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A08444	Certayne sermons of the ryghte famous and excellente clerk master Barnardine Ochine, borne within the famous vniuersitie of Siena in Italy, now also an exyle in this lyfe, for the faithful testimony of Iesus Christe. Faythfully translated into Englyshe	Ochino, Bernardino, 1487-1564.; Bacon, Anne Cooke, Lady, 1528?-1610.; Argentine, Richard, d. 1568.	1551 (1551)	STC 18766; ESTC S104167	97,926	208

he is saued thorowlye by him and he that seeth this with supernatural vnderstandinge hauinge no respect to him self nor his workes but only to the goodnes of God discouered in Christ vpon the Crosse cānot by any meanes be disceiued because that light which he hath to be in the fauor of God elect to saluacion can not growe but onlye of the bountye of God consydered in Christ wherof can spring no false nor deceitfull knowledge Full well may he be be giled and shalbe that doth behold his workes and by them thincketh that he is in the fauour of God and his sōne But seing him selfe in Christ saued chosen in the fauour of God it muste nedes be said that he seeth the truthe and that which is once trewe although it were but for the twincke of an eie must be saide to be euer true he then which beleueth in Christe were it but a mynute of an houre in perceyuynge of hym selfe elect by Christ seeth that which is true therfore shall it euer be true that he is one of the legitima● sonnes of God so that the same his faythe be not in anye maner founded vpon him self nor his own worckes but in christ and the diuine excellence and that it be not a certeine trifleinge lighte baren and deade opinion but a liuely faithe It must be said then that Iudas had neuer perfect faith nether was elect to saluaciō although he was chosen to the apostelshippe and the like say I of al y ● reprobate al such thē as haue had at ani time liuely belefe to be saued bi christ may be sure of their saluation And so also they whiche haue once at the least bene perfectely geuen to God and committed to his gouernaunce vpon the couenaunte that he shall serue him selfe of them accordynge to his owne purpose and with truste that by Christ and his mere goodnes he hath accepted them for hys owne they maye also beleue that they are saued bycause that he shal be no lesse God to them then they shal be promysed of hym Therfore hauing had in that couenaunte lyuely faythe that God wyll forgeue them as his Chyldren in suche sorte that he wyll conducte them to saluacion althoughe they as muche as lyeth iu them were contynuallye prompte to all euyl yet is it necessary to saye that sence God hathe taken theym for hys as they knowe by the lyuely faythe that they haue hadde thereof that they shal ouercome that wyckednesse and haue honoure thereby For hys goodnes passeth their euelnes he wold not haue inspired thē to gyue them selfes if from without beginning he had not elected them and takē thē for his own Some peraduenture wyl say if we were onlye ones sure to haue ben for a litle time in the fauour of god to haue had his spirit in vs and liuely faith in him that we did beleue surely to be his elect yet we know not if it haue bene a perfect fayth or not wee feare it to haue bene a certeyne cold opinion and least we were begyled in beleuing to be in gods fauoure elected of him I answer that thys is an euidēt sygne that ye neuer had hytherto liuely fayth and knowledge of Christ For as it is vnpossible to haue fyre within the brest and not ●ele it so is it impossible to haue in the hart christ the holy ghost ardent charity and the fiery light of fayth and not to perceiue it thys is for that his lighte is so clere and effectuous that not only it maketh them to se and lyuelye to fele with the spirite that Christe is deade for them vpon the crosse that they are electe and saued but also it dothe make them knowe that it whyche they see is by diuine inspiracion that it is the holye spirit whiche testifieth vnto theyr spirite that thei are the sonnes of God Whose testimonye is more clere open firme and certein then al the outward oracles and miracles of the world which without the inward testimonie of the spirit can leaue vs none other thē doutful Now y t he that hath in him Christ and the spirite of God doth fele know and perceiue it it is clere by Christ which sayde that the world knew not the holy gost but that he was knowen of them in whome he was And by saynct Iohn which sayd also In this we know that Christ is in vs euen by the holy gost whiche he hathe geuen vs. Therfore sayd Paul trie your selues make some profe of your selues is it possible that ye should not knowe Christ in you if ye be not reprobate And in an other place ▪ know ye not how ye are the temple of God that the holy gost dwelleth in you The holy spirite goth searching throughout and iudgeth euery thing fayth is so clere y t it sheweth vs the profūditie of god thou wilt