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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19265	A godlie sermon, preached on Newe yeeres day last before Sir William Fitzwilliam knight, late lord deputie of Irelande, Sir Iames Harrington knight, their ladyes and children, vvith many others, at Burghley in Rutlande. By the minister of God Anthony Anderson. Hereto is added a very profitable forme of prayer, good for all such as passe the seas: by the same author framed, and vsed in his aduentured iourney.	Anderson, Anthony, d. 1593.	1576 (1576)	STC 568; ESTC S108500	29,532	74

So of the rest I deeme some say and wee also are not touched with the plague but they whiche haue deserued it haue it this doctrine therefore might best serue those whiche are nowe exercised with his louing Rodde But to one and other of you I say deare brethren as Christ our louing Shephearde sayde to the reporters of Pylates cruell facte who mingled the blood of the Galileans with the sacrifice of the Iewes thus Suppose yee saythe Christe that these Galileans were greater sinners then all the other Galileans because they haue suffered suche thinges I tell you nay But except yee amende your lyues ye shall all likewise perishe Or thinke you that those eyghtien vpon whom the Towre in Syloam fell and slewe them that they were sinners aboue all men that dwelt in Ierusalem I tell you nay But excepte ye amende your lyues yee shall all likewise perishe So let Christ say to you heere present That you are by my sparing hande brought from the plague in Irelande that you are yet seuered from the sicke here in Rutlande it is not for that any of you from the Preacher to the basest Hearer haue lesse offended but that I woulde vse them for your Preachers to amendement and them selues to a bettered lyfe as hereafter yf by their example ye amende not I will make you the lyke example to others when they shall see my hande shaking ouer you Praye for our brethren therefore helpe too succour theyr present neede and repent in time least that his scourge of loue beeing remoued we feele the heauy fall of his angry Rodde Wherof our Prophete speaketh in the seconde Psalme prophecying the vtter ruine of all those that insult agaynst Christ and his chosen children For as he is moste louely vnto his louely sheepe So to the stubborne harted he is the God of strength who can and will correcte or compell them to stoupe to his good pleasure And he is sayde to haue an yron Rodde in respect of his diuine power and princely dominion ouer the mightie Kinges of the earth who with his worde doth arme the weake things of the world agaynst the moste gigaunt vnder heauen Lise and Frogges shall bee to strong for stout Pharao the mightie gigante king of Egypt and weake Dauid shall ouerthrowe the huge armies of the Philisteans the Syrians the Ammonites the Moabites The Idumeans and the Syriās shal oftē by weaknes be brought frō their great strēgth Sennacherib with his Rabsekah shal leaue his siege agaynst Ierusalem shal be broken into peeces his owne sonnes shall strike him to the hart with their swords the Lordes yron rod to his vtter confusion And to this their vtter shame the Lorde from heauen shal vse but his only word and with the breath of his mouth shall he make al creatures redy to be his rod to the confusion of the wicked His owne prophet Elisah shal cause blindnes to come into the eyes of the mightie host which frō the king of Syria are sent to take him and shal bring thē into Samaria the citie of their enemies Bennadad the king of Aram shal be compelled to remoue his siege from Samaria in one night because the Lord hath made the concept of hearing of charrets horsmen to be his yron rod to driue them before their enemies which by them before were brought to most extreme pennurie so that an asses heade was solde for foure schore siluerlinges and a load of doues doung to rost the same for fyue syluerlinges The former churches of the caste which did degenerate frō their first faith hath he with this his angry rod cast vnder the power of the Turke that they may beleeue lies to their destruction which would not receiue the truth when it was offered them Christe in his owne person is this rodde of anger to all that stubbornly resist him He that stumbleth at this Christe shall be brused but vppon whōsoeuer this stone Christ shall fall he shall grind thē all to poudre take hede of this angry so dayly prouoked yron rod. For as to the faithfull he is lyfe and consolatiō so to the vnbeleuing obstinate he is the yron rod here spoken of His ghospel Apostles preachers ministers hath he made to be the same according to the nature of their auditory as The Apostle Paule witnesseth saying The weapons of our warefare are not carnall but mighty through God to caste downe holdes casting downe the imaginations and euery high thing that is exalted againste the knowledge of God bringing into captiuitie euery thought to the obedience of Christ And hauing ready the vengeaunce against all disobedience when your obedience is fulfilled O my brethren consider your calling ye are the sheepe of Christe what belongeth your calling Truely to heare with reuerent obedience his voyce What is his workmanshippe then of you regenerate To purge you with his rodde of loue that ye should be more fruitefull and to the greater comfort of you his chosen he plaigeth to destruction with his angrye yron rodde the wicked whiche can not but muche moleste you were they vnbrydled Take heede in tyme repent and beleeue his ghospell leaste the former being ended his second rodde beginne to skoure you oute of place for a better people Thus muche for the Lordes roddes and nowe to the shepheardes crooke that doubled staffe of whiche Dauid thus sayth Thy rodde and thy staffe they comfort me As it is farre more safety for vs to be vnder our shepheards rod then committed or left to the woluishe iawes of Satanicall broade So is it our best comfort and assured prosperitie to dwell vnder the reach of his most louing gouerment which here is set forth vnto vs by the shepheard staffe Very significātly doth the Prophet Zachary set downe the loue and anger of God by the two stanes which Christe our shepheard first toke into his hand and after brust in sundre And these be his words I toke vnto me two staues the prophet speaketh in the person of Christ the one J called beautie and the other I called bāds J fed the shepe And a little after he sayth Their soule abhorred me and J sayde J vvill not feede you that vvhich dyeth let it dye and that vvhich perisheth let it perishe and let the remnant eate one another euery one the fleshe of his neighbour And J toke my staffe beauty and brake it that J might disanull my couenaunt vvhich J had made vvith all people And somewhat after thus Then brake J myne other staffe euen bandes that J might dissolue the brotherhoode betvvene Judah and Jsraell By the firste staffe beauty the Prophet vnderstandeth that most elegant frame of the Iewishe common welth gouernment which for the great excellencie thereof is here called beautie Of this staffe Moses triumphing speaketh thus Keepe these lavves and do them for that is your vvisedome and