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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05279	The Christians vvatch: or, An heauenly instruction to all Christians, to expect with patience the happy day of their change by death or doome Preached at Prestbury Church in Cheshire, at the funerals of the right worshipfull Thomas Leigh of Adlington Esquire, the 16. of February anno 1601. By William Leigh Bacheler of Diuinitye, and pastor of Standish in the countie of Lancaster.	Leigh, William, 1550-1639.	1605 (1605)	STC 15422; ESTC S108412	42,071	96

at their pleasure into the compasse of a cake at Dan and Bethell setting vp the other in conceite aboue the heauen of heauens and to that end haue found out in their dea●ne diuinitie and assumption of her bodie into heauen and withall proclaymed her a feriall for the same to bee kept on earth like one of the feasts of Iudah where anenst I say and dare auouch they haue discouered more follie found out more fables v●tered more vntruthes and broched more blasphemies against God and his Christ then euer they can answer if the Lord bee not mercifull vpon their repentance Time will not suffer mee to stand vpon their particular impieties for that I must referre you to the reading of Io. Bromiard in his summa predicantium tract de Maria as also to Nicholas Blony and Clicto●ius their homilies written for the Assumption day to Anselmus and all the rest who haue plowed in their postils with that Romish heffer I say read without pride of them or preiudice of vs and I doubt not but when you haue done you will pray that the Doctrine and day of the assumption may be cancelled out of the calender and conscience of all good Christians and the rather for that themselues confesse it to bee without the Canon of the word et quod ex scripturi● probari non possit expresse which is that tha● cannot be prooued out of the scriptures expreslie but from tradition whence saith he it hath authority And for their allegations of August● and Ierome who they say writ seuerall treatises of the assumption the one ad Paulum et Eustochiū the other I meane Augustin one booke of the same argument I holde them both adulterate and neither of their stampe for that they are vnable eyther to abide the touch of their stile or tryall of Gods truth I meane his word so are they takē to be in the censure of the best learned godliest Diuines wherof Erasmus gaue a taste when he said of Augustine his booke for a title Hic libellus ne pilum quidem habet Augustini This pamphlet hath not so much as an haire of Augustine and of Ierome his Sermon hee saith that it was not his but that one Sophronius a Graecian writ it which he prooueth in the censure therof verie plainely if you please to reade him Pardon mee my Bretheren if I seeme to haue stood ouer-long in the misterye of Christ his sole ascention vp in bodie veritas me coegit The truth and tender of your good hath trayned mee on which if you sound well vnto the bottome you shall feele it a perfume vnto your soules more sweet thē al the trees of Incēse For say sinner what am I or what is my fathers house that God should so exalt mee in his Christ as to purchase mee a place to giue mee a Kingdome to plead possession in my flesh and to keepe it for me vntill the adoption euen the redemption of our bodyes and perfect changing shall come when Christ shall 〈…〉 end with all his holie Angells and come in the cloudes of heauen with power and great glorie to cal the dead out of their gra●es and to gather his elect from the foure windes and from the one end of the heauens to the other then then not before to solemnize the great day of the assumption of all flesh and to crowne it with immortalitie But good Lord how long when shall our changing come and when shall thy comming be How long and when ô Lord thou knowest It is not for vs to tell the times and seasons which the Father hath put in his owne power In Caution where of I for warne all Christians of two sinnes ragious in the world and seazing vpon al flesh 1. The one is curiositie concerning the day of doome when it shall bee 2. The other is securitie both of the time and manner of it being That of curiositie is in the excesse and it possesseth the wit that of securitye is in the defect it possesseth the wil ●he 1. first is of men too ingenious and they hasten the iudgement The 2. second is of men too too careles and they put of the iudgement not regarding that there is a God and day of reuenge and that wh●le wee sinne the score runnes on Now in respect of both beloued I charge you this day that you stand vpon your gard and bee watchfull so are not to hy● least the fire vpon the Mount deuoure you in your curiositie nor hoouer too lowe least the foolishnes of a Golden Ca●fe beguile you in your securitie Medi● tutissimus ibis the meane is the best For the first Paul writing to the Saints at Thess●lonica saith Of the times and seasons Bretheren yee haue no neede that I write vnto you ● where see a sa●ctified Church discharged of a dangerous sinne they were not curious to search the Maiestie least they should bee confounded of the glorie and for that hee saith ye haue no neede that I write vnto you As and if hee should say ô yee Thessalonians yee are not curious of the times and seasons which the Father hath put in his owne power yee stand vpon no destinies ye gaze vpon no starres ye respect no coniunctions of fierie or watery Trigon ye prie into no prophesies of derne deceite ye reade no Bookes of Manilius Maternus Albumaza● or Halie but the loue of God is your delight wherein you haue learned that the secret thinges belong to the Lord our God but the thinges reuealed belong to vs and our Children for euer But woe is mee to tell my deere Bretheren this Scripture is crosse to all our courses in that great day I feare wil seuerely iudge vs for what belongeth to the Lorde and is secret to himselfe thereof are wee curious but what belongeth vnto vs and to our Children to knowe and is reuealed thereof are we careles being naturallie giuen rather to knowe that wee cannot learne and so dye in error then to search what we should learne and so liue in truth Search the Scriptures is in the commaund of GOD and who doth obey it search traditions is out of the commaund of God and men runne mad vppon them the day of grace is ours wee haue it and oh that we did know in this our day the things that belong to our peace but they are hid from our eyes yet if there bee but a question mooued of the day of doome of the desolation of the land by forraine power if of the death of our dread Soueraigne the breath of our nostrels and vnder whose shadowe we are preserued aliue among the heathen none ours to knowe but all in the counsell of God to determine of in mercie iudgemēt as it seemeth best to himselfe or yet in all these are we to to peremptorie For we set the Clocke we calculate the yeares wee determine the day we busie our selues