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A17028	A sermon preached at the assises holden at Winchester the 24. day of Februarie last, before Sir Laurence Tanfeild knight, Lord Chiefe Barron of the Exchequer, and Sir Richard Hutton knight, one of the iustices of the Court of Common-pleas. By Abraham Browne prebend: of the Cathedrall Church of Winton.	Browne, Abraham, d. ca. 1625.	1623 (1623)	STC 3906; ESTC S119312	28,509	46

beginning at Hierusalem But you translate the word repentance by the word penance saying Christ said that penance should be preached And from whence haue you this word penance is it from thence that your Latine Translation saith Agite paenitentiam but how dissolutely do you abuse the grauity of the Translator For when he meant to speake home as wee say and to the purpose translateth doe repentance answerable to our conuertion and ordering our wayes aright according to the Hebrew and Greeke you Translate him in your English by your Confessors tearmes as doe pennance But to returne from speaking any more to them the truth is the ordering of wayes must be done by an effectuall repentance euen a turning from our euill wayes that wee may be found alwayes in sinnes great and lesse well tolde euen by a Confessors booke to bee vpon the mending hand This is published in our Common prayer where repentance and forgiuenesse are ioyned in our absolution the application of which absolution we leaue to the conscience of all hearers as they repent and not to be a Sacramentall donation or graunt to any that repenteth not And this is the ordering of wayes in our Church where truthes should bee not deceptions and falshoods Repentance must bring in the absolution not any Sacrament no not those two noble Sacraments of Baptisme and the Lords Supper will with vs absolue an vnrepentant sinner vnlesse you apply them to Infants vnto whom knowledg● of repentance is not yet come And now we may see why the Church is rid from the law of carnall commaundements which were to some but clokes for their hypocrisie to all burthens hard to beare for all commaund●ments of God must be kept albeit they be carnall rights and therfore the not sleeping sinne and transgression worthy of an expiation and an attonement and now in the new Testament the Church seruice easie as he that offereth prayses glorifieth God so God himselfe saying But when we come to this second point which is ordering of wayes then wee are come to that straight gate that leadeth to eternal life into which few enter and thereby true that many are called but few chosen St. Iames saith In many things we offend all of vs. And St. Iohn will not Iam. 3. 2. denie but that we may sinne though hee say afterwards he that is borne of God sinneth not meaning by continuance in any sinne neuer so little It is said of the Husbandman that he is not out of worke all the yeare long for he is changing of ground breaking vp of grounds fallowing plowing weeding reaping no more is the Saint of God out of worke all his life time and repentance will finde worke for the Pastor and Teacher for the Flock and the Disciple And when we are thus labouring in repentance let vs hearken to him that saith Come to me all yee that are we arie and laden and I will ease you take my yoke on you Math. 11. 28. and learne of me that I am meeke and lowly in heart and yee shall finde rest for your soules for mine yoake is easie and my burthen is light These words no doubt are spoken vnto them that labour in conuerting and turning still from this and that euill way euen as men wearied finding the burthen still heauie And this my Text will haue a good correspondencie and will answere well to that our Sauiour his voyce and that it is said in my Text that wee must order our wayes aright and it commeth in after this manner And vnto him that ordereth his wayes aright I will shew the saluation of God This shewing of Gods saluation is the third part of my Sermon and maketh my worke a perfect worke that I shall by Gods grace fulfill my promise which was to exhibit the Religion of Christ perfectly for as much as without which we cannot be saued For vnlesse when I will speake of offering praises and so glorifying God I bring not in euery one of those three persons of the blessed Trinity God will be vnperfectly glorified And this thing is ready to be performed in these words which are I will shew the saluation of God I say the three persons are here ready to be shewed vs. For who is he that can shew the saluation of God vnlesse it be the holy Ghost and what other saluation vnder heauen besides Iesus as for God he is named And concerning the holy Ghost that he must shew the saluation it is easily to be proued because the saluation is such a thing as eye neuer saw eare neuer heard of and neuer entred into the heart of man euen Iesus Christ crucified to the Iewes a stumbling 1 Cor. 1. 23. 1 Cor. 19. 20. stone to the Grecians foolishnesse Where is the wise where is the Scribe where is the Disputer of this world by Christ crucified God hath destroyed the wisedome of the wise and hath brought to nothing the vnderstanding of the prudent Verse 19. and the Princes of this world if they had knowne it would 1 Cor. 2. 8. they haue crucified the Lord of glory We are said to be Ministers of the Spirit but I suppose that none of vs will say that wee doe minister the Spirit but by the holy Ghost none can say that Iesus is the Lord but by the holy Ghost 1. Cor. 12. 