vs sensible thinges externall singes to bring our mindes by these outward singes to consider his inuisible graces Luke 22. 1. Cor. 11 And an other cause was to put vs alwaies in remembrance of his death and benefit of his passion for he saith doe this in the remembrance of mée As oft as ye eate of this bread and drinke of this cup ye shew the Lordes death till he come And an other cause there is that moued Christ Iesus to institute sacraments that they might be linckes bond of loue vnitie and concorde among our selues for we haue but one God Ephe. 4. one Faith one baptisme 1. Cor. 10. Vnus panis vnum corpus but one bread so all but one body Father Passeouer There were Sacraments in the olde Law as the passeouer what did that signifie Sonne Exod. 12 It was a Lambe of a yéere olde without blemish which was killed and the blood sprinkled signifiyng this immaculat Lambe of God Iesus Christ that taketh away the sinnes of the word The pascall Lambe put the people of Israell alwaies in remembrance of their bodelie deliuerance out of Egipte from Pharo and from the filth and clay of the Land by the power of God by a mightie hand and stretched out arme So in like manner this Sacrament of the Lordes supper 1. Cro. 11 signifieth to vs how that we are not onelie deliuered from a bodelie seruitude but also from hell the diuell and sinne and that by the crosse passion Luke 22. and blood shedding of our pascall Lambe Iesus Christ Father Séeing that this Sacrament is so worthie a misterie tell me how we ought to communicate Sonne We ought to iudge and examine our selues and then eate of that bread 1. Cor 11 drink of that cup. If any man be defiled saith God Num. 9. let him not eate of the passeouer but it must be eateÌ„ with swéete breade sower hearbeâ— so father is this Sacrament to be eaten no vncleane person that hath not examined himselfe may eate threof The passeouer was to be eaten with swéete bread and sower hearbes so he that eateth this Sacrament must be contrite in heart and his conscience vnleauened that is pure and cleane â—euiti 7. If any soule that is vncleane eate of the flesh of the peace offering the same soule shall perish from among his people â— Cor. 11 Whosoeuer saith Saint Paull shall eate of this bread and drinke of the cup of the Lorde vnworthelie shal be guiltie of the body and blood of the Lorde and eateth and drinketh his owne damnation Father â—eall preâ—ns Then belike in this Sacrament is the real presens of Christ his body and blood so that this Sacrament is transsubstantiall into his naturall bodie and blood if ther be such benefit for the worthie receiuers and so great perell to the vnworthie Sonne â—uke 22 â— Cor. 11 No father for it is but a memoriall of his death and instituted for a remembrance of the same his naturall body with all partes and members thereof is ascended into heauen Heb. 1 and sitteth on his fathers right hand Heb. 8. and shall abide there till the ende come Father How can the vnworthie receiuers bée in such daunger then Sonne Because they set at naught the ordinances of Iesus Christ And therefore saint Paull saith he that despiseth Moyses lawe dyeth without mercie vnder two or thrée witnesses how much sorer shall he be punished that treadeth vnder foote the sonne of God and compteth the blood of the testament wherewith he was sanctified as an vnholie thing and doth dishonour to the spirit of grace Father What punishment are they worthie of that refuse or negligentlie regard this institucion of Iesus Christ our Lore and sauiour Sonne Numer 9 The lord saith that man that is negligent to offer passouer in his due time shal be rooted out of his people and parish Heb. 10. He that treadeth vnder foote the institucion of Iesus Christ is worthie of death because he doth dishonour to the blood of Christ and to the spirit of grace Father Thou hast spoken well by these two Sacraments baptisme and the Lordes supper being instituded by Iesus Christ and therefore to be had in reuerence as the seals of our saluation but procéede tel me what thou sayst of extreme vnction for it should séeme that Saint Iames alloweth of the same Iames. 5 Sonne Iames. AnnoyntiÌ„g The Appostle father speaketh of the holie ghost in that same place as we may perceiue by other places expounding what the annoynting is the annoynting that dwelleth in you saith saint Iohn teacheth you all thinges Io. 2. and is true and no lye 2. Cor. 1. It is God that stablysheth vs with you in Christ and standeth by vs and hath annoynted vs which hath also sealed vs and hath giuen vs the earnest of the spirit into our heartes When the spirit of truth commeth Io. 16 he will lead you into all truth The spirit of God vpon mée Luke 4. because he hath annoynted mée to preach the ghospell to the poore hath he sent mée to heale the broken hearted to preach deliuerance to the captiue and sight to the blind Frely to set at libertie those that are brused and to preach the acceptable yéere of the Lord. So that the ministers or elders ought to pray ouer the sicke and diseased and to annoynte them with this oyle which is Gods spirit to certifie their consciens that their broken heartes are healed that wheras they were captiues they are deliuered whereas they were in darkenesse now lightned being in bondage True annoynting by the spirit of God now set at libertie whereas they were ouercharged with sinne the Christ had taken vppon him all their offences and that now they wer acceptable offeringes vnto their GOD through Iesus Christ And this is the annoyting that euery minister must annoynt the diseased withall Father Ecclesiasticall auâ—horitie What saist thou of ecclesiastiall aucthoritie and iurisdiction Sonne I say that they haue power and aucthority to excoÌ„municate punish offenders and when they repent to receiue them into the congregacion againe and absolue Iesus breathed on his disciples and saide â—o 20. receiue the holy ghost whose sinnes soeuer you remit they are remitted and whose soeuer sinnes ye retaine they are retained The minister may binde that is preach the Law and curse thereof Binding loosing to impenitent persons that wil not regard their owne saluacion and they may loose that is preach the gospell and glad tidings to those that repent vnfainedlie Matb 11 and would gladlie come vnto Christ to be refreshed Father Let me héere that they haue aucthoritie to excoÌ„municate and power to receiue into the congregacion againe such as repent Sonne Leuiti 13 The Lorde commaunded that if any man should be a leper the Priest should looke vppon him and if he iudged him to be
God in righteousnesse and true holinesse So that Father man was created after gods Image that is iust faythfull vndefyled fruitfull a noble vine righteous and holye for all that the Lorde made were excéeding Good Father RedemptioÌ„ What sayest thou of our redemption Sonne Euen as the Lorde God doth elect and create man Psalm 31 so doth hée redéeme man and none other For Dauid saith Psalm 49 into thy handes I commend my spirite for thou oh Lord hast redéemed mée No man may deliuer his brother nor make agréement vnto God for him for it cost more to redéeme their soules So that they must let that alone for euer I am hée sayth the Lorde Oseas 7. that redéemed them and yet they dissembled with mée The spirite of the Lord sayth Christ vpon mée because he hath annoynted mée Luke 4. to preach the Ghospell to the poore hath he sent mée to heale the broken harted to preach deliuerance to the Captiue and sight to the blinde fréelie to set at libertie those that are brused and to preach the acceptable yéere of the Lord. Wée haue redemption through his bloud Ephe. 1. euen the forgiuenenesse of our sinnes Our Lord Iesus Christ hath giuen himselfe for vs Christs blood redemed vs. to redéeme vs from all vnrighteousnesse Redeemed of loue Rom. 5. God setteth out his loue towards vs séeing that while we were sinners according to the time Christ died for vs much more then now we are iustified by his bloud shall be saued from wrath by him for when we were enemies we were reconsiled vnto God by his bloud much more séeing that we are reconsiled we shall be preserued by his life 1. Peter 1 Redeemed by the blod â—f Christ â—nely We were not saith saint Peter redéemed from our vayne conuersations with corruptable thinges as siluer or golde but with the precious bloud of Iesus Christ as of a Lambe vndefiled Father Sanctificaâ—ion What saith the worde of God of our sanctification Sonne â—o 3. Christ himselfe saith except a man be borne of water and of the holy Ghost hée cannot enter into the kingdome of God â—o 17 Prayer of Christ to â—anctifie â—is church O father of heauen sanctifie them saith Iesus Christ through the truth for the word is truth and I doe not onely pray for my disciples alone but for all those also which shall beléeue their preaching that they may all be one Cor. 1. To them saith Saint Paull that are sanctified by Iesu Christ called Saints Sanctfied by Iesu Christ 1. Cor. 6. Iesus and his spirit sanctifieth Titus 3 peace and grace