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A10574	An homelye or sermon of good and euill angels: preached by the Reuerend D. Vrbanus Rhegius, pastor and superintendent of Christes Church at Zelle in Saxony. Anno. 1537. Newly translated into English by Ric. Ro. citizen of London. 1583. Seene, perused, and allowed; Sermon von den guten und boesen engeln. English	Rhegius, Urbanus, 1489-1541.; Robinson, Richard, citizen of London.	1583 (1583)	STC 20844; ESTC S106430	17,786	94

good Angell and loueth God Thus farre saith Saint Augustine in Psalm 96. ¶ The same Doctor in his booke De vera Religione Cap. 55. hath these wordes ANgelos honoramus Charitate non seruitute c. Wee honour the Angells with loue and not seruice Neither do we build them Churches For they will not haue thēselues so honoured of vs Bycause they know that euen we our selues if we be good and Godly persons are the temples of the mightie God Truly is it written therfore that man is forbidden of the Angell not to worship him but one God vnder whom he was euen fellow seruant of him These also are S. Augustines wordes which as yet the Catholique Church hath not reiected For they are grounded in the Scriptures or with most firme testimonies of Scrip●ures established as you héere Although ●he aduersaries notably nay wickedly ●loake couertly deale w t these words of Augustine And surely they are wise when they indeuour to maintaine that ●heir vngodly errour hereby For these words doe discouer their errour and do ●eproue them of wickednes and vngod●ynes The Scripture teacheth vs that ●here is one onely Mediator betweene God and vs wretched mankind namely ●esus Christ vnto whom in al necessities ●e may runne for succour By whome with confidence wee maye haue accesse ●nto the father Ephes 2. And by whom wee ought to looke for assured helpe of ●he father What then goe wée about ●hat mischeefes moue vs what vngod●y curiositie compelleth vs that wee are ●ot contented with the word of God and ●acred doctrine in the rule of our faith Religion But this must we know That An●els entyrely and from our hearts are to ●e loued of vs as our watchmen or safe●éepers and speciall friendes and as our A Prayer vnto God for the assistanc● of his Angelicall Powers in the prosperous preseruation of this our mortall race ALmighty and eternal God which by thy worde and holy spirite hast created al things in heauē in earth and in the waters vnder the earth visible and inuisible Which by thy holy Prophet Dauid art said To make Angels thy Spirites And thy Ministers a flaming fire Signifying thereby that for the good Children of God thou ordainest good Angels for the wicked of this world thou ordainest euil Ministers to make them to know that thou hast power onely to saue or consume whome where and when thou wilt I a most sinnefull soule the Child of Adam by sinne subiect to thy wrath but in thy sonne Christ Iesus by his redemption and merite the adopted Child of grace doe humbly and hartely beséech thée for the same thy sonne Christ his sake my Redéemer by thy holy Spirite to regenerat and illuminate my soule to ●uryfie my heart and inward Man to ●ardon the frailty of the outward man ●nd accept the poore prayer of a penitent sinner Which I make not onely for my selfe but for all thy chosen Children of Israel vnto whom passing thorough the ●eas of this transitory troublesom life Thou sayest Behold I send mine Angel which shal go before thee keepe thee ●n the way bring thee vnto the place that I haue prepared for thee Meaning by the land of promise héere on earth thy eternall kingdome of heauen Vnto the which land of promis on earth as thou by the guid of thy good Angel broughtest those Isralits whē thou sauedst them consumedst their enimies So I beséech thy great goodnesse to graunt the guid of thy good Angell vnto me and to so many as Seeking thy kingdom and the Righteousnesse thereof doe gladly trauell in our vocations to thy honour and glory And vouchsafe also of thy gratious prouidence to turne from vs all those euills which we most righteously haue deserued in the wayward iourneying of our vnwillingnesse to serue thée Conduct