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A12590	A godly sermon preached in Latin at great S. Maries in Cambridge, in Marche 1580. by Robert Some: and translated by himselfe into English	Some, Robert, 1542-1609.	1580 (1580)	STC 22907; ESTC S100971	11,523	33

¶ A Godly Sermon preached in Latin at great S. Maries in Cambridge in Marche 1580. by Robert Some and translated by himselfe into Engglish MARKE 1.15 Repent and beleeue the Gospel ¶ Imprinted by Henrie Middleton for George Bishop 1580. To the Right worshipfull Master William Killigrew Esquier one of her Maiesties priuie Chamber and Mystresse Margerie Killigrew his wife R. Some wisheth increase of Gods gifts to their euerlasting comfort IT hath pleased your worships to vse me very frendly I am verie mindefull of it and for some proofe of my thankfulnesse I offer to you that shorte Sermon in English which I presented in Latine to the Right honourable the Earle of Leicester my singular good Lorde and Master It is I confesse verie plaine and my desire was so to haue it but it will I am sure minister comfort by the grace of God to suche as haue a feeling of their sinnes And this either is or should be one principall drifte of our sermons especially in these daies wherein as many as are to be awaked out of the sleepe of sinne by Gods fearefull threatenings so other are to be raysed vp and must haue life put into them by Gods sweete promises I could easily and would like well to goe on in this argument if it were not both the butte and white that my Sermon principally doeth leuell at Vnto the which because I referre your selfe Master Killigrew and your good bedfellowe I take my leaue and commend you both to Almightie Gods tuition Cambridge the 20 of April 1580. Your worships to command in Christ Robert Some A Godlie Sermon preached in Latine at great Saint Maries in Cambridge in March 1580. by Robert Some and translated by himselfe into English That all may be done to Gods glorie and our edifying let vs pray to his Maiestie that his holie worde which is a most precious treasure be not as a shut booke and as a sealed letter vnto vs. Our Father which art in heauen c. THE TEXT Hoseas Chap. 14. ver 3.4 Take vnto you wordes and turne to the Lord and say to him take away al iniquitie and receiue vs graciously so wil we render the calues of our lippes Asshur shall not saue vs neither will we ride vpon horses neither will we say any more to the worke of our hands ye are our Gods for in thee the fatherlesse findeth mercie These two verses may be reduced vnto two partes In the first the Prophete exhorteth the Israelites vnto repentance and teacheth them what wordes to vse in their prayer to the Maiestie of God Take vnto you wordes and turne to the Lord and say to him take away all iniquitie and receiue vs gratiously In the second part he setteth out the fruites of repentance in liuely colours So will we render the calues of our lips Asshur shall not saue vs neither will wee ride vpon horses neither will we say any more to the worke of our handes ye are our Gods for in thee the fatherlesse findeth mercie TAke vnto you wordes The eternal god bestowed many benefites vpon the Israelites euen with both the handes but they were as vntamed horses When they were fatted they lifted vp their héeles against his Maiestie and would not be reclaimed by his most pleasaunt voyce The Lord perceiuing the Israelites to resemble the Aethiopian which retayneth his blacknesse though he be washed an hundred times and the Catt of mountaine which is not cléere of spots though hir skinne be taken from hir the lord I say dealt more sharply with them and to knotty woodde applied a wedge of Iron Amongst these lightnings and as it were thunderboltes of Gods iudgementes least the faithfull which had forgotten themselues should be discouraged and thinke that no hope of pardon remained he speaketh vnto them as a naturall father to his children moste louingly by his Prophete Take vnto you wordes as if he shoulde say albéeit you haue infected the earth and aire with the stench of your wickednes albéeit you are more filthy than the dunghilles hange not downe your heades vnlesse you be set to wallow stil in the mire of your sinnes You shal appeasse Gods anger not if you bring into his presence great store of golde and siluer heapes of frankinsence droues of Oxen and flockes of Shéepe but if you present vnto him wordes which may easily be come by The Prophet Hoseas speaketh not of fained wordes