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woman_n	spirit_n	truth_n	worship_v	2,361	5	9.8392	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09658	Aggeus and Abdias prophetes the one corrected, the other newly added, and both at large declared.	Pilkington, James, 1520?-1576.	1562 (1562)	STC 19927; ESTC S105053	233,877	506

goodes whiche shoulde haue necessarely ben bestowed to the buyldinge of gods house we shoulde not haue felt gods rodde so sharpeli but God would haue ben pleased and shewed his glorie amonge vs. But whan men would not geue lād● fast inough to Abbeys than the Pope rather than his chaplēs should want would robbe many Parisshes to fede his mōkes God graunt that the gospell maye restore that iustly whiche the Pope toke wrongfully awaye and gaue them yet a right● name of impropriations because improperly thei be takē away properly belong to the parishes The workemā is worthy hys byre he that serues the gospel muste lyue of the gospel Therfore those impropriacions whiche take awaye the Preachers liuinge be againste the woorde of God But what doeth this belong to vs or oure time doth goo require of vs to build him Abbeis Nunries Chauntries c. no surely but this was an outwarde exercise for that grosse harde harted people for a time to be excused in that they should not buylde temples to Idols ▪ and teacheth vs to buylde god spirituall house wherin we maye offer spirituall sacrifices prayers to him where in he is well delited will shew his Maiestye This house is nowe for vs to be vnderstande generallye the hole churche and companye of Christians and the bodye and soule the hearte minde or conscience of all Christiās particularly wherein god dwels by his holy spirite as sainct Paule saieth to the Corinthians Do ye not knowe that your bodyes be the temples of the holy ghoste and whiche he hath sanctified to be kept holy for him self alone by Baptisme and for the whiche Christe hath died that we mighte liue by 〈◊〉 whome he hathe redemed with hys 〈◊〉 and wasshed cleane from all sinne 〈◊〉 shoulde liue no more to our owne lustes and desires but to him that hath redemed vs. It is written that God dwels not in Tempels made with handes nor is worshipped with any worke of mānes hādes but he is a spirite an inuisible substance and wil be worshipped in spirite truthe not in outwarde woordes onely of the lippes but with the depe sighes gr●ninges of the heart and the hole power of the mynde and earnest hearty callinge on hym in prayer by faithe And therfore he doeth not so muche require of vs to ●uyld him a house of stone and timber but hath willed vs to praye in all places and hath taken awaye that Iewish and Popish holinesse whiche is thoughte too be more in one place than an other All the earthe is the Lordes and he is present in all places ▪ hearinge the peticions of them which call on him in faithe Therfore those Bishops which thinke with their coniured water too make one place more holy than the reste are no better than Iewes deceyuinge the people teachinge that onely to be holy which thei haue censed crossed oyled and breathed vpon For as Christ saide to the woma● thinkinge one place to be holier to 〈◊〉 than an other Woman beleue 〈◊〉 time is come whā ye shal worship 〈◊〉 ●t Ierusalem nor in this byl but the true worshippers shal worship God in spirite truthe so is it now saide the place makes not the man holy but the man makes the place holy and ye shal doe worship youre Idols stockes stones neither at Walsingham Ipswich Cāterbury nor Shene for God chuses not the people for the place sake but the place for the people sake But if ye be in the middest of the fielde God is as ready to heare youre faithfull prayers as in any Abbey or Nunrye yea a thousand times more for the one place he hates as defiled with Idolatry and the other he loues as vndefiled and cleane If the good man lye in pryson tyed in chaynes or at the stake to be burned for Gods cause that place is holy for the holines of the man the presence of the holy Ghooste in him as Tertullian sayeth Yet there shoulde be common places appointed for the people too assemble and come together in to prayse oure God For where the Apostle rebuked them whiche woulde not resorte with the rest of the Christians to make their common praiers together to hear his woorde and receiue his sacraments it proues they had some common place to resort to And where saincte Paule requires that all thinges should be done in a comely order what can be more comely or agreing to good order then 〈◊〉 haue a time appointed and a place too resorte vnto together to worship oure onely God Nay how shal they come together ●●cept place and time be appointed Howe shal they know when whither to resort vnappointed How canne the sheepehearde teache his sheepe if he haue not a folde to gather them together in In the Apostles time when the rulers were not christened they resorted into priuate houses and chaūbers by the water side 〈◊〉 worship their God but when princes became christened they had churches appo●●●ted for them yet all these prayers preachinges that were priuely in parlers and by the waterside were as pleasaunte too God yea better peraduēture for cōmonly they came of a greater and better l●ue 〈◊〉 faith as ours be now Those also whiche than were buried in no halowed churche nor churcheyarde nor christē moldes as they be called when it is no better then other earth but rather worse for the cōm●●●● that Bishops vse about it were no worse then they which were buried with al solēnitie It appeares in the gospel by the Legion liuing in graues the widdows some going to burial Christ buried withoute 〈◊〉 Citie c. that then thei buried not in halowed Churchyeardes by any Bishops but in a seuerall place appointed for thesame purpose without the Citie which custome remains to this day in many godli places As that thē was lawful no hurt to the ded so is it nowe one place is as holy as an other to be buried in sauinge that cōly order requires the bodies not to be cast awai because thei were the temples of the holy ghost shal be glorifed at the last dai again but semely to be buried an honest place to be kept seueral frō beastes vnreuerēt vsing thesame for thesame vse It is Popish to beleue that which the bishops doe teach that place to be more holi then the rest which thei haue halowed as thei sai with washing it with their cōiured water crossing cēsings processiōs c. that God wil hear our praiers afore one Idol or Image rather then an other or in one Abbey as pleases thē to apoint him rather than an other Wher it pleases thē to graūt mani daies of pardon ther God must hear their praiers soner work mo miracles so God is become their seruaūt shal be wher thei wil apoint him But blessed be the God our lord which by the

