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rest_n	apostle_n	day_n	sabbath_n	2,814	5	9.4947	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15108	A sermo[n] preached at Pawles Crosse on Sunday the thirde of Nouember 1577. in the time of the plague, by T.W.	White, Thomas, ca. 1550-1624.	1578 (1578)	STC 25406; ESTC S111738	33,572	100

their dealings There is nothing prouoketh god more thā when with a cloke or colour of religiō his people shall wallow in sin or superstitiō Read the 50. Psal. Unto the vngodly man sayde God why doest thou preach my lawes takest my couenant in thy mouth wheras thou hatest to be reformed hast cast my wordes behind thée So be you well assured that it is not inough to haue a gospel in our mouths but we must expresse the truth therof in our liues it is not inough to haue a name of a Christian but to be founde a Christiā in déede Many haue a shew of godlinesse saith S. Paul but they haue denied the power thereof If nature helped not Abrahams owne children but bycause they lacked Abrahās workes they are called Deuils sonnes Iohn 8. alas what shall a naked name without vertue a bare tytle without veritie profite vs at all Doth not Christe foretell of such in the day of iudgemēt who haue done manye thinges in his name and yet when all is done he knoweth them not Math. 7. Surely the blinde charitie of Papistes dothe laye sore to the lame and halting faythe of Christians Our knowledge shall but helpe vs to Hell if we do not that wée know for the seruaunte that knoweth his maisters will and doth it not must looke for many stripes and to whome more is giuen more is to be required We haue receyued plentifully but if we yéelde barrenly Christe cursed a figtrée surely he will not spare thée The Author to the Heb. 6. sheweth that the grounde that drinketh in the deaw or receyueth the rayne falling oft vpon it and yéeldeth fruite is blessed but the barraine and vnfruitefull is to be cursed and burned The Are is at the roote of euerye trée and iudgement is not farre by his fruit shall euery mā be knowen no fruite aswell as naughty fruite is both for the flame It was abhominable before God for Israel to sweare the Lord liueth yet to deceyue Ier. 5. to fast and yet to do no lesse violence to wash and yet to be vncleane to sacrifice and yet to sinne to kéepe Sabbothes yet to tumble in al sensualitie For swearing it was neuer so cōmon custome maketh it nothing in these dayes in euery place in euerye person the magnificēt name of God who is glorious great fearefull is tossed to fro as a tennis ball that for very trifles The Iewes yet whē they heard blasphemy woulde rend theyr clothes It woulde gréeue a Christian hart to heare at euery word an othe at euerye lye an oth bying selling is not without lying and swearing but if the mouth that lieth slayeth the soule Wisd. 1. what déepe damnatiō euen in the nethermost hel remaines for the periured person There would be some exquisit punishment for such helhoundes séeing God wil not hold them giltlesse lette al Magistrates that feare God condemne thē to some paine for they are past shame And bycause I spake of Sabbothes knowe you that euery day is a Christian Sabboth yet one amōgst the rest was specially cōmanded to the Iewes and commended vnto vs both to reste oure bodyes our beasts but the chiefe end was for Israel to go to the Sanctuarie for vs to come to the house of prayer The ceremonie of the seuenth day is not muche amisse and that the number of .7 signifieth perfectiō you may oftē reade in scriptures especially in the Reuelatiō Of churches stars spirits trūpets seales Angels and al appeared by seauen as a most absolute perfect nūber multiplyed in it self albeit this is somwhat mistical yet no harme followeth if we say God rested the vij day to shew vnto vs the perfectiō of his workes laboured .vi. days to giue vs an exāple of vocation It may be not one of the least causes that God ceassed the seauenth day to beholde the excellencye of his creatures and though he séeth them alwayes from whose eyes nothing can be hidde yet to take delight in their assemblings singing of hymnes in their praying vnto hym and praysing hys name in their reading and hearing his word And if he looke downe on oure Sabbothes what shall he finde I pray you euery daye euill and the Sabboth worst Redéeme the time for the dayes are euill If the Apostle saide so then what woulde he say if he liued nowe when the Lord can not haue a péece of a daye no scarce of the Sabboth day which he hathe so charged to be kepte and straightly commaunded to be obserued But it was to the Iewes you will say it is true indéede for those solemne and ceremoniall assemblies sacrifices and feasts but otherwise there hath bin euer in the primatiue Church and from the Apostles some obseruation of one day among the rest and for speciall consideration albeit the whole life of Gods chosen is a perpetuall sabboth and euery day sanctifyed and euerye houre holy vnto them Assuredly we come nothing néere the Iewes in this pointe for on oure Sabbothes all manner of games and playes bankettings and surfettings are very rife If anye manne haue anye businesse in the world Sonday is counted an idle daye If he haue none then it is bestowed in other pleasure Trahit sua quenque voluptas Euery man followeth his owne fansie And the wealthyest Citizens haue houses for the nonce they that haue none make shift with Alehouses Tauernes and Innes some rowyng on the water some rouing in the field some idle at home some worse occupyed thus what you gette euelly all the wéeke is worst spente on the Sabboth day according to the Prouerbe Il gotten ill spent blame not your seruantes if they follow your example for youre prodigalitie makes them vnthriftie But what accompt how answer you is this the Lordes daye or no if it be howe intollerable nay howe accursed moste condemnable are these outragious Bachanalia Lupanaria I can not tell what to call them such as Heathē menne were euer ashamed of I am sure and therfore practised better maters although prophane exercises but ours sauors so of Venus Court and Bacchus kitchin that it may rightly be entituled an abhominable and filthy Citie and withoute doubte London shall iustifie hir elder sister Hierusalem if in time she turne not to the Lorde I saye nothing of diuers other abuses whych do carrie away thousands and drowne them in the pernicious vanities of the worlde Looke but vppon the common playes in London and sée the multitude that flocketh to them and followeth them beholde the sumptuous Theatre housee a continuall monument of Lōdons prodigalitie and folly But I vnderstande they are nowe forbidden bycause of the plague I like the pollicye well if it holde still for a disease is but bodged or patched vp that is not cured in the cause and the cause of plagues is sinne if you looke to it well and the cause of sinne are playes