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A12991	A sermon preached at Paules Crosse on Barthelmew day, being the 24. of August. 1578 Wherin, besides many other profitable matters meete for all Christians to follovv, is at large prooued, that it is the part of all those that are fathers, householders, and scholemaisters, to instruct all those vnder their gouernement, in the vvord and knovvledge of the Lorde. By Iohn Stockvvood scholemaister of Tunbridge.	Stockwood, John, d. 1610.	1578 (1578)	STC 23284; ESTC S106625	73,966	202

of the members of the firste parte You haue therefore in this seconde pointe fyrste to consider Gods calling of Cornelius by the appearaunce of an Angell vnto hym in a vision at the ninth houre of the daye whyche was aboute thrée of the clocke in the after noone accordyng vnto the reckening of the Iewes who accompt their houres from Sunne to Sunne Thys circumstaunce of tyme by whiche it appeareth that the commyng of the Angell vnto Cornelius was not in a dreame or by darke in the nighte albeit in suche cases the LORDE also imprinted in the hearts and mindes of them to whome by suche meanes hée shewed himselfe alwayes some one certaine note and token or other by the whyche they mighte manifestly knowe that it was hys dooyng but in the fayre and broade daye lighte is sette downe to declare that the Lorde dyd neither mocke Cornelius nor blinde his eies by casting a mist before thē as Iugglers and other false merchauntes to deceiue withall vse to doe but euidently plainly dealte with him in suche sorte that he might easilye perceyue that hys callyng was not from earth but from heauen not from man but from God whereby also to his great comforte he might sée howe mercifully God rewards his own giftes in him that for his further instruction he vsed towardes him the information of an Angel. We learne out of this point many lessons First that God neuer leaueth thē destitute of a teacher whych earnestlye and in a reuerent feare of his name and a dutifull estimation of his maiestie cal vpon him being exercised in the diligent reading hearing and conferring of hys worde and heartilye desiring dayly to profit and go forewarde in the vnderstāding of the same and to grow from time to time vnto a further knowledge in the waye and doctrine of saluation so that sometimes by Angels sometimes by men sometymes by his own sonne he extraordinarily hath taught those that haue longed to learne rather than they should want teachers Thus by Angels he further instructed the godly womē in the resurrection of his sonne Christ by Christ himselfe he fully taught in the same matter the two Disciples going vnto Emaus and talking togither of the thynges whyche were done concerning Iesus To the Chamberlaine vnto the Quéene of the Ethiopians reading the scriptures as he roade in his waggon he sent Philip to teache him the knowledge of Christe Paule he directeth to Ananias for instruction concerning that Christe whome before in his members he so egrely persecuted Simeon that good and godlye olde father longing or he dyed to sée Christ he moueth by hys spirite at that instant to come into the temple whē he there founde Christe his desired and with ioye embracing hym cryeth out Lorde nowe let thy seruaunt departe in peace for mine eyes haue seene thy saluation He causeth Apollos a religious and a learned and eloquent Iew knowing no more but the Baptisme of Iohn to méete with Aquila and Priscilla who expounded vnto him the waye of the Lorde perfectly This our Cornelius a deuout mā one that feareth god hath first direction by an Angell and after the holy Apostle Peter to teache hym what to doe Let vs therfore good Christians be like godlye minded vertuously occupied with these godly mē the Lord though not miraculously as he did vnto them wil neuer forsake vs but appoint vs one godly meane or other by which we shal grow to knowledge and vnderstanding in his heauenly truth wheras if we shal be rather delighted in reding of filthie books as the Baudies de Gall the Amaudis I trow it be the great Pallace and the little Pallace of pleasure with a number moe of suche filthy bookes wherwyth this Churchyard swarmeth in this cleare light of the Gospell if we shall be occupyed in vayne wicked and vngodly talke so far off shal we be wyth Cornelius from hauing the Angell or Peter to directe vs that the Deuil of hell wil associate himselfe vnto vs créepe at the length so farre into our hearts that he wyl roote out of vs al care of vertue and godlinesse and make vs reioyce in our owne shame that we may be the more fit vessels of wrath dānation 2 Secondly we sée that God from tyme to time in the ages past hath vsed sundrye and diuerse wayes to speake vnto our forefathers as sometimes by Angels appearing in the visible shapes of men as vnto Abraham Lot Gedeon Manoah Zachari Marie to this our Cornelius and others Sometimes by Angels in other likenesse sometimes by dreames sometimes by the Priestes Ephod sometimes by visions all whiche meanes as they were extraordinary so are they also now ceased and the glorie of our tymes greater in whiche he