that we should all obey the kyng as chiefe and highest ruler aboue all other And although Kynges and rulers in common welthes were then Infideles not Christened yet he biddes obey them as the chief and hyghest and neither willes anye too be disobedient too pull the swerde oute 〈◊〉 their handes nor to set vp him self aboue them but humbly to obei them in al thinges not cōtrari to gods truth and religiō But if they commaund any thing cōtrari to gods woorde we muste aunswer wyth the Apostles we must rather obey god thē man And let no man thinke that in dyspleasinge god he can please man For god who hath all mens heartes in his hande will turne his heart to hurt thee whome thou woulde please and flatter by displeasing and disobeing god nor we owe anye obedience to any mā in such things where in god is offended and disobeyed If Englande had learned this lesson in the time of persecution we should neither for feare at the voyce of a woman haue denied our● maister with Peter nor for flattery haue worshipped Baal nor rashly rebelled but humbly haue suffered gods scourge vntil it had pleased god to haue caste the rodde in the fyre the whiche he woulde sooner haue done if oure vnthankefull sturdines had not deserued a longer plague The Lorde for his mercies sake graunte that bothe we and all other maye here after beware from like pulling on our headdes the righteous scourge of god for our wickednes and the vnpacient bearing of the same when it comes verse 2 Thus sayth the God of hostes saiynge this people saye the tyme is not yet come to buylde the house of God ¶ The Prophete dare speake nothinge in his owne name or of his owne deuise but alwayes names the Lorde who sente him whose message he brought whiche thinge all preachers must folow most diligently or els they are not to be beleued Sainct Paul sayeth if I or an aungel frō heauē should teach you any other gospell beside that whiche you haue receiued cursed bee he And marke that he sayes not if he teach contrary to that which ye haue receyued but besides and more then that whiche ye receiued For the Pope and hys cleargy thinke that thei maye for our saluation adde more to the gospell so that it be not contrary to the gospell But sainct Paul sayes besides or more then the which ye receyued And Moyses sayeth Thou shalt neither put to nor take awaye anye thinge from the woorde of god but cōtent thy self onely with that which he teaches for he onely is true and all men be lyers no man is of his counsail to teache thee what pleases or displeases him except he speake him self And although rulers mai ordaine some thinges for an order in the Churche yet none of their decrees are articles of our faith but thei may and ought to be chaunged when they be hurtfull or turne to any misuse or superstition And for all that that the people had greuousli sinned in not building the lords house so many yeares yet whyle God dyd vouchesafe too speake vnto theym by his prophetes and rebuke their sinne there was hope enoughe of forgeuenes so that they woulde amende tourne vnto God For like as longe as the phisicion doeth apoynte the sicke man what he shall doe howe to dyet hym selfe and what medicines to take there is hope of lyfe but yf he forsake hym and will not speake vnto hym we loke for presente deathe Soo as longe as God of hys goodnes lettes hys woorde be amonge vs there is good hope of forgeuenes but if he take awaye hys woorde there is no comforte left Saul whē Samuell was deadde asked counsayll of god but he woulde not speake too hym neither by dreames nor at the Arke of god nor by visions or prophetes and than he runnes to Wytches So we when god teaches not but are left too oure selues seke such vnlawfull meanes The Iewes had lyen almost .xl. years in this negligēce of buylding gods house It is almoste as many yeares since wee vnder pretence of receyuinge the gospell and buyldinge Gods house haue pulled it doune and to roote oute all the rable of Monkes Friers Nunnes Chanons c. wee for the moste parte haue soughte too enriche oure selues and one like theefes robbed an other haue not of pure loue destroyed Gods enemies nor prouided for the poore and furthered learninge nor placed preachinge Ministers in place of dumme Dogges after the rule of hys woorde as wee shoulde haue done and buylded hys house And what remedy do the wicked papistes finde too redresse this with all They pull awaye Gods woorde and saye it was neuer good worlde since it came abroade and that it is not meete for the people to haue or reade it but they muste receiue it at their mouthes They are the Nurces they saye and must chowe the meate afore the chyldren eate it Woo be vnto such dissemblers as vnder pretence of chowinge eate all vp or elles that litle whiche thei geue for they saye it is not necessary to preach often by the exāple of Pābo which whā he had heard one lesson the first verse of the .39 Ps. whiche beginnes thus I thought with mi self I wi● kepe my wayes that I offēde not in my tūg ▪ woulde heare no mo vntil he had in man● yeares learned to practise that one which example rather proues that we should dyligently learn than seldom preache It is I saye so poysoned in their filthy mouth● and stinking breathes that it poisons and feedes not the hearer Dauid sayes by what thinge shall a yonge man amende his euill wayes and he aunswers by keping the sayinges of god And how shall we see to doe this thy woord O Lorde he sayes is a lantarne for my feete a light to my pathes But these theefes that take awaye the woorde of god from the people whiche is the lantarne and light to teach them to go a righte woulde haue them in darkenes styll that they shoulde neither se their owne faultes nor others When the fault is not sene how can it be amēded and how can it be sene seinge it is in darkenes excepte the light of gods truthe do open it vnto vs. Moyses biddes the fathers tell their chyldren the lawe of god often times and to studye on it in theyr houses in goinge by the way Dauid bids the same and the chyldren too aske the fathers Paule bids fathers bringe vp theyr children in the nurture and learninge of god And wyues if they will learne anye thinge aske their husbandes at home Than if the father must teach the sonne and the sonne must aske the father and the wyfe must learn of the husband How shall those fathers and husbandes teach except they be learned and howe can they be learned hauinge none to teache them but sir Ihon mumble matins nor cā not be