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A03475	Panēguris D. Elizabethæ, Dei gratiâ Angliæ, Franciæ, & Hiberniæ Reginæ. A sermon preached at Pauls in London the 17. of November ann. Dom. 1599. ... and augmented in those places wherein, for the shortnes of the time, it could not there be then delivered. VVherevnto is adioyned an apologeticall discourse, whereby all such sclanderous accusations are fully and faithfully confuted, wherewith the honour of this realme hath beene vncharitably traduced by some of our adversaries in forraine nations, and at home, for observing the 17. of November yeerely in the forme of an holy-day ... By Thomas Holland, Doctor of Divinity, & her Highnes professor thereof in her Vniversity of Oxford.; Panēguris D. Elizabethae, Dei gratiâ Angliae Reginae	Holland, Thomas, 1539-1612.	1601 (1601)	STC 13597; ESTC S104142	118,907	169

institution flowed by a voluntary current over all this Realme not without the secret motion of Gods holy spirit I doubt not and to the great comforte of all true English harts The continuall observation of which ceremony sithence hath not beene imposed vpō the church of England by any Ecclesiasticall decree neyther prescribed by any Canon of the Church but hath bin meere voluntarily continued by the religious and dutifull subiects of this Realme in their thankfulnesse to God and in their perfit zeale tendring her Maiesties preservation in desiring the cōtinuance therof to Gods glory the good of the church and common wealth of England Herevpon it is evident that since this office begā only to be practised the 17. of November the 12. yeare of her Highnesse reigne and not before the solemne celebrities performed the 17. of November were no more cause why B. Hughes festivity is not now remembred in this Realme no more cause I say then the drinking of Aesops Lambe of the streame water twelue miles beneath the spring or fountaine Aesopi fabulae was the occasion why the woolfe at the well head did drinke puddle or muddy water especially B. Hughes superstitious festivity being abrogated at the least 12. yeares before by publicke authority of the church of England vpon iust cause Ezekias breaking the brasen serpente 2. King 18.4 and sufficient warrant out of Gods word yea all the raigne of K. Edward and part of the Raigne of K. Henry the 8 her Highnesse Father who by the grace of God now raigneth and whome I beseech God long to cōtinue in this Regiment to his glory to the good of his church the great comfort of all true subiects of this florishing Realme Each part of the Minor hauing bin answered sufficiently if any man shal here propose to me this ●nte ●ga●●ry what in my opinion I thinke of B. Hughes salvation in regard of the premises First I breefely answere that I find no reasō why B. Hugh in sacred Canonization should haue a day designed to his celebrity before many thousand of Christians not once noted by the church o● Rome since it is evident that the 13. ve of the 14. of the Reve. may b● a●plaed truly to many thousands of the faithful that haue been and are omitted in the Romish Catologue 1 Cor c ●3 v. 11.12 1. 14 15. Let the Christian Reader assure himselfe that this place maketh nothing for doctrine of Purgatory being rightly expounded and faithfully interpreted according to the analogy of faith Next admit that B. Hughes Canonization were in the institution tollerable to be observed festiva●ly yet it is no good reason that now in like māner the office of that day being polluted with much superstition should also in this light of the Gospell be remembred in like sort as it vvas before For mine opinion of his salvation I referre my selfe to Gods only knowledge herein and hoping the best proposing to my selfe in all such cases to wade no farther in a question of such quality then the rule of the B. Apostle hath taught me in the 1. to the Cor. 3 11. For other foundation can no man lay then that which is laid which is Iesus host 12. And if any man build on this foundation golde silver precious stones timber hay or stubble 13. Every mans worke shal be made manifest for the day shall declare it because it shall bee revealed by the fire and the fire shall trie every mans worke of wh●t sorte it is 14. If any mans worke that he hath built vpon abide he shall receaue wages 15. If any mans worke burne he shall loose but hee shall be safe himselfe neverthelesse as it were by the fire Hauing ended the discourse of the life of B. Hugh and hauing answered the third generall accusation it remaineth that I should breefly repeate the sūme of it syllogistically thereby to establish the validity of my aunswere which in this forme I propose That church-service which worketh among Christian people no contempt or forgetfulnesse of any