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The danger of discontentment intreated of in a sermon preached at Crowhurst in Surrey the ninth of Iuly 1598. By Simon Harward.
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Harward, Simon, fl. 1572-1614.
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continueth till she haue hatched her young detering all which time the Shipmen in the Sicilian Seas do feare no dangers of tempest This calme time this milde quiet and peaceable time the Lord hath graunted to vs not for a few dayes but for many happy yeeres togither We enioy that sweete blessing which was in Iurie and Israel in the time of Salomon To dwell safely euery man vnder his owne Vine and vnder his owne Figtree from Dan to Beersheba from one ende of the land to the other euen all the dayes of Salomon O that we were not become so drunkeÌ„ with this our prosperitie as to forget that good Lord which hath giuen this good Land vnto vs O that we were not like Ieshurun spoken of in Deutronomie like the Horse which being fat and well fedde fedde doth spurne and flinge against his keeper nourisher O that we were not lyke the vntamed Heyfar by reason of our long running in plentifull pastures to forget to cary the sweete yoke of obedience O that we coulde make true vse of all the benefites and blessinges of our heauenly Father that the louing kindnesse of God might leade vs to repentance that we could as Samuel speaketh heere to the Israelites Feare the Lord and serue him in trueth with all our hartes and consider what great thinges he hath done for vs that we coulde Prayse the Lord for his goodnesse and declare the woonders which he dayly doth for this realme of Englande Then shoulde the blessing of God still remayne vppon vs both vpon Prince and people Then should the Lord continue his mercies in going in and out with our Armies Then should the Lord eyther make our enemies become our friendes or throughly turne his hande against our aduersaries Then should there be amongst vs euery soule duetifully subiect to the higher powers Then should we in all distresses with contented mindes cast all our care on God for he careth for vs. Then should we in hart conceiue that assured confidence trust in the goodnesse of God that we should faythfully say with Dauid If the Lord be on our side we neede not care what man can do vnto vs. Then should the Lord long prosper and euen for euer preserue that happie Monarchie vnder which we are here so peaceably gouerned and graunt vs a Kingdome of euerlastyng peace in the worlde to come Which giftes graces the Lord of Lords and King of all Kinges vouchsafe to giue vnto vs for the merites of our sauiour Christ Iesus To whom with the Father and the holy Ghost one true and euer-liuing God for all his inestimable benefites bestowed vpon vs be all honour glory thanksegeuing and prayse now for euer Amen FINIS 1. Sam. 11.12 Aug. de Ciuitate dei lib 18. Cap. 22 Iudg. 2.16.18 Iudg 8.22 Heb. 11.32 Iudg. 2.18 Iud 3 9. Nehe 9.27 Ioseph Antiq lib. 20. Cap. penult Ioseph Antiq lib. 14. cap. 10. Caluin institut lib. 4 cap. 20. sect 8. Tul. parad penult Iudg. 2.16 Psal 21.3 Prou. 8.15 Dan. 2.21 Iere. 27.6 Rom. 13.1 1. Pet. 2.13 Hieron epist 4. ad Rusticum Liu. lib. 6. Liu. lib. 22 〈…〉 lib. 6. 〈…〉 lib. 2. 〈…〉 lib. 6. Homer Psal 22 3. Psal 2 6. â— Sam. 13 11 â— Sam. 15 9. â— Sam. 22 18 â—ob 1.15 17 21. Act. 2.23 Iud. 2.18 1. Sam 7 41. â— Sam. 13 2. â— Sam. 11 7. Act. 13.21 1. Sam. 7 13 1. Sam. 8 5.20 â—oh 12 42.1 Math. 10 17. Math. 26 47 â—7 â—oh 18 31. Deut. 17 7. Act. 7 58. Act. 8 3. Act. 9 1. Act. 24.6 â— Sam. 8.20 Aug. contra Fastum Manichaeum lib. 22 cap. 75. Num. 13.3 Iosu 11. Iosu 6 6. Iudg. 4 4. 1. Sam. 3 20 1. Chro. 13. 1. Chro. 23 4. Psal 132.5 1. Reg. 2 35. 2. Chro. 8 14. 2. Chro. 14. 2. Chro. 15.13 16. 