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A19272	Certaine sermons vvherin is contained the defense of the gospell nowe preached against such cauils and false accusations, as are obiected both against the doctrine it selfe, and the preachers and professors thereof, by the friendes and fauourers of the Church of Rome. Preached of late by Thomas by Gods sufferance Byshop of Lincolne.	Cooper, Thomas, 1517?-1594.	1580 (1580)	STC 5685; ESTC S120768	201,470	274

fruit Some fell in stonie ground that is into such hartes as wanted the good iuice moisture of gods holy spirit therfore when the heate of persecution ariseth their zeale is withered they reuolt frō the truth Some fell into bushie ground that is into the mindes of them y t were troubled w t the eares of this worlde with the loue of riches with y e pleasures of this life which wholly chaked vp y e good seede of y e Gospel of Christ so y t it coulde not in any wise prosper bring forth fruite Here you may perceaue that for one fourth parte of good grounde that yeldeth fruit of y ● doctrine of God there are three greater partes of euil ground wherin it nothing at al prospereth I would to God there were lesse store of these euil grounds in this land then vndoubtedly should we see greater successe of the Gospell more ample fruit of our Preaching It were good for men to looke that these quarrellings at other mens liues be not one of those cords of vanitie that Esay speaketh of in the. 5. Chap. Woe bee to them sayth God by Esay that drawe on iniquitie with cordes of vanitie and sinne as it were with a Cartrope That is Wo bee to them that imagine excuses and coloures to nousle maintaine themselnes in contempt of Gods worde and want of repentaunce Let men take heede of such dealing that such cordes of vanitie pull not on iniquitie so fast that it drawe men to vtter contempt and derision of god and his truth For so it followeth euen in the same place immediately which saye in this manner in derison of the Preaching of y e Prophets Let God make speede let him hasten his worke that wee may see it and let the counsell of the holy one of Israel drawe neere and come that wee may knowe it And in lyke manner say the wicked and vnrepentant people of the Iewes Iere. 5. They haue denied the Lord and said it is not he tushe the sworde and the plague shall not come vpon vs neither shall wee see it The threatnings of the Prophetes are but winde and the true worde of God is not in them they vtter their owne phantasies these things shall come to themselues and we shall liue here liuely brauely and gallantly as wee haue before time Euen with like contempt and derision many at these dayes abuse y ● Preachers of Gods word If we exhort Princes Magistrates and Rulers to frame their purposes and deuises according to the worde of God and in Gods causes to lay aside humaine pollicie because vnlesse God builde the house in vaine he laboureth that buildeth it and if the Lorde keepe not the Citie the watchman waketh but in vaine Oh saye some of them these Preachers lacke experience and discretion they are fooles they are vnskilfull they knowe not what pertaineth to the pollicie of gouernment It is sufficient for Princes and rulers to shewe themselues Religious although in deede they bee not For so howled that Monster Machiuell the poyson of Princes Courtes and noble houses If to confirme mē in the defence of Gods truth we lay before them the assured promises of Gods assistaunce that he wyll not suffer a heare of their heades to perishe that for their safetie he will cause his Angels to campe aboute them yea thoughe they were in the valley of the shadowe of death yet they shoulde not neede to feare because the Lorde is wyth them thoughe people frette and fume though Princes of great power consulte and laye their heades together agaynst the Lorde and agaynst his annoynted yet he that sitteth in heauen wyll defeate their purposes and laughe them to scorne for ther is no power there is no wysedome there is no Counsell agaynst the Lorde these saye they bee the sweete dreames of doting Preachers wherewyth they nusle Princes in idlenesse and securitie and by vayne confidence in the prouidence of God cause them to lay themselues open to the daunger of their enymyes as thoughe euen in these dayes wee dyd not see the defenders of thys their Religion to haue sustayned greate ouerthrowes and slaughters at their aduersaryes handes When wee laye before men terrible threatnings of Gods wrathe and indignation if they reuolte from the trueth of the Gospell or suffer the