Saint faithfully canonized by the true church of God The ●eterting of the argument and vvholly tendeth to no other end but to glorifie GOD is allovvable c. But the solemnization of Q. Elizabeths holy day A●●t is commonly called c. namely the 17. of November worketh among Christian people noe neglect of any Saint truly canonized c noe not of Hugh sometimes B. of Lincolne Ergo The solemnization of Q. Elizabeths holy day name be the 17. of November is allowable c. The fourth generall Accusation That church-service and those exercises and disportes that are materially foolish meere parasiticall and spiced with flattery which reduce men backe againe to the fearful abhomination of heathenish Idolatrie longe since abolished and confounded and hissed out of the worlde by the light of the glorious gospell of Iesus Christ are not to be tollerated in any Christian common wealth But the church service and exercise now yearely vsed in England are of the nature specified in the Maior Ergo the church-service and exercises now yearely vsed in England the 17. of November are not to be tollerated in any Christian common-wealth Calvinotur lib 2 P. 341 Note his vvorde The contriver of this Accusation is W. Reynoldes in the booke marginally cy●ed in these wordes Eâdem perversitate natales Reginae die ● annuum quo primum ad regni gubernacula assumpta est ingentibus pyrii laeto publicoque campanarum sonitu per omnes regiones civitatis pagos festive celebratis c. with like preposterous aver senesse or crossing humor Overthwart in plaine English the Protestants in England solemnize the 7. of September beeing the day of their Queenes Nativity or birth and the day wherein shee first obtained in her right by lawfull discent the honor of the crowne of England was proclaimed Queene With great Bone-fires with ioyfull ringing of Belles throughout all Shires Citties and Parishes of that Realme c. If any one shoulde doe the like on the feast of Christs Nativity the Nativity of his Mother on the day of Christs Ascension or the day of the B. Virgines Assumption hee should be reputed by and by a person superstitious a Papist a man ill affected to the Queene and an enemy to the reformed religion besides certainty of imprisonment for his demeanure Let them looke whether their Carnwalls or Bachanalia open not a windowe to Paganisme and their Iubelies to Iudaisme frō whence he should not be dismissed till he haue payed a good fine These actions are very preposterously and crossely managed by that English nation at these times For who can by this but evidently see and finde that this church office is no braunch of true religion but a blossome of foolish and ridiculous flattery reducing the practizers here of backe againe to the broade hye way of heathnish Paganisme derived first from such springs foūtaines

illum Trahimur à Deo vel revelatione c. No man commeth vnto me vnlesse my father draw him We are drawne of God either by revelation according vnto that Mat. 16.17 Ioh. 5.36 Ierem. 31.3 Apoc. 3.19 Hose 11.4 Psal 93.6 Pro. 7.21 Blessed art thou Simon the sonne of Ionas for flesh and bloud hath not reveiled it vnto thee but my father which is in heaven Or by some miraculous operatiō as The works which the father hath given me to finish doe beare witnesse of me Or by loue as I haue loved thee with an everlasting loue therefore with mercy I haue drawen thee Or by scourges and chastisementes at As many as I loue I rebuke and chasten and I lead them vvith cordes of a man even with bands of loue Or by benefites as I will sing of the Lord because he hath dealt so lovingly with me Or by promises as with her flattering lips shee intised him These meanes of drawing doe not violence the will vnwilling to come vnto Christ but doe perswade it By which of these waies this honourable Queene was drawn I cannot now stand vpon only I suppose it to haue beene occulta revelatione miraculosa operatione By hidden reuelation and miraculous operation as many holy vessels are drawen vnto him like as all the faithfull are drawen to be iustified sanct●fied and saved according to that of Bernard De lib. arbit Trahis voluntarios non seruat inuitos c. He draweth such as are willing and saveth none against their wils he draweth as Paule was drawne vnto Damascus he draweth spiritually as the spouse in the Canticles who desired it greatly when shee said Draw me wee will runne after thee because of the sweete savour of thy good ointmentes Cant. 1.3 This secret working of Gods spirite made this honorable personage run after the odour of the sweete ointment that was in Salomon by whom our Saviour Christ was prefigured Ambrose Besides then as Saint Ambrose saith religiō was amongst the Israelites as a sweet ointment in a vessell enclosed whose sweete