Selected quad for the lemma: world_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
world_n	death_n	sin_n	sin_v	14,462	5	10.3751	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08444	Certayne sermons of the ryghte famous and excellente clerk master Barnardine Ochine, borne within the famous vniuersitie of Siena in Italy, now also an exyle in this lyfe, for the faithful testimony of Iesus Christe. Faythfully translated into Englyshe	Ochino, Bernardino, 1487-1564.; Bacon, Anne Cooke, Lady, 1528?-1610.; Argentine, Richard, d. 1568.	1551 (1551)	STC 18766; ESTC S104167	97,926	208

world his sonne to make for vs satisfaction and layed on hym the iniquities of vs al as Esay wrot And he right louingly although he were a verye innocent toke them for hys own and was contented to satisfy for oure offences to suffer that we had deserued and dye vpon the cros according to his fathers wyl as Paule wryteth he toke our infirmities for his own and he hath borne oure iniquities and miseries bi reason he came into the world as though he had ben an offender he toke a similitude of sin to serue our turne on the behalfe of our sinnes as though we had ben most innocent and he committed al the sinnes on his wil was to go alone to the death and therfore he sayed to hys disciples in the garden stand there in peace rest and wythout care and suffer me alone to enter into the battayle and abyde on my boones that you haue deserued And metynge the multitude he sayd to thē whō seke you they aunswered Iesus of Nazareth as thoughe they shuld haue said we seke for him which hath vpon him al the sins of the world And Christ made answere ▪ I am he I haue takē on me al the sinnes loue hath layed them on my shoulders therfore if you seke for me as a man in whom be al the synnes let my dysciples and my elected passe as innocentes ease satisfy reuenge do your wurst to me which am cōtented to suffer for al one cause also wherfore Christe beinge accused at the iudgment seat of Ierufalem made no aunswere was to shewe that they had agaynste him all actyons in so much as he had ēbraced for hys owne al our synnes It pleased hym also to be crowned wyth thornes as kinge of al miseries set betwene ii thefes as the starkest errand thefe of all lykewyse was he contented to be striken and beaten for our synnes as Esay sayeth he was smiten for our infirmities and brused for our iniquities and offences God hath chastised and beaten him for the sinnes of hys people and by his wounds passions we be made hole he payed that he owed not as Dauid saied I haue paied those things that I toke not And Esay also dyd say in the parson of Christ you haue put me to trouble for your iniquities He was contended that vppon hym shuld come al those infrmies slaūders rebukes which we haue deserued for our syns which thing Dauid singnified in spirit in the parson of Christ where he sayeth the rebukes and reproches wherwith they slaunderd the fel al vpon me yea and those curses also that wer due to vs fel vpō him as Paule sayeth he hath redemed vs from the cursse in that he became a curst for vs And lyke a godly shepherd hauyng on hys backe the lost shepe for he hath his kingdō vpon his shulders hath he born our synnes on the crosse as Peter sayeth he hath born our synnes in hys body vpon the crosse and tree Vpon it as it had bene an altar to condempne our synnes wyth the syn that was imputed to hym was he offered as a sacrifice to be burned in the fyre flame of gods loue and to the Corinthians Paul writeth he that knew no syn was made syn for vs. It was gods wyl and mynd that he which was most innocēt should be don on y e crosse as though he wer not only a synner but euē lyn it self and thus as Daniell prophesyed was iniquity consumed and in one day god toke it out of the world according to y e prophesy of Zachary wherfore saynt Ihon saieth he appeared to take away our fyns and saynt Ihon Baptist sayeth of Christ that he is the lambe of God y t taketh away the sins of the world Therfor when Christ suffered most louingly al that which we haue deserued he satisfied for vs and purged vs from our synnes He after the manner of the prodygal sonne of an excedyng loue y t he bare to the soul when he had geuen hys deuyne treasures of grace to the very open synners and harlots and had taken to hym selfe our synnes as if he had done them hym self he made prayer to hys father that he wold pardon them to hym and to hym he pardoned them for we were not worthy nether wold he yeld vp hys spirit tyl fyrst he had bowed down hys head that is vntyl he had moued God whyche is as Paul writeth