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A07446	Tvvo sermons preached before his Maiestie, in his chappell at Whitehall the one, the xi. of Februarie, the other the xxv. of same moneth. By Richard Meredeth, one of his Maiesties chaplaines in ordinarie.	Meredeth, Richard, 1559-1621.	1606 (1606)	STC 17832; ESTC S103382	33,811	48

of siluer vpon which this was written and engrauen Bona Deorum I mary saith hee these are the goods of the Gods and you doe well to offer them vs great reason we vse the goodnes of the gods and so leauing a scoffe tooke the gold away cleane As he did then so haue some others done heretofore I cannot say iustly speaking the truth that it is done now the land and yeerely reuenues which our auncestors of renowned memory haue bestowed vpon churches fréely for the maintainance of good learning and lawes is now altogether taken away from vs the good vse of them for the euil abuse sake this pale of gold was too heauy for our shoulders a garment rather of Linsiwolsye must become vs better I would God they had giuen vs for it either linnen or wollen for then we should haue seene by the way of exchange to haue had something they haue taken away al stone timber lead yron glasse mannors and lands and haue left vs iust nothing by way of recompence Our Bishops which heretofore did weare long beards of Gold euen downe to their girdles haue béene if not altogether shauen yet so nearely cropt and shorne and wot you by whom forsooth by their shéepe there is one abuse added more to those 12. abuses which S. Augustine noted in his time Senex sine moribus c. The shéepe most monstrously and most vnnaturally haue flieced and shorne their shepheards The whole body of the Cleargie of this land whom our ancestors before vs had endued with very great and sufficient liuings for the maintenance of themselues and reliefe of others whom also these men might haue spared if it had beene but for this cause onely because the Lord hath chalenged as his and called them his owne portion towards them how haue these men behaued themselues some of them they haue polled and some of them they haue pilled and some of them they haue fleed and some of them they haue fléeced and some they haue impropriated from them and appropriated to them selues what by prodigality on way and Simony another way the 2. horsleaches daughters which crie out giue giue the faces of the poore cleargie of this land haue bene so grinded and grated that after so many years past that we haue had Kings to be our noursing fathers and Quéenes to be our Ioel. 1. noursing mothers we may begin with S. Paul in the Primitiue Church to make tents the residue of the palmer woorme hath the cankerworme eaten and the residue of the canker-worme hath the grashopper eaten and the residue of the Grashopper hath the Caterpiller eaten all men sées this to be most true which now I make bold to deliuer to this mightie presence many find it some féele it few will speake it no man goeth about to redresse it Only that most deuout and religious act against the deminution of the possessions of Archbishopricks and Bishopricks O King procéeding on from your most royall munificence and princely pietie and care hath made a stop and a stay against all future sacrileges alienations depredations honors hereditaments possession of the Church for this cause shall the holy Vrim and Thummim of Leui shine refreshed out of the most gratious heāes of the light of your charitie his deuotion shall ascend swéeter then any incense in the presence of God continually to entreat for you Habes enim multos intercessores his prayers shall be as so many Legions of angells euerlastingly to gard you against all plots and practizes against all treasons and treacheries the naked loynes of the poore shall blesse him I meane Leui being couered with his fléece the emptie bellies shall blesse him I meane Leui being filled with his morsells and wée all shall blesse the memory of you most dread Soueraigne which hath enabled Leui to giue and so by giuing to receiue a blessing He raigneth vnprofitablie which is horne and deserueth not to raigne saith the golden-mouthed Chrisostome but he that commeth vnto vs in a double right of nature and so much grace all the blessings of both the testaments rest on him rest on his euen so Amen And yet I giue my note in conclusion to this point Moses and Aaron are ioyned together in my text and in a 100. places besides of holy Scripture they should neuer be made base by any vile contempt or abiect beggery which follow kings so néere in the word of God It followes in the Text Remember what Balaac the King of Moab hath deuised As touching the deuise of Balaac it was on this wise After that he saw that he could not induce Balaim to curse Gods people he deuised a new stratageme by the daughters of Moab suborned some of them thorow their wanton allurements to entice the children of Israel to cōmit first fornication with them afterwards Idolatrie that in so dooing they might be brought to stincke in the nostrils of God and being cast out of his fauour and protection be made a present prey to their enimies the nations This was the deuise of Balaac the King of Moab the end of it was to make hauocke of the people of God the meane to effect it was first fornication and afterwards idolatry the instrument a strange woman The deuise of Balaac the King of Moab was a deuise comming from flesh and bloud and a deuise to bée wrought by a speciall instrument of flesh and bloud viz. a woman The deuise of this last trayterous Heathenish vncircumcized Moabites was a deuise not comming from flesh and bloud or any humane nature but from the deuill and his Angels for séeing their doctrine is a doctrine of deuils it followes accordingly that their deuises be the deuises of deuils as the trée such is the fruit a proper kinde of religion which dispenceth with Fornication and maintaines rebellions Of hell the Prophet Esay saith the nourishment of it is woode and much fire and the breath of the Lord like a streame of Brimstone Esay 10. doth set it on fire of this we may say the nourishment of it should haue bin gunpouder much fier the breath of the deuill like a streame of brimstone should haue set it on fire The Diuell when he threw downe the house vpon the children of Iob threw it downe when they were doyng il to wit eating drinking sporting pastiming these men worse then their father the deuill would haue blowne vp the Parliament house men being assembled together to do good the King the state the Cleargie the nobility the gentry the commonalty all beeing assembled together in one to set downe wholesome lawes for the good of Gods glory quietnes of the church and peace of the common-wealth what a strange monster is treason which diueth downe to hell and beneath hel the very bottomelesse pitte of hell for to hatch deuises for this is the resolution of treason Flectere si nequen superos Acharonta mouebo The Poets fayne of Cerberus the Dogge of hell