2. Chro. 20.3 2. Chro. 17 8. 2. Chro. 19.8 2. Chro. 29.1 2. Chro. 31.4 2. Reg. 23.4 1. Pet. 2.13 Rom. 13 4. Rom. 3 4. 1. Sam. 8 3 1. Sam. 2 3 4. 1. Sam. 8 2. 1 Reg 2 22 1. Sam. 8 1. Num. 13 3. NuÌ„ 13 34. Num. 14.2 9. Psal 78 18. Num. 26 64. Gen. 14 14 Iudg. 15 19. Iudg 4 13. 22. 1. Sam. 7 13. 1. Sam. 3 20 Psal 3.1 Deut. 17.15 1. SaÌ„ 8 3.11 Iuuenal satyr 10. 1. Sam. 8.18 Eccl. 10.20 Pro 21.1 Rom. 3.1 1. Tim. 2.2 Baruch 1 11 Pro. 28 2. Hose 4 1. Exod 22 28 〈◊〉 12.2 〈◊〉 21 6. 1. Sam. 12.2 Psal 81.13 Ier. 44.17 Hulric Hutten in aula Leuit. 26.19 Gen. 12.10 Gen. 26.2 Gen. 45.2 Gen 6.15 Gen. 7.11 Gen. 8.13 1. Sam. 12.24 1. Cro. 14.15 Lucian in votis Aristoph in ambus Plin. lib. 10 cap. 32. Plant. in paenulo 1. Reg 4.25 Deut. 8.14 Deut 32 15. Ier. 31.18 Rom. 2 4. 1. Sam. 12.24 Psal 107.8 2. Sam. 12.14 Pro. 16.7 Psal 8.13 Rom. 13.1 1. Pet. 5.7 Psal 118.6 Psam 21.4
THE DANGER OF Discontentment Intreated of in a Sermon preached at Crow-hurst in Surrey the ninth of Iuly 1598. By Simon Harward Imprinted at London by W.W. for R. Iohnes 1. Ian. 1599. TO THE RIGHT VVorshipfull M. Edmunde Bowyer Esquire and M. Iohn Bowyer his brother mercie and peace be multiplyed in Christ Iesus FOr as much as some yeeres since Right Worshipfull it pleased you so courteously to accept that Sermon which at your request I then published as concerning The fruites of our repentaunce towardes God Wherein Dauid Psal 1. doth place The chiefest blessednesse and felicitie of man I haue thought good to adde thereunto this Sermon which I made at the same Church where you and others Iustices Gentlemen were assembled on the ninth of Iuly last past vpon a part of the first Lesson by the order of our Church appoynted for that Sabboth as concerning that duetifull contentment of minde which as good subiects we owe all to our Prince and Countrey that as in the first we are put in remembrance of our duetie towards the Lord of Lords and Prince of Princes so in this other as well we which vttered and heard it as others into whose handes it shall come to be read may be admonished of those loyall affections which we ought continually to beare to our most gracious Soueraigne and our established Common-wealth As I am well assured that these affections are and haue alwayes bin throughly setled in your faythfull hartes so I doubt not but ye are also as fully desirous that by this slender labour and by all meanes possible others may be allured drawen to the like disposition Thus hoping that you will as louingly accept the reading and publishyng as you haue already done the hearing I commit this my short Discourse to your Worshippes and you and it to the blessing of the Almightie From Tondridge this .xij. of Iuly 1598. Your Worships assured in the Lord Simon Harward 1. Sam. 12.19 VVe haue added a vvickednesse to all our other sinnes in asking vs a King WHen Nachash the King of the Ammonites Right Worshipfull and beloued in Christ had now brought the inhabitantes of Iabesh Gilead into so greate distresse that onely vpon seauen dayes respite they were to yeelde vp their Citie into the enemies handes vpon a very hard condition which was that euery one of the Citizens should haue his right eye plucked out The people of Israel partly because they saw Samuel their Iudge to be olde and feeble and partly because they perceiued the sonnes of Samuel Ioel and Abiah though ruling in the place and stead of their Father yet not walking in the wayes and steps of their Father as dispayring to haue any ayde or deliuerance by their Iudges in which state of gouernment God had for many yeeres so happily preserued them They come with one consent to their Iudge and desire that they may haue a King Samuel when he had vsed many meanes and many forcible argumentes to disswade them from this their malcontented and dispayring