his head to pardon vs to Christ therefore were our● sins ascribed so that iustly he meryted that death for hys syns not because he committed them but because he admitted them for his own so hath he satisfied for thē not only sufficiently but also more thē was requisite For to God is one teare of Christ more pleasaunt then al the sins of the world dyspleasaunt and that lyfe death of his were more to the honour of god thē our life was to his dishonour yea he hath not only satisfyed for our synnes but hath purchased for vs lyfe euer lastynge But happely wylt thou say then nede I to take no paynes nor trauail to satisfy for my sins nor to deserue paradise I mai take myne ease or do what euil that liketh me geuing me to plesure and good chere for if it be as thou saiest I cannot but be saued I answere thus First I say y t truth it is thou oughtest not to labour thy self for the entēt to satysfy for thy syns nor yet to deserue paradyse for that is only Christes offyce nor thou canst haue any such entent without doing greate iniurye and wronge to God but wheras thou sayest y t thou wold lyue idelye or do euel after that Christ hath now delyuered the from al euil and purchased the the greatest felicity I make the answere on thys wyse If case wer that one were led to the gallowes for hys rybaldry and noughtynes and hys Lorde or maister of mere fauour and good wil shuld delyuer hym and count him for his sonne and yet would say My Lord or master hath deliuered me frō al euell and taken me for hys sonne heyre therfore wyl I go my way and be idle and in folowing myne own lustes and wyll do hym wronge how thinke you in this case be not these wycked wordes euen the lyke sayest thou Christ hath delyuered me from hel and made me the son of God and heyre of heauen wherfore I wyl stand lyke an idle parsō or rather do more euil Christ certes died not for the nor satisfied for thy dets nor yet merited for the paradise to the intēt thou shulde stand idle commit syn and become a starke rybald but that thou seynge hys great loue and how greatly synne dyspleased hym seeing he was willynge to dye because to take them out of the world shuld no more do syn but honour hym loue him thanke hym put thy trust in hym and work

vnworthy of the name of Theology or deuinitye but rather to be called Metaphisica y ● whiche neyther hath nor geueth so much ●yght of God as can suffyse to our saluacion being a knowledge that by force of mans wit climinge the degrees of humayne reason may be attayned Wheras the true a●d superuatnral Theology or deuynyty is a science of the spirit a gift and light y t by grace commeth from God aboue in such wyse y ● not he that hath the pregnaunt wytte hath moost studyed and is best learned is greatest deuine but he y ● hath faith liuely lighte and vnderstandynge of god that lyueth better and more christianly And because faith is a gift of God and the true deuinity a supernatural light not attaynable or can not be attayned of vs but geuen of God to his elect Therfore euery symple ydeote and ignoraūt of the humain scyences may by the grace of God sodenly become a perfect deuine and Christian as in the actes of the Apostles it is red of the ●unucho It is possyble then that a symple olde woman maye haue more of the true Theology or deuinity then al the learned mē of the world For the humayne sciences do fyl our mindes of smoke and pryde and occupy them in such wise that distract with Marta they be not attentyue wyth Mary to receiue the knowledge of God It is sene by experyence that rather and more lightly the symple haue accepted the gospel then the learned men of y e world Yea where the symple the ydeotes the lytle chyldren the Samarytanes magnified Christ the learned scrybes and Phariseis persecuted hym to the deathe of the crosse And when the world conuerteth seldom the learned men come to the faith but haue bene euer the last Ther could none enter into Sancta Sanctorum by the old law but the high bishop But Christ dying on y e crosse hath ouerthrowen the vayle of the tēple so that the resplēdēt treasures of gods wysdome hyd in Christ are manyfested so openly that the simple and ideotes yea the Publicanes and commune womē haue vnderstauded them Wherof Dauid speaketh saying Thy wordes be open they lyghten and geue vnderstandyng to the litle ones That hygh and deuyne wisdom is become so low and open in Christ that euery simple may vnderstand For that Christ is not come as an humayne man to teache vs letters but is deuinely and spiritually descended to kindle the spirit light chariti grace in the hartes of his electe and