doe it in such dutie as becommeth a son A subiect maie attempt law with his prince and yet loue and reuerence his prince as becommeth Who vâ—… seth the law otherwise doth abuse it All strife and contention must be saâ—… aside Loue may ancide wrong loue may require right loue may stand â—…rth and seeke defence before Judge Loue is patient and gentle it enuieth not it doth not boaâ—… it selfe it is not puffed up it disdaineth not it seeketh not her awne things it is not â—…ked to anger it thinketh not eâ—…ill it reiâ—…ceth not in iniquitie but it reioiceth in the truth It â—…uffereth all things it beleeueth all 〈◊〉 it 〈◊〉 all things it mdureth all things Such is the nature of loue such it is whereâ—… it is inben it seeketh right whâ—… it defendeth it selfe against chalenge of doing wrong V. 10. Yea and that thing verily you do vnto all the brethren which are throughout all Macedonia but we beseech you brethren that you encrease more and more You loue the brethren not onlie â—…ose that are with you and whome you knowe but al whatsoeuer they be and in what place soeuer though ye knowe them not Some loue none but such as are of their sort and deuotion and sect and felowship If any be of an other minde than they are of they can not loue them This loue is not of God it is carnal and procéedeth but from the flesh Whosoeuer caryeth the name of Christ is our brother wée must loue him for Christes sake Christian loue doth loue those that are enemies and doe not loue vs it blesseth them that speake ill of vs and praieth for them that persecute vs. Oh that these â—…rdes of Paul might truely bée spoken of vs As touching brotherly loue wee neede not write vnto you Oh that God would touch our heartes with his holy spirite that we were all so knit togither loued 〈◊〉 another as he hath commaunded vs. Then should we féele y e peace that passeth all vnderstanding then would it appeare how ioyful a thing it were for brethren to dwell togither in vnitie then should we taste of the comfort of the sonnes of God And alas what is our life or what is our profession without loue what is the sunne without light what is the fire without heate Though I speake with the tongues of men and of Angels sayth the Apostle haue not loue I am as sounding brasse or as a tinckling Cimball And though I had the gift of prophecie and knewe al secrets and al knowledge yea if I had al faith so that I coulde remoue mountaines and had not loue I were nothing That you ebcrease more and more Men of this worlde séeke to encrease in their wealth and riches They neuer thinke their store so great but it may abide to haue more layde to it Wicked men stande not at a stay they cease not to do it they heaâ—…e sinne vpon sinne and drawe iniquitie with cordes of vanitie and sinne with Cart roapes vntil they come to the heigth and extremitie of wickednesse Doe you increase in euerie thing that is good The kingdome of God is not in worde but in power A childe that stayeth at one stature and neuer groweth bigger is a monster The grounde that â—…th not and is not fruiteful is turâ—…ed The trée that is barren and proueth not is cut downe This must al knowe men and women and babes and infantes They must all walke on stil in the way of godlinesse and encrease and goe forwarde therein Vnlesse we goe forâ—…e we slippe backe If we ware wearie to do the worke of God God wil forsake vs. 〈◊〉 V. 11. And that ye studie to be quiet and to meddle with your owne businesse and to worke with your owne handes as wee commaunded you 12 That yee may behaue your selues honestlie towardes them that are without and that nothing be lacking vnto you Let no man among you bée a busie bodie in other mens matters Be not caues droppers and harkening what is sayde or doone in your neighbours house Wide eares and long tongues dwel together They that loue to heare al that may bée tolde them doe also loue to blab out al they heare Studie to be quiet and meddle with your owne businesse The Church of God is as the bodie of man In a mans bodie euerie part hath his seueral office the arme the legge the hande and foote doe that whereto they are appointed and doing the same they liue together in peace But if the arme would take in hande to doe that is the dutie of the legge or the foote that is the part of the hand it woulde bréede great disorder in the whole bodie So if euery man in the Church of God séeke to do that to them belongeth the Church shal florish and be in quiet But when euerie man wil he busie and take vpon him to looke into other when euerie priuate man wil gouerne and the subiect take in hand to rule the Prince all must néedes come to wracke and decaie Busie bodies euer finde fault with their brethren and neighbours with the State the Clergie the Common wealth the Church the Gouernement and with the Prince They are an vnquiet kinde of men euer looking for that they may mislike and neuer contented From these men come priuie whisperings