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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03344	The crie of England A sermon preached at Paules Crosse in September 1593 by Adam Hill Doctor of Diuinitie, & published at the request of the then Lord Maior of the citie of London, and others the aldermen his brethren	Hill, Adam, d. 1595.	1595 (1595)	STC 13465; ESTC S115191	52,777	122

Dauid being idle and hauing slept on his bed lusted after Ber-sheba And it being demaunded why Aegistus was an adulterer it is answered he was an idle person Take away idlenesse and loues arts wil be at an end No maruel therfore if there be such whoring in England sith there is abundance of idlenesse All our vaine Ballades and wanton books whence come they but from idlenesse 7. Causes of whordome Learned men haue noted seauen causes of whordome First original sin secondly the outward sence thirdly the temperature of the bodie fourthly the diuel fifthly conuersation with women sixtly idlenesse seuenthly the memory of women The diuel thē causeth idlenesse idlenesse causeth vs to remember women remembrance causeth concupiscence concupiscence causeth adultery The third sinne that commeth of idlenes is theft Enter not saith Salomon into the way of the wicked and walke not in the way of wicked men Pro. 4.19 c. for they cannot sleepe vnlesse they haue done euill and their sleepe departeth except they cause some to fall for they eate the bread of wickednesse and drinke the wine of robberye Idlenesse causeth pouerty pouerty famin famin causeth robbery therfore Solomon praieth Pro. 3.8.9 Giue me not pouerty nor riches feed me with foode conuenient for me least J be full deny thee say who is the Lord or least I be poore and steale and take the name of my God in vain Wherfore as you haue made many lawes against murther whoredō and theft so I pray you make seuere lawes against idlenes for al idle persons are either busie bodies murderers adulterers or theeues Christ reprouing those that stoode idle in the market place said Mat. 21.6 Rhabbanus in Mat. Why stand ye heere all day idle Rhabbanus writing vpon this place saith thus First he reproueth them for the want of reason ô thou sluggard thou deformed monster I speake to thee thou hast the bellye of an ostrich the throat of a dragon the thighes of an elephant the feete of a cammel the legs of an Asse and the head of a Cowe heauen and earth doe mooue and euery creature the Plannettes are turned about with their maker the starres doe shine the windes doe arise the riuers doe runne the fire doth enflame the earth doth fructifie the trees doe budde the birdes doe sing the beastes doe seeke their praie the fishes doe search the bottome of the Sea all thinges doo as they bee made onely thou remainest vnmoueable to whose care all things are subiect Thy creator hath commaunded that whiles thou hast time thou shouldest worke The Angels thy watchfull keepers inuite thee the diuels doe mocke thee arise therefore O sluggard and goe to the emm●t and learne wisedome of him for whilest the Haruest is hee gathereth the best graine and layeth them vp in his house he repaireth the decayed places that hee may exclude the Winter stormes This sommer our Haruest is our life the Winter shall be of three moneths in the poynt of death in the day of iudgement and in deepe hell in all which shall happen fearefull tempestes Arise therefore O sluggard and gather the graines of grace Secondly he reproueth thē in regard of the necessitie of the place agreeing for as in heauen al men shal rest and in hell all suffer so in earth all must labour Iohn 5.15 Christ saith My father woorketh hitherto and I woorke and Saint Paul saith Rom. 8.26 The spirit it selfe maketh requestes for vs with sighes that cannot bee expressed Noah planted a vineyard Abraham Isaac and Jaacob were shepheards the iudges sate in the gates and ministred iustice the kings and valiant captaines fought the Lords battailes all the people of GOD in this life haue either laboured in manuall artes or in teaching or in gouerning or in counselling For the Church is a vineyard wherin are diggers and deluers a Haruest wherein are labourers a ship wherein are either painfull Marriners or fighting souldiers a house wherein euerye one hath his ministerye a bodie wherein euery member hath his office here therefore to stand idle is a great shame Thirdly they are reprehended in respect of the strength of their bodies Why stand ye Impotent persons as Lazarus was lye at the doores and cannot stande therefore they are to be refreshed by others but those that