so hathe he made them to vnderstand euen to the children which magnifi him saying Blessed is he that is come in the name of the Lorde And Christe reproued hys Apostles when they letted the chyldren of comming to him though now their be many that wil not allow the holy scriptures to be had in the vulgare tounge nor red and declared to y e simple as if they could not vnderstand thē no● were not bound to know that which is conteyned in them And yet it is certeyne they conteyne none other but profitable and necessary things to the health and that being of the holy goste those diuine verities be in maner so expressed that in what tonge so euer it be written so it be truly declared and wyth pure hart herd and vnd●rstand they must nedes edify without offending Christ thankynge hys father sayde vnto hym I prayse the father and Lord of heauen and earth that thou hast hid these things from the wyse and prudent and opened them vnto babes not for that they haue studied but because it hath so pleased the ▪ In this is fulfylled that that God promysed by his prophet Ieremy that euē to the least of al they shuld know Now behold if they be blynde or not that wyll buyld the true Theologye vpon Philosophy and vpon the humayne sciences wheras Christ is the true foundacion and vpon him it behoueth to build not woode straw or hay but syluer gold precious stones that is to say not the inuencyons of man but the only true reuelaciōs of God Saint Ihō Baptist and not Aristotle was the precursor or forerunner of Christe It is not possible with y e light of a litle burning candel to aug●ent the great light of y ● Sunne and likewise Christ cannot be clarified by the humain sciēces He him self saith that he hath taken hys beauty not of men but of hys father who sayd vnto hym And the I haue glorified and the I shal gloryfy And wilt thou then that Christ which is y ● light of the world shulde haue neede of the light of Aristotle That theyr dry cold and dead Theology serueth to make thē proud to presume of thē selues to contend and to deceiue the blynd ignorāt people with perswading thē falsly to reput● thē for diuines yea to begile them selfes that albeit y t thei be darkenes in deede yet they● thynke them selues to be the light of the world and therfore humble not theyre hartes to pray vnto God to geue them light I wil not say that we cānot serue our selues of al the humain sciences in the honoure of God yea and of oure synnes inasmuch as of them we may take occasyon of vertue But I say in deede that they be not necessary to make vs good deuynes For to that it behoueth a supernatural lyght of God wyth clennes and purity of hart And this lighte we oughte euermore to dema●●d of God with feruēt praier we oughte also to seeke the hearynge of gods word and with humility to exercyse our selues iu studying y ● holy scriptures to the intente that as true and good dyuynes we maye render vnto God all honoure and glorye by oure sauioure Iesu Christe Amen The .vii. Sermon Howe a Christian oughte to make his last wil and testament IT is commonly the custome of men in their testamētes and last wyls to sai I leaue I bequeath I geue wythoute once sayinge I take or cari with me wherein certes they be farre deceiued because they take that whych they ought to leaue be hynde thē and go wythoute caryinge that whyche is very behofeful and necessary Wherfore to the entent they shuld no more erre on y t behalfe I wold we shuld consyder and weyghe how a true Christian shuld make hys wyll Men that be either fooles mad phrantyke neyther 〈◊〉 nor yet know how to make a wyll by reason they haue not wytte to descerne good from euyll what is theires or what is not what to take nor what to restore or be queath nor yet to whome nor in what manner And if happely they go about to make theyr testamēt it shuld be but vain and of no force God alloweth it not as a thing made of a parson witles Wherefore he that is willing to make a testament effectual as expedient is to him that will be saued behoueth to haue very good spiritual iudgment a liueli faith in Christ