that it be blynde of it selfe Yea Paul sayth that the holy gost is geuen to vs to the ende we might know those thinges that haue ben geuen vs of Christ The kyngdome of God is peace as wryteth Esai and Paul without seruile feare in much certentie Therefore as Chryst sawe that he was in the fauoure of his father and his beloued sonne so also do the electe se them selues all thoughe not wyth so cleare lyghte and certenty but that they goo somtyme doubtynge stumbling and wauering Bnt they ought wyth the Apostles to pray Christ to augmēt their faith And seke with their good workes continually to make knowē to thē selfs more perfect their saluacion and vocaciō that therby as by the effectes or fruites they shuld come in to the ful riches of certein perswacion and vnderstandinge of their election and saluation Paule also knew he was in the fauour of God in faith hope and charitye elected the sonne of God safe and sure and that he had the holy goste and Christ wythin hym when he sayd that he was one of them that Christ was come to saue and that he knew in whome he beleued that he looked for the Crowne that nothynge could seperate hym frō the loue of God which had elected him before the constitution of the world that he had the spirite of adopcion of the sonnes of God and that Christe was he who lyued and spake in him Saint Ihō also saied we are sure we know God and that we liue in him worldlie and carnall beastes are they which know not God in the holye gost nor those thynges which be his euen as mē not regenerate they are rustical paysaūts of so abiecte and base a spirite that they can not beleue that God hath loued them so much that by the death of his onlye begotten and most intierly beloued sonne he would saue them take them for his chyldren and make them hys hepres But astonied of theyr sinnes they are euer afrayed of hell Where the regenerate fele in such sorte the charitie of God in Christ

and an vnderstanding and light aboue a natural mā he must also be the sonne and lawful heyre of God And then he may say I sound of mynde and ready of spirit and remembraunce albeit as touching my flesh syck make my testament and ●equeath fyrst of al my being and substaunce to god he gaue it to me and also preserued it and of hym I recognise to haue it and for it I render him thanckes I leaue to him like wise the giftes graces benefites temporal bodely and gostly that I haue had or shall heare after receyue for they ●e his and from hym by grace I acknowledge to haue receyued all as Paule sayeth what hast thou that thou hast not receiued at gods handes Yea for asmuch as al the slaunders misreportes persecuciōs sickenes and misfortunes which I haue already or shal from hence forth suffer and euen death self I confesse by the vnderstanding that the Lord hath geuen me that thei haue beue and shalbe his giftes and graces geuen and graunted of a great loue for my wealth and profit wherfore as his deuyne rewardes I graunt to haue had thē of god for them I thancke him and as hys owne I leaue and restore them to him And for so much as I cānot but acknowledge that I haue gone alwaies backward from him so often as I wolde rule my selfe by my blynde iudgement folyshe wisdome and deuelishe spirite nether did so much as go one steppe forthe toward God but whē I was moued dryuen and thrust forwarde of his holy spirit Wherefore I commit to the highest God my most deare father and to his gouernance al the world and specially my self in him as I may I wil help my selfe with myne owne wytte and fredome namely by makynge it obedyent to hym ▪ Moreouer if euer I haue spoken or shal from hence forth vtter any word if I haue done or shal do anye worcke that is to hym pleasaunte if I haue had or after this tyme shal haue thoughte desyre or wil that good is ▪ I geue it to God and at hys handes I professe that I haue had al my goodnes so that if it were gods wil to take from me al that he hath geuen me there shuld in me remayne nothynge but onely sinnes those are myne own and al other thinges he his Thus be my sinnes if I shuld go before gods presence I were but dampned if I were mynded to make satisfaction I could not no nor yet anye sayncte that euer was ther is none whose loue is so greate to take my sinnes vppon him and satisfy for them and appease gods anger saue Christ alone wherfore to him I bequeath my synnes I leaue to hym my pride vnkindenes vnbeleue mistrust arrogancy enuy wrath ambitiō and al my vnnumerable wickednes I geue to him my euil thoughtes affectiōs and desires to be short I make one fagot boundel of al my offences present past and to come and geue them to Christ hauynge sure fayth and stedfast hope that he wil accept them for his own and hath euen already taken them and for them hath satisfyed on the crosse hys father layed them on hys necke and he did not ones agayn say it but of great loue allowed them for hys and to consume and burn