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A03475	Panēguris D. Elizabethæ, Dei gratiâ Angliæ, Franciæ, & Hiberniæ Reginæ. A sermon preached at Pauls in London the 17. of November ann. Dom. 1599. ... and augmented in those places wherein, for the shortnes of the time, it could not there be then delivered. VVherevnto is adioyned an apologeticall discourse, whereby all such sclanderous accusations are fully and faithfully confuted, wherewith the honour of this realme hath beene vncharitably traduced by some of our adversaries in forraine nations, and at home, for observing the 17. of November yeerely in the forme of an holy-day ... By Thomas Holland, Doctor of Divinity, & her Highnes professor thereof in her Vniversity of Oxford.; Panēguris D. Elizabethae, Dei gratiâ Angliae Reginae	Holland, Thomas, 1539-1612.	1601 (1601)	STC 13597; ESTC S104142	118,907	169

Gods word neither of any constitution of the Primitiue church neither established by any decree of the Catholicke church 8. or 9. hundred yeeres after our Saviour Christ his blessed Incarnation But some will heere obiect that in this discourse I imitate my forefathers of one pretēded reformation and tread in their steppes whoe longe agoe haue proclaimed open warre against Gods saintes especially against the Blessed Virgine the mother of God whome from the time of the conception and birth of our Saviour 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. all generation shal call blessed Vnto whome I make this answere God forbid that I or any one that cal vpon the name of God their God ours should speake dishonourably of the least member of Gods house much lesse of thē that walke with the lambe vpon mount Sion whose teares God hath wiped awaye vvho rest from their labours vvho raigne vvith Christ Ap● Si●a● 〈◊〉 Har lib To. 2. he 68 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Prov. 4. Hom Ilia 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1. Tim. 4. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Iud. 11. by whome the Lord hath gotten great glory who as Epiphanius saith are Sanctum honore quies ipsorum ingloria profectio ipsorum tunc in perfectione sor●s ipsorum in beatitudine in mansionibus sanctis tripudium cum Angelis diaeta in caelo conversatio tra●vines scripturis gloria in honore incomparabili ac perpetuo bravia in Christo Iesu Domino nostro per quem et cum quo gloria Patri cum sancto spiritu in saecula saeculorum Amen Saintes in honor vvhose rest is in glory vvhose departure berchence is in perfection vvhose portion is in perpetuall blisse in holy mansions their ioy with the Angels their diet in heaven their conversation in the divine scriptures their glory and honor incomparable and everlasting their crowne in Christ Iesus our Lord by whome and with whome be all praise to the Father vvith the holy Ghost now and for ever Amen Neither let any bee seduced with any such sinister persuasion that any one that professeth sincere religion hath any misconceipt or will vse any dispitefull or contumelious speeches against the mother of God to whome the Angell Gabriell saide 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Haile thou that artfreely beloued the lord be with the In the Epithet of whose name the glorie of her vertues shineth as Epiphanius hath demonstrated in the places marginally noted yet heerein vvee must ever obserue this caveat in all speech wherein vvee mention her honour that none of these attributes titles and dignities whereby shee is remembred be not waies derogatory to Gods glory or raungingly waver out of the limittes that Gods holy word hath prescribed vnto vs to bound our selues in which thing the same Epiphanius also hath in holy descretion in the places before specified very sincerely delivered vnto vs The nature of man hardly stayeth himselfe in one place and is ever indangered by his owne sl●pperinesse or lubricity sometimes it bowes to much on the right hand sometimes it bendes to much on the left hand it rūnes sometimes one point to much vpon Sylla by and by it crosseth a contrarie course vppon the gulfe Charybdis not able to keepe his current 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Besides both fire and water as the Poet hath saide which thing how true it is this present argument manifestly desciphereth some sortes of people lend eare to much to the Andicomarians some listen to much to the Collyridians some speake despitefully of the B. Virgine and that is impiety some make her a God by deifying her and that is a madd fury This humor invegled certeine women in Arabia to offer sacrifice to the B. Virgine blasphemously In which service was fulfilled that of the Apostle In the later times some shall depart from the faith and shal giue heede to spirites of errour and doctrine of devils Erunt enim t●quit mortuis euitum divinum prestantes quemadmodum etiam in Israell coluerunt For there shal be saith he such as veelae the divine worshippe to the deade as there were also in Israell This spectacle one may palpably find in them of Sichem that haue in like sorte honoured the daughter of Iephthe vvhich vvas once offered to God in sacrifice by her fathers vowe And in Thermutis the daughter of the king of Aegypt who was foster-mother