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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02844	Gods vniuersal right proclaimed A sermon preached at Paules Crosse, the 27. of March 1603. being the next Sunday after her Maiesties departure. By I.H.	Hayward, John, D.D.	1603 (1603)	STC 12984; ESTC S103942	20,193	63

Where-from if God hath miraculouslie deliuered vs whose name be therfore eternally praised yet who can thinke vpon it what a one she was vnto vs while she liued a watchfull keeper a mercifull iudge a Queene of peace a defender of the faith and a very mother in Israel who can thinke vpon it that she was such a one vnto vs while she liued and not bee touched at the hart with sorrow that she liues not still to be still such a one vnto vs Surely in her that is taken from vs we haue fallen vpon vs occasions of sorrowe But God most good hath not left vs as desolate plaintiffes vnto a solitarie sorrow without all comfort but hath giuen vs also many causes of reioycing both in our blessed Queene departed from vs and also in our right noble King giuen vs. In her that is departed God hath giuen vnto vs occasiō of reioycing in the māner of her departing wherein he hath honored her memorie among the righteous and more honoured his owne name for his mercy to her In two great and notable fauours that her end was peaceable and that it was godlie that she ended her dayes quietlie and dyed in the faith of Christ. First herein we haue cause to reioyce on her behalfe that her end was peaceable without the stroake of man and without any other stroake of God then such as is common to all men that passe by the straite of death The Bull of Pius Quintus denounced an other end The inuincible Armada of Spaine threatned an other end Many bloudy traytors iustly suffering among vs attempted an other end And yet notwithstanding the God of peace gaue vnto hir a peaceable end she liued long our band of peace and died quietly a childe of peace as if God had promised her that he promised Abraham Genesis 15. 15. Thou shalt goe vnto thy Fathers Cum pace in peace and shalt bee buryed In canitie bona in a good age that is Satura dierum diuitiarum honoris full of dayes riches and honour and all present blessings as a good age is expounded 1. Chron. 29. 28. Dauid dyed in a good age full of dayes riches and honour our Queene matching him for the fulnesse of the dayes of her life for she was come into the yeare wherein Dauid dyed being seauentie yeare olde and ouermatching him for the fulnesse of the dayes of her reigne for he reigned but fortie yeares and shee sawe the fiue and fortieth of her reigne in more peace then Dauid had I will not giue offence by remembring how farre different from her ende the ende of the last Catholike King of Spaine and most Christian King of France was the one dying by a heauie stroake of Gods hand and the other by a violent stroake of mans hand neyther of them neare to that sweete sleepe whereinto she fell in her departing And as her end was peaceable so it was pious godly christiā she died in the faith of Christ giuing euidence therof in her weakest times and now inioyeth the end of her faith the saluation of her soule the blessing pronounced from heauen Blessed are the dead that die in the Lorde they rest from their labours On the Sundaye last before her death the reuerend father the Lorde Bishop of Chichester and Doctor Parrie one of her highnesse Chaplines going to reade deuine seruice vnto her as the maner was vpon the Lords day her heauie sadnesse at this time wel remooued she pronounced after them the confession of sinnes with prayer for the forgiuenesse of them which is vsually pronounced by the congregation when we come together to seeke the face of our God And though it was done with a weake voyce yet was it with great euidence of a feruent spirit looking vp vnto God The next night God gaue vnto her quiet sleep in her bed wherby she was much refreshed the Lord preparing her by renewed cōfort vnto a happy end For as one wel saith Veraconsolatio perpetuo durat in electis et si languescit per spiritum sanctum instauratur potissimum autem est efficax circa vita finem et mortis articulum True comfort indureth perpetually in the elect if it beginneth at any time to faint it is restored by the holy Ghost especially it is strong and effectuall toward the end of life and approach of death which in her Grace was obserued to the great reioycing of her seruants For on the Wednesday death approaching which she desired that she might be losed and be with Christ which is best of all the right reuerend father the Lorde Archbishop of Canterbury comming in vnto her at three in the after-noone he put her in minde of the sufferings of Christ the meanes of her saluation of remission of sinnes and eternall life most gladly she harkened vnto him testifying her ioy with her hand which shee could not so well doe with her voyce And whē the reuerend father knowing how soone sicke parties are wearied did withdrawe himselfe giuing signe with her hand she called him vnto her the second time And when againe after a second speech hee