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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01701	A fruitful sermon preached at Occham, in the countie of Rutland, the second of Nouember. 1583. By Thomas Gybson.	Gibson, Thomas, M.A.	1584 (1584)	STC 11839; ESTC S112170	27,150	83

be hidden from the Church of God And to speake more fully and directly to the purpose as touching this matter of the necessitie of preaching of the miserable estate of them that be without it and of suche ministers as preach not This matter I saye in my conscience with wisedome and discretion may be spoken priuatly or openly wheresoeuer when soeuer before whomsoeuer there is no place but it hath need of this doctrin no time but it requireth it no persōs that it is not meete for It is most fit and conuenient most profitable and necessary for all estates and degrees of men high and low rich and poore strong and weake learned and vnlearned Princes Nobles Byshops Preachers dumbe Ministers and people all haue neede of this Doctrine They which haue knowledge haue neede of it that they may knowe what they haue beene that they maye see what they are and bee thankfull to God The ignoraunt sorte haue neede of this doctrine that they may feele their misotable estate and so seeke for help and remedy Princes Nobles and gentlemen haue neede of this doctrine and it is fit and necessary to bee preached before them that knowing the necessity and worthines of preaching they may be more carefull and liberall to maintaine it and with better conscience bestow their liuinges The learned Bishops haue neede of this doc●rine it is chiefly to be vrged before them and they are continually to remember it least they lay hands rashly on anie man and so be partakers of other mens sinnes The wise and godlie Preachers haue neede of this doctrine that they may be comforted and stirred vp to greater zeale and trauaile ignoraunt ministers haue néede of this doctrine that they may see the damnable state they stand in and so either amend if it will bee or els giue themselues to some other calling more fit and profitable for them Let this doctrine be stayed let men be perswaded as they are of themselues that they are in good state without the word preached that bare reading will serue the turn the people waxe carelesse and make no account of preaching For they thinke they are well inough and best of all without it the people of God shall lacke their strengthning their growing in faith and knowledge Princes and Gentlemen wil make no account as they do but little already how or on whome they bestow their liuinges The preachers shall be nothing set by the Idoll ministers encourage the famous vniuersities decayed and ouerthrowne and in a word the concealing hindring and withstanding this doctrin is the next way to cast downe all religion and learning to bring Princes Nobles rich and poore Ministers and people to hipocrisie and Atheisine The Lorde therefore open the mouthes of his faithfull Ministers to the daily vrging of this so necessary a doctrine that the prince may be strengthened the Nobles stirred vp all good ministers encouraged the poore people instructed ignoraunce and idolatry defaced Religion and knowledge of God may flowe thorow the whole lande that at the length all ignoraunt and carelesse ministers may be ashamed and euery congregation may haue a faithfull seuerall and a resident Pastor Thus wee haue seene at large that whosoeuer will preach the Gospel faithfully and profitably he must first of all and chiefly vrge the doctrine of repentaunce which men can neuer haue before they know their sinnes by the law of God and therefore the sinnes of all men must be thoroughly and sharpely reprooued and cheefly the sinnes of them which do most hurt and giue greatest occasion of offence as the sin of the Magistrate and the minister Now indéed to repentance ther must be ioined also the doctrine of remission of sinnes through Christ But this belongeth onely to them that repent that are humbled and cast down that feele in their conscience the torment of sinne and condemnation to such belongeth remission of sinnes to such it is to be offered and preached but it doth not appertaine to ignoraunt and sencelesse men to Hypocrites Infidels Atheists Iusticiaries prophane and carnall men these haue nothing to doe with the doctrine of remission of sinnes And because this age is altogether secure and carelesse full of iniquitie of ignorance disobedience vnthankfulnesse and contempt of the worde it is vnworthy of the doctrine of mercie and remission of sinnes so much the more worthy as the benfites of God in so great measure and so long a time haue beene receiued without anye profite at all so that in manye there is nothing stil but ignoraunce and idolatrie in others lesse zeal and religion lesse Godlinesse of life then was in them many yeares agoe and are these men worthy of mercy Is remission of sinnes to bee preached and offered to them nay the former doctrine of repentance of the lawe of reproouing sinne of denouncing the iudgements of God against al states and degrées This part of the Gospell I say is most fit and néedfull for such an age And woe bee to vs if wee preach not the Gospell Consider also I beséech you here before we goe to an ende the excellency and worthinesse of the preaching of the gospel It is small accounted of in the worlde it is thought a vile and a simple office it is contemned and dispised of y ● most part But if these mē knew the sweet and excellent things conta●●ed and offered in the Gospell whic● is y e matter of preaching they would also know the worthinesse of this so high a calling and that the excellency thereof may more clearelye appeare let vs ad some surther proofe of this matter And first remember y t this calling of the ministery preaching of the worde is no deuise of any mortall man but the ordinance of y e liuing God It was he that ordeined Moses and the Prophets The Prophesy came not in the olde time by the will of man but holy men of God spake as they were mooued by the holy ghost The Lord Iesus himselfe called appointed and sent foorth into the worlde his Apostles to preach the Gospell It is the holy Ghoste which ordayneth saythfull ouerseers to feede the Church of God It is Christe also at this day which appointeth Pastors and teachers for the gathering together of his saints It must needes be a worthy and an honorable calling which hath so worthy authors euen God him selfe his sonne Christe Iesus and the holie ghost yea and not only so but as worthy haue exercised and practised this calling The first preacher that euer was in the world was God him selfe he preached to Adam in paradise that comfortable Gospel the seed of the woman shall destroy the serpents head After that he stirred vp Noe and Lot Moses the prophets men of singular credite and authority Nay what shall I speak of Dauid and Solomon of the which the one was a most victorious prince and the other most wealthy yet they haue gotten more glory and

