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A21119	Sermons very fruitfull, godly, and learned, preached and sette foorth by Maister Roger Edgeworth, doctoure of diuinitie, canon of the cathedrall churches of Sarisburie, Welles and Bristow, residentiary in the cathedrall churche of Welles, and chauncellour of the same churche: with a repertorie or table, directinge to many notable matters expressed in the same sermons	Edgeworth, Roger, d. 1560.	1557 (1557)	STC 7482; ESTC S111773	357,864	678

places of the gospels calleth God hys father and hym him selfe the sonne of God he is true and verye truthe and cannot lye he is the onelye begotten sonne in the fathers bosome euerlasting as the father is He was afore Abraham was made afore all other creatures not made but begottē of the substaunce of the father very God of God the father Not two Gods but one God and one light and of one substaunce with the father By whom as by his wysedome and craft the father made all creatures as saint Iohn saith al things were made by him he is our Lorde which ye must here vnderstand bi his humanitie manhod for by reason of the Godhed we may sai so of the father and of the holy gost although it be not so expressed in the Apostles Creede For God is oure Lord so we should cal him by reason of his vniuersal dominiō ouer al mankind ouer al other creatures The Lorde importeth a vage dominiō and vncertain power but there is no power dominiō or authoritie so certain as the power that God hath ouer vs wherefore it semeth we may not conueniently call him the Lorde And moreouer we vse to saye the Lorde speaking of suche Lordes as haue nothing to doe with vs as the lorde of Dale the lord of Kilmayn and such like whereas if we were theyr tenauntes or otherwise held of thē we woulde say my lord of Dale or our Lord of Dale and so of others Wherfore professing our due subiection to almightye God we shoulde in common speeche cal him our Lord not dimissing our selues from our allegeaunce to his highnes And I haue knowen verye honest mē that in cōmunicatiō long afore the new translations of the bible came abrode vsed sometimes to sweare by the Lord no more intending or meaning to sweare by God then by any Lorde in the isles of Orchadie so thynking to sweare by they could not tell what or by nothing albeit lest thei should offend them that be addict to the new gise I haue aduertised them to leaue suche sayinges tyll men may be better informed But to my purpose now because all power in heauen and earth was giuen to Christ and all thyng was subiecte vnder his fete and he in his manhood taught his Apostles and all vs by them and in his manhode redemed vs and in the same shall iudge vs therfore we maye iustlye by that reason call hym our lord and maister as it is expressed in this article THe third article was added by S. Iames brother to saint Iohn the Euangelist son of zebedi called Iames the more That was conceiued by the holy gost and borne of the virgine Marie the authoure and doer of this conception was the whole trinitie the father the sonne the holy gost for the workes of the trinitie outwarde amonge creatures be vndyuided so that what so euer one persō doth the same thing doth all three persons But in asmuch as thys blessed incarnation of Christ came of the mere goodnes grace mercy and loue of God whiche is appropriate to the holy gost as power to the father wisedome to the sonne Though all these agreeth to all three persons therefore the scripture sayth as very true it is that the holy gost was the deer thereof but how it was performed done we can better beleue thē declare it faith may do very muche in this article and in all other articles of our faith speche can do very litle Saint Austine faith that lyke as by the heate and influence of the sunne a worme is gēdred of the moyst earth so by the inspiration of the holy goste santifyinge the hart of the virgin the flesh of Christ was cōceiued formed facioned of the flesh of y e virgin without the worke of any sede of man workyng to the same and therefore Christ sayd of himself by the mouth of his prophet that he was a worme and not a man because he was not conceyued as other men be In this marueilous conception the profite and whole nature of man soule and bodi together was vnite and ioyned in one person vnto the sonne of God and neither to the father nor to the holy gost because there should be no