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A08447	Certaine godly and very profitable sermons of faith, hope and charitie. First set foorth by Master Barnardine Occhine, of Siena in Italy, and now lately collected, and translated out of the Italian tongue, into the English by William Phiston of London student. Published for the profit of such as desire to vnderstand the truth of the gospell.	Ochino, Bernardino, 1487-1564.; Phiston, William.	1580 (1580)	STC 18769; ESTC S103131	141,223	250

if it be méere foolishnesse then thinke and consider that albeit in Christ all the treasures of the wisedome and knowledge of God doe consist yet this as a foole will euen read it to be true in their parents saying that God was madde and out of his wittes Christ likewise his Church neuer had nor at any time shall haue a greater enimye then this This humaine Faith is it that hath alwayes persecuted grace and the Gospell and with deuising euery daye new sortes of lyuing after the owne fantasie hath filled the world with superstitions idolatryes sectes heresies and wicked religions And lastly that is it which although it hath alwayes persecuted the Sainctes and hanged Christ vppon the Crosse yet in the kingdome of Antechrist in shewing more wickednesse then euer it did hath done and doth the last vyolence It is therefore exceeding foolishnesse miserye and wickednesse for a man to suffer himselfe to be guyded thereby Lyke as it is moste high wisedome godlynesse and felicitie to be gouerned and guyded with Faith supernaturall lyght and spirituall wisedome forasmuch as such hauing God for their last ende goe vnto him happely by due meanes with vsing all creatures to his glory Let vs pray vnto God therefore that he woulde giue vs of his lyght that he would quench and put out in vs all carnall wisedome so that lyuing onelye vnto him we may yéeld him all praise honour and glory thorough Iesus Christ our Lord Amen The ende of the Sermons of Faith Sermons of Hope How that the sinne of desperation is the greatest sinne that can bee Sermon 1. THere be found two sortes of desperation one most holye as when a man despayreth of himselfe of his owne strength of his owne cunning prudence wisedome deuise and goodnesse distrusteth himselfe in all his workes and of all helpe that he can euer haue by creatures with putting his trust whollye in God now this is a most godlye desperation The other desperation is altogether diuelish and most wicked as when a man distrusteth and dispayreth of the helpe of God And this is one of the greatest sinnes that can be committed forasmuch as a desperate person hath most wicked conceits of God he thinketh that ther is no God or that if there be he cannot or that he knoweth not how to helpe him and if he knoweth how and can that hée will not that he loueth him not that he doth not fauour him estéeme him hath not elected him neither that he hath a most singular care of him yea hée thinketh that God is partiall and an acceptor of persōs that he is his enimie cruell and angry with him he beléeueth not that thorough Christ he is pacified with him And this bicause he thinketh that Christ hath no power to satisfie for his sinnes and if yet he hath power hée hath no will to doe it A desperate person setting himselfe to striue against God as Cain did laboureth to with-drawe and wrest mercie from God or at least so to diminish it that it abideth the lesser towardes him thorough his vngodlynesse And if the desperation in Cain was a great sinne in vs it is so much greater as that God since that time hath bene shewed vnto vs with greater charitie and especiallye in Christ vppon the Crosse And what worser thing can a man doe then to distrust of that so great and infinite goodnesse loue and mercie of God made manifest to vs most highly in Christ The sinne of desperation so much displeaseth God that if we should goe on duely considering thereof we shoulde finde that what great workes God hath wrought from the beginning of the worlde euen vntill now all hath bene for to eleuate and drawe our Hope vnto him and bicause that we should not fall into desperation He hath created man so noble excellent and worthy and the worlde for to serue him to the intent that men séeing themselues so loued of God they might trust in him Also he suffered man to fall not onely bicause he should no more trust in himselfe nor in creatures but also bicause that comming in the greater neede he should be of necessitie constrayned to haue refuge to God and so of him being helped approuing his fauour might learne to put his trust in him He sent not also Christ immediatly to set him at libertie but would that for a long time he should abide so bicause that he should first thoroughly trye his owne strength and seeing that they were not sufficient for him béeinge altogether distrusting in himselfe might be lifted vp with Hope vnto God He chased him out of earthly Paradise bicause the tasting of the troubles of the world he might be moued to recommend himselfe vnto God and to trust in him When he sent the floud drowned the world he preserued those fewe in the Arke bicause they might learne to depend onely vpon God He confounded the languages bicause that béeing disparsed thoroughout the whole world and in euery part trying and féeling the diuine prouidence goodnesse of God they might put in him all their trust He would that those most holy Patriarches should be euer straungers pilgrimes amongest vnknowne enuious Nations in perpetuall daungers and necessitie bicause that they might learne to put confidence in God He would also that his people should be oppressed in Aegypt persecuted by Pharao and that abiding in the desert dy forty yeares they should be fed with Manna bicause that experiencing so meruaylously the goodnesse of God they might learne to distrust of the worlde and to trust in God he gaue them a lawe by Moses to the intent that by it men séeing their sins and that they were not able to obserue the same lawe dispayring of themselues might séeke theyr saluation thorough Christ To the selfe same ende did God suffer them to be destroyed when they trusted to ouercome in battayle by their owne strength alwayes they ouercame if they did put their trust in God He commaunded Iosua that he shoulde kill all the horses burne all the chariots which they had taken from their enemies bicause they should haue no occasion to put confidence therein He also forbad Dauid that he should not number the people bicause he might not trust in the multytude In the meane time while they were in the land of promise he would that his people should be compassed about with enemies and alwayes molested bicause of necessitie they might sometimes be turned vnto God And lastly sending his owne sonne he would that dying vpon the Crosse with shewing to vs great loue hee might make satisfaction for our sinnes to the ende that we might haue no occasion to distrust in our selues of the great mercy of GOD whereoff who so doubteth doth in déede the greatest iniury that can be done vnto God in as much as lyke as a Lorde hauing receiued great harmes by one of his seruaunts and seeinge him iustly condemned to bée ledde vnto execution is moued with

