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A15765	A summons for sleepers Wherein most grieuous and notorious offenders are cited to bring forth true frutes of repentance, before the day of the Lord now at hand. Hereunto is annexed, a patterne for pastors, deciphering briefly the dueties pertaining to that function, by Leonard Wright.	Wright, Leonard, b. 1555 or 6.	1589 (1589)	STC 26034.3; ESTC S121115	49,627	64

and contagious kinde of vermine as intollerable amongest men as wolues amongst lambes Rauens ease not men till they be dead but these smooth glozing Arch-parasites with two faces in one hood like Ianus two tongs in a head like Iudas and two harts in a brest like Magus do dayly eat men quicke become so familiar with the superior sort that they bring to passe euen what they list so as the world séemeth to be diuided betweene the secret dissembler and the open blasphemer These parasites are therefore possessed with some great captaine deuil they sléepe in sinne the Lord of his mercie conuert them least they perish themselues or of his iustice confound them for infecting of others This land is also most vildely corrupted with intollerable pride with such a confused mingle mangle and varietie of apish toyes in apparell euery day flaunting in newe fashions to deforme Gods workemanship in theyr bodies as greate monstrous ruffes starched in the deuils licour and set with instruments of vanitie doublets with great burssen bellies as though theyr guts were ready to fall out some garded lyke French men some fringed lyke Venetians some their heads Turkish their backes Spanish and their wastes Italian some theyr hayre curled and theyr beardes writhen to make them looke grimme and terrible as though they had séene the deuil with long daggers at their backes to kill euery one they méet prouder than themselues with such riotous excesse and vaine curiositie that I thinke they haue made a league with Satan a couenant with hell and an obligation with the deuill to marry his eldest daughter they sléepe in sinne and are as easie to be waked or reformed as the olde worlde was at the preaching of Noe or the latter age at the preaching of Christ. Pride is the mother of hypocrisie the enemie of deuotion the nursse of enuie and the fountayne of all vice sinne was the cause why God did first giue vs apparell not as badges of pride to féede the eies of vaine gazing fooles but to couer our shame and kéepe vs from colde Quid superbis terra cinis quid veste nitida gloriaris subter te sternitur tinea operimentum tuum erunt vermes haec tua vestis erit Againe our Countrie is most horribly choaked and ouergrowne with multitudes of dronken tospots vile lecherous whooremongers and filthie intising drabs which vices doe so greatly offend both the maiestie of God the lawe of nature and the common wealth that if the very stones in the stréete could speake they would crie out vpon it Yet by meanes of greasing bribing and corrupting of officers put in trust to punish them it is no more accounted of but a sporte or game to laugh at as though heauen and hell were nothing else but olde wiues fables to feare and flatter children withall These are no doubt possessed with deuils they sléepe in sinne and it is high time to awake them If filthy whooremaisters would waigh with themselues how God doth know the very secrets of the hart that of his iustice he wil leaue no sin vnpunished either in this world or in the world to come they would surely be afraid to do that in his sight which is so shamefull lothsome odious to be done in the presence of an honest earthly man It is a thing most filthy against nature that a professed Christian an adopted child of God a member of Christ temple of the holy ghost redéemed with no lesse price than by shedding the very heart bloud of the deare only beloued son of God should take that same body mēber of Christ make it y e mēber of an harlot S. Gregory compareth lechery to a firy furnace whereof the mouth is gluttony y e flame pride y e sparkles filthy words the smoke an euil name the ashes pouertie the end shame cōfusion at the last saith Salomon it biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an Adder Whoordome besides y e infamy of the world it wasteth y e goods withereth y e body decaieth y e health shortneth the life maketh a man stinke in the sight of God The vice of dronkennesse in like manner consumeth the wealth surfets the bodie dulleth the wit dimmeth the vnderstanding troubleth the senses without repentance bringeth both bodie soule into hell And therefore if either the feare of God the shame of the worlde the desire to be in their right wits to liue in health of body or to escape the miserable state of beggerie may moue them to repentaunce amendment it is now time to awake detest auoid such horrible wickednes which doe iustly merit a short life a shamefull death There was neuer more sincere preaching nor so litle following so great perswasions to honestie vertue so many giuen ouer to vice naughtinesse so much exhortation to loue and charitie so many stuffed with hatred enuy We greatly