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A13809	A sermon preached the 26. day of May. 1584. in S. Maries Church in Shrewesbury before the right honorable the Earle of Leicester, accompanied with the Earle of Essex, the Lorde North, diuers knightes, gentle-men of worshypfull callyng, the worshipfull bayliues, aldermen and burgesses of the towne of Salop. By Iohn Tomkys publick preacher of Gods word there: now first published by the authour. Seen, perused, and allowed accordyng to her Maiesties iniunctions.	Tomkys, John.	1586 (1586)	STC 24110; ESTC S118479	38,851	98

as a louing Father vouchsafeth to instruct vs his children not onely by his word but also by his owne example If Poets haue spared no labour to imitate their Homer Oratours their Demosthenes Philosophers their Aristotle that they might therby attaine to some perfection in their own professions we Christians may be abashed yea rather by them condemned if with all diligence we doe not imitate the moste excellent and perfect paterne of God himselfe * God is to be immitated three waies But since it is neither conueni ent nor possible that we the creatures should imitate euery waye God the creator who is (a) Eze. 10.5 Reuel 11 17 infinite and (b) Rom. 16.27 1. Tim. 1.17 incomprehensible it is to be obserued that in his worde hee proposeth himselfe three wayes to be imitated * 1. in him selfe First in himselfe So did God set forth his holinesse as a paterne of holinesse to be practised by his ancient people the Israelites when hee said (c) Leuit. 20.26 be ye holy vnto me for I Iehouah am holy haue seuered you frō other people that yee should be mine And Christ our Sauiour in his earnest perswasion which hee vseth with his disciples to drawe them to the perfect practise of brotherly loue which then we shewe when (d.) Mat. 5.44 wee loue our enimies blesse them that curse vs do good to them that hate vs and pray for them which hurt vs and persecute vs. (e) 48. setteth forth to their imitation the perfectnes of the loue of his heauenly Father to man-kinde which (f) 45. maketh his sunne to arise on the euil the good and sendeth rayne on the iust and vniust (a) 48. Yee shall therefore bee perfect saith Christ as your Father which is in heauen is perfect The like may be obserued concerning the (b) Ro. 34. truth of God which he practiseth in his promisses (c) Psa 86.5 his mercie which hee sheweth to his seruants His iustice (d) 145.17 which appeareth in all his waies (e) 86.15 Rom. 2.4 his longe sufferance whereby he prouoketh vs to repentance All the which are paterns of trueth of mercie of iustice and of patience by vs to bee vsed And thus doth God propose him-selfe in him selfe to bee imitated of vs as you haue heard * .2 in his sonne Secondly God setteth foorth himselfe to bee imitated by vs in hys sonne Christ Iesus Our heauenly Father doth knowe the rudenesse of vs his children who hardly can esteeme him imitable which by nature is a (f) Ioh. 4.24 Spirite inuisible Behold therefore his fatherly care to lead vs on in this holy imitation of him-selfe Hee hath giuen vs his sonne (g) Heb. 1.3 who is the brightenesse of his glory and the ingraued forme of his person which being by nature a Ioh. 17.5 God with the Father b Mat. 1.18 is become man with vs c Heb. 1.3 in whose inward and substantiall brightenesse d Ioh. 14.7 which we discerne by the effectes thereof in his visible manhead as it were in a glasse we may behold as it were handle the infinit almighty maiestie the infinite incomprehensible loue of God the Father vnto vs his children through grace that we might admire the one with all reuerence and imitate the other with all obedience e Ioh. 14.9 If we see Christ with the eyes of our faith then see we the Father f Heb. 1.3 whose liuely image he is Now g Num. 21.9 Ioh. 3.14.8.56 heb 11.13 as Christ is beholden by a true faith h Iam. 2.24 so this fayth is made manifest by workes i 1. Cor. 11 .1 and those workes must bee squared by the paterne of the workes of Christ in whō God setteth forth himselfe to be imitated * The workes of Christ of two sorts But because the workes of Christ are of two sortes some miraculous wrought in power k Ioh. 5.36.14.11 to declare his Godhead to confirme his doctrine and some morall wrought in obedience a Mat. 5.17 to shewe his Man-head and to fulfill the lawe wee must knowe that hee is to bee imitated in the last and not in the first * Miracles For seeing his Miracles were wrought to seale vp the trueth of his Doctrine that hee might bee beleeued b. Ioh. 14.11 for his workes sake and since hee hath sufficienlie confirmed his doctrine by the miracles wrought in his owne person by his absolute power and in the persons of his Apostles and Disciples in the c. Act. 3.16 power of his name it sauoureth of infidelitie The gift of woorking of miracles being long a goe ceassed to require of the Ministers of the Gospell by miracles to prooue their Doctrine and of presumption without speciall warrante from Gods spirite to attempte the working of anie miracle The faithfull seruants therefore of the Lorde may not say to the ragyng sea d Mat. 4 39. Peace bee thou still Nor to the sicke of the palsie e 9 6. Arise Nor to the blind f Luc 18 42 Receiue thy sight Nor to the leper (a) 8.3 Bee thou cleane Not to the buried in graue (b) 10.11.43 Come forth And if there bee anie other such speaches of Christ in the New Testament as therebee manie they can not assume them to themselues with-out presumption why so Forsooth as they were woordes which Christ vsed when he wrought his miracles so are they mirrours of his Maiestie not to bee spoken by vs in imitation but to bee reuerenced of vs in meditation And how perilous a thing it is to draw the miracles of Christ into imitation the great abuse of Lent in time of Popery doth sufficiently declare For to fast fortie dayes fortie nightes not to hungre (c) Mat. 4.2 Luke 4.2 as Christ did so farre exceedeth the habilitie of man that without miracle it was neuer practised of anie And yet such was the presumption of the Romish Church that it proposed this miraculous and straunge woorke of Christ vndertaken by him for a preparitiue before hee begane to publish the Gospell as an example of imitation * 2. Conuersation The Newe Testament is the written recorde of the Doctrine and woorkes of Christ wherein with all diligence wee must meditate if wee will become followers of Christ in his Doctrine and life whatso euer we finde there written of his (a) Io. 3.17 zeale to promote Gods glorie of his (b) 6.43 cōstancie in mayntaynyng the trueth of his (c) 11.35 38. pittie towardes the afflicted of his (d) 1. Pet. ● 23 pacience in afflictions of his (e) Mat. 11.29 meekenes in his behauiour of his (f) Ioh. 6.9 sobrietie in his diete and of (g) ● Pet. 2.22 his modestie in all his life that same is therefor written to sterre vs vp by his example to expresse the like