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A14187	Obedience to the gospell Two sermons, conteining fruteful matter, both of doctrine, and exhortation: very needefull to be knowne, and practised in these our dayes: vpon the words of the holy ghost, written by the Euangelist S. Luke, chapter 2. verses 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. conteining the effect of the birth of Christ, (reuealed by the Angell of God) in the sheepeherds, and others that heard of it. Gathered out of the sermons of Iohn Vdall, preacher of the worde of God, at Kingston vpon Thames, and published at the request of some of them that heard them preached.	Udall, John, 1560?-1592.	1584 (1584)	STC 24501; ESTC S102077	39,758	110

to thinke a good thought much lesse to yeelde that obedience to thy vvorde that thou requirest nor to make anie fruit of it vnto the comfort of our soules vnlesse thou of thy mercie vvorke it in vs vvee therefore most humbly beseech thee mercifull father to graunt vs thy grace that euerie one of vs may be so truely persvvaded of the trueth of this doctrine novve deliuered vnto vs that thy holie spirite may imprint it in our hearts and vve may feele the comfort of it in our soules and consciences and labour diligently to bring foorth the fruit of it in our liues and conuersations most gratious Father vve pray thee subdue our affections and rule our desire by the gouernmēt of thy grace and holie spirite that the enticements of sinne doe not pull vs avvay from that seruice that vve ovve vnto thee that vvee neuer faint or vvaxe vvearie in the course of godlinesse that our zeale be neuer quenched by anie allurements of Sathan but that vvee may daily grovve and encrease in all the Vertues of Christianitie to the glorie of thy blessed name and consolations of our ovvne conscienences through Iesus Christ our Lord to vvhom vvith thee and the holie Ghost be all praise novve and euer Amen FINIS VVe may not put of from day to day Heb. 3. 7 c. Psal. 95. 8. Prou. 1. 24. Amos. 8. 1●… Heb. 12. 6. Euery point of gods word is to be knowne of euery man Psal. 19. 7. Prou. 1. 4. Ephes. 4. 12. Acts. 20. 27. 1. Cor. 13. 12. Then we can not be too for ward as some say Esay 2. 3. We ought to stirre vp one another to religion 1 Thes. 5. 11. Heb. 3. 13. 19. VVe must cōferre of the word of God after that we haue heard it The wicked ause mans lawe to depraue the word of God Why God reuealeth oftner his word to the simple 1. Cor. 1. 29. No excuse must keepe the simplest from the knowlege of Gods word VVhere and how the truth is to be sought The cause that so fewe finde Christ Psal. 119. 24. 2 Pet. 1. 19. Psal. 119. 50. 92. We must not onelie professe Gods word but do italso Rom. 8. 9. 10. Galat. 5. 22. It should be so is not sufficiēt Ecclesiast 10. 5 Psal. 119. 98. VVe straine courtesie who should first be religious but who should first gaine riches Math 7. 2. 4. 11. 29. 16. 24. The truth of Gods worde Mat. 7. ●… Rom. 12. 2. VVhy men do seeke and find not Iames 4. 3. To dispise the meanes in trusting of God is to tempte him Knowledge is the first pointe of gods seruice Hipocrites nether be loued of God or man Profession of religion standeth in reprouing and instruction Leuit 1●… 17. Psal. 51. 12 13. The world cānot away with priuate rebuking and instruction Iohn 12. 5. Acts. ●… 18. With what mind we must reproue others The vngodly either detract●… from or ad to the worde of God Rom. 9. 11. to 24. Ephe. 1. 45. They that doe not knowe the vse of Gods word thinke it vnperfect The bataile of the flesh and the spirit●… in the entrance to religion The spirit euer getteth victorie in the faithfull at length Iohn 6. 66. Col. 2. 3. Esay 55. 10. 2 Cor. 14. 15. 16 Gods word worketh in all that heare it preached How a man shal know whe ther the gospel do him any good or no. The markes of fruitlesse hearers Hearers for fashions sake Hearers that are mooued for the time present onelie Willing hearing without fruit argueth a guiltie conscience The sayings of the wicked when they heare one doctrine twice Matth. 12. 29. What the godlie thinke whē they heare that which they did heare before VVhat the wicked should thinke when they heare that doctrine which they haue despised before VVe may not boast of know ledge or any other vertue They bragge most that know least The godlier that a man is the humbler he will be 2. Cor. 11. 30. The right vse of knowledge VVe must bestoore vs in knowledge Math 25. 10. The world ought to giue place to religion Prou. 16. 4. Prou. 1. 20. The excuses of worldlings why they be not religious Psalm 10 3. 1 1 Thes. 4. 10. 11 2. Thes. 3. 10. 11 12 c. Luke 3. 10 c. 1. Cor. 7. 31. Foure sorts of people that abuse this world The first sort of people Ephes. 4. 28. Psal. 16. 1. Coll. 3. 22. Ephes. 68. 1. Tim. 6. 1. Gen. 18. 19. Psal. 101. 6. The second sort of people Acts 2. 44. Rom. 6. 23. The third sort of people The fourth sort of people Acts 19. 19. Acts 19. 24. See Doctour Wilson vppon Vsurie Bishop Iewel vpon the 1. Thess. c. Ezech. 18. 13. Psal. 15 5. Religion no enimie to lawfull gaine Matth. 6. 33. Matth. 4. 4. Leuit. 26. 26. Reuel 3. 4. Amos 8. 11. Psalm 12. 12.

