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A02793	Two godlie and learned sermons, preached at Manchester in Lancashire before a great audience, both of honor and vvoorship. The first, containeth a proofe of the subtill practises of dissembling neuters, and politique worldlings. The other, a charge and instruction, for all vnlearned, negligent, and dissolute ministers: and an exhortation to the common people, to seeke their amendment, by prayer, vnto God. By Simon Harward, preacher of the woord of God, and Maister of Arte, late of Newe Colledge in Oxfoord.	Harward, Simon, fl. 1572-1614.	1582 (1582)	STC 12924; ESTC S112568	108,746	262

swearing blaspheming the name of God It were a matter too long tedious and likewise the time will not suffer me discourse of all the soueraigne vertues of the Tōgue as Blessing praysing the name of God calling vpon him by prayer instructing of our brethren reproouing wickednesse setting vnitie and concorde amongst men and cōfessing of the Lord Iesus But héere we are only to cōsider the chéefest vertue of the Tōgue which is With the mouth to cōfesse the Lord Iesus And the chéefest poison which is To deny renounce our Lord and Sauiour The Apostle héere requireth of euery Christian That he shal with the mouth confesse the Lord Iesus Because as all the body is made to glorifie God so especiallie the tongue is as Paule sayth Let euery tongue cōfesse that Iesus Christ is the Lord Phil. 2.11 to the glorie of God the Father Hebr. 13.15 Let vs offer the sacrifice of praise alwayes to God That is the fruite of the lippes which confesse his name and this the Prophet Hosea dooth call the calues of our lyppes Hose 14.2 Dauid sayeth I beleeued and therfore I spake Psal 116.10 Signifying therby that There can be no true beleefe in the heart vnles the tongue delight to talke of the same Math. 12.34.35 For of the abundaunce of the heart the mouth will speake A good man out the good treasure of his heart bringeth foorth good thinges and an euill man out of the euill treasure bringeth foorth euill things About what thing soeuer the heart of man is occupied the tongue will most commonlie be talking of the same The Ship man will talke of his windes the Soldier will reckon vp his woundes the Shéepheard will be telling of his shéepe and the Plowman of his Oxen. If a man ●elight in Hawkes Horses Houndes or ●ny pastime whatsoeuer his talke wil be according to his delight and howe can it ●hen be but that if our hearts and soules delight in the Lord our tongues should also praise him confesse him and glorifie his holy name Shall the knowledge of Christe haue lesse obediēce of our tōgues then the vaine and transitorie desire of worldly pleasures Shall worldly things haue our tongues at commaundement shall the glorious name of Christe haue no portion therein This can not be déere brethren that there should be any true saith in the hart except it draw the tōgue to the confessing of the same Our bodies are called the temples of God Knowe ye not that ye are the temple of God 1. Cor. 3.16.17 that the spirit of God dwelleth in you If any man defyle the temple of God him will God destroy for the temple of God is holy and that are ye And therfore it is Sa●riledge Church-robbery to plucke our tongue or any part of our body frō God For we are Temples and Saints conse●rated and sanctified vnto God And for ●his cause dooth Paule beséeche vs for the tender mercie of God That we offer vp not onely our soules 1. Cor. 6.19.20 but our bodies also a liuing sacrifice holy and acceptable vnto God And telleth vs that Our body being the Temple of the holy ghost we are not our owne but are bought with a price And therfore we should glorify God both in our bodies and in our soules for they are Gods They are Gods That is God made them and Christe Iesu redeemed them and bought them with a price not with siluer nor golde but with his owne most precious blood God made not onely soule but body also and our Lord and sauiour Christe gaue his body and shed his heart blood vppon the Crosse not onely for soule but for body also and not onely soule but body also shall liue for euer in the worlde to come then séeing that God created bothe body and soule and Christe with his body and soule did paye the raunsome bothe of body and soule and bothe body and soule shal be partakers of euerlasting glorie in the worlde to come We must as Paule sayth Glorifie God bothe in body and in soule for they are Gods 1. Reg. 19.18 The Lord sayth vnto Elias That he hath reserued vnto him seauen thousande people which neuer bowed their knees to Baall nor kissed him with their mouthes He dooth not say Which haue not beleeued in Baall in their harts But Which haue giuen neither knee nor mouth nor any part of their body to any other but to the Lord God of Israell Nabuchadnezzar required nothing of Shidrach Meshach and Abednego Dan. 3.19 but that They shoulde in bodie fall downe and worshippe the golden Image But