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A04790	Two godlie and learned sermons appointed, and preached, before the Jesuites, seminaries, and other aduersaries to the gospell of Christ in the Tower of London. In which, were confuted to their faces, the moste principall and cheefe poincts of their Romish and vvhoarish religion: and all such articles as they defend, contrarie to the woord of Cod [sic], vvere layed open and ripped vp vnto them. In Maye. 7 and 21. Anno. 1581. By Iohn Keltridge, preacher of the vvorde of God, in London.	Keltridge, John.	1581 (1581)	STC 14921; ESTC S105451	120,903	140

whether he did well or euill And Osorius did but the other day sende abroade his Cōnfections to poyson the young Frie of England who as he flaunteth it out in a leafe or two yet halteth he in many places and speaketh verie roughly and breaketh out euery where vnpleasauntly and then healeth vp the wound so rawly againe as that his gleaned and piked vp corne stolne words borrowed ware deceiptfull stile quauering Notes and slaunderous speeches against the trueth be wundered at and greatly pittied of all cunning woorkemen Moreouer the other day was the like seene for the Snowe hath not yet falne vpon the ground nor yet hath the Sickle beene put into the Corne sithence one to name Campion and an other to name Howlet haue caste out Rebellious Pamphlets and offered combate to all the learned in this Realme Now all these men for that they wanted credit and estimation where they liued before are cōtent like Maisterlesse men to goe abegging and aske for entertainement abroade Therefore haue they praesumed to enter the Courte gates and there to open their Pedlers Packes and to set out to sale their counterfeit Merchaundies supposing that because her Maiesties Subiects vpon hope of amendement haue in all clemencie beene borne with all to this day Therefore also they should looke for the same fauour and good woordes bothe of her Maiestie and your Honours handes as a rewarde giuen them for their slaunderous and Scismaticall Libelles May it please you therefore with the same eyes and like harte as you haue to this daye moste Honourably continued so also to turne back and looke vpō the learned with in this Realme It wil be knowne vnto you that God hath so blessed them in England with all kinde of furniture Timber Wood and Stone fine woorke wrought woorke and needell woorke golde siluer and all other kinde of Science Arte and knowledge bothe diuine and humaine as all theyr outlandish falshoods robbery pilfering and stealth with their foolish and mishapen Quiddities loose arguments broken reasons falsified Scriptures coloured and disguised Authors are neuer able to be compared or come neere vnto vs. For whye the Lorde is on our side and he rayseth vp bothe the eloquent and the good man As for those men what haue we to doo with them seeing they are bewitched with falsehood and lyes The Lorde our God is he that we must follow his voyce must we heere and as for those that bring not his woorde the Lorde shal be reuenged on them himselfe For my owne parte what I haue set downe against our aduersaries the Iesuites in this booke in the same I will not be my owne Iudge but I will referre that I haue spoken to the indifferent Reader and he all that I haue doone vnto the Scriptures The Lorde the true and righteous euermore the God of our fathers that hath alwayes beene with you kindle your noble and vertuous proceedings more and more that you maye bee a light and fartherer in the same to all those that looue and feare the Lorde And the Lorde graunt that his countenaunce may shine vpon vs that his word may be knowne rightly his lawes and commaundements obserued diligently the vertuous and godly men defended mightely the wicked and obstinate punished seuearely and his goodnes and mercie spreade abroade openly vpon vs all That her Maiestie may raigne long time ouer vs to see the iudgements of our God put in execution that her Grace may see an end of all vnquietnes dissention and strife and establish peace vnitie and concorde in the Church of God Amen Your Honours moste humble to commaund Iohn Keltridge From my Chamber in Holborne at London Iune 10. To the Readers and faithfull Christians health and peace in Christe Iesus THe great looue that the Lord our GOD hath borne to the Church neither is it neither can it be hid from any man and if we which haue nowe Itued in the same many yeeres be not either stuffed and choaked vp with his manifolde benefites or carelesse secure for that they haue béene so plentifull Then will euerie faithfull and good man say as I say that of all Nations and Countries vnder heauen we haue hitherto liued most happily For if Warres were looked for the Lord hath turned all to peace If conspiracies and Treasons were practised they haue béene reuealed from time to time If Insurrections were made they the authors haue béen suppressed immediatly If Forrainers and straungers haue determined any thing against vs their pretended deuises neuer tooke effect If at any time they haue purposed to spoyle vs the