confusion but that he that was the sonne of god shuld also be the sonne of man Borne of Mary the virgin he that came to renew the nature of man cankered with sinne chose a new maner to be borne of a mayde and not of a corrupt woman And whē the God of maiestie tooke hys bodye and was borne of a vyrgine hee was no more polluted nor defowled then when he made manne of the earthe as when the Sunne or fyre woorketh on the claye he amendeth and hardeneth that he toucheth and fyleth not it selfe And it is as possyble credyble and lykelye that hee was borne of a virgine as that he made Adam of earth and Eue the first woman of the rybbe of Adams side all is the woorke of God to whom nothing is impossible Great was the prerogatiue of that virgine Mary and the loue that god had to her in that that his onely begottē son by whom he made all the worlde he gaue vnto her to be the fruite of her wombe and her naturall sonne God that made all thyng was made man of her purest bloud to renewe mankinde that by synne was brought to nought While the sonne of God was in his fathers glory not descending to our infirmitie he was vnknowen but when that worde of God was made man and dwelled amongest vs he was seene and knowen on earthe and was conuersaunt with menne for whose sakes he that is Lorde of all the world is made our brother comming forth being borne of the blessed virgine euer close and cleane with out any aperture or diuision of her blessed body euen like as after his resurrection he came into the chambre among the disciples the doores beyng shut and like as the sunne beames commeth through the glasse and breaketh it not SAint Andrewe layde his portion to thys shotte or gathering by these woordes of the fourthe article That suffered vnder Ponce Pilate was crucified dead and buried Thys Ponce Pilate was president and ruler of the countrey and highest iudge there set in his authority by Tiberius the Emperoure of Rome to whom the most part of the world was then subiecte he is here named not for any honestie to his parson but for to declare the time when Christ suffred The death on the crosse he those and neyther to haue his necke broken nor his bones burst as being cast downe from a hyll as his neighbours were aboute to serue him in Nazereth Luke .iiii. where he was brought vp in youthe neyther to be stoned to death as the Iewes would haue killed him when he hid him self and went out of the temple Iohn .viii. And al was for our health and for to saue vs for as saint Austine saith we can not

he was inhabitāt hearing that .iiii. kings with their hostes had inuaded the countrey about Sodom Gomor had spoyled the coūtrey takē away many prisoners amōg which thei had taken Loth his brothers sonne he assēbled together all his retinue Expeditos vernaculos trecentos decē octo folowed the chase ouertoke these kings beset thē about in the night season slew them recouered all their pray brought home againe Loth with all his substance He might haue sit still at home if the loue that he had to his countrey in which he was thē sustained for the time as Denisō had not pricked him forward Iud. xi It is red of Iepthe which ī dede his brothers had banished out of his coūtrey yet afterward it chanced that the Ammonites inuaded the people of Israell wasted destroyed thē ▪ right sore specially that part beyond the riuer of Iordane called Galaad wher this Iepthe was born The people of Israel were sore discoraged their enmies so enhaūced y t the lād was almost destroied then came messagers to this Iepthe wher he was in his exile de●irīg his aide succour He vmbraided thē of their vnkindnes saiyng Be not you thei that hate me driued me out of my fathers family now ye be cōpelled by very nede to come to me for helpe Notw tstanding he was moued w t that natural louing reuerēce y t he had to his coūtry said to y e messagers y t if thei wold make hī their captain he woulde put him selfe in ieopardie for them and to do the best he coulde And so he did and destroyed their enemies and set the lande at rest In like maner did Dauid .i. Reg. xxiii When he was driuen out of his countrey by the furye and madnes of king Saule he hearde that the Philisties inuaded and destroyed Ceila a certayne towne in the dominion of Saule and prepared him self to battaile against them all his frendes and kinsfolke that were then wyth hym entreatynge him to the contrarie Where Pietas erga patriam the