ther chose rather to be cast aliue into the boate fierie Furnace The Kinges Commissioners required nothing of Mattathias But 1 Mach. 2.19.37 That he should outwardlie doo Sacrifice vnto the Idolles at Modin But he would rather dye then consent vnto it God is a ielous God and therefore will suffer no part of our bodie to be giuen to any grauen Image nor to any other but him alone as he sayth in his commaundement Thou shalt not bowe downe to them nor worshippe them Exod. 20.5 for I the Lorde thy God am a ielous God Whereby you sée that no part of our bodies ought to be giuen from God but that we should with euery part of vs glorifie God our creator and Christe Iesu our redeemer and the holy Ghost our sanctifier which hath made our whole bodies holie Temples vnto the Lord. And as with euerie part of our body we must set foorth the lawde and praise of God so especially with our tongue Phil. 2.11 That euery tongue may may confes that Iesus Christe is the Lord to the glory of God the Father Dauid séemed to be in better case when he was in the house of Achis or in the land of Iorden or in Hermonim or in the mount Mizar then if he should haue béen in the Tēple of God in the midst of Saules boast and all his enimies Psal 42.4.5 yet he sayth him selfe I powred out my very heart because I had gone with the multitude and led them into the house of God with the voice of singing and prayse as a multitude that keepeth a feast Why art thou so cast downe O my soule and why art thou so vnquiet within me O my God my soule is cast downe within me because I remember thee from the land of Iorden Hermonim and from the mount Mizar When Dauid was in the lande of Iorden in Hermonim or in the mount Mizar no doubt he prayed vnto God and gaue him thankes for all his benefites Yet because by reason of his enimies he could not come to the Temple of God to glorifie God as well in body as in soule He therefore crieth out with gréefe of hart Psa 84.1 ● ● Why art thou so cast down O my soule and why art thou so vnquiet within me And in an other place O Lord of hoastes howe

therefore we ought to dispense the word faithfully in season and out of season 2. Tim. 4.2 knowing that if any doo perish thorough our default a seuere accompt shall be required at our hands We are called builders to edifie build the body of Christ Isa 49.17 Ephe. 4.12 15. that is his Church and to ioyne it vnto the head Christ and therefore we muste labour painefully and take heede where we laye our foundation that we build not vpon the sand but vpon the foundatiō of the Prophets and Apostles Ephe. 2.20 Iesus Christ himselfe béeing the chiefe corner Stone We are called Luke 6.39 the leaders of Gods people to leade them into all trueth and therefore we must take héede that we haue alwayes the word of God a Lanterne to our feete and a light vnto our pathes Psal ●19 105 for otherwise if the blinde leade the blinde Math. 15.14 they shall bothe fall into the Ditche we are called Sheepeheards and Pastors and therfore we ought to feede the stock committed to our charge or otherwise there is no loue of Christ in vs. Iohn 21.15 For our Sauiour mooued the question thrife to Peter Simon thou sonne of Iona doost thou loue me his aunswer was Lord I loue thee Lorde thou knowest that I loue thee Then feede my Sheepe feede my Lambes And therefore it is vnpossible that there should be any sparckle of the loue of Christ in our hearts except we haue a care to feede those Lambes for when he shed his bloud Ezech. 34.4 to strengthen the weake to heale the sick to binde vp the broken to bring home that which is driuē away to seeke that which is lost and to defend thē frō being deuoured of the wild beasts of the field which we c●̄ neuer do vnlesse we be able to interpret the scriptures to apply them to the instruction comfort of the people therefore 〈◊〉 ●3 2 〈◊〉 2.24 Paul requireth in the Minister that he be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sit to teache al● commaūdeth Timothy to shew himselfe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 rightly deuiding the worde of trueth 2. Tim. 2.15 not onely and barely reading for that were to giue whole loaues vnto Children for the which they should be neuer the better but cutting and deuiding the worde of trueth Math. 4.19 Luke 5.5 and as it were breaking vnto them the bread of life We are Fishers of men and therefore we must at Christes commaundement continually let downe our Nets We are called Gods Stewards Luk. 12.42 16.1 and therefore we ought to be faithfull and wise and giue vnto the Household of God their portion of meate in due season Happy is the Seruaunt whom the Maister when he cōmeth shall finde so dooing We must euery one of vs be as it were Gen 41.57 another Ioseph that when the Aegiptians are pinched with famine they may finde reliefe at Iosephs hande The first thing then that is required in a Minister is that he haue knowledge and vnderstanding how to doo his Embassage how to feed with discretion first with Milke and thē with stronge meate how to labour in the Lords Haruest how to builde how to leade the people of God how to watch ouer them how to lighten their hearts and to season them with the knowledge of Gods holy worde The Prophet saith Math. 2.7 that the lippes of the Priest must preserue knowledge that the people may seeke the lawe at his mouth For he is the Messenger of the Lord of Hoastes and not onely should their lippes preserue knowledge but they must euen eate the rowle of Gods booke Ezech. 