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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03495	A sermon preached at Pauls Crosse, March the 24. 1624. By Barten Holyday, now archdeacon of Oxford	Holyday, Barten, 1593-1661.	1626 (1626)	STC 13616; ESTC S104171	18,049	67

Assyrian to imitate and chastize these slaughters And yet no deportation of these people into some land on which they would haue bin taught to commit no violence but with the plough But God did not stretch out his hand to judgement but did correct them with their owne hands making their fury which was their guilt their punishment He threatned them with captiuity but graciously did but threaten them But hee conquer'd them both he conquered them with his mercy which vndertooke their vnion when hope and reason had forsaken it Could any man expect they should bee vnited by marriage which was a meanes that in former times had beene prooued to bee weake and now seemed as desperate as the warre that followed it wherein the royall Bridegroome falling by the irreuerent fury of the sword left an infant for his successour not able to vnderstand the blessing of a Kingdome or the losse of a father but left a man for his enemy our last Henry a King full of triumphs and heires Yet were they vnited from the blessing of marriage and thus their first vnion was the vnion of their bodies Could any man expect they should bee vnited by Religion whiles they beheld two glorious Queenes the one famous for wisdome the other for wisdome and happinesse the one of age to bring vp her heire the other of age to beare an heire but Princes as much diuided by Religion as they were vnited by nature Yet were they vnited in their successour who was heire in Royalty to the one and in Royalty and Religion to the other Thus were our Britanies vnited from the blessing of marriage by Religion also and this was the vnion of their soules And now you will expect they should be vnited in obedience and now they were vnited in obedience which was the vnion of their persons which was the vnion of their bodies and soules And they were so obedient to this successor that assoon as they heard of him they did obey him without ambition commending their owne obedience as much for the expedition as for the sinceritie As soone as they heard of him they did obey him loyally commanding their King to loue them by obeying the report of him which did preuent his command The report had no sooner entred the eare but like the soule it straight informed the whole subject It was in an instant in the heart cōmanding loue it was in the tongue commanding acknowledgement it was in the knee commmanding worship it was in the hand commanding applause it was in the eye commanding desire it was in the foot commanding speed And yet as if that had beene too slow the report of the Kingdome striued to be swifter then the report of the King and taking horse it carried the messenger waking and sleeping It allowed him sleepe but not rest as if it would haue prooued that euen the sleepe of a good subject is busie in the Kings seruice But wee haue heard of some Kings abroad that haue beene heard-of yet not so soone obeyed When the right Reuerend father in God Henry King of Portugall had by the boldnesse of death left his Crowne as for a Crowne he had before by the temptation of his right put off his Cardinals cap Portugall quickly heard of Philip of Spaine but did it as quickly obey him And yet hee was heire to Charles the fift's glory and wisdome and yet hee was faine to vse more wisdome by vsing more force ere hee could winne obedience and so whiles diuers Pretenders laboured to prooue themselues to bee neerer the Crowne hee by a wiser speed proou'd himselfe to be neerer the Kingdome Our neighbours quickly heard of their greatest Henry immortall for all Rauillac's Knife but did they as quickly obey him Was hee not faine to make them heare his Drumme as well as his fame But when our Peacemaker was heard of there was no tumult but of our joy there was no voice of a Trumpet but to proclaime our joy there was no lifting vp of a hand but of the hand that anointed him God did preuent him with liberall blessings he changed his Cradle into a Throne and almost as soone compassed his head with a Crowne as his body with a Swath His hand did afterward lead him his hand did afterward protect him and by a new Coronation doubled his Royalty with his age God did preuent him with liberall blessings God did preuent vs with liberall blessings He blessed vs with a vnion as quiet as sleepe or a good conscience We haue heard of some vnions in our owne Country and it is a cheaper sorrow to haue heard of them then to haue seene them since they were as much attended with bloud as with victory The old Saxons were vnited but it was by ruine nay it was into ruine they did rather fall into vnion then rise by it and their bloud seemes still as fresh as their story Our eldest Britaine 's who lay diuided from the Saxons by injury and melancholy could not yet lie hid from the inquisitiue sword of our first Edward which forced them all to vnion either in death or obedience though at last they were fully vnited and recompensed for all their afflictions in our wisest Henrie in their Henrie in whom their bloud