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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A72063	A sermon preached at Paules crosse the firste Sunday after Newyeeres day, beeing the thirde day of Ianuary. 1580. By William Fisher student of diuinitie	Fisher, William, student of diuinitie.	1580 (1580)	STC 10920.3; ESTC S124925	28,377	84

inhibition at this day against a number of gospellers For many false Brethren abuse the gospell and make it a common Cloake for their Usurie Adulterie and Crueltie To them the Lord might say I wil haue Mercie and not the Gospell Noe not the Gospell so professed as they professe it The seconde kinde of Sacrifice mentioned in Scripture is the Sacrifice of Christ which the Lorde wil haue For howsoeuer hee tollerated the bloode of Gotes and the bloode of Calues for the time yet hee coul●e not bee pleased with any other but with this onely As for al other Sacrifices● they were but Shadowes this was the body They were but huskes this was the Kernel They were but Chaffe this was the Wheate They were but Leaues this was the fruite They were but signes this was the thing signified and the trueth it selfe For Christe Iesus beeing the brightnesse of the fathers glory and the ingraued forme of his person humbled himselfe vpon the Crosse and offred his body to affliction his soule to anguish all too purge our sinnes whereby hee hath wrought our atonement with God and taken away the cursse of the Lawe and destroyed the woorkes of the Deuill and tryumphed ouer hell it selfe O blessed Sacrifice No sauour but this could perfume our stincking soules No sacrifice but this coulde pacifie the wrath of God And heere deerely beloued we may see an other benefite which we haue and inioy in Christe who hath giuen him selfe a Sacrifice of a sweet smelling sauour to God that hee might purge our sinnes The Lorde make vs thankfull for this benefite and faithfully to take holde of it in all the assaultes of Satan The thirde kinde of Sacrifice is the Sacrifice of Christians which S. Peter calleth an especiall sacrifice acceptable to God for Christes sake and this kinde of Sacrifice is manifolde as may be gathered in Scripture The Sacrifice of a sorrowful heart The Sacrifice of God Psal 51. is a troubled spirite and a broken and contrite heart O God shalt thou not despise This sacrifice Christians ought to offer vp as often as they call to minde their wicked and sinfull wayes Secondly we haue the Sacrifice of Righteousnesse which is newnesse of life true godlines This sacrifice Christians are willed to offer by the prophet Dauid Psal 4. Offer to god the sacrifice of righteousnes put your trust in the Lord that is walke in the light as Children of the light haue no felowship with the vnfaithfull workes of darkenesse Resist the flesh liue in the spirit this is to offer sacrifice of Righteousnesse Thirdly we find in Scripture the sacrifice of Praise and thanksgiuing which is called the Calues of Christian lips Offer to God praise Psal 50. pay thy vowes vnto the most highe That is shew thy self mindfull of Gods benefits by thanksgiuing Fourthly we haue the sacrifice of almes whereof the Apostle speaketh To doe good and to Heb. 13. distribute forget not for with such sacrifice God is pleased And this sacrifise is to be offered of much plente●usly and of little diligently and it shall be accepted according too that a man hath and not according to that he hath not Lastly we haue the Sacrifice of obedience or reasonable seruice of God which Saint Paule commendeth I beseech you therfore Rom. 12. brethren by the mercies of God that you giue your bodyes a liuing Sacrifice holy and acceptable too God which is your reasonable seruice of God This Sacrifice we are to offer as often as wee celebrate the Lordes Supper For as the carnall Sacrifices of the Iewes were too foreshewe the blessed Sacrifice of Christ to come So muste this liuely Sacrifice of our soules and bodyes bee offred vp too testifie that it is already come that his body is already broken and his blood already shed for the remission of sinnes Heerevppon it is that the Schoolemen say that the Lordes Supper is a Sacramente and a Sacrifice It is a Sacrament in that we receiue the bread and Wine in remembraunce that Christ his body was giuen and his blood shedd for the remission of sinne It is a Sacrifice in that wee doe offer vpp our selues that is our soules and bodyes too shewe our thankfulnesse for so greate a benefite These are the Sacrifices which christians are of dutie to offer vnto