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A18772	A postil or orderly disposing of certeine epistles vsually red in the Church of God, vppon the Sundayes and holydayes throughout the whole yeere. Written in Latin by Dauid Chytræus, and translated intoo English by Arthur Golding. Seen and allowed according too the order appoynted	Chytraeus, David, 1531-1600.; Golding, Arthur, 1536-1606. aut	1570 (1570)	STC 5263; ESTC S107883	320,443	478

earnestnesse of learning teaching the doctrine in profession patience méekenesse chastitie temperance c. And make not prouision for the flesh too fulfill the lustes thereof Rule and expresse all straggling lustes but yet forpine not your bodyes neither neglect the welfare thereof so farre as shalbée néedfull too the going through with al things aryght according too your vocations but haue a care or regard of the flesh or of the body like as Coloss ij He willeth vs too honor the body that it may bee kept in helth after a rightful order and maner Yet must it not waxe wanton and run headlong intoo vyce nor too the nourishing or fulfilling of the inordinate desires and lustes thereof Vppon the second Sunday in Aduent ¶ The Epistle Rom. xv VVHatsoeuer things are written afore tyme are wrytten for our learning that wee thorowe patience and comfort of the Scryptures myght haue hope The God of patience and consolation giue you that ye bee like minded one towardes one another after the ensample of Chryst Iesu that ye all agreeing togither may with one mouth praise God the father of our Lord Iesus Wherfore receiue yee one another as Christ receiued vs too the praise of god And I say that Iesus Chryst was a minister of the circumcision for the truthe of God too confirme the promises made vntoo the fathers And let the gentiles praise God for his mercy as it is written For this cause I wil praise thee among the Gentiles and sing vnto thy name And agein he saith reioyce ye Gentiles with his people And ageine praise the Lord all ye Gentiles and laud ye him all nations togither And againe Esayas saith there shal bee the roote of Iesse and he that shall rise too raigne ouer the Gentyles in him shall the Gentyles trust The God of hope fil you with all ioy and peace in beleuing that ye may be rich in hope thorow the power of the holy Ghost THis Epistle is partly instructiue and partly perswasiue The cheefe places are three 1 Of the endes or vse of holy scripture 2 An exhortation too mainteine concord in the true Doctrine of Christ which is oft times distroubled either with newnesse of orders or with vnseasonable omit ting of them which thing offendeth the weake 3 A Doctrine concerning the gathering of the Churche of Iewes and Gentyles and specially of the calling of the Gentyles ALl this whole Epistle in the continuance of Paules discourse is directed too this poynt That the weake which are willing to be taught are to be born with and not to be estranged from the gospel by the sodein laying away of the ceremonies of Moyses This thing doth Paul shew in the beginning of the .xv. chap. by the example of Christ by the saying of the Ps. 68. which he citeth And by y occasion he addeth a generall saying of the vse of holy scripture forth with returneth to his pur posed exhortation taken at the exāple of Chryst wherof the summe is this Let there bee agreement betweene the Iewes that vse the Ceremonies of Moyses and the Gentiles that vse them not Let none of them offend or condemne other for the kéeping or nonkéeping of the Ceremonies of Moyses but let eche beare with others weakenesse and vphold one another like as Chryst receiued and redéemed bothe the Iewes and the Gentiles For he became the minister of the Circumcision or of the Circumcised Iewes too the intent he myght confirme the promyses too bée true which were made too the fathers of his comming and that the Gentyles being called too the partnership of Chrystes benefites should glorifie God not with the Ceremonies of Moyses but with true and earnest profession and giuing of thankes Upon this occasion dooth Paul wynd in the things that are spoken of the calling of the Gentyles and of offering the Sacrifises of praise too God in this place And this is the summe of all Paules discourse in his xiiij and .xv. chapters Neuerthelesse as at this tyme I will somewhat at large vnfold but one saying of this Epistle which concerneth the endes and profitablenesse of holy scripture VVhatsoeuer things are written aforetime are written for our learning that wee through patience and comfort of the scriptures myght haue hope God hath made men that they should bée reasonable creatures to whō when they acknowledge him and glorifie him he might communicate his owne wisdome lyfe ioyfulnesse and glory for euermore Wherefore too the intent men myght acknowledge God he of his excéeding great goodnesse hathe disclosed himselfe not onely by perceyuerances graffed in mannes mynd at his first creation but also by auouchement of miracles wrought aboue the accustomed order of Nature and by deliueraunce of the certeine Doctrine of the lawe and the Gospell which it was his will too haue enrolled