3.2 3. Apoc. 10.9 and fill their bowels with the volume thereof whereby is signified the profounde and deepe knowledge and inward digesting of the worde of God which ought to be in euery Minister Esai 56.10 The Prophet dooth greatly complaine of the blinde watchmen which cannot sée and the dombe Dogges which cannot barke and God denounceth a seuere iudgement against them saying Ezech. 13.3 Woe be vnto the foolish Prophets which follow their owne spirite and haue seene nothing Exod. 28.33 About the skirts of the robe of Ephod were goulden Bels alwayes sounding to signifie that the Priest wheresoeuer he went should be able to found out the worde of trueth and therefore we which are called to be labourers in the Lords Haruest to instruct the people in the worde of God Let vs first learne how we must doo it for labour wee neuer so painefully 2. Tim. 2.5 yet if wee labour not as we ought to doo our labour is all in vayne The labouring Husbandman must firste be able to choose good Seede and then to Sowe it with discrescion euen so the Minister must first be able to disseuer the trueth from falsehood light from darkenesse and meate from poyson and then to vtrer his Doctrine applying it to the profit and comfort of the hearers The Husbandman must fyrste Plowe the Soyle and bruse the Cloddes before hee commit the Séede vnto the ground euen so must the Minister fyrst bruse the cloddes and knotty affections of mens hearts by the Preaching of the Lawe and then Sowe therein the sweete promises of the glorious Gospell of Iesus Christ Some are of this iudgement that onely the lawe and the threatnings of God against sinne ought now to be preached bothe because the manners of men are growen to be so wicked and desperate that they haue néede of a sharpe and desperate remedie and also because that Christian libertie the more it is preached the more it is abused I confesse these thinges to be true and too true the Lorde be mercifull vnto vs But how so euer sinne be increased and Christian libertie abused yet good brethren we must so procéede in teaching that rather Christe be framed in the hearts then Moses and that rather by acknowledging Gods benefits men may be drawen to loue him then be driuen by feare to flie from him For if Christe doo come into our hearts it is vnpossible but that he should bring with him new vertues new actions new motions and a spirite sanctifying all thinges and where Christe is not receaued there is it in vaine to speake of any morrall vertue or vice whatsoeuer Eph. 3.17 If Christe doo dwell in our hearts by faythe then must it néedes follow that wee should bee rooted and grounded in looue and saye with the Apostle 2. Cor. 5.14.15 The loue of Christe constrayneth vs for this wee knowe that if Christe dyed for vs wee which liue should not liue vnto our selues but liue vnto him which dyed for vs and rose againe that as he gaue his body and bloud vpon the Crosse for vs so we should giue our bodyes and soules to serue him and shew our selues thankfull for the worke of our redemption knowing that he did not therefore die for vs that we should wallow in sinne and wickednesse

with the vnbeléeuers thou shalt be cast as an vnprofitable seruaunt Mark 9.44 Ezech. 34.1 1. Cor. 9.16 Luk. 16.26 Apoc. 14.11 into vtter darkenesse where shall be weeping gnashing of teeth where the worme neuer dyeth and the flame neuer goeth out where woes thou shalt finde on euery side and nothing but woes and of all woes this is the greatest that there shal be no ende of thy woes Where thou shalt alwaies consume and yet neuer be consumed alwayes burne and yet neuer be burnt away alwayes die and yet neuer giue ouer to death but haue paines vnquencheable intollerable easelesse endlesse and hopelesse from the which the Lord of his infinite mercy for his sonne Christ his sake deliuer vs all and giue vs grace so to vse our Talents in this vale of miserie that when our accompts shal be made we may be founde acceptable in his sight and héere that ioyfull saying O ye good and faithfull seruaunts Math. 25.21.23.34 yee haue beene faithfull in little I wil make you Maysters of much enter into the ioyes of your Lorde come ye blessed of my father possesse the kingdome prepared for you frō the beginning of the world Thus deerely belooued ye see the thyrde propertie which is required in him that shall labour in the Lords Haruest that Luk. 12.46.45 he must be dilligent