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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03787	A sermon preached at Paules Crosse the ix. of Februarie. Anno Dom. 1583. By I. Hudson, Maister of Arte, of Oxon	Hudson, John, M.A., Oxon.	1584 (1584)	STC 13904; ESTC S116559	46,934	118

lib. 5. ca. 9.7 Vni se atque eidē studio omnes dedere arti Verba dare vt caute possint pugnare dolose Blanditia certarè bonum simulare verum sic Insidias facere vt si hostes sint omnibus ōnes Euery one followeth one and the same trade and arte to deceiue by faire wordes that he may closely and secretely supplant and ouerthrowe subtlelye to striue with fawning speeche and flatterie to make resemblaunce and shewe of great integritie and holinesse and thereby to lay snares and trappes as Ieremie saith to catche men as if euery one had professed to be enemie to other And is it not a true complaint amongste vs also that S. Ierome hath to Rusticus Nunc sub cristianae religionis titulo iniusta excercent compendia honor christiani nominis iniuniam magis facit quam patitur quod pudet dicere Nowe vnder the coloure of Christian holinesse and Religion they vse vniust gaines and dealings and the honor of the Christian name doth more offer then suffer iniury which shameth me to speake Sonne of man saith God to the Prophet Ezechiell discribing most liuely the maners of these our times the children of my people talke of thee by the wales and in the dores of their houses and speake one to another come I praie you and here what is the worde that commeth from the Lorde they come vnto thee as the people vseth to come they sit before thee and they heare thy wordes but they will not doe them for with their mouthes they make iestes and their harte goeth after their couetousnes and loe thou arte vnto them as a iesting songe of one that hath a pleasant voice and can sing well for they here thy woordes but they doe them not you men of London and inhabitantes of this Cittie iudge I pray you vprightlie whether this bee truely spoken of your selues or noe they come vnto thee and sit before thee but their harte goeth after their couetousnes they here thy woordes but they doe them not and is this to draw neare with a true harts Simon Magus would haue bought the ●iftes of the holy ghost of Peter for mouie and therefore was accursed and perished with his mony But what shall we thinke of them in contrarie sorte that being sealed by the spirite of God as they pretende vnto the day of redemption yet feare not by lying periurie or any euill practise by corrupt proceedinges by fraudulent deuises and vnlawfull contracts to set to sale themselues their soules and consciences their faith their troth and honestie and all other good graces and vertues of the holy ghost for mony for gaine and lucre where is any hope of aduauntage offered The hipocri●e and dissembling Iudas said the oy●tment powered vpon Christes heade might well haue bene solde and giuen to the poore and yet he loued n●●ther Christ nor the poore but his bagges and silue● plates more then them both and shall you not heare diuers vse like speaches nowe there are many poore and needle people amongest vs it were well 〈◊〉 to succour them they would bee ●●uided for ma●●e things are supers●uously bestowed which might be well imployed to their vse and yet like hipocrites will ●hey not bestowe no not of their sup●rfluity two mit●s in respect to relieue and succour the poore and is this to draw nere with a true hart Let Saint Iames tell you If a brother or a sister be destitu●e of daylie foode or rayment and one of you saie vnto them departe in peace God send you warmth and foode to fill you and giue them not those thinges that are needefull to the bodie what helpeth it pure Religion and vndefiled before God is this To visite the fatherles and widdowes in their aduersitie and to keepe your selues vnspotted of the worlde It is not then an outwarde showe or estimation amongst men It is not a vaine semblance or feyned pretence of holynesse swimming in the lippes and countenaunce not fixed and setled in the harte that shall bee accepted with the Lorde that shall enter into the holye place It is not to call him Lorde Lorde and doe not as hee biddeth but in that a good conscience as Sainte Peter saithe maketh request vnto GOD by the resurrection of Iesus Christ and in that wee purge our conscience from deade workes to serue the liuing God that wee cast from vs the cloakes of hipocrisie and deceipt and wa●king not like the Gentiles in craftinesse and vanitie of minde but approuing our selues to euery mans conscience in the sight of God and so drawe nere as our Sauiour saith of Nathaniel like right Israelites in whō is no guile euen with a true hart sprinckled from an euill conscience For this saith Saint Paule is our reioycing this is our glorie not the credite of the worlde but the testimonie of our owne good conscience which is as Salomon saith Juge convivium a continuall feaste And therefore hee saith to Timothie and to vs all in Timothie Fight a good fight hauing faith and a good conscience which some haue put awaye and as concerning faith haue made shipwracke As if hee had saide their harts are not sprinckeled from an euill conscience and therefore whatsoeuer they pretende they haue loft and made shipwracke of faith also which can no more continue out of a true hart and a good conscience then trees can growe without earth or fishes liue without the water And as y e righteous is thus hollie cōfident as a lyon so y t wicked flieth when no man pursueth him By the accusing or excusing of a 〈◊〉 or ●rubled conscience which neither in life nor death can be auoided for a corrupt conscience is a continuall torment it is the sinne lying at the dore of our harts It is called of the Prophet Esaie a worme that neuer dieth a sea that alwaies rageth without rest Of Saint Paule a fearing with a hotte yron and in this present chapiter a fearefull looking for Iudgement and violent fire and besides daylie experience to bee seene in many was manifest in Caine for the murther of his mother in Antiochu● for his wickednes done to Hierusalem in Iudas and like traytors for his treason against his maister and in Nero with many other crying out in the insufferable torments of his euill conscience Turpiter vixi turpius iam perio filthilie haue I liued and now more filthilie doe I die there is no peace to the wicked the Lorde hath saide it But they shall carrie in their brestes from which they shall not flie both feare and terrour and tormenting furies continually citing them before the tribunall feate of Christ All wickednes saith Salomon is full of feare giuing testimonie ●fi●l●mnation against it selfe So that a troubeled conscience alwaies presume●h cruell thinges And although that some with vaine pastimes of pleasure and delights of this world can lenifie and driue away the sting of sinne the remembrance of Gods iudgements