complaine of the vnfruitfulnes of the earth the corruption of the aire the vnconstantnesse of the world time that slips so fast away but we complaine not against our owne selues for whose sinful liues the very heauens doo wéepe we professe to be the followers of Christ yet in Christian behauior much inferior to y e heathen Ethnicks that knew not God who passed vs as far in good liuing as we passe them in good learning we greatly delight to beare the name of Abrahams children yet not so willing to kil one wicked affection y t offēdeth God as Abraham was at his cōmandemēt to kill his only beloued sonne It is said that the Castor the Elephant being hūted the one for the vertue of his genitors the other for his tooth the Castor biteth off his genitors and the Elephant findeth a meane to wrest out his tooth cast them away to saue their bodies but our people had rather both preacher pulpit were set on a fire then they would cast away their filthie vices to saue both bodie and soule The sea-man knoweth his tide the Swallow her time and the Crane her season but our people are senselesse the tempestuous windes the waues of the sea and the verie deuils themselues did heare and obey his word but they sléepe so soundly in sinne that neither the infamy and shame of the world can moue them nor al gentle admonitions allure them nor the terrible threatnings of hell torments once feare them nor the filthinesse of sinne that séemed so odious to the verie infidels withdraw them nor the continuall preaching of all creatures vnder heauen persuade them to repent and amend Saint Anthony being a man vnlearned had no other bookes but these and he that can behold these excellent bookes setting foorth the wisedome and goodnesse of almightie God without praysing and glorifying his name is worse then a bruit beast The Sunne Moone and Starres by whose heate light the whole world

not haue to aide necessitie the one wallowing in welth and floating in prosperitie the other wrestling with neede and like to sinke in miserie They haue power to get riches policie to kéepe them and time to possesse them but want harts to vse them so as the more goods they haue the more they desire and lesse good they doe A number haue too much but none haue inough hauing so much doinges that they can doe nothing well They swell with intollerable pride and enuie oppressing their poore brethren some by force like Lyons and some by fraud like foxes so that if rich Achab beginne once to frowne all Westminster Hall other places to helpe can not kéepe poore Naboth his vineyarde Againe they build great gorgeous houses as though they should liue for euer and surfet with excesse of diet as though they should dye to morrow being lesse charitable then the diuel himselfe who desired to haue stones turned into bread but they turne and conuert biefe and bread that was wont to feede the poore into stones and brauerie haue brought the common welth to common miserie The séely wretched soules may féede their eyes with gazing but their bellies may sterue for food The goods of christians by right should be priuate to no mans lust but common to euery mans néede according to their state and calling But they are prodigally spent in vaine pompe and superfluitie and made inticing baits to draw men to sinne at their pleasure and repent at their leasure Hypocrisie and superstition did bleare the eyes of Papists and ambiton and couetousnesse putteth out the eyes of the protestants In times past he that held by violence that was not his owne or conuerted other mens goodes to his owne vse or sought either by fraudulent or violent meanes to take away their lands or liuings was accounted a théefe and the lawes prescribed seuerall punishments and kindes of death according to the qualitie of the offence But if there were commission graunted at this day to hang vp all théeues and robbers I thinke we should rather want gibbets then théeues to furnish them These worldlings no doubt are possessed with Mammon that great maister diuel they sléepe in sinne and it is high time to wake them Either they thinke there is no God or I must thinke they are no men What meane you my brethren and countrimen will your couetous mindes neuer be satisfied Christ hath redéemed you from the world and will you still be partners with the diuel in possessing the world It will shortly passe away and perish before your eyes and will you make it your God What madnesse is it to repose your felicitie in that which is nothing els but troubles to your bodies disquietnesse to your mindes cares to your harts inticements of vice to your children seedes of enuie to your neighbours and occasion to your enimies Neuer got without trauel kept without danger nor left without griefe Gold is called the baite of sin the snare of soules and the hooke of death It is aptly compared to a fire whereof a litle is good to warme a man but too much will burne him vp altogether Couetousnesse is called the roote of all euil there is nothing worse then a couetous man saith Iesus Sirach nor a more wicked thing then to loue money for such a one hath