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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11168	A sermon preached before the Kings Maiestie at White-Hall vpon the ninth of Februarie. 1605. By the Reuerend Father in God, Anthonie Rudd, Doctor in Diuinitie, and Lord Bishop of Saint Dauids; Sermon preached before the Kings Majestie at White-Hall upon the ninth of February. 1605.	Rudd, Anthony, 1549 or 50-1615.; T. S., fl. 1606.	1606 (1606)	STC 21435; ESTC S112126	13,720	38

It is the Lordes mercies that wee were not consumed because his compassions faile not And all this Saluation came vnto vs from the Lord for the Gospels sake which wee professe least our enemies by their good successe in this attempt should haue taken occasion to haue blasphemed the name of God saying where is now the God of the Protestants But indeede one motiue of the conspiratours to encrease their hope of good successe in this wicked enterprise was this conceit that they supposed that God had giuen vs ouer for our sins as may appeare by those words of the vndated letter formerly named God man haue concurred to punish the wickednes of this time This selfe same opinion encouraged Dauids aduersaries in this present Psalme Psal 3 2. as is collected by the words of the second verse Manie say to my soule there is no helpe for him in God And likewise in the 71. Psalme Dauids enemies spake of him and they that laid wait for his soule tooke their Counsell together saying God hath forsaken him persue take him for there is none to deliuer him This also was the cunning and machiauellian tricke of Saneherib which he practised to terrifie Hezekiah with all when he said Am I now come vp without the lord to this land to destroy it The Lord said vnto me Isay 36.10 goe vp against this land destroye it Thus the late complotters pretended the name of GOD to deceaue withall as though God had ordained them to be the rodde of his wrath in punishing of vs and that the staffe in their hand had beene his indignation against vs. Isay 10.5 But let them aunswer this questioÌ„ of Esdras Are the deeds of Babylon better then they of Zion 2. Esdras 3.31 Wee deserued destruction I confesse but not by the hands of them whose life is noe better whose religion is far worse then ours I may say of Rome nowe as Jsai sometime spake of Ierusalem How is the faithful Citie become an Harlot Isay 1.21.22 thy siluer is become drosse thy wine is mixt with water God had not sold vs into their hands 1. King 21.25 because they had solde themselues to worke wickednesse in the sight of the Lorde as did Ahab Psa 73.1 And seeing that their purpose was defeated by diuine prouidence and we were deliuered from the snare which they priuily layd for vs therefore we may say and sing yet God is good vnto Jsrael euen to the pure in heart Verely if we had beene altogether destitute of Good men as they falsely imagined we had assuredly perished with fire-worke from below as Sodom for want of ten iust men in it was destroyed with a raine of brimstone from aboue But yet some Lot praysed be God remaineth in the Citie among vs to keepe vs from burning yet some Paul sayleth in the shippe with vs to keepe vs from drowning Gen. 19.14 verse 22. Act 27.24.25 Psal 106.23 yet some Moses is founde standinge in the breach to turne away Gods wrath from vs. And there is yet some Aaron left to make an atonement for vs. Yet I saie some Noes Num. 16.46 to the 51. Ezech. 14.14.16.20 Ier 15.1 or Jobs or Samuels or Daniels haue their being amongst vs whose praiers are effectuall for themselues and vs likewise And so we finde saluation from the Lord. Good Lord what lenitie went before on the behalfe of the Kings Maiestie and the state and what crueltie was like to haue ensued on the partes of the conspiratours Heereby we see by experience the truth of that which we reade in the Prophet Isaie Isay 26 10. let mercie be shewed to the wicked yet hee will not learne righteousnesse in the land of vprightnesse will he doe wickedlie and will not behold the Maiestie of the Lorde Though Dauid played with his hand vpon the harpe before Saule to mitigate the rage of the euill spirite that was vpon him 1. Sam. 19.9.10 yet Saule intended to smite Dauid to the wall with the speare which he held in his hand 1. Sam. 24.4 to the 9 26.7.8.9.20 Yea though Dauid spared the life of Saul when he had him twise in his hands to stabbe him or to dispose of him at his pleasure yet for all that Saul continually pursued him as one would seeke a flea or hunt a Partriche in the