and fragrant smell though it were diffused through many nations yet the matter and marrow of faith was there principally contained Whose favor issuing then fotth by most sweete fragrant fumes drewe many out of the whole earth to see Salomon Yet neverthelesse as Augustine saith of the sower rivers of Paradise that watered other countries were only fructifying and causing fruit to grow in Paradise so the name and current of Salomons vertues were sounded in other nations but the substance of religion and the person of him that Salomon prefigured was only then according to ordinary dispensation and long after soule-saving among the Iewes in Israell The Externall cause that mooved this great personage to travaile so farre to see king Salomon The external cause which by her attractiue vertue drew this honorable prince after Salomon to see him and to conferre with him was the report of the great graces giftes of God which shined gloriously in Salomon For when rare and excellent vertues manifest their beauty in any subiect immediatly the trumpet of fame which is as Hesiod saith Hesiod 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2. 759. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Very light and easie to bee lifted vp soundeth out their glory which glory being as the oratour saith consentiens laus bonorum incorrupta vox iudicantium de excellenti virtute The conspiring praise of good men the sincere approofe of such as are able to iudge of the excellency of vertue rauisheth the mindes of most well affected persons to the admirable view sight of such things as are extraordinarily spoken of and commended And although every vertue be amiable and each drop of Gods grace in his children is to be embraced yet properly as Seneca saith ep 33. in aequabilitate notabilia en inent Sen. ep 33. Notable things of worth in personages of an answerable estate are most eminent and the highest tree in the forest hath the concourse of the most beholders And such excellent rare gifts draw men into admiratiō of thē make mē rest vnsatisfied til they see or enioy thē in whō they shine by an attractiue quality draw the world after them like as the load-stone draweth the needle and the North starre draweth the load-stone nay as I may speake more to purpose and more significantly l●ke as the Orient sunne which as Ambrose saith is oculus mundi ●ucundi as c. The eie of the world the pleasure of the day the beauty of heaven the excellencie of creatures and the grace of nature when hee discovereth his golden beames in the morning converteth the eies of the whole world to behold his beauty and to enioy the comfort of his heat So the vertues that shined then in Salomon issuing from Gods goodnesse from whom as the waters issue out of the bottomlesse pit as the rivers and floods out of the Ocean sea according to that of S●lomon all the rivers goe into the sea vt hence they returne Eccles 1.7 Eccles 1.7 which Homer also did see though as it were through a crevise in a wall speaking of the Ocean Hom. Ilia 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 From whence flowed all rivers and the whole Sea these vertues I say discovering themselues in Salomon drew some of all people and nations to behold him and to heare his wisedome from kings princes and rulers of the earth as it is evident by this that followeth collected out of holy scriptures for as naturally the heliotropium followeth the sun the shadow the body the superficiall partes of things colours the triumph the conquerour the sweete smell the oile Eurip. Hec. the voice the Eccho which is the daughter of the hils and woods as Euripides tearmed her the smoke the fire May flowers Aprill showres the morning the day star so the mindes of the most part of men are stirred vp to follow rare and excellent vertues intellectuall or morall when their beames doe begin to glister in the worlde and to reveale themselues by manifestation to Gods glory as these did in Salomon of whom this is written and in sacred writ recorded Whereby it is gathered that the fame report of Salomons wisdome drew her to come and see Salomon at Ierusalē Salomō having obtained by Gods gift a wise vnderstanding heart grew famous through all nations and kingdoms for God gaue Salomon wisdome and much vnderstandnig and a large hearte euen as the sand that is on the sea shore 1. King 4.25 1. King 4.25 and Salomons wisdome excelled all the wisdome of the children of the East and all the wisdome of Egypt for hee was wiser then any man yea then were Ethan the Ezrahite then Heman then Chalcol then Darda the sonnes of Mahol and hee was famous through all nations round aboute And Salomon spake three thowsand prouerbs and his songs were a thowsand and fiue And hee spake of trees from the