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A04463	Certaine sermons preached before the Queenes Maiestie, and at Paules crosse, by the reuerend father Iohn Ievvel late Bishop of Salisburie. Whereunto is added a short treatise of the sacraments, gathered out of other his sermons, made vpon that matter, in his cathedrall church at Salisburie	Jewel, John, 1522-1571.; Garbrand, John, 1542-1589.	1583 (1583)	STC 14596; ESTC S107761	183,421	378

heauen before men for ye your selues go not in nether suffer ye thē that would enter to come in Of these and against them God speaketh by the Prophet Ieremie Wo be vnto the pastors that destroy scatter the sheepe of my pasture And by the Prophete Zacharie O Idol-shepherd that leaueth the flocke Thou hast eares and hearest not thou hast eyes and seest not thou hast a tongue and speakest not and a heart but vnderstandest not thou art an idole Christ sayde to thee feede my lambes feede my sheepe but thou carest not for them Thou hast the roume of an Euangelist and Pastour and Teacher but thou gatherest not the saintes together thou doest not the worke of the ministerie thou buildest not vp the bodie of Christe They shall perish in their wickednesse but their blood wyll I require at thy handes Here note this ministerie of the Churche was not ordeined to offer sacrifice for forgiuenesse of sinnes Whosoeuer taketh that office vpon hym be doeth wrong iniurie to the death and passion of Christ He only is called of god an high Priest after y e order of Melchisedec He onely by his owne blood entred in once into the holy place obtained eternall redemption for vs. He only with one offeringe hath consecrated for euer them y t are sanctified He only hath said Consummatum est It is finished The ransome or price for mans saluation and for forgiuenesse of the sinnes of the worlde is payde in mee in my death vpon the Crosse Of hym alone and onely of hym hath it bene spoken This is my well beloued Sonne in whom I am well pleased And by Esay With his stripes only we are healed It is he only which hath made of both one It is he only which did put out y ● hande writing of ordināces y ● was against vs he euen tooke it out of the way and fastened it vppon the Crosse He alone is our hye Priest the Lambe of God the Sacrifice for sinnes the Altar the Propitiation for sinners and redeemer of the world He only hath appeased the wrath of god He onely appeareth in the sight of GOD to make intercession for our sinnes All others whatsoeuer Apostles Prophetes Teachers and Pastours are not in office to offer any propitiatorie sacrifice but are called to the ministerie of the Saintes to the edification of the bodye of Christe and to the repayringe of the Church of God Thus muche of the holy ministerie of the Church which standeth in the setting foorth of the mysterie of our saluation both by the Preachinge of the woorde of GOD and by the due and reuerent ministration of the Sacramentes The principallest parte of this office is to preache repentance that so wee may amende our lyues and bee conuerted vnto GOD. So Ioel the Prophet followed hys ministerie sayinge Rent your heartes and not your garmentes and turne to the Lorde your God for he is gracious merciful So S. Paul teacheth that true circumcision is by putting off the sinnefull body of the fleesh that it is in mortifying our members that bee on the earth Fornication vncleanesse the inordinate affections euil concupiscence couetousnes which is idolatrie y ● it is in putting away al these thinges wrath anger maliciousnes cursed speakinge filthy speakinge out of your mouth in putting of the old mā with his works and putting on the new which is renewed in knowledge after y e image of him that created him So Iohn Baptist said Repent for the kingdome of God is at hand Prepare ye y ● waies of the Lord make his pathes straight So our Sauiour Christ when he began to preache said Am end your liues for the kingdome of God is at hand Therfore it wil not bee amisse now to speake of repentaunce which some of late yeares haue chaunged into pennaunce and there of haue also made a Sacrament Here it behoueth to rippe vp the whole lyfe of man There is not any man that liueth and sinneth not God sayeth The imagination of mans heart is euyll from his youth The Prophet Ieremie saith The heart is deceitful and wicked aboue all things who can know it Saint Iohn therefore saith If wee say that we haue no sinne wee deceiue our selues trueth is not in vs. Of hymselfe Saint Paul saith I know that in me that is in my flesh dwelleth no good thing Of hymselfe the Prophet Dauid sayeth There is nothīg sound in my flesh because of thine anger neither is there rest in my bones because of my sinnes For mine iniquities are gone ouer mine head as a weighti burthē they ar to heauy for me He saith If thou O Lord straightly markest iniquities O Lord who shal abide it So sayth the Wise man A iustman falleth seuen times God is a righteous God and the auenger of