A sermon preached before Q. Elizabeth by that learned and reverend man Iohn Iewel ... ; with an answer of the same authour to some frivolous objections against the government of the church. Jewel, John, 1522-1571. 1641 Approx. 64 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 29 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2007-10 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). A46878 Wing J739 ESTC R16610 12859963 ocm 12859963 94673 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. 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WITH AN ANSWER OF THE SAME AUTHOUR To some frivolous objections against the government of the Church . Printed in the yeare 1641. TO THE READER . IF thy heart hath not made a Covenant with Ignorance , or not growne obstinate through peevish wilfullnesse , read , peruse , and digest these ensuing lines , dropt from the learned and judicious quill of this most pious and renowned Authour ; whose well-knowne worth and singular wisdome may challenge ( if not command ) your faire acceptance : He appeares not here like David , ruining the Philistine ; but like our Saviour , reproving the Pharisees ; reserving his downeright blowes for stronger Enemies ; and more discovering the folly of his Foe , than the smartnesse of his scourge : whose sudden pen ( not guilty of any thing that is not pretious ) carries with it the Aspect , rather of an ingenious hast , then a studyed Confutation : Which neverthelesse upon mature deliberation , if it convince not the erroneous fancy , and rectifies not the weake Judgement of unwilling ignorance , his Pearles are lost , till found by such as have the knowledge how to prize them . Farwell . CERTAINE FRIVOLOVS OBJEctions against the Government of the Church of England , answered by IOHN IEWEL , Bishop of Sarisbury . The First Reason of the Novelists . God so loved the Church , that He left a perfect patterne orderly . Ephes . 4. But here is named neither Pope , nor Archbishop , nor Archdeacon . BISHOP IEWELS Answer . HOW know you that the fourth Chapter ad Ephes . is a perfect patterne of Ecclesiasticall Government ? Wee have now , neither Apostles , nor Evangelists , nor Prophets , yet are they the chiefe in that patterne : Neither have we there , either Bishop , or Presbyter , or Diaconus , or Catechista , or Lector ; and yet are these necessary parts in Ecclesiasticall Government ; Therefore this Patterne is not perfect , to hold for ever ; Neither were there then , any publique Churches , or Pulpits , or Schooles , or Vniversities , &c. Saint Paul nameth neither Pope , nor Arch-bishop , I grant : and the Church is not governed by names , but by Offices . Every Bishop then was called Papa : And Anacletus , that was next after Peter , ( if there be any weight in his words ) nameth Archbishops . The Second Reason . The Synagogue of the Iewes was a figure of the Church of Christ , and God to the perfection of that Church omitted nothing . BISHOP IEWELS Answer . I See not what you would conclude : Perhaps you will say , they had not the names of Pope , or Arch-Bishop : So had they not this name Episcopus in all Moses Law : yet were not all Priests of like auntiency in government . They had other names that were equivalent with Archbishops ; as Principes Synagogae , Principes Sanctuarij , Principes familiarum Leviticarum , Principes familiarum Sacerdotalium , Principes Sacerdotum , Principes domûs Dei , Pontifex , Summus Pontifex , Summus Sacerdos . Therefore the negative reason is but weake . Againe , whereas it is said , that to the perfection of the Synagogue there wanted nothing : it may be answered , that to the perfection thereof there wanted many things , as it is knowne and confessed . And as the Synagogue had not the names of Pope and Arch-Bishop ; so had it not the name of Apostle , or Evangelist . The Third Reason . Where the substance of any thing is most perfect , there the accidents be most perfect : But the substance of true Religion was most perfect in the Primitive Church , and yet there was then no Arch-Bishop . Ergo. BISHOP IEWELS Answer . FIRst , this Maxime is not proved : for it may well be doubted whether the most perfect substance hath evermore most perfect accidents . And againe , the substance of Religion is the same now , that it was then : The difference ( if any be ) standeth in the accidents , and not in substance . In the Primitive Church , God raised up Apostles and Prophets , and gave them power extraordinary , as the gift of tongues , the gift of healing , the gift of government , &c. In place whereof , he hath now given Vniversities , Schooles , Bishops , Arch. Bishops , &c. But you may say , There was then no Arch-Bishop : So may you say , that before King Saul there was no King in Israel : So may you say , that before of late times there was neither Duke nor Earle in England : so may you say , that in the Primitive Church there was neither Deane , nor Parson , nor Prebendary ; And yet now , both in Ecclesiasticall and civill government , all these are thought necessary . * Last of all , where you say , there was no Arch-Bishop in the Primitive Church , it is written by many , that Saint Paul made Titus Arch Bishop of Creta : * Erasmus saith , Paulus Titum Archiepiscopum Cretae consecravit : And Lyra likewise saith , Paulus instituit Titum Archiepiscopū Cretensium . If these Authorities like you not , Chrysostome saith , * Paulus Tito multorum Episcoporum judicium commisit : Now having the Government of many Bishops , what may we call him but an Arch-Bishop ? The Fourth Reason . The Ecclesiasticall and civill government may not be confounded , or be together in one person : But to be a Cheife , or a Ruler , is a civill power , Ergo , it cannot be exercised by any Ecclesiasticall person . BISHOP IEWELS Answer . BOth these governments were confounded in Moses : Therefore , they may be confounded . And the Priests of Israel had the Iudgement and government of the people . And Saint Augustine was troubled with hearing , and determining of Causes : as appeareth by Possidonius . And where you say , to be a Chiefe , or a Ruler , is a Civill government : nay in Ecclesiasticall causes it is Ecclesiasticall government , and not civill : And these differences of government may not so unadvisedly be confounded : This is the key of Ecclesiasticall correction , and belongeth only to the Ecclesiasticall Officer , and to none other . Hereof Saint Paul saith , Sen●rem ne corripueris nisi sub &c. Tradidi illum Satana , &c. This jurisdiction is not civill , but Ecclesiasticall ; and therefore may be exercised by any Ecclesiasticall person . I beseech you take these sudden answers in good part . As for these reasons ; in my judgement , they are not made to build up , and they are too weake to pull downe . Stultitia nata est in corde pueri , & virga disciplinae fugabit illam . It is but wantonnesse ; correction will help it . FINIS . PSAL. 69. V. 9. The zeale of thine house hath eaten me . CErtaine learned and wise men of old time , that had no understanding or savour of God ; when they considered with themselves , to what end & purpose mankinde was created and set in this