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A19265	A godlie sermon, preached on Newe yeeres day last before Sir William Fitzwilliam knight, late lord deputie of Irelande, Sir Iames Harrington knight, their ladyes and children, vvith many others, at Burghley in Rutlande. By the minister of God Anthony Anderson. Hereto is added a very profitable forme of prayer, good for all such as passe the seas: by the same author framed, and vsed in his aduentured iourney.	Anderson, Anthony, d. 1593.	1576 (1576)	STC 568; ESTC S108500	29,532	74

Augustine sayth Qui non manet in Christo c. He that dwelleth not in Christe and in whome Christe dwelleth not vndoubtedly he eateth not spiritually the fleshe and blood of Christe Albeit he carnally and visibly teare with his teeth the Sacrament of the body and blood of Christe And if any man say vnto me why then doth Christ say This is my body I answere it is a figuratiue speach of our Sauiour and is of him spoken to a people that well were acquaynted with the Scriptures phrase in Sacramentes So is Circumcision called the Couenaunt of the Lorde when it is but the signe of the Lordes Couenaunt The Couenaunt it selfe was I will be thy God and thou shalt be my people And therefore Circumcision is called in the same chapter that which in it selfe it remayneth to be namely the Signe and not the Couenaunt And it shall be sayth God a signe of the Couenaunt betwixt thee and me Likewise the Pascall Lambe is called Transitus domini the passing by of the Lord vntill the comming of Christe yet the Lorde by his angel passed but once in al through the land of Egipt and therfore verily indede that sacrament could not be the passsing of the lord This is the vse of scripture sayth Augu. that the signes which signifie are called by the names whiche they do represent as thus the seuē eares of corne septem anni sunt are seuen yeres The Rocke was Christe c. And in another place he sayth The Lord doubted not to say This is my body whē he gaue signū corporis the signe of his body So good christian Audience the words of Christ as of him they were spoken are sacramentally to be vnderstoode So that whē Christ saith This is my body we are to take it thus this is the representing to the faithfull the exhibiting signe of my body That these words of Christ are figuratiuely spoken Augu. also witnesseth in his booke De doctrina christiana But that the faythful do eate by the worke of the spirite Christes diuine power his very body and blood in the true vse of the Lords supper the faithfulnes in god approueth who euer was the same to his people that his faithful pledges the Sacraments promised Circūcision promised his continuall ayde that he would be their god and they should be his people Search the Scriptures see if euer any people were so guerdoned or had the presence of God so neare them or were any people so prospered so long as they continued with circumcised harts in his holy couenant Did not the Lord by his angel performe that in dede which he promised by his paesah his sacramentall passeouer Did he not passe by the Israelites house tied to this Couenant plagued all the first borne in Egypt So no doubt he truely feedeth the faithfull with not only the power but the precious body in himself not stouping one inch yet frō his fathers Throne or giuing his body to be rent into peces with our mortal teeth but in such a diuine sort as our tongs can not vtter bicause our or thy capacities cā not cōceiue the maner how further thē by the sight of his noble creature the shining sun The sunne in his globe and person doth kepe continue his spheare circle in the Zodiake yet doth he by the decree and prouident power of God light vs warm vs comforte vs and renewe our blood and bodies and as we may saye by borowed speache geueth vs lyfe by his heauenly beames the ordinarie conducts from him felfe with his very liuing substaunce Sith thus we haue so elegant a shadow of our Sauiour Christes body verily feding vs that are his in earth let vs not distrust or further descant howe the Lord can sith we know not how the sonne doth his office but feele it so to be but let vs beleeue that the Lord by his holy spirite doth feede vs and in deede with his very body blood from heauen as verily as his minister at the table in earth doth geue vs the sacred symboles of his holy body whiche in their former nature remaine not other then bread wine And with that mind that