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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

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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
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