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Two sermons preached the one at Paules Crosse the eight of Ianuarie 1580. The other, at Christes Churche in London the same day in the after noone: by Iames Bisse maister of Art, and fellowe of Magdalen Colledge in Oxenford.
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Bisse, James, 1551 or 2-1607.
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TWO SERMONS preached the one at Paules Crosse the eight of Ianuarie 1580. The other at Christes Churche in London the same day in the after noone By Iames Bisse maister of Art and fellowe of Magdalen â—â—lledge in Oxenford ¶ Imprinted at London by Thomas Woodcocke 1581. To the right worshipfull Syr Iohn Horner and Syr George Rogers knightes Iames Bisse wisheth grace mercy and peace from GOD our father and from our Lorde Iesus Christe WHen I had preached these two sermons right worshipfull diuers of my friendes requested a Copie of them the which they craued earnestly at the last I graunted hardly I had small leasure to pen my Sermons for them and thought it lesse honestie and as little curtesie to denie them But when through importunitie they had gotten the vpper hande and receiued my Sermons at my handes they went presently after a viewe taken of them vnto the Printer to haue them published They vsed many reasons to persuade me to yeeld therevnto but but when they coulde by no reason moue me to agree to their attempt they protested that my Sermons shoulde bee printed though I were neuer so vnwilling they hauing the copies in their handes in the ende wheÌ„ I could nothing preuaile with them but perforce was constrained to yeelde to the publishing of these my Sermons I Purposed as duetie moued mee to commend and commit them vnto your worships to whom I doe acknowledge my selfe diuers wayes much bounden and the rather was I mooued to hide them vnder the winges of your worships protection because your fauour in mainteining the Gospell your zeale to Gods worde the regard that you haue of Gods Ministers is knowne not to mee only who haue often times perceiued it but to all theÌ„ which although they know not you yet both know do acknowledge your good deedes The Lorde powre downe his spirite plentifully vpon you kindle more more in you the true zeale that alredy burneth increase the loue and good affection which you haue toward the gospel that you being pillers in the Church of Christ militant may also bee pillers in his Church triumphant And thus desiring your worships to accept this my simple and rude worke with my humble commeÌ„dations to you and to the vertuous Ladies your wiues I bid you hartily fare well from London this xix of Ianuarie 1580. Your worships to commaâ—ndâ— in the Lord Iames Bisse Iohn 6. 27. Labour not for the meat which perisheth but for the meat that endureth vnto euerlasting life Which the Sonâ—â— of man shall giue vnto you for him hath God the Father sealed DAuid a King and a Prophet a man after Gods owne heart the first liuely branche of the roote of Iesse of whose seed Christ was made according to the flesh vpon whose throne he doeth and shal sit for euer although he were a worme and no man the outcast of the people a Pellicane in the wildernesse an owle in the desert a sparowe without her mate alone vpoÌ„ the house top yet as the heart desireth the water brookes so longed his soule after the meate whiche endureth vnto euerlasting life being more precious vnto him than thousandes of gold and siluer sweeter than hony vnto his mouth and the honycombe vnto his throte For though the plowers had so plowed vpon his backe and made long furrows though the Lord so had troden downe his soule vpon the earth and layd his honour in the dust though his God had so exalted the horne of his enimies making them to ryde ouer his back that he as it were entring into the kingdome of desperation did cry then haue I clensed my hearte in vaine in vaine haue I washed my handes in innocencie and againe will the Lord absent himselfe for euer wil he be no more intreted is his mercie cleane gone for euer and is his promise come vtterly to an ende for euermore What will he now forget to bee gratious and shutte vp his louing kindenesse in displeasure Yet notwithstanding when hee had beene in the sanctuary of the Lord and so knewe the ende of his enemies and the causes of those thinges he was filled with marow and fatnes his head was annointed with fresh oile his cup was ful because he