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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02926	The preacher, or Methode of preachinge, vvrytten in Latine by Nich[olas] Hemminge, and translated into Englishe by I.H. Very necessarye for all those that by the true preaching of the Worde of God, labour to pull down the Synagoge of Sathair, and to buyide vp the Temple of God	Hemmingsen, Niels, 1513-1600.; Horsfall, John.	1574 (1574)	STC 13065; ESTC S116593	54,033	218

drawen and framed their sermons of the callinge of the Gentiles Fourthly that the ceremonies of Moyses are not required of them that are to be iustified for euen as Abraham was iustified without them so they that shal be iustified after his example must not require them to the accomplishement of their iustificatiō Fiftly that righteousnes doth come without the morall lawe and the workes commaūded in the decaloge or two tables for if we be iustified according to Abraham his example he was iustified many yeares that is to say 430. yeares before the lawe truly it can not bee that righteousnes is of the lawe But if any mā should obiecte that the morall lawe was from the beginning that Abraham did not wante it the answer is easye for no rewarde is due to workes without the couenaunt of god For workes are not meritorious of their owne worthynes but by the acceptation of God and by reason of the couenaunt Therefore the cōclusion of Paule abideth firme and stedfast Abraham is iustified by the fayth of promise before the couenaunt of woorkes was published to wytte the man that dothe them shall liue in them Wherefore he is iustified by fayth not by workes Sixtly that the true and iustifieng fayth is a certayne full assuraunce whiche is not subdued by argumētes of reason but stedfastly beleueth that he whiche promyseth cannot lie how soeuer the whole nature of thynges may seeme to gayne saye it And that fayth hath good workes and obedience towardes God ioyned with it and that nothing ought to bee estemed dearer to a Christian man then to be obedient to the will of god And so the Prophetes godly kynges Apostles and in like manner all godly men after Abraham first by example haue learned the true waye of iustification and afterwardes by the circumstaunces of the persone and the facte haue bene admonished of moste weyghtye things By this meanes the godly preacher by the example of Paule may applye other examples both in them selues and also in the varietie of circumstaunces and all ways in his application he must remēber to haue a regarde to the proportion of fayth ¶ Of that kynde of treatise of persones whiche belongeth to demonstration THat kynde of treatise of persons whiche belongeth vnto demonstratiō doth handle the whole life and also euery parte of the life of any persone and that in the same order as the places of persones are rehearsed in the questions of Philip Melancton For that order is not only naturall but also profitable to the speaker and to the hearer But first of al this is to be obserued in this kinde of treatise of persones that those members especially are to bee adourned and beautefied from whome these three aboue rehearsed doctrine immitation admonitiō may be taken For Paule in the .xv. chapter to the Romaines doth admonishe vs of this of application when he sayth what soeuer thinges are written are writtē for our learning c. Therefore suche members ought to be applied to the whole body of the church whiche thing is done when wee transferre aright the particuler to the generall sentences as if the life of Iohn Baptiste were to be handled after the manner of demonstration to obserue the naturall order wee should intreate of his parentes of his conception of his natiuitie of his education of his vocation of his office of the testimonie of Christe of his death and of those thinges that happened both about after his death In the member of his parētes these things are contained that the continual prayers of all godly are heard at the length that the afflicted whiche beleue do obtayne comforte at the laste and that God dothe allowe the marriage of priestes In the member of his conception first the office of Aungels is to be considered that they are the Embassadours of God the ministers of the churche Secondly that God is myndefull of his promises Thirdly that the power or worke of God is not hindred by naturall impediment that is to saye through barrennesse wante of nature Last of all because Iohn as yet in his mothers wombe did acknoweledge Christe it teacheth vs that children are receyued of God and that God wyll be acknowledged honoured of children In the member of his natiuitie thankefulnes towardes God for his benefites receiued is commended the mutuall office of the godly is shewed that they ought to reioyce with them on whom God poureth his blessing to conclude that the godly ought to bringe and offer their children vnto god Againe his straightnes of life doth commende vnto vs not a monkishe or solitary lyfe but sobrietie and obedience vnto god After all these things in his office in the circūstaūces of his persone and office not onely his doctrine but also his consolation his constācie in his office his confession his crosse and loue of the truth with other innumerable vertues are set forth vnto the godly His cōfort or consolation is in that he did shewe or point out with his finger our sauiour Christes his constancie in that cōtemning the threatninges of Herode and of the Phariseis hee caught the Gospell without any feare his confession in that he confessed him self to be the voyce of a crier in the wyldernes His crosse in that according to his vocation hee did not onely wander abroade without any certayne mansion place but also doubted not to suffer death All these thinges which are so drawen forth of the circumstaunces of the persone and of his office are first layd before godly ministers of the worde for the cause of doctrine of immitation and of admonitiō and afterwardes generally to the whole vniuersall churche so farre forth as it belongeth to the common duties of godlines simple teaching and also of other Logiciās diligently declared yet I thinke it profitable in this place to prescribe a waye of intreating whiche shal be commodious to newe beginning preachers First therefore I will set downe the chiefe chapters and next declare the Methode of the of the treatise The chapters or chiefe pointes ar these 1 Definition 2 Diuision or partition 3 Causes 4 Effectes 5 The vse and the abuse 6 Contrarieties ¶ Of definition OF definition some are ours and some ar our aduersaries Those which ar ours we must expounde as true we must proue confirme and gather together The others we must confute as false In bothe kindes there is a peculier Methode but first we wil speake of the former The definitiō therfore wich the godlye preacher shall declare as true and immouable must haue foure parts in the treatise Exposition Reason Confirmation conclusion Exposition is a sentēce wherby we expounde our own diffinition of any thing with manifest playne woordes And there is two kindes of definitiōs pertaining to a deuine the one short briefe the other copiouse large that is content with the kinde with the difference This doth applie to the kinde to the differēce