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A15765	A summons for sleepers Wherein most grieuous and notorious offenders are cited to bring forth true frutes of repentance, before the day of the Lord now at hand. Hereunto is annexed, a patterne for pastors, deciphering briefly the dueties pertaining to that function, by Leonard Wright.	Wright, Leonard, b. 1555 or 6.	1589 (1589)	STC 26034.3; ESTC S121115	49,627	64

like Symon Magus that walked with Phillip as a disciple yet wrought with mony like a worldling Achabs wife would neuer put on demure apparell but when she spake with the Prophets nor our dissembling Protestants bee neuer holy but at Sermon times They heare and desire like Saints but liue deserue like deuils they can looke and speake holily whereby they séeme glorious before men but their workes are naught and therefore odious in the sight of God whose outward behauior is much like cloudes without raine whereby God himselfe doth mocke such fruitles showes These hypocrites therefore are possessed with deuils thy sléep in sinne and it is high time to awake them Though the obseruing of the Sabboth day touching bodily rest do belong to the Ceremonial lawe and shadowes which had an end in Christ being therefore altered from Saterday do Sonday yet as the Iewes did celebrate theirs in remembrance of the creation of the world so ought wee to obserue and kéepe our Sabboth in remembrance of the resurrection of Christ and as a figure to confirme our hope in the resurrection of our owne bodies and our spirituall rest in glorie to come as also for a comely and decent order to bee vsed in the Church that in resting from bodily work we may charitably assemble together to the end the Lord by the preaching of his word may bring forth his worke in vs to his owne glorie and our saluation but our Sabboth in many places is so vilely abused as though it had bene rather ordained to serue Bacchus and Venus the people beeing growen so carelesse negligent and licentious to feast when they should fast play when they should pray and laugh when they should wéep for their sins as though there were neither God nor deuill heauen nor hell As euerie honest nature hath affection good will to his natiue soile and place of birth so ought euery good Christian to haue a godly desire to the soile of his regeneration place of his new birth by Baptisme which is the temple of God the schoole of Christ nurse of Christianitie to make open confession of his sinnes and rehearsal of his faith to intreate for pardon pray for things necessary giue thankes for benefites past to celebrate the Sacramentes to heare and learne his duty and right way to saluation to beléeue truly liue honestly and walke vprightly If the ground yeeld not sappe to the tree it will soone seare and wither away if the lampe be not fed with oyle it must needes goe out if any liuing thing bee kept from nourishing it cannot liue euen so if the faith of a Christian doe not receiue continual sap and moistnes of the heauenly word fed with the oyle of swéet promises in Christ and nourished with the wholesome bread of life it cannot continue but consume and die The séede of the Gospel must stil be sowne in our harts or we cannot reape the haruest of eternal life where prophesie faileth the people perish When the Lord of a manor appointeth his tenants a day to come to his Court the rolles are laide open the Stuard is ready prepared to giue the charge the tenants are dutiful to come attentiue to heare and diligent to execute their Lordes will and if any shall chaunce to be absent or come after the charge be giuen no doubt the Lord wil be very angry and set a fine vpon his head euen so the Lord of all Lords of whom and at whose will we haue receiued and do hold all that euer we haue doth euery Sabboth day kéepe his court at his temple Church or house of praier his rolles the sacred Bible is layd open the Stuard or Minister is ready to giue the charge and tel euery man his dutie and if any of his tenants or people be absent and refuse to come no doubt the Lorde himselfe will be angry or if they come after the charge when seruice or sermon is done they were as good not come at all Againe such a dutiful tenant as desire to stand in his Lordes fauour will nowe and then prepare and bring him a present such as he knoweth his Lord loueth but no present is more pretious in the sight of our heauenly Lord than the praiers thankes of an humble penitent hart and therefore he that will please him and stand in his fauor must often féde his appetite with such presents The Papists of a blind zeale in time of darknesse would not stick to rise vp at midnight to publike praier fast with bread and water suffer hunger and colde run some times an hundred mile bare footed and bare legged to séeke a dumbe image but our professed Protestants hauing the true light of the Gospell their praier and deuotion is faint colde as ise and their disobedience greater than their fathers ignorance When they come together it is rather of compulsion custome or fashion sake than of any godly zeale much like a sullen stubborn and