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A72378	Certaine godly, and most necessarie annotations vpon the thirteenth chapter to the Romanes: set forth by the right vigilant pastor: Iohn Hoper, by Gods calling, Bishop of Gloucester.; Godly and most necessary annotations in ye .xiii. chapyter too the Romaynes	Hooper, John, d. 1555.	1583 (1583)	STC 13756.5; ESTC S124475	17,410	49

that commeth by land or trade of Marchandise and in this point faith must bee kept to all men according to the lawes appoynted by the higher power Feare is due vnto God the King to parentes and to all other of whome we be holpe in body or Soule and so is honour due likewise Therefore sayth the lawe feare God honour the King honour Father and Mother c. 1. Pet. 2. Exod. 20. Arise to a hoare hed Saint Paul breketh his disputation of duetyes and will tary no longer in the enumeration and numbring of the partes and particulars of duetyes but prefereth altogether so charitie in this wise The Text. Owe nothing to any man but to loue one the other AS though he had sayde what needeth it to write much of dueties contractes of buyinge lendings and such other lyke thinges Let charitie be the rule of all these thinges vnto the which if the subiect submit himself he will vse his higher power none otherwise than he wold be vsed himself if he were an higher power the higher power the subiect none otherwyse then though hee were a subiect him selfe what so euer thing agreeth with charitie is good What so euer agreeth not with Charitie is euill But many men can not tell what charitie is And therefore it is no marnaile thogh al their doings be against charitie Charitie is a feruent desire earnest study to do wel vnto al men yea euen with the hurt of him that doeth it if necessity so requireth as S Paule teacheth And S Ihon saith christ gaue his lyfe for vs and we ought to giue ours for our brothers The effects properties Phil. 2. and conditions of this charity S Paule sheweth and saith Charitie suffereth 1. Ioh. 3. wil not do euill for euill looketh not her owne profit charity will not conspire nor worke traiterously but pray for them that persecute her Thus S Paule declareth that we be debttours to keepe peace and quietnesse among our neighbours and to do al mē good as long as we liue Faith maketh vs frée before God in Christ Iesu charitie maketh vs seruants to our neighbours for the loue of Christ S. Paule proueth by examples that charitie shoulde be the rule of all our doinges with these words that follow The Text. For hee that loueth another fulfilleth the law For these commaundementes thou shalt not commit adultrie thou shalt not kill thou shalt not steale thou shalt not beare false witnes thou shalt not desire and so forth if there be any other commaundement they are all comprehended in this saying loue thy neighbour as thy selfe A Wonderful commendation of charitie that who so obserueth her fulfilleth the whole law meaning the law that appertayneth for the duety and offices to be done betwéene man and man And not that any man can satisfie the law before God sauing only Christ no nor all partes towardes man for no man loueth his neighbour so feruently as the law of God requireth Yet S Paule saith we fulfil the law when we giue our selues earnestly holy as much as lieth in vs to work the law And then our lack imperfectiō shal be profited and accounted ful and sufficient for Christes sake he addeth yet an other cōmendation of charitie The Text. Loue hurteth not his neighbour THat is to say he that hath a Christian loue can not hurt his neighbour By this rule men may know whither they haue charity or not for in case we deminish the goods of our neighbors whether they be of his bodye or his soule or els of his possessions honour place or dignitie Or if we increse not these goods towards all mē if we may there is no charity in vs. Or els if we diminish not their euils and troubles as we may eyther if we doe the euils in any sort by our selues or by other we haue no charitie in vs. By this rule we may now know whether we loue our brothers or not and duly examining our selues we shall sée how farre we be from charitie and that it is an easie thing to speake and talke of charitie and a very harde matter to practise and lead our liues according to charitie For if we had as much charitie as we professe to hane we should satisfie al the law as S. Paule saith The text Therefore is loue the fulfilling of the law MEaning by the lawe the seco●● table of the ten Commaundements in the which is contayned the duetye and office of euerye man to all maner of persons of what condition