soeuer is iust but sinneth seauen tims a day but what sayest thou of the electe Saints of God Sonne Iob. 15. Iob that iust man in respect of others saith behold the Lorde doth not trust his saints yea the very heauens are not cleane in his sighte Iob. 25 How may a man compared to God be iustified how can he be cleane that is born of a woman the stars are corrupt in his sight Father What sayst thou of that Virgen Mary Mother of Iesus Christ Virgin Marie for some say that she is coequall with God some affirme that shée may bée compared to a sacke that when the meall is out is nothing better Sonne I for my part Exod. 20. thinke well of neither of these for the one speaketh blasphemie to make any like God who created and made all thinges and the Lorde is a Iellious God and I will haue none to be compared to him as for the other they speake vnreuerently to compare that elect and chosen of God Marie blessed that blessed among women to a sacke or filthie vesture for she is called of the Angell Gods messenger vnto her blessed for thus he saith Luke 1. Haill full of grace our lord is with thée blessed art thou among women for thou hast found grace with God The mother of Iohn the baptist that holie woman full of the holie ghost Luke 1 cryed with a loud voice saide blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruite of thy wombe Luke 11 Euen a simple woman cryed before Christ and said blessed is the wombe that bare thée and the paps that gaue the sucke She was called blessed because she was elected to saluation by faith in her sauyour she was called blessed because shée was chosen of God to beare Iesus that anoynted of the father she is called blessed by reason she obayed the Lordes commaundement and yéelded to his will Luke 1. And she was most blessed that the Lord imputed no sinne vnto her and as touching this her blessednesse she saith her selfe Behould from hence foorth all generations shall call me blessed so that this blessed and elect of God is neither Goddesse for she exalteth not her selfe so hie neither to be compared so vnreuerentlie séeing that it pleaseth the Lord our God and sauiour to be borne of her Father Math. 1 Then thou makest her without sinne Sonne As touching the conception and byrth of Christ she was a most pure Virgen in al respects touching the same vndefiled but as touching her owne conception and byrth Psal 51. she will say and confesse with Dauid behold I was gotten in wickednesse and in sinne my mother conceaued mée How can he be cleane that is borne of a woman Iob. 25. the starres are not cleane in his sight Looke at her owne words She saith Luke 1. my soule doth magnifie the Lord and my spirit reioyceth in God my sauiour if she had béene cleane from all sinne then shée might haue béene saued by the lawe and Christ Iesus although her Sonne should haue profited her nothing therefore you may sée that she findeth somthing in her selfe that causeth her to confesse with ioye gladnesse of soule that her owne sonne must be her sauiour For why there is none that commeth vnto the Father of heauen but those that are brought by Christ for hée saith Nemo venit ad patrem nisi per me There is none that commeth vnto the father but by mée Father May wée not lawfully woorshippe and praye vnto this blessed Virgin and other Saincts Prayer to Saints Sonne Noe Father for Christ saith Dominum deum tuum adorabis et illi soli feruies Thou shalt worship the Lorde thy God and him onely shalt thou serue Reuel 19 Iohn fell downe at the Angels féete to worship but hée saide vnto him sée thou doe it not for I am thy fellow seruant and one of thy brethren euen of them that haue the testimonie of Christ Iesu but worship God Acts. 10 Cornelius fell downe at Peters féete and worshipped him but Peter tooke him by the hande and saide stande vp I my selfe am also a man Acts. 14 Iupiters Priestes brought Oxen and garlands vnto the Porch and would haue done sacrifice with the people which when the Apostles Barnabas and Paull hearde they rent their clothes and ranne among the people and saide sirs why doe ye this wée are mortall menne like vnto you and preach vnto you that yée shoulde turne from these vanities to the liuing God 4. king 17 Feare serue bow and doe sacrifice to God and to none els The Lord charged that they shoulde feare none other God nor bowe them selues vnto them nor serue them nor sacrifice to them but feare God that brought them out of Egypt him feare and to him bowe and to him doe sacrifice And as touching praier Christ teacheth his Disciples to pray Prayer Our Father which art in heauen hallowed be thy name c. When thou prayest Math. 6 Pray to the father of heauen enter into thy Chamber and shut the doore and pray to thy Father which is in secret and he will reward thée openly I cry vnto the Lorde with my voyce saith Dauid Psalm 77 euen vnto God will I crye with my voyce and he shall harken vnto mée Looke vnto whome Abrahams seruaunt prayed Lord God of my Maister Abrahā Gene. 24 send mée good spéede this day and shewe mercy vnto my Maister Abraham Abraham praied for Abimelech vnto the Lorde Gen. 20. and the Lorde healed Abimelech He that offereth to any but to the Lord onelie let him be rooted out Exod. 22 Serue where thou wilt saith Iosua Iosua 24 I and my house will serue the Lord God The Angell sayde Iudg. 13. if thou wilt offer an offering thou must offer it vnto the Lorde Elcana went euerie festiuall day to pray and to offer vnto the Lord God of hostes in Silo. Anna prayed and saide I haue powred out my soule before the Lord wherby you may perceaue father that none is to bée worshipped bowed vnto feared sacrificed before prayed vnto but onely the God of heauen and earth Father May we not pray thus and say GOD and our Ladie helpe mée or God and S. Iohn Peter or Iames Sonne Esay 59 None can helpe but God That is to make others equall with God For Esay sayth that the Lord sawe that none was righteous and he wondred that there was none to helpe him wherefore he helde him by his owne power and susteyned him by his owne righteousnesse And I tould you before that it was blasphemie to compare any with GOD and besides such are enemies to those Saincts for they wish that the Lord in his ielousie shoulde plague them by reason that they attribute that vnto them 2. King 6. that belongeth onely to the Lord. Vsa as we réede when he saw the Oxen
our peace which hath made of both one and hath broken downe the wall that was a stop betwéene vs and hath also put away through his flesh the cause of hatred euen the lawe of commaundements contained in the lawe written All thing crucified with châ— for to make of twaine one newe man in him selfe to make peace and to reconcile both vnto God in one body through the crosse and slue hatred thereby came and preached peace to you that were farre off and to them which were nigh All one now both Iewes anâ— Ientiles for by him we haue both one entrance vnto God the Father It pleased the father that in him should all fulnesse dwell Collo 1. Blood of the crossâ— and by him to reconcile all things to himselfe and to set at peace by him through the bloud of the crosse both thinges in heauen and thinges in earth This we know that the father sent the sonne to be the sauiour of the worle 1. Io. 4 And concluding to speake further of the benefites we receaue by the death and passion of Christ Iesu Acts. 3. because no tongue is able to expresse the same for there is no other name vnder heauen by whome we must be saued but onelie in the name of Iesus Christ Father If we be purged saued redéemed deliuered iustified made the children of God and fellow heyres with Iesus Christ by his death and passion tell me to what ende was the law ordayned Sonne â—all 3 It was added because of transgression till the séede came to whome the promise was made â—om 7 To reueale sinne for I knowe not saith saint Paull sinne but by the lawe I had not knowen what lust had meant except the Lord had saide vnto me thou shalt not lust â—ll 3. The Law was our scholemaster vnto Christ that we should be iustified by faith but after that faith is come we are no longer vnder the scholemaster â—b 7. The lawe brought nothing to perfection but was an introduction to a better hope by the which we drawe nigh vnto God Father Then the law saueth none Sonne No for none fulfilleth it Gall. 3 therefore bringeth a curse vpon the transgressours for it is written cursed is euerie one that continueth not in all thinges which are written in the booke of the lawe to fulfill them Father How are we then deliuered from this curse séeing that none fulfill the lawe Sonne Christ Iesus hath deliuered vs from the curse of the law Gall. 3. in asmuch as he was accursed for vs for it is written Leuiti 18 cursed is euerie one that is hanged on trée that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Iesus Christ that wée might receaue the promise of the spirite through faith Father What sayest thou to the ceremoniall law wherein were sacrifices oblations Ceremoniall law burnt offerings sinne offerings heaue offerings peace offerings sprinckling water and many such like ordinaunces of God Sonne Heb. 9. In the olde Testament were ordinances and seruings of God and worldlie holinesse Heb. 10. The law hauing but a shadow of good thinges to come and not the verie fashion of things themselues can neuer by those sacrifices that they offer yéere by yéere continually make the commers therevnto perfect Father Was the law therefore abolished Sonne Heb. 10 Yea for it did but prefigure the sacrifice death passion and other thinges fulfilled by Christ Iesu for the Lord saide sacrifice and offering and burnt sacrifice and sinne offerings thou wouldest not haue neither hast thou allowed them which are yet offered by the lawe then saide he To do gods will is the best sacrifice loe I am héere to doe thy will oh God he taketh away the first to establish the latter Father Was Christ but once offered and was that offering perfect how chaunceth it that Priestes in some places affirme that in their masses they offer Christ stil vnto the Father for the sinnes of the quicke and deade Sonne It is not in mans power to offer Christ Heb. 9. for Christ Iesus fréed himselfe once not euerie day Christ was once offred saith S. Paull to take away sinnes and not to offer himselfe often as the hye Priestes doth for theÌ„ must he oft haue suffered since the world beganne Christ néedeth not daylie first for his owne sinnes and then for the sinnes of the people to offer vp sacrifice Heb. 7. for that did he once when he offred vp himselfe and therefore perfect for euermore Christ loued vs and gaue himselfe for vs an offring and a sacrifice of a swéete sauour vnto God Father Can not then our annoynted Priests offer Christ in their masses euery daie Ephe. 5. Sonne No father for sée what Saint Paull saith we haue an hye Priest in heauen that sitteth on the right hand of God and is a minister of holie thinges and of the true Tabernacle which God pight not man Heb. 10. this man after he hath offered one sacryfice for sinnes is set downe on the right hand of God for Vnica oblatione profectos imperpet effecit eos qui sanctificantur with one offering he hath made perfect for euer those that are sanctified Heb. 1 So that father now after that he hath purged our sinnes with this sacryfice he is set downe on the right hand of the maiestie on hye no more to be offered Father Is he set on the right hand of his father no more to be offered what profit haue we by him being there Sonne Heb. 13 Sacrifice of praise He doth alwaies offer to God his father the sacryfice of praise that is the fruite of those lipes wherewith wée confesse his name Heb. 9. Christ entred into verie heauen for to appeare in the sight of God for vs. Io. 2. If anie man sinne we haue an aduocate with the father Iesus Christ the righteous Aduocate to purchase mercie for vs. and he it is that obtaineth grace for our sinnes and not for our sinnes onelie but for the sinnes of the whole world He sitteth on the right hand of God and maketh intercession for the saints according to the pleasure of God Rom. 8. He is saith saint Paull at the right hand of his father to make intercession for vs. I sawe an Angell saith S. Iohn Reuel 8 that stoode before the Alter offering the praiers of Saints vppon the golden Alter which was before the seat and the smoke of the odours which came of the praiers of all saintes ascended vp before God out of the Angells hand This Angell father is Iesus Christ that praieth for vs and presenteth the God of heauen with our praiers whereby they are accepted and for whose sake our peticions graunted Father Thou saist that Christ Iesus sitteth at the right hand of his father to pray for vs to offer vp our praiers and sacrificeâ— of thanks giueing to him to be our
the dewe of Pearles and the Earth shall cast them out that bée vnder her the earth shall disclose her owne bloude and shall no more hide them that are slayne in her Beholde saith the Lorde I will open your Graues Ezech. 37 and take you out of your Sepulchers and bring you out of the lande of Israell againe my spirit shall I put in you and ye shall liue Many of them that sléepe in the dust of the earth shall awake Dan. 12 some to euerlasting life some to perpetuall shame and reproofe There shall bée a resurrection both of iust and vniust Good and bad Acts. 24 For by Christ shall all menne liue 1. Cor. 13 and GOD shall giue to euerye one his owne bodye at his pleasure For when the Trumpe shall blowe the deade shall ryse incorruptable and bée chaunged Father 〈◊〉 terrible lay Iesus be mercifull vnto vs. Procéede tell me now of this terrible day of iudgement Sonne â—say 13. The day of the Lord shall come terrible full of indignation furie and wrath to make the lande wast and to roote out the sinnes thereof for the Starres and Planets of heauen shall not giue their light the Sunne shall be darkened in the morning and the Moone shall not shine with his light I shall shake the heauen and the earth shall remoue out of her place saith the Lord of hostes â—say 14 Hell be-neath trembleth to méete the Lord at his comming â—say 24. The earth shall réele too and fro like a drunken man and shall be remoued out of her place like a tent in one night and the iniquitie thereof shall be heauie vpon it it shall fall and not rise agayne in that day shall the Lorde visite the hoste that is on high aboue and the kinges that are vpon the earth and they shall bée gathered together and they that be in pryson the Moone shall be abashed and the Sunne ashamed when the Lord of hostes shall reigne in Syon and in Ierusalem with worshippe and in the sight of such as shall be of his counsell Beholde Esay 28. there commeth a vehement and sore day from the Lord like an vnmeasurable hyll and perillous tempest euen like the force of mightie and horrible waters that violentlie beareth downe all thinges The earth shall bée visited of the Lorde of hostes with Thunder Esay 29. Earthquake and a great noyse with storme and tempest and with the flame of a consuming fier The heauens shall vanish away like smoake Esay 5â— and the earth waxeth olde like a cloth and they that dwell therein shall perish in like manner The verie fishes of the Sea Ezech. 3â— the foules of the ayre the beastes of the fielde and all people that are vpon the earth shall tremble for feare of mée sayth the Lord the Hilles shall be turned vpside downe the stares of stone shall fall and all the walles shall sincke to the grounde â—oel 2. The day of the Lord commeth and is harde at hande a darke day a glouming day a cloudie day yea a stormie daye before the Lord shall be a consuming fier and behinde him a burning flame Micheas 1 The mountaynes shall consume vnder him the valleys shall cleaue a sunder like as waxe consumeth and like as water runneth a pace â— Pet. 3. The world shall perish â—y fier The heauen and earth that are nowe to be kept by his worde in stoore and reserued vnto fier agaynst the daye of iudgement and perdition of vngodlye men â—opho 1 The great day of the Lord is at hand it is harde by and commeth on a pace horrible is the tidings of the Lords daye then shall the Gyants crye out for the day is a day of wrath and of trouble and heauinesse a day of vtter destruction and miserie a darke and glouming daye a cloudie and stormie daye a daye of noyse of Trumpets and Shalmes Trumpets shalms agaynst the strong Citties and high Towers â—euel 6 I sawe the Sunne as blacke as sackcloth and the Moone as bloud the Starres fell from Heauen the Heauen vanished away euen as a scrolle that rooled together and all mountaynes and Iles were remooued out of their places the great day of his wrath is come and who is able to endure Christ himselfe saith Math. 24 the Sunne shall bée darkened and the Moone shall not giue her light the Starres shall fall from heauen and the powers of Heauen shall be mooued and then shall appeare the token of the Sonne of manne in Heauen then shall all kinredes of the earth mourne when they shall sée the Sonne of manne come in the cloudes of Heauen with power and great glorie Father Mercifull God deliuer vs on that terrible and dreadefull daye of vengeance and wrath shielde vs vnder thy winges and couer vs with thy fethers But tell mée of that Iudge before whome we must make our appearances Sonne The Lorde Iesus shall shewe hymselfe 2. Theâ—â— from Heauen with his Angells of his power and with a flaming fier Math. 25 The sonne of man shall come in his glorie and all the holie Angells with him and then shall he sitte vpon the seate of his glorie and before him shall be gathered all nations Daniel 7. The olde aged satte him downe and his cloathing was as white as snowe and the haires of his heade like pure wooll his Throne like the fierie flame and his wheeles as the burning fier a thousande serued him and tenne thousande times tenne stoode before him the iudgement was set and the bookes opened Reuela 1 Beholde saith Saint Iohn hée commeth with cloudes and all eies shall sée and they also that pearsed him and all kinreds of the earth shall waile ouer him Father Oh great and mightie GOD merciful father The iudgement not â—scaped be mindefull of thy people whome thou hast bought with thy precious bloud Goe on tell mée Sonne if none can escape this iudgement neither by witte pollicie strength ritches by hiding or couering themselues nor by anie other shift Sonne No Father Reuel 20 none shall escape that euer were are or shall be to that day For S. Iohn saith I sawe the deade both small and great stand before God and the bookes were opened and the Sea gaue vppe her deade which were in her and death and Hell deliuered vp the deade that were in them There shall be Kinges of the earth Reuel 6 great men and ritch men and chiefe Captaines and mightie men We must all appeare before the iudgement seate of Christ 2. Cor. 5. that euerie man may giue accompt of his workes All mightie men and Princes of the earth Esay 14 and all Kinges of the earth shall stande vp from their seates that they may aunswere and speake vnto the Lord. The glorie of the Lorde shall appeare Esay 40 and all flesh shall at once sée it All flesh shall come to worship