3. neither Disciple nor yet the Teacher If the Wise the Scribe the Disputer could not finde it out we are not wiser of our selues then they What is it to shew a thing to a man set you it neuer so neere him albeit he can see except the ayre be lightned by which they may see The holy Ghost hath lightned the vnderstanding of man and withall will conuince the world of sinne because they beleeue not in Christ When the day is broken and the Sun vp he that cannot see then is blinde indeede so now that the holy Ghost is come and lightneth the world which thing how farre it reacheth who can tell whosoeuer seeth nor Christ crucified to be the saluation of God is blinde and to bee holden for blinde And as there are degrees in seeing some seeing better some worse so Christ crucified to be The saluation of God is better seene of some then of others It is an easie matt●● for vs to shew to a man that Christ Iesus is the saluation of GOD if shewing bee to say so and to preach so but to bring it aright into the heart and to beleeue with my vnderstanding that Iesus dyed for our sinnes will require an influence of the holy Ghost There is great difference in shewing of a starre if it were to be shewed betweene an Astrologer and a Countriman euen about the Creation of the world as if the Country-man were asked whether might be better spared his Apple-tree in his Orchard or one of the little Starres in the Skie It may be it would not bee rightly answered we are so earthly and therefore dull because we are earthly but an Astrologer if he wete to shew the Stars he will not only shew it according to his situation bignesse motion but according to an influence it hath to vs-ward The holy Ghost if hee shew the saluation of God in Christ Iesus he will shew it by an influence in vs which the Astrologer cannot doe and by that influence shew an influence in Christ Iesus to vs-ward both for Iustification by faith and Sanctification by a new birth and then with ioy wee shall say the holy Ghost hath shewed vs the saluation of God And for the saluation of God to be the second Person in the Trinitie as no Christian will denie so he the lesse a Christian that maketh not the second Person in the Trinitie all the saluation of God As here he is named because a time appointed would come when we should readily name him as Saint Peter saith Neither is there saluation in any other for there is none other name ●nder heauen giuen among men whereby wee Act. 4. 1● must be saued In the old Testament it is said Hearken O Deut. 6. 4. Israel thy God is one God To vs also in the new Testament Christ saith Goe yee therefore and teach all nations baptizing them in the name of the Father the Sonne and Math. 28. 1● the holy Ghost And Saint Iohn saith There are three that 1. Iohn 5. 7. beare record in heauen the Father the Word and the holy Ghost and these three are one So to conclude I will say that by this blessed Trinitie our Religion is not only styled but confyned beyond these three Persons we must not goe Angels must not be worshipped neither yet any Saint yet there is one Saint which approacheth neere to the blessed Trinitie euen the Mother of Christ in a right as it were that she was his Mother though hee neuer called her Mother but Woman She hath matched him if not gone beyond him in Psalmes Hymnes and prayers This iniurie hath beene too long in practise but now I suppose it is come to the highest For the Iesuits to accomplish the iniury done vnto Christ first nameth himselfe by the name of Iesus yet as if Iesus were but a Sonne though I dare say they thinke not that Iesus had mo bretheren they commend their societie not to Iesus but to the Mother as their Patronesse and Protectrix A braine-sicke societie who will not say As lamentable it is that Bellarmine that great Champion concludeth his worke with praise be to God and to the blessed Virgin the Mother leauing out the Sonne and the holy Ghost and so the Papists in their salutations and farewells as Midwiues in childe-birth say deuoutly not knowing how blasphemously God and our Lady helpe you For who that feareth God dare ioyne a creature with God the Father or the Sonne of the Father But it is enough to point at these things for this time My speach is to better Christians let vs offer praise that God may be glorified And notice must be taken of that which followeth euen that To him that ordereth his way aright shall bee shewed the saluation of God And to that blessed Trinitie the Father Sonne and holy Ghost be all honour praise and glory now and euermore Amen FINIS

make vse thereof as seeking proofe for a Table whereby they shew that albeit the name of Altar be vsed yet a Table must be proued for that the Churches act was at a Table not at an Altar And so it serueth for an Argument against the Masse The Act of the Pulpit is the third which must be alowed for albeit the house which is the house of God be named by prayer as the principall act therein our Sauiour so saying yet the Euangelist farther addeth that he taught daily in the Temple and then Luke 19. 46. this Act may not want his Prophesie I will allude at the least to that place of a Psalme where it is said An handfull Psal 72. 