An holy panegyrick a sermon preached at Paules Crosse vpon the anniuersarie solemnitie of the happie inauguration of our dread soueraigne Lord King James, Mar. 24, 1613 / by J.H.D.D. Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656. 1613 Approx. 76 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 60 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2006-06 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). A02547 STC 12673 ESTC S122954 24528661 ocm 24528661 27760 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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Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Keying and markup guidelines are available at the Text Creation Partnership web site . eng James -- I, -- King of England, 1566-1625 -- Sermons. Bible. -- O.T. -- Samuel, 1st, XII, 24-25 -- Sermons. Sermons, English -- 17th century. 2005-11 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2005-12 Apex CoVantage Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2006-03 Elspeth Healey Sampled and proofread 2006-03 Elspeth Healey Text and markup reviewed and edited 2006-04 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion AN HOLY PANEGYRICK . A Sermon Preached at Paules Crosse vpon the anniuersarie Solemnitie of the happie Inauguration of our Dread Soueraigne Lord King JAMES , Mar. 24. 1613. By J. H. D. D. LONDON Printed by Iohn Pindley for SAMVEL MACHAM . 1613. TO THE RIGHT Honorable , Sir IOHN SVVINERTON , Knight , Lord Maior of the Citie of London , All grace and happinesse . RIght Honorable , Mine owne forwardnesse ( whereof it repenteth me not ) hath sent forth other of my labours vnbidden ; but this , your effectual importunitie hath drawne forth into the common light . Jt is an holy desire that the eye may second the eare in any thing that may helpe the soule : and we , that are fishers of men , should be-wanting to our selues , if we had not baits for both those sences . I plead not the disaduantage of a dead letter , in respect of that life which elocution puts into any discourse Such as it is , I make it both publike and yours . I haue caused my thoughts , so neere as I could to goe back to the verie tearmes wherein I expressed them , as thinking it better to fetch those words I haue let fall , then to follow those I must take vp . That therefore which it pleased your Lo to heare with such patient attention , and with so good affection to desire , I not vnwillingly suffer abroad ; that these papers may speake that permanently to the eyes of all our countrimen , which in the passage found such fauor in the eares of your citizens , and such roome in so many heart's . Besides your first and vehement motion for the presse , your knowne loue to learning deserues a better acknowledgement , and no doubt finds it from more worthie hands . And if my gratulation would add any thing , those should enuie you which wil not imitate you . For the rest , God giue your Lo. a wise , vnderstanding , & courageous heart , that you may prudently & strongly menage these wild times , vpon which you are fallen : and by your holy example and powerfull endeuors , helpe to shorten these raines of licentiousnesse : That so this citie , which is better taught then anie vnder heauen , may teach all other places how to liue ; & may honor that profession which hath made it renowmed , and all Gods Church ioyfull : The welfare and happinesse whereof , and your Lo. in it , is vnfainedly wished , by Your Lordships humbly deuoted , Ios. HALL . AN HOLY Panegyrick . 1. SAM . 12. 24 , 25. Therefore feare you the Lord , and serue him in truth with all your hearts , and consider how great things he hath done for you . But if you do wickedly , ye shall perish both yee and your King. I Hold it no small fauor of God ( right Honourable & beloued ) that he hath called me to the seruice of this day ; both in the name of such a people , to praise him for his Anointed , and in his name to praise his Anointed to his people . The same hand that giues the oportunite , vouchsafe to giue successe to this businesse . That which the lewes sinned in but desiring , it is our happinesse to inioy . I need not call any other witnesse then this day , wherin we celebrate the blessing of a King , and ( which is more ) of a King higher then other Princes by the head and shoulders . And if other yeeres had forgotten this tribute of their loyaltie and thankfulnesse , yet the example of those ancient Roman Christians ( as Eusebius and Sozomen reporr ) would haue taught vs , that the tenth complete yeere of our Constantine , deserues to be solemne & Iubilar . And if our ill nature could bee content to smother this mercie in silence , the very Lepers : of Samaria shold rise vp against vs & say , Wee doe not well ; this is a day of good tidings , & we hold our peace . My discourse yet shall not bee altogether laudatory , but as Samuels , led in with exhortation , and caried out with threatning . For this Text is a composition of duties , fauors , dangers : of duties which we o●●e , of fauours receiued , of dangers threatned . The duties that God Idokes for of vs , come before the mention of the fauors wee haue receiued from him , ( though after their receit ) to teach vs , that as his mercy , so our obediēce should be absolute : and the danger followes both , to make vs more carefull to hold the fauors , and performe the duties ; And me thinks there cannot be a more excellent mixture . If we should heare only of the fauors of God , nothing of our duties , wee should fall into conceitednesse : if only of our duties without recognition of his sauours , we should proue vncheerfull ; and if both of these , without mention of any danger , wee should presume on our fauours , and bee slacke in our duties . prepare therfore your Christian eares and hearts for this threefold cord of God , that ( through his blessing ) these duties may draw you to obedience , the dangers to a greater awe , and the fauours to further thankefulnesse . The goodnesse of these outward things is not such as that it can priuiledge euery desire of them from sinne Monarchy is the best of gouernments , & likest to his rule , that sits in the assembly of Gods. One God , one King , was the acclamation of those ancient Christians : and yet it was mis-desired of the Israelites : We may not euer desire that which is better in it selfe , but that which is better for vs ; Neither must we follow our conceit in this iudgement , but the appointment of God : Now , though God had appointed in time , both a Scepter and a Law giuer to Iuda , yet they sinned in mending the pace of God , and spurring on his decree . And if they had staid his leasure ; so that they had desired that which was best in it selfe , best for them , appointed by God , and now appointed , yet the manner and ground offended : For out of an humour of innouation , out of discontent , out of distrust , out of an itch of conformitie to other Nations , to aske a King , it was not onely a sinne as they confesse : vers . 29. but ( ragnah rabbah ) a great wickednesse as Samuel tels them . vers . 17. and ( as oftentimes we may reade Gods displeasure in the face of the heauen ) he showes it in the weather . God thunders and raynes in the middest of wheat haruest . The thunder was fearefull , the raine in that hote climate and season strangely vnseasonable : both to be in the instant vpon Samuels speech , was iustly miraculous . The heathen Poets bring in their fained God thundering in applause ; I neuer finde the true God did so . This voice of God brake these Cedars of Lebanon , and made these Hindes to calue : and now they cry Peccauimus , ver . 19 If euer we will stoope , the iudgements of God will bring vs on our knees . Samuel takes vantage of their humiliation , and according to the golden sentence of that Samian wise-man , that bids vs lay waight vpon the loden , ( how euer Hierom take it in another sense ) he lades them with these three duties ; Feare , seruice , consideration . Feare and seruice goe still together . Serue the Lord in feare , saith Dauid . Feare the Lord and serue him , saith Ioshua ; And , feare euer before seruice , for that vnlesse our seruice proceede from feare , it is hollow and worthlesse . One saies well , that these inward dispositions are as the kernell ; outward acts are as the shell ; he is but a deafe nut therfore , that hath outward seruice , without inward feare ; Feare God ( saith Salomon ) first , and then , keepe his commandements . Behold , the same tongue that bad them not feare , vers . 