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A10574	An homelye or sermon of good and euill angels: preached by the Reuerend D. Vrbanus Rhegius, pastor and superintendent of Christes Church at Zelle in Saxony. Anno. 1537. Newly translated into English by Ric. Ro. citizen of London. 1583. Seene, perused, and allowed; Sermon von den guten und boesen engeln. English	Rhegius, Urbanus, 1489-1541.; Robinson, Richard, citizen of London.	1583 (1583)	STC 20844; ESTC S106430	17,786	94

good Angell and loueth God Thus farre saith Saint Augustine in Psalm 96. ¶ The same Doctor in his booke De vera Religione Cap. 55. hath these wordes ANgelos honoramus Charitate non seruitute c. Wee honour the Angells with loue and not seruice Neither do we build them Churches For they will not haue thēselues so honoured of vs Bycause they know that euen we our selues if we be good and Godly persons are the temples of the mightie God Truly is it written therfore that man is forbidden of the Angell not to worship him but one God vnder whom he was euen fellow seruant of him These also are S. Augustines wordes which as yet the Catholique Church hath not reiected For they are grounded in the Scriptures or with most firme testimonies of Scrip●ures established as you héere Although ●he aduersaries notably nay wickedly ●loake couertly deale w t these words of Augustine And surely they are wise when they indeuour to maintaine that ●heir vngodly errour hereby For these words doe discouer their errour and do ●eproue them of wickednes and vngod●ynes The Scripture teacheth vs that ●here is one onely Mediator betweene God and vs wretched mankind namely ●esus Christ vnto whom in al necessities ●e may runne for succour By whome with confidence wee maye haue accesse ●nto the father Ephes 2. And by whom wee ought to looke for assured helpe of ●he father What then goe wée about ●hat mischeefes moue vs what vngod●y curiositie compelleth vs that wee are ●ot contented with the word of God and ●acred doctrine in the rule of our faith Religion But this must we know That An●els entyrely and from our hearts are to ●e loued of vs as our watchmen or safe●éepers and speciall friendes and as our A Prayer vnto God for the assistanc● of his Angelicall Powers in the prosperous preseruation of this our mortall race ALmighty and eternal God which by thy worde and holy spirite hast created al things in heauē in earth and in the waters vnder the earth visible and inuisible Which by thy holy Prophet Dauid art said To make Angels thy Spirites And thy Ministers a flaming fire Signifying thereby that for the good Children of God thou ordainest good Angels for the wicked of this world thou ordainest euil Ministers to make them to know that thou hast power onely to saue or consume whome where and when thou wilt I a most sinnefull soule the Child of Adam by sinne subiect to thy wrath but in thy sonne Christ Iesus by his redemption and merite the adopted Child of grace doe humbly and hartely beséech thée for the same thy sonne Christ his sake my Redéemer by thy holy Spirite to regenerat and illuminate my soule to ●uryfie my heart and inward Man to ●ardon the frailty of the outward man ●nd accept the poore prayer of a penitent sinner Which I make not onely for my selfe but for all thy chosen Children of Israel vnto whom passing thorough the ●eas of this transitory troublesom life Thou sayest Behold I send mine Angel which shal go before thee keepe thee ●n the way bring thee vnto the place that I haue prepared for thee Meaning by the land of promise héere on earth thy eternall kingdome of heauen Vnto the which land of promis on earth as thou by the guid of thy good Angel broughtest those Isralits whē thou sauedst them consumedst their enimies So I beséech thy great goodnesse to graunt the guid of thy good Angell vnto me and to so many as Seeking thy kingdom and the Righteousnesse thereof doe gladly trauell in our vocations to thy honour and glory And vouchsafe also of thy gratious prouidence to turne from vs all those euills which we most righteously haue deserued in the wayward iourneying of our vnwillingnesse to serue thée Conduct