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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00800	A godly sermon preached at Paules Crosse the 31. day of October 1591. By VVilliam Fisher, Master and keeper of the hospitall of Ilford in Essex. ... Seene and allowed	Fisher, William, student of diuinitie.	1592 (1592)	STC 10919; ESTC S117556	27,863	65

the people Surely beloued in the Lord you haue not done wel your sin lyeth before the doore as well as ours you haue plowed wickednes and how shoulde you but reape the rewarde of iniquitie For what cursed thing is there but you haue reached your hands vnto it and delighted your hearts in it as wel nay ill as Israel Is it sorcerie Is it adulterie Is it falseswearing Alas if ther were no other sorcerie but the subtill inchaunting of their circumuenting tongues it were too much for thereby as with the sin of witchcraft you abuse the wise and defraud the simple yea thereby you reape as much profite as by patrimony or frée-land the bread of such deceit is the sweetest morsel that commeth into some of your mealy mouthes And then for Adulterie it is the disease that cleaueth fast to your bones and lyeth festring in your bowels and hath rooted it selfe betwéene your brestes insomuch that the father defloureth a woman and to make her amendes marrieth her to hys owne sonne Amos. 2. 7. And so may I say of periury For affection malice feare and lucre doe at wil suppresse and smother all truth and supplye and suggeste all falshoode when you come to speake vppon your oathe And I doe not see to what end there should be anie either admission or tolleration of them whom you call knights of the Post and surely not amisse for it is thought they haue no more conscience what they sweare many times than a verye poste and I pray God that suche Posts ●● post to pleasure men with their false oathes haue not firebrands another day in hell for burning is a fit end for all such rotten blasphemous Postes And the damnable wretchednes of our time wherein is it not sutable with the wickednes of Israell Neuer pride more disdainfull neuer ambition more presumpteous neuer couetousnes more insatiable For there are some suche merciles oppressours among you that build fair houses with the bloody sobs and sighs of their poore neighbours whose liuinges they haue taken ouer their heads and whose liuelyhoode they haue wringed out of their hands There are some suche deuouring Vsurers among you that purchase statelye manners and sell the poore for olde shooes to make vppe their sommes and euē strip the skinnes of the needy ouer head eares to fit their purposes There are some suche pilling extorsioners that if it were possible they could finde in their hartes with Flauius Vespasianus vectigall ex vrina capere There are some such infatiable and intollerable Church leaches or rather sponges that suck and soaken vp both the bloode of the Mother and the milke of the children yea with Achilles they can finde in their heartes to set on sale the dead bodye of Hector ●ay rather the deare bought soules of Gods saints They are not ashamed with Cirus in hope of gaine to dig vp the very graues of the dead nor with Dionisius to deface the most auncient goodly monumentes that are nor with Iulian to ransacke churches colleges hospitall hospitals yea hospitality to the vtter ruine and wrack of all Religion learning and christian reléefe To be shorte there are some and the most parte of you al grown to such cursed Atheisme and infidelity with these Israelites that no Religion hath any relish in your heartes but that which sauoureth of gaine to your purses And albeit your tongues be mute silent for very shame yet your deeds speak without sound of woorde say with this People It is in vaine to serue God what profit is it that we haue kept his commandement that we haue walked humblie before the Lord of Hostes O strange infidelity the roote and branches of all misery alas how hath this hellish bramble ouergrowne and ouerspread the Lordes vyneyarde here in England O the plague of all plagues our vnbeleeuing hartes this makes you that ye will not be warned but do as you do or rather that you care not what you do this hath made you more incredulus then the diuils in hell Qui credunt et contremiscun● which beleue and tremble And by reason hereof are you not at this point If a méere stranger or a common lier or a starke Idiote should but bring you tydings that you and all other magistrates you and all other lawyers you and al other marchants you and al other riche men you and all other Artificers you and all other Husbandmē are what in a flat praemunire you woulde then looke about you and lay your heads together and speake euery one to his Neighbour and finding it true would neuer eat meat that should do you good nor take any good nights rest vntill you had found meanes to obtaine your pardon and were quite out of daunger Heereby then maye you measure the misthiefe of infidelitye for all our preaching teaching as verye fooles and Idiotes as you accompt vs is to no other end but to tell you and giue you notice of a dangerous and a most dānable praemunire whereinto you are fallen all the sorte of you yea euery mothers sonne thorowe your desperate and rebellious sinnes against the almighty and yet you do not once offer to sue for your pardon or to séeke for mercye at his hands whose Maiestye you haue so highly offended Now then beloued in the Lord al this considered is it not hye tyme or rather more then time for vs to growe to such a gratious conference as Israell did for the amendement of all that is amisse The wise man seing the plague comming hideth him selfe but the foole goeth on forward and is snared Pro. 22. Let vs be wise now at the length and learne to hyde our selues in tyme vnder the sackcloath and in the ashes of repentaunce Let vs discharge that duety which the Apostle requireth Heb. 3 which is to exhorte one another and to edifie one another whiles it is called to day Let vs be aduised by Saint Iude euen to edifie our selues in our moste holy faith knowing this for an assured trueth that they which turne many to righteousnes shall shine as the stars for euer Daniel 12. 3. And that he that conuerteth a sinner from going astray shall saué a soule from death and shall hide a multitude of sinnes Iames. 5. ver 20. This duety therefore as we owe one to another and euery mā to his Neighbour so the Lord make vs carefull to performe it that we may be partakers with Israell of such grace and fauour as doeth belong vnto it Pars. 2. ANd the Lord hearkned and heard it ● Here you are to consider of a thréefolde comforte and encouragement which they receiued from the Lord. Whereof this is the first because he vouchsafed to heare them A maruellous grace they no sooner began to repent but the Lord gaue eare and heard them Who would not frame him selfe to the lyke conference and penitent conformity No no dearely beloued our God is not like to Baall he can