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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

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

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. Do. 1537. Newly translated into English by Ric. Ro. citizen of London 1583. Seene perused and allowed Psal 104. verse 4. He maketh Angels his Spirites And hys Ministers as flames of fyre To saue or consume as it pleaseth him Imprinted at London by Iohn Charlewoode Insignia Collegij Westmonsteriens Esay Erunt Reges Nutricij tui Cap. 49. F. t Reginae Nutrices tuae Nobilis haec Domus antiquo memorabilis Tēporis ad varias est reuoluta vices ortu Elizabeth tandem à Celo Regina profecta Fecit vt aeternum possit habere statum ❧ TO THE Right worshipfull and Reuerend in God M. GABRIEL GOODMAN D. in deuinitie Deane of the Collegiat Church of S. Pecter at Westminster Grace Mercie and Beatitude abundant in Christ Iesus our Lord and sauiour euerlasting life from entering in againe any more Heerby as al their posterity may decerne mās great ingratitude for his creation Sathans scandale in t●ptation and the Lords prouidence in preseruation of his chosen from the beginning when all beit he expelled them he would not yet vtterly extinguish them and though he terrifyed them he would not eternally torment them But denouncing their enemie accursed aboue all cattell and giuing him iudgement that The seede of the vvoman should breake the Serpents head he yet dealt so mercifully by the Ministery of his cherubins these Angels with them that he reserued them by repentaunce to returne into his kingdome by the redemption of his Sonne Christ Iesus and through the regeneration of his holy spirite Great cause haue we therfore the remnant of their posterity in these late dangerous dayes not onely to be ware by their harmes but also carefully to indeuour our selues according to his holy word To obay God and to resist the Diuell Againe in our liues and conuersations one towards another To be doing of good and eschewing of euill Finally in all temptations and tribulations of the world the flesh Sathan sinne death and hell to craue of God for his sonne Christes sake in our dayly prayers That vve may not be ouercome vvith euill But that vvith good vve may ouercome euill And so be thankfull vnto his diuine Maiestie for his mercie in the Ministery of his holy Angells whom hee hath made watchmen and superintendents ouer vs. And lyke as he promised to his seruant Moyses in making of the tabernacle That the Cherubins should stretch their vvinges on hye couering the mercie seate vvith their vvinges so as their faces being one tovvardes another should also bee tovvardes the mercie seate And againe that from the mercie seate betvveene the tvvo Cherubins hee vvould tell them all thinges vvhat he vvould haue giuen in commaundement vnto the children of Israell Euen so it would please him of his gracious goodnes to bee mercifull vnto his chosen Church dispersed throughout the world in the building of his sonne Christ his Gospell with the sauegarding of his holy Angels And that by his speciall grace he would be in the midest of his elect to instruct them in his will that they may warely worthely walke in the same For the Ministers cannot build Ierusalem before god laye the first stone That is Christ vvhich is full of eyes both bicause he giueth light vnto others and that all ought to seeke light at him As it was spoken vnto Iehosuah and his fellowes the Angels who represented the whole nomber of the faithefull Notwithstanding it is alwayes seene when God buildeth his Church Sathan will set vp his Sinagog And when good Isaac prospereth the wicked Palestines will labour to stoppe vp his pittes yet hath God promised that vvhom Isaac blesseth him vvil he blesse vvhom he curseth him vvill he curse And as the enuie of the cheefe Priestes and Scribes naught auailed against the miracles of Christ but that in despite of them he will haue little Children to cry Osyanna Nor the false Apostles shall seduce open and the Angels of God ascending and descending about the sonne of man and with him to liue euerlastingly among al his elect Angels Archangels and Saintes which incessantly shall sing Alleluiah Saluation and honour and glory and power be vnto our Lord God for euer Amen At London in Foster lane neere S. Michaels in Cheape Ianuarii 18. An. 1583. Your worthy good Worships most humble dutifull Orator Richard Robinson Citizen of London OF GOOD and Euill Angels VPon this day of