vs sayd they were Iewes and were not making them to fall downe at the féete of thine elect we Render all humble and hartie thankes vnto thy diuine Maiestie therefore beséeching thée of thy manifold mercies and abundant grace to continue thy loue towardes vs that wee neuer henceforth want the same So as thou wouldest preserue vs and all thy chosen from the howre of temptation which shall come vppon all the worlde That when it séemeth good and gracious vnto thée to shorten the dayes of this troublesome last age for thine elect sake when thy Sonne our Sauiour shall come with a warning and with the voyce of the Archangel with the trompe of God shall descend frō heauen when the Lord Iesus shall bee reueyled from heauen with the Angels of his power That is as our sauiour Christ saith When the Sonne of man shall come in his glory and all his holy Angels shall come with him and shall sit vpon the seate of his glory and gathering together all that slept in the earth summoned before him at the generall iudgement shall separate the good soules from the bad That then it would please thée of thy manifold mercies and ●nfinite graces To make vs of the nom●er of those thy Chosen sheepe standing ●n his Right hand vnto whom the same ●hy sonne then will say Come yee the ●lessed of my Father possesse yee the ●ingdome prepared for you from the ●eginning of the world Where in the ●●cietie of all those Angells and Elders ●bout y e seate of thy sacred throne wor●●ipping the Deitie in Trinitie we ●aye incessantlye sing that heauenlye ●mne Blessing and Riches and wisedome and Thankes and Honour and power and might be vnto our God foreuer and euer Amen R. R. This benefite therefore Creator deare with one accord in thee we celebrate To thee our Angels and Melodious queare together singing thankes shall decantate And in thy Church most hartely pray we will thy watchfull Angels vnto vs to send And to thy people which embrace would still thy Sonne his Gospell vnto the worldes end Amen FINIS R. R. 2. Cor. 10. Gaudentes in Domino Gaudeamus Reuel cap. 19. vz. 1. Amen Alleluyah Saluation Glory and honour and power bee to the Lorde our God Faults escaped Thus corrected B. fol. 2. page 2. for deadly did reade deadly lye did Eod B. fol. 5. for Rom. 1. Ephes 2. Siniter D. The first page first word and first line for neare vs reade eche place dravving neare vs. Fol. 5. page 2. for 4. Reg. 9. reade 4. Reg. 6. Fol. 8. page 2. for his proper Angels reade the●r proper Angels Ibidem vz. 14. 15. Col. 3. Ieam 4. Psal 34. Iohn 18. Rom. 12. Exod. 25. vs 20. 22. Zach. 2. Genes 26. Math. 21. Reuel 19. Math. 18. Difference betwene spirits and bodily cretures The excellency of spiritual creatures Heb. 1. Good and Euill Angels Genes 3. Angels degenerate Iude. 1. 2. Pet. 2. Iohn 8. Ibidem Ministerie of good Angels and of euill The Turke a right image of Sathan Sathan vnuisible in substaunce After vvhat maner Sathan inuadeth mankinde Genes 3. Sathans first victory ouer mankinde Christes greatest benefites tovvardes vs. Sathans subtil deceites As he is a soule slaier Genes 7. The mercy of god in stirring vp Abraham Genes 12. Rom. 1. Of this mā came the sect of Nicholataines Diuers Herisies Cerinthus Montanists Mar●ionists Manichies Nestorians Pelagians What subtil sleightes Sathan did vvorke in Westphalia The errors of the Munsterians Sathan holdeth Papists fast bound in errors No truth can make them yeeld Sathans power permitted by God Iobes afflictions Iob. 1.2 3. What time Sathan watcheth to worke his mischeefe Sathan hindereth as vvell the godly as the vngodly With what armour and weapons we must vvithstand Sathā his Angels Good Angels ministring Spirites Gods protection of his elect by his good Angels Hierusalem deliuered her enimies slaine by gods Angels S. Paules rule S. Peters Angell the 2 time The Apostles Angell Maries Angel Whether Angels are to be worshipped or no. The doctrine and opiniō of S. Augustine concerning Angels not to be vvorshiped Acts. 13. 1 Cor. 3. 2. Cor. 6. Ephes 2. Acts. 17. Doctrine of the Scriptures Psal 104. Exod. 23. Math. 6. Ibidem 1. Thess 4. 2. Thess 1. Math. 24. Ibidem Reuel 7.

