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A02480	A touchestone for this time present expresly declaring such ruines, enormities, and abuses as trouble the Churche of God and our Christian common wealth at this daye. VVherevnto is annexed a perfect rule to be obserued of all parents and scholemaisters, in the trayning vp of their schollers and children in learning. Newly set foorth by E.H.	Hake, Edward, fl. 1560-1604.; Erasmus, Desiderius, d. 1536. De pueris ad virtutem instituendis.	1574 (1574)	STC 12609; ESTC S105953	36,378	106

eating and drinking Can the Temple of God bée sustained with Pluralities Tot quots with Deanries and Prebendes with office and honour hath not Christ ordained you as Lanterns of light as salt of the earth and ministers of saluation Is it not sayde you are Gods labourers Gods worckemen and the builders of Gods Temple Howe happes it then that you bée builders of your owne stoare and not builders of Gods churche maintayners of your owne wealth not susteiners of gods temple féeders of your selues not of your flocke Howe haps it I say that a great number of you for to such extremitye is it come wyl counterfaitelye séeme to bée carefull in féeding of soules which notwithstāding you do not as you ought to doo and forget altogether the reléeuing of bodyes to the discredite of your selues to the detriment aswell of your owne soules as of the soules of your flocke and againe other some to bée so epicuryous in the pamperyng of theyr owne bodies And so vaineglorious in a litle reléeuing of the bodyes of the néedy that they thinke the same theyr counterfeit hospitality to be a sufficient discharge of them selues and defence of their flock Yea I woulde to God that the number were not great of suche Godlesse Hipocrites suche vnlearned loyterers and verye pieuishe pelting Parasites which for liuing sake haue intruded and thrust them selues into the Church who if they were not cloathed with the counterfaite title of bountiful housekéepers shoulde haue nothing at al wherewith to couer their blockishnesse nor to hide their blindnesse nor to cloake theyr lewdenesse and trecherye whereby they shoulde incurre the iust reward of their naughtines euen ignominy and reproche of whom the Apostle geueth vs warning in these wordes This knovve ye that in the latter dayes shall come perillous times For men shal be louers of them selues couetous bosters proud speakers disobedient to father and mother vnthankfull vngodly vnkinde trucebreakers false accusers riotous fearce despisers of them vvhiche are good traiterous heady high minded greedy vpon voluptuousnesse more then louers of God hauing a similitude of godlinesse but hauing denied the povver thereof Would God I saye that the holye house were not pestered at this daye with such hipocrites and damnable sort of luskish loytering Lubbers who notwithstanding their great blockishnes their palpable ignorance extreme want of learning doo kéepe within their clāmes the liuelyhood of true pastors and painful laborers which sustaine Ruffiās to begger ministers which maintaine routes of rakehel Roisters to decrease the nūber of honest poore christians which not only thē selues are contented to stop the roomes of learned preachers but also deuilishly doo bring in most horrible crewes of cursed Chaplins notorious numbers of monstrous vnlearned Sicophants which take the fléece starue the flocke and which doo impaire the Church more in one day then the greatest workmen are able to repaire in .xx. yéeres to the great ruine of the building directly against the word of the Apostle which willeth that none should bée admitted into the ministery but such as are honest not double tongued not geuen to much wine neither greedy of filthy lucre Furthermore I would to god that besides the number of such disguised monsters this holye worcke were not likewise hindered with faint faithlesse brethren which are fallen from the spirite to the flesh frō God to the world But I feare I feare me that euē of the chiefe workmen of the head laborers Prepositours as it were of this building not a few at this day are cooled in zeale are fallen from sincerity ouercom with the world so that of som of thē a mā may say Albi an atri sint nescio But such alas is our state such is our time Frō the prophet to the priest frō the hiest to the lowest frō the head to the foot we are al gone frō truth we are fallē to vnrighteousnes Howbeit blessed be the lords name for euer notwithstāding these abuses in the Ministery there is none can say that euē maugre the head of the enemy the soūd of the gospel hath not passed throughout euerye coast hath not béen preached and taught in euerye place béene rung into the eares of euery man woman and childe Al haue heard al haue séene yea and al haue felt aswel saluation profered as plague for sinne threatned Ignoraunce may not bée pleaded neither is there at al any excuse to bée receiued But alas of so muche séede what is the fruite of so muche trauaile what is the gaine Euen this forthwith to bée reaped Stubble for the fire and horrible sinnes for the scorching flames of hell And for this cause came light into