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A10052	Prælium & præmium. The Christians warre and rewarde A sermon preached before the Kings maiestie at VVhitehall the 3. of May. 1608. By Daniell Price Master of Arts of Exeter Colledge, and chapleyn in ordinarie to the prince	Price, Daniel, 1581-1631.	1608 (1608)	STC 20298; ESTC S113692	18,212	36

allureth and heareth and promiseth wages yea promiseth to reward his owne merits in vs by his owne mercy on vs. So true is hee in his word so faithfull in his promises man cannot obiect against God Ouid. Met. as the Poet doth against man Mobilis Aesonide vernaque incertior aura curtua policiti pondere verba carēt He deserueth not to bee called Doso as Antigonus was who promised much and performed little hee wil not equiuocate with man as hee did that promised centum oues brought but centum oua Austine witnesseth Deum fecisse Chirographum promissorum suorum Austin non debendo sed promittendo Hee oweth vs nothing because he neuer receaued anie thing and yet he maketh his promise his debt his deed his word his worke his mercy a merit yet not our merit for St Paul anticipateth the doctrine of merits in the 2. Eph. 8. wee are saued not of our selues not of our workes least any man shold boast 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but it is the gift of god whervpon Bernard concludeth demeritis sufficit scire quod non sufficiant merita Bern. So that againe I saie he promiseth to reward his owne merits by his owne mercies he promiseth this and hee performeth this his worde his deed his promises his reward be not as the worlds bee In the world some promise what they cannot doe as Sathan to Christ Math. 4.9 some what they cā doe but meane not as the sonns of Iacob to the sonnes of Sichem Gen 34 16. Some what they meene for a time but afterwards deny it as Laban did to Iacob Gen. 29.23 Some what they promise willinglie but giue vnwillinglie as Herod Io. Baptists head Mark 6.16 Sōe what they giue willingly but afterwards repent as Ioshua his graunt to the Gibeonits Ios 9.23 But Gods promises bee performances and therfore bee to bee beleeued In spe extra spem-supra spem contra spem And in this God hath done with man as the rulers of states and makers of statutes who haue sought not only to punish the bad and to prouide some sharpe fearful tortors for them but haue euer a regard to encorage and reward the vertuous office of the God So did Zoroaster amōg the Persians Trismegistus amōg the Aegyptians Charondas among the Carthaginians Minos among the Cretians Solon among the Athemās that as in Hercul Biuiū they were 2 waies the on via virtutis Non est ad astra mollis è terris via the other via voluptatis facilis descē sus Auerni So there should bee also diuerse respects had for the followers of these two diuerse waies as Antishenes the Philosopher in Laertius and Achilles that valiant martialist in Homer doe testifie So God the life giuer of all these law-giuers hath prouided the one and the other for the wicked whoe wil bee warned by noe warning feared by noe threatning affrighted by noe terrifying admonished by noe exhorting he hath prouide fearful and horrid and eternal paines tumultuous horrour firie Chaines flamming whipps schorching darknesse tormenting Deuills vpon whom houling roaring lamenting blaspheming and eternal death gnawing on them shal be powred out the ful flood of Gods wrath and the dreggs of the vnsauorie cōposition of the cup of Gods displesure But for his seruants as in al other things he is a god of great mercy magnificence liberalitie and princely munificence soe in this aboue all the rest hee is most munificent in rewarding his Saints and seruants with many and most infinite blessings as hee often promiseth here expresseth I will giue out of which words J obserue this doctrine Doct. that God is able and willing to reward his Saints that which he promiseth The scripture giueth proofe to this doctrine God hath made promises before the begining of the world 1. Pet. 1.12 firme and stable promises 2 Cor. 1.8 most greate and pretious promises 2. Pet. 1.4 hauing a time of promise Act. 7 17. giuen a word of promise Rom. 9.7 proclaimed a Gospel of promise 1. Tim. 1.9 purchased inheritances of promise Heb. 6.12 adopted sonns of promise Gal. 4.28 drawen couenants of promise Eph. 2.12 appointed the spirit as the scriuener of these couenants of promise Eph. 1.14 and added yea and Anen as a seal to these couenāts of promise Cor. 1.10 So that a Christian may now be sure that al bands bills obligations