our father Abraham did receiue the sacrament of circumcision let vs folow approch the Lordes table That is so taccept with faythful harte in hand the holy Mysteries as the seales of righteousnes that God will giue vs the same that he affyrmeth them to be and in such sort as the same is to be distributed vnto vs effectually in spirite truth Let vs examine trie our selues whether we be in the fayth let vs wel consider of our steppes whether we be stāding or falling before our God let vs cast from vs our former ills put vpon vs Iesus Christ his obedience Let vs confesse our daily sinnes approch with louing feare reuerence vnto this table of attonement Finally repent beleeue the Gospel Let the Papist depart from all his ignoraunt superstition receyue the doctrine of the holy written scriptures vnfaignedly Let the carnal gospeller the Atheist be ashamed at his filthy life skoffing girds cast at the truth Let the Auncient harlot hate his whordome and bath his beastly body in the blood of Christ by repentant fayth Let the couetous stretche out his hande vnto the poore shut vp his eyes from worldly thirst Let the courtly Dames you here present cut short the phantasies of vaine desires and rather couet to come behind the lashing pride of these ill days then seeke to folow the vntamed fashion of this wicked world And pray with Dauid that your eyes may be fast shut from beholding our to to much abhominable vanities Let the contentious ceasse their brawling striffe and with vs in one by the Lordes spirite of truth ascende to the Lordes sacrament of vnitie loue That this grace may come to euery of vs and to the whole Church of god this Church of England Ireland and therein to the Quenes maiestie Elizabeth her honorable Councelours and Potentates Gods spiritual Preachers and Ministers to all Magistrates gouernours as well here present as absent and to this congregation a member of the sayd Church let vs the louing sheepe of our cheefe Shepherd Christe by the comfort direction of his holy spirite humbly at the hands of our most merciful Father for the loue he beareth to Christe his only begotten sonne and in his name craue it saying O our father whiche arte in heauen c. Graunt O Lorde that into the vvords vvhich this day and at other times through thy great mercy vve haue graciously heard vve may be effectually transformed through Christe our head Shepheard and Lorde To whom together with thee O Father and the holy Ghost three distinct persons and one eternall God be all honour and glory power and dominion now and for euer

your vnderstanding in the sight of the people vvhich shall heare all these ordinaunces and shall say only this people is vvise and of vnderstanding and a great nation For what nation is so greate vnto whom the Gods come so neere vnto them as the Lord our God is neere vnto vs in all that we call vnto him for And what nation is so greate that hath ordinaunces and lawes so righteous as all this law which I set before you this day But if from the constituted lawe most holy righteous briefe and comodious thou cast thine eyes to the common welth of Israell euen from the king Salomon to his people thou shalt see it most beautifull The constitution of the church in Iury as it far passed all popishe pompe and that was maruelous so was it not without a preaching office to the posteritie of Christes glorified churche The doctrine plainely did set forth the way to life in Christ and because all this faire forme tended to this ende to keepe the poople of Israell in the limittes of their calling it is aptly cōpared to a shepheardes staffe and for the excelling order is moste worthely called beauty By the second staffe he vnderstandeth the lynked loue and fraternitie in blood which farre excelled all other kingdomes whiche know not their originall or are kept immixed with forrē blood The Iewes proceede all from one father Iacob and are as touching blood al in one brotherhood The Lord to keepe them in them selues as well in externall rites as continuall Genelogies of their Tribes did tye them together in one that they shoulde not he ignorant of their pedigrie nor shoulde mixt them selues with forreiners Neither was it els then the Lordes singular blessing that notwithstanding so many battailes and often troubles such diuision of the kingdome and long exile in so many forepassed yeeres they till the day wherin the Lord brake these his staues of beauty and