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A19716	The care of a Christian conscience Ten sermons on the 25 psalme, preached in Tewkesburie in the countie of Gloucester, By Richard Curtis.	Curteys, Richard, 1532?-1582.	1600 (1600)	STC 6134; ESTC S111010	79,468	216

will is Gods will so of the other petitions Wherby it appeareth that they would haue prayers made vnto Saincts properly euē as vnto God Arg. 2. Exod. 32.13 Moses thus praieth Remember Abraham Isaac and Iacob thy seruants Moses hopeth here to haue his praiers heard by the merites of these holy men Ans Moses rehearseth here onely the couenant which the Lord made with these holy men and their séed as the words following do shew To whom thou swarest by thine owne selfe and saidst vnto them I will multiply your seede Moses therefore pleadeth not the merites of Abraham Isaac and Iacob but vrgeth and presseth the promises of God and couenant made with them That prayer is onely to be made vnto God and to no creature at all as beyng an especiall part of the worship of GOD which wée ought not to giue to any other thus it is proued by the word of God Arg. 1. Rom. 10.14 How shall they call vpon him in whom they haue not beleeued But wée must beléeue onely in God and therefore wée ought onely to pray to him Auns Rhe. It is true no more can we pray to our Lady nor any Sainct in heauen vnlesse wée beléeue they can help vs. Auns The sacred Scriptures euery where teach vs that we must beléeue in God that they are cursed that put any cōfidence in mā Ier. 17.5 Againe they can haue none assurance to settle their cōsciences but out of the Scriptures They haue a vaine persuasiō of the ability of Saints to help thē but they haue no ground of any such belief out of the Scriptures We sée then that we ought to pray to God only in the name of our Lord Iesus Christ We must not only in aduersity but in prosperity do it we must do it ordinarily seing that we cannot liue one minute of an howre without the gracious help merciful assistāce of our good gracious God And the fauour which we looke for at his hands cōsisteth not onely in deliuering vs from death when we are at the pits brim as the ignorant imagine but also in daily preseruing vs in turning away all euil frō vs. For we sée that we are in this life cōtinually besieged with an hundred daungers the miseries whereunto we are subiect are without number You sée thē that we ought to cal vpon God not only whē he toucheth vs smiteth as though he laid hard stroakes vpon vs but euen when we be at peace rest perceyue euer do expect dangers towards vs euen then it behooueth vs to consider to how many miseries our life is subiect vnto that being persuaded that we cannot escape except God help vs we may fly vnto him say Alas Lord cōsider our miseries kéep vs vnder the shadow of thy wings euē vnder the protection by thy prouidēce make vs able to passe thorow al dāgers which enuiron hem vs in round about This must be done both morning noone and night abroad and at home but especially morning and euening Moreouer let vs consider that Sathan with sundry manifold tēptations doth daily assault vs Therfore let vs pray vnto God daily howrely to deliuer vs by his power The 2. part of the first Sermon Psalm 25.2 My God I trust in thee let me not be confounded let not mine enemies reioice ouer mee AS if the prophet had said O my God my hope is onely fixed on thée let me not be confounded and put to shame and so be derided of mine enemies Doct. 1 1. Doctrine Our hope ought to be fixed onely in the Lord. The Reason is for that of him commeth our saluation 2. Reason Our helpe standeth in the name of the Lord who hath made heauen and earth our fathers hoped in thée they trusted in thée were not confounded Iob 14.14 If a man die shall he liue againe all the dayes of mine appointed time or warfare will I waite vntill my chaunging come Our hope must perseuere Which saying is worthy to be wel marked For if we be tossed with neuer so many troubles it is not enough vpon some good motion affection to say Now must we trust in God for that is nothing except wée hold out euen in the middest of all our encoūters First therfore let vs marke that Hope is not a daies bird or a moneths birde but must continue to the end And doubtles when we be fully setled on Gods promises he holdeth vs still in the same to the end we may not quaile euery day