froward seruant that when his maister calleth him commeth grudging with a sowre moiling countenance mumbling a dogs pater noster and with lesse reuerence than those thréehalfepeny seruants that Esop hired to heare him recite his fables The Apostle S. Paul saith that forasmuch as man is the image of Gods glory he ought not in time of prophesying or prayers to couer or dishonor his head and in another place At the name of Iesus euery knée shall bow and the Prophet Esay Al knées shal bow vnto me saith the Lord. The méetest gesture and séemliest behauior at praier and thanksgiuing is knéeling so praied Daniel Paul and Christ himselfe but our people are growen so stubborne wilfull and wayward that in stead of humilitie and reuerence they fall to kicke at their dutie thinke scorn to vncouer their heads in time of sermon or seruice for hurting their cappes Or to knéele at the name of Iesus for wresting their ioynts Or looke vp to heauen when they pray for wrinkling theyr ruffes These people are therfore possessed with deuils they sléepe in sinne and it is high time to awake them In times past he that had learned the seuen liberal artes as Grammer the key of knowledge Logike the rules of reason Rethorike the mother of eloquence Musicke the swéet recreation of wearied minds Astronomie the secret knowledge of nature and course of the heauens Arithmetike the arte of numbring Geometrie to worke by rule compasse waight and measure he had obtayned and gotten euen a worlde of wealth treasure But in these our wretched daeis the eight liberall science called Ars adulandi the golden art of flattery hath wonne the gole and sitteth in fortunes lap so that without skill in that arte though neuer so well séene in the rest a man shal hardly finde meanes to shift in the world Qui nescit simulare nescit viuere These flattering clawbacks students of brazen face colledge are no doubt a most dangerous

❧ A Summons for Sleepers Wherein most grieuous and notorious offenders are cited to bring forth true frutes of repentance before the day of the Lord now at hand Hereunto is annexed A Patterne for Pastors deciphering briefly the dueties pertaining to that function by Leonard Wright Newly reprinted corrected and amended Woe be to the inhabitants of the Earth and the Sea for the diuel is come downe vnto you whose wrath is great because hee knoweth that his time is but short Apoc. 12.12 Be sober and watch c. 1. Pet. 5.8 Happie are those seruants which the Lord when he commeth shall find waking Luke 12.37 1589. The Epistle to the Reader TO feede thy fancie with friuolous fables gentle Reader as to tell thee of drowsie Endimion who desired of Iupiter to sleepe perpetuall or Epimenides who in seeking his fathers sheepe tooke a nappe of fortie and seuen yeares long or those seuen supposed Saintes whom the golden Legend reporteth to haue slept two hundreth yeares and odde is no part of my purpose But rather as one in griefe of conscience for the zeale of my God what in me lyeth to wake and stirre vp those wicked and sinfull sluggards whom the cursed serpent in Paradice aboue fiue thousand fiue hundreth sixtie and two yeares past applying not the sinne of the sea calfe to their heades but that inchaunted apple of perdition to their hartes hath so venoumously infected with contagious poyson of iniquitie and lulled so soundly a sleepe in the carelesse cradle of securitie that neither the golden belles of Aaron the thundring trumpe of Esay the well tuned Cimbals of Dauid the pleasant harmonie of the Euangelists nor the sweete comfortable pipe of Christ himselfe could once as yet allure them to repentance and amendment of life trusting that God by this my plaine rough Summons penned without feare or flatterie shall now in the dawning of the day ring such a peale at the dore of their conscience as shall either moue them at length to loue him in his mercies prouoke them to feare him in his iustice or leaue them vnexcusable in the day of vengeance But of all the sinfull crue of napping sleepers in generall is lately reuealed vnto vs one notable and pestiferous sect especiall most odious to God grieuous to his Church dangerous to the State and noysom to the common wealth of whom the holy Ghost by the penne of the Apostles hath most louingly forewarned vs decyphering them in their colours with titles correspondent to their manners as couetous bosters disdainefull mockers false accusers murmuring complainers dissembling hipocrites Authors of sectes and despisers of authoritie hauing a similitude of godlinesse but haue denyed the power thereof in whom Sathan hath transformed himselfe into an angel of light whose restlesse rage doth manifestly shew the ruine of his kingdom at hand These vnder a colour and shadow of religion are so vehemently set on fire to shake off the yoke of obedience and seeke innouation as nothing is thought tollerable but what they like and what they allow must onely stand for law whereby the church is torne in peeces authoritie contemned vice aduanced vertue neglected and all men in opinion wonderfully distracted Looke where they do loath euerie