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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08819	A godly sermon preached at Detford in Kent, on Monday the ix. of Iune, in Anno. 1572.	Pagit, Eusebius, 1547?-1617.	1586 (1586)	STC 19105; ESTC S105805	17,687	50

more husbands It followeth Defraud not one another except it be c. In these words Paul sheweth a notable remedie against the feigned shew of holines loue of ourselues For Sathan many times pricketh vs with a shew of weldoyng to thinke our selues to be defiled by the coÌ„pany of our wiues therefore causeth vs to leaue our vocation and thinke of an other estate as we reade that many men and some kinges of this realme haue forsaken their calling left their wiues become religious persoÌ„s so many women haue forsaken the duties of marriage closed vp theÌ„selues in vnreligious cloysters Besides this mans nature is such it is so much addicted to the loue of it selfe that at Sathans instigation the man dothnot only neglect his wife but altogether loath her and likewise the wife the husband for these causes doth the Apostle so earnestly diligently reason of the mutual society and loue betwixt man and wife as if he should say if married persons purpose to lead a single life eyther because they suppose it to be more holy or els are pricked thereto with sundry kinds of lust not contenting theÌ„selues with that ordinary meane that God hath appointed let theÌ„ consider that they are tyed one to the other by a mutuall band the man is but onely the one halfe of his body so likewise the woman Wherefore they haue not free libertie to part asunder as they lust wheÌ„ they lust but rather they ought to weigh this we cannot be one wtoutanother we lack one anothers ayde God hath ioyned vs together to helpe one another let vs therfore one ayd anothers need If they go so far that they separate theÌ„selues the Apostle requireth first a mutuall consent wch is necessary because the continency not of one only but of both of theÌ„ is hasarded SecoÌ„dly that it be but for a time for perperuall chastitie is not in their power but is the gift of God Thirdly that they doe not therfore absteine from keeping company one with another as though that abstmence were of it selfe a good holy worke or a piece of Gods seruice but that we may giue ouer our selues to better exercises to wit fasting and prayer in wch words we haue to consider that the Apostle speaketh not of euery sorte of fasting and euery kind of prayer Sobernes teÌ„perancie are kinds of fasting prayer shold not only be dayly but also continuall He speaketh therfore of such a fast as is a publike and solemne testimonie of repentaÌ„ce by wch we turn away gods wrath vengeaÌ„ce or by wch the faithful prepare theÌ„selues to prayer when they take in haÌ„d som earnest matter The same may be sayd of prayer as for exaÌ„ple wheÌ„ some calamity or misery is nigh or if some tokeÌ„ of Gods wrath appeare or when some matter of great weight importance is to be taken in hand as the ordering of ministers c. And surely the Apostle doeth worthily ioine these two together not as though fasting were a piece of Gods seruice but because it is a preparation vnto prayer For the bodie being by fasting subdued the more willingly by the assistance of Gods spirite submitteth it selfe vnto the spirite being both ioyned they poure forth more harti supplications vnto the Lord. And therefore our sauiour Christ ioyneth them together in like sort when he saith This kind of diuils is not cast forth but by fasting and prayer Now theÌ„ in these words of the Apostle we haue a plaine ouerthrowe of that popish doctrine of diuorce a thoro mensa that is to saye from bedde boord They teach that for sundry causes and endes a man may be separated from his wife at the table and the bed yet the Apostle sheweth that such separation cannot be made for any ende but for this namely that they may giue ouer themselues to fasting and prayer Their causes are worldly fleshly but the Apostles end is spiritual heauenly No lesse vaynely and fondly do they deale in the whole matter of Diuorce for whereas our sauiour Christ maketh but one cause and that is Fornication they make nyne or ten at the least and wheras by the warrant of Gods word the faultles party may marrie if he haue not the gift of continencie for by the law of God the adulterer and adulteresse should both be put to death as before I shewed in the beginning and the woman is set free the husband being dead from the lawe of the man and the man from the lawe of the wife the wife being dead by the popish canon law yet in this realme mainteined it coÌ„meth to passe that neither the sin is so grieuously punished as of right it shold neither may the faultles person marrie but as wel the guiltles as the gultie yea though they haue not the gift of chastity enioyned to liue a single sole life nay wold to god it were not a shrewd sinfull life Now it followeth again come together c though the Apowle wil haue christian meÌ„ women for godly