shal be saued 1. Pet. 1. If we beléeue we shall receiue the end of our faith euen the saluation of our soules Rom. 10 If thou beléeue in thine heart thou shalt be safe for to beléeue iustifieth to knowledge with the mouth maketh a man safe Father What doth the Scripture say of our iustification Iustification because some teach that we are iustified by our workes Sonne A man is not iustified by the deades of the Lawe but by the faith of Christ Iesu Iustified bâ— faith and not by the lawe and wée haue beleued on Iesus Christ that we might be iustified by the faith of Christ and not by the déedes of the Law because that by the déedes of the Law no flesh shal be iustified The scripture concludeth al vnder sinne Gall. 3. that the promise by the faith of Iesus Christ should be giuen to all that beléeue The Law was our scholemaister vnto Christ that we shold be iustified by faith Eod. but after that faith is come God onelâ— iustifieth ye are no longer vnder the scholmaister It is God onelie that iustifieth the circumcision that is of faith Rom. 3. Circumcâ—sion 〈◊〉 circumcision iustiâ—ed by faiâ— the vncircumcision through faith Father Who are thus iustified by God onely Sonne â—om 3. Both Iewes and gentiles circumcision and vncircumcision are iusttyfied by the faith of Iesus Christ â—â—d He is compted iust and the iustifier of him that beléeue on Iesus Christ Father â—orgiuenes Then tell me who doth forgiue vs our sinnes Sonne â—ark 2 Nemo potest demittere peccata nisi solus deus there is none that can forgiue sinnes but God onelie â—od When Iesus sawe their faith he said vnto the sicke of the palsie sonne thy sins are forgiuen thée the sonne of man hath power to forgiue sinnes on earth â—phe 4. Be curteous one to an other mercifull forgiueing one an other euen as God for Christs sake hath forgiuen you â—ollo 2 The law â—he diuell â—orld and â—esh conquered by Christs death When we were dead through sinne and through vncircumcision of our flesh hath he quickened with him and hath forgiuen vs all our trespasses and hath put out the hand writing that was against vs hath fastned it to his crosse and hath spoyled rule and power in his owne person Father But to whome doth the Lord forgiue sinnes Sonne To the faithfull Mark 2 for when Iesus sawe their faith he saide thy sinnes are forgiuen thée Brethren Acts 13. Sinnes are forgiuen to the faithfull through this man is preached forgiuenesse of sinnes vnto you and that to all that beléeue Father What enemies hath the Lord conquered by his death in his owne person for our sakes and what further profite hath he brought vs. Sonne The Law the Diuell the world the flesh sinne death hell and al other things the wrath of God the father hath he pacified and reconciled vs agayne vnto him and we that were a farre off hath he brought nigh hath purchased the kingdome of heauen for vs and opened the same made vs fellow heyres thereof with him selfe Father Proue that vnto mée briefely Sonne Heb. 2. Dyed for all It was appointed that Iesus Christ should tast of death for all men and that by the grace of God the father Heb. 2 1. Diuel coÌ„quered Through death he hath expelled him that had lordship ouer death that is to say the Diuell and that he might deliuer vs. Col. 2. 2. Lawe Fastned to the crossa He hath put out the hande writing that was against vs and hath fastned it to his crosse and hath spoyled rule and power in his owne person Esay 22. None can open nor shut but he Esay 42. The key of the house of Dauid will I lay vpon his shoulder so that he shall open and no man shut he shall shut no man open I will giue him for a couenant vnto the people and a light to the Gentiles to open the eies of the blinde to let out the prisoners out of their bonds them that sytte in darkenesse out of the dungeon house Math. 18. The sonne of man came to saue that which was lost Math. 3 This is my deare sonne in whome I am well pleased A light to lighten the Gentiles Luke 3. A light and to be the glorie of the people Israell And there went out vertue from him Luke 6 Heale all A Phisiti and healed them all that touched him Iohn saith Io. 3. Life Io. he that beléeueth on the sonne hath euerlasting life I am the way the truth and the life VVay truth and life no man commeth to the father but by mée I haue finished the worke which thou gauest mée to doe consumatum est Io. 17. For this cause was I borne Io. 18. and for this cause came I into the world that I might beare witnesse vnto the truth Be it knowen vnto you men and brethren Acts. 13 that through this man is preached vnto you forgiuenesse of sinnes Beleuere iustified and that by him all that beléeue are iustified from all thinges from which ye coulde not be deliuered by the law of Moyses When we were enimies Rom. 5. we were reconciled vnto God by his bloud much more seeing that wée are reconciled we shall be preserued by his life and we shal be saued from wrath What the lawe coulde not doe in asmuch Rom. 8. as it was weake because of the flesh An offeriÌ„g â—r sinne that performed God and sent his sonne in the similitude of sinnefull flesh and sinne damned sinne in the flesh that the righteousnesse of the lawe might bée fulfilled in vs which walke not after the flesh but after the spirit â—ulfillers â—f the law Rom. 16 Rom. 14 Christ fulfilleth the lawe for all that beléeue to iustifie them The Lord Iesus died and rose againe that he might be Lord both of quicke and dead â— Cor. 15 Death is swallowed vp in victorie death where is thy sting hell where is thy victorie the sting of death is sinne and the strength of sinne is the lawe Death and â—ell ouerâ—me but thankes be vnto God that hath giuen vs victorie through Iesus Christ our Lord. â—say 25 Death â—seas 25. Death hath the Lord destroyed for euer O death I will be thy death O hell I will be thy stinge â—al 4 â—onne and â—eire of â—od Thou art not now a seruant but a sonne if thou be a sonne thou art an heire of God through Christ â—phe 2. Remember that in times past ye were without Christ being aliants from the common wealth of Israell and strangers from the testament of promise hauing no hope being without God in this world but now by the meanes of Iesu Christ ye which were sometime farre off Peace made are made nigh by the bloud of Christ he is
Sonne The young men must be sober minded Titus 2 YouÌ„g men young women The young women must be sober minded also and loue their husbands and children they must be discréet chast huswifly good obedient vnto their husbands that none haue any euill to say of them Father What sayst thou to souldiers toll-gatherers and Baylifes Sonne Luke 3. Souldiers The souldyers demanded of Iohn Babtist what they should doe And he said hurt no-man neither trouble any man wrongfully and be contented with your wages Luke 11 Lawiers As for the lawiers the Lord cursed them and sayd wo vnto you ye Lawiers for ye loden men with burthens which they are not able to beare and ye your selues touch not the packes with one of your fingers Father But thou tellest me not what they should doe I sée a great sort euill enough Sonne Math. 23 They ought to execute Iudgement mercie and faithe Father What off bayllifs and common tol-gatherers and such like Sonne They ought to require no more then that is apponted vnto them Luke 3 Father Thou hast spoken of all perticulerlie Euery maÌ„s dutie But now let me heare in generall words of the dutyes of all states and degrées of people young and olde learned and vnlearned rich and poore man and woman Sonne The grace of God saith saint Paull Titus 2. hath appeared that bringeth saluation vnto all men and teacheth that all men should denye vngodlinesse and worldlie lusts and that they should liue soberly righteously and Godly in this present worlde They ought to feare God Reuel 14 and giue honour vnto him and worshippe him that made heauen and earth and the sea and the fountaines of water They ought to follow righteousnesse 1. Tim. 6 Godlinesse faith loue pacience méekenesse to fight the good fight of faith to lay haÌ„d on eternall life wherevnto they are called and haue professed the same before manie witnesses They ought to recompence to no man euil for euil to warne theÌ„ that are vnruly 1. Thes 5 to comforte the féeble minde to lift vp the weake and to be patient towards all men Phillip 2 They must be like minded hauing one loue being of one accord and of one minde that nothing be done through strife or of vaine glorie but in méekenesse of minde let euerie man estéeme an other better then himselfe Luke 12 They ought to séeke the kingdome of God and the righteousnesse thereof Luke 3. He that hath two coats must part with him that hath none and he that hath meat must doe likewise 1. Cor. 11 Euerie one must be a chast virgin vnto God 1. Peter 2 They ought all to loue as the seruants of God to honour all men to haue brotherly felloship to feare God to honour the Kinge Ecclesi 8 They must kéepe the kinges commandement and the oathe that is made vnto God Eccle. 