was repair'd and honour'd The two Royall Houses of Yorke and Lancaster were at last vnited yet not without diuision and they were faine to shed some bloud that they might shed no more bloud The Vsurper that great Artist must become as foule in his death as in his plots and lose his bloud ere Henry and Elizabeth by the holy vnion of marriage could mixe theirs But God did preuent vs with liberall blessings hee did with peace preuent our peace and also made for vs a greater blessing then peace the continuance of it When our enemies opened their mouthes to reuile vs when they opened their mouthes to deuoure vs when they said God hath dishonoured them to the protection of a Woman nay when they said they shall lose euen that protection though not that dishonour when they had measured our iniquity for their owne indeed could not bee measured and had made-vp God Almighties accounts for him without his notice then did the Almighty aduance himselfe in his jealousie and in his people then did hee aduance the memory as before the victory of that Queene which perpetually conquered her enemies and her sexe then did he aduance the pietie of our King as the King had encreased it He placed him before in the kingdom of his Predecessors but now in the Throne and made him as well acquainted with the Chaire as with the Prophesie then did he aduance our peace like our peacemaker O happy Britanies vnited in the same justice though not in the same lawes which differ more in their forme then in their purpose O happy Britanies vnited in the same honours in the same signes of honour the glorious wreath of our white and red Roses which was before vnited but with an Embleme a knot being now vnited surer without a knot being now defended surer from any irreuerent touch by the prouision of the Thistle The Rose hath naturally a little of the Thistle but ours haue the whole Thistle they had before the sharpnesse of it but now the company O happy Britanies vnited now in the discipline of Religion as before in Religion Now doe wee all not onely serue the same God in the same truth but also in the same manner and the Priests of God are so farre from being diuided in opinion that they are vnited euen in apparel which as wel as the body is taught an obedience to the same Commandement A Prelate and an Organ are now no newes but the one is euery where more sacred then a father the other as cheerfull as a Psalme And in the voice of a Psalme will we prayse thee O thou God of Psalmes and in the cunning and vnfeined breath of an Organ will wee imitate and praise thee O thou Creatour of our breath that hast giuen vs another breath our King the breath of our nostrils And by thy blessing in thy blessing in our peace will we prayse thee O thou Prince of peace Thou that makest the Wolfe dwell with the Lambe and the Leopard lye downe with the Kid and the Calfe and the young Lion and the Fatling together and a little Child to lead them thou that makest the Cow and the Beare feed and their young ones lye downe together and the Lion eat straw like the Oxe thou that makest the sucking child play on the hole of the Aspe and the weaned child put his hand on the Cockatrice denne in our peace will we prayse thee O thou Prince of peace that hast broken downe our partition wall which now was no more able to hinder our peace then it was before able to procure it And as thou hast thus made way for vs to meete together to enjoy this blessing of our vnion so by this blessing haue we now made vse of that way and met together to acknowledge this blessing of our vnion And here with vnion of heart and voice we render vnited prayses vnto thee O thou God of vnion Who hast this day crowned thy King with fauour who hast this day crowned thy selfe with glory whiles this day thou hast crowned thy people with a King The end

admirable and their dissention making their second friendship admirable But because example is the most legible character let your vnderstanding descend into your sense and behold such nations behold Iudah and Israel which when they were were not able to instruct themselues and since they haue not beene haue instructed the World Behold Iudah and Israel who had they stood vndiuided had stood and yet they were once so vnited that wee can scarce diuide them into the names of Iudah and Israel and you will delight to behold them as they were vnited You may see them vnited in Gods fauours who made his other creatures pay their seruice to these creatures Hee made the earth swallow vp a sedition with the seditious Corah from among them hee made the waters at the Red Sea flie faster from his people then his people did from the Aegyptian Hee made the most inexorable earth the Rocke relent into a streame of waters and amazement vnto them Hee made a tree sweeten water for them which was such a fruit of a tree that Paradise it selfe was vnacquainted with it Hee made the aire feed them with meteors compacting it into the dainty miracle of Manna and Quailes Hee made the fire so mindfull a Guide to teach them by the shape and embleme of a pillar on whom in their pilgrimage they should relie that it forgot its owne nature which would haue inclined it to an ascent in a sharper forme He made the Sunne wait vpon their victory and encrease it