the world that men séeing should not beléeue and not beléeuing should bée damned From our verye Cradels are wée nourished in sinne wée are practised in our infancye made perfect in our Childhood In mans age are wée very sinne itselfe in midle age monsters and in olde age Deuils O terror O horrour O rustye beaten age O age wherin iniquitye so much and so mightely preuaileth wherin Belzebub so greatlie beareth rule what should I say of vs but euen this sinne receiue thy guerdon man receyue thy doome thy doome I say to bée burned in the glowing gulphe of perpetuall damnation Non vult Panthera domari neque Phrix nisi plagis emendabit As for the gréeuous desertes in temporal gouernment and the great abusions in ciuil Magistrates theyr cold erecting of the Lordes house theyr violent depression of the great and holy worke theyr smal zeale to the Lordes people and theyr Godlesse supportacion of false worckemen cursed hyrelinges and professed enemyes to the trueth Assuredly I can not without great shame and sorrowe declare in wordes the very least part of that that by some of them is committed in déedes to the miserable decaye of the building to the gréeuous ruine of the Lordes house and to the manifest offence of Gods people With silence therefore will I leaue them in theyr sinne and with harty prayer commit theyr amendment to the wyll of our God who for Christ his sake for his holy names sake frame theyr heartes to more loue of his truth that his gospel be by them no more hindred nor the professors therof hated nor the sounde of his word stopped And as for the state of Ecclesiasticall gouernment who séeth it and sorroweth not who beholdeth it and lamenteth not But what should I saye I would to God that sinne were not more abetted through the féeblenes of discipline than zelously reprooued by the voyce of Good Preachers Naye rather I would to God that feeblenes of Discipline were not a vizare vnto feareful Magistrates and a preposterous shift vnto partial Iudges But of this matter sufficientlye though not to my selfe yet to others of impatient hearing Onely I wishe that silence were the vertue to bring vice into subiection that lenitye and mildnesse were the coraziue

is set at naught and neglected vvhereas notvvithstanding it is the very erecting and repayring of Gods house and the propagation of his glorie I haue in this litle booke briefely declared being desirous in the onely respect of loue and good vvill to confer the dedication thereof vnto you in vvhome I doe knovve as by perfyt experience to bee dvvelling a most godlie care vnto pietie and truth and contrariwise an vtter hatred to falsehoode and else whatsoeuer is shadowing of truth Accept it J praye you and be no lesse pleased with my hartie affection than J my selfe am displeased with the basenesse of the gift which notwithstanding may suffice to expresse the aboundaunce of my loue Your friend most trustily assured Edvvard Hake ¶ A Touchestone for this time present WHO so vvil bende him selfe but slightlye to beholde the dealinges of the worlde at this daye hée shal perceiue euen to the great horrour of his minde the small habilitye of well dooing that remaineth scant superfitiallye rooted in the consciences of men hée shall sée our willes altogeather bent to wicked actions and our wittes to vngodly inuentions our consciences loose wide and hipocritical and our heartes full of dissimulation and fraude that alas euen the very principles as wel practiue as speculatiue are quite and cleane forgotten and gone and the infallible doome of our conscience which of the learned is called Synteresis holdeth no place of terrour amongst vs reasons aswel superiour as inferiour aswell Diuine as Ciuile haue no power to reclaime vs Signes of Gods wrath and examples of vengeaunce maye nothing appalle vs and to conclude euē humane mortalitye wil not can not nor I feare shall not withdrawe vs so great is our libertie so secure our liues and so presumptuous our hearts thoughtes and attempts Looke what is good the same wée deride contempne refuse and contrariwise whatsoeuer is euil if it bring eyther pleasure or profite the same doo we wishe for pursue and embrace Auarice wée account good honest desire Usury the sōne of Auarice we account lawful trade Excesse we cal bountie whoredom pleasure swearing Iolity pride Brauery deceipt policy robbing shifting and what should I more say vice we account vertue vertue precise foolishnesse We seeke for new fashions we desire new lawes new rules and newe orders and yet no man al this while hath minde of a newe life no man séeketh to renewe the same nor yet to amend the olde Surely surely the consūmation of the world the dissolution of the heauens the dreadful doom of our soules bodies aprocheth is hard at the doore I lament therefore the state of the world at this day But sith wée are by the vnfallible worde certified that the nigher the world doeth draw vnto his end the more raging shal be the Serpent the more faithlesse and stonye hearted the people Let vs lift vp our heartes vnto the mercye seate and crye vnto the Lord for his elect sake to shorten the daye I feare I feare mée