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A21064	A sermon preached at Paules Crosse the 19. of Iuli 1579 setting forth the excellencye of Gods heauenlye worde: The exceeding mercye of Christ our Sauior: the state of this world: A profe of the true Church: A detection of the false Church: or rather malignant rable: A confutation of sundry hæresies: and other thinges necessary to the vnskilfull to be knowen. By Iohn Dyos. Seene and allowed.	Dyos, John.	1579 (1579)	STC 7432; ESTC S111984	61,205	176

men shaking and extreme tempest of death eternall tempest for the wicked in hell The sea is full of monsters the world is full of monsters the world is full of monstrous men not worthy the name of men Some haue their faces in their féete and their féet in their faces as all foolish Nabals and couetous carles But God gaue man a face to look vp to heauē which thing euen the heathen Poet knew Some haue many heads for that they serue many maisters pride couetousnes dronkēnes drowsines murther c such and so great vices raigne in them Therefore haue they as many heads maysters as they haue lustes and affections raigning in them Qui facit peccatū seruus est peccati Whosoeuer committeth sinne is the slaue of sinne Some haue two tongues as all flatterers and slaunderers Some haue swordes in their lips raylers ill tonged persons blasphemous wretches There is a generacion whose téeth are as swords and their chawes as knyues Of such the Prophet Dauid speaketh saying whose téeth are as speares and arrowes and their tongue as a sharpe sword Behold they speake with their mouth and swords are in their lips Proud mē couetous men vsurers drunkards hereticks blasphemers slaunderers are monsters The world therfore is full of monsters The sea casteth out her dead to the shore the world casteth out and banisheth those that are dead to the world and doe not the workes thereof S. Paule sayth we are made a gasing stocke to the worlde Truth sayth if ye were of the world the world would loue his owne howbeit because ye are not of the world but I haue chosen you out of the world Therfore the world hateth you truth farther sayth yf they haue persequted me they will also persecute you The seruaunt is not greater then the lord The world sayth let vs oppresse the poore righteous let vs not spare the widow nor old man let vs not regard the heads that are graye for age let the law of vnrighteousnes be our strength for the thing that is féeble is nothing worth Therefore let vs defraud the righteous why he is not for our profite nay he is cleane contrary to our doinges he checketh vs for offending agaynst the law Lactantius Firmianus speaking of th end of this world sayth Si qui erunt boni praedae ac ludibrio habebuntur If there remaine any good men at that tyme they shall be counted a pray a bootye and a iesting stock Canst thou not flatter canst thou not lye canst thou not play the hipocrite cāst thou not follow the facion and serue the stage no. Then thou art no méete man to lyue in this world Choose a few companions The sea is no place to make our continuall abode For no man sayleth on the sea to tarye stil on the sea but spedely to passe ouer This world is no place of continuall abode for we are straungers and pilgrimes Here haue we no continuing Citye but we séeke one to come Yet wee build stately as though it were the tower of Babel We ruffile monstrously in apparell as though our fraile bodyes should neuer turne to dust We lyue sensuallye as though there were no other heauē we gather gold and siluer gredely as though we should alwayes néede to vse the same By this dealing it should séeme wee are not straūgers and pilgrims The kinglye prophet Dauid saith I am a staunger with thée and a soiourner as all my fathers were S. August writing vpon that place hath these wordes Non ait sicut omnes homines sed sicut omnes patres mei Non omnium est fides infideles non possunt dicere se in terra peregrinos He sayth not as all men but as all my fathers for all men haue not fayth The faythles cannot say that they are straungers and pilgrims vpon earth Here then is their abode they are Citizens of Babylon not of the heauenlye Hierusalem Notwithstanding in another sense the faythlesse worldlings at the length shall finde that they were straungers and pilgrims when with the glotonous cormorant in the torments of hell they shall crye in vayne for mercye That riche man desired a drop which denyed a crome And there are rich men to whome now I speake they be all