them in the flame of his deuine loue he bore them on his innocente shoulders vppon the crosse as Peter writeth and so was offered a sacrifice for vs. Now seing I haue left al my sins to Christ and geuen to God my substaunce and being withal other giftes and graces that he bestowed on me I remayn naked wythout eyther good or euyl and truly to say I am rather nothyng In that I haue restored to God my beinge that I hadde by creatyon and byrthe But for because it is impossible that he shuld saue me wythout being and so it is y ● he wil saue me therfore first I carye wyth me Christ him selfe which is my life God hathe so loued me that he hathe geuen hymselfe to me For so hath God loued y ● world that for theyr syns he hath geuen vs his only begutten sonne I cary also with me hys spirit that was of his eternal father geuen me of his most roi●l liberaliti as wel declareth Paule wher he sayeth God hath sent the spirit of his sonne into our hartes wherby we cry and cal father father And in that he hathe geuen me hym he hath restored me to myself and former being With a new substance and nature spiritual so that for the possibility of my saluaciō I haue a being but yet lacke I treasure to discharge my great dets and to appeare rych in goddes syght in consideraciō wher of I beare with me Christes watching abstinences trauayles praiers persecutions slaunders I take with me hys teares hys swet hys bloud and al that euer he dyd or suffered in thre and thirty yeres is myne euery deale and with liuely faith I embrace it as for mine own I cary beside this with me hys pacyence mekenes loue and al other hys denyne vertues his gifts and graces hys treasures and al that he hath mereted and des●rued hys lyfe passion deathe resurreccion and assension be mine ye all y t euer he hath done or shal from henceforthe do is mine and what nedeth more to say if God haue geuen vs his owne sonne howe hathe not he with him geuen vs al thynges wherfore with faithe I embrace my sweete Iesus for mine owne he is my rightwysenes wysdom raunsome and holines he is my strengthe he is my spirite my lyghte lyfe hope and al my goodnes euen Christ him selfe in hyslaste wyl bequethed me all y ● he had of the father Wherfore he sayth I entertayne you at my table as my father hathe vsed me as my father hath made me hys heyre so nowe I ordein you I wil that as you be my brethren so you shalbe my folowers And in another place he sayeth I haue loued you as mi father hath loued me sithen I am nowe through Christe so ryche of treasures vertuouse and graces ▪ I shal be hable not onely to satisfy for my dettes but also to purchase infinite paradise when soeuer they shalbe soulde Who shalbe nowe either to accuse or cōdemne me after that Christ hathe thus clothed me with his innocensy rightwisenes holynes loue with all his vertuse graces treasures merites and with his own selfe I may with no lesse boldenes and suretye then Christ appeare before God I am his sonne as he is and heyre of heauen semblably I am innocent as Christ is now that he hathe satisfied for me and payed my raunsome and rewarded me wyth his innocency Christe saied I hallow my self that they also maye be holye euen he is oure holynes and we be his members Wherfore it is as possible for God not to loue me as it is possible that he shuld not loue Christ by reason wherof Paule sayeth who shall

rocke he hathe the greate deuyl to chase awaye And if in the lunatycke sōne there was a greate commocion when Christ oute of his bodye wold haue drawen the malignaunte spirite y t had possessed hym thynck what commocion there is when he chaseth hym from the soule in the whyche he dwelleth more wyllyngely And know that it maketh a cōmocion not onli outward in ceremonies as do cōmonly y ● false christians when it is neare Easter but there is a cōmocion within the verye bowels of the soule and inward part of the herte there is nothing that so cā perce the soule as doth the spirite of god when it entreth into it by speciall slidinge Not only it spoileth vs of the olde Adam wyth hys concupisence and doth cloth vs with Christ wyth all his vertues but also maketh vs to be borne a new that as if a poore man were sodenly made an Emperoure he shoulde be wholy chaunged so he that of a vile sinner is made the sōne of God chaūgeth thoughtes effectes desyres and wyll chaungeth frenshipes practises wordes worckes and life and of humayne beastly carnal earth and deuelyshe he becommeth heauenly spirituall angelicall and deuine as did Paul goyng to Damasco when Christ did enter hys hert Ther was a mutacion from the ryghte hande of God When the spirite of the Lorde entreth in a person he is chaunged into a nother man for that diyng to the world he beginneth to lyne to him self And if when Christ dyd enter into the temple he purged it from those that bought and sold thyncke if whē he entreth into the spiritual temple he clenseth it from euery