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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07288	Saint Peters chaine consisting of eight golden linckes, most fit to adorne the neckes of the greatest states, nobles, and ladies in this land, as the chiefest iewell of true nobilitie: and not vnfit for the meaner sort. Digested into eight chapters, and published by R.M. minister. With a praier annexed to the end of euerie chapter.	Mavericke, Radford, b. 1560 or 61.	1596 (1596)	STC 17683; ESTC S112697	95,593	198

nature and the dignity thereof wee should wel perceiue how foule dishonest a thing it is to be resolued into letcherie immoderate eating and drinking and to liue loosly and wantonly and on the contrary howe honest fayre and commendable a thing it is to liue continently temperatly sadly and soberly But if we could step a degree farther and consider now not what excellency man is of by nature but whereunto wee are called by grace then doubtlesse wee should be ashamed of those foule vices which wee daylie commit and giue our selues more to temperance sobrietie chastity the like which are the true ornaments of christianitie Vnto this temperance and sobrietie the scripture doth verie earnestly exhort vs and diswade vs from the vices contrary thereunto The grace of God saith Saint Paule Tit. 2. 11 Sobrietie a chiefe ornament of christianity Rom. 13.11 hath appeared to this end to teach vs to denie all vngodlines and worldly lustes and to liue soberly righteously and godly in this present world Therefore he saith in another place The night is past the day is at hand let vs therfore cast away the works of darknes and let vs put on the armour of light so that wee walke honestly as in the day not in gluttony and drunkennes neyther in chambering wantonnes neither in strife enuying but put yee on the Lord Iesus Christ and make no prouision to fulfill the lusts of the flesh Againe among the manyfold fruits of the spirite which the Apostle Saint Paule Gal 5 23 reckoneth vp hee nameth temperance for one The fruites of the spirit are ioy peace meeknes temperance against such there is no lawe And when Saint Peter would exhorte vs vnto holynes hee first of all exhorteth vs vnto temperance and sobernes saying Bee sober and trust perfectly in 1. Pet. 1.13 the grace of God and so foorth And then presentlie addeth Bee yee holy as God is holy Againe putting vs in minde of the day of iudgment and that we should take heed of Sathan hee saith Be ye sober and watch and Bee ye sober and watchfull vnto prayer 4.7 5.8 Meaning that there can bee neither prayer nor watchfulnes without sobriety and temperance And indeede who findeth not by experience that when the fleshe is pampered vp then drowsie sleepines and InteÌ„perancy an enimy to study all good exercyses sluggishnes commeth vppon vs and makeeth vs vnapt to studie prayer or anie good exercise For this cause hath it beene the manner of the church of God in all ages whensoeuer they woulde giue themselues to holy exercyses presently to commaund a godly and religious fast not from flesh onely as the papists do but from all kinde Godly fasting a good helpe vnto praier of meates to the end they maye the more deuoutly serue God So likewise doth our Sauiour Christe commend vnto vs abstience sobrietie and temperance when hee Mat. 26.41 commaundeth vs to watch and praye least wee fall into temptation And aboue all thinges to take heed that our heartes bee not ouercome with surfetting and drunkennesse Luk. 21 34. and cares of this life and so suffer the day of iudgement to come vppon vs vnawares Oh that the beastly belly Gods and drowsie drunckardes of our dayes which Esay 28.1 sitte quaffing from morning till night woulde sometimes call to theyr remembrance this admonition and forewarning of our Sauiour who telleth them plainely that the daye of iudgement shall come vppon them as a snare if they continue Luk 21.35 in their beastlines But what reckoning make they of the daye of iudgement Are not they the very mockers and scoffers Belly Gods and drunkerds make a mocke of the day of iudgment 2. Pet. 3.3 which Saint Peter fore-prophesied should come in this last age of the world that in derision of God and al godlines say where is the promise of Christes comming vnto iudgement because they see the continuance of the world as yet therefore they imagine that it shall neuer haue an end not considering that one daie is with the Lord as a thousand yeeres and a thousand yeares as one daye that it is as easie for the Lord to destroy the world with fire as it was to make the same of nothing and to destroy it again with water that the Lord is not slacke concerning his promise as some men count slacknes but is patient toward vs and would haue no man to perishe but wold all men come to the knowledge of his truth Howsoeuer these wicked mockers according to the hardnes of their heartes Rom. 2. 