vs sayd they were Iewes and were not making them to fall downe at the féete of thine elect we Render all humble and hartie thankes vnto thy diuine Maiestie therefore beséeching thée of thy manifold mercies and abundant grace to continue thy loue towardes vs that wee neuer henceforth want the same So as thou wouldest preserue vs and all thy chosen from the howre of temptation which shall come vppon all the worlde That when it séemeth good and gracious vnto thée to shorten the dayes of this troublesome last age for thine elect sake when thy Sonne our Sauiour shall come with a warning and with the voyce of the Archangel with the trompe of God shall descend frō heauen when the Lord Iesus shall bee reueyled from heauen with the Angels of his power That is as our sauiour Christ saith When the Sonne of man shall come in his glory and all his holy Angels shall come with him and shall sit vpon the seate of his glory and gathering together all that slept in the earth summoned before him at the generall iudgement shall separate the good soules from the bad That then it would please thée of thy manifold mercies and ●nfinite graces To make vs of the nom●er of those thy Chosen sheepe standing ●n his Right hand vnto whom the same ●hy sonne then will say Come yee the ●lessed of my Father possesse yee the ●ingdome prepared for you from the ●eginning of the world Where in the ●●cietie of all those Angells and Elders ●bout y e seate of thy sacred throne wor●●ipping the Deitie in Trinitie we ●aye incessantlye sing that heauenlye ●mne Blessing and Riches and wisedome and Thankes and Honour and power and might be vnto our God foreuer and euer Amen R. R. This benefite therefore Creator deare with one accord in thee we celebrate To thee our Angels and Melodious queare together singing thankes shall decantate And in thy Church most hartely pray we will thy watchfull Angels vnto vs to send And to thy people which embrace would still thy Sonne his Gospell vnto the worldes end Amen FINIS R. R. 2. Cor. 10. Gaudentes in Domino Gaudeamus Reuel cap. 19. vz. 1. Amen Alleluyah Saluation Glory and honour and power bee to the Lorde our God Faults escaped Thus corrected B. fol. 2. page 2. for deadly did reade deadly lye did Eod B. fol. 5. for Rom. 1. Ephes 2. Siniter D. The first page first word and first line for neare vs reade eche place dravving neare vs. Fol. 5. page 2. for 4. Reg. 9. reade 4. Reg. 6. Fol. 8. page 2. for his proper Angels reade the●r proper Angels Ibidem vz. 14. 15. Col. 3. Ieam 4. Psal 34. Iohn 18. Rom. 12. Exod. 25. vs 20. 22. Zach. 2. Genes 26. Math. 21. Reuel 19. Math. 18. Difference betwene spirits and bodily cretures The excellency of spiritual creatures Heb. 1. Good and Euill Angels Genes 3. Angels degenerate Iude. 1. 2. Pet. 2. Iohn 8. Ibidem Ministerie of good Angels and of euill The Turke a right image of Sathan Sathan vnuisible in substaunce After vvhat maner Sathan inuadeth mankinde Genes 3. Sathans first victory ouer mankinde Christes greatest benefites tovvardes vs. Sathans subtil deceites As he is a soule slaier Genes 7. The mercy of god in stirring vp Abraham Genes 12. Rom. 1. Of this mā came the sect of Nicholataines Diuers Herisies Cerinthus Montanists Mar●ionists Manichies Nestorians Pelagians What subtil sleightes Sathan did vvorke in Westphalia The errors of the Munsterians Sathan holdeth Papists fast bound in errors No truth can make them yeeld Sathans power permitted by God Iobes afflictions Iob. 1.2 3. What time Sathan watcheth to worke his mischeefe Sathan hindereth as vvell the godly as the vngodly With what armour and weapons we must vvithstand Sathā his Angels Good Angels ministring Spirites Gods protection of his elect by his good Angels Hierusalem deliuered her enimies slaine by gods Angels S. Paules rule S. Peters Angell the 2 time The Apostles Angell Maries Angel Whether Angels are to be worshipped or no. The doctrine and opiniō of S. Augustine concerning Angels not to be vvorshiped Acts. 13. 1 Cor. 3. 2. Cor. 6. Ephes 2. Acts. 17. Doctrine of the Scriptures Psal 104. Exod. 23. Math. 6. Ibidem 1. Thess 4. 2. Thess 1. Math. 24. Ibidem Reuel 7.