had dronken plentifully of the water of life and eaten abundantly of the bread of heauen For as Iohn did eate not a leafe only but the whole booke as Ezechiel did eate not a peece but the whole role the which booke and role were sweet as honie in their mouthes But the booke made Iohns bellie bitter and the role brought heauinesse to Ezechiels spirite that is the word brought vnto theÌ„ both peace to the conscience from the Lorde but warre to the bodie from the world So Dauids whole delight was in the law of the Lord his God to muse and meditate thereon too exercise and practise himselfe therein both day and night all dayes nightes of his life Whose good and godly example wee must followe in labouring for meate if wee will haue the crowne of life if wee will eate of the tree of life if we will eate of manna that is hid if we will haue that whitestone in the stone a new name written which no man knoweth but he that receiueth it if wee will stande in the middest of the paradise of GOD if wee will bee cloathed in white aray if wee will haue our names in the booke of life if we will be a piller in the temple of God and neuer goe out if we wil haue written vpon vs the name of God and the name of Ierusalem if wee will come to mount Syon to the citie of the liuing God to the coelestiall Ierusalem to the companie of innumerable angelles to the assembly and congregation of the first borne which are written in heauen to God the iudge of al to the spirits of iust and perfect men to Iesus the mediatour of the new tastament to the blood of sprinckling that speaketh better thinges then the blood of Abel For all other meates perish they with vs and we with them O then labour not for them only this meate the foode of the soule doth endure vnto euerlasting life it with vs and wee with it O then let vs all labour for it The children of Israel did eate Manna in the wildernesse but they are al dead Manna was not to bee founde on the sabboth dayes Manna was full of wormes and stanke Manna ceased when they had eaten of the corne in Canaan Manna was kept in a pot for the posteritie But is was no where to bee founde in the dayes of Solomon But they that are fedde with this bread shall neuer dye it is to be founde at al times it neuer putrifieth it neuer ceaseth for it doeth endure not to death but to life and that to euerlasting life Hee that drinketh of the water of Iacobs well shall thirst againe
haue in his other hand a rod wrapt in snaks to giue poyson ruine and death beware least while you gape for the scepter you receiue snakes And although your GOD is saide to haue kylled Argos who had a hundred eies least Argos shoulde perceiue the vniust dealying of the Merchauntes yet the Lorde your GOD lyueth who searcheth the corners seeth the bottome heareth the motions and vnderstandeth the thoughtes of your heartes But what sayeth the Prophet All men shoulde prayse the Lorde but aboue all other merchantes are bound to performe the same For sayeth hee they that goe downe to the Sea in ships and occupie their businesse in greate waters these men see the woorkes of the Lord and his woonders in the deepe And when there hee hath fully described the woonders and woorkes of the Lorde that they see hee thus concludeth with a vehement exhortation O that men woulde therefore prayse the Lorde for his goodnesse and declare the woonders that hee hath done for the sonnes of men Twoo thinges are required of you O yee Merchauntes to prayse the Lorde and too declare his woonders that you haue seene vnto others Forsake not the Lorde by goyng too your shippes Remember the shippe that Ionas was in Beware howe you haue felowshippe with heathen men with Infidels Athistes and Papistes because Iehosophat king of Iuda ioyned with Ahaziah king of Israel to sende shippes too Tarshish for gold he was reprehended by Eliezer and his shippes were broken Take Christe into your shippes when Christ was not in the shippe with his Disciples the shippe was almost drowned If Christ be in your shippe let him not sleepe there when he slept the shipp had almost perished Keepe him waking with prayer singing with melodie in your heartes too the Lorde To conclude labour not for the meate which perisheth for then you shall perish but labour for that meate which doth endure vnto euerlasting life for then the sonne of man shall geue you euerlasting life for hee is a Lambe and hee is a Lion hee is a friend and hee is a foe hee is a Iesus hee is a iudge