minde and seeing euidently that no perswasions could take any place in their wilfull hartes doth now at the last call vpon the Lord in the time of Wheate-haruest for a sodaine and miraculous thunder and storme of raine that thereby as it were by an other voyce of God the people might be further certified both how greeuously they had offended and how for their offence the Lorde was highly displeased with them When the Israelites saw apparantly that Samuel had no sooner called vnto the Lord for that thunder and raine but that presently his request was heard and that in terrible manner in the sight and hearing of the whole people they were astonished and being wonderfully striken with sodaine feare They desire Samuel to pray to the Lord for them that they die not adding these wordes which now I haue read as a reason of their petition and a confession of their desart For say they we haue sinned besides all our other sinnes in asking vs a King What this offence was which the Prophet doth seeke so many wayes to lay open vnto them it shall the better appeare if we consider these two especiall obseruations First the mightie prouidence and infinite goodnesse of God extended towardes that people so many yeeres together during the tyme of the gouernment of the Iudges And secondly how small weake the occasions were for the which they desire to shake off that blessed gouernment as also on the other side what great and waighty causes they had to haue bin contented with that estate wherein God had so long and so miraculously protected them How long the people had liued deliuered defended and gouerned by Iudges S. Augustine doth record it in his .18 booke de Ciuitate Dei where he affirmeth that at that time wherein Rome was buylt which was by Romulus in the time of Iosias king of Iuda the Hebrewes had bin seauen hundred and eighteene yeeres in the land of Canaan whereof sayth he seauen twentie appertaine to Iosua three hundred twentie and nine to the Iudges and three hundred sixtie and two to the Kinges where he maketh three seuerall estates of Gouernment vnder which it pleased God that his people Israel should liue The first was vnder Dukes as in the dayes of Moses and Iosua The second was by Iudges which differed from Iosua for he was appoynted a gouernour in the time of prosperitie when Sehon the King of the Amorits and Ogge the King of Basan were ouerthrowne and vanquished but the Iudges were first inaugurated and inuested into their callinges in some great distresses by the affecting of some notable deliuerance Neither were they like the Dictators aduaunced amongst the Heathen for they were chosen by the voyces of men but these by the voyce of God him selfe They were chosen out of men of greatest accompt and best furnished for the vndergoing of such a charge but these were raysed vp miraculously out of the inferiour sort and lowest degrees of people and inabled extraordinarily by the gyftes and presence of the Almightie as it is sayd in the second Chapter of the Iudges The Lord raysed vp Iudges which deliuered them out of the handes of their oppressours And when the Lord did raise vp any Iudges the Lord as it is sayd there was with that Iudge and did deliuer the people out of the handes of the enemies all the dayes of that Iudges life There were also many differences betwixt them and the Kinges which folowed In the Kinges succession of blood tooke place in the Iudges it tooke no place The Kings had a greater authoritie in ruling and commaunding then the Iudges would chalenge The affayres hauing good successe against the Madianites the people offered to Gedeon that he should Reigne as king ouer them But Gedeon answered Neither will I reigne ouer you neyther shall my childe reigne ouer you but the Lord shall still raigne ouer you The Kinges were some of