leases Indentures alienations contracts Couenants made neuer so curiously by the Meander of Lawyers wit shal be annihilated before the least of the promises shal faile nay heauen and earth shall faile before the least Iota of his promise The comfort of this made St Bernard to be almost in a heuenly extasie when hee considered Charitatē Adoptionis Veritatem Promissionis Potestatem redditionis Gods loue in adopting his truth in promising and his power in performeing and surely it cannot choose but stirre and incite euerie true Christian to a most feruent and earnest embraceing of these promises Let the vse therfore of this Doctrine bee this Vse that wee remoue al misdoubting vnbeleeuing thought from vs that at no time there bee found an euil minde in vs not crediting the promise of God Let vs assure our selues that if we can credere vivere beleeue and liue after our beliefe we shal surely receiue the performance of this promise in due time The bargaine betweene God and vs is Crede quod habes habes like to Ithiell and Vcall Ithiell signifieth God with vs Vcall is to preuaile so that Ithiell and Vcall must go togither if we preuaile God is with vs. It is double a mutual reciprocal interchangeable dutie a twofolde Indenture on our behalfe as wel as on Gods If we ouercome he hath promised and hauing promised hee wil performe he wil giue to him that ouercōmeth power ouer nations so I come in few words to the last best words of my Text. Vlt Cir I wil giue him power ouer nations There is a power giuen a power vsurped a power giuen to man ouer Gods creatures giuen to the K. ouer men A power vsurped by the Deuil ouer Christians by the Tyrants ouer kingdomes by the Pope ouer Kings for the Pope hearing that the Diuell hath power he thinketh that he also may haue a power because he is the Deuils vicegerent in causes Ecclesiastical and Temporal but in this the Pope is deceiued for the Deuils patent is more potent his power stronger and longer then the Popes Bellarmine in his 1. booke de sumo Pontifice the 22. Chapter and since Baronius in his letter to Paule the Venetian proue out of scripture that the Pope hath special power and is the head of the Church out of the Acts 10.13 Kil eate Bellarmine proueth it out of the word Eate Baronius out of the word kill a killing argument I should thinke Bellarmine might rather proue him out of the word eate to be the mouth then the head Baronius

Praelium praemium THE CHRISTIANS WARRE and rewarde A SERMON PREACHED before the Kings Maiestie at VVhitehall the 3. of May. 1608. BY DANIELL PRICE Master of Arts of Exeter Colledge and Chapleyn in ordinarie to the PRINCE Vincenti dabitur OXFORD Printed by Ioseph Barnes 1608. TO THE MOST REVEREND FATHER IN GOD THE LORD Arch-bishop of Canterburie his Grace Primat and Metrapolitan of all England one of his Maiesties most Honorable priuie Counsel the right worthy Chauncelour of the famous Vniuersitie of Oxford MOst reverend religious rightly honourable so small a present for so great a Patrone is not tollerable by the rule of proportion especiallie when so great weaknesse lyeth open to the eie of so great worthinesse My apprehension at the first conceited mee so strongly that I designed this to aternal oblivion resolved that it shoulde haue dyed and beene buried in the place it first breathed but fearing lest an action of presumption would bee commenced against mee for burying so poore an Orphan in so princely a place as the Kings Chappel I adventured to lay it in the graue of the presse wrapping it in these sheetes as in a Syndon mantling it on a sable letter as in a hearse and yet after foure aates pressing to death it revived and is crept to present it selfe vnto your Grace presuming that as you affoorded it gratious attention at the preaching so you will affoord it gratious acception in the printing If there bee anie thing worthy Patronadge in it or in mee I humbly prostrate it reioycing much I may tender any observāce vnto him whom his roiall Maiestie the gracious Queene my Princely Master the noblest Personadges the greatest schollers both the Vniversities the Church Commō wealth arts and schooles doe for his studies conferences labours imploymēts acknowledge reverence and preferre to the Confluence of all honour I must confesse it had manie verie honorable friends who desired after the preaching to bee acquainted with it but I was then doubtful whether I should publish it or no somtimes dissolving it sometimes resolving for it til now at length I haue adventured to let it see the sunne It is