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A72063	A sermon preached at Paules crosse the firste Sunday after Newyeeres day, beeing the thirde day of Ianuary. 1580. By William Fisher student of diuinitie	Fisher, William, student of diuinitie.	1580 (1580)	STC 10920.3; ESTC S124925	28,377	84

euery one that beleueth She had neuer more faithful subiectes and I dare vndertake shee neuer had more feruent Prayers for her prosperitie in gouernment constancie in Gods woorde And as vile sinners as they note vs to be we doubt not but God wil heare our Prayers in his good time And this I say to the confusion of all bloodthristie Massemungers that it was neuer sene yet but what rekoning so euer the wicked made the cōtrary followed Pharao thought him selfe sure of his pray vpon the Israelites when hee had them at the brinke of the red sea but the Sea swallowed him vp hoste and all What accounte made Achitophel of promotion and preferment when he conspired against his maister Dauid but when he sawe it would not be did hee not hang him selfe Those wicked Iudges which falsely accused that chaste matron Susanna litle thought that they should haue beene stoned to death them selues Haman made a paire of Gallowes and there was no way but poore Mardocheus must be trusted vppe but you knowe who had the first bansel Therefore let our aduersaries know that they cannot so lay their snares for vs but they may be taken therein them selues They cannot so digge their Pittes for vs but they may fall therein them selues The Roddes they make accounte shall beate our tayles maye scourge their owne And their Golden day their Dommes day And this the Lorde can doe for his Church yea this hee will doe if wee pray vnto him and repose our selues vppon him Therefore whiles our Aduersaryes harpe and hope vppon our destruction let them quake and tremble for feare of their owne For the Lorde is nigh vnto all those that call vppon him As for the sacrifice of the wicked hee will not haue it come in his presence And thus farre of Sacrifice The thirde aunswere I came not to call c. As if hee should say Why shoulde you mistyke because I eate with Publicanes and Sinners I tell you truely I came not too call such holy men as you are but miserable sinners as they bee to repentaunce An excellent saying and able too renewe and quicken any sinnefull soule how longe soeuer it hath beene deade in the graue of Sinne. All the world is not able to shew the like Mithridate and souerain preseruatiue against the bitter curse of the lawe Hel it selfe doth repine at this saying and murmure that euer man should haue so great an aduantage against her And I am verely perswaded that if the deuil had forecast that such an answer should be giuen to the Pharises he would rather haue caried them headlong into the sea and haue drowned thē as he did the heard of swine then they shoulde once haue mooued the question For why doth it not most liuely shew and set forth vnto vs the benefite of al benefits I meane our calling in christ which Paule tearmeth a holy calling for that it was not for our merits but of gods 2. Tim. 1. tēder loue There cannot be a greater encouragemēt to a Christiā man to animate him in doing good works thē to consider that Christ came to cal him therfore the Apostle telleth thē that they are called in Iesus Christ that is adopted in Christ Rom. 1. What a singular prerogatiue this benefit hath aboue al other as S. Paule Ro. 8. We Rom. 8. know saith Paule that al things work togither for the best vnto thē that loue God euen to them that are called of his purpose And what a mightie proofe doth he bring to assure and warrant the faythful that it is true which he hath spoken to their comfort For those which he fore knewe he also predestinate to bee made like to the Image of his son that he might be the first borne among many Moreouer whom he predestinate them also he called and whom he called them also he iustified and whome he iustified them also he glorified Therfore he that wil become strong inuincible against aduersitie let him bee mindful of his calling in Iesus Christ This soueraine benefit of our calling in Iesus Christ wil appeare in your sight to be the greater and more worthy benefit if you marke wel the circumstance wherwith our sauiour Christ doth set it foorth I come not to cal c. In which words we are to note the circumstances First the meanes of our calling which is Christ comming I come not c. Secondly the parties which are called that is sinners I come not to call the righteous but sinners Thirdly the end and purpose wherevnto he calleth To repantance The first circumstance The more often I call to mind the miserable plight of man through sinne and disobedience the lesse able do I finde my selfe to shewe and see foorth vnto you the infinite goodnesse of God our heauenly Father in appointing so worthy a mean to call vs out of the bottomlesse pit of destruction as his owne onely sonne who notwithstanding he was of the very substance and God eternall with him yet by the power of the holy Ghoste was made man to the end that both natures ioyned togither in one hee might in the fleshe take away the filthinesse of the fleshe and fulfill Gods lawe which man had so often broken and beare the wrath and heauie indignation of his Father against sinne whose comming was promised at the first by God himselfe hoped for by all the faithfull Patriarkes Figured foreshewed vnder the sacrifice of gods law often foretold and prophecied by all the Prophets at the length performed vnto our fathers and vs vpon whom the ends of the world are come and all to call vs to repentance and so to bring vs to euerlasting life And this hath he himselfe often beaten into our heads if we had the grace to consider of it This is the wil of Iohn 6. him that sent me that euery mā which seeth the sonne and beleeueth in him should haue euerlasting life Againe So Iohn 3. God loued the world c. Also I came to seeke to saue that which was lost Mat. 15. And I am not sent c. Nowe whether Christ by his comming doth cal vs to repentaunce yea or no searche diligently you shall easily finde His birth in suche base and vyle maner without harbour without necessarie furniture without reuerence or regarde without fourme or shape as Esay sayth and not without hatred and daunger of spightfull Herode doeth it not touche or mooue our haughtie stomacks doeth it not pull downe our Peacockes tayles doeth it not make vs sorrie and ashamed that our sinnes should make God to thrust his onely and beloued sonne out of his bosome to such beggerly state of reproch and miserie Then looke you vpon his life which as it began in such perfect humility so it cōtinued in true fasting dayly prayer often watching wreping sighing patience righteousnes innocēcie holines which because it is a liuely patterne for all christians to follow