that when the Lord of the vineyarde shall come as vndoubtedly hée wil come and that very shortlye that hée shal finde both Spiritual murderers and Traitours amongst vs yea euen amongst those that cal vpon the name of Iehoue His ministers our felowe seruantes we haue reiected wée haue buffeted them yea wée doo daily cōtempne scorne them there litle wanteth that his déere sōne Iesus christ is not torne in péeces blasphemed and mocked in his most holy word O Lord what shall become of vs what account shal we make before the terrible seate of vengeance that thus do neglect the gouernment of Gods house the wel bestowing of his goodes the vnity of his seruauntes For being by the death of his Christ redeemed made frée from the perpetual bondage slauery of the deuil death hel we haue despised his Passion we haue frustrated his cōming contemned his lawe The high Priests are elated we are al fallen euen from the highest vnto the lowest a small number onely exempt which at home are contempned and derided abroade are daylye murthered tormented and torne in peeces consumed through fire famine and sworde for the profession of his holye name and true worshippe of his eternall Godhead The wicked deuoure them like Lambes and consume them like stubble them selues florishing as the Cedars of Libanon and increasing in wealth as Lordes of the people But woo woo be to them by whom offēces doo come Bee thou fauourable O Lorde vnto Sion build vp the broken vvalles of Ierusalem forsake not thy Sanctuary but saue thine elect from the pernicious customes of the vvicked vvorlde the vvorld so full of poyson so full of murther so full of vvhordome so ful of auarice so full of contempt and so full of securitye that alas euen vvith horrour it svvelleth to the toppe of the vppermost heauens and it annoyeth the seate of the moste highest Alas what maye wée thinke or what else maye wee looke for but euen the very heauens too dissolue and the extreame flames reserued for our sinnes to make an ende of our liues Sinne is ripe faith is dead and saue deuilishnes and deceipt there is nothing within our heartes remayning The wicked are strong the Godlye are weake that what through securitye of the wicked and the tormentes executed on the godly almost no faith can bée founde The wicked as liuing in delicacie neglect the Lordes worke and the Godlye as afflicted continuallye are afrayde to doo wel that except it bée to talke and to bée mindeful of God and his word there is nothing thought vaine nothing thought sinne nothing detested And so the Temple of God the Lordes house Christ his Congregation the very true spouse of our sauiour lyeth ruinous al to rent deformed Alas no faith is left to fasten the worke to the corner stone no moisture remaineth to knit vp the frame with the foundation Christ Iesus our only rocke our only foundatiō our only head and chiefe corner stone Loue is cold faith is dead trueth is naught set by And that same smal number which would fainc bée doing in the daungerous worcke are eyther daunted by their enemies or discoraged by their felowes The zeale of Iosiah is gon Demas triumpheth Amasiah Diotrephes doo beare vp their villanous breasts against the Lord his people Demetrius is busy Simon Magus doeth florishe that hard it is to thinke whether the number is greater of feareful souldiers faint workmen féeble Christians or the boldnes of the aduersary more vniuersal or in tirāny more aboūding How rageth how roareth how thundreth howe threateth how whispereth how braggeth the Babilonical strumpet the Romish Dragō that bloodthirsty Ciclops Minotaure horrible mōster how bustle her couetus chāpions howe swel her vilanous rable of rakehel Termagants how rage beyond the seas her bloody Bishops how crake the crew of her coalequēchy Cardinals whose destructiō horrible fal although I know

to aproche to be as it were begoon Yet I do lament so may al true English hearts that our sinnes are so gréeuous as by the occasion therof the lord doth deny in the time of so chast so wise so godly zelous so learned a Prince as is our most drad soueraigne Ladye Queene Elizabeth whose life with ioyned harts hands let vs cry cry vnto the Lord to lengthen within this Realme of Englād to bring to perfectiō that which be hath begon to abolish from her people al remnants of popery to supplant the hipocritical vnlearned ministerye But it is to be thought assuredly to be beléeued that our sinnes euen our sinnes so great so greuous so manifold as that the measure of them is immesurable the burthē of them is intollerable are the only cause that our aduersaries doo florish beare thē selues so bold against the furtherers of this work as they do that our iniquity is the very cause that so many cold brethren do encrease remaine at this day O where is Besaleel wher is Aholiah where is Hirā where are al those true workmē become that in the worke of the material tēple were so stout so zealous so artifitial so wise Is there nothing of theyr zeale remayning nothing of their valeance abiding nothing left of their skill no alas nothing almost nothing at al. And o greuous case as this worke is most diuine most true