world : after they had driven the matter as far as they might by naturall knowledge , at length they concluded ; some , that man was made to know the properties and qualities , the convenience or difference of naturall things , either in the ayre , or in the water , or in the earth , or under the earth ; Some other , that man was made to consider and behold the Sunne and Moone , the Starres , & course , and revolutions of the Heavens : And so they judged , that man which either had most abundance of naturall reason , or beheld and considered the heavens best , to be most perfect of all others ; and that he came nearest to the end of his creation . Thus said they , as men without feeling of God , onely endued with the light of nature . But ( as God himselfe declareth , who fashioned us , and made us , and knoweth us best , ) the very true end why man was made , was to know & to honour God : Therefore whoso knoweth him best , and honoureth him with most reverence , he is most perfect , he commeth neerest the end of his creation . When Solomon had described the deceaveable vanities of the world , and said , vanitie of vanities , vanitie of vanities , all is vanitie . When he had concluded by long discourse , that riches , Empires , honour , pleasures , knowledge , and whatsoever else under the Sunne , is but vanity : he knitteth up the matter with these words , Feare God , and keep his Commandements : for this is the whole dutie of man : that is , this is truth , and no vanitie ; this is our perfection ; to this end are we made : not to live in eating and drinking , not to passe our time in pleasure and follies , not to heap up those things which are daily taken from us , or from which we are daily taken away ; but that in our words , in our life , in our bodie , & in our soule we doe service unto God ; that we look above the Sunne and Moone , and all the heavens ; that wee become the Temples of the holy Ghost ; that the holy Spirit of God may dwell in us , and make us fit instruments of the glory of God. Therefore God gave his holy word , and hath continued it from the beginning of the world untill this day : notwithstanding the Philosophers and learned men in all ages , who scorned it out as the word of folly , ( for so it seemeth to them that perish ; ) notwithstanding the wicked Princes , and Tyrants , & high powers of the world , who consumed and burnt it , as false and wicked and seditious doctrine ; notwithstanding the whole world and power of darknesse were ever bent against it , yet hath He wonderfully continued and preserved it without losse of one letter untill this day : that we have whereby truly to know him the true and onely God , and his sonne Jesus Christ whom he sent . Therefore have we Temples & Churches , places to resort unto all together ; to honour , to worship , and to acknowledge him to be our God ; to joyne our hearts and voices together , and to call upon his holy name . In such places God hath at all times used to open his Majestie , and to shew his power ; In such places God hath made us a speciall promise to heare our praiers , whensoever wee call upon him : Therefore are they called the dwelling place and house of God ; In such places all godly men set their greatest pleasure ; & thought themselves miserable , when they were secluded or put off from the same : as the Prophet and holy Prince David , Laetatus sum in his quae dicta sunt mihi , in domum Domini ibimus : O ( saith that holy man ) my heart rejoyced within my body , when my fellowes called upon me , and said , let us goe into the house of the Lord. Againe , I am in love with the beauty of thy house . And againe , O how beautifull is thy Tabernacle , O Lord , O thou the God of hosts : my heart longeth and fainteth to come within thy Courts . His spirits were ravished with the sight & majesty of the Tabernacle : not for that the place it selfe at that time was so beautifull ; for in Davids time it was almost rotten & ruinous , a homely thing to behold , nothing in comparison to that Temple that was afterwards built by Solomon : But therein stood the shew & worthinesse of that holy place , that Gods truth and law was opened and proclaimed in it ; and the Sacraments & ceremonies so used , in such forme & order , as God had commanded them to be used , and the people receaved them obediently , & lived thereafter . Therefore when the Tabernacle was restored ; when the Arke was fet home from Obed-edom , and set in the mount Sion ; when religion Revived , which through the negligence and malice of Saul was forsaken ; when he saw his Nobilitie , his Bishops , his Priests , & all his people willing & forward , he could not refraine himselfe , but brake out and sang , Haec est dies quam fecit Dominus , exultemus & laetemur in ea : This is the day which the Lord hath made , let us be glad and rejoyce in it : Let us be merry , and joy , that ever we lived to see it . Even so Paul , when in his time he saw the Gospell take root and prosper , & that the savour of life was powred abroad , that the kingdome of God was enlarged , & the kingdome of Satan shaken downe , his heart leaped , and sprang within him ; Ecce , nunc tempus acceptabile ; behold , now is the acceptable time ; behold , God hath looked downe mercifully upon the world ; behold , the day of salvation is come upon us . But the godly man , as he rejoyceth at the beauty of Gods house , so when contrariwise he seeth the same disordered filthily , when he seeth the Sacraments of God abused , truth troden under foot , the people mocked , the name of God dishonoured ; he cannot but lament and mourne , and finde himselfe wounded at heart . When the good King Iosias saw the book of God , which was so long hid in the wall , and out of remembrance ; when he considered the blindnesse in which they had lived , and the unkindnesse of their fore-fathers , he could not forbeare , but fell a weeping : he feared least God should take vengeance upon them for so great contempt of his word . When Ieremy saw the wilfulnesse and frowardnesse of the people , which would not submit themselves and be obedient unto God , he cried , Oh that my head were full of water , and mine eies a fountaine of teares : that I might weep day and night &c. Such care had they for Gods people . Thus the zeale of Gods house had eaten them up . Zeale ( if any man know not the nature of the word ) is an earnest affection , and vehement love : as is the love of a mother towards her children , or of the naturall childe towards his mother : This zeale cannot abide to see that thing which it loveth , despised or hurt . Such zeale & care carrieth God over his people ; he loveth them as a mother loveth her children ; he will not suffer them to be hurt . By the Prophet Esay he saith , can a woman forget her childe , and not have compassion on the sonne of her wombe ? Though they should forget , yet will not I forget thee . Zachary also saith , he that toucheth you , toucheth the apple of his eye . For God hath said , they shall be my people , and I will be their God. Such care likewise beare all the godly towards their God : they love him with all their soule , with all their heart , with