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A07198	Two sermons, preached at the Kings court, this Ianuary, 1620 Concerning Davids adultery, and his politick practices. By Francis Mason, Archdeacon of Norfolk, and Chaplain to his Maiesty in ordinary.	Mason, Francis, 1566?-1621.	1621 (1621)	STC 17600; ESTC S112434	36,020	128

TWO SERMONS PREACHED at the Kings Court this January 1620. Concerning Davids Adultery and his politick Practices By Francis Mason Archdeacon of Norfolk and Chaplain to his Maiesty in ordinary Blessed are the undefiled in the way who walke in the Law of the Lord. Psa. 119. 1. LONDON Printed by H. L. for Nathanael Newbery and are to bee solde at his Shop under Saint Peters Church in Cornehill and in Popes-head Alley 1621. To the Reader COurteous Reader whereas heretofore my slender writings published to the world and my Sermons in that Royall Auditory have been in part polemical incountring with some controversies of these times it pleased God this last year so to inflict upon me that tormenting paine which is incident to students and doth commonly accompany a sedentary life that I did interpret is as an Angel sent from God to put me in minde of my mortality Whereupon I resolved to divert my course from disputation to devotion from controversies to conscience and from henceforth to labour to worke in my selfe and others true mortification and sanctified affections and accordingly to temper both my study and my stile Wherfore being called by my ordinarie course of attendance to preach in that eminent place first of all I considered what sins are likely to be found in Princes Courts And among sundry other two especially did offer themselves to my cogitation carnall Concupiscence and politick Practices For where there is pomp in apparell delicacie in diet and beautifull obiects all concurring many times with idlenesse and ease there a man walketh in the midst of snares and is in danger to be set in combustion with the fiery darts of the Divell Againe Kings houses being not onely places of pleasure but also ever-flowing fountaines of profit and preferment no marvaile if nimble wits doe there set themselves aworke to attaine their owne endes and politickly to supplant all those that stand in their way or hinder their proiects For that they doe so will be evident as I suppose by the Chronicles of all Kingdomes and Countries Now though the English Court guided by so godly and gracious a Soveraigne bee of all other most remarkeable for learned preaching religious prayers and angelicall lauding and praising of God with spirituall Hymns and ravishing straines of melodious musick though it be beautified and adorned with a most worthy garland of sage Senatours Nobles and Gentlemen Yet I dare not altogether exempt it from such sinnes as have alwaies beene incident more or lesse to the Palaces of Princes Therefore in the second place I sought such a Text as might lead mee by the hand to reproove those vices and immediately I laid hould upon the story of King David But though David were a King yet I did not therefore single him out because hee was a King neither intended I preaching before a King to take occasion by King David to glanse in any wise at the sacred persons of Princes God forbid For our King God be thanked though in the highest pitch of worldly prosperitie is for chastity another Ioseph And though hee be for wisedome like an Angel of God and can dive into the depth of humane policies yet hee loveth and practiseth sincerity in all his dealings like to Nathanael the true Israelite in whō was no guile But I proposed David as a generall glasse of humane frailty wherein all men may behold their own imbecillity Neither had I any purpose when I preached these Sermons to publish them to the world but it pleased the Almighty to vouchsafe a blessing beyond expectation For hee that caused the hearts of the Disciples to burne within them while hee opened the Scriptures unto thē as they went to Emmaus did in the riches of his mercy kindle some such sparkles in the hearts of my hearers Which I perceiving by the multitude of those which desired copies did at last yeeld to let them passe to the Presse being mindfull of that of the Apostle As wee have oportunity let us doe good to all men especially to those who are of the household of faith Moreover wheras thou gentle Reader hast long expected my booke of the cōsecratiō of Bishops which by cōmand of authoritie was to bee translated into Latin I certifie thee that I have already finished the translation and by occasion of the opposition of my many Antagonists who have written against mee much inlarged the Worke and prepared it for the Presse under this title De ministerio Anglicano But the childe being brought to the birth as yet there wanteth strength to be delivered Yet I hope that our good God in his due time will give it a comfortable issue In the meane while enioy these my poore labours and giue them leave to worke upon thine affections And so I commend both thee them to the blessing of God Thine in the Lord Francis Mason Faults escaped Page 16. line 20. day is wanting Page 45. l. 4 vanquished for vanished Page 48. l. 8. race for name Page 54. l. 6. Ammon for Amnon p. 78. l. 23. disseised for defeated THE FIRST SERMON Preached at White-Hall before Prince CHARLES vpon Tuesday the ninth of Ianuary 1620. 2. Sam. 12 13. And David sayd vnto Nathan I haue sinned against the Lord And Nathan sayd vnto David the Lord also hath put away thy sin thou shalt not dye HEer are three things in David to be considered his sinne his repentance and his absolution The first thing is his sinne which is ingraven in my Text as it were with the point of a Diamond and that with such great and Capitall Letters that a man may runne and read it in these words AND DAVID SAID VNTO NATHAN PECCAVI DOMINO I HAVE SINNED AGAINST THE LORD The second thing is his repentance presented unto vs in the selfe same words being vttered by way of lamentation as though he should say It is true Nathan it is true that thou hast sayd for I confesse I have sinned alas I have sinned most grievously and that against the Lord. The third thing is his absolution pronounced in these words And Nathan sayd unto David the Lord also hath put away thy sinne thou shalt not dye So first he sinned secondly hee repented and thirdly he was absolved He sinned there was the corruption of nature he repented there was the operation of the Spirit hee was absolved there was the unspeakable goodnesse of God In his sin let us behold our own frailety in his repentance let us learne our owne duty in his absolution let us magnifie Gods mercy The sinne of David reproued by Nathan and here confessed by himselfe was first of all that hainous sinne of adulterie and secondly those other sinnes which he committed while he went about to hide and cloake his adultery Of the former at this time by the grace of Christ of the residue heereafter when it shall please the Lord. Now that wee may rightly understand the haynousnesse of his adultery let vs briefly ponder