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A15108	A sermo[n] preached at Pawles Crosse on Sunday the thirde of Nouember 1577. in the time of the plague, by T.W.	White, Thomas, ca. 1550-1624.	1578 (1578)	STC 25406; ESTC S111738	33,572	100

their dealings There is nothing prouoketh god more thā when with a cloke or colour of religiō his people shall wallow in sin or superstitiō Read the 50. Psal. Unto the vngodly man sayde God why doest thou preach my lawes takest my couenant in thy mouth wheras thou hatest to be reformed hast cast my wordes behind thée So be you well assured that it is not inough to haue a gospel in our mouths but we must expresse the truth therof in our liues it is not inough to haue a name of a Christian but to be founde a Christiā in déede Many haue a shew of godlinesse saith S. Paul but they haue denied the power thereof If nature helped not Abrahams owne children but bycause they lacked Abrahās workes they are called Deuils sonnes Iohn 8. alas what shall a naked name without vertue a bare tytle without veritie profite vs at all Doth not Christe foretell of such in the day of iudgemēt who haue done manye thinges in his name and yet when all is done he knoweth them not Math. 7. Surely the blinde charitie of Papistes dothe laye sore to the lame and halting faythe of Christians Our knowledge shall but helpe vs to Hell if we do not that wée know for the seruaunte that knoweth his maisters will and doth it not must looke for many stripes and to whome more is giuen more is to be required We haue receyued plentifully but if we yéelde barrenly Christe cursed a figtrée surely he will not spare thée The Author to the Heb. 6. sheweth that the grounde that drinketh in the deaw or receyueth the rayne falling oft vpon it and yéeldeth fruite is blessed but the barraine and vnfruitefull is to be cursed and burned The Are is at the roote of euerye trée and iudgement is not farre by his fruit shall euery mā be knowen no fruite aswell as naughty fruite is both for the flame It was abhominable before God for Israel to sweare the Lord liueth yet to deceyue Ier. 5. to fast and yet to do no lesse violence to wash and yet to be vncleane to sacrifice and yet to sinne to kéepe Sabbothes yet to tumble in al sensualitie For swearing it was neuer so cōmon custome maketh it nothing in these dayes in euery place in euerye person the magnificēt name of God who is glorious great fearefull is tossed to fro as a tennis ball that for very trifles The Iewes yet whē they heard blasphemy woulde rend theyr clothes It woulde gréeue a Christian hart to heare at euery word an othe at euerye lye an oth bying selling is not without lying and swearing but if the mouth that lieth slayeth the soule Wisd. 1. what déepe damnatiō euen in the nethermost hel remaines for the periured person There would be some exquisit punishment for such helhoundes séeing God wil not hold them giltlesse lette al Magistrates that feare God condemne thē to some paine for they are past shame And bycause I spake of Sabbothes knowe you that euery day is a Christian Sabboth yet one amōgst the rest was specially cōmanded to the Iewes and commended vnto vs both to reste oure bodyes our beasts but the chiefe end was for Israel to go to the Sanctuarie for vs to come to the house of prayer The ceremonie of the seuenth day is not muche amisse and that the number of .7 signifieth perfectiō you may oftē reade in scriptures especially in the Reuelatiō Of churches stars spirits trūpets seales Angels and al appeared by seauen as a most absolute perfect nūber multiplyed in it self albeit this is somwhat mistical yet no harme followeth if we say God rested the vij day to shew vnto vs the perfectiō of his workes laboured .vi. days to giue vs an exāple of vocation It may be not one of the least causes that God ceassed the seauenth day to beholde the excellencye of his creatures and though he séeth them alwayes from whose eyes nothing can be hidde yet to take delight in their assemblings singing of hymnes in their praying vnto hym and praysing hys name in their reading and hearing his word And if he looke downe on oure Sabbothes what shall he finde I pray you euery daye euill and the Sabboth worst Redéeme the time for the dayes are euill If the Apostle saide so then what woulde he say if he liued nowe when the Lord can not haue a péece of a daye no scarce of the Sabboth day which he hathe