20. now bids them feare ; and the same spirit that tels vs they feared exceedingly ( vers . 18. ) now enioynes them to feare more . What shall we make of this ? Their other feare was at the best Initiall ; for now they began to repent ; and as one saies of this kinde of feare , that it hath two eyes fixed on two diuers obiects , so had this of theirs . One eye looked vpon the raine and thunder ; the other looked vp to the God that sent it ; The one of these it borrowed of the slauish or hostile feare ( as Basil calls it , ) the other of the filiall ; for the slauish feare casts both eyes vpon the punishment ; the filiall lookes with both eyes on the partie offended . Now then Samuel would rectifie and perfect this affection , and would bring them from the feare of slaues , through the feare of penitents , to the feare of sons : and indeed one of these makes way for another . It is true that perfect loue thrusts out feare : but it is as true , that feare brings in that perfect loue , which is ioined with the reuerence of sonnes . Like as the needle or bristle ( so one compares it ) drawes in the thred after it , or as the potion brings health . The compunction of feare ( saith Gregorie ) fits the minde for the compunction of loue . Wee shall neuer reioyce truely in God , except it bee with trembling : Except we haue quaked at his thunder , we shall neuer ioy in his sunne shine . How seasonably therefore doth Samuel , when hee saw them smitten with that guiltie and seruile feare , call them to the : reuerentiall feare of God ; Therefore feare yee the Lord ? It is good striking , when God hath striken ; there is no fishing so good as in troubled waters . The conscience of man is a nice and sullen thing , and if it be not taken at fit times , there is no medling with it . Tell one of our gallants in the midst of all his iollity and reuells , of deuotion , of piety , of iudgements ; he hath the Athenian question ready , What will his babler say ? Let that man alone till God haue touch't his soule with some terrour , till hee haue cast his body on the bed of sicknesse , when his fether is turned to a kerchiefe , when his face is pale , his eyes sunke , his hands shaking , his breath short , his flesh consumed , now hee may bee talk't with , now he hath learned of Eli to say , speake Lord for thy seruant heareth . The conuexe or out-bowed side of a vessell will hold nothing ; it must be the hollow and depressed part that is capable of any liquor . Oh , if wee were so humbled with the varieties of Gods iudgements as wee might , how sauoury should his counsels be , how precious & welcome would his feare bee to our trembling hearts ? whereas now , our stubborne sencelesnesse frustrates ( in respect of our successe , though not of his decree ) all the threatnings and executions of God. There are two maine affections , Loue , and Feare , which as they take vp the soule where they are , and as they neuer go a sunder , ( for euery loue hath in it a feare of offending and forgoing ; and euery feare implyes a loue of that , which we suspect may mis-carry ) so ech of them fulfils the whole law of God. That loue is the abridgement of the Decalogue both our Sauiour , and his blessed Apostle haue taught vs : It is as plaine of Feare ; The title of Iob is , A iust man , and one that feared God ; iustice is expressed by Feare . For what is iustice , but a freedome from sinne ? And the feare of the Lord hates euil , saith Salomon . Hence Moses his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Thou shalt feare , is turned by our Sauiour ( 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ) Thou shalt worship , or adore . And that which Esay saith , In vaine they feare me , our Sauiour renders , In vaine they worship mee ; as if all worship consisted in Feare . Hence it is probable that God hath his name in two languages from ( 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , ) Feare , and the same word in the Greeke signifies both Feare & Religion . And Salomon when he saies The feare of the Lord is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the beginning ( as we turne it , ) of wisedome , saies more then we are a ware of ; for the word signifies as well Caput or Principatum ; the head or top of wisedome ; yea ( saith Siracides ) it is the crown vpon the head ; it is the roote of the same wisedome , whereof it is the top-branch , saith the same Author . And surely this is the most proper disposition of men towards God ; for though God stoope down so low as to vouchsafe to bee loued of men , yet that infinite inequalitie , which there is betweene him and vs , may seeme not to allow so perfect a fitnesse of that affection , as of this other , which suites so well betwixt our vilenesse , and his glory , that the more disproportion there is betwixt vs , the more due & proper is our feare . Neither is it lesse necessarie then proper , for wee can be no Christians without it ; whether it be ( as Hemingius distinguishes it well ) timor cultus , or culpae , either our feare in worshipping , or our feare of offending ; the one is a deuout feare , the other a carefull feare . The latter was the Corinthians feare , whose godly sorrow when the Apostle had mentioned , he addes , Yea what indignation , yea what feare , yea what desire ? The former is that of the Angels , who hide their faces with their wings ; yea of the Son of God , as man , who fell on his face to his father . And this is due to God , as a father , as a maister , as a benefactor , as a God infinite in all that he is . Let me be bold to speake to you , with the Psalmist , Come ye children , hearken to mee , and I will teach you the feare of the Lord. What is it therefore to feare God ; but to acknowledge the glorious ( the inuisible ) presence of God in all our wayes , with Moses his eyes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 : to bee awefully affected at his presence with Jacob ( quàm tremendus ? ) to make an humble resignation of our selues to the holy will of God with Eli , It is the Lord ; and to attend reuerently vpon his disposing with Dauid , Here I am , let him doe to me , as seemeth good in his eyes . This is the feare of the Lord. There is nothing more talk't of , nothing lesse felt . I appeale from the tongues of men to their hands ; the wise heathen taught me to doe so , Uerbarebus proba . The voice of wickednesse is actuall , saith the Psalmist , wickednesse saith there is no feare of God before his eyes . Behold wheresoeuer is wickednesse , there can be no feare of God ; these two cannot lodge vnder one roofe , for the feare of God driues out euill ( saith Ecclesiasticus . ) As therefore Abraham argues well from the cause to the effect ; Because the feare of God is not in this place , therfore they will kill me : So Dauid argues back from the effect to the cause , They imagine wickednesse on their bed , &c. therefore the feare of God is not before them . I would to God this argument were not too demonstratiue . Brethren , our liues shame vs. If wee fear'd the Lord , durst we dally with his name , durst wee teare it in pieces ? Surely we contemn his person , whose name we contemne . The Iewes haue a conceit , that the sinne of that Israelite which was stoned for blasphemie , was onely this , that hee named that ineffable name of foure letters Iehouah . Shall their feare keepe them from once mentioning the dreadfull name of God , and shall not our feare keepe vs from abusing it ? Durst we so boldly sinne God in the face , if wee feared him ? Durst wee mocke God with a formall flourish of that , which our heart tels vs wee are not , if wee feared him ? Durst wee be Christians at Church , Mammonists at home , if we feared him ? Pardon mee , if in a day of gratulation , I hardly temper my tongue from reproof ; for as the Iewes had euer some malefactour brought forth to them in their great feast ; so it shall bee the happiest peece of our triumph and solemnitie , if wee can bring forth that wicked profanenesse , wherewith wee haue dishonor'd God , & blemisht his Gospell , to bee scourged , and dismissed with all holy indignitie . From this feare , let vs passe as briefly , through that which we must dwel in all our liues , the seruice of God. This is the subiect of all sermons , mine shall but touch at it . You shall see how I hasten to that discourse , which this day & your