mountaines Thus the traytours would haue recompenced the Kings lenitie with extreame crueltie for if they had prospered in their most mischieuous intendement they meant to haue killed the daÌ„me with the yong They purposed to meete vs as a beare robbed of her whelpes Deut. 22.6 Prou. 17.12 Hab. 1.8 wee should haue found felt them more fierce then the wolues in the euening As they of Damascus threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of yron and as they of Tyrus shut the whole captiuitie in Edom Amos 2.3.9.11.13 and as Edom pursued his brother with the sworde casting of all pittie and his anger spoyled him euermore and his wrath watched him alway and as the children of Ammon ript vp the women with child of Gilead that they might enlarge their owne border euen so for al the world would these tygerlike men haue dealt with vs. Adonibezek cut of the thumbs of the hands and feet of his captiues and made them to gather bread vnder his table Iud. 1.7 yet hee suffred them to liue And Naash the Ammonite would make no couenant with them of Jabesh Gilead 1. Sam. 11.2 except he might thrust out their right eies and so bring that shame vppon Jsrael yet was he content that they should enioy their liues But if these blood-thirstie men some wherof are alreadie cut of by iustice not hauing liued out halfe their dayes had come to the full period of their hearts desire should haue beene hearde soundinge in our eares but kill and slay Prouerb 12.10 Thus euen the mindes of the wicked are cruell but still Saluation is of the Lord. These vnderminers of the state said happily of vs one to another let vs breake their bonds and take their cordes from vs Psal 2.3 but hee that dwelleth in the heauen did laugh the Lorde had them in dirision They said perhaps among themselues by imitation of the 83. Psalme Come let vs cutte them of from beeing a Nation and let the name of the Caluinists bee noe more in remembraunce Let vs take their habitations for our possession Psa 83 4 12.13 16 18. But our God hath made them like vnto a wheele and as the stuble before the wind he hath filled their faces with shame that they may knowe that hee which is called Jehouah is alone euen the most high ouer all the earth They resemble Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria which saide in the pride and presumption of their heart The bricks are fallen but we wil build it with hewen stones Isay 9.9.10.11.12 the wild figge trees are cut

and wheÌ„ as God himself protested that though Moses and Samuel stoode before him Ier 15 1. yet his affection could not bee toward that people And as for round executing of Iustice vpon offenders Eccles 8.11 the great necessitie therof appeareth hereby because it is directly gathered out of the wordes of the Preacher that the onely delay of Iustice is the animating of transgressours Wherefore King Dauid made a solemne promise that hee would betimes destroy all the wicked of the Land Psal â—01 8 that hee might cut of all the workers of iniquitie from the citie of the lord And for the same reasoÌ„ saith Salomon in the Canticles Take vs the Foxes the little Foxes which destroy the vines Cant. 2.15 Which course if we had takeÌ„ many yeares ago with the Iesuites secular Priests and other seminarie men we had not been so pestered with them and endangered by them as nowe we are and of late haue beene Deut. 13.11 17.13 Wherefore it is high time to put hand to this work that all Jsrael may heare feare do no more presumptuously Thus then it is euident that there is great vse and neede of the ordinarie meanes of preseruation the want whereof maketh a verie wofull estate As wheÌ„ the Lord of hostes meant in the time of Isay to expose the Iewes to all inconueniences both oppressions and miseries at home and also inuasions abroad then he threatned that he would take froÌ„ JerusaleÌ„ Isay 3.1.2.3 froÌ„ Judah the stay the streÌ„gth euen all the stay of bread all the stay of water the stroÌ„g man the man of war the Iudg the Prophet the prudent the aged the captaine of fiftie and the honourable and the Counseller and the cunning artificer and thy eloquent man Now that Saluation is of the Lorde wee haue had good experience of late by the rare manner of the discouering of that damnable and diuelish deuise which should haue beene acted vpon the fift of Nouember last For the same God which inspired Elisha that hee could tell the King of Jsrael 2. King 6.12 euen the verie wordes which the king of Aram spake in his priuie chamber And who in the dayes of Amos Amos. 