one with the other in name let them beware that they drinke not all of one cup with him In the sea are deuouring fishes and the great fishes deuoure the litle fishes In the world great men mighty men deuoure and vndoe poore mē Here might often tymes ouercommeth right Here many take their brethrē by the throte Here Anacharsis may sée Solons lawes lyke to cobwebs which held fast the litle flees and let the great flées breake thorow them Here Socrates may laugh to sée litle théeues trust vp at tiburne and great theeues without any punishment liuing still Here Heraclitus may wéepe to sée vertuous men despised and vitious men extolled ▪ Notwithstanding vertuous men be despised and deuoured of tyrānes yet they lyue as Ionas liued in the whales bellye As dying and behold wée liue sayth S. Paule You sée now how the sea is an Image of the world you sée the sea you sée the world To speake all in sūme The world is the kingdome courte of Sathan a denne of théeues a shop of lyes a Babylon of sectes a wildernes full of wild beastes an Inne full of cuttbrotes a cage of doltes a Sodom an Egypt A mother to the euil a Stepdame to the good Here is no place for godly men here deuouring fishes destroy all here all wicked crimes raigne no religion no fayth no charitye or very litle Therefore let vs not loue the world nor worldly thinges for he that loueth the world hath not the loue of God in him but let vs goe with Lot out of Sodome with Abraham out of Chaldée with the Israelites out of Egypt with Christ from the Iewes and with Paule from the Pharisies Christ taught out of the ship He performeth his office to the which he was sēt of his father into this world and because he had not a pulpet on the land and the people pressed vppon him he entred into a shippe and taught vpon the sea for the office of Christ was to teach He sent me to preach good tidinges vnto the poore By his example he teacheth vs to doe the dutyes of our vocations faythfully The type or figure declareth that the functiō of them which preach the worde of God is paynefull and full of perill The world hateth the light of veritye Woe be vnto me sayth S. Paul if I preach not the Gospell It is daungerous to be silent daungerous to speake if we speake wickedly or if we be silent foolishly wée offend god If we speake truely and reproue disobedience boldelye we become hatefull and odious to the most part of men Truely if euer the office of preaching hath bin subiect to

oboloquie and euill report it is now The worlde hateth the light of veritye In so great malice of the world partely contemning and partelye persecuting the word of the gospell who can satisfie or content all men In old tyme there were but seuen wise men among the Greekes and now there are not so many fooles among vs for all of vs glorye of our wisedome euery head is full of wit euery man will haue his owne way Hearers are rather rashe iudges than fit and obedient schollars and most of them before they haue learned any thing doo rashly condēne all thinges S. August sayth Tutior est discentis quàm docētis conditio Salfer is the condition of him that learneth thē of him that teacheth I pray you good audiēce let me heare your iudgements How should a man make an excellēt Sermon either in matter or forme Som would haue the matter Catholique Some Gospel like Some would haue altogether common places of Scripture decided Some would haue vs procéede stil in the treatises of fayth iustification with inuectiues agaynst the Masse Purgatory and satisfactions Other would haue vs to launch into the déepes of predestination originall sinne free will election and reprobation Other would haue vices rebuked but they can not agree how it should be done Some would haue it generally and coldly Some directly and hotely Some the vices of the Clergy and Magistrates some onely the vices of the commō people and inferiours all men other mēs vices but no man his owne vices These disagrée in matter very ill in forme much worse Some would haue long texts some short textes Some would haue Doctours Fathers and Councels some call that mās doctrine Some would haue it ordered by Logicke some terme that mans wisedome some would haue it polished by Rheotrique some call that persuasiblenesse of wordes And agayne in Rhetoricke some would haue it holy eloquence liable to the Ebrue Gréeke phrase Some would haue it proper and fittyng to the English capacitie Some loue study and learnyng in Sermōs Some allow onely a sudaine motion of the spirite Some would haue