God preferring his lyes before them inducing them against the worde of God and disanulling the words of God preferred he his craftie lyes in place of them This false tale was the beginning the well spring the roote and cause of all our miserie and calamitie This most filthie and deadlye did Sathan notably decke with collours and set to sale for his aduauntage when he saide It should come so to passe if they did eate of that tree that they should knowe both good and euill and that they should be euen as Gods Héere the policie and practises of that old Serpent fell out euen as he himselfe wished them whereby he purposed to cast mankinde headlong into the same disobedience whereunto he himselfe was fallen down that they should not continue in the truth This was the first victory of this our enimie ouer vs which hée obtained not by any good or iust means but onely by meere murthering falshood and treacheries By this victorie gotten ouer vs also he so held vs altogether and euerie one of vs drawen enthralled bound and made his owne bondslaue yea he so chained vs together brought vs into that bondage that not one of vs in deede could escape or start from him had not afterwards y e truth wisedome power of God himselfe that is to say the onely begotten and naturall sonne of God bin made man to the end he might encounter in a wonderfull battell with that most craftie Serpent and foile him with his owne weapons yea ouerthrow and vtterly vanquished him so that not onely by fine force and power but also by good right he assailed with strong hand hereby to deliuer al mākind out of Sathans power and iurisdiction If then at the beginning his lyings deadly practises and mischéeuous enterprises against mankind of all creatures so perfectly framed so wishfullie and so notably by and by came to passe as hée would haue it that he could cast down our first parentes into this farre most wretched most gréeuous most sorowful and most horrible calamitie of all other when as yet they were frée from sinne when they were of firme and vpright of liuely and florishing of sound and vndefiled conuersation If I say he could seduced corrupted and besotted mankinde with so horrible so manifolde falshoodes deuilish deceites and errours as Moses witnesseth in the 6. of Gene. that All the earth was wicked and corrupt in the sight of God and was filled with iniquitie And al flesh vpon earth had corrupted their former waies wherin they were prescribed of God to continue So that God in respect of his Iustice coulde no longer suffer that huge farre spred and infinite mallis of Sathan that abūdance of wickednes sinnes so raging But therfore destroied he with an vniuersall deluge all that first age of the world sauing viii persons onelie And when that Noah his ofspring or kinred in y e same new world begā a fresh to be planted and somewhat to increase by and by Sathan againe brocheth and practiseth his subtil sleights when there were a feaw persons and as it were desolate soiourneis which truely feared knew God as Noah his kinsfolke did Then filleth hee the earth with Idolatries and all kinde of errours brought in by his false and vngodly doctrines But God not vnmindefull of his mercie chose vnto him againe a certaine man and his séede namely Abraham with whome the truth of Gods woorde was founde And yet notwithstanding there was an Innumerable multitude of Gentils vppon earth voyde of all knoweldge of God In Israell doubtlesse the name of God was onelie knowen there the knowledge of him florished The nations as Paule witnesseth in the worlde not trusting in God But were without all knowledge of him And I pray you what a handfull and a very little portion of people were the Iewes in respect of the Gentils But what other thing did the Gentils being enthralled and seduced with the illusions and diuelishe deceites of Sathan then that they serued him and worshipped him with diuers infinite manifolde Idolatries Did hée not with so horrible and detestable blindenesse béesotte infatuate and bewitch them that they adored and worshiped Cats Dogges Curlewes also other filthie and vile liuing Creatures as Serpentes and Crocodiles by the testimonie of manie and diuers Histories of their errours amongst them they might infect corrupt others with their maladie Such one was Nicholas one of the seuen Deacons in the Citie of Antioche the enemie of Chast Matrimonie Actes 6. But in very déede not long after and whyles certaine of the Apostles were yet liuing hee began by his false Apostles to preach lyes and to sowe abroade his horrible errours most vngodly opinions and most false doctrines namely That there is no resurrection of the flesh Again That righteousnes or saluatiō before God cōmeth by the worke of the Law Thirdly That Christ is not a true God but mā only But when y e Apostles of Christ had slept in the Lorde and that lying false forsworne Spirit thought he had a time giuen him in the world to sowe his leasings and lyes when the Apostles were gone to God then and not before like as wee may sée the same in Egesippus began hee to turmoyle himself and stirre vp discordes in y e Church by his lyings by his corrupting y e scriptures and eftsoones planting and bringing in Heresies against the Creation against the diuinitie and humanitie of Christ also fayning a certaine corporall kingdome of Christ vppon earth before the latter day wherein wee shoulde abound with and inioy all kinde of most exquisite pleasures which was the opinion of Cerinthus the Heretike lyke as Eusebius himselfe witnesseth in his 3. booke There were diuers heresies against Christ This Heretike was not perswaded that the naturall man was God Another beleeued not that God was natural man And heare good Lord howe much calamitie and what horrible errours brought he in howe many blasphemies belched hee ought against Christ by the Montanists the Marcionists the Manicheys the Arrians the Nestorians lastly by Pelagius who coulde not abyde that Christ should be our Redeemer but woulde néedes haue saluation to be merited by workes This Pelagius was a Moncke and left behind him a filthy and noysome stincke of whome those begging Monckes first began their order How then Did he not I pray you establish in the Popedome horrible and Sathans workemanship with all hys power of whome Paule wryteth vnto the Thessalonians 2. Epistle 2. Chap. I pray you what troubles and calamities hath not the same spirit of lying and murder stirred in this our so greatly vnquiet time in the country of Westphalia Munsteri Beleeue mee hée is a wonderfull and notable craftes maister in deceiuing the worlde he is most absolutely furnished with all kynde of subtill sleight deceipts and mischéefes to beguile vs and euen to worke wonders is