We are washed we are iustified wée are sanctified by the name of Iesus Christ and through the spirit of our God The Lord according to his great mercy hath saued vs by the fountayne of the new byrth and renewing of the holye Ghost which he hath shewed on vs abundantly through Iesus Christ our sauiour Father Let me heare now by whome we are preserued saued and defended Preserued saued defended of whome we haue our being Sonne Euen by that great and mightie Iehoua Gen. 7 the Lord of hostes For the Lord called Noa into the Arke and his houshold wherin they might be saued when he destroyed the world with the deluge The Lord said vnto Isaac feare not Gen. 26 I am with thée and will blesse thée multiply thy séede for my seruant Abrahams sake I will be with thée Gen. 40 and will be thy kéeper in all places whether thou goest and will not leaue thée till I performe my promise Gene. 40. The Lord was with Ioseph and gotte him fauour in the sight of the Lord of the pryson and shewed him mercy Exod. 13 The Lord went before the people of Israell in the day in a piller of a cloud and in the night in a piller of fier Exod. 29. I will dwell among my people and will be their God Deu. 33 The eternall God is thy refuge and vnder the armes of thine euerlasting shalt thou liue Iosua 1 I will be with thée said God and will not forsake thée I will be with thée whether so euer thou goest Psalm 17. The Lord is the sauiour of all them that trust in him Acts. 17 And concluding in God we liue moue and haue our béeing and are all his generations Father Gyfts That we are defended saued and preserued by our God and mercifull father I perceaue but procéede and tell mée of whome we haue all our meate drinke apparell siluer gold ritches possessions wisedome knowledge learning with all other good guifts Sonne Saint Iames thus aunswereth Iames. 1 that euerie good guift and euerie perfect guift is from aboue and commeth downe from the Father of light and further saith Wisdome if any man lacke wisdome let him aske of him that giueth it euen God It is the Lorde God that giueth the substance Deu. 8. Riches It is the Lord God that giueth an heart to perceiue eyes to sée and eares to hear Deu. 29. The Lord saide to Salomon 3. Kin. 3. aske what thou wilt and I will giue it thée All thinges vnder heauen are mine sayth the Lorde Iob. 41. God giueth vnto man that is good before him wisdome vnderstanding Eccle. 2 and gladnesse but to the wicked the Lord giueth werinesse and superfluous care to heape riches for other men All that a man eateth and drinketh Eccle. 3. Meate Drink yea whatsoeuer a man earneth of all his labour the same is the guift of God God giueth vnto man riches Ecclesi 6 goods and honor so that he wanteth nothing that his heart can desire When I perceiued that I could not kéepe my selfe chast Wisdome Chastetie without God gaue it me I stooped to the Lord and besought him Wisd 9. Who can haue vnderstanding of thy meaning Holy ghost a guift of God except thou giue him wisdome and send thy holy ghost from aboue that the ways of them that be vppon earth may be reformed that men may learne the things that are pleasant vnto thée Luke 11 Your heauenly father shall giue his holy spirit to him that asketh of him Wisd 3. Faith Vnto the elect shall be giuen the special guift of faith And the most acceptable porcion in the temple of God 1. Cor. 4. Who preserueth thée or what hast thou that thou hast not receyued Gen. 8 The Lord gaue to man that he should Subdue the earth and haue dominion of the fish of the sea and foule of the ayre And of euery liuing thing vppon earth 2. Peter 1 And closing this with Saint Peters wordes According to his Godly power he hath giuen vnto vs all thinges that pertaine vnto lyfe and Godlynesse Father God one Sonne who is this God of whom wée receaue all goodnesse is he but one or many for many there be that
with her alredy in his heart Math. 15 Out of the heart procéede euill thoughts murders breaking of wedlocke whoredomes theftes false witnesse blasphemies these defile a man Iames. 3. So that euill thoughtes with consent saith Saint Iames procure death Father VVoords Let mée heare what words hurte Sonne 1. Cor. 15 Corrumpunt bonos more 's colloquia praua Euill words corrupt good manners Iames. 3 If any man sinne not in worde the same is a perfect man and able also to same all the body Ephe. 4 Let no filthie communication procéede out of your mouthes saith Paull but that which is good to edifie withall that it may minister grace to the hearers Eod. 5. As fornication or vncleanenesse or couetousnesse let it not be once named among you as becommeth Saincts or filthienesse or foolish talking or ieasting which are not comely but rather giueing of thankes Of euery idle worde that men shall haue spoken Math. 12 they shall giue accompts in the day of the Lorde Ex abundantia cordis os loquitur Eod. Of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh Out of thy wordes thou shalt be iustified Math. 12 and out of thy words thou shalt bée condemned So that the Lawe condemneth wicked wordes Father Procéede to speake of workes VVorkes or deedes Sonne The déedes of the flesh saith S. Paull Gal. 5. are manyfest which are these adultery fornication vncleannesse wantonnesse worshiping of Images witchecraft hatred variance strife sedicions sects enuying drunckennesse gluttony such like The committers of them or such shall not inherit the kingdome of God Whosoeuer breaketh one of the commandemeÌ„ts and teacheth other men Math. 6. so he shall be called the least in the kingdome of God Who liueth father Iames. 2 that hath not offended either in thought word or déede and if he hath offended in one point hée is guyltie of all for saint Iames saith whosoeuer shall kéepe the whole lawe and yet faill in one point he is guiltie of all Father Was ther neuer any man nor woman that fulfilled the whole lawe Sonne All sinners none iust No father but the man Iesus Christ who was perfect God and perfect man for saint Paull saith all are sinners and stand Rom. 3. Eod. in néed of the grace of God we do perceiue that both Iewes and Gentiles are al vnder sinne there is none that doth good their is none righteous Originall sinne Rom. 5 Gal. 3. By the sinne of Adam there sprong vp euill on all men vnto condemnation The Scripture concludeth all thinges vnder sinnes that the promise by the saith of Iesus Christ should be giuen to all that beléeue Io. 1. If we say that we haue no sinne wée deceiue our selues ther is no truth in vs. Math. 19. None is good saith Christ but one and that is God Psal 14. There is none righteous no not one ther is none that vnderstandeth there is none that séeketh after God they are all gone out of the waie they are all vnprofitable ther is none that doth good no not one There is none iust vppon earth Eccle. 7 that doth good and sinneth not So that Saint Paull concludeth Rom. 3. None iustified by the lavv because none fulfill the same that all mouthes may be stopped and that all the worlde may be subdued vnto God because that by the déedes of the lawe there shall no flesh be iustified in his sight Father What a kinde of doctrine was that which hath béene taught that man might be saued by his owne merits séeing all are sinnes Sonne A detestable doctrine father Gen. 32. as you may perciue by this going before yet for satisfiyng your minde I will proue further vnto you marke what Iacob euen the Lordes elect saide to God Oh Lord I am not worthie of the least of all thy fatherly mercies and truth which thou hast shewed vnto thy seruant It was not for thy righteoussnes sake Deu. 9. or for the right heart that thou goest to possesse the Land for thou art a stifnecked people but for the wickednesse of them that dwell therein and for my promise sake to Abraham Isaac and Iacob Psalm 89. What man is he that shall not sée death and shall he deliuer his owne soule from the hand of hell Rom. 8. I suppose that the afflictions of this life are not worthie of the glory that shall be showed on vs. Luke 17 Christ willeth vs therefore when we haue done all that euer we are able to say we are vnprofitable seruantes Father What sayest thou of those that iustifie themselues before men Iustifiers Sonne Math. 23. Christ Iesus curseth such Woe vnto you Scribes Pharises Ipocrites you make cleane the outside of the cup and platter but within you are full of brybery and excesse euen so they outwardly appeare righteous before men but within are full of faynednesse and iniquitie and all their workes they doe of intent to be séene of men Math. 6 but they haue their reward Ieremi 2 Though thou washest thy selfe with Nitrus and make thy selfe to smell with the swéete hearb of Loreth yet in my sight thou art stained with thy wickednesse Why bostest thou thy selfe sayth God so highly to obtaine fauour thereby Iustifiers CondeÌ„ned when thou as yet hast stained thée with blasphemies and teachest thyne owne waies and yet thou darest say I am without sinne and guiltles I haue not offended and therefore I condemne thée in iudgement The Prophets and Priests are polluted Ieremi 23 Ipocrytes and their wickednesse haue I found in my house I will therefore bring a plague vppon them The Pharisy saide God I thanke thée Luke 10. I am not like other men I am no extorcionor I am not vniust I am not as this Publican I fast twise in the wéeke I giue tythes of all that I possesse and yet hée went home not iustified Séeing thou puttest thy trust in thyne owne waies Oseas 9. Merits and leanest vnto the multitude of thy merites there shall growe a sedicion among the people al the strong holdes shall be layde wast If I iustifie my selfe Iob. 9. mine owne mouth shall condemne me Tush I haue good enough Oseas 12. in all my workes shall not one fault be found that I haue offended but thou art like a false Marchant that occupyeth extorcion Iustifiers punished â—and therefore shall his blood be powred vppon himselfe and the Lord God shall reward his blasphemies Math. 16. Iustifiers of themselues followe not Christ Therefore I will conclude with the wordes of Iesus Christ if any man will follow me let him forsake himselfe and take vp his crosse Let none trust in their owne worthinesse but in Iesu and follow him Father Thou speakest the truth that all are sinners that we mirrit or deserue no goodnesse at the hand of God and that none what