expectation calls me to . Diuine Philosophy teaches vs to referre , not onely our speculations , but our affections to action . As therefore our seruice must be grounded vpon feare , so our feare must be reduced to seruice . What strength can these Masculine dispositions of the soule yeild vs , if with the Israelites brood they bee smoothered in the birth ? Indeed the worst kinde of feare is that we call seruile ; but the best feare , is the feare of seruants . For there is no seruant of God , but feares filially . And againe God hath no sonne but he serues . Euen the natural sonne of God , was so in the forme of a seruant , that hee serued indeed ; and so did hee serue that he indured all sorrow , and fulfilled all righteousnesse . So euery Christian is a sonne and heyre to the King of heauen , and his word must be , I serue . Wee all know what seruice meanes . For wee all are , or were ( I imagine ) either seruants of maisters , or seruants of the publique , or maisters of seruants , or all these . Wee cannot therefore be ignorant either what we require of ours , or what our superiors require of vs. If seruice consisted onely in wearing of liueries , in taking of wages , in making of curtesies , and kissing of hands , there were nothing more easie , or more common . Al of vs weare the cognizance of our christianity in our baptisme , all liue vpon Gods trencher in our maintenance , all giue him the complements of a fashionable profession . But , be not deceiued , the life of seruice is worke ; the worke of a Christian is obedience to the Law of God. The Centurion when hee would describe his good seruant in the Gospell , needed say no more but this ; I bid him doe this , and he doth it . Seruice then briefely is , nothing but a readinesse to doe as wee are bidden ; and therefore both Salomon , and he that was greater then Salomon , describes it by keeping the commandements ; and the chosen vessell giues an euerlasting rule : His seruants ye are to whom yee obey . Now I might distinguish this seruice into habituall , and actuall . Habituall ; for as the seruant , while hee eates or sleepes , is in seruice still ; so are wee to God : Actuall , whether vniuersal in the whole carriage of our liues ( which Zacharie tels vs is in holinesse , and righteousnesse , holinesse to God , righteousnesse to men ) or particular , either in the duties which are proper to GOD , Inuocation and Attendance on his ordinance ( which by an excellence is termed his seruice ) or in those which are proper to vs , as wee are peeces of a Family , Church , common-wealth ; the stations whereof GOD hath so disposed , that wee may serue him in seruing one another . And thus you see I might make way for an endlesse discourse ; but it shal content me ( passing ouer this world of matter ) to glance onely at the generalitie of this infinite theme . As euery obedience serues God , so euery sin makes God serue vs. One said wittily , that the angry man made himselfe the iudge , and God the executioner . There is no sin that doth not the like . The glutton makes God his cator , and himselfe the guest , and his belly his god , especially in the new-found feasts of this age , wherin profusenesse and profanenesse striue for the tables end . The lasciuious man makes himselfe the louer , and ( as Viues saies of Mahumet ) God the Pandar . The couetous man makes himselfe the Vsurer , and God the broker . The ambitious makes God his state , and Honor his God. Of euery sinner doth God say iustly , seruire me fecisti . Thou hast made mee to serue with thy sinnes . There cannot be a greater honor for vs then to serue such a maister , as commands heauen , earth , & hell : Whom it is both dishonour and basenesse not to serue . The hyest stile that King Dauid could deuise to giue himselfe ( not in the phrase of a friuolous French complement , but in the plaine speech of a true Israelite ) was , Behold I am thy seruant ; and he that is Lord of many seruants of the Diuell , delights to call himselfe the seruant of the seruants of God. The Angels of heauen reioyce to be our fellowes in this seruice . But there cannot be a greater shame then to see seruants ride on horsebacke , and Princes walking as seruants on the ground . I meane to see the GOD of heauen made a lacquey to our vile affections , and in the liues of men , to see God attend vpon the world , Brethren , there is seruice enough in the world , but it is to a wrong maister . In mea patria Deus venter , ( as Hierome said ; ) Euery worldling is a Papist in this , that he giues 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 seruice , to the creature , which is the lowest respect that can bee ; Yea so much more humble then ( latria ) as it is more absolute , and without respect of recompence . Yea , I would it were vncharitable to say , that many besides the sauages of Calecut , place Satan in the throne , and God on the footestoole . For as Witches and Sorcerers conuerse with euill spirits in plausible and familiar formes , which in vgly shapes they would abhorre ; so many a man serues Satan vnder the formes of gold and siluer , vnder the images of Saints and lightsome Angels ; vnder glittering cotes , or glorious titles , or beauteous faces , whom they would defie as himselfe . And as the freeborn Israelite might become a seruant , either by forfaiture vpon trespasse , or by sale , or by spoile in warre ; so this accursed seruitude is incurred the same waies , by them which should be Christians . By forfaiture : for though the debt and trespasse bee to God , yet ( tradet lictori ) he shall deliuer the debtor to the Iaylor . By sale , as Ahab sold himselfe to worke wickednesse : sold vnder sinne , saith the Apostle . By spoile . Beware least any man make a spoile of you 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith Paul to his Colossians . Alas what a miserable change doe these men make , to leaue the liuing God , which is so bountifull , that hee rewards a cup of cold water with eternall glorie , to serue him that hath nothing to giue but his bare wages ; and what wages ? The wages of sinne is death ; And what death ? not the death of the body , in the seuering of the soule , but the death of the soule , in the separation from God ; there is not so much difference betwixt life and death , as there is betwixt the first death and the second . Oh wofull wages of a desperate worke . Well were these men , if they might goe vnpaide , and serue for nothing ; but as the mercie of God will not let any of our poore seruices to him goe vnrewarded ; so will not his iustice suffer the contrarie seruice goe vnpaid ; in flaming fire rendring vengeance to them that know not God , and those that obey not the Gospell of our Lord Iesus . Beloued , as that worthy Bishop said on his death-bed , we are happie in this , that wee serue a good Maister ; how happie shall it bee for vs if wee shall doe him good seruice , that in the day of our account we may heare , Euge serue bone , well done good seruant , enter into thy maisters ioy . Now hee that prescribes the act ( seruice , ) must also prescribe the manner ; ( Truely , totally . ) God cannot abide wee should serue him with a double heart ( an heart & an heart ) that is hypocritically . Neither that we should serue him with a false heart , that is , niggardly and vnwillingly : but against doubling , he will be seru'd in truth , and against haluing , hee will bee seru'd with all the heart . To serue God and not in truth is mockerie . To serue him truely and not with the whole heart is a base dodging with God. This 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 eye-seruice is a fault with men : but let vs serue God , but while he sees vs , it is enough . Behold he sees vs euery where . If hee did not see our heart , it were enough to serue him in the face ; and if the heart were not his , it were too much to giue him a part of it ; but now that he made this whole heart of outs , it is reason he should bee seru'd with it ; and now that hee sees the inside of the heart , it is madnesse not to serue him In truth . Those serue God , not in truth , which as Seneca saies of some auditors , come to heare , not to learne : which bring their tablets to write words , not their hearts for the finger of God to write in . Whose eies are on their Bible , whiles their heart is on their Count-booke ; which can play the Saints in the Church , Ruffians in the Tauerne , Tyrants in their houses , Cheators in