and that if he let any perish for want of foode then doth he smite his fellow seruaunts and murder them with a murder which before God is of all others most horrible and therefore if when we haue murdered a man although it be but by chaunce medley yet the remembraunce of it dooth gréeue vs vexe vs terrifie vs torment vs and make our flesh to quiuer shake and tremble how much more ought ye to auoyde the wilfull murder of so many thousand soules which perishing by your wilful negligence and ignoraunce 2. Thes 1.8.9 because they know not God are thrown headlong into euerlasting perdition and if the bloud of mē that are slaine béeing behoulden with the eies of the body dooth moue pitty and compassion howe much more ought it to gréeue the eyes of your hearts and spirits to sée the bloudshed of the soules 2. Sam. 22.15 which bringeth death eternall When Dauid in the Haruest time being in the Caue of Adullam did greatly longe to drinke of the water of Bethlehem sayd O that some man would giue me to drinke of the waters of Bethlehem there could not well any water be fetched because the Garrison of the Philistines which were Dauids enemies were then in Bethlehem Notwithstanding when thrée of Dauids mighty Captaines saw how greatly their King lōged for that water they valiauntly brake thorough the Hoaste of the Philistines and drew water out of the Wel of Bethlehem and brought it vnto Dauid when Dauid sawe what they had done he refused to drinke of it and sayde O Lord be it farre from me that I should doo this Is not this the bloud of the men which went in daunger of their liues And so he would not drinke of it but powred it out for an offering vnto the Lorde Now if Dauid would not drinke once of the water of Bethlehem because it was brought vnto him with the ieopardie of thrée mens liues how much lesse ought ye not onely to eate and drinke but also to cloathe your selues yea and delight your selues in pastimes and plesures not once but euery day not with the daūger of thrée mens liues but with the manifest murder of so many hundred soules And therefore as in the Solemnization of Matrimonie in this Church of Englande the Minister dooth firste charge the parties that are to be maried as they will aunswer at the dreadfull day of iudgement when the secrets of all hearts shall be opened that if either of them doo knowe in themselues any impediment why they may not lawfully be joyned together in Matrimonie that they confesse it Euen so I am to charge you before the Lord Iesus Christ and as you will aunswer at his appearaunce that if any of you doo know in your selues any secret impechment that either ye want the inward calling not to respect the liuing but to doo good in the Church of God or els that ye haue not the giftes of Nature fitte for that function or that yee feele not your selues so mortified with the spirite of sanctification that ye haue good hope to liue according to your profession to despise the worlde and painefully to discharge your duties that ye vtter it or at the least wise withdrawe your selues from rashelye entring into so high a calling Otherwise assure your selues that ye doo nothing els but plucke the vengeaunce of God vpon your owne heads But some of you say that ye haue no other way to liue and therefore vnlesse ye ●e nows made Ministers ye must néedes he brought to extreame beggerie I aunswer Ps 33 19. 34 8. 112.1 ● 3 that if the Lord be willing to deliuer you from pouertie he is able to deliuer you and he will deliuer you by a farre more lawfull meanes if ye will serue him and feare him 1 Tim. 1.5 1. Pet. 3.16.21 Tit. 1.15 and although he should neuer bring you out of it yet how much better were if for you to liue here in perpetuall begger is with a quiet conscience then with the best benefice in this Realme to haue a hell in your consciences in this worlde and euerlasting death in the worlde to come for then Mar. 8.36.37 what will it profit a man to win the whole world and loose his own soule or what shall a man giue for his soule ye must remember the counsell which Paul giueth to Timothie 1. Tim. 5.22 Psalm 38.4 not to be partakers of other mens sinnes our own sinnes are a burthen too heauie for vs to beare and altogether intollerable then what a desperate case are we in if we doo also charge and loade our selues with a heape of sinnes committed by other men Ezech. 3.18 whose bloud must be required at our hands if they be not dilligently lye warned and reclaymed from their wickednes that they may repent liue The fourth propertie which must be in the labourer is that he labour with bothe hands that is both with life and doctrine for otherwise if he be painfull in teaching and haue no care to expresse the same in life and conuersation then dooth he but build with the one hand and pluck downe with the other with the one hand he gathereth together and with the other hand he scattereth abroade and then he is no good labourer in the Haruest of the Lorde and therefore Saint Paul biddeth Timothy 1. Tim. 4.15 Act. 20.28 take heede vnto himselfe and to his doctrine and continue therein for in so dooing he should saue himselfe and thē that heard him And he willeth Titus Tit. ● 7 abooue all things to shew himselfe an ensample

