Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01703	A fruitful sermon preached at Occham in the county of Rutland, the second of Nouember, 1583 by Thomas Gybson.	Gybson, Thomas, fl. 1583.	1584 (1584)	STC 11840.5; ESTC S2130	26,976	78

â§ A FRVITful Sermon preached at Occham in the County of Rutland the Second of Nouember 1583. By Thomas Gybson PROVERB 29.8 Â¶ VVhere there is no Vision the people decay GOD IS MY DEFENDER GOD IS MY DEFENDER AT LONDON Printed by Robert Walde-graue dwelling without Temple-Barre 1584. Â¶ TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE Lorde FRAVNCES Earle of BEDFORD and one of her Maiesties most honourable priuy Counsell Knight of the Noble order of the Garter VVith the Right Honourarable Syr VVALTER MILDEMAY Knight Chancelour of the Queenes Maiesties Court of Exchequer and one of her Highnes most honourable priuy Counsell Grace Mercy and peace be multiplied from God our Heauenly Father from our Lord Sauiour Iesus Christe THE blessed holy Euangelist Saint Luke Right Honorable penning and publishing the Heauenlye story and blessed Gospell of Iesus Christ doth also dedicate the same to one Theophilus a Noble and famous man of singular credit and authority The reason and cause that mooued him thereto is because in those times the purenesse of the Gospell was hindred and persecuted whereby many erroures began to be spreade and allowed and therefore in great Wisdom it pleased the holy Ghost not onely to write a faithfull sure and perfect story but also to offer and present the custodie and defence of the same to one of Religion and Povver The verye same cause partly hath mooued me at this time to bee so bolde as to offer and Dedicate this poore and simple testimony of my trauaile to your Honoures For although I doe confesse vvee liue vnder a Gracious Prince whome the Lorde long continue to his glory to the shame and confusion of his enemies and to the dayly profit of his Church although I say we liue in so peaceable happy and gracious a time vnder the flowrishing state of the Gospell yet truely the dearest Children of God and the sincerity of Religion is subiect to bitter Persecution These wordes at the first may seeme verye greeuous hard and haynous and yet they are most certaine and true The holy Apostle S. Paul writing to the Galatians 4.29 speaketh on this maner As he that was borne after the Flesh persecuted him that was borne after the Spirite euen so is it nowe hee speaketh of Ismael and Isaac and yet we do not reade in the scripture of any persecution betweene them neither did Ismael persecute his Brother Isaac with hande or sworde but that which is worse proudly arrogantly he raised him selfe against him mocking him and as it were treading vnder feete the promise of God And this dealing by the apostle is cÃ¡lled a persecution in deede there is not any persecution more greeuous to the Children of God then this Nowe who doth not dayly see that the best Christians and the purenes of Religion are greatly persecuted by Papists Atheists and Hipocrites as Isaac was by his Brother Ismael And of all matters of religion I thinke there is scarse any in these dayes more generally hated of such kind of men then that which is most altogether almost only hand led in this simple SermoÌ„ For these such like men many of them can bee content with a common ordinarye profession to heare Mattins and Euensong and sometimes a Sermon by such men as they like of but that there should be any continuall course of the pure preaching of the worde of God they can in no case allowe or like of This I say is hated reiected and persecuted so farre as may be of the greater sorte and therefore not without cause haue I atteÌ„pted to dedicate this my labor to your honors as special Patrons defendors of the Lords cause tried Friends and Fauorers of God his trueth But yet this attempt may seem very raish and needles For who am I that I should take vppon mee to set foorth and to publish any thing The vnworthiest I confesse of many hundreths and the vnablest of manye thousands and yet seeing many things more simple lesse needefull and profitable are not only suffered but alowed to come abroad I am not altogether discouraged neither hath any maÌ„ iust cause to accuse mee in this my simple enterprise I know these be daies of knowledge learning there bee greate store of famous and learned diuines in our land whom I beseech the Lorde to blesse that they may assist their weake brethren in the defence of this and such good causes and yet the two mites of the pore widow cast into the treasury amongest the great giftes of the wealthy are not to be refused I know your Honours be daily hearers of famous and learned men both in your houses and abroad you are acquainted with the sermons of profound deepe diuines and such as are mighty in the scriptures notwithstanding hauing in my self sufficient trial experience of your honors most curteous humble fauorable dealing towards me and also of some liking of my simple my poore trauelles in preaching heretofore I am not ashamed or afrayd after such triall and proofe to offer this so small and simple a thing vnto your Honours The great necessity of the matter I deale withall the care of Gods glory the zeal of his house the benefit that his church may haue by it hath especially mooued me that it should be published come abroad Let not therefore hypocrites bee too rash in iudging the Lorde the searcher of the hearts and reynes knoweth my purpose and affection in preaching and publishing this matter The cause that hath moued me to present it to your Honors rather then to other is the loÌ„g proof and acquayntance of your honourable courtesies and friendlye good will towards me which for my part I am neuer able to requite for the which I thinke my selfe as long as breath is in me moste bound and indebted to your Honours And here I offer this poore fruite of my trauaile as some Testimony of good will and thankfulnes And whereas wee are wont commonly to offer and present to our dearest Friendes some giftes as tokens of good will or else of special duety Amongst many great and precious presentes vvhich are no doubt giuen and presented to your honours I also offer this simple mite and yet I hope more pleasant and acceptable to the receiuers then thousands of gold or siluer or any earthly thing whatsoeuer And in deede can there be any matter more sweete and pleasaunt to the cheefe Patrons and Defenders of the Godly Preachers and the word of God then to heare of the necessity profite and excellency of preaching which things are set foorth plainly largely in this little Sermon For howsoeuer many meÌ„ hate and abhorre this matter and can in no case disgest it yet your honours zeale courage liking goodwill and countenaunce to this and other good causes is coÌ„monly known and spreade abroad A further reason why I publishe this Sermon is because there is some matter in it for the which I haue beene in the