Lord hath deliuered them into our handes If the heauens haue portended any great thing or the earth hath shaken her pillers against man or the Elements in flaming manner cast foorth their sparkes of fyre yet haue all these moste straunge thinges to this day shewen their force declared their effectes and plainely manifested their angrie countenaun●●s against other Nations and straunge people not against vs of England So that I may say happy are we if we may continue happy and blessed be we aboue all other if we be still blessed of the Lord and most of all are we to praise our God if héereafter we shall be able to stande as hetherto we haue done which he onely knoweth not man Of this I am certaine and for the same I haue a good warrant that if our sinnes be not come vp vnto the brim if our iniquities be not ripe or our manifolde transgressions come vp before God then haue we not to feare any thing but whatsoeuer kinde of ●●●righting it be howsoeuer mens heartes doo fayle them or what rumors and signes of alterations the wicked doo forecast in their hearts all shall be turned to the best if we haue not prouoked the Lord. In verie déede it is true that the Lord is able to remooue our Candelstitke that the Lord is able to carrie vs into a straunge lande and he is of power to hang vp our Harpes vpon the willowe Trées and enforce vs to sing a song of Sion in Babell Yet let Israel be of good chéere and you the people of the Lord comforted for if you will feare the Lord and obey him all thinges shall goe well with you Deut. 28.2 all the blessinges of God shall be powred vppon you and you shall stande in feare and dread of none But and if you disobey the Lord your God and cleaue not vnto him all the plagues and curses set downe in his booke shall ouertake you Leui. 26.14 Lamen 2.17 I tell you of a trueth that if we looke not to our wayes and take héede to such thinges as the Lord our God hath forbidden vs without questiō he will bring such a thing to passe as all the eares of men that heare thereof shall tingle at it For my owne part I am perswaded that euen now God hath begun to becken his hand and shake his rod at vs and of the same I will

a seruice which toucheth and concerneth God and a seruice which toucheth and concerneth man Whereinto if you or any other shall looke it wil be founde that this scruice which is appertinent vnto God and vnto man is also two folde Seruice of God and man ● The body and the minde goe togeather in the 〈◊〉 woo●ship of God Internall which is in spirite for as God is a spirite so also will he be woorshipped in spirite and truthe Externall which is outwarde in reuerence and dutie apparant euen to man Bothe these are required in this place and they be 〈◊〉 vnted togeather as without b●the of them the Lord● our God cannot bee truelie woorshipped Theresice I will not seueare or deuide the one from the other but I will ●ucke them as in a golden Chaine and make them Caepartuers and fellow companiorts in enerye good action Now this internall and this externall seruice of the Lorde are bothe séen● in diners circumstances of my Text as followeth True seruice is seene 1. First if you shal loone 2. Secondly the Lord your God 3. Thirdly with all your hart 4. Fourthly with all your soule 5. Fiftly with all your might 1. The first sheweth the readinesse that is in vs. 2. The second shutteth out all other woorship whatsoeuer 3. The third declareth that nothing should be precious vnto vs but the Lord. 4. The fourth taketh away all counterfeiting and all dissimulation 5. The fife openeth that no creature els may haue this seruice but onely the Lord our God The fall of mā being in perfection his vnstablen●● 〈◊〉 he is on earth his co●●upt● mind in a● 〈◊〉 he doo the 〈◊〉 blyndnes and error in the lyght his grosnesse harde hart in beleef dyd requyre a pure and vndefiled lawe to brydle him I am not ignoraunt that euerie man in whome is the breath of life and vpon whome the Lord our God hath powred of his Spirite is in some part any in eueri● part faultie in this co●●aundoment which naturall blin●nesse and Ignoraunce of ours sheweth the groat perfection 〈◊〉 heauenly integritie of the Lord and againe condempneth vs as guiltis in eneri● point 〈…〉 our handes at the barte continuallie as béeing on able to 〈◊〉 any lots of this same or to stand before God if he call vs to a reckoning For if that man were able to stand and would neuer fall from his 〈…〉 and his heart vn●●●●ble 〈…〉 〈◊〉 be 〈…〉 in Israelit thon ●e 〈…〉 thinke ●ho 〈…〉 〈…〉 that 〈…〉 thing 〈◊〉 of 〈…〉 that 〈…〉 We may 〈…〉 and no doubt the Lord our God hath so stra 〈…〉 vs to obserue these thinges prescribed euen to looue him and him our God and with all our heart and with an our soule and with all out stight 〈◊〉 sundrie waightie and great causes Causes why the Lorde hath giuen so straight a commaūdement 1. First 〈◊〉 our owne ●●●etchednesse myseserie and death 2. Secondlie to be a●cused not excused before the Lord. 3. Thirdly to tremble and shake when we ●span 4. Fourthly that ●bndem●●bndem●nation may appeare in vs knowing that we are not able to