12. This is the conclusion of all thinges that they feare God and kéepe his commandements for that toucheth all men Father Election Beginne to shewe me the goodnesse of God vnto his people I haue heard that we are elected of God euen of his méere loue Sonne Yea Deu. 4. whatsoeuer the Lord God doth vnto vs that it is of his mercy and loue and for our election the Lord saith because I loued thy fathers I chose their séede after them and brought them out of Egypt The Lord hath chosen thée to be a seuerall people and nation to himselfe Deut. 7. aboue all nations of the earth The Lorde chooseth vnto himselfe the man that is godlie Psal 4. I prepared thée or euer thou knewest me Esay 45. The Lord saith Ieremi 1. before euer I fashioned thée in thy Mothers wombe I did knowe thée and or euer thou wast borne I sanctified thée and ordayned thée to be a Prophet vnto the people The Lord choseth those that put their whoredome out of his sight Oscas 2. and their adnoutry from their breasts He whom the Lord chooseth shal be holy Nume 16 Was not Esau Iacobs brother Malachi saith the Lord yet haue I hated Esau and loued Iacob Io. 6. No man saith Christ can come vnto me except my Father draw him Io. 15. Chosen to good works I haue chosen you and ordayned you to goe and bring foorth fruit and that your fruit should remayne Ephe. 1. And concluding with Saint Paules words the Lord hath chosen vs in hym before the foundations of the world were laide that we shoulde be holye without blame before him through Iesus Christ to bée heyres vnto himselfe Father Creation What saiest thou touching our creation Sonne Gen. 1. In the beginning God made heauen and earth and all other things and sawe that they were excéeding good Psalm 33 By the word of the Lorde were the heauens made and all the hostes of them by the breath of his mouth Esay 41. He that called the generations from the beginning euen the Lord which is the first and the last made and created all thinges â—eremi 27 I am saith the Lord he that made the earth the men and Cattell that are vpon the grounde with my power and out-stretched arme and I haue giuen it to whome it pleaseth mée The Lorde is the worke-master of all things which teacheth wisedome Wisd 7 All things were made by the worde of God Io. 1. and without it was made nothing that was made And concluding with Saint Paull Collo 1. who saith That all things were created by him that are in heauen and that are in earth visible and inuisible whether they be Maiestraies or Lordship either rule or power Father But how was man created Sonne Euen after the image of God Mans creation Gen. 1. God created man in his own image in the image of God created he him Male and Female created he them The Lorde shaped man euen of dust of the moulde Gen. 2. and breathed into his nostherells the breath of life and so Adam was made a liuing soule The Lord saith Iob Iob. 10. made mée of the mould and shall bring me into dust againe he hath turned me as it were milk and turned me into cruds like chéese hée hath couered me with skinne and flesh and ioyned me togther with bones and sinewes â—ob 33. The spirit of God hath made me and the breath of the almightie hath giuen mée life Eccle. 7. This I haue founde that God made man iust but he hath many inuentions â—ust â—eremy 2 Faithfull I placed thée saith God a noble vine and a good roote whose seede is faithfull but thou art turned into a bytter vnfruitfull and straunge Grape Wisd 2. God made man to be vndestroyed yea after the Image of his owne likenesse made he him neuerthelesse through the mallice of the Diuell came death into the world â—phe 4 Ye are shapen after
be called Gods and Lordes many Sonne There is but one true God One true God although there bée thrée distincte persons of that one true GOD I cannot make further relacion of his Godhead then that he hath spoken and called himselfe thus I am that I am I am Exod. 3 I am sayth he to Moyses haue sent thée This God appered vnto Abraham Exod. 6. Iehoua Gene. 17 Isaac and Iacob as an almightie God and in my name saith hée Iehoua was I not knowen vnto them I am the almightie God behold I am Almighty True God Deut. 7. Eod. Mightie Terrible Deu. 9. A consuming fier Deu. 32 The Lord thy God is a true God God is among you a mightie and terrible GOD. The Lord thy God is a consuming fyer he shall consume and bring the enimies downe before his face I alone am God and there is else none I kill and make a liue He is a God of truth without wickednesse right and Iust is he Without sinne He is an holy an Ielious God Iosua 24 and can not beare with iniquitie and sinne The righteous god trieth the harts reines Psal 7. VVhat is God The Lord is my stony rocke and defence my sauiour my God and my might in whom I will trust my buckler the horne also of my saluation and my refuge Psalm 14 He maketh his Angels spirits and his ministers a flame of fire 139. If I clime vp to heauen he is there if I goe downe to hell he is there also Pro. 5. Euery mans waies are open in the sight of his God and he pondreth all mens goinges Pro. 15. Hell with her paine is knowne vnto this God how much more then the hearts of men â—eremi 10 I am euen I am the Lorde of hosts and besides mée ther is no sauiour The Lords â—ame the lord is a true God a liuing God and an euerlasting King Eod. The name of GOD is the Lorde of hosts Dan. 4. There is none that may resist his hand or say why dost thou this Daniel 7 He sat him downe and his clothing was as white as snowe and the haires of his head like the pure wooll his throne like the fyery flame and his wheles as the burning of fyre The second â—erson a thousand serued him and tenne thousand times tenne stoode before him the iudgement was set and the bookes opened and the beast slayne Math. 1. Thou shalt call his name Iesus quia is saluum faciet populum a peccatis suis For he shall saue the people from their sines In the beginning was the worde Io. 1. and the word was with God and God was the worde And the same word became flesh and dwelt among vs. The spirit of God came vpon the messengers of Saull and they prophecied Third person The Lord GOD and his spirit Esay 48. hath sent me I will power downe of my spirit vpon all flesh Ioel. 2 Procedit Apatrie Rom. 8 Procedit a filio Io. 16. and your sonnes and your daughters shall prophecie He that hath not the spirit of Christ he is none of his When the spirit of truth commeth whom I will send from my father he will lead you into all truth This spirit certyfieth our spirit Rom. 8. that we be the sonnes of God Trinitie Math. 3. When Iesus was baptised hée came straight out of the water and heauen was open vnto him and the spirit of God came downe like a Doue light vpon him and ther came a voyce from heauen which said this is my beloued Sonne In whom I am well pleased Gen. 19. The Lorde appeared vnto Abraham and he lift vp his eyes and looked and loe thrée men stode by him â—3 seme one worshipped and he ranne to méete them at the Tennte