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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01331	A sermon preached on Sundaye, being the .17. of March Anno. 1577. at S. Alpheges Church within Creplegate in London, by William Fulke doctor in diuinitie. Seene and allowed, accordyng to the order appoynted in the Queenes Maiesties Iniunctions	Fulke, William, 1538-1589.	1577 (1577)	STC 11454; ESTC S112799	25,975	72

more greeued with that blasphemous mock of the proude persecuting Iewes He trusted in God let hym take hym if hee wyll haue hym c. then with their buffetinge scourginge and naylynge of hym And as the glory of GOD ought to bee more deare vnto vs then our owne lyues so ought we to be more greeued at the defacing of Gods glory by the scorning and deriding of the vngodly then at any bodilye Tormentes or at the losse of our owne liues For there is no kinde of persecution more detestable then that by whiche the saluation of our scules is assaulted as it is by the proude taunts scornes of gods enimies both Papistes and Atheistes who when their cruell rage is restrained that they cannot persecute vs by fire and sword as their desyre is then they blaspheme the grace of GOD in our election and vocation with most bitter and contumelious scorning and derisyon So that the children of GOD and all they that wyll liue godlye in Christe Iesus shal neuer want persecution For if the bloody sworde bee wrung out of the Tyrauntes handes yet wyll they not cease to persecute vnlesse their tongues also were pulled out of their heades For they that are borne after the flesh that is al Hipocrites and Iustifyers of them selues wyll euer playe Ismaels parte if they can doe nothinge els against the Children of promise And this is the grounde of the hatred of the papistes against vs But to conclude what shall be the ende of these persecuting scorners Aske not the worlde for the world thinketh that such holy Hipocrites are the chiefe pillers of the Church and principall members of the same They them selues saye that they onely are the Churche and that the sonnes of promise shall haue nothinge to doe there but by there licence But what saith the scripture The scripture will not flatter them the scripture wyll not dissemble with them Cast out the bond woman her sonne for the sonne of the bondwoman shall not inherit with the sonne of the free woman These were in deede the wordes of Sara vnto Abraham but they were confyrmed by the Oracle of god which willed Abraham to follow the worde of Sara in al that she had sayde Therefore this is the sentence of GOD though Ismael keepe a sturre in the house a longe time and beare hymselfe bolde on his birthright as though he wolde bee the onely heyre persecuting the right heyre Isaac with tauntes scorninge yet at the length he is thrust out of dores with that prowde dame Agar hys mother that dispised her misteris Sara and vtterly reiected from the inheritaunce There were a great number of s●ruauntes which taryed in the house when Ismael the first begotten was thrust out What was the cause that they taryed Because they reuerenced the grace of God in Isaac which Ismael contemned The same e●de remaineth the popish Agar and all the Ismaelites her children though they boast themselues to be the onely Churche so that they woulde seeme to thrust Isaac and his seede out of the dores yet the scripture hath determined their ende longe a goe and of all other hypocrites whiche now are mixed they shall be seuered which occupye great rowmes in the Church they shal be cast out of the dores they shall haue none inherytance with the sonnes of God. Let vs therefore thankfullye embrace the Couenaunt of GODS mercy the doctrine of the Gospell and free remission of sinnes by which we are sure to be set at lybertie from sinne made the sonnes of GOD and heyres of eternall felycitye which GOD of his mercye graunt vnto vs all for Christe his sake to whom with the Father and the holy ghost bee all honour and glory for euer and euer Amen FINIS Iohn 4. Apoca. 7. 10. 〈◊〉 3. 17. Esay 1. 1● Ephes. 2. Rom. 3. Ebru 11. ●● Ephes. ● ● Rom● ● 27. Tim. 1. 8. Rom. 7. 1● Galat. 3. 2● Esay 1. ●● Iohn 8. 67. Ieremie 31. Hebr. 8. Iohn 1. 12. 13. Philip. 3. 2● Math. 5. 14. ¶ Imprinted at London for Lucas Harrison 1577.