all their strength ; they reverence him as their father , they are grieved with any blasphemy , and with any contempt of his holy name . But as every man , be he never so wicked , yea even he that saith in his heart , there is no God ; which is become filthy and abominable in all his doings , yet in his talke outwardly , saith , he hath a God , and that he believeth in him : even so there is none so wicked , or so forsaken of God in his heart , but he perswadeth himselfe he hath the zeale of God : and what he doth in selfe-love of his owne fantasie , he will beare in hand he doth it for the loue of God. The overthrowers & wasters of the Church will seem to shew a speciall care for the Church : dissemblers , hypocrites , despisers , scorners , even such as sin against the holy Ghost , which deny the truth of God after they have knowne it , which witting and knowing fight against the truth , which say of Christ we will not have him to rule over us , which worke that sin which will never be forgiven , in this world , nor in the world to come , yet notwithstanding will pretend and seem to have the zeale of God. Thus the Scribes & Pharisees set up their bristles against Christ ; thy Disciples keepe not the common fast thou sufferest them to pull and to eat the eares of corne , thou sufferest them to eat with unwashed hands , thou breakest the tradition of the Elders , thou breakest the law of God which he gave us by Moses , thou art a seditious teacher , thou art a Schismatick , thou art an Heretick . They said , We fast twice in the week , we have Abraham to our Father , we are Moses Disciples . Therefore when they heard Stephen speaking those heavenly words ; Behold , I see the heavens open , and the Sonne of man standing at the right hand of God , through zeale they gave a shout with a lowd voice , and stopped their eares , and ran upon him all at once . When Christ had said , Yee shall see the Son of man fit at the right hand of God , and come in the clouds of heaven : the high Priest , through zeale , rent his cloathes ; and said , yee have heard the blasphemie ; this naughty man speaketh blasphemy against God : he called a Councell ; the Scribes and Pharisees met together ; not one man amongst them , but of themselvs : they looked about them as if they only were the pillars & buttresses of the Church , and were only zealous and carefull for the house of God. But their meeting was ( as David forespake , and as Peter declareth , and as We know ) against the Lord , and against his anointed : they were touched with the zeale of their own glory , and not with the zeale of Gods truth ; they sought their own praise , but not the praise which is of God : they made cracks that they knew the Scriptures , that they were the Temple of God , that they had the consent of all Antiquity : as others have done since that time , and as wee see many doe this day : & in very deed , these men have now even as much as they had then , as by proofe and triall it will appeare . There are others , which have a feeling of God , and a great care for his Church : but such a feeling and care as cometh either of their own fantasies , or of some opinion & credit they have in their fathers which were before them ; not of the understanding of Gods pleasure . Such are they which offend God , not of malice or wilfulnesse , but onely for lack of teaching & understanding : Such were they which withstood S. Paul in all his preaching , for that they took him for an Heretique , and thought his preaching was against God. I beare them witnes ( saith he ) that they have the zeale of God , but not according to knowledge : Such a zeal have many who forbid that which God commandeth , & command that which God forbiddeth : such a zeale had Paul himselfe ; I was a blasphemer , and a persecutor , and an oppressor : but I was receaved to mercy , for I did it ignorantly without beliefe . Such a zeale have they who think they doe God good service , when they kill and murther the righteous and good servants of God. Such a zeale have they , who ( as saith Nazianzen ) defend Christ against Christ , and defend the Church against the Church . And these things doe they , not of malice , nor of wilfulnesse , nor against their conscience , but because they know not God the father , nor his Christ whom he hath sent : therefore they stumble at Christ , and spurne away the Gospell of God and think ill and speak evill of the word of life , because they know not the Gospell of God , nor the word of life . Thus they perswade themselves , that they defend the Church , that they honour the sonne of God , that they doe God great service , and that they have the zeale of God. But this pride was ever in the heart of man and it appeared even in our grandfire Adam : whatsoever liketh us well , we think that cannot but please God. Such is the opinion we fondly conceive in our fantasies : in trust whereof , whatsoever we doe we think our selves sure and safe . Origen writing upon the place of the Apostle , Zelum Dei habent , sed non secundùm scientiam : they have the zeale of God , but not according to knowledge : saith , similiter potest dicere Apostolus & de aliis , quòd timorem Dei habeant , sed non secundùm scientiam ; de aliis &c. in like manner the Apostle may say of others , they have the feare of God , but not according to knowledge ; of others they have the love of God , but not according to knowledge ; of another , hee hath the faith of God , but not according to knowledge ; and another may be said to fast , but not according to knowledge : And so in all things , whatsoever we doe , unlesse we have knowledge and understanding , it may be said unto us , that we have the zeale of a good worke , but not according to knowledge . I deo danda est praecipuè opera scientiae , ne res nobis infeliciter accidat , ut in fide pofitifrustremur à fide , zelum habentes bonorum decidamus à bonis : Therefore all heed is chiefly to be given to the attaining of knowledge , least it goe not well with us ; least w● faile from our faith , when we think we believe ; & thinking we have a zeale of good works , we be found void of all good works . The wise man saith , this was not enough for them , that they erred in the knowledge of God : but whereas they lived in great warres of ignorance , th●se so many & so great plagues they called peace . The zeale that they had , and the contentation of their hearts , made them believe that all their superstition and idolatry , and other enormities was Catholique unitie . This zeale , as on the one side it hath many tokens of goodnesse , for that it hath a conscience , and a feare , and an obedience towards God ; so on the other side it is very dangerous , because it lacketh knowledge : even as a ship , for lack of a governour , is ever in danger of the Rocks ; and as the body which hath no eye , is ever in danger of falling . Such kinde of zeale the greater it is , the worser it is ; the more vehement it seemeth , the more vehemently it fighteth against God. For our good meaning maketh not our doings good : our zeale is not a rule whereby we may measure out , either our faith , or our works : but only the knowne will and