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A05282	Queene Elizabeth, paraleld in her princely vertues, with Dauid, Iosua, and Hezekia 1 With Dauid her afflictions, to build the Church 2 With Iosua in her puissance, to protect the Church· 3 With Hezechia in her pietie, to reforme the Chureh [sic]. In three sermons, as they were preached three seuerall Queenes dayes. By William Leigh, Bachelor of Diuinitie.	Leigh, William, 1550-1639.	1612 (1612)	STC 15426; ESTC S108411	64,116	162

a woman so may I likewise charge their mould for that they are but men whose breath is in their nostrels and if God doe not charge England with the sinnes of England little doe I feare their force we commend your prayers for they will moue the heauens so doe wee your powerfull preaching for that will shake the earth of our earthly hearts and call vs to repentance whereby our good God may relieue vs and roote vp in mercy his deserued Iudgements intended against vs onely be faithfull and feare not Si deus nobiscum quis contra nos And thus shee went on in her holy march with her Princely power spirit and praier against that inuincible Nauie for preparation might and bloodie designes the greatest and most fearefull that euer was intended any nation For as Emanuel van Meteran reporteth their shippes were an hundred fiftie furnished with eight thousand mariners besides of slaues for the Gallies two thousād eightie eight of Souldiers twentie thousand besides noble men and gentlemen voluntaries they had great cast peeces 2650. peeces of brasen ordinance 1600. of Iron 1000. bullets 120000. gunpowder 5600. quitals of match 1200. quintals Muskets and Calliuers ●000 Halbarts and Partisanes 100●0 This Nauie as Diego Pimentello afterward confessed was esteemed by the King himselfe to containe two and thirtie thousand persons and to cost euery day thirtie thousand Duckets Adde to all this Parma his forces in the Lowe Country thought to be fortie thousand strong Dukes Princes and Potentates from Italie Spaine Sauoy Hungary Hesse with many Turkish captaines all hasted thither to the seruice and were had in Parma his court and campe The Pope Sixtus Quintus placed his part with sixe cinque for all he published a Cr●sadoe as against Turkes and Infidels with ample Indulgences he bestowed the Realme of England vppon the Conquerour and proffered a million of golde towardes the seruice and if all reports be true hee dispatched out D. Allen the great Apostle of our English Catholiques to lye alooffe with a Frye of Seminaries and Iesuites vermine of our Church to poyson within corrode the very bowels of their dearest countrey But there 's no counsell against the Lord No might can marche with his Maiestie Mans wisedome is but foolishnes his greatest strength but weakenesse his life but a breath and all his honour but a blast for the Lorde had no sooner blowne vppon all this their pompe and pride but their spirits were daunted their Armies were discomfited the great Armada was scattered beaten and broken with it owne burthen and as they say only fiftie three poore shippes returned home to carie tidings of all the test Thus England had the honor of the day day like that of Iosuah bright shining from heauē wherin the black night of our throu●●●● destruction was beaten backe by the puissance of our Prince praying our Armies fighting and the creatures of God relieuing to make vs glorious by deliuerance And now to close with your religious cares and hearts which heare me this day our care is for our Prince to keepe her in life the crowne of our head the breath of our nostrels the annointed of the Lord vnder whose shadow we haue bin thus preserued aliue amongst the heathen Where must wee then begin to beg that the line of her life may be lengthened but at the Author of life that her dayes may bee multiplied on earth but at the auncient of dayes in heauen Iosua could not stir a creature till he had moued the creator nor stay the Sun till he had communed with his God as it is here Then spake Iosua vnto the Lord c. For it was as in the day of famine when God by the Prophet promised plentie saying in that day I will heare saith the Lord I will euen heare the heauens and they shal heare the earth and the earth shall hearethe corne and the wine and the oyle and they shall heare Israel yet all as it 〈…〉 this caution I will not heare the 〈…〉 till the heauens heare the earth I will not heare the earth till the earth heare the corne the wine and the oile nor will I heare the cry of these till these heare the cry of Israel so as Israel must be the Primū mobile to moue the Lord to mercy No corne wine or oile no earth sunne or heauen could preuaile with the God of heauen till the praiers plaints and cries of Israel there and Iosua here at Aialon were out and piercing to make him propitious Therefore you that stand this day for the Lords annoynted and keepe it solemne like one of the feasts of Iudah I exhort with the Apostle that first of all supplications