natyue country is not heare vpon the earth but in heauen is our place of reast consideringe that al men haue thys desyre to go to heauen I take it to be expedyente to weigh and po●der how we maye go together God hathe geuen vs Christ for an only● mirrour glas squier Maister and guide wherfore who●so●is willinge to walke thyther I meane to heauen muste go the same path that he hathe gone and troden before vs because he knoweth y e way most perfectly and taught it to vs wythout any gile as wel by his examples as by his words therfore he that entēdeth to go to heauen must follow him And firste as he beynge in the shape and fourme of God was not proud nor an arrogāt vsurper nor ascribed to him self that he myght conueniently haue done but contrariwise was louely humble of no reputacion and to ke vpō him the shape of a seruaunte or rather of a synner and God layed on hym all oure wyckednesse ye and most louingly admitted and allowed them for hys own as though he had commytted them hym self Now in lyke maner a Christen man being al ready regenerate and born agayn by Christ graffed into him by a liuing faith Commeth down from heauen that is from hys own pryde and false excellency for as Christ sayeth no man goeth vp into heauen but he that commeth down that is the son of man and hys members Wherfore by by as a Christen man hath a liuely tast and feling of Christ and his great bene fyt he is humble counteth him self of no value nothing in his reputacion for whē he seeth by deuine influence the mekenes of Christ his liberality pacience loue goodnes innocēcy wyth other of his vertues he is of force constrayned to feele his own pride vnkindnes vnpacientnes wyckednes vngodlynes and his other iniquities And as God put vpon Christ al our synnes and he with most tender loue receiued them so wil this Christen man ascribe to him self al the offēces of the world by reason that he perceaueth that if God had with drawen frō him hys grace and had not born him vp but ministred to him occasion and oportunity to offend ther had not ben a syn in al y e world but he had don it wherfore he wyl attribute to hym self al as though he had committed them in dede so that albeit in Christ and by Christ he perceiueth him self innocent and safe not withstanding of him self he taketh it that he is most damned and greatest synner of al the world and is forced to say that whych Paul spake long a go Christ came into the worlde to saue synners whereof I am one of the chefe The second act of Christ was that after he was thus humbled clothed wyth oure frayle nature borne and shewed forth to y e world he liued al together for hys neyghbour and sought only y ● glory of his father and saluacyon of hys brethren without any regard or respect to hym self cause whye is for that he was so full of loue grace fauour truth godlines and all light vertue and perfeccion wherfore cōsidering he had no nede to enrych hym self he lyued holy to the wealth and benefyte of others as Paul sayeth Christ hath not pleased hym selfe he was inflamed in such wyse wyth a feruent desyre to saue the world for the glory of his father that he being cleane swalowed vp in God had no mynde nor consyderacyon of hym self Nowe in semblable forte that true Christen man that seeth hym self the sonne and heyre of God as Lord of all studyeth not to lyue to hys own vse but is holy ben● to the benefitinge of hys brethren for gods glory and beinge as it were chaunged into theyr nature feeleth al theyr good and euyl as Paule dyd Next ensueth the thyrd acte that lyke as y e world persecuted Christ so it pursue hym and that because in sauynge his neighbour and sekyng the glory of God he auaunceth and set forthe the grace the gospell and the great mercy of God thrusting down submittyng throwing down to the ground makyng nothynge of man and because the world repyneth at thys therfore immediatly foloweth persecutyon in lyke case therefore as the hoole life of Christ was one contynual persecution because it was godly so chaūceth fytly and agreably to a true christian that magnifieth the greate benefyte whych we haue receiued by Christe which thing is open and manifest in sundry places of the Actes of the Apostles For immediatly as the Apostles had preached the gospel they wer pursued and so the case goeth in thys our time More ouer as Christ was done on the crosse from whence he wolde not come down althoughe in scorne it was sayed to hym that if he were the sonne of God he shoulde come downe of the crosse and they woulde beleue hym but because he was the sonne of god he wold not come downe but adyde there and wyth his own death make perfect our saluacion in lyke maner also a Christen man must be transformed and changed into Christ crucified so that wyth Paule he may say I am crucified with Christe in such wise also knitte to hym on the crosse that nothinge is hable to part me from the loue of God whych is in Christe Iesus Furthermore as Christ dyed on y ● crosse so a Christen man that lyueth in Christ dieth to the world in such sort that he passeth not of riches honour dignity kinred frēds worldly pleasures or