in the bookes of the Prophets and Apostles too bée acknowledged woorshipped serued according to the same none otherwise And by these wrytings of the Prophetes red herd and thought vppon by vs God is effectuall in vs in déed teaching vs comforting vs and kindling in vs the beginnings of lyfe and glorie euerlasting First then in this saying lette vs consider it too bée Gods excéeding great benefit that he hath come foorth of his secret dwelling place and vttered himselfe too vs and deliuered vs a certeine doctrine concerning him selfe comprysed in wryting And let vs assure our selues that in all thoughtes concerning God Gods being and will and our owne eternall saluation it behoueth our myndes too bée tyed too these wrytings of the Prophetes and Apostles and that wée may not otherwyse déeme or speake of God and our owne eternall saluation than as he hath appoynted in the woord reueled to vs by his sonne Esai viij for a Lawe and a witnesse that if they speake not according too this woord they shall not sée the morning light And Hilarius very discréetly sayeth Of God is it too bée lerned what is too bée thought of GOD bycause he can not otherwyse bée knowen than by his own authoritie And Ireneus sayeth Bycause it was impossible too knowe God without God God by his woord teacheth men too knowe god Now let vs consider how great is the darknesse of mennes myndes and how foule bée the errours and outrages of the Heathen wandring without this woord and doctrine written by the Prophetes and Apostles of whome some dout whither there bée any God at all others knowe not what and of what manner GOD is others surmyse an innumerable number of Gods others estraunge the Gods from all medling with worldly matters others hold opinion that mennes soules perish togither with their bodyes other some that they remayne stil alyue And vniuersally al of them being vncertein and doutfull of Gods will towards them and of their owne saluation doo fall eyther intoo Epicurish contempt of God or else intoo perpetuall despayre The same thing befalleth in the Churche too al such as

perfect by infirmitie Now forasmuch as the text of the Epistle is some what lōg and in diuerse places somewhat dark I will orderly and bréefly expound the phrases and woords of the Epistle Bycause many boste according too the flesh I will boste also True glorie is the allowable consent of God and of a mannes owne conscience iudging a ryght and of other men iudging a ryght of vertue or weldooings Or it is a notable and renowmed fame spred abrode euery where for many and great desertes eyther towardes ones countreymen or his country or all mankynd The vyces that encounter it are brauery or vaūting wherthrough wée set out ourselues beyond measure euen without cause And blockishnesse or lyghtnesse caring no whit at al what other men déeme or report of vs And forasmuch as the groundworke of glory is excellent vertue and too deserue well at other mennes hands The directest pathway too glory is too haunt vertue and not too couet too séeme best but too bée best as Aeschylus sayth Agein it is the greatest foly that can bée a plain token of dotage too couet the bare gloryousnesse or opinion of excellencie and the brute of the people without the foūdation which is true vertue Or too boast according too the flesh that is too say of fleshly outward and vaine things as of the nobilitie of a mannes country or house of a mannes owne wisdome and vertue or of ceremonies and in especially too vaunt and preferre him self before other like a Thraso For so doo fooles in déede whome vayneglorie setteth in a gog And Plutarch sayeth most fynely it is a ryght pleasaunt thinge too vs too héere oure owne prayses blazed by others but too héere another man praysing himselfe it is the irkesomest thing that can bée Paule minding too eschue that fault telleth the Corinthians before hād that forasmuch as he was compelled by the false Apostles he would take vppon him too play the foole a while to the entent they might vnderstand the doltishnesse and fond bragging of the false Apostles ageinst which if it were lawful too bost of himself he was able too set true prayses beséeming the Apostle of Chryste which all godly men myght acknowledge in him And he addeth iestingly ye willingly bear with fooles bicause your selues are wise And he ouerth wartly girdeth the false Apostles which vnder pretēce of the ministerie vsurped Lordship and tyrannye too themselues ouer the church and tooke meat drinke which Paul earned with his own hands and wages and rewards of the Corinthians And vaunting themselues wyth Thrasolike bragging vexed the Corinthyans with Tyrannicall reproches I speake as concerning rebuke as though wée had bene weake That is to say I am compelled to obiect this tiranny and couetousnesse of the fals Apostles to you to the intent yée may perceiue how reprochefull and vnbeseeming things yee bear with and that yee may bée ashamed that wheras we as weake and féeble haue vsurped vntoo our selues no tyranny ouer you no nor so much as taken due meat and drinke of you you notwithstanding haue more willingly obeyed the false Apostles