they professe they knowe God Titus 1.16 but in their workes they deny him 2. Pet. 2.1.3 and therefore Saint Peter dooth call them Hereticks which deny the Lord that bought them which Heretikes Paul dooth bid vs reiect and auoyde after once or twise admonition Titus 3.10 The Papists doo teach this doctrine very earnestly that Hereticks ought to be auoyded and for this cause with their reasons of refusall and their Popish shauelings créeping frō place to place they perswade mē to absent them selues from the church teaching them that it is a damnable thing to commmunicate with Hereticks Then in this point we agrée bothe in one that Hereticks if they can by no meanes be reclaimed must be reiected But héere onely lyeth the question who are they which by Gods word are cōdemned for Heretikes Tertull. Quodcunque aduersus veritatem sapit est Haeresis etiam vetus consuetudo Whatsoeuer dooth sauour against the trueth if it be obstinately defended it is an Hearesie although it be neuer so auncient a custome But the Apostle Saint Peter ● Peter 1.3 dooth more perfectlye discribe an Hereticke by two markes and propertyes There shall be saith he false teachers among you which shall hring in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 damnable Heresies first 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 denying the Lord that hath bought them and secondly 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they shall for lucres sake make Marchandise of you with fayned wordes Nowe who séeth not that these two points are plainely and fully accomplished in our aduersaries for firste they deny that the Lord hath bought them they call the Lord Iesus their Sauiour they confesse that he dyed vpon the Crosse but they denye that he bought them with his death for if he bought them with his owne moste precious bloud what néede they to bee bought againe with Popes Pardons Indulgences Mans Merits Masses Dirges Trentals or any such paultrie deuises and lewde inuentions of man And who knoweth not that all these thinges are nothing but subtill practises too picke mennes purses and too make Marchaundise of Soules for coueytous Lucre. Then thease are the Hereticques whiche we must auoyde which denye the Lorde that bought them which to inritch themselues defende such monstrous opinions as do all derogate frō the death and passion of Christ Titus 1.16 which professe that they knowe God but in their works they deny him Our Sauiour Christ is annoynted of God to be our Kinge our Priest Luke 1.33 and our Prophet Our King as the Angell saide to Marie he shall raigne ouer the house of Iacob for euer and of his kingdome shall be no ende Psal 110.4 Hebr. 4.14 7.26 Our Priest as the Prophet saith the Lord hath sworne and will not repent thou art a Priest for euer after the order of Melchizedec And our Prophet Luke 4.18 Math. 17.5 Iohn 1.18 Hebr. 1.2 because the spirite of the Lorde hath annoynted him to preach the Gospell vnto the poore and he is the belooued sonne of God whom only we must heare who beeing in the bosome of the Father hath declared him vnto vs. Then whosoeuer doo teach vs that any man can rule the hearts of men Psalm 2.9 Math. 9.6 Colos 1.13 Psal 110.1 Rom. 16.20 Rom. 6.6 Mich. 7.19 1. Cor. 15.55 1. Peter 1.3 or forgiue sinnes or destroy the power of darkenesse or make his enemies his footestoole or treade downe Sathan vnder his féete or kill the olde man with all his concupiscence with the power of his spirite or raise vp the new man in holinesse and righteousnesse or vanquish sinne Hell Death and damnation or establish in vs a hope of the inheritaunce of euerlasting life but only our Lorde and Sauiour Iesus Christe that man denyeth the kingdome of Christe And whosoeuer dooth offer Sacrifice for the quicke and the dead but onely the Lord Iesus who béeing the last Priest the Priest for euer did offer himself once vpon the Crosse for the sinnes of all mankinde as the Apostle saith Heb. 9 2● He appeared once to put away sinne by the sacrifice of himselfe and Heb. 10.10.14 Sanctificati sumus per oblationem Iesu Christi semel factam we are sanctified by the offering of the body of Iesus Christ once made for with one offering hath he consecrated for euer them that are sanctified he denyeth the eternall Priesthood of Christe and whosoeuer affirmeth that anye mortall man can dispence with the worde of God or that the Bible ought to be locked vp and that our faithe ought to be grounded vpon the Popes decrées decretales or vpon any Dunses or Doctors or Fathers or Counsels whatsoeuer he denyeth our Sauiour Christ Math. 17.5 to be our Prophet the welbelooued sonne of God whom onely we must heare and therefore the