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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

painting the praise of the pen or 〈◊〉 Nor good speech the glory of the tongue or lippes If Iacobus de voragine Alaysus Lipomanus Laurentius Surius Iohannes Molanus the Compilers of Legendes and Cardinal Baronius now living had observed this sentence of Bernards had sayled within the compasse of this bright Cynosura they would not haue troubled th● world with so many idle supersluous fabulous discourses in nature Apocryphall to the Church vnprofitable derogatory to the glory of Iesus Christ as now they haue done Christ beeing the one only Sun of righteousnes in whose appearance al the starres of heaven shine dimmely and in some sort are ecclipsed ●●se●va Secondly in all this Legend of Bishop Hughes life containing eight large leaues in folio devided by 32. chapters I finde the worde Faith but seldome mentioned whereas S. Paule in one onely Chapter to the Hebrewes namely the 11. wherein he summarily describeth the life of the Patriarchs of the old Testament and concluding the matter of all their story only in 40. verses hath inferred the name of faith at the least 34. times so that in mine opinion the inserting of it by the B. Apostle in the life of the Fathers shineth more gloriously to the eies of the faithfull A similitude as a precious stone inclosed in a ring of gold glistereth in the eies of any curious worldly beholder 3. Observa Thirdly I obserue in this discourse certaine places of holy scripture wrested abused by this Legendary penner impertinently dangerously alleadged yea somewhat preiudiciall to the person of our blessed Saviour vnlesse they be construed in better sense which thing can hardly bee admitted the Author laying them downe in such sort as he hath done which sentences heere follow and by vvay of application are applied by the said writer vnto B. Hugh Proficit puer spiritu sapientia intellectus 〈…〉 ministrans velut alter Samuell coram Domino gratus Deo charus hominibus The childe increased in the spirit of wisedome and vnderstanding Isai 11. v ● Rom. 1 v. 2 Iohn 4 Missal in die S. Hugonis Haba 3.13 ministring as an other Samuell before the Lord acceptable to God and beloved of men Erat et ex toto voluntas in lege Domini in qua meditabatur die nocte His whole will or minde was setled on the Law of the Lord wherein he meditated day night Meus est cibus vt faciam voluntatem patris mei qui est in coelis It is my meate to doe the will of my Father which is in heaven Egressus et in salutem populi tui in salutem cum Christo Thou wentest forth to saue thy people to saue thē with thy Christ Which thing the Missall affirmeth Secundum vsum Sarum that S. Hugh did heare the first night after hee was consecrated Bishop of Lincolne To this might bee adioined certaine other thinges out of the Missall vnto which I referre them that haue leisure and are desirous to read them Fourthly being advaunced to the Bishoprick of Lincolne freely by Henry the king of England honored by his sonnes K. Richard the 1. and K. Iohn Observa 4. he opposed himselfe to such demaunds requests impositions tributes gratifications which these Princes imposed vpon the subiects of this Realm which how it doth agree with the saying of the Apostle in the 13 to the Romaines Rom 13. Cui tributū tributū cui honorem honorē cus vectig el v●cti gal Tho. Beckes Obserue whether this Ve●isier regarded the precept of the Apostle in the 2 to Timothy and the counsel that Saint Peter gaue to Christians in this 1. Epistle 2. chapt 13. and ver 14 Regū malleus Idle applied and malitiously 1. Cor 14. King La●cius Eletheurius being Pope An. Domi 179. Ioseph of Arimathia Greg. Mag. August in Monachus An Do. 596 Vide ●ito Bedae Gyl de excidio Brit. Polydor. Virgil. historia Angliae lib. 2. all faithfull Christiās may easilie discerne Besides he behaued himselfe roughly and very rudely in much of his demeanure to the two first of the Princes whereby it seemeth that the late memory of Thomas Becket Archbishoppe of Canterbury vvas impressed deeply in him not without some applause of the clergy in those daies amongst whome a vaine and idle versifier affixed vpon his herse at the time of his funerall this Distich sounding perilously and seditiously Pontificum baculut Monachorū norma scholarum Consultor Regum malleus Hugo fuit A vvorthy schoole-founder a Monke mirror true Prelats staffe Monarchs mallet thou wast holy Hugh Fiftly whereas the author of this