first vnfaithfull to the lawe of the highest Eccle. 23 secondlie she hath forsaken her owne husband thereby shée hath gotten her children by another man and played the whore but a shamefull repoorte shall shée leaue behinde her and her Children shall take no déepe roote Whosoeuer séeth a woman and lusteth after her Math. 5 hath committed adulterie with her alredie in his heart ◠Cor. 6. And I will conclude with saint Paull flée fornication euerie sinne that a man doth is without the body but he that is a fornicatour sinneth against his owne bodie Father VVrath What sonne is wrath compted a sinne Sonne Ecclesi 7 Yea Father a detestable sinne bée not sayeth the wise man hastelie angrie in thy minde for wrath resteth in the bosome of fooles Eccle. 28 Be ware of anger and thou shalt make thy sinnes fewer for an angrie man kindleth varyance Eccle. 30 Zeall and anger shorten thy daies of life and carefulnesse and sorow bringeth age before the time Iames. 1 The wrath of man worketh that which is vnrighteous before God whosoeuer saith Christ is angrie with his brother vnaduisedlie shal be in danger of iudgement Math. 5. Father What is saide of enuie Sonne Father Wisd 1. wisdom entereth not into afroward and enuious soule nor dwelleth in the body subdued vnto sinne I will not haue to do with consuming enuie Wisd 6. for such a man shall not be pertaker of wisdome Let all bitternesse and fearcenesse Ephe. 4 and wrath and roaring and cursed speaking be put from you with all maliciousnesse Father Tell me somthing of gluttonie and drunkennesse Gluttony Sonne Excesse of meates bringeth sicknes Eccle. 37. and gluttony commeth at the last to an vnmeasurable heate through surfet haue manie one perished but he that dieteth himselfe temperatlie prolongeth his life Take héede to your selues Luke 21 least at anie time your hearts be ouercōmed with surfeting and drunckennesse He that hath pleasure in bankets shall be a poore man Pro. 21. and he that delighteth in wine and delycates shall not be ritch Esay 5. Wo be vnto them saith the Lord that follow drunkennesse and so continue vntil night Luke 16 For abusing Gods graces There was a certaine rich man clothed in purple and fine white and fared deliciouslie euery daie but when he dyed was tormented in hell Gal. 6. These are some of the déedes of the flesh drunkennesse and gluttonie they that commit such thinges shall not be inheretours of the kingdome of Christ and of God Father What saist thou of slouth and Idlenesse Sonne Pro. 6. The wise man saith goe to the Emit thou slougerd consider her waies and learne to be wise Luke 13. Behold saith Christ these thrée yéeres haue I sought fruit of the fig trée and finde none cut it vp why doth it trouble the ground Math. 25 The Lorde saide vnto the seruant that had one talent thou euill and slouthfull seruant thy tallent shall be taken from thée thou cast into vtter darknesse wher is wéeping and gnasshing of téeth Father What saith the scripture of swearing Swering that is almost in euerie mans mouth a common thing Sonne Let not saith the wise man thy mouth be accustomed with swearing Eccle. 23. for in it there be manie falls if he swere in vaine he shal be filled with wickednesse and the plague shall neuer goe from his house I saie vnto you saith Christ Math. 5 swere not at all neither by heauen for it is Gods seate neither by the earth for it is his foote stoole neither by Ierusalem for it is the Cittie of the great king neither by the head because thou canst not make one haire white or blacke but your communication shal be yea yea nay nay Iames. 5 and whatsoeuer is more commeth of euill Thou shalt not take the name of God in vaine Exod. 20 for the Lorde will not hold him guiltles that taketh his name in vaine The prophet saw a flying booke of xx zachary 5 cubits long tenne cubits broade this is the curse that goeth ouer the earth for all theues shal be iudged after this booke and al swerers shal be iudged after this booke it shall come into the house of the théefe and into the house of him that fastie sweareth by my name saith the Lorde and shall remaine in his house and consume it with the timber and stones Father Then it is not lawfull to sweare for anie cause Sonne Ieremi 4. No father except for the testifiyng of the truth in doubtfull causes being moued therevnto by a iudge and then they must sweare in iustice iudgement and righteousnesse Father It would be to longe to recite perticulerly euery sinne committed in the world therefore shew me the most vsuall sinnes in generall wordes Sonne Ieremi 22 In the world they despise Father and Mother in it they haue oppressed the straunger the fatherlesse widowe they haue despysed the Lords sanctuarie and vnhallowed the Sabothes murders are therein many deale shamefully with their neighbours wife guifts are receaued therin to shed bloud and vsurie haue béene committed Father Is not vsurie lawfull Vsury Sonne Lawfull No horrible Deu. 23 thou shalt not saith the Lord hurt thy brother by vsury of monie or Corne or by vsurie of anie thing that he may be hurt with all If thou lende monie to anie of my people that is poore by thée Exod. 22 thou shalt not be as a tyrant vnto him neyther shalt thou oppresse him with vsurie Thou shalt take no vsurie of thy brother nor vantage Leuiti 25. Blessed is that man that hath not laide out his monie for vsurie Psal 15. nor receaued rewards against the innocent so on the contrarie part cursed is he that lendeth out to vsurie Father Thou saiest that the Lords sabaoth is vnhallowed Saboth is it a day to be hallowed and sanctified Sonne Gen. 2. Yea Father for the seuenth day the Lord ended his worke which he had made and rested from all his worke and GOD blessed the seuenth day and sanctified it because he hadde rested from all his worke which he ordayned to make Exod. 16 No Manna fell on the Sabaoth daye for it is an holie rest vnto the Lord. Exod. 23. The seuenth day thou shalt rest thine Oxe thine Asse thy sonne thy maide and the straunger and so to be refreshed Numer 16 Let him that gathereth stickes on the Sabaoth day be stoned without the host Father Hath the Sabaoth béene sometime vnhallowed Sonne Esdras 4 Yea for Esdras sawe some treading wine presses on the Sabaoth and bringing Asses loden with grapes figges and bringing all manner of burthens vnto Ierusalem vpon the Sabaoth day and I rebuked them saide he earnestly the same day that they soulde their victualls and soulde fish and I reproued them and the rulers for breaking the Sabaoth