OBEDIENCE TO the Gospell TWO SERMONS CONTEINING FRVTEFVL MATTER both of doctrine and exhortation very needefull to be knowne and practised in these our dayes vpon the words of the holy ghost written by the Euangelist S. Luke chapter 2. verses 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20 conteining the effect of the birth of Christ reuealed by the Angell of God in the sheepeherds and others that heard of it GATHERED OVT OF THE SERmons of IOHN VDALL Preacher of the worde of God at Kingston vpon Thames and published at the request of some of them that heard them preached ROM 10. 16. But they haue not all obeyed the Gospell for Esa●… sayth Lord who hath beleeued our report AT LONDON Imprinted for T. Man W. B. and N.L. 1584. TO THE CONGREGATION OF CHRISTES PEOPLE IMBRACING THE TRVTH OF THE GOspel by a liuely faith and obedience to the same the ordinarie hearers of the worde of God at Kingston vpon Thames IOHN VDALL wisheth increase of knowledge faith reformation of life Zeale all other vertues of true godlines and holines in this world and the rewarde of the same thorough the mercie of God in Iesus Christ in the world to come SEEING it hath pleased the Lord of his great mercie and goodnes to vouchsafe vnto vs that inestimable treasure of his holy word the preciousnes whereof surmounteth all things vnder the sunne wherein he doth offer euen his owne selfe vnto vs and teacheth vs the way whereby we may come vnto him it behoueth vs with all reuerence and feare to imbrace the same preferring it before any thing that we can desire vpon the earth And forasmuch as it hath pleased him to put that precious treasure in these earthly vessells subiect vnto corruption and mortality which by the natural disposition that they are of will striue to infect all the fruite of that precious treasure with the stenche of sinnefull and vngodly desires we are diligently to watch and contend that we see that these fleshly and inordinate motions that seeke so greatly to extinguish euery good thing may be dayly more and more kept vnder that the word of God may by the working of his holy spirit get the victorie in our harts and sit there as a Prince to rule the cogitations therof captiuing them daily vnto the kingdom of Iesus Christ thorough obedience to his most blessed will The which forsomuch as it is done especially by the ministery of the word wherein the Lord hath printed such force that it throweth downe all munitions reared against it and vnto the worke of the same hath appointed me among you of many other most vnable to do that which he commaundeth and my duety requireth at my hands it standeth both me and you in hand to be most heedefull that we be not carelesse in these great and weighty matters which doe concerne the glory of Almightie God and the eternall saluation both of our soules and bodies and so much the rather because Satan fearing the continuance of the world to be short and therefore that which he doeth for the aduancement of his owne kingdome he must doe it quickly laboureth by his instruments with tooth and naile to extinguish the light of the glorious Gospell that it should not shine with open face vnto Gods people for we see daily what mischieuous practises he broacheth what errors he spreadeth what slaunders he inuenteth what lyes he disperseth and all to discredite the course of religion the truth whereof we doe feele and see in our owne experience for you knowe what enimitie the establishment of the Gospell amongst you had by your enuious foes that would haue kept you still in palpable ignorance with themselues howe many pullbacks and hinderances were deuised and be daily inuented to stay the course thereof all which for so much as thorough the mercie of God to vs-ward they haue not had that successe which the authors hoped for they labour now and haue done continually to imagine slaūderous lyes and most wicked forgeries which they doe daily spread abroad to the ende to defame the religion which we professe so that there is not almost any sinne that can be