so charged to be kepte and straightly commaunded to be obserued But it was to the Iewes you will say it is true indéede for those solemne and ceremoniall assemblies sacrifices and feasts but otherwise there hath bin euer in the primatiue Church and from the Apostles some obseruation of one day among the rest and for speciall consideration albeit the whole life of Gods chosen is a perpetuall sabboth and euery day sanctifyed and euerye houre holy vnto them Assuredly we come nothing néere the Iewes in this pointe for on oure Sabbothes all manner of games and playes bankettings and surfettings are very rife If anye manne haue anye businesse in the world Sonday is counted an idle daye If he haue none then it is bestowed in other pleasure Trahit sua quenque voluptas Euery man followeth his owne fansie And the wealthyest Citizens haue houses for the nonce they that haue none make shift with Alehouses Tauernes and Innes some rowyng on the water some rouing in the field some idle at home some worse occupyed thus what you gette euelly all the wéeke is worst spente on the Sabboth day according to the Prouerbe Il gotten ill spent blame not your seruantes if they follow your example for youre prodigalitie makes them vnthriftie But what accompt how answer you is this the Lordes daye or no if it be howe intollerable nay howe accursed moste condemnable are these outragious Bachanalia Lupanaria I can not tell what to call them such as Heathē menne were euer ashamed of I am sure and therfore practised better maters although prophane exercises but ours sauors so of Venus Court and Bacchus kitchin that it may rightly be entituled an abhominable and filthy Citie and withoute doubte London shall iustifie hir elder sister Hierusalem if in time she turne not to the Lorde I saye nothing of diuers other abuses whych do carrie away thousands and drowne them in the pernicious vanities of the worlde Looke but vppon the common playes in London and sée the multitude that flocketh to them and followeth them beholde the sumptuous Theatre housee a continuall monument of Lōdons prodigalitie and folly But I vnderstande they are nowe forbidden bycause of the plague I like the pollicye well if it holde still for a disease is but bodged or patched vp that is not cured in the cause and the cause of plagues is sinne if you looke to it well and the cause of sinne are playes

thraldom by this onely Messias there were very few or none Right so play we in these dayes we are very carefull for the times and seasons concerning our worldlie affayres A prisoner duely wayteth his delyueraunce a prentise styl thinkes on his fréedome and both keepe iust accoumpt of euery day yea the sicke man leteth not one houre escape nor misseth not a minute but styll longeth for his health but for our great delyuerance departure hence it is not only the last but the verie least care when friendes Phisitions forsake vs we trust yet in our selues for no man is so olde but he thinks he may be older and no man is so sick but he hopes he may recouer and the last messenger shall styl be for the Mynister the daunger sure is verie great and euerie man is not sure to be at Christes right hande iuste when he dieth and repētance is not in our own hands thou trustest to thy ende thy end bringeth distrust for the greatest assault is in thy weakest estate As I would not haue any mā to distrust god no not specially in the ende so woulde I not haue any to tempte God and trust onely to the ende and yet I saye all is well that endes well This example is plaine inough of Christes cōming to the Iewes prophecied prophecied againe and yet not vnderstood So the naturall example of our mortalitie and dayly dropping away might moue reasonable men to take hede it warning woulde serue to teache vs to watch waight for his comming or to be prepared prouided for our going Sayth the Lord. Looke what the Lord hath sayde and that is sure to come to passe in al pointes as he hath sayd it for God is not as man is mutable in repenting his promises albeit he is sayd to repēt that euer he made man Gen. 6. It is but to expresse the hartie hatred he beareth against sinne against their sinnes of the olde worlde or else why do we so confidentlye buylde and constantly assure our selues of the inexplicable comfort of euerlasting saluation but bicause of his woorde which is immutable hath he sayd it nay he hath sworne it he that