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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02921	A learned and fruitefull commentarie vpon the Epistle of Iames the Apostle vvherein are diligently and profitably entreated all such matters and chiefe common places of religion as are touched in the same epistle: written in Latine by the learned clerke Nicholas Hemminge, professour of diuinitie in the Vniuersitie of Hafnie, and nevvly translated into English by VV.G.	Hemmingsen, Niels, 1513-1600.; Gace, William.	1577 (1577)	STC 13060; ESTC S103941	145,341	189

refuse or at the least vvise little regarde such godly instructions as God hath in these dayes his name be highlye praysed therefore by his faythfull Ministers both by preaching and vvriting offered vnto them let them remember that they that are of God heare and receiue Gods vvord and if they doe the contrarie that they are not of God let them knovv if they be novv vvearie of it and come to the lothing of it that their soule is fallen into a daungerous disease For as a good appetite to naturall foode is a token of the helth of the body and to refuse and loth the same is a sure signe of some sickenes or disease so is it likevvise in the soule refusing or lothing the heauenly foode of Gods vvord Againe let them call to minde that it vvas aunsvvered to the rich glutton being tormented in hell vvhen he vvould haue one sent from the dead to admonish his brethren least they came into that torment that his brethren had Moses and the Prophets vvhom they ought to heare if they vvould auoyde the like fierie flames and hellish torments Let them assure themselues that the day vvill come vvhen Christ Iesus shall vvith vnspeakable maiestie and infinite power come to iudge the quicke and the dead vvhen from the furthest corners of the vvorld shal be heard the sound of the trumpet vvherevvith all shalbe called to the iudgement seate then the secretes of all heartes shall be layde open and the doinges of euery man playnely discouered Then the vngodly and vvicked ones vvhich haue in this life despised the vvord of God neglected his commaundements and will contayned therein and not repented them of their wickednes shall in stede of comfort on euerye side feele extreme dread and horrour If they looke behinde them they shall see the world consuming with fire if they looke on the right hand they shall perceiue a sinnefull conscience accusing them if they turne to the left there shall be the deuel readye to receiue them into endeles paynes if they looke before them they shall see a terrible and iust iudge comming to iudge them according to their wicked works VVhereas the godly voyde of all these dreadefull terrours shall see a most louing Sauiour who shall then admitte them wholy into the ful fruition of eternall ioy and blessednes Seing then the case thus standeth it is requisite that all men which minde to be saued doe search the Scriptures which testifie of this Sauiour doe diligently heare and reade the worde of God doe vse such meanes as God hath appoynted to come to the knowledge thereof and knowing it doe follow it in their life and conuersation yea and doe become most heartely thankefull vnto God that it hath pleased him in mercy to sende to reigne ouer vs not a tyrannicall Herod to oppresse vs but a most gracious Princes so in peace and godlynes to gouerne vs that the Gospell of Iesus Christ hath not in any age had freer passage nor hath bin more abundantly and truly preached and set forth which God for his Christes sake graunt long to cōtinue So farre then ought all to be of from despising or neglecting the worde and the Preachers and Ministers thereof that they ought to acknowledge the enioying of it to be an inestimable benefite of God and to shewe themselues thankfull for so great a benefite not onely in hearing reading and meditating of it but also according to their abilitie and power it setting in forth and making it knowne vnto other VVherefore I according to that small talent which God hath bestowed vpon me haue employed my trauell in translating this treatise into our mother toung that those my godly country men vvhich are ignorant of the Latine tongue may become partakers of such Christian doctrine wholesome admonitions and godly instructions as are contayned therein VVhich treatise reuerend Father I thought good to publishe the rather vnder the protection of your name that therby it might be the more vvillingly accepted and the better lyked of many vvho haue of a long time knovvne you to be a learned and faythfull preacher of Gods vvorde and an earnest furtherer of all godlynes vvhich God graunt that you may long be to the great aduauncement of his glory the singular commoditie of his Church and the dayly comfort of your ovvne conscience Your worships humbly at commaundement VV. Gace ¶ Faultes escaped in the printing of this treatise gentle reader correct as followeth Fol. 17. pag. 2. lin 5. for tabernanacle reade tabernacle Fol. 55. pag. 1. lin 11.14.16 Passe ouer this worde part as being superfluous Fol. 62. pag. 2. lin 21. for dutie reade benefite The Argument of the Epistle of Iames the Apostle FOVRE THINGES IN MY IVDGEment are diligently to be vveighed and considered in the beginning of the exposition of euery treatise of the holye Scripture to vvit vvho is the author of it vvhat occasion there vvas to vvrite it vvhat is the ende and purpose of it and vvhat is the maner methode or order of handling it For these four being aptly and rightly declared are as it vvere a certaine light before the reader to guide him to the entrance of euery treatise of the holy Scripture Of these therefore I vvill speake in order vvhereby the argument of this Epistle may be the better vnderstande The author of this Epistle vvas Iames the Apostle vvho is called the brother of the Lord. He togither with the rest of the Apostles vvas not onely the space of three yeares instructed by the voyce and spirite of the Lorde but also after the resurrection of Christ vvith the other Apostles receiued the holye Ghost and a commaundement to preach the Gospell to all nations and on the day of Pentecost vvas againe by a visible signe authorised and confirmed in his Apostleship Hereof it appeareth vvhat is to be iudged of this Epistle to vvit that vve must giue no lesse credit to it then to the voyce of God for the author thereof is the Apostle of Iesus Christ vvho at the last sealed the Gospell of Christ vvith his blood For vvhen he taught Christ to bee the conquerer of death and to sit at the right hand of God in heauen the Ievves did cast stones at him and at the length he kneeling vpon his knees and praying for his persecutours vvas slayne vvith a fullers clubbe and that not long before the citie vvas assaulted by Vespasian VVhether therefore thou considerest the ministerie of God vvherin this man did labour eyther his life eyther his confession or his ende thou hast a testimonie of the infallible truth of his doctrine The occasiō which Iames had to write seemeth to be double one the persecutiō of the Church an other the hypocrisie in many Hovv great the persecution of the Church vvas in the time of Iames the Ecclesiasticall historie doth teache at large For the Ievves were not onelye afflicted by being dispersed through the vvhole vvorld but also they vvere euen