vnto Moses Concerning all actions of like quallity I conclude in this sorte with the same Epiphanius 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 It is not meete to honor saints beyond that which is meete but rather to honor their master and maker The body of Mary the B. Virgine was holy but not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Shee was a Virgin to be honored yet not a God to be adored but she adored him which was borne of her flesh which also descended from heaven out of the bosome of his Father let Mary the blessed Virgin be honored the father the sonne the holy ghost onely be adored For if God will not haue Angels adored much lesse the B. Virgin which was begotten by Ioachim conceiued by Anna which was giuen to her parents praiers according to promise yet was she noe othervvise borne then as naturally man is borne of the seede of man conceiued in the wombe of her mother There remaineth yet of this argument the discoursing of the Minor which I beseech you in like manner giue me leaue to vnfold vnto you In the Ecclesiasticall service perfourmed in the church of England the 7. of September and the 17. of November at these times some rites are vsed dishonourable to GOD and to the office of the B. Virgin the mother of God I demaund the adversaries conviction herein The evidence herein saith the Accuser I demonstrate in this manner To the greate contempte of the B. Virgin you make the 7. of September an holiday which is the Even of the B Virgines Nativity This 7. you solemnize most devoutly this day you significantly note in your Calender with red letters but the day of the Nativity of the B. Virgine you expresse onely in blacke Characters c. The first part of the Accusation implieth thus much omitting that which is spoken of the noting of the 7. of September the day of Queene Elizabeths Nativity with red lines referring you to mine answere herein in the argument of the second generall head England nowe-adaies celebrateth with greater devotion the 7. of Septēber their Queene Elizabeths birth-day being the Even of the Nativity of the B. Virgine then the feast of her Nativity namely the B. Virgine First I deny that the church of England celebrateth the 7. of September as an holie day let the adversary proue this by practise or president Canonicall or decree Episcopall or Archiepiscopall of the presēt church of England let me beare the shame of it I answere to this with the Orator pro Muraena Cicer. pro Mur. Haec sivera essent sunt severi Accusatoris sin

which actions as farre forth exceede the reach of our capacities vnlesse we be inlightened from aboue daily exercised in holy meditations as the earth is from the heavens as the plaine is from the depth as flesh and blood is from Gods kingdome To the danger or perill of the losse of her kingdome I answere seeing it was the Lords doing to stir her vp to take this iourney her country could not be rebellious for God no questiō thē dwelled in the middest of her people by his mighty power that God that accōpanied her in her iourney to Ierusalē was also glorified by Salomon in ●erusalem spake there out of the Mercy seat Now where God is in the middest of a people Psal 46.5 how shall that nation be moved God shall helpe such a prince early This our God will make the warres to cease there hee will breake the bow cut the speare and burne the chariots he will still the rages of such seas asswage all fury in such people and such seas then shall haue sands from God to stop their overflowing all such people shall then haue railes to keep thē in al such surge● shal haue shore rockes to binde them in or to breake them Besides how could this woman feare any tumult or rebellion at home or amongst her owne people when as the text saith shee came to Ierusalem beshem-Iehovah which thing also Rabbi Kim●y hath obserued And in that her action was a figure of the church of the Gentiles as I haue before obserued out of Isidore Eucherius Angelomus and since we finde that which Gregory hath expressed 1. Moral Greg. ●● 〈◊〉 Vt ad ostendēdam innocentiam venit Abel c. As Abell came to be a paterne of innocency Enoch of integrity Noe of a long-patient perseverance both of good hope and weldoing Abraham of obedience Isaac of chastity of of mariage Iacob of tolerancie in labour Ioseph of repaying evill with good Moses of mildenesse Ioshua of constancie in adversitie Iob of patience in affliction and all these were as morning starres shining before the sun as it were forerunners and types of the true messias who succeeded them so the church of the Gentiles was prefigured in Rahab of Iericho Ruth of Moab Pharaohs daughter espowsed to Salomon in the little sister which then had no breastes Cant. 8.8 and nowe in this honourable princesse the Queene of the south here specified commended farre preferred in Gods kingdome and received thereinto whē incredulous Scribes Epicureall Sadduces blasphemous Pharises shall be cast into vtter darkenesse where is weeping and gnashing of teeth The obiection being dissolved the internall cause that moved this Queene to vndertake this iourney is next to be handled But what moved this noble Queene to come to Ierusalem Wisd 7. The first thing that moved her questionlesse was the secret