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

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