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A08443	Sermons of the ryght famous a[n]d excellent clerke Master Bernardine Ochine, borne within the famous vniversyte of Siena in Italy, nowe also an exyle in this life, for the faythfull testimony of Jesus Christ	Ochino, Bernardino, 1487-1564.; Argentine, Richard, d. 1568.	1548 (1548)	STC 18765; ESTC S105735	22,415	64

a Towre vppon a wheaten strawe Christ and not the Philosophie is the onely true foūdaciō of his Churche and of the true supernaturall diuinitie of the which he is the onely workmaster / and not Aristotell I praye the what hath Aristotle to do wyth Christe Manie haue enforced them selues to agre Aristotle with Plato / but they coulde neuer bringe it to passe / because Aristotle beginning at the lowest of the sensible thinges / ryseth in the ende to as high as maye be And Plato begineth where as Aristotle ēdeth Cōsidre nowe howe it is possible to agre hī with christ / though many will make hym a piller of the Gospell ād a ladder to clime to heauen Let vs therfore repute the sciences of the worlde as vaine / beīg like vnto the harlots / that with their flattering woordes and false deceipts corrupt the mindes And let vs consider that if the priestes of the old Testament were prohibited to take a comune woman for a wife / howe much more the Christian that is all wholy consecrate ande dedicate to God / ought to flee and eschewe the vayne sciences and onely seruing him self of thē as of moost vile handmaidens / to knitte hym selue in spirite and with harte ande minde to applie him selfe to that pure and immaculate virgin of the holy Theologie or diuinité To the intent that euerlastingly we maye render to God all laude honour and glory / by our Sauiour Iesu Christe Amen Sermon iiij Howe we ought to vse the holy scriptures / in attaining the knowledge of God THe knowledge of the holy scriptures is not ynough to proue that we haue suffycient light of God / because it is possible that a man maye by his prōpte memorie attaine the holy scriptures ande their interpretacions in his minde / and by force of his naturall wytte / naturally vnderstand them / and be neuertheles for all that without faith / spirite and lyuely light of God Lue 24. For therto it behoueth hym to haue the spirite and supernaturall light / that God with his fauour do open ād penetrate the minde by his diuine grace So that therfore we must not accompte the holy scriptures for our last ende / or for our supreame Quene or Emperesse / but for meanes that serue to the faith / to the spirite ande to the true knowledge of God / muche more thē the creatures And we ought to serue our selues of them in diuers wayes / for that they first incite and teach vs to repaire to God / sayinge / in him is the chief boūté / go to him / for he is faithfull / and hath promised to make you taste all vertue and goodnes in him Yea. though they do not make the liuely to knowe God / yet worke they / as the Samaritane did / that sent the Samaritanes to Christ / who otherwise made them taste ād feele that which the Samaritane had said of him vnto them / in soche wise that when they returned / they confessed / saying we beleued not at all by thy wordes / we our selues haue hearde ād knowe / that this is truly the sauiour of the worlde John 5. And so the holy scriptures do send the to christe / to the ende that he maye opē thy hart / ād make the ī spirite liuely to vnderstande that which already thou hast redde in the dead letter / that thou maist saye vnto the scriptures / we neuer beleued by thy wordes / the which / being without spirite / coulde not make vs taste liuely the great bounté of God It is true that by thy wordes we haue beē prouoked to go to Christe / who / speaking vnto vs in spite hath made vs to fele in the harte / a more clere / high and diuine effect of that thou hast spokē They erre therfore that / fedig them selues of the letter ād not of the spyrite / do fixe thē selues in the holy s●riptures / ād seke none other light but that Yea I saye that for one houres studie / they ought to praie a thousand / ād to demaūde of god the true vnderstanding of thē And like as the Placonistes helde opinion / that the sensyble thīges geueth vs occasiō to studie in the booke of the minde in whiche they saye is imprynted all the veryté So must we consyder that the holye scriptures do call vs to Christ / in whome as Pause sayth be hidde all the treasures of wysdome and knowledge This