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A02547	An holy panegyrick a sermon preached at Paules Crosse vpon the anniuersarie solemnitie of the happie inauguration of our dread soueraigne Lord King James, Mar. 24, 1613 / by J.H.D.D.	Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656.	1613 (1613)	STC 12673; ESTC S122954	24,489	120

they fall directly let mee shew you him rather in the blessings we receiue from him then in the graces which are in him And not to insist vpon his extinguishing of those hellish feudes in Scotland the reducing of those barbarous borderers to ciuilitie and order two acts worthy of eternitie and which no hand but his could doe Consider how great things the Lord hath done for vs by him in our Peace in our freedome of the Gospell in our Deliuerance Continuance detracts from the value of any fauour Little doe wee know the price of peace If wee had beene in the cotes of our forefathers or our neighbours we should haue knowne how to esteeme this deare blessing of GOD. Oh my deare brethren we neuer knew what it was to heare the murdering peeces about our eares to see our churches and houses flaming ouer our heads to heare the fearefull cracks of their fals mixed with the confused out-cries of men killing encouraging to kill or resist dying and the shriekings of women and children wee neuer saw tender babes snach't from the breasts of their mothers now bleeding vpon the stones or sprauling vpon the pikes and the distracted mother rauished ere she may haue leaue to dye Wee neuer saw men and horses lye wallowing in their mingled bloud and the gastly visages of death deformed with wounds The impotent wife hanging with teares on her armed husband as desirous to dye with him with whom shee may not liue The amazed runnings to and fro of those that would faine escape if they knew how and the furious pace of a bloudy victor The rifling of houses for spoile and euery souldiour running with his load and readie to fight with other for our bootie Themiserable captiue driuen manicled before the usulting enemie Neuer did wee know how cruell an Aduersarie is and how burdensome an helper is in warre Looke round about you All your neighbours haue seene and tasted these calamities All the rest of the world haue been whirled about in these wofull tumults onely this Iland hath like the center stood vnmoueable Onely this Isle hath beene like Nilus which when all other waters ouer-flow keepes within the banks That we are free frō these a thousand other miseries of warre Whether should wee ascribe it but next vnder God to his Anointed as a King as a King of Peace For both Anarchy is the mother of diuision as wee see in the state of Italy wherein when they wanted their King all ranne into ciuill broiles The Venetians with them of Rauenna Verona and Vincentia with the Paduans and Taruisians The Pisans and Florentines with them of Luca and Sienna and besides euery King is not a Peace-maker Ours is made of Peace There haue been Princes which as the Antiochians said of Iulian taking occasion by the Bull which he stamp't in his coine haue gored the world to death The breasts of some Princes haue beene like a Thunder-cloud whose vapours would neuer leaue working till they haue vented themselues with terrour to the world Ours hath nothing in it but a gracious rayne to water the inheritance of God Behold Hee euen He alone like to Noahs Doue brought an Oliue of peace to the tossed Arke of Christendome Hee like another Augustus before the second comming of CHRIST hath becalmed the world and shut the iron gates of warre and is the bond of that peace hee hath made And if the Peace-maker both doth blesse and is blessed how should we blesse him and blesse God for him and hold our selues blessed in him Now what were peace without religion but like a Nabals sheepe-shearing like the fatting of an Epicurian hogge the very festiuall reuels of the Diuell But for vs wee haue Gloria in excelsis Deo sung before our Pax in terris in a word wee haue Peace with the Gospell Machiauell himselfe could say in his Discourses that two continued successions of vertuous Princes fanno grandi effetti cannot but doe great matters We proue it so this day wherein religion is not onely warmed but locked in her seat so fast that the gates of hell shall neuer preuaile against it There haue beene Princes and that in this land which as the heathen Politician compared his Tyrant haue beene like to ill Physitians that haue purged away the good humours and left the bad behinde them with whom any thing hath beene lawfull but to be religious Some of your gray hayres can bee my witnesses Behold the euils wee haue escaped show vs our blessings Here hath been no dragging out of houses no hiding of Bibles no creeping into woods no Bonnering or Butchering of Gods Saints no rotting in dungeons no casting of infants out of the mothers belly into the mothers flames nothing but Gods truth aboundantly preached cheerefully professed incouraged rewarded What Nation vnder heauen yeeldes so many learned Diuines What times euer yeelded so many preaching Bishops When was this Citie the Citie of our ioy euer so happy this way as in these late successions Whither can wee ascribe this health of the Church and life of the Gospell but next to GOD to His example His countenance His indeuours Wherein I may not omit how right he hath trod in the steps of that blessed Constantine in all his religious proceedings Let vs in one word parrallel them Constantine caused fiftie Volumes of the Scriptures to be fayre written out in parchment for the vse of the Church King Iames hath caused the bookes of Scriptures to bee accurately translated and published by thousands Constantine made a zealous edict against Nouatians Valentinians Marcionites King Iames besides his powerfull proclamations and soueraine lawes hath effectually written against Popery and Vorstianisme Constantine tooke away the liberty of the meetings of heretickes King Iames hath by wholesome laws inhibited the assemblies of Papists and seismatickes Constantine sate in the midst of his Bishops as if hee had been one of them King Iames besides his solemne conferences vouchsaues not seldome to spend his meales in discourse with his Bishops and other worthy Diuines Constantine charged his sonnes vt planè sine fuco Christiani essent that they should be Christians in earnest King Iames hath done the same in learned and Diuine precepts which shall liue till time be no more Yea in their very coines is a resemblance Constantine had his picture stampt vpon his mettals praying King Iames hath his picture with a prayer about it O Lord protect the Kingdomes which thou hast vnited Lastly Constantine built Churches one in Hierusalem another in Nicomedia King James hath founded one Colledge which shall help to build and confirme the whole Church of God vpon earth Yee wealthy Citizens that loue Ierusalem cast in your store after this royall example into the sanctuary of God and whiles you make the Church of God happie make your selues so Brethren if we haue any rellish of Christ any

