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A13809	A sermon preached the 26. day of May. 1584. in S. Maries Church in Shrewesbury before the right honorable the Earle of Leicester, accompanied with the Earle of Essex, the Lorde North, diuers knightes, gentle-men of worshypfull callyng, the worshipfull bayliues, aldermen and burgesses of the towne of Salop. By Iohn Tomkys publick preacher of Gods word there: now first published by the authour. Seen, perused, and allowed accordyng to her Maiesties iniunctions.	Tomkys, John.	1586 (1586)	STC 24110; ESTC S118479	38,851	98

A SERMON Preached the 26. day of May. 1584. in S. Maries Church in Shrewesbury Before the right honorable the Earle of Leicester accompanied with the Earle of Essex the Lorde North diuers Knightes Gentle-men of worshypfull callyng the worshipfull Bayliues Aldermen and Burgesses of the towne of Salop. By Iohn Tomkys publick preacher of Gods word there Now first published by the authour Iam. 3.2 In many thynges we offend all Seen perused and allowed accordyng to her Maiesties Iniunctions AT LONDON Printed by Robert Walde-graue for William Ponsonby Anno. 1586. ¶ To the right honourable the Lord ROBERT DVDLEY Earle of Leycester c. one of her highnes most honourable priuy Counsayle and Chancellor of the Vniuersitie of Oxford grace mercy and peace in Christ Iesus be multiplied I Haue bene requested right honourable by one whose motion in honest causes is vnto me as a commandement to bestowe vpon him that simple Sermon which by Gods assistaunce I made before your Lords●ip in S. Maryes Church 〈◊〉 ●●ewesbury the 26. of May ●584 Although my maner haue bene hetherto for the most part rather to delyuer vnto the Church through my laborious translations the learning of other then in this learned age to offer to publique viewe myne own poore trauels yet because the aucthority of the requester then one of my hearers was so great and his wisedom so graue that it stoode with dutifull modestie rather to yeeld than to deny I foorthwith called my selfe to remembraunce what I had vttered as God vouchsafed to inhable me and committed the same to writing as leisure did serue me My trauayle again by me perused seemed in mine eies so seelie that casting it aside as an vntimely bearthe hitherto I haue detracted the performaunce of my promise But nowe considering that a promise aduisedly made may not rashly be broken I find myselfe in duety forced to do that which in Christianitie I was then required And acknowledging it my duetie to vse my tongue and my penne rather to the benefit of my country then the winning of credite I haue boldly resolued so to keep promise that the good of my sermon by the benefite of the print may become common to al the godly Although the matter therein contained be warrāted by Gods word and the doctrine therin taught be necessarie for the tyme yet because the maner of the deliuerie there-of is homely and base it is altogether vnworthy in your L. name to be published who worthely are become a patron of the workes of the best learned Neuerthelesse since your Lordship in this my labour hath the best interest because except you had vouchsafed that time to haue heard me I had not that daye spoken being no ordinary day of my weekly exercise and that it pleased you of your singular humanitie to prooue my dutifull indeuour I make bolde in humblenesse to offer that nowe to your eyes which in dutifulnesse I sounded then in your eares If I were able to deliuer vnto you a more worthy monument of my duetifull thankfulnesse for the manifold benefites by me vndeserued which vpon me you haue largely bestowed verely I would be inferiour to none of your debters in will which haue them all my superiours in habilitie And therefore I hope your H. wil accept that which I can seeing I cannot that which I would Our memory cannot commit to obliuion how curteously you accepted that meane and yet wel meant intertainmenr which the towne of Shrewsburie in dutie gaue vnto you L. And the posteritie no doubt shall heare of your thankefull accepting of many wel-comes your cheerful hearing of many orations your circumspect view of the situation and buildings of the towne your graue conference with the Magistrates in the gouernment there of your comfortable going into the free Grammer schoole to experience the towardlinesse of the youth there your Christian presence in the Church at the Sermon your painefull trauell in arbitrating controuersies your large giftes vnto maister Bayliffes officers your liberall rewardes vnto the scholemaisters