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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02793	Two godlie and learned sermons, preached at Manchester in Lancashire before a great audience, both of honor and vvoorship. The first, containeth a proofe of the subtill practises of dissembling neuters, and politique worldlings. The other, a charge and instruction, for all vnlearned, negligent, and dissolute ministers: and an exhortation to the common people, to seeke their amendment, by prayer, vnto God. By Simon Harward, preacher of the woord of God, and Maister of Arte, late of Newe Colledge in Oxfoord.	Harward, Simon, fl. 1572-1614.	1582 (1582)	STC 12924; ESTC S112568	108,746	262

how he dooth accompt you for his owne Haruest for his Trées planted with his owne hand for his owne Viniarde for his owne Husbandrie for his owne grounde sowen with his owne séede the worde of his euerlasting trueth to the end that if ye will be aunswerable to these vnspeakeable mercies shew your selues plentifull in all good works ye may at the last be also brought into his owne Barnes of euerlasting ioyes there to be heires of God fellow heires with Iesus Christ The Haruest saithe Christ is great The Haruest that is the Church of God may be called great either for the price and excellencie thereof because Christe dooth more estéeme one fafthfull member of his misticall body thē all the wicked reprobates in the world and make more accompt of his Church be it neuer so small béeing purchased with his owne most precious bloud then all the number of the Infidels and Atheists be they neuer so many and so glorious in the sight of the worlde or therefore may the Haruest now be called great because it is indéede dispersed farre and wide ouer the face of the whole earth It is not now tyed to the familie of Iacob as the Iewes would haue it nor to Affrica Iohn 4 23. Apoc. 21.12.13 as the Donatists would haue it nor to Rome as the Papists would haue it but God hath chosen for the seede of Abraham all which haue the faithe of Abraham and for the familie of Iacob all which worship the Lorde in spirit and trueth And therefore in the Apocalips the Church is called a Cittie hauing twelue Gates three into euery corner of the world Ephe. 2.14 And Saint Paule sheweth that Now the Wall of partition is broken downe so that all the world is equallie the Church of God all countries are Iuda all Citties are Ierusalem all are the seede of Abraham which haue the faithe of Abraham All the world is the Haruest the Field the inheritaunce of the Lorde all houses are the house of God where the Lorde is worshipped in spirit and trueth And thus is the Haruest great being now not bound to any particuler place but Catholique and extended ouer the face of the whole earth I must néedes confesse that if we compare the small number of the faithfull with the great multitude of the wicked the haruest will not appeare to be great but the aboundaunce of wéedes will be more then of the good Corne. And in this respect Christ dooth call his flock a little flock Feare not my little flock Luke 12 3● it is your Fathers pleasure to giue a kingdome Gen. 8.16 There will be for Noah and his familie béeing but eight persons all the world drowned and ouerwhelmed in wickednesse For Lot and his two daughters all Sodom and Gomorrha Gen. 19.24 with the Citties round about destroyed with fier and Brimstone from heauen For one thankefull Samaritane there will be nine Leapers vnthankefull Luke 17.17 so that of ten scarce one will acknowledge Gods benefits and fall downe at the féete of Iesu and glorifie God 1. Reg. 18.19 For one Elias there will be foure hundred and fiftie Prophets of Baal and foure hundred Prophets of the Groues which eate at Iezabels Table For one Prophet of God Micheas 1. Reg. 22. ● there will be foure hundred false Prophets to prophecie lyes vnto Achab. There will be but one of a Cittie and two of a Tribe which shall enter into Sion the true Church of God Ierem. 3.14 in stéede of the two legges or the péece of the eare Amos. 3.12 which the Shéepeheard shall saue from the mouthe of the Lion the whole body shall be deuoured Apoc. 3.4 there will be but a few names founde in Sardis which haue not defiled their garments For wide is the Gate and brode is the way Math. 7.13 that leadeth to destruction and many enter into it but straight is the Gate and narrow is the way which leadeth to life and few there be that finde it and therefore if we compare the nūber of the faithfull with the wicked we shall finde more Chaffe then Graine more Tares then good Corne so that the Haruest of the pure Wheate shall be found to be very small Isa 24.13 and therefore the Prophet Esay dooth compare the Church to the shaking of an Oliue Trée and to the Grapes when the vintage is ended that euen as when the fruite of the Oliues and the Grapes of the Vines are gathered there remaine but a few hanging héere and there vpon the branches euen so is the Church of God as it were the glening of the Corne when the Haruest is ended And yet déerely belooued howsoeuer the Haruest of the godly being compared with the aboundance of the Tares is but as Christ saith a little flock yet surely it is farre greater then can be perceaued with the eyes of man Aug. in Ioh. Hom. 45. cap. 20. For as Augustine saithe there are very many Sheepe without and very many Wolues within Where we accompt all to be Shéepe there are many Wolues and where we accompt all to be wolues there hath Christe his Shéepe and chosen people and therefore we must not take vpon vs to iudge our bretheren but to commit iudgement vnto the Lorde For as Saint Paule saith 2. Tim. 2.13 The foundation of God remaineth sure and hath this Seale Dominus nouit qui sunt sui the Lord knoweth who be his Let euery one that calleth vpon the name of Christe depart from iniquitie there is no place no Region in the worlde no state of people no degrée of men wherein the Lorde hath not some of his chosen people Gen. 41.42 The Courte of Pharao was very wicked yet therein did floorish a godly Ioseph Achab was a bloudy Tyrant and his wife Iezabell sought by all meanes she could vtterly to destroye the Prophets of God 1. Reg. 18.4 yet Obadiah the Ruler of their house feared God and hid an hundred Prophets by fiftie in a Caue and fed them with bread water The King of Aram serued strange Gods and committed Idolatrie in the house of Rimmon 2. Reg. 5.18 2. Reg. 5.15.17 yet Naaman the Captaine of his Hoste serued onely the Lord God of Israel Who was there a more deadly enemie to our Sauiour Christ then Herode yet was there Manahem his companion Actes 13.1 Luke 8.3 Ioanna the wife of Cura Herodes Stewarde and the Ruler at Capernaam vnder him which all feared God Who was there a more bloudie persecutor of all the godly then Nero yet were there in his house many saints as Paule saith Phil. 4.22 all the Saintes salute you but especially they which are of Caesars house Who are more giuen to iniurie violence Actes 10.3 and oppression then Souldiers yet Cornelius a Captaine of a band feared God and all his Household and gaue much almes to the people and prayed to