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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01955	The trumpet of vvarre A sermon preached at Paules Crosse the seuenth of Maie 1598. By M. Steph. Gosson parson of great Wigborow in Essex.	Gosson, Stephen, 1554-1624.	1598 (1598)	STC 12099; ESTC S112458	41,167	110

of people the exhortatiōs differ They that haue already beléeued are so affected with heuenly things that they despise the world such are exhorted to looke for trouble aduersitie before it comes so deales our Sauior Iames Paul with their schollers such as are affected with the world and doe not yet stedfastly beléeue God is contented to drawe them vnto him with promises of worldly prosperitie that by these steppes they may ascend by little and little to loue him for himselfe at last Such were they that Iehoshaphat spake vnto men affected with their peace and prosperitie hee therefore exhorts them to beléeue the prophets with an expectation of prosperitie S. Iohn Ep. 3. discouers two kindes of prosperitie to his friend Gaius one of the soule another of the body and he wishes both to him Where the holy prophets and priests of God haue their due regard credite both these folow the soul prospers the prophets doctrine is likend in scripture to raine mās soule is the ground into which it falleth and by the watering thereof many a goodlie flowre of Fayth Hope Loue Temperaunce and such like heauenly vertues créepe out of the paradice of the soule The bodie prospers also Ps 8. 13. O that my people had hearkened vnto me sayth God I would haue humbled their enemies and turned my hand against their aduersaries The reason of it is the same by which we say trees and plants do prosper which standing with the roote in the mire in the water draw that to them which is good for them and refuse that which is hurtfull and so they grow and prosper not by any vnderstanding of their own but because they are guided ab intelligentia non errante they are guided by god whose vnderstāding neuer erres The knowledge of the prophet is a light streaming out of Gods own bosome into the breastes of y e prophet as the learning of the scholer is a paterne of the learning of the master so the knowledge of y t prophet is a bright heame of the knowledge that is in god they that will beléeue the prophets shall be guided ab intelligentia non errante by an vnderstanding y t neuer erres they shall prosper in their actions Contrariwise they that despise and reiect the Priestes and the Prophets sent vnto them are like vnto a beaten bark in the maine sea without rudder without maister without Card or Compasse snatched away with euery flaw and rent vpon euery rocke they can neuer prosper It shal be good for you in these dayes wherein men haue laide all their batterie against the Church as if there were nothing in this kingdome out of order but the Church to considder somewhat better of your owne selues and doe it in time For I dare bée bolde to tell you that God can not abide to sée that kingdome prosper which cannot abide to sée his church prosper 2. Chron. the foure and twentieth chapter and twentith verse Why transgresse ye the commandements of the Lord saith Zechariah surely ye shall not prosper The worde was no sooner out of his mouth but the people conspired against him they got him to be made away by the kings commaundement The holy man saide no more to it at his death but this The Lorde looke vpon it and require it and the yeare was no sooner come about but God sent an army against them smaller in number than themselues closed them all in their enemies hands the kingdome was spoyled the nobilitie destroyed and rifled the pray sent to Damascus the king himselfe murdered in his bed by his owne seruauntes and all this was done saith the holyghost for the blood of the children of the Priestes As many of you as take our prosperitie to bee a pricke in your eies laye this to your heartes and thinke vpon it It grieueth me to speake it and it grieueth me more to thinke it you may see it if you will that whilest you are whetting of a knife for to cutte our throates God is whetting of a sworde to cut your throats It was the promise of our Sauiour that the Faith of the Church shoulde remooue mountaines and indeede the persecuting heathen emperors were very great mountaines that stoode verie high and very stiffe in the churches way but the faith of the Church hath remoued them all out of her way It was the praier of the Church against her ennemies long since Dorsum eorum incurua Lord bow down their backs looke vpon Domitian Decius Dioclesian Iulian the apostata Herod and Antiochus and a number such like Princes persecuting of the church all their backes haue bin sodainely bowed downe or broken by one feareful death or other Valerian the emperour was a bitter enemy of the Church and it pleased GOD in his life time so to bow downe his backe that he made him a footestoole for his prowd ennemie the King of Persia to get vp to horse Looke vppon the liues or vpon the deaths of all the princes of the earth that euer stoode vp in opposition against the church you shal find that verified in them that Dauid noted Uindemiat spiritum principum he cuttes off the spirits of Princes In which maner of spéech he likeneth GOD to a vinerole and the Princes of the earth to great clusters of Grapes in the time of Uintage when they are ripe and the measure of their sins full then commeth God in with his paring knife he shareth off these great clusters one after an other and sweepeth them awaye quite from the face of the earth My Text hauing thus ledde mee by steppes and degrées vppe to the chinne in the Churches quarrell because that after the last seruice I perfourmed to the Church in this place it was told me to my head fortie miles hence in the presence of an honourable man that I had stricken at some great person and should be called in question for it I do not thinke but my innocencie was lookte into in that it was almost two yeares since and from that daye to this I neuer heard more of it Neuerthelesse that I be no more mistaken I wil speake a word or two to this purpose and so commit you to God I remember the Prophet Hieremie in his fourth chapter and fourth vers finding his speach to be of little force amongest the common people said thus to himselfe surely they are poore and foolish and knowe not the way of the Lorde I will get mée to the great men speake to them for they know it But when he had taken a view of them he confessed that they also had cast away the yoke of their obedience vnto god This was not my drift at that time neither is it my intent now I do rather set before mine eies the complaint of the Prophet Hieremie Lament 3. where he compareth great persons to fine gold and to the stones of the sanctuarie and bewailes to sée them in disgrace If it be