your charitable almes vnto the poore all the whiche vertues did then shine in you as in a moste cleare mirrour of true nobilitie Neither did you forget in that your progresse that you with the rest of Gods children in earth are strangers and passengers in this world (a) Gen 47.9 as our fathers were (b) Heb. 13.14 which haue not here a continuing citie but seeke one to come Therefore as a prouident peregrine you carefully tooke your spirituall repast in euery of your mansions in feeding vpon the worde of God preached before you for the better refreshing of the soule In this your christian pertaking of the heauenly foode it pleased GOD of his gracious prouidence aboue myne expectation to vouchsafe that I did twise serue at his spiritual table once in the countie of Stafford where I was borne and once in Shrewsburie where I haue my charge The dishes whiche I offered to the gestes were not dainty I do cōfesse yet because they were wholesome and sauorie being well seasoned with the salte of Gods word I make bold vnder your honourable protection to offer the one of them to the taste of the godly that by this meanes the feast may be still continued I doubt not but they will take it in good part which haue learned that God (a) 1. King 19.6 which fed ELIAS with bread and water (a) Ioh. 6.11 and refreshed hys people with barly loues and small fishes will that wee craue at hys handes not dayntie (b) Mat. 6.13 Luc. 11.3 but dayly bread contenting our selues with homely yet wholesome foode From others if there be any as I doubt there be manie whose taste is so curious that they will not or stomacke so lothing that they cannot find any sweetnesse in the word of God (c) Deut. 8.3 Mat. 4.4 Luc. 4.4 whiche is the foode of the soule I expect no suche thing but referring them to the Lord I humbly desire him of his mercy if it be his will so to purifie their heartes by the operation of his spirite (d) Psal 34.9 that they may taste and see how good the Lordis (e) Luc. 14.15 So shall wee be blessed eating our bread in the kingdome of God God long preserue your honour and so guide you with his holy spirite that you may more and more set foorth his glory benefite hys Churche and profit your Country Salop the 24. of October 1585. Your honours moste duetifull bound in the Lord. IOHN TOMKYS A Sermon preached in Shrewesburie before the Earle of Leicester by Iohn Tomkys the 26. of May 1584. Ephesians 5.1.2 (a) Eph. 5.1.2 Be ye therefore followers of GOD as deare children And walke in loue euen as Christ hath loued vs to be an offering and a sacrifice of a sweete smelling sauour to God * The care of God for his people OVr heauenly father is so carefull for our spirituall sustenaunce right honorable worshypfull and

dearely beloued in the Lord that hee giueth vs not onely his blessed worde to become (a) Deu. 8.3 Mat. 4.4 Luc. 4.4 the foode of the soule but also (b) Mat. 22. faythfull Ministers to breake vnto vs the same Hee sent vnto his auncient people descended from Abraham the Patriarche according to the fleshe his holy Prophetes (a) Esa 1.1 Ier. 1.1 Ezech. 1.1 Ose 1.1 Amos. 1.1 Abdi 1.1 Hab. 1.1 Ag. 1.1 Zach. 1.1 Mal. 1.1 * The sūme of the Prophetes doctrine Ier. 7.21.22 to expounde the lawe to them (b) Esa 5.11 to denounce his curses to the obstinate (c) Psal 1.1 to publishe his blessinges to the penitent and (d) Ier. 31.31 to foreshewe the newe couenaunt betweene God and Man in Christe the Messias then to come (e) Esa 8.1 Hab. 2.2 And the same Prophets by the instinct of Gods holy spirite committed to writing for the instruction of the posteritie the summe of the deuine Sermons which they preached to the people Hee hath sent vnto his newe people (f) Io. 11.16 Rom. 3.29 gathered to geather of the beleeuing Iewes and beleeuing Gentiles thorowe faith in Christ his Son his blessed Apostles * The sūme of the Apostles doctrine (g) Mat. 28.19.20 Mar. 16.15 Act. 2.38 to preach repentaunce for the remission of sinnes (h) Rom. 6.1 c. to teache newnes of life to the glory of God (i) Heb. 4.12 and to testifie the performance of the new couenant between God and Man in Christ the Messias in their time exhibited And least the Church of God (k) Num. 12.17 1. Cor. 4.1 which is his houshoulde should want the least crumbe of his heauenly foode the same holie spirite hath mooued the Apostles and Disciples of Christ (a) Io. 20.31 Reuel 1.19 to recorde in writing the historie doctrine and prophesies of the newe couenaunt Soe bountiful a Father is our God which giueth vs plentie of heauenly foode so prouident a Lord is he