haue a sound minde in a sound bodie they ought not to stande idle but to walke in their vocation honestlye Standing water soone stincketh so idle persons are an abhomination to the Lord Iron that lyeth still rusteth so idle persons giue themselues either to murder whordome or theft Therefore as an idoll is a vaine and abhominable thing which hath eies yet seeth not eares and heareth not a nose and smelleth not feete and walke not so to see a man whose wit is pregnant and bodye strong to be vnexercised both in minde and bodye is a sin not to be suffered in the common wealth or in the Church of God For as the tree that beareth no frute is to be hewen downe and cast into the fire so the man that is vnprofitable to the Church of God shall by the axe of Gods iudgement be hewen downe and cast into hell fire though he were the highest cedar in Libanus Fourthly hee reproueth them in respect of the time for the day is appointed to labour and the night to rest Psal 104.24 The sunne ariseth the Lyons retire and couch in their dennes then man goeth forth to his worke and to his labour So this being the daye of saluation 2 Cor. 6.2 Gala. 6.10 and the time accepted wee ought while wee haue time to doe good Mans life is but shorte First because we should withdraw our loue frō the world secondly that we might not be weary of well doing thirdly that we should not spend our life vnprofitablie fourthly to shew the loue of God who for a daies labour giueth vs the pennie of eternall life fiftly hereby we learn that God hath chosen man to eternall life because hee would suffer him to be heere but a little while sixtly that we should make very great haste to enter into our rest As therefore man will labour earnestly and diligentlye that hee be not preuented with the night so will the godlye also labour earnestlye in their vocation in this precious short and irreuocable time of their life because after death there is no daye but night no time accepted but the daye of vengeance Fiftly and lastly the idle are reproued for the continuance of time all the daye wherfore it is a shame for a Christian man to be idle in the church of God a greater shame to be idle in the time of the Gospell but to be idle all daye is the greatest shame in the worlde If you will not come into the vineyard at the sixt houre come in at the ninth if not at the ninth houre come in at the eleuenth houre but if you wil come neither at the

will not doe their dutye And therfore he saith many in name and few in deede and in his eight Homily vpon the third of the Actes hee maruelleth that any of vs do enter into the kingdome of heauen for as the parrets spake the wordes of men so we speake the wordes of the Apostles and not only our wordes are vaine but our workes are abhominable Concerning the hearers of the worde from some the Diuell stealeth the word out of their hearts Hearers haue exceeding great sinnes others are choaked with the cares and pleasures of this life others are so hard hearted and impenitent that a man were as good preach to the incensible stones as to them We are commaunded not only to heare the word but to vnderstand it Heare and vnderstand saith Christ Mat. 15.10 neither should we only vnderstand it but laye it vp in our heart and therefore Mary is commended Luke 10.51 that she kepe all Christes sayings in her heart And we should not onely loue the word Iam. 1.21 but be doers of the same But some will neuer heare as our Papistes some doe heare and not vnderstand as the ignorant some vnderstand the word but loue it not as the hypocrite some doe heare vnderstand and loue it but are not doers of the word as vaine Gospellers Paul saith 2. Tim. 4.2.3 Preach the word be instant in season and out of season improue rebuke exhorte vvith all long suffering and doctrine for the time vvill come when they will not suffer wholesome doctrine but hauing their eares itching shall after their owne lustes get them a heape of teachers Learned Diuines haue noted eight causes of heresies the first is ignorance which indeede is the mother of seductions For ignorance is not onely destitute of vpright iudgement but also is in danger of the wickednesse of deceitfull men and therefore the Apostle commandeth Brethren be not children in vnderstanding 1. Cor. 14.28 but as concerning maliciousnesse be children The craftie Papists therefore which got both gaine and Lordship ouer the people did care by all meanes to keepe the deceiued multitude in ignorance Secondly a wauering mind followeth this ignorance wherby it commeth to passe that they which are children in vnderstanding