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A72913	Three godly and fruitfull sermons declaring first how we may be saved in the day of iudgement, and so come to life everlasting: secondly, how we ought to liue according to Gods will during our life: which are the two things that every one ought to be most carefull of as long as they liue. Preached and written by the reverend & godly learned M. Iohn More, late preacher in the citie of Norwitch. And now first published by M. Nicholas Bovvnd: whereunto he hath adioyned of his owne, A sermon of comfort for the afflicted: and, A short treatise of a contented mind.	More, John, d. 1592.; Bownd, Nicholas, d. 1613. aut	1594 (1594)	STC 18074.5; ESTC S125128	118,386	153

doth cōmit the outward fact but also euē when the heart doth break it although the body haue not done it that thou art guilty before God when thy heart hath broken it euen whē thou hast lusted after thy neighbours wife thou hast cōmitted adultery in thine heart saieth Christ yea and if thou speak but a railing or reprochfull sentence thou art guilty of hel fire although thou neuer neither kill thy brother nor smite him yet if thou hate him in thine heart thou art a mankiller before God who condemneth the thoughts of our hearts Yea further it must be done not only with thy heart after a cold fashion with some part of thy good vvill liking but cheerfully vvith all the heart with all the mind yea with all the soule So that although vve could fulfill all the cōmandements of God yet break but one of them once in al our life yea although it were but in our heart yet that vvord condēneth vs as guilty of Gods curse vvhich saith Cursed is euery one which doth not fulfill all that is written in the booke of this law if any one cōmandemēt be but once in all our life brokē all is not fulfilled therfore is a curse pronounced against vs. This is brought in against vs ye see and alledged to prooue vs guiltie of the curse and vengeance of God for breaking his commandements the least of them although it were but in thought yet sufficient to throw vs downe to hell all this is brought against vs out of the word of God in this iudgemēt therfore cannot be answered with gloses we may vvel enough surmise of our own head what we think good here below whē we come before god nothing wil serve but his vvord It vvill not availe thee a stravv vvhen thou shalt stand before the iudgement seat of God it will not availe thee to say O good Lord I graunt indeed I haue sinned but yet they are but small sinnes for strait thou shalt haue ansvver Cursed is every one that doth not fulfill all not onely the great but also the small these gloses vvill not serue at that day and yet see hovv many are caried avvay novv a dayes by such imagination of Gods commandements For a great number think that if they be not notorious sinners before men they shall be vvell enough for they think that the rest of their sinnes are not of so great vvaight because they be knovvn only to God not greatly hated of the vvorld this the fall into because they measure the breach of Gods commaundement by the rule of their ovvne iudgement or by the common opinion of men But alas good brethren it vvill go farre othervvise vvith vs before the iudgement seat of God vvho vvil measure the breach of his blessed vvill not by mens vvord but by his ovvne vvorde that vvord telleth vs that the revvard of the lest sin is death We must seeke then for more sound stuffe then this to answer our cause or all vvill else go vvrong vvith vs. We go on yet further vvith the matter vvhen vve are conuicted that our sinnes are great grieuous before God vve acknovvledge it to be so but vve haue remedy enough for it as vve thinke for vve bring in to ansvver the matter the punishments vvhervvith vve haue punished our bodies as pining our selues vvith fasting vvhipping scourging such like and these things vve thinke be a sufficient recōpense to God for our sins as so much as he must needs be satisfied vvith therfore vve call them Satisfactions oh say vve vve haue sinned indeed our sins be grieuous but yet for al that vve haue pinched our body for our sins vve haue scourged our selues euery day vve haue gone on pilgrimage in frost snovv barefoot and therfore although vve haue sinned yet we haue satisfied God for our sins vve trust this vvill be a sufficiēt recōpense to God for our sins yea but let us see whether this wil be a sufficient ansvver before God vvhether God vvill take this recompence for our sins or no. The Lorde our God hath appointed in his vvord a far greater punishment and recompense for our sins then can be fall the body of man whē they haue pined it all that euer they can the punishment and due debt of our sinne by the word of God is not onely a punishment of the bodie but also of the soule not onely for a certaine time of daies and yeares which haue an ende but daies and yeares which neuer ende It is the fire which neuer goeth out which can neuer be quenched