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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

heauen dwell vnder whom all flesh is sed if I say this tree bring not foorth good fruit answerable to his place neglect the sacrifice of God● tabernacle this watch man I say which the holy prophet saw that Holy one which came downe from heauen Dan. 4.11 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 chaldaicè vide Theodoret in Dan. 4. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 schol graec 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 aliud schol 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Annot. bib graec Rom. excus Pererius a Iesuit hath writtē imperfectly of this word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pintus hath spokē more to purpose vpon that place yet not perfectly will cry a lowd H●w downe the tree and breake of his branches shake of his leaues scatter his fruit that the beasts may flee from vnder it and the fowles from his braunches I should heere enter into the descriptiō of that sacred cōfession which this holy Queene maketh to God glorifying him that for his names sake and for Israel his peoples sake had set on the throne of Israel such a king as Salomon was had blessed him with so great a measure of his spirit and made him king to doo equitie and righteousnes But this part cannot now be polished or amplifyed by my discourse least I be over tedious to you partly for that some things of this discourse may not vnfittly be vsed in the application The last part These things sufficiently discoursed vpon the last part of my text offereth itselfe to mine handling which is the action of this honorable person in another world in the life to come and in the day of the generall resurrection Her action honour in the life to come is demonstrated in these woords or testimony of our Sauiour The Queene of the S●wth shall rise in iudgment with this generation and shall cōdēne it This great person was by sexe as you haue heard a woman by vocation a Queene in wealth abundant in knowledge a rare Phaenix in trauail laborious in disputations learned in obseruation discreet in behauiour honorable and wise in traine magnificall in rewardinge Salomon heroicall in religion studious zealous and fervent Yet al these except the reward of her religiō haue at length an end her kingdōe shee was to leaue to her lawful successors the abundāce of her riches to her trusty executors her knowledge experimētal in ciuil actiōs was in another world vnnecessary the beauty of her face and comlines of her body was to turne to ashes her magnifical traine could do her no more honour then to see her funeralls regally performed her body imbaulmed her bones intered onely by her princely vertues and rare knowledge shee obtained a glorious reporte in earth and by the integrity of her faith a crowne of glory in heauen In that shee was a Queene shee was to bee honoured in that shee was a learned Queene shee was to be admired at in that she regards to keepe the decorum of her person shee was to be cōmended in that shee takes paines to trauel so long and so laborious a iourny shee is to be by al louers of vertue remembred in that shee is able to dispute in deepe questions of Diuinity with king Salomon shee is to be registred in the book of the iust in that shee obserueth things done in king Salomons court shee is to be chronicled in that shee rewardeth king Salomon so heroically with fames trumpet shee is to be celebrated in that shee glorifieth Gods name for king Salomons guifts it sheweth that with the malicious mothe rust of enuy her heart was not cākred in that shee was not onely learned but religiously learned shee was to be reuerenced lastly in that shee receiueth such a testimony of our Sauiour in the new testament shee was thereby in the booke of life canonized Yet to knite vp all in one honour riches peregrination ciuill and humane science discretion fame bewty body limme life haue an end and all worldly honour hath their catastrophe in conclusion and incurre necessarily in the end that sentence of Esay 40.6.7 which soundeth with a crie in all our eares All flesh is grasse all the grace therof is as the flower of the fielde VVherfore according to that of the prophet this masse of earth that we cary about vs in the ende must bee dissolued the beauty therof finally must fade the flower will fall and faile yea the outward pompe and shining of king Salomō whō this Queene came to consulte that was renouned over all the world and glittered so gorgeouslye aboue all the princes of the earth Math. 6.5 in the ende withered like to the grasse of the field which is to day and to morrow is cast into the ouen but the word of the Lorde indureth for ever This testimony that our saviour Christ attributeth to this faithfull Queene this testimony I affirme abideth for euer and sheweth that the glorious reward blessed foelicity aeternal happines of this renouned Queene in the kingdōe of God so far surpasseth al worldly honor knowledge delights Stilla muriae Tulli