bands knowe one anothers race ofspring for the which things sake you may see howe elegantly this staffe is called bands as by the which the Iewish amitie was preserued But both these staues Christ brake when Symony firste purchased the priesthood in Ierusalē lastly whē the Iewes were oppressed of all mē made the out castes of the world which sometime were Lordes in the earthe aboue the rest And this couenaūt did God vnfold when after Christs assention he sent the Romaines to pollute and finally to subuert both their ecclesiasticall and pollitique gouernment Yet some comforte was left them tyll the reigne of Aelius Adrianus by whom their rebelliō to Christ and his word was vtterly reuēged For he slewe many of them he put the rest to exile and forbdd them the entraunce into their former Cyties townes he did cōpell them to cast their lokes from the land of promise He rammed vp the gates in Ierusalem with swynes doung to the ignomious reproch of the obstinate Iewes with whome God in iustice had caused his Christe to breake the staues of their former defence beautie bandes And frō this tyme is it that the temple and common welth in Iury is so ouerthrowne that none of them can now truely tell of what linnaige or kindred he is of O Lord who can loke into this people and not quake in feare so greatly blessed so dearely loued as to them and for them God spared not to gyue his sonne in first and chiefe Besides for this he kept the whole earth to stand in awe of them But now no people so odious eyther to God or man as they quite geuen ouer of god and persecuted of all good men By this we are taught that sith all our christian fraternitie dependeth vpon Christ whom this people dispised of whom we are named and by whom also we haue God to our father spedely to kisse the sonne least he be angry and so we perishe from the right way for vnlesse we be at one with him there is no accompt of vs but as to the wicked Iewes to whom there is no peace The beautiful gouernment of this our lande so long continued vnder one monarchy may assure vs of Christe our shephearde to holde our stay his beautifull staffe in hande But I feare me our demerites be suche as were it not for his owne names sake this staffe by him yet holden would spedely be sore shiuered God preserue our noble Queene in whō alone by his great mercy the stay of our happy gouernment is continued for beyonde her we can see nothing but confusion Our beauty is then lyke to be turned into more than beggery Farre be it from men in earth to take this Gods office from heauen in hand If any gouernment he not perfect it is the Lords to amende it yf any to be reformed the same is with such foresight to be regarded that in seeking to remoue the forreing matter from the shepheards staffe which by longer tyme as a snayle slowly hathe crept vppon it and by latter dayes is conglutinate so thereto that hardly may it be seuered withoute some detriment that the staffe may still be preserued without which we perishe To the shepheardes which haue this staffe in hold belongeth the pollishing of the same and not to priuate persons which are rather to be directed therby Our partes is to pray the head shepheard Christ by whom kinges do reigne so to frame the hartes of christian kings which are al in his hand that they may feede the flocke committed to their charge faithfully and in the integritie of their soule with the staffe of Christes gouernment Namely by the Cannon of his worde which by his diuine prouidence is appointed the staffe of our assured defence The preachers office is into the hartes of Kinges to beat the knowledge of this truth that they by doctrine may know the substanciall duetie of best gouernmēt The higher called to the first must hoalpe thereto that God our highe shephearde by him selfe in the person of his princes in earth may dayly rule ouer vs his children So farre I lyke of the learned at this day seeking for redresse but in no wise dare I alowe that others shoulde be shut vp in hate which cannot ioyne in all respects to that them selues do not perceiue And I conclude that petition patience and parliament is the ascending staire to this high blessing Beyonde this there seemeth not els to be but a chrusshing of the shepeheardes croke which is the worke of god alone and to vs then no other but the dore of desolation and confusion to our former christian vnitie which God preserue for his names sake and purge his church of snayly knurres glewed to this staffe and keepe the same whole sound ouer vs to our farthest posteritie yf it stande with his good will and pleasure So shal our kingdome be beautifull and our christian brotherhoode garded with the band of Gods spirite to our eternall peace in him For the