by multiplying the day as he did his fauours You may behold them vnited in afflictions they had made bricke together in Aegypt and were as hot with indignation as their worke with the fire being more vext with the kind of the labour then with the labour they had beene tired together in the wildernesse not so much with not comming to their journies end as with not knowing when they should come to it Forty yeeres were they grieued with the distrust of their owne expectation and forty yeeres was God greiued with the distrust of their expectation they had in the wildernesse for their murmuring beene bitten with fiery Serpents the sinne of their tongues being punished with the teeth of the Serpents their murmuring tongues being like fiery Serpents by which their sinne was chastised and expounded Thus you see how God vnited them but now you shall see how they diuided themselues and as if they had remembred their owne plague onely to imitate it they become fiery Serpents one to another When by succession of time and children they had spread themselues into the breadth of a Kingdome Gods fauour raises them to the height of a Kingdome which they quickly diuide it had not else beene to their minds it had not else beene like their minds which were diuided Ieroboam puts on the person of a King though not the right and by the subtiltie of Treason vndertakes to distinguish Israel from Iudah Hee could haue vndertaken nothing harder but to haue distinguished Ieroboam from a Traitour Yet he goes-on in his crime and cunning confirming his diuision of the Kingdome by a diuision of Religion Had Ahitophel liued in his time hee had certainly hang'd himselfe for enuy of this wit and I wonder Machiauell did not chuse Ieroboam rather then Caesar Borgia for his jdoll of a Prince What Ieroboam began by erecting two jdols the number was a memoriall of the diuision Baasha continues by the erecting of a fort that as Ieroboam had renounced the Religion of Iudah so hence-forth hee would renounce the commerce with Iudah Afterward Omri to shew the inuention and addition of a successour erects a Citie against Iudah Israel had a King before but not a Throne and now Samaria as it is the younger so will it also be counted the fairer And it were well if the quarrell were but in opinion and yet it is but for opinion But ambition whose end is alwayes but folly doth often vse wickednesse for its meanes Wherefore Iehoash who came after these in time though neither in emulation nor in confidence thinking his Samaria not perfectly vp as long as Ierusalem was perfectly vp was vainly prouoked and as vainly opposed by Amaziah King of Iudah and with the speed of the same fury throwes downe the King and the wall of Ierusalem Yet when he had chosen his owne bribe the spoile of the Treasury and of the Temple he returnes leauing behind him nothing but the hope of reuenge and the God of reuenge And when the heires of these injuries were repaired to strength their projects encreasing with their fury they made their confederacie reach as farre as their infamy Israel therefore by preuention combines with the Syrian who was not strong yet hee was neere Iudah combines with the Assyrian whose fame was as good as neighbourhood and his power better Thus you see how lamentably they diuide themselues but now will you see how lamentably God diuides them Iudahs wrath cals the Assyrian against Israel and Gods justice brings him Israel is immediatly in a bondage of feare and Samaria it selfe in the bondage of a siege Thus were they taught to lose their liberty and at last by captiuitie to forget it they were before transported with their owne fury and now by the fury of another they were carried from the pleasure of their malice and of their countrie But was not Iudah too glad and guiltie of this miserie And did they not as much deserue such destruction as procure it Behold the mercy and instruction of Gods anger Israel hath now for euer ended warre with Iudah but now is God to begin warre with Iudah He giues them time to employ in sorrow for their owne offence and they peruersely employ it in joy for their brethrens ruine and were so vnable to foresee their owne punishment that they were not able to see their owne sinne But when their sinne had increased like Gods mercie the Assyrian who was now as well acquainted with the victorie as with the way comes to fetch Iudea into Assyria depriues Ierusalem of a King and the King of his eyes hauing first made sight his affliction by causing him to see the slaughter of his sonnes then making blindnesse a double affliction by hindring him in his captiuitie to see the captiuitie of his enemie Israel And as the Assyrian thrust out his eyes so now his captiue people may weepe out theirs now may they sit downe by the waters of Babylon and increase them with their teares now may they hang their Harpes vpon the willowes their instruments now being as vnable to yeeld musicke as the willow fruit now haue they leisure to remember Sion and themselues who did before forget both and now may Iudah desire to returne to Sion though with Israel But shall Iudah for euer bee diuided from Israel Or shall Iudah and Israel be for euer diuided from their Countrie No they haue left it but not lost it they haue not lost