loue that he hadde to his countrey wrought more in him then all the carnal loue to his frends and kinsfolkes and also then the vnkindenes of Saule that hadde driuen him out of his countrey where he for yll repaid good again he fought with the Philisties he toke all their cattell and prouision for vittailes Percussit eos plaga magna saluauit habitatores Ceile He made a great murther amonge them and saued the inhabitauntes and people of the towne Ceila In like maner be all nacions bounde by the lawe of Nature and by Gods lawe to defende their countrey And wee for our realme In so much that if there woulde any foraine potentate as I saide or any other sedicious persons attempte to infringe or breake the lawes Godlye made for the conseruation and quietnes of thys realme we be bounde to do the vttermost of our power for the suppression and extinctiō of them yea though they were our naturall parentes or next of kinred that woulde so offende Likewise if any malefactours sedicious and rebellious persons woulde raise anie vnlawefull assembly commocion or insurrection againste the peace and tranquilitie and quiet cohabitation of the people in the countrey or realme where thou art inhabitaunt Yea though thine owne parentes and nexte of kinred were on that partye amonge such rebellions the pietie and reuerende honour and loue that thou owest to thy countrey should make thee to do the vttermoste of thy power to resist thē and suppresse their malice In so much that if there be any of our Englishe men in exyle or banished out of their countrey or such as for their offences dare not come into their countrey yet if they might perceiue in the coūtreys where they walke any murmuring or repliyng against the Godlie and lawdable lawes of this Realme or if they might perceiue anye perill or perturbation trouble or warre to be moued against vs the lawe of Nature shoulde moue them to staye all suche daungers and to the vttermost of their powers to resist them Yea thoughe they should put their liues in ieopardye for the sauegarde of their countrey Example ye haue now heard of the Ethnichs and also of the holy Patriarches Abraham Iepthe and Dauid And holy Moyses after the offence of his people in Idolatrye makinge the calfe tanquam Apin Egiptiorum deum praied to almighty God for mercy and pardon for their offence saiynge Aut dimitte eis hanc noxam aut si non facis dele me de libro tuo quē scripsisti Exo. xxxij A vehement pietie and loue that he had to his countrey men that he prayed saiynge Either forgeue them good Lorde or if thou wilte not then strike me out of that boke of lyfe that thou hast written in thy eternall predestination he was sure that GOD would not so do Therfore he was the bolder so to praye as who shoulde saye if you wyll nedes destroy them good Lorde why then dampne and destroy me wyth them He was bolde that God would not so doe therefore he thought in maner to inforce GOD to forgeue them for his sake and to saue them with him Such an ardent and burnynge loue to his countrey men had saint Paule as he testifieth of him selfe Roma ix Optabam ego anathema esse a christo pro fratribus meis qui sūt cognati mei secundum carnem qui sunt Israelite I haue desired and wished to be seperate deuided from Christe for the loue that I haue to my brethren that be my carnall kinsmen the Israelites How deuided from Christe Origene Not by preuarication or transgressynge of Christes lawes or commaundementes He woulde do no synne for their sakes For that coulde not healpe them that coulde do them no good Also there was no vyolence or force that could pull him frō Christ as he sayth hym selfe But like as Christe being by reason of his Godheade in the fourme and nature of GOD yet he did so humiliate hym selfe hidynge hys Godlye power that he become manne and suffered death for our redemption and so semed for the tyme to forsake the father and was made as a thynge accursed to take awaye our malediction Gala. iii. Christus nos redemit de maledictione legis factus pro nobis maledictum quia scriptum est maledictus Omnis qui pendet in ligno Deute xxi And so saynte Paule by example of oure maister Christe wished to haue done that thinge in which he might seeme to be seperate from Christe by deuotion and not by preuarication or synne so that he myght saue his countrey menne and so he dyd when he was of all sortes to all menne that he myght wynne all maner of menne to Christe Sometymes vsynge the Ceremonyes of the Iewes to allure them in whiche the Gentyles thought he did nought and so to be deuided frō Christe And amonge the Gentylles he vsed suche meate as they did

