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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

them doe violence to no man neither accuse any man falsely and be content with your wages And by these we may make a rule for others as no doubt he did Who did the like to Herod rebuking him for keeping his brothers Luke 3. 19. wife And at one word this is the truth of which our Sauiour spake of to the woman of Samaria when he said the true worshippers must worship the Father in spirit and in Iohn 4. 23. Rom. 12. 1. truth in offring vp our bodies in a true rep●ntance and holy sacrifice vnto God If the Apostles had medled with lawes of carnall commandements they had transgressed the rule therefore they meddle not with any thing but with matters of truth in squaring out duties for subiects to their Magistrates and high powers with reciprocall duties betweene husband and wife father childe Master seruant And generally this to be Gods Commandement to beleeue in 1. Iohn 3. ●3 the name of his Sonne Iesus Christ and to loue one another as he hath commanded If this method had heene continued betweene Pastor and Flocke the new Testament had beene alwaies seene in his true colours which afterwards by the Church of Rome was bedawbed with golden but vnkinde and vnnaturall ceremonies Notwithstanding the Primitiue Church kept his matter of ordering of waies a long time And to giue you a view thereof I will bee so bold as to deuide this Auditorie into these particular estates As here are honourable Iudges Iustices of peace Counsellors at law Gentlemen Soldiours Merchants Handycrafts-men and Husbandmen For the Iudges such honourable and wise persons I will say no more then God blesse them and of the rest I cannot in so short a time speake particularly But that generally somewhat may be said of Waies I will take out two which in the primitiue Church were in some question concerning their waies those are the Merchant and the Soldiour The Merchant was called into question as not hauing the right course of a trade because hee is nothing laborious as others are but easie selling whole sale of no action neither in hand or in speech for properly that is a trade which getteth gaine by his labour and after gayning returneth still to his labour as the Handycraftsman maketh his worke gayneth and returneth to his worke againe so the Plowman soweth and reapeth and returneth to the Plow againe so vocations of words haue their gaines and their returnes to labour againe For it was said to Adam in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eate bread till thou returne to the earth for out of it wast thou Gen. 3. 19. taken because thou art dust and to dust thou shalt returne Notwithstanding this question of the Merchant was not alike defined but men of good iudgement dissented and I suppose that Iohn Baptist would not haue made any exception against him who excluded not the Publican neither is the Merchant an idle man but much occupied and looketh vp vnto the heauens to haue successe and blessing from God You may say that rather they might haue made exception against him whom I named a Gentleman vnto that I answer that our kinde of Gentlemen were not extant in their dayes But I will helpe to admonish them to take heed that that which is in the booke of Wisdome be farre from them as to say of the pleasures and Wisdome pastimes of this life this is our portion this is our lott Remember what Abraham said to his sonne being in hell torments Thou in thy life time receiuedst thy good things As for the Soldiour the exception against him was not to be receaued into the ministerie of the Word But there are more kindes of trades and one there is not so easie to be condemned because the Law is to be the ground of his action but he is so often in law that he is lesse in charitie and filleth whole parishes with vncharitablenesse To discribe him I must borrow a tearme from the common Law which may bee comprehendeth not so generally these kinde of trades But the tearme is a Common Barretor With these kinde of men no trespasses must be taken vp by neighbours and bretheren in one faith and one Church but all must be tryed by law that the offender if he refuse that tryall must redeeme his peace with a great price This trade is so violent so hurtfull and such a cunning extortion that our Sauiour both remembreth it and giueth counsell to his Disciples saying If any man will sue thee at the law and take away Math. 5. 40. thy coat let him haue thy cloake also If therefore Christs Disciple must deliuer coate and cloake whose Disciple is he that taketh them There is an other Tradesman if wee may call him a tradesman I meane the Vsurer tollerated in Common-wealths Psal 15. 