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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07260	A sermon made in the cathedrall churche of Saynt Paule at London, the XXVII. day of June, Anno. 1535. by Symon Matthewe	Matthew, Simon, d. 1541.	1535 (1535)	STC 17656; ESTC S102306	16,458	60

to pray for the soules departed saying that he thought his prayer shuld nothynge auayle them yet I wyll desyre you to praye for them trustynge that you haue in remembrance howe in times paste I haue proued by auctorities of Hierome Augustin Ambrose and Chrysostome and also by scriptures as saynt Augustine vnderstandeth them that we shulde so do for they ar in such case that they maye be reliued by our prayer c. ¶ All thoughe in consyderynge the sensible creatures of god many tymes I am constrayned greattely to meruaylle at the diuyne power yet nothynge so greatly moueth me as when I remembre all the regions of Christendome whiche before the comynge of Christe were spiritually deade and nowe by his mercye haue lyfe gyuen to them so knyt and ioyned to hym as one principall heed by vnitie of feythe that nowe they are one misticall body hauynge dyuers membres deputed to dyuers offices and euery one ministrynge for other in Christe And this is well worthye to be meruayled at if we wyll consider the great multitude of the people and the diuersitie of the same whiche settynge all customes apart all humayn lawes all lernynge all pleasures al vices wherin they had al their lyfe tymes accustomed them selfes before most humbly receyued the feythe of Christ from the whiche neyther losse of goodes nor imprysonement nor dethe coulde euer disswade them ¶ And surely great meruaylle it is howe that so many noble men so many princis so many kynges so many emperours ye of so great power and stomake wolde gyue credence to suche symple vnknowen abiecte and vile persones as the Apostols were after the worldly estimation whiche preched thinges incredible as Christ god and man to be borne of a virgin whiche crucified and put to deth rise agayne the thirde daye by his owne power from dethe to lyfe and soone after ascended to heuen Whiche preched for delicacie of lyuynge abstinency for voluptuousnes chastitie for daliance lamentation and continuall moonynge for riches pouertie the spirite of god so workynge that many nations vnlike in condicions vnlyke in langage and being in great distance dyd agree and yet do agree in professinge Christ Iesus and his religion one spirit workyng and gyuyng vital operation to them all For as in the naturall body of man the soule gyueth lyfe and mouynge to euery ioynt so that no man can moue any parte of his body but by the spirite vitalle extended to the same no more can any manne moue hym selfe to any poynt of vertue and goodnes but by the vertue of the holy gooste excitinge mouyng him to the same And as the bodye is one and hath many membres and yet al the membres make one bodi though they be many in theym selfes so is Christe with all christians one For al we are christened in one spirite for that we shulde be one body in Christ This body was sometyme in Christ and his apostols and disciples and by them it was nouryshed and increced some trauaylynge into one coūtrey and some into an other and as they dyd ꝓfyt in them so did they become ꝑtis of Christis misticall body that is to sey of the churche so that the diuersitie of regions and countreys maketh not the diuersite of churches but the vnitie of feyth maketh all regions one churche all thoughe the same regions were vnknowen to vs and we to them As if saynt Andrew Philip Thomas and other of the apostols preached in straunge countreys and conuerted them spekinge nothynge of eche other nor of Peter but onely of Christe and his benefytis yet for their feyth shulde they be of the same churche that Peter was of al though they neuer harde of Peter nor Peter of theym As sayncte Paule after his conuersion vnknowē to Peter and other apostols preched in Arabie and Damasco .iii. yeres Iesus that he is the son of god and many by his preachynge receyued the feyth whiche neyther knewe Peter nor other of the apostols but Iesus Christ and the same crucified for our redemption and yet for this feythe were they made one in Christ and of his churche So that it was of no necessytie for them to knowe Peter as many haue rekened in the byshoppe of Rome that excepte we knewe hym and his holy college we coulde not be of Christis churche But I am ryghte sure that manye thousandes are saued whiche neuer harde of Peter nor yet of the bishop of Rome so that the vnitie of Christis church cōsisteth not in the knowlege of any erthely creature but in the knowlege of Christe and true beleue in hym And for this laboured the apostolles and yet labour theyr trewe successours whose continuall study must be to maynteyn the same takynge example of sayncte Paule whiche regardynge moche this vnitie sayth in the .xiiii. chapiter to the Romaynes Quae pacis sunt sectemur et quae aedifi●●tionis sunt inuicem custodiamus Where he reprouynge vnfruitefull disputations wyllethe vs to folowe those thinges that maye make for vnitie for the edifienge of our brothern and vs. And in lykewise in the fyrst chapitre to the Corinthians in the firste epistle he saythe Obsecro uos fratres per nomen domini nostri Iesu Christi vt idipsum dicatis omnes et non sint in vobis schismata sitis autem perfecti in eodem sensu et in eadem sententia I instauntly desyre you sayth he to the Corinthians in the name of our lorde Iesu Christe that you agree both in word mynd in one and lette there be no schisme nor diuision among you And in the xiiii chapitre I rede of hym Non est dissensionis deus sed pacis sicut et in omnibus ecclesiis sanctorū do ceo where the holye apostoll wylleth that if any man reken hym selfe to haue the spiryte of god he shall the rather regarde vnitie for that the spirite of god is author of vnitie and not of discorde Euen so writinge to the Ephesians he saythe Soliciti seruare unitatem spiritus Eph ▪ 4. wyllyng al hautenes to be set apart and euery man with gentylnes to do his diligente endeuer to maynteyne vnitie And saincte Paule rekeneth that he shall sone opteyne his desire for that they haue one body and one spirite and one trust and hope of the enheritance of heuen that is promised them by their vocation Furthermore they had one lorde one feythe one baptime whiche by the meritis of the passion of Christe was of lyke effect to them all Also they haue one god whiche is father of them all hath the moste high regency gouernynge all thinge and by his diuine spirite is present in vs al. And in his epistle ad Hebreos in the .xii. chapitre he sayth Pacem sequim ini cum omnibus et sanctimoniam fine qua nemo deum uidebit contemplantes ne quis desit gratiae dei ne qua radix amaritudinis sursum germinans impediat et per illam inquinentur