A rule how TO BRING VP Children A treatise wherein is declared how the Father apposeth his Sonne in the holy Scripture whereby all Parents may be taught a rule how to bring vp their Children briefelie collected into a short volume Psalme 119. Where-withall shall a young man clense his waies euen by ruling himselfe after the word of God Iohn 5. Non quero gloriam meam sed glorïam Patris qui me misit Rom. 4. By faith is the inheritāce giuen that it might come of fauour Rom. 14. Whatsoeuer is not of faith the same is sinne ¶ To the right honorable my very singuler good Lord the Earle of Huntingdon Knight of the noble order of the Garter Lord President of her Maiesties honorable counsell established in the North partes your Lordshippes daylie Oratour and humble suppliant Iohn Lyster Clarke late Cutate of Leedes and nowe Vicar of Thorpeach wisheth good health long life much encrease of honour and after a godly and faithfull ende IN most humble wise shewing your good Lordshippe that by your lordships good meanes I obtained the benefice whereof I am now resident and remembring a saying of that worthie Philosopher SENECA that there be three degrees of thankefulnesse one recognoscere beneficium an other gratias et laudes agere and the thirde pro loco et tempore secundam suam facultatem retribuere or rather considering the Samaritan in the Ghospel healed by Christ of his Leprosie returned and acknowledged Christes mercie towardes him prostrate himselfe before him and with a loud voice gaue him thanks so likewise good my Lord I returning doe acknowledge your Lordships great goodnesse vnto mee render most hartie and humble thankes vnto your honour for the same and not being able to make anye recompence vnto your Lordshippe as Seneca teacheth although I haue meditated with my selfe sundrie times how to doe the same Yet notwithstanding that your Lordship may perceaue that I am not forgetfull or negligent of your Lordshipps great good will vnto mee I haue drawen in Dialogue wise out of scripture which is able to make one learned to saluation the dutie of all states and degrees of people howe a Christian life is to bee ledde what thinges are needefull to saluation the ende of manne and the straight accompt in the day of iudgement with the punishment of the wicked and reward of the righteous briefelie sette downe and plaine for the capacitie of the ignoraunt putting or adding nothing therevnto which I doe present vnto your good Lordshippe in remembrance of my humble duetie and obedient seruice vnto your Honour beseeching your Lordshippe to accept of my good and simple meaning and to beare with my boldnesse and small knowledge to write any thing to such a Noble personage as your Lordship And I shall incessauntlie entreate the eternall and euerliuing God till ATRAPOS shall cutte my fatall thred for the preseruation of your good Lordshippe whome the King of glorie Lord of hostes and Father of all mercie blesse saue and keepe for euer more Amen Your Lordshipps poore suppliant IOHN LYSTER To all Ministers fellow labourers in the Lords vine-yarde salutations in Iesu Christ IT is not vnknowen vnto you my brethern that the Lord hath elected vs before we were fashioned in our mothers wombe sanctified vs or euer we were borne ordained vs to be stewards of his secrets watchmen ouer his people shepperds of the sheepe of his pasture to the edifiyng of the saincts to the worke and ministration euen to the edifiyng of the bodie of Christ till we all come to the vnitie of faith and knowledge of the sonne of God vnto a perfect man euen vnto the measure of the full perfect age of Christ And knowing my selfe to be the meanest among you in respect of my knowledge not worthie to be of that calling although the grace of God hath otherwise dealt with mee in calling me to that function and hath giuen one talent vnto mee for the instructing a little number of his flocke which he hath bought with his bloud of whome he hath made me an ouerseer and therefore it is not meete for me to passe ouer the sum of this life with the singing Grashopper till the stormie nightes and Boriall blastes of winter come vpon mee neither to let the cleare day passe idlelie till the darke night come when none can trauell neither to followe the drone Bee eating the labours of others but rather to studie to discharge in some measure my selfe according to my function and to profite others Seeing that I perceaue the greatest number of you my brethren to followe the example of the Emmit working in the day and busie as the Bees in the spring of the yeere to gather their home so you to accomplish the worke wherevnto you are called the Lord prosper you and continue your proceedings I haue therefore for my parte drawen a shorte treatise in Dialogue manner betwixt the Father and the Sonne out of Scripture wherein may fullie and perfectlye be perceaued the duties of all sortes of people how a Christian life is to be ledde what thinges are needefull to saluation the ende of man and straite accompt in the fearefull iudgement with a punishment of the wicked and reward of the righteous not seeking any prayse for the same but Gods glorie which all men ought to doe seeing we are oftentimes tryed by our cheife Diocesan according to our gracious Princesse commaundement how we profet Gods people cōmitted vnto vs within his graces prouince but especyally seeing we shall appeare before the great shepperd and Bishop of our soules Iesus Christ to giue accompts of the bestowing of our Talents that wee may receiue an incorruptable crowne of glorie where they that haue taught others shall bee as the shining of heauen and they that haue instructed the multitude vnto Godlynesse shall bee lyke the starres world without ende and thus not doubting of your great care and dyligence in your functions I beseech the eternall God from whome all good gruiftes doe proceede encrease you with wisdome and knowledge in this life and with eternal happinesse in the world to come Thorpearche within the ancienty or lyberties of Yorke the 12. day of Iunne 1587. Your faithfull yokefellow in the Lord Iohn Lyster The Father examineth his sonne how he hath profited in the word of Saluation Father MY Sonne séeing it is the duty of parents not only to educate and bring vp their Children with meate and apparel but also to enstruct and teach them in the feare of God and Christian religion for which cause I haue cōmitted thée to the gouernement of a learned and Godlie Maister these seauen yéeres past Wherefore my will and minde is to know how thou hast profited in the same and what thy profession is Sonne Good Father 1. Peter 3 séeing it is your pleasure to demaunde of mée a reason of my faith I must follow the exhortation of the Appostle Saint Peter that I be ready to giue