Doore and fel to the ground and saide Lorde I besech thée goe not from thy seruant Esay 6. The Cherubin songe holy holy holy Lord God of hosts Io. 5.3 persons one God Ther be thrée that beare record in heauen the father the sonne and the holy ghost and these thrée are one Spirit water blod There be thrée that beare witnesse vppon earth the spirite and water and blood and these thrée are one Reuel 22 And concluding that these thrée persons the father sonne and holy ghost are consubstantiall and coequall Alpha and Omega without beginning or ende Father Prayer I besech this holy and blessed Trinitie one true and euerlasting GOD to continue his mercie and goodnesse towards vs his people for his owne name sake Amen Sonne And I doe most earnestly entreate his maiestie to giue vs grace to put off the olde man which is corrupt and to put on the newe man taking holde of his mercie by faith and so continue neuer looking backe but still procéeding from vertue to vertue till we enioye that kingdome prepared for the elect and chosen by this blessed Trinitie Amen Father Goe forwarde sonne tell me how man at the beginning knew the will and good pleasure of his God before the Lawe was written that he might doe thereafter and liue Sonne When the Lorde made man at the béeginning Gen. 1 he made him after his owne Image that was iust so that he knewe how to eschue euill do good for it was grafted in him when he was called of God Free will For the Lorde sent fyre and water lyfe and death before man Eccle. 15. that he might reach his hand to which he would Father And what did man being Iust and in that frée choise Sonne Gene. 3 He chose death and left life He became obedient to the subtyll serpent the Diuell and disobedient vnto his God As appeareth when God had made man and woman he placed them in Paradise where they should haue liued and all their posterytie in Ioye and filicitie for euer they had frée wil and libertie ouer all the trées and hearbes in that garden Tree of knowledge Gen. 3. and all other things whatsoeuer except the trée of knowledge of good and bad which the Lord commaunded that they should not vpon paine of death touch Father Could they not be content with all the fruites of the garden and abstayne from that one trée and so be blessed for euer Sonne No Father they forsooke their blessednesse and chose to be cursed to leue life and take death they forsooke their inherytance in heauen and chose to be fier brands in hell they cast off the Image of GOD and toke vppon them the Image of the Diuell The diuells â—mage Father Tell me by what meanes this came to passe Sonne When the Lord had thus blessed them with all blessings Gen. 3 the Diuell and Sathanas hating their happie state from which hée was fallen A lyer Serpent subtiller then any beast Came as a Serpent to Eua and demaunded why they eate not
soeuer is iust but sinneth seauen tims a day but what sayest thou of the electe Saints of God Sonne Iob. 15. Iob that iust man in respect of others saith behold the Lorde doth not trust his saints yea the very heauens are not cleane in his sighte Iob. 25 How may a man compared to God be iustified how can he be cleane that is born of a woman the stars are corrupt in his sight Father What sayst thou of that Virgen Mary Mother of Iesus Christ Virgin Marie for some say that she is coequall with God some affirme that shée may bée compared to a sacke that when the meall is out is nothing better Sonne I for my part Exod. 20. thinke well of neither of these for the one speaketh blasphemie to make any like God who created and made all thinges and the Lorde is a Iellious God and I will haue none to be compared to him as for the other they speake vnreuerently to compare that elect and chosen of God Marie blessed that blessed among women to a sacke or filthie vesture for she is called of the Angell Gods messenger vnto her blessed for thus he saith Luke 1. Haill full of grace our lord is with thée blessed art thou among women for thou hast found grace with God The mother of Iohn the baptist that holie woman full of the holie ghost Luke 1 cryed with a loud voice saide blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruite of thy wombe Luke 11 Euen a simple woman cryed before Christ and said blessed is the wombe that bare thée and the paps that gaue the sucke She was called blessed because she was elected to saluation by faith in her sauyour she was called blessed because shée was chosen of God to beare Iesus that anoynted of the father she is called blessed by reason she obayed the Lordes commaundement and yéelded to his will Luke 1. And she was most blessed that the Lord imputed no sinne vnto her and as touching this her blessednesse she saith her selfe Behould from hence foorth all generations shall call me blessed so that this blessed and elect of God is neither Goddesse for she exalteth not her selfe so hie neither to be compared so vnreuerentlie séeing that it pleaseth the Lord our God and sauiour to be borne of her Father Math. 1 Then thou makest her without sinne Sonne As touching the conception and byrth of Christ she was a most pure Virgen in al respects touching the same vndefiled but as touching her owne conception and byrth Psal 51. she will say and confesse with Dauid behold I was gotten in wickednesse and in sinne my mother conceaued mée How can he be cleane that is borne of a woman Iob. 25. the starres are not cleane in his sight Looke at her owne words She saith Luke 1. my soule doth magnifie the Lord and my spirit reioyceth in God my sauiour if she had béene cleane from all sinne then shée might haue béene saued by the lawe and Christ Iesus although her Sonne should haue profited her nothing therefore you may sée that she findeth somthing in her selfe that causeth her to confesse with ioye gladnesse of soule that her owne sonne must be her sauiour For why there is none that commeth vnto the Father of heauen but those that are brought by Christ for hée saith Nemo venit ad patrem nisi per me There is none that commeth vnto the father but by mée Father May wée not lawfully woorshippe and praye vnto this blessed Virgin and other Saincts Prayer to Saints Sonne Noe Father for Christ saith Dominum deum tuum adorabis et illi soli feruies Thou shalt worship the Lorde thy God and him onely shalt thou serue Reuel 19 Iohn fell downe at the Angels féete to worship but hée saide vnto him sée thou doe it not for I am thy fellow seruant and one of thy brethren euen of them that haue the testimonie of Christ Iesu but worship God Acts. 10 Cornelius fell downe at Peters féete and worshipped him but Peter tooke him by the hande and saide stande vp I my selfe am also a man Acts. 14 Iupiters Priestes brought Oxen and garlands vnto the Porch and would haue done sacrifice with the people which when the Apostles Barnabas and Paull hearde they rent their clothes and ranne among the people and saide sirs why doe ye this wée are mortall menne like vnto you and preach vnto you that yée shoulde turne from these vanities to the liuing God 4. king 17 Feare serue bow and doe sacrifice to God and to none els The Lord charged that they shoulde feare none other God nor bowe them selues vnto them nor serue them nor sacrifice to them but feare God that brought them out of Egypt him feare and to him bowe and to him doe sacrifice And as touching praier Christ teacheth his Disciples to pray Prayer Our Father which art in heauen hallowed be thy name c. When thou prayest Math. 6 Pray to the father of heauen enter into thy Chamber and shut the doore and pray to thy Father which is in secret and he will reward thée openly I cry vnto the Lorde with my voyce saith Dauid Psalm 77 euen vnto God will I crye with my voyce and he shall harken vnto mée Looke vnto whome Abrahams seruaunt prayed Lord God of my Maister Abrahā Gene. 24 send mée good spéede this day and shewe mercy vnto my Maister Abraham Abraham praied for Abimelech vnto the Lorde Gen. 20. and the Lorde healed Abimelech