it is the worme which neuer dieth it is a second death where men be alwaies dying and neuer can make an end because it is euerlasting this is the iust recompence of our sinnes we must not then thinke we haue trimly satisfied for our sinnes when we haue vndergone and taken vpon vs certaine punishments in our bodies which we thinke be very grieuous for although we should our whole life long pine our selues with the greatest and extreamest torment that could be it is nothing in comparison of that full measure of punishment for our sinnes which God setteth downe for that is not for a day or two or as long as we liue no not for twentie thousand yeares but for euer euer euer and hath neuer ende and not onely in the torments of the bodie but also in soule the griefe whereof can not be expressed a thousand times more intollerable then any griefe that can come to the bodie Doth the Lord God say VVhipped be that bodie for certaine yeares which doth not fulfill all that is written c. no he saith not so but he saith Accursed be he I trow the curse of God stretcheth further then the bodie of man the curse of God containeth in it all the torments that can be deuised both in soule and bodie euen as his fauour and goodnes containeth all happines This curse of God which is due for our sinnes as it containeth all the torments which can be deuised both of soule and bodie so is it set forth vnto vs in Scripture by such things as seeme terrible vnto vs to expresse vnto vs more deepely the terrour of it by such things as seeme terrible vnto vs in this earth as fire that can not be quenched burning lake second death damnation where is weeping and wayling and gnashing of teeth and such other like kinde of speeches to expresse vnto vs the horrour of the same not that any terrible thing in this life can sufficiently expresse the horrour of these paines as they are in deede for the tongue of man can not vtter nor heart thinke the torment prepared for sinne The burthen thereof caused the deare Sonne of God to sweat not vsuall sweat but droppes of blood not one or two drops but in such abundance but in such

the Lord onely doth giue faith yea but he giueth it ordinarily by the preaching of the word It may please him I graunt to giue faith otherwise if he see it good but we haue no warrant out of his word to come by faith but only by the preaching of the worde So it may please him if he see it good to feede vs otherwise then by meate drinke but if we refuse these ordinarie meanes of feeding surely we shal die and be guiltie of our own death The Lord hath appointed to saue his people by preaching so saith the Apostle he can saue them otherwise if he will but it pleaseth him by this meanes to saue them if this be neglected our saluation is neglected whereas this faileth the people perish Alas what shall we say to the state of this people here in this land skarsly the twentie parish hath a preacher can they be saued then Shal we make God a lyer he saith whosoeuer doth not beleeue is damned none can beleeue without a preacher if then we will haue the people of the Lord to be saued let thē haue preachers It is a great blessing of God I graunt that we haue it as we haue it for the Lord knoweth a great number can not so haue it but alas seeing the Lord giueth vs this mercie and quietnes that we may haue further care of it let vs for Gods loue be carefull for the soules of our brethren poore soules that starue round about through the lacke of the foode of their soules but alas I cā not preach to the whole land but for the discharge of my conscience I desire you good brethren so many of you as haue any voyces in place and parliament where these things may be reformed consecrate your tongues to the Lord in the behalfe of your poore brethren that ignorant blind guides which haue the conducting of Gods people to the great danger of losse of the soules both of the leaders and the people that these blinde guides I say be remooued and true preachers placed in their roomes that they may labour cherefully to get the Lords haruest into his barne to inlarge Gods kingdome the Lord shall then blesse this land kingdome wherein his kingdome is first sought for for so he saith First of all seeke the kingdome of God and then all other things of this earthly life shalbe giuen you be carefull for this good brethren when ye come in parliamēt where these thinges may be prouided for through the whole land that Gods people may be taught In the meane time let euery one of vs doe what we can by prayer to God to thrust forth labourers into his haruest let vs bestow our labours carefully to seeke for them let vs stretch our purses to relieue them then the Lord our God shall blesse vs with all spirituall graces daily more and more Alas let vs remember good brethren that they are in daunger of damnation vnlesse they haue the word preached the Lord saith so let vs not be wiser then God Let those especially that by the gouernement of this Church haue the