the first tender of my dutie and the first dedication frō our Vniversity Presse since the time your Grace was pleased to entertaine the protection of vs. The Lord preserue your Grace to continue for manie and manie yeeres that the Church may long enioie so worthie a Piller the Common wealth so wise a Counseller and this famous Vniversity so honourable a Chauncellour Exeter Coll. this 19. of June 1608. Your Graces in all humble dutie DANIELL PRICE The Text. Revel 2.26 He that overcommeth keepeth my works to the ende to him will I giue power over nations THE whole booke of God writtē by his finger deliuered by his power inspired by his spirit and revealed by his will is as Cassiodore obserueth Schola coelest is eruditio vitalis auditorium veritatis disciplina singularis profitable to teach to instruct to reproue to correct that the man of God may be perfect in al good works whatsoeuer is contained in this booke God hath reuealed to man 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is become 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 secretum relatum nay not only relatum but revelatum The whole booke from Genesis to the Reuelation is the Genesis of a Revelation here beginneth the Exodus the end termination complement accomplishment of the Reuelation Iob may conceaue Secreta Dei Iob. 11.6 Daniel may obserue abscondita Dei Dan. 2.22 The Apostle may discerne profunda Dei 1. Cor. 2.10 And Paule wrapped vp to the thirde heauens may heare arcana Dei 2. Cor. 12.4 But now secreta profunda arcana abscondita be revelata The Aenigma is disclosed the knot vnloosed the mysteries interpreted the vaile remoued all things reuealed he that was vailed in the flesh is reuealed in the spirit and in this booke is the manifestation of our God of his will of the Lambe and of his life of the spirit and of his truth of his seales trumpets angels viols thunders lightnings threatnings iudgements of heauē hel the earth the sea consumption destruction dissolution desolation and final consumation of the world Jf the whole Scripture may bee called the Librarie of the holy Ghost then this is the Closet of that librarie if the Lanthorne of Jsrael then this is the light of that Lanthorne if the Alphabet of God then this is then of that Alphabet this is the ende of his booke who is the beginning and the end the last of his book who is the first and the last the Ω of his booke who is α and Ω the Amen of his booke who is yea and Amen The holyest place not more worthily called sanctum sanctorum or the Iubile Sabbatum sabbatorum or the Canticles Cantica Canticorum or Empireum Coelū Coelorum I say not more truely called so then this Revelatio Revelationum the Compendium and Epitome of all the works wonders secrets depths and misteries of God so that as a father well speaketh of the whole scripture Hugo I may also in particular speake of this Apocalips pascit miraculis oraculis figuris verbis mysterijs Greg. Morall And as Manna as Gregory obserueth habet omne delectamentum omnis saporis suauitatem so I may speake of this booke of the Reuelation which is the hid Manna kept long in the Arke inter arcana and now manifested among Reuelata O then come and see and see heare and taste how good and sweete this Manna is it wil giue to euerie man his gust rellish if yee be ignorant here yee may be instructed if weak heare yee may be strengthned if feareful here ye may be hartened if fighting here yee may be comforted if triumphing here yee maie be crowned and more thē this here is the greatest blessing pronounced that ever was to anie booke Blessed is he that readeth Revel 1. he that heareth and he that vnderstandeth and hee that keepeth the words of this booke Out of this book out of that Manna of this booke haue J chosen this portion of scripture as a portion of meate in due season which if you wil staye till J haue prepared it for you J will present it to bee panem nostrum hodiernum or rather panem nostrum quotidianum He that overcometh and keepeth my workes to the end to him wil I giue power ouer nations what subiect more sit for Heroicall spirits then an encitement to chiualtrie nay what subiect maie speake of a fitter subiect before a most royal King then of a kingdome Beholde both these in this Hee that ouercometh c. Hee that ouercometh here a christian is made a conquerour and keepeth my woorks to the end hereof a Conquerour he is made a Continuer J wil giue him power ouer nations hereof a Continuer he is made a king He that ouercometh here hee is approued a Christian and keepeth my woorkes