3.7 would doe nothing but he reuealed his secrets vnto his seruants the Prophets And who appearing to Joseph in a dreame sayd Math. 2.13 Arise and take the babe and his mother and flee into Aegypt and be there till I bring thee word for Herode will seeke the babe to destroy him Ps 91.3.5.6 And who promiseth in the 91. Psalme to deliuer the faithfull not onely from the noysome pestilence but also from the snare of the hunter not onely from the arrowe that flyeth by day but also from the terrour of the night not onely from the plague that destroyeth at noonetide but also from the pestilence that walketh in the darkenesse euen he the same God put into the head of our gracious Soueraigne to make an vncouth and strang construction of an vnsubscribed letter but yet such an one as whereby both he and his and all wee were wondrously deliuered from the greatest daunger that euer would haue befallen vs. And that it may otherwise also appeare that this our Saluation was of the Lorde consider with what intent the letter aforesaid was written namely to saue one friend from perishing among vs but this resolution being still holden that wee should haue receiued the terrible intended blow Howbeit Almighty God who by his infinite power and wisedome bringeth light out of darkenesse and life out of death Isay 45.1 and who made Cyprus his annointed holding and guiding his right hand to subdue nations for the deliuerie of his people out of the captiuitie of Babilon whereas Cyrus at the first meant nothing lesse but only thought ther by to satisfie his owne ambition vaine glorie auarice and crueltie and who also turned the treachery of Iudas to the Saluation of mankind Math. 26. euen hee the same God of his vnspeakeable goodnesse made vse of this vndated letter intended for the good of one man onely to the preseruation of vs al both Prince and people Moreouer the greatnes of our deliuerance may appeare by this that the conspiracie went forward and our daunger continued without perfite discouerie till within few houres of the appointed time wherein the cruell massacre should haue been put in execution So Pharaoh brought the Jsraelites into such straytes Exo. 14.21 22. he being with his army behind them that if the Sea which was before them had not giuen present way vnto them they had been al put to the sword man woman and child Likewise Hezekiah was so distressed by Saneheribs armie that he confessed it to be a day of tribulation Isay 37.3 rebuke and blasphemie for the children were come to the birth there was no strength to bring forth In so much as Hezekia and his people must needs haue beene destroyed vnlesse the Lorde had sodainely put an hooke in Saneheribs nostrils and a bridle in his lips verse 29.36 and had caused his Angell to slay fourescore and fiue thousand of the enemies armie in the space of one night Psa 11.6.3 When Dauid made this mone in the 116. Psalme that the snares of death compared him and the griefes of the graue caught hold on him his meaning was to signifie in what great danger he had beene in the wildernesse of Maon when Saul and his armie compassed him and his followers round about to take them so that they could not possiblie haue escaped the edge of the sword 1. Sam. 23 26.27 if there had not come by Gods prouidence an vnlooked for messenger to Saul in post saying Hast thee and come for the Philistins haue inuaded the land Vndoubtedly Jehoshua was brought neere to the point of his vtter vndoing seeing it is sayd of him Zech. 3.2 Psa 68.20 Is not this a firebrand taken out of the fire Thus our God to whom beloÌ„geth the issues of death hath infinite meanes to deliuer his in the greatest and most extreame daungers that we may know that Saluation belongeth vnto the Lord. Again that this our late preseruatioÌ„ may be acknowledged to haue come of the Lord onely call to minde what our doings and deserts were at that time before surely I feare greatly least if the Lord had visited vs Zeph. 1.12 as in the day of Zephaniah hee searched Jerusalem with lightes hee should haue founde many frozen in their dregs that is by their prosperitie hardened in their wickednesse and saying in their hearts the Lord wil neither doe good not euill Hee should I feare haue found many drawing iniquitie with the cordes of vanitie and sinne as it were with cart-ropes putting far away the euil day Isay 5.18 approaching to the seat of iniquitie Wherfore in this respect we may say with the Prophet Jeremie Amos 6.3 Lam 3.22

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