fulfill this 5. Firstly to make vs affrighted and to weaken out consciences seeing that we cannot lyue in ●●●●bedience 6. Sixtly to keepe vs by discipline as vnder a lawe for euer 7. Seuenthly to teach vs the ●nt● and perfect workes of righteous nesse 8. Eightly to exclude all other Idoll woorshippe and to serue all onely the Lord our God Man thynking that he ●●ādeth dooth fall that he is in lyse is yet in death that he is strōg is vveake that he can doo all thynges dooth nothing aryght therefore hath he inward and secrete sinnes vvhich hee must tame and subdue as well as the outward vices subiect to the eyes of men And now to come more narrowlie to euerie one in this place th●gener all is it to he thaught that no man hath an euill eye vpon Abel vpon his brother is the heart of euerie man persen Dooth none despise Iacob Is there not one but 〈◊〉 a porsect Censar or shall we make accoumpt is there nener an 〈◊〉 person in this company not one 〈◊〉 you that hath worne the golden Earinges or hath not cast one stone against the house of God or ioyned them selues with Aaron to committe euyll Is the leauen of Egipt cleane forgotten or hath no man syt downe to eate and 〈◊〉 and rose vp againe to play Is the hearts of you all pire 〈◊〉 the Lord what not once at Samaria in all your life not once at Dan not once at Bethell no not ●ne ●ine or affectioned to Priapus Of a trueth it may hard●● be so thought a man will not indge it and God knoweth it is otherwise Why man he is full of presumptious ●●●es why his offeringes be vncleane and the fat of the 〈◊〉 is tayn●ed Many truct in Chariots and many trust in Horses and diuers say there is no helpe in our God and then which way can we be frée from his wrath The man that worketh no deceypt the man that hath not slaundered his neighbour the man that hath not put out his money to loane nor his coyne to Vsurie the man in whose loule there is no guile is not cannot may not be found I tell you to looue the Lord with all your soule with all your might with all your strength with all your heart to looue the Lord and to looue him onely is to fulfill the whole lawe and the Prophetes As the false Prophetes of Iesabell knewe the trueth in the dayes of nlyas the Prophet and as Amasiah dyd vvilfully resist Ieremie the Seribes Saduces Christe so doo the Iesuites and Papistes resist vs against theyr ewne consciences I doo professe and protest before you all yea before the Lord and before his Angels that I neuer enter into the con●●●eration of this but that I wonder howe it commeth to paste that the aduersaries of the grace of God the Papistes doo not burst and cleaue in sunder when they sée that honor that zeale that affection that loous that might that strength which is due to the Lord God so wickedly and so commonlie to be giuen to Creatures And now tell me you whose faces are faces of brasse you of the. Colledge of the Pope you his Seminaries you inuested into the order of the Iesuites howe you are able to aunswere and to reconcile your selues vnto the Lord God sayth Looue me you loue the Pope God sayth Looue me with all your heart but how heartilie how faithfully pray you to Saints God sayth Looue me with all thy soule yet you sell prayers vnto men and the Soules of men doo you giue from God for money God sayth Looue me with all thy might and you ende●●●r day and night to Idolatrie God sayth Heare me onely but you will not heare him at all and if you doo you are compelled vnto it Then in consideration that you haue so boldelie resisted the Trueth and

now also write I haue to lead me therunto these causes First my office and calling draweth me as beeing a Dispensar of the woord of God Secondly my dutie which is to winne all but especially you which are so farre off Thirdly that care which beyond measure I haue had is a prick and a spurre within me since the firste time I was with you at the Tower And which should prouoke me I haue a commaundement giuen me from the eternall God to preach in season and out of season in time and out of time whersoeuer I see the Church to stand in need Therfore I beeing espetially mooued aboue the rest you haue no farther to enquire after me As concerning the thinges I am to charge you withall they are many great importable and such as you can neuer answere They concerne the Lord the high God whose lawes you contemne They concerne the Church from which you are fled They concerne the trueth which you denye They concerne Religion which you abhorre They concerne Christianitie which you are farre from They concerne true Woorship which you repose in your Image● They concerne Faith which you lay in Wor●●s They concerne perfecte and Christian adoration this you claspe vp in the bosome of the Pope They cōcerne prayer which in steed of God you giue to men They concerne Christe whose institutions you chaunge They concerne the perfect seruice of the Lord which you infolde in the Masse They concerne our Meditation which you make but a sacrifice Propitiatorie by the woork of a Preest They concerne our attonement and reconciler Christe and him whome the heauens