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A16945 A sermon very notable, fruictefull, and godlie made at Paules crosse the. xii. daie of Noue[m]bre, in the first yere of the gracious reigne of our Souereigne ladie Quene Marie her moste excellente highnesse, by Iames Brokis Doctor of Diuinitie, [and] master of Bailye College in Oxforth, with certein additions, whiche he at the tyme of vttering, for auoidyng of tediousnes, was faine to omitte. Brooks, James, 1512-1560. 1553 (1553) STC 3838; ESTC S117364 39,014 158

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the Spirite of trueth to abide with you to the worldes ende to instructe you in all kinde of trueth as by this absurditie vnreasonablenesse which Tertullian gathereth to ensue of the contraire Age nūc omnes errauerint deceptus sit Apostolus non respexerit Spiritus sanctus uti Ecclesiam in ueritate deduceret ad hoc missus a Christo ad hoc postulatus à patre ut esset doctor ueritatis Neglexit officiū Dei Villicus Christi Vicarius sinēs Ecclesias aliter interim intelligere aliter credere que quod ipse per Apostolos praedicabat quid uerisimile est ut tot ac tantae in unam fidē errauerint Et m●x Interea perperam euāgelizabatur perperam credebatur tot millia millium perperam tincta tot opera fidei perperā ministrata tot uirtutes tot charismat● perperā operata tot sacerdotia tot ministeria perperā fūcta tot denique Martyria perperam inuacuum Go to now saith he admit all haue erred admit the Apostle hath been deceiued toe admitte the holy Ghoste hath not regarded to leade the Churche in the waie of trueth for that purpose being sent of Christ for that purpose being sued for frō the father to bee the teacher of trueth admitte Goddes Baiely Christes vicar regarded not his dutie suffring the churches otherwise for a seasō to vnderstand beleue then that he by thappostles preached is this likely that so many and so gret churches haue erred in thunitie of faith And a litle after marke what absurdities he reciteth In the meane time saith he it must be graunted y t the Gospel was mispreached the worde of God misbeleued so many thousande thowsandes mischristened so many workes of faith misministred so many miracles so many godly giftꝭ miswroughte so many presthods so many ministeries misexecuted briefly so many martyrdoms in vaine missuffred And this much for this point Thirdly our mother the holie catholike churche in that she hath children to nourish and instructe she hathe aucthoritie to make lawes tradicions and or dinaunces for them for the better conseruation of order and the more reuerent ministration of the worde of God For otherwise why did the Apostle geue tradicions Why did he say Haec ego dico non Dominus This is my saiyng and not the lordes Why did he reproue certein for breaking customes of preching of praiyng of cutting heire not conteined in scripture Why did S. Ihon the Baptist bind his disciples to certeine fastes and certeine Praiers besides the scripture Why did S. Iames by the consent of the rest make a decree that euery man should abstein from strangled beasres from bloud and from thynges offred vp to Idolles which no Scripture commannded Why durst the Apostle after that decree make himselfe so bolde as so saie all thinges are cleane to the cleane and whatsoeuer cometh to the shambles that eate you hardelye Why durste our forefathers againe accordyng to the time be so bolde as in a sort to make a restraint herof The holie Doctour S. Augustine in this behalfe letteth not this muche to saie ▪ In hijs rebus de quibus nil cert● statuit Scriptura mos populi Dei instituta maiorum pro legetenenda sunt sicut praeuaricatores diuinarum legum ita contemptores Ecclesiasticarum constitutionum coercendi sunt In suche thinges wherein the scripture doeth determe no certentie the custome of Godlie people and the decrees of the elders are to be kept for a law and loke how the transgressoures of Goddes lawes are to be punished so are the contemners of the ecclesiasticall cōstitutiōs punishable in like maner And I neuer yeat hearde prooued that any suche cōstitutiō by the whole churche approoued was euer hitherto by any good mā reproued But rather taken alwaies as a veritie confirmed no more after to be doubted disputed or reasoned vpon as the same Saint Augustine againe in an other place affirmeth saiyng Vnde haec cur ita facienda sint disputare insolentissimae insaniae est When thinges are ones throughly agreed vpon ▪ and decided ones ratified and confirmed by the catholike churche afterwarde to dispute and reason