Legend of the life of St. Hugh hath mentioned many miracles effected by St. Hugh partly in the time of his life partly by his medi●tion to God as the author saith after the time of his death you may easily find by the circumstance of these actions according to time place persōs the most of the thinges if not al specified of this argument either to be incredible or ridiculous or prodigious or such as are monstrous nothing resembling the nature of true miracles First for that the gifte of miracles rather serueth for thē that doe not beleeue then doe beleeue In as much as our histories haue testified and verified that the Christian religion was receiued heere vniversally in this Realme many hundred yeeres before S. Hugh was borne Miracula as Gregory saith necessaria erant in exordio Eclesiae Vt enim ad fidem cresceret multitudo credentium miraculis fuerat nutrie●da quia et nos cum arbusta plantamus tamdiu eis aquam in fūdimus quosque ea in terra tam coaluisse videamus et si semel radicem fixerint irrigatio cessabit Hinc est enim quod Paulus dicit Linguae in signum sunt non fidelibus sea infidelibus Habemus de his signis atque virtutibus quae adhuc subtiliùs considerare debemus Sancta quippe Ecclesia quotidie spiritaliter facit quod tunc per Apostolos corporaliter faciebat Miracles were needfull in the Infancie of the Church For the multitude of the beleeuers the more to grovv and increase in faith was to b● nurst vp vvith miracles as men when they set grafts doe so long water them vntill they see them spring vp when once they be firmly rooted they leaue watering hēce it is that Paul saieth Tongues serue for a signe not for them that doe beleeue but for them that doe not beleeue Other signes miracles we haue which we are more diligently to marke for the church doth now daily that spiritually which it did then by the Apostles outwardly Nay in S. Austens time it seemeth the giftes of miracles were not so necessary as may be gathered by these sentences quoted in his writinges Inter fideles signae et prod●gia non sunt necessaria sed spes firma Vnto the faithfull signes and miracles are not needfull but a strong beliefe Quisquis adhuc prodigia

the which she was to passe were by nature of the clymates subiect vnto perilous in respect of the danger of those viperous venemous and deadly vermine which naturally each part of those countries ingendreth Chargeable in regard of the traine that she was attended and accompanied with and in regard of the great magnificence wherewith King Salomon was by her in all regal bounty rewarded Although the comparison heere wil not holde betweene the Queene of the South the Q of England for vndertaking a iourney c. Yet neverthelesse how laborious perilous toilesome chargeable the regiment of this mighty kingdome in these daungerous daies hath beene to Queene Elizabeth al Christendome knoweth to her great honour we her subiects doe acknowledge glorifying God that hath wrought so great workes by her for the establishment of religion and manifold good of this Realme The Queene of the South a daughter of peace which appeareth partly by her learning partly by her long peregrination wherof the first is not so easily obtained without peace and quietnesse The other may be verefied to be true by the fruites of her peregrination For it is to be presumed to be a thing infallibly true that shee durst not haue vndertaken such a iourney vnlesse her countries had beene settled in great peace at home The Q. of England Cicer. pro Muren Simul arque in crepuit suspicio tumul tus artes illicò omnes cōticescūt Bach Lyri 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mr. A●●ham speaking of the Q in his School master fol. 19. Besides her perfitte redines in Latine French Spanish shee readeth heere nowe at Windsore more Greek every day then some Prebendaries of some churches do read latine in a whol week a mirrour of peace in these troublesome daies at her first cōming to the crowne she came like the doue to the Arke of Noah with the oliue leafe a signe of peace in her mouth as I haue mentioned in my treatise adioined to the sermon hath remained ever since a continuer of that peace vvhich was first brought in by Gods goodnes vnder her regimēt For her Maiesties learning I refer you to Mr. Ascams testimonie marginallie coted and speake the lesse of it because it is contained in that parte of the comparison wherein her skill in languages is mentioned The Queene of the Souths holy wisdome thereby was ennobled