exercises sake to separate theÌ„selues yet he wil not haue that separatioÌ„ to endure ouer long the reason is added that Sathan tempt you not c. As if the Apostle should saye when ye take vpon you to abstein long froÌ„ the society one of another and occasion is profered to Sathan to oppresse you because you take that in hand wch you are not able to performe for such is the imbecillitie weakenes of the flesh that the one cannot long be wtout the coÌ„pany of the other and therfore you had need looke to yourselues saith the Apostle for the aduersary wil leaue no corner vnsought nor any stone vnrolled to prouoke you to wickednes incontinency Here we haue to learne that lesson wch I touched in the beginning namely that God requireth pure chast mindes as wel as cleane bodies And also we haue to note the malice of sathan who goeth about like a roring lyon seeking to deuour vs if we consider his force hee is stroÌ„g as a lyon if we weigh his subtilty he is called the great olde serpent can translate himselfe into the likenes of an Angel of light he spared not Christ but tempted him immediatly after baptisme therfore he will not cease to assaile vs we had need therfore to be sober watchful and to pray continually with the disciples for the increase of our faith because faith is the mean by wch we must resist though his power be in the scriptures couÌ„ted great yet this singular comfort we haue in the same scriptures reuealed vnto vs that he is but a coward playeth the part of a tyrant who when he hath gotten any people vnder him in slauerie and boudage doth miserably torment theÌ„ But if we resist him the diuill I meane and set our selues against him he wil flÃ©e far froÌ„ vs for his tyranie is exercised only vpon the children of vnbeliefe as for the faithfull he is not able to touch theÌ„ wtout gods sufferance and appointmeÌ„t he cold not enterinto a few sooine til Christ gaue him leaue He could not touch the body and goods of Iob til God suffered him his power is not increased nor the streÌ„gth and arme of our Lord any whit at al abated It remaineth then that we set our selues in conflict skirmish against the diuil we shrinke not for then we lie opeÌ„ to be wounded The Apostle hath in the Ephesians described Panopleian that is to say complet harnesse of a christiaÌ„ he appointeth euery one to haue their loynes girded about with veritie hauing on the breastplate of righteousnes their feete shod with the preparation of the gospell of peace that shield of faith that helmet of saluation the sword of the spirite Marke how the Apostle armeth a christiaÌ„ souldier in the fore parts appointeth him in harnes for his backe to defend that wtall by which the spirtt of God teacheth vs with what valiant courage we should be indued when we come to skirmish with the diuill we may not in any case turne our backs to him for then we lie opeÌ„ easily receiue his wouÌ„ds but resist him by faith as I said before he will flee far froÌ„ vs. The Lord indue vs with force and strength of his spirit froÌ„ aboue to wtstand Sathan all his wicked teÌ„ptations imprint these things in our hearts which we haue heard to the amendment of our sinfull liues and conuersation to the glory of his name thorow Iesus Christ to whom with the holy Ghost be al honor and glory for euer and euer Amen Let vs pray FINIS

A GODLY SERmon Preached at Detford in Kent on Monday the ix of Iune in Anno. 1572. AT LONDON â§ Printed for Thomas Man An. 1586. A Godly Sermon Preached at Detford in Kent The Text. 1. Cor. 7. ver 1. NOw coneerning the thinges wherof ye wrote vnto me It were good for a man not to touch a woman ver 2. 2 Neuerthelesse to auoid fornication let euery man haue his wife and let euery woman haue her own Husband IN the name of the Father the Sonne and the holy Ghost thrÃ©e persons one God let vs pray O gracious God and most mercifull Father by whose goodnesse it commeth to passe that wee haue bene safely preserued from our yong tender yeres vnto this present houre are now called together to serue thÃ©e by sin ging of Psalmes with preaching and prayer we most huÌ„bly besÃ©ech thÃ©e for thy son christs sake that thou wilt not suffer our minds to be negligentlye wandering about other matters to make thÃ©e more and more displeased agaynst vs but so to order gouern the same by the inspiration of thy holy spirit that we may by these vertuous excercises learn more more to mortifie kil the lusts of the flesh to sorrow and lament our sinful wretchednes misery and to repent and ameÌ„d our liues in such sort as all may redound to the kingdome of Christ and to the confusion of Antichrist to the setting vp of his glory and to the pulling downe cleane ouerthrowing of al superstition false doctrine heresie and popery thorow the same thy sonne Iesus Christ our Sauiour Amen IT is written in the vij Chapter of the first Epistle of S. Paul to the Corinthians in the beginning of the Chapter in these wordes Nowe concerning the things whereof you wrote vnto me c. For the better vnderstanding