He that offereth to any but to the Lord onelie let him be rooted out Exod. 22 Serue where thou wilt saith Iosua Iosua 24 I and my house will serue the Lord God The Angell sayde Iudg. 13. if thou wilt offer an offering thou must offer it vnto the Lorde Elcana went euerie festiuall day to pray and to offer vnto the Lord God of hostes in Silo. Anna prayed and saide I haue powred out my soule before the Lord wherby you may perceaue father that none is to bée worshipped bowed vnto feared sacrificed before prayed vnto but onely the God of heauen and earth Father May we not pray thus and say GOD and our Ladie helpe mée or God and S. Iohn Peter or Iames Sonne Esay 59 None can helpe but God That is to make others equall with God For Esay sayth that the Lord sawe that none was righteous and he wondred that there was none to helpe him wherefore he helde him by his owne power and susteyned him by his owne righteousnesse And I tould you before that it was blasphemie to compare any with GOD and besides such are enemies to those Saincts for they wish that the Lord in his ielousie shoulde plague them by reason that they attribute that vnto them 2. King 6. that belongeth onely to the Lord. Vsa as we réede when he saw the Oxen
saide vnto Moyses I will be with thy mouth and teach the what thou shalt say Ioel. 2. I will saith the Lorde powre out of my spirit vppon al flesh and your sonnes and your daughters shall prophecie your olde men shall dreame dreames and your younge men shall sée visions Micheas 3 I am full of strength and the spirit of the Lord full of iudgement and bouldnesse to shew the house of Iacob their offences and the house of Israell their sinne 1. king 19 The spirit of God came vppon the messengers of Saull and they prophecied Math. 10. Christ tould his disciples and saide it is not you that shall speake but the spirit of my father that shall speake within you Luke 12. The holy ghost shall teach you what you shall say Io. 16. When the spirit of truth commeth he shall leade you into all truth Feare not what you shall say for it shal be giuen you in the same houre what ye shall speake Father If the spirit of truth speake by the mouth of his true messengers then it is likelie that the spirit of error I meane Sathan speaketh by the false Prophets Seminaries and seducers of Gods people Sonne True it is father 1. King 1â— For an euill spirit sent of God came vppon Saull I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all the Prophets 3. king 2â— And deceiue kinge Ahab that he may goe to warre in Ramoth Geliad and so be slaine They are of their father the Diuell Io. 8. his lusts will they follow saith Christ he was a murderer from the beginning and abode not in the truth The diuell speaketh by Seminaries for ther is noe truth in him when he speaketh a lie hée speaketh of himselfe for he is a lyer and the father of the same thing take héede father of these seducers by whom the diuel speaketh This false spirit spak to Eua Gen. 3. that if she eate of the trée of knowledge shée should not die the death but bée as God knowing good and bad so many deceiued now by this serpent dye the death Father â—an What saist thou by Man what is hée and to what ende shall he come Sonne Psal 144 Man is like a thing of nought his time passeth awaie like a shadowe Psal 90. When the Lord is angrie all our daies are gone we bring our yéeres to an ende as it were a tale that is tould â—ames 4. The life of man is euen a vapour that appeareth a litle time and then vanisheth awaie Gen. 3 Man is dust and into dust thou shalt bée tourned againe â—ob 7. Hath man anie certaine time vppon earth are not his daies like the daies of an hired seruant â—ob 10 The Lorde made man of moulde and shall bring him to dust againe â—ob 14. Man that is borne of a woman hath but a shorte time to liue and is full of miserie â—od While he liueth his flesh must haue trauell and while the soule is within him he must be in sorrow Isay 40 All flesh is grasse and all the goodlinesse thereof is euen as the flower of grasse the grasse is withered the flower falleth awaie euen so the people are as grasse when the breathe of the Lorde bloweth vppon them Statutum est omnibus hominibus semell mori Heb. 9. it is appointed that all men shal once dye Remember his iudgement Eccle. 38 thine also shal be likewise vnto thée yesterdaie vnto me to day Father I sée plainelie by these partes by dalie experience that all men must dye and that none can escape the hande of death therfore what saist thou to the death of the righteous Sonne The soules of the righteous Wisd 3. are in the hands of God and the paines of death shall not touch them The righteous shal shine as the sparks of fire in the read bushe Eod. and shall iudge the nations and haue dominion ouer the people and their GOD shall reigne for euer Psal 65 Blessed is the man whom the Lords choseth and receiueth vnto him he shall dwell in his court he shal be satisfied with the pleasure of his house euen of his holie Temple Psalm 72 The Lord shall deliuer their soules froÌ„ falshod and wrong For deare is the blood of his Saintes in his sight Father I perceiue that the righteous are alwaies preserued but what becommeth of the wicked Sonne Psalm 9 The wicked shal be turned into hell and all the people that forget God Macha 2. Fear not an vnrighteous mans words for his glorie is but donge and wormes to day he is set vp to morow he is gone Iob. 24. Some men there be saith Iob that remoue other mens land markes and rob them of their cattell and kéepe the same for their owne The lyfe and end of the couetous and wicked that take the asse of the fatherlesse and take the widowes Oxe for a pledge that thrust the pore out of the way that reape downe the corne that is not their owne they are the cause that so manie men are naked and bare The eye of the aduouteâ—er waiteth for the darknesse and faith no man seethe him but shortile are they gone and pluckt out of the way vtterlie pluckt off as the eares of corne Vppon the vngodlie shall the Lorde raine fire and brimstone storme tempest Psalm 10 this shal be their porcion to drinke Father What saist thou to purgatorie Purgatory out of which mens soules are deliuered by the prayers of holy Priests Sonne I say the Scripture maketh mencion of no such thing But of heauen and hell Christes blood and Saint Iohn sheweth by what meanes we are purged and clensed Io. 1. The blood of Iesus Christ clenseth vs from all sinne Through mercie and faith are sinnes purged Pro. 15. Almost euerie thinge is by the Lawe purged with blood Heb. 9 and without blood-shedding is no remession The blood of Iesus Christ doth purge our consciences from dead works Eod. to serue the liuing God Iesus Christ loued vs and purged vs from our sinnes in his blood Reuel 1 and made vs Kinges priestes vnto God the Father to him therefore bée glorie and dominion for euer more Father that was a false doctrine which was of purgatorie as you may sée and made to fill Priests purses Father What profit could that bring to Priests Sonne Mark 12 It brought much worldlie riches and Gods curse withall as Christ saith beware of the scribes which loue to goe in longe clothing and loue salutations in market places DamnacioÌ„ to theÌ„ that deuoure widowes houses with prayer and the chiefe seates at feasts and in the congregations which deuoure widowes houses vnder a pretence of long praier but they shall receiue greater damnation Math. 23. And Christ saith in the xxiii of S. Mathewes Gospell wo vnto