Sonne The young men must be sober minded Titus 2 YouÌ„g men young women The young women must be sober minded also and loue their husbands and children they must be discréet chast huswifly good obedient vnto their husbands that none haue any euill to say of them Father What sayst thou to souldiers toll-gatherers and Baylifes Sonne Luke 3. Souldiers The souldyers demanded of Iohn Babtist what they should doe And he said hurt no-man neither trouble any man wrongfully and be contented with your wages Luke 11 Lawiers As for the lawiers the Lord cursed them and sayd wo vnto you ye Lawiers for ye loden men with burthens which they are not able to beare and ye your selues touch not the packes with one of your fingers Father But thou tellest me not what they should doe I sée a great sort euill enough Sonne Math. 23 They ought to execute Iudgement mercie and faithe Father What off bayllifs and common tol-gatherers and such like Sonne They ought to require no more then that is apponted vnto them Luke 3 Father Thou hast spoken of all perticulerlie Euery maÌ„s dutie But now let me heare in generall words of the dutyes of all states and degrées of people young and olde learned and vnlearned rich and poore man and woman Sonne The grace of God saith saint Paull Titus 2. hath appeared that bringeth saluation vnto all men and teacheth that all men should denye vngodlinesse and worldlie lusts and that they should liue soberly righteously and Godly in this present worlde They ought to feare God Reuel 14 and giue honour vnto him and worshippe him that made heauen and earth and the sea and the fountaines of water They ought to follow righteousnesse 1. Tim. 6 Godlinesse faith loue pacience méekenesse to fight the good fight of faith to lay haÌ„d on eternall life wherevnto they are called and haue professed the same before manie witnesses They ought to recompence to no man euil for euil to warne theÌ„ that are vnruly 1. Thes 5 to comforte the féeble minde to lift vp the weake and to be patient towards all men Phillip 2 They must be like minded hauing one loue being of one accord and of one minde that nothing be done through strife or of vaine glorie but in méekenesse of minde let euerie man estéeme an other better then himselfe Luke 12 They ought to séeke the kingdome of God and the righteousnesse thereof Luke 3. He that hath two coats must part with him that hath none and he that hath meat must doe likewise 1. Cor. 11 Euerie one must be a chast virgin vnto God 1. Peter 2 They ought all to loue as the seruants of God to honour all men to haue brotherly felloship to feare God to honour the Kinge Ecclesi 8 They must kéepe the kinges commandement and the oathe that is made vnto God Eccle. 12. This is the conclusion of all thinges that they feare God and kéepe his commandements for that toucheth all men Father Election Beginne to shewe me the goodnesse of God vnto his people I haue heard that we are elected of God euen of his méere loue Sonne Yea Deu. 4. whatsoeuer the Lord God doth vnto vs that it is of his mercy and loue and for our election the Lord saith because I loued thy fathers I chose their séede after them and brought them out of Egypt The Lord hath chosen thée to be a seuerall people and nation to himselfe Deut. 7. aboue all nations of the earth The Lorde chooseth vnto himselfe the man that is godlie Psal 4. I prepared thée or euer thou knewest me Esay 45. The Lord saith Ieremi 1. before euer I fashioned thée in thy Mothers wombe I did knowe thée and or euer thou wast borne I sanctified thée and ordayned thée to be a Prophet vnto the people The Lord choseth those that put their whoredome out of his sight Oscas 2. and their adnoutry from their breasts He whom the Lord chooseth shal be holy Nume 16 Was not Esau Iacobs brother Malachi saith the Lord yet haue I hated Esau and loued Iacob Io. 6. No man saith Christ can come vnto me except my Father draw him Io. 15. Chosen to good works I haue chosen you and ordayned you to goe and bring foorth fruit and that your fruit should remayne Ephe. 1. And concluding with Saint Paules words the Lord hath chosen vs in hym before the foundations of the world were laide that we shoulde be holye without blame before him through Iesus Christ to bée heyres vnto himselfe Father Creation What saiest thou touching our creation Sonne Gen. 1. In the beginning God made heauen and earth and all other things and sawe that they were excéeding good Psalm 33 By the word of the Lorde were the heauens made and all the hostes of them by the breath of his mouth Esay 41. He that called the generations from the beginning euen the Lord which is the first and the last made and created all thinges â—eremi 27 I am saith the Lord he that made the earth the men and Cattell that are vpon the grounde with my power and out-stretched arme and I haue giuen it to whome it pleaseth mée The Lorde is the worke-master of all things which teacheth wisedome Wisd 7 All things were made by the worde of God Io. 1. and without it was made nothing that was made And concluding with Saint Paull Collo 1. who saith That all things were created by him that are in heauen and that are in earth visible and inuisible whether they be Maiestraies or Lordship either rule or power Father But how was man created Sonne Euen after the image of God Mans creation Gen. 1. God created man in his own image in the image of God created he him Male and Female created he them The Lorde shaped man euen of dust of the moulde Gen. 2. and breathed into his nostherells the breath of life and so Adam was made a liuing soule The Lord saith Iob Iob. 10. made mée of the mould and shall bring me into dust againe he hath turned me as it were milk and turned me into cruds like chéese hée hath couered me with skinne and flesh and ioyned me togther with bones and sinewes â—ob 33. The spirit of God hath made me and the breath of the almightie hath giuen mée life Eccle. 7. This I haue founde that God made man iust but he hath many inuentions â—ust â—eremy 2 Faithfull I placed thée saith God a noble vine and a good roote whose seede is faithfull but thou art turned into a bytter vnfruitfull and straunge Grape Wisd 2. God made man to be vndestroyed yea after the Image of his owne likenesse made he him neuerthelesse through the mallice of the Diuell came death into the world â—phe 4 Ye are shapen after
be called Gods and Lordes many Sonne There is but one true God One true God although there bée thrée distincte persons of that one true GOD I cannot make further relacion of his Godhead then that he hath spoken and called himselfe thus I am that I am I am Exod. 3 I am sayth he to Moyses haue sent thée This God appered vnto Abraham Exod. 6. Iehoua Gene. 17 Isaac and Iacob as an almightie God and in my name saith hée Iehoua was I not knowen vnto them I am the almightie God behold I am Almighty True God Deut. 7. Eod. Mightie Terrible Deu. 9. A consuming fier Deu. 32 The Lord thy God is a true God God is among you a mightie and terrible GOD. The Lord thy God is a consuming fyer he shall consume and bring the enimies downe before his face I alone am God and there is else none I kill and make a liue He is a God of truth without wickednesse right and Iust is he Without sinne He is an holy an Ielious God Iosua 24 and can not beare with iniquitie and sinne The righteous god trieth the harts reines Psal 7. VVhat is God The Lord is my stony rocke and defence my sauiour my God and my might in whom I will trust my buckler the horne also of my saluation and my refuge Psalm 14 He maketh his Angels spirits and his ministers a flame of fire 139. If I clime vp to heauen he is there if I goe downe to hell he is there also Pro. 5. Euery mans waies are open in the sight of his God and he pondreth all mens goinges Pro. 15. Hell with her paine is knowne vnto this God how much more then the hearts of men â—eremi 10 I am euen I am the Lorde of hosts and besides mée ther is no sauiour The Lords â—ame the lord is a true God a liuing God and an euerlasting King Eod. The name of GOD is the Lorde of hosts Dan. 4. There is none that may resist his hand or say why dost thou this Daniel 7 He sat him downe and his clothing was as white as snowe and the haires of his head like the pure wooll his throne like the fyery flame and his wheles as the burning of fyre The second â—erson a thousand serued him and tenne thousand times tenne stoode before him the iudgement was set and the bookes opened and the beast slayne Math. 1. Thou shalt call his name Iesus quia is saluum faciet populum a peccatis suis For he shall saue the people from their sines In the beginning was the worde Io. 1. and the word was with God and God was the worde And the same word became flesh and dwelt among vs. The spirit of God came vpon the messengers of Saull and they prophecied Third person The Lord GOD and his spirit Esay 48. hath sent me I will power downe of my spirit vpon all flesh Ioel. 2 Procedit Apatrie Rom. 8 Procedit a filio Io. 16. and your sonnes and your daughters shall prophecie He that hath not the spirit of Christ he is none of his When the spirit of truth commeth whom I will send from my father he will lead you into all truth This spirit certyfieth our spirit Rom. 8. that we be the sonnes of God Trinitie Math. 3. When Iesus was baptised hée came straight out of the water and heauen was open vnto him and the spirit of God came downe like a Doue light vpon him and ther came a voyce from heauen which said this is my beloued Sonne In whom I am well pleased Gen. 19. The Lorde appeared vnto Abraham and he lift vp his eyes and looked and loe thrée men stode by him â—3 seme one worshipped and he ranne to méete them at the Tennte Doore and fel to the ground and saide Lorde I besech thée goe not from thy seruant Esay 6. The Cherubin songe holy holy holy Lord God of hosts Io. 5.3 persons one God Ther be thrée that beare record in heauen the father the sonne and the holy ghost and these thrée are one Spirit water blod There be thrée that beare witnesse vppon earth the spirite and water and blood and these thrée are one Reuel 22 And concluding that these thrée persons the father sonne and holy ghost are consubstantiall and coequall Alpha and Omega without beginning or ende Father Prayer I besech this holy and blessed Trinitie one true and euerlasting GOD to continue his mercie and goodnesse towards vs his people for his owne name sake Amen Sonne And I doe most earnestly entreate his maiestie to giue vs grace to put off the olde man which is corrupt and to put on the newe man taking holde of his mercie by faith and so continue neuer looking backe but still procéeding from vertue to vertue till we enioye that kingdome prepared for the elect and chosen by this blessed Trinitie Amen Father Goe forwarde sonne tell me how man at the beginning knew the will and good pleasure of his God before the Lawe was written that he might doe thereafter and liue Sonne When the Lorde made man at the béeginning Gen. 1 he made him after his owne Image that was iust so that he knewe how to eschue euill do good for it was grafted in him when he was called of God Free will For the Lorde sent fyre and water lyfe and death before man Eccle. 15. that he might reach his hand to which he would Father And what did man being Iust and in that frée choise Sonne Gene. 3 He chose death and left life He became obedient to the subtyll serpent the Diuell and disobedient vnto his God As appeareth when God had made man and woman he placed them in Paradise where they should haue liued and all their posterytie in Ioye and filicitie for euer they had frée wil and libertie ouer all the trées and hearbes in that garden Tree of knowledge Gen. 3. and all other things whatsoeuer except the trée of knowledge of good and bad which the Lord commaunded that they should not vpon paine of death touch Father Could they not be content with all the fruites of the garden and abstayne from that one trée and so be blessed for euer Sonne No Father they forsooke their blessednesse and chose to be cursed to leue life and take death they forsooke their inherytance in heauen and chose to be fier brands in hell they cast off the Image of GOD and toke vppon them the Image of the Diuell The diuells â—mage Father Tell me by what meanes this came to passe Sonne When the Lord had thus blessed them with all blessings Gen. 3 the Diuell and Sathanas hating their happie state from which hée was fallen A lyer Serpent subtiller then any beast Came as a Serpent to Eua and demaunded why they eate not
of the Trée of knowledge shee sayde that the Lorde had forbid them and threatned death vnto them if that they eate thereof but he saide the Lord knoweth that yée shall be as Gods and not dye if you eate VVomen are proude So the woman desiring to bée a Goddesse tooke and eate and gaue to her husbande who did eate also and they saw then that they were naked destitute of all felicitie happinesse grace and vertue Wherewith the Lorde had endued them and were most lothsome filthie and stinckeyng in the Nosthrells of the Lorde and the Lorde God calling them to an accompt bolted out the matter howe Adam had eaten moued by Eua. And Eua had eaten by the enticement of the Serpent and the Lord saide to the woman in multiplying I will multiply thy sorrowe and thy conceauing in sorrowe shalt thou bring foorth thy children VViues subiect to their husbands and thy lust shall pertaine to thy husbande and he shall haue rule ouer thée And vnto Adam he sayde because thou hast harkened vnto the voice of the woman and hast eaten of the trée concerning the which I sayde vnto thée thou shalt not eate of it cursed is the ground for thy sake in sorrowe shalt thou eate of it all the dayes of thy life Thorne also and Thistle shall it cause to growe vnto thée and thou shalt eate the hearbe of the fielde and in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eate breade till thou be turned again to the ground for out of it wast thou taken in as much as thou art but dust into dust shalt thou be turned agayne And the Lord saide to the Serpent Gen. 3. because thou hast done this thou art cursed aboue all cattell and aboue euerie beast of the field vpon thy bellie shalt thou goe and dust shalt thou eate all the dayes of thy life I will also put enmitie betwéene thée and the woman betwéene thy séede and her séede the same shall treade downe thy head Christ promised and thou shalt treade on his héele And the Lord clothed Adam and Eua with leathering garments droue them out of Paradise to dresse the groūd out of the which they were taken And he set the Cherubins and the glistering flame of a shaking sworde to kéepe the way of the trée of life Father Let me nowe heare howe they liued and their posteritie and whether they for the most part serued God or no Sonne Adam Sinne increased◠hauing shortly after a Sonne named Cane and after him Abell Cane and Abell going to the fielde together Cane rose vp against his brother Abell and slew him Murder and after dispayred of the mercie of God and saide my sinne and iniquitie is more then it may be forgiuen And God saw that the malice of man was great in earth Dispaire and all the imaginations of his heart was onely euill and that continually The imaginations of mans heart Gen. 6. was euill euen from his youth The earth was fiilled with crueltie and corrupted before God for all flesh had corrupted his owne way vpon earth So that the Lord destroyed all the worlde with the floud Noas floud Gen. 9. Drunckennesse Mocking Gen. 13 except eight persons Noa being drunke was vncouered in his tent and his sonne Ham mocked him being newlie deliuered from drowning The men of Sodom were wicked and excéeding sinners before the Lord. Gen. 18. The crye of Sodom is great saith God and their sinnes are excéeding grieuous Gen. 19. Lot being drunken with wine laye with his two daughters being newly deliuered from destruction of fire and Brimstone Gen. 38. Eer Iudas eldest son being wicked in the sight of the Lord and the Lord slew him Gen. 38 Onan another of Iudas sonnes being wicked did the Lord slay And thus the people still wrought wickednesse in the sight of God and sundrye times the Lord therefore destroyed them with fier pestilence swoorde noysome beastes and such like death Father Exod. 20 The Lord punished the people for their vncleanenesse and sinne as I perceaue but now tell me Ten com when the law was giuen by God which reuealed sinners Law written which is called the lawe written or ten commaundements Sonne The God of heauen and earth gaue thē to Moyses to be taught vnto his people in mount Sinay written vpon two tables of stone Father How many commaundements were written in the first table Sonne Fower Deu 5. euen with the finger of God wherein is contained our obedience vnto our God and in the second table sixe commaundements wherein we may learne a perfect and absolute dutie to our neighbour Father I haue often red those precepts I thinke there be none ignoraunt thereof therefore thou shalt not néede to repeat them but can any man be saued by obseruing and kéeping of them Sonne The Lord shall aunswere you Leuitic 18 who saith ye shall kéepe my ordinaunces and iudgements which if a man doe he shall liue in them I am the Lord. Math. 19. One came to Christ and saide vnto him good Maister what shall I doe that I may attaine eternall lyfe Christ aunswered if thou wilt enter into life kéepe the commaundements Math. 22 A Lawier saide vnto Christ Maister what shall I doe to obtayne eternall life Christ saide how readest thou And the Lawier answered thou shalt loue the Lord thy God with all thine heart with all thy soule with all thy strength and with all thy minde and thou halt loue thy neighbour as thy selfe And Christ Iesus aunswered Hoc fac et viues This doe and thou shalt liue Gal. 2. And concluding with Saint Paull the man that doth the things contayned in the lawe and fulfilleth them shall liue by them Father Well let mée now sée howe well wée obserue these and whether any are saued thereby or not Sonne Deut. 11 I shall aunswere you therevnto but first fée what the Lord addeth Beholde saith the Lord I set before you a blessing and curse a blessing if you obey the commaundement of the Lord thy God And a curse if thou wilt not obey the commaundement of the Lord thy God Cursed is he that continueth not in all the words of the law to doe them Deut. 27. Father I feare then we all incurre the curse of God Goe to now doe we kéepe this law Sonne I will shew you by what meanes we may violate and breake the lawe And then if we examine our selues we shall perceaue as it were in a glasse our corruption and disobedience We may breake the lawe of our God by thought woorde and worke The imaginations of mans heart is euill euen from his youth Thought Gen. 8. The Lorde smote Pharao and his house because of Saray Abrahams wife Gen. 12. he lusting after her Math. 5 I say vnto you saith Christ that whosoeuer looketh on a woman to lust after her he hath committed adulery