5. condemned in the word of God None of the Disciples of Christ in whom there must be nothing but that which is perfect that we may be like to our Master who was perfect His Disciples therefore must not lend looking for something againe but lend looking for nothing againe And in the new Testament how can it be that to him shall be shewed the saluation of God when in the old Testament He shall not dwell in the holy hill In this thing they are both a censured euill by the word of God and an euill end will be the encrease of riches in their great abundance to them that vse it The abundance of riches so blindeth his iudgement that he seeth no euill but thinkes that he hath God by the finger when he hath the diuell by the fist In the olde Law one might not lend in Vsurie to his brother according to the flesh and may he now lend to his brother according to the spirit Let the Preachers of the Word and deuiders of the Word take heede least while they teach some vsuries small that they may be done they by so teaching and so doing become least in the Kingdome of heauen Let the Disciple hearken vnto his Master and heare Christ saying If ye loue me keepe my cōmandements A Lawyer being asked concerning Arrests Ioh. 14. 15. vpon the Sabaoth day answered that the Arrests were good in Law but the parties that executed the Arrests punishable shall we so answer for the Vsurer that his vsurie is good in law but the Vsurer culpable so that he shall not dwell in the holy hill And to speake somewhat of Arresting on the Sabaoth day whereby I say our wayes are not ordered aright how can that be good in the law of any Common-weale that breaketh any one of the ten Commandements the ten Commandements are not very subtill hard to be discerned but grosse euen the law of nature Let vs put a God and what Nation doth not put it no lesse can be then to haue one set day to worship in Breake that day so commanded and where then is our Religion To put out

are out of vse More might be said but a Dedicatorie Epistle must not be ouerlong The Text of my Sermon is a mattor of great obseruation short in words but large in meditation Let vs looke to the ordering of our wayes and not so much with them to attend an vnnecessary adorning of Temples made with stone and a false aduancing of Sacraments so shall wee haue better shewed vs the saluation of God and we true worshippers in spirit and truth The people of the land haue accepted this Religion as to pray in their mother tongue to offer praises in singing of Psalmes with the Preaching of the Word if they may haue it Lamenting much when their lot is to dwell there where they may not haue it I write what I know The summe is if we offer praise and order our wayes we shall in greater confidence looke for the comming of him which is to come euen our Lord Iesus Christ iudge to be of the quick and the dead vnto whose grace I commend your Honours in all your iudgements Your Honours in the Lord ABRAHAM BROWNE A SERMON PREACHED at the Assises holden at Winchester PSAL. 50. v. 23. He that offereth praise glorifieth me And to him that disposeth his waies aright Will I shew the saluation of God I Haue chosen this Text in three respects First in respect of my selfe being aged and about finishing my course after a long seruice in the ministerie of the Word that I might haue such a Text as would summe vp if not all yet most of my Sermons Secondly this being the time of the Assises it would be very fitting to speake of that which will be handled at the generall Assise which is the day of Iudgement Lastly withall to exhibit vnto you the Religion of our Sauiour Iesus Christ compleat euen perfectly set out for as much as without which we cannot be saued To performe these things I haue deuided my Text into three parts The first will concerne praising of God The second to be the ordering of waies The third a shewing of the saluation of God The first of praising God I will make instance thereof in the Church seruice that the religion of Christ in the new Testament may be fully discerned And where it is said he that offereth praise without any exception of person albeit the word offereth be the act of a Priest yet I had rather say that all are Priests then to exempt any from offering of praises euen in the Church It is said in the Reuelations of Christ that he hath made vs Chap. 1. 6. Kings and Priests vnto God and his Father And Saint Peter saith Yee as liuely stones are built vp a spirituall 1 Pet. 2. 5. house vnto God to offer vp spirituall sacrifices vnto God acceptable thorough Iesus Christ for albeit the burnt offerings of the old Testament are ceased yet we cannot be a peculiar people vnto God without sacrifices It is a thing duly to be marked that that part of the Temple which was called but the Porch thereof was twice seuerely reformed by our Sauiour and titled by the name of the house of God our Sauiour applying that vnto it in the Prophet Esay Mine Math. 21. 12. Iohn 2. 