their shops ; those Dames which vnder a cloke of modestie and deuotion hide nothing but pride , and fiendishnesse . Those serue God , not with all their heart ; whose bosome is like Rachels tent , that hath ( Teraphim ) Idols hid in the straw ; or rather like a Philistims Temple , that hath the Arke and Dagon vnder one roofe ; That come in euer with Naamans exceptiues , Onely in this : Those that haue let downe the world like the spies into the bottome of the well of their heart , and couer the mouth of it with wheare : I meane , that hide great oppressions , with the show of small beneficences : Those which like Salomons false Curtizan , cry ( Diutdatur ) and are willing to share themselues betwixt God and the world . And certainely , this is a noble policie of the Diuell , because he knowes he hath no right to the heart , he can bee glad of any corner ; but with all he knowes , that if hee haue any , hee hath all ; for where hee hath any part , God will haue none . This base-mindednesse is fit for that euill one . God will haue all , or nothing . It was an heroicall answere , that Theodoret reports of Valentinian , whom when the souldiers had chosen to be Emperour , they were consulting to haue another ioyned with him . No ( my souldiours ) said hee , it was in your power to giue mee the Empire , while I had it not : but now when I haue it , it is not in your power to giue me a partner . Wee our selues say , the bed and the throne can abide no riualls . May wee not well say of the heart , as Lot of Zoar , Is it not a little one ? Alas it is euen too little for God ; what doe wee thinke of taking an Inmate into this cottage ? It is a fauour and happinesse , that the God of glorie will vouchsafe to dwell in it alone . Euen so ( O God ) take thou vp these roomes for thy selfe ; and inlarge them for the entertainment of thy spirit : Haue thou vs wholly , and let vs haue thee . Let the world serue it selfe . O let vs serue thee , with all our hearts . God hath set the heart on worke to feare , the hands on worke to serue him , now ( that nothing may be wanting ) he sets the head on worke to consider ; and that , not so much the Iudgements of God , ( yet those are of singular vse , and may not bee forgotten ) as his mercies , What great things hee hath done for you , not against you . He that looked vpon his owne workes , and saw they were good , and delighted in them , delights that wee should looke vpon them too , and applaud his wisedome , power , and mercy , that shines in them . Euen the least of Gods works are worthy of the obseruation of the greatest Angell in heauen , but ( the magnalia dei ) the great things he hath done , are more worthy of our wonder , of our astonishmēt . Great things indeed that he did for Israel ; hee meant to make that Nation a precedent of mercie ; that all the world might see what he could doe for a people . Heauen and earth conspir'd to blesse them . What should I speake of the wonders of Egypt ? Surely I know not whether their preseruation in it , or deliuerance out of it , were more miraculous . Did they want a guide ? himselfe goes before them in fire . Did they want a shelter ? his cloud is spread ouer them for a couering . Did they want way ? The sea it selfe shall make it ; and bee at once a street , and a wall to them . Did they want bread ? Heauen it selfe shall powre downe foode of Angels . Did they want meate to their bread ? The winde shall bring them whole driftes of quailes into their tents . Doe they want drinke to both ? The verie Rocke shall yeeld it them . Doe they want suites of apparell ? Their very clothes shall not waxe old on their backes . Doe they want aduise ? God himselfe shall giue his vocall Oracle between the Cherubins . Doe they want a law ? God shall come downe vpon Sinai , and deliuer it in fire , thundring , smoke , earthquakes , and write it with his own finger , in tables of stone . Doe they want habitations ? God shall prouide them a land that flowes with milke and hony . Are they persecuted ? God stands in fire betweene them & their harmes . Are they stung to death ? The brazen serpent shal cure them . Are they resisted ? The walles of Iericho shall fall downe alone ; hailestones braine their enemies . The Sunne shal stand still in heauen , to see Ioshuahs reuenge and victory . Oh great and mighty things that God did for Israel ! And if any Nation vnder heauen could either parallel or second Israel in the fauours of God , this poore little Iland of ours is it . The cloud of his protection hath couer'd vs. The bloud-red sea of persecution hath giuen way to vs , and wee are passed it dry-shod . The true Manna from heauen is rained downe abundantly about our tents . The water of Life gusheth forth plenteously to vs : The better law of the Gospell is giuen vs from heauen by the hands of his Sonne : The walles of the spirituall Ierocho are fallen downe before vs , at the blast of the trumpets of God ; and cursed be hee that goes about to build them vp againe . Now therefore , that we may come more close to the taske of this day ; Let mee say to you , as Samuel to his Israelites , Consider with mee what great things the Lord hath done for vs : and as one wish't that the enuious had eyes in euery place , so could I seriously wish , that all which haue ill will at our Sion , had their eares with mee but one houre , that if they belong not to God , they might burst with Iudas , which repine with Iudas at this seasonable cost of the precious ointment of our praises . If I should looke back to the ancient mercies of God , and shew you that this kingdome ( though diuided from the world ) was one of the first that receiued the Gospel : That it yeelded the first Christian Emperour that gaue peace and honour to the Church : The first and greatest lights that shone forth in the darkest of Popery , to all the world ; and that it was the first kingdome that shooke Antichrist fully out of the saddle . I might finde iust matter of praise and exultation , but I will turne ouer no other Chronicles but your memory . This day alone hath matter enough of an eternall gratulation . For this is the communis terminus , wherein Gods fauours meete vpon our heads ; which therefore represents to vs , both what wee had , and what wee haue . The one to our sense , the other to our remembrance . This day was both Queene Elizabeths Initium gloriae , and King James his Initium regni . To her Natalitium salutis , as the passion-dayes of the Martyrs were called of old ; and Natalis Imperij to him . These two names shew vs happinesse enough to take vp our hearts and tongues for euer . And first , why should it not be our perpetuall glorie and reioicing , that we were her subiects ? Oh blessed Queene , the mother of this Nation , the nurse of this Church , the glorie of womanhood , the enuie and example of forraine Nations , the wonder of times , how sweet and sacred shall thy memory bee to all posterities ? how is thy name not Parables of the dust as the Iewes speake ; not written in the earth as Jeremie speaks , but in the liuing earth of all loyal hearts , neuer to be razed . And though the foule mouthes of our Aduersaries stick not to call her miseram foeminam , as Pope Clement did ; nor to say of her , as Euagrius saies vncharitably of Iustinian the great law-giuer ( ad supplicia iusto dei iudicio apud inferos luenda profecta est ; ) and those that durst bring her on the stage liuing , bring her now dead ( as I haue heard by those that haue seene it ) into their processions , like a tormented Ghost , attended with fiends and firebrands , to the terrour of their ignorant beholders : Yet , as wee saw she neuer prospered so well , as when she was most cursed by their Pius . 