God who will haue them and accept them for Iesus Christes sake And in respect of these Sacrifices Christianitie is a Royall priesthoode and Christians are Royall Priestes Their heartes are royall Aultars Their faith is Royall Incence And their feruent loue towards God and man is a Royall fire to make them haue a sweete sauour before God The Sacrifice of the Masse But what shall wee say of the Sacrifice of the Masse Is not that holy sacrifice to be numbred among those which the Lord will haue When the Church of Roome and all her Catholike children make so great accounte of it which is of force to releace the tormented soules in purgatory and to chace away Deuils from the possessed in Earth which whoso euer heareth as long as he heareth it he shall neuer wax olde which preserueth yong children in their mothers wombes deliuereth both olde and young from al imminent perils and daungers No I auouche and protest that the Lord will not haue it strugle the Catholicks neuer so mightely shuffle they neuer so cunningly for the magnifying of their Idol The Lorde will not haue it It is a worlde to see how euē of late they began to set vp their crests and to clapp their wings as if they would crowe the Pope day againe into England all because they imagine that their golden day begins to spring wherein the masse shal shine againe Yea they begin to looke vpon vs as if the Deuil should look ouer Lincolne and doe account it halfe heresie to speake to any man that is a known Gospeller They passe by vs humming mumming and whether they wishe out heads in their dishes or their swords in our bellyes wee cannot tell yea or noe But let them knowe that their sacrifice of the Masse is too full of Idolatrie abomination and blasphemie for the Lord to heare it And doe they thinke that her maiestie the Lords annoynted wil heare it God be thanked by the space of one and twentie yeeres shee hath bin a nursing and a naturall mother to the gospel and now will shee become a stepmother and fancy the Masse No it hath caused too many conspiracies and rebellions against her most noble persō for her maiestie euer to brooke it euen in pollicie And whereunto serue the Prayers of Gods children her faithfull subiects but euen to beseech God to continue her maiesties godly proceedings that shee may be so farre from backsliding as to growe from grace to grace from faith to faith that as shee hath planted nourished the Gospel so she may not be ashamed of the Gospel which is saluation to

to the Scripture Go learne what c. Thirdly according to his owne office and dewly I am not to call c. Good God howe doltishe and howe sottishe is mans wysedome when it will seeme too contende with Gods The first aunsweare shewes that they were ignorant of common sense and reason The seconde that they were ignorant of the Scriptures The thirde that they were ignorant of the Messias his office and dewty and euery one of them doeth fully satisfie the question and shew vs besides what benefites we haue through Christe our Sauiour as you shall vnderstand The first Aunswere The whole neede not c First he saith The whole neede not c. As if hee had sayd I am like vnto a Phisitiō you are like vnto whole men These Publicans are like vnto sick men Nowe you knowe by common sense and reason that the whole neede not the Phisition but the sick therefore I eate with them and not with you In which saying we haue to note the comparison and to consider how fitly they are made Firste he compareth him selfe vnto a Phisition secondly the Pharisees vnto whole and sound men Thirdly the Publicanes vnto sick persons The first Comparison Christe is like a Phisition Two thinges are especially requisite in euery good Phisition First that hee be able to cure his patient next that hee be willing otherwise he is no perfecte Phisition That Christ Iesus can heale our desperate diseases of sin What better proofe is there then the notable cures which he hath already doone Reade no more but the Chapter wherehence these woordes are taken and you shall finde that hee cured Matthew a sinfull Publicane He cured the Rulers daughter Hee cured the woman of her bloody issue of twelue yeeres continuance He cured two blinde men Hee cured the dumbe man which was possest with a Deuill In so much that the blessed Euangelist concluds the chapter with this testimonie Iesus went about all Cities and townes teaching in their Sinagogues and preaching the Gospel of the kingdome and healing euery sicknesse and euery disease among the people Yea and his comming is so greate