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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12991	A sermon preached at Paules Crosse on Barthelmew day, being the 24. of August. 1578 Wherin, besides many other profitable matters meete for all Christians to follovv, is at large prooued, that it is the part of all those that are fathers, householders, and scholemaisters, to instruct all those vnder their gouernement, in the vvord and knovvledge of the Lorde. By Iohn Stockvvood scholemaister of Tunbridge.	Stockwood, John, d. 1610.	1578 (1578)	STC 23284; ESTC S106625	73,966	202

ouer vs will disappoint them of their purpose as hytherto he hath done and cause that before they haue their chaunge they themselues shall first make a change of life with death by one meanes or other In the mean season the Lorde graunt hir fewe of these doubtfull Spongiaes and great store of Corneliās such as do boldlye but yet truely religiouslye and deuoutely serue and feare the Lorde For in those doth consiste hir su●este safetie and those when so euer she shall haue néede shée shall finde hir trustiest friendes For those that truelye worship God and embrace his religion will no doubte most faithfully serue and obey hir But were it so with vs as it is with manye of our brethren in other Countryes that we coulde not serue GOD truely without the daunger of our liues yet Cornelius who was in the like daunger telleth vs what to doe and so doeth also Daniel wyth Sydrach Misach and Abednago of the whiche he chose rather to be caste into the Lyons denne than he woulde make prayer to anye other than the true God and they thoughte it better to be thrown into the hote burning ouen than to worship the golden image of Nabucha●nezer For this saying of Christ shal stād to the ende of the world true He that is ashamed to acknowledge me before mē I wil bee also ashamed to acknowledge him before my father in the kingdome of heauen But the case is nothing so wyth vs as it was with Cornelius We maye professe religion in safetie he coulde not without daunger we enioy the worde in peace he with persecution we with the liking of oure Prince haue the libertie of our conscience he could not serue God without the displeasure of the Emperor we néede not to feare the losse of life nor goodes he stoode in great hazarde of them bothe and yet in this greate peace prosperitie quiet safetie and libertie we stand vpon such a nice and tender point of sauing honour estimation credite fauour loue and liking that rare is that man that will venter to open his mouth for the furtheraunce of the building of Gods Churche or speake for the preferring of good and godly causes wheras in our own causes if it be for a licence that may tend to oure owne commoditie or that may enrich our owne coffers albeit to the great hindraunce of many others Lorde how will we labour toile trauel go run ride speake sue and sue againe till we haue obtained it which argueth in vs great want of zeale for the glorie of God which he for his Christes sake stirre vppe and kindle in vs We are far vnlike the good Christian Capitaine Terenti who returning with a ioyfull victorie ouer his Princes enimies Valens the Emperour badde aske what benefite he woulde at his hande for his good seruice and he shoulde haue it who hauing before his eies the furtherance of Gods glorie rather thā the séeking of his own profite requested that the Christians which had ventured their liues in Gods cause might haue a Churche erected to serue God in aparte from the Arrian Heretikes The Emperour being much moued at this request in greate anger tore his supplication in péeces and threw it on the grounde bidding him aske some other thing that might be for his preferment but he with a heauie countenance gathering vp the péeces of his supplicatiō aunswered I haue my rewarde I will aske nothing else This was indéede a right Cornelius a deuout mā one that feared god O that al Princes had store of such Terenties aboute them that did make greter estéem of Gods glorie thā accompts of their own gaine and commoditie so shoulde true religion more freshly florishe than in manye places it doth the moste parte being busied about their owne profite whilest it being neglected falleth miserably to decaye and ruine the Lorde for his mercies sake amende it As you haue hitherto hearde of such vertues in Cornelius as did testifie hys inwarde sinceritie towardes God namely his religiousnesse and feare of God so hereafter I wil make plaine vnto you suche outwarde exercises of his as are sufficiet testimonies of his inward godlinesse amongest the which is firste hys godly bringing vp of