5. so now wee hope shee is rather so much more glorious in heauen , by how much they are more malicious on earth . These arrogant wretches , that can at their pleasure fetch Salomon from heauen to hell , and Traian and Falconella from hell to heauen ; Campian and Garnet from earth to heauen , Queene Elizabeth from earth to hell , shall finde one day that they haue mistaken the keyes , and shall know , what it is to iudge , by being iudged . In the meane time , in spight of the gates of Rome , Memoria iustae in benedictionibus . To omit those vertues which were proper to her sexe , by which she deserued to be the Queene of women , how excellent were her Masculine graces of learning , valour , wisedome , by which she might iustly challenge to bee the Queene of men . So learned was shee , that shee could giue present answeres , to Embassadours in their own tongues , or if they listed to borrow of their neighbours , shee paid them in that they borrowed . So valiant , that her name like Ziscaes drum , made the proudest Romanists to quake . So wise that whatsoeuer fell out happily against the common Aduersarie in France , Netherlands , Ireland , it was by themselues ascribed to her policy . What should I speake of her long and successefull gouernment , of her miraculous preseruations , of her famous victories , wherein the waters , windes , fire and earth fought for vs , as if they had beene in pay vnder her , of her excellent lawes , of her carefull executions . Many daughters haue done worthily , but thou surmountest them all . Such was the sweetnesse of her gouernement , and such the feare of miserie in her losse , that many worthy Christians desired their eyes might be closed before hers ; and how many thousands therefore welcomed their owne death , because it preuented hers . Euery one pointed to her white haires , & said with that peaceable Leontius , When this snow melts there wil be a floud . Neuer day except alwaies the fift of Nouember , was like to be so bloudy as this ; not for any doubt of Title ( which neuer any loyall heart could question , nor any disloyall euer did , besides Dolman ) but for that our Esauites comforted themselues against vs , and said , The day of mourning for our mother will come shortly , then will we slay our brethren . What should I say more ? lots were cast vpon our land ; and that honest Polititian ( which wanted nothing but a gibbet to haue made him a Saint ) Father Parsons , tooke paines to set downe an order , how all English affayres should bee marshalled , when they should come to bee theirs . Consider now the great things that the Lord hath done for vs. Behold this day , which should haue beene most dismall to the whole Christian world , hee turned to the most happie day , that euer shone forth to this Iland . That now we may iustly insult with those Christians of Antioch ( 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ) Where are your prophesies , O yee fond Papists ? Our snow lyes here melted , where are those flouds of bloud that you threatned ? Yea , as that blessed soule of hers gained by this change of an immortall crowne , for a corruptible ; so ( blessed bee the name of our God ) this land of ours hath not lost by that losse . Many thinke that this euening the world had his beginning . Surely a new and golden world began this day to vs , and ( which it could not haue done by her loynes ) promises continuance ( if our sins interrupt it not ) to our posterities . I would the flatterie of a Prince were treason ; in effect it is so : ( for the flatterer is ( 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ) a kinde murtherer . ) I would it were so in punishment . If I were to speake before my soueraigne King and maister , I would praise God for him , not praise him to himself . A preacher in Constantines time saith Eusebius ( ausus est imperatorem in os beatum dicere ) presumed to call Constantine an happy Emperor to his face ; but hee went away with a checke ; such speed may any parasite haue , which shall speake , as if hee would make Princes proud , & not thankefull . A small praise to the face may be adulation , ( though it be within the bounds : ) a great praise in absence , may be but iustice . If we see not the worth of our King , how shall we be thankefull to God that gaue him ? Giue me leaue therefore freely to bring forth the Lords Annointed before you , and to say with Samuel , See you him whom the Lord hath chosen . As it was a great presage of happinesse to Mauritius the Emperor , that an ( 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ) a familiar Diuell remouing him from place to place in his swathing bands , yet had no power to hurt him ; So , that those early conspiracies , wherwith Satan assaulted the very cradle of our dear Soueraine , preuailed not , it was a iust bodement of his future greatnesse and beneficiall vse to the world . And hee that gaue him life and crowne together , and miraculously preserued them both : gaue him graces fit for his Deputy on earth , to weild that crowne , and improoue that life to the behoofe of Christendome . Let me begin with that ( which the heathen man required to the happinesse of any state ) his learning & knowledge , wherein I may safely say hee exceedeth all his 105. predecessors . Our Conquerour King William ( as our Chronicler reports ) by a blunt prouerbe that hee was wont to vse against vnlearned Princes made his sonne Henry a Beau-clerc to those times . But a candle in the darke will make more show , then a bonefire by day . In these dayes so lightsome for knowledge to excell ( euen for a professed student ) is hard , and rare . Neuer had England more learned Bishops , and Doctors ; which of them euer returned from his Maiesties discourse without admiration ? What King christned hath written so learned volumes ? To omit the rest , his last ( of this kinde ) wherein hee hath so held vp Cardinall Bellarmine , and his maister Pope Paulus , is such , that Plessis and Mouline ( the two great lights of France ) professe to receiue their light in this discourse , from his beames ; and the learned Iesuite Salkeild , could not but bee conuerted with the necessitie of those demonstrations ; and I may boldly say , Poperie ( since it was ) neuer receiued so deepe a wound from any worke , as from that of His. What King euer moderated the solemne acts of an Vniuersitie in all professions , and had so many hands clapt in the applause of his acute , and learned determinations ? Briefely , such is his intire acquaintance with all sciences , and with the Queene of all , Diuinitie , that hee might well dispute with the infallible Pope Paulus 5us for his triple crowne ; and I would all Christian quarrels lay vpon this duell . His iustice in gouerning matcheth his knowledge how to gouerne ; for as one that knowes the common-wealth cannot bee vnhappie , wherein ( according to the wise heathens rule ) law is a Queene , and will a subiect , he hath euer indeauoured to frame the proceedings of his gouernement to the lawes , not the lawes to them . Witnesse that memorable example , whereof your eyes were witnesses . I meane the vnpartiall execution of one of the ancientest Barons of those parts , for the murder of a meane Subiect . Wherein not the fauour of the block might bee yeelded , that the dishonour of the death might bee no lesse then the paine of the death . Yet who will not grant his Mercy to bee eminent amongst his vertues , when Parsons himselfe yeelds it ? And if a vertue so continuing , could bee capable of excesse , this might seeme so in him . For , that which was said of Anastasius the Emperour , that he would attempt no exploit ( though neuer so famous ) if it might cost the price of Christian blood , and that which was said of Mauricius , that by his good-will hee would not haue so much as a Traitour dye ; and that of Vespasian , that hee wept euen for iust executions ; and lastly that of Theodosius , that hee wish't hee could recall those to life againe that had wronged him ; may in some sence , bee iustly verified of our mercifull Soueraigne . I pray GOD the measure of this vertue may neuer hurt himselfe , I am sure the want of it shall neuer giue cause of complaint to his aduersaries . But among all his Heroicall Graces , which commend him as a man , as a Christian , as a King ; Pietie and firmenesse in Religion cals mee to it , and will not suffer me to defer the mention of it any longer . A priuate man vnsetled in opinion , is like a loose tooth in the head , troublesome and vse-lesse , but a publique person vnstayed , is dangerous . Resolution for the truth is so much better then knowledge , by how much the possessing of a treasure , is better then knowing where it is . With what zeale did his Maiestie fly vpon the blasphemous nouelties of Vorstius ? How many sollicitations , threats , promises , profers hath he trampled vnder his feete in former times , for but a promise of an indifferent conniuencie at the Romish religion ? Was it not an answere worthy of a King , worthy of marble and brasse , that he made vnto their agent for this purpose , in the times of the greatest perill of resistance . That all the crownes and kingdomes in this world should not indure