working of the holy Ghost that finger of God that spirit of vnderstanding which is holy subtile moueable cleare vndefiled pure intellectuall who as the winde Ioh. 18. bloweth whither it listeth whose sounde none hearing knoweth either from whence it commeth or whither it goeth Sap. 1. who being one can doe all things and remaining in it selfe renueth all thinges Pro. 21. who entereth into holy soules maketh them friends of God Prophets this holy spirit mooved the heart of this mighty Queene in whose power the heartes of princes are who turneth them as the rivers of waters whither soever it pleaseth him If it be therfore not laborious for the influence of the heavens not only to heat the inferior bodies that lie in the superficial part of the earth aire but also to worke by a secret vertue in such mettals as are hidden in the bowels of the earth and are vnsensible in thēselues according to that of Saint Ambrose offic 1.14 Ambrose offic 1.14 Quid autem tam stoliaum quam putare c. But what is so foolish as to thinke that any thing as hidden from God whereas the sunne who ministreth vs light pierceth into hidden corners and the force of his heate entereth into the very foundations of our houses secret closets who can deny but that by the temperate heate of the spring the inward bowels of the earth are warmed which before were fast congealed with winter frostes Trees also haue a sense of the force of heate colde in so much that their very rootes are either killed with colde or revived with the cherishing heate of the Sunne The earth also displa●●th her variety of fruit as soone as the aire waxeth moderate If then the beames of the Sun be able to disperse their light over the whole earth and can neither be hindered by yron barres nor close wickets from making entrance into our closest roomes and shall not the intelligible brightnes of God diffuse it selfe into the inmost cogitations of men and diue into those heartes which it selfe hath created 1. Cor. 2. Was it not easie then for Gods holy spirit which searcheth al things yea the deepe things of God which searcheth the corners of mans heart sealeth our election which is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the earnest of our inheritance Eph. 1. Rom. 8. which crieth abba father in our hearts and beareth witnesse vnto vs that we are Gods children which maketh request for vs with sighes that cannot bee expressed by whom all things were fashioned Heb. 4. vnto whose eies all things are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Naked and laide open whose operation is mighty liuely sharper then any two edged sword entereth through even to the dividing asunder of the soule and the spirit and of the iointes and of the marrow is a discerner of the thoughts intents of the hart vnto whose sight there is no creature which is not manifest was it not easie I say thē for that holy spirit which is infinite in power incomprehensible in maiesty and because he is God is as the Schoolemen say vbique praesens Lōb S●nt 1. D●si 37. per essentiam praesentiam pot●ntiam Every where subsistent by his essence praesence and power to mooue the heart of this holy Queene to come to Ierusalem to draw her heart after Salomon as rivers follow the spring tydes as the orbe draweth the planet as primum mobile The first spheare which is moved draweth the inferiour spheres against their owne course as Elias his mantle cast on Elisha made him run after him 1. King 19.10 in as much as by this holy spirite all things are created and moved Hercules Gallus and all other oratours drawe by the eares but this holy Queene was drawen by the hearte in that maner of drawing Cant. 1.3 that the spowse in the Cant●cles is drawen after him whom her soule loveth in those lines of loue that our Saviour speaketh of in the sixth of Iohn Nemo venit ad me Ioh. 6. nisi pater meus traxerit

cedar tree which is in lebanon euen vnto the hyslop that springeth out of the wall Hee spake also of beasts and of fowles and of creeping thinges and of fishes And there came of all people to heare the wisdome of Salomon from all kings of the earth which had heard of his wisdome These things are repeated againe in the 10. chap. of the same booke 1. King 10 So king Salomon exceeded all the kings of the earth both in riches and wisdome And all the world sought to see Salomon to heare his wisdom which God had put in his heart And they brought euery man his present vessells of siluer and vessels of gold and raiment and armour sweet odors horses mules from yeere to yeere Sap. 7. To this consenteth that which is in the 7. of wisedome God gaue Salomon true vnderstanding of things that are so that hee knew the world was made and the powers of the elements the begining and the end and the mids of the times how the times alter and the change of the seasons the course of the yeare and the situacion of the starres the name of liuing things and the furiousnes of beasts the power of the windes and the imaginacions of men the diuersity of plants and the vertue of rootes and all things both secret knowne did he know for wisedome the woorker of all things taught him And heereunto cōsenteth that of Sirachs son Eccle. 