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A05479	Twelue sermons viz. 1 A Christian exhortation to innocent anger. 2 The calling of Moses. ... 11 12 The sinners looking-glasse. Preached by Thomas Bastard ...	Bastard, Thomas, 1565 or 6-1618.; Bastard, Thomas, 1565 or 6-1618. Five sermons. aut	1615 (1615)	STC 1561; ESTC S101574	96,705	150

flesh and bloud and in cases where wee haue no lawfull meanes of assistance to beare and ouercome with meekenesse and patience all bitter injuries It is a hard kinde of striuing and a stranger victory let vs prepare our selues to this First let vs consider that when we suffer injury it is not by chance or by the vnbrideled lust of our Aduersaries but of the goodwill of God permitting it so to be eyther to punish our sinnes or to encrease our Faith or to exercise our patience whereas wee are assured that our haires of our heads are numbred and we shall not loose one of them Secondly let vs interpret these sent from GODS loue For such suffered all the Saints all the Prophets and CHRIST the Sonne of GOD and all his Apostles He that hewed timber out of the wood was knowne to bring it to an excellent piece of worke So was Ioseph hewed in the Stockes and in the Prison God brought him to an excellent piece of worke to make him Lord of Aegypt so was Iesus Christ hewed and squared on the Crosse with Hammers and Nayles and Speares of this excellent worke see where hee sitteth at Gods right hand Thrones Powers Dominations Angells subjected to him Thirdly let not our eyes be onely vpon the atrocity of the injury offered But consider we how many wayes wee our selues haue offended GOD and our Neighbours for which wee may justly suffer So the Emperour Mauritius when Phocas slew most cruelly before his face his Wife and his fiue Children speaking not one word to the enemy no not in such a bitter wrong but considering his owne sinnes continued still crying till the Sword sundered his head from his body Iustus es Domine iusta iudicia tua Thou art righteous O Lord and iust are thy iudgements Fourthly let vs consider that wee our selues daily aske forgiuenesse for talent sinnes as I may call them For the least sinne wee haue committed against the Diuine Maiestie infinitely excelleth the greatest trespasse our brother can doe vs. Why then should not we forgiue our brother peny-farthing offences Put on meekenesse gentlenesse patience suffering one another forgiuing one another euen as Christ hath forgiuen you Fiftly see how Saint Paul dehorteth from reuenge Mine is vengeance I will recompence saith the Lord which being so wee doe not hurt our enemies by taking the Sword out of GODS hand which will not suffer the wicked to be vnpunished but we draw downe vengeance and deriue the course of his Iustice which he aymed at our enemies vpon our owne heads Sixtly let vs consider that it is not Reuenge but Long-suffering Meekenesse Gentlenesse which can doe vs good The meeke shall inherit the earth So Dauid when Shimei rayled on him Smite suffer him perhaps God will looke vpon mee and render me good for the euill hee hath done mee this day It is a notable Sentence of Saint Pauls Godlinesse is profitable to all things which hath the promise of this life and of the life to come For the vngodly and disobedient to this Gospell which follow their owne lusts and breake out by impatience into actions of Reuenge these are they that ruinate their Families which tease on the hatreds and wickednesses of other men to their owne destructions these waste themselues and their friends and their goods by eager strife and dissention these fall from honour and high estate when the meeke and patient besides their hope of future blessednesse with God in Heauen doe heere on earth liue in all peace and quietnesse Their names continue their houses stand their posterity encreaseth they keepe their leafe and greenenesse like the trees planted by the waters side when they see of their enemies the Roote and Stocke consumed But my seauenth and last reason which ought to moue vs against our owne impatience to meekenes and sufferance I take from Christs words to him I say What better what greater reason can we haue Doe not Princes command their subjects hard and terrible things which yet they obey as the Prince of the Moschouites and the great Duke of Litarauia will command their Nobles to ride downe from a steepe Rocke and precipitate themselues into the Sea Doe not Leaders and Generalls of Armies command the Souldiers