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A20794	Two sermons preached the one at S. Maries Spittle on Tuesday in Easter weeke. 1570. and the other at the Court at Windsor the Sonday after twelfth day, being the viij. of Ianuary, before in the yeare. 1569. by Thomas Drant Bacheler in Diuinitie.	Drant, Thomas, d. 1578?	1570 (1570)	STC 7171; ESTC S116118	66,054	168

thée Agayne some séeke him like Iudas for money for wealth and to get vauntage by theyr so séeking but Lorde Iesus those shall or neuer finde thée or be flung flat on theyr backes when they find thée And yet Lord too there is an other kinde of people that séeke thée Lord we read that Ioseph and Mary did séeke thée Dolentes that is mourning ▪ so we séeke thée in these dayes of teares agaynst so many dangers agaynst so many ●…pprobries in so diuelish a generation in so combersome a worlde in so straite a way in such contrary law of our members and of our spirites in such haling backe of the world and worldly frenship that dolentes quaerimus te alas good Lord with great hart breake we seke thee Lord geue strength to our fayth and kindle courage in vs to make after thee and séeke thée Lord if we séeke thée thou hast promised we shal finde thee all thy words are truth it selfe therefore we will make after thée and séeke thée We reade that Ioseph and Mary sought thée with sorrow but founde thée with ioy We know Lord that the griefes of this iorny are nothing worthy the ioyes that thou yeldest to them that haue founde thée He that had his eares full of the world and hys armes full of the world and his belly full of the world and his eyes full of the world and all the best pleasing pleasures in the world he hath cryed out agaynst them vanitie of vanities and all is but vanitie O Lord all other thoughtes are vayne and most extreame vayne O thou only worthy to be sought and none but thou worthy to be foūd height nor depth heate nor colde egde nor poynt of sword foe nor frend shall neuer preuayle against vs but we will make after thée and séeke thée O that we may finde thée graunt O good Lord that we may finde thée He that hath founde thée hath found the Shiloh and Messias of the whole world he hath found the Lyon of the tribe of Iudah that is able to master all the beastes of the field he hath founde a rocke a buckler a shield and a horne of health and one that will lift vp his head so that he néede to feare foes no more he hath founde that pearle which a wise man would sell all that he hath to buy so that he néede to bestow his loue vppon no Iewell els any more he hath foūd the Lambe after whom he shall for euer walke in innocency in white apparell so that he shall not be troubled with rebellious motions of his flesh any more He hath founde the healthfull trée of life in the midst of Paradise so that he shall not sée death any more he hath founde hym out of whose belly gush floodes of life yealding waters so that he shall not be dry any more he hath founde him that will wype away all teares and all infirmi●…ies so that he néede not to be drou●…ie and heauy any more he hath found hys owne wisedome hys owne sanctification his owne Iustice he hath founde the strong God the only wise God the Lord of worldes the Prince of peace the father of eternitie the glorious Angell of the great Counsell to whom with God the Father and God the holy Ghost thrée pers●… and one 〈◊〉 be all honour and dominion both now and ●…uermore Amen ●…en 2. Erant vterque nudi Adam Eua non erubescebant They were both naked Adam and Eue and blushed not TO the opening of thys mat●…●…ght honourable and 〈◊〉 Christian presence I can not mutch speake except I shoulde tel you a great long story how that Adam and Eue were first planted and placed in Paradise What a rich thing Paradise was what a pleasaunt thing it was what safetie Adam and Eue liued in what blessednes they liued in yea and in so great good case and integritie that they being euen at the worst that is euen starcke naked néeded not to blushe But neither néede I say any thing more neither will I. And me thinke euen fitly inough of it se●… without further exposition my matter may suffer a diuision And I know no fitter diuision thē if I should first speake because the text sayth Adam and Eue were both naked and blushed not first who was naked then what it is to be naked and thirdly the effectes of being naked Which in a cleare and crimelesse conscience is not to blushe and in a criminous conscience is to blush Now when I come to tell who was naked I say that Adam Eue were naked and I will not make one particular ●…tise of Adam and an other of Eue but as the Scripture in the first Chapter of Genesis calleth the man and the woman Adam and as they were man and wife together so shall they be one together for me in this treatise Or els if I should talke both of Adam and Eue and bee but so large as I well mought it would not be very well for the season is very colde and I most sickly to speake and besides that our scantling to preach in the Court is a most short scantling Now if ye aske what it is to be naked I say it is to be without armour it is to be without apparell and so sayth Chrysostome and ●…o Musculus The effectes of being naked is to blush or no●… to blush so sayth thys text on one part so sayth reason and so sayth a Gréeke S●…phist writing hereupon But before I shall procéede to make further spéech in thys processe I shall pray you most hartily to assist me with your deuoute praiers to be deliuered vp to the throne of our almighty father in heauen In which prayer c. Adam and Eue were both naked and blushed not Now it is not to aske me who was naked for I haue cōcluded to say that Adam was naked And what is Adam to be expounded Adam is redde earth man is redde earth Here then falles out to be considered the basenesse and badnesse of mans metall Here then first in the very thresholde of my sermon let vs sée that euen as the earth by his naturall course is borne downeward and is lowest of all elementes so man borne by the tallent and motion of his fleshe is beyond horse and Mule and is by the Prophets warned to learne wisedome by the Swallow by the Ant by the Spider by the Oxe by the Asse and almost by all the beastes in the field Man is base earth Dauid speaking contemtuously of Gods enemies likeneth them to the dust before the face of the winde The Prophets to bring downe the lookes of the proude worldlinges do call them the sonnes of the earth Dauid saith that their honour shall licke the dust In Genesis y most base and contemptible Serpent to fill him yet more full of contempt was enioyned to eate the dust of the earth Such base dust as is driuen before the face of th●…