euen his soule to sell. A couetous mans purse is called the diuels mouth The chariot of couetousnesse is saide to be carried of foure whéeles of vices churlishnesse faint courage contempt of God and forgetfulnesse of death it is drawne by two horses called gréedy to catch and holdfast the carter that driueth it desire to catch and the carter hath a whip called loth to forgoe If rich worldlings would waigh with them selues the great wealth they possesse and the litle good they doe withall what intollerable euils they haue committed and how much better they might haue done how apt they are to offend and how slow to amend they would be ashamed to liue and in great feare to dye It is hard saith our Sauiour for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of heauen they are more hardly conuerted vnto God then poore men for thrée causes First for that pride is alwaies annexed vnto riches Secondly the hart of a rich man is choaked with worldly cares Thirdly for as much as they are indued with temporall comforts they haue small regarde vnto spirituall consolation Woe be vnto such greedie worldlings and fat bulles of Basan as couetously gather together euil gotten goodes that they may set vp their nestes on high to scape from misfortune which wallow in wealth and prosperitie like pampered oxen preserued for the day of slaughter kicke at their duetie breake the hedge of their boundes and runne where they list without spéedy repentance they shall shortly be turned into hell and all the people that forget God Woe be vnto the proud welthie rulers in Sion that sit in the chaire of wilfulnesse and lye vpon soft couches and beddes of Iuorie selling their birthright with Esaw for the Potage of pleasure for they shall be sore punished Goe to now you rich worldlinges and Rams of the flocke which liue here in pleasure and wantonnesse saith the Apostle Weepe and howle for the miseries that shall come vpon you for the day is at hand when you must yéelde account of euerie pennie you haue receiued and were put in trust withall When without spéedie repentance your welth and prosperitie shall be turned into scarcenesse and penurie your ioy and gladnesse into sorrow and heauinesse your mirth and pleasure into lamentation and mourning your peace and securitie into miserable calamitie and your daintie diet into wéeping wailing and gnashing of téeth fire and brimstone storme and tempest this shall be your portion to drinke What profiteth it a man to gaine the whole word and yet loose his own soule If a nobleman sending his seruant about his affaires shall commit his money into his handes vpon trust with a commandement in writing how to lay it out thus much vpon such a thing and thus much vpon such if that seruant when his maister shal call him to account shal say vnto him thus much I spent vpon pompe pride and superfluitie and thus much vpon riote whoredom and vanitie so as I could spare litle or nothing to bestow as you commanded he would surely take that malapert fellow by the eares thrust him out of his seruice and commit him to prison for his sawcinesse Euen so hath God himselfe the Lord of all Lordes made and appointed rich worldlings his seruants and stewards committing his treasure into their hands vpon trust with a commandement in writing to bestow it in helping and relieuing his poore distressed children whom he hath chosen to receiue the glad tidings of his gospel and be heires of his kingdom whom he hath left

chaunce to fall the people will follow after by heapes yea if the one do but limpe the other will halte right down and therefore they especially must haue their rough knobs of vices hewen away and be closely ioyned together with the morter of vnitie and concord not onely in respect of them selues but also of the common people whose affections euen by nature do giue more credit to their eyes then their eares and be more aptly led by example then by perswasion and therefore more auaileth déedes without wordes then words without déedes That good Emperour Alexander Seuerus hauing sent for Origene to instruct him in Christs religion would often say that the concord humilitie patience and charitie which he saw amongst the christians did more moue and stirre him vp to belieue that Christ was the Sonne of God then all Origens vehement and learned perswations To conclude a good preacher hauing a good liuing must be a good housekéeper Peter was thrée times commanded to feede his flocke that is to say by the iudgement of Saint Barnard with sound doctrine honest life and good hospitalitie When Iohn Baptist sent his Disciples vnto Christ to aske if it were he that should come or that they shoulde looke for another he bad them goe againe and tell Iohn not onely what doctrine they had heard but also what workes they had seene who did both feede the soules of his shéepe with heauenly doctrine and example of vertuous liuing and their bodies with materiall food of barly loaues and fishes which did more win the peoples harts then all his wonderfull miracles and diuine Sermons which they saw and hard A number in these dayes do beare