Papists howsoeuer they haue the name of Iesus often in their mouthes 2. Pet. 2.2 yet indéede they deny the Lord that bought them and therfore Titus 3.10 are suche Heretiques as are to be auoyded But we must confesse our Sauiour Christ to be onely our kynge to gouerne the heartes of his electe people with the vertue of his holy Spirit and as for the wicked Rom. 8.14 to crush them with a Scepter of Iron Psalm 2.5 to break them in peeces like a Potters Vessell onely the Priest which offered hymselfe without spot to God Hebr. 9.14 to purge our consciences from dead workes to serue the lyuyng Lorde and onely the Prophet by whom in these last dayes Hebr. 2.2 Deut. 18.18 the Lord doth speake vnto vs and whome God promised to Moyses that he would raise him vp amonge his Brethren whome who so euer should heare Gen. 3.15 12.3 should not be destroyed We must confesse that he onely is the seede of the woman which hath brused the Serpents head Isa 7.14 the seede of Abraham in whom all the Nations of the world should be blessed The Childe whiche a Virgyn should conceiue and beare call his name Emanuell whome many kynges and Prophetes haue desired to sée we must confesse him to be our Iesus by whom we are saued and that vnder Heauen there is no other name giuen nothyng in Earth nothyng vnder the Earth nothyng in Heauen nor in the Heauen of Heauens Actes 4.10 no vertue no power no strength no name els that is named in which or by which we can be saued but onely by the name of Iesus of Nazareth Math. 3.17 Iohn 1.1 2. Cor. 4.4 1. Cor. 1.24 Actes 3.15 Hebru 2.10 12.2 1. Cor. 2.8 Iohn 10.11 14 We must confesse him onely to be the welbelooued sonne in whom the Father is well pleased the woord of God the Image of God the power and wisdome of God the Prince of life the Prince of saluation the Prince of faithe the Lorde of glorie the Heir of all things in Heauen and earth We must confesse him to be the onely good Shéepeheard by

required this at your hands that ye should take the sacramēt of my bloud which I shed for al mē frō the common people so to make my supper rather an excōmunication then a Communion who required this at your hands that ye should rather thrust your children into Abbeis Couents there to liue an idle a Swinish life being pampered vp with all dilicious fare which may stir thē vp to all filthines thē to set thē to some homest occupatiō Gen. 3.19 2. Thes 3.12 to get their liuing with the sweate of their browes to the profit and furtherance of the Common wealth Who required this of you that ye should accompt it a more meritorious work to gilde an Image their to cloathe a poore naked man and a better déede to go a gadding on Pilgrimage to séeke dead bones then to tarie at home and visite the poore members of Christ which laye sick and bedred lame and impotent 1. Iohn 1.7 Eccle. 12.7 Luke 23.49 Actes 7.59 Apoc. 14.13 who required this at your hands that ye should make any other Purgatorie then the bloud of Iesus Christ which dooth purge you from all your sinne or that ye should place your holynesse in kissing of Reliques créeping to crosses choyce of meates contempt of mariage sprinkling of holy water cēsing of Herbs boughes auricular shriuing in consecrated war Agnus Deis Crucifyres Palmes Creame Spittle Salte Oile Ashes Bels Beads Ladies Psalters Portuises Legēdaries Mās merits work of supererogatiō Shrines Roodes Tapers Frankencense Masses Dirges Trentals Buls Pardons Indulgences and all such trashe and trumpery wherof there is no mention at all in my holy worde Who required these things at your hands if I neuer required them but rather forbad them and commaunded the cleane contrarie then are ye no faithfull labourers 2. Peter 2.3 ye labour for your owne gaine to make Marchandise of soules for Lukers sake but ye are no labourers in my Haruest Apoc. 22.19 to bring increase into my Barnes and therefore ye are accursed and haue no part in the booke of life Thus good brethren ye sée how we shall be faithfull labourers we must Deut. 4.2 12.32 Pro. 30.6 adde nothing to the woord and take nothing from it neither to decline vnto the right hand nor to the left for if it be vnlawfull to adde or to chaunge Gala. 3.15 or to abrogate any thing in the Will and Testament of men how much lesse shall it be lawfull to put too or to diminish or to disanull any thing in the Will and Testament of the euerliuing God and if in making of the Tabernacle Exod. 25.40 2. Cron. 8.14 or building of the materiall Temple it was not lawfull for the workemen to doo any thing but what the Lorde appointed how much lesse may the builders of the spirituall Temple the Church of God decline from that rule which God hath prescribed in his holy worde Moreouer that we may be faithfull labourers this is required of vs that we auoide all flatterie and without respect of persons doo bouldly that Message Gala. 101 whereunto the Lorde shall send vs knowing that if we seeke to please men Ezech. 