day but after this there came none to buy nor sell on the Saboth day Father Who doth kéepe the Sabaoth sanctifie it Sanctifiers of the Saboth Sonne He that kéepeth himselfe that he doe no euill Esay 56 If thou turne thy féete in the Saboth Esay 58 so that thou doest not the things that pleaseth thy selfe in my Sabaoth and thou call the pleasant holie and gracious Sabaoth of the Lord and that thou giue him the honour so that thou doe not after thine owne imaginations neither séeke thine owne will nor speake thine owne words It is lawfull saith Christ Math. 12 to doe good déedes on the Sabaoth day Father Me thought thou spakest that the Lords sanctuare was defiled Sonne Yea Father Ieremie saith Ieremy 22 they haue despised the Lords sanctuarie Father Temple Who did first builde the Temple vnto the Lord Sonne 3. Kin. 6. Salomon the third king of Israell built an house for the Lorde in Ierusalem that was thrée skore cubits long and xx cubits broade and fiftie cubites high Cro. 17. The Lord saide to Dauid thy sonnes shall buylde me an house and I will stablish his seate for euer Father Why did not the Lord suffer Dauid to buylde his Temple Sonne 1. Cro. 22. Because he had shed much bloud and made great battells in the Lords sight vpon earth 2. Cro. 7. The Lorde appeared to Salomon by night and saide I haue heard thy petition and haue chosen this place for my selfe to be an house of sacrifice A house of sacrifice I haue sanctified this house that my name may be there for euer Father Where did Salomon buylde the Lords house Sonne At Ierusalem in mount Morea where the Lord appeared vnto Dauid his father in the threshing floore of Ornan the Iesubite 2. Cro. 3 Father Thou sayest that we may not buy sell on the Sabaoth what must we then doe Sonne We must goe to the Temple of the Lorde and pray 1. king 1 and offer vnto the Lorde of hostes Serue the Lord onely 1. Kings 6 and prepare your hearts vnto him and he will rid you out of the hands of your enimies Salomon the king made a long prayer in the Temple vpon his knées 3. king 8 and his hands lifted vp to heauen The Lord aunswered Salomon and saide I haue heard thy petition 2. Cron. 7. and haue chosen this place for my selfe if I shut vp heauen that there be no rayne or if I commaund the Locusts to deuour the laÌ„d or if I send pestilence among my people Praiers repentaÌ„ce conuersation in gods teÌ„ple and if my people vpon whome my name you called vpon doe humble themselues make intercession and séeke my presence and turne from their wicked waies them will I heare from heauen and be merciful vnto their sinne and will heale their land Father What name gaue Salomon to the house that he buylded for the Lord Sonne 2. Cro. 2 He called it an house of sacrifice for he saide euen to burne sacrifices before the Lord shall his building be Father Some refuse to go to this Temple of the Lord what saiest thou to those Sonne Psalm 27. I say they are not of the minde of the king and Prophet Dauid who saide one thing haue I desired of the Lord which I will require that I may dwel in the house of my God all the daies of my life I was glad when they said vnto me we will goe into the house of the Lord. Psal 122 Thanks giueing Therefore the cryes goe vp euen the cryes of the Lord to testifie vnto Israell to giue thankes vnto the name of the Lord. Eccle. 4 To offer acceptable offerings When thou commest into the house of God kéepe thy foote and draw nigh that God which is at thine hande may heare that thou giue no offeringes of fooles for they knowe nought but to doe euill We will goe into the tabernacle of the Lord Psal 132 and fall lowe on our knées before his footestoole The Publican comming to the Temple knéeled downe prayed Luke 18. Praier and confession and smote vppon his breast and saide God be mercifull vnto mée a sinner Father Are not the preachers and Ministers that be in the temple to be heard Sonne Yes truely no lesse then Christ himselfe for he saith he that heareth you heareth mée and he that heareth mée heareth him that sent mée They haue Moyses and the Prophets Luke 16 let them heare them Hée that is of GOD Io. 8. heareth Gods words He that God hath sent Io. 3. speaketh the words of God How shall they cal on him on whoÌ„ they haue not beléeued Rom. 10 howe shall they beléeue on him of whom they haue not heard how shall they heare without a preacher how shall they preach except they be sent Father Why is the word of God to be heard Gods word to be hard Sonne Rom. 10 That by hearing we may haue faith and by faith be saued Psal 119 That we may learne to walke in the law of the Lord. It is to be laide vp in our heartes that we shoulde not sinne agaynst the Lord. Micheas 4 Let vs goe to the house of our God that he may teach vs his waies and that we may walke in his pathes Father What ought we to doe after we haue heard the preacher Sonne Ieremi 26 We ought to feare the Lord and make our prayers vnto him and then the Lord will repent of the plague that he hath deuised and not doe it Ionas 3. The people of Niniuie when Ionas preached that within fortie daies their Citie should be destroyed they put vppon them sackecloth laid them downe in ashes fasted and cried mightelie vnto the Lord and the Lord spared them and destroyed them not Father I meruell much that the Lord destroyed not that Cittie for he saide plainelie that within fortie daies it should bée destroyed and yet he did it not whereby it should séeme that Gods purpose is oft changed Sonne No father the Lord is no changeling Iames. 1 There is no variablenesse with God For the Lorde sayeth when I take in hand to root out to destroy Ieremi 18 or to wast away anie people or kingdom if that people against whom I haue thus deuised conuert from their wickednesse I repent me of the plagues that I deuised to bring vppon them Againe when I take in haâ—â— to build to plante a people or kingdom God repent if the same people or kingdom doe euill before me and héere not my voice I repent of the good that I deuised to doe for them and doe it not so that the people are changed and not good Father Blessed be God therefore Is the preacher appointed what he shall speake Sonne Yea Exod. 4 the spirit of God speaketh by his mouth if hée be a true preacher for the Lord
you ye scribes Pharasies and Ipocrits for ye deuoure widowes houses Sore punishment that vnder a pretence of long praiers therefore ye shall be sorer punished Father What sonne doth not prayer auayle the dead Sonne No father Eccle. 10◠for when the trée falleth whether it be to the South or North there it lieth in what place soeuer it fall They that be liuing Ecclesi 9 knowe that they shall die but they that be deade knowe nothing neither deserue they any more for their memoriall is forgotten so that they be neither loued hated nor enuied neither haue they any more profite in the world in all that is done vnder the sunne Praiers help not the dead But prayers and offerings father are done vnder the same and therefore the deade haue no part thereof Father If prayers helpe not the dead wherefore shoulde we goe to the houses of the deade Sonne To giue thankes vnto God Io. 11 and to comforte the friends and kinsfolkes of the dead as the Iewes when Lazarus was deade there came many to comfort Martha and Marie ouer their deade brother Father What must we carrie out of this life with vs Sonne Reuel 14 Our good déedes and our euill Opera eorum sequntur eos their workes saith Saint Iohn shall follow them Father Shall the ritch take none of their substance treasure with them that they so diligently séeke for and so carefully kéepe Sonne Iob. 27. When the ritch man dyeth saith Iob he taketh nothing with him but perisheth and the thinges he leaueth behinde him come to naught Luke 12 Christ tolde a ritch man that had filled his Barnes and houses to the doores and saide to his soule eate and drinke take thy rest for many yeères and the Lord sayde thou foole this night shall they fet thy soule away from thée then whose shall those be that thou hast prepared Eccle. 41 The remembrance of death is bitter to a man that séeketh rest and comfort in his substance and ritches to remember that he must byd all farewell in one day Iob saide Iob. 1. naked came I out of my Mothers wombe and naked must I returne thyther agayne We brought nothing into this world Tim. 6. neither must we carie any thing out Father Well sonne shall none walke as some imagine nor come agayne after death Sonne None father for Iob saith Iob. 1◠the way that I most goe is at hande from whence I shall not returne agayne He that goeth downe to the graue shall come no more vp Iob. 7. till the heauens perish nor turne againe to his house neither shal his place know him any more Whether his children come to worshippe or not hée cannot tell Iob. 14 and if they be menne of lowe degrée hée knoweth not After our ende there is no returning Wisd 2. for it is fast sealed so that no man commeth agayne Eccle. 38. Forget not there is no returning agayne 2. kings 12 Dauid saide séeing the childe is deade I cannot bring him agayne I shall goe to him rather then he shall come to mée by this place you may perceaue that men walke not Iob. 7. nor rise till the heauens perish which is at the day of iudgement Father What saiest thou by the prophet Samuell who appeared to king Saull after he was dead being called vp by a woman Sonne 1. king 28 31. He whome the woman called vp was a diuel as appeareth by these words To morrow shalt thou and thy sonnes be with me for in the day following Saull tooke a sworde and fell vpon it dispayring of Gods mercie and so perished and had his part among the desperate and not with Samuell that elect of God Father But sonne why was Saull the first king of Israell that annoynted of GOD cast off from the Lord. Sonne Because he trespassed against the Lord 1. Cro. 10 in that he kept not the word of the Lord and in that he sought and asked counsell of a woman that wrought with a spirit and asked not of the Lord. Father Séeing that none returne to shewe how they are delt withall and that prayers wil not helpe those that be dead what must we doe to be without daunger Sonne We are taught by the prophet Sophonie to examine our selues Sophony 2. and search our consciences or the things goe foorth that God hath concluded Good coūsell and or the time come wherein man shal passe away as the dust and or the fearefull wrath of God come vpon vs work while we liue yea or the day of the Lords sore displeasure come vpon vs séeke the Lord all ye méeke harted of the earth ye that worke after his iudgements séeke righteousnesse séeke lowlinesse that ye may be defended in the wrathfull daye of the Lord. Gette thée righteousnesse before thou Eccle. 