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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17331	A sermon preached in the Cathedrall Church in Norwich, the xxi. day of December, 1589. by W. Burton, minister of the word of God there. And published for the satisfying of some which took offence thereat	Burton, William, d. 1616.	1590 (1590)	STC 4178; ESTC S114179	33,638	90

our old customs and ceremonies kept vvhatsoeuer they be and albeit we haue no lavv for thē vve vvil make them do as vve vvil haue them to doe or els they shal knovv the price of it And why so because as they say vve be idle crie let vs go offer sacrifice that is say they they neuer leaue calling to church to the sermon euery morning and there vve must be reproued for euery fault and this diet is not for our humors they had as good bee idle as thus occupied yet seeing as they wil needes be so holy let them but vve vvil set them to their task and see whether that wil wearie them or no. And as Pharao vrged those thinges at Israels hands which he vvould not touch with his least finger so these our Pharaos lay heauier burthens vpon our backs then either prince or lavv or conscience vvil vvarrant But whē they vrge that which lavv it selfe doeth iustly require it is not of any conscience for then vvoulde they come themselues and see it done but of malice therfore very seldome or neuer shall wee see some of them at sermons But vvhat say they Let the minister goe to church and pray for vs vvee vvil be at home and vvorke for him or els let the minister go to church pray and we wil goe to the alehouse play Againe because the Egyptian task was not done Israel and their officers were beaten Euen so because their taske I meane not the taske of the law for that haue we borne and most willingly vvil vve vndergoe it but the vnstinted task of mens affections whose behauiour sauoureth of the discipline of an alehouse because their taske is not done wee are complayned of by them their accusations take place against vs we are condēned for disobedient persons and avvay vve must pack Thus are vve beatē with the slanderous tongues of vngodly mē with the reproach of the world with the disgr●ce of our ministerie with thē disdame of our persons with the bitings of pouer●ie and if some may preuaile vvith the losse of libertie liuing and life it selfe For they crie crucifige already so long as these people find such fauour at some mens hands as they doe it vvill not be better but rather vvorse vvith Gods seruants and therfore God if it be his vvil turne these Pharaos he arts But at the last Israel cried to the Lord the Lord hearde them Pharao was plagued and Israel was released And vvill not God novv bee reuerged of his seruantes vvrong and oppression Yes no doubt For if princes take that contempt to thē selues which is offered to their messengers much more vvil God If Hanun and Ammon stinke in the nostrels of Israel for their villanie offered to Dauids messengers much more shall these before God If Iudas took his peniwoorthes of himself for betraying of innocēt bloud much more shall God of these And if God made Ierusalem yea euen famous Ierusalem a heap of stones the shame of the vvorld for mo●king despising misusing of Gods messengers How shal God suffer these oppressing Pharaos whether they ●e Papists A the●sts or Libertines or neuters or Machiuels of any religion or of no religiō vvhether in citie or in countrey vvhether in village or in cottage or whersoeuer they be how shal God I say suffer thē at last though he suffer them long to escape his heauy vvrath And knovve you of Norwich vvhose hearts runne after couetousnes vvho sitte and heare the preacher for a fashion vvhich goe home iest at him your bellyes full vvhich censure him at your pleasure vvhich eate him at your feastes vvhich buy and sel him in your shops vvhich recreate your selues with their faults which make thē your marks to shoote at and your fields to vvalk in I speake of no more but these for I am sure that many and all that feare God truely doe take another course let these men I say know novv if they will that one day wil come vvhē they shal know that prophets haue been amōgst them that their discourteous dealing hath been offered to the ambassadors of the most high vvhich men might vvel haue seene by the last plague that was amōgst vs vvhich God vvould also teach vs by the st●uings of Iacob and Esan in their mothers be●●ie I meane by the stirres of the church For though it be granted of many both godly vvise learned that in mans iudgement it vvas not the best course that might be taken for any man in vvriting for reformation to publishe the ouerthrow of the mightie in Gath or to tell the faultes of Bishoppes in the streetes of Askalon that the daughters of the Philistins might reioyce and the vncircumcised might triumph yet can not this be denied that the Lord whose prouidence is ouer and in al things had and hath also a stroke in this And it is to be feared that the same God in his ius●e iudgement hath brought these feares stirres vpon them because some of thē not all God forbid haue had the poor ministers of Iesus Christ in so ill accoūt that the most disgraceing tearmes haue beene thought good inough for them and some in their houses haue taken libertie to abuse them for their pleasure and to pray vpon them for their profit and when they best of all did speed they should haue mountaines promised thē and that in hast and be paid home with mollhils and that at leysure And thus did God in Ieremies dayes when Pashur the priest and gouernour of the Lordes house smote Ieremy and lodged him in the stocks for speaking the trueth the Lord changed his name from Pashur to Magor-missabib that is a terror on euery side For this is a ruled case in the 2. of Iames the 13. verse there shalbe iudgement merciles to him that s●hweth no mercie therfore I vvould vvish that this contempt neglect of Gods ministers might be taken away from amongst vs and that they might be more regarded for though in respect of humain infirmities they are but as other mē though the messenger of Sathan be sent to buffet them and though there be a lavv in their members rebelling against the law of their mindes vvhereby many times they are led against their wils captiues to the lavv of sinne Oh wretched men that vve are●vet in respect of their office vvhich is honorable and excellent in respect of him whose message they bring and in respect● of the message it selfe vvhich they bring they are to be regarded And God geue vs al grace so to behaue our selues both in life doctrine as vve may be regarded and not iustly be despised for we are the ministers and messengers of the Lord of hostes vvho vvith Ieremie may and ought to say vnto you when occasion serueth O ye disobedient children turn again for thus saith the Lord. And so much for the dignitie of