euerlastynge And here because we speake of the workes of pietie or pitie verye pitie moueth me to exhorte you to mercye and pitie on the poore studentes in the vniuersities Oxforde Cambridge whiche were neuer fewer in number yet they that be lefte be ready to runne abrode into the world and to leaue their study for very nede Iniquitie is so aboundaunt that charitie is all colde A mā would haue pitie to heare the lamētable cōplaintes that I heard lately being among them whiche wold god I were able to releue This I shal assure you that in my opinion ye can not better bestow your charitie Our sauiour Christ sayth Math. x. Qui recipit prophetā in noie prophete mercedē prophete accipiet He y t receueth cherisheth or maintaineth a prophet in y e name of a prophet or as a prophet he shal receyue the rewarde of a prophete All true preachers be prophetes therfore he that cherisheth and maynteyneth a preacher because he is a preacher more then for anye other carnal occasion shal haue the rewarde of a preacher which is a wonderous reward Dan. xij Qui ad iustitiam erudiunt multos fulgebunt quasi stelle in perpetuas eternitates They that instructeth and teacheth many to iustice vertue shall shine like sterres into euerlasting eternitie As in example yf this exhortation and sermon whiche I nowe most vnworthy make vnto you do anye good to the soules of this audience I doubt not but my reward shall not be forgotten yf there be none other stoppe or impediment on my behalfe and my parentes that set me to schole in youth and my good Lorde Wylliam Smyth sometyme Byshop of Lincolne my bringer vp exhibitoure firste in Banbury to gramer scole with mayster Iohn Stanbrige and then in Oxforde tyl I was maister of Arte and able to helpe my selfe shall haue reward in heauen for the gostlye comfort that you receiue by this my labour S he or she that bringeth vp any studentes to anye good learninge by whiche they maye do good to Christes flocke whether the facultie be diuinite lawe phisicke rethorike or such other there is no doubt but they which found them mainteyned them to such learning shal haue reward of God for the good that cometh of theyr lerning Wherfore in contemplation of this good consideratiō and also for because that who so euer geueth so muche as a cuppe of cold water to any poore body of Christes seruauntes shall not lose his rewarde and wages I shal hartely pray you to extend your charitie toward the sayde scholers and studentes and by that ye shall shew your selues to be merciful and to haue this gifte of the holye goost the gifte of Pietie whiche after the mynde of the doctours is all one with mercy And that the holye gooste by this his gyfte rested vpon our Sauiour Christe it is playne by the cures that he did on them that were sicke of diseases vncurable and also by feeding the hungry somtimes fiue thousand at once And also it appeareth that he vsed to giue almes to the poore and had purses for the same intent whiche Iudas had the keeping of in somuch that when Christ said vnto him Quod facis fac citius That thou dost do it spedely some of the Apostles thought that Christ had bid him prepare for the feast cōmyng or els egenis vt aliquid daret Iohn .xii. that he shoulde giue some thyng to the poore people on which Christ was wont to haue mercy pitie and to bestow somewhat vpon them And thus much of this sixt gift of the holy gost shalbe now sufficient I pray God we may alwayes vse it to Gods pleasure to whome be al honour and glorye Amen ¶ The sixt sermon intreating of the feare of God THe seuenth gift of the holy gost is y e gift of the feare of God whiche rested in our Sauiour Christ as well as the other .vi. that I haue spoken of There be in the appetite or wyll of man .iiii. affections or perturbations or passions that moueth and draweth the wyll of man hither and thither and rather to yll then to good cupidite or desire to haue and ioye or gladnes for the hauinge of the thinge that thou hast desired The other .ii. be feare of hurte or displeasure and sorowe for the thinge that thou were afrayd of when it is chaūced or happened There was a sect of Philosophers called Stoici whose auctors were Zeno Chrisippus Epictetus and