praiers intercessions and giuing of thankes be made for all and especially for Queene Elizabeth that wee may leade a quiet and peaceable life vnder her in all godlines and honestie without which praier to God all other succours are but vaine For her counsell may aduise her officers may care her guard may keepe watch her Souldiers may fight her Ladies may loue her and her handmaides may attend her her Physitions may apply her person her Cookes her diet yea and her Reuels may solace and refresh her wearied spirits all these with all the subiects of the land may wish and worke her good yet all nothing without the Soueraigne good for except the Lord build the house they labour but in vaine that build it Come then ye Counsellers of state and aduise with your God come yee officers in Court resigne your staues and be instant with your God come yee Souldiers out of the field let fall your weapons and yeeld to your God Ye Ladies and maides of honour leaue your closets and attend your God Physitions lay by your Cordials and apply your God You reuerent fathers of the Church slide from your Consistories and pray to your God you preachers people and all contend with your God for a blessing this day that it may yet dawne a bright blessing to this English nation Iosua preuailed as I haue told you and was encouraged to commaund the creatures because of the promise wee haue a more precious promise from God and a greater commaund euen to still the heauens till our prayers bee offered vp there was silence in heauen for the space of halfe an houre till the Saints prayers were offered vp and now tel me whether is the greater command to stay the Sun in Gibeon till the Amorites be vāquished or to silence the heauens till the Saints prayers bee answered Againe the rather to embolden vs to pray with confidence wee haue as good a God to goe to as euer Iosua had euen the Lord Iehoua wee haue as good a meane to goe by as euer Iosua had euen Iesus Christ the righteous we haue had as good a cause in hand as euer Iosua had euen the life of our Queene the safety of her state and the preseruation

of Gods Church wee haue as stable and certaine promises to assure vs as euer Iosua had Aske and you shall haue seeke and yee shall finde knocke and it shall be opened vnto you why then should wee doubt of like successe but be well assured that the Lord will make this glorious day of her highnesse raigne like the day of Iosua still shining ouer this our English Iudah as hee did the Sunne and Moone ouer Gibeon and Aialon which hee grant for his sonnes sake to whom be praise and glory both now and euer Amen Amen THE THIRD Sermon 2. KINGS 18. 5. 6. verse 5 He trusted in the Lord God of Israel so that after him was none like him among all the Kings of Iudah neither were there any such before him verse 6 For he claue to the Lord and departed not from him but kept his commandements which the Lord commanded Moses I If I should bee silent and say nothing in honour of the day we now solemnize surely these stones might speak to the praise of their soueraigne vnder whose happie gouernment they haue bin reared and made beautifull as you may see like the polished corner stones of the Temple and not these stones onely but the aboundance of all your grasse corne and cattell vpon a thousand hilles together with the comforts of your wiues children and seruants yea and which is more then all the rest the solace of our saued soules filled with the fatnes of all Gods blessings would say of their Elizabeth as did the Prophet of good Ezechias shee hath bin to vs as an hiding place from the winde as a refuge from the tempests as riuers of waters in a dry place and as the shadow of a great rock in a wearie land Nay more if Dauid vpon the death of Saule might thus mourne his funerals say ye daughters of Israel weepe for Saule who clothed you in scarlet with pleasures and hanged ornaments of gold vpon your apparell how much rather may wee ioy in the day of the gladnesse of our hearts for the life of our Queene say you daughters of England ioy for Elizabeth who clothed you in scarlet rich garments and costly iewels feedeth you with the finest flower of wheate with hony out of the rock and setteth peace in all your borders Surely he hath not dealt so with euery nation and therefore O England clappe your hands sing and say In nablio decachordo Psallam tibi I will praise the Lord vpon an instrumēt of ten strings yea as long as I haue any being will I praise the Lord. For truly if wee doe not beate backe the riuer of Gods mercies with the seas of our ingratitude if wee doe not checke the Lord in the meanes of all his mercies toward vs with our impietie if wee doe not preiudice the Crowne and diademe of his annointed wee cannot but say by her as by a Conduite all the waters of life is conueyed vnto vs and not conueyed onely but continued not for a yeare twaine or twentie which is much in the raigne of Princes but for fortie foure faire yeares now past and gone the