and deserved everlasting commendation in that shee was an embracer of true religion and with an holy zeale endured extreame paines and peril of a long iourney to come to Ierusalem to bee resolued in such doubts by King Salomō as concerned the grounds of her salvation The Q. of England a zealous imbracer of his doctrine whom K. Salomō shaddowed and prefigured a defender of that faith which the blood of Iesus Christ hath sealed sanctified For the which although shee hath not vndertaken any laborious peregrination yet hath shee endured for the defence and maintenance therof many bitter stormes and escaped by Gods goodnes many great dangers which for the defence of the Gospell haue beene complotted against her They that doubt of this let them but call to memory the fearefull danger of the Northren rebellion in the yeare of our Lorde Stowes Chron. An. 1569. 1569. and the 12. yeare of her Maiesties raigne blowne vp to a head by the bellowing of Pius Quintus bloody Bull let them remember I say Babingtons Ballards conspiracy Hardings imagery Par●ies treasons and vnnatural cruelty let them put before their eies the attempts of the Spanish fleete 1588. the Popish leagues cruel pollitike and vnmerciful confederacy Lopez Squires poisonable and venemous treachery In the which doubtlesse we had al perished had bin swallowed vp quicke if the Lord had not beene on our side Psalm 124. and God had not giuen wisedome to her and her Counsell to prevent the drifts of our mighty adversaries The Queene of the South a rare Phenix and a bright starre eclipsing with the light of her vertue knowledge al the Princes before her and after her in Aethiopia as farre-forth as by any record of the Aethiopians History it hath bin discovered vnto vs. How rare a Phenix the Q. of England hath beene how bright a starre in these daies our owne Chronicles can manifest and the experience of her blessed regimēt this one forty yeares demōstrateth more evidently then my pen can depaint For in the fruits of her peace she wil shine as a star in the Catalogue of her honorable predecessours and for her learning and wisedome wil be as a Phenix renowned by many famous writers to the people of that age which shal succeede her Not meaning to presse this similitude or comparison any further lest I should seeme to misdoubt the discreete iudgment of the intelligēt Reader to whom one word is sufficient to insinuate a matter of lardge discourse and since it is a point in al learning obserued that no comparison reference Nulla similitudo quatuor currit pedibus or resemblaunce similitudinary should hold in each part and for that there are many things appropriate to the person of the Queene of the South which cannot to any creature else be applied by any apt relation And since al know that wisedome I meane the faithful Iames 1. learning knowledge fortitude mercy c. and al good perfect giftes as beames from the Sun issue and are derived and giuen from and by the Father of lights c. and that no good nor perfitte gifte shineth in man but what he hath receiued from aboue and for the which he is bound to be thankful to God the giuer Cirill de recta fide ad pientiss reginas c. I end this part with this sentence of Cyrill Vbi fides recta et irreprehensibilis cum honorum operum honestate coniungitur aquo cur su admittitur illic omninò est in omni bono perfectio sanctificationis integritas Where a right and vnreprovable faith is conioined with the excellency of good workes and entertained in one current with them ther is a perfection in al goodnesse and there flourisheth the integrity of sanctification I haue adioined to this Sermon wherin I haue discoursed at lardge of each point of the Texte prefixed to it an Apologetical discourse not impertinēt to those thinges wherunto the application of the sermon then tended wherein I haue fully and faithfully confuted al such slaunders wherewith our Natiue Country and Gracious Prince hath beene vntruely and vncharitably charged traduced by divers malicious adversaries in the greatest cōsistories of Christendome for that to the glory of God and honour of Q. Elizabeth the 17. of Novēber is yearely celebrated in festivall and ioyful manner by the subiects of this land in these times our thankes giving to God being grounded on the Apostles precepts the 1. 1 Tim 2 to Timothy and the 2. Chap. our other exercises of ioy being of that quality