preach the ghospell should liue of the ghospell Gal. 6. Let him that is taught in the worde minister vnto him that teacheth him in all good thinges Iosua 13 Offerings Heb. 13 Iosua gaue none inheretance to the Leuits but the offerings of the people Remember them that haue the ouersight of you which haue spoken vnto you the word of God whose faith sée that you follow and marke the ende of their conuersation Reuerence Ministers Obey them that haue the ouersight of you and submitte your selues vnto them for they watch for your soules euen as they that must giue accompts that they may doe it with ioye and not with griefe I beséech you be obedient to all that helpe and labour 1. Cor. 16. looke that you knowe them that are such I was filled after that I receyued the thinges which were sent from you Phillip 4 an odour of a sweete smell a sacrifice accepted vnto God Father But Sonne what shall Ministers and Preachers doe with that which remayneth of the tythes and benefices more then they bestow of themselues their wiues Children and famelie Sonne They shall giue it saith the Lord Deu. 26. vnto the straunger the fatherlesse and the wydowes that they may eat within their gates and fyll themselues Father Thou hast spoken much what Ministers must doe and wherevpon they shall liue but tell me what reward the Lorde prepareth for them in the worlde to come Sonne The wise Dan. 12. such as haue taught others vnto godlinesse shall glyster as the shining of heauen and shall be as the stars world without ende Reuel 213 A crowne of glorie a throne of Maiestie a paradise of pleasure a life euerlasting Math. 15 They shall shine as the Sunne in the kingdome of the Father Esay 51. An euerlasting ioy is vpon their heads they possesse ioye and exultacion and all payne and forrow is fled from them Reuel 3 I will saith Christ graunt them to sit in my seat with mée 1. Peter 5 When the chiefe shepperd Iesus Christ shall appeare they shall receaue an incorruptable crowne of Glorie Reuel 22 They shall sée the sace of God and his names shall be in their foreheades Father Well sonne the Lord is a great God and mercifull father thus to reward them that worke his worke but are Ministers and Preachers reuerenced of all men as the messengers of God and disposers of his secrets Sonne No Father sometime slandered sometime mocked sometime bett and sometime put in death They â—acked the messengers of the Lord and despised his worde 2. Cro. 36 and misvsed his prophets vntill the wrath of God arose agaynst the people They hadde the messengers of the Lord inâ—ension 3. Esdras 1 and looke what GOD saide vnto them by his prophetes they made but a sporte of it The rulers beat the Apostles Acts. â— and commaunded them not to speake in the name of the Lord Iesu but they went away from the Counsell reioycing that they were compted worthie to suffer rebuke for his name Christ left vs an example that wée should follow his steppes 1. Peter 2 who did no sinne neyther was there any guile founde in his mouth which when hée was reuiled reuiled not agayne when he suffered he threatned not by whose stripes we were healed The wicked saith Saint Peter 2. Peter 2. liue in pleasure in their owne deceyueable waies and feasting and mocking the desciples Elia saide 3. kings 1 the Children of Israell haue forsaken thy couenant broken downe thine alters slayne the Prophets with the sword and I onely am left and they séeke to take away my life Heb. 11. Some are racked some reproched some whipped some chayned some imprisoned other stoned cut in péeces slayne with the swoord Math. 26. Yea Christ our Maister and heade crucified Wherefore if we be compted the off skowring of the world and with the Apostles and Christ himselfe kylled let vs reioyce Math. 5. for great shall our reward bée in heauen Father â—aâ—sters Procéede to the duties of Maisters to their seruants Sonne â—ollo 4. Saint Paull teacheth playnely saying that Maisters must doe to the seruaunts that which is iust and equall knowing also that they haue a maister in heauen â—phe 6 Ye Maisters doe that which is right vnto your seruants putting away threatninges for the Lord hath no respect of persons â—euitic 19 Let no seruaunts wages abide with shée vntill the morning Whosoeuer woorketh any thing for thée Tobias 4. immediatly giue him his hyre and looke that thy seruaunts wages remayne not by thée one night If thy brother or sister serue thée sixe yéeres Deu. 15. and in the seuenth yéere depart from thée thou shalt not let him goe from thée empty but shall giue them of thy shéepe and of thy corne and of thy wine Whereas thy seruant worketh truely Eccle. 7. intreat him not euill nor the hireling that is faithfull vnto thée loue a discrete seruaunt as thine owne soule defraude him not of his libertie neyther leaue him a poore man He that defraudeth a labourer of his hyer is a bloudshedder Eccle. 34 The hyer of the labourers that haue reaped downe your Corne fieldes Iames. 5. which hyer is of you kept backe by fraud cryeth and the crye hath entred into the eares of the Lords Sabaoth so that if Maisters detayne their seruaunts wages or deale cruelly with them the king of glorie will burne their flesh in the fier Father Let me heare the seruaunts dutie to their Maisters Seruants Sonne Titus 2 Saint Paull saith exhort seruants that they be obedient vnto their own maisters and to please them in all things not answering agayne neyther to be pickers but that they shew all good faithfulnesse that they may doe worshippe to the doctrine of Christ our Sauiour in all things Ephe. 6. Ye Seruants obey them that are your bodelie maisters with feare trembling euen with the singlenesse of your heart as vnto Christ not doing seruice vnto the eye as they that goe about to please men but as the Seruaunts of Christ doing the will of God from the heart with good wil seruing the Lord and not men Collo 3 Ye Seruaunts be obedient vnto your bodely Maisters in all thinges not with eye seruice as men pleasers but in singlenesse of heart fearing God 1. Tim. 6 Let as many seruaunts as are vnder the yoake compt their Maisters worthie of all honour that the name of God and his doctrine bée not euill spoken off 1. Peter 2 And concluding with Saint Peters words which are Seruaunts obay your Maisters with feare not onely if they bée good and curteous but also though they be froward Father Tell me some thing of the duties of husbands to their wiues Husbands Sonne Saint Peter who was married himselfe thus exhorteth husbandes 1. Pet. 3â— yée men dwel with your
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
to your olde state â—et in their â—ormer â—ate and shew you more kindnesse then euer you had before I will giue my spirit amonge you Luke 15 The prodigall childe returning by repentance to his father was forgiuen and his father saide to his seruauntes bring forth the best garment and put it on him and put a ring on his hands and shooes on his féece and reioyce and be merrie for this our sonne was dead and is now aliue againe he was lost but is now founde Rom. 13 Let vs walke honestlie as it were in the day time putting on the Lord Iesus Christ â—phe 4. We must laye away the olde manne which is corrupt and put on the new man which after God is shapen in true holinesse and righteousnesse â—euel 3 He that ouercommeth shall be cloathed with white aray â—od Buy of mée saith Christ I counsell thée gold that is tried in the fier that then thou may be ritch and white rayment that thou mayest be cloathed and that thy filthie nakednesse doe not appeare and anoynt thine eyes with eye salue that thou maiest sée Long white garments were giuen to euerie one of them Reuel 16 Let vs be glad and reioyce Reuel 19 and giue honour to him for the marriage of the laÌ„be is come and his wife made her selfe ready and to