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A72063	A sermon preached at Paules crosse the firste Sunday after Newyeeres day, beeing the thirde day of Ianuary. 1580. By William Fisher student of diuinitie	Fisher, William, student of diuinitie.	1580 (1580)	STC 10920.3; ESTC S124925	28,377	84

inhibition at this day against a number of gospellers For many false Brethren abuse the gospell and make it a common Cloake for their Usurie Adulterie and Crueltie To them the Lord might say I wil haue Mercie and not the Gospell Noe not the Gospell so professed as they professe it The seconde kinde of Sacrifice mentioned in Scripture is the Sacrifice of Christ which the Lorde wil haue For howsoeuer hee tollerated the bloode of Gotes and the bloode of Calues for the time yet hee coul●e not bee pleased with any other but with this onely As for al other Sacrifices● they were but Shadowes this was the body They were but huskes this was the Kernel They were but Chaffe this was the Wheate They were but Leaues this was the fruite They were but signes this was the thing signified and the trueth it selfe For Christe Iesus beeing the brightnesse of the fathers glory and the ingraued forme of his person humbled himselfe vpon the Crosse and offred his body to affliction his soule to anguish all too purge our sinnes whereby hee hath wrought our atonement with God and taken away the cursse of the Lawe and destroyed the woorkes of the Deuill and tryumphed ouer hell it selfe O blessed Sacrifice No sauour but this could perfume our stincking soules No sacrifice but this coulde pacifie the wrath of God And heere deerely beloued we may see an other benefite which we haue and inioy in Christe who hath giuen him selfe a Sacrifice of a sweet smelling sauour to God that hee might purge our sinnes The Lorde make vs thankfull for this benefite and faithfully to take holde of it in all the assaultes of Satan The thirde kinde of Sacrifice is the Sacrifice of Christians which S. Peter calleth an especiall sacrifice acceptable to God for Christes sake and this kinde of Sacrifice is manifolde as may be gathered in Scripture The Sacrifice of a sorrowful heart The Sacrifice of God Psal 51. is a troubled spirite and a broken and contrite heart O God shalt thou not despise This sacrifice Christians ought to offer vp as often as they call to minde their wicked and sinfull wayes Secondly we haue the Sacrifice of Righteousnesse which is newnesse of life true godlines This sacrifice Christians are willed to offer by the prophet Dauid Psal 4. Offer to god the sacrifice of righteousnes put your trust in the Lord that is walke in the light as Children of the light haue no felowship with the vnfaithfull workes of darkenesse Resist the flesh liue in the spirit this is to offer sacrifice of Righteousnesse Thirdly we find in Scripture the sacrifice of Praise and thanksgiuing which is called the Calues of Christian lips Offer to God praise Psal 50. pay thy vowes vnto the most highe That is shew thy self mindfull of Gods benefits by thanksgiuing Fourthly we haue the sacrifice of almes whereof the Apostle speaketh To doe good and to Heb. 13. distribute forget not for with such sacrifice God is pleased And this sacrifise is to be offered of much plente●usly and of little diligently and it shall be accepted according too that a man hath and not according to that he hath not Lastly we haue the Sacrifice of obedience or reasonable seruice of God which Saint Paule commendeth I beseech you therfore Rom. 12. brethren by the mercies of God that you giue your bodyes a liuing Sacrifice holy and acceptable too God which is your reasonable seruice of God This Sacrifice we are to offer as often as wee celebrate the Lordes Supper For as the carnall Sacrifices of the Iewes were too foreshewe the blessed Sacrifice of Christ to come So muste this liuely Sacrifice of our soules and bodyes bee offred vp too testifie that it is already come that his body is already broken and his blood already shed for the remission of sinnes Heerevppon it is that the Schoolemen say that the Lordes Supper is a Sacramente and a Sacrifice It is a Sacrament in that we receiue the bread and Wine in remembraunce that Christ his body was giuen and his blood shedd for the remission of sinne It is a Sacrifice in that wee doe offer vpp our selues that is our soules and bodyes too shewe our thankfulnesse for so greate a benefite These are the Sacrifices which christians are of dutie to offer vnto God who