yea as it is the selfe same Temple that was then prefigured so is it in labour in building in erecting most of al neglected and despised nay it is almost altogeather set aside But if I shoulde saye that all men doo neglect the building of this holy house as the more is the case to bée lamented very fewe as they ought doo further the same then should it not appeare that the greatest workmen do more plucke downe by theyr ill example in life than erect by their labour in building Neuerthelesse whether they worke for loue for gaine or for feare so they doo the workes of hired workmen it is not much to bée waied I meane for so much as they doo For as the Apostle sayeth VVhether they preache Christ for loue or for spite so they preache it is to bee ioyed although theyr true labours aswell in life as in doctrine would bée more to the aduauncement of the worke and to the winning of a great many others But I would to God that the greatest parte of them were not as they are more careful in building of Pluralities Trialities Totquots and Non residens than in furthering of this sacred spiritual and diuine Temple of the Lorde I would to God they were not more geuen to gréedye gaping after promotions than to the gathering together of the infected weake wounded and féeble shéepe Yea I woulde to God I saye they did not more watche and prye for worldlye preferment than watche and praye for the Lordes people the verye true house churche and Spouse of Christ. Assuredlye euen nowe hath the Figge trée cast his Leaues nowe is the Sunne darkened nowe hath the Moone lost her Light and nowe are the Starres fallen from Heauen Hee that hath eares to heare let him heare But tel me I praye you yée ministers of this holye worke yee Stewardes of this housholde yée guides of the people Is the kingdome of heauen a worldlye kingdome Is the crowne of glorye a heape of Ritches Is Christ his church a materiall Temple or is the same sustayned eyther with Siluer or Gold Is it not sayde My Kingdome is not of this vvorld If my Kingdom vvere of this vvorld then vvould my seruauntes surely fyght for mee that I shoulde not bee deliuered to the Jevves but novve is my Kingdome not from hence Is it not also vvritten The Kingdome of heauen is like to a Leauen vvhich a vvoman tooke and hid in three bushelles of floure tyl al vvas leuened Do not al the prophets al the Apostles al the faithful that euer were doth not the whole volume of sacred scriptures doth not christ him selfe the verye true sōne of the father God almighty affirme the kingdom of heauen to be a spiritual kingdom not visible but inuisible not transitory but euerlasting yea do not wée our selues at this daye euen wée in whom so smal fruict of godlines apeareth affirme hold maintaine the same kingdom to be a kingdom intransitory diuine incomprehensible the glory thereof to be immortal neuer vading Do not wée further hold that the Church of God is the congregatiō of the faithful the very frame building foundation therof to bée the Apostles Prophetes one body the body of Christ the same Christ being the head corner stone according as it is writtē You are no more strangers and foriners but Citizens and Saints and of the houshould of God and builded vpon the foundation of the Apostles Prophetes Christ Iesus him selfe being the head corner stone In vvhome all the building coupled togeather grovveth to be an holy Temple in the Lord In vvhome you are builded togeather to bee the habitacion of God by the spirit Is it not thus said is it not thus writtē is it not so beléeued what should I say if it be so writtē if christ him self hath so taught you you your selues cā not deny it if you be assured I say that the kingdom of God is immortal immutable and holy why why then alas doo you so greedily seeke after worldly primacies transitory promotions corruptible substance If that crowne of glory bée likewise immortal permansible why desire you earthly crounes why hunt you after vaine titles deceaueable honours Hath God any felowship with Belial Or may the world the spirite make friendly attonement togeathers what agréemēt is there I pray you betwixt God Māmon or how accordeth light darknes It may not be it may not bée I saye that the Minister of gods word should any other way of him selfe séeke to further the gospel of Christ then by sincerity of life godly conuersation from the which meane whosoeuer he be that swarueth the same vndoubtedly is no builder but a destroyer no shéepherd but a wolfe no Minister of trueth but a sclanderer of the same I beseech the Elders that are among you saith Peter vvhiche am also an elder and a vvitnesse of the suffering of Christ and also a partaker of the glorye that shal be reuealed that ye feede the flock of God vvhich dependeth vpon you caring for the same not by constraint but vvillingly not for fylthye lucre but of a readye minde not as thoughe you vvere Lordes ouer Gods heritage but that ye maye bee ensamples to the flocke O you Pastours you Preachers you Guides of the people you pillers of the churche O you maisters of this worke Surueyours as it were of this building doeth then the kingdome of heauen stande in