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A01761	A godly sermon preached in the court at Greenwich the firste Sonday after the Epiphanie, Anno Domini. 1552. And in the sixt yere of ye raigne of king Edward the sixt, the right godly and vertuous king of famous and blessed memory. By. B.G.	Gilpin, Bernard, 1517-1583.	1581 (1581)	STC 11897; ESTC S114032	27,564	78

hath cause greatly to bee displeased with al estates when euery man shoulde looke vppon their owne faultes to seeke amendment and as it is a prouerbe lately sprong vp no man amendeth him selfe but euery man seeketh to amend other and all that while nothing is amended Mightie men and gentlemen they say the commonaltie liue to wel at ease they grow euerie day to be gentlemen and know not themselues their hornes muste be cut shorter by raising their rentes by fines by plucking awaye their pastures and so by many goodly pretēces Lady Auarice can whisper in their eares The mean men they murmure and grudge and say the gentlemen haue all and there were neuer so many gentlemen and so little gentlenesse And by their natural Logike ye shall heare them reason howe these two Contugata these yoake fellowes gentlemen and gentlenesse should be banished so farre asunder And they lave all the miserie of this common wealth vppon the gentlemen their shoulders But alas good Christians this is not y e way of amendment Si in●ucem mordetis commeditis If ye bite and deuour one another as Saint Paul saith take ye heede least ye be consumed one of another Histories make mentiō of a people called Anthropophagi eaters of men which al mens harts abhorre to hereof And yet alas by Saint Paules rule Englande is full of suche Anthrop ophagies Euery man enuieth other euery man biteth gnaweth vpon other with venemous adders tongues farre more noisome then any teeth And whereon commeth it Couetousnesse is the roote of all Euery man scratc●●th pilleth from other euery man would sucke the bloud of other euery man encrocheth vpon an other Couetousnesse hath 〈◊〉 away the large winges of charitie and plucketh all to her selfe shee is neuer satisfied she hath chested all the olde gold in Englād much of the new she hath made y t ther was neuer more Idolatry in England then at this day But the Idols are hid they come not abrode Alas noble prince the Images of your auncesters grauen in gold yours also contrarie to your minde are worshipped as Goddes all that while the pore liuely Images of Christ perish in y e streats through hunger cold This commeth when couetousnesse hath banished from amongst vs Christian charitie when like most vnth ankfull children wee haue forgotten Christe his last will when he so often before his passion did inculcate loue loue loue loue one another And herein we shew our selues worse then any carnall sonnes Which be they neuer so vnkinde yet alway they remēber y e last words of their earthly parēts Nay rather I may say we are much worse then y e bruite beastes of whome when we consider howe wōderfully nature hath framed them to concord vnite to preserue helpe one another of their owne kinde it may make vs vtterly to bee ashamed The Hartes as Sainte Augustine writeth swimming ouer a narrow sea in a company together with much paine can beare vp their heads in the water for the remedy wherof euery one layeth his head vppon the hinder part of another When the for most hauing no stay is sore weary he commeth behind and thus euery one in his course taketh paine for the whole herde If men indued with reason would learne of these vnreasonable creatures this lesson to help one another as we are commaunded by Saint Paule saying Beare ye one anothers burden and so shall you fulfill the Law of Christ. How soone then should charitie the band of perfectiō which seeketh not her owne but rather to profit other be so spread among all degrees that oure common wealth should florish in al godlines But alas wee see that all goeth contrary For whiles all men as Saint Paule saith seeke the thinges that be their owne not other mens not the thinges whiche appertaine to Christ Phila●tia that is selfe loue and loue of priuate commoditie hath banished charitie and loue to the common wealth And if we should se●ke the cause ground of all these euille why God his busines is so neglected among all estates and degrees I think it should appear to be ignorance of God his holy wil For if Mary and Ioseph so godly and deuoute a couple vnderstood not for a time Christes saying Wist ye not that I must goe about my fathers businesse as Saint Luke saith they understoode not that saying What meruell is it if we liuing so carnally and drowned in worldly pleasures and framed to the shape of this worlde bee ignorant in our heauenly fathers businesse And therefore 〈◊〉 well applie them But shall wee thinke this to bee very strange many apply not God his businesse nor his wil which yet would disdain to be counted ignorant there in But vndoubtedly good christians it is an vnfallible veritie that negligence in perfourming God his will commeth of ignorance It is all one to know God and his will Sainte Iohn saith plainely He that loueth not knoweth not God For if he doe know God he cannot but loue him and loue is alwaies occupied in Gods busines By this rule Saint Augustine proueth wee cannot keepe perfectly the first precept to loue God so well as we ought to doe while we are in this mortall life For all our loue commeth of knowledge but in this life ex parte cognoscimus our knowledge is vnperfect And thus S. Augustines rule grounded vppon S. Iohn is true that so farre as we knowe God so far doe wee loue him and so they that loue him nothing at all they knowe him nothing at all Althoughe they seeme to haue neuer so much windie knoweledge puffing vp their stomacke with presumption as the Apostle sayeth scientia inflat knowledge maketh a man swell So that if a man haue studied the scripture all his lyfe long learned the whole Bible by harte and yet hane no loue he is ignorant of God his will The poore man that neuer opened booke if the loue of god be shed abroad in his hart by the holy ghoste he ouercommeth him in the knowledge of Gods will The Godly Pembus of whome wee reade in the Ecclesiasticall history when he was first taught y e first verse of the Psalme 39. I haue saide I will take heede to my waies that I offende not in my tongue He refused a long time to take out a new lesson iudging his first lesson to be vnlearned till he coulde perfectly practise it by an holy conuersation So ought wee alwaies to make our accounte to haue learned Gods worde when wee haue learned charitie obedience But this knowledge though it lack in many learned yet ordinarily it commeth alwaies by hearing God his word Rom. 10. Faith commeth of hearing and hearing of the word of God Wherfore as I saide their case is to be lamented which woulde gladly heare Gods word can haue no preachers Then may we say