but that whē we haue ouerpassed some time we may alwaies be established more and more vntill God hath performed the thinges which as yet he hath delaied vntill another time You sée then that it booteth not to haue had some good affection or to haue trusted in God except we continue so throughout And Iob hath expressed it plainly vnder the name of trauaile or battell Why so He meaneth not that we goe to our God at our ease As long as we suffer nothing we can find in our hearts to liue still in this world and to prolong our life double if it were possible Our desire is then that God should handle vs without gréeuing vs please vs in all respects and obay vs in all our desires Sée how easily we would passe the time if we might go but our owne pase if we might haue no temptation that there might be no heauines nor feare But it is said that we must giue attendance all our life long yea euen with wrestling In these words al the daies we are taught that if the time linger and séeme long to vs we must not take it for an excuse to do euill and to be gréeued and to giue ouer all in the middest of our iourney but we must continue to the ende Vnder this word battell or fighting is expressed vnto vs the state of this present life which is that being but warfarre in this world wee must be faine to fight to be besieged on all sides to be in continuall perill to be tempted sometimes with cares sometimes with aduersities and sometimes with some daungers Therefore let vs thinke vpō it Iob 13.15 Loe though he slay me yet will I put my trust in him and I will reproue my waies in his sight Psalm 17.8 Keepe mee as the apple of the eye hide me vnder the shadow of thy wings Psalm 57.1 2. Haue mercy vpon mee O God haue mercy vpon me for my soule trusteth in thee and in the shadow of thy winges will I trust till these afflictions ouerpasse verse 2. I will call vnto the most high God euen to the God that performeth his promise towards me Simil. Augustini We fasten now our hope in the holy land of heauen as an anchor lest in the sea of this world we being troubled should make a shipwracke Euen as therefore of a ship that is at anchor we say Well now it is at the land

THE Care of a Christian Conscience Ten Sermons on the 25. Psalme preached in Tewkesburie in the Countie of Gloucester By Richard Curtis NVNC AVT NVNQVAM Imprinted at London by Simon Stafford dwelling on Adling hill neere Carter lane 1600. TO THE HONORABLE AND VERtuous Lady the Lady Dorothee Stafford widdow one of the Ladies of her Maiesties bed-chamber Simon Stafford wisheth all honor and happinesse in this life and in the life to come perpetuall glorie and rest THE straight and dutifull consideration of so many great fauors with which your Honorable disposition hath vouchsafed to grace me vnworthie the least of them hath compelled me thus presumptuously to dedicate these Christian models albeit the talent of another mans zealous inuention yet as the tithe of my poore Printing-presse vnto your honourable patronage hoping that in regard of their worth and not of my deserts you will likewise peruse them at conuenient seasons The vtilitie of them I neede not rippe vp seeing that your owne deepe-grounded wisedome wil hereafter by experienced perusall find out the same far better then either my simple mind can imagine or my pen lay down Onely this I humbly craue of your Honour that my good deuotion herein bee acceptable vnto you for our Sauior Christ preferred the poore widdowes mite before the golden offerings of the rich And is it not written that Artaxerxes a Pagan King daigned to receiue a cup-full of cold water at the hand of poore Synetes Whose president I imitating am emboldened to register your Heroicall name in the forefront of this booke intituled The Care of a Christian Conscience nothing doubting at all but that your Honours name is registred in the Booke of life for the Christian Care which you haue extēded to many of the poore distressed members of Iesus Christ Thus ceasing I beseech the Lord to cōtinue you in your godly course endue you with all blessings which eyther this earth affords or heauen contains From London Aprill 20. 