why thei ought so to be it is a poincte of most proude madnes and most madde proudenesse Christ he saied who that is not with me he is against me And the churche cōuerting y e same she saith who that is not againe Christe he is with Christ Christ he said I●iuniate Fast you tellyng neyther howe neyther whan The Churche shee hath tolde bothe how and when Christ he saied Orate pray you and added semper euer But that euer I feare me woulde bee turned into neuer with some if the lawes of the churche were not Al other thinges for the most part whiche our Sauiour Christe saied and commaunded excepte the Churche hadde added the time the place the circumstaunce the maner woulde perhappes be obserued of some not al of y e best I had almost said not at al And this muche for this point Furthermore our mother y e holy catholike church in y t she hath to her childrē al faithful christiās both good bad as it appereth by the parables of the net the vine the floore the ten virgins and other mo shee cannot bee as some woulde haue her inuisible hid vnknowen althoughe the Churche taken for thonely predestinate be such in very dede For if that wer true as it is as false as they that saie it Howe then coulde the churche be assembled of Christ to a citie set on a high hil which cannot be hid Non potest ciuitas abscondi supra montem posita How then coulde the obstinate offender be cōuented before the churche as Christ willeth hym to be dic Ecclesiae how thē could the churche be persecuted of S. Paul as himself witnesseth she was ●secutꝰ sū ecclesiā de● how thē could Herod lai hād to take afflict cērtein of the churches mēbres as S Luke affirmeth he did Misit Herodes rex manus ut affligeret quosdam de Ecclesia Could the mēbres of a churche inuisible hid and vnknowen be takē imprisoned and afflicted of any man at lest wittinglie What reasonable man callyng to his remembraunce any reason at all will not thinke it vtterly vnreasonable This was the filthie sinke and swillowe of all these tragedies whiche hathe raged well nighe ouer all Christendome oute of the which hath roked of late so many stinkyng filthie contagious Heresies as sins Christes passion hath neuer the like ben heard of attones And no merueil ▪ when the hedge is broken euery man lightely goeth ouer For this gappe ones opened that y e church is inuisible hid vnknowē when thei fere not the censure and verdicte of the visible open knowen church thei affirme decree and define vncontrouledlie what euer to eche one semeth best And this muche for this
A Sermon very notable fruictefull and Godlie made at Paules crosse the .xii. daie of Nouēbre in the first yere of the gracious reigue of our Souereigne ladie Quene Marie her moste excellente highnesse by Iames Brokis Doctor of Diuinitie Master of Bailye College in Oxforth with certein additions whiche he at the tyme of vttering for auoidyng of tediousnes was faine to omitte Iaco. i. Suscipite insitū uerbū quod potest saluare animas uestras ¶ Receiue you the worde ingraffed which is hable to saue your soules Anno Dn̄i 1553. ¶ Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum ¶ Sette furth at the request of suche whose aucthority could not wel be withstand ¶ DOMINE filia mea modo defūcta est sed ueni impone manum tuam super eam uiuer ¶ Lorde my daughter is euen now disceassed and deadde but come late thy hand on her and she shal line THese wordes of the Gospel of this day taken out of the .ix. of ● Math. although thei are the wordes of one latrus y ● ruler of the Synagog literally spoken of hym to our sauiour Christ for the bodily reuiuyng of the Daughter of his bodie bodeli deceassed or at y ● lest beyng ▪ thē euen at the very point of death in extremis as s Marke termeth it Yet sithen it may bee doen w tout preiudice to the leter for y e aduācemēt of Gods worde gods truth gods glorie may make y e more to edification I intende by gods grace at this presēt ●applie the same words in a mistical sē●e as syokē of an other persō y t is to wit of our mother y e holy catholike church for y ● spiritual reuiuing of her spiritual doughter spiritually deceassed this particulare churche of Englande Forewarnyng you that when I shall chaunce sometime to name the dead doughter or the dead churche in suche sorte that some ma● perhappes gather therby the hole to be dead I meane alwaies the deade membres therof onely onely the bad and not the good in no wise WE se by common and daily experience honorable and christien audience that euen verye nature itselfe hath geuen to euery naturall mother besides the pappes