slaunder backbyting mutinies conspiracies treasons deposing of Princes and vtter decay of common wealthes These are the fruites of curiositie And to worke with your owne handes God hath ordayned that all sorts of men should labour and eate their breade in the sweate of their browes And héere the Apostle doth not onely charge them to worke but that they worke with-their owne handes Thou that hast handes and settest them not to worke thou that abusest the grace of God by thy idlenesse shalt giue an account thereof What filleth your prisons what dubbeth and enricheth your gaâ—…wes but idlenesse when your children come to these places and sée they must liâ—…e no longer whereof complaine they but of idlenesse then they curse the time and their Father and Mother that brought them vp in idlenesse Though Kings and Princes and counsaylours and preachers and magistrates digge not and plough not nor do any handy worke yet they breake not therefore the commaundement of God they breake not this rule of the Apostle The heade walketh not as the â—…éete nor trauaileth as the hands yet is it not idle There is no labour comparable to the labour of a Prince Daie and night sléeping and waking he is ful of cares ful of paincs The noble man and magistrate if he regarde his countrie bée careful for the lawes ayde the poore redresse tyranny comfort the weake punish the wicked is not idle The Minister if he applie his booke bée diligent in prayer exhort and teach publikely and priuatelie is not idle These labours are greater than al the labours of the bodie V. 13. I would not brethren haue you ignoraunt
An Exposition vpon the two Epistles of the Apostle S. Paul to the Thessalonians By the reuerend Father IOHN IEVVEL late Bishop of SARISBVRIE Whereunto is adioined a very necessarie table of the principal matters contained in this Exposition AT LONDON Printed by Ralfe Newberie Anno salutis 1584. Cum privilegio regia maiestati◅ TO THE RIGHT honorable Sir Francis VValsingham Knight principal Secretarie to the Queenes Maiestie and one of her H◅nesse most honorable i◅ie Counsel IT is now some long tyme sithēce that learned reuerende father bishoppe Iewel deliuered vnto the people of his charge the Exposition vpon the epistles of S. Paul to the Thessalonians when manie his hearers thought it worthie to be made common and besought him earnestly euen as since his blessed departure out of this life they haue often required me to publish the same It is very likely that he would if he had liued haue perused these his trauailes and some others haue drawne them to the vse benefite of the Church and rather haue spent his time in setting forth matters profitable for al mē to vnderstand towards the attainement of saluation than in folowing their humour anie longer whom neither the weaknesse of their owne cause nor the force of the truth nor the defence thereof by so waighty autorities of the holy Scriptures of the ancient catholike fathers and of general councels could content or perswade them to forsake the waie of contention whereunto they were entred and of troubling the Church of God with their writings against the truth This his purpose hee partlie declared in giuing his last answeare to a booke written by Maister Harding entituled A detection of sundrie foule errours c. For answere whereof he thought not good to charge with number of bookes or to encomber the world with needelesse labours but onelie by a shorte augmentation of his former defence of the Apologie of the Church of England to discharge Master Hardings quarels For reason whereof he saith I cannot imagine that anie my poore labours shall be able to end these quarels For a contentious man will neuer lacke wordes I haue endeuoured for my simple parte to say so much as to a reasonable man maie seeme sufficient If any thing be left vnanswered either it was nothing or nothing worth Wherein hee was of like minde vnto that famous learned man Maister Bucer who speaking of the new and fresh supplie that is made among the aduersaries of our Christian religion said thus Veteribus respondimus novos quotidie legimus nihil adferunt novi quid ergo faciemus Aunswere hath beene made by vs to their olde Writers wee reade their newe Writers which come foorth dailie which yet bring no newe matter or proofes with them What then shall wee doe What else but as he giueth counsaile laie downe al affection and fauour of parties and peruse that hath beene saide in matter of controuersie on both sides and iudge iustly of that is alleadged and with feare and reuerence be careful of our own saluation For after the trueth is once found out whosoeuer seeketh farther seeketh not for the truth but for errour The Apostle willeth Titus to staie foolish questions and genealogies contentions and brawlings about the law for they are vnprofitable and vaine And also to reiect him that is an heretique after once or twice admonition In like cafe he said vnto