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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20794	Two sermons preached the one at S. Maries Spittle on Tuesday in Easter weeke. 1570. and the other at the Court at Windsor the Sonday after twelfth day, being the viij. of Ianuary, before in the yeare. 1569. by Thomas Drant Bacheler in Diuinitie.	Drant, Thomas, d. 1578?	1570 (1570)	STC 7171; ESTC S116118	66,054	168

to leaue speaking of the truth that doth remember the latter day where an open reason must be geuen of the truth The Euaungelist doth say Ye shall shew forth his death whilest he come Euen to the cōming of Christ our talke ought to be of Christ and of Christes death Basil in a certaine Epistle doth say They be traytors to the truth whosoeuer do not aunswere readily truely of religion and matters in diuinitie Prosper Acquitanicus in his sentences sayth He that seekes peace from God let him be at peace with him selfe so that he haue not one thing vpon his toung and an other in his hart The truth is truly to be beleued and truely to be spoken Vigilius in the end of his second booke sayth thus Nihil cordi prodest credere c It is to no purpose for a man to beleue with his hart to iustice except confession be made with his mouth to saluation Thereupon Dauid sayth I haue not hiddē thy iustice in my hart thy truth and thy sauing health haue I spoken Of the greuaunces that this Realme féeleth at this time and is like yet more to feele other men will alledge other causes but if my life lay on it ▪ I woulde answere that these two thinges haue bene the causes of this plague of pestilence of this rebels sworde and what soeuer mischiefe is els to come The one cause that men haue not gone intirely to all Gods cōmaundementes but like mammerers mongrels and halters taking and forsaking at their owne choice and by their owne mans iudgement The other that though they haue taken on them a pro●…ession of the truth and haue not denied any part of the Scripture and haue bene well inough content that Gods worde should runne yet them selues are in Gods cause so faint and couragelesse that they will not open their lippes to speake for christ And because we haue halted with God and delt losely with God therefore God hath duely delt thus with vs To vs God might cry Expectans expectaui or Tollerans tolleraui I haue long looked for your amēding and I haue long borne with your euill doing But it is truely sayd of God that as he hath leaden féete so he hath iron handes He commes slowly but when he commes he payeth home surely For this x●… yeares now past who hath led the life of delightes What natiō vnder heauen hath bene happie but our Englishe nation Our God loued vs our God bare with vs and our Gods face was vpon vs But euen as the Troians whē their Citie was flung flower flat to the ground and leueled to the soyle then they began to speake thus Troia fuit Troia fuit There was a Troy there was a Troy or we had a Troy we had a Troy. So we may say Facies Dei fuit We had Gods face we had it As much to say as now we haue it not But what is Gods face That which is described in the xxvi of Leuiticus Respiciam ad vos fecundabo vos c. I will turne my face to ye and I will make ye fruitfull I will geue ye raine in season and peace in the earth The sword shall not raine in the land if ye will walke in my statutes and kepe my preceptes Plentifulnesse and goodnesse and all Gods benefites that is Gods face That face we haue nowe lost And what haue we then found or what shall we haue If the face be gone the backe muste come we shall haue Gods backe But what is Gods backe Euen that which is written in Leuiticus If ye turne your backes to me I will turne my backe to you and those that hate you shall ouerrule you I will send the pestilence in the midst of you and you shall be geuen ouer into your enemies handes I will make your heanen iron and your earth brasse I will breake the staffe of your bread ye shall neuer be full This is Gods backe But what is Gods backe That which may be sayd out of Iob An houngry people shall eate your haruest and one in armour shall drincke vp your riches God wil write bitternes against ye and consume you with the sinnes of your youth There shal be a sound of terror in your eares fier shall dry vp your braunches you shall conceue sorrow and bring forth iniquitie Your wrinckels shall beare witnes of your misery your chappes shall be smitten They shall rush vpon you like gyantes Shame shall be powred out vpon ye and reuiling mouthes open at you Canker shal be your father and Consumption shal be your mother Your light shal be put out and your flame shall not be bright Hunger shall sit vpon your ribbes and deuoure your beauty and consume your armes Your bread in your belly shall be turned into gaule and your riches which you haue eaten vp shall God put out of your paunches You shall no more see riuers of flowing nor brookes of hony Ye shall smart yet be not consumed according to your many misdeedes you shall be many wayes punished this is Gods backe But what is Gods backe That which the prophet Esay sayth you shal be solde in your wickednes and ye shal be turned ouer in your sinnes and your flood shal be dried vp c that is Gods backe But what is Gods backe That which the prophet Ieremy sayd in his fifth chapter In thee will I bruse the horse and the horseman the wagon and the wagoner the man and the woman the oldeman and the childe the young man and the mayde the husbandman and his yoke oxen the captayne and the magistrate one post shall meete an other and one messenger shall come after an other to bring tydinges to the king of Babylon that his battell barres are broken and that his chiefe cheuelers are sore troubled This is Gods backe But what is Gods backe That which the prophet Ezechiel sayd Tertia pars tui morietur peste One of thy three partes shall dye with the plague of pestilence in the midst of thee an other part shall dye with the sworde round about thee the other part I will scatter into euery wynde that is I will destroy by euery easy occasion Thys is Gods backe But what is Gods backe That which the prophet Os●… sayd in his fifth chapter I wil be a moth●… 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ▪ im and I will be a canker to the house of Iuda But what is Gods backe ▪ That which was sayd in the first chapter of Miche I will lay downe Samaria like a heape of stones I wil draw her stones downe into a dale and I will make naked her foundation But what is Gods backe That which the prophet Sophoni sayd in his first chapter to the tribe of Iuda I will make them smart that haue sinned from the lord Their bloud shal be powred out like earth and theyr bodyes like dust But what is Gods backe That which the prophet Zachary sayd in