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A13966	An apologie, or defence of our dayes, against the vaine murmurings & complaints of manie wherein is plainly proued, that our dayes are more happie & blessed than the dayes of our forefathers.	Trigge, Francis, 1547?-1606.	1589 (1589)	STC 24276; ESTC S103280	42,588	50

hearts We shal find in the books of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel farre greater spoyles expulsions breakings hewing downe and ransacking of those good kings Ezechiah Iosiah then these were Wherefore these things now should not séeme strange or wonderful vnto vs. And these Kings of Ecclesiasticus in the greater number of other Kings which builded those high places which plāted those groues which ordeined these Priests these Kings I saye which pulled downe their buildings cut downe their plantings and expelled their Priests are counted only famous not infamous onely religions not impious not spoylers but reformers of Gods house Eccl. 49. ver 4. These be his word All kings except Dauid Ezechias and Iosias haue done wickedly For the kings of Iudah forsaking the lawe of the Lord haue forsaken God himselfe These three kings did laye wast groues aulters high places but they forsooke not the lawe of the Lord and therefore their horne is exalted with glorye and their remembrances is for euer So truely with the Lord with al godly faithful men which dare ground their faith on Gods word Our kings which haue pulled downe the Abbeyes expelled their Munkes are also famous and in great estimation Wee may saye O thrise happie and faire Sunneshine dayes of ours the which all the cloudes of ignorance being dispersed all the vailes of superstition being rent in peeces all the monumentes and pillers of Idolatrie being pulled downe haue Iesus Christ the true Sonne of righteousnes of saluation and trueth moste clearely shining and with his beames most plainly glistering in them Neither doe I here iustifie or allowe the wickednes of the world which dayly increaseth the charitie of many which is waxed colde nay plainly frosen Neither do I commend all the ground which we the Lordes husbandmen do till but the fourth parte onely which receiueth the seede and keepeth it We must needes confesse wee haue much thornie grounde much stonie ground manie high wayes wherein we are some time compelled to throwe the Lords seede Therefore I doe not allowe here or commend that olde beaten waye of Papistrie which many do followe when they come to the Church to heare the word of God thinking thus with themselues what seede soeuer shal be sowen in their hearts they will not receiue it They will beleeue as they haue beleeued Neither the stonie grounde of time seruers which ground their religion vpon the Prince and not vpon God and will turne which way the Prince turneth Neither the thornie ground of couetous men which in the Church receiue the worde of God gladly but when they come home or into the field their chestes and their hedges choake it All these groundes I allowe not And these are too too common in euery fielde in euery towne That same beaten waye moste olde men followe that same stonie waye hypocrites treade that same thornie waye couetous misers trace And these being put altogether they will make a great shewe But there shall be such alwayes Our Sauiour hath tolde vs before Therefore the faithfull marueil not when they meete withall and see many such But yet for al this their barrainnesse and vnfruitfulnes cannot nor ought not to defraud or depriue the fourth ground the good grounde the Lordes field of his iust praise and commendation which of one seede yeeldes vnto the Lord some thirtie some sixtie some an hundred folde of fruite This land is worthie of praise and such lande the Lorde be thanked we haue amongst vs. I may iustly pronounce our dayes happie and our selues vnhappie of whome nowe verie many of vs stumble at noone daye and slyde in the light runne headlong into the pittes of sinne in the Sunneshine who woulde not praise the clearenes of our time our Sunneshine our great light and knowledge And againe who would not wonder at the foolishnes and sottishnes of manye men the blindnes of their eyes the stumbling of their feete their falling downe euen groueling for all this light Who would beléeue that charitie should waxe colde in such daily kindling of the Lordes fire amongest vs that couetousnes should once appeare amongest vs being so daily and diligently wed out and plucked vp by the rootes that vsurie durst once shewe her face being arraigned and condemned so often in all courtes by all lawes in all languages both in