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A06874 A sermon preached at Paules Crosse the 13. of Iune. 1602. By M. Francis Marburie; Sermon preached at Paules Crosse the 13. of June. 1602. Marbury, Francis, d. 1611. 1602 (1602) STC 17307; ESTC S105434 29,109 90

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impenitencie of dead works What man that is not bewitched out of the wit of a man will forsake the doctrine of trusting in Gods free grace but once to leane to trust to himselfe Wee in the sacrament of the Supper doe offer Christ spritually to the faithful receiuer They offer him carnally that is monstrously and irksomelie and that to the vnfaithfull On which side is the better allurement They offer the pardons of men wee offer the pardon of God to the penitent They require bodily penance for sins and put in contrition for fashions sake We require spirituall as the acceptable sacrifice and value bodily exercise at a lowe rate We teach that the preaching of the worde must bee heard which pierceth and entreth into the soule They teach that masse must be heard which biteth not for this is the hypocrits comfort missa non mordet As for their preaching it is the hūming of a Drone without a sting except they be disposed to playe the Termagants against the truth We teach that a mans purgatorie consisteth in respect of merit in Christs death and in respect of spirit in the mortification of our corruptions whiles we liue here by the power of Christs death They teach that if the Priests be not be better paid a man must abide in purgatorie long after his death Let as many as are not sophisticated with the diuels mists see with their eies ●ea let them feele with their hands which of these doctrines are more likely to be true But let vs to it againe They say that priestes may not marrie with a good conscience And we say that all those of them which cannot liue continently are bound in conscience to marrie Their reason is an vnlawfull vow Our reason is that they their praiers and their preachings may not bee polluted with damnable hypocrisie by reason of their wilfull pollutions They alleadge that we teach voluptuousnesse when we teach thus the auoiding of fornication But we alleadge that they by consequence teach stolen voluptuousnesse which burneth and wasteth the conscience for thus to frequent relapses is to cauterize the spirit and vastare conscientiam as the schoolemen aptly tearme it Are there any but bewailed wretches that cannot see on which side the truth standeth Their doctrine is that it is presumption by any meanes to be rid of the feare of damnation ordinarily Our doctrine is that whosoeuer loueth the Lord out of a pure cōscience that is out of a conscience inlightened by Gods word and not offended by liuing in sinne against the conscience so inlightened may iustly vpon that groūd receiue from the holy ghost assurance of his saluation though the Fathers of Trent condemne this perswasion neuer so much They affirme that a man hath free will to do things truely good which is a deuise of the deuill to teach men to presume of that they haue not that they might erre vnto perdition We teach that a man hath no free will in his nature to doe any true sanctified and spirituall good that men acknowledging their bondage may seeke free will of God To be briefe concerning the scriptures whereby all must be tried they teach that the vulgar translation which is so grosly faultie is onely authenticall Wee teach that the originall text in Hebrewe and Greeke is onely authenticall These differences are so manifest and these faces are of so cōtrarie hue that it is no maruell if the holy ghost say that men must be first drunke before they can be deceiued in them Reuel 14.8 17.2 Otherwise their delusions are as easie to discerne as that Iezabel had borrowed her face then she looked out at the window The whore of Babylon is highly mounted finely painted and terribly armed and these be her allurements The doctrine of the gospell hath beautie in it selfe inward comfort and constant colour and these are her allurements But peraduenture some man will say vnto me I pray you what allurement is in your doctrine of mortification which you so much vrge And which you extend so far that a man can haue no peace in his conscience that fauoureth and retaineth any sinne in himselfe against his conscience Which determineth that a man is in a damnable case whatsoeuer good deedes seeme to be in him if he yeelde not to the worke of the holy ghost for a leauing but of any one knowne sinne which fighteth against the peace of his conscience Dearely beloued I beseech you in the bowels of Christ to take this answere cast it into the balance and marke well the scales I confesse in deed to begin withal that this doctrine fawneth not vpon hypocrites but remooueth them to their wo and the weale of the Church But why is it is it not because they are hypocrits To the rest may it not be truely said of this doctrine Matt. 11 29 30. that it is an easie yoke and a light burden Is it not an alluring doctrine that hath but one onely difficultie and is otherwise accompanied with most certaine consolation The difficultie is to shake off the vnconscionable sin that cleaueth so fast to vs and tarrieth behind to mischiefe vs. Were it not damnable doctrine to dispense with that which admitteth no dispensation should we take vpon vs to heale with sweete wordes like witches Be strong in the Lord and of a good courage in throwing away that sin and then the maine brunt is ouer and the worst is past Holde thee there and thou maiest enioy perpetuall that is vndiscontinued consolations notwithstanding a thousand infirmities For so long as the power of mortification destroyeth thy sinfull affections as they rise and so long as thou art vnfainedly displeased with all sinne and doest mortifie the deedes of the body by the spirit thy case is the case of saluation And when thou art once soundly confirmed in this resolution thou art not onely in the case but also in the state of saluation thou shalt liue not die What would a man haue more then this But the Papistes haue found an ease for this matter For they which accuse the doctrine of the gospell to be a doctrine of libertie because of the article of iustification by faith only do themselues by indulgences by pardons by merits of Saints and by setting of good deedes against ill teach foolish virgins that oyle is to bee begged or bought wherby they are induced into a damnable sleepe and securitie It would allure a pyrate indeede to be of their religion if he might be sure to buy out his punishment after his death with the robberies and rapines of his life In the meane time such doctrine as this hath brought Atheisme into the world and that also of the vilest kind For a Popish Atheist is an hideous mungrell euen a verie Centaure As to say the very truth Poperie and Atheisme are very coincident and their differences very obscure Poperie is a sensuall dissembling with Gods Atheisme is a sensual mocking of God The
