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A15109	A sermon preached at Paules Crosse the 17. of Nouember An. 1589 Inioyfull remembrance and thanksgiuing vnto God, for the peaceable yeres of her maiesties most gratious raigne ouer vs, now 32. By Thomas White professor in Diuinitie.	White, Thomas, ca. 1550-1624.	1589 (1589)	STC 25407; ESTC S102142	24,989	73

knew how to strike a dog His faithfulnes made him bolde and a bolde Prophet is good but a bolde man and a colde Prophet are both naught Christ called him Elias for his spirite surely hee might haue called him Bonarges the sonne of thunder as the other Iohn was called Mat. 3. 17. for what a clap of thunder is this vppon the hils first to cal the Pharises Vipers and after to threaten them the fire The Axe saith he is laid to the roote of the tree and euerie tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewen down and cast into the fire This Axe is death a violent death the Tree man any man a Pharisee the Fruits are workes and the Fire is hell Hel fire So that he threatneth them with no lesse than with death and damnation as I take it that presently except they doe repent for he giueth thē neither day nor time so that this seemes to sounde more terrible than that cry of Ionas Yet fortie daies and Niniuie shall be destroied Ionas 3. 4. Therefore the Multitude Publicanes Souldiers hearing these things by and by begin to looke about them and remembring the flame to be next the smoke and fearing the fire the wrath to come whereof Iohn spake they all cry out What shall we doe Vnto whome hee is said now to answere for he opposed before and that hardly and he vseth so great moderation and mildenes as he had done seuerity sharpenes and how good saith Solomon is a word spoken in season Pro. 15. It is like a sweet shoure that comes after a drought or like a light that shineth in a darke place He doth not now flatter fawning or fanning thē with wind he leaueth that vnto the Politiques of the worlde which throughly serue their God with reuiling the good praising of the bad but Iohn speaketh though sometimes sharpely sometimes smoothly yet alwaies truely charitably and to the purpose let vs examine his answere He that hath two Coates let him part with him that hath none The first Answere is to the Multitude and it is very fit and apt to perswade thē to be mercifull which seeke mercy them selues But for all that it seemes scarce sound and perfect counsell whereof the people can receiue no profit for God is not pleased with good deedes for our ill as if there were a lawe to bind him either to Accept or to Except the one for the other as the Iewes did thinke him bounde by the law for Sin to take a Sacrifice and for a Soule a Sheepe I answere it is true that there is nothing in al the Law which may comfort the Offendor because hee is vnder the Curse and therefore if hee had shapte his answere out of the lawe Hee might haue answered thus Perish and Dispaire but hee answereth them out of the Gospel for many reasons chooseth the workes of Charitie which he vrgeth not after the Lawe but after the Gospel And therefore this exhortation dependeth vppon another Principle and on a newe Lawe where to the Repentant his sinnes are assured to bee remitted and in lieu of thankefulnes a better life is inioined Wherefore hee doth not further reprooue them now but spareth them that as Iohn the Euangelist after the voice of Thunder heard the voice of Harpers from Heauen Reuel 14. 2. So these might hear of Iohn the Baptist after Anger Fauour and might see after Fire Water and receiue after Commination Exhortation wherein hee handleth them so tenderly as the Samaritan did the wounded man pouring in olde wine and not new for feare of breaking their old Bottels for he knows that the bruised Reede must not be be broken nor the smoking flaxe be quenched Isay. 42. 3. And therefore wils them rather to breake their sinnes by Almes-deedes as Dauid did perswade Nabuchadnezar Dan. 4. 24. Not with any Goates offered vnto God but with some Coates giuen to poore men Sacrifices were Ceremonies which had their time but Loue is a seruice of all times both to God Man and it is most necessarily required heere for many reasons and respects First for the Multitude as the best thing in their case For perfect loue casteth out feare 1. Iohn 4. 18. and I thinke they were afraide Secondly for the Church whose necessitie coulde not choose but be infinite then in the beginning when Hypocrisie and Tyrannie had possessed all Thirdly for Iohn himselfe who auoideth by it that same suspition so oft obiected of the Pharises vnto Christ that hee spake against the lawe as our Pharises handle vs because we constantly affirme That Faith onelie iustifieth according to the Word we haue many euill wordes for it and though otherwise we preach and teach good works a hundred times yet it will not serue our turne For they conceiue of vs as of the enemies of all goodnes where as it is not the good woorke but the merite of our good workes that we doe so disclaime and abhorre Lastly it serueth more for the honour of Christ when such a Multitude shall be turned and changed by his word not in Opinion onely which often falleth out in the common sorte through inconstancie and temeritie but by good works and such as kindely crosse the soule of an earthly minded man and for the which many did depart from Christ both sorrowfull and sad They should now witnes to the world that they esteemed nothing in comparison of the peace and quiet of their troubled Soules And there are but two effectes of true Repentance To cease from euill and to learne to doe good Hee pursueth the latter which implieth the former Hee might haue said Loue you one another but lest a People too much giuen to dissimulation should only answere in word and tongue He calls them as Iohn doth his hearers 1. Iohn 3. 18. Vnto the Deede and Truth of Loue. By Cloath and Meate here he vnderstandeth all our Substance for Foode and Raiment is the effect of all that a man can haue in this world 1. Tim. 6. 8. But who should relieue the Poore the Multitude onely It is said to the Multitude He that hath two Coates let him part with him that hath none There are certaine speciall Dueties which doe concerne one and not another but to giue to the Poore belongeth vnto all Christians with this prouiso If they haue it For Iohn counts it a disgrace in the Church which is the House of God to see one man with two Coates and another naked and yet both one mans seruants wherefore that equality where the Plentie of some supplieth the Penurie of other some is Christian and not Anabaptistical 2. Cor. 8. 14. And that inequalitie where some doe Surfet and others are hungrie is not Christian but Diuellish 1. Cor. 11. 21. I know the Multitude would post ouer this lesson to the Minister but if as they call vs men of a Coate they could proue vs to bee men of two Coates men