country where I dwell o-openly slaundered and euill spoken off and therefore to cleare my selfe from such false reports to satisfie my friends which are readie to answer in my cause to let the enemies knowe I haue spoken nothing whereof I am ashamed but dare put it to the witnessing and testimonie of the Christian reader and also to resolue more fully the weaker sort in such things as at the first seeme strange and absurd for these and such like causes I say I am content and willing that this my trauell come to light although the whole or most part of this Sermon is vnsauory vnpleasaunt to the greater sort and specially to the ignorant people to the hypocrit to the idol or dumb minister yet this is that which chiefly misliketh and grieueth them because both in the place where I preched this Sermon and also elsewhere I sayd and affirmed that the minister which preacheth not and hath not those gyftes which the Lorde requireth in his Ministers that such a one is no Minister approoued of GOD neyther hath anye right and authoritie from the Lorde to mynister his Sacramentes which matter howe straunge and absurde soeuer it seeme to ignoraunt and carnall men yet I hope it is heere sufficiently confirmed by authoritye and examples of the holy Scripture I coulde alleadge further the allowaunce and iudgement of most famous and pure Diuines and such as are gennerally receyued and allowed of all true Christians Master IOHN CALVIN about the latter ende of his Catechisme which is allowed by her Maiesties authoritie sayth in playne wordes that the ministration of the Sacraments belongeth to them who haue the charge to preache openly in the Church For the preaching of Gods worde and the ministration of the Sacraments be things ioyntly belonging to one kind of office these be his very words which are as plaine as may be M Rodolphus Gualter in his 118. Homely vpon Mark speaking of the institution of the Lordes supper and of the right order in ministring that sacrament amongst other things sayth on this manner Peccant qui coenam absque verbi predicatione peragunt adeÃ³que illam huic praeferunt quasi vel ad dei cultum vel ad salutem plus conferat quam verbum cum tamen huius maiorem quam sacramentorum rationem habuerunt Christus Apostoli They sinne against the institution of Christe which doe minister the supper without preaching of the word and so preferre the Sacrament before preaching as though that auayled more to saluation and seruice of God then the worde preached whereas notwithstanding both Christe and the Apostles esteemed more the preaching of the Worde then the Sacrament these are his wordes I might alleadge many other testimonies for this cause not onely from the most worthy Godly and learned diuines both old and new of other Nations But also from famous Martyrs and Byshops in this oure Lande in their sermons and writings published and priuileged by authority I hope then ther is no cause why this doctrin shold not receiue a fauorable intertainment allowance as of your honors so of al faithful Christians hauing such warrant from so pure and learned men and from the testimony of the holy word VVhat soeuer I spake in deliuering and vttering this sermon I haue here set it down so nere as I could remember both in forme and matter To conclude I moste heartily desire in the Lord the ChristiaÌ„ reader especially your honors to accept this my pore trauell I am bold to ioyn you both in one not only because the Lord hath ioined you together in the bonde of friendship in a care of my good estate but also that which is greatest of all in a zeale of Gods glory furtherance of his religion Now the very God of peace sanctify you through out and I pray God that your whol spirits and souls and bodyes may be kept blamelesse vnto the comming of our Lord Iesus Christ Amen Your Honours in the Lord THOMAS GYBSON Hearken with feare and reuerence to the worde of the Lorde written by the holy Apostle Saint Paule in his first epistle to the Corinthians Chap. 9. verse 16. Woe be to me if I preach not the Gospell OVR Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ in the 17. chapter of the blessed Euangelist Luke amongst manye other excellent things vttereth and propoundeth this parable Who is it of you that hauing a seruaunt plowing or feeding cattell would say vnto him by and by when he were come from the field Goe and sit downe at table c. And afterwardes in the tenth verse applieth it on this maner So like wise ye when ye haue done all those thinges which are commaunded you say we are vnprofitable seruauants we haue done that which was our duetie to doe The holy Apostle and seruant of Christ in this place auoucheth and confesseth in him selfe the saying of his Master to be moste true For although amongst many good workes there is not a more excellent or better work then the preaching of the word of God which was done most purely effectually and diligently by the Apostle yet he is so farre from accounting it meritorious that he sayth a necessitie is layd vpon him that duety bindeth him to do it In the former verses from the beginning of this Chapter S. Paule sheweth and that with diligence and large copie of wordes that beeing amongst the Corrinthians he was content to giue place to his owne right to forbeare that which he might lawfully doe to take no maintenaunce at all from them least he should giue occasion of cauilling to the false Apostles as though he vnder the pretence of the calling of an Apostle should seeme to seeke his owne gaine and lucre Amongst other thinges he hath sayde and that in the former verse It were better for me to dye then that any man should make my reioycing in vaine The which wordes may seeme to proceed and flow from an ambitious and vaineglorious spirite And therefore it might be sayde What now Paule What needes all this Thou art wont to glory in Christ alone and dost thou now glory in thine owne doinges To such a question or obiection the Apostle aunsweareth qualifiyng his former speach as if he should say Although it be an excellent worke to preach the Gospel and that freely yet take not my wordes â—o as though I repose any merite of saluation in this worke for I am called to it and bound to it by duety and commaundement from my master Christ And if I doe it not I prouoke and procure the anger of God and the sentence of his curse and condemnation on me Woe bee to me if I preach not the Gospell Of these words being but a part of the verse I haue taken vpon me to speake at this time From whence I meane by Gods grace to speake of these three pointes First I will gather some description of preaching that you may know what it is Secondly I meane to

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