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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B00991	A nicke for neuters. A most godly and fruitfull sermon, begun and preached at Paules Crosse, the 30. day of October last, and continued & finished in Paules Church, on New-yeeres day at night. / By Thomas Burt, Preacher of the Word.	Burt, Thomas, preacher of the word.	1604 (1604)	STC 4132; ESTC S126041	28,214	88

A Nicke for Neuters A most godly and fruitfull Sermon begun and preached at Paules Crosse the 30. day of October last and continued finished in Paules Church on New-yeeres day at night By Thomas Burt Preacher of the Word How long halt ye betweene two opinions if the Lord bee God follow him but if Baal bee God then follow after him 1. Kings 18.21 Seene and allowed AT LONDON Printed by Simon Stafford 1604. To the right Worshipfull Sir Iohn Grange Knight one of his Maiesties Iustices of the Peace and Quorum in the County of Middlesex and to that right vertuous the Lady Katherine his wife all earthly and heauenly true happinesse IN this dangerous time of Pestilence raging in this our Mother City and places adiacent it might be sayd as sometimes it was of Rome Paucorum virtus cuncta Romae patrauit Your Worship right worthy Knight being one of this paucity incumbēt on your office in these places euen alone Moses-like from the Morning to the Euening bearing the burthen of the people in hearing deciding ending their controuersies mayntayning the vertuous punishing the malefactors and like a broad Fig tree sustayning the weake and little shrubs making shaddow to the weary giuing fruite to the hungry and bearing your selfe strongly against all peruerse importune winds of contradictions and discouragements yea sowing vertue and reaping fame with griefe haue seene and well doe know that it might be sayd yet agayne notwithstanding Gods reuealed wrath and sharpe punishments as sometimes it was of Rome Moribus antiquis res stat Romana virisque Chrisostome fayeth If thou seest a tree doeth beare no fruit the cause is in the root The cause of the barren leaues of the peoples trees and their vayne words and abominable workes I take it to be want of Religion and Neutrality in Religion I haue therefore made choyce of this text Wherefore I entitle this booke A Nicke for Neuters because this our age hath brought forth many a prodigious Polypus and vayne ayre-full Camelions The diuine Angels of our Churches haue bene vilipended God hath bene offended and our City grieuously punished God auert his future further plagues turne his Iustice into mercy and giue vs grace by repentance to meet with his iudgements The Lord stirre vp the heart and blesse with all wisdome our prudent succeeding Salomon inspire with his spirit and giue fit ability cunning to Bezaleel Aholiab to promote the worke of the Tabernacle God rayse vp especially now trusty Chusa prouidēt Ioseph and iust Samuel bold Elias playne Iohn the Baptist instant Paul and feeding Peter and extirpate and explode wicked Achitophel couetous Iudas blind Elymas and paltry Magus and graunt that the Fig leaues of authority parentage selfe-loue flattery dessembling and fond fancies may be pulled off from Madam Psacentia● the noble Lady Verona may shew her liniaments in vninuested vnobscured nakednes so that with circumcised hearts and catechized soules we may euery one bring the Arke of God into our houses while we may that our houses may be blessed as those houses were where the Arke was and that this famous City with the Suburbs and adioyning Parishes now after their late sorrowfull sighing of that Hei mihi quanta de spe decidi may as it was sayd of Christ gustare post fella fauos to the glory of God the Church Common wealth and our priuate good And as by good desert induced it is my bounden duty I beseech the most Highest to stretch out his hand of protection defend receiue vnder the couerture of his wings and preserue your Worship and your vertuous Lady with those toward Imps your two gracious sonnes modest courteous daughters and to send with this my New-yeeres gift such as I haue to giue which I commend vnto you many new yeeres and continuall new and true ioyes benedictions and graces temporall corporall spirituall celestiall and eternall for his Christes sake Amen Your Worships in the Lord Thomas Burt Reu. 3. 14 And vnto the Angel of the Church of the Laodiceans write These things sayth Amen the faithfull and true witnesse that beginning of the creatures of God 15 I know thy works that thou art neyther cold nor hote I would thou werest cold or hote 16 Therefore because thou art luke-warme and neither cold nor hote it will come to passe that I shall spue thee out of my mouth 17 For thou sayest I am rich and increased with goods and haue neede of nothing and knowest not that thou art wretched and miserable and poore and blind and naked TO speake briefly of some and pretermit other circumstāces The Pen-man of this prophecy throughout the whole booke of the Reuelation is Iohn that diuine Eagle Eagle of diuinenesse one of the Lambes twelue Apostles The time when on the Lords day Apoc. 1.10 called the first day of the weeke 1. Cor. 6.2 The obseruation of this seuenth day is of diuine institution so hath bin from the beginning Acts 20.7 It is naturall morall and perpetuall God blessed the seuenth day and hallowed it The place in the I le of Pathmos lying in the Aegean sea whither Iohn was exiled by Domitian the Romane Emperour about the yere of our Lord 96. for the Words sake and for the testimony of Iesus Christ Apoc. 1.9 The Persons to whom are all the seruants of God Apoc. 1.1 Although but seuen Churches are mentioned yet vnder them all others are contayned The true end and vse of this booke is to publish to the world all things heerein cōtained as they must be orderly fulfilled euen to the end of the world Cap. 1.1 This Booke of the Reuelation may fitly be deuided into three visions as it were into three generall parts The first vision contained in the three first Chapters The second in the next eyght Chapters from the fourth to the twelfth And the last vision contayned in all the consequent Chapters from the twelfth to the end This Chapter then is part of the first vision containeth seuen Epistles written to the seuen Churches of Asia wherein the present estate of the Churches of Asia is most liuely described and in them the estate of all the Churches then militant on the face of the earth Foure things are contained in euery one of these Epistles First an Exordium or entrance into the matter Secondly a generall proposition Thirdly a narratiō Fourthly a conclusion The Exordium contayneth two things in euery Epistle First the person to whom Secondly the person from whom this Epistle is written The proposition and conclusion is in euery Epistle one and the same The narration put between them both consisteth of praise and disprayse admonitions reprehensions threates and promises This text then consisteth of three parts of this Epistle written to the Laodiceans the last of the seuen Churches First of Th'exordiū noting vnto whom it is written in these words And vnto the Angell of the Church of the Laodiceans write Secondly of the