47. chap. 47. How wise was Salomon in his youth Hee was sided with vnderstanding as a floud His minde couered the whole earth filled it with graue and darke sentences His name went about in the Iles and for his peace he was beleeved And this wisedome of Salomon which was giuen him by God was either Vniversalis quaedam sapientia A certaine vniversall wisedome For his heart was large by his wisedome which was as the sand of the sea in number his heart was filled with vnderstanding as a floud hee excelled all men in wisedome Or els this wisedome was particularis Particular In naturall causes which consisted in knowing of birds beasts hearbs elements fishes trees influences astronomicall situatiō of starres of prouerbs and darke sentences of musike of Diuinity which appeareth by his praier in the dedication of the temple by the resolution of the Queenes questions which shee proposed vnto him There were the lines and cords of admiration which drew people out of all nations to bee desirous to see Salomon as now what a concourse wold bee to see such a man as should excell in such gifts that should shine in such qualities that should glister with so manifold and miraculous graces These gifts of God these graces and these vertues were the cords I say that drew the whole world after Salomon and made all the world desirous to see Salomon This was that attractiue quality that drew such a concourse of people out of all the earth to see Salomon this was the loadestone that drew the heart of this honorable Queene of the south as it were a needle and incensed her with an holy zeale to come to see and to conferre with king Salomon Yet all this ●dome of Salomon was nothing in comparison of the wisedome of Christ in whome the fulnes of the Godhead Coloss 2. Cōll 2.9 dwelt 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Bodily and vpon whom rested those manifolde giftes of the holy Ghost spoken of Isa 11.2 Esay 11.2 the spirit of wisedome and vnderstanding the spirit of counsell and strength the spirit of knowledge of the feare of the Lord whom Salomon in figure represented and of whom this Queene by Salomon sought to be instructed Heere I should enter into the figure betweene Christ and Salomon but because the time passeth away speedily I will summarily conclude Salomon an earthly king Christ our Saviour a king of heaven rex regum Dominus domina●trum king of kings and Lord of Lordes Salomon drew some of all nations to heare him Christ our Saviour drew all nations after him to heare him and to beleeue in him Salomon raigned in Ierusalem in the land of Israell Christ our Saviour his dominion is vnto the vttermost endes of the earth Salomons raigne was but for forty years Christs raigne for ever Salomon a man Christ God and man Salomons wisedome definite Christs wisdome infinite Salomon had plenty of silver in Ierusalem almuggim trees c. gold and precious stones Christ gaue ioy of soules peace of conscience comfort of the spirit and life everlasting by powring out his spirit vpon all flesh We read not that Salomō spake with many tongues but Christ sending downe the holy Ghost gaue cloven and fierie tongues and made young men to see visions old men to dreame dreames and maidens to prophecy Briefly Ioel. 2. Act. 2. Salomons benefites were specially earthly or if they were spirituall they were infused by revelation but vpon our Saviour Esay 11.2 there resided the spirit of wisedome of counsell Isa 11.2 c. Christ was annointed with the oile of gladnesse and ioy aboue his fellowes and as Saint Iohn saith cap. 1.14 We saw the glory of him Ioh. 1.14 as the glory of the only begotten sonne of God full of grace and truth And of his fulnesse haue we all received grace for grace Lastly Salomon was but a shadow or figure Christ the substance figured So of this comparison let this suffice The next thing to be handled that followeth the motiues which drew this Queene to Ierusalē are the paines that this noble Queene taketh to come to Salomon Proverb 1. Wisedome in the booke of the proverbs vttereth her voice in the streetes and shee calleth in the high streetes among the presse and entering of the gates yet the fooles of this world whom shee calleth refuse to come when shee stretcheth out her hand they wil not regard when shee admonisheth they will despise her correction Proverb 9. when they are invited to her feast they refuse to come when they are charmed by the wise charmer they will stop their eares like a deafe adder they will saie villam 〈◊〉 I haue bought a farme or vxo●em duxi I haue married a wife c. as the excusers of themselues in the parable Luc. 14.18 Luc. 14.18.20 But this noble Queene shee doth otherwise as the needle shee will follow the load-stone as the loadstone will by secret influence follow the North star as the heliotropium will turne towardes the sunne This may be seene in the paines of her iourney by her comming from Mero● to Ierusalem Ierusalem Long. 66. Latit 31. The north pole is elevated at Ierusalem 31. degrees as Cosmographers doe define every degree containeth 60. miles in earth the distance of Meroe from the aequinoctiall line is 16. degrees according to Ptolomees tables Meroe Long. 61. Latit 16. Ptolem. tab geograph The difference of longitude must also be considered so Meroe from Ierusalem is distant 15.