Lattine and English That oppression of any landlordes to their tenants should be once named thought on or felt amongest vs in such great knowledge of brotherly loue These are the blockishnes of men These are the blindnes of their eyes whose mindes as the Apostle saith the Prince of this world hath blinded lest the glorious light of the Gospel should shine vnto them This is no iust complaint or condemnation of the dayes then the which daies the Lorde gaue to the worlde neuer any more cleare more blessed more laden with all blessings the lanterne of his worde the sunne of his Gospell so many cleare and innumerable starres of his ministers shining glistering and flourishing amongest vs. They therefore that stumble in such great light maye condeme themselues not the times the men not the dayes their wilfull negligence not our wonderfull Sunshine But the greatest and most grieuous and dangerous complaint of all followeth Manye vrge the discentions of our time and the sectes that like Tares are sprung vp with the Gospell and the bitter speaches and sharpe contentions of the professors of the Gospell amongst thēselues They remember not that amongst the Parables of his kingdome our Sauiour also intermingled this of the Tares sowen by the enuious man euen in the midst of his wheat to haue stopped the mouthes of his disciples which maruelled at this and were greatly troubled at this matter by his commaundement and authoritie And also in his doctrine to haue many times taught this principall point to strengthen their faith and to auoide the offences of the wicked chiefe of all other Do ye thinke that I am come to set peace vppon the earth No but rather diuision and this diuision is the ouerthrowe of Sathan the breache of his peace the ouerthrowe of his kingdome For Sathan the diuel himselfe hath a peace in his kingdome as in another place our Sauiour doth teach vs or else his kingdome could not stand and the world loues her owne This peace the doctrine of our Sauiour Iesus Christ breakes and quite takes away The boundes of Lawes shal be broken for my name saith our Sauiour nay the bonds of Nature and that into two partes nay into twentie partes from henceforth there shall be fiue in one house deuyded three against two and two against thrée A small number was wont to be the mother of loue and a greate many the mother of sedition and quarels but here neither frwnes of number nor nighnes of kinred shal make peace for the father shal be at variance against the sonne and the sonne against his father And the mother

against her daughter and the daughter against her mother the daughter in lawe against her mother in lawe and the mother in lawe against her daughter in lawe And euen nowe the world marueiles slaunders and complayneth at these discentions of sonnes and fathers against the Gospell and name of Iesus This thing in my opinion that Sathan goeth about is that he might quite abolish and take away credite from the Gospell Our Sauiour Iesus hath foretold vs the same thing so often that we should not be offended thereat The Lorde by this meanes tryeth some whether they will rather sticke to their olde father Zebebe mending his nettes or with Iames and Iohn forsake al and following Iesus Christ calling them Whether at the Lordes commaundement they woulde forsake Sodome with Lot and his daughters or for their owne pleasure with his wife they would looke backe and be turned into a piller of salt Other some by this meanes the Lorde quite refuseth and casteth of who being well brought vp of their parentes and in true religion yet they had rather quite cast off the feare of God and obedience to their parents to shake hands with the Prince of darkenesse Gods vtter enimie then to tread the trace of Gods holy commaundements and of their fathers holesome instructions And are not such children both of God their father of man their father iustly to be forsaken Neither the agreemēt concord of al men in the darkenesse and ignorance of the Popes religion whereof they bragge so greatly doeth auaile anye thing to the confirmation and trueth of that blinde and superstitious religion For in the night season if wee marke wel as thinges are quiet and peaceable Naye the quietnes and peace of the night is farre greater then the quietnes of the daye But who woulde then therefore commende the night before the daye Such was their blinde and darke peace concorde and agréement which they had Againe Sathan himselfe hath a certaine kinde of vnitie in his kingdome as our Sauiour witnesseth in the Gospell If Sathan should rise against Sathan and be deuided saith he he could not continue but should