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A01331	A sermon preached on Sundaye, being the .17. of March Anno. 1577. at S. Alpheges Church within Creplegate in London, by William Fulke doctor in diuinitie. Seene and allowed, accordyng to the order appoynted in the Queenes Maiesties Iniunctions	Fulke, William, 1538-1589.	1577 (1577)	STC 11454; ESTC S112799	25,975	72

my people 11 And they shall not teache euery man his neyghbour and euery man hys brother saying Knowe the Lord for they shall al know mee from the least to the greatest of them 12 For I wyll bee mercyfull to their vnryghteousnesse and I wyll no more remember their sinnes and their iniquities Beholde this is the newe Testament this is the seconde Couenant of mercy not written in Tables of stone as the first Couenant of iustice was but in the fleshely Tables of our hartes by the spirite of god Of this Couenant Sara was a lyuely fygure when shee brought forth Isaac not by course of nature or Carnall deuyse as Ismael was begotten but by the power of GOD accordyng to hys promyse For by the doctrine of this couenant the children of God are borne vnto libertie through faith For to those that receiue Iesus Christ he giueth this dignitie that they should be the sonnes of God euē to those that beleeue in his name which are not borne of blood nor of the will of the fleshe nor of the will of man but of god And this is that lawe that commeth out of Sion that word that proceedeth out of Hierusalem which proclaimeth libertie freedome from Sion to all them that embrace Christ by faith The same godly matrone Sara being the mother of the faithfull is also a figure of the true Church of god which is no earthly Citie flourishyng in worldly dignity but is altogether heauenly and spirituall Hierusalem that is aboue is the mother of vs all For although a great number of children be dispersed ouer al the worlde yet is shee heauenly because shee hath her beginnyng of the heauenly grace and dwelleth aboue by Fayth and those her Children which are in the worlde are but Pilgrymes and straungers on the earth for their conuersation and dwelling theyr Franchise and libertie is in heauen from whence they looke for a Sauiour The word of promise and couenant of mercie is that incorruptible seede by which she conceiueth children heires vnto God In the same she hath milke for hir infantes and stronger meate for them of ryper age shee cherisheth and bryngeth them vp vntyll they come of yeeres apt to enioye their Fathers inheritance perfourming all offices and duetyes of a most kynd and naturall mother And therefore it is truely said hee shall not haue GOD to his Father that refuseth the Churche to bee his mother And here wee must note that there is but one true Churche namelye Heauenly Hierusalem the mother of vs all that are Gods Children and therefore all Heretikes and Scismatykes that bee not Chyldren of thys one mother are excluded from beyng Chyldren of god Here also wee see that the Churche is Catholike or Uniuersall and howe shee is Catholike or Uniuersall not in respecte of euerie great multitude that challengeth her to bee theyr mother but shee is the mother of all the faythfull of all the free borne Children of God that are borne accordyng to the promyse accordyng to the Couenant of Gods mercie and not of the wyll or workes merites or worchynesse of man but of the spirit of God. The thyrde condition she is heauenly shee is from aboue shee is not bounde to any place vpon the earth No she hath forsaken earthly Hierusalem to dwell in heauen And thinke you she wil forsake heauen to come downe and dwel in Rome No no all the inchanters and Sorcerers of Aegipt and Babilon cannot drawe her down from Heauen too place her seate at Rome If wee wil be Children of the freewoman wee muste looke vp intoo Heauen by Fayth where our Mother dwelleth and not too any place on earth neyther too Hierusalem in Iuda nor to Rome in Italy nor to Constantinople in Thracia nor to Alexandria in Aegypt nor to Antiochia in Syria but to Ierusalem in Heauen for she is the Mother of vs al that are the Children of god We learne here that if we be true children of Hierusalem that is aboue what manner lyfe and conuersation becōmeth vs namely such as our Mother is yea and our Father also heauenly Godly Spirituall Besides thys in that Hierusalem is aboue wee see howe madde the furie and rage of Tyraants is that thinke by persecutyng her Children which are straungers on earthe they can destroye and vanquishe her that is in Heauen whereas when they haue done the vttermost that their rage leadeth thē vnto that is to kyll their bodies they do but send home the Children to theyr Mother who as long as shee is great with Childe by the seede of the Gospell shee still traueleth in birth in bryngeth foorth men Chyldren which vnder their Prince and eldest Brother the Sonne of GOD shall treade downe that Dragons head that persecuteth the mother and the Children vntill hee bee caught by the heeles and throwne into the bottomlesse lake that burneth with fyer and brymston The fourthe condition of the Church is that she is free and therfore bringeth forth Children vntoo freedome Shee is free in that she is redeemed and bought out of bondage by the blood of the Sonne of God that she might be holy and vnspotted before hym not hauyng her owne ryghteousnesse wherewith she is adorned but the garment washed in the blood of Christ which is the righteousnesse of Sainctes Thus is shee a glorious mother and bringeth foorth Children that are made free from sinne and wickednesse to serue the Lorde GOD their father in holynesse and rlghteousnesse all the dayes of their lyfe By this that hath beene sayde it is manifest that the Church of Rome is not the Church of Christ for she is earthely glysteryng in Earthly glorye maynceyned by carnall strength and wysdome mainteyning the Doctrine of bondage and persecutyng the Gospell of lybertye Here also is decyded a great controuersye betweene the Papystes and vs whether the Catholyke Churche of Christe bee vysible yea or no. The Papystes stoutely mainteyne that the Catholike Churche is vysible that is apparant and open to bee seene to the eyes of all men and they thynke it the strongest reason they haue eyther too defende their Churche or to impugne ours that their Church hath alwayes beene and yet is vysible and in the open veywe of the world when our Church wythin these hundreth yeares was dryuen intoo Corners and not too bee spyede excepte it were in a fewe persecuted members The grounde they stande vppon is a wrong Interpretation of the saying of our Sauiour Chryste in the. 5. of Saincte Math. A City that is builded vpon an hill cannot be hidde But thys perteyneth nothing to the Cytie of Rome although it be builded not on one but vpon seuen hils For our Sauiour Christ as the whole contexte of his speach doth euydently declare speaketh not there of the Catholike Church but of hys Apostles that were appoynted to be the light of the world therfore must needs be seene were as a Cytie which is buylded on a hyll and therefore