such pitie towardes him that for to raunsome him to satisfie for his iustice appoyntinge in his place his owne beloued and onelye begotten sonne caused him to dye and afterwardes all this notwithstanding that seruaunt woulde not trust or put any confidence but dispayred to haue or euer obtaine mercye at his handes in such a case the Lord woulde be more offended at this last iniurye then by all them that be passed and that bicause he should sée that all the meanes which he had wrought to saue him and that the death of his sonne for him was in vaine and also for bicause he coulde haue no more any remedy to saue him euen so wée if we dispayre of the mercye of GOD seeinge that he hath appoynted his owne sonne vnto the crosse for to satisfie for our sinnes we doe vnto GOD a most great iniury for as much as it is by our own meanes we make vnprofitable and vaine the passion and death of Christ all that which God Christ hath wrought Neither remaineth there any more remedy for our saluation except the passion of Christ be profitable to him Chiefly for that like as if a sicke man who might easily be healed with medicines being frantick or out of his wits thought himselfe to be haile would take no medicines that his madnesse should more hurt him then all other sicknesse so likewise vnto a desperate person the onely phrensie of desperation doth more hurte then all other his vices So that if it were possible thou might better choose to haue committed all the sinnes of the worlde and to trust in God then not to haue committed any other sinne but to distrust in God Desperation also is most euill not onely bicause a desperate person doth not allow any remedye but also bicause he giueth the bridle at wil vnto al wickednesse with saying why not in any wise I cannot be remedied I must néedes be damned seeing it is so it is best that while I am in this present lyfe I take my pleasures without hauinge any respect vnto God Seeing then that desperation is so horrible a vice let vs pray the Lord that he would deliuer vs from it with giuing vs grace that we may haue stéedfast hope in him so that we may render vnto him all praise honour and glory thorough Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ How that in God alone euery one ought to put their whole Hope and confidence Sermon 2. THe comfort of the wretched whilst they be in their miseries is Hope the whiche vpholdeth them comforteth nourisheth maketh them happie so that it bée a true Hope for that a deceitfull Hope maketh them so much the more miserable as that it beguileth thē the more And forasmuch as ther is no true Hope but only the which is groūded vpō god therfore like as by him alone we must cōfesse that we haue al good things whatsoeuer we possesse to him alone we ought to render all thāks so also in him alone we ought to hope And this bicause al those things that can be desired in any persō to the intent that in the same person all our hopes ought of vs to be placed are founde in God Inasmuch as God is omnipotent most wise most rich most liberall most good of infinite charitie and most méeke And although he be righteous and we continually offende him yet notwithstanding he is in Christ and thorough Christe pacified and that in such sorte that although we haue cause to feare yet we may hope that he chastiseth vs as a Father we haue not therefore any cause to feare that he forsaketh or condempneth vs but alwayes to trust that we shall be saued and that all that which he worketh with vs is for his greater glorie and our felicitie He striketh vs vppon the handes with his rodde to the intent that we may leaue these wordly thinges and so may be constrayned to tourne vs vnto him and to taste of the great deintinesse of his loue He plucketh vs back sometimes with his benefites mouinge his creatures agaynst vs to the ende that we maye so much the more stricktly embrace him yea he suffereth vs oftentimes to fall bicause that the better knowing our owne infirmitie and his goodnesse we may depend alwayes vppon him Besides all this God from euerlasting hath determined in time promised to saue vs and not with this condition if we shall do good woorks but by béeing sure of our saluation and to the intent that it shoulde not depend in any wise vppon vs and that he may bée stéedefast in his wordes and firme in his promises he hath made an vnchaungeable determination to saue vs absolutely which trust in him although we haue bene contrary vnto him he hath vtterly purposed to chaūge our wills to giue vs a newe heart to make vs walke thorough his pathes to cause vs to obserue his preceptes to make vs doe good woorkes and to saue vs. And moreouer to haue of vs such a most singuler care that all things that we shall doe and that shall happen vnto vs shall serue to our saluation Hée hath also not onely promised vs all the foresayd things and that absolutely as it is euident in diuerse places of the holy Scriptures but already in Christ and thorough Christ hath obserued the same as may be séene in so many Saints as haue bene saued Séeing that we haue experience which is such a Mistres that maketh vs sée playnly the truth with making vs in the ende to féele the same If a Prince besides his abilitie that thou knowest certeynly he is a good man knoweth howe and will helpe thée asmuch as he can that he is determined to take thée for his sonne and hath promised thée so that he hath also bestowed vpon thée many benefites and still dayly doth in the ende for thy benifite he offered his owne sonne to dye in such a case wouldst thou not trust him yes truely And if any should perswade thée to distrust the sayd Prince by and by thou wouldst say and why I haue tryed his goodnesse so many times and in suche sort that I ought not nor can doubt of him any more Now we ought much more to doe and saye the same of God in as much as his loue is greater then all the loue of men his wordes more stéedfast his promises more firme and his benefites greater continuall more durable If God should but onely the twinklinge of an eye leaue off to preserue vs and to do vs good we should sodainly come to naught And what néede I speak any more we trye by a thousand wayes and continually his goodnesse and shall we doubte thereoff But it happeneth vnto vs I will not say as vnto Ionas but much worse bicause that although Ionas when he was on the earth felt not the goodnesse of God and therefore was disobedient vnto him it séemed vnto him that the earth not god susteyned him