will haue them and accept them for Iesus Christes sake And in respect of these Sacrifices Christianitie is a Royall priesthoode and Christians are Royall Priestes Their heartes are royall Aultars Their faith is Royall Incence And their feruent loue towards God and man is a Royall fire to make them haue a sweete sauour before God The Sacrifice of the Masse But what shall wee say of the Sacrifice of the Masse Is not that holy sacrifice to be numbred among those which the Lord will haue When the Church of Roome and all her Catholike children make so great accounte of it which is of force to releace the tormented soules in purgatory and to chace away Deuils from the possessed in Earth which whoso euer heareth as long as he heareth it he shall neuer wax olde which preserueth yong children in their mothers wombes deliuereth both olde and young from al imminent perils and daungers No I auouche and protest that the Lord will not haue it strugle the Catholicks neuer so mightely shuffle they neuer so cunningly for the magnifying of their Idol The Lorde will not haue it It is a worlde to see how euē of late they began to set vp their crests and to clapp their wings as if they would crowe the Pope day againe into England all because they imagine that their golden day begins to spring wherein the masse shal shine againe Yea they begin to looke vpon vs as if the Deuil should look ouer Lincolne and doe account it halfe heresie to speake to any man that is a known Gospeller They passe by vs humming mumming and whether they wishe out heads in their dishes or their swords in our bellyes wee cannot tell yea or noe But let them knowe that their sacrifice of the Masse is too full of Idolatrie abomination and blasphemie for the Lord to heare it And doe they thinke that her maiestie the Lords annoynted wil heare it God be thanked by the space of one and twentie yeeres shee hath bin a nursing and a naturall mother to the gospel and now will shee become a stepmother and fancy the Masse No it hath caused too many conspiracies and rebellions against her most noble persō for her maiestie euer to brooke it euen in pollicie And whereunto serue the Prayers of Gods children her faithfull subiects but euen to beseech God to continue her maiesties godly proceedings that shee may be so farre from backsliding as to growe from grace to grace from faith to faith that as shee hath planted nourished the Gospel so she may not be ashamed of the Gospel which is saluation to

doth likewise call vs to repentance and amendment of life Lastly his death conspired by his owne disciple pursued by his owne nation purposed by his owne father purchased by our sins without any desert of his own doth it not strike our hearts and wound our consciences with remorse Those bloody tears those piteous grones those cruell scourgings those reprochfull buffetings those bitter tauntings and raylings which hee put vp in al patience as the due rewards for our sins shal they not make vs morne and lament when they made the vayle of the temple to rent in sunder the gates to open the dead bodies to arise the earth to quake and tremble and the sunne to waxe darke If an earthly prince shuld punish euery rebellion treason conspiracy contempt offence and default which his subiects make vpon his beloued son would they not in pitie be ashamed sory too Our heauenly father punished the sinnes of the whole worlde vppon Iesus Christ his only begotten sonne hanging him vpon the crosse Oh then where is our sorrowe why are we not ashamed to heape sinne vpon sinne and to nayle him to the crosse againe Thus is Christes cōming the meanes of our calling wherin are included other more special means as ye shal heare in the next circumstance The second circumstance Moreouer in these wordes we are giuen to vnderstande who they are which Christ came purposely to cal I come not to cal the righteus but sinners c Yea and this circumstance may stirre vs vp to magnifie the benefite of our calling as much as any For here we see plainly that he renounceth al those which think better of themselues then sinners as these Pharises who dreamed that their owne righteousnes was sufficient to fulfill the lawe without Christ But what is the matter that he doth so flatly deny that hee came to cal the righteous It is wel worth the noting For whom doth he cal righteous but those which trust onely in their owne righteousnes and make no account of the righteousnesse of Christ Nowe these he doth renounce First because it was