thée from thy Cittie of Ierusalem thy holye hill Daniel 9. O Lord heare vs O Lord forgiue O Lord consider tarrie not ouer long but for thine owne sake doe it O my God euen for thy mercies sake and for the temple at Ierusalem All the people prayed and humbled theÌ„selues with fasting and prayer Iud. 4 Fasting praier they and their wiues the priests put on heyrie cloth and with one accord praied vnto the Lord. And all the people fell downe flat on their faces and prayed Iudeth 6 The song of the thrâ— children and wept till euening and besought the Lord of Israell the he would shew his mercie vpoÌ„ his people For thine owne sake for thy beloued Abrahams sake for thy seruant Isaac sake and for thy holy Israells sake giue vs not vp for euer neither take thy mercy froÌ„ vs. The prodigall child repented Luke 15 Confession praier came to his father and said father I haue sinned against heaueÌ„ against thée I am no more worthie to be called thy sonne make me I beséech thée as one of thy hyred seruants The thiefe at Christs death thus praied Luke 23 Lorde remember mée when thou comest into thy kingdome for I am iustlie condemned but thou hast done nothing amisse Christ aunswered Amen Dico tibi hodie mecum eris in Paradiso Verelie this night shalt thou be with me in Padise Luke 18. The Publican durst not looke vppe to heauen but smote vpon his brest saide God be mercifull vnto me a sinner and he went home iustified Father Is prayer so effectuall and of such vertue Sonne Prayer of â—reat verâ—ue Math. 21 Yea if it be deuout and faithfull for Christe saith all thinges whatsoeuer ye aske in prayers if ye beléeue ye shall receaue them â—o 16 Verelie verelie I say vnto you whatsoeuer ye aske the father in my name he will giue it you hytherto haue ye asked nothing in my name aske and ye shall haue that your ioy may be full â—ames 1 Aske in faith and wauer not saith S. Iames and it shall be done to you â—ames 5 Helias was a man vnder infirmities as we are and he prayed in his prayer that it might not rayne and it rayned not the space of thrée yeares and sixe monethes and he prayed that it might rayne and the heauens gaue rayne the earth brought foorth her fruite Whereby you may well perceaue Father that hartie prayer auayleth much Father â—atisfactioÌ„â—ot made 〈◊〉 man What saiest thou to satisfaction a part of repentance as we haue béene taught Sonne Father Math. 3. there is none that can make satisfaction vnto God but the man Iesus Christ who hath made satisfaction for our sinnes in whome the father of heauen is well pleased and his iustice pacified Dauid saith Psal 49. no man may deliuer his brother nor make satisfaction vnto God for him for it cost more to redéeme their soules so that they must let that alone for euer Father What if we haue taken our neighbours goods or done him wrong must we make no recompence or restitution to theÌ„ Restitutiâ— although we can make no satisfaction to God Sonne Yes truely that we must for we réede in the booke of Tobias that when he was blinde his wife brought home a Kyd and her husband hearing it saide looke that it be not stolne restore it agayne to the owners for it is not lawfull for vs to eate any thing of theft A théefe shall make restitution Exod. 22 If a soule sinne and trespasse against the Lord Leuiti â— and denie vnto his neighbour it which hée hath taken to kéepe or that which was put into his hands or doth violence or robberie vnto his neighbour or if he haue found that which was lost and denieth it sweareth falsely vpon what-thing soeuer it be that a man doth and sinneth therein if he haue so sinned or trespassed he shall restore againe that hée tooke violentlie away or the wrong which he did he shall restore it againe in the whole summe and shall adde the fifth part thereto â—f ye reâ—ore you â—all be parâ—oned and shall giue it vnto him to whome it pertaineth that day that he offereth for his trespasse and in so doing it shall be forgiuen him what soeuer hée hath done Father What if he be deade vnto whom ye haue done wrong or whose goods you haue taken so that the same can not be restored to him Sonne â—um 5 Then shall they acknowledge their offence and restore the hurt that they haue done in the whole summe and put the fift parte therevnto and giue it vnto his next kinseman to whom he did wrong but if there be none to restore the hurt vnto nor a kinseman of his let the trespasse be made good to the Lord and it shall be the Priestes Zacheas saide vnto Christ Leuiti 19 Oh Lorde the halfe of my goods I giue to the poore and if I haue done wrong to any man I will restore to him foure foulde And what aunswered Iesus Christ this day is saluation come to thine house because thou art become a childe of Abraham for the sonne of man came to saue that which was lost Father I perceaue the most of these parts that thou hast spoken off Iudas the traytor repented but not truely to be in Iudas that traytour and yet a damned creature he repented he confessed that he had sinned in betraying innocent bloud and he made restitution and cast downe the thirtie plates of siluer yet he desperatelie went and hanged himselfe Sonne True it is father Faith but he wanted the chiefe poynt of all other which was faith he had no beliefe to be saued and therfore crauing no mercie dispaired and dispairing hanged himselfe Dispaire The like wée réede of Cain that Gen. 4. flew Abell his brother he saide vnto the Lord my sinne is greater then that it may be forgiuen 1. king 29 King Saull dispayring in God and trusting to Enchaunters and Couniurers fell vpon his owne sword and slewe himselfe and all his host fled Heb. 4. The Iewes entred not in because of their vnbeliefe 2. kings 17 Achetofell when he saw his counsell was not followed he went home and set his house in order and hanged himselfe Exod. 9 Pharo saide the Lord is righteous and I a sinner and so dispayred Iob. 15. One may perceiue who dispaireth Faith He that neuer beléeueth to be deliuered out of darkenesse for the sword is alwaies before his eyes Father Procéede my sonne tell me of this point which thou callest the principall aboue others in repentance which thou saiest is a stedfast and true faith and first tell mée what faith is Sonne Heb. 11 Saint Paull saith that fayth is a suer confidence of thinges which are hoped for and a certentie of thinges which are not séene and further without faith it
thou that hast made thy seruant king in steade of Dauid my father Wisedome and strength are the Lords Dan. 2. he putteth downe kinges and setteth vp kinges The Lord hath set a ruler ouer euerie people so that the ruler Eccle. 17. Conclusiō that the Prince is the head Prince or king set ouer euery people by the Lord being so ordayned of God is chiefe head ouer those people where the Lord hath placed and set him Father Thou proouest verie well and directly my Sonne if Kinges and Princes are ordayned of God But now procéede and tell me for what cause Sonne 1. Pet. 2. Rom. 13. The Apostle aunswereth thus for the punishment of euill dooers but for the loue of them that doe well Rulers are not fearefull to them that doe well but to them that doe euill for he is the minister of God for thy welth But and if thou doest euill then feare for hée beareth not the swoord for naught for hee is the minister of God to take vengeance of him that doth euill Exod. 18. Moyses saide iudge betwéene euerye man and his neighbour and shewe them the ordinaunce of God and his lawes Gen. 26. Abymelech the king commaunded that none of his people should touch Abraham or his wife and whosoeuer hurt eyther of them should die the death VVho are to be chosē kings Deut. 17. No stranger to be thy king Deut. 17. Thou shalt make him king ouer thée which the Lord thy God shalt choose euen one from among thy brethren shalt thou make king ouer thée thou mayst not make a stranger king ouer thee which is not of thy brethren The king ought to reade in the lawe of his God all the dayes of his lyfe and not turne there from neyther to the right hand nor to the left Dauid raigned ouer Israell and executed iust and right ouer all his people 2. kings 8 The King shall giue sentence betwéene parties 2. king 25 and iustifie the righteous and condemne the vngodly The King is like an Angell of God to heare good and bad 2. king 14 The King ought to defend the fatherlesse and poore Psalm 82. to sée that such as bée in néede and necessity haue right A wise King destroyeth the vngodlie Pro. 20. and bringeth the whéele ouer them Father Sonne 1. Pet. 2. I vnderstand the Kinges dutie and that the God of heauen hath chosen him for the punishment of the wicked and for the praise of the good doer but tell me if he haue this power and aucthoritie from God ouer all his subiects spiritual and temporall Sonne Yea Father ouer all people within his seuerall iurisdiction whether exclesiasticall or cyuell Iosua commaunded the Prists to take Iosua 3. vp the Arke of the Lord and to goe before the people and they so dyd Iosua 4 The Lord saide to Iosua commaund the Priests that beare the Arke of witnes to come vp out of Iourden and the people to followe 3. Cron. 8. Salomon set the sorts of the Priestes to their offices and the Priestes in their watches to minister to the Lord and the Priests the Leuites omitted not the commandement of the King concerning anie maner of thing Father Well but what further hath a Prince to doe in the Church of God Sonne 4. king 18 You may perceiue Father by these examples following Hezechia dyd that which was right in the sight of the Lorde as Dauid had done he put downe the hyll Alters and brake the Images cut downe the groues and all to brake the brasen Serpent which Moyses made for vnto that time the people did burne sacryfice to it called it Nehustan Dan. 6. Daryus the King wrote a commaundement that all menne spirituall and temporall within his domynion should feare and stand in awe of Daniels God for he is the liuing God that abydeth euer and his kingdome shall not fayll it is he that delyuereth and saueth The Kinge ought to ouerthrowe all Alters breake downe their Pyllers Deu. 7. cut downe their groues and burne the grauen Images with fire Whereby you may plainely sée that the King or Prince in the Church of God hath aucthorytie to roote out all supersticion and Idolitrie And to commaund that the liuing God be feared and worshiped Father What punishment may the Kinge or Prince appoint for Idolaters and for those that pollute the Temple of the Lord and will not feare the God of Israell Sonne Euen what punishmēt as the Prince shall thinke good for the Lord sayeth Iosua 2. The kings displeasure is a messenger of death whosoeuer doth disobay his mouth will not harken vnto his woords in al that he commandeth him let him dye Salomon sayd if thou be a Childe of 3. Kings 1 vertue there shall not one haire of thine head fall to the earth but if thou be wicked thou shalt dye Deu. 13 If there arise saith the Lord among you a Prophet a dreamer of dreames and giue a signe or wonder and that signe or wonder come to passe and shall then say come let vs worship strange Gods thou shalt haue no pittie nor compassion vppon him but cause him to be slayne thou shalt stone him with stones that he dye Exod. 22 He that offereth to any Gods but to the Lord onely let him be rooted out Exod. 21 He that smyteth a man that he dye shall dye for it He that curseth his father or mother shall dye for it Eye for eye tooth for tooth hand for hand c. By these examples you may well note Father that Princes may punish with imprisonment fyne or death offenders whether Priests or seculer persons Father Séeing that Princes are ordayned of God for these causes and haue power to punish with death or otherwise according to the offence must not all persons then néeds obey them Sonne Yes Father all subiects must honour them and obay them with their bodies goods and prayers Ouer all which the Prince hath power Let euery soule saith Saint Paull Rom. 13. submit himselfe to the aucthorytie of the hyer powers Ye must néeds obay Eod. not onely for feare of vengance but also because of cōscience Warne them that they submit themselues to rule and power Titus 3 that they obay the officers Submitte your selues vnto all manner of ordinances for the Lords sake 1. Peter 2 whether it be to the King as to the chiefe head eyther vnto rulers as vnto them that are sent of him for the punishment of euill doers but for the prayse of them the do well All our Cyties possessions Iudeth 3 al moūtaines and Hills all Fields great and small Cattell Shéepe and Goates Horses Camels all our goods housholds are in the power of the King and vnder his subiection we our selues and our Children are his owne Christ Iesus sayth Math. 22 giue to Caesar the things that belong to Caeser and
vnto God the things that are goods Esdras 7 Whosoeuer will not obey the King let him haue Iudgment without delay Rom. 13. Giue to euery man his duty tribute to whom tribute belongeth custome to whō custome is due feare to whome feare belongeth honour to whō honour pertaineth Math. 7 Iesus saide to Peter of whome doe the Kings of the earth take tribute or toll and further saide goe least we should offend and take thine angle and looke that thou take the fyshe that first commeth vp and thou shalt finde in his mouth a péece of xx pence that take and giue it vnto them for mée and thée 1. king 8 The Lord shewing the domynion of a king ouer subiects sayth he will take your sonnes and put them to his Chariots and make horsemen to runne before him make of them Captaines ouer thousands and ouer hundreths to eare his ground gather his haruest and your daughters wil he make cookes apotecaries and bakers and he shall take the best of your feildes vine-yerds olyues and giue thē to his seruants I exhort saith saint Paull Tim. 2 that aboue all things prayers Praier for Kings supplications intercessions and giueing of thankes be had for all men for Kinges and for all that are in authoritie that we may liue a quiet and peaceable life with al godlinesse honesty And all the people sayd 1. King 10 God send the king long life I pray God that my Lord King Dauid may liue euer God saue King Salomon 3. kings 1. the people sayde Amen I pray God that the Lord God of my king say so too Daniell sayd oh king Dan. 2. God saue thy life for euer Father What Euell princes are all kinges and Princes to be honoured and prayed for if they be euill and wicked Sonne Yea Dan. 3. for why they are Gods ministers ordained of God I read that Nabugodonozer King of Babulon made an Image to be worshipped howbeit Sidrach Mysaac and Abednago although they refused to worship that Idoll yet they submitted thēselues and honoured the King Daryus king of Babulon Dan. 6 casting Danyell into a Lyons Den yet Danyell honoured the king and sayd oh King God saue thy life for euer Saull a wicked king purposing to haue killed Da. yet Da. honored him said 1. king 24 the Lord forbid that I should touch the Lords annoynted Iob. 34. For the wickednesse of the people doth the Lorde make an hippocrite to raigne ouer them Pro. 21. The kinges heart is in the hande of God like as are the ryuers of water hée may turne it whether soeuer he will So that you may perceaue Father that God ordayneth a wicked king to raigne ouer wicked people to scourge and plague thē For a wicked king is the lands scourge Father Depose May not Subiectes labour to depose their Prince if he bée euill and place another Sonne Daniel 2. The Lord forbid for why wisedome and strength are the Lords he setteth vp kinges and putteth downe kinges 1. king 17. The Lord hath rented his kingdome from thée and hath cast thée off that thou shalt not bée king Father But by whome and wherefore was Saull deposed Sonne 1. Cro. 10. By the Lord was he deposed Because he trespassed against the Lord in that hée kept not the word of the Lord but sought and asked counsel of a woman the wrought with a spirit and asked not of the Lorde The highest hath power ouer kingdoms of men and giueth them to whom he wil Daniel 4. and he bringeth euen the verie abiectes of men ouer them Father Then it is not lawfull for any person to rebell or make insurrection Rebellion Sonne Who can lay his hand saith Dauid 1. king 26. 1. king 24. on the Lords anoynted and be guiltlesse the Lord be mercifull vnto mée that I do not touch the Lords anoynted Dauid said to the young man 2. king 2. how is it that thou wast not afrayde to slaye the Lordes anoynted and his young men came vpon him and slue him The vnrighteous and wicked men that slue the kings sonne in his owne house 2. king 4 vpon his bed shall not I saith Dauid require his bloud at your hands take you from the earth and Dauid caused them to be hanged vppe and cutte of their handes and féete Rebellion is as the synne of witchcraft 1. king 15 and disobedience is as the sinne of Idolatrie 2. king 18 Absolon rebelling against Dauid his father roade vpon a Mule who ranne vnder a trée and was hanged by the lockes of his haire and was cast into an hole and stones vpon him Math. 27 Iudas who betrayed his Maister for xxx péeces of siluer went out and hanged himselfe and his bowells gushed out Numer 16 Corath Dathan and Abyron rebelled and they their wiues and children goods cattells being in their tents the earth opened her mouth and they went downe all quicke into hell Nume 16. Two hundreth being of the same conspiracie not then there present fire came downe from heauen and destroyed them Ecclesi 10 Wish the king no euill in thine heart nor thy Prince any hurte in thy prieuie Chamber for a byrde of the ayre shall bewray thée and with her fethers shall shée bewray thy secrets Rom. 13 But chiefelye marke Saint Paules words Whosoeuer resisteth shall receaue to themselues damnation whereby you may well perceaue Father how the Lord God of heauen plaugeth rebells not only with bodely death destruction but also with eternall confusion and condemnation in the burning lake of hell where fier and Brimstone storme and tempest shall bée their portion to drinke Father Iesu my sonne how many conspiracies trayterous rebellions haue been of late against our gratious Princesse Sonne Yea father yet the Lord that great and mightie Iehoua doth saue his anoynted out of their bloudie hands A prayer And I beséech our God and heauenly father for Iesus death innocent blood-shedding to blesse preserue and saue her Maiestie and either in mercy conuert their hearts to their dutifull obedience vnto her Maiestie or else in iustice destroy them that they may perish and haue their portion with Corath his companie which thing the eternall God for his great mercy sake graunt And thereto let all that feare God say Amen Father And I beséech the Lord God 3. kings 1 of my princesse to say so to Amen Procéede my son to tell me of whome haue Iudges Iudges and magestrato Rulers Magestrates and Officers of euery degrée in the common wealth their power and aucthoritie Sonne Of their head the Prince euen as the Prince hath power from his heade Christ For they are the hands of their king or Prince whereby he worketh Exod. 18. Be thou vnto the people to God-ward that thou maist bring the causes vnto God and