whiche sendeth vs from age to age faithfull disposers thereof * The sūme of Gods word The summe of the whole word of God so gratiously giuen so faithfully taught and so necessarilie written is contained in two pointes true fayth and godly life * The methode of the Epistle to the Ephesians The Apostle Paule hath exactlie obserued this methode in this his heauenly Epistle written to the Christians of Ephesus For in the first three chapters hee prooueth that we are (b) Rom. 3.20 28. iustified not by our workes (c) Lu. 17.5 but by faith which is the (d) Ephe. 2.8 Gift of God And in the three last chapters he sheweth that works be necessary because they are the (e) Gal. 5.22 fruites of faith (f) Iam. 2.18 whereby our profession is adorned (g) Mat. 5.16 and God glorified O that this lesson were as well practised as it may easely be learned then should we be (a) Ia. 1.22 not onely hearers of the worde but doers of the same The Apostle hauyng taught this doctrine to the Ephesians and that most plentifully for the space of (b) Act. 20.31 three yeares and being therefore become (c) Ephes 3.1 a prisoner in Rome committeth to writing the summe of his doctrine for the confirmation of the faith of the Ephesians the instruction of the ages to come Herein he imitateth the auncient Prophetes whose maner was briefly (d) Esa 8.1 Abac. 2.2 to put in writing that whiche largely they taught Such loue bare Paul to the flocke of Christ so perfect a paterne is hee of a godly pastor Now for somuch as it is so necessarie to learne to beleue aright (e) Act. 13.39 Rom 3.28 that thereby we may be iustified and to liue a right (f) Mat. 5.16 that thereby God may be glorified I esteemed this text very fitte for this auditorie because therein the Apostle briefly cōprehendeth both those pointes although in an altered order * The distribution of the text first speaking of life and then of fayth If the profession of Christians were nothing els but an idle speculation then were it somewhat to be able to talke 〈◊〉 Religion although wee liued not religiously But Christ the authour of truth and the wisedome of his heauenly father hath taught vs that (a) Mat. 7.21.22.23 ●●ayn we call him our Lord except 〈…〉 wil of his father reuealed vnto 〈◊〉 his word Iames as a faithfull do●●r in the schole of Christ exhorteth vs to (b) Iam. 1.22 be doers of the word not hearers onely deceiuyng our selues what greater care thē ought Christians to haue than by their godly liues to make their holy conuersation to shine in the world to the glorye of God the edifying of his Churche to the testimonie in their owne consciences that they be his children * The vse of Gods lawe And lest wee should wander out of the way of righteousnes by framing vnto our selues a fayth according to our foolishe fantasies or a life agreable to our curious imaginatiōs God hath giuen vs his lawe (c) Psal 1.2 to meditate therein both day and night Yea and that we may bee effectually stirred vp to serue our heauenly Father without feare a Luc. 1.74.75 in holinesse and righteousnesse before him all the dayes of our life hee dealeth with vs in his word diuersly For sometimes hee b Deu. 11.27 promiseth his blessinges to vs if we obey his statutes Sometimes he c 28. threatneth his curses if we transgresse his ordinaunces sometimes he d Esa 1.2 prouoketh vs with the remembraunce of his benefites bestowed vpō vs Sometimes he e Pro. 3.11 Heb. 12.5 c. Imitation chasteneth vs with his fatherly correction for our amēdement Vnto these and many other meanes of our instruction set forth vnto vs in Gods word S. Paule in this place addeth the very example of God himselfe to be imitated by vs exhorting vs to be f Eph. 5.1 followers of God as deare children Herein appeareth the godly discretiō of the Apostle who wel considering that we are as childrē not able to practise the preceptes of obedience except we haue a paterne to imitate layd before vs nurtereth vs by this meanes in the way of righteousnesse * Now that we erre not in this imitatiō taught by the Apostle * Foure things are to be obserued in this imitation we must carefully obserue foure thinges The first Who is to be imitated The second Why he that is to be followed is to be imitated The third Wherein he is to be imitated The fourth Of what maner that thyng is wherein hee is to be imitated * 1. God is to be imitated Paule meaning to teache vs by imitation to leade a Christian life proposeth God himselfe to be imitated by vs Saying a Ephes 5.1 Be ye imitators of God Herein we haue a mirror of Gods mercy towardes vs which