and the Mylke shee nourisheth her childe withall a certein naturall inclination moreouer to loue her child and that in suche hartie wise that though her childe commyng to yeres of discretion do dispise and contēne her holesome admonitions and Counsailes dooe straie from her runnyng on the Brydle at large and so dooe by wilfulnesse at lengthe chaunce on some sodeine deathe Yeat shee for her motherly affection and tender loue taketh pitie and compassion on her dead childe soroweth lamenteth bewayleth her dead chlide and if she knewe any cūnyng Phisicion that could reuiue her ded child she woulde not ceasse ernestlie to entreate and desire helpe at his hande for the reuiuyng againe of her ded childe If this naturall affecte bee commonlie to be founde in euery good natural mother toward her natural child how much more is the same or rather a greater affect to be loked for in our spirituall mother in our mother the holie Catholike churche towardes her spiritual child Whose child is this Churche of Englande with euerye other particulare churche and euery faithful mēbre of the same whose spouse protectour is our sauior Christ himself whose mariage maker and director is the holie Ghost Whose pappes are the two Testamentes Whose milke is the true sence of the word of God Out of those her pappes onelye to be sucked of al christian sucklinges Whereunto the holye doctor S Austen seemeth well agreably to allude in his treatise vpon the Psalmes First this noble princes our Mother the holie Catholique churche in that she hathe to her spouse and protectoure suche a mightie and valiant prince she can neuer be by any persecutiō vanquished and subdued For if that might haue ben vanquished and subdued had she been and that lōg ere this Saepe enim impugnauerūt me à iuuētute mea et enim non potuerunt mihi Oftentimes saith she haue I ben sore assaulted laied at that frō my youth but neuer coulde there any preuaile against me What persecutiōs hath she suffred first in tholde time before the commyng of Christe when she was rather a Synagog thē a churche rather kept vnder by bonde feare then dyrected by burnyng Charitie rather tought by darcke shadowes then by bright veritie by figuratiue promises then by manifest performance by the sleyng letter then by the quickenyng spirite What persecutiō I sai suffred she then being continuallye afflicted one tune by the Cananites an other time by the Moabites then after by the Madianites againe by Thāmonites sometyme by the Philystians now by one natiō now by another What persecutiones hath shee suffered againe sins that time sins the coming of Christ what by Nero what by Domitian what by Seuerus what by Diocletian What by Maximinian what by the Gothes what by the Hūnes what by y ● Vandales other Of whose cruel tormentes may wel be verified that S. Austen writeth Ligabantur includebātur coedebantur torquebātur urebātur laniabantur trucidabantur The Christians they were bounde imprisoned whipped racked broyled mangled otherwise bereft of their life And yet lyke the Israelites vnder Pharao the more thei were tormented the more alwaies thei increased For this is the propretie of the churche as S. Hilarie saieth then to vanquesh when shee is dammaged then to be perceiued when she is reproued then to wynne the victory when she loseth of her cōpany Hoc ecclesiae est propriū ut tū uincat cū loeditur tū intelligatur cū arguitur tum obtineat cum deseritur And this muche for this point Againe our mother the holie catholike Churche in that shee hath to her mariage maker and director the holyghost the spirit of truth shee cā neuer be diuorsed from Christe her moste benigne Spouse nor yeat at any time be ledde out of the waie of truth For whō the holie ghoste hath ones coupled and ioigned together in Matrimonie whoe can afterwarde sunder and seperate againe ▪ And doe not the holye Apostle make as it wer an open Proclamation Protestation how the holy Ghoste by him and he by the holy ghost hath promulgate and vttered vnto the worlde the betrowthyng of the churche to Christ as a louyng Spouse to her louing husband Ego despōdiuos uni uiro uirginem castam exhibere Christo I quod hee in the spirite of God in the holyghostes behaulfe haue betrouthed you to one husbande to th ende you maie keepe yourselues alwaies as a chast virgine vnto Christ And that shee is by the same mariage maker and directour led from time to time into al kinde of truth it maie appere aswel by this promise of Christ Ego rogabo patrem c. I will desire my father and hee shall geue you another comfortour