de Finibus as far as the Oceā exceedeth in greatnes stil●ā muriae A drop of brine as far as the light of the sun exceedeth the light of a rush candle shining through a small creuis as far as the Alpes or Olympus exceede a mole hill In divitijs Craesi teruncij accessio as far as the aboundance of Crassus and Craesus riches innumerable to vs exceed a quewe codrant or farthing in a beggers purse The world hath made great reckoning of Alexāder the great his foelicity Phillip of Macedons pollicy Hercules fortitude Iulius Caesars bounty Traians clemency Marcus Aurelius wisedome Antonius Pius care of the common wealth Aristotles learning Catoes seuerity Scip●oes continency Laelius amity Fabritius integrity and such like men indued with civill vertues Neither can I deny but these vertues were very beneficiall to the civill life of man in those times of darknes when that thicke fogge of ignoraunce like the 9. plague of Aegypt possessed the world Exod. 10 ver 21. Sap. 17. I say moreover that these actiōs of the heathen and these civil vertues of outward works God rewarded in this life aboundantly as Saint Augustine de C●vit Dei hath sufficiently in these words demonstrated and by holy scripture proued Aug. de civit Dei ca. 15. 16. lib. 5. Qui privatas suas res prore communi c. The heathen who set light by their private commodities in regard of the publique weale and common treasure who bridled avarice and lived sincerely without breach of lawes or other outrage haue beene honoured almost in al nations haue brought other nations in subiection to their country and at this day are famous throughout the earth in all histories They received their reward here on earth because they did these good workes that they might be glorified amongest men Yet I must on the other side confesse and defend that merces

degrees now every degree in heauen making 60. miles on earth we may gather therefore that this Queene came about 1000. miles to see king Salomon See what paines this honourable person taketh to see an earthly Prince and so much the greater that a woman perfourmeth that which men durst not attempt a weake vessell effecteth that which a mighty Gyant durst not vndertake a Queene accomplisheth that which inferiour persons will refuse shee that had a tender body vndertooke that which manie strong men shunned shee neither careth to parch her beauty in the sun which many women are so nice to preserue neither the fiery climate vnder which shee was to passe nor the fury of beastes the eie of the ravenous crocodile neither the venimous serpents wherwith those coasts doe swarme neither the fell Lyons which those Climates naturally nourish neither did shee say with the slouthfull man in the Proverbs A Lyon is without Pro. 22.13 I shall bee slaine in the street but all excuses set apart shee cometh to Ierusalem to see Salomon yet these Iewes at home seeing Christ will not heare Christ or if they will heare him will not beleeue him or if they beleeue him will doo it conditionally so as they may see a miracle and yet after they haue heard doctrine and seene miracles will not only not beleeue but also persecute Such are our Recusants Senec. ep Lib. 15. ep 96. such are our licentious Libertines such are they that Seneca speaketh of such are many among vs that preferre playes before preaching a sound sleepe before a sounding sermon Belial before God whose hearts the Lord turne if it be his blessed will But in this that the Queene taketh this great iourney note her zeale that which the spowse vttereth in the Cantic Cant. 8.8.1.2.3 Much water cannot quench loue and that Cant. 1.2 Because of the sauour of thy good oinctments thy name is as an oinctment powred out Therefore the virgins loue thee Draw mee wee will run after thee Cant. 1.2 To this accordeth that of Saint Paul 1. Cor. 13. 1. Cor. 13. Loue suffereth all things beleeueth all things hopeth all things endureth all things This shadoweth how the faithfull in all ages followed Christ when the standard was set vp in Sion what a thirst was then of the worde of God Psal 45. Christs gratious words that he spake in the synagogue at Nazareth shewed that gratta was diffusa in labiis suis Full of grace were his lipps Psal 45. and if I may so say Suadoe medulla The pith marowe of perswasion sitting in his lipps And how since he hath drawen all the world after him through perill through danger through fire through flame through life through death the stories in all ages haue regestred to Gods glory and to the greate honour of all his Saints For Quos dei charitas trahit nec retrahit c. Whō the loue of God draweth them neither doth lust withdrawe nor aff●ight For the saints run that they may leaue the world behinde thē because they see God before them This zeale which shined in this honorable Queene to see Salomon and to heare ●●s wisedome burneth in those faithfull soules who hunger thirst after righteousnes which when heretofore there was a fame of Gods word in our land wandred frō sea to sea Amos. 8. frō North to east to here Gods word which ought to bee more