1● house is the house of Prayer and you haue made it a den of theeues And so it followeth in the mysterie of the Temple that the vpper part thereof being fulfilled by Christ and in him personally finished in the heauens where he is now and appeareth in the sight of God for vs Now nothing remaineth for vs but only that part wherein was Prayer and Preaching And so that place honoured with the title of the house of God To this that answereth that our Sauiour after he was ascended gaue gifts vnto men Saint Paul naming by them Apostles Euangelists Prophets Pastors Teachers Ephes 4. 9. no Priests and I will say no Priests sacrificing because all Priests Againe the Apostles designing out their office goe no farther then to giue themselues continually to Act. 6. 4. prayer and the ministery of the Word And if their prayer be the prayer of the Church the vnlearned must confirme it by saying Amen vnto it And they shall be but president Priests among the Priests offering alike praises vnto God All the congregation offereth and they no Priests nor good Disciples that offer not All our Church Seruice conformably for offering is Prayers Confessions prayses for Prayer the house is named by it for confessions prayses the Hebrew word in my Text is indifferent to them both If any man obiect and say that there are more things in the Church seruice then prayers confessions and praises as reading of Scripture the Pulpit Sermons the Lords supper also and Baptisme To this I answer that in all these God offereth somewhat vnto vs and not we to him in the reading Statutes and ordinances with admonitious exhortations and threatnings the Pulpit secondeth these things at the Lords Supper Christ giueth and we receiue Baptisme offereth the forgiuenesse of our sinnes so nothing will be ours but offering of Praises in the house of Prayer vnto which God addeth this approbation Hee that offereth Praises glorifieth me This assertion howsoeuer it mislike Trent Can. 3. Sess 6. others it hath one most vehement aduersary as decreeing in a Counsell that whosoeuer shall say that the Lords Supper is a Sacrifice of praise and thanks-giuing a bare remembrance of the Sacrifice done vpon the Crosse and not propitiatorie or only to profit the receauer neither ought to bee offered for the liuing and for the dead for sinnes punishments satisfactions and other necessities let Rhemes vpon Heb. 7. 1● him bee Anathama Others say that there is no lawfull Common-wealth in the world that is not made a peculiar people vnto God by a Priesthood distinguished from them that worship false Gods or no Gods at all This must be answered or wee haue a great defect in our Church and my selfe reproued that take hold of these words as if God were now content only with a spirituall sacrifice saying Hee that offereth praises glorifieth mee And to make answer this Psalme containing such matter as shall bee accomptable at that day when God will call all the world from the rising of the Sunne to the going downe of the same vnto iudgement First of all it is said I will not reproue Vers 8. thee for burnt offerings So that wee are discharged from the Leueticall sacrifice And then commeth in these words Offer vnto God Praise and pay thy vowes to the most Vers 14. high And both these things are contained in my Text and no more Sacrifices then these contained in the Psalme That which the Papists striue for is called by the name of the Masse which thing beareth the burthen of the Church seruice with them The thing therefore offring opposition to mine assertion I could not but looke more narrowly into the matter and I finde that

then eate it spiritually in the deede it selfe No feeding to the spirituall feeding so true a feeding and so substantiall that to it only agreeth all that our Sauiour speaketh in the sixt of Iohn of eating of his Flesh and drinking of his Blood As to this thing also we are directed by our Sauiour his own speech saying It is the spirit that quickneth the flesh profiteth nothing the words that I speake are spirit and life And the conclusion of this note is that these two famous Doctors by their speeches haue ouerthrowne both transubstantiation and the Masse But to proceede in the matter in hand that the place for the Table was the middle of the Church one onely proofe will serue which is Constantine the great in his glorious Eusebius li. 10. c. 4. Gerson Church made for Christian Religion so placed it And it is reported by a Writer of theirs that when the Pope commaunded that the Tables should bee made of stone may be for the iogling of it hee would haue for himselfe a Table of boords And now I haue ended my speech concerning Scripture Doctors and the Vsier of the Church none of them testifying the Masse It may be it will be said if the Masse be taken out of the Church a thing so comely and glorious in his ceremonies the Religion of Christ will be but a bare Religion To this I answer that if it be bare it will fit well enough to that worship which must be in spirit and in truth according to our Ioh. 4. 