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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.
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Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656.
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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
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