him to change any iot of his profession ? Hath hee not so ingaged himselfe in this holie quarrell , that the world confesses Rome had neuer such an Aduersarie ? and all Christian Princes reioice to follow him as their worthy leader , in all the battels of God ; and all Christian churches in their prayers and acclamations , stile him , in a double right , Defender of the faith , more by desert , then inheritance . But because as the Sunne-beames , so praises are more kindly , when they are cast oblique vpon their obiects then when they fall directly ; let mee shew you him rather in the blessings we receiue from him , then in the graces which are in him . And not to insist vpon his extinguishing of those hellish feudes in Scotland , & the reducing of those barbarous borderers to ciuilitie and order , ( two acts worthy of eternitie , and which no hand but his could doe ) Consider how great things the Lord hath done for vs , by him , in our Peace , in our freedome of the Gospell , in our Deliuerance . Continuance detracts from the value of any fauour . Little doe wee know the price of peace . If wee had beene in the cotes of our forefathers , or our neighbours , we should haue knowne how to esteeme this deare blessing of GOD. Oh , my deare brethren , we neuer knew what it was to heare the murdering peeces about our eares ; to see our churches and houses flaming ouer our heads ; to heare the fearefull cracks of their fals mixed with the confused out-cries of men , killing , encouraging to kill , or resist , dying ; and the shriekings of women and children ; wee neuer saw tender babes snach't from the breasts of their mothers , now bleeding vpon the stones , or sprauling vpon the pikes ; and the distracted mother rauished , ere she may haue leaue to dye . Wee neuer saw men and horses lye wallowing in their mingled bloud , and the gastly visages of death deformed with wounds . The impotent wife hanging with teares on her armed husband , as desirous to dye with him , with whom shee may not liue . The amazed runnings to and fro of those that would faine escape , if they knew how , and the furious pace of a bloudy victor ; The rifling of houses for spoile , and euery souldiour running with his load , and readie to fight with other for our bootie ; Themiserable captiue driuen manicled before the usulting enemie . Neuer did wee know how cruell an Aduersarie is , and how burdensome an helper is in warre . Looke round about you . All your neighbours haue seene and tasted these calamities . All the rest of the world haue been whirled about in these wofull tumults : onely this Iland , hath like the center stood vnmoueable . Onely this Isle hath beene like Nilus , which when all other waters ouer-flow , keepes within the banks . That we are free frō these & a thousand other miseries of warre , Whether should wee ascribe it , but next vnder God , to his Anointed , as a King , as a King of Peace ? For both Anarchy is the mother of diuision , as wee see in the state of Italy , wherein , when they wanted their King , all ranne into ciuill broiles ; The Venetians with them of Rauenna , Verona and Vincentia , with the Paduans and Taruisians ; The Pisans and Florentines , with them of Luca and Sienna ; and besides ; euery King is not a Peace-maker : Ours is made of Peace . There haue been Princes , which , as the Antiochians said of Iulian , ( taking occasion by the Bull which he stamp't in his coine ) haue gored the world to death . The breasts of some Princes haue beene like a Thunder-cloud , whose vapours would neuer leaue working till they haue vented themselues with terrour to the world ; Ours , hath nothing in it , but a gracious rayne to water the inheritance of God. Behold Hee , euen He alone , like to Noahs Doue , brought an Oliue of peace to the tossed Arke of Christendome ; Hee like another Augustus , before the second comming of CHRIST hath becalmed the world , and shut the iron gates of warre ; and is the bond of that peace hee hath made . And if the Peace-maker both doth blesse and is blessed ; how should we blesse him , and blesse God for him , and hold our selues blessed in him ? Now what were peace without religion , but like a Nabals sheepe-shearing ; like the fatting of an Epicurian hogge ; the very festiuall reuels of the Diuell . But for vs ; wee haue Gloria in excelsis Deo , sung before our Pax in terris ; in a word , wee haue Peace with the Gospell . Machiauell himselfe could say in his Discourses , that two continued successions of vertuous Princes ( fanno grandi effetti ) cannot but doe great matters . We proue it so this day ; wherein religion is not onely warmed but locked in her seat so fast , that the gates of hell shall neuer preuaile against it . There haue beene Princes , and that in this land , which ( as the heathen Politician compared his Tyrant ) haue beene like to ill Physitians , that haue purged away the good humours , and left the bad behinde them ; with whom any thing hath beene lawfull , but to be religious . Some of your gray hayres can bee my witnesses . Behold , the euils wee haue escaped , show vs our blessings . Here hath been no dragging out of houses , no hiding of Bibles , no creeping into woods , no Bonnering or Butchering of Gods Saints , no rotting in dungeons , no casting of infants out of the mothers belly into the mothers flames ; nothing but Gods truth aboundantly preached , cheerefully professed , incouraged , rewarded . What Nation vnder heauen yeeldes so many learned Diuines ? What times euer yeelded so many preaching Bishops ? When was this Citie ( the Citie of our ioy ) euer so happy this way , as in these late successions ? Whither can wee ascribe this health of the Church , and life of the Gospell , but , next to GOD , to His example , His countenance , His indeuours . Wherein I may not omit how right he hath trod in the steps of that blessed Constantine , in all his religious proceedings . Let vs in one word parrallel them . Constantine caused fiftie Volumes of the Scriptures to be fayre written out in parchment , for the vse of the Church . King Iames hath caused the bookes of Scriptures to bee accurately translated , and published by thousands . Constantine made a zealous edict against Nouatians , Valentinians , Marcionites . King Iames , besides his powerfull proclamations and soueraine lawes hath effectually written against Popery , and Vorstianisme . Constantine tooke away the liberty of the meetings of heretickes : King Iames hath by wholesome laws inhibited the assemblies of Papists and seismatickes . Constantine sate in the midst of his Bishops , as if hee had been one of them . King Iames besides his solemne conferences , vouchsaues ( not seldome ) to spend his meales in discourse with his Bishops , and other worthy Diuines . Constantine charged his sonnes ( vt planè & sine fuco Christiani essent ) that they should be Christians in earnest . King Iames hath done the same in learned and Diuine precepts which shall liue till time be no more . Yea , in their very coines is a resemblance . Constantine had his picture stampt vpon his mettals , praying . King Iames hath his picture with a prayer about it . O Lord protect the Kingdomes which thou hast vnited . Lastly , Constantine built Churches ; one in Hierusalem , another in Nicomedia . King James hath founded one Colledge , which shall help to build and confirme the whole Church of God , vpon earth . Yee wealthy Citizens that loue Ierusalem , cast in your store after this royall example , into the sanctuary of God , and whiles you make the Church of God happie , make your selues so . Brethren , if we haue any rellish of Christ , any sense of heauen , let vs blesse God for the life of our soule , the Gospel , and for the spirit of this life , his Anointed . But where had beene our peace , or this freedome of the Gospell , without our Deliuerance ? & where had our deliuerance bin without him ? As it was reported of the Oke of Mamre , that al religions rendred their yearly worship there . The Iewes , because of Abraham their Patriarch , the Gentiles because of the Angels that appeared there to Abraham . The christians because of Christ that was there seene of Abraham , with the Angels ; So was there to King Iames in his first beginnings , a confluence of all sects , with papers in their hands , and ( as it was best for them ) with a Rogamus domine , non pugnamus , like the subiects of Theodosius . But our cozens of Samaria , when they saw that