inplain words yet in plaine deeds while they contemne his voyce The Apostle saith Titus 1. 16. There are which professe to know God Sed factis negant in their workes they denie him being abhominable disobedient and to euery goodworke reprobate Concerning this point That as the earth is the Lordes so all that are in it as the habitable world is his so they that dwell therein Concerning this The Lorde saith Ezechiel 18. 4. Omnes animaemeae sunt all soules are mine the soule of the father and the soule of the sonne is mine And if the soules of all both young and olde be the Lordes whose are the bodies which in all things are ruled by the wil of the soule The Lord further saith Ieremie 32. 27. Beholde I am the Lorde God of all flesh is any thing to hard for me All flesh is his If our bodies be flesh they also are the Lordes Let flesh and bloud therefore and euery childe of man acknowledge to whome he belongeth Caro et spiritus totus homo carnalis et spiritualis omnis homo flesh and spirite the whole man fleshly and spirituall euery man is wholely the Lordes Dauid was godly Saule was wicked Vterque dei Dauid of an vpright hart Saul an hypocrite Vterque seruus dei Both the one and other his seruants Paule speaking of Iesus Christ that had humbled himselfe and became obedient vntill the death of the Crosse saith of him Phil. 2. 9. That therefore God hath highly exalted him and giuen him a name aboue euery name that at the name of Iesus Omne genu se flectat coelestium ac terrestrium et subterra neorum euery knee should bow of things in heauen and of things in earth and of things vnder the earth Omnisque lingua profiteatur Iesum Christum esse dominum ad gloriam dei patris and that euery tongue should confesse Iesus Christ to be the Lord to the glory of God the father Euery one therefore whatsoeuer he be and wheresoeuer of al the creatures of God in heauen or in earth or vnder the earth must acknowledge the soueraigne authority of this Lord That the earth is his and all that are in it the world al they that dwell therin There haue beene ample kingdomes in the world mighty Kings claming and conquering farre but none so ample so farre claming as this The glorious kingdome of the golden head of Babell the rich kingdome of the siluer brest and armes of the Medes and Persians the mighty kingdome of the brasen bellies and thighes of Alexander the Grecians the warlike kingdomes of the Yron legs of the Seleucidae and Lagidae successors of Alexander in the North and South are able to match this ample kingdome of the Lord. The king saw a stone cut of without handes that grewe into a great mountaine and filled the whole earth Which the prophet interpreteth of the ample and eternall kingdome that God should set vp among men euen the kingdome of his sonne whose borders should be the circle of the world The breadth thereof frō the North to the South The length therof the iourny of the sunne Vbicunque locus est illic preest dominus vbicunque homines sunt illis praeest dominus Whersoeuer place is there God raigneth wheresoeuer men are ouer them God raigneth Malach. 1. 11. From the rysing of the Sunne vnto the going downe thereof my name is great among the Gentiles and in euery place incense shal be offered to my name a pure offering for my name is great among the Heathen saith the Lord of hostes Thus much of this verse shewing how far the Lord claimeth euen to be Lord of all the earth the inhabitantes the world and the dwellers therein For hee hath founded it vppon the Seas and established it vppon the floudes This verse contayneth a reason and ground of his claime namely that hee made the world and the inhabitantes thereof And where as the Prophet saith that God did found it and establish it vpon the waters the meaning is this that in founding and establishing the earth and habitable world he made it to appeare high aboue the waters as if the waters lying euen in a lowe leuell called aquae quia aequae as if these leueled lowe waters were the flore the earth the building raised vp vpon them Genesis 1. 