13.12 we cannot be the seruaunts of Christ ●ech 13.18 The Prophet denounceth an woe against those which sowe Pillowes vnder mens elbowes and crie peace peace where as no peace is and God dooth threaten by Ieremie that hee will come against those Prophets which haue sweete lips Ie● 10. and flatter men in their sinnes Woe be to them which speake good of euill and euill of good which put darkenes for light and light for darkenes which put bitter for sweete find sweete for sower Pro. 12.2 Disperdat Dominus omnia labia adulationum the Lord ●ut out all flattering lips saith the Prophet Dauid and as flattering lippes are abhominable in all mē so especially they ought to be abhorred of vs which are the Messengers of the Lord of Hoasts We must all Ephe. 6.19 open our mouthes bouldly to publish the secret of the Gospell Howsoeuer it be a daungerous thing for Lot to reprooue the filthy and beastly Sodomites Gen. 19.7 assaulting his house yet he must not cease still to say I pray you my bretheren Pro● ●0 2 doo not so wickedly Howsoeuer the wrath of a King be the roaring of a Lion and he that dooth prouoke him to anger dooth hazard his owne life yet if Princes offend the Prophet of God must say the Princes are rebellious Isa 1.23 companions of theeues euery one loueth bribes they iudge not the fatherles nether doth the widdowes cause come before the Ezech. 22.27 the Princes of Iuda are like rauening wolues sucking bloud and destroying soules for couetous Lucre. Although it must cost Iohn Baptist his life yet must he not cease to say to Herod Math. 14.4 It is not lawful for thee to haue thy brother Phillips wife And not onely the wicked but the godly also whē they fall they must be bouldly sharply reprooued so that Nathan must say vnto Dauid thou art the man 2. Sam. 12.7 it is thou that hast done this deede doubt not but the Lord will so worke with it that thy smiting shall be taken for a benefit Psa 141.5 and thy reproouing for a precious balme which will not breake his head howsoeuer the wicked doo kick spurne against thy godly admonitiōs yet no vnthankfulnes of the world ought to driue them frō performing thy duty but that the more stormy tempests that the weather dooth bring the more painefull thou shouldest be in the Haruest of the Lord What though thou be sent as Christe héere sent foorthe his seuentie Disciples as Lambes among VVolues Luke 10.5 What though thou be Sawde in péeces with a Sawe of wood as the Prophet Isay was or haue a Naile of Iron driuen into the Temples of thy head with Amos or be beheaded with Iohn Baptist or be Stoned with Steuen or slaine with the Sworde with Iames or most cruelly put to death with Peter Paule and the rest of the Apostles or haue thy portion among the blessed Martirs of God whereof some were deuoured with wilde Beasts some burnt with fier and Faggot some broyld vpon hoate coales some hanged some drowned some torne in péeces with wilde Horses yet must you alwayes remember the comfortable promise of Christe Math. 5.10 that great shal be thy rewarde in Heauen Blessed is the man that endureth temptation Iam. 1.12 for when he is tryed he shall receaue the Crowne of life which the Lorde hath promised to them that loue him Thus must the Ministers labour faithfully and not onely faithfully but willingly as Peter sayth feede the flock of Christ 2. Peter 5.2 which dependeth vpon you caring for it not by constraint but willingly not for fylthy luker but of a ready minde For if the laboring Seruaunts which are hyred to doo

shall be pronounced Giue an accompts of thy stewardship Luk. 16.1 thou maist be no longer Steward The Texte saith that the euill Stewarde 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he was first accused to his Maister that he wasted his goods and then he was called to his reckoning Euen so shall all blinde guides dombe Dogges vnfaithfull Stewards Idole Sheepheards slouthfull loiterers first be accused to God and then called to their accompts who shall be their accusers euery slothfull and vnfaithful Steward of what calling soeuer he be shall haue thrée accusers Rom. 2.15 The first is their owne conscience for that will be as good as a thousand witnesse Iuuenal Nocte dieque suum gestare in pectore testem A corrupt conscience is called a continuall Hangeman Gen. 4.7 it is sinne laying at the doore of our hearts it is called of the Prophet Esay a Worme that neuer dyeth and a Sea which alwayes rageth without rest Isa 66.24 1. Tim. 4.2 of Paul a fearing with a hoate Iron and in the Epistle to the Hebrewes Hebr. 10.26 a terrible looking for of iudgement and violent fier to deuour the aduersaries and therefore as often as they call to minde remember how they haue eaten the fat Ezech. 