soeuer they be As for the law of the first table which contayneth the religion of God feare faith loue prayer obedience patience right vse of Sacramentes with such other as appertayneth onely vnto God and be the fountayne and originall of all good workes For here his argument and state is to tell what men shoulde doe to men and in the first table is declared what man should doe to God fully and sufficiently these two former partes sufficiently declared by Saint Paul he followeth with the third part of the chapter which contayneth an exhortation vnto innocencie and honesty of life The Text. Because we know the season how that it is time we should awake now out of sleepe HItherto S. Paule hath taught how christiā men should behaue thē selues not only towards the publik person the King and Magistrate whom they be bound to honor obey but also towards priuate persons that beare no office whō they be bound to loue And that the same obedience to the higher power and loue towards al men may the better preserue continue hee addeth now an exhortation to honest liuing and Godly conuersation which he taketh metaphorically or by similitude of the time saying it is meete we should liue honestly now for it is time meaning by the time the season and time wherin the grace of God in Christ Iesu is preached and opened to the world the which shoulde not giue vs occasion of wickednes and sin but rather wake vs out of our sléepe and to reare vs out of sinne Here mark what the Apostle calleth sleepe and what to rise and wake out of sleepe Sleepe is a stupor and deadnes of the minde that resteth and is a sléepe in euil and mischiefe and careth not for the law nor wil of God but wil follow religion of wil phantasies idolatrie superstition ignoraunce and al vngodly conuersatiō without al fear feeling or remorse of Gods displeasure In this sleepe resteth al idolaters obstinate dronken couetous enuious sedicious traiterous adulterous sclāderous proud and negligent persons that feele not nor repent not though they be sunke downe euen to bottom and very dregs of these euils Frō this sléepe the gospel of Christ prouoketh exeitateth stirreth if obstinacy haue not endured and made hard our harts And would haue vs to correct amend our self and idolatrical iudgement in religion from our wils to honesty and obedience and to a new life that we

might be new creatures in the Lord and to be ready to all seruice and obedience both of God and his worde that wee might haue a true olde and Patriarchall Propheticall and Apostolical faith like feare like loue like obedience of the Magistrates and like charitie towardes all men For all they that walke not in these vertues sleepe yet in their sinnes and neuer felt yet the light of the Gospell whose meruaylouse nature and condicion S. Paul sheweth in the wordes that follow The Text. For now is our saluation neerer then when we beleeued AS though he had sayd of congruence and decentnesse it is meete that we should now liue honestly and Godly in all loue and obedience for our saluation is now neerer vnto vs by the preaching of the Gospel which saueth vs by Christe then it was before time by preaching of the lawe or philosophy when wee thought to bee saued by the ceremonies and workes of them Of this text of S. Paul we see what is the nature and condition of al men Rom. 1. that then they must trust and hope whiles they be in a false religion so did the Iewes seeke to bee saued and required iustice of the Lawe So did the Pharises and exalte themselues aboue Christe and his Apostles Therefore Saint Paul saith heere then when we beleeued to say by the workes of the Lawe and the doctrine of men we should be saued But this fayth was an errour and lye for wee know our saluation to be by the preaching of the gospel The second we learn of these words is that onely the gospel sheweth and openeth vnto vs our saluation and doth not deceiue vs Luk. 24. Rom. 1. and therefore it is called the power of God to all that beléeue Let vs therefore imbrace and receiue this only gospel obediently thankefully which the Lord willed his apostles to teach vnto al the world and willed that their successours shold doe the same as they do neuer almost the more pity S. Paul tarrieth and goeth foorth with his metaphore and figure saying The text The night is passed the dai is come nie The night is called the time of false doctrine and ignorancie in which men liue naughtily vnpunished wher as the trew light Christ and his word is not preached there the gretest vertue is acompted vice vice accompted for vertue sinnes rebuked are excused extenuated So is al