to fight where is no possibilitie of being saued as Ioab did Vriah Doe not Maisters set their Seruants to hard taskes and enjoyne them vile and base seruices which they durst not gainesay Doe not Fathers put their Children to the Schoole where they are vnder hard Tutours and beare stripes and are restrayned of their will and libertie Behold heere the LORD of Lords the KING of Kings whose rule is ouer all whose Kingdome hath no end he which is able to restore vs a thousand fold hee which will crowne our wrongs and glorifie our sufferings hee commandeth that we suffer the euils of men with patience which of vs shall presume to lift vp his owne sinfull lust aboue the diuine commaundement Heere our Captayne and forerunner Christ sendeth vs into an hard fight but most honourable to be the first that shall beat downe sinne and rebellion in our owne hearts to captiuate our owne will to vanquish our owne reason Are we not his Souldiers is not our life a spirituall warfare fight we not all vnder his banner When we entred the Sacrament of our calling when we tooke oath against the world and the Diuell was the flesh left out Heere our Lord and Master for so we call him and so he is enioyneth vs a vile worke as may seeme but indeede it is but as Hercules to beat downe monsters as burning Wrath pale Enuy cankred Malice and by throwing out sinne to cleanse that Augias stable of our hearts Be the action what it may it as our honour to doe what our Master commandeth Abraham did so when he was enioyned to Sacrifice his only sonne An harder taske then to take a thousand blowes on the cheeks And lastly heere the father of our soules sendeth vs to Schoole to taste the rod of Discipline Let it not grieue vs to taste his fatherly correction whether he whip vs by friends or enemies by neighbours or strangers by men or diuels For we participate but of that correction of which euery child which the Father loueth doth taste which although it be grieuous for the time yet it bringeth with it most excellent fruit And thus we haue the sense of the Scripture cleared from doubt and the reasons set downe which may mooue vs to patience and obedience to what we are commanded I haue shewed also that the authority of the Magistrate contrary to that which was obiected out of diuers Authors is not onely heere no wayes impeached but rather confirmed and maintayned Now because many which seeme not to meddle with priuate reuenge doe cloake their malice vnder the lawfull vse of lawes and Magistrates let

I am the Way the Truth and the Life Whom shall we beleeue of the Way but the way it selfe whom of the Truth but the truth Whom of Life but the life What then haue you done O deepe deceiuers and seducers which haue sought by all the Art and cunning of the Diuell to bring men out of this way to stop the road-way the high way to the kingdome of Heauen and to round and circle vs about by merits by freewill by traditions by reliques by Purgatory by faith implicite by questions of prayers for the dead Which for beleefe in GOD bring men to Romanam Catholicam for faith in Iesus Christ to Papa non potest errare the Pope cannot goe out of the way When Ennius sought his friend at his house and asked his seruant where his Master was the Master said to his seruant Tell him I am not at home which speech Ennius ouer-heard but tooke the answere from the seruant Next day the same man comes to Ennius his house and asked his seruant where his Master was Ennius spake aloud tell him I am not home What saith he will you deny your selfe with your owne tongue Why not said Ennius I beleeued when but your man tolde me you were not at home and will not you beleeue mee which say so my selfe The Ministers and seruants of Christ should shew Christ to all that seeke him but if there be any such as that seruant which denied his Masters presence when hee knew where hee was yet Christ is not like Ennius hee cannot denie himselfe Behold to those wicked trayterous Iewes when they sought him Whom seeke you Iesus of Nazareth I am he and will he denie himselfe to his friends This then is all wee require of you Beleeue Christ of Christ. When Zaccheus was too little and could not see Iesus he climed vp a tree but that wee may see him Christ hath climed the tree of the Crosse himselfe and there was lifted vp to draw vs to him If this be not enough hee hath mounted vp aboue the highest heauens to the right hand of the most high and mighty God Far aboue Angels and thrones and powers