committed but it is fathered vpon some of vs which deuillish dealing albeit we know that it shall turne to their eternall destruction vnlesse the Lorde in mercie giue them grace to repent yet notwithstāding we may learne a very good lesson out of the same and make a profitable vse of it vnto our selues let me therefore intreate you to marke with diligence this which I shall write vnto you as you are wont to doe when I doe speake The greatest accusation you knowe in generall that your foes the aduersaries of the Gospell doe charge you with is that you professe one thing and practise another that you say well and doe naughtily that you reprehēd others you your selues being worse which in deede is a most heinous accusation and such a thing as your owne selues can witnesse I neuer haue winked at but most carefully reproued and such a thing as our religion neither teacheth nor permitteth for it is of that force where it entreth that it will reforme all these things in measure in those that haue it within them This slaunder goeth yet further for our profession is accused to be seditious contentious and troublesome vnto the state and enemie to good order and gouernment we our selues accounted malicious proude finding rather fault with others than amending our selues seeking rather for singularitie than loue and charitie You are not ignorant of the sleights of Satan and therfore knowing that he was from the beginning an accuser and lyar may the better by the mercie of God haue vse of your knowledge to comfort you in these temptations But marke how the Lord maketh Satan his imps to be as spurs and pricks to driue the godly forward though they be very grosse and dull in the beholding of their owne faults for Satan casteth a myste ouer their eyes when they should see them yet they be very quicke eyed to prye into the doings of others especially the godly and are able if our foote doe but slip to find it out and haue it as a reason to discredit our profession which aboue all things we labour to keepe vnspotted Therefore it behooueth you to looke diligently vnto your selues to watch your owne soules to attend and looke vnto euery worde that you speake euery thought that you thinke and euery action that you commit to examine it diligently by the line of Gods word which is the touchstone that wil either approue it or disproue it and if you find by the vndoubted warrant thereof that it is lawfull and that you ought to doe it then let neither slaunder speach of people deuill nor hell staye you from the practise thereof but if thorough the remnants of old Adam you be at any time allured to doe or speake any thing that either is forbidden or hath no warrant from the word of God

perswasions I beléeue in Iesus Christ hope to be saued by his bloudshedding I knowe that Christ died for my sinnes and that I ought to liue wel as for those points of doctrine that be so many they belong to preachers and men that professe learning and so forth In which kind of people you may most liuely behold the subtiltie of Satan that vnder pretence of beléefe in Christ would ouerthrow the knowledge of God and perswade them that he can bring them a nearer way to heauen than by that ordinary way which God hath ordeined but we are to know that God whose wisedom shineth in the least of his creatures hath not set downe his word to be an idle thing or belonging vnto a fewe but vnto al yea euen to giue vnto the simple wisedome and sharpenes of wit and to the childe knowledge and discretion And therefore howsoeuer they arme themselues against knowledge and hide their hearts in the dungeon of ignorance we must make this vse of it that as God hath appointed his ministers to teach all the councell of God vnto his people so it is his will that his seruants should learne it all to the ende that they may haue vse and consolation of it in the gouernment of their liues and strengthening of their faith If this were truely learned it would ouerthrow that setled perswasion which Satan hath grounded in the heartes of many whereby they thinke themselues if they haue heard the word for some smal time that they haue learned enough that they haue sufficiently profited in religion and therefore they become colde and carelesse not regarding whether they frequent the holy exercises of religion or no. Which is the cause at this day that so heynous enormities reigne in mens liues to the great dishonor of God and slaunder of the Gospell But let vs perswade our selues that euery poynt of Gods word is of most weightie importance néedefull for vs to be knowne and that doe what we can we shall