which cunning and holow hypocrites are wel acquainted with Gen. 3.4 Esay 58.3 Matt. 22.16 Iere. 41.6 Such were the wordes of the serpent vnto Eue of the hypocrites which fasted in Esaies time of the Herodians and Pharisées disciples that they might snare Christ in his spéech of vngracious Ismael to the godly men of Sichem and Samaria when he shed Crocodyles teares before he caried them to the slaughter and of many now a dayes whose wordes are bredde and borne in their lippes Dissembling words are the greatest plague that can be they smell of an euil conscience they are sure arguments of hypocrisie and doe them which vse them the greatest harme for they are like to a broken shielde which cannot abide the least prick of a weapon The prophet Hoseas did not giue the Israelites in charge to put of the grosse contempt of God to cloth themselues with hipocrisy that had ben the next way to haue marred all and of euill men to make them diuels he rather commaunded them to testifie godlily in holy sounde wordes that which they had conceiued most holily in their mindes There must not be a diuorce betwene the heart and the lippes they must resemble Hippocrates twinnes which do laugh together and wéepe together The minde must beget godly wordes the lippes bring them forth This is a golden broode highly pleaseth almighty God Such was the praier of the Primatiue Church for Peter Actes 12.5 Iames. 5.17 Mat. 27.46 2. Cor. 12.8 when Herode Agrippa had imprisoned him of Helias which the Apostle Iames remembreth of Christ hanging on the crosse and of the Apostle Paule when the Angell of Satan did buffet him Such a praier would the Prophet Hoseas haue the Israelites to vse in this place that Gods anger by this beautifull consent of the heart and lips might be appeased Such a praier must ours be vnlesse we will be like to Barge or Whirimen which row one way loke another Demosthenes and Cicero were famous Orators the one in Athens the other in Rome I confesse they were able to worke great masteries by their eloquence Their orations were greatly accompted of in Rome and Athens and are in good credite with vs. But if they be compared with the broken and vnperfect spéeches of a truly repentant sinner Demosthenes wordes must stād behind the dore and Ciceroes are with out life and are as farre excéeded as the Pibble stone of the costly Diamonde The sacrifices of God are a contrite spirite Psal 51.17 a contrite and a broken heart

for the peace of Ierusalē let them prosper that loue thee The Prophet Ioel least the Assirians army should as a great stood swallow vp the tribe of Iuda plagued before of God by famine for their sinnes calleth them earnestly to fasting and teares least they shold be dumbe in this excellēt action he giueth the priestes in charge to pray thus vnto the maiestie of God Spare thy people O Lorde Ioel. 2.16.17 and giue not thy heritage into reproch that the heathen should rule ouer them Our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ least his disciples in praying should fall into the vaine repetitions and much babling of the heathen deliuered to them a shorte but yet an excellent forme of praier in these wordes Our Father which art in Heauen c. As Dauid Ioel Christ and Hoseas did so must we If we shal haue to do with them which are contrite and broken in spirite it is not inough to speake thus vnto them pray to the lord pray to the lorde pray to the lorde but we must teach them with what words they may procure his fauour So shall we heale a wounded conscience and it will easily appéere that we haue applied our plaister aright with the skilfull Surgian and our medicine aright with the learned Phisician Take away all iniquitie This is an excellent prayer and consistes of two parts In the first the Israelits confesse that thei dranke iniquitie as water in the second part thei desire pardon The first part is conteined in these wordes all iniquitie the seconde in these wordes take away Cōcerning the first the Israelits dealt very Christianly when they gaue sentence against thēselues spared not thēselues the the Lord might spare them If they had pleaded not guiltie and had impudently cried that they had not offended the maiestie of God they had lost their labour had reached him an iron rod to beate them in péeces with Notable therfore is that spéech of the prophet Dauid Psal 32.5 I said I will confesse against my selfe my wickednes vnto the Lord. The Israelites being dispersed vnder the tirāt Antiochus vsed this spéech