haue an ende Sathan therefore in his kingdome hath a peace and surely to our outwarde senses a farre greater peace then the Church of God hath which outwardly in this worlde like a shippe is tossed hither and thither and is neuer at rest But he lacketh that inwarde peace that peace of conscience which the Church and housholde of God onely enioyeth Though Sathan his members do make a faire shewe of peace and quietnes outwardly yet they are tormented and vexed inwardly So that outward peace is no argument of trueth but rather that other inward peace For that craftie serpent créepeth softly and goeth stilye and bringeth in vnder hande like a craftie iuggler without any noyse without any wordes all his trishe trashe But this peace ouerthrowes the workes of God denounceth warre to his worde this creeping stealeth the worde of God from the heartes naye from the eares from the eyes and knowledge of all Christians Hitherto tendeth all his stealing steppes to this end his quiet times Such was the vnitie or securitie or drowsines rather of the former times And here by the waye because they finde fault with our agreement I praye you note the consent and agreement of the diuell and of the Pope together most manifest that no man of indifferent iudgement can denye The diuell sayeth our Sauiour When the worde is sowen in the heart of man he comes priuily and stealeth it awaye lest it shoulde take roote there The Pope he stealeth and plainly conueyeth the worde out of the Churche so that it shall neither come into the eares nor into the heart And is not this manifest Doeth not the Pope forbid the worde of God to be read in the Church but in Latine in a tongue vnknowen to the hearers So that it were as good not redde to them at all they are neuer a whit the better for the reading of it And shall wée not saye then that the Pope and diuell in stealing Gods worde from our heartes doe agrée Is not this too too manifest Such is their peace and agréement they haue quite contrarye to Iesus Christe But the house of Iesus Christe is buylt vppon an hill it hath manye cold blastes and sharpe stormes His shippe sayling in the Sea of this world hath manye stormes quicke sands and rockes That same Whirlewinde whereof Saint Marke speaketh in his fourth Chapter which from out of the earth is suddenly carryed vpwarde to Heauen woulde as it were blowe the shippe out of the worlde All Gods children all his seruauntes are of the daye and of the light they sustaine troubles cares they are vexed they are pinched They carrie their crosse with their Master Iesus Christ They are neuer as long as they continue in this wildernesse frée from the pinchings of hunger thirst and scarsitie from the perils of enimies both at home as of Corah Dathan Abiram and abroad as Amalech Balacke and such like They are stil in the field their life is a warfare and this is their tryall this is their crowne this is their victory This is the wisedome of the serpent which the Gospel commaundeth who stop their eares to all the voyces of the charmers charme they neuer so wisely that they may heare their Iesus alone which beléeue not the doctrines of these false Prophets for al their miracles which wil nat depart from the word of the Lord Deut. 13. For the Lord suffreth some time false Prophets to do myracles as Moses doeth teach vs to trye vs whether wée will sticke to his worde alone or no. Hereby their Egles eyes are tryed whether they can beholde Iesus Christ the true Sunne without twinckling of their eyes or no Onely the Eagles can do so The eyes of other birdes cannot endure it these turne their eyes aside to flyes and mottes in the Sunne to fat prayes which the tempter castes in their way The Christian Eagles respect onely the glorie of Iesus Christe Therefore Dauid prayed O Lorde turne away mine eyes lest they behold vanitie and quicken mée in thy way These vanities these flyes these motes in the Sunne are left in the ayre to trye the zeale of true Christians Deut. 33. The which Moses taught before his death all the Leuites of Israell and our Sauiour Iesus all his disciples which saye to their father and mother wee knowe you not aus to their brethren we care not for you no not for their owne children But they kéepe the word of the Lord and his couenant These faithfull Leuites preferre Iesus Christ and his Gospell to all Counsails Fathers yea to their owne natural fathers to their beloued wiues to their deare children yea to their owne soule and life This great courage of theirs could not so clearly appeare without some light skirmishing at home amongest their brethren And without open warre abroad against