So of the rest I deeme some say and wee also are not touched with the plague but they whiche haue deserued it haue it this doctrine therefore might best serue those whiche are nowe exercised with his louing Rodde But to one and other of you I say deare brethren as Christ our louing Shephearde sayde to the reporters of Pylates cruell facte who mingled the blood of the Galileans with the sacrifice of the Iewes thus Suppose yee saythe Christe that these Galileans were greater sinners then all the other Galileans because they haue suffered suche thinges I tell you nay But except yee amende your lyues ye shall all likewise perishe Or thinke you that those eyghtien vpon whom the Towre in Syloam fell and slewe them that they were sinners aboue all men that dwelt in Ierusalem I tell you nay But excepte ye amende your lyues yee shall all likewise perishe So let Christ say to you heere present That you are by my sparing hande brought from the plague in Irelande that you are yet seuered from the sicke here in Rutlande it is not for that any of you from the Preacher to the basest Hearer haue lesse offended but that I woulde vse them for your Preachers to amendement and them selues to a bettered lyfe as hereafter yf by their example ye amende not I will make you the lyke example to others when they shall see my hande shaking ouer you Praye for our brethren therefore helpe too succour theyr present neede and repent in time least that his scourge of loue beeing remoued we feele the heauy fall of his angry Rodde Wherof our Prophete speaketh in the seconde Psalme prophecying the vtter ruine of all those that insult agaynst Christ and his chosen children For as he is moste louely vnto his louely sheepe So to the stubborne harted he is the God of strength who can and will correcte or compell them to stoupe to his good pleasure And he is sayde to haue an yron Rodde in respect of his diuine power and princely dominion ouer the mightie Kinges of the earth who with his worde doth arme the weake things of the world agaynst the moste gigaunt vnder heauen Lise and Frogges shall bee to strong for stout Pharao the mightie gigante king of Egypt and weake Dauid shall ouerthrowe the huge armies of the Philisteans the Syrians the Ammonites the Moabites The Idumeans and the Syriās shal oftē by weaknes be brought frō their great strēgth Sennacherib with his Rabsekah shal leaue his siege agaynst Ierusalem shal be broken into peeces his owne sonnes shall strike him to the hart with their swords the Lordes yron rod to his vtter confusion And to this their vtter shame the Lorde from heauen shal vse but his only word and with the breath of his mouth shall he make al creatures redy to be his rod to the confusion of the wicked His owne prophet Elisah shal cause blindnes to come into the eyes of the mightie host which frō the king of Syria are sent to take him and shal bring thē into Samaria the citie of their enemies Bennadad the king of Aram shal be compelled to remoue his siege from Samaria in one night because the Lord hath made the concept of hearing of charrets horsmen to be his yron rod to driue them before their enemies which by them before were brought to most extreme pennurie so that an asses heade was solde for foure schore siluerlinges and a load of doues doung to rost the same for fyue syluerlinges The former churches of the caste which did degenerate frō their first faith hath he with this his angry rod cast vnder the power of the Turke that they may beleeue lies to their destruction which would not receiue the truth when it was offered them Christe in his owne person is this rodde of anger to all that stubbornly resist him He that stumbleth at this Christe shall be brused but vppon whōsoeuer this stone Christ shall fall he shall grind thē all to poudre take hede of this angry so dayly prouoked yron rod. For as to the faithfull he is lyfe and consolatiō so to the vnbeleuing obstinate he is the yron rod here spoken of His ghospel Apostles preachers ministers hath he made to be the same according to the nature of their auditory as The Apostle Paule witnesseth saying The weapons