mite is made a monster euerie gnat a cammell and euerie trifle a trespasse which must be curiously ripped vp and made open to the view of the world But where they like mountaines are no moates nor beames no blemishes loue must couer the multitude of sinnes and all thinges smothered vp with a shew of holinesse Their pretence as their Captaine saith is to marre the Prelate the auncient graue Pastors reuerend Fathers and chiefe pillers of our Church the middle corde of that threefold cable the onely anker staffe and stay of our common wealth much like those rauening wolues which by no meanes would enter league with the poore sheepe vnlesse their Mastiffes whom they feared were deliuered vnto them but dangerous was that peace and simple were those sheepe to yeelde their dogges to such as sought to pray vpon their carkasse They resemble in diuers points that notable and presumpteous crue Iack Straw and his fellowes who being diuelishly incensed with mutation pretending a cause of libertie stirred vp such trouble ciuil discention in this land as nothing could appease vnlesse the king would graunt to put downe all the nobles and prelates reseruing onely a few to be of his counsell and the rascall rable of begging Friers to liue of the peoples deuotion much like the prelacie which these new deuising church-founders are now so desirous to haue established who must be no Bishops to beare the state and title of honor but superintendents to controll Princes no beneficed men and why because it bringeth a charge as frutes tenthes and subsidies to her Maiesties cofers hospitalitie to their neighbors and generall reliefe to the poore but must liue popularly with their feete vnder other mens tables and their tongues tyed to other mens purses But Iack Straw was taught to know how horrible a thing it was once to lift vp either hand tongue or hart against the Lordes annointed or doe his Prophets any harme by sheathing the Maior of London his dagger in his bosom So woulde these be learned to vnderstand that the word of God doth teach and our English lawes command obediently to honour the Prince and reuerence the Prelate To conclude gentle Reader I craue only thy friendly censor without partialitie not forgetting the good Hermit who hauing three of his friendes come to visit him for want of better dainties to entertaine them bestowed on euerie of them an olde apple halfe putrified with spots The first friend to shew his affection deuoured his apple hartely sound and rotten together as it was The second more nice then wise because his was spotted in part disdainefully threw away the whole The third making choice of the best reiected onely the rest So doe I wish thee not with the first friend to deuoure the badde with the good neither with the second to cast away that is good because of some bad but with the third to accept and vse that is wholesom and refuse that is lothsom Vale in Christo. Leonard VVright A Summons for Sleepers AFter that the Apostle Saint Paule had taught the Romanes many notable lessons and rules touching the doctrine of christian faith charitie and obedience to Magistrates In going on to exhort and perswade them to repentance and amendment of life hee taketh occasion to speake of time of sléepe of light and of darkenesse And that considering the season saith he that it is now time that we should wake from sleepe for now is our saluation nearer then when we belieued The night is past and the day is at hand let vs therefore cast away the workes of darkenesse and put on the armour of light c. This worde dormire to sléepe in some places of the holy

scriptures is taken for requiescere to rest as our Sauiour Christ came to his Disciples and found them a sléepe Christ himselfe slept in the sterne of the Ship and Peter slept betwéene two souldiers Againe in some places it is taken to sléepe in sepulchro the graue as Dauid and Salomon slept with their Fathers Behold saith Iob I must sléepe in the dust and Saint Paule saith The faithfull that are dead are fallen a sléepe in Christ But that sléepe which the Apostle doth here speake of is to sleepe in ignorance darkenesse and sinne The way of the vngodly is called darkenesse and shadow of death To wake vp this kinde of sleepers and rebuke the world of sinne is my chiefe intent and purpose in this booke Which is no doubt a thanklesse office and a verie vnthriftie occupation veritas odium parit truth neuer goeth without a scratcht face he that will be busie with vae vobis let him looke shortly for coram nobis So long as Micheas prophecied victorie against the Assyrians he was a trim Prophet but after when he tolde them the contrarie they had him in great disdaine When our Sauiour Christ fedde the people they woulde haue made him a king but after when he began to rebuke their naughtie manners they desired to haue him crucified euen so in these dayes our daintie eares can hardly abide to heare our vices touched Much like the foolish Asse that when he is a loading standeth stocke still but in taking the load off his backe doth yearke out behinde It may aptly be saide vnto our people as