hath vouchsafed to speake vnto vs by his owne sonne as the writer of the Epistle to the Hebrewes doth testifye who being long since ascended into heauen he hath thought good to haue vs hys people to be instructed by the voyce of men to whiche purpose hée hath appointed vnto vs for teachers pastours Doctours wherwith we muste content our selues not looking for the ministerie of Angels or reuelatiōs frō heauen wherof I shal haue occasiō to speake more hereafter Much myght here be said of Angels visions but I loue not willingly to run into common places This therfore may suffise briefly to note that as they are both extraordinary ways wherby it pleased God in times past to reueale himself vnto men so herein hath appeared god his maruellous and wonderful loue towards vs that when as he might haue déemed vs vnméete and vnworthy of the seruice of the vilest the meanest and the verye basest creatures in all the worlde yet not contented to haue ordeyned all other things for the vse and benefite of man he hath also appointed hys Angels sometimes to be instrumentes by which he would declare his will vnto men but alwayes to watche ouer them for their defence and safegarde What a comforte therfore beloued is it vnto vs to knowe that the Lorde hathe appointed his Angels for our seruice according as it is written in the firste Chapiter of the Hebrewes Hee maketh the spirites his messengers and a flaming fire his ministers Nay how greatly are we bounde to prayse our God before whom we are in so high account and ouer whome he is so careful and tender that he hath not appointed for euery one his seuerall Angell whiche some haue presumed to teache without the warraunt of the worde but hath giuen charge and commandement that vpon euery particular childe of hys manye Angels shoulde for their safegard attende and wayte For so are we taught in the Psalme For he shall giue his Angels charge ouer thee to keepe thee in al thy wayes And to Elizeus seruant were shewed many firie chariotes in a readynesse for the defēce of his master Wherfore letting passe this heathenishe forgerie

that I put you in minde to leaue it leaste the Lorde doe plague you It is set downe by the Prophet for one of the causes of the children of Israels being led into captiuity for that they kepte not the Lords Sabboth and what became of him that gathered sticks on that day I doubt not but you will remember we notwithstanding on the Lordes daye muste haue Fayers kept must haue Beare baytyng Bulbayting as if it wer a thing of necessity for the Beares of Paris gardē to be bayted on the Sunnedaye muste haue baudie Enterludes siluer games dicing carding tabling dauncing drinking and what I praye you is the penaltie of the offenders herein forsooth a flap wyth a Foxe tayle as if our Sauiour Christe had commen for his day to set vs at lybertie to doe what we liste And truely a lamentable thing it is to tell but a great deale more lamentable that it is not punished I dare boldelye stande to auouche it that there is no daye in the wéeke wherin God is so much dishonoured as on that daye when he shoulde bée best serued And muste we for these abuses thinke at the Lordes hand to scape vncorrected What shoulde I speake of beastly drunkennesse whiche so far as I can learne hath no punishmente at all What of whordome by the lawe of the moste vprighte lawe-maker that euer was being made a Capitall sinne and whyche the Euangelist Luke in the parable of the séed termeth a thorn shal we thinke that a thorne will be killed wyth spreading a white shéete ouer it when it rather craueth an axe So to think to restrain it is as endlesse and fonde a worke as to go aboute to hewe downe a greate thorne with a bull-rushe the Lord if it be his good pleasure graunte vs a sharper toole to cut both it and other stinckyng wéedes downe with all for I assure you if these vices be thus styll eyther not at all punished or else so slightly punished the Lorde will more sharpely punishe vs eyther in suche sorte as I haue shewed you he did these Iewes or in some other more grieuous as he wanteth not infinite meanes vnknowen vnto vs to punishe the contempte of his word from whēce these vices spring the which I pray God the chastisemente of these Iewes maye cause vs to shunne For the thirde braunche of my firste parte is set down that Cornelius was a Godly or a religious and deuoute man and one that feared God wher commeth to be handled Cornelius his Godlinesse and vertue The worde which is commōly translated a deuoute and a religious man and here attributed to Cornelius doth properly signifie one that doth truely and in suche sorte as he ought to doe worshippeth GOD a righte and a true worshipper of God whereby we learne that Cornelius had nowe forsaken and giuen ouer his olde Heathenish religion in whiche his father and fathers fathers in many generations had long cōtinued worshipping those for Goddes whome it pleased men so to account For the case so stoode concerning religion with the Romaines then as it did with vs in the late dayes of Poperie in which none myghte be taken for a Saincte but suche as the Pope his