of the Apostles mind we haue to consider that after the Apostle had preached thegospell to the Corinthians and planted a Church amongst them was gone abroad to publishe the glad tidinges of saluation to others also for he was not then as Preachers at this present should be tyed to one flock but by the vertue of his commission hee must goe thorow all the worlde false Apostles entred into the Churche who being puffed vp with vaine glorye and affectate eloquence sought to bring into contempt the simplicity whiche Paule vsed in preaching the Gospell Here in the very entraunce we haue two things to learne First that as God is willing and woulde haue all men saued and come to the knowledge of his truth and therefore vseth meanes to accomplish it namely the preaching of his gospell which is that power of god to saluation to all that belÃ©eue So our common aduersary the Diuell goeth about like a roaring lion not onely sÃ©eking in himselfe to deuour vs but also vsing his instruments to deceiue vs 1. Tim. 4.1 2. Tim. 3.1 1. Peter 3.3 Iud. 18. Mat. 23.24 to draw vs backward into al error and superstition SecoÌ„dly we may here sÃ©e what a gap is opened to all inconueniences when that Minister or Preacher is from among his flocke Paul no sooner gon from Corinthus but by and by false Apostles labour to destroy the which hÃ©e had plaÌ„ted â— Cor. 1.10 He was no sooner departed from the churches of Galatia but there craftilye crept in false brethren that corrupted the pure doctrine of Christ and taught that the ceremonies of the law must be necessarily obserued Exod. 32.2 Moises no sooner gone vp into the mountain froÌ„ the people of Israel to receaue the law at the Lords haÌ„ds but the people fall by and by to Idolatrye and vngodlinesse And Paul sÃ©emeth to warne the elders of Ephesus concerning this matter also Act. 20.28 when he sayth Take hÃ©ede therefore vnto your selues and to all the flocke whereof the holy Ghost hath made you ouersÃ©ers to fÃ©ede the church of God which he hath purchased with his owne blood For I knowe this that after my departure shal grÃ©euous wolues enter in among you not sparing the flock O that our Non residents would but consider this O that they which giue them liberty to sinne would weigh this then mens consciences should not be so clogged with iniquitie vngodlines as they are Then gods people should be better instructed fed loked vnto in respect of their spiritual pasture than eyther nowe they are or hitherto haue ben God in mercy if it be his will and pleasure bring it to passe But to returne these false Apostles that had thrust in themselues among the Corinthians after Paules departure did not onelye as before I sayd bring into disliking Paules plain and simple kinde of teaching but also indeuoured to intangle with vayne and foolishe questions the mindes and consciences of the Corinthians and albeit the Corinthians did harken much vnto them yet it appeareth that they did not vtterly shake off that authority and credit which they had of Paul therefore they demaunded Pauls iudgemeÌ„t concerning such matters as the false Apostles and Preachers went about to perswade theÌ„ in here by the way one thing is taught to you coÌ„mon people that you receaue not as truth euery thing that euery one speaketh for all is not golde that glistereth but try the spirits whether they be of God yea or no agayn proue all things but retaine only suche things as be good you haue for your instructioÌ„ in this behalfe the coÌ„mandement of our Saniour Christ search the scriptures also that notable example of the men of Thessalonica who receiued the word with all readines searched the scriptures dayly whether these thinges were so The questions which the CorinthiaÌ„s proposed were as may plainly be proued by the circuÌ„stances of this chapter concerning single life the duely of mariage Besides of discord dissentioÌ„s in mariage of mariage between the faithful vnfaithful of vncircuÌ„cising the circuÌ„eised of seruitude of virginity second mariage Of all these at this present it is impossible to speak Therfore we will deale only with the two first that is concerning single life and the dueties of married folke of which two poyntes the Apostle doeth largely intreat in the 9 first verses of this chapter To deale with any other curious diuision of the text I minde not for that I see it wil be the more profitable for you the more simply I deale herein I will therefore take the words as they lye and expound them briefly withall deliuering vnto you such obseruations of doctrine and christian instructions as God by his spirit shall reueale vnto me In the beginning of my text are these wordes Now concerning the thinges c. The Apostle had in some of the Chapters before goyng and especially in the latter end of the 6. Chapter intreated of a certaine disease named fornication for this sicknes he appointeth in this Chapter a double remedie the one is marriage made in the feare of God the other

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