sweete vnto vs then the hony and the hony combe Psal 19.13 God be praised there is a great light risen in out daies and God hath beene gratious vnto our land there is such a doore opened in England as was in Philadelphia that no force can shut but our sinnes such a light that no counsells of men can extinguish or eclipse but our iniquities such a sun-shine of the Gospell that no interposition of any grosse masse can shadow vnles it bee our owne ingratitude Our sin will bee the greater if we make not much of this great grace offered vnto vs. This Queene tooke greate paines to see and heare Salomon wee haue Christ offered in our streetes howses churches in our eares cōtinually soūded Heb. 4. If thē we shall yet harde our harts while it is called Today Proverb shal despise the voice of wisdōe crying vnto vs in the s●●ets mu●ting vs to her baker of new mingled wine Math. 25. and the voice of the bridegroome calling vs to haue our lampes prepared to enter with him to the mariage not onely this Queene shal bee a witnesse against vs in the day of his last coming but it shal be more tollerable in the day of iudgment for Sodom and Gomorrah then for vs. Yea more tollerable for Capernaum and sinfull Ierusalem who would not know the time of their visitations and from whose eies repentance by the iust iudgment of God was wonderfully hidden miraculously as I may tearme it with held From the which iudgment God for his mercy saue deliuer this land both now and euer The third last braunch of this first part sheweth vnto vs in these wordes that this Queene came not abiectly The thirde branch of the fi●st part meanely to Ierusalem but as it was fit and seemely for a Prince prince like in honour honourable in riches rich glorious in her traine yet conuenient for her estate regall crowne and princely authoritie And vnto this end it is laied downe by the holy Ghost in the scriptures in these woords 1. King 10.2 And shee came to Ierusalem with a very greate traine and camels that bare sweet odours and gold exceeding much and pretious stones Shee came to Ierusalem with a very greate traine and camels 2. Para. 9.1 that bare sweet odours much gold pretious stones By this wee may learne that these creatures of God which some thinke supers●uous haue a necessary vse being well vsed that God hath made nothing in vaine that in things hid in the bowels of the earth the wisdōe of God is to be known to be admired worshipped that all Gods creatures doe spirare potentiā sapientiā et benignitatē Dei Hug. de sanct victore Invisib Dei Breath out the power wisedome bountye of God that all creatures that God hath made are sit for our vse service and commoditie that in a glasse we may see in all creatures ordinem mirabilem o●●●ationem efficacem finem vtilem A wonderfull order a powrefull working a profitable vse end that every creature saieth vnto vs accipe benefi●tum reade seruitium fuge supplec●ū Receiue the benepte of vs repar thy seruice for vs Avoid the penal ●● of abasing vs that that is most true that Pliny hath only this excepted that that which he speaketh of nature we affirme to be of God to wit that maiestas Dei mirab●lis Plin. li. 37. The maiesty of God is wōderfully seen in pretious stones in so much that o●e pretious

Christ let not this my censure be a discouragement vnto any one that approveth this order of dealing with the Adversary from his good labours since no question if any incline this way this kinde of writing is a gift given him from aboue Assuring him that my wordes heerein are no causes of discouragement vnto him or anie others that shal labor in this course but I wish in the Lord that these admonitions may serue as caveats and watchwordes and wardwordes as some of late haue written to al such as preferre this kinde before anie other and take this the fittest field for them to bestowe their manuring of and the best ground to til the ground which wil yeelde greatest blessing to their labours For their circumspectnesse herein wil doe great good both to the matter and method This advertisement I thoughte good here to inserte as appertinent to the purpose for that this kinde of writing vnlesse it bee managed in such sort as I haue specified before breedeth most inconvenience to the Author troubleth most the Reader and least disadvantageth the adversary But whether long discourse or scholastical method best serue your studies and bee most fit for controversie writers I wil not here further discusse but refer each man in the Lord to his owne inclination neither am I to prescribe to any one what course to take only I speake therein mine opinion as one that by Gods mercy haue long travailed in these exercises and as one that hath obtained mercy of the Lorde to be faithfull 1. Cor. 7. Asserteining that these 2. Plutarch Virgil. Math. 25. waies are not like the Bivium of Hercules neither the letter of Pythagoras nor the right hād nor the left in the day of iudgmēt But if they be wel handled like the 2. Apoc. 11. Nazian Tetrast 1. oliue braūches and two cādelstickes which wil stand before