holynesse had Canonized for a Saint For Tertullian in his booke called an Apologie or defence againste the Gentiles Page 186. and 587. as is printed at Paris by Paruus doth shewe that it was a decrée amōgst the Romanes that none shoulde be made a God by the Emperour vnlesse he were first allowed of the Senate in so much that when Tiberius Cesar hauing hearde of the myracles of Christe woulde by prerogatiue of his Emperourshippe haue made him a God the Senate woulde none of hym bycause they had not allowed him The worlde was then growen to a trimme passe that man must forsooth be good vnto god For vnlesse God pleases man he shall be no God as Tertullian in the same place speaketh By this appeareth howe daungerous it was for Cornelius a publike magistrate to embrace Christ his religion whome the Romayne Senate so scornefully disdayned And what crueltye they vsed towardes the Christians the stories of the age do sufficiently witnesse whiche shewe that the christians were smered ouer with pitch and Rosen aliue and set on fire with torches to light their cruell Persecuters home from their banckquets in the night But it was no doubt the mightie operation of God his holy spirite that had armed him against all encombraunces that might fall vpon him who no doubt had prepared himself against displeasure losse of his office and captaineship and also losse of life too the leaste of whiche mighte otherwise haue discouraged him who amongst the Iewes also coulde sée nothing that might harte him on but rather pull him backe séeing amongst them so manifolde corruptions passing ignoraunce of the law of God a small and slender knowledge whereof was rare to be founde euen in the thousandth man of them in so much that some thinke and that very godlye that it came to passe by the special and singular prouidence of God that Cornelius mette with some zealous and learned Iewe that instructed him in the true knowledge and vnderstanding of the lawe by meanes whereof he so muche profited in religion and feare of the Lorde 1 We learne firste out of this thirde branch in that Cornelius leaueth his old heathenish religion and Idolatrie which his forefathers folowed that we must not be away from the truth neyther with multitude nor prescription of time It is a cōmon argumēnt now adays what are you better than your forefathers did not they go to masse worship Images runne on Pilgrimage fall downe before the holye sacrament of the Alter and to be shorte obserue all order of holy Church Why shoulde you therefore be so singular are you wiser or better learned than they Al these I saye and what soeuer else maye be alleaged to like purpose doeth the example of Cornelius confute who for the maintenaunce of his olde Paganisme might very wel haue recited the examples of his forefathers the long auncient continuaunce of the heathenishe religion by thousandes of yeares more aunciente than it of the Popes in comparison of his being as it were but an infant of a dayes olde Let vs therefore after his example in matters of religion set aside the practise of our forefathers and let our olde auncient customes vaile their bonnet to the worde of the Lorde For so are we directly in hys holy worde commaunded Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do euill And againe walke ye not in the ordinances of your fathers neyther obserue their maners nor defile your selues with their Idols I am the Lorde your God Walke in my statutes kepe my iudgements and do them c. Oh that our Papistes had eyes to sée this and heartes to beleeue it with earnest mindes also to followe it then woulde they not be so blinded with these

swallowed vp of feare and horror but that we shold with all méekenesse lowlynesse humility and reuerence cast our selues downe before his maiestie being with al submission readye to do that which he shal thinke beste to enioyne vs For the Lord loketh that those to whom he openeth and sheweth himselfe by his worde shoulde be moued with a reuerent feare at the hearing of the same according as he witnesseth by hys Prophete Isaias Heare the word of the Lord all ye that tremble at his word And againe To him will I loke euen to him that is pore and of a contrite spirite and trembleth at my words But what is the cause beloued that at this day the word of the Lord worketh not in vs this effect of reuerence trembling and feare forsooth bicause we fasten our eyes vpon the person that speaketh with the basenesse of whome we are nothyng moued wheras if we would as indeede we ought consider that it is GOD whiche speaketh vnto vs in the person of man then would be driuen into this sluggishe nature of ours suche a feare and reuerence of the word of God as ought to be in vs which I pray God graunt vnto vs. Thirdly I cannot let passe the answere that Cornelius maketh to the Angel calling him wher he saith what is the Lord Wheras the drossie translation whiche goeth vnder the name of Ierom the cōmon translation is the Pope his owne dearling hath who is it Lord Like as in the first of Samuel and third chapter it hath very falsely rediculously that Heli hys eyes were dimme and