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A18772	A postil or orderly disposing of certeine epistles vsually red in the Church of God, vppon the Sundayes and holydayes throughout the whole yeere. Written in Latin by Dauid Chytræus, and translated intoo English by Arthur Golding. Seen and allowed according too the order appoynted	Chytraeus, David, 1531-1600.; Golding, Arthur, 1536-1606. aut	1570 (1570)	STC 5263; ESTC S107883	320,443	478

the labours of the day defend infantes are an ornament too men giue comfort to old folke decke women with cōlinesse replenish deserts with inhabiters accustome men to modestie in their meetings instruct yong beginners in their firste principles help those that haue profited with further aduauntage and strengthen those that be perfect The Psalmes are the common voyce of the Church they beautify the feastfull dayes and they woorke that sorowfulnesse which is according vnto God for they are able to wrest teares euen out of a stony harte To sing Psalmes is an Angelike office a heauenly ministracion and a spiritual perfume O wōderful deuice of a most wise schoolemaster who would haue vs learne profitable things by singing Therefore are his preceptes fastned the surer in our mindes For nothing that is learned by compulsion continueth long in memorie But y which entereth with some swéete kind of delectacion doth settle more stedfastly and roote more déepely For what is it that a man shall not learne out of the Psalmes From thence ye may fetch the assured stoutnesse of harte from thence shall ye draw true rightuousnesse modestie grauitie perfect wisdome the true maner of repentance patience all kind of good things Héere is perfect diuinitie héere is prophe●ying of Christes cōming in the flesh threatuing of the last iudgement hope of resurrection feare of punishmentes promises of glorie reuelacions of mysteries All these things are layde vp in the treasurie of the Psalmbooke as in a most large storehouse The fourth place IT entreateth of thankesgeuing wherewithall God is too bée magnified for all his heauenly benefites with a true harte and a liuely voyce in loudsounded songs and Hymnes Moreouer concerning lowlinesse and the feare of ▪ God there may bée declaracions fet out of the rules of life or out of the exposition of the vertues of the first and second Commanndement Vppon the .xxj. Sunday after Trinitie ¶ The Epistle Ephes vj. MY Brethren bee strong through the Lorde and through the power of his might Putte on all the armour of God that ye may stand ageinst all the assaultes of the Diuell for we wrestle not ageynst bloude and flesh but ageynst rule ageynste power ageynst worldly rulers euen gouernours of the darknes of this world ageynst spirituall craftines in heauenly things VVherefore take vnto you the whole armour of God that yee may bee able to resist in the euill day and stande perfecte in all things Stand therfore and your loynes gyrde with the truth hauing on the breste plate of rightuousnesse and hauing shoos on your feete that ye may be prepared for the Gospell of peace Aboue all take to you the shield of fayth wherwith ye may quench all the fiery dartes of the wicked And take the helmet of saluacion the sword of the spirit which is the worde of god And pray alwayes with all maner of prayer and supplication in the spirite and watch thereunto with all instance and supplication for all sainctes and for me that vtteraunce may be giuen vnto me that I may open my mouth f●eely to vtter the secretes of my Gospell wherof I am a messanger in bondes that therin I may speake freely as I ought to speake The di sposement IT is that kind of cases that are persuasiue For it is an exhortacion to the godly to continue stedfastely in true godlinesse or in the acknowledgement of God in faith and to fortifie and strengthen their hartes ageynst the assaultes of the Diuell of naughty nature of Heretikes of Tyrauntes And Paule enlargeth and garnisheth his purposed exhortacion with a lightsome similitude taken of warfare and worldly battels out of Esay lix In which warfare it behooueth first and formest that the enemies bée knowen Secondly that munition bée gotten néedfull for a mans own defence And thirdly artillerie weapon fit to put backe and vanquishe the enemie All the whole lyfe of a Christian man is as it were a warfare againste oure most mischéeuous enemies Of whom y first is y Diuel a lyer a murtherer who lyeth cōtinually in wait to anoy vs in our soules in our bodies in our goods spredding abroad false opinions concerning God dropping into our minds epicurish doutes contempt of Gods word carnall carefulnesse pryde egging vs wretched