Timothie If anie man teach otherwise and consenteth not to the wholsome words of our Lord Iesus Christ and to the doctrine which is according to godlines hee is puft vp and knoweth nothing but doateth about questiōs strife of words whereof commeth enuie strife railings euil surmisings froward disputations of mē of corrupt minds destitute of the truth which thinke that gaine is godlinesse from such separate thy selfe Now bicause he himself had some good liking to publish this exposition and the matter thereof is so fit for our time as nothing maie be more and there is not as I can learne anie interpretor vpon these epistles in the english tongue and his Sermons vpon them were the last fruits and trauailes hee bestowed in the cathedrall Church of Sarum I made choice of it amōg manie other excellent monumēts of his paines taken in the Church of God gaue my best diligence to peruse his notes thereupon and to draw them to some such perfection as might carrie to the Reader the whole waight of his matter without anie diminution euen as fully as he declared it so far foorth as the notes which remaine vnder his owne hand might direct me The which I most humblie commend to the fauourable protection of your Honor whom I beseech so to accept my simple indeuor herein as I haue beene careful to answere your Honors commandement in giuing foorth some part of his laboures to light In this discourse as there are manie good things fruitfully declared the vse and practise whereof is common to your Honour with al Christians so are there two matters the one of Vsurie the other of Antichrist that is of the bane and poison of the common wealth and of the infectiō and decaie of the Church wherein he bestowed more paines to open them and make them manifest that all men might know and abhorre them and beware of them What hath beene wrought by these two mischiefes to the vndoing in conscience substance and to the vtter destruction of the soules and bodies of manie thousand subiects of this realme within these late yeares it is to the griefe of all good men too wel knowne If therefore in the duetie of a good Bishop he standing in his watch hath discried these enimies to al ciuil and christian estates and if now so many yeares after his entrāce into rest by these means he cal vpon your good Honor to step forth in fresh courage into the battaile of the Lorde of hostes and to vse and employ the great giftes of wisedome and aucthoritie which God hath bestowed vppon you and to excite and stir vp others the worthie and notable captaines set ouer the people to be a fenced wal betwene them and these so perillous monsters and dangerous enimies what remaineth but that your Honour put to your hande and doe that for the comfort of Gods people which besides hir excellent Maiestie and hir honorable Counsaile no other can do in giuing life to al such lawes which haue beene deuised by men of great godlinesse and experience and haue beene confirmed by high authoritie to the suppression of Vsurie and to the setting foorth of Gods glorie The God of glory and of power who hath called your Honour to his seruice in high place strengthen you to doe his wil and grant you many and prosperous daies to the comfort of his Church and his common weale Your Honours most humble to commaunde IOHN GARBRAND A TABLE CONTAINING THE principal matters in this exposition A ANtichrist contrarie to Christ. 283 Antichrist his comming foretolde 281 Antichrist
theft therefore lawful S. Iames sayth The Diuels beleeue and tremble take example of the Diuels They beléeue but their bare vaine and dead faith in which they can doe no good can not serue them Euen so shal not your faith if it be dead and voyde of al good workes saue you God himselfe to reproue the vnthankefulnesse and forgetfulnesse of his people which did so often forsake him and followed Baal and Astaroth sayeth in this manner vnto them What nation did euer forsake their Gods Doeth he in this spéech approue that the Idols of the heathen are Gods or because God taketh example of idolatrie shal idolatrie therefore be laweful he biddeth his seruaunts to be as faithful and willing and readie to serue him the God of heauen and earth as the gentils were in seruice of their Idols the workes of their owne handes As God did wil the Israelites to take example of the Ido laters And as Christ biddeth take example of the false steward and as Iames of the Diuels so is this parable an example of that which is commendable that is the diligence of the seruauntes Vsurie is no more allowed by this than idolatrie and falshoode and the diuel is by the other Some wil say I haue no trade to liue I must néedes giue my money to Vsurie or else I must begge This is it that I spake of This sheweth that despaire and mistrust in the prouidence of God is the mother of Vsurie If this were cause why he should be an vsurer if this be wel spoken for defence of his wickednes why may not the théefe