that iudgment which Christ our Sauiour shall then pronounce is true and iust when the sentence shall be giuen for the godly venite benedicte c. come yee blessed and the contrary sentence shall be vttered against the wicked Ite maledicto c. goe yee cursed This sentēce I say the godly shall with their approbation testify such honor shall bee giuē to al Gods Saints And in this sence that honor is giuē to the faithfull to iudge and to condemne according to this iudgment of approbatiō in that place of S. Iohn And after these things I heard a great multitude in heauen saying Halleluiah Apoc. 19. saluatiō honour glory power be to the Lord our God For true righteous are his iudgments for he hath condemned the great whore which did corrupt the earth with her fornication hath auenged the bloud of his seruants shed by her hand And againe they saide Halleluiah her smoke rose vp for evermore And the 24 elders and the four beastes fell downe and worshiped God that sate one the throne sayinge Amen Halleliuah Eph. 1. 1. Cor. 6.3 According to this forme of iudgement I suppose also these words may be vnderstood of S. Paul For I accord with Bezaes exposition that the faithfull shall iudge the Angels 1. Diabolū cum suis Angelis Lastly according to this iudgment of Approbation this holy and Godly Q. of the South shal iudge condēne the incredulous ewes the hard hearted Iewes I say in whose streets Christ our Saviour prophecied in whose streetes Christ our Savior cast out Divels amōgst whō he did so many good deedes and wrought so many miracles who did stop their eares like deafe Adders rather then they would heare him who was far greater then K. Salomō whō K. Salomon shadowed who infused to K. Salomō his great wisdom who did not only stop their ears rather thē they wold hear him but withal did spet out venim against him that sought to saue thē who did not only spet out venim against him but with their tailes stung him to death who called them of his infinite goodnes to repentance who praied for their conversion when they crucified him To which Saviour with the Father and the holy Ghost be all honour power and dominion rendered both now for euer Amen THE APOLOGIE OR DEFENCE of the Church and Common-wealth of England for their annuall celebration of Q. Elizabeths Coronation day the 17. of Novemb. HAving in the Sermon or treatise going before sufficiētly as I take it discoursed of each point naturally issuing out of the generall fountaine of the text wherin the Queene of the South hit holy Peregrination is summarily and perspicuously described by our Saviour Mat. 12.42 Luk. 11.31 instanced in inferred by him in the way of comparison to convince the Iews of vngrateful obstinacy obstinate infidelity wilful refusall of the light of the blessed Gospel by his ministery revealed vnto thē And having at large in the preface of this booke yeelded some reasons whereby I rather bound my selfe to this text then any other at that time annexing therevnto by way of illation such matter as I tooke to be pertinent to my purpose convenient for the present occasion It remaineth now that to these heads before specified I should adioine in manner of Apology a discourse of a controversie somwhat appendent and belonging to the matter antecedent In which Apologie I haue vndertaken as farre forth as God shal enable me to defend that the celebration of the festivitie in these times yearely solemnized the seventeenth of November by the people of this Land to Gods glory and her Maiesties comforte is an office in it selfe sacred religious no waies repugnaunt to Gods holy worde and the constitutions of the holy Catholique Church And that the triumphs the signes of ioye that day performed by the faithfull and dutifull subiectes of this Realme and such orderly disportes are things in their owne nature laudable commendable and in no sort disagreeable with the actions of any wel governed state or wel ruled common-wealth I haue vndertaken the handling of this argument by the assistaunce of Gods holy spirit vpon these reasons First because this argument suiteth my former treatise is Odyss 9. as I may tearme it with the Greeke Poet 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a fragment though not naturally issuing out of it yet necessarily by the way of consequence ioined with it Next in this treatise all faithful subiects of this Realme may behold as in a glasse the good fruites that due obedience vsually bringeth forth to their great peace and comfort and to the good examples of many ages following what offices of benevolence all true subiectes owe by the law of God and man to their princes superiours governours Rom. 13. who beare the sword by Gods ordinaunce for their defence vnder whose shadow they are shrowded in whose branches they builde vnder whose patronage by Gods holy institution they are shielded Thirdly for that I hope by the plaine and effectuall handling of this present argument that many of her Maiesties subiectes which haue beene contrarily perswaded by certaine seditious spirits privily lurking in this Realm wil vpon the iust view diligent reading of this discourse be reclaimed from then former misconceipts which they had before vnadvisedly made approbation of Fourthly for that in mine opinion the sincere clearing of these accusations contained in this treatise ex officio appertaine to him vpō whom the office