Salomons yoke would not bee lightened , soone flew off in a rage . What portion haue we in Dauid ? And now those , which had so soft look't vp to heauen in vaine , resolue to digge downe to hell for aide . Satan himselfe met them , and offred ( for sauing of their labour ) to bring hell vp to them . What a world of Sulphur had hee prouided against that day ? What a brewing of death was tun'd vp in those vessels ? The murderous Pioners laugh't at the close felicitie of their proiect ; and now before-hand seemed in conceit to haue heard the cracke of this hellish thunder , and to see the mangled carkasses of the heretickes flying vp so suddenly , that their soules must needes goe vpward towards their perdition ; the streetes strawed with legges and armes ; and the stones braining as many in their fall , as they blew vp in their rise . Remember the children of Edom , O Lord , in the day of Ierusalem , which said , Downe with it , downe with it , euen to the ground . O daughter of Babel , worthy to be destroyed , blessed shall hee bee that serueth thee , as thou wouldest haue serued vs. But hee that sits in heauen laugh't as fast at them ; to see their presumption that would be sending vp bodies to heauen before the resurrection , and preferring companions to Elias in a fiery Chariot ; and said ( vt quid fremuerunt ? ) Consider now how great things the Lord hath done for vs ; The snare is broken , and wee are deliuered . But how ? As that learned Bishop well applyed Salomon to this purpose , Diuinatio in labijs regis . If there had not been a a diuination in the lips of the King , wee had beene all in iawes of death . Vnder his shadow wee are preserued aliue , as Ieremie speaketh . It is true , God could haue done it by other meanes , but hee would doe it by this , that wee might owe the being of our liues to him , of whom wee held our well-being before . Oh praised be the God of heauen for our deliuerance ! Praised bee God for his Anointed , by whom we were deliuered . Yea how should wee call to our fellow creatures ; The Angels , Saints , heauens , elements , meteors , mountaines , beasts , trees , to help vs praise the Lord for this mercie . And ( as the Oath of the Roman souldiours ranne ) how deare and precious should the life of our Caesar bee to vs , aboue al earthly things ? How should wee haue the base vnthankefulnesse of those men , which can say of him , as one said of his Saint Martin , Martinus bonus in auxilio , charus in negotio ; who whiles they owe him all grudge him any thing . Away with the mention of outward things : all the bloud in our body is due to him , all the prayers & well-wishes of our soules are due to him , How solemnely Festiuall should this day bee to vs , and to our posterities for euer ? How cheerefully , for our peace , our religion , our Deliuerance , should wee take vp that acclamation which the people of Rome vsed in the Coronation of Charles the great , Carolo Iacobo a Deo coronato , magno & pacifico Britannorum Imperatori , vita & victoria . To Charles Iames crowned of God , the great and peaceable Emperour of Britanie , Life and Victorie . And let GOD , and his people say Amen . These were great things indeed , that God did for Israel ; great that hee hath done for vs ; Great for the present , not certaine for the future . They had not , no more haue wee , the blessings of God by entayle , or by lease . Onely at the good will of the Lord ; and that is , during our good behauiour . Sinne is a forfaiture of all fauours . Jf you doe wickedly , you shall perish . It was not for nothing , that the same word in the originall signifies both sinne and punishment ; These two are inseparable . There is nothing but a little prioritie in time betweene them . The Angels did wickedly , they perish't by their fall from heauen . The old world did wickedly , they perish't by waters from heauen . The Sodomites did wickedly , they perish't by fire from heauen . Corah and his company did wickedly , they perish't by the earth . The Egyptians did wickedly , they perish't by the Sea. The Canaanites did wickedly , they perish't by the sword of Israel . The Israelites did wickedly , they perish't by pestilence , serpents , Philistims . What should I runne my selfe out of breath , in this endlesse course of examples ? There was neuer sinne but it had a punishment , either in the Actor , or in the Redeemer . There was neuer punishment , but was for sinne . Heauen should haue no quarrell against vs ; Hell could haue no power ouer vs , but for our sinnes . Those aie they that haue plagued vs , those are they that threaten vs. But what shall bee the iudgement ? Perishing . To whom ? To you and your King. He doth not say , If your King doe wickedly you shall perish , as sometimes he hath done . Nor if your King doe wickedly hee shall perish , although Kings are neither priuiledged from sinnes , nor from iudgements . Nor if you doe wickedly , you onely shall perish ; but if yee doe wickedly , yee and your King shall perish . So neare a relation is there betwixt the King and Subiect , that the sinne of the one reaches to the iudgement of the other , and the iudgement of the one , is the smart of both . The King is the head ; the Commons the stomach ; if the head be sicke , the stomach is affected . Dauid sins , the people dye . If the stomach bee sick , the head complaines . For the transgression of the people are many Princes . What could haue snatch't from our Head that sweet Prince , of fresh and bleeding memorie , ( that might iustly haue challeng'd Othoes name , Mirabilia mundi ) now in the prime of all the worlds expectation , but our trayterous wickednesses ? His Christian modestie vpon his death-bed could charge himselfe . ( No , no , I haue sins enow of mine owne to doe this : ) But this very accusation did cleare him , and burden vs. O glorious Prince , they are our sinnes that are guilty of thy death , and our losse . We haue done wickedly , thou perishedst . An harsh word for thy glorifyed condition . But such a perishing , as is incident to Saints ; ( for there is a Perire de medio , as well as a Perire a facie , ) a perishing from the earth , as well as a perishing from God. It was a ioyfull perishing to thee . Our sinnes haue aduantaged thy soule , which is partly therefore happie , because wee were vnworthy of thee ; but they haue robbed vs of our happinesse in thee . Oh our treacherous sinnes , that haue offred this violence to that sweet hopefull sacred person ! And doe they not yet still conspire against him that is yet dearer to vs , the roote of these goodly branches , the breath of our nosthrils , the Anointed of God ? Brethren , let mee speake it confidently . As euery sinne is a Traytor to a mans own soule , so euery wicked man is a Traitor to his King. Yea euerie one of his crying sinnes is a false hearted rebell that hides ponder and pocket-dags for the precious life of his Soueraine . Any states man may learne this euen of Machiauell himselfe , which I confesse when I red , I thought of the Diuell confessing Christ . That the giuing of God his due is the cause of the greatnesse of any state ; and contrarily , the neglect of his seruice the cause of ruine ; and if any profane Zosimus shall doubt of this point , I would but turne him to Euagrius his Discourse to this purpose , where hee shall finde instances of enow particulars . What euer politick Philosophers haue distinguish't , betwixt bonus vir , and ciuis , I say , that as a good man cannot be an ill Subiect , so a lewd man can no more be a good Subiect , then euill can be good . Let him sooth , and sweare what he will , his sinnes are so many treasons against the Prince and State , for Ruine is from iniquitie , saith Ezechiel . Alas , what safety can wee be in , when such miscreants lurke in our houses , iet in our streetes ; when the Country , Citie , Court , is so full of these spirituall conspiracies ? Ye that are Magistrates ; not for Gods sake onely , but for your Kings sake , whose deputies ye are , as hee is Gods ; not for religion onely , but for very policie , as you tender the deare life of our gracious soueraine ; as you regard the sweet peace of this State , and Kingdome ; the welfare of this Church ; Yea , as ye loue your owne life , peace , welfare , Rouze vp your spirits , awaken your Christian courage , and set your selues heartily against the traitorly sinnes of these times , which threaten the bane of all these . Cleanse ye these Augean