containeth you infolde in a Wafer cake They concerne the Gospell which you refuse you stick to the customes of your fathers And they concerne the woord of the Lord which you heare not but compelled which you slaun der beeing hardened which you contemne beeing blinded and which you spurn throwe away euen before our faces to our great greef and your confusion if you repent not All these many things more I am to charge you with hauing this purpose in my selfe That first you are to be loked vnto and if that you will not turne vnto the Lord our God and serue him after the manner that we his People Israell doo either we must shut you out of the Tents and dwelling places of the inheritaunce of our God or we must finde some way to pacifye the Lord withall For I am certainly perswaded that you haue been kept ouer long you and your fellowe Ammonites yea these twentie yeares haue you been pricks and thornes in our sides now you come out of your holes wherin younestled resisting openly the hoste of the Lord vnto their faces But this may not be suffered least your example of gathering sud● vpon the Sabaoth day be an occasion also that others shall violate and break the commaundements of God I warne you therfore in time and these Sermons of myne which I made vnto you haue I gathered together in a little volume that you may read them They contayne in them a breefe and short confutation of all such Heresies as you doo holde With this speech if you be not contented I wil then call back and reclaime it when as I perceiue and see thorow ly that you are amended More I cannot say more I may not say and more I dare not say as yet to you whom not I but a● Christian harts doo thinke to be instruments of Satan raysed vp for our sinnes as two edged Swoordes to rent and out in peeces the poore Church of England For mine owne parce I wil pray to the Lord our God for your amendement and I will begge that Discipline at his hands which you if you come not to him are woorthie to haue To whom I doo commit you that hath both life and death faluation and condemnation in his handes Yours in the Lord if you come vnto the Lord. Iohn Keltridge At London Iune 10. 1581. The first part of the Sermon wherein is largelie confuted sundrie grosse heresies which the Iesuites Seminaries and other the Popes Schollers doo holde preached at the Tower in their presence that the trueth might be known vnto them more apparantlie 7. Maij. 1581. IT is thus written right Honourable right VVoorshipfull and belooued in our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christe Deut. 6. v. 4. Heare O Israel the Lord our God is Lord onely and thou shalt looue the Lord thy God with all thy heart with all thy soule and with all thy might And these words which I commaund thee this day shall be in thy heart THe looue that our Lord God bare to Israell his people though it be in many places of this booke shewed openly and declared plainlie to them Of all the bookes of Moses this of Deuteronomy for the blessing great benefite● God shewed to his people is the most cōfore table and heauenly booke Yet in more ample manner it was neuer set downe at any time to that Nation as in this the vnspeakable looue of the Lord their God who in daunger defending them in troubles deliuering them in extremities assisting them in slauerie and captiui●e vpholding them by his mightie hand did not onely by Myracles she we his power or by his Prouision for them signifie his looue or by his outstretched arme manifest his care or by fighting with Kinges for their sakes driue all onlie an especiall reuerence into their hearts of his Maiestie But verie fatherlie in affection most loouingly in Mercie and tenderlte with long Patience did the Lord instructe and teach them by Moses and Aaron that they might know the Commaundements of the Lord and feare him Wherefore as at the first to cause them to remember him the Lord our God appeared in fire and lightning and in most terrible manner to beate a care and reuerent feare into their hearts So to ●omfore them againe was Moses sent with this 〈◊〉 and these Co●●t●ndements as re●embraunces pledges of his looue that in the same they might acknowledge him and in trembling and feare obey him in knowledge increase their looue towards him and in reuerēce serue him all the dayes of their lyfe Now this booke is a recapitulation a bréefe summarie and short rehersall of all such Lawes Ordinaunces Statutes as the Lord had giuen to Israel and a Commemoration of all his sundrie notable and famous benefites as Israel and this People had receyned at the handes of God and therefore sayth Moses Heare O Israel the Lord thy God is Lord onely These woordes haue in them noted two principall thinges common bothe in the Lawe and in the Prophetes 1. First an exhortation In requesting and in praying them 2. Secondlie a Commaundement In willinge and in forcing them The Inuocation or calling on them to heare that which appertayneth to God declareth howe ready the Lord is to saue man The Lawe and constraint vsed by commaundement certifieth vs albeit we will not come vnto