1◠come to iudgement learne before thou speake go to phisicke or euer thou be sicke examine and iudge thy selfe before the iudgement come and so shalt thou finde grace in his sight Io. 9. Christ saith worke while it is day for the night will come in which none can worke Father Why shoulde we be so earnestly moued to flée from sinne Sonne Sins part from God Esay 59. Because they seperate from the Lord for your iniquities saith God hath seperated you from mée and your sinnes hide my face from you that I heare you not for your fingers are defiled with bloud and your hands with vnrighteousnesse your lippes speake leasing and your tongues speake out wickednesse 4. king 17 They left the commaundement of the Lord their God and made them Images of mettall euen two Calues and made Idoll groues These sins part from God and worshipped the host of heauen and serued Baall and sacrificed their sonnes and daughters in fier and vsed witchcraft and inchauntment and the Lord therefore was excéeding wroth and put Israell out of his sight The Lord droue man out of Paradise at the East side Gen. 3. because he hadde sinned By the sinne of one man there sprong vp euill on all men to condemnation Rom. 5 for we were enimies vnto God There is nothing that causeth the Lorde to hide his face from vs but our sinnes and iniquities Father I vnderstand that all men and women by the sinne of Adam were subiecte to death and condemnation VVhat we are made by sinne in the handes of the Diuell made straungers and aliantes from the Lord enimies vnto God children of wrath firebrands of hell but tell mée howe mankinde was redéemed and deliuered being in this damnable state Sonne When manne and woman hadde transgressed and broken that commaundement of GOD the father Gene. 3 and that the Lord haue iudged them guiltie by their owne confessions and had cursed the Serpent who deceaued them then he spoke a comfortable word for he saide there should be one springing of a woman that
should tread downe all Sathans power Seede of a woman for he should treade on his head yet he should pricke him in the héele this séede of the woman was promised also to Abraham Gen. 22. In semine tuo benedicentur omnes gentes et nationes terra In thy séede shall all the nations of the earth be blessed Esay 7. Behold a Virgin shall conceaue and beare a sonne and thou his Mother shalt call his name Emanuell butter and honye shall he eate that he may knowe to refuse the euill and chose the good Ezech. 35 I will raise vp vnto them one onelie shepherd euen my seruaunt Dauid he shal feede them and he shall be their shepherd I the Lord will be their God and my seruaunt Dauid shall be their Prince zachar 10 Out of Iuda shall come the helmet the naill the battell bowe and all the princes together It were too long for me to shewe you all the scriptures wherein there is prophecied of Christ his comming death and passion and therefore I pray you let these suffice for one scripture is a sufficient testimony for any cause or controuersie whatsoeuer Father What saist thou of Christes byrth and comming into the worlde Sonne Christ was borne in Bathlem of the blessed Virgin Mary Luke 1 by the power of the holie ghost as saint Paull saith when the time was full come that God the father had put in his owne power he was reueled vnto vs for before God the father dyuerslie and manie waies spake vnto our fathers by Prophets Heb. ◠but in these last daies he spoke vnto vs by his owne sonne whome he made heire of all thinges Whereas we were deade saith Saint Paull in trespasse and sinnes Ephe. 2 in which in times past we walked Dead in sinne hath he quickned vs according to the course of this world euen after the gouernour the ruleth in the aire the same that worketh now in the children of vnbelef Children of wrath by nature among whom we had our conuersation also in times in the lusts of our fleshe and fulfilled the lustes of the flesh and of the minde and were by nature the Children of wrathe euen as well as others but God which is ritch in mercie for his great loue wherewith he loued vs euen when we were néere dead by sinnes VVhat we were but for Christ quickned vs together in Christ by grace are we saued and raised vs vp together with him among them of heauen in Christ Iesu Father Tell me what benefits we haue by the natiuitie death passion resurrection and ascencion of Christ Iesu Sonne Esay 4. We are purged by Christ from all our sins Esay saith that the Lord shal wash away the filthinesss of the daughter of Sion and purge the blood out from Ierusalem with the wind of his iudgement and with fire Ezech. 36. I will power cleane water vppon you and you shal be cleane yea from all your vncleannes and Idolls shall I clense you Sopho. 3 I will cleanse the lyps of the people that they may euery-each one cal vppon the name of the Lorde Purged to serue the Lord. and serue him with one shoulder The house of Dauid zachary 3 and the Cittizens of Ierusalem shall haue an open well to wash off sinne and vncleannesse He is like a goldsmith fier Malachi 3 and washers soope hée shall purge the Children of Leuy and puryfie them as gold and siluer that they may bring meate offerings vnto the Lord in all righteousnesse If the blood of Oxen and of Goats Heb. 9. and the ashes of an young Cow when they be sprinckled pacified the vncleane Purged by blood to serue him as touching the puryfiyng of the flesh how much more shall the blood of Christ purge our consciences from dead workes to serue the lyuing God He was in all thinges like vnto vs Heb. 2. that he might be mercifull and a faithfull hye Priest in things concerning God Actual originall to purge the peoples sinnes The blood of Iesus Christ purgeth vs from all sinnes 1. Io. 1. Christ washed his disciples féete Io. 13. None cleane but he that Christ washeth Peter said Lord thou shalt neuer wash my feete but Iesus aunswered if I wash the not thou hast no part with mee Father But how is this purgation by Christ his precious blood applyed vnto vs so that thereby we are purged and clensed Sonne Acts. 15 By faith for saint Peter saith the Lord which knoweth the hart of men and gaue vnto the Ientiles the holy ghost because they did beléeue euen as vnto vs and put no difference betwéene vs and them séeing that with faith he puryfied their harts Pro. 15 Through mercie and faith are sinnes purged Father And to what ende are we thus purget by faith in the blood of Christ Sonne Io. 15. Purged to bring forth good fruits good works That we may bring foorth fruite in him for the branch cannot bring foorth fruite except it abide in the vine no more can ye except ye abyde in mée for without mée ye can doe nothing Father Tell me how we are redemed and to what ende Sonne We were not redemed with corruptable thinges as siluer or goold 1. Peter 1 but with the precious blood of Iesus Christ as a Lambe vndefiled We haue redemption through his blood Ephe. 1. euen the forgiuenesse of our sinnes Our Lorde Iesus Christ hath giuen himselfe for vs Titus 2 Redeemed to do good works to redeme vs from all vnrighteousnesse and to purge vs a peculiar people vnto himselfe feruentlie giuen vnto all good workes Father How are we saued and through whom haue we saluation Sonne Saint Paull sheweth you that Iesus Christ came into the world to saue sinners 1. Tim. 1 Shew thy meruailous works Psalm 17 thou that art the sauiour of all them that trust in thée I shall with ioy draw water out of the wells of my sauiour Esay 1◠for the Lord is my strength and my song and is become my saluation I am euen I am the onelie Lord None can saue but Christ on◠Esay 4.3 and beside me there is noe sauiour I haue troden the wine presse alone and of all people ther is not one with mée I looked about me and there was none to shew me any helpe No Angell or Saint can saue or help Math. 1 I meruailed that no man held mée then I held mée by mine owne strength mine owne arme sustained mée He shal be called Iesus for he shall saue the people from their sinnes Father How take we hold of this saluation Sonne Acts. 15. By faith for Peter saith we beléeue that through the grace of the Lorde Iesus Christ we shal be saued Father What must we doe to be saued Sonne Acts. 17. We must beléeue on the Lord Iesus and wée and our housholds