all his familie béeing the fourth circumstaunce of my first generall point and is contained in these words He feared God with all his housholde whiche coulde not be small he béeyng a Magistrate and Capitayne of suche countenance as you haue heard and therefore his diligence and paines no doubte was excéedyng great which hée tooke in instructing suche a number in the feare and knowledge of the Lorde wherein the holy Ghoste witnessing that they all profyted it appeareth euidently that God did wonderfuly blesse his godlye endeuour and faythfull trauaile by whiche it came to passe that to his great ioy and comforte no doubt he had now a Church in his owne house as euery true worshipper of God in hys feare shoulde labour to haue Thus you sée that Cornelius thought if not inough to be godly himself vnlesse he had his housholde godlye to he was not content himselfe alone to serue God but woulde haue his familie also to doe the like he iudged it his duty as he himselfe was religious so to make holy vnto God all those which were his he would not his selfe alone walke in the wayes of the Lorde and suffer his seruants belonging to his charge to doe what they liste to runne as they say at randone to be at their owne libertie and to liue as strangers from God but would make them partakers of that knowledge whiche he himselfe had learned whiche as it was a matter of greate paine so was it also of no mall daunger the religion of the Iewes being then in a manner vniuersally hated and disdained yea and that whiche more is of the proude and scornefull Romaynes cruellye persecuted But Cornelius was not ignorāt that it was farre better to please God than men and that the ignorance of his familie shold be laid to his charge if through his negligence and slouthfulnesse to instruct them they ran into his ignorance Therefore not weighing the scorne nor persecution of mē he walketh vprightly in the dischardge of his duetie and faithfully and painefullye teacheth his whole familie to serue and feare the LORD and in the end reapeth the fruite of hys labours namelye the profiting of hys whole housholde in the true feare of the Lorde GOD bounteously blessing his godlye care and Christian trauell We be taught hereby that it is not ynoughe for euerye man to be deuoute and religious and to feare God himselfe vnlesse he also faithfully and diligently laboure to make all his housholde and familie godly and religious to which cannot bee done without muche paine and trauel in diligent instructing them in the word of the Lorde and in the principles of Christian religion whiche duetie as it oughte of all housholders without anye exception be performed so is it almost

they may enrich themselues The qualities whiche were in Cornelius besides his knowledge in feates of warre were godlinesse religion feare of God Christian trayning vppe of his familie almes déeds and prayer and such should likewise be in the Captains of our time in all places But howe are men commonly iudged of in respecte of méetenesse to be Captaines if he can set his countenaunce sternly looke biggly goe proudly walke stately and sweare roundlye nay terribly in such fearefull sorte that hée woulde make the Diuell if hée were incarnate to quake and tremble at the hearing of it suche a one is a valiaunt and a lustie and stoute Capitayne I condemne not in Capitaynes countenaunce personage making manhoode I reuerence them well vsed as the good giftes of God neyther doe I disallowe the callyng of a Capitayne whiche I confesse to bée néedefull and necessarie and wherein a manne may serue GOD as this oure Cornelius I onelye reproue the disorders of badde Captains and wishe and praye that as there bée no doubte some godlye and vertuous Capitaines so that all maye be Cornelians for it shall be no shame at all for them to sette him before them for theyr paterne nay shame and confusion will it be to them all if hauyng with Cornelius the same profession of life they haue not also with hym the like agréemēt in maners which God for Christes sake graunte vnto them Nowe if we shall séeke for Cornelius among the cōmon people we shal likewise proue it a hard thing there to finde hym for they are so farre from his vertue religion and godlinesse that they run gréedily euerye man after his owne waies leauing and omitting the wayes of the lord And as for instructing their families after the example of Cornelius to feare God they are so farre from abilitie to performe this duetie that themselues had firste néede to learne for of God his word they know in a manner nothing thinke it to be the only office of the Minister to looke to teaching yea the