or y e bawd or the enchanter by like answere excuse themselues and stande in defence of their dooings Augustine therefore saith Audent etiam fenerarores dicere non habeo aliud vnde viuam c. The vsurers are bold to say they haue no other trade whereby to liue So wil the theefe tel me when I take him in his theft So wil he say that breaketh in to other mens houses So wil the baude say that buieth young maidens to vse them to filthines So wil the wicked enchanter that selleth his sinne If we reproue any of al these they wil answere that this is their mainteinance and that they haue not any other way to liue But August sayth Quasi non hoc ipsum in illis maxima puniendum est quia artem nequitiae deleâ—…runt vnde viuerent inde se volunt pascere vnde offendant eum a quo omnes pascuntur As if they were not therefore most worthie to be punished because they haue chosen a trade of wickednesse to liue by and will mainetaine themselues by that thing wherewith they displease him by whom al are mainetained Howe much better would it be with them if they did serue God truely in such place and calling wherein they might most set foorth his glorie and doe such thinges as should be profitable to themselues and others The seruaunt of God knoweth there is no want to those that feare him He knoweth the Lord hath care ouer him and therefore casteth his care vpon the Lorde He sayth as the Prophet The Lorde is my shephearde I shal want nothing And The Lord is the defender of my life of whome then shal I be afrayde I trusted in thee O Lorde and saide thou art my God My times are in thy hande Thus much I thought expedient to speake of the loathsome and foule trade of Vsurie I knowe not what fruit wil growe thereby and what it wil worke in your hearts If it please God it may doe that good that I wish I haue doone my dutie I cal God for a record vnto my soule I haue not deceiued you I haue speken vnto yoâ—… y e truth If I be deceiued in this matter O God thou hast deceiued me Thy word is plaine Thou sayest Thou shalt take no Vsurie thou sayest He that taketh encrease shal not liue What am I that I shoulde hide the words of my God or kéepe them back from the hearing of his people the learned old Fathers haue taught vs it is no more laweful to take Vsurie of our brother than it is to kil our brother They that be of God heare this and consider it and haue a care that they displease him not But the wicked that are no whit moued and care not what God sayth but cast his word behind them which haue eies and sée not and eares yet heare not because they are filthie they shalbe â—…lthie stil. Their gréedie desire shal encrease to their confusion and as their monie mcreaseth so shal they encrease the heapes of their sinnes Pardon me if I haue béene long or vehement Of those that are vsurers I aske no pardon I heare that there are certaine in this city which wallow wretchedly in this filthinesse without repentance I giue them warning in the hearing of you all and in the presence of God that they forsake that cruel and detestable sinne If otherwise they continue therein I will open their shame and denounce excommunication against them and publish their names in this place before you all that you may knowe them and abhorre them as the plagues and monsters of the worlde that if they be past all feare of God they may yet repent and amend for worldlie shame Tel me thou wretched wight of the world thou vnkinde creature which art past all sense and feeling of God which knowest the will of God and doest the contrarie how darest thou come into the Church It is the Church of that GOD which hath saide Thou shalt take no Vsurie And thou knowest he hath so laid How darest thou reade or heare the word of God it is the word of that God which condemneth Vsurie And thou knowest he doth condemne it How darest thou come into the companie of thy brethâ—… Vsurie is the plague and destruction and vndoing of thy brethren And this thou knowest How darest thou looke vpon thy children Thou makest the wrath of God fall downe from heauen vpon them Thy iniquitie shal be punished in them to the third and fourth generation This thou knowest How darest thou looke vp into heauen Thou hast no dwelling there thou shalt haue no place in the tabernacle of the highest This thou knowest Because thou robbest the poore deceiuest the simple and catest vp the widows houses Therefore shall thy children be naked and begge their bread therefore shalt thou and thy riches perish together But Christ saith The houre shall come and now is when the dead shall heare the voice of the sonne of God and they that heare it shall liue Zacheus was a receiuer of tribute was rich when he receiued Iesus to abide in his house He stoode foorth and saide vnto the Lord Beholde Lord the halfe of my goods I giue to the poore and if I haue taken from any man by forged cauillation I restore him foure â—…olde Then Iesus said vnto him This daie salâ—…ation is