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A16696	Newes from Niniue to Englande, brought by the prophete Ionas vvhich newes in plainlye published in the godly and learned exposition of Maister Iohn Brentius folovving, translated out of Latine into Englishe by Thomas Tymme minister.	Brenz, Johannes, 1499-1570.; Tymme, Thomas, d. 1620.	1570 (1570)	STC 3601; ESTC S108281	65,005	180

his fayth whether hée bée king or subiect maister or seruaunt father or sonne according to the saying of saint Paule There is neyther Iewe nor Gentile neyther Barbarous nor Sythiā neyther bonde nor frée neyther man nor woman but all are one in Christ Iesu 3 Thirdly the king is not content to doe penaunce himselfe alone and to begin to leade a new and godly life but also he constituteth a puplike and generall ordinance in the Church that other men likewise might imbrace godlinesse For first of all he proclaymeth a generall fast not onely of men but also of beastes Sée sayth he that neyther man nor beast oxe or shéepe taste ought at all and that they neyther féede nor drinke water Then hée commaundeth them to put off their costly apparell and mourning wyse to array themselues in sacke Furthermore he commaundeth them to praye generallye saying and crie mightily vnto the lord Last of all he appoynteth a sermon or proclamation to be made of repentance saying Sée that euery man turne from his euill way and from the wickednesse he hath in hande Here we haue an excellent example of this godly king from whom al other kinges and princes may take examples of their calling There are manye which thinke that mundane or seculer princes as they terme them ought not to deale in matters Ecclesiasticall but onely in matters pollitique But this example and many other examples of Dauid Salomon of Iosophat of Iosias and likewise many sayinges of holy scripture doe testifie that princes ought specially to haue a care of matters Ecclesiasticall It is not required at their handes to preache but it is required at their handes to appoynt preachers and to sée that the woorde of God be preached sincerely For it is not ynough for Princes that they themselues are honest godly and vertuous but they ought to labour and to séeke by all meanes that their subiectes may also be honest godly and vertuous For as the good man of the house hath not done his duetie if he onely here sermons and leade a godly lyfe but must also séeke to traine vp his familye in true godlinesse and vertue euen so kings and princes haue not sufficiently discharged their duetie in directing their owne footesteps aright vnlesse they haue a farther regard to the pathes of their subiects But nowe let vs sée by the Text what things are here to be noted 1 First the king with his Citizens are clothed in sackcloth sit in the dust while they go about to repent them of their sinnes But what are those workes a satisfaction for sinne are sackcloth and ashes of such force before God that he respecteth them and for them turneth from hys wrath and punishment Nothing lesse truely For otherwise it were but vaine that God had promised his sonne from the beginning of the worlde to be the satisfaction for sinne and at the fulnesse of tyme to haue sent him to suffer death for sinne For he might then haue shewed vs sackcloth and ashes by the which our sinnes might haue béene done awaye But the matter is farre otherwise For the sinnes of the Niniuetes and our sinnes are farre greater than that they should be forgiuen of God by putting on of sackcloth or by sitting in the dust It was necessarie to the satisfying for sinne that the sonne of God should not put on sackcloth but that hée should suffer death that he should not sit in the dust but that he should hange on the Crosse What is ment then by the sackcloth and dust which the Niniuetes vsed They are not thinges able to pacifie the wrath of God but they are true signes of confession of sinnes and argumentes of contricion which is had for sinne In the King the throne was a signe of maiestie In the Citizens the hie and precious seats in the temple were signes of dignitie But nowe the king placeth not himselfe publiquely in his kingly throne but sitteth with his Citizens in the dust of the earth or in base and vncomely seates to the ende they might openly declare themselues for their sinnes to be vnworthy before God of their maiestie and dignitie and to haue deserued death and destruction The King and his Citizens had their sumptuous and precious apparell on festiuall dayes at mariages and at other solemne méetinges with the which they did bewtifie