9. It is written God said againe let the waters vnder the heauen be gathered into one place and let the dry land appeare and it was so And God called the dry land earth and the gathering together of the waters he called seas Before the waters and the earth were so mixed that the earth was wholy couered with the waters as a lute or some instrument in a case and God commaunded them to retyre into one place and holde an euen course For so Tremelius interprets the place recto et aequabili cursu contendant Let their motion from hence foorth be direct and leuell hastening into their assigned place where they may haue that euen course This worke of God is notablie set foorth by the Prophet in the Psalme 104. Tremelius reading giuing much light to our reading from the 5. ver He set the earth vpon her foundatiōs that it shall neuer moue Abisso vt indumento operueras eam supramontes stantibus aquis Thou hadst couered it with the deepe as with a garment the waters standing aboue the mountaines thus it was vntill the third day Ex increpatione tua diffugerunt a voce tui tonitrui accelerarunt fugam at thy rebuke they fled from the voyce of thy thunder they hastened their flight Gods worde was like a thundring checke vnto them Conscenderunt per montes descenderunt per valles in locum quem fundaueras eis they climed ouer the mountaines ranne downe by the vallies vnto the place assigned to them Terminum opposuisti ne transeant ne reuertuntur ad operiendū terram Thou hast set bonds vnto thē that they shall not passe that they returne not to couer the earth thus it was on the third day and by that word of God as an eternal decree the waters hold their rectumet aequabilem cursum their plaine and leuell wauing course and are about the skirtes of the dry land as a foundation and strong pinning to holde vp the sides of it And therefore doth the Prophet say That the Lord hath founded it vppon the Seas and prepared it vppon the floudes Whatsoeuer his words are the thing that he affirmeth is this that God in the beginning made the earth made the inhabitants by the power of his word and by the same mighty word of his stil vpholdeth the same We haue the history of the creation deliuered in writing vnto vs by the mā to whom God appeared in the burning bush to whom God spake in the mountaine familiarly face to face that saw the glory of God somuch as mortall eyes might see and liue euen by Moses that was faithfull
to his kinde God saw that it was good So the euening and morning was the third day Thus was the earth seperated from other parts of the world receiued her forme and furniture when yet there was neither man nor beast nor brething thing to liue vpon it to claime soueraingty or to make vse of it Which things were created after in the sixt day As Moses after the fourth dayes worke in creating the lightes in the firmament the fift daies worke in creating foules and fishes at last reporteth in the same place verse 24. moreouer God saide let the earth bring foorth the liuing thing according to his kinde cattell and that which creepeth and the beast of the earth according to their kinde it was so And God made the beast of the earth according to his kinde and the cattell according to his kinde and euery creeping thing of the earth according to his kinde and God saw that it was good Furthermore God saide let vs make man in our image according to our likenesse and let them rule ouer the fish of the sea and ouer the foule of heauen and ouer the beastes and ouer all the earth and ouer euery thing that creepeth and mooueth on the earth Thus God created the man in his image in the image of God created he him c. And in the ver 31. Moses thus cōcludeth And God saw all that he had made and lo it was very good And the euening and morning were the sixt day The earth was created in the first day was seperated receiued forme and furniture the third day man beasts were not created vntil the 6. day the earth in the meane time wanted not a Lord to whom it belonged whose it was his it is as the prophet here speaketh the earth is the Lordes But in hope to holde soueraigntie ouer some thing for our selues we will obiect generally for others also Diuers creatures haue inuaded diuers parts of the world and without disturbance for many thousands of yeares haue quietlie held occupyed enioyed the same as their owne The fishes haue the waters which run into the Seas and haue there their meeting place Psal. 104. 25. In ipso mari magno et spacioso in the great and wilde sea Illic reptilia sunt atque innumer a animantia parua cum magnis there are creeping things and innumerable liuing creatures small and great There goe the ships there is Liuiathan Balena saith Tremelius the Whale whom thou hast made to play therein The Fowles take their pleasure in the regions of the ayre the lower heauens and though they discend sometime to the earth to gather foode and sit sometime on the branches of Trees to rest them and to sing yet they are called the fowles of heauen that is of the ayre Diuers creatures occupie the face of the earth the Prophet in the forenamed Psalme verse 18. Montes excelsissimi rupicaprarū petrae montanorum murium perfugium the high mountaines are a refuge for the Goates and the Rockes for the mountaine Mise which we read Conies and in verse 20. he remembreth the beasts of the Forrests And of the wilde Asse God saith Iob. 39. Cui disposui campestria pro domo eius et pro habitaculis eius salsuginosam terram I haue made the wide champaigne the wildernesse his house and the salt places his dwelling he scorneth the multitude of the citie heareth not the noyse of the driuer he seeketh the mountaines for his pasture and searcheth for euery greene thing and the most pleasant places of the earth man chooseth for his habitation there building houses and cities for his more conuenient dwelling Gen. 9. 