16. of Corne shall be in the earth euen in the top ●f the mountaines and the fruit thereof shall shake like the trees of Libanus and the children shall flourish out of the Citie like grasse What is this handfull of Come which shall be in the dayes of Christ for the words of that Psalme concerne him and his dayes and said to be in the top of the mountaine let that Sermon in the mountaine be it yet what is the mountaine of the Church if not the Pulpit the highest place of the Church and what more answereth to an handfull of Corne then the Preachers Text for the seede the Sower sowed was the word of God And when this handfull which Luke 8. 11. is the Text is enlarged by Expositions and Applications how well may be said that the fruit thereof shaketh like the trees of Libanus And how fitly shall the Auditorie be those children that flourish out of the Citie and stand before the Preacher as thicke as grasse And I will say that I may better take vp this Prophesie for the Seede of the word sowed in the Pulpit then the Masse Priest can take it vp for his baked Cake vpon the top of his shauen crowne For he is bold so to apply it though hee shake no fruit except he shake his lockes in that his dumme shew when he acteth his Masse The Kingdome of Christ is knowledge and aboundance of knowledge as it is said by the Prophet that in the dayes Isay of Christ knowledge shall abound euen as waters vpon the sea And who is he that is a man of grauity and wisedom but that he will say it is a glorious sight and a glorious Church built of liuely stones to see men and women of all degrees and youthes of all ages come into the Church with their Bibles and Psalme-bookes to heare the Word and to sing Psalmes and praises to the glory of our God These acts would become the greatest Emperour in the world It is said of Charles the great that he sung in the Church But what neede I speake of an Emperour Christ our Math. 26. 30. Sauiour the patterne of Maiestie and grauity did sing The Prophet Hosee willeth the Israelites to offer the Calues Hose 14. 3. of their lips but to offer prayers by telling of prayers which they vnderstand not be they not lips of Calues and not of men It is said of a Philosopher that hee neuer laughed but once and that was when hee saw an Asse so gingerly to eate a thistle I suppose he would haue laughed once more to see a man like a great boy to stand with a payre of Beads at his girdle and to take them with great deuotion to tell prayers in a tongue he vnderstandeth not But I will follow these matters of the Church no farther but will come to the second part of my Text which is in these words And to him that ordereth his waies aright But to bring in this second part I must set downe a common Church for vs Christians like the Temple of the Iewes whereunto all resorted of all Sects and of all manners Pharises with their Leuen Saduces denying the Resurrection with sinners of all sorts none accepted but the vncircumcised vpon this confuse mixture in the worshippers in one house commeth in that question Lord who shall dwell in thy Tabernacle who shall rest in thy Psal 15. 1. holy hill The like is here though not proposed in a question but affirmatiuely set downe as to him that ordereth his waies aright I will shew the saluation of God God is glorified in his house when in it common praises be offered vnto him but the saluation of God shall not bee shewed but vnto him that ordereth his waies aright I must deuise such a Church that all must come into And what need I say deuise a Church I know where I stand and before whom I speake at the Assifes But my deuised Church is none other then the Church of England as now it is which hath in it foure principall notes Authenticall and Catholike to the designing of such a Church And they vnresistable truths as these There shall be no Images in the Church to be worshiped This is agreeable to the second Commandement so euidently practised by the Iewes that you need not inquire whether they worshipped any for in their Sinagogues as in their Temple they had no Images to be worshipped that their Prophets may freely speake against Images as it appeareth in the Prophesies committed vnto them by a certaine relation from the holy Ghost This continued to this day They cannot without great offence giuen of Christians to see that second Commandement put out of their Catechisme and the worship of Images grossely practised euery where The second thing is that the whole Church-Seruice shall be in their mother Tongue as we say that is knowne vnto them For Saint Paul as in a matter of great absurdity asketh the question when on blesseth in the Spirit how shall he that occupieth the roome of the vnlearned say Amen at the giuing of thankes seeing he knoweth 1 Cor. 14. 28. not what thou sayest The third is concerning the Lords supper that it bee giuen and receaued vnder both the kindes euen of Bread and also of Wine alike consecrated For who can deny that our Sauiour did not so institute it and said Doe this 1 Cor. 11. 25. as oft as you doe it in remembrance of me and so deliuered it vnto Saint Paul that it might in that manner be administred in the Church This to be obserued is necessary to be required that in a matter of so great importance there may be no defect in the Church The fourth is that there be proposed but one true and liuing God to receaue the prayer and for Mediator none but our Sauiour the Sonne of God as Saint Paul euen in that place where he appointeth for the Church supplications and prayers to be made in it and saith There is but one God and one Mediator betweene God and man the 2 Tim. 2. 5. man Christ Iesus who gaue himselfe a ransome for vs. No person of the blessed Trinity but may haue inuocation euen in the Church but Saints whosoeuer are no