the similitude of God that ●hey may extoll hym with perpetuall ●raise and honour or worship him con●erning whom I will afterward speake Secondly wée must also learne whe●her there be moe kindes of Angels then ●ne Héere wée knowe out of gods word ●hat there are bothe good and euill An●elles Good Angels God calleth his chil●rē Iob. 38. But euill Angelles are Deuils But peraduenture some man woulde merueill and aske thys of mee from ●hence haue deuils theyr originall ●eing that Moyses sayeth in Genesys 1. in the beginning of Genesis mencion is made of this battaile and most greuous conflict betwene the sonne of God and these deuils where wee reade thus That the seed of the Woman shall breke in sunder the Serpents head And that the serpent burning with infinite lust of reuenge by endlesse and vnsaciable hatred in al that he can shal with excéeding beastly rage cruelty persecute the same seede But that Angels by theyr owne wyll and luste became disobedient and haue lost theyr brightnesse and sincertie The Epistle of S. Iude witnesseth where hee clearely and profoundly sayth The Angels obserued not their Originall That is to saye they were in the beginning made pure and vndefiled but afterwards they became disobedient like as S. Peter sayth They transgressed and therefore were they plagued And Christ saith that the Deuill continewed not in truth signifying by the wordes Hee was indeede created in truth but hee aboade not in the truth but fell from the truth and perished And in an other place hee sayeth That the deuil speakes lies of his owne That is hee speaketh lyes of that which hée receiued not from God but what hee of his owne will liberty and luste tooke chose vnto himselfe this is sinne This doctrine is néedefull to bée knowen and to know this maketh much for our purpose least wée doo fall into that filthy herisie of the Manichees and that wée may be fortified against the same And this doctryne did these auncient Fathers of sound iudgment diligentlye teach and beate into mens eares Contrarie wise good Angels béeing corroborate or strēgthened by the sonne of God through hys holy spirite continued still in obedyence were confirmed that so the son of God might continue and abide there lord and head Thirdlye also the Ministerye of good Angels and theyr office let vs sée out of the worde of God And first héere euen thys is speciallye necessary that we may learne suffcientlye to knowe the will and practyses of the euyll spyrit agaynst vs. Of y e Hebrues Sathan is called that euil Spirit y t is to say The aduersary For al deuils be perpetual dedly vnreclaimable vnto him For so is hee made that he feareth no man A man may see a certaine image of Sathā in the Turkes which are y e most deerest and most diligentest vessels and instrumentes of Sathan to the accomplishment of all his will lust and desires In these may you haue a certayn image not obscure of that malicious most cruell splrit to beholde with such outrage of minde with so great bitternesse of crueltye are the Turkes enflamed againste Christians with so deadly and beastlye cruell hatred are they swolne against them that they aduenture and suffer at full all manner of gréefes miseries and calamities hunger thirst most gréeuous labours scourges stripes woundes yea and also death it selfe So that they may hurt and worke extreame iniurye towardes the bodyes and goods of Christes true beléeuers And where they preuaile in strength hauing obtained some one victorie ouer the Christians they are not contented with the ritches and substaunce nor wyth the obedyence and seruilitye of Christians but wyth beastlye and horryble crueltye they kill and slaie as well young as olde men and womē with the sword ripping the bellyes of women great with childe they hange vp babes and silly infantes vppon hedges or stakes they dismember and butcherly mangle in péeces their captiues with their hooked and bowed fawchins none other wise then Butchers doo Oxen Neither are they touched with any neuer so sclender motion of mercye towardes them or their so great calamitye That I may in meane time let passe with silence theyr mischéeuous filthy dealinges bothe horrible to héere and to repeate as also theyr abhominable sinnes shamelesse crimes and reproches wherewith they punnish torment those silly Christians whome they haue captiued Wée can not sée Sathan in his substaunce because hée is a spirit as Paule sayth Ephes 2. And againe in the 6. Cha. thus We fight not against blod flesh But Sathans most malicious murdering will cogitations hatred craftie dealings practises councels against vs after a sort wee may know see in his members That is in vngodly persons who be voide of y e feare of God indued are with what force of body and minde and with what strength hée is indued what weapons or defences hee will vse what are his determinations what thinges he practiseth and with what pollicies subtilties he is instructed These when thou hast diligentlie searched out then much better furnished and much more boldlie maiest thou marche on to set vpon him thereby more busilie maist thou defend thy selfe so much more circumspectlie maiest thou inuade him and thereby more assured and more greater hope maiest thou haue to obtaine the victorie and beare the prize away And that same our heauenlie Father hath opened and disclosed vnto vs his childrē by good credit in his worde all this enimies thoughts determinations practises enterprises will power and warlike provision of this our horible and mightie enimie to the ende that we may well and stronglie defend our selues against hys violence practise and snares to the ende wée might goe against him easilie abide y e brunt of his assault be able to quēch and vanquish all his firie dartes If so be that wée at no time through great and filthie ingratitude and foolishnes despise and reiect the doctrine of God and his admonitions nor as faithlesse vngratious vngodly trucebreakers forsworne fearefull and fainthearted souldiors casting away our weapons dispairing in minde without any resisting which the most mercifull God turne from vs yéeld our selues into perpetuall and wretched seruitude nor deliuer ouer our selues vnto so filthy so horrible and so beastly cruell enemie Therefore nowe hearken ye and giue eare how that changeling our most diligent and most craftie deceitfull enemye inuadeth and tempteth mankinde with what subtill sleightes he rusheth in vppon vs with what bandes of power hée fighteth against vs with what garboiles he besturres him and what subtilties and fraudes he vseth to circumuent vs. He is not ignorant that we shalbe made partakers of eternall righteousnes and saluation and that we shall attaine thether from whence his vile corruption fell if we doe constantly by al meanes sticke to the trueth of the Gospell embracing the same with both armes and the wordes of