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A05710	The new arival of the three gracis, into Anglia Lamenting the abusis of this present age.	Batman, Stephen, d. 1584.	1580 (1580)	STC 1584; ESTC S112724	36,047	48

vppon all fléesh and your sons your daughters shal prophisie your old men shal dreame dreames and your young men shal sée visions yea in those dayes I wil poure out my spirit vppon seruantes and maydens I wil shewe wonders in heauen aboue and tokens in the earth be neath blood and fier and the vapour of smook the Son shalbe turnid into darknesse and the Moone into blood before that great and notable day of the Lord come And the tyme shall come that whosoeuer callith on the name of the Lord shalbe sauid And the Lorde sayd vnto Moyses speak vnto the children of Israel and say in any wise sée that you kepe my Sabboths for it is a Signe betwéen me and you in your generacions for to know that I the Lord am he that doth sanctifie you kéepe my Sabboths therfore for it is holy vnto me he that de●ileth it shalbe slayne for whosoeuer worketh therin the same soule shalbe rootid out from among his people Six dayes shall men work and in the seuēth day is the Sabboth of the holy rest of the Lord whosoeuer doeth any work on the Sabboth day shall dye Wherefore let the children of Israel kéepe the Sabboth that they obserue it throughout their generacions that it bée an appoyntement for euer for it is a Signe betwéen me and the children of Israel for euer Such wonderous Signes hath the Lorde shewed from tyme to tyme to the end that euery Christian man should haue dew regard to this so holy a commaūdement from Mount Sinai y e thundering voice was a signe of force which ought not to be brokē not a rest for man only but also the whole familie and cattaile The obseruacion of the Sabboth had his originall beginning of that that is sayd written God blessed the seuenth day and sanctified it bicause that in it he rested from all his workes the Isralites gathered the vi day a double quantitie of Manna bicause that on the Sabboth they should rest to the intent that man should labour to get the true rest And on the Sabboth day ther wer offered two lambes vpon the other dayes but one except in solom fea●ts The man that was taken gathering of stickes vppon the Sabboth day was by gods commaundement stoned to death of Nehemias the Gentiles Iudas Machabeus Nichanor with others Concerning the obseruacion of the Sabboth for farther proofe réede the auctorities The Pharises said vnto the disciples of Christ that did pluck and eat the eares of corne ye do that which is not lawful to doo on the Sabboth day but the lord said vnto them haue ye not read what Dauid did c. Then foloweth the sonne of man is also Lord of the Sabboth day there are diuers insamples why it was lawfull for Christ to heale the diseased on the Sabboth day for that being perfect God and man he did not only heale the festerid or putrified bodies but also their sowles The Sabboth day for vs Christians is moste apte and conuenient to heare the word and law of God and the Prophets The which are red euery Sabboth day Likewise our sauiour Christ in fulfilling the law gaue vs this commaundement saying which of you hauing an Oxe or an Asse fallen into a pit and wil not pul him out on y e Sabboth day Num licet Sabbato sanare they to whō Iesus spake which were y e Lawiers Pharises Answered nothing therfore as the sabboth ought to be kept holy from bodely workes so ought all men to eschue vicious thoughtes and craftie imaginacions And when any occasion of doing good by any maner of way ought to be shewed that then it be don with Christian endeuour and puritie of mind In which ●o doing the sabboth is both reuerently and holily obserued But the crabbed wayward natures of this time present haue so much presumed vpon this text and others that some hath and doth as blind baier●s not spared to labour and trauayle on the Sabboth day without any need or occasion at all aleaging notwithstanding that necessitie hath no law so that vnder the culler of necessitie they vse al daies a like Applying the text of the sacred scriptures not to the will and commaundement of god but after their owne carnall fancies for the which ther so great abusing of the reuerend Sabboth The Lord will show strang signes from heauen fier brimstone storme and tempest which shalbe the porcion for the wicked The Sonne and Moone shalbe darkenid and the starres shall withdraw their light the Lord shall rore out of Sion and crye out of Ierusalem that the heauens and the earth shall quake with all but the Lord shalbe a defence vnto his own people and a refuge for the children of Israel I haue rysen vp early I haue geuen you warning in season but you would not heare Behould therefore the words of the Lord that are at hand to plage vs as he hath plagid others and that euery obstinate shalbe scatterid as dong vppon the earth Pray therefore to God to blesse his preachers that the Gospell may flourrish as it ought or els we perish ¶ Prophecis by perticuler VVHen thou art in tribulacion and when all these things that be here spoken of are come to passe thou shalt retourne agayn to the Lord thy God and be obedient vnto his word THis is the word that was openid vnto Esaie the son of Amos vppon Iuda and Ierusalem it will be also in the last days that the hill where the house of the Lord is buldid shalbe the chéefe amōg hils and exaltid aboue all little hils and al nacions shall pray vnto him the multitude of people shall goe speaking thus one to an other let vs go to the hill of the Lord and to the house of the God of Iacob HHare the word of the Lord O ye children of Israel for the Lorde must punish them that dwell in the land And whyle ther is no truth ther is no mercy ther is no knowledge of God in the land but swearing lyeng manslaughter thefte athoultry haue gotten the vpper hand and one bloud gyltinesse foloweth an other Therfore shall the land ●e in a miserable case and all they that dwell therin shalbe rootid out IN the later days it wil come to passe that the hil of the Lords house shallbe set op hygher then any mountayns or hils yea the people shall prese vnto it and the multitude of the gentils shall hast them thither saying come let vs go vp to the hill of the Lord to the house of the God of Iacob that he may teach vs his ways and that we may walk in his pats for the Law shall come ont of Sion and the word of God from Ierusalem and shall geue sentence among the multitude of the heathen and reforme the people of far countris FOr mark the day cometh that shall bourn as an ouen and all the proud yea and all

