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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12165	A verie godlie and necessary sermon preached before the yong countesse of Cumberland in the North, the 14 of Nouember, 1577. By Christopher Shutt.	Shutte, Christopher, d. 1626.	1578 (1578)	STC 22470; ESTC S103003	33,188	104

hire Sir Iohn Lackelatine to sing or say the seruice howe shall the Gospell haue good successe whilest Church to Church is ioyned and non residencies borne withall and well liked what can go forewarde in the building of the Lorde where preaching is but once a quarter I say not where it is seldome or neuer which I might or once a moneth which some thinke more thē needes if it be eche Saboth it is counted a worke of supererogation how can the people be reclaimed from their vanities or kept within the fold in dew obedience Go to what springes of such contempt in these estates euen effusion of all ryot and running into sinne of the inferiour sort For as the wall within and eke without is made of squared stones betweene the which the lesse stones are contained to make the building vp euē so the minister within the Churche the Magistrate in the common weale should support and vpholde the meaner sort in dewe obedience If then the squared stones within or els with out fall downe the lesse can neuer long endure because they lacke their stay And of cōtempt in these degrees it comes to passe that lacke of discipline good liuing is the cause of many sinnes both in the Church and commō weale Neither woulde I haue this forgotten that whilest ecclesiasticall officers may for money dispense with offendours and also vayne pitie in the common weale maye shadowe iniquities the Churche can not go well Surely Surely it is with Englande as the Prophet Osee saide it was with Israel The Lord hath a controuersie with the people of the land because there is no mercy no truth no knowledge of God in the land But by swearing lying killing stealing and whoring men break out and blood toucheth blood therfore shal the land mourne c. How ripe the sinnes of England be for the sickle of Gods vēgeance euerye Christian eye can testifie And yet for all this we are fast a sleepe with the carelesse world in the time of Noe. We eat drinke we marie giue to mariage most like vntill the flood shall take vs hence wee lye vpon our soft couches and put away the euill day farre frō vs we blesse our selues when wee heare the threatnings of the Lord and curses of his law and say We shall feele none euill we are drunken with foolish Nabal vntill Abigail bring vs word that we must dye We spoyle and make our selues merie with the goods of other men as the Amalekites did in Ziklag vntill Dauid Gods scourge come vpon vs to wounde vs to death and make a reskewe We drinke with Balthasar in bowles vntill the Medes take away our kingdome we enriche our selues also enlarge our barnes and laye vp treasure in store for many yeres and yet this present night our soule must be taken away and then who shal possesse our substance we waste and spoyle our masters goodes liue vnmindfull of our duetie vntill we be called to render an accompt of our stewardshippe we sleepe full harde with the foolish virgins and our lampes quite put out till that the bridegrome be gone in and the doore fast locked that we can not enter We sit like the proud strumpet Babylon feede our selues with folly that we shall feele no sorowe nor widowhead yet al sorows shal sodainly come vpon vs Finally we say Peace peace all things quiet euen when the end is at hand Nay rather let vs watche pray and haue our lampes of righteousnes burning that we may enter into rest with the bridegrome at his comming leaue betimes our great securitie least we perish with the wicked It is reported of Tamberlane the king of the Parthians who tearmed himselfe Iram dei orbis vastitatem to haue set vp three seueral dais three seueral kinds of tents wherof the first was white betokening mercie if his enemies would that day yeeld the secōd day the tēts were red betokenīg the bloodshed of the rulers the thirde was black signifying the burning and destruction of the citie neyther was there hope of mercie when the white tents were takē down although they humbled themselues with lawrell Let vs goe foorth with lawrell braunches in this our time and day of grace for it is a fearefull thing to fall into the hands of the liuing God who is a consuming fire let vs be admonished by the woorde of trueth or els the same will condemne vs with the wicked But the time is past I haue wearied you to much I wil therfore note one worde or two of the last wordes and so make an ende He was made the heire of righteousnes which is according to fayth This is nowe the acceptation reward of Noe his faith who first was receiued into fauour by beleeuing the promise of God and thereby had God a mercifull father Of whō this his obedience was accepted not for anye the worthines of flesh blood which was none but by the free grace of God accepting in good worth what he did For when faith beleueth the promises of God concerning saluation apprehendeth the adoption of the children then foloweth the inheritaunce of our righteousnesse for that we being by fayth the children of God are heires euen felowe heires with Christ of his kingdome For after we beleeue we are sealed with the spirit of promise which is the earnest of our inheritance vntill the redemption of the possession purchased vnto the praise of his glorie This is that which the Apostle saith that wee being iustified by the grace of God should be made heires according to the hope of euerlasting life And for this cause is Christ the mediatour of the newe Testament that through death which was for the redemption of the transgressions which were in the former Testamēt they which were called might receiue the promise of the eternal inheritāce Blessed be God therefore let vs all say euen the father of our Lord Iesus Christ which according to his aboundant mercie hath begotten vs againe vnto a liuely hope by the resurrection of Iesus Christ from the dead to an inheritance immortal and vndefiled reserued in heauen for vs. This inheritance of righteousnes Abraham behelde with the eyes of fayth whē he forsooke his owne countrey looking for a better and euerlasting in heauen reioycing in spirite to see the day of Christ the Messias This inheritance Dauid longed after when like as the Harte desired the water brookes euen so his soule longed after the Lorde hoping to see the goodnesse of the Lorde in the lande of the liuing This inheritance the Apostles beleeued to haue when they confessed Christ to bee the Sonne of God and to haue the woordes of Eternall life This inheritance the Saints in the reuelatiō cast their eyes vpon when with patience they endured the tormentes