whiche worse is they seldome reforte to the place of preaching where they might learne their duetie vnlesse it be on the Lords day on which if in the fore-noone they haue heard the word of God in the afternoone they thinke that without all controlment they may runne after all kinds of vanitie Here also on the other side it is wonderful to consider the craft and subtiltie of oure common aduersarie the Diuell who like the cunning Cooke that for his gaine prepareth sundrie swéete and pleasant dishes to procure appetite when as the stomacke as it were gorged alreadie inuenteth many kinde of vaine exercises for that day to pul them from hearing of the word least by it thei might be won from his kingdome to the seruice of the Lord so be brought into a hatred of such kinde of leudenesse And like as heretofore in this lande he vsed persecution to kéepe vs in Idolatrie so nowe when as the Lorde in mercie hath sent vs the Gospell with peace quiet he vseth pleasure prosperitie to draw men vnto vanitie How this way he preuaileth both in Countrie Citie our present times aforde too plentiful examples and the time to come in an other worlde will yéeld vnto the frequenters of such leudnes plentiful punishmēt There be not many places where the word is preached besides the Lords day I woulde to God there were yet euen that day the better parte of it is horriblie prophaned by diuellishe inuentions as with Lords of Misserule Morice dauncers Maygames insomuch that in some places they shame not in the time of diuine seruice to come daunce aboute the Church and without to haue men naked dauncing in nettes whiche is moste filthie for the heathen that neuer hadde further knowledge than the lighte of nature haue counted it shamefull for a Player to come on the stage without a slop and therefore amongest Christians I hope suche beastly brutishnesse shal not be let escape vnpunished for whiche ende I recite it and can tell if I be called where it was committed within these fewe wéekes What should I speake of beastlye Playes againste which out of this place euery man crieth out haue we not houses of purpose built with great charges for the maintaināce of them and that without the liberties as who woulde say there let them saye what they will say we wil play I know not how I might with the godly learned especially more discommende the gorgeous Playing place erected in the fieldes than to terme it as they please to haue it called a Theatre that is euen after the maner of the olde heathnish Theatre at Rome a shew place of al beastly filthie matters to the which it can not be chosē that men should resort without learning thence muche corruption For if hée that behelde but the filthie picture of Iupiter in a shower of golden raine descending vnto Dianae coulde thereby encourage himself vnto filthinesse shall we thinke that flocks of as wyld youths of both sexes resorting to Enterludes where both by liuely gesture and voices there are allurements vnto whordom they can come awaye pure and not inflamed with concupiscence I will not here enter this disputatiō whether it be vtterly vnlawfull to haue anye playes but will onelye ioyne in this issue whether in a Christiā common wealth they be tolerable on the Lords day when the people shold be exercised in hearing of the word whiche thing as it hathe béen oftentimes reproued by learned godly men out of this place so for the discharge of mine own conscience I am to speake some thing whiche in fewe wordes is this If playing in the Theatre or any other place in Londō as there are by sixe that I know to many be any of the Lordes wayes whiche I suppose there is none so voide of knowledge in the world wil graunt then not only it may but ought to be vsed but if it be any of the wayes of man it is no work for the Lords Sabaoth therfore in no respecte tollerable on that daye For thus speaketh the Lorde by his Prophet Isaias If thou tourne awaye thy foote from the Sabaoth from doyng thy will on mine holy day and call the Sabaoth a delighte to cōsecrate it as glorious vnto the Lord and shalte honour him not doing thine owne wayes nor seeking thine own wil nor speaking a vaine worde then shalte thou delight in the Lord and I wil cause thee to mount vppon the high places of the earth and feede thee with the heritage of Iacob thy father For the mouthe of the Lorde hath spoken it As in these wordes is sette downe a blessing to such as leauing their own waies and the doing of their owne willes on the Lordes daye sette their delighte to doe the will of God on his holy day which I thinke is not to goe to a wanton Play and doe consecrate it as glorious vnto the Lord