than vs. Howbeit wherin soeuer any man dare bee bold that is too say Of what thing so euer any man dare boast or wher of soeuer the fals Apostles dare vaūt and brag themselues I also dare brag as well as they I speake through foolishnesse that is too say through the fond bragging of the false Apostles I am also constreyned too play a fooles part and too set out mine owne commendation They are Hebrewes that is too say the offspring of Heber the great graundchilde of Sem the sonne of Noe. Gen. xj the which Heber was borne the yéere of the world 1723. the yéere after the flud 67. and he liued vnto the yéer of the world 2187. which is the. 79. yéere of the age of Iacob or Israel the father of the twelue Patriarkes of whom all his posteritie were called Israelites that is too say vanquishers or Princes of God or fréemen of Shara and El like as of Heber they were called Hebrewes that is too say wayfarers of the woord Yauar hath passed ouer whereof commeth Bethabara that is too say the house of passage The seede of Abraham that is too say the offspring of Abraham and heirs of the most ample promises which are deliuered to Abraham in Gen. xij xv xviij xxij That is to wit not only the Iewes borne of the séede of Abraham as touching the flesh but also all nations that with the faith of Abraham embrace the promisse concerning Chryste made vnto Abraham that is to say the father of a great multitude Vnto this place may bée laid the Sermon of Paule made at Hierusalem Act. xxij and the beginning of the third chapter to the Philippians In labours more aboundant that is to say I haue endured more paines in spreading abrode the Gospell as he sayeth .j. Cor. xv I haue labored more than they all In stripes aboue measure that is to say I haue oftentimes receiued stripes for profession of the gospell In death often I haue oftentimes bin in danger of death I haue oftentimes had Death before mine eyes when all things manaced present death Fortie strypes saue one haue I receyued vnder colour of the law of Moyses Deut. xxv Thrice haue I bin beaten with roddes that is to wit by the sergeants of the heathen Act. xvj and elsewhere Once I was stoned Act. xiiij Thrice haue I suffered shipwrecke And within two yéeres after Paule suffered shipwrecke the fourth time at the I le of Malta Act. xxvij For he wrote this Epistle at Philippos the yéere of Chryste 56. and sailed to Rome in the Winter time 57. or 58. In iournying often that is too say I haue traueled much Let the windlasse of Paules trauels bée séene in the Table gathered out of the Acts of the Apostles and out of his owne Epistles In ieoperdie of mine owne nation that is too wit for the traines that were laid for mée by mine owne kinsmen the Iewes With singular diligence and cunning was all this sermon layd toogither by Paule and distinguished with Comaze Colons and Periods and flourished with Antitheses Iscolies Homoioptots and Interrogations that nothing could lightly haue bin more trimly compacted Which thing also S. Austin in his fourth Booke of Christian Doctrine Chap. 7. marketh vnfoldeth at large the cunning handling of this present place God knoweth A warrantize assured by taking the true God too witnesse The Lieuetenaunt of Aretas king of Arabie by the prouocation of the Iewes layd wait for Paule Act. ix thé third yéere after Paules conuersion Herodes Antipas had taken the sister of this Aretas too his wyfe and put hir away vppon his rauishment of Herodias and for that cause there arose warre betwixt them Surely it is not expedient for mee too boast namely least I may séeme

the holynesse and ryghtuousnesse propre vntoo God and too bée imparted too vs for thy Sonnes sake and concerning the Gospell by which alonely God will bée glorifyed and by which the glory may bée giuen too God not only for ryghtuousnesse and almightinesse but also for mercy and soothfastnesse How bée it concerning the benefites of Angels let the héerers beare in mynde specially these twoo textes of the Psalme Psalme thirtie and thre The Angel of the Lord pitcheth his tentes about or entrencheth those that feare the Lord and shall deliuer them which saying is taken out of the .xxxij. of Genesis Where Iacob beholding the host of Angels named the place Mahanaim that is too say the camp or host of god Psalm xcj. He hath giuen his Angels charge of thée too keepe thée in all thy wayes These hath GOD made kéepers of our soules bodyes lyfe name houses children and substaunce These chase away the Diuels when they practyse the destruction of the Churche or of any seuerall persone And doubtlesse they fight ageinst the féendes according as the lesson of this dayes Epistle and the tenth Chapter of Daniel testifie And although wée vnderstand not what maner of encounters they bée yet considering the greatnesse of our daungers let vs the more earnestly giue thankes too God for these kéepers and gather toogither the sayings and stories of the holy Scripture and of other wrytings too our instruction and comfort The Angels deliuer Loth out of Sodom Genes xix And an Angell succoureth Agar and Ismael Genes xxj xvj Angels come vntoo Abraham and beare Rebecca