the God of the Earth And like those 2. goodly pearles of life whereof Nazianzene speaketh in his Tetrastikes of which whosoever shal embrace either he shal not loose his labour 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is both of them are fitte louely But here I finde 2. sortes of people misliking my present exhortatiō First some wil deeme that by this discourse I meane to reduce againe into the Church the olde Dunsery of the Schoolmen long agoe cōdemned in the world by special verdit exiled out of the Church reputed by al graue and learned divines rather a trade of blinde Sophistry then a right course of sound divinity To these that obiect vnto me in this eager bitternes I answere on this maner If they meane the matters that the Schoole-mē debate in their darke and cloudie affected obscurity prophane mixture of Philosophie with divinity let them assure themselues this course I condemne as wel as they and repute such schooles in many places worthy to be striken with that thunder-bolte of the Prophets Esaiae 1. Ier. 2. How is the faithfull city become an harlott Thy silver is become drosse thy wine is mixte with water My people hath forsaken me the founteine of liuing waters digg thē pittes evē brokē pittes that can holde no water VVhat hast thou to doe in the way of Aegypt to drinke vp the vvater of Nilus or vvhat makest thou in the vvay of Assur to drinke the vvater of the river And that al that follow these courses in that forme with them are no better thē those impure Philistines that filled the welles vvith earth Gen. 28. that Abrahā the holy Patriarch had digged If otherwise I say that noe man of learning and iudgement can iustly condemne the scholastical method Their manner of briefe distinguishing Their short obiecting Their art of summary and material aunswering Their practise of short substātial concluding Neither is this mine opinion alone herein but also the iudgment of Anthony Sadeele a man for knowledge of Divinity aboue al exceptions of any gainesayer Antonius Sadeele de vera methodo Theologicè simul ac Scholasticè disputādi vnto whose censure I doe appeale heerein to whose opinion I doe subscribe to whose tract of this Argument I referre the Readers Assuring al learned Schollers that if the drosse tinne of Schoole-divinity be purged and burned away by the true fire of Gods word that the method of Schoole-learning is not lightly to be reiected neither vtterly to bee condemned The secōd sort of people that wil take offēce at this treatise are many such as make supposal that this persuasion of mine if it should take effect would greatly hinder the vnspeakeable benefitte vvhich godlie preaching worketh in the Church amongst Christiā people To this I answere God forbid that this exhortation or any other by me vttered should be anie impediment or any waies a motion to hinder the gift of soule-saving preaching 1. Thes c. 5 cōcerning which the Apostle hath writtē to the Thessalonians in this māner Quench not the Spirit despise not prophecying which because it doth cōtaine these three benefits namely edification exhortation and cosnolation the same Apostle preferreth before the miraculous giftes of tongues which was the admirable treasure giuen to the Church after our Saviour Christ his ascension to be imploied to the gathering together of the Saints and for the edification of Christs body Yet I beseech them that are of this mind faithfully iudicially to examine how I shal refel by Gods grace this coniecturall supposal and misconceiued imagination True it is I must confesse that the gift of preaching in our church and in al the Churches vnder the cope of heaven is a sacred and a most beneficial gift if it be sincerely ministred that the true vse of it is farre to bee preferred before the vse of tongues and many other giftes in the Church that it was the summe of that cōmission which our Saviour gaue to his Apostles both before and after his Ascension 2 Tim. 1. v. 14. that it is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or that worthy thing that P. commended to Timothy and that thing which he was by the Apostle commaunded to deliver to faithfull men which should be able also to teach others Yet this nothing impeacheth the true vnderstanding of the former proiect as by the grace of God it shal appeare by this sequele There may be numbred in this Realme at these times neere 5000. Preachers Catechists Exhorters God be praised who increase the number of thē The maine streame and tide of Students in Divinity is caried wholie this way not without some secret influence of Gods spirite I doubt not In the Vniversities the greatest nūber of scholers desire to haue their names in the register of the sonnes of the Prophets Now of these 5000. if there were but 50. able men dedicated to this worke men qualified in gifts men which like Hur Aaron would hold vp Moses hands Exod. 17. whilest Ioshua and Israel discomfite Amalecke I dare boldly speak that

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

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