S. Michaell the Archangel hath the gospell béene accustomed to bée read and expounded in the Churches which is extant in the 18. Chap. of S. Mathew by occasion taken out of these wordes The Angels of them in heauen doe alwayes see the face of my Father which is in heauen Séeing then the sacred Scriptures of the olde and new Testament do teach many things touching holy Angels and séeing they are before God our fellowe seruauntes and coheyres of eternall saluation yea our faythfull and continuall kéepers or watchmen The other part of this dayes gospel being reserued deferred til an other time now for this howre by Gods helpe and grace we will onely intreate of Angels which haue largelye the 24. of S. Luke when his Apostles had séene him after he was risen againe and did thinke that they had séene a spi●rite the lord said vnto them Beholde my handes and my feete I am euen he Handle mee and looke vpon mee For a spi●rit hath not fleshe and blood as yee see me haue And he shewed thē his hand● and his feete Héere Christ teacheth vs a difference betwene spirites and bodily creatures For God hath framed a two folde kind of substaunces in creatures certaine cor●porall and visible creatures such as men are also as brut beastes and other bodyes are which may bée touched and seene● certaine spirituall which bee called spi●rites whose substaunce is not corporall or compact and framed of elemēts Such spirituall creatures are the reasonable soules of men and Angelicall natures which haue in them neither bones nor flesh An Angel in his substance can no● eyther be felt handled or holden w t han●des or seene wyth carnall eyes These spiritual creatures hath God our creator in respecte of other creatures excellētlye aduaunced wyth moste precellen● ●iftes moste profounde singular and no●able wisdome and vnderstanding with merueylous force and strength and with other speciall vertues and giftes adorned and inritched And hath vsed theyr ●iligence and ministrye to accomplishe and spéedely to bring to passe euen grea●est affaires And so dooth S. Paule vnto ●he Hebrues call Angels spirites For in ●eede the nature of them is very highly ●oble excellent and wonderful By these ●t appereth plainly and may be gathered ●hat good Angels are spirituall creatures which for this purpose also are made and ●reated vnto

circumspectly with eyes alwayes fixt towardes some occasion that hée maye steale vppon vs when we are so sléepie sluggish and so carelesse Hée is in euery place yea hée is neere and amongst vs euen in the very secret places of our houses neither steppes hee once an naile bredth from vs and assaulteth vs by diuers and wonderfull meanes this man by this meanes and that man by that Ramme and warlike engen of temptation as it may agreeably serue with his name dooth hee ●rye men For hée is called Tentator in Latin which in Englishe Math. 4. wée reade to bée a Temptor to euill If hée cannot cast thée headlong into this mischéefe hée frameth other engynes to cast thée into an other In thy house and familyes stirreth hée vp promptitude and gratitude of mindes as it ought to be then easilie and forthwith is he able to plucke out and roote out of our heartes that wholesome séede of the Gospell that men should not beleeue the same and obtaine saluation like as Christ himselfe teacheth in .8 Luke Of the séede falling néere vnto the hie way He is able to intangle and draw thée quite away into y e company of lewde persons which when they haue defiled thee with their disease are able with their infection so to corrupt thée that there shall neuer be any hope of recouerie in thée afterward And that all this labour shall be lost in the twinckling of an eye yea all diligent carefulnesse and carefull diligence which parents bestowe and imploy vpon their Children in bringing them vp instructing and informing them is all to no purpose By lyke contagion sayth the verity in Iohn 13. did the deuill put into the heart of Iudas to betray his maister Christe This ought we rightly and diligently to consider and not slenderly to regarde That Sathan is so néere man that in neere vs yea euery where layeth hee snares for vs watcheth ech where and ●s redy to all occasion that with so great power such craftines so wonderful so subtill and so wily deceipts or illusions he is able to cast man seduced headlong into sinnes and when he hath once possessed his heart and infected it with one myscheife or other he is able out of one mischeife to cast y e same person into another far more greeuous