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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A21064	A sermon preached at Paules Crosse the 19. of Iuli 1579 setting forth the excellencye of Gods heauenlye worde: The exceeding mercye of Christ our Sauior: the state of this world: A profe of the true Church: A detection of the false Church: or rather malignant rable: A confutation of sundry hæresies: and other thinges necessary to the vnskilfull to be knowen. By Iohn Dyos. Seene and allowed.	Dyos, John.	1579 (1579)	STC 7432; ESTC S111984	61,205	176

God vseth a pollicie against Sathā maketh that which séemeth a curse a blessing that which séemeth a blessing to be a curse Ioseph obeyed his fathers commaundement and went vnto his brethren and his brethrē by the instinct motion of Sathan sold him but God turned this into blessing So we read of Dauid so of the Apostles of many other whose curses haue bene turned into blessinges This is the condition and state of men in this world Generally good men lyue in aduersitie and wicked men in prosperitie I say generally For it commeth sometymes to passe that good men lyue in prosperitie and wicked men in aduersitie But this seldome falleth out and among a hūdred good men scarse one or two lyue prosperously in this world The generall sentence therfore stādeth firme and infallible good men are plagued with aduersitie euill men florishe in prosperitie accordyng to the Prouerbe Quo peior eo fortunatior the worser man the better lucke Christ playnly sheweth this condition and estate of mens affaires in the exāple of Diues and Lazarus You sée often tymes the most wicked me most fortunate and the most godly most miserable But Respice finem marke the end and fret not thy selfe because of the vngodly neither be thou enuious agaynst the euill doers For they shal be cut down like the grasse and be withered euen as the gréene herbe Put thou thy trust in the Lord and be doyng good dwell in the land and verely thou shalt be fed Delight thou in the Lord and he will giue thée thy harts desire Laūch thou into the déepe and let downe thy not in the name of the Lord to make a draught alwayes remembryng the heauēly saying of the Prophet Dauid Some put their trust in chariots and some in horses but we will remember the name of the Lord our god So much for this part And whē they had this done they inclosed a great multitude of fishes and their net brake Here we learne the cause of prosperous suceesse and blessing of the Lord which is if at his commaundement we cast downe our nettes Here Christ by a wonderfull miracle proueth his Godhead The circumstaunces declare the miracle to be wonderfull the labour of all the night lost the breaking of the net the sinkyng of the shyp the callyng of partners out of the other shyp the astomeng and great admiration of Peter and others the sudaine forsakyng of all their goodes obedience shewed to the word of Christ The like miracle we haue in Iohn 21. The vse of this wōderfull miracle is that Christ is that Messias that lambe of God that taketh away the sinnes of the world That Christ not onely is Lord of the land but also of the sea and all that therein is In an other place touching tribute Christ sent Peter to the sea saying go thou to the sea and cast an hooke and take vp the fish that first cōmeth vp and when thou hast opened his mouth thou shalt finde a péece of xx pence that take and giue it vnto them for me and thée If Christ be Lord of the sea and all thynges therin thou whiche by fayth art made a member of Christ hast no cause to feare the surges waues and daungers of the sea feare not that which is subiect to Christ thy head must of necessitie be subiect to his members What signifieth the breaking of the net who breake the nette how the nette is broken why the nette is broken these thinges are to be obserued Touching the first The kingdome of heauē is lyke to a net which was cast into the sea and gathered of all kinde of fishes which when it was full the fishers drew to land and sate downe and gathered the good into vessels but cast the bad away So shal it be at the end of the world The angels shall come forth and seuer the bad frō among the iust and shall cast them into a furnace of fyre there shall be wailing gnashing of téeth The net is broken when the concord of fayth in the Church is broken and men falle into wicked heresies and errours They breake the nette which fishe in the night wanting the light of holye scripture and blinded with the darcknes of errours and ignoraunce Euil men which breake the vnitie of of the Church and fall into sectes schismes doe also breake the nette which obey not but cōtemne the calling of god These are euill fishes which are not taken or els breake the nette that is they fall frō grace frō fayth and lose the spirite of god All that were conuerted stode not in the nette of fayth and vertue for many went forth and mightely brake the nette peruerting fayth vertues and Sacramēts Such fishes belong to the kitchen of Sathā Arrius went forth brake the nette began a most pestilent schisme because he could not obtayne the Bishoprick of Alexandria Whose steps many doe follow Sabellius cōtinued not in the nette but went forth and brake the nette So did Fotinus Manicheus and other innumerable Of such S. Io. speaketh saying they went out from vs but they were not of vs For if they had bin of vs they would no doubt haue continued with vs but that it might appeare that they are not all of vs Of such also speaketh S. Paule Now the spirite speaketh euidently that in the latter tymes some shall depart from the fayth geuing heede vnto spirites of errours and doctrines of deuils c. False Apostles brake the net in the Primitiue Church as Luke writeth Then rose vp certayne of the sect of the Pharisies which did beleue saying it was needeful to Circūcise them and to commaund to kéepe the law of Moyses To these breakers of the net S. Paule sayth Christ is become but vayne to you as many of you as are iustified by the law are fallen from grace Of this companye were Himenaeus Samosatenus Alexander and many other heretickes Since the Primitiue Church continually swarmes of heretickes haue broken this nette Wheresoeuer God doth build his Temple there by and by Sathan adioyneth his chappell At this day because the light of the Gospell shyneth clearely legions of heretickes as Anabaptistes Schismatickes Libertines Arrians Atheistes Romish Catholickes the Familie of Loue and others breake the nette of the Gospell Wo be vnto the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea For the Deuill is come downe vnto you which hath great wrath because he knoweth he hath but a short tyme Touchyng the Familie of Loue I say this the deuill transformeth him selfe into an Angell of light Therefore it is no great maruaile that this familie beyng in déede a familie of Sathan should transforme them selues into a familie of light a familie of loue God is light God is loue Chrisost sayth Haeretici omnia habent in similitudine Heretiques haue all thynges in resemblance or likenesse This familie is not a familie of true loue