prosperity cōsidering that he seeth by fayth that he is safe happy and sonne and heyre of God yea euen as Christ was buryed so is he so that y ● world counteth him not only for a thing dead but rotten stynkyng and lothsome wherfore he must say wyth Paule the world is crucifyed to me and I to the world He besyde this must ryse with Christe in newnes of lyfe lintug after another maner then be did before that he was regenerate by Christe because he is be commen spirituall he lyueth to the glory of God And thus finally with Christ he ascēdeth into heuē stāding as touching his thoughts affeccions and desyres aboue in his celestial country so that he say with Paul our conuersacion is in heauen where he enioyeth taketh pleasure and comforte in God To whome be alwayes al honoure and glorye through Iesu Christ our Lord. Amen The .xi. Sermon Howe God hathe satysfied for oure synnes and hathe purchased Paradyse for vs. GOd by hys absolute and free power myght haue saued vs without any sa●isfaction at al In as much as the iustice of God is contented and pleased of al that is liking his good wil neuerthelesse he hath appointed from euerlasting by his deuyne minde and wisdom neuer to saue sinner onles first he wer fully satisfied and sethen he perceyued that we coulde not dooe it our selfes he was minded to send into the

sēding of y ● holy ghost if we feele it not in our selues and if we do feale it we shalbe forced with Paul to saye the spirite of God rendrethe testymony to oure spirite that we are the sonnes of God therfore heires and saued Neither is it inough that there is a church of God but thou must beleue to be a porcion thereof one of the lyuely stones therfore one of the electe And to beleue the cōmuniō of sayntes thou must feele that as a mēber of Christ he doth perticipate his grace w t the and y ● thou art therby saued y u must also be leue y e remission of syns y ● is not ouly that he dothe pardon synnes but that he hathe pardoned the thine and so elected the. Euē so thou must beleue that thou shalt ryse glorious and haue life euerlasting Thē there is no article of oure fayth y ● can be beleued in suche sorte as it ought to be of those whiche doo not beleue they are elected To the Christian it is then necessary to beleue that God is hys God and father that he worketh all for his benefite ▪ and that Christe is come was borne hath liued dyed and risen agayne for his saluacion so that w t lyuelye faith he ēbraceth Christ wholi for his owne with al his treasure grace And lykewyse al his life death resurreccyon assention glorye and perceiueth the charitie of God in Christ as if there hadde bene no mo but only him selfe in the world and that Christe for him onlye wold haue wrought and suffered no les then he hath done The which when thou dost beleue thou shalt perceyue thou art electe Yea he that beleueth not he is electe can not praye as he ought beynge withoute fayth wythout the whiche after Paul we cannot effectuously recommend vs to god bicause y ● we must ask in faith if we wil askin veriti be hard now if y u beleue not to be his sōne heir how cāst y u as Christ taughte saye our father as a sōne wyth cōfidēce aske him grace Praier may wel be made of inside ls and Ipocrits but lyke folishe scoffers and mockers Whē y u saiest halowed be thy name thy kyngdom come thou must haue in the the spirit of a● opcion of the sonne of God And as y e sōne is moued of vehemente loue pure and sincere to desyre the kyngdome and glori of y e father so must thou seyng the the sonne of God wyth a deuyne spirit by the force of loue aske and desyre that thy heauenly father be honored and reygne in hys electe w t out rebellyon Lykewyse shalt thou neuer thanke God wyth all thy herte if thou beleue not to be one of y e electe yea if y u shalte doubte therin or thincke to be dampned in thy hart and in thy lyfe and paradnenture also with thy words thou wylte dysprayse him that he hath giuen the a beyng that he hath create the world sente Christe and so the rest his benefytes and wilt say If I am not saued what do these thyngs profit me it had ben better for me y ● I had neuer ben as Christ sayd of Iudas If I shalbe damned the death of Christ serueth me not but doth inflame burne w t al y e rest of hys benefyts y u canst not in perfection thē thācke god if y u feare dāpnaciō But who so beleueth he is one of y e elect therby y ● al thynges serue hym to saluacion euen the verye troubles he holdeth for a specyall grace benefyte in theym perceyuynge the good●es of God he gyueth hym thankes wyth all his herte Who shal he be that committeth hym