same to bee betrayed into the handes of the enimye saying that GOD wyll forsake them that hee wyll take hys defence from them that hee wyll sette hys face agaynst them that hee wyll bryng straungers vppon them to destroye theyr Countrey and possesse their great landes and goodlye buyldynges Manye crye that the Preachers bee peeuishe and for feare of theyr owne state raue in follye For they thinke if Religion bee altered that they shall first goe to wracke but they haue small care and prospect howe to mayntayne the state of their Countrey in safetie Thus doe they continuallye knitte Cordes of vanitie to drawe them selues into iniquitie and contempte of GOD and all this commeth to passe as I sayde before because they looke so muche vppon other mennes doinges that they cleane forget their owne They shall doe well to followe Christes Councell that they fyrst Take the beame out of their owne eyes and then shall they better see to take the moate out of their brothers They maye not thinke that God is the God of the Ecclesiasticall state onely or that the Scriptures of GOD doe prescribe onelye their dueties with greeuous threatning if they perfourme it not Nay he is the God of the whole people and of all the states and conditions thereof Of Parentes and Children of Maisters and Seruantes of Husbandes and Wiues of Lawyers Counsellers of Marchants all other Occupiers yea he is the GOD of Gentlemen and Gentlewomen of Lordes and Ladyes of Princes Magistrates Rulers Gouernours all their dueties in his holy worde hee prescribeth and against all them he speaketh and with terrible threates in hys Prophetes he thundreth as much or more then he doth against euill Ministers and Preachers And more oftentimes he noteth their vices faultes to bee the cause of those great plagues vtter desolations which he threatneth to bring vppon his people Reade the. 1. 3. 5. 30. Chapters of Esay Reade the 5. 8. 21. 22. 25. of leremie almost all the parts of the Prophets and you shal perceaue this to be most true I woulde staye vpon some examples but that I myght be thought to touche some things too nyghly Therefore all these sortes of people as well as the Ministers of Gods worde for their vocations ought to bee able to saye wyth Christ in this place Quis ex vobis arguit me de peccato Which of you can rebuke mee of Sinne Which of you is able to accuse vs that we liue loosely in chambering wantonnesse or riotouslye in banqueting drunkennesse or contentiously in striefe and enuie or

entelye to bee noted in them and greatly to be 〈…〉 When we speake therefore of the sacrament we must speake as it is in it selfe by the force of Gods worde consisting of all three partes and not as the baldnesse of men or the weakenesse and imperfection of oure fayth maye make it ●●w vs. Nowe let vs consider the causes and endes for which Christes pleasure was to ordaine Sacramentes in hys Church that we may thereby also in part learne what fruit and benefite wee take by them The first cause is partly our owne infirmitie and weakenesse beyng dull and slowe in the vnderstanding of heauenly things partly the great goodnesse and loue of God that woulde vouchsafe to attemper himselfe to our simple capacitie and seeke meanes by outward things to ease and helpe the same For this cause in the Scripture doth he so often vse parables and similitudes of those things that are within the compasse of our vnderstāding by those the sooner to induce vs to the knowledge of his heauenly doctrines This cause the auncient and learned Fathers did acknowledge in their writinges The Lord saith Chrisostome geueth vs not any thing that is sensible but insensible things The outward things are sensible but all thinges are to bee vnderstanded in the minde In Baptisme water is sensible but our regeneration and renewing is perceiued in the minde For if thou wert spirituall and without a body he would haue giuen all these things to thee naked bare but because with thy minde there is ioyned a grosse body in things sensible he declareth vnto thee things by thy minde to be vnderstanded Like wordes almost hath Dionysius in Caelost Hier. Because of carnall persons saith Augustine visible Sacramentes were instituted to the end that by things that be seene with your eyes your minde may be transformed to those things that be vnderstanded Our vnderstanding is weake and dull our memorie is fraile and fickle and soone forgetteth the benefite of God Both these our unperfections God by his Sacramentes helpeth our vnderstanding is ●ed by the similitude and lykenesse of the external signes