coulde not bee hydden exhorting them therefore to gyue good example of lyfe and doctrine bycause their place was such as their example could not bee secret but open and manifest and therfore eyther very profitable or very hurtfull But this place which euery man must confesse to bee vnderstood of the Catholyke Church doth most clearly declare that the Catholike Church neither is nor can be visible and subiecte too the eyes of any man but onely them that are indewed with the eyes of Fayth For hee sayth that Hierusalem is aboue shee is in Heauen euen shee that is the Catholyke and vniuersall Mother of vs all and therefore shee is not to be seene but by the eye of Fayth Let the Papists still glorie in their visible Church let them acknowledge none other Mother but their visible Church of Rome we will boldly defy them and the whoore their mother for the Heauenly and Spirituall Hierusalem that is aboue is the mother of vs all And thys the Apostle proueth by the Testimonie of Esaye taken out of the. 54. Chapter that the Church bryngeth foorth lawfull sonnes and heyres too God accordyng too the promyse euen of the gentiles For in as muche as the Galathians were Gentiles hee bringeth foorth the comfortable promyse made vntoo the Church of the Gentyles that although of long tyme shee were barreyne and had no husbande and therefore brought foorth no Children too GOD yet the tyme should come that God woulde ioyne her as a chaste virgyn in mariage vntoo Chryste and then shee shoulde bee more fruitfull and brynge forth moe Children vntoo God then euer dyd the Church of the Iewes when shee was the spouse of God so many hundred yeares all which time the other was barren desolate and had no husbande So brethren sayeth he we are after Isaac Children of the promise Not only those that are the carnall seede of Abraham by Isaac but all those that take holde of the promyse of God by fayth For what prerogatiue of dignity had Isaac too bee the Sonne of God more then Ismaell bycause hee was the carnall leede of Abraham so was Ismaell Bycause hee was the firste begotten of Abraham that was hee not but Ismaell was nothyng then but the promyse of GOD made Isaac the Sonne of GOD and the same promyse extendeth too all nations of the worlde as largely and in as ample manner as too the carnall seede of Abraham Isaac or Iacob In thy seede shall all nations of the worlde bee blessed Therefore Brethren wee are after Isaac not by carnall generation but by spirituall regeneration Children of the promyse For the onely Pryuyledge that made Isaac the Sonne of GOD was the promyse of GOD and that also maketh vs the sonnes of god What made Iacob too bee preferred before Esaw who was the Sonne of Abraham and the Sonne of Isaac yet Iacob was loued and Esaw was hated Whereby I saye was Iacob preferred to bee the heyre of Isaac his Father but by the election of GOD It is therefore of the election grace mercy and promyse of GOD that any man is aduanced to this honour to bee the Sonne of GOD and not of any meryte dignity or worthynesse of a man. But euen as then hee that was borne after the fleshe persecuted hym that was borne after the Spirit euen so is it nowe By these woordes the Apostle comforteth the Galathians and all other that were true Children of the Church and armeth them to patience assuryng them that of the Hypocryticall Churche of meritmongers they should looke for nothyng else but persecution For it is no marueyle if those proude sclaues the Chyldren of the Earthelye Hierusalem dyd vntoo the Sonnes of the Heauenly Hierusalem as Ismaell theyr Father dyd to Isaac the true heyre boastyng of hys byrth righte For suche is the swellyng pryde of that slauysh generation that although they bee altogether bondemen and thrall vnto perpetuall distruction yet doo they moste arrogantly contemne and despyse all other that professe not the same waye of Iustification that they doo Therefore our Sauiour Christe telleth a parable agaynste them that trusted in them selues that they were ryghteous and desprsed other For they that be once so proude as to iustifie them selues they will also contemne and despyse others Of this contempte aryseth their cruell mynde whereby they doo also persecute them Thus the false Apostles that preached iustification partly by Christe and partly by obseruation of the Lawe raysed persecution agaynst the true Apostles that taught iustification by grace of Christe only embraced by Faith alone without the deeds of the law and al them that receyued the same moste cōfortable doctrine And their successours the Papistes are nothyng behynde for they neuer cease to the vttermost of their power too persecute and afflicte the true Children of promyse with all kynde of tormentes that they can deuyse to maynteyne the proude perswasion of their owne righteousnesse and too deface the glorye of the mo●te free and plentyfull Redemption of Christe But for as much as the Apostle here sayeth that hee that was borne after the fleshe persecuted hym that was borne after the spirite wee haue to see what kynde of persecution this was by which Ismael persecuted Isaac For in al the story of Ismael there is no mention of persecution but onely in the 21. Chapter of Genesis where it is written that at such time as Abraham made a great feast at the weaninge of his sonne Isaac and there was great ioye and reioycing on euery syde for Isaac that was Abrahams sonne by Sara according to the promyse of GOD Ismael which was then in the house a prowde Ladde of syxteene or seuenteene yeares olde scorned and mocked his younge Brother Isaac This derysion and skorninge the Apostle compteth for persecution and not without great cause for it shewed the prowde stomacke of Ismael that contemned and dispised hym whom GOD had chosen secondlye it declared his inwarde hatred and cruell minde that hee bare against his Brother whom he so contumelyoustye deryded workynge hym all the spighte and villanye that hee could and durst And chiefely it deserued to bee called persecution because he scorned and mocked the grace and election of god Wherefore though hee dyd not persecute hym with the Sword which he coulde not yet hee persecuted him with his scornefull reproches which is worse because he contemned and trode vnder his feete the promise of GOD whereof Isaac was made an heyre by the mercy and grace of god And verely there ought no persecution to be so greeuous vnto vs as when wee se the grace of GOD vpon which our vocation is grounded to be trodden vnder foote and defaced with the prowde tauntes scornes of the vngodly yea it is the fountayne and beginninge of all persecutions when the wicked doe hate and despise the grace of GOD in his chosen as appeareth moste playnly in the story of Caine and Abel yea our Sauiour Christe hymselfe no doubte was