which hath promised We are alreadie saued by hope but hope that is seene is no hope for how can a man hope for that which he seeth but if we hope for that which wee see not we doo with pacience abide for it And this treasure wee haue in our earthen vessels that the excellencie of that power might be of God not of vs And therefore our cōuersation is in heauē from whence we looke for the sauiour euen Iesus Christ with whom our life is hid in God that whē Christ which is our life shal appeare thē shal we also appeare with him in glorie Such a sure perswasiō of things to come had Noe neither wauered he in fayth at all This is that exceeding comfort which maketh glad the hearts of the elect in the middest of the sorowes of this life assuredly beholding with the eies of faith such thinges as neither the eie of man hath seene nor his eare hath heard nor yet his heart perceyued or vnderstoode Such an vndoubted hope and trust had the godly fathers vnder and before the lawe when with the eyes of fayth they behelde the Messias sauiour Christ to come and so were iustified as we beleue now that he is come alreadie and hath wrought our redemption Such was the faith of Abraham Isaac and Iacob concerning the promises of the land of Canaan whē as they were but strangers vpon the earth had not a foot bredth to possesse beleeuing what the Lord had promised should surely come to passe Such an assurāce of fayth had Moses when he refused the delightes of Egypt and the pleasures of Pharaos court to suffer persecution with his brethren looking to the promised rewarde This assured fayth of thinges to come had good king Dauid when he trusted that his throne shoulde continue and be established for euer This assurance of things to come our Sauiour Christ commended to his disciples against the assaults of persecution promising them that they shuld sit vpō twelue thrones with him and iudge the twelue tribes of Israel This assurance had the Apostle Paul whē he desired to attaine the righteousnes of fayth and resurrection of the iust that he might weare the crown which God had layde vp in store for him And what els moued the saints of God to withstande the beast and not to loue their liues to death but that by fayth they sawe the newe Ierusalem And this is that golden saying of Ignatius going to be martyred Nihil moror visibilium nec inuisibilium modo Iesum Christum acquiram I neither sayeth he care for things nowe seene nor thinges which are not seene so that I may laye holde of Iesus Christ This is our comfort dearely beloued in these daungerous dayes and byllowes of the world that our faith is not fixed of things present but of thinges to come For though now we be the childrē of God as sayeth the Apostle yet doth it not appeare what we shal be For we know that whē Christ shal appeare wee shall bee like to him for wee shall see him as he is We see now in a glasse darkly but thē shal we see him face to face we know but nowe in part but then shall wee knowe euen as we are knowne We are now corruptible but we shal be clothed with incorruptiō We are now but mortal but this mortall shall be swalowed vp of immortalitie We are now afflicted in distres but the same is but for a momēt yet causeth in vs a most excellēt eternal weight of glory while we looke not on the things which are seen but on the things which are not seene for the things which are seen are but tēporal but the things which are not seene are eternall Though for a while we feele the reliques of sin in vs prouoking vs to euil yet looke we dayly whē that time shal come that this body of sin may be don away We feele in our selues the sparks and seed of much vnrighteousnes yet do we hope in stead therof we shal be clothed with the fine reynes and righteousnes of Christ and all our transgressions to be pardoned We feele for a litle hunger colde yet do we hope for the abūdance of all delightes heauenly treasures We daily sorowe and weepe are vexed with the vncleane conuersatiō of the wicked yet trust we that our sorowe shal be turned into ioy all teares wyped from our eyes We now abyde with patience the tauntes and checkes of Antichrist and his mēbers but yet we see by faith that Babylon the mother of all abominations shal sodainly fall and come to nought for that her sinnes are in remembrance with God. We dayly feare the assaultes of sinne death yet do we knowe by faith that Christ hath cōquered them for vs. We feele our frailtie in this lyfe and thraldome to infirmities yet do we hope for euerlasting rest in the resurrection of the iust Such is the assurance of our faith surmounting farre the reache of mannes capacitie shee wauereth not she sincketh not shee doubteth not as saith the misbeleeuing papist leaning to his ydle woorkes but she maketh the good conscience sure and alwayes hath 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 whilest shee plainly beholdeth the things as yet not seene but surelie for to come to passe Further whereas this readines of Noe was ioyned with reuerēce it is dearely beloued to teache vs that his faith was directed both to the promisse of the couenāt whereby he was receyued into fauour also to the threatnings of GOD whereby the Lord menaced the destructiō of the world which he beleeued to come and so did tremble And as by the former he was assured of gods fauour so by the other in respect of his own infirmitie he feared least he should haue perished with the wicked Wherein we must note two things the one what is the obiect of our faith the other how it trembleth in respect of our selues at the plagues denounced yet for all that is assured of Gods mercie Our faith is leueled directed especially at Christ the obiect therof For like as the Israelites did with their bodily eyes behold the brasen serpent were cured euen so doth fayth the eye of our soule beholde the Sonne of God lift vp vpon the altar of the crosse for our redemptiō And like as wholesome meates onely nourish the body euen so nothing dooth feede our faith but Christ crucified the bread of lyfe at whose worke of redemption our faith must alwaies looke or els we must needes be pressed down with the terrour of our owne conscience into hell For seeing that the promises of the Gospell are a readie way to leade vs to the knowledge of Gods mercy reueyled in Christ in whom it pleaseth the father that al fulnes should dwell and