is no lesse then true / that lyke as if thou haddest a frende whome thou hast not tryed though alwayes thou hast trauayled to proue hym thou woldest not inwardely knowe hym for a frende though he were euer in thine eye because the profe hath not rooted hī in thy minde So albeit the holy scriptures do call ande exhorte the to seke god in spirite / it is yet impossible that thou shuldest finde god ī trueth ī the scriptures / if first by spirite / thou haue him not at the harte They serue also an other maner / that many tymes happeneth As where God maketh the in spirite with lyuely faith to feale a deuine trueth Afterwardes / redīg the holy scriptures / thou findest that trueth writtē that thou hast so cōceaued And therof resting contented / thou confirmest thy self in the fayth of that trueth / notwithstāding that it ought to suffise the / of the fyrst inspiration of the holighost And so moreouer because that in Christ is the ende of the lawe / all the promisses fulfylled ād all the prophecies verified / the shadowes / figures ād scriptures of the olde Testament / he that redeth it and seeth all fulfylled in christ is forced to satisfye him self of the trueth / and to establish him self in faith Rom. 10. 2. Cor. 1. For Christ sent the Iewes that wold not beleue hym to the holy scriptures / as to them that witnessed of hym Afterwardes / albeit that in the Churche of God / to be satisfyed / grounded ād establisshed in the diuine / celestiall and supernaturall verité / it behoueth in effect to come to the inwarde wytnes of the holyghoost / without whome we can not knowe whiche scriptures of god be holy and whiche not Neuertheles / after that by spirite we are assured that our holy scriptures be of God / we ought to serue our selues of them as of a certeine infailyble ād supreame outwarde rule to teache / reprehende / correct and exhort the others ande to conumce thē that speake against it For as Paule writeth amongest the exteryour thinges we haue not a more sure clere / parfect ād stedfast rule / then this / with whiche we ought in spyrite to rule all our wordes / workes / dedes and lyfe 2. Tmo 3. Tit. 1. The holy scriptures moreouer shewe vnto vs though farre of our countrey By her we haue lyght of God of his promisses ād also of his threateninges Roma ●● And they nourish in

the naturall thinges / necessarie to the humaine life and cōuenient to our miserable state Man neuertheles / in whome resteth a certeyn pride and curiosytē / wolde not content hym self with so symple a knowledge As where a certeyn Philosopher / geuing him selfe thurtye yeres to studye the knowledge of all the properties of the bee / coulde never perfectly attaine his desyre The others haue geuen thē selues to search the knowledge of al the properties / qualities / vertues and operations of euerie sensyble thing ande not onely of the base ande corruptyble but also of the celestiall bodyes Yea and which is more they haue enterprysed to speake of the Soule / of the Angelles / of God and of the thinges supernaturall / In soche wyse that passyng the lymytes of theyr small light / and walking blyndely eche one hathe fabrycate in hys minde his owne fantasie / and to the purpose have so spoken and written every one according to his propre frenesye / wher of is growē so great varieté of opinions / so many confusions / errours / sectes ande heresies / that as saint Ierome iustly calleth them the Philosophers are the Patryarkes of the heretykes / ande the fyrst begotten of Egipte Ande it is an olde prouerbe / a great Philosopher a great heretyke The naturall reason therfore / that is not healed by faith / is frenetyke and foolysh / as thou mayest well thinke when thou considerest the presumptyon / in that it pretendeth to be the guyde / foūdacyon ande ladder of the diuine knowledges Where as it serueth not to rayse the man to the knowledge of God / but moche lesse geueth him cause to confesse with Socrates that not only he knoweth not / but also that / wythout the diuine grace he can do nothinge Albeit that that Phylosophye is nowe so proude / that with the suppressinge and persecutinge of Chryst / the Gospell / the grace ande fayth / it hath alwayes magnifyed the carnall man / his lyght ande his powers / And is become so frenetike / that oneles it be healed by faith / it wyll beleue nothing to be true / but that it thinketh good / neyther is it possible to persuade him in any treuth / yf fyrst declared vnto him by his