our peace which hath made of both one and hath broken downe the wall that was a stop betwéene vs and hath also put away through his flesh the cause of hatred euen the lawe of commaundements contained in the lawe written All thing crucified with châ— for to make of twaine one newe man in him selfe to make peace and to reconcile both vnto God in one body through the crosse and slue hatred thereby came and preached peace to you that were farre off and to them which were nigh All one now both Iewes anâ— Ientiles for by him we haue both one entrance vnto God the Father It pleased the father that in him should all fulnesse dwell Collo 1. Blood of the crossâ— and by him to reconcile all things to himselfe and to set at peace by him through the bloud of the crosse both thinges in heauen and thinges in earth This we know that the father sent the sonne to be the sauiour of the worle 1. Io. 4 And concluding to speake further of the benefites we receaue by the death and passion of Christ Iesu Acts. 3. because no tongue is able to expresse the same for there is no other name vnder heauen by whome we must be saued but onelie in the name of Iesus Christ Father If we be purged saued redéemed deliuered iustified made the children of God and fellow heyres with Iesus Christ by his death and passion tell me to what ende was the law ordayned Sonne â—all 3 It was added because of transgression till the séede came to whome the promise was made â—om 7 To reueale sinne for I knowe not saith saint Paull sinne but by the lawe I had not knowen what lust had meant except the Lord had saide vnto me thou shalt not lust â—ll 3. The Law was our scholemaster vnto Christ that we should be iustified by faith but after that faith is come we are no longer vnder the scholemaster â—b 7. The lawe brought nothing to perfection but was an introduction to a better hope by the which we drawe nigh vnto God Father Then the law saueth none Sonne No for none fulfilleth it Gall. 3 therefore bringeth a curse vpon the transgressours for it is written cursed is euerie one that continueth not in all thinges which are written in the booke of the lawe to fulfill them Father How are we then deliuered from this curse séeing that none fulfill the lawe Sonne Christ Iesus hath deliuered vs from the curse of the law Gall. 3. in asmuch as he was accursed for vs for it is written Leuiti 18 cursed is euerie one that is hanged on trée that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Iesus Christ that wée might receaue the promise of the spirite through faith Father What sayest thou to the ceremoniall law wherein were sacrifices oblations Ceremoniall law burnt offerings sinne offerings heaue offerings peace offerings sprinckling water and many such like ordinaunces of God Sonne Heb. 9. In the olde Testament were ordinances and seruings of God and worldlie holinesse Heb. 10. The law hauing but a shadow of good thinges to come and not the verie fashion of things themselues can neuer by those sacrifices that they offer yéere by yéere continually make the commers therevnto perfect Father Was the law therefore abolished Sonne Heb. 10 Yea for it did but prefigure the sacrifice death passion and other thinges fulfilled by Christ Iesu for the Lord saide sacrifice and offering and burnt sacrifice and sinne offerings thou wouldest not haue neither hast thou allowed them which are yet offered by the lawe then saide he To do gods will is the best sacrifice loe I am héere to doe thy will oh God he taketh away the first to establish the latter Father Was Christ but once offered and was that offering perfect how chaunceth it that Priestes in some places affirme that in their masses they offer Christ stil vnto the Father for the sinnes of the quicke and deade Sonne It is not in mans power to offer Christ Heb. 9. for Christ Iesus fréed himselfe once not euerie day Christ was once offred saith S. Paull to take away sinnes and not to offer himselfe often as the hye Priestes doth for theÌ„ must he oft haue suffered since the world beganne Christ néedeth not daylie first for his owne sinnes and then for the sinnes of the people to offer vp sacrifice Heb. 7. for that did he once when he offred vp himselfe and therefore perfect for euermore Christ loued vs and gaue himselfe for vs an offring and a sacrifice of a swéete sauour vnto God Father Can not then our annoynted Priests offer Christ in their masses euery daie Ephe. 5. Sonne No father for sée what Saint Paull saith we haue an hye Priest in heauen that sitteth on the right hand of God and is a minister of holie thinges and of the true Tabernacle which God pight not man Heb. 10. this man after he hath offered one sacryfice for sinnes is set downe on the right hand of God for Vnica oblatione profectos imperpet effecit eos qui sanctificantur with one offering he hath made perfect for euer those that are sanctified Heb. 1 So that father now after that he hath purged our sinnes with this sacryfice he is set downe on the right hand of the maiestie on hye no more to be offered Father Is he set on the right hand of his father no more to be offered what profit haue we by him being there Sonne Heb. 13 Sacrifice of praise He doth alwaies offer to God his father the sacryfice of praise that is the fruite of those lipes wherewith wée confesse his name Heb. 9. Christ entred into verie heauen for to appeare in the sight of God for vs. Io. 2. If anie man sinne we haue an aduocate with the father Iesus Christ the righteous Aduocate to purchase mercie for vs. and he it is that obtaineth grace for our sinnes and not for our sinnes onelie but for the sinnes of the whole world He sitteth on the right hand of God and maketh intercession for the saints according to the pleasure of God Rom. 8. He is saith saint Paull at the right hand of his father to make intercession for vs. I sawe an Angell saith S. Iohn Reuel 8 that stoode before the Alter offering the praiers of Saints vppon the golden Alter which was before the seat and the smoke of the odours which came of the praiers of all saintes ascended vp before God out of the Angells hand This Angell father is Iesus Christ that praieth for vs and presenteth the God of heauen with our praiers whereby they are accepted and for whose sake our peticions graunted Father Thou saist that Christ Iesus sitteth at the right hand of his father to pray for vs to offer vp our praiers and sacrificeâ— of thanks giueing to him to be our
loue and he that dwelleth in loue dwelleth in God and God in him Io. 16. By this shall ye be knowne to be my disciples if ye loue one an other If we examine our selues we shall finde whether we be in the faith or not 1. Cor. 15. for the Appostle saith proue your owne selues know you not that Iesus Christ dwelleth in you except ye be reprobates and he in whom Christ dwelleth 2. Cor. 5 hath crucified the flesh with affections and lustes and is a new creature in Iesus Christ So that if we be the Children of God Rom. 8. and loue one an other Gods holie spirit will certifie vs thereof Father Any man may perceiue then Religion who is a man of God and sincere religion Sonne Yea Io. 4. he that worshippeth one true God in spirit and truth and loueth all men friend and foe and hath crucified the olde man and put vppon him the newe and is become a new creature in Iesus Christ Pure religion and vndefiled before God the father is this Iames. 1 to visit the fatherlesse and widowes in their aduersitie and to kéepe himselfe vnspotted of the world Father Almes Is it a signe of men that be of perfect religion to helpe the fatherles widows and poore let mée héere how we ought to helpe them Sonne Deu. 15. If any of your brethren among you be poore saith God within any of your gates in the land which I giue you thou shalt not harden thy hearte nor shut thine hand from thy poore brother Giue and lend but open thine hand and lend him sufficient for his néede Daniel 4 Oh King saide Daniell be content with my counsell that thou maist redéeme thy sinnes with almes and thine offences with mercie to poore people for this shall be an healing of thine error Tobi. 4. Giue almes of thy goods and turne neuer thy face from any poore man then the face of the Lorde shall not be turned away from thée Be mercifull after thy power if thou hast much giue plentiouslie If thou hast little doe thy deligence to giue of that little for so gatherest thou thy selfe a good reward in the day of necessitie for almes deliuereth from sinne and death Almes rewarded and suffereth not the soule to come in darkenesse The mercie that a man sheweth is as it were a purse with him Eccle. 