he is a Redeemer hee is a confounder hee will not bruise a broken reede hee will bruise with a rodde of yron hee hath water hee hath fire hee hath heauen hee hath hell hee hath Angels he hath diuels he hath a scepter he hath a sword hee hath Vae woe hee hath Euge go too he hath Benedicti Blessed he hath Maledicti Cursed he hath Venite come hee hath ite goe hee hath a right hand hee hath a left hand he hath ioy he hath sorrowe hee hath mercy hee hath vengeance he doth geue euerlasting death and euerlasting life to him therefore with the Father and the holie Ghost be geuen all honor glory c. Amen An ende of the first Sermon The ii Sermon LAbour not for the meat that perisheth c. FOrasmuche as I haue shewed you the braod way where you shulde not walke the wide gate where you should not enter it is reason that I declare the narrowe way where you should tread and the straight gate where wee all desire to passe thorow Behold I haue opened vnto you the woorkes of darknesse which you must caâ—â— of nowe I will geue you the armour of light which you must put on I haue dehorted you and I hope thorowly dissuaded you from labouring for the meate that perisheth Nowe in the tender mercie of God in the bowels blood and wounds of Iesus Christ I exhort you and I trust I shal thorowly perswade you too labour for that meate which endureth vnto euerlasting life Wherefore as our Sauiour reprehended Martha beeing carefull about many things in preparing the dinner not simply reprehending eyther her labour as her hospitalitie but reprehended her because she did not consider the time wher in Christ taught Mary and offered too teach her and because shee preferred the dressing of the dinner to the hearing of Gods woord and afterwarde exhorted her too followe the example of her sister Mary who had chosen the better parte which neuer should bee taken from her So after that I haue proued that we shuld not labour for the meat which perisheth and that wee all are too carefull for many thinges not considering the tâ—me wherin our Sauiour doth so mercifully offer to teach vs I must exhort you to choose the better parte which neuer shall bee taken from you that is to labour for that meat which endureth vnto euerlasting life For although the Lord did raine flesh as thick as dust feathered foules as the sande of the sea and Manna as the hoare frost yet he would haue euery man to labour and gather it one house might not gather it for an other one man might not sell it or giue it to another euen so euery man must labour for this meate gather it for himselfe be it neuer so plentie being farre better then Manna for Manna melted when the sun did shine but this Manna though heauen and earth should be on fire and burne to ashes continueth euer endureth vnto euerlasting life Although we need not go seeke the arke of GOD as Dauid did nor the booke of the law as Iosias did nor goe vp to Ierusalem to worship as the Iewes did nor desire that one might come from the dead and teach vs as the glutton did we cannot say the law is in the mount with Moses who shall goe vp and fet it wee cannot say as in the dayes of Queene Mary wee might it is beyond the seas who shal goe ouer and bring it vnto vs yet we must not be idle negligent and carelesse we must labour for it although the worde be very neere vnto vs euen in our mouths our harts for to doe it as Moses spak to the Iewes though the Lord hath put his lawes in our mindes and in our hearts hath written them he our God and we his people euery man doeth not or should not neede teach his neighbour nor euery man his brother saying know the Lord but all knowe him from the least to the greatest as Ieremy prophecied yet must we labour for this meate Though Elyas cannot now say I am left alone Achab cannot say there is but one Michiah besides my 400. Prophets though Elyas haue not onely Elizeus for his scholler nor Elizeus onely Esay nor Esay onely Ieremy nor Ieremy onely Daniell nor Daniell onely Aggeus and Zacharias nor the Lorde onely xii Prophets that haue written nor Christ onely eleuen good Disciples but the Lord hath giuen the worde and great is the company of the preachers yet we must labour for this meat Although the Ministers are not scattered abroade as Iohn in Asia Peter in Samaria Phillip in Alexandria Thomas in Aethiopia Bartholomewe in India Andrew in Scythia Simon in Persia Iudas in Mesopotamia Marcus in Colonia Nathanaell in Fraunce Ioseph of Aramithia in Scotland and Paule