frenetyke reasons / it be not conformable to hys blynde iudgement Conclude therfore / that Phylosophye lyeth lowe in the darke vale of vnderstandyng / and can not lyft the head to the hygh ande supernaturall thynges / in respect wherof / it is vtterly blynde / ande knoweth not / neyther by experience nor reuelation / so that in it / it is impossible to establysh the foundacion of the faith For as the feling passeth not the region of the sensible thinges So likewise can nothne mayne reason nor phyiosophye passe the regyon of the naturall thynges The naturall man as wryteth Paule vnderstādeth not the thīges of the spirite And because he is not capax / that is percea●eth it not / he mocketh ād scorneth it Yea he persecuteth / banisheth withstandeth / denyeth ande repugneth the myracles / reuelatids propheties / the grace fayth the holy scriptures / God / Chryst and hys membres Iohe● 10. Yf they heare the Gospell preached of a faithfull man / they saye he is madde / furyous or possessed of the deuell / as was sayde of Christ Warr. 8. If of a learned man / they saye his great studye hath brought hym oute of hys wyttes / whyche also was layde to Paule Act. 7. If of an ignorant / howe / saye they can he be learned that neuer studied letters And if of a poore wretche as touchinge the worlde they saye to hym as was saied to the boren blinde man Thou wast borne in synne / and wilt thou teache me Iohan. 9 And so in effect can in no wyse abyde to heare the thinges of God Go reade the holy scriptures / ande thou shalt fynde that the carnall wysdome ande humayne reason hath alwaies rebelled agaīst God She is the same that / fygured by the serpent / persuaded our fyrst parentes to taste of the prohibited apple / ande that beleued not the worde of God / and that afterwardes taught them to excuse them selues That made Caim to slea his brother Abell / ande that persuaded the worlde in the time of Noe / that the generall diluge or floude shulde not come She caused the building of the towre of Babel She prouoked Pharao to resyst God She induced the people of God to murmur against him / and to worship the golden calse / and mouéd the Gentiles to ydolatrie It is that harlott that made Salomon / loose hys wittes / and stirred his Father to kyll Vria And finallie / she is the same that persecuted the Patriarckes / Prophetes / Apostles Martirs / and sainctes of the old and newe Testament Beholde whether she be a wycked foole or not that putte Christ on the crosse / and where as Christe crucified is the right wisdome of God she accounteth it for a mere madnes Surely there is nothing that hath so moch fauoured the kingdom of Antechrist as she / whiche hath introduced all the supersticions / Hypocrisies Ydolatries and euelles that haue been committed vnder colour of holynes The faith hath not had a greater ennemy then she The Church of Christe was a Paradise whiles the symple fayth reigned But taking in hāde the Scepter of humaine reason / it is become a confused Babylon And where as the clere / sure and infallyble faith / by geuing light of the trueth / magnifyeng Christe / his grace ād the gospell / doth aonichilate or bringe to nought the fleshly man / ande maketh the parson symple / pure / immaculate / vertuous ād houe The darke / blinde deceitfull freenetike foolish and hereticall carnall reason / wysdome and Philosophie / cōdempneth ād oppresseth the trueth And to prone ande extolle the errours persecuteth / crucifieth and burieth Christ th● grace ād the gospell ād magnifieth the caruall mā euen to the heauen All the harlots to gether haue not so moch corrupted the worlde as this onely carnall reason / prudence and salse Philosophie No nor the symple ignoraunce hath not so moche cōfused the worlde as the humaine science / wisdome and Philosophi● / which maketh men bolde / vnshamefast / hoote / l●ers / proude / contencious / frenetike foolysh and wicked Wherfore Paul exhorted the Colossians to beware of her deceypt / because as God sayth by the Prophet Esaye she begyleth Colos 3. Esay 47. the parsons For the wyse or the worlde be the moost deceaued / moost fooles / most wicked and moost contrarie to Christe And it requireth a speciall miracle to conuert one of thē Reade the Christian histories / and thou shalt fynde that those be they which euermore haue been the fyrst to persecute the Gospell And they are very wycked and foolish that will grounde Christ vppon Aristotell / euen like vnto them that will buylde