themselues and excell other men But nowe they put on vile and base apparell to the ende there might séeme to be no difference betwéene the king and his magistrates and other common people and also to declare that they thought themselues vnworthie of their bodily apparell by reason of their sinnne Therefore sackcloth and ashes are not satisfactions for sinne but they are onely argumentes of the acknowledging and confession of sinnes before God. The sinfull woman wherof Luke speaketh when she came and besought Iesus to haue hir sinnes forgiuen hir shée wept yet notwithstanding by this wéeping she did not put away hir sinne Esau also wept when Iacob had preuented him of his blessing yet notwithstanding he did not therby put away his sinne And Christ sayth In the vtward partes there shall be wéeping and gnashing of téeth and yet neuerthelesse there shall be no satisfaction there 2 Secondly the king commaundeth a generall fast saying neyther man nor beast shall taste ought at all neyther shall they féede or drinke water But he commaundeth not a fast as though thereby sinne should be forgiuen and the wrath of God pacified as the hypocrytes imagine of fasting but he commaunded it first to the ende the fleshe might be brideled by sobrietie then to the ende common banqueting might be omitted whereby they myght more conueniently come togither to publique preaching and prayer Wherevpon also it is added in the commaundement let euery man cry mightily vnto god These are the publique prayers or suffrages which in solemne wise were obserued and vsed of our elders not one houre but the whole day It were necessary therefore that men should abstaine from meate all the daye long to the ende they might bée readie in the Church So Iosaphat proclaymed a fasting not to satisfie thereby for sinne but for publique prayers sake which were appoynted to call vpon God in extréeme perill So in many other places of the scripture fasting and prayer are ioyned togither to the ende wée might knowe that fastings were appoynted as a preparatiue vnto prayer 3 But what meaneth the commaundement giuen for oxen and shéepe and other beastes to fast Hath God respect vnto the fasting of beastes There is nothing lesse ment truely but they are commaunded to fast in that sense and meaning that beastes were commaunded in the lawe to haue rest on the Sabboth day Thou shalt doe no worke sayth the Lorde on the Sabboth day neyther thou nor thy cattel nor the straunger that is within thy gates For rest is required of cattell on the Sabboth day that by that occasion men might

layde him downe and slumbered So the maister of the shippe came to him and sayde vnto him why slumberest thou vp call vpon thy God if God happilye will thinke vpon vs that we perishe not And they sayde one to another come let vs cast lots that we may know for whose cause wee are thus troubled And so they cast lottes The Maryners and the rest in the ship were wonderfullye vexed wyth horror of minde bicause of the extréeme daunger in the which they were without all hope of recouerie They take in hande notwithstanding thrée thinges to deliuer themselues from perill if it were possible The first is inuocation the seconde is the vnlading of the shippe and the thirde is lots 1 The Mariners did very wel and godly to call vppon God in daunger and perill For this is a spéedye way to escape perils or at least to mittigate the same But they being Gentiles and heathen called not vpon the true God and therfore they helde this pietie and truth in a lye as sayth the Apostle Paule They haue not called vpon the true God by fayth of the séede of Abraham but euery one sayth he calleth vpon his owne god Wherevppon the Mariners exhorted IONAS that he woulde call vpon his god And truely the same was done in this Shippe which was woont to bée done throughout the whole worlde yea amongest vs Christians also For there haue béene some which in daunger called one while vpon our Ladie another while vpon Saint Peter sometime vpon this Saint and sometime on that Saint And if one Saint help not they runne from Saint to Saint leauing to call vpon the true god This is plaine impietie and heathenish Idolatrie For the Saintes in heauen are set foorth vnto vs to declare the clemencie and loue of God and for examples for vs to imitate their godlinesse and vertue and not for vs to call vpon them But God onely in all perill trouble and aduersitie ought to bée called vpon by his sonne Christ For there are as well commaundements as promises for the true inuocating vpō God alone by fayth in Iesus Christ Furthermore