certayne other and they put the hieste felicite perfection and goodnes of man to be to liue according to vertue and to natural reason So that they put nothinge good in man but vertue whiche they call the very craft and way to liue well other thinges they sayd were commoda profitable for mā as lyfe helth and strength but none clerely good saue onely Iustice or vertue And because they saw these .iiii. affections or passions sore trouble mās reason bring a man to many enormities they said that they came of the corruption of the body were very nought and shuld be cleane reiecte and cast away neuer perceiued or sene in anye good man but that in all cases and chaunces of welth woo a man shuld kepe him self vpright take al thinges after one maner Nam perfectus Stoicus nihil mali patitur A perfit Stoike suffreth no il or harme how so euer the worlde go therefore they were called stupidi Stoici styffe or stubborne Stoikes Platonici and also Peripatherici of Aristotles scole for Aristotle was scoler to Plato they were al of one opinion thought likewyse that al these .iiii. affectiōs were very nought but yet they would not haue them cleane extinct and destroyed because they be naturall to man as it is natural for a heart to be fearful to an addre to be venemous to a spaniel to be gentle familiar so it is natural for mā to desire to be glad to be afeard to be sory or heuy They be vberras quedā animorū a certaine batilnes or frutfulnes of y e soul which shuld not be destroyed but rather wel husbāded bated as if a groūd or a gardē be to ranke it is not best clene to destroy y t rāknes but rather to bate it with sand or grauel or such like or els the herbes the graffes trees that be there set wil cāker be nought So it is of these iiii affectiōs after these Philosophers that they must not be cleane destroyed but moderate and kept subiect to reasō measured y t they rūne not to fast at large nor passe their bōdes that they peruert not the iugemēt of reasō but be ruled by reasō But surely here is not al for they be not vtterly vituperable vicious for if they were very nought thē no measuring could make thē good Pryde can not be good thoughe ye kepe him as short as ye can Enuye can not be good for

victorie that ouercommeth the worlde oure faith for our fayth on God and on his holy worde telleth vs that no manne shall desyre to haue an other mans wyfe neither any woman to haue an other womans husband nether anye man beside her own husbād Likewise if thou se another mans good lye by the negligentlye so that thou maist conuey it awaye and no man to se the yf thou take it awaye or consent thereto here thy fayth is tryed and proued noughte for thy fayth telleth the that thou shalt take awaye none other mans goodes Lykewise in thy occupyinge if for couetousnes to get the penye thou sell false or noughty ware or by false weightes or measures deceiue thy neighbours so doynge thou shewest thy self to forget thy faith to God and to his holy worde Statera iusta equa sint pōdera Leuit. xvii Let thy balance be iuste and thy weightes equall And. Ezech. xlv Statera iusta ephi iustum and also byddinge the do none otherwyse to an other man then thou wouldest an other man should do to the. And cōtrary wise whē thou art tempted to suche vnlawfull Lecherye as I spoke of or to false pyckinge stealynge or robbinge or to deceiue any man or woman by false occupiynge if thou sticke stedfastlye to thy fayth doing accordinglye to Gods holye worde then thy faith by this tēptation is proued good and muche better in the sighte of God then if it had neuer bene so tried And by this it is lyke to golde tryed by the fyre and shall be founde worthy to receiue praise glory and honour whē Christ shall shewe him selfe in his glory at the generall iudgemente then he wil geue to the blessed children of his father whiche then shall be set vpon his right hand disseuered from the refuse deputed to dampnation on the lift hande to all them I saye that hath theyr fayth tried by temptation and proued sounde and pure as golde ▪ Christ wyll geue laude and praise sayinge to you I was an hungred and you gaue me meate I was a thirste and ye gaue me drinke I lacked clothes and ye gaue me clothes and so he wyl saye I had nede of such ware as you occupied and you serued me faythfully and trustely and my wife was in thy sight and in thy companye where thou mighte haue had occasion to tempte her to