are carried about with euery blast of vaine doctrine This wauering the Apostle reproueth Eph. 4.11 c. Hee gaue some to be Apostles and some Prophets some Euangelists and some Pastors and teachers for the gathering togither of the Saintes for the worke of the ministery and for the glorification of the bodie of Christ till we all meet togither in the vnitie of faith and knowledge of the same God vnto a perfect man and vnto the measure of the age of the fulnesse of Christ That we henceforth be no more children wauering and carried away with euerie winde of doctrine by the deceit of men and with craftinesse whereby they lye in waite to deceiue This ignorance therefore and wauering of minde doth open the doore to all heresies and errors and maketh the vnskilfull multitude to follow heretiques deceitfull men Thirdly where the vice of curiositie taketh effect there euery hereticall deceit preuaileth for assoone as any new or vnaccustomed thing is taught they which are curious desiring to know what it is doe greedily heare read and entertaine it Fourthly this happeneth to them which are as it were slaues to their lustes when they heare a doctrine pleasing their desires by and by they note it and apply both their eares and their heart to it Of this the Apostle foretold For the time will come 2. Tim. 4.3.4 when they will not suffer vvholesome doctrine but hauing their eares itching shall after their owne lustes get them an heape of teachers and shall turne their eares from the truth and shall be giuen vnto fables Sound doctrine to the corrupt fleshe languishing in desires is as a medicine to a sick man for euen as a faithfull Phisitian is greeuous to a sicke man forbidding him those thinges which he greatly desireth and commanding him those things which are contrary to his desires and as a deceiuer is acceptable who regarding his own profit yeeldeth to his desires in like maner the Apostle did foresee that the doctrine of truth would be greeuous to carnall men and seruants of their own lusts therfore they would turn away their eares from it to false teachers their fables being not grieuous but ioyous to the flesh they shuld greedily embrace 5. Whosoeuer hath such itching eares they are alwaies vnstable 6 S. Peter saith that vnlearned and vnstable men peruert the scriptures vnto their owne destruction 2. Pet. 3.16 for they are lighter thē a reed moued with euery wind 7 Ignorance therfore ioyned with a desire of noueltie being coupled with instabilitie maketh the simple people to receiue chaffe for wheate drosse for gold vineger for wine poison for meat falshood for truth Some hearers are compared to stones they profite nothing some to thornes they choake the seede which is in them with voluptuousnesse some to Swine for they raile against the Preachers some to dogs for they are willing to deuour vs. This froward and crooked generation that despise the word and kil the prophets that are sent to them shal haue their house desolate Fathers haue exceeding great sinnes Fathers also haue exceeding great sins For fathers owe to their sons 1. loue 2 diligēt education 3. wise gouernement that they be not corrupted either with too much cockering or with ouermuch austerity 4. to bring vp their children in good arts godlines 5. to correct them if they do not their duty But our parēts in steed of loue vse fond affection and for gouernment we may say as Themistocles saide I rule Athens my wife ruleth me and my child ruleth my wife and wheras they should be instructed in good artes and in pittie they are instructed in carding dicing dancing hawking and hunting Lastlye where they should correct their children for offending they reioyce in their wickednes Iob and Ieremy did curse their father that did beget thē and the mother that did beare thē because they were borne to such trouble and miseries but the children of our time wil curse their parentes because they are nourished vp in wickednesse for the tormēts of hell which are ceaseles endlesse remediles Fathers wil teach their sons to haue their barns full of corne with the rich man their purses full of mony with the rich glutton their houses ful of plate with Ezechius their backes full of gorgeous apparrel with Herode their table full of daintye dishes with Assuerus but they are vnfurnished of all kind of vertues and heauenly graces and therefore though they their parents spend their daies in wealthines yet in a moment they go down to hell Children owe to their parents Children haue exceeding great sinnes first the loue of the heart and they wish them dead to haue their goods