preach the ghospell should liue of the ghospell Gal. 6. Let him that is taught in the worde minister vnto him that teacheth him in all good thinges Iosua 13 Offerings Heb. 13 Iosua gaue none inheretance to the Leuits but the offerings of the people Remember them that haue the ouersight of you which haue spoken vnto you the word of God whose faith sée that you follow and marke the ende of their conuersation Reuerence Ministers Obey them that haue the ouersight of you and submitte your selues vnto them for they watch for your soules euen as they that must giue accompts that they may doe it with ioye and not with griefe I beséech you be obedient to all that helpe and labour 1. Cor. 16. looke that you knowe them that are such I was filled after that I receyued the thinges which were sent from you Phillip 4 an odour of a sweete smell a sacrifice accepted vnto God Father But Sonne what shall Ministers and Preachers doe with that which remayneth of the tythes and benefices more then they bestow of themselues their wiues Children and famelie Sonne They shall giue it saith the Lord Deu. 26. vnto the straunger the fatherlesse and the wydowes that they may eat within their gates and fyll themselues Father Thou hast spoken much what Ministers must doe and wherevpon they shall liue but tell me what reward the Lorde prepareth for them in the worlde to come Sonne The wise Dan. 12. such as haue taught others vnto godlinesse shall glyster as the shining of heauen and shall be as the stars world without ende Reuel 213 A crowne of glorie a throne of Maiestie a paradise of pleasure a life euerlasting Math. 15 They shall shine as the Sunne in the kingdome of the Father Esay 51. An euerlasting ioy is vpon their heads they possesse ioye and exultacion and all payne and forrow is fled from them Reuel 3 I will saith Christ graunt them to sit in my seat with mée 1. Peter 5 When the chiefe shepperd Iesus Christ shall appeare they shall receaue an incorruptable crowne of Glorie Reuel 22 They shall sée the sace of God and his names shall be in their foreheades Father Well sonne the Lord is a great God and mercifull father thus to reward them that worke his worke but are Ministers and Preachers reuerenced of all men as the messengers of God and disposers of his secrets Sonne No Father sometime slandered sometime mocked sometime bett and sometime put in death They â—acked the messengers of the Lord and despised his worde 2. Cro. 36 and misvsed his prophets vntill the wrath of God arose agaynst the people They hadde the messengers of the Lord inâ—ension 3. Esdras 1 and looke what GOD saide vnto them by his prophetes they made but a sporte of it The rulers beat the Apostles Acts. â— and commaunded them not to speake in the name of the Lord Iesu but they went away from the Counsell reioycing that they were compted worthie to suffer rebuke for his name Christ left vs an example that wée should follow his steppes 1. Peter 2 who did no sinne neyther was there any guile founde in his mouth which when hée was reuiled reuiled not agayne when he suffered he threatned not by whose stripes we were healed The wicked saith Saint Peter 2. Peter 2. liue in pleasure in their owne deceyueable waies and feasting and mocking the desciples Elia saide 3. kings 1 the Children of Israell haue forsaken thy couenant broken downe thine alters slayne the Prophets with the sword and I onely am left and they séeke to take away my life Heb. 11. Some are racked some reproched some whipped some chayned some imprisoned other stoned cut in péeces slayne with the swoord Math. 26. Yea Christ our Maister and heade crucified Wherefore if we be compted the off skowring of the world and with the Apostles and Christ himselfe kylled let vs reioyce Math. 5. for great shall our reward bée in heauen Father â—aâ—sters Procéede to the duties of Maisters to their seruants Sonne â—ollo 4. Saint Paull teacheth playnely saying that Maisters must doe to the seruaunts that which is iust and equall knowing also that they haue a maister in heauen â—phe 6 Ye Maisters doe that which is right vnto your seruants putting away threatninges for the Lord hath no respect of persons â—euitic 19 Let no seruaunts wages abide with shée vntill the morning Whosoeuer woorketh any thing for thée Tobias 4. immediatly giue him his hyre and looke that thy seruaunts wages remayne not by thée one night If thy brother or sister serue thée sixe yéeres Deu. 15. and in the seuenth yéere depart from thée thou shalt not let him goe from thée empty but shall giue them of thy shéepe and of thy corne and of thy wine Whereas thy seruant worketh truely Eccle. 7. intreat him not euill nor the hireling that is faithfull vnto thée loue a discrete seruaunt as thine owne soule defraude him not of his libertie neyther leaue him a poore man He that defraudeth a labourer of his hyer is a bloudshedder Eccle. 34 The hyer of the labourers that haue reaped downe your Corne fieldes Iames. 5. which hyer is of you kept backe by fraud cryeth and the crye hath entred into the eares of the Lords Sabaoth so that if Maisters detayne their seruaunts wages or deale cruelly with them the king of glorie will burne their flesh in the fier Father Let me heare the seruaunts dutie to their Maisters Seruants Sonne Titus 2 Saint Paull saith exhort seruants that they be obedient vnto their own maisters and to please them in all things not answering agayne neyther to be pickers but that they shew all good faithfulnesse that they may doe worshippe to the doctrine of Christ our Sauiour in all things Ephe. 6. Ye Seruants obey them that are your bodelie maisters with feare trembling euen with the singlenesse of your heart as vnto Christ not doing seruice vnto the eye as they that goe about to please men but as the Seruaunts of Christ doing the will of God from the heart with good wil seruing the Lord and not men Collo 3 Ye Seruaunts be obedient vnto your bodely Maisters in all thinges not with eye seruice as men pleasers but in singlenesse of heart fearing God 1. Tim. 6 Let as many seruaunts as are vnder the yoake compt their Maisters worthie of all honour that the name of God and his doctrine bée not euill spoken off 1. Peter 2 And concluding with Saint Peters words which are Seruaunts obay your Maisters with feare not onely if they bée good and curteous but also though they be froward Father Tell me some thing of the duties of husbands to their wiues Husbands Sonne Saint Peter who was married himselfe thus exhorteth husbandes 1. Pet. 3â— yée men dwel with your
stumbled which carried the Arke of God the Arke like to fall as he thought None ioyned with god to help he offered to vpholde or stay the Arke No good entent pleaseth God that is contrary to his will and God smote him that he dyed sodainelie Therefore whosoeuer thinketh the Lord so weake that he must haue the blessed Virgin Marie the Saincts Apostles or Angels to take holde with him let that man or woman doubt for feare the Lord smite them as he did Vsa sodenly for let men know that God is almightie Father Thou prouedst before that all are sinners but I haue brought thée from that matter yet I would gladly know further touching sinne what those are wherein all for the most part haue offended Sonne Idolatrie Idolatry for that most displeaseth God whome all people kindreds and toungs ought to worship Exod. 22. He that offereth vnto any Gods but to the Lord let him be rooted out Exod. 32 The people made a Calfe and woorshipped it they sate downe to eate and drinke and rose vp to play but the Lorde slue thrée thousande for the same Leuiti 19 Ye shall not saith the Lord turne to Idolls nor make you Gods of metall Iacob commaunded all his housholdes to put away the straung Gods that were among them Gen. 35 and be cleane and so they did Leuitic 17 Let none offer their offeringes vnto Diuells after whome they haue gone a-whoring Leuit. 26 Ye shall make you no grauen Image neyther reare you vp any stone neyther any Idole to worship it for I am the Lord. Deu. 4. You saw no Image saith the Lorde when I spake vnto you out of the fier then take héede that you make no manner of Image to worshippe neither of manne beast foule c. For if thou doe I call Heauen and Earth to recorde ouer you this daye you shall perishe shortelie out of this lande Ye shall ouerthrow their Alters Deu. 7. A kings dutie breake downe their pillers cut down their groues and burne their grauen Images with fier The people vsed to burne their sonnes and daughters with fier before their gods Deu. 12. If there be any within your gates Deut. 17. Idolaters stoned man or woman that haue or worshippe straunge Gods the Sunne the Moone or any of the host of heauen they shal be stoned to death Th people serued Baall and offereth Iudg. 2 and the Lords wrath was hot The Arke of God was set before Dagon the Philistines God 1. king 4. but Dagon was cast downe and leggs and armes broken Ieroboam made two Calues of Golde 3. kings 12 Bethell Gods house made a place fo◠Idoll Psalm 9◠and made the people worshippe and sayde these are Gods that brought you out of Egypt and set one of them at Bethell Confounded bée all they that woorshippe Carued Images and that delight in vayne Gods woorshippe him all ye Gods Let them bée ashamed earely that hope in Idolls Esay 42. and say to fashioned Images you are our Gods Ezech. 8. There were all manner of Images of wormes and beastes all Idolls and abhominacions of the house of Israell paynted euerie one rounde about the wall there stoode before the Images 70. Lords to offer incence secretly and saide tush the Lord séeth vs not Abacuc 2. Woe be vnto him saith the Lord that saith to a péece of wood arise and to a dombe stone stand vp Wisd 14 So father I will conclude with the Lords words Cursed is the Image and he that made it Father Pryde Goe to speake of other vices what sayest thou of pride Sonne Eccle. 10 Initium omnis peccati superbia quia tenebit eam ad implebitur maledictis Proude people cursed Eccle. 32 Pride is the beginning of all sin he that is proud is filled with cursing If thou be made a ruler pryde not thy selfe therein but be thou as one of the people Pro. 26. The Lord abhorreth all such as bée of a proude heart his hande is agaynst their hande and they shall not escape as innocents After pride commeth destruction Pro. 18. and honour after lowlines Thou Capernaum which art exalted vp to heauen Mark 11 shalt be brought downe to hell Euerie one sayth Christ that exalteth himselfe shall be brought low Luke 18. And hée that humbleth himselfe shall be exalted Father What is not couetousnesse a sinne Couetousnesse Sonne A sinne yes an horrible offence Tim. 6. for Saint Paull sayth that the couetousnesse of monie is the roote of all euill Wo be vnto him that heapeth vp other mens goods Abacuc 2 Couetous and their goods burned with an hot fier wo vnto him that gathereth euill gotten goods into his house that he may set his nest on hie to escape the power of misfortune but the Lord of hosts shall bring this to passe that the laborers of the people shal be burnt with a fire and the thinge wherevpon they haue weried themselues shal be burnt Like as hell and destruction are neuer full Pro. 27 euen so the eyes of men can neuer be satisfied Esay 5. Wo be vnto them that ioyne one house vnto an other and one land to an other that the poore can get no more ground Ecclesi 14. A couetous eye hath neuer enough in the porcions of vngodlinesse vntill the time that he wither away and haue lost his owne soule Mark 10 It is easier for a Camell to goe through the eye of a néedle then for the rich to enter into the kingdome of heauen Mark 8. And thus concluding what will it gaine a man if he win all the worlde and léese his owne soule Or what shall a man giue to redeme his soule againe withall Father Lechery Tell me something of Lecherie Sonne Iob. 31. This sinne of lecherie saith Iob is a wickednesse and sinne that is worthie to be punished yea a fire that vtterlie would consume and root out all a mans substance Leuit. 20 A man that breaketh wedlocke with an other mans wife let both the aduouterer and the aduoutris be slaine Leuiti 19 Thou shalt not make thy daughter cōmon that thou wouldest cause her to be an whore least the land fall to whordom and be full of wickednesse Ther shal be no whore among the daughters of Israell Deu. 23 nor no whore kéeper of the sonnes of Israell There were slaine of the Tribe of Biniamin xxv thousands Iudg. 20. and all their Citties burned for adulterie In the desire of vncleanlie lust Ieremi 5 they are become like the stoned horse euery man néeth at his neighbours wife The children of the aduouterers shall come to naught Wisd 4 and the séede of the vnrighteous bed shal be rooted out An whores house is the way to hell Pro. 7. and bring men downe into the chambers of death An whore is
day but after this there came none to buy nor sell on the Saboth day Father Who doth kéepe the Sabaoth sanctifie it Sanctifiers of the Saboth Sonne He that kéepeth himselfe that he doe no euill Esay 56 If thou turne thy féete in the Saboth Esay 58 so that thou doest not the things that pleaseth thy selfe in my Sabaoth and thou call the pleasant holie and gracious Sabaoth of the Lord and that thou giue him the honour so that thou doe not after thine owne imaginations neither séeke thine owne will nor speake thine owne words It is lawfull saith Christ Math. 12 to doe good déedes on the Sabaoth day Father Me thought thou spakest that the Lords sanctuare was defiled Sonne Yea Father Ieremie saith Ieremy 22 they haue despised the Lords sanctuarie Father Temple Who did first builde the Temple vnto the Lord Sonne 3. Kin. 6. Salomon the third king of Israell built an house for the Lorde in Ierusalem that was thrée skore cubits long and xx cubits broade and fiftie cubites high Cro. 17. The Lord saide to Dauid thy sonnes shall buylde me an house and I will stablish his seate for euer Father Why did not the Lord suffer Dauid to buylde his Temple Sonne 1. Cro. 22. Because he had shed much bloud and made great battells in the Lords sight vpon earth 2. Cro. 7. The Lorde appeared to Salomon by night and saide I haue heard thy petition and haue chosen this place for my selfe to be an house of sacrifice A house of sacrifice I haue sanctified this house that my name may be there for euer Father Where did Salomon buylde the Lords house Sonne At Ierusalem in mount Morea where the Lord appeared vnto Dauid his father in the threshing floore of Ornan the Iesubite 2. Cro. 3 Father Thou sayest that we may not buy sell on the Sabaoth what must we then doe Sonne We must goe to the Temple of the Lorde and pray 1. king 1 and offer vnto the Lorde of hostes Serue the Lord onely 1. Kings 6 and prepare your hearts vnto him and he will rid you out of the hands of your enimies Salomon the king made a long prayer in the Temple vpon his knées 3. king 8 and his hands lifted vp to heauen The Lord aunswered Salomon and saide I haue heard thy petition 2. Cron. 7. and haue chosen this place for my selfe if I shut vp heauen that there be no rayne or if I commaund the Locusts to deuour the laÌ„d or if I send pestilence among my people Praiers repentaÌ„ce conuersation in gods teÌ„ple and if my people vpon whome my name you called vpon doe humble themselues make intercession and séeke my presence and turne from their wicked waies them will I heare from heauen and be merciful vnto their sinne and will heale their land Father What name gaue Salomon to the house that he buylded for the Lord Sonne 2. Cro. 2 He called it an house of sacrifice for he saide euen to burne sacrifices before the Lord shall his building be Father Some refuse to go to this Temple of the Lord what saiest thou to those Sonne Psalm 27. I say they are not of the minde of the king and Prophet Dauid who saide one thing haue I desired of the Lord which I will require that I may dwel in the house of my God all the daies of my life I was glad when they said vnto me we will goe into the house of the Lord. Psal 122 Thanks giueing Therefore the cryes goe vp euen the cryes of the Lord to testifie vnto Israell to giue thankes vnto the name of the Lord. Eccle. 