any other exercises in regard of our publike ioy that day demonstrated perfourmed in honour of her Highnesse and namely Courtlike Triumphes which questionlesse are repined at secretly by the adverse parte I bind vp al these in one bundle reckon the●● vnder one head 〈◊〉 since they be vsed by the people of this land only as significant arguments to expresse their sincere affections in ioy to their Soveraigne nowe raigning in regard of the manifolde blessings that haue beene powred plēteously vpō this florishing Realme ever since Q. Elizabeth receaued from God the regall scepter therof And sithence ringing of Belles making of bonefires running at Tilte some hundred years agoe haue bin reputed to-kens of ioy in matters of like nature as former ages report ar vsed this day by the adversaries themselues and such as applaude their doinges in other countreys and exhibited in the honour of those Princes vnder whom they liue in farre greater measure outwardly Rome Antwerpe Paris .c Yet because their principall obiection is against the English ringing in honor of her Highnesse Inauguration day the 17. of November I breefly inquire this of the Accuser Lib Pontifical vide Iohn Bren. apol conf Witen● c. omitting all superstitious impious practizes cōcerning Bels in their churches dayly vsed vpon cause offred concerning the baptizing of Bells the blessing of Bells their hope by ringing of Belles to disperse tempests to extinguish lightnings to driue away evill spirits c. I desire thē to answere to this pointe Du and l. 1. rationat di vin offictor whether Belles haue a civill vse or not if they haue vvhich they cannot deny if Bells I say succeeded in the place of the trumpetts in Moses why may they not bee runge in signum laticiae for a signe of ioy as the trumpets were sounded in Moses time since the nature of the affection laetitia 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Hebrew is such that it must needes M. Tullius Tusc Laetitia vehementer appertitus se offerens in praesenti bon● By all convenient signes Rupertus Abbas efferri in praesētibono triumph in her present happinesse And since as Rupertus hath obserued in the former place it is natural to the minde of man to be ravished with great ioy by the notes and harmony of musicke which thing Belis well rūg commonly effect in mens harts first being wel tuned by a skilfull Artizan and experimentall practicioner herevpon I may truely and sincerely inferre that whereas this this Accusar as I haue obserued in the animadversion premised termeth the performances of these solemnizations and celebrities actions or fruits not of Religion but services of foolish parasitical ridiculous slattery c. that in this vehemency of bitternesse he doth either vnadvisedly patronize barbarous stoicall impassibility or that his hearte Question Tuscula l. 4. when he wrote this was possessed with the spirit of an incurable vlcer of malice and envy I may adioyne herevnto how vncharitably and viperously this adversary endevoureth by these wordes to blemish the greatest parte of this flourishing kingdome wherin he was borne and bred with the sowre sweere poyson and invenomed baite and by consequent blotte of servile or Gnathonicall flattery Wheras in the 3. animadversion he affirmeth that these solemn zati●ns and celebrities haue noe better grounde then those games and pastimes exhibited by the Heathen to Iupiter Iupiter Mars Hercules O●ympia Nemaei Iudi Martiales Mars Hercules and to heathenish Idolatrie c. I would willingly learne by what Induction reason Argument or testimony the Accuser can averre it since honest mirth is an affection in her selfe irreprehensible vvhich Christian religion hath ever honoured never condēned so that extravagantly it doth not rang out of those boūds which the holy scripture hath prefixed vnto it since these ringing of Bells who succeeded the vse of silver trumpets had no originall in Paganisme but among faithfull Christians and hath beene onely vsed by them vniversally since the greatest strongest nation now knowne in the world this day namely the Turkes abhorreth frō all practize of Bels Calvinotur Lib. 2. and cast them out of their Mosquyes vvhich thy devote to their Mahumetry as this Accuser hath other wise insinuated in these wordes cited out of Bartholmaeus George By the Priests crying it appeareth they haue no Bells at all Io locus Me●g In ●eregrinatione Hierosolymi●ia Habent Turcae templa satis amplae in quibus nullas prorsus imagines vidi c. luxtatemplum turris est mirae altitudinit quam corum sacerdos tempore orationis ascendens c voce aliâ c. haec