pleasure of God. Therefore speaketh God in this manner by the Prophet & say ; my thoughts are not your thoughts , neither are your waies my waies . Therefore saith Solomon , Trust in the Lord with all thine heart , and leane not to thy own wisdome : in all thy waies acknowledge him , and he shall direct thy doings . This counsell also doth Moses give , take heed that yee doe as the Lord your God hath commanded you : turn not aside to the right hand , nor to the left . But the true and godly zeale proceedeth not from hypocrisie , or intention , but is led and trained by understanding , and is molten into the heart ; and the vehemency and heat of it , no man knoweth , but he that feeleth it : It taketh away the use of reason : it eateth & devoureth up the heart ; even as the thing that is eaten , is turned into the substance of him that eateth it ; & as iron while it is burning hot , is turned into the nature of the fire : so great and so just is the griefe that they which have this zeale , conceive , when they see Gods house spoiled , or his holy name dishonoured . So saith Elias ; I have been very jealous for the Lord God of hoasts : for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant , broken down thy Altars , and slaine thy Prophets with the sword , and I only am left , and they seek my life to take it away . So when Moses found that the people had forsaken God , and were fallen down before a molten Calfe , & did put their trust in the work of their own hands , his wrath waxed hot , and he cast the tables out of his hand , and brake them in peices beneath the mountaine : his heart was so inflamed with zeale , that he considered not what he had in his hand , nor what he did Jeremy , when he saw the disorder of the people , & How they were not mended with his preaching ; and would inwardly conceale the griefe he conceaved ; and purposed , not to make mention of the Lord , nor to speak any more in his name ; yet could he not : for his zeale found way , and brake out ; His word , saith he , was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones , and I was weary with for bearing , and I could not stay . And , albeit there is much likenesse between the rage and fury of hypocrites , & the godly zeale of good men ; for either are hot , either are vehement , either wisheth redresse : yet this is an evident difference ; godly zeale is tempered and seasoned with charity ; the ungodly is joyned with bitternesse and revenge ; the godly seeketh to win , the ungodly to kill and to destroy ; the ungodly have their hands full of bloud ; they kill the Prophets ; they say we have a law , and by our law He must dye ; they say ; come let us destroy them , that they be no more a nations Let not the name of Israel be had any more in remembrance ; they burn the holy books of the Scriptures , as did Aza and Antiochus ; they say , ransack it , pull it down , rase it to the foundation , let not one be left alive ; they dig up the bodies of the dead out of their graves , they shew their crueltie upon the bones and ashes which were long before buried , and well nigh consumed . It grieveth them when they lack upon whom they may whet their bloudthirstie and cruell zeale ; It grieveth them , no one thing else so much , that they did not work surely , and cut up the root . Such is the zeale of the ungodly : even such a zeale as was in Nero , in Caligula , ( of whom it is reported , he wished that all the Romans had but one neck , that he might cut off all their heads at one stroke ; ) as was in Herod , in Anna● , and Caiphas , & the like murtherers . But the godly , when they see any disorder , they doe nothing like the other : they mourne in their hearts , to see that the truth is not received ; & to see the mindes of their brethren so obstinately hardned : they make prayer to God for them ; they are deeply touched with the feeling of such calamities , which God layeth upon other . The zeale of Moses could not like the Idolatry of the people ▪ yet he went unto the Lord againe , and said , Now if thou pardon their sinne , thy mercy shall appeare : but if thou will not , I pray thee rase me out of thy book which thou last written . Christ lamented over Jerusalem ô Jerusalem , Jerusalē which killest the Prophets , & stonest them which are sent to thee : how often would I have gathered thy childrē together , as the hen gathereth her chickens under her wings , and yee would not : behold , your habitation shall be left unto you desolate . Paul suffered much at the hands of the wicked Jewes : they troubled the Church of God , they hindered the course of the Gospell , they were enimies of the Crosse of Christ , they were dogs , they were Conciliō yet he saith , I have great heavinesse , and continuall sorrow in mine heart : for I would wish my selfe to be separated from Christ for my brethren that are my kindsmen according to the flesh , which are the Israelites . David saith , Mine eyes gush out with rivers of water , because they keepe not thy law . And again , My zeale hath even consumed me , because mine enimies have forgotten thy words . Againe , I saw the transgressours , & was grieved , because they kept not thy word . And when he saw the whole nation of Israel wasted by the enimies , how mournfull a complaint made hee to God ? O God , the heathen are come into thine inheritance : thine holy Temple have they defiled , and made Jerusalem heapes of stones : the dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the foules of the heaven , and the flesh of thy Saints unto the Beasts of the earth . At this time , when the Tabernacle was lost , when Saul was unquiet , and the Priests were slaine , and the Prophets despised , and the people left without all comfort , he powreth out his heart in these words ; Zelus domûstuae comedit me : O Lord the zeale I beare unto thy house , hath eaten me up ; it inflameth my he●rt , dryeth my bloud , consumeth my marrow : such a care had he for the house of God ; it was death unto him to see it so destroied and laid wast . So Christ , when he saw the Temple of God foulely and unseemly abused ; that they made the holy place a place for their unlawfull and unhonest gaine by usury ; that they turned Religion into robbery , sold Oxen , Sheep , and Doves , and kept their banks for exchange in the Temple ; when the Priests and Levites , which should serve God , were become Merchants , and served themselves ; when the Temple or house of God ( which David purposed , and Solomon finished , and Ezechias and Esras and other godly Princes preserved , in which was kept the book of the law , whither all the people assembled together to serve God ) was not used like Gods house , but like a common faire or market , & was made a denne of theeves ; when these grosse abuses were suffered , and things were let runne to such extremities , and all this under pretence of holinesse ; as if it were not only lawfull , but needs it must be so : moved with zeale , he could not abide it ; he made a scourge of small cords , and drove them all out of the Temple , and poured out the mony-changers , & overthrew the tables , & said , make not my fathers house a house of merchandize : And his Disciples remembred that it was written , the zeale of thy house hath eaten me up . This was no frantick or melancholy passion , neither in Moses , nor in David , nor in Christ : Moses was a very meek man , above all that were on the earth ; David was a man that heareth not , and in whose mouth are no reproofes ; And Christ said , learne of me , for I am humble and meeke : when his Disciples James and John grew wrothful against the Samaritanes that would not receive him , and said , Lord wilt thou that we command that fire come down from heaven , & consume them , even as Elias did ? He turned about , and rebuked them , and said , yee know not of what spirit you are : yet through zeale for Gods house , Christ whipped out the buyers and sellers , David shed forth teares abundantly , and Moses dasht in pieces the tables of Gods Commandements . All men ought to be patient and gentle in matters appertaining to themselves : but in Gods cause no man must yeild or be patient . In our daies , upon whom the end of the world is come , when we did lately see those times whereof our Saviour foretold so long sithence , that desolation should be in the holy place ; and such confusion , ignorance , and blindnes , that men should stumble at noon-daies ; that truth should be a stranger upon earth ; that men should forsake wholsome doctrine , and give eare unto fables ; that the mystery of iniquity should worke ; and the very elect ( if it were possible ) be deceived , what tryall was made of true & godly zeale ? How notably did it shew it selfe against the rage and fury of the wicked ? What should I speake hereof ? The examples are fresh : you cannot forget them , you heard of them so late , it is so late since you did behold them . What moved so many , so learned , so vertuous , to yeild their backs to the scourge , their necks to the tormenters , their bodies to the fire , to forsake their goods , their friends , their parents , their wives & children , but the zeale of Gods house ? Neither death , nor life , nor Angels , nor things present , nor things to come , was able to separate them from the love of God : they continued stedfast unto the end . The zeal of Gods house did eat them up . But now God hath restored us ; he hath taken away the desolation from us ; he hath given us his truth ; he hath revealed the man of sin ; he hath raised up a banner of hope : we see and enjoy such things as many Kings & Prophets would have enjoyed , & could not : what remaineth , but that we take the zeale of the Lords house into our hearts , and seek by all meanes the glory of the same ? As our good fathers and brethren shewed the vehemency of their love in disliking the disorders which troubled the Church of God , so in this blessed peace which God giveth to his Church , let us witnesse our earnest zeale in seeking that it may be made beautifull & established for ever . Let our next care be , to continue possession : Kingdomes are preserved by the same meanes , by which they were first gotten : that which is conquered by zeale , by carefull zeale must be kept . It was said of Anniball , that he knew how to get the victory , but how to use it he knew not : Many have lost that by negligence , which they had by diligence wonne . Therefore we ought , as our hearts were carefull and desirous to see these daies , so by our thankfulnesse to God for so great a blessing , and by christian and godly providence fore-see such meanes whereby we may long hereafter enjoy the same . When Phydias had made the pourtraiture of Jupiter Pisanus , he overlaid it with oyle , that it might continue fresh and greene , & never putrifie : When God gave order to Noah for making the Arke , he said , thou shalt pitch it within and without with pitch , that it might be sound and sure and abide the waves . He which challengeth to himselfe that proud and wanton name , to be called the head of the universall Church , after by litle and litle he was gotten into possession , was not behinde hand by all meanes to maintaine and keep the same : In this policie he took away the reading of the Scriptures from the people ; he made Noble-men and Princes his Cardinalls ; he threw down , and set up , and changed whom and what hee would ; The Kings and States of the world , the Bishops , Professours , and Schollars in Universities , and Preachers , were brought to sweare allegiance and obedience unto him : I devise not this the stories here of are abroad , and the oath which they took is known ; his authority grew greater then the authority of generall Councells ; nothing might be decreed in Councels , but what pleased him ; none might be admitted to speak in Councels , but such as were sworne to him ; he had all law in his breast . There was sometimes a proclamation made in Rome that , for considerations , no man should erect or build up any Theatre ; and that if any were set up , it should be rased & pulled downe : Pompeius , a Gentleman of great wealth and noble courage , did build a Theatre ; such a one as before had not been seen , which would receive 2500 men , contrary to the Proclamation and order taken : But doubting least the next Magistrates should destroy it , he caused a place of religion to be set upon it , and called it the Temple of Venw : whereby he provided , that if any would overthrow it because it was a Theatre , they might yet spare it for the Temples sake : for to pull down a Temple , was sacriledge . Even so there have been proclamations & Canons that no man should be called the chiefe or the head of all Churches , or usurp such authority over others : but whē the Pope built up his supremacy against the meaning of such Canons , he pretended religion for his doing ; he said it was . de jure divino that no man should presume or attempt against it , and that so his power might continue forever . If they have been thus carefull to maintaine falshood , how much more carefull should we be to maintaine the truth ? If they to advance their own kingdome , how much more we to set forth the kingdome of God , and to build up the Church of Christ ? And if they sought to doe that by lyes , and by false meanes , why should we be slack to use the right , and true , and good meanes , whereby that good thing which God hath wrought for us may be established ? And albeit there be many waies , by which the kingdome of God may be maintained ; as the favour and countenance of the Prince , which so comforteth and cherisheth the Church , as the sun beames comfort and cherish the earth ; and knowledge , and learning , and discipline , which are as the life & the sinewes , & without which the Church must needs fall asunder : at this time , I will leave to speak of the rest , & only stay upon Learning , which may truly be called the life or the soule of the Church , and of Christian Religion . How necessary a thing they have counted Learning to the setting forth of Religion , the stories of our old Fathers , of Heathens , & Christians in all ages doe witnesse : They thought that neither Religion might stand without knowledge , nor knowledge were to be esteemed without Religion . Charles the great , that he might the better plant Religion in