all said by heart some would haue oft recourse made to the booke Some loue gestures some no gestures Some loue long Sermons some short Sermons Some are coy and can broke no Sermons at all But we be not to féede mens humours but to folow Christ we must folow Christ into the shyp and the crosse must be borne after the example of Christ No man sought more the glory of God then Christ yet for all that he was called a blasphemer He liued without spot of vice and yet he was called a wine bibber Hee expresly taught to render to Cesar the thynges whiche belong to Cesar and yet he was accused to haue taught the contrary No man taught patience more and yet was he condemned as a seditious person There was neuer such a one in Israell as Christ was in workes and wordes Neuer any liued so purely neuer any taught so heauēly and yet many wicked graces persons sayd of him he hath a deuill and is mad why heare ye him The schollar is not aboue the maister You sée the chaire of the maister know the chaire of the schollar More safe and sure is the standyng of the hearers whiche standyng on the land heare the word of saluation The greatest part of hearers kéepe them selues out of perill for when any sudaine storme of persecution ariseth for the Gospell on the sea of this world either they hide them selues or els vtterly forsakē the ship chaire teacher and all Such is the condition of the most part of hearers These thyngs are clearely knowne I neede not to make long demonstration Examples remaine fresh in memory Touchyng the shyp the state of the Church militant is here excellētly depainted The Church of Christ is that shyp where agaynst Sathan bloweth out so many blastes the woman clothed with the sunne whom the old Dragon ceaseth not continually to persecute This shyp is like to the Arke of Noah Euen as a shyp on the sea whē any stormy tempestes arise is terribly shaken right so nothing in the wast and wide world is more shakē with stormes and tempestes of all maner euils then the Church If you aske me who they are that shake the shyp of Christ and how the same is shakē I will giue you to vnderstād Turkes Iewes Anabaptistes Libertines Sectaries Atheistes Schismatikes the Familie of loue the Romishe rable and to be short the deuill and all his members shake this shyp but they shal neuer be hable to drown it For the gates of hell shall not preuaile agaynst it Because Christ sitteth at the sterne and hath the helme in his owne hand For that the Romish Catholickes do most shake the true Church of England which is the Church of Christ I purpose at this present to proue against them They say they shake not the ship but are in the ship as in the Arke of Noah and that we Protestantes shake the ship and are out of the ship and out of the Arke Farther they boldly say that without the vnitie of their body and their head the Churche of Rome and their holy father the Pope no man can be saued I will clearely proue the contrary namely that they shake the ship that they are out of the shipp and they are not the true Church Their body is a Sinagogue of Sathan their holy father is not head of the true Church happy were he if he were a member of the same he hath not the keyes of heauē but rather of the bottomles pit I proue thus the Romish Church heareth not the voyce of the shepheard Therfore the Romish Church is not the true Church I wil prosecute this Argumēt in treatyng of breakyng the net Now to proue that they shake the ship how The Romish Church is a persecutyng Church therfore it shaketh the shyp cōsequently is not the true church For persecutiō is an euident token of Antichristes Church Cayn persecuted Abell the Giantes Noah the Sodomites Loth Ismaell Isaac Esau Iacob the Egyptiās the Israelites Pharao Moses Saul Dauid yet Dauid would not hurt him Of whom we learne that Gods Church doth suffer rather than hurt and pardon rather then persecute The false Prophetes persecuted the true Prophetes The Priestes Scribes Byshops Annas Herod Pilate and Caiphas persecuted Christ The Iewes and Turkes persecute the Christians And most of all the tyran of Rome persecuteth Christes litle flocke and congregatiō The Church of Christ did neuer persecute but was alwayes persecuted So Hilarius Nicephorus in many places discourse Lactantius sayth excellently to this matter Defendenda religio est non occidendo sed monendo non saeuitia sed patientia non scelere sed fide Nā si sanguine tormētis si malo religionē defendere velis iā non defendetur illa sed polluetur atque