more horrble and more wonderfull Let that be alwayes considered in our mindes and let it not slyp out of our memory which S. Paule sayth Ephe. 2. That euill Spirite dwelleth in the Children of Disobedience Neither violently draweth he the vngodly ones alone out of one mischief into an other but hée can euen binder stay the very godly persons that they the lesse shall be able to finish any godly or holy worke begon and not such with expedition care as they otherwise both ought and would doe except they bende themselues continually with prayers against those his snares or deceits and except they diligently dayly be watchful mischéefe followes vs hard at our héeles or with tooth and naile holdes them fast neither shall he make an end of seducing mankinde and of bringing all mane● calamitie and mischéefe to our bodyes soules goods vntil such time as Chris● at the very last iudgement shall thro● him downe headlong into the bottomlesse pitte of hell And therefore that is néedefull that wée defend vs against his snare suggestions and enterprises yea at euery moment to beware of him and as fully furnished to stande to him in the front of the battaile lyke as S. Paule saith in .6 Ephes carefully and diligently admonishing vs as also teaching vs with what weapons and with what complite harnes furnished a Christian Souldyour may defende himselfe against this enimye Stand fast therefore saith he with your loins girt round about wyth veritye and putting vppon you the brestplate of righteousnes and your feete shodde that you may be prepared vnto the Gospell of peace aboue all taking to you the shielde of faith wherby you may be able to quēch all the fierye dartes of that wicked ●●irite and put you on that helmet of ●●luation and gird you with that sword ●f the spirite which is the word of God 〈◊〉 all prayer and thanks giuing praying ●●wayes in the spirite and there vnto ●●atching with all constancie and suppli●●tion for all Saintes c. Ye vnderstand ●●ere how diligently and how carefully ●●is faithfull old beaten and neuer wea●●ed souldiour of Christ S. Paule admo●isheth vs with what armour hee sen●●th vs with what trompet sounde hee ●●irreth and incourageth vs valiantly to ●●sist this enemie This chéerefull blast ●is exhortation so earnest so instant ●nd so vehement is truely able to ●dmonish and teache vs that it is nei●her any slender or trifeling charge per●●yning to vs neither yet that wee ●●oulde thinke it a slender wrastling or 〈◊〉 it were a certaine collusion but y t it is ●●most fearce fight and y e same which we ●ust perpetually abide the bickering of ●●eing we haue so mighty an Enimy bur●ing with so great hatred towardes vs ●nflamed with so greate wrath against ●s and furnished with so merueilus de●eits a thousand futtle sleights bréefly their ministerie and function with great faith and diligence doe they guide direct gouerne and defende vs They are present with vs helpe vs euery where prouidently take care of vs and doe obtaine for vs all thinges tending to the glory of Christ and euen reconcile him vnto vs doe instill and beate into our mindes his holy will ye doe call vs away and plucke vs backe from al those sinnes and vices which God hath forbidden vs and which he abhorreth For that cause S. Paule 1. Heb. describeth good Angels on this maner Are they not all ministering spirites which are sent forth into the ministery for their sakes which shall be heyres of saluation Héere we learne that Angels are Ambassadours and Messengers sent from heauen euen from God vnto true beléeuers to serue and attende vppon them and in al assaies to bée present with thē to succour them helpe them and to preferre the good enterprises studies and godly actiōs of them which shall be made ●prtakers of the inheritance of eternall life For this is their chéefe and most feruent prayer that we may by and by be conuerted from euil and vngodly life and repent vs vnto better and more profitable amendment and that we should abide steadfast in the truth they do infinitely reioyce when we are conuerted from sins vnto God which thing Christ himself saith in .18 Luke Héere are their hearts manifest knowen to vs how sincere howe godly how wellwilling and how ready they are to doe vs good yea how feruently they loue vs how faithfully they embrace vs. O that wee could sée with corporall eyes with how firme strong sauegarde and succour of his Angels God gardeth preserueth defendeth and protecteth vs from all dangers whereunto we should otherwise runne headlong were it not