of preaching the 17. of November at Paules is by authority imposed Lastly for that the blossomes of this Apologie shall I hope in short time by Gods grace yeeld some fruits of gratitude not altogither vnseemly to present her Highnesse with all by whose honorable stipend I haue beene relieved these many yeares in this famous Vniversity and by whose magnificence when I served the Church of God in the Netherland being Chaplaine to the Earle of Leceister his Honor I was graciously rewarded Moreover I doe beseech all that shall reade this treatise not rashly to condēne at the first sight any thing that shall be inferred in the discourse and shall concerne this present argument this treatise being meere Apologetical indited of no gal of bitternes but only penned to this ende to iustifie the Church and common-wealth of England in the action of the solemnizatiō vsed yearly in these times the 17. of November and to satisfie them that haue beene contrarily perswaded by such as haue not wished well vnto the state of Religion now publiquely professed in this Realme and to the blessed peace which through Gods mercy England hath long enioied doth yet enioy and God grant it may long enioy vnder the happy regiment of Queene Elizabeth desiring them that haue been otherwise instructed Tertul. Apolog c. 1. with Tertullian that adversariorum infestatio non obstruat viam defension● But that ●●ceat veritati vel occulta via

Sanct 1. Ser. 20. Secōdly S. Austine de Sanctis affirmeth Post illum sacrosanctum Domini Natalis diem nullius hominum Nativitate legimus celebrar● nisi solius beati Iohannis Baptistae In alijs sanctis electis Dei novimus illum diem coli quo illos post consummationem laborum devictum triumphatumque mundum in perpetuas aeterni●atei praesens haec vita parturit In ali●s consummata vltimi die● merita celebrantur 〈◊〉 hoc etiam prima dies ipsa etiam hominis ●●tia consecrantu● pro hac absque d●bio causa quta per hunc Dominus adventum suum ne subitò homines ●●sperati m●on ag●●scerent volu●t esse testatum Iohannes autem figura fuit vereuis I estamenti in se fo●mam praetulit legis ideò Iohannes praenunciavit salvatorem sicut lex gratiam praecurrit Besides that holy day of the Nativity of our Lord we read of no Saints day that is celebrated but only the nativity of Iohn the Baptist Wee doe know concerning other Saints and elect of God that day to bee remembred in honor by vs wherein the last day of this present life was made a passage vnto them to eternall blessed ●esse af●er they had finished their course in this vale of misery and triumphantlie made a conquest of this world of vanitye In other Saincts wee remember their consummat merites of their last houre but in this Saint that is Iohn Baptist his first day the very first fruits of his nativity are cōsecrated or hallowed questiōlesse for this cause because the Lord would haue his comming testified by him least vpon the suddaine men should not acknowledge him whom they in the dulnesse of their hearts did not hope for For Iohn was a figure of the old testament and carried in him selfe a figure of the law therefore Iohn foretolde of our Saviour as the lawe went before grace and in his second sermon in eodem festo Natalem Sancti Iohannis fratrescharissio i hodi● celebramus Aug de Sāctus 21. Se. quod nulli vnquam Sanctorum legimus fursse concessum Solius enim Domini beati Iohannis dies nativitatis in vniverso mundo celebratur colitur we celebrate dea●e brethren this day the birth of S. Iohn which prerogatiue we doe not read to haue beene granted to any other Saint For only the birth-day of our Lorde and Iohn the Baptist is celebrated in the whole world B●ronius Ser. 8 Besides Cardinall Baronius confesseth that the French Church in the time of Carolus Magnus and Lodovicus P●us knew not of it Con●l Mogua Cano 55 as it appeareth in Cōcilio Mogunti●o celebrated about the eight hundred and thirteenth yeare after Christ Vsvardus Ma●yro I●hannes M●tu●us Sigebe tu● Iemblace de v●●● hist Ca. 85. as it appeareth by the 35. Canon of that councell wherein no mention at all is made of ●he Feast of the Nativity of the B. Virgine In this also obserue that in Vsuardus Martyrologe this festivity is foisted in en● by Iohannes M●a●us who hath caused this Martyrol●ge of Vsuardus to be printed a new For it could not be that this feast could be at that time in asmuch as Vsuardus liued in the time of Carolus Magnus at whose commaund hee collected his Martyrologe Thirdly I doe answere that the groundes of the Feastes of the Nativity of the B. Virgine are meere repugnant to h●ly scripture Dur●nd lib 7 Rational di in offi●io c 58 Psal 45.5 according as they were laide downe in Durandus The Feasts of the Nativity of the B Virgin Mary saieth Durandus is this day celebrated because the B. Virgine was sanctified in her mothers wombe This he endevoureth to verifie by a place of the 14. Psal according to the Latine namely the 5. Verse Sanctificavit tabernaculum suum Attissimus c. which place in no sense approueth that vvhich Durandus affirmeth of the Nativity of the B Virgin Moreover the book which was writtē of the birth of the Nativity of the B. V●●g●ne is forbidden to be read in the church Annotat in Vsuardum apud Iohānem Molansi 8. Sept. Breviar secundum Vsū Sarum parte 1. de Nativ B.V. Durand rational divin officiorum because some of the auncient Fathers haue iudged