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A13966	An apologie, or defence of our dayes, against the vaine murmurings & complaints of manie wherein is plainly proued, that our dayes are more happie & blessed than the dayes of our forefathers.	Trigge, Francis, 1547?-1606.	1589 (1589)	STC 24276; ESTC S103280	42,588	50

I that haue sinned that haue done wickedly but those sheepe what haue they done Let thy hand I pray thee be against mee and against my fathers house Thus we ought in all these externall plagues punishments of the Lord to find fault with our selues and to saye that wee haue deserued euen the same plagues not to find fault with those iudgements of God which are far lesse then we haue deserued And yet surelie amongst vs in these daies no sin more cōmon We shal come in no place we shal talke with no man but we shal finde him complaining or grieued with somewhat The gentleman he complaines all things are deare money skant his charge great which dearth in trueth him selfe in some parte is the cause of For if hee let his pastures fermes deare he must needes buy deare againe The husbandman he complaines that corne is too cheape he is not able to paie his rents seruants wages of his crop The Artificer he saith there are so manie of an occupacion that one cannot liue by another and that he can not get his debtes paid whose prices without all conscience the Lord sometimes plagues with euil paiments The seruants some times lack masters men wil do their worke them selues some lack wages some victuals So that from the top to the toe no part is free euerie one is grieued euerie one complaineth So that this plaister is verie necessarie the disease being so general dangerous Therefore I conclude with our last weekes lesson out of S. Paules Epistle to the Philippians fit for our times Phil. 4. The Lord being euen now at hand in deede Reioice in the Lord alwaie againe I saie reioyce Let your curtesie or gentlenes be knowen or manifest to all men The Lorde is euen at hand Be careful for nothing but in all things let your petitions be manifest vnto God in prayer supplication with giuing of thanks Let vs reioyce in the Lord who is now our aduocate our lawyer that pleadeth al our causes shal be our Iudge Let our curtesie mercifulnes be knowen to al men that we may find mercie curtesie at the Lords hand at that daie For with what measure we measure to others now in the chaffe and pelfe of this world shal then no doubt be measured vnto vs againe The Lorde is euen at hand let vs be careful for nothing but in al our needs necessities let vs praie vnto him and we shal receiue What is more easie then to aske and haue But aboue al things let vs giue thankes Let vs beware of murmuring complaining So shal the Lord not only this yeare but euerie yeare powre down his blessings vpon vs. Thus desiring your worships to accept this my simple gift praying the Lorde to blesse you both with his holie spirite this yeare manie others to his glorie the benefit of this our countrey and in the world to come of his great mercie to crowne you with euerlasting glorie I moste humblie take my leaue Welborne this xv of Nouember 1589. ¶ An Apologye or defence of our dayes against the vaine murmurings and complaints of manie wherein is plainlie proued that our daies are more happie and blessed than the daies of our forefathers WHereas there are manie things in my opinion right worshipfull in this our age out of counse manie things complained without a cause manie things and that of them which would be counted wise men verie iniuriouslie and vnaduisedly giuen foorth commonlie vttered then as mee seemeth amongst all the rest that complaint is verie iniust vneqaull and against all reason That these our dayes are worse than the former that our times are vnhappie miserable and that the former daies the dayes of our fathers were happie verie blessed verie calme and prosperous When as this opinion of the common people too too common amongst vs. Salomon the wisest that euer was Ecclesiastes ver 12. c. 7. in that one Sermon of his of the excellencie and vanitie and comparison of things together wherein he nameth himselfe a preacher to all ages and countries hath with his verdit as it were plainly condemned Saye not saith he what is the matter or howe chaunceth it that the former dayes are better then these for if thou saye so thou hast not asked wisdome counsaile concerning this matter As though he should saye Wisdome would teach thee another lesson that is to saye That things present seeme alwayes grieuous to men and strange things pleasant that our owne things although they be better in deede to be of none account with vs and that other mens things do please vs most of all Thus is the nature of man euer lothing things present and longing for things absent despising her owne things greedie of other mens things bragging of things past and slacke in things present verie fruitfull of vnthankfulnes And not onely Salomon but Iesus Christ being the wisedom of God the father teacheth vs the same in his Gospell He hath said manie that are first shall be the last and the last shall be the first Our heauenly father will haue his noble Kings his Mecenasses and gentlemen his Constantines his Theophilus his doctors his confessours his Martyres not onely in the infancie of his Church but also in her olde age not in her cradels but in her graye haires not in her time of increasing and flourishing shining as at the first sending downe of the holie Spirit but also in her groning decreasing and as it were now labouring time of trauell vnder Antichrist And these are no lesse notable no lesse famous no lesse valiant no lesse inflamed with the zeale of Gods house than the former And these at the last day shal be without doubt in maiestie euen to be reckoned vp amongest those first Because his mercie is for euer Ioel. 2. euen the same towards his Church And also our Prophet Ioel doth teach vs the same doctrine which did prophecie of our times vpon whom truely those ends of the world haue come more fully than vpon those first Christians which do not liue in the last hour of the day as they did but truely in his last moment and minute I will powre out saith the Lord by that Prophet in those dayes my spirite vpon all flesh and your children and your daughters shall prophecie your old men shall dreame dreames and your yong men shall see visions And also I will powre out my spirite in those dayes vpon your seruants and maydens And I will shewe wonders in heauen aboue and tokens in the earth beneath bloud fire and the vapour of smoake The Sunne shal be turned into darkenes and the Moone into bloud before that great and notable day of the Lorde come And it shal be that who soeuer calleth vpon the name of the Lorde shal be saued Who is he which will denye these things to concerne our dayes The fulfilling of