4 To offer acceptable offerings When thou commest into the house of God kéepe thy foote and draw nigh that God which is at thine hande may heare that thou giue no offeringes of fooles for they knowe nought but to doe euill We will goe into the tabernacle of the Lord Psal 132 and fall lowe on our knées before his footestoole The Publican comming to the Temple knéeled downe prayed Luke 18. Praier and confession and smote vppon his breast and saide God be mercifull vnto mée a sinner Father Are not the preachers and Ministers that be in the temple to be heard Sonne Yes truely no lesse then Christ himselfe for he saith he that heareth you heareth mée and he that heareth mée heareth him that sent mée They haue Moyses and the Prophets Luke 16 let them heare them Hée that is of GOD Io. 8. heareth Gods words He that God hath sent Io. 3. speaketh the words of God How shall they cal on him on whoÌ„ they haue not beléeued Rom. 10 howe shall they beléeue on him of whom they haue not heard how shall they heare without a preacher how shall they preach except they be sent Father Why is the word of God to be heard Gods word to be hard Sonne Rom. 10 That by hearing we may haue faith and by faith be saued Psal 119 That we may learne to walke in the law of the Lord. It is to be laide vp in our heartes that we shoulde not sinne agaynst the Lord. Micheas 4 Let vs goe to the house of our God that he may teach vs his waies and that we may walke in his pathes Father What ought we to doe after we haue heard the preacher Sonne Ieremi 26 We ought to feare the Lord and make our prayers vnto him and then the Lord will repent of the plague that he hath deuised and not doe it Ionas 3. The people of Niniuie when Ionas preached that within fortie daies their Citie should be destroyed they put vppon them sackecloth laid them downe in ashes fasted and cried mightelie vnto the Lord and the Lord spared them and destroyed them not Father I meruell much that the Lord destroyed not that Cittie for he saide plainelie that within fortie daies it should bée destroyed and yet he did it not whereby it should séeme that Gods purpose is oft changed Sonne No father the Lord is no changeling Iames. 1 There is no variablenesse with God For the Lorde sayeth when I take in hand to root out to destroy Ieremi 18 or to wast away anie people or kingdom if that people against whom I haue thus deuised conuert from their wickednesse I repent me of the plagues that I deuised to bring vppon them Againe when I take in haâ—â— to build to plante a people or kingdom God repent if the same people or kingdom doe euill before me and héere not my voice I repent of the good that I deuised to doe for them and doe it not so that the people are changed and not good Father Blessed be God therefore Is the preacher appointed what he shall speake Sonne Yea Exod. 4 the spirit of God speaketh by his mouth if hée be a true preacher for the Lord
you ye scribes Pharasies and Ipocrits for ye deuoure widowes houses Sore punishment that vnder a pretence of long praiers therefore ye shall be sorer punished Father What sonne doth not prayer auayle the dead Sonne No father Eccle. 10◠for when the trée falleth whether it be to the South or North there it lieth in what place soeuer it fall They that be liuing Ecclesi 9 knowe that they shall die but they that be deade knowe nothing neither deserue they any more for their memoriall is forgotten so that they be neither loued hated nor enuied neither haue they any more profite in the world in all that is done vnder the sunne Praiers help not the dead But prayers and offerings father are done vnder the same and therefore the deade haue no part thereof Father If prayers helpe not the dead wherefore shoulde we goe to the houses of the deade Sonne To giue thankes vnto God Io. 11 and to comforte the friends and kinsfolkes of the dead as the Iewes when Lazarus was deade there came many to comfort Martha and Marie ouer their deade brother Father What must we carrie out of this life with vs Sonne Reuel 14 Our good déedes and our euill Opera eorum sequntur eos their workes saith Saint Iohn shall follow them Father Shall the ritch take none of their substance treasure with them that they so diligently séeke for and so carefully kéepe Sonne Iob. 27. When the ritch man dyeth saith Iob he taketh nothing with him but perisheth and the thinges he leaueth behinde him come to naught Luke 12 Christ tolde a ritch man that had filled his Barnes and houses to the doores and saide to his soule eate and drinke take thy rest for many yeères and the Lord sayde thou foole this night shall they fet thy soule away from thée then whose shall those be that thou hast prepared Eccle. 41 The remembrance of death is bitter to a man that séeketh rest and comfort in his substance and ritches to remember that he must byd all farewell in one day Iob saide Iob. 1. naked came I out of my Mothers wombe and naked must I returne thyther agayne We brought nothing into this world Tim. 6. neither must we carie any thing out Father Well sonne shall none walke as some imagine nor come agayne after death Sonne None father for Iob saith Iob. 1◠the way that I most goe is at hande from whence I shall not returne agayne He that goeth downe to the graue shall come no more vp Iob. 7. till the heauens perish nor turne againe to his house neither shal his place know him any more Whether his children come to worshippe or not hée cannot tell Iob. 14 and if they be menne of lowe degrée hée knoweth not After our ende there is no returning Wisd 2. for it is fast sealed so that no man commeth agayne Eccle. 38. Forget not there is no returning agayne 2. kings 12 Dauid saide séeing the childe is deade I cannot bring him agayne I shall goe to him rather then he shall come to mée by this place you may perceaue that men walke not Iob. 7. nor rise till the heauens perish which is at the day of iudgement Father What saiest thou by the prophet Samuell who appeared to king Saull after he was dead being called vp by a woman Sonne 1. king 28 31. He whome the woman called vp was a diuel as appeareth by these words To morrow shalt thou and thy sonnes be with me for in the day following Saull tooke a sworde and fell vpon it dispayring of Gods mercie and so perished and had his part among the desperate and not with Samuell that elect of God Father But sonne why was Saull the first king of Israell that annoynted of GOD cast off from the Lord. Sonne Because he trespassed against the Lord 1. Cro. 10 in that he kept not the word of the Lord and in that he sought and asked counsell of a woman that wrought with a spirit and asked not of the Lord. Father Séeing that none returne to shewe how they are delt withall and that prayers wil not helpe those that be dead what must we doe to be without daunger Sonne We are taught by the prophet Sophonie to examine our selues Sophony 2. and search our consciences or the things goe foorth that God hath concluded Good coūsell and or the time come wherein man shal passe away as the dust and or the fearefull wrath of God come vpon vs work while we liue yea or the day of the Lords sore displeasure come vpon vs séeke the Lord all ye méeke harted of the earth ye that worke after his iudgements séeke righteousnesse séeke lowlinesse that ye may be defended in the wrathfull daye of the Lord. Gette thée righteousnesse before thou Eccle. 1◠come to iudgement learne before thou speake go to phisicke or euer thou be sicke examine and iudge thy selfe before the iudgement come and so shalt thou finde grace in his sight Io. 9. Christ saith worke while it is day for the night will come in which none can worke Father Why shoulde we be so earnestly moued to flée from sinne Sonne Sins part from God Esay 59. Because they seperate from the Lord for your iniquities saith God hath seperated you from mée and your sinnes hide my face from you that I heare you not for your fingers are defiled with bloud and your hands with vnrighteousnesse your lippes speake leasing and your tongues speake out wickednesse 4. king 17 They left the commaundement of the Lord their God and made them Images of mettall euen two Calues and made Idoll groues These sins part from God and worshipped the host of heauen and serued Baall and sacrificed their sonnes and daughters in fier and vsed witchcraft and inchauntment and the Lord therefore was excéeding wroth and put Israell out of his sight The Lord droue man out of Paradise at the East side Gen. 3. because he hadde sinned By the sinne of one man there sprong vp euill on all men to condemnation Rom. 5 for we were enimies vnto God There is nothing that causeth the Lorde to hide his face from vs but our sinnes and iniquities Father I vnderstand that all men and women by the sinne of Adam were subiecte to death and condemnation VVhat we are made by sinne in the handes of the Diuell made straungers and aliantes from the Lord enimies vnto God children of wrath firebrands of hell but tell mée howe mankinde was redéemed and deliuered being in this damnable state Sonne When manne and woman hadde transgressed and broken that commaundement of GOD the father Gene. 3 and that the Lord haue iudged them guiltie by their owne confessions and had cursed the Serpent who deceaued them then he spoke a comfortable word for he saide there should be one springing of a woman that
should tread downe all Sathans power Seede of a woman for he should treade on his head yet he should pricke him in the héele this séede of the woman was promised also to Abraham Gen. 22. In semine tuo benedicentur omnes gentes et nationes terra In thy séede shall all the nations of the earth be blessed Esay 7. Behold a Virgin shall conceaue and beare a sonne and thou his Mother shalt call his name Emanuell butter and honye shall he eate that he may knowe to refuse the euill and chose the good Ezech. 35 I will raise vp vnto them one onelie shepherd euen my seruaunt Dauid he shal feede them and he shall be their shepherd I the Lord will be their God and my seruaunt Dauid shall be their Prince zachar 10 Out of Iuda shall come the helmet the naill the battell bowe and all the princes together It were too long for me to shewe you all the scriptures wherein there is prophecied of Christ his comming death and passion and therefore I pray you let these suffice for one scripture is a sufficient testimony for any cause or controuersie whatsoeuer Father What saist thou of Christes byrth and comming into the worlde Sonne Christ was borne in Bathlem of the blessed Virgin Mary Luke 1 by the power of the holie ghost as saint Paull saith when the time was full come that God the father had put in his owne power he was reueled vnto vs for before God the father dyuerslie and manie waies spake vnto our fathers by Prophets Heb. ◠but in these last daies he spoke vnto vs by his owne sonne whome he made heire of all thinges Whereas we were deade saith Saint Paull in trespasse and sinnes Ephe. 2 in which in times past we walked Dead in sinne hath he quickned vs according to the course of this world euen after the gouernour the ruleth in the aire the same that worketh now in the children of vnbelef Children of wrath by nature among whom we had our conuersation also in times in the lusts of our fleshe and fulfilled the lustes of the flesh and of the minde and were by nature the Children of wrathe euen as well as others but God which is ritch in mercie for his great loue wherewith he loued vs euen when we were néere dead by sinnes VVhat we were but for Christ quickned vs together in Christ by grace are we saued and raised vs vp together with him among them of heauen in Christ Iesu Father Tell me what benefits we haue by the natiuitie death passion resurrection and ascencion of Christ Iesu Sonne Esay 4. We are purged by Christ from all our sins Esay saith that the Lord shal wash away the filthinesss of the daughter of Sion and purge the blood out from Ierusalem with the wind of his iudgement and with fire Ezech. 36. I will power cleane water vppon you and you shal be cleane yea from all your vncleannes and Idolls shall I clense you Sopho. 3 I will cleanse the lyps of the people that they may euery-each one cal vppon the name of the Lorde Purged to serue the Lord. and serue him with one shoulder The house of Dauid zachary 3 and the Cittizens of Ierusalem shall haue an open well to wash off sinne and vncleannesse He is like a goldsmith fier Malachi 3 and washers soope hée shall purge the Children of Leuy and puryfie them as gold and siluer that they may bring meate offerings vnto the Lord in all righteousnesse If the blood of Oxen and of Goats Heb. 9. and the ashes of an young Cow when they be sprinckled pacified the vncleane Purged by blood to serue him as touching the puryfiyng of the flesh how much more shall the blood of Christ purge our consciences from dead workes to serue the lyuing God He was in all thinges like vnto vs Heb. 2. that he might be mercifull and a faithfull hye Priest in things concerning God Actual originall to purge the peoples sinnes The blood of Iesus Christ purgeth vs from all sinnes 1. Io. 1. Christ washed his disciples féete Io. 13. None cleane but he that Christ washeth Peter said Lord thou shalt neuer wash my feete but Iesus aunswered if I wash the not thou hast no part with mee Father But how is this purgation by Christ his precious blood applyed vnto vs so that thereby we are purged and clensed Sonne Acts. 15 By faith for saint Peter saith the Lord which knoweth the hart of men and gaue vnto the Ientiles the holy ghost because they did beléeue euen as vnto vs and put no difference betwéene vs and them séeing that with faith he puryfied their harts Pro. 15 Through mercie and faith are sinnes purged Father And to what ende are we thus purget by faith in the blood of Christ Sonne Io. 15. Purged to bring forth good fruits good works That we may bring foorth fruite in him for the branch cannot bring foorth fruite except it abide in the vine no more can ye except ye abyde in mée for without mée ye can doe nothing Father Tell me how we are redemed and to what ende Sonne We were not redemed with corruptable thinges as siluer or goold 1. Peter 1 but with the precious blood of Iesus Christ as a Lambe vndefiled We haue redemption through his blood Ephe. 1. euen the forgiuenesse of our sinnes Our Lorde Iesus Christ hath giuen himselfe for vs Titus 2 Redeemed to do good works to redeme vs from all vnrighteousnesse and to purge vs a peculiar people vnto himselfe feruentlie giuen vnto all good workes Father How are we saued and through whom haue we saluation Sonne Saint Paull sheweth you that Iesus Christ came into the world to saue sinners 1. Tim. 1 Shew thy meruailous works Psalm 17 thou that art the sauiour of all them that trust in thée I shall with ioy draw water out of the wells of my sauiour Esay 1◠for the Lord is my strength and my song and is become my saluation I am euen I am the onelie Lord None can saue but Christ on◠Esay 4.3 and beside me there is noe sauiour I haue troden the wine presse alone and of all people ther is not one with mée I looked about me and there was none to shew me any helpe No Angell or Saint can saue or help Math. 1 I meruailed that no man held mée then I held mée by mine owne strength mine owne arme sustained mée He shal be called Iesus for he shall saue the people from their sinnes Father How take we hold of this saluation Sonne Acts. 15. By faith for Peter saith we beléeue that through the grace of the Lorde Iesus Christ we shal be saued Father What must we doe to be saued Sonne Acts. 17. We must beléeue on the Lord Iesus and wée and our housholds