it Apocryphall Lastly that cause that Durandus yeeldeth of the institution of the celebration of this Feaste is meere fabulous namely Quod quidam vir religiosus pluribus annis audivit Angelos in hac ●octe solemrizantes in calis cui causam qua renti revelatum est A gelos gaudere quoniam Beata Virgo nata fuit in illa nocte quod Apostolicus authenticavit et Festum celebrari praecepit vt in solemnizando caelesti Curiae conformemur That there was a certaine religious man that for many yeares as this right hard the Angels melodiously triumphing in heavē to whome seeking out the cause it was revealed that the angels did reioyce because the blessed Virgine was borne on that night which the power apostolike hath made authentical cōmāded that f●ast to be celebrated that in solemnizing therof we might so be conformable to the heavenly company Fourthly I answere that that office which that day is prescribed by the Canōs of the church of Rome to be obserued in the vniversall church is many waies derogatory to the glory of the sonne of God as it appeareth in the Breviary secundum vsum Sarum For vvhat the doe these wordes impart Cuius vita gloriosa lu●en dedit seculo ipsa conteret eaput tuū And these Ave regina calorū ave Domina angelorum Virgo Moria facta est imperiosa secundum charitatem erga superos ac super inferos per districtionem Alma redemptor is mater quae pervia coeli Porta manens et stella maris succurre cadenti c. Haile Queene of heaven Haile Queene of the Angels the Virgin Mary is made imperiour Ladylike by loue towards the saints in heaven and by regorouse severity over them that are in hell O blessed mother of redemption which art the ready way and gate of heaven orient starr of the sea helpe and succour me that are nowe falling Or these words Cū iucunditate nativitatē B. M●riae celebremus Vt ipse pro nobis interceant ad dominū nostri● C●●u Iesū Let vs with all ioyfullnesse solemnize the birth of the Blessed Virgine Mary that shee may be a mediator for vs to our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ Bellar prae fat 7. cōtr Tom. 1. Tantus est in libris moribus hae reticotum Sanctorum omniū cōtemptus tāquam horribitesque in omnes coelitos blasphemiae vt ego hi●c pot●ssimùm vehemēter admi●●t divini numinis patientiam 1. Cor. 10. For these such like matters implied in the feast of the Nativity the reformed churches haue memorably abrogated the Feast of the Nativity of the B. Virgin as a feast of mans invention noe waies ground vpon the authority of

Pessunt nova in Dei benefici orum memoriam festa institut New feast daies may be appointed for the remembrance of Gods benef●ics I say in regard of such benefi●es that God either by himselfe or by his Saintes hath or shall conferre vpon his Church at any time By this collection I inferre this first that our sacred celebrities haue warrant out of Gods word Secondly that if the Church of this Realme should prescribe it to be observed as they doe obserue other Holy-daies that it had sufficient warrant for it in regarde of the premised examples Ser. li. Iud. cap. 6. com especially since as the same Serrarius hath noted that the Church which now is is endued with that authority wherewith the Church of the Iewes vvas indued Torneamēta though they be cōdemned in Decret lib. 5. tit 13 c. 1 yet ours being not of the nature Quod duellum c cannot in equity bee so censured especially beeing performed without hatred of the parties before only for recreation namely as the Synagogue did then institute some feasts so the Church may doe now In the like manner the sayd Churches authority extendeth so far that in abrogation of festivities corrupted they may follow that authority which the Synagogue had time place and persons every other circumstaunce considered according to the premises Lastly I haue evidently demostrated in handling the ansvvere to the 4. generall reason that the triumphant disportes vsed at Courte that day namely the 17. of November are exercises no waies heathnish ridiculous foolish but such as are laudable commēdable in themselues being rightly vsed such as they themselues in like forme exhibite in farre greater measure to their rulers governors Princes Popes Epilogus GReat alterations haue bin raised in Europe this last hundred yeares or Century Anno Do. 1600. Periodically begining in the 8. yeare of Alexand the 6. Pope cōtinued to Clem 8 regiment beeing Pope ending in a Romish Iubile at which time Maximilian was Emper. the 17. of K. Henry the 7 the 42 of Queene E. l. z beth Rev. c. 10 Councel of Nice the 6. Canon Dan 7. Revel 16. and greate changes through the world haue issued herevpon but omitting all civil broyles and all bloudy warres that haue beene managed vpon other causes giue mee leaue good Reader breefly to speake my minde of such marvelous effectes that haue insued the miraculous alteration of Religion in this Century of our age The mysterye whereof and whole history was prophetically seene by S. Iohn in the Revelation the 10. Chapter in the vision of the mighty Angell that came dovvne from heaven clothed with a clowde and the raignebowe about his heade his face shining as the Sunne his feete as pillers of fire c. The originall of this alteration first flowed vpon the revoulte of many Christian nations from the Sea of Rome being one of the 4. Seas Patriarchichall and Apostolicall by the 6. Canon of the