her was graunted that she should be cloathed with pure and goodlie raines And concluding this with the words of the Euangelist Iohn Reuel 7. who behelde a great multitude in heauen which no man could number of all nations people and tongues that stoode before the seat and the Lambe clothed with long white garments and Palmes in their hands Father If we shal be clothed with the merrits and righteousnesse of Christ Iesus good work then it is not needefull for vs to doe anie good workes Sonne Yes Father Ephe. 2. Created tâ— good workâ— for we are the workemaÌ„ship of God created in Christ Iesu vnto good works that we should walke in him I haue made thée that thou mightest serue me saith God Esay 44. Ephe. 1. Elected to good works The Lord hath chosen vs in him before the foundations of the worlde were laide that we should be holy and without blame before him â—o 15. I haue chosen you saith Christ to goe and bring foorth fruite and that your fruit should remayne Luke 1 Râ—demed to good works Christ hath redéemed his people that they should serue him without feare in holinesse and righteousnesse all the dayes of their life Father I perceaue that all men are elected created redéemed sanctified and ordeyned of God to doe good and to liue holelie Name vnto mée some of those good works commaunded by God that we shoulde walke in them Sonne The chiefe worke is faith The first and principall worke of all other and the spring or fountayne out of which all other works flow and the foundation next vnto Christ wherevpon all are buylded sheweth our Lord and sauiour Iesus Christ Io. 6. Faith the â—hief work by his Euangelist Saint Iohn This is the worke of God that ye beléeue on him whome he hath sent Father Thou touchedst that worke of faith at large before the Lorde Iesus increace our faith but now procéede to the other Sonne Charitie father Charity springeth and groweth out of this roote faith Father What is Charitie Sonne It is the loue of God for his owne worthinesse and the loue of our neighbour Charitie defined for the loue we beare to our God Father First tell me of the loue of our God and how he is to be loued Sonne Thou shalt loue the Lord thy God with all thine heart with all thy soule Math. 22. Luke 10. with all thy minde and with all thy strength c. Of this loue of our God I haue spoken before Father What sayst thou of the loue of our neighbour Sonne Christ sayth Luke 10 thou shalt loue thine neighbour as thy selfe aboue all thinges haue feruent loue amongst your selues 1. Peter 4 for loue shall couer the multitude of sinnes Rom. 13. Dilectio proximi malum non operatur loue doth hurt none 1. Io. 3 We must loue saith saint Iohn not in tongue nor worde onelie but in déede and veritie 1. Io. 3 This is the commaundement of God that we beléeue on the name of the sonne of GOD Iesus Christ and loue one an other Eather Math. 5 It should séeme that euen brute beasts will loue those of whom they are fedde the wicked man will after a manner loue them that loue him what saist thou ought we not to loue our enimies Sonne Math. 5 Christ saith loue your enimies blesse them that curse you doe good to them that hate you pray for them that persecute you that you may be the children of my father which is in heauen Loue our enimies Father Is it enough to loue them is no more required at our hands Sonne We can no more but loue them Math. 18 how be it there is much contained in this word loue for we must forgiue them If thy brother offend against thée thou must not onelie forgiue him seauen times but seauentie times seauen times If thy brother trespasse Luke 17 Forgiue your enimies rebuke him and if hée repent forgiue him and though he sinne against thée seauen times in one day and seauen times in one day turne vnto thée saying it repenteth me thou shalt forgiue him Father Is there yet any more contained in this word loue but to forgiue Sonne Yea we must pray for them Pray for your enimies for Christ saith pray for them that hurte you and persecute you Saint Stephen knéeled downe and cried with a loude voice Acts. 7. and prayed thus for his persecutors lord lay not this sinne to their charge and when he had thus spoken he fell a sléepe And concluding with Christes owne wordes Luke 23 he praied thus for those that crucified him father forgiue them they wotâ— not what they doe Father Is there any more that we must doe to our enimies Sonne Math. 5. Rom. 12 Yea we must loue them so that we do for them what soeuer good wée are able for Christ teacheth thus doe good to them that hate you if thine enimie hunger féede him if he â—hirst giue him drinke Father I perciue that all vertues and good workes procede of this loue being a fruite of a liuelie faith Sonne Rom. 13 Yea father the whole lawe is fulfilled in this word loue for whatsoeuer ye would that men should doe vnto you euen so doe yée to them for this is the lawe and prophets Io. 14 He that hath my commandements and kéepeth them the same is he that loueth mée and he that loueth mée shal be loued of my father and I will loue him and my father and I will dwell with him Io. 4. God is
gaue mée drinke Blessed when I was harbourlesse you lodged mée when I was naked you cloathed mée when I was sicke and in pryson ye came vnto mée and visited mée Father And shall they aunswere any thing Sonne Yea father for the Lord saith Esay 14 there shall be all mightie men of the earth areigned and Princes and kinges and small and great shall stand from their seates that they may all aunswere and speake vnto the Lorde They shall aunswere Math. 25 Lorde Iesus when sawe we thée an hungered and féed the thirstie and gaue the drinke harbourles and lodged thée naked and clothed thée sicke and in prison and cam vnto thée he shall aunswere and say in asmuch as ye haue done it to the least of these my bretheren you haue done it vnto mée Father What speach shall his Maiestie vse to the wicked on his left hand Sonne Oh ye cursed of my father Cursed when I was an hungrie you gaue mée no meate when I was a thirst ye gaue me no drinck when I was harbourlesse ye lodged mée not when I was naked yée clothed mée not when I was sicke and in prison ye came not vnto mée to visit mée and they shall aunswere Lorde when saw we thée an hungrie or a thirst or harbourlesse or naked or sicke or in prison came not vnto thée he shall say in asmuch as ye did it not to these my brethren ye did it not to mée Father Iesus God if the Lord coÌ„demne them that helpe not their bretheren what will he do to the vnmercifull that robbe him that taketh meate drinke apparell lodging relefe and all from him euen fleaing the skin from the bone as much as lyeth in them Sonne The Lorde or they passe away will reward them for all as you shall heare afterwardes Father Well sonne who shal be present to heare all causes pleaded and what witnesse shall there be against the wicked for I am sure that the Lorde will haue all men sée that hée dealeth iustly and vprightlie withall Sonne True it is father VVitnesses 2. Cor. 5 there shal be present all Angells Archangels all the hosts of heauen there shal be all Saints and righteous all wicked and vngodlie that euer were vppon the face of the earth young and olde There shal be the great Dragon the diuell Sathanas with all the rable of hell-houndes and damned