we are here admonished what vtilitie and profite there commeth by affliction and trouble Men are secure and carelesse when al things are in peace and quiet but when trouble aryseth they lift vp their heades they cast vp their eyes to the heauen they call vpon god Let vs vnderstand therefore whensoeuer it pleaseth God to send a swoord famin or pestilence to rayse vp storme tempest or whatsoeuer for to punishe our sinnes let vs I say knowe that he doth it to styrre vs vp to prayer to inuocation and repentaunce By externall tempestes the Lorde séeketh oftentymes to styrre vp internall tempests in the heart that we may consider of the wrath of God towardes sinners We sée here that men in this ship were voyde of care before the tempest but the tempest and storme béeing vp they made haste to prayer they enquire diligently for the cause of the tempest they consider of the wrath of God and they seke for a remedie This ship therefore is a figure of this world in the which men walk secure before afflictions come But God sendeth afflictions to driue securitie from them to cal them to repentance Therefore let vs vse swoorde famine pestilence storme tempest and all kind of plagues punishments to our helth that we knowing the wrath of God may obey his will. 2 The seconde thing that these Mariners take in hande is the vnlading of the ship and the casting of the goodes into the sea that the ship might be more light and escape drowning A singuler example of wisdome set forth vnto vs to folow These Mariners were so discrete and wise that they rather sought to lose all theyr Marchaundice and goodes which were in the ship than to forsake their lyfe And it is likely that this ship was fraught and laden with precious Marchandise and yet notwithstanding they are cast into the sea to preserue lyfe This example is set foorth vnto vs to admonish vs that as the Mariners to saue their corporall and corruptible life cast frō them all their riches so also we ought much more to cast from vs al things whatsoeuer to saue preserue and kepe our spiritual heauenly life And if the state and condition of things be such and if the time so serue that we may enioy our spirituall lyfe with the preseruation of our temporall goodes God is well pleased therewith But if the case so stande that we cannot kéepe and saue our earthly substaunce vnlesse we offende and disobey the will of God then we must rather lose and forsake our momentany and rustie riches than our heauenly treasure which béeing once lost can neuer bée recouered and gotten againe Wherevpon our sauiour Christ sayth It is better for thée to enter into life hault or maymed rather than thou shouldest hauing two hands or two féete be cast into euerlasting fire But beleue mée that the greatest part of men amonge vs Christians are not so wise as these heathen Mariners For there are not a few which had rather not onely that the worde of God but also that God himselfe shoulde be forsaken and dispised of them than that they will suffer any thing of their gaine to be cut off In their occupasion they séeke to deceyue in office they enuy one another and are ambicious These and such like vnlade not their ship in perils but rather fraught the same so full that ship and all perisheth in the waues of this worlde before it come to the prosperous hauen of the heauēly kingdome Wherefore these Mariners shall rise in the last daye and shall condemne the greatest part of Christians which so estéeme riches honors and the pleasures of this worlde that they regarde not true godlynesse or at the least they make small account of the same 3 The thirde thing is the casting of lots the which they take in hand to search out and knowe for whose sake it was that so great a tempest arose But although it be lawfull ciuillye to vse lots in deuiding inheritaunces as Iosua deuided the land of Canaan by lot or in choosing of magistrates as the Apostles choose Mathie by lot this is the ciuille vse of lots and lawfull of the which Salomon speaketh saying The Lots are cast into the lappe but the ordering thereof standeth all in the Lord yet notwithstanding the examples of IONAS of Achan and of Ionathas are not to be imitated and folowed of vs without the speciall calling of god It is not lawfull for vs by lotte to séeke out those thinges that are secret and hydden If any man haue robbed his brother or stollen anye thing in the Citie and the théefe vnknowne it is not lawfull to trye the Citizens by lotte and to apprehende him for the théefe vpon whome the lot chaunceth For as it doth not follow that all dreames are true