a leper he should shut him out of the congregation vntill he were clensed Saint Paull speaketh of one that was a speciall Leper 1. Cor. 5 who had coÌ„mitted fornication with his Mother in lawe and willed the Corinthians to excommunicate him saying deliuer the man that hath done this déede vnto Sathan for the destruction of the flesh that the spirite may be saued in the day of the Lord Iesus put away the euill from among you Father What if the Leper be clensed and the fornicatour be penytent how must they be vsed Sonne The Leper shall come to the priest Leuiti 13 and if he be clensed the Priest shall shew it to the congregation that their brother being Leprous is healed and after the offering commaunded by God and he shal be receaued into the congregation againe So likewise if the offender repent and come to the Priest hauing such aucthoritie he shall receaue him and giue notise to the congregation whome he had offended that he hath repented and so receaue him againe offering an oblatioÌ„ of thanks giueing vnto the Lorde for Saint Paull saith Absolution â— Cor. 2. to whome you forgiue anie thing I forgiue also in the sight of Christ least Sathan should preuent vs. â— Cor. 2. It is sufficient of the man that he was rebuked of many so that now contrariewise ye ought to forgiue him and to comforte him least that same person should be swalowed vp with ouermuch heauienesse Comfort the broken harted Wherefore I exhort you that loue may haue strength ouer him Father Ignorance What if a man sinne ignorantly is not that excusable Sonne Leuiti 4 No father for the Lord commaunded that if any man should sinne of ignorance and should doe any of the things that the Lord had forbidden in his commaundements to be done that he should bring for his sinne which he hadde sinned an Oxe without blemish or a Goat for a burnt offering and the Priest shall make an attonement and the sinne should be forgiuen If the blinde leade the blinde saith Christ both fall into the dytch That seruaunt that knew not his lords will and did it not Luke 2 shall be beaten with few stripes So that ye may sée ignorance shall not excuse Father What saiest thou of holy water that was vsed of late yéeres Holy water Sonne I say it was a ceremonie reproued by the Lord speaking by Ieremie Ieremi 2. the people haue forsaken mée the well of the water of life and haue digged themselues pitts yea vile and broken pitts that can holde no water Ye are like to those that goe downe to the graue Baruc. 3 euen because ye haue forsaken the well of wisedome Father Yea Nume 19 but the scripture maketh mention of sprinckeling water and saith he that toucheth any vncleane thing shall be vncleane vntill he be sprinckeled with the sprinckeling water Sonne That was accounted a ceremonie ordayned by God the father to signifie that all were vncleane except their hearts and consciences should be sprinckled with the water of life zachar 1â— which the Prophet Zachary speaketh of the house of Dauid and the Citizens of Ierusalem shall haue an open well to wash of sinne and vncleanenesse zachar 14 In that time shall the waters of lyfe runne out of Ierusalem then shall there be but one Lord onelie and his name shall be one Ieremy 17 They haue forsaken the Lord euen the waters of life â—o 19 SprinckliÌ„g VVater One of the souldiers when Iesus was vpon the Crosse with a speare thrust him to the heart and there out came bloud and water this is that sprinckeling water wherewith we are clensed so that I will conclude with Christes owne wordes to Peter â—o 13. Holy waâ—er when he washed the Disciples féete with water Peter saide Lorde thou shalt neuer wash my féete but Iesus saide if I wash thée not thou hast no part with mée so that vnlesse we be washed with this water by Iesus Christ we shall neuer be cleane this water of life being come that sprinckeling water you speake of in the ceremoniall lawe is taken away séeing the verie thing it selfe is come the shadow or figure is abolished Father What doth the scripture speake of frée will Free will Sonne Since the fall of Adam Ieremi 10 there was none that had frée will for Ieremie the prophet saith I know Lord it is not in mans power to order his owne waies or to rule his owne footesteps and goings Who can haue vnderstanding of the meaning except thou giue him wisedome Wisd 10 and send the holie Ghost that the waies of them that be vpon earth may be reformed What I would doe doe I not Rom. 7 but what I hate that doe I to will is present with mée but I finde no meanes to performe that which is good It is God that worketh in you Phillip 2 both the will and also the déede euen of good will We are not sufficient of our selues to thinke any thing as of our selues 2. Cor. 3 but if we haue béene able vnto any thing All goodnesse commeth of God the same commeth of God which hath made vs able to minister the newe Testament not of the letter but of the spirit Father Euil counsellers What saiest thou of euill counsellers for many great men delight therein Sonne Math. 16 I say they are diuels incarnate marke the words of Christ when he was shewing his Disciples that he must suffer death for the sinnes of the world Peter his seruaunt called him aside and saide Maister fauour thy selfe saue thy selfe but what aunswered Christ Iesus when he hadde turned that all might heare Openly reproued he said to Peter goe after me Sathan for thou sauourest not the things that be of God but the things that are of men I pray God that all noble men Gentlemen and Land-lords hauing stewards and seruaunts that moue them to fauour themselues to liue daintely in this world to oppresse their poore tenaunts to enhaunce their rentes to pill and poll them to driue them out of their houses and doe ioyne house to house and lande to lande that they would aunswere them openlie to their shame Euil counsellers are diuells and say come after mée sathan thou art an impe of the Diuell and a messenger of death thy Maister Sathan hath sent thée to gette my soule which Christ Iesus bought with his precious bloud for a little pleasure to be tormented in hell for euer for what will it gayne me if I winne all the world and léese my soule Father God graunt that all Land-lords would so doe for then God should be glorified the poore well relieued they themselues more honested and in the ende rewarded the Realme by a strong and mightie commonaltie strengthened and her Maiestie by dutiefull subiectes dread feared and honoured But procéede tell me what is the ende commonlie of such
the dewe of Pearles and the Earth shall cast them out that bée vnder her the earth shall disclose her owne bloude and shall no more hide them that are slayne in her Beholde saith the Lorde I will open your Graues Ezech. 37 and take you out of your Sepulchers and bring you out of the lande of Israell againe my spirit shall I put in you and ye shall liue Many of them that sléepe in the dust of the earth shall awake Dan. 12 some to euerlasting life some to perpetuall shame and reproofe There shall bée a resurrection both of iust and vniust Good and bad Acts. 24 For by Christ shall all menne liue 1. Cor. 13 and GOD shall giue to euerye one his owne bodye at his pleasure For when the Trumpe shall blowe the deade shall ryse incorruptable and bée chaunged Father 〈◊〉 terrible lay Iesus be mercifull vnto vs. Procéede tell me now of this terrible day of iudgement Sonne â—say 13. The day of the Lord shall come terrible full of indignation furie and wrath to make the lande wast and to roote out the sinnes thereof for the Starres and Planets of heauen shall not giue their light the Sunne shall be darkened in the morning and the Moone shall not shine with his light I shall shake the heauen and the earth shall remoue out of her place saith the Lord of hostes â—say 14 Hell be-neath trembleth to méete the Lord at his comming â—say 24. The earth shall réele too and fro like a drunken man and shall be remoued out of her place like a tent in one night and the iniquitie thereof shall be heauie vpon it it shall fall and not rise agayne in that day shall the Lorde visite the hoste that is on high aboue and the kinges that are vpon the earth and they shall bée gathered together and they that be in pryson the Moone shall be abashed and the Sunne ashamed when the Lord of hostes shall reigne in Syon and in Ierusalem with worshippe and in the sight of such as shall be of his counsell Beholde Esay 28. there commeth a vehement and sore day from the Lord like an vnmeasurable hyll and perillous tempest euen like the force of mightie and horrible waters that violentlie beareth downe all thinges The earth shall bée visited of the Lorde of hostes with Thunder Esay 29. Earthquake and a great noyse with storme and tempest and with the flame of a consuming fier The heauens shall vanish away like smoake Esay 5â— and the earth waxeth olde like a cloth and they that dwell therein shall perish in like manner The verie fishes of the Sea Ezech. 