a great name of singular Preachers with fine eloquent tongues but we finde not those good olde Parsons that were wont to preach in the plurall number by example of good vertuous liuing and charitable hospitalitie The people do heare much but the poore can not finde their old reliefe saying Preachers are good but doing Preachers are better happy is that parish where both hitteth in one man But whosoeuer will marke it shall find that a meane learned Parson of an honest conuersation keeping a good house in his parish shall perswade and profit more in coming to one dinner then the best Doctor of diuinitie which keepeth no house shall do by preaching a dozen solemn Sermons And that Gentleman who keepeth a good house in the countrie shall bee in better credit with the people for his liberalitie then the best Orator or lawier in England for all his eloquence We see by dayly experience that the Commons are not so louing trustie nor obedient to their superiors as they haue beene in times past the chiefe cause whereof no doubt is this whereas heretofore they haue found good cheare to satisfie their hunger they find nothing now but faire houses and faire words without either care of their cause or filling of their mawes It is a true Prouerbe Where the gate of the Magistrate is shut against the subiect there the heart of the subiect is shut against the Magistrate Touching the yonger sort of Ministers it is a dangerous thing for them to be ripe too soone presume to venture vpon waighty causes such selfe willed and selfe learned become hurtful members in the Church Where wise men can kéepe moderation and order such rash fooles through ignorance fal often into errours It is an old Prouerbe the more foole the more impudent ignorance hath alwayes the boldest face emptie vessels make loudst sound such as haue least to say are commonly most bold to speake none so forward as blinde bayard Vnskilful Hipercian blushed not to trouble Mercury with his rusticall dances before whom cunning Orpheus was ashamed to tune his harpe such arrogancie no doubt hath bin a great hinderance vnto learning Many might haue come to wisedome if they had not thought themselues there already There is a certaine foresight vnto the which vnripe yéeres can neuer come til age bring discretion Our iudgements are but weake our appetites variable our senses deceiuable and our desires vnprofitable the dayes of our life are short and euil and the knowledge we learne in long time vnperfect and ful of errors for as it is proper to God onely not to erre so it is naturally giuen vnto man seldome to hit the truth And therefore yong men cannot be déepe of iudgment because wisedome is gotten by experience and experience in long time Truth is called the daughter of time and time the mother of truth he is wise that can perceiue his owne ignorance S. Bernard alloweth better of him that humbly confesseth his ignorance than of him who proudly presumeth of his knowledge It is more tollerable sayth D. Some to open the Church doore to a simple Minister than the pulpit to a presumptuous preacher the ignorant are euil the negligent worse but the impudent and hairbraind worst of all S. Paul would take vpon him to know nothing but Christ crucified and his owne infirmities S. Iames would haue men quicke and ready to heare but slow and circumspect to speake S. Peter exhorteth yong men to decke themselues with humilitie lowlines of mind and to submit themselues to their elders so sayth Iesus Syrach go not from the doctrine of thy elders in another place despise not the Sermons of such Elders as haue vnderstanding sayth he but acquaint thy self with their wise sentences for of them thou shalt learne wisedome the Prophet Esay in his time thought it a thing intollerable for prickeared boyes to presume against their elders or persons of low degrée against the honorable Wise Socrates confessed that all the time he had bene student in Athens hée had learned only this lesson to know that he knew nothing who noting the heate and rashnes of youth affirmed it the greatest vertue in a young man to acknowledge his owne weaknesse and to attempt nothing too much Pithagoras inioyned his scholers to fiue yéeres silence before they should take vpon them to teach others Plato maketh Sara the image of diuinitie and Agar the figure of humane sciences as necessarie handmayds wishing young men to dwel verie long with Agar before they venture vpon Sara who will not be fruitful till riper yéeres a good trée is not knowen by the leaues and blossomes in spring time but the fruits being through ripe in haruest Christ himselfe remained thirtie yéeres in vertuous liuing before he began to publish his doctrine to the world so he that will be a fruitfull teacher must first win the name of a good vertuous liuer As déepe waters séeme not to runne because of their stilnesse so when arte and learning is planted in a good vertuous nature hee croudeth not in to vtter his stuffe til age bring experience and such in time become ancient graue Fathers of profound iudgement who hauing skill to discerne cunning to instruct