23. Sauiour his owne saying onely decencie and order must not be neglected And when the Religion of Christ shall be thus stripped of this outwardly glorious Priest it will receiue the better iudgement from the wise A graue Philosopher or a seuere censuring Poet will giue a truer iudgement then those Gouernours of the people that to please the vulgar sort of men holding them to some Religion deuise for them such glorious shewes not caring whether the thing be true or false or agreeable to Gods word or not agreeable A wise Philosopher will not except against inhabitation of vertue in a threed bare cloake They were wise men which adored Christ lying in a Manger But such basenesse needeth not as pompe also needeth not in medio virtus vertue may be neither A Philosopher reading of the Gospels and marking our Sauiour his speaches said he was the wisest man that euer spake He looked not for any authority of the world in our Sauiour but considered his speeches And concerning glorious Churches a Poet will say In templis quid fuit aurum What doth gold in the Temples if it be saith hee the Gods will not thanke you if not they will not blame you What saith Cato Si Deus est animus c. If God be a spirit he is to be worshipped with a pure minde Numa had three sayings as that the Gods cared not for bloody Sacrifices Againe better things were not to be presented by worse things such as the Images be made of no not of gold for it is but thick clay The third thing was that the whole life of man was to be spent in Religion If a Papist should bring an Heathen Philosopher into his Church and shew the goodly Imagerie and painting therein he would aske him what else for these Images haue mouthes and cannot speake as when they brought him a childe to behold the beauty of him he said to the childe Loquere my pner vt te videam Speake childe that I may see thee hee respected inward vertue not outward shewes S. Augustine saith In humilitate hnius sacrificij non est tiphus nec cothurnus In the humility of this Sacrifice there is neither pride nor masking like Players The sum is the Religion is not discerned by gewe-gawe foolish men but by them that are graue and sober The Papist when he would gaine a Disciple he obiecteth against vs that our Religion is to easie no austerity of life for want of fasting againe bare of all comely ceremonies Both these obiections are not otherwayes to be answered then by the wisedome that is in Christs Religion As for fasting to answer in wisedome two wayes shewing that wee eate not flesh to pamper our flesh but as S. Paul saith to Timothy Drinke a little wine for thy stomacke 1. Tim. 5. 23. sake and for thy often diseases The like to be in eating of flesh and this being true without dissimulation then it will be seconded that such liberty is in Christs Religion that nothing is to be excepted against which is receiued 1. Tim. 4. 4. with thankes-giuing vnto God A good Disciple that beleeueth it A faithfull deuider of the Word that preacheth it But for comely ceremonies as farre as decencie goeth wee must goe along with them a fault to haue our houses swept and foule Churches faire benches at home and ragged Pewes Our Sauiour being to answere the obiection of fasting made his answere three wayes first that new wine was not to be put in olde bottels Math. 9. 14. Secondly that nothing would gaine them to the truth for Iohn Baptist came fasting and they said he had a diuell he came eating and they said hee was a glutton The third answer which must stand for all is that wisedome is iustified of her owne children These rules obserued they must haue an answer picked out of them But if we fasted with them their fasting a matter of no such hardnesse should wee gaine them that the answere will be the last which is that wisedome is iustified of her children And our Sauiour will say for all iudgements If I say the truth Iohn 8. 46. 47 why doe yee not beleeue me hee that is of God heareth Gods word As the wisdome of Christ in his Religion framed according to spirit and truth seemeth foolishnesse to the wise men of this wo●ld so let the wisedome of the wise men of this world be foolishnes to vs that are Christs Disciples I will deuide our Church actions into three sorts The first is our Confessions and Praises in the house of Prayer The house of Prayer is Gods house and for these Confessions and Praises they haue their approbation out of the Text As God himselfe saying in his owne person He that offereth praises glorifieth me where the word Glorifieth will answere to the obiection of wanting glorious setting forth of Church seruice euen that hee that offereth praises glorifieth him The second sort of things are Baptisme and the Lords Supper of these no question onely the Lords Supper for his name by the Masse Priest somewhat excepted against as bearing the name of Supper rather 1. Cor. 11. 2● then their deuised sacrifice of the Masse yet for this also I answer with that Prophesie Thou doest prepare a Table before me in the sight of mine aduersaries I am the bolder Psal 23. so to say because two Doctors of the Church Origen and Eusebius