as before I haue noted Our Seuces also are by the erercise of the Sacramentes stirred vp to be instrumentes to helpe one mynde and weake faith Our remembraunce also by the same 〈◊〉 is marueilously● strengthened And therefore a seconde cause or ende of a Sacrament is that it maye bee to vs a blessed exercise whereby wee call to remembraunce the benefite of our redemption in Christ and yeelde to him most hartie thankes and praise for the same according as Christ teacheth vs in the institution of his laste Supper Doe this in remembraunce of mee And Saint Paule so often as you eate of this bread and drinke of this cuppe you shall set forthe the death of the Lorde vntill his comming c. They therefore which come to receaue the Sacrament and neuer thinke of this nor call to theyr remembraunce to prayse God for this vnestimable benefite but thinke that the outwarde vse of the Sacrament is sufficient are among the number of them that receyue vnworthily and make lyttle accompt of Christes benefite procured for vs. A thyrde cause and ende of a Sacrament is that wee by the practice and vse thereof myght bee traded to the obedieuce of Gods holye wyll and commaundementes thoughe the thinges seeme to our selues neuer so simple and mean● and also that thereby wee myght openly before God and the worlde protest and acknowledge that we are his people and of the number of them that looke to be saued preserued defended by the benefite of Christ onely So that the open vse of the sacramentes is a parte of that confession wherevnto S. Paule attributeth saluation when he sayeth If thou confesse with thy mouth the Lord Iesus and beleeue in thy hart that God raised him from the dead thou shalt bee saued for by the heart wee beleeue to righteousnesse and by the mouth confession is made to saluation In the vse of the sacramentes wee confesse both by mouthe an● testimonie of all the partes of our bodye that Christ Iesus is our Lorde and sauiour A fourthe cause and ende of the Sacramentes is that they myght bee as bandes and linkes of loue vnitie and concorde among our selues Therefore Saint Paule when hee exhorted to vnitie and loue among other thinges a 〈…〉 th Wee haue one faith one Baptisme And agayne in another place Wee are one bodye as manye as bee partakers of one lofe For this cause doth Saint Augustine call the Sacrament of the Supper Sacramentum vnitatis i. A Sacrament of vnitie and teacheth vs as before I haue saide that as a loafe of breade is made of manye graynes and a Cuppe of Wyne of many Grapes so wee thoughe manye in number are made members of one mysticall bodye of Christ Iesu A foule thing it is to see the seruauntes of one Maister that weare one cognizaunce or liuerie to fall out among themselues it can not bee without some reproche of their Maister All Christian men weare one cognizaunce and badge for the Sacraments are the marks of Christes sheepe Therfore not to loue agree together is a reproch wrought to our Lord and Maister Wherby in a maner we protest to the world that we be not seruaunts of his familie For in this sayeth he shall men knowe you to be my Disciples if you loue one another as I haue loued you Hereof doth the right vse and vnderstanding of the Sacrameutes very notably put vs in remembraunce For it teacheth vs that in Baptune wee are all newe borne children of God and graffed into one bodie and in the Lordes supper fedde and nourished with one heauenly foode of the body and blood of Christ and therefore that we should with faithfull and vnfained loue hartelie embrace one the other as the children of one father the members of one body and the seruauntes of one Maister fed at one table and nourished with one foode to eternal life Let them therfore looke with what consciences they come vnto the Sacramentes y ● reserue bytter rancour malice in their hartes let them consider what heauy testimony they giue against thēselues before God his Angels The last cause end of a sacrament y ● I meane nowe to speake of is that by those as by blessed instrumentes of the holye Ghostes working hee myght imparte vnto vs and bestowe vppon vs hys vnestimable Graces and benefytes together wyth all the fruites of our redemption in Christ Jesu For as his worde is so are his Sacraments instrumentes and Meanes by the working of his holy spirite to bring vnto vs the whole benefite of our saluation And here againe because of our sclaūderous aduersaries I must put you in remēbraunce that we which teache thus teache not as it is fathered vpon vs that the Sacramentes are but bare signes For you heare vs