prouiding placing of guides ouer the Lords flock let them be carefull that they seeke out those onely which be preachers otherwise good brethren the people do perish but they shal not scape skot-free that were the causes whether it were the couetous patrone in presenting or the negligent Bishop in admitting or the blinde guide in taking vpon him that waightie charge of leading Gods people The Lord will haue the blood of his people answered he will call to an account both Bishop patrone and blinde guide for the losse of the soules of his people The same price of bloode which is taken by the couetous patrone wherby the soules of Gods people are bought sold although he laugh in his sleeue and think himselfe in good case when he hath pursed his hundreth poundes for the benefice yet that same price of blood shall speak aloud in the eares of the Lord to his vtter condemnation in the day of the Lorde I am not ignorant howe the patrone will shift it off to the Bishop and say it is the Bishops charge to looke to its and that he as patrone hath no more to doe but seeke out his clarke the Bishop shal answer for it if he admit him be not able the bishop on his behalfe can as cunningly shift off the matter from him to the patrone say he can not stay them for the patrone hath presented them if he should not allowe of them a Quare impedit would come vpon him which he purposeth not to beare for none of them al. And the ignorant blind guide he hath his letters of orders institution induction hath filled the purse of the patrone he thinketh himselfe as wel discharged as the best no law in England can put him out thus the pore sheepe of Iesus Christ which Christ hath bought with his precious blood they perish for it and are deuoured of Satan But let thē wash themselues as cleane as they will they shalbe found before the iudgement seat of God no more innocent of the bloode of Christs flocke then was Pilate of the blood of Christ himselfe let them shift off the matter as fast as they can the people of God perish by them I knit them together all of them in one farthell throw them into the pit of hel as guiltie together of the death of the Lords flock if they do not repent this perishing of all the Lords people For Iesus Christ that bought them with so deare a price wil not haue them perish of so vile a price as they are bought and sold for Seeing thē the people perish without preaching it standeth the patrons in hand I trow to present the Bishop to admit none but those which be able to preach vnlesse they purpose to be guiltie of the blood of the people that perish for want of preaching Neither shal the people that are led by an ignorant guide so perish be excused before God for although they can alledge for themselues we could not doe withall he is placed by law presented by the patrone admitted by the Bishop all the lawes in England can not remooue him all this wil not serue for excuse before God for although there be no law in Englād to displace him for his insufficiēcy that by law is placed yet I answer there is no law in England that forbiddeth thee to place a preacher besides if thou wilt stretch thy purse I know no law that forbiddeth prouiding seeking for preachers vnles it be the law of our purse if thou say I am but one the rest wil not I can not maintain him my selfe then I say if thou can not get preaching to thee there is no law in England that forbiddeth thee to go to it to transport thy dwelling thither where thou maist haue it there

abundance that it came flowing downe to the ground the waight of the punishment of our sinnes is more grieuous then men doe thinke Let vs not then flatter selues good brethren and dally in this matter with our God bringing in recompence and satisfaction for our sinnes after our owne deuising it will not stande for good stuffe before the iudgement seat of God if we will take vpon vs to satisfie for our sinnes then we must take vpon vs hell fire the curse of God eternall death for these punishments hath the Lord God appointed to be due for our sinnes Let vs not then thinke that the torments of our bodie although it be neuer so hainous as long as we liue although it be an hundreth yeare can be any sufficient satisfaction vnto GOD no not for the least of our sinnes for we see flatly that the Lord himselfe hath appointed farre greater to be endlesse both in soule and bodie foreuer Peraduenture it may be that we shall think our selues well ynough eased by these satisfactions so long as we are quiet here be low and no torment commeth to our consciences but alas when we must answer it before our God all these our dreames must needes vanish away as smoake from the presence of our God because they haue not their ground vpon the worde of God by which all thinges must be tried in that day It is alleadged vs before the great iudge that we haue sinned we confesse it but we say we haue satisfied for our sinnes we haue pined our bodie with fasting all our life long we haue gone on pilgrimage