3â— the foules of the ayre the beastes of the fielde and all people that are vpon the earth shall tremble for feare of mée sayth the Lord the Hilles shall be turned vpside downe the stares of stone shall fall and all the walles shall sincke to the grounde â—oel 2. The day of the Lord commeth and is harde at hande a darke day a glouming day a cloudie day yea a stormie daye before the Lord shall be a consuming fier and behinde him a burning flame Micheas 1 The mountaynes shall consume vnder him the valleys shall cleaue a sunder like as waxe consumeth and like as water runneth a pace â— Pet. 3. The world shall perish â—y fier The heauen and earth that are nowe to be kept by his worde in stoore and reserued vnto fier agaynst the daye of iudgement and perdition of vngodlye men â—opho 1 The great day of the Lord is at hand it is harde by and commeth on a pace horrible is the tidings of the Lords daye then shall the Gyants crye out for the day is a day of wrath and of trouble and heauinesse a day of vtter destruction and miserie a darke and glouming daye a cloudie and stormie daye a daye of noyse of Trumpets and Shalmes Trumpets shalms agaynst the strong Citties and high Towers â—euel 6 I sawe the Sunne as blacke as sackcloth and the Moone as bloud the Starres fell from Heauen the Heauen vanished away euen as a scrolle that rooled together and all mountaynes and Iles were remooued out of their places the great day of his wrath is come and who is able to endure Christ himselfe saith Math. 24 the Sunne shall bée darkened and the Moone shall not giue her light the Starres shall fall from heauen and the powers of Heauen shall be mooued and then shall appeare the token of the Sonne of manne in Heauen then shall all kinredes of the earth mourne when they shall sée the Sonne of manne come in the cloudes of Heauen with power and great glorie Father Mercifull God deliuer vs on that terrible and dreadefull daye of vengeance and wrath shielde vs vnder thy winges and couer vs with thy fethers But tell mée of that Iudge before whome we must make our appearances Sonne The Lorde Iesus shall shewe hymselfe 2. Theâ—â— from Heauen with his Angells of his power and with a flaming fier Math. 25 The sonne of man shall come in his glorie and all the holie Angells with him and then shall he sitte vpon the seate of his glorie and before him shall be gathered all nations Daniel 7. The olde aged satte him downe and his cloathing was as white as snowe and the haires of his heade like pure wooll his Throne like the fierie flame and his wheeles as the burning fier a thousande serued him and tenne thousande times tenne stoode before him the iudgement was set and the bookes opened Reuela 1 Beholde saith Saint Iohn hée commeth with cloudes and all eies shall sée and they also that pearsed him and all kinreds of the earth shall waile ouer him Father Oh great and mightie GOD merciful father The iudgement not â—scaped be mindefull of thy people whome thou hast bought with thy precious bloud Goe on tell mée Sonne if none can escape this iudgement neither by witte pollicie strength ritches by hiding or couering themselues nor by anie other shift Sonne No Father Reuel 20 none shall escape that euer were are or shall be to that day For S. Iohn saith I sawe the deade both small and great stand before God and the bookes were opened and the Sea gaue vppe her deade which were in her and death and Hell deliuered vp the deade that were in them There shall be Kinges of the earth Reuel 6 great men and ritch men and chiefe Captaines and mightie men We must all appeare before the iudgement seate of Christ 2. Cor. 5. that euerie man may giue accompt of his workes All mightie men and Princes of the earth Esay 14 and all Kinges of the earth shall stande vp from their seates that they may aunswere and speake vnto the Lord. The glorie of the Lorde shall appeare Esay 40 and all flesh shall at once sée it All flesh shall come to worship
before mée saith the Lord Esay 66. and they shall goe foorth and looke vpon the carrions of them that haue transgressed against mée Amos. 9 They shall not flée away there shall not one escape nor be deliuered though they were buried in hell my hande shall fetch them from thence though they clime vppe to heauen yet shall I cast them downe though they hide themselues on the toppe of Carmell yet shal I séeke them out and bring them from thence though they créepe downe from my sight into the depth of the Sea I shall commaunde the Serpent there to bite them Math. 25 Iesus Christ shall sende his Angells with the great voyce of a Trumpet and they shall gather together his chosen from the foure windes euen from the highest parte of heauen till the endes thereof Thus father you may sée that this iudgement cannot be secaped Father Sonne the Lord comforte vs. What saiest thou shall there be no warning before the Trumpet bée sounded Sodenly and all summoned to iudgement but shall it come vnwares and sodainely Sonne Christ saith if we shall not watch Reuel 3 hée will come as a théefe and we shall not knowe what houre he shall come on vs. The day of the Lord shall come as a théefe in the night 1. Thes 5 for when they shall say peace then shall sodaine destruction come vpon them euen as sorrowe vpon a woman in traueile and they shall not escape Of that day and houre saith Christ Math. 24 knoweth no manne but my Father onelie for as it was in the daies of Noa they eate and dranke married and were married builded and planted vntil Noa went into the Arke and the floude came and tooke them all away So shall the comming of the Sonne of man bée Watch therefore for ye knowe not what houre the sonne of man will come Father The Lord giue vs grace to be watchfull What shall the Lorde doe when all people kinredes and tongues and nations are set before him Sonne Partition Math. 25 He shall seperate the good from the bad euen as a shepperd parteth the shéepe from the Goats Ezech. 34. I will saith the Lord put a pertition and make a difference among the shéepe among the weathers and Goats Math. 25 Hée shall sette the shéepe on his right hande and the Goates on the left hand Father Christ helpe vs but howe shall the Lorde Iesus among all the people of the worlde knowe which are good to set them on his right hande and the euill and place them on his left hande Sonne Father the Lorde séeth and knoweth all thoughts words and workes of all men hee séeth from euerlasting to euerlasting there is nothing hid frō his eyes and besides they shall all bée marked the faithfull and good with the marke of the Lambe Iesus The wicked shall haue in their handes or foreheades the Beastes marke The Lord saide to one that had a linnen rayment vpon him Ezech. 9 and a writers Incke-horne by his side goe thy way through the Cittie of Ierusalem sette a marke vpon the foreheades of them that mourne and are sorie for all the abhorcions that are done therein And to an other he saide goe after him through the Cittie slay ouer sée none spare none kill and destroy both mē and young maides children and wiues but as for those that haue the marke vpon them sée thou touch them not An Angell hauing the seale of the liuing God in his hande Reuel 7 and he cryed to the foure Angels that haue power ouer the Earth and sayde hurte not the Earth neyther the Sea neyther the Trées till I haue sealed the seruaunts of GOD in their foreheads The names of the good are written in the Booke of life of the Lambe Reuel 3 They haue his name Eod. and his Fathers name written in their foreheads When the Lorde woulde smyte the firste borne in Egypte Exod. 12 and delyuer his owne people he commaunded that all his owne people euerie householde shoulde kill a Lambe late at night and sprinckle the doore chéekes and postes of the doore with the bloud so that when the destroyer should come he might sée the bloud and might passe by that house and not smite it So in like manner whosoeuer haue their hearts and consciences sprinckeled with faith in the bloud of the Lambe Iesus the destroyer in the day of vengeance shall not hurt but destroy the Egiptians that is the wicked that haue receaued the beasts marke Father Not pacified The Lord our God sprinckle our hearts with that bloud Sonne I haue brought thée a little from the purpose but turne againe to it and tell mée if the Lord will not be a mercifull God at that time and soone entreated Sonne Pro. 6. Mercifull no Father not mercifull but iust full of wrath and indignation Salomon compareth the Lord to a Iellious husbande the Ielousie and wrath of the man will not be intreated no not though thou wouldest offer him great giftes to make amends he will not receaue them There is no daise-man betwixt GOD and man Iob. 9. When he is wrath the earth shaketh Ieremy 10 all the Gentiles may not abide his indignation Heauen and earth shall remoue in the wrath of the Lord of hosts Esay 13. and in the day of his fearefull indignation Neither their siluer nor their gold shal be able to deliuer them in that wrathfull day of the Lord Sophony 1. but all the whole lande shall be burned with the fier of Ielousiie Beholde Amos. 2 I will crash you in sunder like as a waine crasheth that is full of sheaues so that the swift shall not escape neyther the strong doe any thing no the Gyant shall not be able to saue his owne lyfe I will not spare because he persecuted his brother with the sworde destroyed his mothers wombe bare hatred verie long and so kept indignation alway by him Who may abide his wrath Nah. 1. or who is able to abide his grymme displeasure his anger taketh on like fier and the hard rockes are clouen asunder He shall be like a Beare that is rauished of her whelpes euen full of wrath and indignation shall the Lord be in that day Father Good God what shall we doe séeing there is no mercie but that Clausae sunt ianuae the gates of all mercie are shutte vppe and iustice drawen out Cognoscetur dominus iuditia faciens The Lorde shall bée knowen to execute iustice and iudgement Procéede to tell mée when all people kinreds and tongues are araigned before this terrible iudge Plead guiltie or not guiltie and pleade guyltie or not guiltie what shall the iudge obiect or lay to their charge what will he saye to the faithfull on his right hande Sonne Math. 25 He shall say Oh ye blessed children of my Father when I was hungrie you gaue mée meate when I was thirstie you