Saxonie and Helvetia , did erect many places for increase of Learning : he knew well that there was no other way better to establish Religion . The Cathedrall Churches , before such times as ignorance and blindnes grew over all the world and brought in an universall corruption , maintained Schooles of learning , that the doctrine which was taught in those places , might be defended against the gainesayers by such learned men as were there bred up . The Princes of Germanie , and the free cities , after they had received the Gospell , they dissolved their Monasteries , which had been harbourers for such as lived in idlenesse : and set up Schooles and Colledges , which should be nurceries to breed up learned men that might be able to teach the people , & to maintaine Religion : whereby it came to passe , that in short time they had great store of worthy and learned men . This did they well see , that have been the enimies of Religion : and therefore used all meanes to hinder the increase of Learning , that they might have the better way to overthrow Religion : For if Learning decay , it is likely that Religiō cannot abide . Beare with me , if I speak that which may seem more fit for some other place , then for this audience : the best here understandeth me well . Inother Countries the receiving of the Gospell hath alwaies been cause that Learning was more set by , and learning hath ever been the furtherance of the Gospell . In England I know not how it cometh otherwise to passe : for since the Gospell hath been received , the maintenance for learning hath been decayed , & the lack of Learning will be the decay of the Gospell . Would God it were not so , or that yet , before the fault be incurable , there may be some redresse . Loath I am to speak ; yet the case so requireth that it is needfull to be spoken . I trust I shall speak in the hearing of them that will consider it . Maintenance of Learning , whereby an able and sufficient ministerie may grow and bee established in all the Churches of this Realm , is to be wished for : The good estate of this noble Kingdome , the comfort of posterity , the stay of Religion , the continuing of the Gospell , the removing of darknesse hangeth upon it . One asked sometimes , how it was that in Athens , so goodly and great a Citie , there were no Physitions ? To whom this answer was made , because there are no rewards appointed for them that practise Physick . The same answer may be made for our times : the cause why the Church of God is so forsaken , is the want of zeal in them that should either for their cuttesie , or for their abilitie , be fosterers of learning , and increase the livings where occasion is , and give hope and comfort to learned men . What said I ? increase ? nay the Livings and provision which heretofore were given to this use , are taken away . Have patience , if any such be here , as I well know there are , whom these things touch suffer me to speak the truth ; it is Gods cause . The livings of such as are in the Ministery , are not in their hands to whom they are due : all other labourers & artificers have their hire increased double as much as it was wont to be : only the poore man that laboureth and sweateth in the Vineyard of the Lord of hostes , hath his hire abridged and abated . I speak not of the Curates ; but of Parsonages and Vicarages , that is of the places which are the Castles and Towers of fence for the Lords Temple : They seldome passe now adaies from the Patron , if he be no better then a Gentleman , but either for the Lease , or for present mony : Such Merchants are broken into the Church of God ; a great deale more intolerable then were they whō Christ chased and whipped out of the Temple . Thus they that should bee carefull for Gods Church ; that should be Patrons to provide for the consciences of the people , and to place among them a learned Minister ( who might be able to preach the word unto them out of season and in season , and to fulfill his Ministery , ) seek their own , and not that which is Jesus Christs ; they serve not Jesus Christ , but their belly . And this is done , not in one place , or in one country , but throughout England : A Gentleman cannot keep his house , unlesse he have a Parsonage or two in farme for his provision . O mercifull God , whereto will this grow at last ? If the misery which this plague worketh would reach but to one age , it were tolerable : but it will be a plague to posterity ; it will be the decay and desolation of Gods Church . Young men , which are toward and learned , see this ; they see , that he which feedeth the flocke , hath least part of the milke ; he which goeth to warfare hath not halfe his wages : Therefore they are weary & discouraged , they change their studies , some become prentices , some turne to Physick , some to Law , all shun and fly the Ministery . And besides the hinderance that thus groweth by wicked dealing of Patrons by reason of the Impropriations , the Vicarages in many places , and in the properest market-townes are so simple , that no man can live upon them : and therefore no man will take them . They were wont to say , Beneficia fine cura ; Benefices without charge : but now may be said , Cura fine Beneficio ; Charge or cure without Benefice . I speak not this of myselfe : many here present know I speak the truth : and my selfe know the places which have continued still these many yeares without a Minister resident among them , and have provided themselves as they might with their own mony . Your Graces subjects had hope of amendment , in your Graces late Visitation : but yet it standeth still in case as miserable as it did before . I know , your Grace heareth not of these matters : And I hope , God will work in Your Gracious heart , to provide some remedy against them . For otherwise , the Schools will be forsaken , the Church desolate , the people wild and dismaied , the Gospell discredited : otherwise , we shall see that wrought against the house of God , that never any Jeroboam , or Julian , or Licinius could have brought to passe against us . This noble Realme , which ever was famous for the name of Learning , is like thereby to come to such Ignorance and Barbarisine , as hath not bin heard of in any memory before our time . I know , that there are grievous complaints made , that the Bishops appoint Priests & Ministers that are ignorant , and have no understanding in the Latine tongue . Would God it were not true : or would God that they which be the causers hereof , would somewhat help to amend it . But alas , are we able to make learned men upon the sudden ? Or can we make others then such as come unto us , or will come to live in misery ? But there are many which can say , such as be Ministers in the Church , should teach freely , without hope of recompence or hire for their labour ; Our preaches are no better then Peter and Paul , and the other Apostles ; they are no better then the holy Prophets , who lived poorely ; poverty is a commendable estate . So say some , in like devotion as did Judas , What needed this wast ? this might have , been sould for much , & given to the poore not that he cared for the poore , but because he was a theife and had the bag , and bare that which was given . I doubt not , there are many w th teach Christ for Christs sake ; which say in their soule , the Lord is my portion ; who in that heavy time , from which God delivered the , if they might have received their life only for a recompence , would have been glad to take the paines ; who seek you , and not yours ; which have forsaken all they had , to follow Christ : I doubt not there are such . But for the hope of posterity , I report me to all you which are Fathers , & have childrē for whom yee are carefull . Although your selves have a zeale and care for the house of God , yet will you breed them up , keep them at schoole untill 24 yeares old to your charges , that in the end they may live in glorious povertie , that they may live poorly , & naked , like the Prophets and Apostles ? Our posterity shall rue that ever such fathers went before them : and Chronicles shall report this contempt of Learning among the punishments & murraines & other plagues of God. They shall leave it written in what time , & under whose raigne this was done . Or if we grow so barbarous , that we consider not this , or be not able to draw it into chronicle , yet forraine nations will not spare to write this , & publish it to our everlasting reproach and shame . In the mean time , what may be guessed of their meaning , which thus ravin and spoile the house of God ? which decay the provisiō thereof , & so basely esteem the Ministers of his Gospell ? they cannot say to God , the zeal of thy house hath eaten me up . Howsoever in other things they doe well ; howsoever they seem to rejoyce at the prosperity of Sion , and to seek the safety and preservation of the Lords anointed , yet needs must it be that by these meanes forraigne power ( of which this Realme by the mercy of God is happily delivered ) shall again be brought in upon us . Such things shall be done unto us , as we before suffered : the truth of God shall be taken away ; the holy Scriptures burnt and consumed in fire ; a marvellous darknesse and calamity must needs ensue . For if the tempest be so dark in the sea , that the load-star loose her light , and the needle faile to give token of the North Pole , no marvell though the ship lose her course , and be swallowed up in the sands . The Gospell of Christ is the fountaine of light and of knowledge : It cannot be maintained by ignorance and darknesse ; these be the props of their kingdome , which take away the Scriptures ; which hold the people in blindnesse ; which fly the light ; which have their Common-prayers , administer the Sacraments , marry , bury their dead in a strange tongue , that the people may understand nothing ; which make a famine of hearing the word of God ; which stop up the springs of the water of life ; which take away the keyes of the kingdome of heaven , & neither enter in themselves , nor suffer them that would enter ; which say , ignorance is the mother of devotion ; and the Church is then in best order , and the people most devout , when they are hood-winkt , and blinded , & see nothing . These are not fit instruments wherewith we may overcome the adversaries ; this is not the sword of the Spirit ; these are not the spirituall weapons which cast downe holds and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God. What man , that would keep out his enimie , will pull downe his holds ? What Captain that meaneth to give a forcible assault upon the enimy , will discourage his fighting souldiers ? but our souldiers are out of courage ; our Castles are falne : therefore that which we feare , will fall upon us . The Oxe that treadeth out the corne is mussled ; he that goeth to warfare , receiveth not his wages ; the cry hereof goeth up into the eares of the Lord of hosts . He will not abide so great contempt of his word and preachers : his owne name is thereby dishonoured . Our Saviour saith , he that despiseth you , despiseth me . And S t Paul , he that despiseth these things , despiseth not man but God. And think we , that he will suffer his holy name to be despised ? nay , his wrath is already kindled ; he hath already begun his judgements , & therfore many places are left desolate . There is none that can warn them of their sin , none that can move them to repentance , none that can preach unto them forgivenesse through Christ , none that can instruct them in the comfort of everlasting life : because they work such things against the Lord , the hearts of many are astonished ; though they heare , they understand not ; they scorn & jest at the word of salvation ; it is unto them a savour of death unto death ; they are earthly minded ; whose God is their belly , & whose glory is their shame . For this cause you liue still in your sins , in adultery , in covetousnes , & in pride , without any feeling of conscience , without any feare of God. Your daughters , your Heires , to whom you shall leave your lands , are stolne away from you . Robberies and thefts are so common , as if it were not only lawfull , but also commendable ; as if sin were no sin , and hell fire but a fable . Thus we provoke God to anger : many walk , of whom we cannot think but with weeping : they are the enimies of the crosse of Christ : the name of God is blasphemed through them . Many are so ignorant , they know not what the Scriptures are , they know not that there are any Scriptures , they call them hereticall and new Doctrine : many will believe neither side , whatsover they alleadge ; bring they truth , bring they falshood ; each they Christ , teach they Antichrist , they will believe neither , they have so hardned their hearts : Be the Preacher rough or gentle , learned or unlearned ; let him use authority of the Scriptures , of the Doctors , of the Councels , of Decrees or Decretals , of Gods law , of mans law , nothing will move them , nothing will please them , because the Ministery of God , and thereby God himselfe is despised . These words haply seem sharp & over vehement : but the darknes of our hearts against God , and the lack of zeale to his house , inforce me to them . We are almost fallen into the lowest pit : we are left without zeale , as senslesse men , and as if we had clean forgotten our selves , as the heathen , which know not God. Therefore , unlesse we repent , the kingdome of God shall be taken away from us : he will send upon this land a famine of the word : Hierusalem shal be overthrowne , and made an heap of stones : the man of sin , & they which have not the love of the truth , shall prevaile with many , and withdraw them from obedience to the Prince : this noble Realm shall be subject to forraigne nations . All this will the zeale of the Lord of hosts bring to passe . I could have spent this time in opening some other matter : but nothing , in my judgement , is more worthy your good consideratiō & speedy redresse . I would be loath , rashly or rudely to abuse the reverence of this place : but unlesse these things be cared for ; unlesse we shew forth greater zeal then hitherto ; if the yeares to come eat up and take away from the Ministery , as the late yeares have done , there will not be