withdrewe himself she beckned to haue him come vnto her the third time So pleasing vnto her soule was the voyce of him that had in his mouth the word of reconciliation so beautifull in her eyes were the feete of him that did preach glad tydings and publish saluation and it was not affection to the man but loue vnto the doctrine and glad tydings of saluation that led her listening eare For the reuerend Lord Bishop of Chichester comming after vnto her rehearsed vnto her the grounds of Christian faith requiring some testimony of her assenting vnto them which she readily gaue both with hand eye And when he proceeded so far as to say vnto her that it was not inough generally to beleeue that those things were true but euery Christian man must beleeue that they were true vnto them that they were members of the true Church truly redeemed by Iesus Christ that their sinnes were forgiuen and that they should liue for euer with God she did with great show of faith lift vp her eies and handes to heauen where she knew her life to be hid with Christ in God and staied them long testifying her perticular faith and apprehension of Gods mercy to her in Christ. So continuing vnto the death a professor of the faith whereof she had bin defender in her life And findeth now the trueth of his promise that said Reue. 3. 10. Be faithfull vnto the death and I will giue thee the crowne of life Thus did she end her dayes in the faith and euen in her that is taken from vs we haue cause of reioycing when we cōsider how God tooke her away in his great mercy ending her daies in peace in the faith of Christ. But notwithstanding her happinesse in her death vnhappy had wee beene after her death if God had not giuen vs a good king to succeede her In whome when we cast our eye towardes him we finde great causes to lift vp our heads and reioice His name hetherto onelye proclaimed in our streetes hath stilled the ragings of the people danting the enimies of true religion and causing the enimies of peace that thought now to looke out to hide their heades What shall we not hope that the presence of his person will doe when the sound of his name hath done so much already surely we shall see it if euer this land saw it fulfilled that Salomon saith Prouerbes 20. 8. A King sitting in the throne of iudgement driueth away all euill with his eyes I speake not these things in flatterye but in the firme hope of my soule For propinquity of bloud he is the next and rightfull heire of Henrie the seuenth of famous memorie of the house of Lancaster of Elizabeth his wife ayre of the house of Yorke His education hath bin Godly of his wisedome for gouernment and of his sincerity for religion he hath already giuen proofe not onely in the gouernement of his kingdome of Scotland but otherwise also to the content of many that could not so fully obserue his gouernement as peruse his writings What remaineth then but that we reioyce in God and praise him for our present soueraigne praying that he may safely come vntovs long continue with vs standing in Gods grace to the good of Gods Church safety of the kingdomes ouer which he is set Such is the mercie of God toward vs in the king giuen vnto vs such are the causes of reioycing that wee haue in our King Which quisquis non videt cecus est quisquis videt et non laudat ingratus est quisquis laudanti reluctatur insanus est Whosoeuer seeth not is blind whosoeuer seeth and praiseth not is vnthankfull whosoeuer misliketh others praysing is not wise And therefore seeing God hath made so happye a change for vs in the disposing of this kingdome beeing Lorde of all the earth let vs beare it with such mindes as become wise men mingling heauinesse with our ioy and ioy with our heauinesse and let vs lift vp the Trumpet of our lowdest voyces and say God saue King Iames. AMEN

ioyfull and all that is in it let all the Trees of the wood reioyce before the Lorde for hee commeth for hee commeth to iudge the earth hee will iudge the worlde with righteousnesse and the people in his truth Thus ought all the earth to do thus let all our earth do for we are his he commeth among vs to iudge vs in righteousnes by his appointed seruant and to instruct vs in the truth by our defender of the faith This is one vse to giue glory vnto God Let the next vse be this that we learne to know our selues in humilitie cease from those proud and importable speeches of some that thinke themselues Lords of the earth when the earth is the Lords and all that is in it The Heathen Poet censureth them saying Impudentissima eorum est oratio their speech is most shamlesse that say Quis tu es quis mihi es what art thou what art thou to me indeed what art thou that speakest thus vnto thy brother but one of those poore Grashoppers spoké of Esa. 40 22. Deus insidet ambitui terrae cui habitatores eius sunt velut locustae God sitteth vpon the circle of the earth to whom the inhabitants therof are as Grashoppers Is the earth thine art thou Lorde of the habitable world yea is there any thing in the world that thou canst call thine when the Prophet saith all is the Lords thou perhaps wilt say thou hast