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A sermon preached at Pauls Crosse, August the 5. 1623. By Barten Holyday, now archdeacon of Oxford
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Holyday, Barten, 1593-1661.
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STC 13615; ESTC S104169
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A SERMON PREACHED At Pauls Crosse August the 5. 1623. BY BARTEN HOLYDAY Now Archdeacon of OXFORD LONDON Printed by William Stansby for Nathaniell Butter and are to be sold at his Shop at Saint Austines Gate in Pauls Church-yard 1626. TO THE VNFAINED EXAMPLE OF GOODNESSE EVEN IN THIS AGE THE HONOVR OF NOBILITIE THE DELIGHT AND DEFENDER OF THE ARTS THE FRIEND OF PERPETVALL HOLDERNESSE THE REVIVER OF NOTINGHAM AND DRAKE THE HONOVRABLE SIR FRANCIS STVART HIS MOST DEVOTED BARTEN HOLYDAY WISHETH THE GLORIOVS EXTREMITIE OF HIS MERIT Most Noble Sir WHen I see you peremptory to be good I iudge your vnhappinesse no lesse then your Vertue and I thinke most men haue my thought though not my way They iudge you vnhappy because your Honour is not as large as your goodnesse and they thinke kindly though not exactly that being no part of your vnhappinesse because no part of your desire But I iudge you most vnhappy in that being a rare example of Vertue in our Age you want the comfort of that example which other good men enioy in the direct contemplation of you and you enioy not through your owne modestie which denyes you the reflectiue contemplation of your selfe And since it hath beene your fauour and my blessing to admit mee to the prospect of your faire actions I knew not how to returne a more cunning thankes vnto you then to present vnto you another prospect the gratefull prospect of our late Soueraigne and of your loued Holdernesse who may very well stand thus neere in fame hauing beene as much vnited in danger and deliuerance And still it is so farre from being an vntruth that it is not so much as a paradoxe to affirme that They both liue and by their preseruation out-liue not only the Gowries but also their owne Funerals By the Sword of the Gowries they could haue beene but proued to be mortall but by the execution of the Gowries they are prooued to bee immortall and because they did not die then they shall neuer die nay they are able to giue life to their Epitaphs And only by this aduantage of the argument perchance euen this trifle may steale into Posteritie though alas my desire is that it may only last till this story bee deliuered to Fame and Enuie by some nobler pen then this rude one of Your Honour 's most faithfull Barten Holyday PSAL. 18. Verse 48 49. Thou hast deliuered mee from the violent man Therefore will J giue thankes vnto thee O Lord among the Heathen and sing prayses vnto thy name IF the voice of ioy were not as loud as the voice of Treason wee could not vpon this day heare the newes of our owne deliuerance But gratitude Maiestie command the eare when the King preacheth Attention is Loyalty My Text is King Dauid's Sermon and his Text is his preseruation God saues him and he by an imitating thankfulnesse saues the story of God's mercy His speech testifies his safetie but his confession his goodnesse which the Lord protects and increases And it increases like the protection as if by a deuout emulation it would as much requite as acknowledge the fauour Which being aboue the faint thankes of prose he aduances by the art and courage of a Song His soule could no other way ascend but by death or triumph in which his iust exilience is so great that one may feare he ought after treason to feare a neerer violence from his owne ioy Yet hee venters this gratefull trance as if he were content to haue a disease for his sake that had freed him from death His Song is of deliuerance an act by which God repeates his creation and makes the same creature without death reuiue It is the friendship of his power whereby he makes our safety as eminent as his loue which by this vnfeigned Commentarie vpon our Creed workes in vs an easie faith that God is the Father Almightie If we view the purchases of men we may obserue that they who haue laid out most labour vpon opinion of mightinesse haue had their greatest Fame take life from Ruine and with a lamentable happinesse made the epitaphs of nations the best annals of their immortalitie and furie But the Almighty does not spend a creature in vnmercifull vanitie the height of his glory being the humilitie of his compassion And though the Iew in his grammaticall deuotion trembles more at the found then the maiestie of his name of maiestie Iehouah yet God himselfe hath taught vs by a more canonicall Catechisme to pay our best adoration without precise sophistrie to his name of saluation his best name Iesus And if you would see how he delights to saue you may with delight see his varietie of saluations Sometimes you may see him saue an infant when hee must stay for thankes till by the leisure of nature the vnderstanding bee made as capable of the blessing as the bodie was Sometimes you may see him saue a mother as if he would make himselfe like his owne worke bee as tender ouer her as she ouer her babe Sometimes you may see him saue the mightie It was hee that deliuered Sampson from the captiuitie of the cordes which he did not breake by his owne strength The strength of his body lay in his haire but the strength of his haire lay in his Vow The Nazarite was stronger then Sampson Sometimes you may see him saue a family It was he that prepar'd Esau for Iacob and his pilgrim-houshold Esau that before lost his birth-right and now his malice Nature vainly thought to make him Iacob's brother but this was a taske that God kept for himselfe Sometimes you may see him saue a tribe It was he that in reuenge of his abused Leuite made Israel so ouer-act victory vpon Beniamin that they put sixe hundred of them to a happy flight whereby they preseru'd the tribe and conquer'd it They deliuered them from the Sword by bestowing vpon them too much feare of it Sometimes you may see him saue a nation It was hee that led Moses as well as Israel through the Sea which was more obedient then Pharaoh to let them goe and hurried on each side into such reuerent tumults to get out of the way that Israel scarce trembled more at the Aegyptian then at their owne deliuerance Sometimes you may see him saue a King and then he shewes the supremacie of his mercie whiles hee makes him perceiue that he is lesse then God by making him onely lesse then God Maiesty is a deputy-diuinity and to deny Royalty is ciuill Atheisme God hauing propos'd to man the visible Godhead of a King as his owne proportionall and lawfull image A King is as sacred as sublime and as great a part of God's iealousie as of his loue God therefore often confounds the treason but almost alwayes the traitour He places a King on high to make vs vnderstand how neere he is vnto protection He places a King on high to make vs vnderstand