Lord of heauen with the line of her life hath drawne out the happinesse of our dayes in multiplying our nation and increasing ourioies Who maugre the rage of al rebels the malice of al wickednes the spite of al popery may say yet God is good vnto England euē to those that are pure in heart yet are his blessings vpon his annointed yet he is her strength and her saluation therefore Wee shall not much bee moued fremat orbis Orcus illa erit secura God spake once or twice haue I heard it saith Dauid That power belongeth vnto God to thee ô Lord mercy for thou rewardest euery one according to his works And now the rather to prouoke the Lord that hee would continue still the blessings we enioy for Englands saftie and his owne glory you haue done well to honour this day with your presence and to sanctifie yet with your prayer the day that it might still dawne the Prince that shee might still liue and your selues be euer blessed vnder so happie a raigne and gouernment With whose bright beautie that you might be enamoured the more as it were wounded in loue with one of her eyes and with a chaine of her necke I haue thought good to match her in her princely pietie with good Ezechia one of the best Kings of Israels Iuda His princely heart was replenished with foure religious vertues more precious thē the Carbuncle ●opas or the ●risolyte which like a coller of Esses a Chiane about his necke so wounded his subiects with loue loyalty as when they called him the breath of their nostrils they deemed their life lapped in his loue Now the chaine of his gouernment held by these foure lincks all religious vertues fit for a Prince and as it were synewes of a sanctified state The first was his faith and kingly confidēce in his God for so saith the text Hee trusted in the LORD GOD of Israel The second was his princely magnanimitie euer contending with the best of his rancke for after him there was none like him neither were there any such before him The third was his constancie for hee claue to the Lord and departed not from him The fourth and last was the patterne of all his pietie for he kept the commaundements which the Lord God commanded Moses And all these vertues flowed from him like the riuers of Eden out of the Paradise of God to water and refresh the dying and declining plants of Iudah which Ahaz his father had shaken with a dangerous and Idolatrous rule Now for his faith here first in the ranck and the fairest of all the rest and as it were the salt of the sacrifice seasoning the soule of this religious King yee fee it was right for it pitched vpō the soueragine good euē vpon the Lord God of Israel in whom hee trusted I say he trusted in one God not in many Gods in the God of Israel not in the Gods of the nations as it were speaking with Moses in the silence of his soule our God is not like other Gods our very enemies being Iudges so soueraigne a faith in a soueraigne Prince pitched vpon so soueraigne a God is more precious then a diademe vpon his head or the diamonde vppon his right hand For he knewe with Dauid and found it true in his owne experience that no King is saued by the multitude of an hoaste neither is the mightie man deliuered by his great strength hee knewe tha● an horse was but a vaine thing to saue a man howbeit hee knewe that the eye of the Lord is alwayes vpon them that feare him and vpon them that trust in his mercie he knewe that God was his King of olde and the helpe that is done

stockes and so stayed the bells but now Benefielde hath his passing peale and to God bee the praise I hope there is not a bell in England that rings not a tongue in England that prayes not an hart in England that ioyeth not in and for the life of their soueraigne if any Meroits there be who will not do as we do let the curse of Meros light vpō them for that they come not to help the Lorde against the mightie and let the Israel of God ●ay Amen To passe by her afflictions sithenc● her raigne I may not euen since shee came to the royall diademe of her crowne and dignitie no sooner set vpon her head but the care of her people was in her heart pressing out this passionate speech I care not for my selfe my life is not deare vnto mee they which might knowe what cares I beare with this burthen would neuer thinke I take no great ioy in wearing the Crowne Ballance them with Dauids afflictions and if yee bee not partiall of her perils you shall finde them such as may pierce your hearts to prouoke your speech and pray Lord remember Elizabeth in all her afflictions vpon Dauids entrance the Philistines were against him the Aramites against him Edom and Ammon with the Moabites and Hagarens the Grecians Sirogrecians these are forraine foes manie in number mightie in power malitious in heart bloody in hand and practises how many and mighty were they who cast their heads together with one consent and as it is in the Psalme were confederate these were enemies of state forraine and abroade And were they lesse dangerous at home