and principalities and euery name that is named Why then permute this one knowledge and faith in him for all knowledge all doubts all disputes all wisedome of men for heare what he saith this is eternall life to beleeue c. Thus wee are made to vnderstand not onely that the Scriptures are sufficient to saluation but that the Scriptures abound and more then abound to instruct our vnderstanding We reduce all the precepts of the law and whatsoeuer is else written in the Prophets to loue and all our knowledge is comprehended and endeth in the knowledge of Christ. This is the knowledge of the treasure so the Apostle saith of the knowledge of Christ In whom are hid all the treasures of wisedome and knowledge This is knowledge to the full For in him dwelleth all the fulnesse of the Godhead bodily But he is full wee are empty no hee is our fulnesse Of his fulnesse we haue all receiued grace for grace For as loue is the fulnesse of the law so faith in Christ is the fulnesse of the heart That Christ may dwell in our hearts by faith that you being rooted and grounded in loue may be able to comprehend with all the Saints what is the breadth length depth and height and to know the loue of Christ which passeth knowledge that you may be filled with all fulnesse of God See what perfect Schollers the faith of Christ makes vs the head is the bodies fulnesse Christ is our head by whom wee holde by faith and we are his body and as S. Paul saith That God the Father of glory reade from the seauenteenth verse to the last hath appointed Christ ouer all things to be head of the Church which is his body euen the fulnesse of him that filleth all in all See how Christ is our fulnesse and how he counteth vs his fulnesse for the head cannot haue his fulnesse without the body Grow we vp in this head receiue we from him the fulnesse of the body till we meet altogether in the vnity of faith and knowledge of him For this faith as I haue shewed was sufficient for the thiefe to be assured to be in Paradise and to omit the rest for all the Martyrs in the primitiue Church to be euerlastingly with all honour recorded For there was neuer any piece of story nor point or pricke of letter recorded that euer yet was seene or to be found that any of those Martyrs in the primitiue Church shed their blood for any of those points or articles which are controuerted betweene vs and the Church of Rome either for Purgatory or Prayers for the dead or any other Sacraments or for infallibility of errour in the Pope or traditions or merits or free will or transubstantiation or whatsoeuer is disputed betweene vs but onely for this eternall life the confession of the Diuinitie and humanity of Iesus Christ. And to this Pope Leo bringeth testimonie in his sixe and twentith Epistle to Theodosius Augustus which liued neere about the fiue hundreth yeere after Christ his words are these Prae ●…culis h●… et tota acie mentis aspicite 〈◊〉 Petri glori●… et comm●… cum ipso o●…ium Apostolorum corona●… c●…ctorumque ma●…tyum palmas qu●…bus alia non fuit ●…ausa patiendi nisi confessio verae diuinitatis et humanitatis in Christo. Haue before your eyes and consider with all the sight of your minde the glory of blessed Peter and the crownes of all the Apostles and the palmes of all the Martyrs which had no other cause of suffering but the confession of the true Diuinitie and humanity in Christ. Happy were you O blessed Martyrs to whom it sufficed both for temporall death and life and glory eternall to confesse Iesus Christ to be the Sonne of the true and liuing GOD you had no torment but of your body you kept your faith vndaunted and vnshaken and so yeelded your blessed spirits to GOD. It is not allowed for sufficient for vs to beleeue in God to confesse Iesus Christ and to cleaue to him is to vs imputed for heresie wee are counted separated from the body because we hold by the head and traps and snares are laid for vs in the word and Sacraments in our faith in iustification Wee are tortured with wrests and wrenches of disputations we are martyred in our mindes and consciences and may ius●…ly complaine that of the Apostle For this are wee reiected and persecuted because wee trust in the liuing God For this being Christians wee are persecuted by Christians If all the tyrants in the world did seeke our bloud we would kisse death being of the Church our owne fellowes kill vs and hauing suffered the same things for the same cause in which the first holy Martyrs suffered we are