Elizabeth by the grace of god c. That Gods enemies and her enemies may be made his and her footestools That her scepter may growe gréene and florishe like a Palme trée well and moystly planted and that her seate may neuer totter or nodde but stand stedy as the seate of Salomon and fayre as the sunne That the dayes of her regiment may be as the dayes of heauen Let vs pray for all the Nobilitie and genterie of this land that they do not liue as the Giantes or noble men before Noes floud without raigne or rule le●…t that as those Giantes brought downe vpon the heades of the world a floud of water so some of our Englishe Giantes do bring vpon vs a floud of fire That they may remember that saying of Dauid●… I sayd you are Gods because the word i●… come to you If the worde come to them or they to the worde then they are Gods Gods and Gods gentlemen if it come not to them nor they to it then they are the Heraldes Gods the Heraldes gentlemen Pray for them that they may be to their prince as Thomas was to his master Christ Let vs go and let vs dye with him That they may remember that Gods booke of life is better then the Heraldes booke of armes and that neither house nor bloud can saue or withholde their soules from the hand of hell but onely that iust bloud of the iust man Iesus Christ. Let vs hartily wishe to her maiesties most honorable Counsaile the spirite of councell and direction that they may be as Iosephes in Egypt faythfull and carefull to prouide for the necessities of the realme specially that mens soules be not starued with hunger and pine of the worde of god Pray for all vs of Christes Ministerie that as we are called ●…ightes so we may geue light and as we ●…re called Gods so we may continue to ●…aster the world by the worde as we are ●…alled Ambassadors so we may be chea●…ie to speake from God to man as we are called dogges we may barke and as we are called watchmen so we may carke and kéepe and that that voice may ring through and through our heades O Tymothie keepe that which is committed Pray for both twaine the Uniuersities of Cambridge and Oxenforde or as the Scripture calleth thē the families of the sonnes of the Prophets that they may growe on from strength to strength in courage of spirite and from wisedome to wisdome in plentie of iudgement that they may be able mē to teach and reproue to plant and destroy and that like young Samuell they may profite in fauour with God and man Pray for all the whole world that they may open the gates of their hartes that the prince of glory may haue entraunce in and that being entred he be not bound and pinnioned as somtime he was in Cayphas his entresse but that he may be franke Chris●… and at libertie and rule from one corner of our consciences vnto an other Likewise for th●…se that suffer trouble or gr●…uance in soule or body but specially thos●… that grone vnder the crosse of Gog 〈◊〉 Rome and Magog of Constantinopl●… that they may be assisted with might or deliuered with spéede and that as Ioell sayth the house of Iacob may be a fire the house of Ioseph may be a flame and the house of Esau may be stubble Lastly let vs yeld vp thankes to the high throne of our heauens father for those our brothers and sisters that are gone to God out of this lamentable maze of miserie Desiring God that the north winde may geue and the south winde do not retaine that y who le shéete with all y fower corners of beastes cleane vncleane may be taken vp into heauen that Christ may be king from sea vnto sea that nations may be geuen vnto his inheritance that the holy Ghost may stirre and the father draw and the sonne thrust no man out that commeth vnto him that the workemen may be many that the nets may be full that his will may be done in these Sainctes in earth as in those aboue in heauen where doubtlesse nothing is done against Gods will that we full of the feare of God and full of fayth may be gathered together to our forefathers Abraham Isaac and Iacob For these and what soeue●… the holy Ghost that best doctor spirite of wisedome shall prompt into our spirites I pray you all say the Lordes prayer Our Father c. Fayrest of women whether is thy beloued gone c. Here are fower thinges as I take it to be noted And in the first place because there is a question asked Whether is thy beloued gone I will endeuour my selfe to speake of questions demaundes Secondly because the question is asked of the fayrest of womē that is of Christes Church I will speake of the Church which Church is a woman and which not which is fayre and which not and then of the authoritie of the Church because here the question is asked of the Church and the Church séemeth to kéepe the determination in the goinges of the beloued that is in matters to be knowen of christ In the third place commeth to be handled the aunswere geuen by the Church which is My beloued is gone downe to the beds of hys spicerie c. Lastly though not by the order of the text yet by order of matter I will speak●… vpon these wordes Tell vs and we will seeke him with thee Howbeit these latter wordes shall not growe into any long processe Onely I will geue charge and vehement exhortation to the world to séeke Christ and make after him I will tell them if they séeke him they shall finde him and I will not sticke to sweare if they finde him they shall find the whole complishment of their hartes desire In the meane season feare ye not good presence that I should kill you with lothsomnesse and length For I will poste through my many matters with what possible speede I can And first touching questions thinges to be demaunded it is well sayd of Paule cōcerning questions of edifying In these thinges I would haue thee confirmed these be good and profitable for men But folishe questions and questions of natiuities those shunne for they be vnprofitable and vaine Good questions and profitable are to be demaunded So the kinges in old time were wont to aske the Prophets of their battailes and affaires So Naamans seruaunt asked Elizas the Prophet Whether if hys master should goe vp to the Idole temple and worship he might do so or no So the Eunuch asked Philip the exposition of these wordes Ductus est sicut ouis ad mactationem c. So Iohn asked a question T●… ne is es c. Art thou he that shall come or shall we looke for an other So Mary asked a question How can these thinges be done vnto me sith I haue no knowledge of man So Philip asked a