though they seeme neuer so spirituall yet reiect not the spirits of the zealous because they are zealous For as there is a doctrine that is of God so there are spirits that are of God in whom the holy Ghost worketh mightily Now if thou say to me that then it will follow that where the preaching hath no good effect there the Preacher spake not from the Spirit of God Vnderstand for answer that no such thing will follow For the holy Ghost may worke in a man and yet not worke by him vpon others but his prayer and his preaching may returne into his owne bosome And Noahs meaning in this prophecie was that the conuersion of the Gentiles shold be wrought through the holy Ghost by the perswasiue spirit of the teachers and the perswasible spirit of the hearers The Lord therefore increase among you men of a gracious perswasion that may confirme you with the confirmations of God in the religion of God And the Lord reueale his arme so in the ministerie that wee may haue occasion to ascend into that same speech of Saint Paule O the deepenesse of the riches of God wherein Augustine saith is contained the solution of that question August de●… spiritu libera cap. 34. why some are conuerted rather then some The third conclusion out of this text is concerning the meanes which the Lord vseth in drawing men to his kingdome to wit that because hee will conuert them therefore hee will conuert them by allurements The Lord shall allure Iapheth signifying that the allurements of God are in the doctrine of the Gospell and in Euangelicall examples For although wee reade how that the Lord hath laid violent hands vpon some as vpon Saint Paul in the way to Damascus Act 9. yet we must make a difference between his consternation which tended to his conuersion and his conuersion it selfe which was wrought when Ananias came with the word of comfort in his mouth It is true indeed that our word ought not to stand in the entising speech of mans wisedome 1. Cor. 2.4 for the allurements are spirituall But in the meane while they are allurements still For as the Prophet Hosea saith Hos 11.4 The Lord leadeth vs with the cords of a man euen with the bands of loue and is to vs as hee that taketh off the yoke from our iawes and layeth meate vnto vs. How kindly alluring his Church to let him in is Christ induced by Salomon Cant. 5.2 Open vnto me my sister my loue my doue c How amiably doth Saint Paul quite himselfe in his embassage 2. Cor. 5.20 We are saith he Embassadours for Christ as though God did beseech you through vs wee pray you in Christs steede that you would be reconciled to God It doth then appeare that the true doctrine of Iesus Christ is alluring doctrine and replenished with sweete inducements But here likely some man bethinketh him vpon occasion of this speech of allurement that it is then a course to be taken with the Papists that they might heare of this alluring attractiue But as Saint Paule saith in a matter not much vnlike Rom. 10.18 I demand haue they not heard Haue they not beene mercifully dealt with by her Maiestie and louingly entreated by their brethren The Lord be iudge betweene them and vs concerning this thing Whatsoeuer good course hath yet beene vnassayed which tendeth to their allurement the Lord direct the hearts of his fathfull seruants to take it Alwayes prouided that their lenitie be not abused and that foolish pity marre not the citie I cannot come after with any supply of new allurements but I doe onely repeate these two motiues The first that the Papists of this land which are aforehand brought and sold like sheepe by their false brethren the Papists beyond sea shall escape the Butcher by running from the Drouer The second that they shall returne to a God which will in holy mercie do that to them which a man may not doe for his wife if when he hath put her away for her lewdnes for a time to humble her she disdaine him and become another mans Shall he returne vnto her should not then this land be polluted But they haue played the harlot with manie louers yet turn again to me saith the Lord. But let vs come to the point It is confessed on both sides both by our aduersaries and by vs that the Gospell allureth But in the meane while the controuersie is growne on which side this alluring doctrine may be on their side or on ours It shal be therefore very pertinent both to the text and time if your attention will reuiue it selfe to discusse this point though not in such measure as it may indeede be discussed yet according to the measure of the gift of God The Papists haue alreadie furnished out maine confident allegations that their religion is most politicall going about by a long induction to conclude that it sorteth best with the good gouernment of the common wealth In which disputation as they do often goe beyond the profession of diuinitie so euen there where they keepe best compasse their diuinity is turned into humanitie For their verie arguments doe betoken but an earthly well being if they could haue hit that and they manifest themselues to haue forgotten that life is of the duall number In this point likewise they are verie out-bearing and the successe which they haue found in their allurements hath made them arrogant enticers For they are indeede though verie scorpions yet such as Saint Iohn saith whose faces are like the faces of men and they haue haire as the haire of women Reue. 9.7.8 And to confesse the truth what affliction soeuer they pretend to haue beene imposed vpon them yet they haue enioyed so much peace and pampering that they haue thriuen by it in eloquence and in the musicke of Marmaids euen like the Naphthalites with ease and prosperitie they haue learned ●o giue goodly words Gen. 49.21 But the question betweene them and vs is not who are ●he cunninger enticers or the better painters they or we but whose doctrin hath more reason to allure the child of God theirs or ours As let the contētion first be whether a man being compos mentis as we say wil rather be allured to Gods free grace which the Spirit of truth teacheth by vs but of Gods holy word or to his owne merites which the spirit of errour teacheth by them out of their own braine They say that we sell Paradise good cheape because we hold it at the Lords expresse rate as it standeth in the Prophecie of Isaiah where we are called to buy indeed but to pay nothing hauing nothing to pay as he saith Isaiah 55.1 And we say that they sell hell verie deere when they make men to pay their merits for it which otherwise cost-free that is without that blasphemous arrogācie should haue it ouer soone for their