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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11219	A godly learned and fruitfull sermon Made vpon the fourteenth of Iohn in which is plainely set foorth the true looue of Christ, the markes whereby the children of God are knovven and the commodities vvhich that looue bringeth. By D. S. 1584.	D. S., fl. 1584.; Jordan, John, fl. 1584.; Squier, Adam, d. 1588, attributed name.	1584 (1584)	STC 21483; ESTC S112128	14,988	38

❧ A Godly lear ned and fruitfull Sermon Made vpon the fourteenth of Iohn in which is plainely set foorth the true looue of Christ the markes whereby the Children of God are knovven and the commoditie vvhich that looue bringeth By D. S. 1584. Iohn 15. 13. ¶ Christ so deerely looued vs that he gaue his life for vs. AT LONDON ¶ Printed for Yarath Iames and Thomas Lawe and are to be solde in new gate market ouer against Christe Chvrch gate To the right Woorship full Sir William Pelham Knight Leiftenant of the Queenes Maiesties Ordenaunce your seruant Iohn Iordan wisheth in this lyfe health and prosperitie with eternall felicitie in Christ Iesus AS it pleaseth the Lord of his vnsearchable wisdōe to plant in you the glistering beams of his gospell and so heaped vpon you as wel his blessinges for your body in this lyfe as also endewed you with his feare and loue that your soule may attaine to the euerlasing life So it hath pleased him also to ordaine the meanes that the same may be continued in you to the end namely by his secret gift of grace by his loue poured in your hart and by the pure preaching of his woord vnder so gracious a Prince whose looue hath a long time shined in this realme of peace of plenty to the terror of the blinde thirsting Papists our dayly aduersaries So that you may say with the children of God Blessed are that people which liue in his feare Yea blessed are the people whose God is the Lord and liue in his looue Of which loue this Sermon heere Dedicated to your worship largely and learnedly entreateth the Author not knowen vnto mee onely the excellencie thereof caused me to put it in print that all that liue in the looue of God might bee partakers of so good a worke Heerein is set foorth the fruites of true faith the vanitie of worldly wealth the corruption of couetousnes the greatnes of our sinnes the punishment due thereunto and the meanes whereby wee may be deliuered from the some beeing a loadestone to direct our dooings from the rankor of couetousnes to bring vs to godlines Wherfore Saint Paule to withdrawe vs from it saith godlines is great ritches wee brought nothing into this world and certeinly wee shall carry nothing with vs wherefore while we haue foode and raiment let vs be cōtent therwith and Saint Mathew writeth that if all men will seeke the kingdome of God and the righteousnes thereof they shall not want but shall haue all thinges cast vnto them from aboue For if wee haue to maintaine vs in this life and cast care on heauenly thinges wee shall posses heauen raigne with Christ foreuer Wherefore Maister Caluin vpon Paule to Timothy saith They that measure their religion by riches are heere taught that onely religion is the true riches Wherby it appeareth that there is nothing more necessarie and needfull vnto the Saluation of a Christian then the knowledge zeale and looue of God and his religion This bold attempt I doo offer vnto your worship as a true argumēt of my duetifull minde not as a meane to you now earnest in religion but vnto one of whose looue and godly zeale in that behalfe I haue all ready had sufficient triall Beseeching therfore that by your worships well accepting it at my hand though out of another mans caske it may be the better lyked accepted and followed of them that endeuour themselues to liue in the looue of our onely Sauiour In which looue the Lord of his great mercy côtinue your good worship my very good Lady your whole famely and that all which be partakers of his feare and looue may bee inheritours of his euerlasting kingdome Your worships humble Seruant alwaies to commaund Iohn Iordan If any man loue me hee vvil keep my vvord and my Father vvil loue him vve vvil come vnto him and vvill dvvell vvith him Iohn 14. I haue in this present text of holye Scripture three necessary braunches to intreat of offred vnto me First I minde God permitting to entreat of that loue which the children of God dutifully owe vnto Jesus Christe their alone God and Sauiour 2 Secondly my purpose is likewise to shew how and by what meanes the said children of God may be knowne to loue Christ Jesus as they ought to doo namely in kéeping his woord 3 The third setteth forth the vtilitie profit and commodity which hapeneth vnto that man which rightly loueth Christ and kéepeth his word namely not onely that God the Father will loue him but also that the whole Trinity will come vnto him and dwell with him The Sermon THe mindes of Gods chosē people haue neuer any peace or quietnes in the which they may stay them selues vntil they féel them selues vnited vnto Christ by meanes of a perfit and stayed faith with a ful confidence in him and a burning loue towardꝭ him Augustine therfore hath aptly said that loue is a certain coupling of y t louer with the beloued which saying of Augustine may be approued true by the testimonie of S. Iohn in his first Epistle and fourth chapter where he saith That God is charity and he that dwelleth in charity dwelleth in God and God in him Betwéen the which words charity and loue in this place and many more of the holy scriptures I take to be no difference Which loue of God is powred into the harts of Gods children by the holy spirite of God by the means of Christe for the spirit of loue was louingly giuen vnto Christe vnto this end that he shoulde powre it into his members And although the same loue in the children of God is vnperfit during this theyr mortall life because of sinne yet is it acceptable vnto God for that they by fayth are made members of Christe The manner and order of which loue is explicated and set foorth as wel by that seruant of God Moyses in y e Booke called Deutronomium sixt Chapter in these woords Thou shalt loue the Lorde thy God with all thy hart with all thy soule and with all thy might as also the very same woords rehersed or rather cōfirmed by our sauiour Christe in the 22. Chapter written by S. Mathewe To loue God with all thine hart is to take dilligent héed that thine hart hée not inclined to the looue of any thinge more then to the loue of thy God To loue him with all thy soule is to stay the trust of thy saluation and safety of thy soule onely on Jesus Christe the sonne of God To loue him with all thy might is to apply all thy sences to the setting foorth of his honour and glory For séeing wée bée wholy his he will haue vs holy to loue him I graunt there are things in this world that may kindle our minds and affectiōs to looue thē for there be worldly honours the glittering golde she glistering precious stones the beuty of mākinde the excellent