strumpets and harlots should succeede in the inheritance of their fathers But to onely Priestes and Clarkes this is not lawfull And that amongst Christian Emperors Why is not that lawful to vs which is lawful to all men yea to the very meanest sort of men If all other men may purchase land why may not Ministers purchase In déede amongst the Iewes this purchasing for Priestes was not lawfull because their children succéeded their fathers in the Priesthood but now that succession is taken away The Leuites children were sure of liuing were they learned were they vnlearned were they vnlearned when their Fathers were deade but so are not our Ministers children God hath dealt better with vs then with the Iewes wee are not tyed to any one mans succession or stocke for our priests and Ministers as the Iewes were We may choose the best and learnedst where soeuer we finde them whose sonnes soeuer they be And shall our ministers children be worse prouided for then were the children of those Iewish priestes Séeing then their succession is taken away which was a sure stay of liuing for them I do not sée but that our purchases are lawful God gaue euery one a lot in that land of Chanaan and I doe not sée why our ministers children should be without their lot also in our Chanaan But they say we condemne our forefathers if our religion be true then all our fathers be damned say they No we condemne not our fathers but we condemne all vnbelieuers which now wil not belieue the word of God Our forefathers if they liued now in this great light they would surely haue condemned the great blindnesse of many of their children they would haue condemned their obstinacies in the refusing this great goodnesse of the Lord so mercifully offered them they would haue condemned the hardnesse of their harts in not being moued to turne to the Lord from their former superstition and ignorance in such great knowledge in such great light in so many of the Lords wonders shewed amongst vs. As our Sauior Christ taught the Iewes they should haue had no sinne if he had not spoken vnto them so we teach of our forefathers that their sins was not so grieuous because they hard not the word of the Lord. But now our sinne is in the highest degrée of comparison if wee obey it not being so plainely taught vs 1. Tim. 1. cap. ver 13. that which S. Paule confesseth of himselfe I being a persecutor a blasphemer of the name of Iesus yea the chiefe of all sinners yet haue obtained mercie because I did it ignorantly so we iudge of our forefathers that without all doubt they haue obtained mercy And that which Azaria the Lords Prophet 2. Chron. cap. 15. v 34 Mark 12. ver 19.20 being sent to Aza taught him and all Israel in the like case of their forefathers departed This same we doe teach and affirme of our forefathers Israel hath béene a great while saith he without the true God without any priest preaching vnto him without the law Surely in the like case was our forefathers in the same state was the Church of God in those dayes they knew not God there was no priest to preach vnto them the word of God But what then were they all damned that dyed in those dayes no God forbid saith the Prophet but whosoeuer in their affliction turned vnto the Lord God and sought him was found of him so truely our forefathers although in their life they trusted in their workes and called vpon Saintes yet when they came to dye once they forgat all these and were wont to call vpon the Lord and to séeke after him alone and to haue him in their mouthes And we doe not doubt but according to his promise they found him but wée iudge and plainely affirme the case and cause of those blinde guides of those couetous priestes which solde their merits and their masses to bee farre harder in the day of iudgement And that they for their wilful blindnesse and great couetousnesse shall hardly find mercie No in truth if they marke well they shall finde that our religion doth not condemne our forefathers but that if euer any of them were saued we shew how they were saued Mar. 12. ver 19.20 for we preach Iesus Christ such a one as he is in déed a most merciful Sauiour who will not quench smoaking flaxe nor breake a bruised réede haue he faith as a graine of mustard séede haue he a sparkle of Gods holy spirit though he be not a stone with Peter but a réede with Thomas though he be not all a fire with Paule but euen smoking with Nicodemus Our Iesus wil not refuse him he wil not put him away he will not breake him she which toucheth the hem of his garment was healed This is the saluation of our fathers thus they were saued this we belieue this we teach this is the Gospel this is the glad tidings of our saluation But the Popes confessors bringing in againe the law of Moyses as in their Iewish robes of Myters and Copes and Tunicles so also in their doctrine haue taught another lesson Do this thou shalt liue say they giue thy lands to a chauntrie priest to a morrow masse build a Chappel and so forth Ouerthrowing the word of faith altogether which the Apostles preached And that continuall practise of our Sauiour to all that euer he cured or saued who saide not at any time doe this and thou shalt be saued but thy faith hath made thée whole verie like that same naughtie seruant in the Gospel who hauing but one talent hid the same euen so did they that same smal knowledge they had of Iesus Christ Yea more then this belying him saying he was a hard man a cruel requirer and exacter of his debts euen to the vttermost farthing either in hell or in their purgatorie that he was a seuere not a mercifull Sauior that he was not affable or easie to be spoken to that he had his Porters his intercessors or mediators vnto him so that poore sinners could haue no accesse vnto him such a Christ such a Sauior they made of our Sauior Iesus when as the Gospel plainly teacheth the king of Sion our Messias to be most gentle most méeke most merciful most affable most courteous most lowly which wil not striue with sinners which will not enter into iudgement with them which wil put none from him yea which with his owne mouth calleth them which are slow and heauie loden vnto him Who is so farre off that he wil not heare our prayers that to this end and purpose he is saide to haue ascended into heauen and there euen now to stand readie to receiue all that shall be offered vnto him and putting vnto them that swéete incense of his death and passion to present them vnto his father Such a one is our king such a one is our Sauior such a one is our Mediator