18. 19. The sonnes of Noah going forth of the Arke were Shem Ham and Iaphet These are the three sonnes of Noah of thē was the whole earth ouerspred Thus haue diuers creatures inioyed thé world as their owne many thousands of yeares Shall it not therefore be the Lords because they vse it how did the Lord loose his old right vnto them in what court and before what Iudge was the Lord euicted and where are the records thereof to be seene surely the creatures holde their habitation of the Lord and so many as are wise acknowledge the same Whether they doe or no God doth challenge the right and plainely affirmeth that he hath alwayes disposed thereof Ier. 27. 5. speaking of the earth which he made he saith Ideo trado eam cui rectum videtur in oculis meis Therefore I giue it to whom it pleaseth me and now I haue giuen all these lands into the hands of Nebuchaanezar the King of Babel my seruant signifying hereby that from time to time he giueth and granteth the possession and vse of the earth at his pleasure admitting one and displacing another as seemeth good in his sight putting out Cananites bringing in the Ifraelites assigning to euery Tribe their owne portion deposing Saul setting vp Dauid diuiding one kingdome to many kings as when hee rent ten Tribes from the sonne of Salomon and gaue them to Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat And giuing many kingdomes to one kingdome as when bordering nations were subdued vnto Dauid Which translating and disposing prooueth the earth to be his though inhabited by men that they all doe hold of him Which because proud Nebuchadnezar did not acknowledge hee was taught Dan. 4. 27. He said Is not this great Babel Quam ego edificaui which I haue builded for the house of the kingdome by the might of my power and for the honor of my maiestie taking himselfe to be the chiefe Lord holding of none But it followeth in the next verse while the word was in the Kings mouth Vox è coelo accidit dicens tibi iudicitur Nebuchadnetzar Rex there came a voyce from heauen saying O King Nebuchadnezar to thee be it spoken to thee whatsoeuer if thou wert as great as Nabuchadonezar thy kingdome is departed from thee and they shall driue thee from men and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field they shal make thee to eate grasse as the Oxen and seauen times shall passe ouer thee vntill thou knowest that the most high beareth rule ouer the kindome of men and giueth it vnto whom soeuer hee will The very same houre was this thing fulfilled vpon Nabuchadnezar he was driuen from men and did eate grasse as the Oxen and his body was wet with the dew of heauen till his haires were growne as Eagles feathers his nailes like birdes clawes at the end of those daies heare now his confession hauing reformend his iudgement I Nabuchadnezar lift vp myne eyes vnto heauen and mine vnderstanding was restored vnto me and I gaue thankes vnto the most high and I praised and honoured him that liueth for euer whose power is an euerlasting power and his kingdome is from generation to generation And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing and according to
Where-from if God hath miraculouslie deliuered vs whose name be therfore eternally praised yet who can thinke vpon it what a one she was vnto vs while she liued a watchfull keeper a mercifull iudge a Queene of peace a defender of the faith and a very mother in Israel who can thinke vpon it that she was such a one vnto vs while she liued and not bee touched at the hart with sorrow that she liues not still to be still such a one vnto vs Surely in her that is taken from vs we haue fallen vpon vs occasions of sorrowe But God most good hath not left vs as desolate plaintiffes vnto a solitarie sorrow without all comfort but hath giuen vs also many causes of reioycing both in our blessed Queene departed from vs and also in our right noble King giuen vs. In her that is departed God hath giuen vnto vs occasiō of reioycing in the māner of her departing wherein he hath honored her memorie among the righteous and more honoured his owne name for his mercy to her In two great and notable fauours that her end was peaceable and that it was godlie that she ended her dayes quietlie and dyed in the faith of Christ. First herein we haue cause to reioyce on her behalfe that her end was peaceable without the stroake of man and without any other stroake of God then such as is common to all men that passe by the straite of death The Bull of Pius Quintus denounced an other end The inuincible Armada of Spaine threatned an other end Many bloudy traytors iustly suffering among vs attempted an other end And yet notwithstanding the God of peace gaue vnto hir a peaceable end she liued long our band of peace and died quietly a childe of peace as if God had promised her that he promised Abraham Genesis 15. 