17 the grace that is giuen to man preserueth him as the apple of an eye The bread of the néedy is the life of the poore he that defraudeth him of it Eccle. 34 is the child of death When thou giuest thine almes Math. 6. let not thy left hand know what the right hande doth that thine almes may be in secret And the Lord which séeth in secret Rewarded shal rewarde the openlie Whosoeuer hath this worldes good 1. Io. 3 and séeth his brother haue néede and shutteth vp his compassioÌ„ from him how dwelleth the loue of God in him Father What sayest thou to those that are vnmercifull vnto the poore and will not suffer them somuch as to gather the eares of corne and to gleane in their fields Sonne I say they are wicked people Leuit. 19. not yet receiued to be of Christs church nor members thereof for the Lord commanded thus When ye reape downe your corn fields Gleaning you shall not gather that which is behind in the haruest but thou shalt leaue it for the stranger and poore I am the Lord. Leuiti 23. When you gather in your corne field thou shalt not make anie after gathering of thy haruest neither shalt thou make cleane riddance of the field but shalt leaue it to the poore and stranger Father Company Tell me what company wée ought to vse if we be new creatures what companie eschue Sonne Exod. 23 The Lorde saith thou shalt not let the wicked dwell in the land lest they make thée sinne against mée 2. kings 22 With the Godlie thou shalt be Godlie with the pure thou shalt be pure with the froward thou shalt learne frowardnesse Iob. 31. He that ioyneth himselfe to wicked coÌ„pany shall not destruction come vppon him Ecclesi 13. Who so toucheth pitch shal be filed with all he that is familyer with the proude shall cloth himselfe with pride Beare not the yoake with the vnbeléeuers 2. Cor. 6. what fellowshippe hath light with darkenesse what concorde hath Christ witst Beliall wherefore come out from among them and touch no vncleane thing We require you brethren 2 Thess â— in the name of our Lord Iesus Christ that ye withdrawe your selues from euerie brother that behaueth himselfe inordinatelie and not after the institution that ye haue receaued of vs. Father Whose companie then must we vse Sonne I am a companion saith Dauid Psal 119 of them that feare the Lorde and kéepe his commaundements I will goe among the wise Pro. 13 and learne wisedome With the holie thou shalt be holie Psalm 18 with a perfect man thou shalt be perfect and with the cleane thou shalt be cleane Thou maiest not dwell with vayne persons Psalm 2â— neither haue fellowshippe with the deceitfull I haue hated the congregation of the wicked and will not sit among the vngodlie Father Mariage Let me heare something of marriage because thou hast omitted that point Sonne Gen. 1 God the father did institute marriage in Paradise and ioyned Adam and Euaâ— in mariage together and saide growe and increase and replenish the earth â—o 2. Christ himselfe his mother and his disciples were presents at a marriage in Cana a Cittie of Gallelie where he turned the water into wine for confirmation thereof Tobias 6. Take her in the feare of God and more for children then for lust that in the séede of Abraham Mariage â—er procreâ—tion of â—hildren thou mayest possesse the blessing of Abraham Father There be almost none that denie marriage but that it is lawfull for seculer people lay men to marrie but not priestes and ministers what saith the scripture therefore to them Sonne â— Cor. 7. Mariage â—or auoiâ—ing of â—inne Thus saith Saint Paull to auoide fornication let euerie man haue his owne wife and euerie wife her owne husband If they cannot abstayne let them marrie it is better to marrie then to burne Haue we not power to leade about a-woman a sister aswell as other Apostles 1. Cor. 9 and as the brethren of the Lord The Apostles maried and Cephas eyther I and Barnabas onelie haue not power this to doe Honorabile est inter omnes coniugium Heb. 13 et thorus immaculatus Marriage is honorable among all men and a bed vndefiled but as for whoremongers and adulterers God will iudge Father Thou speakest generally of all men that all may marrie but tell me by expresse words perticularlie of Bishops or Ministers marriage Sonne A
a leper he should shut him out of the congregation vntill he were clensed Saint Paull speaketh of one that was a speciall Leper 1. Cor. 5 who had coÌ„mitted fornication with his Mother in lawe and willed the Corinthians to excommunicate him saying deliuer the man that hath done this déede vnto Sathan for the destruction of the flesh that the spirite may be saued in the day of the Lord Iesus put away the euill from among you Father What if the Leper be clensed and the fornicatour be penytent how must they be vsed Sonne The Leper shall come to the priest Leuiti 13 and if he be clensed the Priest shall shew it to the congregation that their brother being Leprous is healed and after the offering commaunded by God and he shal be receaued into the congregation againe So likewise if the offender repent and come to the Priest hauing such aucthoritie he shall receaue him and giue notise to the congregation whome he had offended that he hath repented and so receaue him againe offering an oblatioÌ„ of thanks giueing vnto the Lorde for Saint Paull saith Absolution â— Cor. 2. to whome you forgiue anie thing I forgiue also in the sight of Christ least Sathan should preuent vs. â— Cor. 2. It is sufficient of the man that he was rebuked of many so that now contrariewise ye ought to forgiue him and to comforte him least that same person should be swalowed vp with ouermuch heauienesse Comfort the broken harted Wherefore I exhort you that loue may haue strength ouer him Father Ignorance What if a man sinne ignorantly is not that excusable Sonne Leuiti 4 No father for the Lord commaunded that if any man should sinne of ignorance and should doe any of the things that the Lord had forbidden in his commaundements to be done that he should bring for his sinne which he hadde sinned an Oxe without blemish or a Goat for a burnt offering and the Priest shall make an attonement and the sinne should be forgiuen If the blinde leade the blinde saith Christ both fall into the dytch That seruaunt that knew not his lords will and did it not Luke 2 shall be beaten with few stripes So that ye may sée ignorance shall not excuse Father What saiest thou of holy water that was vsed of late yéeres Holy water Sonne I say it was a ceremonie reproued by the Lord speaking by Ieremie Ieremi 2. the people haue forsaken mée the well of the water of life and haue digged themselues pitts yea vile and broken pitts that can holde no water Ye are like to those that goe downe to the graue Baruc. 