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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19813	A sermon preached before His Maiestie, at VVhitehall the fift of Nouember last, 1617. By the Bishop of Elie, His Maiesties almoner	Andrewes, Lancelot, 1555-1626.	1618 (1618)	STC 624; ESTC S100191	22,492	54

outward act euen to the inward man whence if ours come not or whither if it reach not Man wee may perhaps but God in righteousnes serue we not But euen according to mans Law Our righteousnes too much worke our righteousnes goes not well so neither The Philosopher giues a rule when a people is iust or righteous according to mans law Gods hee knew not and that is when iustice wants worke hath little to doe By which rule ours is in no very good case Men are so full of suits so many causes depending before euery seate of iustice Iustice so much to doe and all to repaire the wrongs of our vnrighteous courses while each one seekes rather to ouer-rule men by wrong then to serue God by right And this were not so euill if all the iniustice were below The Seats of righteousnes faultie if the Seates which are set to doe iustice and righteousnes were themselues right For fares it not euen with them Hos. 5. 10. as the Prophet Hosee saith The Princes of Israel are as they that remooue the land marke Each Seate seeking to enlarge their owne border and to set their meer-stones within the others ground A full vnnaturall thing in a body that one arme should neuer thinke it selfe strong enough vntill it had cleane shrunke vp the sinnewes of the other But I stay These things being amended wee shall bee so much the more in a forwardnesse to serue God both in holines and righteousnes And so for the matter of our seruice keepe our Couenant FOr the maner now To serue Him 1sine timore The Manner of our seruice How without feare 2 coram ipso before Him 3 omnibus diebus nostris All the dayes of our life 1 Sine timore That without feare without feare And so in a sense we do So without feare at all as if men were afraid to seeme to feare God But this is no part of his meaning Without feare here is not without feare of Him of God but that being now without feare of our enemies we should doe it the rather For who being in a bodily feare who hauing Pharao and his host hard at their backes could quietly thinke of seruing God That Exod. 14. euen God himselfe Exod. 20. did rid his people of that feare before euer hee gaue them his Law to serue Him by But when mens minds are quiet from the agonie and terror of it when they are setled in tranquillo they should in all reason then better intend His seruice And wil we thinke you if we be so out of feare intend it the better without doubt in experience we finde it contrary For except we be held in feare wee scarse serue Him at all how soone we are out of feare we forget our selues and our seruice yea God and all True yet for all that the seruice so done in feare is but a dull heauie seruice It likes him not God loues laetus lubens when being at libertie with a liberall minde we doe that we doe Laeti seruiemus Regi say they in Genesis and Gene. 47. 25. it pleased the King And it pleaseth God as well if the seruice wee doe wee doe it cheerefully without mixture of feare or any seruile affection Without This feare to serue Him but not without His feare Nam si Dominus Mal. 1. 6. if He be a Lord as if we be His seruants a Lord hee is vbi timor where is my feare saith hee in Malachi As loue to a father so feare to a Lord doeth belong most properly And this is not Old Testament onely the Apostle is as direct in the New if wee will serue Him to please Him and as good not serue as seruing not please if wee will so serue Him Hebr. 12. 28. wee must doe it with reuerence and feare 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Neither rudely then without feare nor basely with feare But reuerently with feare and cheerfully without feare that is the meaning 2 To serue Him coram ipso before Him Coram ipso That before Him Exod. 20. 3. for coram me is the terme of the Law As if He were present and looked on And it helps much to our seruice so to doe it Helps our reuerence not to doe it rudely we doe it before Him Helps our sincerenesse without hypocrisie to doe it as before Him For these two words coram ipso are the bane of hypocrisie All things are before Him In nothing can we get behind Him or where He cannot see vs. But somethings are before Him and men both Those we call not before Him properly Properly that is before Him that is before none but Him That is the heart Coram homine the seruice of the eye Coram ipso the seruice of the heart Men loue no eye-seruice neither if they could discouer it but they are faine to take it the heart is not coram ipsis Coram ipso it is Vpon that is His eye and nothing pleases Him if the heart be away for that of all other is His peculiar coram ipso It is a broken seruice if any part chiefly if the chiefe part the heart be away It would be entire and with all parts since all are before Him It is a mock-seruice as if what serues man would serue Him as if wee could complement it with God with faces and phrases as with men we doe 3 The last is omnibus diebus nostris As sincere without faining That all the dayes of our life So constant without fainting Coram me excludes the Pharisaicall seruice of the outside of the platter Omnibus diebus the Bethulian seruice Matth. 23. 25. Iudit 7. 30. for certaine dayes and no longer You shall haue few but will serue God at a brunt haue certaine pangs of godlinesse come vpon them at times be affected for the present with a deliuery grow a little holy vpon it That little is little worth God complaines in Malachi That in their holines they puffed and blew Mal. 1. 13. as men short-winded quickly weary of it and soone out of breath And in Hosee Hos. 6. 4. that their righteousnesse was as the morning cloud scattered and gone before the Sunne was an houre high To serue Him then not with vsura exigui temporis some smal time primis diebus two or three dayes at the first and then defuncti we haue quit our selues well but from day to day as long as there is a day left to serue Him in So long to serue Him To serue Him to the very last The mercifull and gracious Lord hath so done his marueilous acts Some dayes more then some other though Psal. 111. 4. that they ought to be had in euerlasting remembrance all of them But some more specially for some are more then marueilous As was this of ours That if quibusdam diebus would serue for them Omnibus diebus is little ynough for this So more then gracious so more then