selfe holy to the gouernaunce of God as euery one ought to do if he beleue not that God is hys father that he pardoneth hym doth take of him most singuler cure Otherwise they shall neuer truste in God but wyth Adam shal feare hym and flye seking to hide hym selfe from the face of God nether is it possyble to loue God in veryty honor hym as he ought to be honored and approue for iust and holy all his workes and so delite wholye in hym if he fele not in Christ so muche the goodnes of God that he se hym selfe hys sonne also heire If he know not him self to be a sonne he shal feare as a seruaunt in al his workes haue respect to him selfe his pains displeasures incommodytyes dyshonoures hel or els to this paradise not to y e glori of God As he y ● seeth hym selfe a sōne lord of al heire sure therof such a one worketh only by strēgth of spirit vehemēci of loue to the glory of god to whō he hath turned hys whole intent to that end ordreth his whole life Also it can not be possible to loue thy neighbour as thy self as a brother in Christ mēber w t the of the same bodye if thou do not beleue to be in the number of the sonnes of God And fynally ther cānot one good worcke be done but of them that are regenerate sonnes of God members of Christe and haue in them the holy spirit which testifieth in their hertes that they ●e the sonnes of God And mai parteli be sene howe false and vngodlye is the doctrine of the antichristians that where as it is cheifelye necessarie to beleue that we are elected also aboue all thinges most commodious thei force thē selues to withdraw euery one frō this fayth perswading them to stand in doubte as thoughe they had wherin to mistruste the goodnes of God vppon whome onlie dependeth oure saluacion as our dāpnacion doth of our selues But let vs praye to God to open oure eyes to the ende they maye no longer blaspheme but render to God all honoure lande and glorye by Iesu Christe oure Lorde Amen The .xvii. Sermon If it be good to seeke to know wherefore God hathe some electe and some reprobate THy desyre maye be wycked as it is in manye to whome it appeareth that it should haue bene better if God who beinge of power as he is had elected al mē ▪ and semeth theym that in thys God hathe lacked of charitye yea in theyr language they saye in theyr heart secretely If we had bene God we woulde haue elected all and would haue had more charitie thē he Now behold whether this be vngodlye folyshe proude plasphemy or not They Imagyne to haue more loue to the souls then he that for to saue theym gaue hys onlye begotten and dearlye beloued sonne vpon the crosse There are some other to whome it semeth on the one syde that God can not erre and on the other parti hearinge that he hath reproued many they thinke the cōtrary Thei are not certeine by fayth that God can not erre and that al that he willeth must nedes be iuste Therfore

againe because God is with thē and helpeth them in such sort that the more thei are in great perils necessity so muche the more is god beneficial to them For thē god gaue the law to the world sent Moses and the Prophetes them he calleth inwardly in suche maner that they heare his voice and answere him of them he mollifieth the hert and draweth them to Christ as the adamāt doeth Iron If they erre he dothe correcte and chasten them as chyldren as it is reade of Dauid to them he doth not impute theyr synne he doth quicken and glorify thē and finally al that god hath wrought and shall worke for him selfe is for the elect for them he sent Christ and when he came for them he toke vpon hym theyr synnes only for thē he prayed for them he wepte preached and dyd miracles for them he shed hys bloude dyed rose ascended into heauen sent the holye goste and shal come to iudge the quicke and the deade yea all that he hath suffered wrought and shall worcke is for the electe whom he loueth in so excessiue maner that he doth atribute to hym selfe al that is done to them God then beyng gratified with the elect in Christ doth geue vnto them his spirite the linelye lyghte of hym faythe hope with al the reste of vertues graces essencial necessary to saluacion And moreouer he geueth them grace to vse in the honor of god and be serued in his glorye of all the gyftes and graces which may be commune both to the good to y e euel to be vsed well euel as riches honour dignitye healthe long lyfe chyldrē frindes sciēce the gyfts of the tonge to do miracles and suche lyke Of them in parte Paule made mencyon writinge to the Corinthes And also geueth them grace to vse in his glorye pouerty ignommie in fame infirmitie wyth