all them that offende●● Saint Paul saith The wages of sinne is death And the Prophet Ezechiel The soule that sinneth shall dye For this cause then God ordayned the ministerie of his worde and appoynted certayne to this office that they shoulde warne his people of theyr sinnes and feare them by the terrour of Gods assured displeasure and heauy wrath As is seene by y t to Esay Cry aloude spare not lift vp thy voyce lyke a trumpet and shewe my people their transgressions the house of Iacob their sins So Saint Paul vnto Timothie I charge thee before God the Lorde Iesus Christ which shal iudge the quick and dead at his appearing in his kyngdome preach the word be instant in season out of season improue rebuke exhort with all long suffering and doctrine So woulde God haue our filth layde open before our eyes that wee might weigh and iudge our owne heartes that euery man might make charge vppon him selfe and saye I am an vnprofitable seruant my righteousnesse is as a foule and steined cloth My soule hath sinned and hath deserued to dye the death In this case some fall into desperation and saye as sometimes dyd Caine My sinne is greater then can be pardoned God withdraweth his mercie from mee I am vnworthie of it I haue offended against the holy spirit of GOD mine owne conscience accuseth me I haue no parte in the kingdome of GOD and of Christe there is no sacrifice left for my sinnes Thus the wicked liue in trembling and agony as dyd Cain thus they leaue their lyfe with horrour and miserie so haue they no grace to repent no taste nor feelyng of the mercie of God But the children of God though they bee wounded yet they finde reliefe in the certayne hope of Gods mercie Though they say I am a sinner my sinnes are more in number then the heares of my head I haue offended against heauen and earth Yet they know that Christ came to call sinuers to repentance that hee healeth those that are

them and confirmed them which were baptized of Iohn But that proueth not this confirmation that was extraordinarie it was a miracle The holy Ghost came downe vpon them and lightened their hearts by this laying on of the Apostles handes But it is not so nowe the holy Ghost doth not now descende in visible forme vpon those which are confirmed there is no such miracle wrought There is no neede that it should so be There was no commandement either to appoint it vnto the Church or to continue it vntyl the comming of Christ and the end of the worlde Therefore it is no Sacrament by the institution of Christ Hitherto of the vse Now somewhat of the abuse Nothing so good and holy but it may be abused The worde of God hath bene abused to Heresies to Necromancie to Charmes and Sorcerie and Witchcrafte The supper of the Lord was abused in y ● time of S. Paul He telleth the Corinthians This is not to eate the Lords Supper Lesse marueile then if this happen to a ceremonie Time rusteth and consumeth all things maketh many a thing to proue naught in the ende which was first deuised for good The brasen Serpent at the first was made by Moses and set it vp for good purpose But after warde it was abused The children of Israel did burne incense vnto it and therefore Ezechias brake it in pieces The first abuse in confirmation was that it was done in a strange tongue y ● no man might vnderstand what was ment Then that they receiued to confirmation such children and so young as were not able to make profession of their faith so that the infant promised he knew not what and the Bishop ratified and confirmed where there was nothing to be confirmed he set to his seale where there was nothing to be sealed These abuses were farre vnmeete for the Church of God Besides these ther was great abuse in the manner of doing For thus the Bishop said Consigno te signo crucis confirmo te chrismate salutis I signe thee with the signe of the crosse and cōfirme thee with the oyle of saluation Thus they vsed to doe these were their words with the oyle of saluatiō They tooke not this of Christ nor of his Apostles nor of the holy auncient fathers It agreeth not with our Christian faith to giue the power of saluation vnto oyle He that s●eketh saluation in oyle looseth his saluation in Christ and hath no parte in the kingdome of God Oyle for the bellie and for necessarie vses of life It is no fit instrument without commaundement or promise by the worde to worke saluation More they said he was no perfect Christiā that was not anointed by the Bishop with this holy oile This was another abuse For whosoeuer is baptized receiueth thereby the full name of a perfect Christian and hath the full and perfice couenāt and assurance of saluation he is perfitely buried with Christ doth perfitely put on Christ and is perfitely made partaker of his resurrection Therefore they are deceiued that say no man is a perfite Christian that is not marked with this oyle Els the Apostles and holie Martyrs were but halfe Christians because the lacked this oyle Els what hope and comfort