vnto the Lord Psal 106.6 We haue sinned with our fathers we haue committed iniquitie and done wickedly Ezra Iob Nehemias and the Publicane did the like So must we do euen fréely and from the heart Confession of our faultes must be our medicine when we haue done amisse as it was to the Israelites We hate those impudent fellowes which are either dainty or refuse to confesse those things which are in euery mans eyes mouth Gods eies cannot be dazeled vnlesse we confesse our sinnes we deceaue not the Lord but our selues we hide our selues with Adam amongst the trées and with Figge leaues we do cloath our selues The Israelites in this excellent peticion take away all iniquitie do not onely giue out that thei are guilty of one falt but that their wickednes like a great flood ouerfloweth them Ezra when the Israelites after their returne from captiuitie in Babylon had ioyned in mariage with the daughters of the Canaanites Ammonites Egyptians is not cōtent to remember only the strange sinne which the lord God hated deadly but spreading out his hands to the lord he burst into these words Ezra 9.5.6 Our iniquities are increased ouer our heade our trespasse is growen vp vnto the heauen Dauid when he was touched in conscience for the vniust slaughter of Vrias and for betraying the Lords armie did not only crush that Byle but confesseth himselfe to be further plunged in wickednes Deliuer me from bloud Psal 51.14 O God c. They that haue offended God by any notable sinne if they will seriously call the rest of their life to a reckoning it wil be cléere vnto them that their sins cannot be told on their fingers or trussed vp in a fardel and therfore thei must cry with the prophet Dauid Psal 11.12 Who can vnderstand his faultes cleanse me from my secrete faultes I could if I listed tary longer in this argument but bicause I desire to be bréefe and yet to haue varietie I will remember in a worde or two that the Israelits after the confession of their sinnes desired pardon The confession of our sinnes sauoureth of a good and godly minde but vnlesse desire of pardon be ioyned with it we saile in a shipp that hath a hole in the bottome Cain after that he had murdered his brother Abel gaue out this spéech My sinne is greater then can be pardoned Gen. 4.13 Iudas after that he had betrayed his master Christ Mat. 27.4 said I haue sinned betraying the innocent blood But bicause Cain Iudas did here as it were ride at an anchor they made shipwracke of euerlasting life The Israelites of whom Hoseas speaketh were not of the same parish that Cain Iudas were thei desire pardon It profiteth not the wounded man to looke on his woundes vnlesse he call for a Surgian neither the sick man to know his disease vnlesse he cal for the Phisician I will add a third thing neither doth the hatred of sinne profite the sicke wounded sinner vnlesse he craue for mercy at the hands of God the most skilfull both Phisician Surgian Dauid when the staffe of his sinnes had so galled his heart that he felt as it were a gréeuous hell within him both humbly and earnestly desireth pardon Psal 51.1.2.7 9.14 Haue mercy vpō me O God according to thy louing kindnes according to the multitude of thy compassions put away mine iniquities Wash me throughly from mine iniquitie cleanse me frō my sin Purge me with Hisop I shal be cleane wash me and I shal be whiter than snow hide thy face from my sinnes and put away all mine iniquities Deliuer me frō blood O God c Daniel when the Israelites had béen longe in captiuitie at Babylon desireth pardon of his their sinnes and that it would please the maiestie of God to perform his promise for their return frō Babilon O Lord heare O Lord forgiue Daniel 9.19 O Lord consider do it deferr not for thine owne sake O my God The Publicane in the Gospel albéeit he durst not lift vp his eies to heauen yet he smote his brest desired forgiuenesse of his sinnes Luke 18.13 O God be merciful to me a sinner We our selues groning vnder the burden of our sinnes must hunger and thirst for the grace of God therefore craue pardon of our sinnes Almightie God is not such a one as Minos or Rhadamanthus was he is not a iudge that will not be intreated He is therefore mercifull bicause he is God The lawes of Draco the Atheniā were written with blood Aristot pol. 2. nothing in them is worthy of remembrance but extremitie of punishment But Gods lawes are written with milke Psal 130.4 Mercy is with God that he may be feared Aske and it shal be giuen you Matt. 7.7