3 euen because ye haue forsaken the well of wisedome Father Yea Nume 19 but the scripture maketh mention of sprinckeling water and saith he that toucheth any vncleane thing shall be vncleane vntill he be sprinckeled with the sprinckeling water Sonne That was accounted a ceremonie ordayned by God the father to signifie that all were vncleane except their hearts and consciences should be sprinckled with the water of life zachar 1â— which the Prophet Zachary speaketh of the house of Dauid and the Citizens of Ierusalem shall haue an open well to wash of sinne and vncleanenesse zachar 14 In that time shall the waters of lyfe runne out of Ierusalem then shall there be but one Lord onelie and his name shall be one Ieremy 17 They haue forsaken the Lord euen the waters of life â—o 19 SprinckliÌ„g VVater One of the souldiers when Iesus was vpon the Crosse with a speare thrust him to the heart and there out came bloud and water this is that sprinckeling water wherewith we are clensed so that I will conclude with Christes owne wordes to Peter â—o 13. Holy waâ—er when he washed the Disciples féete with water Peter saide Lorde thou shalt neuer wash my féete but Iesus saide if I wash thée not thou hast no part with mée so that vnlesse we be washed with this water by Iesus Christ we shall neuer be cleane this water of life being come that sprinckeling water you speake of in the ceremoniall lawe is taken away séeing the verie thing it selfe is come the shadow or figure is abolished Father What doth the scripture speake of frée will Free will Sonne Since the fall of Adam Ieremi 10 there was none that had frée will for Ieremie the prophet saith I know Lord it is not in mans power to order his owne waies or to rule his owne footesteps and goings Who can haue vnderstanding of the meaning except thou giue him wisedome Wisd 10 and send the holie Ghost that the waies of them that be vpon earth may be reformed What I would doe doe I not Rom. 7 but what I hate that doe I to will is present with mée but I finde no meanes to performe that which is good It is God that worketh in you Phillip 2 both the will and also the déede euen of good will We are not sufficient of our selues to thinke any thing as of our selues 2. Cor. 3 but if we haue béene able vnto any thing All goodnesse commeth of God the same commeth of God which hath made vs able to minister the newe Testament not of the letter but of the spirit Father Euil counsellers What saiest thou of euill counsellers for many great men delight therein Sonne Math. 16 I say they are diuels incarnate marke the words of Christ when he was shewing his Disciples that he must suffer death for the sinnes of the world Peter his seruaunt called him aside and saide Maister fauour thy selfe saue thy selfe but what aunswered Christ Iesus when he hadde turned that all might heare Openly reproued he said to Peter goe after me Sathan for thou sauourest not the things that be of God but the things that are of men I pray God that all noble men Gentlemen and Land-lords hauing stewards and seruaunts that moue them to fauour themselues to liue daintely in this world to oppresse their poore tenaunts to enhaunce their rentes to pill and poll them to driue them out of their houses and doe ioyne house to house and lande to lande that they would aunswere them openlie to their shame Euil counsellers are diuells and say come after mée sathan thou art an impe of the Diuell and a messenger of death thy Maister Sathan hath sent thée to gette my soule which Christ Iesus bought with his precious bloud for a little pleasure to be tormented in hell for euer for what will it gayne me if I winne all the world and léese my soule Father God graunt that all Land-lords would so doe for then God should be glorified the poore well relieued they themselues more honested and in the ende rewarded the Realme by a strong and mightie commonaltie strengthened and her Maiestie by dutiefull subiectes dread feared and honoured But procéede tell me what is the ende commonlie of such
that time Sonne Wisd 3. The Lord forbid the righteous were in the handes of God so that no torments did touch them And besides Saint Iohn saith Reuel 13 that Christ was a slayne Lambe from the beginning of the world for the beastes fell downe before him and worshipped him and saide Reuel 5 thou wast killed from the beginning and hast redéemed vs by thy bloud and hast made vs vnto our God kinges and priestes and we shall raigne euer Oh thincke vpon thy congregation Psal 74. ConclusioÌ„ whome thou hast redéemed and purchased of olde By which father you may well perceaue that euen those holy faithfull and vertuous men that were before Christ came in the fleshe were saued by his death for the Diuell was conquered by Christ before the foundations of the world his promise also to Adam was yea and Amen but reuealed to vs in the time that the Lord had appointed 1. Cor. 10 All which holie fathers drunk of that spirituall rocke Christ which we drunke off and saued as we are For Saint Paull saith our fathers passed all through the sea and were Baptised all vnder Moses in the cloude and in the Sea and did all eate of one spirituall meate and they all dranke of one spirituall Rocke that followed them which Rocke was Christ Father Goe on Sonne to the other enemies the worlde and flesh Sonne Math. 4 These are instruments whereby the Diuell and Sathanas worketh to bring man to perdition for the Diuell tempting Christ shewed all the world in the twinckeling of an eye and sayde vnto him Hec omnia dabo tibi All these will I giue thée if thou wilt fall downe and worship mée 1. Tim. 6 They that desire to be ritche saith Saint Paull fall into many temptations and snares of the Diuell and into manye foolish lustes which drowne into perdition and destruction for couetousnesse of monie is the roote of all euil which while they lusted after they erred from the faith and entangleth themselues with many sorrowes In exhorâ—ation to â—ee the â—orld but thou man of God flée such thinges followe righteousnesse godlinesse fayth peace loue pacience méekenesse â—say 48. Egrediamini de Babulone vt saluet vnusquisque anima sua Come from the world and saue thy soule Flée from the world saith Christ for in the worlde ye shall haue tribulation Io. 17 but in mée peace Beholde all the worlde is set on wickednesse 1. Io. 5 Euerie one that séeth the world Nah. 3. should goe from it The worlde and all the concupisences thereof shall passe away Io. 2. The ritch man of all the worlde Iob. 25. when he dieth carrieth nothing away with him The Diuell deceaued the ritch man that Christ speaketh off Luke 12. and perswaded him that he should liue long and he therfore willed his owne soule to eate drinke and take his ease and pleasure for manie yéeres in the worlde with his worldelie ritches but Christ tolde him that the Diuell that night should haue his soule therfore beware good Father of these practises of Sathan for the worlde will deceaue such as trust therevnto Father What meanes are there for men to resist this eneime Sonne Exod. 20. A remembrance of the commaundements of God which hath taught that we shoulde not so much as desire any thing pertaining to our brethren Tim. 6. that we should not carefullie séeke ritches for thereby men fall into snares of the Diuell and that the worlde passeth away and yet the sinner remayneth and that the worldelings fall downe and worship Sathan math 4 therefore we ought to séeke an other place then this worlde for non habemus hic ciuitatem manentem sed futuram inquerimus we haue héere no byding place but looke for an other that is an heauenly Heb. 13 Our conuersation must be without couetousnesse and loue of this world and bée content with that which we haue alreadie 1. Io. 2. So that as Saint Iohn saith if anie man loue the worlde the loue of God the father is not in him for the worlde passeth away and all the lustes thereof Father What sayest thou of the flesh Sonne Al that is in the world saith saint Iohn 1. Io. 2 is the lusts of the flesh the lusts of the eyes and pride of life these are not of the father but of the world but the world passeth away the lusts thereof but he that fulfilleth the will of God abydeth euer These déedes of the flesh are these Gall. 5 adultery fornicatioÌ„ vncleannesse wantonnesse worshipping of Images witchcraft hatred variance strife wrath enmity sects drunckennesse gluttony and such like but they which commit such things shall not be inheritours of the kingdome of Christ and God vnto these doth Sathan tempt man Father How are the fleshlie acts and diuelish temptacions to be refused Sonne They are te be resisted and withstand by heartie and deuoute prayers Math. 17 For whereas there was a certaine man that came vnto Christ for his sonne that was lunitick he tauld him how that he had brought him to his disciples that they might heale him and they could not and after when he had healed him his disciples demaunded secretlie how that they could not cast out that diuell Fleshly diuel cast out by fasting praier and he said because of your vnbelefe how be it this