34.3.4 cloathed themselues with the Woll but that they haue not fed the Sheepe nor strengthened the weake nor healed the sick nor boūd vp the broke nor brought againe that which was driuen away nor sought vp that which was lost but haue ruled their slocks with rigor and cruelty this corrupt conscience Rom. 2.15 wil be as good as a thousād witnesses to accuse cōdemne thē before the throne of God Isa 57.21 2. Tim. 1.7 Sap. 17.10.11 There is no peace to the wicked the Lord hath sayd it but they shal cary in their brests feare terror tormēting furies cōtinually citing thē before the tribunall seat of Christ And if there be any which with vayne pastimes and pleasures of this worlde doo driue away the remembraunce of Gods iudgements for a time yet are they neuer the better for it for although they séeme to reioyce yet as Salomon sayeth Pro 1.14.13 20.17 Euen in the laughing the hart is sorrowfull and the mirth dooth end in heauines Although the bread of deceipt be sweet in the mouth for a while yet in the end the mouthe shal be filled with Grauell although for a time they liue without remorse of conscience Luke 11.21 and the stronge man dooth so possesse all things that all things seeme to be quiet yet in the end they shall be neuer the better for it no more then the stall fedde Oxe is the better because he knoweth not that he is taken out to the slaughter house for a sodaine death will haue the greater fea●e 1. Cor. 1.12 And therefore good brethren let euery one of vs endeuour as much as we can to kéepe the testimonie of a good conscience for as of all the treasures and pleasures in the worlde a quiet conscience is the greatest Pro. 15.15 as Salomon saith a good conscience is a continuall feast so it is the greatest horrour in the world to make Shipwrake of a good conscience 1. Iohn 3 21. for if our hart condemne vs God is greater then our heart and therefore let euery one of vs labour faithfully and painefully in the Lords Haruest let vs as good stewards giue vnto the household their portion of meate in due season that whensoeuer we must leaue our flocks we may euery one of vs in the testimonie of a good conscience say as Paule saide to the Elders of Ephesus Act. 20.26.27 I take you all to recorde this day that I am pure from the bloud of all men for I haue kept nothing back but haue shewed you all the counsell of God The second witnesse which shall accuse thée if thou be an euil Steward is the crie of the poore people which by thy negligence are pinched with the famine of the worde of God Amos. 8.11 for if in plaging of the body of goods that be true which the wiseman saith Ecclc. 35.15 that the teares which runne downe from the Widdowes cheekes go vp into heauen and the Lord which heareth them doth accept them and that which Iames saith Iam. 5.4 the crye of the poore dooth enter into the eares of the Lorde of Hoastes and that which Dauid affirmeth that Psal 56.8 God dooth put the teares of his Saints in his bottell how much more shall the teares and the cry which commeth by the plaging of the soule go vp into the eares of the Lord of Hoasts when the People shall hūger thirst for the foode of Godsword thou hast none to giue them when they shall crie for their portion of meate and thou hast none neither for thy selfe nor for them This crie goeth vp into heauē and the Lord which heareth it dooth accept it when he calleth thée to thy reckoning he will one day remember it The thirde witnesse which shall accuse all euill Stewards is the hurt dammage which is done in the Lords Haruest by their negligence Gen 4.10 for if the voice of the bloud of Abell did crie out of the earth for vengeance and if in building of houses with the oppressiō of the poore one stone doo crie vnto another ●bac 2.11 one beame crie against an other woe be to him that buildeth of bloud How much more shal the bloud of the soules of mē the maintaining of our wealthy estates by the perishing of so many soules cry continually out of the earth to the Lord for vengeance And thus if thou be an vnfaithfull and negligent Steward thou hast three accusers continually citing thee before the throne of God and the Lord which heareth their accusations will one day call thee to thy reckoning when he himselfe shall descende from heauen with a showte 1. The. 4.16.17 and with the voice of the Archangell with the trumpet of God and thou shalt meete him in the Cloudes where thou shalt see heauen aboue thee ready to receaue the saints of God Hell beneathe thee gaping to deuoure thee round about thee the world burning the Elements melting with heate thine owne sinnes on the one side of thee and the sinnes of all those which haue perished by thy negligence on the other side of thee behinde thee the Deuill ready to accuse thee within thee a conscience already condemning thee and before thy face the terrible Iudge accompanied with thousands of Angels calling thee to giue an accomptes of thy Stewardship And if it be founde that Luke 12.48.45.46 thou hast not giuen to the Househoulde of God their portion of meate in due season but hast smitten thy fellow seruaūts and giuen thy selfe to eate and drinke Math. 25.30 and to be dronken then moste assuredlye thou shalt be cut off and haue thy portion