might the pore fathers haue In what state shall he thinke to finde his childe if he die before confirmation passe without perfite Christendome verely they write thus Sine oleo Chrismatis nemo potest sisti ante tribunal christi Without y e oyle of chrisme no mā can appeare before the Iudgment seat of Christ Againe they say confirmation is more honorable then baptisme because any priest may baptize but confirmation is giuen onely by a Bishop or a suffragain So doe they giue a greater preeminence to confirmation which is diuised by man then to the holy sacrament of baptisme which Christ him selfe ordained I neede not speake more hereof the errour is so grosse so thicke so sensible and palpable Againe when they blessed or halowed their oyle they vsed these wordes Fiat domine hoc oleum te benedicente vnctio spiritualis ad purificationem mētis corporis O Lord let this oile by thy blessing be made a spritual ointmēt to purifie both soule body O Christ Iesu where was thy crosse where was thy blood and the price of thy death and passion when a drop of oyle was of power to worke remission of all sinnes to saue and defende against al the dartes of the wicked spirites and to refresh both bodie and soule Yet so were we taught so were wee lead I faine not these things The words may be seene Neither do I speake this to bring you to a misliking or loathing of our latter fathers but onely that wee may humble our heartes and giue thankes to GOD that hath brought vs out of that darkenes and giuen vs better knowledge Nowe a worde or two of the bringing vp of children and preparing them to confirmation Wherein I woulde God the olde order were duely obserued that they were instructed perfitly to know relygion theyr duetie to God and so might be brought before the Congregation and make an open profession of their faith with promise that neither tribulation nor anguish nor persecution nor famine nor nakednes nor fire nor sword nor life nor death shall euer make them denie their faith Hereof might much be spoken but I will be short The whole standeth in knowledge and in the feare of God that they may knowe God walke before him in reuerence and in feare and serue him in holines and righteousnes al the dayes of their life The Iewes are a miserable people they liue in errour they die in their owne blood yet haue they so much vnderstanding that they bringe vp their children in the knowledge of God and that knowledge they teach out of the worde of God They remember what charge God gaue them Thou shalt teach them thy sonnes and thy sonnes sonnes Therefore a father must teache his childe what God is That he is our father that he hath made vs and doeth feede vs and geueth vs all thinges needefull both for body and soule that he is our Lord and therefore we must serue him and obey him and do nothinge whereby he may be displeased that hee is our iudge and shall come to iudge the quicke and the dead and that all men shall come before him to receiue according as they haue done in the flesh He must put his childe in minde of his baptisine and teach him that it is a couenent of Gods mercie to vs and of our duetie to God that it is a misterie of our saluation that our soule is so washed with the blood of Christ as the water of baptisme washeth our bodie So must he also teach his childe the misterie of the Lordes supper what and how he receiueth there to his comfort that as the bread is broken and the wine poured out so the bodie of Christ was

in a cloude and like corne buried in the ground After it was somewhat more cleerely set forth in the Law giuen by Moses After that it was reuiued by the Prophetes and in manner plainely in what place at what time of what mother of what house or stocke Christ should be borne what doctrine he should teach what miracles he should worke what death he shoulde die how he should be buried howe he shoulde arise how he should ascend into heauen howe the heathens shoulde be called to beleeue in him howe the holy Ghost should be sent and to conclude how Christ should come at the last to iudge the world After that came Saint Iohn the Baptist to point out Christ plainely with his finger and to say Ecce agnus Dei qui tollit peccata mundi Behold the lambe of God that taketh away the sinnes of the world Last of al Christe himselfe began to preache and prophecie of himselfe and to gather vnto him a chosen people that should be followers of good woorkes Then was the accomplishment and fulnesse of time come to passe that had so long beene looked for then the kingdome of God began to suffer violence and men violently euen by force brake in vpon it then the corne sowed and cast into the ground by the patriarks long before and watered cherished by the dew of the Prophets was ripened and kerned by the spirit of God then was the haruest greate and the eares white euen ready to be cut Yet this notwithstanding Christ saith the haruest men are but few He saith not the Haruest is great and there are but few Scribes