5. which cannot repente heape vnto themselues wrath against the daye of wrath and declaration of the iust iudgement of God O consider this all yee that forget God least hee teare you in peeces and there be Psal 50.22 none to helpe for surelye as Saint Peter saith the daye of the Lord will come how sone the Lord knoweth and farre of it cannot 2. Pet. 3.10.11.12 be as a theefe in the night in the which the heauens shal passe away in noise and the elements shall melt with heat and the earth with the workes that are therein shall bee burnt vp Seeing therefore that all these thinges must bee dissolued what manner persons ought we to be in holy conuersation and godlynes Wherefore let vs take heed of surfeting drunkennes the cares of this life al which now a daies are scarcely Surfetting and drunkennes scarce couÌ„ted for sins counted for sinnes least the day of iudgement come vpon vs to our euerlasting destruction Aboue al let vs make much of sobriety temperance for if we would keepe our selues our soules and bodyes in temperance chastitie and sobrietie surely neither the daye of iudgment nor the daye of our own death should euer ouertake vs sodainlie Let vs remember that Saint Peter biddeth vs to ioyne with our knowledge temperance Temperance doubtlesse is a vertue much to be sought for without it we are more like beasts then men Shee is both a necessarie and profitable seruant What saye I a seruant nay shee should bee our mistres yet truely such is the intemperancy of our time that shee would TeÌ„perance both a necessarie and profitable seruant thinke her selfe happie if shee might haue any office in our houses she would serue for little or no wages yet would shee saue yerelie in some houses inough to paye the wages of all the rest of the seruants Shee cares not what office she had so she might be curteouslie entertained shee would be cooke but gluttonie will not suffer her to come into kitchin she would be panterer but shee cannot haue the chippinges for her labour so little is she accounted of she would be in the Seller to drawe beere wine but drunkennes will not suffer her to be quiet shee woulde come to bee her misters chamber-maide to put on her apparrell seemely about TeÌ„perance fit for euerie office

further proofe that no man by his owne naturall reach of wit and vnderstanding can iudge of the vertues and qualities of faith but onely such as are renewed and borne againe by the spirite of God Now then as I said is it any marueil that this precious Iewel of faith is so smally estimated slenderly accoÌ„pted of in the world of meere worldly carnal men Seing they haue no skil at al to iudge of the rare vertues and operation therof neither by meanes of the outward senses of their bodies nor yet by the force powers of their souls but are altogether like vnto the Cocke wherof the fable speaketh that seeing a precious Gem or Iewell lying on the donghill wished hee had had one graine of Barley for that precious Iewell because hee knewe not the price and vertue of the same and therefore did wish for that which serued best to the satisfying of his owne appetite and desire Seeing then the case thus standeth that most people are so miserably deceiued chusing with greedie earnestnes and desire and as it were with both hands apprehending the vaine transitory things of this life make small or none accompt but euen like filthie swine trample vnder their feete Gods Treasures contemned of worldly men those precious pearles of the worde of God of faith and free saluation purchased by the bloud of Christ to the high dishonouring of Almightie God to the endaungering of their owne soules to the great scandale or offence of other to the extreme griefe of hearte of each true faithfull and godlye Christian seeing the case thus standeth I say and these premises duely considered I haue thought it meete and verily agreeing with my calling to spend a litle time in contriuing these plaine and simple treatises of faith and the fruites thereof hereafter following to this end that partly by the helpe hereof if God giue a blessing thereunto but chiefely by prayer reading and hearing of Gods word preached the ignorant sort may attaine vnto the knowledge of faith and other misteries of God by grace which wee by our owne natural knowledge and vnderstanding are not able to attaine vnto and that also these rich gifts of God as faith the rest may be the better accompted of to Gods glorie and our eternall comfort and saluation .. And because it is the minde of the holy 2. Pet. 1 5. Ghost as Saint Peter noteth that all vertues whatsoeuer shold be linked vnto faith as the verye fountaine from whence they must spring therefore I haue made this my first Chapter wherein I will God assisting me in as briefe manner as I can declare and make plaine to those whose eyes it shall please the Lord to open what an excellent and precious Iewell fayth is as also what great profit commodity we receiue by it But here first of all intreating of fayth in generall it shall not bee amisse to make knowne what faith it is whereof I will intreate for there is a certaine Morall fayth or trust which we call fidelitie that ought to be betweene man and man and euen this is a vertue worthy of commendation ther is also an Historicall faith when we onely beleeue the bare Historie whether it bee humane or diuine without