of our warefare are not carnall but mighty through God to caste downe holdes casting downe the imaginations and euery high thing that is exalted againste the knowledge of God bringing into captiuitie euery thought to the obedience of Christ And hauing ready the vengeaunce against all disobedience when your obedience is fulfilled O my brethren consider your calling ye are the sheepe of Christe what belongeth your calling Truely to heare with reuerent obedience his voyce What is his workmanshippe then of you regenerate To purge you with his rodde of loue that ye should be more fruitefull and to the greater comfort of you his chosen he plaigeth to destruction with his angrye yron rodde the wicked whiche can not but muche moleste you were they vnbrydled Take heede in tyme repent and beleeue his ghospell leaste the former being ended his second rodde beginne to skoure you oute of place for a better people Thus muche for the Lordes roddes and nowe to the shepheardes crooke that doubled staffe of whiche Dauid thus sayth Thy rodde and thy staffe they comfort me As it is farre more safety for vs to be vnder our shepheards rod then committed or left to the woluishe iawes of Satanicall broade So is it our best comfort and assured prosperitie to dwell vnder the reach of his most louing gouerment which here is set forth vnto vs by the shepheard staffe Very significātly doth the Prophet Zachary set downe the loue and anger of God by the two stanes which Christe our shepheard first toke into his hand and after brust in sundre And these be his words I toke vnto me two staues the prophet speaketh in the person of Christ the one J called beautie and the other I called bāds J fed the shepe And a little after he sayth Their soule abhorred me and J sayde J vvill not feede you that vvhich dyeth let it dye and that vvhich perisheth let it perishe and let the remnant eate one another euery one the fleshe of his neighbour And J toke my staffe beauty and brake it that J might disanull my couenaunt vvhich J had made vvith all people And somewhat after thus Then brake J myne other staffe euen bandes that J might dissolue the brotherhoode betvvene Judah and Jsraell By the firste staffe beauty the Prophet vnderstandeth that most elegant frame of the Iewishe common welth gouernment which for the great excellencie thereof is here called beautie Of this staffe Moses triumphing speaketh thus Keepe these lavves and do them for that is your vvisedome and

Amen Laus Deo per Christum 1. Ian. 1575 Psa 77.21 Psal 80.1 Esai 40.11 Psa 110.1 Ma. 23. Act. 2.34 Io. 10.11 1. Pe. 2.25 Io. 5.24 Io. 10.15 Mat. 11.28 Io. 21.15.16.17 Act. 20.28 Luke 15.4 5. Mat. 18 12 Lu. 10.34 Esai 53. 1. Pe. 2.24 Ma. 12.20 Io. 15.2 Io. 15.2.3 Eze. 3.18 Act. 20.28 Zach. 11.17 Rom. 8 1. Pet. 2. Rom. 8. 1. Pe. 5. Io. 10. Esa. 53.7 Heb. 12.2.3 4. c. Psal 37.25 1. Kin. 17.4 5.6 1. Kin. 17.14.15.16 Dan. 14. story of Bell. Io. 6.11.12 13. Mat. 6.33 Psa 37.19 Phi. 4.11 Psa 37.2.3 Psa. 17.14 2. Cor. 5.8.9.10.11.16.17.18 2. Cor. 6.9.10 Luke 16 vers 2 Io. 5.24 Ioh. 7.39 Iohn 4.14 Math. 6. vers 3. Rom. 7.18.19.20 2 Chro. 24 17.18.19.20 Rom. 8. Io. 17.2.6 Rom. 8.29 Eph. 1.2.3.4 Rom. 8. Colos 3. Math. 3. 2. Co. 5.20 Luke 1.17 Psal 19 1. Co. 9.16 Pro. 29.18 Ro. 10.17 Rom. 8.37 Mark. 16 16 Esa. 56.10 11.12 Ephe. 1 Eph. 2.19 Eph. 2.12 Rom. 8.3.4 Tit. 2.11.11 Lu. 9.62 2. Cor. 3.5 Phil. 1.6 Ezech. 35.30.31 Ephe. 2.18 Rom. 8.15 Apoc. 7. and 14 Eph. 4.30 1. Io. 5.10 Rom. 8.33 2. 1. Pet. 2.21 Rom. 8.14 Rom. 7.19 2. Pet. 2.19 Eph. 3.16 Eph. 4.19 20. Eph. 5.4 1. Cor. 11.1 Luk. 2. Sap. 5. Esa. 40 Esa. 30.22 Esa. 64 vers 6 Psal 31.4 1. Sa. 12.22 Esa. 48.9 Eze. 20.9 Eze. 36.32 vers 4. Psa 34.19 Eph. 5.7 2. Cor. 4.13 Exo. 14.22 Dan. 3.25 Gen. 20.3 2. Sa. 12.1 Psa 22.24 Gene. 17. Iona. 1.17 Act. 12.8.9 2. Cor. 2.3 Zach. 11. 1. Cor. 11.32 Ezech. 18. Psal 103.8 Heb. 12.10 and 2.17 Esa. 5 4.7 Hebr. 12.5.6.7 Psal 39.11 Luke 13.2 Psal 2.9 Ps. 78.45 2. Sa. 10.12 1. Para. 18.19 Esa. 37.36.38 2. King. 6.14.18 2. Kin. 7.6 2. Ki. 6.25 2. Tes 2. Mat. 21.44 2. Cor. 10.4 Ioh. 14.1 Mat. 21.43 Zach. 11.7 Deu. 4.6 Gualterus in zachari Psa 2.12 Prou. 20. Ps. 78.70.71.72 Zac. 11.16 Ps. 61.2.5 1. Co. 10.4 Psa 122.1 1. Cor. 10. Ioel. 2.16 17. 1. Cor. 10.17 1. Cor. 14.23 1. Cor. 10.1 2.3.4 Rom. 15. Rom. 4. In the Sacrament two things are conceiued Cipriani de vnct Chrism Ambro. de sacra li. 4. cap. 4. Origen in Matth. August in Io. tra 20. Gen. 17.10 Exod. 12. August in Leuit. 