yll and yet thou dyddeste not And to the honest wyfe wydowe or mayde he wyll geue like laude and praise sayinge that where they were sore tempted to incontinencie yet they didde strongely and stedfastly resist and withstande for Goddes sake and for his holye wordes sake for suche workes of iustice and honestye the iudge wyll praise vs as well as for the workes of mercye whiche be namelye expressed in the Gospell because we shall by them thinke lykewise to be praysed for all lyke good and godlye workes And when he or she that haue this prayse shall saye I neuer serued the of anye ware and I neuer sawe thy wyfe for whom thou geueste me these thankes he wyll saye That you didde for the least of my seruauntes that you didde to me occupyinge with my seruauntes iustelye withoute gyle or deceite thou occupied iustelye with me and abstayninge from my seruauntes wife doughter mayde or seruaunte thou didde shewe thy selfe honest towarde my wife doughter or seruaunt Nowe what ioye and pleasure and comforte it shall be for a Christen man to haue suche laude and praise of the highe iudge at that terrible day when folke shall haue nede of comforte iudge who can It passeth my braine Oure fayth so tryed by trouble or temptation shall be founde worthye to haue glorye when the iudge shall say to vs Venite benedicti patris mei possidete paratum vobis regnum Math. xxv Come you blessed chyldren of my father and take possession of that glorious kyngedome that was prepared for you frome the beginninge of the worlde in whiche we shal be no more seruauntes but coparteners and coinheritours with our sauiour Christe and with all the gloryous Aungelles and glorious companye of heauen where we shall haue the gra●e that GOD gaue vs here consummate perfourmed and in his hygheste perfectyon whiche wee call glorye whyche honoure we shall haue as Saynte Peter sayeth when we shalbe set a lofte and in highe estate whiche shall appeare more euidentlye by the deiection and ouerthrowinge of others of which Esa. xxvi saith Tollatur impius ne videat gloriam Dei Take awaye the wycked synner that he se not the glorye of GOD And also Christ sayth Go frome me you wicked persons into fier euerlasting when the dampned men and women wepinge and waylinge and cryinge oute when they se the exaltation of good men shall say Nos autem insensati c. Sap. v. we dastardes estemed and counted their liues but folishnes or madnes lo nowe howe they be counted amonge the children of God All this shall redounde to the honoure of them that shalbe saued This sayde prayse glorie and honoure we shall be indued wyth all by Chryste when he shall shew hym selfe in his glory Therfore though you do not nowe se him yet ye loue him For as Saint Augustyne sayth we maye loue thinges that wee se not so that we haue knoweledge of them for no man can loue that that he hath no knowledge of We know Christe by heare saye by readinge and hearinge his holy gospelles declaringe his gratious goodnes for whiche we muste nedes loue hym And although you se him not yet you do beleue vppon him for whiche beleife you shall be merye and haue suche ioye as no tounge can tell for it shall be the ioye of the glorye of heauen when you shall receaue for youre rewarde the ende and perfection of youre faith whiche is the health of your soules Nowe here you knowe by Saint Peters wordes what is the ende of youre faith it is the helth of your soules whiche health shall exclude al sicknes payne and miserie for none suche can come into that glorye of heauen where you shall haue the sayde health and saluation and neuer afore for here is no ioye but it is contaminate defouled and interrupted by discomforte payne and trouble And here you muste vnderstand perfect faith garnished and adourned with charitie and good workes accordinge for none other wyll serue vs to come to that glorious rewarde of health euerlastinge De qua salute exquisierunt atque scrutati sunt Prophetae Here Saynte Peter styrreth vp oure deuotion and loue that we shoulde haue to oure soule health that we shall obteyne and gette by the triall and profe of our fayth as he sayde afore He taketh an argumente of the olde fathers holye prophetes that in olde tyme prophecied of the grace that should fall vpon vs by the comminge of our Sauiour Christ which they vehemently desired to see in their time but they coulde not As Christe saith Math. xiii Multi prophete et iusti