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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

make vse thereof as seeking proofe for a Table whereby they shew that albeit the name of Altar be vsed yet a Table must be proued for that the Churches act was at a Table not at an Altar And so it serueth for an Argument against the Masse The Act of the Pulpit is the third which must be alowed for albeit the house which is the house of God be named by prayer as the principall act therein our Sauiour so saying yet the Euangelist farther addeth that he taught daily in the Temple and then Luke 19. 46. this Act may not want his Prophesie I will allude at the least to that place of a Psalme where it is said An handfull Psal 72. 16. of Corne shall be in the earth euen in the top ●f the mountaines and the fruit thereof shall shake like the trees of Libanus and the children shall flourish out of the Citie like grasse What is this handfull of Come which shall be in the dayes of Christ for the words of that Psalme concerne him and his dayes and said to be in the top of the mountaine let that Sermon in the mountaine be it yet what is the mountaine of the Church if not the Pulpit the highest place of the Church and what more answereth to an handfull of Corne then the Preachers Text for the seede the Sower sowed was the word of God And when this handfull which Luke 8. 11. is the Text is enlarged by Expositions and Applications how well may be said that the fruit thereof shaketh like the trees of Libanus And how fitly shall the Auditorie be those children that flourish out of the Citie and stand before the Preacher as thicke as grasse And I will say that I may better take vp this Prophesie for the Seede of the word sowed in the Pulpit then the Masse Priest can take it vp for his baked Cake vpon the top of his shauen crowne For he is bold so to apply it though hee shake no fruit except he shake his lockes in that his dumme shew when he acteth his Masse The Kingdome of Christ is knowledge and aboundance of knowledge as it is said by the Prophet that in the dayes Isay of Christ knowledge shall abound euen as waters vpon the sea And who is he that is a man of grauity and wisedom but that he will say it is a glorious sight and a glorious Church built of liuely stones to see men and women of all degrees and youthes of all ages come into the Church with their Bibles and Psalme-bookes to heare the Word and to sing Psalmes and praises to the glory of our God These acts would become the greatest Emperour in the world It is said of Charles the great that he sung in the Church But what neede I speake of an Emperour Christ our Math. 26. 30. Sauiour the patterne of Maiestie and grauity did sing The Prophet Hosee willeth the Israelites to offer the Calues Hose 14. 3. of their lips but to offer prayers by telling of prayers which they vnderstand not be they not lips of Calues and not of men It is said of a Philosopher that hee neuer laughed but once and that was when hee saw an Asse so gingerly to eate a thistle I suppose he would haue laughed once more to see a man like a great boy to stand with a payre of Beads at his girdle and to take them with great deuotion to tell prayers in a tongue he vnderstandeth not But I will follow these matters of the Church no farther but will come to the second part of my Text which is in these words And to him that ordereth his waies aright But to bring in this second part I must set downe a common Church for vs Christians like the Temple of the Iewes whereunto all resorted of all Sects and of all manners Pharises with their Leuen Saduces denying the Resurrection with sinners of all sorts none accepted but the vncircumcised vpon this confuse mixture in the worshippers in one house commeth in that question Lord who shall dwell in thy Tabernacle who shall rest in thy Psal 15. 1. holy hill The like is here though not proposed in a question but affirmatiuely set downe as to him that ordereth his waies aright I will shew the saluation of God God is glorified in his house when in it common praises be offered vnto him but the saluation of God shall not bee shewed but vnto him that ordereth his waies aright I must deuise such a Church that all must come into And what need I say deuise a Church I know where I stand and before whom I speake at the Assifes But my deuised Church is none other then the Church of England as now it is which hath in it foure principall notes Authenticall and Catholike to the designing of such a Church And they vnresistable truths as these There shall be no Images in the Church to be worshiped This is agreeable to the second Commandement so euidently practised by the Iewes that you need not inquire whether they worshipped any for in their Sinagogues as in their Temple they had no Images to be worshipped that their Prophets may freely speake against Images as it appeareth in the Prophesies committed vnto them by a certaine relation from the holy Ghost This continued to this day They cannot without great offence giuen of Christians to see that second Commandement put out of their Catechisme and the worship of Images grossely practised euery where The second thing is that the whole Church-Seruice shall be in their mother Tongue as we say that is knowne vnto them For Saint Paul as in a matter of great absurdity asketh the question when on blesseth in the Spirit how shall he that occupieth the roome of the vnlearned say Amen at the giuing of thankes seeing he knoweth 1 Cor. 14. 28. not what thou sayest The third is concerning the Lords supper that it bee giuen and receaued vnder both the kindes euen of Bread and also of Wine alike consecrated For who can deny that our Sauiour did not so institute it and said Doe this 1 Cor. 11. 25. as oft as you doe it in remembrance of me and so deliuered it vnto Saint Paul that it might in that manner be administred in the Church This to be obserued is necessary to be required that in a matter of so great importance there may be no defect in the Church The fourth is that there be proposed but one true and liuing God to receaue the prayer and for Mediator none but our Sauiour the Sonne of God as Saint Paul euen in that place where he appointeth for the Church supplications and prayers to be made in it and saith There is but one God and one Mediator betweene God and man the 2 Tim. 2. 5. man Christ Iesus who gaue himselfe a ransome for vs. No person of the blessed Trinity but may haue inuocation euen in the Church but Saints whosoeuer are no