set purpose close their eyes bicause they will not see the light Christ by his first reason or Argument proueth that they were enemyes to his doctrine in these wordes Si nō venissem locutus fuissem eis peccatum non haberent Nunc autē non habent quod praetexant peccato suo If I had not come and spoken vnto them sayth Christ they should not haue had sinne but now they haue no