and siluer vnder the images of Saints and lightsome Angels vnder glittering cotes or glorious titles or beauteous faces whom they would defie as himselfe And as the freeborn Israelite might become a seruant either by forfaiture vpon trespasse or by sale or by spoile in warre so this accursed seruitude is incurred the same waies by them which should be Christians By forfaiture for though the debt and trespasse bee to God yet tradet lictori he shall deliuer the debtor to the Iaylor By sale as Ahab sold himselfe to worke wickednesse sold vnder sinne saith the Apostle By spoile Beware least any man make a spoile of you 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith Paul to his Colossians Alas what a miserable change doe these men make to leaue the liuing God which is so bountifull that hee rewards a cup of cold water with eternall glorie to serue him that hath nothing to giue but his bare wages and what wages The wages of sinne is death And what death not the death of the body in the seuering of the soule but the death of the soule in the separation from God there is not so much difference betwixt life and death as there is betwixt the first death and the second Oh wofull wages of a desperate worke Well were these men if they might goe vnpaide and serue for nothing but as the mercie of God will not let any of our poore seruices to him goe vnrewarded so will not his iustice suffer the contrarie seruice goe vnpaid in flaming fire rendring vengeance to them that know not God and those that obey not the Gospell of our Lord Iesus Beloued as that worthy Bishop said on his death-bed we are happie in this that wee serue a good Maister how happie shall it bee for vs if wee shall doe him good seruice that in the day of our account we may heare Euge serue bone well done good seruant enter into thy maisters ioy Now hee that prescribes the act seruice must also prescribe the manner Truely totally God cannot abide wee should serue him with a double heart an heart an heart that is hypocritically Neither that we should serue him with a false heart that is niggardly and vnwillingly but against doubling he will be seru'd in truth and against haluing hee will bee seru'd with all the heart To serue God and not in truth is mockerie To serue him truely and not with the whole heart is a base dodging with God This 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 eye-seruice is a fault with men but let vs serue God but while he sees vs it is enough Behold he sees vs euery where If hee did not see our heart it were enough to serue him in the face and if the heart were not his it were too much to giue him a part of it but now that he made this whole heart of outs it is reason he should bee seru'd with it and now that hee sees the inside of the heart it is madnesse not to serue him In truth Those serue God not in truth which as Seneca saies of some auditors come to heare not to learne which bring their tablets to write words not their hearts for the finger of God to write in Whose eies are on their Bible whiles their heart is on their count-Count-booke which can play the Saints in the Church Ruffians in the Tauerne Tyrants in their houses Cheators in their shops those Dames which vnder a cloke of modestie and deuotion hide nothing but pride and fiendishnesse Those serue God not with all their heart whose bosome is like Rachels tent that hath Teraphim Idols hid in the straw or rather like a Philistims Temple that hath the Arke and Dagon vnder one roofe That come in euer with Naamans exceptiues Onely in this Those that haue let downe the world like the spies into the bottome of the well of their heart and couer the mouth of it with wheare I meane that hide great oppressions with the show of small beneficences Those which like Salomons false Curtizan cry Diutdatur and are willing to share themselues betwixt God and the world And certainely this is a noble policie of the Diuell because he knowes he hath no right to the heart he can bee glad of any corner but with all he knowes that if hee haue any hee hath all for where hee hath any part God will haue none This base-mindednesse is fit for that euill one God will haue all or nothing It was an heroicall answere that Theodoret reports of Valentinian whom when the souldiers had chosen to be Emperour they were consulting to haue another ioyned with him No my souldiours said hee it was in your power to giue mee the Empire while I had it not but now when I haue it it is not in your power to giue me a partner Wee our selues say the bed and the throne can abide no riualls May wee not well say of the heart as Lot of Zoar Is it not a little one Alas it is euen too little for God what doe wee thinke of taking an Inmate into this cottage It is a fauour and happinesse that the God of glorie will vouchsafe to dwell in it alone Euen so O God take thou vp these roomes for thy selfe and inlarge them for the entertainment of thy spirit Haue thou vs wholly and let vs haue thee Let the world serue it selfe O let vs serue thee with all our hearts God hath set the heart on worke to feare the hands on worke to serue him now that nothing may be wanting he sets the head on worke to consider and that not so much the Iudgements of God yet those are of singular vse and may not bee forgotten as his mercies What great things hee hath done for you not against you He that looked vpon his owne workes and saw they were good and delighted in them delights that wee should looke vpon them too and applaud his wisedome power and mercy that shines in them Euen the least of Gods works are worthy of the obseruation of the greatest Angell in heauen but the magnalia dei the great things he hath done are more worthy of our wonder of our astonishmēt Great things indeed that he did for Israel hee meant to make that Nation a precedent of mercie that all the world might see what he could doe for a people Heauen and earth conspir'd to blesse them What should I speake of the wonders of Egypt Surely I know not whether their preseruation in it or deliuerance out of it were more miraculous Did they want a guide himselfe goes before them in fire Did they want a shelter his cloud is spread ouer them for a couering Did they want way The sea it selfe shall make it and bee at once a street and a wall to them Did they want bread Heauen it selfe shall powre downe foode of Angels Did they want meate to their bread The winde shall bring them whole driftes of quailes into their tents Doe