15. Thou shalt goe vnto thy Fathers Cum pace in peace and shalt bee buryed In canitie bona in a good age that is Satura dierum diuitiarum honoris full of dayes riches and honour and all present blessings as a good age is expounded 1. Chron. 29. 28. Dauid dyed in a good age full of dayes riches and honour our Queene matching him for the fulnesse of the dayes of her life for she was come into the yeare wherein Dauid dyed being seauentie yeare olde and ouermatching him for the fulnesse of the dayes of her reigne for he reigned but fortie yeares and shee sawe the fiue and fortieth of her reigne in more peace then Dauid had I will not giue offence by remembring how farre different from her ende the ende of the last Catholike King of Spaine and most Christian King of France was the one dying by a heauie stroake of Gods hand and the other by a violent stroake of mans hand neyther of them neare to that sweete sleepe whereinto she fell in her departing And as her end was peaceable so it was pious godly christiā she died in the faith of Christ giuing euidence therof in her weakest times and now inioyeth the end of her faith the saluation of her soule the blessing pronounced from heauen Blessed are the dead that die in the Lorde they rest from their labours On the Sundaye last before her death the reuerend father the Lorde Bishop of Chichester and Doctor Parrie one of her highnesse Chaplines going to reade deuine seruice vnto her as the maner was vpon the Lords day her heauie sadnesse at this time wel remooued she pronounced after them the confession of sinnes with prayer for the forgiuenesse of them which is vsually pronounced by the congregation when we come together to seeke the face of our God And though it was done with a weake voyce yet was it with great euidence of a feruent spirit looking vp vnto God The next night God gaue vnto her quiet sleep in her bed wherby she was much refreshed the Lord preparing her by renewed cōfort vnto a happy end For as one wel saith Veraconsolatio perpetuo durat in electis et si languescit per spiritum sanctum instauratur potissimum autem est efficax circa vita finem et mortis articulum True comfort indureth perpetually in the elect if it beginneth at any time to faint it is restored by the holy Ghost especially it is strong and effectuall toward the end of life and approach of death which in her Grace was obserued to the great reioycing of her seruants For on the Wednesday death approaching which she desired that she might be losed and be with Christ which is best of all the right reuerend father the Lorde Archbishop of Canterbury comming in vnto her at three in the after-noone he put her in minde of the sufferings of Christ the meanes of her saluation of remission of sinnes and eternall life most gladly she harkened vnto him testifying her ioy with her hand which shee could not so well doe with her voyce And whē the reuerend father knowing how soone sicke parties are wearied did withdrawe himselfe giuing signe with her hand she called him vnto her the second time And when againe after a second speech hee withdrewe himself she beckned to haue him come vnto her the third time So pleasing vnto her soule was the voyce of him that had in his mouth the word of reconciliation so beautifull in her eyes were the feete of him that did preach glad tydings and publish saluation and it was not affection to the man but loue vnto the doctrine and glad tydings of saluation that led her listening eare For the reuerend Lord Bishop of Chichester comming after vnto her rehearsed vnto her the grounds of Christian faith requiring some testimony of her assenting vnto them which she readily gaue both with hand eye And when he proceeded so far as to say vnto her that it was not inough generally to beleeue that those things were true but euery Christian man must beleeue that they were true vnto them that they were members of the true Church truly redeemed by Iesus Christ that their sinnes were forgiuen and that they should liue for euer with God she did with great show of faith lift vp her eies and handes to heauen where she knew her life to be hid with Christ in God and staied them long testifying her perticular faith and apprehension of Gods mercy to her in Christ. So continuing vnto the death a professor of the faith whereof she had bin defender in her life And findeth now the trueth of his promise that said Reue. 3. 