Thomas Cartwright

End of Christ is Best by Richard Sibbes.

The Preface of the Admonition by Thomas Cartwright.

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And so presently we leave you, heartily beseeching God to grant it.

Amen.

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That was shared by Protestants and Roman Catholics.

What I did try to do, and what came to me as I was reading about the 16th century, is that these Scottish and English exiles to Geneva, like John Knox and Thomas Cartwright, They go to Geneva and they go, holy smokes, you mean a society could be like this? You mean a church could be like this? You mean worship could be like this? We're going to bring that back to England.

Yeah.

Okay.

Let us desire God to make that which hath been spoken effectual, both concerning Paul and likewise concerning this blessed man for whose cause we are met together.

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But the matters do require a larger discourse.

Only the authors of these thought at their parts to admonish you at this time of those inconveniences which men seem not to think upon, and which without reformation cannot but increase further dissension, the one part being proud, pontifical, and tyrannous, and the word of God for the other part express and manifest, as, if it please the state to examine the matters, it would be evident.

and would to God that free conference in these matters might be had for howsoever learned and many they seem to be they should and may in this realm find and now to match them and shame them too if they hold on as they have begun and out of this realm they have all the best reformed churches through Christendom against them but in a few words to say what we mean either must we have a right ministry of God and a right government of his church according to the scriptures set up both which we lack or else there can be no right religion nor yet for content thereof can God's plagues be from us any while deferred and therefore though they link in together and slanderously charge poor men whom they have made poor with grievous faults calling them puritans worse than the donatists exasperating and setting on such as be in authority against them having hitherto miserably handled them with revilings deprivations imprisonments banishments and such like extremities and yet is these poor men's cause never the worse nor these challengers the better nor God his hand the further off to link in with his against them nor you christian brethren must never the rather without examination condemn them but thankfully take this taste which God by these treatises offereth you and weigh them by the word of God and do you endeavor every man in his calling to promote his cause and let us all with more earnest prayer than we are wont earnestly commend it to God his blessing and namely that it will please him by his spirit to lighten the heart of our most gracious sovereign and the rest in authority to the benefit of his small flock and the overthrow of their proud enemies that godliness may by them proceed in peace and God his glory through Jesus Christ be thoroughly advanced which we call God to witness is our only labor and suit and so presently we leave you heartily beseeching God to grant it amen end of the preface of the admonition by Thomas Cartwright A godly and learned sermon preached before an honorable auditory the twenty-sixth day of February fifteen eighty by William Fulke this is a LibriVox recording all LibriVox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit LibriVox dot org A godly and learned sermon preached in Lent last fifteen eighty The place of scripture most honorable and well beloved in our Savior Christ which I have chosen to entreat of is written in the twenty-fourth chapter of the second book of Samuel in these words verse one and the wrath of the Lord was yet more kindled against Israel and he moved David against them in that he said go number Israel and Judah etc the whole scripture of God as the holy apostle St. James teacheth is compared to a glass wherein all estates and degrees may see what to embrace and what to eschew and it is commonly said of all histories that they are the looking glasses of man's life therefore this text being both a story and parcel of holy scripture must needs be a most clear glass in which are represented unto us diverse things worthy to be seen and looked upon among which I have thought good to show unto you three especial and most notable images the first is the justice and righteousness of God the second is the malice of Satan the third is the frailty of man not meaning to describe them all at large which would require much longer time than is granted to this exercise but only to show every one of them so far forth as it is set forth within the compass of this text which I have read unto you concerning the first therefore which is the justice of God it is described in these words and the wrath of God was yet more kindled against Israel etc by the wrath of the Lord is here meant the justice of God provoked to punish sins as in an hundred places of scripture besides by the wrath of the Lord therefore we must not understand any passion or disordered affection such as is the wrath of man of which the apostle saith that it worketh not the righteousness of God but is often provoked with small causes or with no worthy causes at all and yet boileth immoderately in the heart of man whereby he is unmeasurably desirous of revengement but the justice of God which is figuratively called his wrath is never stirred up to revengement but upon great and weighty causes neither rageth with blind fury but keepeth a most perfect moderation in all things and there are two reasons which may be yielded of this figurative speech wherefore God's righteousness is called his wrath the first is to strike through our hearts with terror of his justice for the name of wrath is more terrible than the name of justice and our nature is more familiarly acquainted with the one than with the other the wrath of a man if he be of power to hurt is greatly feared the wrath of a prince saith Solomon in the sixteenth chapter of the Proverbs is the messenger of death how much more the wrath of the Lord of hosts in comparison of whose power and glory all earthly princes are but dust and ashes the second reason why the justice of God is called the wrath of God is that we may learn and understand that as the wrath of man wherewith we are acquainted is not pacified but by two means either by reconciliation or revengement so it is with the justice of God therefore whensoever we have provoked the wrath of God against us by our sins and wickedness which we do daily and hourly we must either seek to be reconciled to him by true repentance or else look for sharp punishment We must either humbly submit ourselves, acknowledge our offences, and humbly desire pardon, or else we must assure ourselves that the wrath of the Lord being once kindled against us, there is no way to escape vengeance.

We see now wherefore the justice of God is called the wrath of God.

Let us desire God to make that which hath been spoken effectual, both concerning Paul and likewise concerning this blessed man for whose cause we are met together.

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The Preface of the Admonition To the godly readers, grace and peace from God, etc.

Two treatises ye have here ensuing, beloved in Christ, which ye must read without partiality or blind affection, for otherwise you shall neither see their meaning nor refrain yourselves from rashly condemning of them without just cause.

For certain men there are of great countenance, which will not lightly like of them, because they principally concern their persons and unjust dealings, whose credit is great and whose friends are many.

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[chuckles] You know, e-everybody wants to be able to claim Tyndale as an authority because he is this luminary, you know? Um, so it's, it's actually, I mean, i-incredibly interesting.

Um, uh, you know, Tyndale is not a Presbyterian, but Thomas Cartwright, when he is having his disputes with John Whitgift about Presbyterianism in the fifteen seventies, digs up lines from Tyndale's writing, where he talks about how there was no original difference between bishop and priest, and he says, "Ah, Tyndale.

Tyndale knew the truth.

Tyndale knew the truth." And you then find a ton of Presbyterian pamphleteers who will just bang on again and again and again, citing the works of Tyndale.

Let us desire God to make that which hath been spoken effectual both concerning Paul and likewise concerning this blessed man for whose cause we are met together.

End of Christ is best by Richard Sibbes The preface of the admonition by Thomas Cartwright This is a LibriVox recording.

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And so presently we leave you, heartily beseeching God to grant it.

Amen.

End of the Preface of the Admonition by Thomas Cartwright A godly and learned sermon preached before an honourable auditory the 26th day of February 1580 by William Fulke.

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