shal be saued 1. Pet. 1. If we beléeue we shall receiue the end of our faith euen the saluation of our soules Rom. 10 If thou beléeue in thine heart thou shalt be safe for to beléeue iustifieth to knowledge with the mouth maketh a man safe Father What doth the Scripture say of our iustification Iustification because some teach that we are iustified by our workes Sonne A man is not iustified by the deades of the Lawe but by the faith of Christ Iesu Iustified bâ— faith and not by the lawe and wée haue beleued on Iesus Christ that we might be iustified by the faith of Christ and not by the déedes of the Law because that by the déedes of the Law no flesh shal be iustified The scripture concludeth al vnder sinne Gall. 3. that the promise by the faith of Iesus Christ should be giuen to all that beléeue The Law was our scholemaister vnto Christ that we shold be iustified by faith Eod. but after that faith is come God onelâ— iustifieth ye are no longer vnder the scholmaister It is God onelie that iustifieth the circumcision that is of faith Rom. 3. Circumcâ—sion 〈◊〉 circumcision iustiâ—ed by faiâ— the vncircumcision through faith Father Who are thus iustified by God onely Sonne â—om 3. Both Iewes and gentiles circumcision and vncircumcision are iusttyfied by the faith of Iesus Christ â—â—d He is compted iust and the iustifier of him that beléeue on Iesus Christ Father â—orgiuenes Then tell me who doth forgiue vs our sinnes Sonne â—ark 2 Nemo potest demittere peccata nisi solus deus there is none that can forgiue sinnes but God onelie â—od When Iesus sawe their faith he said vnto the sicke of the palsie sonne thy sins are forgiuen thée the sonne of man hath power to forgiue sinnes on earth â—phe 4. Be curteous one to an other mercifull forgiueing one an other euen as God for Christs sake hath forgiuen you â—ollo 2 The law â—he diuell â—orld and â—esh conquered by Christs death When we were dead through sinne and through vncircumcision of our flesh hath he quickened with him and hath forgiuen vs all our trespasses and hath put out the hand writing that was against vs hath fastned it to his crosse and hath spoyled rule and power in his owne person Father But to whome doth the Lord forgiue sinnes Sonne To the faithfull Mark 2 for when Iesus sawe their faith he saide thy sinnes are forgiuen thée Brethren Acts 13. Sinnes are forgiuen to the faithfull through this man is preached forgiuenesse of sinnes vnto you and that to all that beléeue Father What enemies hath the Lord conquered by his death in his owne person for our sakes and what further profite hath he brought vs. Sonne The Law the Diuell the world the flesh sinne death hell and al other things the wrath of God the father hath he pacified and reconciled vs agayne vnto him and we that were a farre off hath he brought nigh hath purchased the kingdome of heauen for vs and opened the same made vs fellow heyres thereof with him selfe Father Proue that vnto mée briefely Sonne Heb. 2. Dyed for all It was appointed that Iesus Christ should tast of death for all men and that by the grace of God the father Heb. 2 1. Diuel coÌ„quered Through death he hath expelled him that had lordship ouer death that is to say the Diuell and that he might deliuer vs. Col. 2. 2. Lawe Fastned to the crossa He hath put out the hande writing that was against vs and hath fastned it to his crosse and hath spoyled rule and power in his owne person Esay 22. None can open nor shut but he Esay 42. The key of the house of Dauid will I lay vpon his shoulder so that he shall open and no man shut he shall shut no man open I will giue him for a couenant vnto the people and a light to the Gentiles to open the eies of the blinde to let out the prisoners out of their bonds them that sytte in darkenesse out of the dungeon house Math. 18. The sonne of man came to saue that which was lost Math. 3 This is my deare sonne in whome I am well pleased A light to lighten the Gentiles Luke 3. A light and to be the glorie of the people Israell And there went out vertue from him Luke 6 Heale all A Phisiti and healed them all that touched him Iohn saith Io. 3. Life Io. he that beléeueth on the sonne hath euerlasting life I am the way the truth and the life VVay truth and life no man commeth to the father but by mée I haue finished the worke which thou gauest mée to doe consumatum est Io. 17. For this cause was I borne Io. 18. and for this cause came I into the world that I might beare witnesse vnto the truth Be it knowen vnto you men and brethren Acts. 13 that through this man is preached vnto you forgiuenesse of sinnes Beleuere iustified and that by him all that beléeue are iustified from all thinges from which ye coulde not be deliuered by the law of Moyses When we were enimies Rom. 5. we were reconciled vnto God by his bloud much more seeing that wée are reconciled we shall be preserued by his life and we shal be saued from wrath What the lawe coulde not doe in asmuch Rom. 8. as it was weake because of the flesh An offeriÌ„g â—r sinne that performed God and sent his sonne in the similitude of sinnefull flesh and sinne damned sinne in the flesh that the righteousnesse of the lawe might bée fulfilled in vs which walke not after the flesh but after the spirit â—ulfillers â—f the law Rom. 16 Rom. 14 Christ fulfilleth the lawe for all that beléeue to iustifie them The Lord Iesus died and rose againe that he might be Lord both of quicke and dead â— Cor. 15 Death is swallowed vp in victorie death where is thy sting hell where is thy victorie the sting of death is sinne and the strength of sinne is the lawe Death and â—ell ouerâ—me but thankes be vnto God that hath giuen vs victorie through Iesus Christ our Lord. â—say 25 Death â—seas 25. Death hath the Lord destroyed for euer O death I will be thy death O hell I will be thy stinge â—al 4 â—onne and â—eire of â—od Thou art not now a seruant but a sonne if thou be a sonne thou art an heire of God through Christ â—phe 2. Remember that in times past ye were without Christ being aliants from the common wealth of Israell and strangers from the testament of promise hauing no hope being without God in this world but now by the meanes of Iesu Christ ye which were sometime farre off Peace made are made nigh by the bloud of Christ he is
aduocate to obtaine mercie for vs what saiest thou then to theÌ„ that say that the saints departed and the blessed Virgin Mary doe that and not hée Sonne I say the diuell hath alwaies some shift to drawe men from a stedfast faith in Christ Iesu otherwise his kingdome should decay but ther is none that is a meane for our sinnes Mediator but onelie Iesus Christ the onelie Sonne of God that vndefiled Lambe which hath payed our ransom 1. Tim. 2. Thus saith Saint Paull there is one God and one mediatour betwéene God and man euen the man Christ Iesus which gaue himselfe a ransom for all that it should be testified at his time Io. 17. This is eternall life that we know the one onelie true God and Iesus Christ which thou hast sent Gal. 3. A mediatour is not a mediatour of one but God is one Heb. 9. He is a mediatour of the new Testament that through death which chanced for the redemption of these transgressours that were vnder the first Testament they which are called might receiue the promisse of eternall inheritaunce wherby you may sée none to be any meane to the father for our sinnes but onelie Iesus Christ his owne natural sonne fitting on his right hand Father Shew mée what mercie we may looke for at the hand of God and how mercyfull the Lord is Sonne God is most mercifull Ezech. 18 and would not the death of a sinner but rather that hée should conuert and liue The Lord God was mercifull Exod. 34 gracious long suffering and abundant in goodnesse and truth and kéeping in store mercie for thousands forgiuing wickednesse vngodlynesse and sinne The Lorde is mercifull vnto Israell Iudg. 10 and his soule had pittie vppon their miserie Euen as a father is mercifull vnto his Children Psal 103 euen so is the Lorde mercifull vnto them that feare him Eather What must we do to be deliuered from the curse of the lawe and so obtaine mercie of our God through Iesus Christ séeing that we are all sinners Sonne Acts. 2. Consider what answere Saint Peter gaue to them that demaunded what they should doe to be saued he saide repent of your sinnes RepentaÌ„ce and be baptised euerie one of you in the name of Iesus Christ for the remission of sinnes ye shall receaue the guift of the holie ghost Math. 3. Râ—pent said Iohn Baptist for the kingdome of God is at hand prepare the way of the Lord make his pathes streight Math. 4 Iesus began to preach and saide repent for the kingdome of heauen is at hand Mark 1 And in the first of Saint Lukes gospell repent and beléeue the gospell Father RepeÌ„tance What is this repentance wherevnto we are exhorted by Iesus Christ and his messengers Sonne defined It is a sorrowing and continuall mourning of the heart conscience because of sin ioyned with faith and amendemeÌ„t of life Father Let me héere how we must sorrow which some call contricion Sonne The Lord by the Prophet Ioell saith Contricion turne you vnto me with all your hearts Ioel. 2. with fasting wéeping and mourning rent your heartes and not your garments and turne vnto the Lord for the Lord is merciful gracious longe suffering and of great goodnesse and compassion and redy to pardone wickednesse Gyrde thée about with sacke cloth Ieremi 6 sprincle thy selfe with ashes mourne and wéepe bitterlie weepe bitterly for the destruction else shal sodenlie fall vppon you When Ahab hard that the Lord would destroy him and his house 3. king 21 hée rent his clothes and put on sackcloth and fasted and went bare foote and the Lord saide because he submitteth himselfe before me I will not bring this euil in his daies but in his sonnes daies Dauid saide Psal 102 my heart is smitten downe and withered like grasse so that I forget to eate my bread for the voice of my groning my bones will scarce cleaue to my flesh Psalm 6. Euerie night wash I my bed and water my couch with my teares Esay 30. In repentance and in rest shalt thou be safe in quietnesse and sure confidence shall ye put your trust Ieremi 31 RepentaÌ„ce a guift of God Conuert thou me and I shal be conuerted assone as thou turnest me I shall reforme my selfe and when I vnderstand I shall smite vppon my theigh Ezech. 20. Condemne your selues You shall iudge your selues worthie to be destroyed for all your wickednesse that you haue done Luke 7 Teares of repeÌ„tance A woman stoode by Christ at his féete wéeping and began to wash his féete with teares and did wipe them with the haires of her head Luke 23 And he saide manie sinnes are forgiuen thée for thou loued much VVept bitterly The Lord looked vppon Petter and Peter remembred the Lordes words and went out from amonge the wicked Iewes and wéept bitterlie wherby you may perceiue father that he which trulie repenteth he is sorrowful for al his sinnes as Petter was and wéepeth bitterlie Father What other thinge shall wée finde in him that truelie repenteth Confession Sonne A confessing No auriculer confession an acknowledging of his iniquities to the Lord and not in the eare of a sinnefull man Dauid saide Psalm 32. I will confesse my sinne vnto the Lord and so he forgaue me the wickednesse of my sinne The people of Israell cryed vnto the Lorde and saide Iudg. 10. we haue sinned agaynst thée and haue forsaken our owne God and serued Balam Esdras kneeled downe on his knées and spred out his handes vnto the Lord Esdras 9 Kneeled downe and saide my God I am ashamed and dare not lyft vp mine eyes vnto thée my God for my wickednesse is gone ouer my heade and my trespasses are exalted to heauen oh Lord we haue forsaken thy commaundements and made the lande full of vncleanenesse on euerie side I will saith Dauid confesse my wickednesse and be sorie for my sinne Psalm 38 Daniell saide Daniel 9 oh Lord vnto vs our kinges and princes belongeth nothing but open shame and confusion we haue sinned O Lord against thée yet Lord let thy face shine ouer the sanctuarie Many that beléeued came and confessed and shewed their workes Father Prayer Are there other qualities to be founde in him that truelie repenteth Sonne Psalm 51. Yea Father hartie and deuout prayer vnto God for pardon Dauid when he had sinned praied thus haue mercie vpon mée O God after thy great goodnesse and according to the multitude of thy mercies doe away mine offences â— Cro. 21. Dauid saide I haue sinned excéedingly in dooing this thing but now I beséech the Lord doe away the sinne of thy seruaunt for I haue done wickedlie Daniel 9 Oh Lord we haue sinned and done wickedlie against all thy righteousnesse yet O Lord let thy wrathfull displeasure be turned away I beséech
to your olde state â—et in their â—ormer â—ate and shew you more kindnesse then euer you had before I will giue my spirit amonge you Luke 15 The prodigall childe returning by repentance to his father was forgiuen and his father saide to his seruauntes bring forth the best garment and put it on him and put a ring on his hands and shooes on his féece and reioyce and be merrie for this our sonne was dead and is now aliue againe he was lost but is now founde Rom. 13 Let vs walke honestlie as it were in the day time putting on the Lord Iesus Christ â—phe 4. We must laye away the olde manne which is corrupt and put on the new man which after God is shapen in true holinesse and righteousnesse â—euel 3 He that ouercommeth shall be cloathed with white aray â—od Buy of mée saith Christ I counsell thée gold that is tried in the fier that then thou may be ritch and white rayment that thou mayest be cloathed and that thy filthie nakednesse doe not appeare and anoynt thine eyes with eye salue that thou maiest sée Long white garments were giuen to euerie one of them Reuel 16 Let vs be glad and reioyce Reuel 19 and giue honour to him for the marriage of the laÌ„be is come and his wife made her selfe ready and to her was graunted that she should be cloathed with pure and goodlie raines And concluding this with the words of the Euangelist Iohn Reuel 7. who behelde a great multitude in heauen which no man could number of all nations people and tongues that stoode before the seat and the Lambe clothed with long white garments and Palmes in their hands Father If we shal be clothed with the merrits and righteousnesse of Christ Iesus good work then it is not needefull for vs to doe anie good workes Sonne Yes Father Ephe. 2. Created tâ— good workâ— for we are the workemaÌ„ship of God created in Christ Iesu vnto good works that we should walke in him I haue made thée that thou mightest serue me saith God Esay 44. Ephe. 1. Elected to good works The Lord hath chosen vs in him before the foundations of the worlde were laide that we should be holy and without blame before him â—o 15. I haue chosen you saith Christ to goe and bring foorth fruite and that your fruit should remayne Luke 1 Râ—demed to good works Christ hath redéemed his people that they should serue him without feare in holinesse and righteousnesse all the dayes of their life Father I perceaue that all men are elected created redéemed sanctified and ordeyned of God to doe good and to liue holelie Name vnto mée some of those good works commaunded by God that we shoulde walke in them Sonne The chiefe worke is faith The first and principall worke of all other and the spring or fountayne out of which all other works flow and the foundation next vnto Christ wherevpon all are buylded sheweth our Lord and sauiour Iesus Christ Io. 6. Faith the â—hief work by his Euangelist Saint Iohn This is the worke of God that ye beléeue on him whome he hath sent Father Thou touchedst that worke of faith at large before the Lorde Iesus increace our faith but now procéede to the other Sonne Charitie father Charity springeth and groweth out of this roote faith Father What is Charitie Sonne It is the loue of God for his owne worthinesse and the loue of our neighbour Charitie defined for the loue we beare to our God Father First tell me of the loue of our God and how he is to be loued Sonne Thou shalt loue the Lord thy God with all thine heart with all thy soule Math. 22. Luke 10. with all thy minde and with all thy strength c. Of this loue of our God I haue spoken before Father What sayst thou of the loue of our neighbour Sonne Christ sayth Luke 10 thou shalt loue thine neighbour as thy selfe aboue all thinges haue feruent loue amongst your selues 1. Peter 4 for loue shall couer the multitude of sinnes Rom. 13. Dilectio proximi malum non operatur loue doth hurt none 1. Io. 3 We must loue saith saint Iohn not in tongue nor worde onelie but in déede and veritie 1. Io. 3 This is the commaundement of God that we beléeue on the name of the sonne of GOD Iesus Christ and loue one an other Eather Math. 5 It should séeme that euen brute beasts will loue those of whom they are fedde the wicked man will after a manner loue them that loue him what saist thou ought we not to loue our enimies Sonne Math. 5 Christ saith loue your enimies blesse them that curse you doe good to them that hate you pray for them that persecute you that you may be the children of my father which is in heauen Loue our enimies Father Is it enough to loue them is no more required at our hands Sonne We can no more but loue them Math. 18 how be it there is much contained in this word loue for we must forgiue them If thy brother offend against thée thou must not onelie forgiue him seauen times but seauentie times seauen times If thy brother trespasse Luke 17 Forgiue your enimies rebuke him and if hée repent forgiue him and though he sinne against thée seauen times in one day and seauen times in one day turne vnto thée saying it repenteth me thou shalt forgiue him Father Is there yet any more contained in this word loue but to forgiue Sonne Yea we must pray for them Pray for your enimies for Christ saith pray for them that hurte you and persecute you Saint Stephen knéeled downe and cried with a loude voice Acts. 7. and prayed thus for his persecutors lord lay not this sinne to their charge and when he had thus spoken he fell a sléepe And concluding with Christes owne wordes Luke 23 he praied thus for those that crucified him father forgiue them they wotâ— not what they doe Father Is there any more that we must doe to our enimies Sonne Math. 5. Rom. 12 Yea we must loue them so that we do for them what soeuer good wée are able for Christ teacheth thus doe good to them that hate you if thine enimie hunger féede him if he â—hirst giue him drinke Father I perciue that all vertues and good workes procede of this loue being a fruite of a liuelie faith Sonne Rom. 13 Yea father the whole lawe is fulfilled in this word loue for whatsoeuer ye would that men should doe vnto you euen so doe yée to them for this is the lawe and prophets Io. 14 He that hath my commandements and kéepeth them the same is he that loueth mée and he that loueth mée shal be loued of my father and I will loue him and my father and I will dwell with him Io. 4. God is
