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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08443	Sermons of the ryght famous a[n]d excellent clerke Master Bernardine Ochine, borne within the famous vniversyte of Siena in Italy, nowe also an exyle in this life, for the faythfull testimony of Jesus Christ	Ochino, Bernardino, 1487-1564.; Argentine, Richard, d. 1568.	1548 (1548)	STC 18765; ESTC S105735	22,415	64

Sermons of the ryght famous ād excellent clerke Master Bernardine Ochine / borne within the famous vniuersyte of Siena in Italy / nowe also an exyle in this life / for the faythfull testimony of Iesus Christ ¶ Psal C. xvij ¶ I wyll not dye / but lyue ande declare the workes of the Lorde IMPRINTED at Ippeswych / by Anthony Scoloker Dwellyng in S. Nycholas Parryshe Anno. 1548. ¶ Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum ¶ Vnto The ryght Honourable LORDE Edward / Duke of Somerset mooste deare vncle vnto the Kinges Maiesté / ād Gouuernour of hys Royall Parson / and of his Realmes / Dominiōs ād subiectes Protectour Hys graces mooste humble Seruaunt Rychard Argentyne wissheth the increase of honour and grace Lyke as in the beginig moost Gracyous Lorde it maye appere by the propre names of men / that the same were appoynted vnto them by a synguler reason Genes 4. So by Seth also it maye be manifest that Kings are geuen vnto the Worlde of God Genes 1. For after the time that the infinite Lorde / had created the vniuersall worlde / ād reserued the supremité of it vnto him selfe / he made man Prince and Lorde / and a Kynge immediatly vnder hiouer all / whych myght exercise his office / him selfe not being parsonaly present before our eyes / to the intēt that we shulde alwayes elevate the same vnto Heauen there to seke him And therfore of iust cause Kynges / Prynces ande Gouuernours that moost lyuely and notably represēt vnto vs the diuine maiesté of God / being indued with a large porciō of the same / are called Goddes in the scripture Genes 6. Psal 82. And of the prophane poete Homere are named to come from God These Princes ād Kinges / as it appereth in the register of thíges done in time / were in moost places accustumed euē frō theyr tender age / to be brought vp vnder iiij gouuernours Iustice / Prudēce / Fortitude and continency / amōgest the which vertues Iustice beīg the highest of power albeit that wyth her manyfold benefittes / necessary vnto the vse of mā / she goeth vppon the ground / yet that notwithstāding wyth hyr shulders she reacheth vnto heauen For as moche as she couereth nothig to hyr selfe nor craueth anye thynge / but geueth vnto euery man hys owne / ande restoreth euery thynge vnto hys ryght ordre ād kynde Paral. 16. Where therfore the people of God made greate ioye ande feasted for their true religion restored / and were ioyfull for the confyrmyng of theyr Kynge / the which dyd minister vnto them onely externally iudgement ande iustice / what ipye / ought all thys realme to be in / vnto whome it hath fortuned the right ordre of the supper of the LORD to be restored / through the studye of suche a Prynce as walketh in all the waies of God in goodnes ād fayth / ledde by a Gouuernour that moost parfectly hath trayned hym to the same 2. Reg. 6. Psal 25. In whome the spirit of Iesu christ that was ones onely offred / manifestlye produceth hys effectes Phil. 1. And where as in our daies manye that of right ought to be called martirs / lyke vnto Paule / intendig that Chryst shuld be magnyfyed in theyr bodyes or by theyr death / with theyr bloude / dyd not sticke to gyue a testimony vnto the worlde of the internal goodnes prepared vnto the sayntes hereafter / ād fedde the rauening wolues with their carcases Now God be blessed by our so gracyous a Prynce / their teth are blunted and theyr mouthes musseled For those that shuld have bene the lyght / that the frute of rightuousnes that commeth by Iesu Christ only / might have been planted in manye / lyke vnto the Phariseys that had miracles comune vnto them with the fathers / and the presence also of the moost mekest lambe of God / the which dyd illustrate them wyth hys doctryne ande miracles / wolde in no case come to any amendement And yet they glorye that theyr name was prophecied to be exercised in iustice by the prophete Esay Esay 60. Where the ixx. interpreters have if it be theyr text ād not others I shall gyue thy Princes in peace / ād thy Bysshoppes in iustice But the Hebrewe text yf they wyll that place to be ment of them and not of other publyke officyers calleth them more accordyngly vnto the trueth exactours or cursitours / nothyng seking for the founteine of all saturité lacking the frugalité that Paule willeth thē to vse The which thinge they wolde not if they had in them the carefull mynde of the iust executiō of thinges to be done vnto Gods honour Lyke as by the shauing of theyr beardes and of theyr heades the whiche were in the olde tyme tokens of a pensyve ande sadde minde they appere to have Esay 15. But treuth it is / that lyke as the bearde that was accounted to be the ornament of the man is hatefull vnto them / and is not to be found amongest them / so is the studye of all good vertue amongest others and not amongest them And therfore the migtye LORD hath appointed your grare vnto the same office for the cōfort of all the faithful / as the necessary hāde of a Kynge gyvē vnto vs by God And to that purpose these syx Sermons of the famous clerke Bernardinus Ochinus are translated out of the Italyan tongue The fyrst declaring what thynge GOD is The second / Howe to knowe GOD by hys creatures The thyrd yf Phylosophye serue to true theologye and in what maner Fourthely / Howe we ought to vse the Scryptures in attayninge the knowledge of GOD. Fyfthly / Of thinconue mences that are happened and dayly happē by the abuse of the holy scriptures Syxtly and finally / If to be good diuines it behoue vs to have the humaine sciences or not / and gevē vnto your grace as a moost vnworthye gifte / that by your graces fauour the frute of all the oher sermons maye be brought vnto your graces louinge servauntes of the whole bodye of this Realme / vnto whose cōfort the lorde IESV Chryst preserue your grace At Ippeswych the xiiij daye of February Anno M.D. xlviij The preface WHo well cōsydereth wher vnto we are created / good Christen reader / shall finde that of all oure trauayles ther 's resteth no frute / as proueth the holie spirite of prophetie by the mouth of Salomon saying I haue loked vppon all the thinges vnder the sonne / and haue founde none other but vanité Onely reserued the Image of God in vs / beig the spirite that susteineth not the naturall life alone / but also all the holie ād vertuous thoughtes / which God hathe created immortal vnto his owne likenes / as thou maiest wesparceaue / if thou cōsider the substaunce of the naturall bodie / that hauing the spirite / is all liuely / ād not onely moueth eche figer / hāde