10. Be faithfull vnto the death and I will giue thee the crowne of life Thus did she end her dayes in the faith and euen in her that is taken from vs we haue cause of reioycing when we cōsider how God tooke her away in his great mercy ending her daies in peace in the faith of Christ. But notwithstanding her happinesse in her death vnhappy had wee beene after her death if God had not giuen vs a good king to succeede her In whome when we cast our eye towardes him we finde great causes to lift vp our heads and reioice His name hetherto onelye proclaimed in our streetes hath stilled the ragings of the people danting the enimies of true religion and causing the enimies of peace that thought now to looke out to hide their heades What shall we not hope that the presence of his person will doe when the sound of his name hath done so much already surely we shall see it if euer this land saw it fulfilled that Salomon saith Prouerbes 20. 8. A King sitting in the throne of iudgement driueth away all euill with his eyes I speake not these things in flatterye but in the firme hope of my soule For propinquity of bloud he is the next and rightfull heire of Henrie the seuenth of famous memorie of the house of Lancaster of Elizabeth his wife ayre of the house of Yorke His education hath bin Godly of his wisedome for gouernment and of his sincerity for religion he hath already giuen proofe not onely in the gouernement of his kingdome of Scotland but otherwise also to the content of many that could not so fully obserue his gouernement as peruse his writings What remaineth then but that we reioyce in God and praise him for our present soueraigne praying that he may safely come vntovs long continue with vs standing in Gods grace to the good of Gods Church safety of the kingdomes ouer which he is set Such is the mercie of God toward vs in the king giuen vnto vs such are the causes of reioycing that wee haue in our King Which quisquis non videt cecus est quisquis videt et non laudat ingratus est quisquis laudanti reluctatur insanus est Whosoeuer seeth not is blind whosoeuer seeth and praiseth not is vnthankfull whosoeuer misliketh others praysing is not wise And therefore seeing God hath made so happye a change for vs in the disposing of this kingdome beeing Lorde of all the earth let vs beare it with such mindes as become wise men mingling heauinesse with our ioy and ioy with our heauinesse and let vs lift vp the Trumpet of our lowdest voyces and say God saue King Iames. AMEN
therin are all the Lordes because he made them and conserueth them Then sure it is lawfull for him to dispose of these things at his pleasure And here it hath place that is said in the Gospel Mat. 20. 15. An non licet mihi quod volo facere in meis rebus Is it not lawfull for me to do as I will with mine owne and therfore with reuerence wee must approoue of the counsell and worke of the Lorde now fallen out among vs in these dayes We lately had ah heauie voyce that we must say wee had a most gratious Queene by many names most deare vnto vs who raigning by God raigning for God most happilye swayed the scepter of this mighty kingdome foure and fortye yeares eighteene weekes and two dayes Salomon being annoynted to raigne ouer the twelue Tribes esteemed it a burden though an honourable burden to goe in and out before that people and sayde vnto God 1. King 3. 9. who is able to iudge this thy mighty people euen so the care of our peace prosperitye and welfare was vnto our Queene a burden of which burden God hath now eased her shoulders receiued her to rest and raigne with him in heauen In whose place as Salomon succeeding Dauid vnto which two in Israel I compare these two in England for wisedome pietye and loue to Gods house we haue and shall haue ah word of comfort that we may say as was hartely wished by most that feare God that we haue and shall haue the heigh and mighty king Iames by the grace of God the sixt of that name King of Scotland by the same deuine grace the first of that name King of England France and Ireland to raigne ouer vs. When Salomon was annoynted king in Israel the seruants of Dauid came in vnto him and said 1. King 3. 