but few Pharisies but few Sadduces but few priests but few Leuites For the Priests and Leuites were distributed through y e whole countrey In euery litle Towne or borough there was a colledge as one of their Rabbines recordeth in y ● city of Hierusalem there were no lesse then 400 schooles so that the number was almost infinit Moreouer they vsed commonly to say as it is reported by the Prophet leremie Non peribit Lex a sacerdote nec consilium a sapiente nec sermo a Propheta It cannot be that the true vnderstanding of the Law should be taken frō the Priest nor good counsel frō the wise nor the word from the Prophet They read expounded the Law to the people euery day they had their daily sacrifice and whēsoeuer the oxe or calfe or sheep or goate was slaine and offered vnto God as then the maner was the priest for his share had the breastlet that couered the heart in token as Origen writeth that the Priest should be a man of counsel He had also appointed to him the right shoulder and the tongue in token that he should be prompt ready in good works and eloquent to declare the law of God The Bishop had euermore before his breast a tablet wherein was imbrodered in letters of Golde Vrim and Thumim in token that he should be a man both perfect in life and also full and plenteous in the truth of God In the same were set twelue stones and therein grauen the names of the twelue tribes of the people that he might haue thē euermore in remembrance The skirtes or hemmes of his roabes were set with belles of gold and pomegranates in token that his life should giue a good sauour and his voice should ring and be heard among the people The Pharisies had certaine special poynts and sentences of the Lawe written round about in the borders of their garmentes that it might neuer be out of their eyes they prayed no men more and that in euery corner of the streetes they fasted twise euery weeke the bed that they laye vpon as Epiphanius writeth was but a spanne broade yet that they might sleepe with lesse ease they strowed thornes vnderneath thē Briefly all their life in appearance was such al their apparel and behauiour so seemely and decent that if a man would paint out wisedom sobrietie and perfect holinesse he could haue no better patterne And therfore they were called Pharisaei that is diuided as men in holines perfection of life farre passing al the rest of the people Yet for al this notwithstanding their greate shewe of wisedome of learning of perfection of life the great multitude of them Chrst sayeth there were few workmen to goe to the haruest For They did prophecie out of their owne harts they did not rise vp in the gappes nor made vp the hedge for the house of Israel to stand in the battell in the day of the Lorde they haue seene vanity lying diuination saying the Lord saith it the lord hath not sent thē they haue made others to hope that they would confirm the words of their prophecie saith Ezechiel No contrariwise these that should haue been the chiefe haruest men were the wasters and destroyers of the haruest My people saith God hath byn as lost sheep their shepherds haue caused thē to go astray haue turned them away to the mountaines Christe telleh the Pharisies they haue made his fathers house a denne of theeues He speaketh thus of them All that euer came before mee are theeues and robbers Notwithstanding their stout learning and shew of holinesse they were nothing els but theeues robbers they did robbe mens soules chey stale the sheepe out of the fold they spoyled God of his glory When they sawe the people followe thicke after Christ and to haue him in reuerence they cried out none of the Princes and great holye learned men beleeue in him but these Rascals that thus runne after him are accursed ignorant and know not the law The vnlearned sort said of Christ he casteth out vncleane spirits by y ● power of God y ● great learned men said no he throweth out diuels by y ● power of Beelzebub y ● prince of y ● diuels The vnlearned marueiled were astonied at y ● wonderful works that he did the learned saide he hath a diuel he is out of his wittes The vnlearned said no doubt a great Prophet is risen amongst vs the learned sayd He deceiueth the people The vnlearned sayde God hath visited and sent comfort amongst his people the learned said Behold a glutton and a companion of Publicans sinners The great learned shepherds persecuted Christ chased him from place to place the poore sheepe folowed him into the desert They that were the guyders of the flocke crucified Christ and shed his blood the poore flocke set their whole affiance in his death so dranke his blood to the reliefe of their soules they beleeued in him they knew the time of their visitation And therefore notwithstanding there were grosse damnable errours amongst the people as wel as amōgst the learned yet Christ chalenged not the people for them but only y ● priests the Pharisies that tooke vpon them to lead the people for that he saw the