Absolon his owne sonne Absolon by name the fathers peace became the fathers bane and sought his death who gaue him life Seba the sonne of Bechry a man of Gemini with his wicked roote disclaimed that hee had any part in the sonne of Iesse Michol mocked him and despised his deuotions Shemey curseth Achitophel plotteth Abner dieth and the sons of Zerniah are too hard for Dauid Forraine power were against our Elizabeth and are confederate Balaam Balack Turke Pope with all their vnited forces and for our home treasons they are greater then they can be expressed with tears they breake the heart ere they can bedewe the cheekes mightie Absolons and base borne Sebaes many Achito●hels I meane plotting Iesuits and Seminaries with their whining Cardinall Allen in their bloody designes haue disclaimed their Elizabeth Shemey curseth Pope Pius is become Impious the cursse is turned vpon himselfe for Elizabeth liueth a blessed Prince hee is dead a cursed Pope Lord remember Elizabeth c. Nay more to make ful the measure of her afflictions the Michols of this land are manie who disdaine our Dauid dauncing before the Arke scorne her deuotions and mocke her religion trāple vnder foote the bloud of the couenant as an vnholy thing and is not this an affliction yes no doubt and an afflicting affliction therefore we had need to pray Lord remeber Elizab c. Lastly our sinnes euen our loude crying sinnes hazard the life of our Prince our vnthankfulnes to God for her our colde deuotion and chilling zeale being fallen from our first loue our neglect of the word Sacraments and Sabaoths our generall Apostasie from the Faith our lacke of loue our great oppression and gnawing vsurie our extrauagant lusts of the flesh our excessiue Pride and hellish heate of Ambition I say anie of these hazard a Prince all these together shake the State and therefore wee had need to pray Lorde remember Elizabeth c. In tender of whose deliuerance long life and happie raigne there remaineth a dutie to bee performed this day on our behalfe euē with our good God to plead her cause and pray for her person Lux haec venerabilis Anglis This day is deare to England and of all the mercies of our GOD registred in the Kalender of his Loue next to that of his Sonne CHRIST Albo signanda lapillo to bee of blessed memorie wherein wee haue found to our vnspeakable ioy and doe feele to the gladnes of our hearts that the people that walked in darknesse haue seene a great Light and wee that earst dwelt in the Land of the shadowe of death I meane of poperie and grosse Idolatrie vpon vs hath this Light shined God in mercie hath increased our ioye in the life light and gouernment of our dread soueraigne in whose fun-shine now we walke and pray that her day may euer dawne The allusion is good from our Christ to our Queene for by him and her the yoke of our burthen the staffe of our shoulder and the rodde of our oppressor hath bene broken as in the day of Midian and surely till these her Al●ion dayes euery battel of the warrier hath bin with noise and tumbling of garments in bloud but hers hath bene in softnes and in silence like a showre of Raine vppon a fleece of wooll like vnto Siloah that runneth softly by Sion like vnto the battell of Salmos hath fought our Salem Queene Sine Sudore sanguine without sweat or blood and like her Christ patiendo potiùs quam agendo auxit imperium her conquest hath beene without blood or broyle rather by sufferance and succouring of others at home then by seasures abroad hath she inlarged the bonds of her Empire And here seasonably and for conclusion of all spare me in a word to Paralell the two Princes as in their afflictions so in successe of blessings to make the yoke of their heauie gouernment more supportable Dauid killed Goliah in his weake strength with prayer in his mouth a peeble stone in his hand he stroke him on the forehead for that hee did confront his God Etibi percutitur vbi deerat Christus There hee felled him where Christ was fayling Queene Elizabeth in her weake and femimine sex to giue God the glorie hath subdued that great Giant at Gath I meane that man of Rome with the sweete perfume of prayer in her mouth and the power of the word of God in her blessed hand a stone hewen out of the mountaine without hands as Daniel saith dashing in peeces all the marbles of this world in the spirit and speech of Dauid hath beene her royall martch Thou commest to me with a sword with a speare and with a shield but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of Hostes that God of the Hoste of Israel whom thou hast railed vpon this day shall the Lord close thee in my hād that all the world may know that englād hath a God Dauid brought the Arke into his Citie by the hands of the Leuites So doth Queen Elizabeth the Religion of her Christ into the bowels of al her kingdomes by a beautifull ministery Dauid dedicated the vessels gotten of the Gentiles to the vse of the temple so doth she the spoiles of the Papists to the maintenance of