many faire houses some of them thou hast builded thy selfe Thou hast many fruitfull fields and some of them thou hast purchased thy selfe Thou hast thy bags well filled and hast got thy wealth thy selfe and hast goods laide vp in store for many yeares I doubt not but thou hast many of these things in thy possession deliuered of trust by the hand of God For 1. Cor. 4 7. the apostle saith what hast thou that thou hast not receiued as thou hast receiued them from Gods hand so thou must deliuer them with an account for the vse of them into Gods hand But if thou thinke that they are thine and that according to the saying in the gospel thou maiest do what thou wilt with thine owne thou art much deceiued The earth is the Lordes and all the fulnesse of it Which if thou wilt not learne in humility to acknowledge before shortly whether thou wilt or no thou shalt bee compelled to acknowledge it when that shall be tide thee that Christ said befell the proude ritch man Luke 12. 20. When hee had flattered himselfe saying to his soule Soule thou hast goods laide vp in store for many yeres liue at ease eate drinke and take thy pastime The Lord Iesus saith that God saide vnto him Thou foole this night will they fetch awaye thy soule from thee Quae tu parasti cuius tum erunt then whose shall those things be which thou hast prouided heauen doth dispise them they are not needfull there neither can they ad to thine happinesse Hell doth not regard them they are of no vse there neyther can they abate thy paine the graue hath no stowage for them there is nothing but darkenesse As they were not acquainted with thee before thou wast borne so thy goods will not know thee when thou art dead and as the Prophet saith Psalme 49. 17. of the glorious ritch man dying he shall take nothing away when he dieth neither shall his pompe descend after him Thus shall vaine men be taught that nothing is theirs but the earth and all the fulnesse of it the Lordes Let euery one of vs therefore whatsoeuer his present portion be take heede that he be not high minded that he grow not proud of vncertaine riches but that in humility he acknowledge himselfe to haue come naked into the world and shall goe naked out and in the meane time is but a steward accomptable and that the earth and all that is in it as the Lords if our harts were thus framed wee should learne more modestly more soberly more iustly more charitablie more holily to vse the goods of this worlde striuing as the Apostle aduiseth vs. 1. Tim. 6. 18 To be rich in good works laying vp in store a good foundation against the time to come that we may obtaine eternall life This is a second vse of the doctrine to retaine our selues in humility A third vse that shall be that the Apostle teacheth vs 1. Corin. 10. The Apostle would not haue beleeuers to sit with vnbeleeuers at the tables of their Idols in their feasts which he calleth the tables of diuels because no man can be pertaker of the table of the Lord and the table of deuils but if we be bidden to any mans priuate house whether we are willing to go to eate meat with him there he giueth liberty to eate though it bee meate offered to idols whatsoeuer is set before vs except any weake brother say such meate was offered to idols for whose sake hee willeth them of better knowledge yet to abstaine for not offending their consciences also whatsoeuer is solde in the shambles he permitteth to eate without making question and his reason is the doctrine of this place as appeareth v. 26. 18. For the earth is the Lords and all that therin is for the Lord himselfe beeing most pure can any thing that is his in it own nature be impure the Lord being most holy can any thing that is his in it own nature be vnholy it cannot be So may we vse the best things that they may be vncleane to vs. So may we be so may we vse the good gifts of God that they shall be vncleane vnto vs. In the Epistle to Titus 1. 15. the Apostle saith Omnia munda mundis vnto the pure are all things pure Iis autem qui sunt inquinati et increduli nihil est mundum but vnto them that are defiled and vnbeleeuing is nothing pure c. If wee pollute not Gods guifts by our vncleanenesse they are cleane vnto vs. Christ Math. 15. 11. saith vnto the multitude called together That which entreth into the mouth defileth not the man but that which commeth out of the mouth defileth the man And the Apostle Paul 1. Tim. 4. 4. saith Euery creature of God is good and nothing ought to be refused if it bee receiued with thanksgiuing for it is sanctified by the worde of God and prayer This pertaineth to the libertie of Gods children in the vse of Gods creatures all is his and therefore they that are his may freely vse them with peace of conscience Yet it excuseth not them that without cause and with offence breake with contempt the politique lawes of Princes This is a third vse teaching that we may vse the creatures with comfort because they are the Lords Let vs come to a fourth vse which shall be the last reserued to the last place that it might be best remembred The earth and the fullnesse of it the habitable world and the inhabitants