the determinate wil purpose of his father which sent him that whosoeuer wil make himself righteous is his owne Christ his own Iesus shal lye stil in blindnes sleep in his own cōfusion An other cause may be that forsomuch as he came purposely to seeke to saue that which was lost the righteous imagin that they neu●r went astray therefore he lets them be as they are An other reason may yet be taken of the setting forth his fathers glory for that there shal be more ioy in heauen ouer one sinner that repenteth then ouer ninety and nine iust persons which need no repentance And no doubt if hee had offred to cal them he had but lost his labour For had he said to them as he did to Matthewe Come folow me they would haue answered by and by We folow Abraham our father we folow Moses our Prophete wee followe the lawe of God we haue ceremonies we haue traditions wee haue prescriptions wee haue our inuentions to followe we looke for another maner of Messias to followe then such a beggerly outcast as thou art Therefore go where thou wilt we will not follow thee Wherfore dearely beloued beware howe you stand vpon your owne righteousnes because of a few good workes surely you haue no more portion in Christ then the veriest Pharisie that euer was For if our Sauiour Iesus will be found faithfull in his Messiaship he must renoūce you and say I came not to call the righteous Not the righteous whom then sinners sinners Beholde dearely beloued if you thinke to reape the benefites of Christes comming you must humble your selues and become sinners But how or in what maner doeth he call sinners The callyng of Christ is of two sorts the one is cōmō wherwith we are in deed stirred vp after a sort but not effectually boūd brought to the purpose for that they are not pleased with the meanes as Gods worde the Sacraments Sermons c and this is common to the reprobate righteous as wel as to the elect sinners Now the other is a conuenient and a mightie calling wherby the minds of sinners are touched and thorowly charged For in this very manner hee doeth call sinners to repentance First hee soundeth in their eares by the voyce of his Lawe the greate daunger of death and dampnation wherein they stand because they haue so wilfully transgressed his cōmandements this striks them in such horror of their sinnes feare of his vengeance that they would be glad to be reconciled to God the father lest he shuld poure vpon them their deserued punishment Then he sends them the sweete comfort of the gospel which shews them that Iesus Christ is become their mediator aduocate if they beleeue in him they shal be safe sure whervpō he giues thē faith plants it so fast in thē that nothing can drawe them from Christ And lest this faith shuld be Idle frutlesse he sends them the holy ghost the spirit of adoptiō to work in their hearts according to their calling And thus you see how Iesus Christ calleth sinners to repentance If you should question farther with me enquire of the time when hee calleth sinners That is counsaile to vs. For there is no time excepted there is no time to be in this world Therefore let no man dispair For hee cannot bee called so late into the Lords vineyard but he shal haue his peny wel truely paide him Lastly if you yet question further with me and enquire the cause why he calleth sinners and not righteous I must either hold my peace or els with Paule exclaime saying O the deepnes of the riches both of the wisdome Rom. 11. knowledge of God How vnsearchable are his Iudgements and his wayes past finding out Who hath knowen the mind of the lord or who was his counsailor c. For dearly beloued be it knowen vnto you heauen earth shal beare me witnes that the Lord in his doings is neither vniust nor vnmerciful No he is most iust and most merciful Is not hee most iust which hath punished with extreme rigor the offences of al those sinners whom he calleth vpon his own dear son Iesus Christ yea and wil no vou●safe to receiue them into his glory vntill hee hath perfectly iustified and sanctified thē in Christ is he not most mercifull who hath elected and called those which had neither worke nor meat but onely a liuely faith in the blood of Christ which hee himself had giuen them Therefore let al sinners reioice in the Lord againe and againe for Christ came to cal them c. The third circumstance Lastly we see here to what end purpose we are called in Christ to repētance To call sinners to repentance is to work two things in them that is to make thē knowe