left , within a while , any to speak the word of God out of this place , the Pulpits shall have none to use them , the people shall grow wilde and void of understanding . When Xerxes beheld the great company of Souldiers , suddēly he brake into teares & wept bitterly : one said to him , ô Sir , you have cause to rejoice , you have a goodly company , they are able to fight for you against any nation . But what shall become of them , saith Xerxes ? after a 100 yeares not one of all these shall be left alive . If the view of the small number of Preachers might be taken , how few they are , and how thin they come up , we have greater cause then Xerxes to lament , if we have any zeale to the house of God : for of the Preachers which now are , within few yeares none will remaine alive . And Xerxes his souldiers left issue behind them , which might afterwards serve their country : But there is like to be small increase for the supply of learned men . The Lord shall lack men to bring in his harvest : the litle ones shall call for bread , and there shall be none to give it them . They that shall come after us , shal see this to be true ; there is no house so spoiled , as the house of the Lord ; there is no servant so litle rewarded , as the servant of Christ , and the dispensers of the mysteries of God. Oh that your Grace did behold the miserable disorder of Gods Church : or that you might foresee the calamities which will follow . It is a part of your Kingdome , and such a part , as is the principall prop and stay of the rest . I will say to your Majestie , as Cyrillus sometimes said to the godly Emperours Theodosius and Valentinian , Ab ea quae erga Deum est pietate Reipub : vestrae status pendet ; the good estate and welfare of your Commonwealth hangeth upon true godlinesse . You are our governour , you are the Nurce of Gods Church ; we must open this griefe before you . God knoweth if it may be redressed , it hath grown so long , and is run so farre : but if it may be redressed , there is no other beside your Highnesse , that can redresse it . I hope , I speake truly , that which I speake without flattery ; that God hath endued your grace with such measure of learning & knowledge , as no other Christian Prince : he hath given you peace , happinesse , the love and true hearts of your subjects . Oh turne and employ these to the glory of God ; that God may confirme in your Grace the thing which he hath begun . To this end hath God placed Kings and Princes in their State , as David saith , that they may serve the Lord ; that they may see , & cause others to see to the furniture of the Church . The good Emperour Justinian cared for this , as much as for his life : Constantine , Theodosius , Valentinian , and other godly Princes called themselves Vasallos , the subjects and bond-servants of God ▪ they remembred that God furnished them in their houses ; and were not unmindfull to furnish his house . When Augustus had beautified Rome with setting up many faire buildings , he said , 〈◊〉 later it iam , marmore am reddidi : I found it made of brick , but I leave it made of marble . Your Grace , when God sent you to your inheritance & the right of this Realme , found the Church in horrible confusion : & in respect of the true worship of God a Church of brick ; or rather , as Ezechiel saith , daubed up with unseasoned morter . Your Grace hath already redressed the doctrine now cast your eies towards the Ministery ; give courage and countenance unto Learning , that Gods house may be served : so shall you leave to the Church of God , a testimony that the zeal of the Lords house had eaten you up . And you , ô dearely beloved , if there be any such which are neither hot nor cold ; which doe the work of the Lord negligently ; which esteem the word of God but as a matter of policy ; which are ashamed to be called Professours of the Gospell of Christ : pray unto God , that he will increase your zeal . Let us continue rooted and built in Christ , and stablished in the faith : let us have care for the house of God. Whosoever is not after this sort zealous , is a man of a double heart . We may not halt between two opinions : If the Lord be God , follow him ; but if Ball be he then goe after him : he that is not with Christ , is against him . Many talke of the Gospell , and glory in their knowledge : but it is neither talke , nor knowledge , which shall save them in that day . He that feareth the Lord , and serveth him with a pure heart , and may truly say , the zeal of thine house hath consumed me , he shall be saved . If they shall not escape which have zeale without knowledge , what shall become of us , which have knowledge without zeale ? And you , whosoever you are that by such meanes have decayed the Lords house , and abridged the provision and maintenance thereof , and see the miserable wrack of Gods Church : if there be any zeale of God in you , if you have any fellowship of the spirit , if any compassion and mercy , if you love God , if you desire the continuance of the Gospell , Oh remember you have the Patrimonie due unto them that should attend in the Lords house . You take unto your selves wrongfully that which was not lotted for you Give unto Caesar those things which belong to Caesar , and unto God the things which appertaine to him , and make for the beautie & furniture of his house . Enrich your selves by lawfull meanes , & without the spoile and wast of Gods Church . Let not the Ministery by your meanes be despised : you enriched them which mocked , & blinded , and devoured you ; spoile not them now that feed , and instruct , and comfort you . Let us seek the glory of God ; let us at length serve the Lord , and not our belly and greedie wantonnesse . So shall God blesse you , and prosper you in all your affaires : so shall he strike a terrour of you into all forraigne Princes that dwell about you : so shall your heart be kept stedfast in the hand of God : so shall your heart be perfect before the Lord : so shall you leave such as shall alwaies praise the Lord in Sion : so shall you see your childrens children , and peace upon Israel . And thou , ô most mercifull Father , grant that thy words be not spoken in vain : it is thy cause . Thou art our Father , we are as clay in thine hands . Thou hast the key of our hearts . give zeale to them that have knowledge , give knowledge to them that have zeale ; that they may be enflamed and ravished with the love of thy house , to sorrow for the decay thereof , and to doe all their endeavour to build up and establish the same for ever . AMEN . FINIS . Notes, typically marginal, from the original text Notes for div A46878-e210 Novitiorum prima Ratio . Secunda ratio . Tertia ratio . * Erasm . in arguments epist . ad Titum . * Chrysost . in 1. cap. Tit. Quarta Ratio . Prov. 22. Notes for div A46878-e1090 Eccl. 1. Eccles . 12. Psal . 122. Ierem. 9. Esay . 49. Zach : 2. Act : 7. Mark : 14. Rom : 10. 1. Tim. I. Origen in 10 , Rom. lib. 8. Wisd . 14 Esai : 55. Prov : 3. Deut : 5. 1. King. 19 Exod. 32. Ierem. 20. Exod. 32. Mat. 23. Rom. 9. Psal . 118. Psal . 79. Ioh. 2. Numb . 12. Luk. 9. Luk. 10. 1. Thess . 4. Cyrill : Epist : ad Theodos : & valent .