to the Scripture Go learne what c. Thirdly according to his owne office and dewly I am not to call c. Good God howe doltishe and howe sottishe is mans wysedome when it will seeme too contende with Gods The first aunsweare shewes that they were ignorant of common sense and reason The seconde that they were ignorant of the Scriptures The thirde that they were ignorant of the Messias his office and dewty and euery one of them doeth fully satisfie the question and shew vs besides what benefites we haue through Christe our Sauiour as you shall vnderstand The first Aunswere The whole neede not c First he saith The whole neede not c. As if hee had sayd I am like vnto a Phisitiō you are like vnto whole men These Publicans are like vnto sick men Nowe you knowe by common sense and reason that the whole neede not the Phisition but the sick therefore I eate with them and not with you In which saying we haue to note the comparison and to consider how fitly they are made Firste he compareth him selfe vnto a Phisition secondly the Pharisees vnto whole and sound men Thirdly the Publicanes vnto sick persons The first Comparison Christe is like a Phisition Two thinges are especially requisite in euery good Phisition First that hee be able to cure his patient next that hee be willing otherwise he is no perfecte Phisition That Christ Iesus can heale our desperate diseases of sin What better proofe is there then the notable cures which he hath already doone Reade no more but the Chapter wherehence these woordes are taken and you shall finde that hee cured Matthew a sinfull Publicane He cured the Rulers daughter Hee cured the woman of her bloody issue of twelue yeeres continuance He cured two blinde men Hee cured the dumbe man which was possest with a Deuill In so much that the blessed Euangelist concluds the chapter with this testimonie Iesus went about all Cities and townes teaching in their Sinagogues and preaching the Gospel of the kingdome and healing euery sicknesse and euery disease among the people Yea and his comming is so greate that it surpasseth the skill of all other Phisitions what so euer For whome hee onely excepted can take away the principall cause of all diseases I meane Sinne Did not he heale the Palsey man by forgiuing his sinne It is a common rule among Phisitions Cessante causa cesset effectus Sinne is the originall and fountaine of all diseases in man therfore he that was able to remoue that cannot chuse but haue power ouer all the effectes thereof It is a worlde to see howe faire the Pope would be thought to be a cunnyng Phisition and of abilitie to cure the disease of sinne He made our Churches his Apoticary shoppes wherein he solde all maner of Drugges Salt Creame and Oyle for one purpose Masse Dirige for an other Tapers and Torches for an other Bulles and Pardons for an other Reliques and Shrines for an other and yet all would not serue to purge the least sinne that is Therefore more Antichrist he to pretende it No no it is the blood of Christ which purgeth all sinne and cureth all maner of wickednes Who was euer so diseased through mischieuous thoughtes as Paule which breathed out threatninges and slaughters against the Disciples of Christ and yet the blood of Iesus Christ healed him Who was euer so diseased in word as Peter which denied his Maister with an othe yet Christ healed him Who was euer so diseased in villainous deedes as the thiefe vppon the Crosse which was hanged for his robberyes and yet Christ healed him And all this is too teach vs that whether we be sick in thought word or deede hee is a Phisition able to heale vs. And what a shielde is this against the terrible assaultes of Desperation Shall the murther of Caine force men to say My sinne is greater then that it can be forgiuen Or shall the trechery of Iudas swallowe vp all hope of saluation in me Or shall my sinne seeme so incurable to mee that Christe cannot heale it no I am bolde I cannot be so sicke but he can make mee whole The other propertie of a good Phisition is that he be willing to heale his patient For vnlesse he be willing to doe good it skilleth not what his abilitie is But that Christ Iesus was at any time vnwilling too saue sinners it can by no meanes appeare For did he not moste louingly call vs vnto him Come vntoo me and promise vs saying I will refresh you And did hee not weepe ouer Ierusalem and all because he came willingly to visite her she would not know the time of her visitation But see and beholde a plaine testimony of his goodwill to heale sinners He was well assured that the salue wherewith he was too cure the most deadly diseases of sinne coulde not be made to any purpose without the shedding of his moste pretious blood and the losse of his life and yet hee neuer grudged at the matter but was well content it should be so Oh Compassion without Comparison What Pharisee woulde euer haue doone that for his patient which Christe Iesus hath most willingly doone for vs. They are willing too finger our money and they can make vs beleeue well But they will not launce their least finger if one drop of blood woulde saue our liues But Christ Iesus taketh nothing of vs and yet he hath suffred his owne hearte bloode too bee launched that it might gushe out to heale vs. Canne you tell mee of a Pharisee that was so willing too cure his Patient that he refused not too bee beaten and buffeted whilest hee made the medicine And the Prophet Esay in the 53. Chapter tels Esay 53. you that Christe Iesus was wounded for our transgressions and broken for our iniquities They tell you that the thinges which they minister vnto you are deere and costely Noe Noe deerely beloued that is a deere Salue too the Phisition which costes him his life with many a heauy grone with many a deepe sigh with many a bloody teare and many a bitter pangue besides And heere you haue a mightie Bulwarke againste the roaring stormes of your ghostely enemyes The Lawe Sinne Death and Hell For what if they draw togither and conspyre againste thy soule and proue vntoo thee by recorde of thine owne Conscience that thy sinnes are in coulour as red as Scarlet or in number as the sandes of the Sea or in waight as the masse of the whole Earth and therefore beare thee in hand that thy disease is so rotten and festered in thy bones that Christe Iesus thy Phisition will not once seeme too meddle or haue any thing to do with thee nor seeke any meanes too cure thy malady or sende remedy to any such as thou art What hope what comfort hast thou thē Euen this that he that was willing too purchase a medicine to heale sinne with the