spirits for Saint Iohn saith Reuel 20. that he sawe the dead both great and small stand before God and the bookes were opened which is the booke of life and an other booke was opened and the dead were iudged of those thinges that were written in the booke according to their déedes Wherby we may learne that the bookes wer their coÌ„ciences layd abroad to al the world ConscieÌ„ces It is a sore thing wheÌ„ a man 's owne coÌ„cience beareth witnesse and recorde of his wickednesse and condemmeth him Wisd 17 He that speaketh vnrighteous thinges cannot be hidde and why Wisd 1. inquisition shall bée made for the thoughts of the vngodly and the reporte of his wordes shal come vnto God so that his wickednesse shal be punished Eod. There is nothing so hid that shall not be reueled Luke 22 There is nothing so couered saith Christ that shall not be vncouered neither hid that shall not be knowen Father I sée then that euerie thing shal be opened for I haue heard that a mans concience is quasi millie testis As a thousand witnesse but what other witnesses will there be Sonne God himselfe a witnesse GOD himselfe who séeth all thinges from the beginning shall be both the iudge and witnesse Malachi 3 I my selfe saith the Lord will be a swift witnesse against al witches against aduoulterers against false swerers against those that wrongfully kéepe backe the hyrelinges dutie which oppresse the stranger and hurt the widowes and Fatherlesse Cor. 10. The Lorde will come and open the thinges that are in darkenesse and declare the counsell of Princes and then shall euery one haue praise of God Father What other witnesses will there bée against the wicked VVorks Sonne Their owne workes in fine hominis denunciatio operum illius at the ende of man there is a declaration of their works Blessed are the dead that dye in the Lord Reuel 14 euen so saith the spirit that they rest from their labours but their workes followe them The Appostle Saint Paull teacheth all men that they learne to excell in good works Titus 3 that they be not vnfruiteful in the Lords daie My deare brethren be stedfast and vnmoueable 1. Cor. 15. alwaies rich in the works of the Lorde forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vaine in the Lorde Father What are there any more witnesses Sonne The Diuell that great dragon as saith saint Iohn which deceiued all the world Diuell a witnesse the accuser of our brethren which accuse them before God day and night 1. Peter 1 That aduersary the diuel like a roareing Lyon séeketh whom he may deuoure Father Lorde God what shal the worme-eaten conscience then doe what shall the vnmercifull and couetous man say Sonne Luke 23. Decent montibus cadite super nos they shall say to the mountaines fal vppon vs and to the hills couer vs from the face of the Lorde Oseas 10 Esay 2 Then shall they séeke to crepe into holes and caues and rockes for feare of God but they cannot escape Reue. 6 They shall couet to hiâ—e themselues in dennes and Rockes of the Hills and shall say vnto the rockes fall on vs and hide vs from the presence of him that sitteth on the seate and from the wrath of the Lambe For the great day of his wrath is come and who is able to endure Reuel 9 At that time shall men séeke for death and shall not finde it they shall desire to dye and death shall flée from them Father Can there none hide themselues Sonne I tould you before father Amos. 9 that although they were buryed in hell the hand of the Lorde would fetch them from thence though they clyme vp to heauen yet will hée cast them downe though they hide themselues vppon the tope of Carmell yet will he séeke them out and bring theÌ„ from thence though they could créepe into the déepe of the sea yet hée will commaund the Serpent there to byte them Father Father of heauen be mercifull to vs. Well goe on seeing that euerie one must abyde the sentence of God and his straite iudgement tell mée now what will folow Sonne Then shall the Lorde Iesus Christ call those on his right hand and say come ye blessed of my Father Math. 25 inherite the kingdome of heauen prepared for you from the beginning of the worlde Father I perceiue that the faithfull mercifull and righteous shall then be blessed and without all feare But what shall he
is in heauen Math. 10. Go saith Christ and preache the kingdome of heauen is at hand heale the sicke clense lepers raise the dead cast out diuels that which I tell you in darkenesse speake in the light and that ye heare in the eare that preach on the house tops Math. 28 Preach the ghospell to all creatures and babtisme them in the name of the Father and of the Sunne and of the holie ghost Mark 16 Goe into all the world and preach the Ghospell to all creatures he that beleeueth is baptized shal be saued he that beléeueth not shal be damned Io. 4. He the God hath seÌ„t speaketh the words of god A true precher Acts. 6. They ought to giue themselues continually vnto prayer to the ministation of the worde to be obedient vnto the faith Acts. 20. Take héede saith the Apostle vnto your selues and to all the flockes among whom the holie ghost hath made you ouerséers to rule the congregation of God which Christ hath bought with his blood 1. Peter 5. Feede Christs flocke asmuch as lyeth in you taking the ouersight of them not as coÌ„pelled therto but of a good will not for desire of filthie lucre but of a good minde Father Are all the ministers in the Church of God of like calling Sonne Some are Appostles some Prophets 1. Cor. 12 some teachers some workers of miracles vnto some is giuen the gifts of healing helpers gouernours Father I héere thée make no mencion of Bishopes or ministers Sonne Father there be Bishops Tim. 3. ministers and Deacons Father Let me héere their seuerall duties with the manner of their conuersations Sonne A Bishop must be blameles A Bishops Aâ—â—ie 1. Tiâ— â— the husband of one wife diligent sober discret a keper of hospitality apt to teach not giuen to ouermuch wine no fighter not gréedy of filthie lucre but gentle abhoring fighting abhoring coueteousnesse one that ruleth well his owne house one that hath Children in subiection with reuerence Titus â— no young scholler least they swel fall into the iudgement of the euill speaker also haue a good report of them that are without A minister must be honest A Ministers dutie not double tounged not giuen to much wine neither gredy of filthie lucre but holding the mistery of faith with a good concience Proued then chosen let him first be proued saith saint Paull and then let him minister so that no man be able to reproue him Deacons Let the Deacons be the husbands of one wife and such as rule their Children well and their owne housholds 1. Tim 4 The dutie of all Ministers Let no man saith Paull to Timothe dispyse thy youth but be vnto them that béeléeue an example in word in conuersation in loue in spirit in faith in purenesse giue attendance to reading to exhortacion to doctrine despise not the gift that is giuen vnto thee through proficie with the laying on the hands by the authoritie of priesthode 2. Tim. 4 Preach the way of God be feruent in season and out of season improue rebuke exhorte with all suffering and doctrine Father False teachers Sonne but I haue heard that ther be false teachers and seducers of the people therefore let me haue some marke wherby they may be knowen Sonne Acts. 5. The true preachers daily in the temple and in euery house cease not to preach Iesus Christ True teachers When they are called straight way Acts. 9 Acts. 10 they preach Iesus Christ in the Synagoges how that he is the Sonne of God and very Christ they kéepe nothing backe that is profitable but openlie in euery house both to the Iewes and Gréekes they witnesse the repentaunce that is towardes God and faith towards Iesus Christ They neither choppe nor change with the word of God 2. Cor 2. but euen out of purensse by the powre of God in the fight of God to speake in Christ They doe not preach themselues but Iesus Christ to be the Lorde 2. Cor. 4. themselues the peoples seruants for Iesus Christ sake and further you may perceiue who are true teachers by the word going before Father Let me heare some doctrine of the false teachers and seducers of the people False teachers Sonne The false teachers you shall know by their fruits Math. 7. they goe in long garmeÌ„ts and loue salutacions in markets c. Ezech. 