wights vnto all kind of sinnes with his blast alluremēts which he trūpeth in our wayes to the intēt y hauing haled vs from God he may draw vs into euerlasting destruction Agein he empayreth our bodies goods by fires battels robberies slaunders diseases deaths The second enemie is our own flesh y is to say the wandring heady braydes of our own nature corrupted with sin darknesse doutfulnesse concerning God fleshly restynesse the heates of hatred lecherie desire of reuenge of excellencie and money and finally the whole huge heape of naughty inclinacions and sinfull affections cleauing in our hartes Iacob j. Euery one that is tempted is tempted of his owne concupiscēce The third enemy are Heretikes spreding abrode false opinions which are the very firy weapons wherewith they kill the faith and prayers of many The fourth enimie is the manaces and persecutions of tyraunts of all vngodly persones For through the terrours and displeasures of great men the cruelnesse of persecutions many renounce the profession of true godlinesse many by reason of the contempt néedynesse of the godly ministers are moued to withhold the fat prebends linked with Idolatrie Ageinst these foure enimies doth Paule fortify arme the godly with armour munition weapon néedful for the defence of thēselues the putting backe of the enemie The armour or apparell is this FIrst the sword girdle wherewithall it behooueth vs too bée girded and closed in is truth or the true doctrine of the Gospell and the true knowledge of god They therefore that eyther bée ignorant of the doctrine or haue a delight in the corruptings of the Gospell shall make but an vnlucky match Secondly the Brestplate wherewith the brest is defended is rightuousnesse that is to wit the reconciliation of a man into Gods fauour for Christes sake through fayth Thirdly his shoes are the very profession of the Gospel which directeth the way or vocation of the godly boundeth them about with listes within which they must kéepe their standing The armour necessarie to repulse the blowes of our enemies and to defend our selues are first a Buckler or Sheeld y is to wit faith which quencheth all the firy dartes of the diuell And the firy most noysome dartes of the diuell are these Epicurish and Academical doutings whither there bée any God whither God haue care of vs whither the gospell bée true whither God regard vs in our troubles whither he will giue vs eternall lyfe Also fleshly carelessenesse which neglecteth the wrath and iudgement of God heresies and false pleasurable opinions c. 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neither was there guile founde in hys mouth which when he was reuiled reuiled not ageine when he suffered he threatned not but committed the vengeance too him that iudgeth ryghteously which his owne selfe bare our sinnes in his bodye on the tree that wee beeing deliuered from sinne should liue vntoo ryghteousnesse By whose stripes yee were healed For ye were as sheepe going astray but are now turned vnto the shepheard and Bishop of your soules The disposement THe state of it is an exhortacion to patience and méeknesse taken of the example of Christ who was patient méek And therwithall is annexed a doctrine concerning the merit and benefites of Chrystes passion The ch●ef places are four 1 Of patience in troubles which are not procured by a mannes owne fault but happen too him vndeserued It belongeth too the first commaundement 2 Of méekenesse repressing desire of reuenge forgiuing euen open wrongs for Gods sake the common quietnesse Which perteyneth too the fifth commandemēt 3 Of the causes and effects of Christes passion or of remission of sinnes and of the health of our soules restored by Chrystes passion 4 Of true turning vntoo God. The first place COncerning patience and méeknesse and putting vp of reproches quietly let the Methodicall or orderly expositiōs bée rehersed out of the declaration of the vertues of the first fifth and eigth commaundements Concerning the passion of our Lord Iesus Christ and the causes and effectes of his passion which is the chéefe place of this Epistle I haue intreated already the last Sunday after Easter Now therefore wée wil vnfold the last sentence of the Epistle of this day which conteineth the Doctrine concerning true conuersion and the right applyment of the benefites of Chrystes passion Yee were as stray sheep but now ye are turned to the shepherd and bishop of your soules These woords are taken out of the .liij. of Esay and out of the parable of Christ concerning the lost shéep Lu. xv and out of this dayes Gospell Iohn x. and out of Ezech. xxxiiij and out of Psalm xxiij and therfore