true iudgement taken from the world for in the night no man can iudg colours In papistry yée see matrimony iudged to be incest the vse of Gods creatures fleshe such like to be heresie Againe manifest idolatry taken for the honoring of god Monkery for perfit life Whoredome for mockery and not worthy a halfe peny pardon c. The day that S. Paul speketh here of is the time wherein the gospel of Christ is opened to the world the which bringeth not onely true doctrine but also lyfe euerlasting For Christ is the light of the world If thē Christ the very son and brightnesse of God hath illuminated vs we muste saith S. Paule diligently walk in him and liue an honest and vertuous life as he exhorteth earnestly in the wordes that followeth The Text. Let vs therefore cast away the deedes of darkenes and let vs put on the armour of lighte as men walking honestly in the day light not in eating drinking neither in chambring and wantonnesse neither in strife and enuying THis exhortation of S. Paul cōsisteth in two partes in the one he sheweth what we shold not do in the other what we should do The first what we should not exhorting vs to cast of the workes of darkenes These workes be the sinnes we should be ashamed to do openly and in the sight of the worlde and so they be called the sins of darknes because they loue darknes therefore Christ saith this is the condemnation the light is come into the worlde and men loueth darknes beter then light their works were euil euery man that doth euil hateth the light and commeth not to the light least his workes should be rebuked Such works pleasant vnto darknes S. Paule here willeth vs to cast away And the thing that we cast away we haue not As many therfore as tary in these sins as long as he taryeth he is no Christian man The first thing that he exhorteth vs to do is to put on the armour of light that is to say to worke good works of the which we should not be ashamed neither before God neither man but boldly honestly to walke in them S. Paule calleth the first works of a christian man armour by the name of warre because a christian mans life is a perpetual and a continuall fight and battell against the Deuil the world the flesh and sinne the crafts of the deuil be maruailous subtle and dangerous in case our heartes be not wel fenced with fruites in Christ Iesu and with feare we shoulde be ouercome And if he so do no remedy except we repent we shal be the euerlasting enemies of God If in Christ we resist and ouercome we shal haue in him al the glory and honor that he hath won in heauen for vs S. Paule anexeth thrée capital dangerous euils that we muste eschew The first that we beware of inordinat eating drinking Here is the abuse of meates and drinkes forbidden and not the meat and drink it selfe From the which vices Christ himselfe exhorteth vs Luk. 22. Elai 3.28 Pro. 23. and Esay the Prophet and Solomon in his Prouerbes The other Capital euil is incontinent and vnchast liuing by the which words he condemneth al schortation adultry and whooredome 1. Cor. 6. Ephe. 5. and al vncleanlines And in remoouing of these incontinences he commendeth chast pure matrimony betwéen man wife The third capital euil that we must auoid is strife and contention against the which writeth S. Iames Cap. 3. the which riseth many times of the bitter zeale of him that is admonished for his faults against him that admonisheth How much this vice is contrary vnto charitie S. Paule sheweth when he sayth if the one of you bite the other take heede one consume not the other Where such cōtentions strifs be there is no charitie S. Paule after these euils returneth againe to that we shoulde doe saying The Text. But put yee on the Lord Iesus Christ. TO put on a thing figuratiuely taken is exactly and studiously to follow and to pursue a thing So he doth on Hercules person that expresseth and sheweth forth the facts of Hercules So to put on Christ is to accōmodate and apply our faith works to the exāple of his life doctrine as he byddeth vs to beleeue so to beléeue as he biddeth vs to worke euen so to worke and not to follow our own imagination S Paule concludeth the Chapter with a lesson which we should auoyd and eschew The Text. And do not the cares of the fleshe to fulfill them THat is to say do not the thing that the fleshe swadeth and would haue thee to doe neither liue not after the affection of the flesh This is the sum and conclusion of a Christian life that we follow not the lustes and desires of our corrupt nature The necessities of our flesh we must helpe that it may serue vs and not we it as the Lorde giue vs grace to doe Amen