neuer knowe but in part neuer go farre enough neither in knowledge nor strict obedience for still we be vnprofitable seruants and therefore that we with all humilitie and reuerence be most diligent in frequenting those places where we may learne to knowe more and more of Gods will and praye vnto him that we may become euery day more godly than other so long as we liue They sayd one to another The second braunch of the first part which conteyneth the maner of the conference the meaning wherof is this that when they did sée both the weightines of the matter and also the necessitie of the knowledge thereof in themselues they began one to exhort and stirre vp another to the earnest hastye séeking out of the thing Out of which there may be gathered diuerse doctrines for our instruction First in that they say one to another let vs go vp then vnto Bethleem we may behold the beginning of the performance of that propheste where it was foretold that in the time of Christ they should say come let vs goe vp to the mountaine of y ● Lord to the house of the God of Iacob and he will teache vs his waies and we will walke in his pathes Whereby the holy Ghost teacheth vs that in the time of the Gospell there should be such zeale that euery one should excite and stirre vp his neighbour vnto religion which prophesie being verified in these shéepeherds doth teach vs our dutie to wit that if we acknowledge our selues to be of that number whom Christ in his Gospel ruleth then must we practise this point of obedience to him and loue to our brethren that we be meanes to stirre them vp to exhort and further them in the duties of christianitie wherevnto in the doctrine of the Gospell which is the statute law that Christ gouerneth his kingdome by we are oftentimes exhorted The holy Apostle S Paule sayth wherfore exhort one another and edifie one another euen as ye doe And in another place exhort one another daily while it is called to day And againe let vs consider one another prouoke vnto loue and to good works The reason whereof is this that séeing by the mercifull calling of God we are members of one body wherof Iesus Christ is the head and linked together by one spirit the fellowe féeling of the griefe of others if we be féeling members in déede constraineth vs to doo good one to another and therefore especially to informe those that néede in the way of righteousnes Thus we sée what is our dutie required of vs by the Lord himselfe which we are diligently to consider of for we may not thinke that the gifts of God bestowed vpon vs are for our selues alone but for the benefite also of others Which if it were rightly weyed religion would not be so geason amongst vs as it is for men thinke now adayes that if they sée others wallow in ignorance and bring forth the fruites of the same most enormious sinnes in their conuersation it is not their dutie to instruct them because forsooth it is the office of the preacher nay they thinke the minister ought not to doe it neither vnlesse he be in the pulpit and therefore his documents are vnsauerie vnlesse he himselfe be hedged in with a péece of wood on eche side but howsoeuer they would shut out knowledge by these and such like spéeches we are to learne that it is the duetie not only of ministers publikely but also of all men priuately to instruct those that be ignorant and to bring them from error the partie informed is not to cauil at the man that doth it nor the place where it is done but in reuerence to receiue it as from the Lorde and to laye it vp in his heart for the amendment of his life Secondly in that these shéepehers doe after they haue hearde the message of God by the Angell thus conferre of it howe they may be further edified we learne that they were careful that they shouldnot forget the things that they had heard therfore they are earnest to goe to y ● place which the angels had named for their further satisfaction An example of fruitful hearers of the word of God by whom we may learne a very profitable lesson which is that when we come to y ● hearing of the word of God forsomuch as we are vnfit in truth vnable to cary al things away that we heare partly thorough y ● corruption of our nature the remnants whereof we shal alwaies carry about with vs partly thorough the subtiltie of Satan wherby he suggesteth other cogitations into our minds to the ende that he may bereaue vs of the benefite of Gods heauenly word steale our minds from attending to it After that the sermon is done we ought at our comming home to méete together say one to another come we haue al bene where we haue heard Gods word