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truth_n	scripture_n	speak_v	word_n	9,140	5	4.5911	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04477	A sermon made in latine in Oxenforde in the raigne of King Edwarde the sixt, / by the learned and godly father Iohn Iuel, late Bishop of Sarisburie, and translated into Englishe, by R.V. Dedicated vnto the Bishop of London, as appeareth in the Commentarie of Ma. Caluine, vpon the Galathians, in Englishe.	Jewel, John, 1522-1571.; Vaux, Robert.	1581 (1581)	STC 14609.5; ESTC S106654	14,237	44

Howe ofte hath Christ himselfe sayde Ierusalem Ierusalem how oft woulde I haue gathered together thy Children as the henne gathereth together her Chickens whereas they turned awaye their eares and would not heare This maladie will easily be taken away if the medicine therefore bee vsed Let vs bring forth the light and God will open their eyes let vs beate at their eares and god will giue them a hart of flesh Lette vs giue the worde and God will giue the spirite let vs plante and water and god in due time will giue the increase For as it is our duetie to instructe the people with wordes so it belongeth to God to ioyne vnto his wordes fayth and force Such is the strength of the word of God that to worke nothing or to profite none it is not possible Much will fall into the bushes into the beaten waye and among stones yet some will fall into good groūd and bring forth fruite For looke as the rayne commeth downe from heauen and returneth not thither againe but moystneth and watereth the earth and maketh it bring forth and giueth seede to the sower and bread to him that eateth so my worde sayth the Lord whiche goeth forth out of my mouth shall not returne empty vnto me but shall doe whatsoeuer I will But because it is not ynough to speak let vs now consider that which in the seconde place I haue promised namelye what is to bee spoken For some otherwhile speake who had bene better haue helde their peace othersome while they make a noyse and crie out with greate contention speake to no purpose Wherfore regard must be had that we neyther speake vnfruitefullye ne yet hurtfullye For all thinges are not to be hudled out in a sermon before the multitude Wee muste take care what the Religious silence of the people what the reuerence of the place what the greatnesse of our office doe require The truth muste bee spoken not lies the Scriptures not fables the preceptes of the highest God and not the dreames of men For religion is to be ordred not by our iudgement but by the worde of GOD. Wherein if we shall hearken to Moses or to the Prophets or the Apostles or Christe or the Father himselfe wee shall not much goe oute of the waye For Moses whatsoeuer was to be sayde or done in so great a wildernesse when he ledde the people being banished and wandering by a sauage and desert region alwais asked counsaile at y e Lord he neuer brought thē any thing of his own head The Prophets always say the word of y e Lord the vision of y e Lord the voice of y e Lord this saith the Lord heare the Lord. I sayth Paule haue receaued my Gospell not of man neyther by man agayne I know nothing but Iesus Christ the same crucified And again If an Angell frō heauē shall teach another gospell then y t which you haue lerned let him be cursed christ sayth al thinges which I haue heard of my father I haue deliuered vnto you preach you sayth he not whatsoeuer shal come in your head but y e Gospel to al creatures whē as y e Pharises Saduces had moued the questions of diuorcement the resurrection of the dead vnto life he neuer had recourse vnto the Rabins but alwaies to the word of the Lord. God the father crying from Heauen This saith he is my dearelye beloued Sonne He sayeth not Heare your Fathers your Graundfathers or your great Graundfathers but he sayeth Heare him euen him For our heauenly Father woulde haue his sonne his word to be taughte and to bee beate into mens heades in all places And certainly it may not be douted of by any man but that that whiche the most excellent most wise and most liuing father hath giuen vnto vs for our cause is most excellent most wise and to our reasons most profitable This is that riuer of water flowing abrode into life euerlasting This is that flesh this is that blood of Iesus Christ this is that onely both most delicate most wholsome foode of our soules with this only sworde the deuill is ouercome with this onely stone Goliah is layde along with this onelye Maule the roughnesse and hardnesse of hartes is softened and ouercome And were it not for this neither could religion florish nor faith bee confirmed or the Churche kepte within the limites of her duetie Call to remembrance I beseech you for the Lordes sake that as oft as the worde of the Lorde languished howe often and into how many greeuous errors and how great a breakenecke euill did the whole people fall into how oft despised they the mightiest and moste louing God their preseruer and Father how oft worshipped they Astaroth Beliall the Sonne the Moone Calties and beastes and turned away themselues from all religion and godlinesse put their whole hope and confidence in thinges most vain and filthie For when as euery one hatched out of his owne mind a religion and holynesse vnto himselfe superstition and such a multitude of new Gods increased so sodainly that the Prophet was enforced to crie out your Gods are in number as many as your cities For whē as they had forsaken the truth life and religion what remayned but that they should fall hedlong into lies into destruction into vngodly worshippinges I had rather make mention of these olde thinges than to bring in examples which are fresh and in memorie There is none of vs that euer was so blinde that he saw not or so blockish that he vnderstoode not the calamitie of former tymes We haue far gon beyonde not only the superstitiō and vanitie of the Iewes but also of the Egiptians and Grecians For when the authoritie of Councels and the conspiracie of a few Bishops and Monkes was placed aboue y e scriptures when it was douted whether y e Romish bishop were a man or a God and whether he could sin when all thinges were referred to the constitutions of men nothing to the knowledge of Christ when sales of pardons vowes and masses were made openly without al shame when y e sacramentes were miserably torne in peeces when the worde of God was condemned of fraude heresie when nothing was left found pure from superstition when error possessed all things and the truth could not be heard where then or what Church of God was there It was heresie in those dayes not y e disagreede from the scriptures but frō that which liked a few Bishops For the gospell was thrust into corners nothing was left to the iudgement of Christ Our gods were not then according to the nūber of our cities but they were as manye as we had streats yea almost houses So were all thinges vtterly out of frame for that religion depended not on the worde of God but on the wil of man These horrible cases bretheren may warn vs that we neuer vnaduisedlye departe from the word of