34. Woo be to the shepherds of Israell they féede themselues they eate vp the fat and cloth themselues with the wooll the best haue they slaine Câ—uetous and doing not good but the flocke haue they not nourished the weake haue they not holden vp the sicke haue they not healed the outcasts haue they not brought againe the lost haue they not sought but churlish and cruelly haue they ruled them but I will require my shéepe at their hands saith the Lorde Ieremy 2. They teach their owne wayes and dare saie they are without sinne Iustifiers and guiltles I haue not offended and therfore the Lord sayth I condemne thée in iudgement Ieremi 14 They preach vnto you false vysions Charmes vanyties and deceitfulnesse of their owne harte Mark 12 They go saith Christ in long garments and loue salutacions in the market place False teachers deceiue widowes with praying for their dead husbands and chiefe seates in feasts and in the congregacion and deuoure widowes houses vnder pretence of long prayers but their damnation shall be great Father I perceiue well what the false teachers are and that their ende is damnacion but let vs come againe to the true teachers tell me wherefore the Lorde hath placed Appostles Prophets Euengelists shéepherds and teachers in his Church Sonne Saint Paull saith Ephe. 4 euen to the edifying of the saints to the worke and ministratioÌ„ euen to the edifying of the body of Christ till we all come to the vnytie of faith and knowledge of the Sonne of God vnto a perfect man vnto the measure of the full perfect age of Christ Father If preachers and ministers be sent for this purpose then surelie we ought to maintaine them with our goods and reuerence them as the chosen messengers of God tell mée wherevppon they shall liue Sonne The Tythes of the people hath the Lorde giuen them to bée thire inheretaunce Numer 18 Tythes They shall haue saith the Lord the tythe Deut. 14 of all the increase of the field that springeth yéere by yéere Deu. 8. The first fruit of corne wine and oyle the first of the wooll of thy shéepe shalt thou giue to the priest 1. Cor. 9. If we sowe vnto you saith Saint Paull speciall things is it a great thing if wée reape your bodylie thinges doe you not knowe that they which minister aboute holy thinges liue of the sacrifice euen so did the Lord ordaine that they which
Sonne The young men must be sober minded Titus 2 YouÌ„g men young women The young women must be sober minded also and loue their husbands and children they must be discréet chast huswifly good obedient vnto their husbands that none haue any euill to say of them Father What sayst thou to souldiers toll-gatherers and Baylifes Sonne Luke 3. Souldiers The souldyers demanded of Iohn Babtist what they should doe And he said hurt no-man neither trouble any man wrongfully and be contented with your wages Luke 11 Lawiers As for the lawiers the Lord cursed them and sayd wo vnto you ye Lawiers for ye loden men with burthens which they are not able to beare and ye your selues touch not the packes with one of your fingers Father But thou tellest me not what they should doe I sée a great sort euill enough Sonne Math. 23 They ought to execute Iudgement mercie and faithe Father What off bayllifs and common tol-gatherers and such like Sonne They ought to require no more then that is apponted vnto them Luke 3 Father Thou hast spoken of all perticulerlie Euery maÌ„s dutie But now let me heare in generall words of the dutyes of all states and degrées of people young and olde learned and vnlearned rich and poore man and woman Sonne The grace of God saith saint Paull Titus 2. hath appeared that bringeth saluation vnto all men and teacheth that all men should denye vngodlinesse and worldlie lusts and that they should liue soberly righteously and Godly in this present worlde They ought to feare God Reuel 14 and giue honour vnto him and worshippe him that made heauen and earth and the sea and the fountaines of water They ought to follow righteousnesse 1. Tim. 6 Godlinesse faith loue pacience méekenesse to fight the good fight of faith to lay haÌ„d on eternall life wherevnto they are called and haue professed the same before manie witnesses They ought to recompence to no man euil for euil to warne theÌ„ that are vnruly 1. Thes 5 to comforte the féeble minde to lift vp the weake and to be patient towards all men Phillip 2 They must be like minded hauing one loue being of one accord and of one minde that nothing be done through strife or of vaine glorie but in méekenesse of minde let euerie man estéeme an other better then himselfe Luke 12 They ought to séeke the kingdome of God and the righteousnesse thereof Luke 3. He that hath two coats must part with him that hath none and he that hath meat must doe likewise 1. Cor. 11 Euerie one must be a chast virgin vnto God 1. Peter 2 They ought all to loue as the seruants of God to honour all men to haue brotherly felloship to feare God to honour the Kinge Ecclesi 8 They must kéepe the kinges commandement and the oathe that is made vnto God Eccle. 12. This is the conclusion of all thinges that they feare God and kéepe his commandements for that toucheth all men Father Election Beginne to shewe me the goodnesse of God vnto his people I haue heard that we are elected of God euen of his méere loue Sonne Yea Deu. 4. whatsoeuer the Lord God doth vnto vs that it is of his mercy and loue and for our election the Lord saith because I loued thy fathers I chose their séede after them and brought them out of Egypt The Lord hath chosen thée to be a seuerall people and nation to himselfe Deut. 7. aboue all nations of the earth The Lorde chooseth vnto himselfe the man that is godlie Psal 4. I prepared thée or euer thou knewest me Esay 45. The Lord saith Ieremi 1. before euer I fashioned thée in thy Mothers wombe I did knowe thée and or euer thou wast borne I sanctified thée and ordayned thée to be a Prophet vnto the people The Lord choseth those that put their whoredome out of his sight Oscas 2. and their adnoutry from their breasts He whom the Lord chooseth shal be holy Nume 16 Was not Esau Iacobs brother Malachi saith the Lord yet haue I hated Esau and loued Iacob Io. 6. No man saith Christ can come vnto me except my