ignorant and carnall men for none of these in truth doe make account of the Gospell And now let vs come to the thirde part of our Text wherin is set down what euery minister ought to preach namely the Gospell They are not bound to deliuer the counsels of men the traditions of the fathers the statutes of earthly Princes or the authoritie of mortall men but as they are the seruauntes of Iesus Christ Prince of all Princes so are they bounde onely to preach his Gospell The true Prophetes neuer spake of them selues to the people but as they receiued warning from the Lorde They had no authority to speak their owne wordes nor the wordes of any mortal mā The Apostles might not teach their owne doctrine but only y ● which they had receiued from their master who enioyneth them to teach all thinges whatsoeuer he had commanded them Goe saith he and preach the Gospell The holy Apostle writing to the Corinthiās auoucheth that he receiued of the Lorde that which he deliuered to thē Wherby we may sée al these teachers cōfuted which stand vppon the authoritie of men which add or diminish anye thing from the Scriptures which ioyne their owne fantasies and the traditions of men with the holy pure perfect worde of God Woe be to those sonnes of vanities for in deede they preach not the Gospell they preach not Christ but themselues they deface and weaken the authoritie of the holy scriptures The lawe of God is a perfect lawe conuerting soules The scripture is able to make the man of God absolute and perfect to all good workes The Lorde sayth by his Prophet He that hath a dreame let him tell a dreame and hee that hath my worde let him speake my worde faithfullie And what is the chaffe to the wheate saith the Lorde Is not my word euen like a fire sayth the Lorde and like a hammer that breaketh the stone Our Sauiour in the Gospell speaketh against such teachers saying In vaine they worship me teaching the doctrine and preceptes of men Let vs remember that which is spoken in the last Chapiter of the Reuelation I protest vnto euery man that heareth the prophesie of this booke if anye man adde vnto these thinges GOD shall adde vnto him the plagues that are written in this booke And if any man shall diminishe of the wordes of this prophesie God shall take away his part out of the booke of life and out of the holy Citie and from these thinges which are written in this booke Woe be to them which preach and yet preach not the Gospell But that we may know the better how the Gospell shoulde bee preached let vs consider a litle what it is and what it contayneth The Euangelistes call it the Gospell of the kingdome Saint Paule accompteth it that which was promised before by the Prophetes in the holye scriptures concerning Iesus Christ our Lorde And in the same Chapiter he sayth It is the power of GOD vnto saluation to euery one that beleeueth And in an other place he calleth it the worde and ministerie of reconciliation Saint Iohn calleth it the testimonie of Iesus Christ From these and such like places maye bee easilie gathered a full difinition of the Gospel which I leaue to your Godly consideration onely this I add that vnder the voyce of the Gospell is comprehended the whole Historye of Iesus Christ in the flesh and also the fruite and vse of the same historie As touching the first namely the historie of Christ it is sommarily comprehended vnder his passion and resurrection the vse and ende of al is that we should haue repentance and remission of sins in his name And this doth Christ himselfe witnesse when as he saide to his Apostles after his resurrection Thus it is written thus it behooued Christ to suffer and to rise againe from the deade the third daye and that repentance and remission of sinnes shoulde be preached in his name among all Nations To this agreeth the holy Apostle S. Peter when as he sayeth with other the Apostles to the counsell and chief Priestes The God of our Fathers hath raised vp Iesus whom ye slue and hanged on a tree Him hath God lift vp with his right hand to be a Prince and a Sauiour to giue repentance vnto Israell forgiuenes of sinnes By this we may see how the Gospell must be preached the people must be taught what Christ hath don for them The whole storie of his Incarnation Conception Byrth sufferinges Resurrection and Ascention these thinges I saye must be oftentimes and effectually preached to the people as they are set downe by the holy Euangelistes and Apostles but yet this is not ynough to shew what Christ hath done to rehearse the storie of his Incarnation but also the minister must be carefull to preach the vse the end and fruite of the same storie which is that the people may repent be tourned vnfaynedly vnto God and so by faith made partakers of remission of sinnes through Iesus Christ Repentance is a true turning to God a chaunging of the outwarde and inward man a dying to sin a liuing to righteousnes and amendmēt of y e whol life with this doctrine we must begin this we must first of all and chiefly vrge this is that doctrine cheefly and moste of all preached by the holy prophets This is the common and vsuall voice O Israel returne to the Lorde Iohn the Paptist the Messenger and also Iesus Christ his Maister they cry both of them Repent for the Kingdome of Heauen is at hand The Apostles also euery where exhort men to repentaunce to amendment of life to mortification and regeneration This is an vsuall doctrin in all their Epistles Nowe they can neuer truely repent which know not the greatnesse of their sinnes and the punishmente due to them And howe shall they knowe this except their sinnes be reprooued and laide open by preaching the lawe of God for by the lawe commeth the knowledge of sinne so that the Doctrine of the lawe must not be seperated from the preaching of the Gospell for it is a Schoolmaster to bring vs to Christ This then is necessarily required of euery Minister freelye and boldlye to reprooue sinne in all states and degrees whatsoeuer This is it that the Lorde sayeth to his prophet Crye aloude spare not lift vp thy voyce lyke a Trumpet and shew my people their transgressions and to the house of Iacob their sinnes Our Sauiour Christ accounteth it as an office duetie of the holy Ghost to reproue the world of sinne And in deed there is no doctrine more necessary for this age wherein wee liue although few can away w t it but cry out against such as preach it And as in other places so in this place heretofore I haue had proofe in this matter For vpon iust occasion noting the certaintie of Gods