vs sensible thinges externall singes to bring our mindes by these outward singes to consider his inuisible graces Luke 22. 1. Cor. 11 And an other cause was to put vs alwaies in remembrance of his death and benefit of his passion for he saith doe this in the remembrance of mée As oft as ye eate of this bread and drinke of this cup ye shew the Lordes death till he come And an other cause there is that moued Christ Iesus to institute sacraments that they might be linckes bond of loue vnitie and concorde among our selues for we haue but one God Ephe. 4. one Faith one baptisme 1. Cor. 10. Vnus panis vnum corpus but one bread so all but one body Father Passeouer There were Sacraments in the olde Law as the passeouer what did that signifie Sonne Exod. 12 It was a Lambe of a yéere olde without blemish which was killed and the blood sprinkled signifiyng this immaculat Lambe of God Iesus Christ that taketh away the sinnes of the word The pascall Lambe put the people of Israell alwaies in remembrance of their bodelie deliuerance out of Egipte from Pharo and from the filth and clay of the Land by the power of God by a mightie hand and stretched out arme So in like manner this Sacrament of the Lordes supper 1. Cro. 11 signifieth to vs how that we are not onelie deliuered from a bodelie seruitude but also from hell the diuell and sinne and that by the crosse passion Luke 22. and blood shedding of our pascall Lambe Iesus Christ Father Séeing that this Sacrament is so worthie a misterie tell me how we ought to communicate Sonne We ought to iudge and examine our selues and then eate of that bread 1. Cor 11 drink of that cup. If any man be defiled saith God Num. 9. let him not eate of the passeouer but it must be eateÌ„ with swéete breade sower hearbeâ— so father is this Sacrament to be eaten no vncleane person that hath not examined himselfe may eate threof The passeouer was to be eaten with swéete bread and sower hearbes so he that eateth this Sacrament must be contrite in heart and his conscience vnleauened that is pure and cleane â—euiti 7. If any soule that is vncleane eate of the flesh of the peace offering the same soule shall perish from among his people â— Cor. 11 Whosoeuer saith Saint Paull shall eate of this bread and drinke of the cup of the Lorde vnworthelie shal be guiltie of the body and blood of the Lorde and eateth and drinketh his owne damnation Father â—eall preâ—ns Then belike in this Sacrament is the real presens of Christ his body and blood so that this Sacrament is transsubstantiall into his naturall bodie and blood if ther be such benefit for the worthie receiuers and so great perell to the vnworthie Sonne â—uke 22 â— Cor. 11 No father for it is but a memoriall of his death and instituted for a remembrance of the same his naturall body with all partes and members thereof is ascended into heauen Heb. 1 and sitteth on his fathers right hand Heb. 8. and shall abide there till the ende come Father How can the vnworthie receiuers bée in such daunger then Sonne Because they set at naught the ordinances of Iesus Christ And therefore saint Paull saith he that despiseth Moyses lawe dyeth without mercie vnder two or thrée witnesses how much sorer shall he be punished that treadeth vnder foote the sonne of God and compteth the blood of the testament wherewith he was sanctified as an vnholie thing and doth dishonour to the spirit of grace Father What punishment are they worthie of that refuse or negligentlie regard this institucion of Iesus Christ our Lore and sauiour Sonne Numer 9 The lord saith that man that is negligent to offer passouer in his due time shal be rooted out of his people and parish Heb. 10. He that treadeth vnder foote the institucion of Iesus Christ is worthie of death because he doth dishonour to the blood of Christ and to the spirit of grace Father Thou hast spoken well by these two Sacraments baptisme and the Lordes supper being instituded by Iesus Christ and therefore to be had in reuerence as the seals of our saluation but procéede tel me what thou sayst of extreme vnction for it should séeme that Saint Iames alloweth of the same Iames. 5 Sonne Iames. AnnoyntiÌ„g The Appostle father speaketh of the holie ghost in that same place as we may perceiue by other places expounding what the annoynting is the annoynting that dwelleth in you saith saint Iohn teacheth you all thinges Io. 2. and is true and no lye 2. Cor. 1. It is God that stablysheth vs with you in Christ and standeth by vs and hath annoynted vs which hath also sealed vs and hath giuen vs the earnest of the spirit into our heartes When the spirit of truth commeth Io. 16 he will lead you into all truth The spirit of God vpon mée Luke 4. because he hath annoynted mée to preach the ghospell to the poore hath he sent mée to heale the broken hearted to preach deliuerance to the captiue and sight to the blind Frely to set at libertie those that are brused and to preach the acceptable yéere of the Lord. So that the ministers or elders ought to pray ouer the sicke and diseased and to annoynte them with this oyle which is Gods spirit to certifie their consciens that their broken heartes are healed that wheras they were captiues they are deliuered whereas they were in darkenesse now lightned being in bondage True annoynting by the spirit of God now set at libertie whereas they were ouercharged with sinne the Christ had taken vppon him all their offences and that now they wer acceptable offeringes vnto their GOD through Iesus Christ And this is the annoyting that euery minister must annoynt the diseased withall Father Ecclesiasticall auâ—horitie What saist thou of ecclesiastiall aucthoritie and iurisdiction Sonne I say that they haue power and aucthority to excoÌ„municate punish offenders and when they repent to receiue them into the congregacion againe and absolue Iesus breathed on his disciples and saide â—o 20. receiue the holy ghost whose sinnes soeuer you remit they are remitted and whose soeuer sinnes ye retaine they are retained The minister may binde that is preach the Law and curse thereof Binding loosing to impenitent persons that wil not regard their owne saluacion and they may loose that is preach the gospell and glad tidings to those that repent vnfainedlie Matb 11 and would gladlie come vnto Christ to be refreshed Father Let me héere that they haue aucthoritie to excoÌ„municate and power to receiue into the congregacion againe such as repent Sonne Leuiti 13 The Lorde commaunded that if any man should be a leper the Priest should looke vppon him and if he iudged him to be
in the nauell of his body he spreadeth out his taile like the Ceder trées all his veines are stiffe his shinnes are like pipes of brasse and his rydge-bone was like staues of Iron A great deceuer Leuiathan dare not thou draw out with an angle no manne is so cruell that dare stir him vp when thou thinckest to haue hold vppon him he shalbeguile thée he hath horrible téeth round about his bodie is couered with scales as it were shéelds lockt in kéept and well compact together his weysing is like the glistring fier and his eyes like the morning shine out of his mouth goe torches out of his nosthrells there goeth a smoke like as out of an hote pot his breath maketh the coles burne He is neuer wery and the flame goeth out of his mouth in his necke remaineth strength and there is nothing to laborious for him he is as fast as the stithie that the Smith beateth vppon there may neither speare Iauelen or brestplate abide him he setteth asmuch by straw as by iron he setteth asmuch by a roten sticke as by brasse a sword hurteth him not he maketh the déepe to boyle like a pot The diuel is a king ouer al chiâ—dren of pride and stirreth the sea like an oyntment vppon the earth there is no power like his for he is so made that he feareth not and he is a kinge ouer all Children of pryde The Diuell is a lyer Math. Lyer and the father of the same thing euen from the beginning From the time of his creation hée was right excellent Ezech. 31 tyll wickednesse was found in him Lucifer Zachar. 13 The Angell shewed me Iosua that hye Priest standing before the Angell of the Lorde and Sathan stood at his right hand to resist him and the Lord saide the Lord reproue thée Sathan Once an Angel but now a diuell Io. 13. A tempter Ephe. 6. The diuell put in the heart of Iudas to betray Christ We wrestle not against flesh and blood but against rule against power against wordlie rulers euen gouernours of the darkenesse of this world against spirituall craftinesse in heauenlie thinges â— Peter 5. A â—rorâ—ng â—on Your aduersarie the diuell goeth about like a roaring lyon séeking whom he may deuoure â—euel 2 Behold saith Saint Iohn the diuell shall cast some of you into prison tempt you and you shall haue tribulacion tenne daies â—euel 9 â—ferior â—â—rits I saw a star fall from heauen vnto the earth and to him was giuen the key of the bothomles pit and there came out of the smoke that arose out of the pit Locust vppon earth and to them was giuen power and they had a king ouer them of the bothomles pit And his name was called Abdon in Hebrue but in greke ApollioÌ„ a destroier A great dragon Reuel 12 The great Dragon an olde Serpent the Diuell and Sathanas the accuser of the brethren that deceaueth the world The Dragon and all the beastes that rose vp with him An accuser Reuel 13 blasphemed the God of heauen and his name and his tabernacle and them that dwell in heauen and hée had power giuen to warre with the saints and ouercome them and all people and nations worshipped him whose names were not written in the booke of life and of the lambe which was killed from the beginning of the world and to euerie one that worshipped him was giuen a marke in their hande or foreheade else they coulde not be permitted to buy or sell And thus Father you may perceaue the strength subtiltie craft and falsehood of this beast yea this deadelie enemie our aduersarie that runneth daylie through the worlde like a roaring Lion séeking whom he may deuoure Father I tremble and quake to remember this great Dragon this olde Serpent and destroyer tell mée therefore or thou procéede anie further howe I and euerie man and woman may escape his power and kéepe vs out of his hands Sonne Father as you sée that Sathan is strong and well armed so ought we to be well weaponed and besides manly souldiers fighting vnder the banner of Iesus Christ who hath ouercome and conquered this enemie in his owne person Armour of a christian wée must stande saith Saint Paull and our loynes gyrded with the truth hauing on the brestplate of righteousnesse Ephe. 6 and hauing shooes on our féete that we may be prepared for the Ghospell of peace aboue all Truth Righteousnesse Peace Faith VVord and prayer let vs take vnto vs the shielde of faith wherewith we may quench the fierie dartes of the wicked and take the helmet of saluation and the sworde of the spirit which is the worde of God and pray alwaies with al manner of prayer and supplication in the spirite 1. Thes 5 Faith and hope Loue. Iames. 4 Be watchfull and sober armed with the brestplate of faith and loue and with hope of saluation for an helmet Submitte your selues vnto GOD and resist the Diuell and hée will flie from you Be sober and watch 1. Peter 5 for our aduersarie the Diuell goeth about like a roaring Lion séeking whome he may deuoure whome resist stedfast in the fayth knowing that the same afliction is appoynted vnto your brethren that are in the world but the Lorde Iesus shall after that wée haue suffered a little afliction settle strength and stablish vs to whome therefore be prayse for euer We must fight with him 1. king 17 as Dauid did with Goliath he saide to Goliath I come vnto thée in the name of the liuing GOD and in his name I shall subdue thée and so he did Sathan will séeke to sift you like wheat Luke 22. Faith but resist him by fayth and let them that be strong saith Christ helpe their brethren Sathan will tempt you Reue. 2 but be faithfull to death and I will giue thee faith the Lorde the crowne of life The Saincts of God ouercame him by the bloud of the Lambe Reuel 12. and by the worde of his testimonie and they loued not their liues vnto the death CoÌ„clusion So that although this Dragon the Diuel maketh warre with the people and saincts of God and with all them that haue the testimonie of Iesus Christ yet if we like manlie souldiers resist him by faith we shall ouercome him by the bloud of the Lambe Iesus and that Dragon will flée away for all the souldiours of Christ are called Faith and faithfull and chosen and kéepe their garments vpon them that men sée not their filthienesse Father Blessed be that Lambe for euer through whose precious bloud wee are deliuered from this roaring Lion Those that â—ied before Christ and alwaies increase our faith so that it growe daylie more more But sonne what became of our forefathers that died before Christ suffered his death and destroyed Sathan and deliuered vs were not all in the power and handes of the Diuell before
Reuel 13 and all that dwel vpon the earth whose names are not written in the booke of life of the Lambe He is the Captaine ouer all that worship diuels and Images of gold Reuel 19 and siluer and brasse and stone and of wood which neither can sée heare nor go of all murderers fornicatours sorcerers ImpeniteÌ„t persons are his souldiers and théeues which repent not of the déedes of their handes Father Many souldyers then hath the diuell vnder his banner if all naughtie men that repent not of the déeds of their owne handes be his but what will the Lord do to them if they amend not and come home to their God Sonne Reuel 8 Saint Iohn telleth that their plauges shall come in one day death and sorow and hunger and they shal be burnt with fier for strong is the Lord God which shal iudge them Rom. 1 There shall come tribulacion wrath and anguishe vppon euery soule of them Father Tell me who are souldyers vnder Christes banner and what reward shall they haue Sonne Reuela 16 Those that watch and kéepe their garments that they walke not naked so that men may sée their filthienesse Io. 4. He that confesseth that Iesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God They that kéepe his commaundements and doe those thinges that are pleasant in his sight and this is the commaundemeÌ„t Faith and loue are badges of Christs soldiers that we beléeue on the name of his sonne Iesus Christ and loue one another as he hath giuen commaundement They are buried by baptisme Collo 3 but raised againe by faith They haue their conuersation in heauen from whence they looke for a sauiour euen the Lorde Iesus Christ Phillip 3 They beléeue onely in Christ Iesu Gall. 3. I beheld saith Saint Iohn Reuel 7 a great multitude which no man could number of all nacions people and tongues that stood before the seat and the Lambe clothed with loÌ„g white garmeÌ„ts palmes in their handes they are they that came out of tribulation and made their garmentes white with the blood of the Lambe therfore are they in the presence of God and serue him day and night in his temple and he that sitteth vppon the seat will dwell among them they shall hunger no more neither thirst neither shall the sunne light on theÌ„ any more neither any heat for the Lambe which is in the middest of the seat shall féed them and lead them vnto fountaines of liuing water and God shall wipe away all teares from theire eyes Father Let vs pray against these enimies the Diuell world and the flesh Sonne A prayer O Lord God and mercifull father the diuell goeth about like a roaring Lyon séeking whome he may deuouer the flesh lusieth against the spirit the world perswadeth vnto vainities that we may forget thée and so for euer â—e damned thus are we myserablie beset be séeged on euerie side with cruel and restles enimies and like at euerie moment to perish if we be not defended by thy mightie hand against their tiranny we therefore poore and wretched sinners disparing of our owne strengthes which in déede is none most heartely pray thée to endue vs with strength from aboue that we may be able with strong faith to resist Sathan with feruent prayer to mortifie the luste of the flesh with continuall meditation of thy holy Law to auoide the foolish vanities transitory pleasures of this wicked world and béeing set at libertie from the power of these our mortall enimes may serue thée in true holynesse and righteousnesse after be partakers of thine euerlasting ioies prepared for thy Children which as they are great and vnspeakable so are they few that do enioye theÌ„ for straite is the way narrow is the gate that leadeth therevnto and few therebe that finde it Notwithstanding thou hast a little flocke to whom it is thy pleasure to giue that ioyfull kingdome whose names are written in the booke of lyfe make vs of that number for Iesus Christ his sake place vs amongst those shéepe that shall stand on thy right hand and receiue that blessed inheritance and dwell with thée for euermore Amen Father Iudgement generall Graunt this O Lord for Iesus Christ his sake Well procéede sonne is there once a reckning to be made and an accompt to be giuen before whom shall that reckning be and who shall recken Sonne That straight accompt and reckning shal be before the maiestie of that terryble and fearful God iudge Iesus Christ and they that shall recken are all people kindreds and tongues good and bad that haue béene are or shal be till the ende of the world come and that fearefull iudgement bée Father Resurrection How shall the dead be raised vp if all shal be iudged Sonne Trumpe 1. Cor. 15 With the sound of Gods trumpet father for the trumpe shall blowe and the deade shall rise incorruptable and we shal be chaunged for this corruptable must put on incorruption and this mortall shal put on immortalitie In that day shall the great Trumpet be blowen Esay 23 so that they which were lost in the land of Assyria and those that were banished into the lande of Egypt shal come and worship the Lord in the holy mount at Ierusalem The Lord shall crie with a great shout from his court regall Ieremi 2 he shall giue a great voyce like the grape gatherers and the sounde thereof shall be heard to the ende of the world The Lord shall roare out of Sion Amos. 1 and shew his voice out of Ierusalem that the heauens and earth shall quake withall He shall sende his Angells with the great voice of a Trumpet Math. 24 and they shall gather together his chosen from the foure winds euen from the highest partes of heauen to thendes thereof The Lord God shall blowe out the Trumpet zachary shall come foorth as a storme out of the south The Lorde shall disend from heauen with a shout 2 Thess and the voice of the Archangell and trump of God I will blow for them zachar 1 and gather them together saith the Lorde for I will redéemed them Thus by the sounde of the Trumpet shall all be raysed vp from death Father The Lorde be mercifull vnto vs. The remembraunce of the voyce of the Trumpet terrifieth mée which shall bée hearde in Heauen Earth and Hell but procéede howe shall men rise Sonne â—ob 19 Iob saith I knowe that my redéemer liueth and that I shall rise out of the earth at the last daye and shall bée cloathed agayne with my skinne and shall sée GOD in my fleshe yea and I my selfe shall beholde him not with other but with these same eyes â—say 26 The deade menne shall lyue sayeth GOD euen with their bodies shall they ryse agayne awake and singe thou that dwellest in the dust for thy dewe is euen as