by conferring these places toogither there may bée gathered a cléere proposition All man kynd without Christ wandreth in the thick mist of ignorance of God and in sorowfull darknesse of sinne and death And the wyser and more religious that men bee and with how much the more earnestnesse and endeuer they goe about too know God and too woorship him aryght so muche the more doo they stray aside from the true God and true godlynesse and from the ryghtuousnesse which pleaseth God. The heathen wysemen Philosophers Poets and the folowers of Mahomet doo openly erre first about the béeing of god For either they alow and woorship a monstrous multitude of Gods surmised powers or at leastwise they deny him y is the father of our Lord Iesus Chryst too bee the only true God creator of heauen earth Yea they vtterly abhor this sonne of God who is all one substance with the father Secondly they erre about the will of god For although they vnderstād after a sort that the wil of God reueled in his law is this that wée should liue honestly and vprightly eschue the outward offences of slaughter whordom c. yet are they able too determine nothing of certeintie cōcerning gods loue towards vs cōcerning remission of sinnes concerning life without the gospel of Christ After al this not only they but also euen those that boast themselues to be the chéef mēbers of the true church doo erre manifoldly in dooing seruice to God and specially in praying while some chuse the monkish seruices woorks some pilgrimages to Sainctes some masses some pardōs some other sacrifices some one woork and some another euery man according too his owne fansie trusting therby too pacifie God too earne life and saluation euerlasting The heathen also offred mē in sacrifise burned their own children in the fire to the intent by so hard bitter a woork to open to thēselues a néerer accesse vnto god But al these run very far a stray from the true way that leadeth too the true God to eternal saluation Neither cā they by their own power deuises or endeuer return agein into the way onlesse Chryst the shepherd and Bishop of soules séeke them out and laying them vpon his shoulders cary them home too his flocke and shéepfold that is too say onlesse they bée turned too Christ who only is the way that leadeth bringeth conueyeth vs vntoo God and by which alonly wée may come too the true acknowledgement and woorshipping of God and too the blissed and eternal company with god He is the truth or the welspring founder of the true doctrine concerning God and our own soulhealth he bendeth our minds to giue assēt too the true doctrine and kindleth true faith and true euerlasting good things in the hartes of the godly He is Lyfe that is too say the author and giuer of lyfe and saluacion euerlasting who by his Death hath pacified Gods wrathe and restored ryghtuousnesse and eternall lyfe vntoo vs Neyther commeth any man too the father that is too say No man acknowledgeth calleth vppon woorshippeth God aryght ne becommeth heire of saluation and eternall lyfe onlesse he bée turned by him and too him who is the shepherd and Bishop of our soules Therfore the Hebrewes terme repentance or the amēdment and chaunging of a wicked lyfe intoo a lyfe that is vertuous and acceptable too God by the notable pithy woord T●s●ubah which signifieth turning backe or retyring of the original woord Shub which is as much too say as he is returned he is come backe he hath called himselfe home For all men being turned from God haue strayed like shéepe euery man away by himselfe as Peter sayeth in this place But by the infinite mercye of God they are called too repentaunce that they should returne vntoo God and by comming home too their shepherd Chryst bée coupled too God ageine through Faith and obey him in new lyght ryghtuousnesse and conuersation In generall there bée twoo chéefe poyntes belonging too a good shepherd The one is to féed his shéep or too lead them too wholsome féeding and the other is to defend them from the wolues For vntoo these twoo poyntes may the other things be referred which are spoken of in Ezech. xxxiiij Psal xxiij So good Princes which maintein their subiects in honest awe peace and foyzon the cheefest benefites in this ciuil societie of men and which defend them ageinst outlawes and forrein enemies are shepherds of the people Good and faithfull Bishops or ministers of Churches are shepherdes which lead their hearers intoo wholsom pastures of the Euangelicall doctrine and of the Sacraments wherby God imparteth remissiō of sinnes ryghtuousnesse euerlasting saluation to the shéep that embrace their voyce by faith and driue away the Woolues that