companie Genes rviij xxij xxiiij and in other places An Angell deliuereth Iacob out of all perils Genes xlviij The Angels go before the Israelites and defend them at their going out of Egipt and in the wildernesse An Angell appéereth too Iosua An hoste of Angels defend Elizeus ageinst the Syrians iiij Reg. vj. Angels make a slaughter in the hoste of Sennacherib and deliuer Ezechias iiij Reg. xix Esay xxxvij An Angell leadeth Peter out of prison Act. xij A childe called Cygnaeus being in the middes of winter left in a wood ouercouered with snow was kept and fed the space of full thrée dayes toogither by the ministerie of an Angell Simon Grynaeus escaped the handes of certeine Serieantes by the warning of an Angell which storie woorthy of remembrance Philip Melancthon recyteth in his exposition of the .x. chapter of Daniel But the benefites of the good Aungels will the better bée perceiued if wée consider the manifold dangers that hang ouer our heads by meanes of the Diuell The third place THe Diuell is of the Hebrues named Sathan that is too say an enimie or foe The Gréekes call him Diabolos that is too say a slanderer He is a cruel suttle mercylesse spitefull enimie of God and of all mankind and specially of Gods church At the first truly all Angels were created good by God but some Angelles through Pride and Ambition wherethrough they sought for a hygher degrée of the image of God fell and were cast by God intoo endlesse damnation Now although in this lyfe wée bée not able too serche out the cause why God suffereth the euill Angels which are the authors of all sinne and wickednesse séeing he could vtterly destroy them if he listed yet must wée bothe thinke vppon and also beléeue the things that are reported in the woord of god Iohn viij He was a murtherer from the beginning abode not in the truthe Therfore there is no truthe in him when he speaketh lyes he speaketh of his owne For he is a lyer and the father of lying He is a lyer and the father of lying that is too say he dréepeth into mennes mindes false and wicked opinions concerning God and Epicurish and Academicall doutings he rayseth vp corruptions of Gods woord he confirmeth Epicurish blasphemies and al vntruthes in the first and second Table And this Sathan like an enimie or a Serpent in déede led Eue and all the whole world astray as it is sayd in the Epistle He is a murtherer for by his outrageous crueltie and most trayterous craftes he practyseth mischéefe too our soules too the lyfe of our bodyes too our wyues children landes and houses and finally manaceth destruction too whole realmes and kingdomes Ageinst this cruell enemie fighteth our Michael the sonne of God who came too destroy the woorkes of the Diuell He being captaine of the holy Angels casteth the Diuel out of heauen and out of the heauenly Church Therfore let vs giue God thanks y he hath appoynted the Angels too bée our kéepers in so great daunger of our soules and bodyes and of all that euer wée haue And let vs endeuer by godlynesse and chast behauyor too reteine them still Vppon the feast day of all Sainctes ¶ The Epistle Apoc. vij AFter this I beheld lo a great multitude which no man could number of all nations and people and tongues stode before the seat and before the Lambe clothed with long whyte garments and palmes in theyr handes and cryed with a loude voyce saying saluation bee ascribed too him that sitteth vppon the seat of our God and vntoo the Lambe And all the Angels stode in the cōpasse of the seat of the elders and of the foure beastes and fell before the seat on their faces and woorshipped God saying Amen Blissing and glory wisdome and thankes and honour and power and might bee vntoo our God for euermore Amen And one of the elders answered saying vntoo mee what are these which are arayed in long white garments and whence came they And I said vntoo him Lord thou wottest And he sayde too me these are they which came out of great tribulation and made their garments large and made them white in the bloud of the Lambe therfore are they in the presence of the seat of God and serue him day and night in his temple and he that sitteth in the seat will dwell among them They shall hunger no more neither thirst neyther shall the funne light on them neither any heat For the Lambe which is in the middest of the seat shall feede them and shall leade them vntoo fountaines of liuing water and GOD shal wype away all teares from their eyes The disposement ALl the whole booke of the Apocalyps is a Prophesie concerning the persecutiōs and troubles that were too come vppon the christen Churche and wherewithall it should bée disquieted partly by Tyrantes and partly by Heretickes through the instinct of the Diuell And euer now and then there * This is to be vnderstode of the memoriall of the promysed seede kept alwayes in the hartes of the faithfull and renued by preching and talk and not of the keeping of any appointed holyday Twoo natures in Chryst Why Christ is called the woord The sonne of God was alwayes with the fathers Why Christ is called the womans seede The creede of Athanasius Gods mercie and louing kindnesse