47. God make the name of Salomon more famous then thy name and exalt his throne aboue thy throne And Iames being proclamed king in England so we say of him if it be possible God make his name more famous then the name of Elizabeth whose name was famous to the endes of the world and exalt his throne aboue her throne whose throne was highly and honourably exalted when she sat therin a true defender of the faith This worke of the Lord taking from one giuing vnto another the throne and scepter of this noble kingdome let vs beare with such minde as becōmeth wisemen because the earth and the inhabitāts are the Lords to dispose at his pleasure If the change had beene vnto vs as dangerous as was feared by our selues hoped by our enimies we must haue borne it with quiet mindes because the earth is the Lordes Now then the change being better for vs then we durst expect we should be worthy of much blame if we doe not carry our selues in an euen reuerence betweene contrary affections in the consideration hereof I say in an euen reuerence and reuerent euennes betweene contrary affections because I know that in the due contemplation of this change mens mindes are vpon diuers pointes diuersly drawen aside with different affections While they consider her that is taken away they cannot choose but be full of heauinesse remembring what she was vnto them And when they consider him that is giuen vnto vs they cannot choose but be full of ioy to thinke what hee is like to bee vnto vs and therfore whomsoeuer I do here behold with chearfull countenances and bright apparrell I suppose that they doe mourne in wedding garmentes hauing both sorrow and ioye at their hearts hiding inwardly their sorrowe for hir that is departed and showing outwardly their ioye for him that is comming Whom otherwise I see with heauie countenances and darke apparrell I suppose that they reioyce in mourning weeds hauing both ioy and sorrow at their hearts hiding inwardly their ioy for him that is comming and showing outwardly their sorrow for hir that is gone And surely in this change seriouslie considered there are iust causes of both these affections That the death of our Queene could not but bring with it causes of heauinesse it hath beene long since examined and as it were by the subscription of all mens hands confirmed and happie England that God did not with his hand so largely subscribe for then it must haue beene so the Papists haue long wished and expected her death they haue often attempted by bloudie hands to hasten her ende they haue solicited with many prayers and vowes their He saints and She saints and haue stirred vp enemies against her Hoping that Christ in England should againe giue vp the ghost in the daye of her death and that the Gospell should bee buryed in the day of her funerals and they haue libertye to bring in Antichrist and restore againe the traditions of the church of Rome On the other side all that loue the Lorde Iesus with feare did thinke of her future death and with feruent prayers oft desired God to drawe out the length of her reigne with the dayes of heauen that she might resigne her Scepter into the handes of Christ at his comming to iudgement least happily loosing her before they might loose with her whatsoeuer blessings they receiued and enioyed with her These men hauing before thought of her death did in their hope and feare subscribe that surely her death must be dangerous to England Others also were of the same minde There is lurking among vs and God graunt they neuer haue time to showe their heads according to their desire a race of idle people inordinate walkers to whome orderly obedience seemeth to be seruile bondage and labour in an honest calling is a burden not to be borne men liuing by their witte in truth by their wickednesse by stealing cousening and such vnlawfull shiftes and as honestly spending their goods as getting them The setled gouernment the confirmed peace was a great let to their designements They expected a day in the death of our late Souereigne when the state beeing troubled they might spoile the subiects knowing it is best fishing in troubled streames On the other side the good subiects the honest Citizens louers of peace men honestlye getting their goods these fearing the clawes of the former vultures with griefe did fore-thinke the comming houre of her Maiesties death and besought God for the continuance of her life that the fruite of their iust labours Gods blessing in their honest walking in their callings might not be a pray to such spoilers These men also in their hope and feare had subscribed that her death would bring cause of sorrowe Thus we see how all men long since were of this minde And if the most mightie hand of our most mercifull God guiding the harts of our noble gouerners had not by the Proclaiming of our now Soueraigne King Iames turned their hope into vanitie and our feare into comfort surely the death of our excellent Queene had brought with it ruine and cause of sorrow