barefoote and bare legged we haue whipped our bodie till the blood euery day we haue worne hairecloath vpon our bodie and this we haue done for a recompence for our sinnes God answereth vs by his word I haue appointed the due recompence for sinne my euerlasting curse the worme that neuer dieth the torments of hell haue ye suffered these and ouercome them we must needes confesse No but we say yet good Lord we haue suffered a little in our bodie but he saith the punishment which I appoint is both of soule and bodie euerlasting and therefore that punishment which ye bring in is not able to answer the debt it is but onely a forged recompence of our owne braine This geare then good brethren can not fall out iumpe in the iudgement seat of God the Lord our God will not be satisfied with our answer to the debt which we forge of our owne head but he wilbe answered the true debt in deede the true debt which we owe our God in deede for our sinnes is the euerlasting curse of God which neuer hath ende it is not a certaine punishment of the bodie for a certaine time that is but false and forged of our owne head that is not the right debt Is it not an intollerable thing and not to be suffered before a mortall iudge when as the right debt is a thousand pounds to bring in stead thereof a false forged debt of halfe a mite and there face out the matter as though all were discharged because he can bring proofe ynough that that forged debt is discharged can this be suffered among earthly magistrates and shall we thinke to glose out the matter with our forged debts before the heauenly iudge There is sound proofe come in against vs that we are indebted vnto our God the penaltie of his curse euerlasting torments both of soule and bodie this debt must be answered vnto our God or else wee shall neuer he discharged this our right debt must be paid and sure proofe brought in how it is paid or else wee shall neuer haue our generall acquittance but lye in the prison of hell for euer The like is to be said of all other the satisfactions that haue beene forged by man they can nor stand in this iudgement That same great and horrible Masse which hath bin thought to be a sufficient recompence for the sinne both of the liuing the dead it can not stand before the iudgement seat of God it is but a counterfeit payment of our debt the true paiment is to pay the true debt of our sinnes and that is the curse of God but the Masse is not the payment of that debt that is too waightie and heauie both for the masser and the masse it selfe to ouercome the torments of euerlasting death that can not recompence God there for our sinnes seeing the true and onely recompence is to vndergoe the torments of hell due for all our sinnes Neither can their forged purgatorie paines be a recompence to God for our sinnes because the true debt vvhich must be ansvvered is infinite and without end the full punishment which we owe for our sinnes is incomprehensible and infinite euen as our God against whome the offence is committed All these then and whatsoeuer haue bin deuised by man will fall out in the day of iudgement to be no payment but onely forged payments and so we found alwaies guiltie and our debts vnanswerable it standeth vs in hand good brethren to looke to it you see it is a more waightie matter then men doe commonly iudge it it will not be so soone discharged as men doe dreame let vs take paines in it for Gods sake nowe while we haue time and not flatter our selues with our owne weenings the Lord will not so be answered at our hands he giueth vs nowe time to looke for the answering of it he giueth vs his blessed word wherein we may learne how to answer it euen to the full if we carelesly passe ouer this time of mercie and seeke not for this geare we shal herafter tast of his iudgements without mercie VVell thus ye see all this stuffe that is yet brought in will not serue to answer the matter we must trie further what we can say for our selues we goe on yet further and will acknowledge that we haue sinned grieuously and that our sinnes are horrible but we thinke although we haue done many ill deedes yet because we haue done many good deedes we thinke God must needes hold vs excused and therefore we thinke our almes deedes and many praiers and fastings must needs binde God to giue vs heauen for them we thinke we may addle heauen as they say by our good deedes But the answer is giuen vs herein that was giuen vs before that the recompence to God for our sins is not two or three good deedes no not tvventie thousand thousand but the curse of God death and damnation that must be sustained and ouercome or other recompence to God is there none True it is that the Lorde promiseth vnto vs euerlasting life for doing his commaundements he that doth them shall liue in them God promiseth life to the doing of his commandement yea euen euerlasting life but then he requireth that they be done not in part as hath beene said before but in whole and that with