verba repetit Venite ad orationem The Turkes haue temples large enough in the which I sawe noe images at all Besides the church or temple there is a tower of a marveilous height the which the Priest ascending in the time of service with a lowde voice repeateth these wordes Come vnto praier To this consorteth that vvhich another hath alleadged in expresse wordes Campanis Turcae non vinutur The Turkes vse no Bells yet neverthelesse they doe vse Campanitibus steeples or Bellfrees in places neere adioyning to their Mosquys or temples since also Bonfires in signes of ioy may bee warranted by the ancient dayly practise of this honorable Realme since courtly and triumphant disp●rts well vsed their own Canonists cannot ●●tly dissalow sin● their Carnivalles yeare by yeare and in their late Iubilee● in honour of their Pope and severall Princes at Rome and in other Romish Iurisdictions these or such like celebrities haue beene solemnely performed and are ready vpon every small vanity to be renewed Yea saith the Accuser but it shall bee proued out of the booke of Wisdome that these celebrities by you performed are of this nature namely meere Idolatrous I answere to this in this sort I desire to know by what validity of Argument the adversary can inforce this Lib Sapien tiae c 14. v. 14.15.16.17 Summarilie saieth the Accuser I proue it by these verses before cited Pardon me Accuser I find not that this issue may be proved out of the verses marginallie quoted nay I finde rather that these verses vtterlie confound the Idolatrous Imagerie daily in your Church to Gods greate dishonour practised defended But omitting that argumēt I onlie at this time examine how aptlie the nature circumstance of this place concerning the matter betweene mee and the Accuser travized doth agree The publike exercises vsed in the church common-wealth of England are either Ecclesiasticall or Civill as it appeareth in the first reason The Ecclesiasticall solemnitie as it is proved in the answere to the first Accusation haue warrant out of Gods word by approved practise of the church The Civill exercises celebrities publike are their ●nging of Bells Bone-fires Triumphes c. I dem●nd n●w what coherence there is betweene these actions ●e●ore nominated and those that are mentioned in the 14. of the

I say and a signe vt totus tandem ignesceret mundus that all the vvorlde shoulde perish with fire And it is an infallible token of the bluddines of Rome that the woman Apoc. 17. is seene to sit vpon a scarlet coloured beast But that signing with red letters in the Calēder is a certaine token of an Holi-day is no infallible property as Saunders hath alleadged The distinguishing of Aries and Taurus and the rest of the 12. Signes by their red letters therein will easily dischardge me without the force of a Mallet out of the brakes of this obiection If not for perhappes they will not descend vpon so simple a conceite neither leaue their Zodiacall honors vpon so small a quarrell beeing to entertaine the Sunne each month once a yeare into some one or other of their houses Yet I hope for a shifte the Lawyers in Westminster Hall will pleade for my deliverance here in without a Golden fee which otherwise they may easily yearne these daies being meerely workendayes by no ceremonious rites neither lavve Ecclesiasticall ordained Holly-dayes But here finally if question be made by what good authority the Church and Common wealth of England can warrant their solemnizations and celebrities in these actions to satisfie al reasonable and good Christians I summarily yeeld these reasons First I say that all publicke exercises Ecclesiasticall may bee warranted by the rule of the Apostle 2. Tim. and by the warrant of the 21. Psalme as it is discussed in the second generall head Secondly that if the Church and Christian state of England should prescribe it to be an Holyday that their prescriptiō ha●● good example for it in Canonical scriptures and in those scriptures which are named by the godly and learned l●br Ecclesiastici Ecclesiasticall bookes next in authority to bookes Canonical namely out of these places First out of the book of Hester c. 9. v. 18.19.20 21. wherby Mardochai his directiō letters were sent to the Iews that were through al the provinces of king Ahashuerosh that they shoulde obserue the 14. Fest Pur. sive sortiū cap. 7. ve 6. day of the moneth Adar every yeare with ioy and feast●ng to send presents every mā to his neighbour and giftes to the poore A day