any further application of it vnto our selues and this faith is also in some sort worthy of due praise and there is a Temporary faith when some doe beleeue for a time as our Sauiour saith nothing Mat. 13.21 worthie to be commended but is like vnto that faith whereof Saint Iames speaketh that is dead in it selfe to speake nothing Iam. 2.17 of that fayth which is called miraculous because it hath ceased for the most part since the time of the Apostles Now it is not my purpose to entreate of any of these seeing they are gifts common What faith it is whereunto Saint Peter wold haue vertue ioyned to the good and to the bad neither doeth Sainte Peter meane to linke his Golden Chaine with any one of them for that wold disgrace his whole worke but that fayth which I mind to speake of is supernaturall diuine and heauenly far more glorious and excellent then can be comprehended as I haue already saide by the wit and naturall vnderstanding of man But what is it wil some say that you doe so commend Wilt thou know Surely it is that which thy tongue hath vttered a thousand times when thou hast said I beleeue in God And is this such a great matter will worldlings saye to beleeue in God Doth this onely thing deserue so great praise and commendation Yea verily But here beware A Caueat least thou deceiue thy selfe in the vnderstanding of the words for there be three things almost like in words but farre differing in true sence meaning namely to beleeue God to beleeue there is a God and to beleeue in God The deuils beleeue the first and the second that God is true of his promise which is to beleeue God and they also beleeue there is one God and no more and tremble as Saint Iames saith but they Iam. 2.19 beleue not the third that is in God which is as much as to embrace him for our good God and to rest repose our selues on him and his worde onely which is that true iustifying faith wherof I speake So then we must take heed as I said that we do not deceiue True faith beleeueth in God our selues thinking we beleeue verie well if we beleeue God and beleeue there is a God which thing indeede we ought also to do but we must goe further to beleeue in God that is to acknowledge him for our good God Sauior this is ment by saying I beleeue in God I beleeue I say not another for me for euery one shall be saued by his owne faith and not by anothers as the Prophet Habacuk saith The iust shall Haba 2.4 liue by his owne faith Furthermore to beleeue in ã€ˆâ€¦ã€‰ to beleeue in God the Father in Goâ—â—he son in God the holy Ghost three persons in trinity one God in vnity of esseÌ„ce And is it then so easie a matter to beleeue the trinity in vnity the vnity in trinity No verily flesh bloud doth not reueal these things vnto vs as Christ said vnto S. Peter Mat. 16.17 but onely God himselfe both by the outward preaching of his worde by the inward working of his holy spirit Wherfore Galat. 5.6 a true liuely and iustifying faith which euermore worketh by loue may bee thus A definition of a true liuely faith defined namely that it is a most certain sound perswasion of Gods great good will fauour towardes vs grounded vpon the truth of his free promises made vnto mankinde in his sonne Christ Iesus reuealed vnto vs by the preaching of his word and sealed in our harts by his holy spirite Thus then hauing briefly and plainely shewed what

speake yet still of naturall kindnes as wee are brothers by nature and creation Insomuch that most certainly we now liue in those last dayes and perillous times which the Apostle S. Paule foreprophesied 2. Tim. 3.1 shoulde come before the end of the world when men shoulde bee louers of their owne selues couetous boasters proude cursed speakers disobedient to parents vnthankfull vnholye without naturall affection truce breakers false accusers intemperate fierce despisers of them which are good traitours headye high minded louers of pleasures more than louers of God hauing a shew of holynesse but hauing denyed the power thereof all which thinges are most certainly fulfilled in our time But leauing to discourse farther of naturall kindnesse and of such vnkinde naturall men as this age yeeldeth I must come to the chiefest thing that ought to bee spoken of in this Chapter euen vnto christian brotherly kindnes which the Apostle Saint Peter in anie case woulde haue vs to linke vnto the sixe former vertues for Christians must not onelye shewe brotherly kindnesse one to another because wee are brothers by nature and creation but chiefelye and principally because wee are also brothers by grace of redemption by profession and religion because wee haue one God one faith one baptisme one sauiour and redeemer And is this brotherhoode neerer and dearer than the other O farre dearer by nature and creation we are brothers according to the flesh but by grace wee are knit Brothers by redemption nearer and dearer then by creation together in vnitie of spirite by nature wee inioye heere in a fraternitie the temporall thinges of this worlde and that neyther but by vsurpation or tolleration but by grace wee inioy through hope those durable riches which shall neuer