Father draw him Io. 15. Chosen to good works I haue chosen you and ordayned you to goe and bring foorth fruit and that your fruit should remayne Ephe. 1. And concluding with Saint Paules words the Lord hath chosen vs in hym before the foundations of the world were laide that we shoulde be holye without blame before him through Iesus Christ to bée heyres vnto himselfe Father Creation What saiest thou touching our creation Sonne Gen. 1. In the beginning God made heauen and earth and all other things and sawe that they were excéeding good Psalm 33 By the word of the Lorde were the heauens made and all the hostes of them by the breath of his mouth Esay 41. He that called the generations from the beginning euen the Lord which is the first and the last made and created all thinges â—eremi 27 I am saith the Lord he that made the earth the men and Cattell that are vpon the grounde with my power and out-stretched arme and I haue giuen it to whome it pleaseth mée The Lorde is the worke-master of all things which teacheth wisedome Wisd 7 All things were made by the worde of God Io. 1. and without it was made nothing that was made And concluding with Saint Paull Collo 1. who saith That all things were created by him that are in heauen and that are in earth visible and inuisible whether they be Maiestraies or Lordship either rule or power Father But how was man created Sonne Euen after the image of God Mans creation Gen. 1. God created man in his own image in the image of God created he him Male and Female created he them The Lorde shaped man euen of dust of the moulde Gen. 2. and breathed into his nostherells the breath of life and so Adam was made a liuing soule The Lord saith Iob Iob. 10. made mée of the mould and shall bring me into dust againe he hath turned me as it were milk and turned me into cruds like chéese hée hath couered me with skinne and flesh and ioyned me togther with bones and sinewes â—ob 33. The spirit of God hath made me and the breath of the almightie hath giuen mée life Eccle. 7. This I haue founde that God made man iust but he hath many inuentions â—ust â—eremy 2 Faithfull I placed thée saith God a noble vine and a good roote whose seede is faithfull but thou art turned into a bytter vnfruitfull and straunge Grape Wisd 2. God made man to be vndestroyed yea after the Image of his owne likenesse made he him neuerthelesse through the mallice of the Diuell came death into the world â—phe 4 Ye are shapen after
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
saide vnto Moyses I will be with thy mouth and teach the what thou shalt say Ioel. 2. I will saith the Lorde powre out of my spirit vppon al flesh and your sonnes and your daughters shall prophecie your olde men shall dreame dreames and your younge men shall sée visions Micheas 3 I am full of strength and the spirit of the Lord full of iudgement and bouldnesse to shew the house of Iacob their offences and the house of Israell their sinne 1. king 19 The spirit of God came vppon the messengers of Saull and they prophecied Math. 10. Christ tould his disciples and saide it is not you that shall speake but the spirit of my father that shall speake within you Luke 12. The holy ghost shall teach you what you shall say Io. 16. When the spirit of truth commeth he shall leade you into all truth Feare not what you shall say for it shal be giuen you in the same houre what ye shall speake Father If the spirit of truth speake by the mouth of his true messengers then it is likelie that the spirit of error I meane Sathan speaketh by the false Prophets Seminaries and seducers of Gods people Sonne True it is father 1. King 1â— For an euill spirit sent of God came vppon Saull I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all the Prophets 3. king 2â— And deceiue kinge Ahab that he may goe to warre in Ramoth Geliad and so be slaine They are of their father the Diuell Io. 8. his lusts will they follow saith Christ he was a murderer from the beginning and abode not in the truth The diuell speaketh by Seminaries for ther is noe truth in him when he speaketh a lie hée speaketh of himselfe for he is a lyer and the father of the same thing take héede father of these seducers by whom the diuel speaketh This false spirit spak to Eua Gen. 3. that if she eate of the trée of knowledge shée should not die the death but bée as God knowing good and bad so many deceiued now by this serpent dye the death Father â—an What saist thou by Man what is hée and to what ende shall he come Sonne Psal 144 Man is like a thing of nought his time passeth awaie like a shadowe Psal 90. When the Lord is angrie all our daies are gone we bring our yéeres to an ende as it were a tale that is tould â—ames 4. The life of man is euen a vapour that appeareth a litle time and then vanisheth awaie Gen. 3 Man is dust and into dust thou shalt bée tourned againe â—ob 7. Hath man anie certaine time vppon earth are not his daies like the daies of an hired seruant â—ob 10 The Lorde made man of moulde and shall bring him to dust againe â—ob 14. Man that is borne of a woman hath but a shorte time to liue and is full of miserie â—od While he liueth his flesh must haue trauell and while the soule is within him he must be in sorrow Isay 40 All flesh is grasse and all the goodlinesse thereof is euen as the flower of grasse the grasse is withered the flower falleth awaie euen so the people are as grasse when the breathe of the Lorde bloweth vppon them Statutum est omnibus hominibus semell mori Heb. 9. it is appointed that all men shal once dye Remember his iudgement Eccle. 38 thine also shal be likewise vnto thée yesterdaie vnto me to day Father I sée plainelie by these partes by dalie experience that all men must dye and that none can escape the hande of death therfore what saist thou to the death of the righteous Sonne The soules of the righteous Wisd 3. are in the hands of God and the paines of death shall not touch them The righteous shal shine as the sparks of fire in the read bushe Eod. and shall iudge the nations and haue dominion ouer the people and their GOD shall reigne for euer Psal 65 Blessed is the man whom the Lords choseth and receiueth vnto him he shall dwell in his court he shal be satisfied with the pleasure of his house euen of his holie Temple Psalm 72 The Lord shall deliuer their soules froÌ„ falshod and wrong For deare is the blood of his Saintes in his sight Father I perceiue that the righteous are alwaies preserued but what becommeth of the wicked Sonne Psalm 9 The wicked shal be turned into hell and all the people that forget God Macha 2. Fear not an vnrighteous mans words for his glorie is but donge and wormes to day he is set vp to morow he is gone Iob. 24. Some men there be saith Iob that remoue other mens land markes and rob them of their cattell and kéepe the same for their owne The lyfe and end of the couetous and wicked that take the asse of the fatherlesse and take the widowes Oxe for a pledge that thrust the pore out of the way that reape downe the corne that is not their owne they are the cause that so manie men are naked and bare The eye of the aduouteâ—er waiteth for the darknesse and faith no man seethe him but shortile are they gone and pluckt out of the way vtterlie pluckt off as the eares of corne Vppon the vngodlie