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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B00819	Five godlie sermons, preached by R.T. Bachiler of diuinitie. 1. The charge of the cleargie. 2. The crowne of Christians. 3. The annointment of Christ, or Christian ointment. 4. A festiuall sermon vpon the Natiuitie of Christ. 5. The fruits of hypocrisie..; Five godlie and learned sermons	Tyrer, Ralph, d. 1627.	1602 (1602)	STC 24475.5; ESTC S106205	127,399	317

in the Scripture or Sacramentum in the Fathers straightway they being of a light credit beleeued that therby was meant a Sacrament and therefore besides our two currant sacraments which Christ himselfe instituted they haue coyned fiue other which are counterfait making them al to be in number seuen wherin they shewe themselues guiltie of high treason against the diuine maiesty of God in daring to be so bolde as presumptuously to counterfait his sacred seales and sacrilegiously to take vpon them the person of God himselfe in robbing Christ of his Honor and making newe Sacraments in his Church and to conclude in ignorantly abusing this word contrarie to the true sense and meaning therof For if that were certaine that Mysterium shuld alwaies signifie a Sacrament Misterium that should there be manie more Sacraments then they themselues make sith the same is so often vsed in the olde and new Testament but especially in the Gospell for then should the kingdome of God be a Sacrament Mar. 4.11 and the calling of the Gentiles a Sacrament Rom. 11.20 the preaching of the word a Sacrament Eph. 6.19 The iniquitie of Antichrist a Sacrament 2. Thess 2.7 Faith a Sacrament 1. Tim. 3.9 The name of the whore of Bablyon a Sacrament Apoc. 17.5 And finally Godlinesse in this place a Sacrament And many more besides these which we cannot stand to repeate because in the Greek they are said to be mysteries which how absurd and foolish it is those whom God hath induced with a wise hart of vnderstanding and knowledge may easily perceiue and discerne And how iniurious they are against vs in calling vs Sacramentaries for syncere vsing and rightly receiuing the Sacrament of the Supper according to Christs owne institution and instruction when as they rather deserue the same name in stamping out by the mint of their owne braine more and other Sacraments then our Sauiour ordained in his Gospell as we worthely also tearme them sacrificers in that they seeme daily to offer in their Idolatrous masse a bloudy sacrifice propitiatorie both for the quicke and the dead But the vnskilfull and superstitious Papists make not so honourable account and holy regard of this word Mysterie and that for want of iudgement in the reading of the Scriptures and the Fathers for vnto them may it be said in this respect as our Sauiour in the Gospell vnto the Scribes and Pharises in the like Ye erre not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God as on the contrarie part the vulgar sort doe prophanely and irreligiously abuse the same in tearming their vile and illiberall artes their Mechanicall sciences Manuall craftes by the name of Mysteries they both running into extreamities the one in enhauncing it too high the other in debasing it too lowe when as indeede to keepe the golden meane we are to deeme so high of it as to iudge it to be some heauenly and supernaturall thing and therefore according to the phrase of the Scripture and meaning of the holy ghost we are to learne to call anie difficult and diuine secret by this name as our Apostle tearmeth Godlinesse in this place signifying hereby not onely generally that the whole Scripture and the word of God contained both in the olde and new Testament is a mysterie in this sense and therfore likened of Hierome not only to a shallow fourd wherein a lambe may wade but also to a deepe sea wherein an Elephant or Tyger may swimme Whereupon our Sauiour in respect of the profunditie thereof willeth vs Iohn 5.39 to search the Scriptures the word in the Greeke which he there vseth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifying a diligent seeking and enquiring being a Metaphore or borrowed speech taken from Didoppers or duckers vnder the water which flock not aloft but diue downe to the bottome to finde and fetch any thing vp called in Lattin Vrinatores ab vrino which is deriued of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or els from Miners which doe not pare the ground but digge deepely manie fadomes into the earth for the gold siluer pearles precious stones or other mettals and minerals which there lurke lie hid As our Sauiour calleth the Doctrine of the Gospell the mysteries of the kingdome of heauen Mat. 13.11 and therefore in another place he telleth his Disciples that he had manie other things to speake vnto them which were as then too heauie to carrie and too hard to bear away for them which were not as yet able and stable pillours of Christs Church but weake and young nouices in Gods house for there is not onely in the Scripture milke fit for babes which are vnexpert in the word of Righteousnes but also strong meate which belongeth to them which are of age and perfect which through long custome haue their wits exercised to discerne betweene good and euill as the Apostle Heb. 5.13.14 Wherupon Peter also he saith of the Epistles of Paul a part of this Scripture that there are manie things in them that are hard to bee vnderstood which many peruert euen to their owne damnation for as in humane learning and secular arts and sciences there are manie matters verie hard to be known and learned as the Axiomes of the Logitians the Principles of the Mathematitians the Aphorismes of the Physitians the Maximes of the Lawyers the Problemes of the Philosophers the Emblemes of the Poets euen so are there in the Diuine knowledge of godlinesse manie difficult things to be vnderstood the Apocrypha of the olde Testament the Apocalips of the new Testament and as prophane Authors make mention of the leaues of the Sibyls the Oracles of Apollo the riddles of Sphinx which no block-headed dunces like Dauus but onely pregnant wits as Oedipus can expound and declare So are there in the holy writers manie darke speeches and hard sentences as the Prouerbs of Salomon and the Parables of our Sauiour the visions of Esay Ezechiel and Daniel and the Reuelations of Peter Paul and Iohn which passe in obscuritie Democritus depths Heraclitus darknesse Aristophanes cloudes Platoes members Aristotles meteors and Metaphysicks and Scipioes dreame and which no naturall man by the helpe of reason but only the spirituall man by the gift of wisedome can conceiue and perceaue as our Apostle before So that I say not onely generally in regarde of the whole Scripture Godlines is Godlinesse here called a mysterie but also particularly in respect of these speciall mysteries hereafter named and set downe in their order whereof the chiefest is the first euen the greatest mysterie of all others vpon which all the other depend as consequences and coherents euerie one of them containing in them matter of great maruel and wonder in the eies and eares of flesh and bloud incredible and impossible surpassing the reach of humane reason and surmounting the mediocritie of mans wit as shall bee shewed at large when we come seuerally to discourse of them And thus much of the former part of this definition of Godlinesse that