Martiall the Poet saide once to his friends My friendes saith he you will imbolden me to speake the truth and the truth is this that you can not abide to heare the truth He therefore that will boldly vtter his conscience without feare or flatterie shall hardly escape without imminent daunger Notwithstanding how odious and despised soeuer Gods Prophets shall séeme to the eyes of the world they must not be afraid to speake the truth to beate down the infection of sinne and wickednesse How dangerous soeuer it be for Lot to reproue the filthinesse of the Sodomites yet must he not cease to say vnto them I pray you my brethren doe not so wickedly Though it cost Iohn Baptist his heade yet must he not forbeare to say vnto Herod It is not lawfull for thée to haue thy brother Philips wife Though Nathans message séeme neuer so perillous yet must he not be afraid to say vnto Dauid Thou art the man it is thou that hast done this déede Elias must not be afraid to say vnto Achab It is thou and thy fathers house that hath brought this plague vpon Israel Ionas must not refuse to crye out in the stréetes of Niniuie Yet remaineth fortie daies and Niniuie shall be destroyed Our Sauiour Christ sent forth his Disciples as shéepe amongst woolues I haue giuen thée a face of brasse as hard as a flint stone that thou shalt not be afraide to tell my people their sins and offences saith the Lord. As Christ himselfe tooke all our sinnes vpon him so ought euerie good christian to take the iniuries done to Christ as his owne The Lord hateth as well him that iustifieth the vngodly as he that condemneth the innocent O Lord saith Dauid I haue alwaies hated those that loue not thée and béene a straunger to those that haue forsaken thy law Amicum esse licet saith the Philosopher sed vsque ad Aras Dauid woulde haue no friendes but those that were Gods friendes nor enimies but those that were Gods enimies and hee that will beare with the vice of his dearest friendes wherein God is offended is vnworthie the name of a christian And he that rebuketh vices where amendment doth follow killeth the sinner that man hath made and saueth the man whom God hath made We reade in the Gospel of certaine people that were possessed with diuels which Christ himselfe did cast out and gaue power to his Disciples to doe the like But I thinke in no age from the beginning was there euer so many possessed with diuelish spirits as in these our miserable dayes In old time Agar was more fruitful then Sara and in our time the Church is so barren the world so frutefull to bring forth huge swarmes of wicked impes that hard it is to finde one corner calling or kinde of life without them We reade of seuen principall or captaine diuels who haue alwaies borne a great sway amongst men The first called Lucifer the diuel of pride and presumption The second Belzebub the Lord of enuie and malice The third Sathan the maister of wrath and disdaine The fourth Abadan the patrone of sloth and idlenesse The fift Mammon the father of couetousnesse and snudgerie The sixt Belphegor the God of gluttonie and drunkennesse and The seuenth Asmodius the ruler of lecherie and whoredom And whosoeuer is infected with any of the saide vices be sure he is possessed with a great captaine diuel which must of necessitie be cast out or els of force the man must perish And surely the Clergie of long time haue beene verie careful and diligent in discharging their duetie herein so as the immortall seede of the Gospell since the Apostles time was neuer more plentifully sowne Notwithstanding the small testimonie of amendment declareth it to bee rather knowne then kept The people so louingly linckt in league with the diuel their eares are so deafe their sences so dull their willes so obstinate and their harts so barren as they haue neither sence to tast stomackes to disgest nor harts to credit except it feede their filthie infected humors I thinke if the preachers should go in sackcloth like Esay or with yrons about their neckes like Ieremie yet were there small hope of amendment If those good auncient Fathers who complained so grieuously of the wretchednesse of their time did sée the horrible abuses and vile corruptions of our age they would wonder at our follie and burst out in teares at our miserie Or if Saint Paule himselfe were here now to sée our pittilesse dayes when charitie is growne so colde and humanitie almost forgotten no doubt he would wonder and say Surely these people are possessed with diuels they sléepe in sinne and it is high time to wake them And first to beginne with the great rich giants and couetous prowling cormorants of this land aboundance of wealth hath so bewitched their vnsatiable mindes and taken such rooting in their flintie harts that neither the feare of God the infamie of the world nor hell mouth that gapes for them can once staunch their greedie desires There is such ioyning of house to house ground to ground fielde to fielde land to land farme to farme and liuing to liuing to maintain their proud backes golden heades and costly throates still scraping for superfluitie that the poore can