stables of our drunken Tauernes , of our profane stages , and of those blind Vaults of professed filthinesse , whose steppes goe downe to the Chambers of Death ; yea , to the deepe of Hell. And yee , my holy brethren , the messengers of God , if there be any sonnes of thunder amongst you , if euer yee ratled from heauen the terrible iudgements of God against sinners , now doe it ; for ( contrarie to the naturall ) the deepe winter of iniquitie is most seasonable for this spirituall thunder . Bee heard aboue , be seene beneath . Out-face sinne , out-preach it , out-liue it . We are starres in the right hand of God , let vs bee like any starres saue the Moone , that hath blots in her face ; or the starre wormewood , whose fall made bitter waters ; or Saint Iudes planets , that wander in irregularities . Let the light of our liues shine in the faces of the world ; and dazle them whom it shall not guide . Then shall wee with authoritie speake what wee doe , when we doe that which we speake . Wee can neuer better testifie our thankefull and loyall respects to so good a King , in whose fauour is our life , and by whose grace wee are vpheld against the vnworthy affronts of this sacrilegious age , then by crying downe , by liuing downe those sinnes which threaten our happinesse in him . And ye , beloued Christians , whose faces seeme worthily to congratulate the ioy of this day , if ye would approue your selues good subiects to our King , labour to bee good subiects to His King , the King of heauen . Away with those rebellious wickednesses which may bee preiudiciall to our peace . In vaine shall wee testifie our loyaltie by these outward ceremonies of reioycing , if wee bee faulty in the substance . To what purpose shall wee ring our bels , if in the meane time we hold fast Salomons ( funes peccatorum ) cords of sinne ; yea the Prophets cart-ropes of iniquitie ; and thereby pull down iudgement vpon our heads ? To what purpose shall we kindle Bonfiérs in our streets , if wee kindle the flames of Gods displeasure against vs by our sinnes ? To what purpose shal ye feast one another in your houses , if you shall feast the fiends of hell with your wilfull sinnes ? Daemonum cibus ebrietas , Hierome saith well , Drunkennesse , luxurie , fornication , and euery sinne is the very diet and dainties of the Diuell . For Gods sake therefore , for your Kings sake , for your owne soules sake , Be good , that you may bee loyall . Oh my brethren , let vs not with old Toby suffer our eyes to bee blinded with the Swallowes dung of this world . Let vs not dare to make a willing shipwracke of conscience , for the venture of a little ballast of gaine . Away with our pride , vsurie , oppression , false weights , false oathes , false faces ; Doe no more wickedly , that wee perish not . They are our sins which as they threaten to lose vs our best friend aboue , ( the God of our saluation ) so they harten our aduersaries against vs on earth . Their hopes , their designes , their wickednesse to vs , hath beene profest to be built vpon ours to God. If they did not see we did euill , they durst not hope we could perish . Authoritie hath wisely and seasonably taken order for disarming of wilfull Recusants . What should weapons doe in the hands of disloyaltie ? Oh that it could take order to strip vs of our sinnes , which will else arme God and his creatures against vs ! The gates of Rome , the gates of hell , could not hurt vs , if wee did not hurt our selues . Oh that wee could so loue our selues , as to part with all our plausible and gainefull euils , that we would this day renue our holy couenants with God , and keepe them for euer ! How would he still feede vs with the finest of the wheate ? How would he that ( as this day ) when we feared a tempest , gaue vs an happie calme , preuent a tempest in our calme when wee feare not ? How safely should our children play , & wee feast in our streets ? How memorable a patterne of mercie should this Hand be to all posterities ? What famous Trophees of victory would hee erect ouer all Antichristianisme amongst vs ? How freely and loud should the Gospell of God ring euery where in the eares of the generations yet vnborne ? How sure should we be , long and long to enioy so gracious , and deare a Soueraine , so comfortable a peace , so happy a gouernment ? euen till this Eue of the Annunciation of the first comming of Christ , ouertake the Day of the Annunciation of his second comming , for our redemption . Which God for his mercies sake , for his Christs sake vouchsafe to grant to vs ▪ Amen . FINIS . Notes, typically marginal, from the original text Notes for div A02547-e160 Decimum quem que annum Imperatores Romani magna festiuitate celebrant . Sozom. l 1. 24. Idem Euseb . de vita Const . Juxta Homer . 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 &c. Psal . 29. Jnter 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pythagorae Oneratis superponendum onus ; id est , ad virtutem incedentibus augmentanda praecepta ; Tradentes se otio relinquendos . Hier. aduers . Ruffin . Psal . 2. Iosh . 24. 14. Eccl. vlt. Iob. de Combis Compend . Theol. Greg. 3. Dial. c. 34. Compunctio formidinis tradit animum compunctioni dilectionis . Pro. 8. 13. Deut. 6. 13. Mat. 4. 11 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Isay 29. 13. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mat. 15. 9. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Plut. Caesare . Act. 23. 10. Heb. 5. 9. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Eccles . 1. 23. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Eccl. 1. 6. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . v. 20. Hem. in Ps . 25. 2. Cor. 7. 11. Psal . 34. 11. Heb. 11. Sic semper Deum praesentem intelligit ac si ipsum qui praesens est in sua essentia vide . rit . Bern. form . bon . vitae . 2. Sam. 15. 26. Senec. Epist . Psal . 36. 1. Ecclus . 1. 26. Rom. 6. 16. Luke 1. 75. Lud. viues de verit . Relig. l. 4 Esay 43. 24. Non reputes magnum quod Deo seruis , sed maximum reputa , quod ipse dignatur te in seruum assumere sibi . Bernard . Psal . 116. Reuel . vlt. Eccles . 10. 7. In mea n. patria Deus venter est , & in diem viuitur & sanctior est ille qui ditior est . Hier. ad Chrematium . Mat. 18. 34. 1. Kin. 21. 20. Col. 2. 8. 1. Thes . 1. 8. Ambrose . Ep. 108. Quidam veniunt vt audiant non vt discant , Aliqui cum pugillaribus veniunt non vt res excipiant sed verba . Theod. l. 4. c. 4. Iob 13. 4. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Euagr. l. 5. c. 1. Didymus veridicus . Onimiùm dilecta Deo cui militat aether : & coniurati veniunt ad classica venti . Claud. Pro. 31. 29. Soz l. 3. c. 19. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ; &c. Dolm. p. 1. p. 216 p. 2. p. 117. Theod. 3. 15. Euseb . de vitae Const . l. 4. c. 4. 1. Sam. 10. 24. Euagr. l. 5. 6. 21 Malmesbur . Plato . Euagr. l. 3. c. 34 Euagr. l 6. c. 1 Sueton. Vesp . Socr. l. 7. c. 22 Watson . B. Barl. answer to Parsons . p 115. E. Com. Northamp . lib. 1 Tum vero & genitus morientum & sanguine in alto . Armaque corporaque & permisti caede virorli Semianimes voluuntur equi . Virg. Aen. 11. Nam cum trisiis hyems alias produxerit vndas , Tum Nilum retinent ripae . Claud. Epigr. Otho . Fris . l. 7. c. 29. Socr. l. 7. c. 22 2 Discors . l. 1. c. 20 Due continuoue successions di principi virtuosi fanno grandi effetti . Plato 8. de Repub. Euseb . de vitae Const . l. 4. c. 36. Lib 3. 61. 62. Lib. 3. 63. Lib. 1. c. 37. In media istorū frequentia accongressu adesse & vna considere non dedignatus . Basil . dor . Lib. 4. 15. Lib. 3. 43. & 24 3 Socr. l. 2. c. 3. Ribera in prophet . min. ex Ioseph . Antiq. lib. 9 vlt. Samaritani Iudaeos cognatos appellare soliti quamdiuillis bene erat . At vbi contra , &c. 1. King. 12. Flectere si nequeo , &c. Psal 137. 7. Pro. 16 10. B. Barlow pag. 350. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . Suet. addit neque me liberosque meos cariores habebo quam Caium & eius sorores . Clodoueus Otho Firs . l. 4. c. 32. Fris . l. 5. c. 31. Otho . 3. Fris. 6. 26. Ossernanza del culto diuiao ecagione della grandezza delle . Cosi il dispregio diqua , &c. Discorsd . 1. c. 11 Euagr. l. 3. c. 41. Ezec. 7. 19. Pro. 7. 27. 9. 18 Reu. 8. 11. Iud. 13. Cum imperio doceiur quod prius agitur quam dicatur . Greg. 23. in Iob. Pro. 5. 22. Hier. de filio prodigo . Daemonum cibus ebrietas , luxuria , fornicatio & vniuersa vitia . Dum nontiniet in sereno patitur tempestatem . Hier. dial . aduers . Pelag.