before mée saith the Lord Esay 66. and they shall goe foorth and looke vpon the carrions of them that haue transgressed against mée Amos. 9 They shall not flée away there shall not one escape nor be deliuered though they were buried in hell my hande shall fetch them from thence though they clime vppe to heauen yet shall I cast them downe though they hide themselues on the toppe of Carmell yet shal I séeke them out and bring them from thence though they créepe downe from my sight into the depth of the Sea I shall commaunde the Serpent there to bite them Math. 25 Iesus Christ shall sende his Angells with the great voyce of a Trumpet and they shall gather together his chosen from the foure windes euen from the highest parte of heauen till the endes thereof Thus father you may sée that this iudgement cannot be secaped Father Sonne the Lord comforte vs. What saiest thou shall there be no warning before the Trumpet bée sounded Sodenly and all summoned to iudgement but shall it come vnwares and sodainely Sonne Christ saith if we shall not watch Reuel 3 hée will come as a théefe and we shall not knowe what houre he shall come on vs. The day of the Lord shall come as a théefe in the night 1. Thes 5 for when they shall say peace then shall sodaine destruction come vpon them euen as sorrowe vpon a woman in traueile and they shall not escape Of that day and houre saith Christ Math. 24 knoweth no manne but my Father onelie for as it was in the daies of Noa they eate and dranke married and were married builded and planted vntil Noa went into the Arke and the floude came and tooke them all away So shall the comming of the Sonne of man bée Watch therefore for ye knowe not what houre the sonne of man will come Father The Lord giue vs grace to be watchfull What shall the Lorde doe when all people kinredes and tongues and nations are set before him Sonne Partition Math. 25 He shall seperate the good from the bad euen as a shepperd parteth the shéepe from the Goats Ezech. 34. I will saith the Lord put a pertition and make a difference among the shéepe among the weathers and Goats Math. 25 Hée shall sette the shéepe on his right hande and the Goates on the left hand Father Christ helpe vs but howe shall the Lorde Iesus among all the people of the worlde knowe which are good to set them on his right hande and the euill and place them on his left hande Sonne Father the Lorde séeth and knoweth all thoughts words and workes of all men hee séeth from euerlasting to euerlasting there is nothing hid frō his eyes and besides they shall all bée marked the faithfull and good with the marke of the Lambe Iesus The wicked shall haue in their handes or foreheades the Beastes marke The Lord saide to one that had a linnen rayment vpon him Ezech. 9 and a writers Incke-horne by his side goe thy way through the Cittie of Ierusalem sette a marke vpon the foreheades of them that mourne and are sorie for all the abhorcions that are done therein And to an other he saide goe after him through the Cittie slay ouer sée none spare none kill and destroy both mē and young maides children and wiues but as for those that haue the marke vpon them sée thou touch them not An Angell hauing the seale of the liuing God in his hande Reuel 7 and he cryed to the foure Angels that haue power ouer the Earth and sayde hurte not the Earth neyther the Sea neyther the Trées till I haue sealed the seruaunts of GOD in their foreheads The names of the good are written in the Booke of life of the Lambe Reuel 3 They haue his name Eod. and his Fathers name written in their foreheads When the Lorde woulde smyte the firste borne in Egypte Exod. 12 and delyuer his owne people he commaunded that all his owne people euerie householde shoulde kill a Lambe late at night and sprinckle the doore chéekes and postes of the doore with the bloud so that when the destroyer should come he might sée the bloud and might passe by that house and not smite it So in like manner whosoeuer haue their hearts and consciences sprinckeled with faith in the bloud of the Lambe Iesus the destroyer in the day of vengeance shall not hurt but destroy the Egiptians that is the wicked that haue receaued the beasts marke Father Not pacified The Lord our God sprinckle our hearts with that bloud Sonne I haue brought thée a little from the purpose but turne againe to it and tell mée if the Lord will not be a mercifull God at that time and soone entreated Sonne Pro. 6. Mercifull no Father not mercifull but iust full of wrath and indignation Salomon compareth the Lord to a Iellious husbande the Ielousie and wrath of the man will not be intreated no not though thou wouldest offer him great giftes to make amends he will not receaue them There is no daise-man betwixt GOD and man Iob. 9. When he is wrath the earth shaketh Ieremy 10 all the Gentiles may not abide his indignation Heauen and earth shall remoue in the wrath of the Lord of hosts Esay 13. and in the day of his fearefull indignation Neither their siluer nor their gold shal be able to deliuer them in that wrathfull day of the Lord Sophony 1. but all the whole lande shall be burned with the fier of Ielousiie Beholde Amos. 2 I will crash you in sunder like as a waine crasheth that is full of sheaues so that the swift shall not escape neyther the strong doe any thing no the Gyant shall not be able to saue his owne lyfe I will not spare because he persecuted his brother with the sworde destroyed his mothers wombe bare hatred verie long and so kept indignation alway by him Who may abide his wrath Nah. 1. or who is able to abide his grymme displeasure his anger taketh on like fier and the hard rockes are clouen asunder He shall be like a Beare that is rauished of her whelpes euen full of wrath and indignation shall the Lord be in that day Father Good God what shall we doe séeing there is no mercie but that Clausae sunt ianuae the gates of all mercie are shutte vppe and iustice drawen out Cognoscetur dominus iuditia faciens The Lorde shall bée knowen to execute iustice and iudgement Procéede to tell mée when all people kinreds and tongues are araigned before this terrible iudge Plead guiltie or not guiltie and pleade guyltie or not guiltie what shall the iudge obiect or lay to their charge what will he saye to the faithfull on his right hande Sonne Math. 25 He shall say Oh ye blessed children of my Father when I was hungrie you gaue mée meate when I was thirstie you
gaue mée drinke Blessed when I was harbourlesse you lodged mée when I was naked you cloathed mée when I was sicke and in pryson ye came vnto mée and visited mée Father And shall they aunswere any thing Sonne Yea father for the Lord saith Esay 14 there shall be all mightie men of the earth areigned and Princes and kinges and small and great shall stand from their seates that they may all aunswere and speake vnto the Lorde They shall aunswere Math. 25 Lorde Iesus when sawe we thée an hungered and féed the thirstie and gaue the drinke harbourles and lodged thée naked and clothed thée sicke and in prison and cam vnto thée he shall aunswere and say in asmuch as ye haue done it to the least of these my bretheren you haue done it vnto mée Father What speach shall his Maiestie vse to the wicked on his left hand Sonne Oh ye cursed of my father Cursed when I was an hungrie you gaue mée no meate when I was a thirst ye gaue me no drinck when I was harbourlesse ye lodged mée not when I was naked yée clothed mée not when I was sicke and in prison ye came not vnto mée to visit mée and they shall aunswere Lorde when saw we thée an hungrie or a thirst or harbourlesse or naked or sicke or in prison came not vnto thée he shall say in asmuch as ye did it not to these my brethren ye did it not to mée Father Iesus God if the Lord coÌ„demne them that helpe not their bretheren what will he do to the vnmercifull that robbe him that taketh meate drinke apparell lodging relefe and all from him euen fleaing the skin from the bone as much as lyeth in them Sonne The Lorde or they passe away will reward them for all as you shall heare afterwardes Father Well sonne who shal be present to heare all causes pleaded and what witnesse shall there be against the wicked for I am sure that the Lorde will haue all men sée that hée dealeth iustly and vprightlie withall Sonne True it is father VVitnesses 2. Cor. 5 there shal be present all Angells Archangels all the hosts of heauen there shal be all Saints and righteous all wicked and vngodlie that euer were vppon the face of the earth young and olde There shal be the great Dragon the diuell Sathanas with all the rable of hell-houndes and damned spirits for Saint Iohn saith Reuel 20. that he sawe the dead both great and small stand before God and the bookes were opened which is the booke of life and an other booke was opened and the dead were iudged of those thinges that were written in the booke according to their déedes Wherby we may learne that the bookes wer their coÌ„ciences layd abroad to al the world ConscieÌ„ces It is a sore thing wheÌ„ a man 's owne coÌ„cience beareth witnesse and recorde of his wickednesse and condemmeth him Wisd 17 He that speaketh vnrighteous thinges cannot be hidde and why Wisd 1. inquisition shall bée made for the thoughts of the vngodly and the reporte of his wordes shal come vnto God so that his wickednesse shal be punished Eod. There is nothing so hid that shall not be reueled Luke 22 There is nothing so couered saith Christ that shall not be vncouered neither hid that shall not be knowen Father I sée then that euerie thing shal be opened for I haue heard that a mans concience is quasi millie testis As a thousand witnesse but what other witnesses will there be Sonne God himselfe a witnesse GOD himselfe who séeth all thinges from the beginning shall be both the iudge and witnesse Malachi 3 I my selfe saith the Lord will be a swift witnesse against al witches against aduoulterers against false swerers against those that wrongfully kéepe backe the hyrelinges dutie which oppresse the stranger and hurt the widowes and Fatherlesse Cor. 10. The Lorde will come and open the thinges that are in darkenesse and declare the counsell of Princes and then shall euery one haue praise of God Father What other witnesses will there bée against the wicked VVorks Sonne Their owne workes in fine hominis denunciatio operum illius at the ende of man there is a declaration of their works Blessed are the dead that dye in the Lord Reuel 14 euen so saith the spirit that they rest from their labours but their workes followe them The Appostle Saint Paull teacheth all men that they learne to excell in good works Titus 3 that they be not vnfruiteful in the Lords daie My deare brethren be stedfast and vnmoueable 1. Cor. 15. alwaies rich in the works of the Lorde forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vaine in the Lorde Father What are there any more witnesses Sonne The Diuell that great dragon as saith saint Iohn which deceiued all the world Diuell a witnesse the accuser of our brethren which accuse them before God day and night 1. Peter 1 That aduersary the diuel like a roareing Lyon séeketh whom he may deuoure Father Lorde God what shal the worme-eaten conscience then doe what shall the vnmercifull and couetous man say Sonne Luke 23. Decent montibus cadite super nos they shall say to the mountaines fal vppon vs and to the hills couer vs from the face of the Lorde Oseas 10 Esay 2 Then shall they séeke to crepe into holes and caues and rockes for feare of God but they cannot escape Reue. 6 They shall couet to hiâ—e themselues in dennes and Rockes of the Hills and shall say vnto the rockes fall on vs and hide vs from the presence of him that sitteth on the seate and from the wrath of the Lambe For the great day of his wrath is come and who is able to endure Reuel 9 At that time shall men séeke for death and shall not finde it they shall desire to dye and death shall flée from them Father Can there none hide themselues Sonne I tould you before father Amos. 9 that although they were buryed in hell the hand of the Lorde would fetch them from thence though they clyme vp to heauen yet will hée cast them downe though they hide themselues vppon the tope of Carmell yet will he séeke them out and bring theÌ„ from thence though they could créepe into the déepe of the sea yet hée will commaund the Serpent there to byte them Father Father of heauen be mercifull to vs. Well goe on seeing that euerie one must abyde the sentence of God and his straite iudgement tell mée now what will folow Sonne Then shall the Lorde Iesus Christ call those on his right hand and say come ye blessed of my Father Math. 25 inherite the kingdome of heauen prepared for you from the beginning of the worlde Father I perceiue that the faithfull mercifull and righteous shall then be blessed and without all feare But what shall he
say to the wicked Sonne Reuel 12 First when they are areigned ther shal stand before them a terrible most fearefull Iudge on the one side Wisd 17 Malach. 3. Reuel 14 2. Peter 3. Math. 25 their workes accusing on the other side the Diuell and all hell-hounds to draw them away with in them their conscyence crying out against them on euerie side the whole world burning vnder them hell and damnation wide open to swallow them the fier of paine therin to bunre them the sentence of Iesus thus shall be then prononced Goe you cursed of my â—ather into euerlasting fier prepared for the Diuell and his Angells after which curse they shal be preseÌ„ly cast into a lakâ— of fier brimstone Math. 3 where the fier neuer quencheth and the worme neuer dyeth and haue euerlasting paine Father Procéed tell me what shall become of the Diuell death and damned soules and bodies then Sonne Saint Iohn saith Reuel 20 that death and Hell shall be cast into a lake of fier which is the second death The beast and the false Prophetes were taken Reuel 19 and cast quicke into a ponde of fier burning with Brimstone and all that had the beasts marke The wicked shall drinke of the wine of the wrath of God Reuel 14 which is powred into the cup of his wrath and shall bée punished in fier and Brimstone VVher punishment neuer endeth before the holie Angells before the Lambe and the smoak of their tormeÌ„ts asceÌ„deth euermore The damned shall sucke the Gall of Serpents Iob. 26. the Adders tounge shall slay him so that he shall no more sée riuers of Honie and Butter The wicked shall be turned vnto hell all they that forget God Psalm 9 so that vpon theÌ„ shall the Lord raâ—â—e fier and Brimstone storme and tempest this shal be their portion to drink In that daye the Lord with his sore Esay 27. Christ conquered Sathan and destroyed his power great and mightie sworde shall visite Leuiathan the fugetiue serpent euen Leuiathan that crooked serpent shall slay the Dragon that is in the sea Esay 30. Hell in the depth prepared for Kings so that none are spared The fier of paine is ordained from the beginning yea euen for kinges it is prepared this hath the Lord set in the depth and made it wide the burning whereof is fier and much wood and the breath of the Lord which is a riuer of Brimstone doth kindle it Esay 3â— The wicked saith God shall conceaue stubble and beare straw and my spirit shal be as fier that it may consume and the people shall be burnt like lime and as thornes burne that are hewed off and cast into the fier Esay 34. They shall be so chaunged that they shall be as blacke as a pot my sword shall come downe in iudgement and vpon the people which I haue cursed for my vengeaunce The paine fier shal continue euermore thy folke shall be tâ—rned to pitch his earth to Brimstone therwith shall the land be kindled so that it â—hall not be quenched day nor night but smoake euermore Esay 66. Their carrions shall lie and be looked vpon their wormes shall not die neither shall their fier be quenched and all flesh shall abhorre them Iudeth 16 The Lord shall giue fier and wormes into their flesh that they may burne and féele it for euermore Thunder-boltes hills Wisd 5 waters of the sea flouds shall runne roughlie together a mightie winde shall stande vppe against them Their ioye shall be turned to sorrow Baruch 4 for fier shall fall vpon them from the euerlasting God long to endure and shall be inhabited of Diuells The wicked will the Lord burne with vnquenchable fier Math. 3 there shall be wéeping and gnashing of téeth Mark 13 The fearefull and vnbeléeuers Reuel 21 and abhominable murderers and whorrmongers and sorcerers and idolaters and all lyers shall haue their part in the lake that burneth with fier and Brimstone which is the second death And Christ thus concludeth that they shall be bounde â—ande and foote and cast into vtter darkenâ—sse where is wéeping and gnashing of téeth Father The Lord make our hearts stable and vnblameable 1. Thess 3 in holinesse before God our Father at the comming of our Lorde Iesus Christ with all Sainctes Amen Procéede tell mée now of the ioye prepared of God for his electe and chosen Reuel 28 I sawe saith Saint Iohn a newe heauen a new earth new Ierusalem come downe from heauen prepared as a bride garnished for her husbande â—oye and I hearde a great voyce from heauen saying beholde the Tabernacle of God is with men and he will dwell with them and they shall be his people and God himselfe shall bée with them and be their God and GOD shall wipe away al teares from their eies and there shall be no more death neyther sorrow neyther crying neither shall there be any more paine for the olde thinges are gone Reuel 21 They shall sée his face and his name shall be in their foreheadâ— where shall appeare the brightnesse of God Reuel 14 They shall drinke of the well of the water of life They shall rest from their labours Gen. 1. The Lord himselfe will be their reward Reuel 7 They shall bée in the presence of the seate of God and serue him day and night in his Temple and he that sitteth in the seate will dwell among them they shall hunger no more neither thirst neither shall the Sunne light on them neither any heate for the Lambe which is in the middest of the seate shall féede them and leade them vnto fountaines of liuing water and God shall wipe away all teares from their eies They shall stande before the seat of the Lambe Eod. cloathed with white long garments and Palmes in their hands They shall singe night and day saying Reuel 4 Holie holie holie Lord God almightie which was and is and is to come In the kingdome of heauen shall the Lord of hostes make vnto all people a feast of plenteous delicate dishes Esay 25 euen of most pleasaunt and daintie dishes The Lord of hostes shall be a crowne of glorie and diâ—mond of beautie Esay 28. vnto his faithfull people Iacob shall not bée confounded Esay 29. nor his face pale The rewarde of righteousnesse Esay 32. shall bée rest peace and quietnesse for euer There shall Sion bée séene Esay 33 the head Cittie of our solemne feast there shall thine eyes sée Ierusalem that glorious habitation and Tabernacle that neuer shall remoue â—eauen whose nayles shall not bée taken out worlde without ende the Maiestie of God shall be there present among vs Maiestie 〈◊〉 God â—ene â—dge â—aw-giuer â—ing Saâ—iour as a place where broade riuers and streames are for the Lord is a Iudge the Lord is our