17. Gen. 41.26 Augu. de doct chri lib. 3. Deut. 4. Exo. 12.12.13.28.29 Ro. 4.11.12 2. Corinth Rom. 12.2 Psal 119.32 To the right vvorshipfull Syr William Fitzwilliam Knight late Lorde deputie of Irelande A. Anderson the minister of Christes holy Gospell vvisheth Christ our Lorde vvith his vvhole merites CAll vppon me sayth God in the day of thy trouble and I will deliuer thee Greater troubles with lesse comfortes than in the raging Seas can not be founde as those with Dauid must confesse which occupie their busines in greate waters This daungerous Iourney as among many others ye are in the Lordes name to aduenture so vouchsafe this preparatiue to your godly hart and by and with the same in assured hope of Gods assistaunce for his Christ approche his mercy seate The hast we haue and gaping hope for Westerly winds will not permit long leysure to proyue this sodayne frame Take it Right Worshipfull as it is and accept the good will of the Geuer vse it at your neede to the Lordes prayse and your present comfort which is my harty desire And I shall dayly pray the Lorde for you and vs that we may speedely imbarke and safely arriue in Englande through Christes ayde the master of our ship At Holme Patricke in Irelande 17. October 1575. Your Worships in Dom. A. Anderson A forme of prayer for sea-men and passengers to vse in the sayling Shippe ¶ A confession of our sinnes to God. O Almighty God and most righteous we thy deare children here encompassed with these thy mighty creatures the windes the huge seas and sayling ship do acknowledge and confesse our selues and euery of vs to be miserable sinners and from our first cradles depely to haue offended thy diuine maiestie Our seuerall thoughtes be corrupted our sundry hartes and acts are polluted our synnes cannot be hid from thee We hartely confesse them O Lord els should our consciences condemne vs because our transgressions beare witnes against vs But thou art the God of our saluation and to vs thy children the beste father full of mercyes riche in compassion slowe to wrath and most ready to forgiue the penitent sinner calling vpon thee And sithe it is the worke of thy most holy spirite to mollifie the stony harted and to chaunge the fleshly hart into a spirituall soule Eze. 36. We most humbly besech thee for thy Christes sake to graunt vs thy holy spirite takē from vs our stony and gyue vs hartes of fleshe and into them power thy graces turne vs vnto thee Thy holy law imprint in our soules and giue vs to walke in thy statutes during these our naturall lyues Bow downe thine eare and heare vs and with thy fauourable countenance loke vpon vs behold our place and cause of cry Our ship is subiect to subuersion if thy holy hande direct vs not in mercifull prouidence Gyue O lord the sweete and plesant gale in thy name of vs to be desired in vehement stormes by thee called to punish and proue vs assist vs with thy strength and spirite of comfort Loke vpon our mediatour Christ and through him pitie vs and in the bowels of thy mercy conduct vs to the hauen of vs desired if it be thy will. Then shall we sing and prayse thy name and shew thy wonders in the deepe and our soules shall confesse that though the seas be mightie Psa 93.5 yet thou O God art of most might ouer them Let vs not be tempted further gracious God then that our strength in thee shall counteruaile and graunt the euent prosperous Glad our hartes with safety on shore and make vs mindfull of thy mercies Gyue vs we beseche thee true fayth firme hope and feruēt loue in thee keepe vs alwayes thine and graunt thy Christ for euer ours in whose name for our selues and all other in our condition with the rest of thy churche we call vnto thee thus O our father which arte in heauen halowed be thy name c. A psalme Psa 93.5 The waues of the sea are mighy and rage horribly but yet the Lord that dwelleth on high is mightier Psal 107. 23. They that go down to the sea in ships occupie their busines in great waters 24. These men see the workes of the Lord and his wonders in the deepe 25. For at his worde the stormy wind ariseth which lifteth vp the waues therof 26. They are caried vp to heauen downe againe to the deepe their soule melteth in them because of their trouble 27. They reele to fro and stagger like a dronken man are at their wittes ende 28. So when they cry vnto the Lorde in their trouble hee deliuereth them out of their distresse 29. For