shall the Lorde raine fire and brimstone storme tempest Psalm 10 this shal be their porcion to drinke Father What saist thou to purgatorie Purgatory out of which mens soules are deliuered by the prayers of holy Priests Sonne I say the Scripture maketh mencion of no such thing But of heauen and hell Christes blood and Saint Iohn sheweth by what meanes we are purged and clensed Io. 1. The blood of Iesus Christ clenseth vs from all sinne Through mercie and faith are sinnes purged Pro. 15. Almost euerie thinge is by the Lawe purged with blood Heb. 9 and without blood-shedding is no remession The blood of Iesus Christ doth purge our consciences from dead works Eod. to serue the liuing God Iesus Christ loued vs and purged vs from our sinnes in his blood Reuel 1 and made vs Kinges priestes vnto God the Father to him therefore bée glorie and dominion for euer more Father that was a false doctrine which was of purgatorie as you may sée and made to fill Priests purses Father What profit could that bring to Priests Sonne Mark 12 It brought much worldlie riches and Gods curse withall as Christ saith beware of the scribes which loue to goe in longe clothing and loue salutations in market places DamnacioÌ„ to theÌ„ that deuoure widowes houses with prayer and the chiefe seates at feasts and in the congregations which deuoure widowes houses vnder a pretence of long praier but they shall receiue greater damnation Math. 23. And Christ saith in the xxiii of S. Mathewes Gospell wo vnto
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
wickednesse that he had in hand and the Lord spared them Turne you therefore saith the Angel Tobi. 13. ye sinners and doe righteousnesse before God And be sure he will shew mercie vppon you Bring foorth fruites worthie of repentance Math. 3 Saying without doing is naught Reuela 2 and say not we haue Abraham to our father Remember from whence thou art falne and repent and do the first workes or else I wil come vnto thée shortelie and remoue the candelsticke out of his place except thou repent Ieremi 11 When I take in hand saith the Lord to roote out to destory or to wast away any people or kingdome 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 hand to build to plant a people or kingdom if the same people or kingdome doe euill before mée and héere not my voice I repent of the good that I deuised to doe for them Father Blessed be that mercifull God But tell mée can there none be saued without repentance faith and conuersion Sonne Reuel 2 Luke 13. No father for Christ sayeth except you repent and doe the first workes hée will come shortelie and remoue the candlestick out of his place except ye repent ye shall all perish Father Refusers to â—epent What will come or happen to those that will not repent hauing this good warning of the Lord Sonne â—eremy 22 The Lord aunswereth by Ieremy the prophet I gaue thée warning in the time of prosperitie but thou saydest I will not heare therefore thou shalt be brought to shame in thy wickednesse â—om 2 Dost thou not knowe that the pacience and long suffering and kindnesse of God leadeth thée to repentance but thou after thy stubburne and hard heart that cannot repent heapest vnto thy selfe wrath against the day of vengeance when shal be opened the righteous iudgements of God which shall reward euery man according to his déeds â—euel 2 I gaue Iazabell time to repent sayth the Lord of her fornication but she would not therfore will I kill her children with death Father Tell me séeing that if we repent not we shall perish when and what time ought we to repent Sonne The Prophet Ioell sheweth and saith what time we must repent Ioel. 2. turne you vnto the Lord your God speaking in the presentense that is euen now repent The holie Ghost saith Heb. 3. to day if yée will heare his voyce harden not your hearts Make no tariyng to turne vnto the Lord and put not off from day to day Ecclesi 5 for sodenlie will his wrath come and in time of vengeance he will destroy Father Thou saiest that a desperate man beleueth neuer to be forgiuen A desperate person and be deliuered out of darkenesse and that the sworde is alwaies before his eies how shal a man or woman that hath committed some great and notorious sinne against the maiestie of almightie God do to be deliuered from dispaire Sonne â—dultery murder â—orgiuen Great sins forgiuen Let that man remember Dauid who sinned a great sinne he was an adulterer yet when he repented the Lord saide thou shalt not die Let him remember Saint Peter who sinned a great sinne for he denyed his Maister Good counâ—ell against â—esperatioÌ„ and sworde and cursed himselfe if euer he knewe him and yet when he repented went out and wept bitterlie the Lord forgaue him and placed him in his former state Eather Many sins â—orgiuen But what if your sinnes be many these two sinned but in one or two thinges once or twise Sonne Let vs remember Marie Magdelen possessed with vii diuells and acquainted with all sinnes yet when she repented and washed Christes féete with teares hée saide vnto her Multa peccata tibi condonantur propteria quod delixisti multuÌ„ Manie sinnes are forgiuen thée for thou loued much Father What if our sinnes be filthie and lothsome Sonne Let vs consider the woman taken in adulterie Filthie sin pardoned euen when the déede was in doing yet when she repented Christ sayde I will not condemne thée goe and sinne no more Father What if our sinnes and offences bée knowen to euerie man Sonne Let vs remember that Saint Matthew was a tolle-gatherer had openlie offended Knowne and open sins forgiuen and his extorcion knowen all abroade yet when Christ saide sequere me follow mée he straight way obeyed his calling Father What if we haue béene naughtie euen from our youth Sonne Then let vs consider the thiefe that was hanged with Christ Sins from our youth vsed forgiuen whome we neuer reade to haue done good yet when he repented and saide Lord remember mée when thou comest into thy kingdome Christ aunswered Amen Dico tibi hodie mecum eris in Paradiso Verelie I saye vnto thée this day shalt thou be with me in Paradise Father What if I haue béene a cruell man and persecuter shall I not dispayre Sonne The Lord forbyd remember Saint Paull a cruell persecuter of all that professed Christ Iesus â—ruelty â—ardoned and yet being called of the Lord obeyed him and repented and Christ saide Iste est vas electionis mihi This man is a chosen vessell vnto mée Father What if I haue hourelie fallen to sin and from one sinne to another and that euen by custome then I may dispayre Sonne No Father if we sinne seuen times in one day â—urely â—nes forâ—en no seuentie times seuen times and so oft repent the Lord is mercifull and will forgiue for the mercie of GOD is from euerlasting to euerlasting he would not the death of a sinner looke as a Father pittieth his owne children euen so is the Lorde mercifull vnto them that repent and turne vnto him â—ayer blessed be the maiestie of that mercifull God and louing father for euer and euer Amen Father Sonne thou sayest that sinnes be they neuer so great so many so filthie yet if a man repent the Lorde through Iesus Christ doth pardon and forgiue all Clothed but thou shewest me not of anie righteousnesse wherewith the sinner shall be cloathed or couered from his nakednesse and sinne Sonne Father Oscas 2. after that we are washed from our sinnes we are ioyned a newe vnto God and cloathed with righteousnesse and merits of Christ Iesus for the Lord saith I will marrie thée vnto my selfe for euermore euen to mine owne selfe will I marrie thée in righteousnesse in equitie in louing kindenesse and mercie in faith also will I marrie thée to my selfe and thou shalt know the Lord. Beholde saith GOD zachary I haue taken thy sinne from thée and I will now decke thée with chaunge of rayments Ezech. 36. I will power cleane water vpon you and ye shall be cleane a new heart will I giue you and a new spirite will I put in you I will restore you