Law-giuer the Lord is our King and he himselfe is our Sauiour the lame menne runne after the pray there lyeth no man that sayeth I am sicke but all euill is taken away from the people that dwell there â—say 35 They shall florish pleasauntly and bée ioyfull and euer be giuing of thanks more and more â—hanks â—ueing euerlasting ioye shal they haue pleasure and gladnesse shall be among them and as for all sorrow and heauines shall vanish away â—say 60. The Lord himselfe shall be their euerlasting light and their God shall be their glorie â—zech 37 Their children and their childers children shall dwell in that lande for euermore â—hrist and my seruant Dauid shall be their euerlasting prince and I will be among them for euermore â—uke 5 Reioyce and be glad for great shall your reward be in heauen They shal be equall saith Iesus Christ with the Angells Luke 20. and are the sonnes of God for asmuch as they are the children of the resurrection for all men liue vnto him They shall eate and drinke with Iesu Christ in his kingdome Eod. 23 and sit on seats iudgeing the twelue Tribes of Israell They shall giue prayse glorie Rom. 2 and immortalitie to God They shall alwaies be with the Lord saith Saint Paull 1. Thess 4 They shall be Kinges and Priestes of Christ Reuel 20 and shall raigne with him a thousande yeares And concluding that which hath no ende with the words of Saint Paull 1. Cor. 2. the eye hath not â—â—â—e the eare hath not heard neyther hath it entred into the heart of man the ioye that God hath prepared for them that loue him Father Thou hast brought euerie thing to perfection which I desired to knowe let vs ende therefore with makyng ouâ— humble hartie prayers vnto God thanking his Maiestie for all his gracious and mercifull benefites therfore beginne thou and I will pray with thée Sonne A Prayer O Lorde Iesus Christ the Sonne of the euerliuing God by whom all things were made are ruled and gouerned as of thy loue for our redemption thou diddest not disdayne to be our mediatour and to take vpon thée our nature in the wombe of a most blessed Virgin purelie and without sinne by the operation of the holy spirit that both â—hou mightest in thine owne person woâ—derfully beautifie and exalt our nature and worke the same in vs also for abolishing the guiltinesse of sinne by redemption then sinne it selfe by death and last of al death by raising again these our bodies that they may be like to thine owne glorious and immortall bodie according to the power wherewith thou art able to subiect all thinges vnto thée And as of thy loue for our redemption thou becamest manne and that most poore and afflicted vppon earth by the space of thrée and thirtie yéeres in most humilitie payest the price of our raÌ„some by thy most bitter death passion for the which I giue most heartlie thanckes vnto thée so of the same thy loue towards vs in thy good time thou wilt come againe in the cloudes of heauen with power and great glorie with flaming fire with thousandes of Saints with Angels of power with a mightie crye shout of an Archangell and blast of a Trumpe sodenlie as a lightning that shineth from the East when men thincke least euen as a thefe in the night when men be a sléepe Thou wilt so come â—â—us sodenlie in the twinckling of an eye all men that euer haue béene be or shalâ—â— with women and Children appearing before thy tribunall seate to render an accompt of all thinges which they haue thought spoken or done against thy Lawe openly and before all Angels Saints and Diuells and so to receiue the iust rewarde of thy vengance if they haue not repented and obeyed thy Ghospell and so depart from thée to the Diuell and his Angells into hell fire which is vnquenchable and of paines intollerable easeles endles hopels euen from the face of thy glorious and mightie power But if they haue repented and beléeued thy Ghospell if they bée found watching with their lampes and oyle in their handes if they be found redie appareled with the wedding garment of innocencie if they haue not hardened their hearts and hourded vp the treasure of thy vengance in the daye of wrath to be reueled but haue vsed the time of grace the acceptable time the time of saluation that is the time of this life in the which thou stretchest out thine hand and spreadest thine armes calling and crying vnto vs to come vnto thée which art méeke in heart and lowlie for thou wilt ease all that labour and bée heauie laden If they haue visited the sicke and prisoners comforted the comfortlesse féed the hungrie clothed the naked lodged the harborles If they haue not lodened their hearts with gluttonie and surfeting and carelesnesse of this life If they haue not digged and hid their Tallent in the ground doing no good therwith but haue béene faithfull to occupye thye guiftes to thy glorie and haue washed their garments in thy blood by harty repentance Then shall thy Angels gather them to gether not as the wicked which shall bée collected as fagots and cast into the fire but as the good wheate that is gathered into thy barne Then shall they be caught vp to méete the in the Cloudes then shall their corruptable bodie put on incorruption then shall they bée endued with immortalitie and glorie thâ—â— shall they bée with thée and goe wheythâ—r thou goest then shall they hreae come â—lessed of my Father possesse the kingdome of heauen prepared for you from the beginning and then shall they bée sette on seates of Maiestie iudgeing the whole worlde then shall they reigne with thée for euer then shall God bée all in all with them to them then shall they enter and inherite heauenlie Ierusalem and the glorious restfull land of Canaan wher it shal alwaies be day and neuer night where is no manner of wéeping teares infirmities hunger cold sicknesse enuie mallice nor sinne but alwaies ioye without sorrow mirth without measure pleasure without paine heauenlie harmony most pleasant melody saying and singing holie holy holie Lord God of hosts finally the eye hath not séene the eare hath not heard neither hath it entred into the heart of man that they shall then inherite and most surelie enioye although héere they be tormented prisoned solicited of Sathan tempted of the flesh and entaÌ„gled with the world where through they are enforced to crye come Lord Iesu oh gracious GOD let vs finde such mercie with thée that we may repent beléeue hope and looke for these thinges with full fruition of those heauenlie ioyes which thou hast prepared for al them the feare thée And so rest with thee for euermore graunt this oh Lord and sauiour Iesu Christ for thine owne name sake Amen Father I Thought it my dutie sonne to bring thée vp in vertue and knowledge and in the feare of God whereof I haue apposed thée and I thanck GOD thou hast profited well God graunt that thou increase from vertue to vertue vntill thou be a perfect member of Iesus Christ so that through thée God our heauenly father may be glorified his kingdome increased Sathan abolished superstition and Idolatary rooted out the coÌ„mon welth beautified thy brethren and neighbours releaued and I comforted and graunt that all people kindreds and tongues may in the fearefull day of the Lorde be found stable and vnblameable in holinesse and so reigne with thée God our heauenlie father in his eternall kingdome through the blood of the laâ—be Iesus Christ who liueth and â—igneth one true eternall immortall and euerliing GOD world without ende Amen Sonne Graunt this O Lorde and heauenlie father for Iesus Christ his sake Amen Father Well sonne depart apply thy studye the God of my fathers Abraham Isaac and Iacob blesse the and prosper thy labour in the Lorde Amen FINIS Aucthor Elizabetha diu valeat vigeatque regendo O Lord of Hosts defend with hand The gracious princesse of this land Keepe her from all her foes bloody I the beseech most hartelie And graunt her strength power might Vertue and grace to hauâ— a sight Of the O king of glory good That for vs all shed or thy blood And thus I stay my hand and penne Beseeching all to say Amen EINIS quod Lister Printed at London by Thomas East 1588.