kinde goeth not out but by fasting and prayer Tobias 6. The Angell saide to youÌ„g Tobyas I will tell thée of whome the diuell hath power namelie of such as receiue meaning that they shut GOD from them and from their hearts and giue themselues to lust like horse and Mule that haue no vnderstanding Math. 26 Christ warned his disciples that they should watch and pray least they should fall into temptation for the spirit is wiling but the flesh is wéeke 1. Cor. 9 I tame my bodie and being it into subiection saith Saint Paull least by anie meanes it come to passe that when I haue preached to others I my selfe should be a castaway Gall. 6. So father we must cast away the works of the flesh and receiue the fruites of the spirit which are these loue ioye peace long suffering geÌ„tlenesse goodnesse faithfulnesse meakenesse temperance for trulie they that are Christs haue crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts Father Let mée héere who are soldiers vnder this great dragon the diuell Sathan souldiers what cognizaunt or badge they beare that they may be knowne and what destruction coÌ„meth vppon them Sonne Euerie one that confesseth not Iesus Christ to be come in the flesh The diuels souldiers 1 Io. 4 is a souldyer of Sathan He that committeth sinne Io. 3. is of the diuell for the diull sinneth from the begining whosoeuer doth not righteousnesse is not of God neither he that hateth his brother Hée hath power ouer all people and kindreds and tongues and nations
Reuel 13 and all that dwel vpon the earth whose names are not written in the booke of life of the Lambe He is the Captaine ouer all that worship diuels and Images of gold Reuel 19 and siluer and brasse and stone and of wood which neither can sée heare nor go of all murderers fornicatours sorcerers ImpeniteÌ„t persons are his souldiers and théeues which repent not of the déedes of their handes Father Many souldyers then hath the diuell vnder his banner if all naughtie men that repent not of the déeds of their owne handes be his but what will the Lord do to them if they amend not and come home to their God Sonne Reuel 8 Saint Iohn telleth that their plauges shall come in one day death and sorow and hunger and they shal be burnt with fier for strong is the Lord God which shal iudge them Rom. 1 There shall come tribulacion wrath and anguishe vppon euery soule of them Father Tell me who are souldyers vnder Christes banner and what reward shall they haue Sonne Reuela 16 Those that watch and kéepe their garments that they walke not naked so that men may sée their filthienesse Io. 4. He that confesseth that Iesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God They that kéepe his commaundements and doe those thinges that are pleasant in his sight and this is the commaundemeÌ„t Faith and loue are badges of Christs soldiers that we beléeue on the name of his sonne Iesus Christ and loue one another as he hath giuen commaundement They are buried by baptisme Collo 3 but raised againe by faith They haue their conuersation in heauen from whence they looke for a sauiour euen the Lorde Iesus Christ Phillip 3 They beléeue onely in Christ Iesu Gall. 3. I beheld saith Saint Iohn Reuel 7 a great multitude which no man could number of all nacions people and tongues that stood before the seat and the Lambe clothed with loÌ„g white garmeÌ„ts palmes in their handes they are they that came out of tribulation and made their garmentes white with the blood of the Lambe therfore are they in the presence of God and serue him day and night in his temple and he that sitteth vppon the seat will dwell among them they shall hunger no more neither thirst neither shall the sunne light on theÌ„ any more neither any heat for the Lambe which is in the middest of the seat shall féed them and lead them vnto fountaines of liuing water and God shall wipe away all teares from theire eyes Father Let vs pray against these enimies the Diuell world and the flesh Sonne A prayer O Lord God and mercifull father the diuell goeth about like a roaring Lyon séeking whome he may deuouer the flesh lusieth against the spirit the world perswadeth vnto vainities that we may forget thée and so for euer â—e damned thus are we myserablie beset be séeged on euerie side with cruel and restles enimies and like at euerie moment to perish if we be not defended by thy mightie hand against their tiranny we therefore poore and wretched sinners disparing of our owne strengthes which in déede is none most heartely pray thée to endue vs with strength from aboue that we may be able with strong faith to resist Sathan with feruent prayer to mortifie the luste of the flesh with continuall meditation of thy holy Law to auoide the foolish vanities transitory pleasures of this wicked world and béeing set at libertie from the power of these our mortall enimes may serue thée in true holynesse and righteousnesse after be partakers of thine euerlasting ioies prepared for thy Children which as they are great and vnspeakable so are they few that do enioye theÌ„ for straite is the way narrow is the gate that leadeth therevnto and few therebe that finde it Notwithstanding thou hast a little flocke to whom it is thy pleasure to giue that ioyfull kingdome whose names are written in the booke of lyfe make vs of that number for Iesus Christ his sake place vs amongst those shéepe that shall stand on thy right hand and receiue that blessed inheritance and dwell with thée for euermore Amen Father Iudgement generall Graunt this O Lord for Iesus Christ his sake Well procéede sonne is there once a reckning to be made and an accompt to be giuen before whom shall that reckning be and who shall recken Sonne That straight accompt and reckning shal be before the maiestie of that terryble and fearful God iudge Iesus Christ and they that shall recken are all people kindreds and tongues good and bad that haue béene are or shal be till the ende of the world come and that fearefull iudgement bée Father Resurrection How shall the dead be raised vp if all shal be iudged Sonne Trumpe 1. Cor. 15 With the sound of Gods trumpet father for the trumpe shall blowe and the deade shall rise incorruptable and we shal be chaunged for this corruptable must put on incorruption and this mortall shal put on immortalitie In that day shall the great Trumpet be blowen Esay 23 so that they which were lost in the land of Assyria and those that were banished into the lande of Egypt shal come and worship the Lord in the holy mount at Ierusalem The Lord shall crie with a great shout from his court regall Ieremi 2 he shall giue a great voyce like the grape gatherers and the sounde thereof shall be heard to the ende of the world The Lord shall roare out of Sion Amos. 1 and shew his voice out of Ierusalem that the heauens and earth shall quake withall He shall sende his Angells with the great voice of a Trumpet Math. 24 and they shall gather together his chosen from the foure winds euen from the highest partes of heauen to thendes thereof The Lord God shall blowe out the Trumpet zachary shall come foorth as a storme out of the south The Lorde shall disend from heauen with a shout 2 Thess and the voice of the Archangell and trump of God I will blow for them zachar 1 and gather them together saith the Lorde for I will redéemed them Thus by the sounde of the Trumpet shall all be raysed vp from death Father The Lorde be mercifull vnto vs. The remembraunce of the voyce of the Trumpet terrifieth mée which shall bée hearde in Heauen Earth and Hell but procéede howe shall men rise Sonne â—ob 19 Iob saith I knowe that my redéemer liueth and that I shall rise out of the earth at the last daye and shall bée cloathed agayne with my skinne and shall sée GOD in my fleshe yea and I my selfe shall beholde him not with other but with these same eyes â—say 26 The deade menne shall lyue sayeth GOD euen with their bodies shall they ryse agayne awake and singe thou that dwellest in the dust for thy dewe is euen as