that it surpasseth the skill of all other Phisitions what so euer For whome hee onely excepted can take away the principall cause of all diseases I meane Sinne Did not he heale the Palsey man by forgiuing his sinne It is a common rule among Phisitions Cessante causa cesset effectus Sinne is the originall and fountaine of all diseases in man therfore he that was able to remoue that cannot chuse but haue power ouer all the effectes thereof It is a worlde to see howe faire the Pope would be thought to be a cunnyng Phisition and of abilitie to cure the disease of sinne He made our Churches his Apoticary shoppes wherein he solde all maner of Drugges Salt Creame and Oyle for one purpose Masse Dirige for an other Tapers and Torches for an other Bulles and Pardons for an other Reliques and Shrines for an other and yet all would not serue to purge the least sinne that is Therefore more Antichrist he to pretende it No no it is the blood of Christ which purgeth all sinne and cureth all maner of wickednes Who was euer so diseased through mischieuous thoughtes as Paule which breathed out threatninges and slaughters against the Disciples of Christ and yet the blood of Iesus Christ healed him Who was euer so diseased in word as Peter which denied his Maister with an othe yet Christ healed him Who was euer so diseased in villainous deedes as the thiefe vppon the Crosse which was hanged for his robberyes and yet Christ healed him And all this is too teach vs that whether we be sick in thought word or deede hee is a Phisition able to heale vs. And what a shielde is this against the terrible assaultes of Desperation Shall the murther of Caine force men to say My sinne is greater then that it can be forgiuen Or shall the trechery of Iudas swallowe vp all hope of saluation in me Or shall my sinne seeme so incurable to mee that Christe cannot heale it no I am bolde I cannot be so sicke but he can make mee whole The other propertie of a good Phisition is that he be willing to heale his patient For vnlesse he be willing to doe good it skilleth not what his abilitie is But that Christ Iesus was at any time vnwilling too saue sinners it can by no meanes appeare For did he not moste louingly call vs vnto him Come vntoo me and promise vs saying I will refresh you And did hee not weepe ouer Ierusalem and all because he came willingly to visite her she would not know the time of her visitation But see and beholde a plaine testimony of his goodwill to heale sinners He was well assured that the salue wherewith he was too cure the most deadly diseases of sinne coulde not be made to any purpose without the shedding of his moste pretious blood and the losse of his life and yet hee neuer grudged at the matter but was well content it should be so Oh Compassion without Comparison What Pharisee woulde euer haue doone that for his patient which Christe Iesus hath most willingly doone for vs. They are willing too finger our money and they can make vs beleeue well But they will not launce their least finger if one drop of blood woulde saue our liues But Christ Iesus taketh nothing of vs and yet he hath suffred his owne hearte bloode too bee launched that it might gushe out to heale vs. Canne you tell mee of a Pharisee that was so willing too cure his Patient that he refused not too bee beaten and buffeted whilest hee made the medicine And the Prophet Esay in the 53. Chapter tels Esay 53. you that Christe Iesus was wounded for our transgressions and broken for our iniquities They tell you that the thinges which they minister vnto you are deere and costely Noe Noe deerely beloued that is a deere Salue too the Phisition which costes him his life with many a heauy grone with many a deepe sigh with many a bloody teare and many a bitter pangue besides And heere you haue a mightie Bulwarke againste the roaring stormes of your ghostely enemyes The Lawe Sinne Death and Hell For what if they draw togither and conspyre againste thy soule and proue vntoo thee by recorde of thine owne Conscience that thy sinnes are in coulour as red as Scarlet or in number as the sandes of the Sea or in waight as the masse of the whole Earth and therefore beare thee in hand that thy disease is so rotten and festered in thy bones that Christe Iesus thy Phisition will not once seeme too meddle or haue any thing to do with thee nor seeke any meanes too cure thy malady or sende remedy to any such as thou art What hope what comfort hast thou thē Euen this that he that was willing too purchase a medicine to heale sinne with the