vnclennes of sinne there resteth not in it any thyng of dampnacion he healeth it moste perfectly so that if the vncleane woman was healed at the touche of the hemme of Christs garment y u mayst thinke what it is whē Christ in spirite entryng into the soule and the person with lyuely fayth imbraceth him wholy for hys Also as when the sonne beames enter into thy house thou perceiuest in the ayre euē to the smalest mote whych y u couldest not se before so whē in the soule do enter the beames of lyght of the diuine grace the sinnes are perceyued in more cleare maner Yea as the prodigial sōne neuer knew nor perceiued truly his own errour til with such pitie he was imbraced of his father had profe how greate was y e fatherly goodnes and charitie which he had offended so the sinner when he conuerteth begynneth with the spirit to taste the diuine goodnes he beginneth also to know his malice pride and ingratitude with the rest his vnlawful sinnes He restoreth w t Zacheus that which is not his if Christ enter into his house and dyspenseth the superfluous thynges yea beyng rych wyth the treasures of Christ he leaueth al wyth vnmeasurable loue He can not participate or take part of the bountye of god that doth not cōmunicate distribut to others The lyuelye flame muste nedes breake forth or els beyng smoudered it quēcheth and the fountaynes that contynuallye receiue rūning water must of force ouer flowe so they that haue in them the holye gost by the testimony wherof they are sure to be the sonnes of God haue contynuallye one suche and so entire sincere pure gladnes which groweth of the liuely knowledge y t they haue of the greate goodnes of god that they cā not expresse it nor they cānot cōprehēd thē selfes Therfore not being able to w thold thē selues they spring leape for ioy with Iohn Baptist with his mother they make exclamaciō as to Zacharye so are their tōges losed so y t although in praysyng of god they perceiue with Moses that they stammer and are of an vnlearned tōg neuertheles with the Apostles they can not kepe scilence of that which they haue herd sene felt wyth the spirit they must nedes speake by the superabundaūce of loue that they haue they desire wyth the woman of Samarye that euery one shoulde taste that which they them selues haue had experiēce of And although for preachynge the gospell they be persecuted for al that they do not desiste and leaue of but triumphing in al thei perseuer and go forth euen to the deth they feele in such sorte in the herte the charity of god that not onlye it is swete to thē to suffer for his loue but wyth the Apostels they reioice therin And for that they participate of that greate charitie of Christe by beynge his members Therfore wyth hym they pardon al men beyng ready to shed their bloud and put theyr lyfe for their enemies with Paul also to be accursed from Christe And this because that as to Stenen so the heauens are opened to them in suche sorte that in spirite with clere supernatural lyght of fayth they se the glory of god in hauing geuen his only begottē dearly beloued sōne for them vpon the crosse they rest also quiet as the shyp when Christ entered into it they haue the peace of cōscyence knowing with certeyne fayth that god by Christ by hys mercy hath pardoned them They haue also quietnes of mynde in suche maner that thoughe they were in al the perils necessyties of the world yet alwayes aprouing for iust the iudgemen●es of god knowing that he is their only father that he hath most singuler cure of them that euery thynge serueth them to saluacion they stand most surely quiet in peace trāquility These suche for that they walke accordyng to the vocacion of god haue honour of euery enterprise that they take in hand they can not be letted or resisted no more thē God Yea it is force that euery one feare theym as Herode feared Saint Iohn Baptyste for that he had in hym the spirit of the Lorde as Abimelech did Abrahā Isaac They are daylye more firme stablyshed in good purposes to doo euer better beyng lyfted vp cōtinualy to a greater perfeccion with Paule althoughe their mind be conuersaunt in heauen neuertheles descendyng by Christiā pytye to fele the miseryes of theyr brethren they laboure also to drawe them to Christ and moue thē to haue the spirite to be in veryty Christianes not Ipocrites As y e very grape doth moue the birdes to taste therof and not the pyt fal And finally although with the Apostels they neuer remayne wyth Christ and wyth the Canauite whiche woulde not departe for his vngentle wordes neuertheles they are prompte and ready for his honour and glorye to leaue wyth the Samaritane hys swete presence And what is more to be sayde when the spirite of God doothe enter into a soule he suffereth it not to slepe nor stand in idlenesse but maketh it worcke thynges merueylous and inexplicable for the loue of God to whome be euer al la●d honour and glory by Iesu Christe our