wherein their sorrow by God was turned to ioy from mourning in regard of the bloody massacre contrived by wicked Hamon to the finall extirpation of that holy though afflicted people vpō which action Lavater in his Commentary vpon Hester hath written this Lavaterus in librum Hester Ex his quae hactenùs attulimus facile videre est Christianos exempto Hesterae Mardochaei dies festos indicere vel acceptaere posse Dominicum diem ab ipsit Apostolis institutū diximus propter hunc veteres Christo dies quosdam sacros dedicarunt Christi Natalem Circumcisionem Resurrectionem Ascensionem in coelum Missionem spiritus Sancti cosque coluerunt fidei confirmandae reique gestae testificanda gratia Hos si qui imitentur vt maxime probemus c. In Christiana libertate c. Quod adritus illos solennes qui ad publicam reigestae memoriam atque gratiarum actionem quae Deo sic per se reprebendi nec debent nec possunt Omni●o enim nostrum est Deo ob accepta beneficia gratias agere eademque perpetua memoria celebrare ad posteros transmittere Out of this which we haue hitherto alleadged it is easily seene that Christians after the example of Hester and Mardocheus ma● either appoint or accepte and approue Holy-daies We haue heretofore said that the Lords daie was first instituted by the Apostles themselues because of this our Ancestors cōsecrated certain daies to be kept holy vnto Christ as the Birth-day of Christ his Circumcision Resurrection Ascension his sending of the holy Ghost and those they observed both for confirmation of their faith and to testifie the remembraunce of the benefits performed vnto men on those daies These if any man imitate wee shoulde greatly al owe of their proceedings heerein in Christian liberty c. And as cōcerning those ceremonial feasts which pertaine to the memoriall of a publique benefite and to thankes-giving vnto God alone they neither can nor ought to be reprehended For it is altogither our part and duty to giue thanks vnto God for benefites received and to celebrate the perpetuall memory of them Iud. 16.3 This verse is in the latine but in no Greeke copy that I haue seene Seratius in 16. Iudith Aethiopica ecclesia in suo calendario habet diem f●●iū Iudithae Macchab. 4 and to transferre the same to al succeeding posterity Thirdly the last verse of the Booke of Iudith mentioneth a celebrity by the Iewes yearely and continually perfourmed in remembrance of her victory over Holophornes In the exposition of which place Serrarius hath touched the religion and piety of the Iewes that in remembrance of this victory instituted a solemne festivity The feast of the dedication by Iudas Machabaeus and his brethren and the whole congregation ordained to be obserued yeare by yeare after the clensing of the Sanctuary serveth also for a patterne in like cases to follow And so much the more for that our Saviour Ioh. 10. in the time of his flesh taught in this celebrity in the Temple Iohn 10. Hebr 5 7. Some diver say there is about this feast of the dedication but he time of the writer mentioned Ioh. 10. sheweth what feast it was Nonnus in his paraphrase in greek verse vpon Saint Iohn is ceceived Vide Bezae Annot. in hunc Iocū Lib. 1. ca. 1. ca. 41. lib. 2. ca 19 Euse de vi Cōst paneg Hospinianus lib. de festo Iudaeorum c. 10. Serar com c. 7. Mac. 1. To these examples may bee adioined that which Eusebius hath writtē in the life of Constantine the great In whose raigne a panegyris every 10. yeare was celebrated to Gods honor To glorifie his name for that happy regimēt for the light of religiō in Constātine the great his raigne givē to the world and for that great conquests given to that Emperour by God And Halcyon peace ensuing thereof to that mighty Empire To this end a festivity was celebrated in that great Empire of this quality or nature wherein God was glorified Hymns were song Constantine and his sons Gods instrumentes in the establishment of Christian religion and peace in that Empire generally were remembred by all that Empire with great acclamations To these I wil adioine two other authorities one of ours an other vttered by a Iesuite a man of their owne Some feasts are observed by the Church though not expresly ordained by God yet instituted to Gods honor and of purpose celebrated to call to memory Gods great blessings conferred vpon his people In these feasts this Author specifieth the feast of Purim or sortium which is in English of lots The other testimony is alleadged by Nicholaus Serrarius commentary lib. 1. Machab.