commaūded the heauens they were made and but spake the woorde and they stoode fast standeth styll vpon his honour and wyll perfourme what he promiseth in number waight and measure as he hath giuen his woorde for some testimony and examples Why dyd not the fyre consume those thrée thrust into the burning Ouen was it not hote enough or did it not burne when the verie flames did lycke vp those tormētors that put them in and what is the reason but that it shall be so and why did the Seas so spie the Lord why ranne they backe and were afraide became as a wall to Israel and ranne together againe to drowne Pharao all his hoast 114. Psa. but this that it shall be so Why did not the Lyons in theyr den snatch Daniel rather before he came to the grounde teare him in peeces than lye styll before him as Lambes no Lyons but this the water may not wette though it be a great Sea fyre may not heate though it be a flaming fyre many Lyons many hungry Lions may not touch a seely man when the Lord hath sayde it shall be so for heauen and earth shall perishe and vanish as a scroule but his woorde endureth for euermore That I wyll raise vp the right braunch Dauid This alludes to that raysing of séede to a mans brother if he dye without issue as it is in the lawe Here we must note howsoeuer God promised to Adam the Womās séede shal breake the serpentes head Gen. 3. Howsoeuer to Abrahā in blessing I wyl blesse thée and in multiplying I wyl multiply thy seede as the starres of heauen or as the innumerable sandes of the shore and howsoeuer to Dauid thy seede shall endure for euer thy seate as the Sun c. That is how so euer the couenauntes or mercifull promises of God made to our Forefathers did differ in circumstaunce yet do they all agree in effect substaunce Againe howe soeuer the Prophetes dreamed dreames or sawe visions whether they prophecied some plainer some darker some as it were farther off and mysticall some more euident and neare as the spirite gaue them vtteraunce Yet all inspired from aboue spake in effect one and the same thing And there can not be founde any contrarietie in al the doctrine of the Prophets of God thā is possible to be in the spirite wherewith they were inspired The marke they all shotte at is Iesus Christe the ende of the whole lawe and the Prophets which were vntyll Iohn and this partycular Prophecie which I haue in hande as I tolde you concerneth the pacte or couenaunt with Dauid but not in the Iewish sense But looke howe it was promysed of God so is it prophecied of Ieremie and right so hath it bene perfourmed in Iesu Christe for the vnitie of Gods spirite is styll one and indiuisible as the dietie Why some Iewe may obiect is it not plaine that Salomon Ezechias and Iosias being lawfull Sonnes and succeders of Dauid were raysed of God as righteous braunches I aunswere that it is God in deede by whose power all Princes do raigne and through his authority they haue their seates It is he which rayseth them vp and raseth them out againe at his pleasure which turned out Nabuchodon●zer as a Beast in his iustice and in his mercie made the sheephooke of his seruaunt Dauid to be a Scepter ouer Israell But all that propagation or Princely posterity raysed of God was not without the meanes of man and this is immediatly of God him selfe a great difference And if you wyll go further and aske howe this braunche should be raysed then I aunswer that first you must circumcise your hartes eares least you thinke it an impossibilytie as Nycodemus thought of a mās regeneration so you hauing the vayle of fleshlinesse and the foreskinne of filthinesse shall vncleanlie and grosely imagin of this blessed generation or raysing for carnal man sauoreth not those thinges that are of God. This done I saye he was begotten of God conceyued by the holy ghoste incarnate in the sanctified wombe of the Uirgin Marie euen in the fulnesse of time according to the Scriptures and it is parte of the Articles of our Christian beléefe which none of all Dauids posteritie coulde saye no not he himselfe for he was conceyued borne in sinne But here maye a more strong and mighty obiection be gathered than before as it seemeth and all by my owne saying for is it lykely or is it possible that he shoulde be rightlie called the ryghteous braunche of Dauid which came not of the séede of any man of all that stock before so many Kinges good and bad of which euery one yet naturally