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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A21064	A sermon preached at Paules Crosse the 19. of Iuli 1579 setting forth the excellencye of Gods heauenlye worde: The exceeding mercye of Christ our Sauior: the state of this world: A profe of the true Church: A detection of the false Church: or rather malignant rable: A confutation of sundry hæresies: and other thinges necessary to the vnskilfull to be knowen. By Iohn Dyos. Seene and allowed.	Dyos, John.	1579 (1579)	STC 7432; ESTC S111984	61,205	176

is then frée will. We haue here still a clogge Consider wel the seuenth chapter of the Epistle of S. Paule to the Romanes from the fouretenth Verse to the ende of the chapter and you shal be able to stop the mouthes of all frée will men His wordes are these For we know that the law is spirituall but I am carnall sold vnder sin For that whiche I doe I allow not for what I would that doe I not but what I hate that doe I. If I doe now that whiche I would not I consent vnto the law that it is good Now then it is not I that doe it but sinne that dwelleth in me For I know that in me that is to say in my fleshe dwelleth no good thyng For to will is present with me but I finde no meanes to performe that which is good For the good that I would doe I not but the euill which I would not that do I. And if I doe that I would not then is it not I any longer that doth it but sinne that dwelleth in me I finde then by the law that when I would do good euill is present with me For I delite in the lawe of God after the inward man But I sée another law in my members rebellyng agaynst the law of my mynde and subduyng me vnto the law of sinne which is in my members O wretched man that I am who shall deliuer me from the body of this death I thanke God through Iesus Christ our lord So then with the minde I my selfe serue the law of God but with the fleshe the law of sinne We shall then be frée whē this mortalitie hath put on immortalitie and this corruption hath put on incorruption If any man will describe the will of man not regenerate he may note it thus In naturall actions he may doe somewhat but not without the generall grace of God In morall ciuill actions lykewise he may doe somewhat but not without the speciall grace of God In spirituall matters before he be borne agayne and hath receiued light of the holy spirite he can doe nothing at all The tyme is spēt euen in the entrye of my third part I will be short They inuocate creatures Ergo they breake the net We must direct our prayers to God alone our heauēly father in the name of Iesus Christ For it is writtē Dominum Deum tuum adorato eumque solum colito Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God and him onely shalt thou serue Albeit Christ is not here expresly mentioned notwithstanding he is included For the faythful praying to God alwayes thinke vpon Christ The publican prayed God be mercifull to me a sinner He thought vpon Christ c. It is horrible sayth D. Luther to thinke vpon God without Christ for that without Christ we haue no saluatiō He is our onely mediatour vnto the father therefore no Saint is our mediatour Christ sayth Ego sum via veritas vita nemo venit ad Patrem nisi per me I am the way the truth the lyfe no man cōmeth to the father but by me Which wordes S. Augu. noting sayth Ambulare vis Ego sum via Falli non vis Ego sum veritas Mori non vis Ego sum vita Hoc dicit tibi Saluator tuus Non est quò eas nisi ad me Non est quà eas nisi per me Wilt thou walke I am the way Wilt thou not be deceiued I am the truth Wilt thou not dye I am the lyfe This sayth thy Sauiour vnto thée there is no place whether thou mayest goe but to me There is no way for thée to passe but by me No man knoweth the father but the son and he to whome the son will reueale him S. Paule sayth There is one God and one mediatour betwene God and man the man Iesus Christ The kingly Prophet Dauid sayth in the person of God Call vpon me in the day of trouble so will I deliuer thée and thou shalt glorifie me The Prophet Esay sayth also in the persō of God I euen I am he onely that for mine owne sake doe away thyne offences and forget thy sinnes so that I will neuer thinke vpon them The scripture plentifully and strongly proueth this matter What is more cleare then the prayer which our Sauiour Christ hath taught vs Our father which art in heauen c. It is horrible idolatrye to inuocate any creature whether dead or aliue They are not gods for there is one onely God who is to be inuocated Therefore creatures ought not to be inuocated Creatures are not omnipotent neither knowe they the hartes of mē here is none excepted neither Mary nor Peter nor any creature esle Therfore they ought not to be inuocated or prayed vnto Prayer must be made with fayth But fayth onely must be reposed in God Therfore onely God is to be prayed vnto We haue no expresse commaundemēt or example in holy scriptures concerning inuocation of creatures Therefore it cannot be done with fayth and good conscience God himselfe doth expreslye prohibite it and the prophets condemne it It is a manifest marke and playne note of Antichrist To beleue in other creatures beside Christ is not to beleue in Christ But the Papistes beleue in other creatures beside Christ Ergo they beliue not in Christ The argument is sure and the conclusion must néedes folow I speake of a true and a right beliefe These thinges Paule neuer planted Apollo neuer watered Christ neuer encreased If holy Augustine were now aliue heard such wicked and blaspemous opinions he would surely say vnto these men as he once sayd to Iulianus a Pelagian heretique with his sect Mira dicitis noua dicitis falsa dicitis Mira stupemus noua cauemus falsa conuincimus Marueilous thinges you speake new thinges you speake false thinges you speake Your marueilous thinges wée are astonied at your new sayings wée will beware of your false sayings wée will conuince The more you stirre the faster you stick the longer ye striue the weaker ye are you cannot blind the Sunne beames will ye nil ye the truth will conquere There is no wisedome there is no policie there is no coūsaile against the Lord. The truth of God will stand vanitye will fall of it selfe Remember the counsaile of Gamaliel fight not agaynst the spirite of God. Thus you sée how the nette is brokē by corrupt doctrine The same is also brokē by ill maners Of the first you haue somewhat heard Now a word touching the second The same breakers of the nette the shakers of the ship still breake the nette with their ill manners They shew intollerable disobediēce in refusing to come to the Church Some of them maintayne trayterous persons beyond the sea and on this side the sea and of these some they make their Bailifes some their stewardes some their Caters some their Scholemaisters and some their seruaūts of chiefe trust to waite