great Counsel of Nice established Which sea was in great honor over al the world as long as the Romaine Empire monarchically ruled triumphed represēted by that vgly beast which had ●rō teeth prophecied of in the 7. Daniell held the sterne of a great part of the worlde and ruled regally over the 10. kings spoken of in the Revelation The occasions of this revolte were the declination of the Sea of Rome frō the sincerity of the faith Apostolike and the vnspeakable corruption which had crept into that Sea or Papacy For herevpon immediate●y diverse nations inlightened from aboue in the sincere light of Gods worde according to the former prophecy seene by S. Iohn in spirit which had been long ecclipsed by the darke shadowe of of humane traditions beganne to withdrawe themselues from the bondage of that Babylon endevoring to restore religion in their severall kingdomes dominions to the auncient and Apostolicke for no Imitating heerin the going of A●l●●o build N●●ivch ●en 1 1. relinquishing ●●bel Abrahams le●ui●● Vr of the Childres Ierem 51.9 sounded vpon the inf●●l●ble rule Canon of holy scripture revealed in the olde and newe testament vvhich separation from the Sea of Rome was not to be misliked partly because the sea of Rome persecuted the professors of this reform 〈◊〉 with si●e and sworde and with all bloudy mass●cres partly for that Rome would admitte no reformation of her c●●ruptions but grew vncurable according to that of the Prophet Ieremy Wee would haue cured Babylon but shee would not be healed forsake her and let vs goe every one into his owne country For her iudgmente is come vp vnto heavē and in lifted vp to the clawdes The ●ssues of this alteration hath produced wonderfull effects betweene two sorts of people the named Catholickes and Protestants For although divers subdivisions of sects haue in this last Century sprong vp yet al the rest haue beene but handfuls to these two namely to the Catholickes and Protestantes out of these haue issued the greatest lamps of learning by these two most books haue beene written by these two greatest States haue been ruled altered greatest Regiments haue beene managed The others haue beene but petty Conventicles sometimes here sometimes there sprowring rising falling favored of some few in few yeares declining sometimes bl●sted by the secular power sometimes dying by devouring one another the better and wiser the chiefest part ever bending themselues to the embracing of one of these and to no other These 2. how they haue beene b●nded one against the other all the world knoweth the bookes written vpon both the sides testifie their great enmity in the eies of all people hath desciphered resembling by effectes in sequele though not in original the schisme of Israel frō Iuda originally springing from Salomons sinne seconded by Ieroboās crafty pollicy 1 King 12 2. Chron 10 K. Roboams folly God iustly punishing king Salomons Idolatry Howe faire the malice of this division shall extende it selfe and how long it shall continue God only knoweth who d●sposeth and ordereth al things in their due seasons Dan. 2.21 2. Pet 3.8 before whom a thousande yeares are but as one day to wh●●e e●e● all future thinges are infallibly present Only this we know that this division hath bred in many mens mindes irreconciliable hatred as we finde in effect The manifestation wherof may be seene evidently in this short T●●atise ●nd is felte sensibly through out al kingdomes of C●tendome into which the venome of this Gargr●na hath bin dispersed This I say the ●eader shall easily find in this short Treatise if hee wil but examine vpon vvhat sl●ight reasons and how weake grounds the honor of this flourishing ●ealme the excellēcy of our gracious Queene 〈◊〉 G●d long preserue the sincerity of the Apostolicke Religiō which we professe are fought to be disgraced depraved and sc●andered by men zealous of pretended Catholicisme Divers remedies haue beene fou●ht to su●e the festred sores of this cankred diverce whereof some of them haue bin touched by Iacobus Acontius in his bookes de stratagemate Sathans ●y lest●rus others Iac. Acont lib. 8. de stratagem Sat. ●eslerus Genes 33. Ieremy Exodus But this vlceri growne to such ha● h●ad that no b●l● can cu●e● no balme I saie but his who reconciled Ep●● to Iacob which brought the people of Israell out of the Aegyptian Babylonian bōdage and thraldome to their owne land the land of promise which can giue spirit to the rotten and deade bones to whom Ezechiel was cōmanded to prophecie Ezekiel 37. which cāioine the two pieces of wood into one wherein the names Iuda Ephraim and Israell were in disiointment severally written which can renue our hearts and giue vs grace to walke in his waies after hee hath discouered vnto vs the greevousnes of our sinnes which by his great and s●rill sounding trumpet Saint Paule hath foretolde of the conversion version of the stifnecked generation which crucifi●d the Lorde of life Roman 11. and is able to graf●e in againe to the Oliue the broken branches fallen away th●ough vnbeliefe branches not only broken but also withered Bese●ch we him to performe this according to his good will and pleasure who only is wise only is holy only omnipotent and mercifull who is God almighty and blessed for euer To this God the Father the Sonne and the holy Ghost be all honor glory and dominion world without end Amen FINIS