fade By nature we are the sonnes of men but by grace wee are made the sonnes of God The same spirite bearing witnesse with our spirit that we are the children of God If wee bee children Rom 8.16.17 wee are also heires euen the heires of God and heirs annexed with Christ if so be that wee suffer with him that wee maye also bee gloryfied wyth him By nature wee are heires heere of temporall inheritances but by grace wee are heires and coheires wyth Christ Iesus of eternall glorie in a worde by nature or rather by corruption of nature we are the children of wrath and damnation but by grace wee are restored vnto life and saluation If by nature therefore wee ought to shewe kindnesse to our brothers according vnto the flesh howe much more vnto them that are brothers both by nature profession This Argument from the lesser to the greater doeth the Apostle Saint Paule vse when hee would perswade his beloued Philemon Brothers both by nature profession Phile 16. to shewe kindnesse vnto Onesimus an old seruant of Philemons I beseech thee sayth the holy Apostle Saint Paule for my sonne Onesimus whome I haue begotten in my bondes that thou wouldest receiue him for euer not nowe as a seruant but aboue a seruant euen a brother beloued speciallie to mee howe much more to thee both in the flesh and in the Lorde Heere then was brotherly kindnesse to bee shewed both because Onesimus was once Philemons seruant and of his familye in which respect Saint Paule as the learned doo note doeth call Onesimus Philemons brother according to the fleshe as also because hee was now a brother according vnto grace Furthermore as there are degrees of brotherly kindnesse according to nature so also according to grace for though loue whereof wee must speake in the next chapter Degrees of brotherlie kindnes according to grace doeth extende it selfe farre and neere to all the children of God alike that are dispearsed thoroughout the whole worlde yet christian brotherly kindnes doth shewe it selfe by degrees which sheweth a differrence betweene loue and brotherly kindenes according to country kindered affinitie fellowship and so foorth It was godly brotherly kindnes in Moises so earnestly to pray the Lord to pardon his country people Exod. 32.31 the children of Israel though therein he had chiefely respect vnto Gods glory or els to rase his name out of the booke of life In like maner it was christian brotherly kindnes in Saint Paule to wishe himselfe Rom. 9. 3. separated from Christ for his brethren that were his kinsemen according to the flesh And the same brotherly kindnes haue all the faithfull though not in so great a measure euen vnto this daye The faithfull husband doth chiefelie desire the saluation The fruites of brotherly kindnes of his wife the wife lykewise of her husbande faithfull parents the saluation of their children children ought to beare the same affection vnto their parents so brothers and sisters so neighbours and friends so kinstolke countrey folke should beare this Christian brotherly kindnes one to the other For these vertues which wee had first giuen vnto vs by creation are not taken away by grace of redemption but rather restored Therefore Saint Paule saith Be ye affectioned Giftes of nature restored by grace of redemption to loue one the other with brotherly kindnes And the author to the Hebrues faith Let brotherly loue continue And againe forsake not the fellowship that ye haue among your selues as the manner Heb 12. 1. of some is And Saint Peter in the second Chapter of his first Epistle saith Honour 1. Pet. 2.17 all men loue brotherlie fellowship Therefore the saintes of God in the primitiue Church are commended in the third of Act. 3.42 the Actes because they did continue not onely in the Apostles doctrine but also in Christians should liue together in godly fellowship fellowship If these Christians were commended for that they continued in the Apostles doctrine and fellowship howe are many that beare the names of Christians in this age to be condemned for that they agree neyther in the Apostles doctrine neyther in brotherly kindnes and Christian felowship but deuide separate themselues one from the other How are all the nations in Christendome deuided and rent asunder the one from the other a token that the latter day draweth The bonds of Christian fellowship broken neer Are not almost al the bonds of christiaÌ„ fellowship brotherly kindnesse broken Doth not one christian nation thirst for the bloude of an other Nay will all the bloude of all the true Christians in Europe quench the thirst of that blouddy beast of Rome that doth nothing els but seeke to make hauocke of the church of God and that vnder the pretence of holines and religion Surely it is most certaine that Antechrist that spirituall whore of Babilon hath not onely made drunken the most part of the Kinges and Princes of the earth with the cup of her fornication but also hath beene the very The pope the bellows of discention bellowes which out of hell mouth hath kindled the coals these many yeares of most parte of the warres

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