soule from vertue flyeth it waxeth beastlike and naturally dieth For as the soule geuith life to the corsse so iustice in the soule is cause of liuely force NIchil cum fidibus graculo nihil cum amaracino sui What Musick doth dame Graco yeald that pratling Iaye bedect Though faire as Fezand fresh in féeld her corpes is still infect What both auayle the smarting wound with foysterid oyntment ill No more then Porcus granting sound when pearels are found in swill SO it may happen for this my toyle to haue a small reward of such as nothing lesse doeth mean each vertues to regard For such reward who lookes forgayn as wordlings do desier shall misse of vertues iust report small guerdon for their heyr And those which gapes for future ioys aspiering kings to bée not being caulid shall shure fall these Gracis so agrée Sith plentifull Saturitas by soferaygne Quéene we haue to pray I wish each wight with spéed that God her state may saue And so to raygne in quietnes in Secures safety still that crafty Cacus may be spied and shortnid of his will Euphrosine Liberalitas VNto liberalite belongeth mercy and largnes which hath had her proceading sence the first creating of all things a vertue no lesse worthy then eyther of the rest through mercy compassion hath béen ouer all which is the principal cause of our continuance by mercy we are sauid by obedience redemid by liberalite sanctified who is able to acquite such kindnesse which prouoketh through plenty in manyfould forewarnings dew thankfulnesse for as those things worldly séemeth vnfit neither is conuenient to be red being vntermixed with contrary matter so ensamples diuine requier to be ioyned with none other then auctorite aduised will alow as fit examples to the same what greater liberalite was ther euer then this which when the eternall God plasmator of all things had made the round world so sure that it may not be remouid The Sun to rule the day the Moone to gouerne the neyght the gréene hearbes for all liuing beasts of the field the Seas fluds and waters not only for euery kind of fish but also for ships to flote vppon the same wherby man may sée the great works of God and out of the substance of earth trées of diuers fruits growing from out of the same with sundry sorts of hearbs as wel for beasts of all kynds of Serpents Byrds worms as mā in bestowing the same what greater liberalite could be showed But aboue al these things so liberall was our euerliuing God that he prouided a continuall mancion for all obedient and beleeuing soules in the heauens ther to dwell and abyde after this our passid pilgrimage neuer more to be molestid and troubled these and diuers other liberalites geueth occasions to euery carnall creature to consider so great a liberalite Rebecca Batuels daughter did most liberally aunswer Abrahams seruants sayng drink my Lord. Moyses in defending Iethros daughter from the sheperds that would not suffer them to water their shéepe The children of Israell with most prompt deuout minds did geue to the work of the tabernacle and the holy vestments all thing that was necessary and the artificers were enforcid to say vnto Moyses the people bring to much and more then ynough In which so doyng behold the large lyberalite of the Israelites but in these our dayes it is growen to the contrary as conserning temples ther néeds no new erecting thanks be to God ther are sufficient and moe then are well ocupied in stead of liberalite couetous desier hath brought two parishes to one and the lyuing of both to half of one and yet out of that halfe a thyrd by inordinat oppressiō and although the word of God continue liberall to the prouoking of each liberalite in his kind yet is it not so amōg the sonnes of mē for the which it is to be feared not long to be among vs. A hungry man being vsed to some slender apetite and when of that little day by day he be abrydged and lessenid of that little must needs in the ende consume his corrupt carcase so like wise spirituall liuings being alredy so néere sifted that the doner of many such liuings knoweth before he geueth it as some of thē haue reportid the valew therof yet notwithstanding the princis dewty which euery good subiect yeldeth willingly if he reserue no passel of ȳ same yet some part of the fleise he wil be sure of besid some brybe at the enterance ether in money or ware In what state shal that poore minister liue in consideracion of dayly payment when the liuing to be in valew xx or xxx pounds by the ycare he pay out of xx pound x. pound I will not say out of xxx pound xx pound or out of xv x Such a doner forgiuing diserueth no lesse reward then Ahab for taking of Nabothes viniard or Iehezi for taking a brybe of Naaman the Assirian contrary to the sayng of Eliza the Prophet as for such a minister he cannot escape vnpunished if vnlernid then is it for néed if learnid then God hath séen according to his wisdome therby to cut of from the kindom imperiall both geuer and receuer Such gredy doners or patrons are glad when they haue gotten them vndiscréet I will not say Idiots considering they would sayne haue somwhat as Esopes Dog de Cane carne hoping of better prosperite found lesse being glad of somwhat excepting it acommodite as he or they thinks for that before they had nothing not expecting the charge but the gayn not able to gyde him or them selues much lesse the congregacion in the mean space the shéepe starue for want of food and what shal be come of such shepperds or shéepherds although by auctoritie of mā alowid y e auctoritie will not discharge them before god except they haue such consideration of their vnabilitie that they cease not dayly to frequent the counsaile of the learned and so by little and little through diligent endeuour come to a better perfection very fewe ther are that so bestow their time I omit such as he carders dicers ale knightes fornicators lasciuious spenders coūterfet christians disquieters of cōmon welth sedicious persons quarrellers studientes in vayne and friuolus Arttes And tourne them ouer to the Prophet Ieremi as foloweth Vae pastoribus qui disperdunt dilacerant gregem pascuae mae Wo vnto the shepherds that destroy and scatter my flock saith the Lord wherfore this is the commaundement of the lord God of Israel vnto the shepherds that féed my people ye scatter and thrust out my flocke and looke not vpon them Therfore will I visite the wickednesse of your imaginacions sayth the lord and will gather to gither the remnant of my flock from all lands that I had driuen them vnto I will bring thē againe to their pastures that they may grow and increase I will set