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
euill counsellers Sonne If Sathan their Maister sée that through them he cannot preuayle 2. king 17 he will doe with them as he did with Achetofell for when Absolon did not follow the counsell of Achetofell his most trustie counseller Euil counsellers hanged Achetofell went home set his house in order and hanged himselfe ye may sée that when Sathan by his naughtie counsell could not come to his purpose to obtaine the more yet he tooke the lesse Father Some there be that will not onelye moue their Maisters to mischiefe but also mocke the poore when they crie and complayne Mockers What saiest thou of these Sonne Math. 27 Will ye thinke much to suffer reproch mockeing and derision Christ our King and Sauiour was derided they that passed by when he was vpon the Crosse reuiled him wagging their heades and saying thou that destroyest the Temple of God and buildest it in thrée dayes saue thy selfe and the high Priestes likewise mocked him Iob. 30 The fooles and villaynes saith Iob make me their song I am become their iesting stocke 4. king 1 Little children came from Bethell and mocked Elizeus and saide goe vp thou bald head and he cursed them in the name of the Lord and two shée Beares came out of the wood and tare them in péeces Ye may sée that mockers shall be punished Father Mercilesse men What sayest thou of such vnmercifull men that mocke and oppresse the poore what shall become of them Sonne Except they repent they shall all perish Iames. 2 for he shall haue iudgement saith S. Iames without mercie that sheweth no mercie for mercie reioyseth against iudgement Iudge not that ye be not iudged Math. 7 condemne not that you be not condemned for with what measure soeuer you méete to others with the same measure it shal be measured vnto you againe The Lorde will not be slacke in comming nor tary longe Ecclesi 36 till he haue smitten in sunder the backes of the vnmercifull till he haue reuenged himselfe of the cruel Father Well sonne Sacrifices leaue these mercilesse men to the good pleasure of God and procéede to tell with what offerings and sacrifices of man is the Lorde best pleased Sonne He that is mercifull and giueth almes Eccle. 35 Almes offereth a right thancke offering A troubled spirit Psalm 51 a broken and contrite heart is an acceptable sacrifice Psal 54. An offering of a frée heart will I giue thée and praise thy name oh Lord because it is so comfortable Psal 112. He that is merciful louing righteous and guideth his wordes with discretion offereth a swéete sauour vnto the Lorde Heb. 13 To doe good and to destrybute forget not for with such sacrifice God is pleased By Iesus Christ we do offer sacrifice of land alwaies to God â—oâ— that is to say the fruite of those lyppes which confesse his name Rom. 12 Chiefelie we ought to make our bodies a quicke sacryfice holie and acceptable vnto God which is our reasonable seruing of God Father Vengance Vnto whom belongeth vengance Sonne Rom. 12 Vnto the Lorde for vengance is mine and I will reward saith the Lorde Psalm 94. O Lord God to whome vengance belongeth thou God to whome vengance belongeth shew thy selfe Father Humble and poore Shall not the humble and poore bée once exalted and holpen Sonne Yes father Christ saith Luke 18 he that exalteth himselfe shal be brought low and he that humbleth himselfe shal be exalted He hath put downe the mightie from their seat Luke 1 and hath set vp the humble and méeke Father What saist thou by these land-lordes and other vnmercifull and wicked men Euell example that do not onelie wickedlie but also giue euill example to others Sonne It were better for them that a Milstone were hanged about their necks Luke 17 and that they were drowned in the depth of the sea for wo be vnto them by whom the offence commeth Father Whereof ought we to glorie or reioice Glory Sonne The Prophet Ieremie saith Ieremi 9 let not the wise man reioyse in his wisdome nor the strong man in his strength nor the rich man in his riches but let them reioyce in this that they knowe mée sayth the Lord. Let him that reioyceth reioyce in the Lord for he is made vnto vs wisdome and righteousnesse and sanctifiyng and redemption Father In the beginning almost thou toldst mée that all thinges néedefull for saluation wer contained in the booke of life and also all other thinges necessary for the good gouerning of a christian which thou hast proued but tel me now why we ought to liue so precisely as thou hast shewed Sonne For diuerse causes first because the Lorde our God hath so commaunded secondlie because thereby we shewed our selues to be louing vnto is Maiesty and obedient to his holy will good pleasure Thirdly because we haue enimies that lye in waite for vs to draw vs from our God into perdicion And lastly because we shall all once appeare before the Maiestie of allmightie God to giue a iust accompt and make a streight reckning of our selues and of all our thoughts wordes and workes the Lord respecting no person but iudgeing euerie one according to their déedes Father Let me know first what those enimes are that are so lusty and carefull or rather watchefull to drawe vs from God that they may haue somthing wherewith they may accuse vs in the day of the Lord and so bring vs to perdicion Sonne The Diuell the worlde and flesh Father Describe vnto me the qualities and force of that enimie the diuell and Sathanas Sonne Iob witnesseth that the Lorde called his people before him Iob. 1. and Sathan appeared also The diuel searcheth euery place And the Lord demaunding of Sathan where he had béene he aunswered and saide I haue béene through the world and séene it Iesus said to his disciples Luke 22. The diuell tryeth Gen. 3. Craftie Sathan hath desired to sift you as it were wheate The serpent the diuell was subtiller theÌ„ euery beast of the field which the lord hath made There was a man named Goliath of 1. King 17 the Philistines host of six cubits and an hand bredth longe A strong enimie wel armed weaponed and had an helmet of brasse vppon his head and a coate of male about him and the waight of his coate of male was fiue thousand sickles of brasse and had boots of brasse vppon his legges and a shéeld of brasse vppon his shoulders and the shaft of his spear was like a weauers beame and the head of his speare weyed six hundred sickles of Iron A blasphemer of God Arailir and he blasphemed God and rayled vpon the host of Israell Iob. 40 A strong enimie mightie Behold the beast Behemoth loe how strong he is in his loynes what power he hath
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.