riseth humility and out of the consideration of the loue of the Father riseth confidence these are 2. legges 2. armes 2. wings which will carry vs into heauen two things very néedefull and necessary in our prayers and both are produced in considering God as a Father Secunda pars But to rise a point higher from the person whom we must aske to the thing what wee must aske what may we aske nap what thing may we not be bould to aske Si quid si quid without any limitation quicquid quicquid without any determination All fauour al goodnesse all grace all glory all this may I aske as much as you can sée as much as you heare as much you can belecue as much as you can hope for all this may you aske temporall things for the world spirituall things for the soule corporall things for the bodye eternall things for glory all this may you aske What will ye that the heauens be shutte vp Elias asked it and obtayned that the heauens bée opened the same desired it and had it That the Sunne stand still Iosua asked it and obtayned it that the Sunne goe back ward Ezechias desired it and had it That fire come downe from heauen Elias asked and obtained it that waters spring out of the rocks Moyses asked it and had it That the floods and waues sustaine yée Peter asked it and obtained it that the dead rise againe sundrie haue asked it and haue had it What will ye wisdome Salomon asked it and obtained it Grace Dauid asked it and had it Heauen and Paradice the Theefe asked it and obtaned it quicquid quicqud without any limitation si quid si quid without anie determination and to the reason we may aske all of him which can giue all we may aske all of him which will giue all voluntate labiorum non fraudabo te saith God I will not defraude the desire of thy lippes you may aske all therefore euen as much as your tongue can speake or heart imagine And for this cause we Christians though we be poore yet are we the richest of all other Creatures note it for Cattell and bruite beasts nature hath prouided foode and sustenance and many getteth it only by his work and labour God hath clothed beasts which skinnes and the trees with barke man only is borne poore and naked the beasts haue for armour to defend them both hornes and hoofes and téeth and cloues man onely is borne disarmed in all the open ayre hurteth not them man scarce defendeth himselfe with houses and buildinges the life of all other things is quiet and secure and this life of ours wee know not how to tearme it a life or a death surely if not a perpetual shipwracke yet a continuall warfarre neuerthelesse the beasts make no request but man requesteth these Creatures vse no praiers man praieth now if by this meane of praier hée may get all what soeuer is behoueable for him quicquid petiaritis who can be more rich or who can be more wealthy then a Christian All vniuersalitye is in this word quicquid or si quid wée may aske and obtaine it so that it bée quid that is worthye of the name of a thing now hée that prayeth God will further him in his sinnes prayeth not for quid but for nihil Sine ipso factum est nihil God made not sinne so doth Saint Austine conster it Sinne destroyeth in vs the true quid which is goodnesse and maketh a man as nothing or worse then nothing Quia melius nihil esse quam infaeliciter Mat. 15. esse Therefore it is said of the child of perdition that it had béene good for him he had neuer béene borne that man therefore that prayeth that GOD will helpe him in his sinnes shall not bée heard because hée asketh not quid but nihil witnesse the Prophet Dauid Si iniquitates asperunt in corde meo dominus non exaudiet If there be any iniquity in my heart the Lord will Psa 14. not heare me Againe note farther not onely hée that asketh not quid receiueth not quid but hée that asketh nihil receiueth nihil hée that asketh nothing receiueth nothing he that asketh sinne receiueth sinne for in asking a sinne he committeth a new sinne and so his very prayers are turned into sinne according to that in the Psalme Fiat oratio eius in peccatum Let his praier Psa 102. be turned into sinne In an other sense doth Gregory the great expound this word this word quicquid as si quid that is that ye aske quid not quale that is that ye aske substances not accidents that is that ye aske substantiall things and not vayne things that is that yee aske permanent things and not transitory things for all these corporall and worldly things beeing compared to spirituall and eternall things are not quid but quale vanities toyes leaues trifles shadows smoke nay that are nothing or very neere nothing they are the nihil or very neere to the nihil I say and will proue it 1. Either nothing for this cause because manye in séeking after them by sundry feares cares and turmoyles and tumults and labours vexations do waste and consume their vitall spirits and so bring themselues to nothing according to that of S. Austine propter talia se homines ānihilant imitando insidiando machinando bellādo Ad fratres in eremo 2. Or nothing for this cause because they auaile and helpe vs nothing in the fearfull triall of examination and seueritie of iudgment according to the censure of the Psalmist Dormierunt somnum suum nihil inuenerunt Psalm 54. the rich men of this world haue slept their sléepe found nothing for their bodies must to the earth their riches to the world their soules to iudgment so there is nothing left of all that euer they had to plead for them 3. Or nothing for this cause because they neuer satiate or content the soule for the soule hauing receiued many of them desireth still to receiue more of them as if she had receiued nothing at all according to that experiment which Salomō found to be true in his owne heart The eye is not satisfied with seeing nor the eare with Eccles 4. hearing Can honors satiate the soule many great honours were vnto Hamon and yet he is discontented in respect of Mardochay All this can nothing auaile me saith he as long as I see Mardochaie the Iew sitting at the Kings gate Can pleasures satiate the soule Salomon had his eyes his eares his hands his heart full of pleasure and yet he cries out All things are full of labour and man cannot expresse them can riches satiate the soule Of against couetous rich men God saith Yee eate and are not filled yee drinke and are not satisfied yee cloth yee and Hagge 2. yee are not warmed he that earneth money putteth the same into a bottomlesse bagge Can