1600. Your Honours most bounden Simon Stafford The first Sermon vpon the 25. Psalme 1.2 3. verses 1 Vnto thee O Lord lift I vp my soule THe sence is Many are the slaunders great are the iniuries which the wicked O Lord my God the Father the Sonne the holy Ghost thrée persons and one eternall God do raise vp against me thy humble and obedient seruant being vpright as thou knowest and innocent of that great offence to séeke the destruction of thine anointed Saul which whosoeuer doth shall neuer be guiltlesse in thy sight as I now am and for as much as thou knowest that to be deliuered from lying lippes flaunderous toungs I earnestly desire that mine integritie and vprightnes being knowen vnto thy maiestie may also vnto mē appeare I put not my trust as worldlings do in any worldly thing but my trust being fully fixed in the only one God I humbly and hartily in the name and by the mediation of thy dearly beloued sonne Iesus Christ the Messias which is to come beséech thée to deliuer me so shall I praise thy name all the daies of my life Doct. 1 1. Doct. In all our afflictions we must lift vp our hearts to God only by Praier The reason is It is the hand wherwith the Lord from heauen reacheth his benefits vnto vs. Vse Vse Let vs exercise it at all times For euen as the birdes and fowles of the aire that they may escape the nettes and snares of the fowlers flie vp on high so we to auoid the infinit snares of our enemies and innumerable temptations must lift vp our selues from the corruptions lying vanities and deceitful sleights of the world by earnest and harty praier When the sacred Scriptures mention the honoring of God the chiefest point which it setteth downe to vs is prayer and had this bene obserued as it ought to be the manner thereof had bene much more estéemed among men so as they would not haue so swarued one way nor other but haue folowed that which the holy Scripture teacheth But now men regard not profitably to pray they respect not in what maner they pray that their praier might be accepted of God but most men rush in and steppe to it like blind Bayard and come not dutifully and reuerently as they ought to the Lord. From whence procéedeth this vnreuerent behauior Euen from hence Because men accompt not of it to be of so great importance as it is for if we tooke it for the chiefe point of the seruice of God as it is it is certaine wée would more hartily zealously and reuerently take it in hand 2. Doct. 1. verse Vnto thee O Lord. Doct. 2 Praier must be made to God only in the name of Iesus Christ For he onely heareth vs he onely euen Iesus Christ praieth for vs he onely vnderstandeth our praiers he onely is more ready to help thē we to aske Vse Vse Let vs therfore not pray vnto Sainctes departed for we ought not to pray to thē 2. They pray not for vs. 3. They vnderstand not our Prayers The Papists assertiō is that Saincts departed are with great profit and piety called vpon and praied vnto R. 1. Tim 2. sect 4. B. cap. 19 lib. 1. De sanctorū beatit and that it is not onely lawful but godly so to do Arg. 1. They say they pray not to Saincts as authors of any benefit or grace but as Intercessors only neither doe they make them immediate intercessors but onely through Christ concluding all their praiers Per Christum Dominum nostrum Ans 1. It is false that they pray vnto them as intercessors onely for they desire them not onely to praie for them but to haue mercie vpon them For thus they praie O blessed Ladie haue mercy vpon vs preserue thy seruants let the merites of S. Mary bring vs to the kingdome of heauen Answ 2. It is also false that they make them not immediat intercessors but conclude their praiers Per Christum Dominum nostrum for in that blasphemous praier Tu per Thomae sanguinem quem pro nobis impendit fac nos Christe scandere quo Christus ascendit By the blood of Thomas O Christ which hée shed for vs make vs to clime whither he ascended There they aske life eternal of Christ by the blood of Thomas of Canterbury How then is it true which the Rhemists affirme the Christ alone by his merites procureth all grace and mercy towards mankind Praiers are made to S. Mary S. Osmōd S. Anne S. Katherine and none of them concludeth Per Christum Dominum nostrum Likewise An. 1551. in Scotland it was as good doctrine amongst the Papists that it was lawful to say the Pater noster to Saincts that we may call them our fathers say Hallowed be your names because God hath made their names holy and that their kingdome may come because the kingdome of heauē is theirs by possession and further that their will may be done seing their