coulde not sée the candle of the Lord vntil it was put out And in the .15 of the first to the Corinthes clean contrarie vnto the truth of the Gréek text which sayth we shal not all die but we shall all be changed it sayeth we shal all dye but shall not al be chaunged besides a greate many moe filthy corruptions whyche haue often out of this place bene shewed to be in it that you mighte learne to forsake and leaue it Al whiche errours moste of them shewed them by vs and some of them tolde them by theyr owne men I doe the lesse maruell that they stil retain for as muche as of grosse wilful ignorance in their Latyn portuses in stead of Glorie be to the father and to the sonne and to the holy ghost they sing daylye Glorie be to the father and to the sonne and to the Diuell Spiritui paradyto the wicked and infamous spirite in steade of spiritui paraclêto the spirite which is the comforter For the that there is so much differēce betwéen the two words euery boy of the grammer schole can tel And I woulde fayne learne of some Papist that holdeth that the church of Rome can not erre whether this were an error or no in steade of the holy Ghost to pray to the Diuell And bycause I were loth to sustaine their ill will for reporting this truth of them let it for me rest vpon the backe of him where I haue it whych is Polidor Vergil a man of their own who in hys fifth booke and thirtéenth Chapter of the finders out of things too too pitiously poore soule lamenteth complayneth of their waywardnesse that being tolde of so horrible a faulte will not leaue nor amende it Wherefore leauing hym in his sorrowe and his Popishe Priestes in their frowarde errour I returne to my purpose and note vnto you that al the copies so manye as I euer haue séene or hearde of haue thys reading What is it Lord so that the other Who is it Lorde being such as any that in the Gréeke tongue can set the Nominatiue case and the verbe togither might easily auoyde procéedeth of wilfull ignonoraunce and carelesse negligence and darkeneth also the meaning of the place for whyche cause onely I note it Wheras this reading What is it Lord argueth that Cornelius his minde was touched with a feare as knowing that albeit it were onelye the Angell that spake vnto him yet he had indéede to do with God whose onelye messenger the Angel was Therefore thus saying he sheweth forth a readie and willing minde euen before he knoweth to doe whatsoeuer the Lorde shoulde commaunde hym whereas we after that the Lorde hath commaunded and commaunded againe straine courtesie and take leysure to performe his wil communing with fleshe and bloude whether it be good pollicie or no to doe as the Lord biddeth whether it maye not procure vs peril and trouble But all you that feare the Lord saye with Cornelius What is it Lorde and by thy mercifull assistaunce wée wil performe and doe it There followeth the thirde braunche of this second generall namely the Angells speache vnto Cornelius saying Thy prayers and thine almes are come vp into remembrance before god Now therefore send men to Ioppa and call for Simon whose surname is Peter He lodgeth with one Simon a Tanner whose house is by the Sea side he shal tell thee what thou oughtest to doe These wordes as in the beginning I declared containe both a comforte and a commandement vnto Cornelius which both with their doctrines shal be handled in order firste the comforte bycause it is firste mentioned after this maner Thy prayers and almes are come vp into remembraunce before God. Of these wordes we maye not gather that GOD who séeth all thinges and before whose eies are manifeste those thinges whiche are done in greatest secret doth at any time forget the doings of men but the holye Ghost in this place as in manye other speaketh of God as of a manne for our better vnderstanding And for bicause if God deferre at the firste to graunt our requestes our dul nature conceiueth no better of him thā of a man that is deafe therefore that Cornelius might knowe that his praiers were hearde and hys almes déedes accepted the Angell assureth him that GOD hathe in remembraunce both the one and the other that is that God will reward them with the full lighte and knowledge of his Gospel And so in manye other places doth the worde Remember béeyng spoken of the dealing of God towardes man carrie with it a signification of rewarde So God remembred Noah and the floude ceased he remembred Abraham and deliuered his kinsman Lot out of Sodom he remēbred Rachell and gaue hir children he remembred his promisse and deliuered the children of Israell oute of Egipte So we reade that the thiefe on the Crosse saide vnto Christe Lorde remember me when thou commeste into thy Kingdome and he aunswereth this day shalte thou be with me in Paradise And in the Psalme it is saide He remēbred vs in oure humilitie and then followeth he redeemed vs. And therfore you shall finde that Dauid often prayeth to the LORDE to remember hym In thys place therefore Gods remembraunce of the prayers and almes déeds of Cornelius teacheth him that he will reward them not for their worthinesse but of his mercie