al aduersity and the priuacion of lyke gyftes euen to the death god geueth them such grace y ● wyth euery wind they saile to the port and they know that they are no lesse bounde to thanke god when they are without such giftes and in all aduersitie then when they haue suche things wyth the prosperitye of y ● world sence that by the grace which god geueth them al thynges worke to good Therfore they are euer contented to be in the state whych pleaseth the Lord neyther wolde they chaunge it if they myght with out the wyl of God and only for that they fele the deuine goodnes no lesse in aduersity then in the worldly prosperite In thend when they are fallen to any sinne god openeth their eies maketh thē se not only the euell y t they haue done but also y ● he hath so permited 〈◊〉 for then benefite to thende they may the better know theyr owne miseryes and the bountye of God But spekyng of y e reprobate I saye that it is inough for vs to knowe that god is not bonde nor necessited to geue them hys grace for theyr good workes because that the grace findeth no good worckes but doth make theym to be done wyth hys creatures The bondes are all oures wyth god and so muche the more as that we beyng all losse in Adam he myghte iustly not only obādon vs but damne and punyshe vs. He is not also compelled of his perfect goodnes mercy and charyty to not haue created the worlde he myghte nowe brynge it to nothinge and dyspose all creatures after hys owne waye beynge styll moste perfectelye iuste as he is nowe and was from without beginning before he did create the worlde God maye geue of hys grace as much as it pleaseth him whē to whome he thincketh good yea and not to geue it without beyng vniust or doyng any iniury God also hath ben of power wythout doing any vnrightuousnes to creat the reprobat fore seynge theyr dampnacyon to serue his owne turne and to vse them for in strumentes or exercise the elect in vertue to the ende that their victories and triumphs likewise Christes myght be the more glorious finally al for his own greter glory And moreouer I saye that Christe hydeth hymselfe and hys grace manye tymes from persons so that althoughe they seeke hym crye after hym and recommend them selues to hym they fynde hym not nor he heareth them not notwythstandynge those such as are not moued to seke hym or cōmit them selues to hym by the spirite nor for the zeale of the honour of God but for their proper interest yea and many times he doth blynde and indurate the people and all is most iustly done And although it be writtē y ● God hath ●ure of al calleth al wold saue all dyed for all doeth illumynate all dothe rayne and power his grace vpon all lyke sentences I say it is to be vnderstand that he hath cure of al ingeneral but of the elect in special and so he calleth al with a vocacion vniuersall but the elect with an inwarde and singuler When Paule sayd also that he wold saue all he vnderstode that to be of euery sorte of persons Hys death also was sufficient to saue al but it is not effectuous but to the elect and so where it is writtē y ● he doth illuminat and geue grace to al ▪ it is vnderstand of y e elect of those that are illuminate Therfore sayde Christe to the Apostles to you it is geuen to knowe the misteryes of the kyngdome of heuen Paule said lykewyse that the faith which is the gift of God is not al mēs It is wel true also that God doth illumynate al in asmuch as ther is no person that hath not had some lyght knowledge of God Let vs then geue hym thankes sence that of hys mere goodnesse he hath cōnumerat vs among the elect and praye we him that he geue vs so much light of his goodnes that in euerye place tyme we may render him perfect land honoure and glory ▪ by Iesu Christ our Lorde Amen The .xxiiii. Sermon If a man haue lybertye or not and in what maner SOme myght thynke it superfluous for a christian to thynke whether he be fre or not but that it is inoughe to force hym selfe to make al possible resystence agaynst euell and hys beste power to do well geuynge all honoure and glorye to God because that in suche a case they walke to god surely neyther falling into the depth of idlenes But herein cōsisteth the difficulty in geuinge al the glory to god Yea it is not possible that man while arrogātly he presumeth of hym selfe thinkyng to do that whych he doth not can geue al the glory to god Therfore haue I iudged it necessarye to shewe what man can do to thend y t beyng hable to knowe and discerne betwene that which in dede is hys and that that is goddes he can and maye render all prayse and laude vnto him to whom of