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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09659	A godlie exposition vpon certeine chapters of Nehemiah, written by that worthie byshop and faithfull pastor of the Church of Durham Master James Pilkington. And now newly published. In the latter end, because the author could not finish that treatise of oppression which he had begonne, there is added that for a supplie, which of late was published by Robert Some, D. in Diuinitie	Pilkington, James, 1520?-1576.; Foxe, John, 1516-1587.; Some, Robert, 1542-1609. Godlie treatise of the church. In the ende .. a treatise against oppression.	1585 (1585)	STC 19929; ESTC S114273	162,441	172

Citie and the place of my fathers burials lieth waste and the gates are consumed with fire 4. And the King said to me for what thing doest thou aske And I praied to the God of heauen 5. And I said to the King if it be thought good to the King and if thy seruant finde fauour in thy sight send me into Iuda to the Citie of my fathers burials that I may build it 6. And the king said to me the Queene sitting by him how long will thy Iourney be and when wilt thou returne And it was thought good in the kings sight and he sent me and I appointed him a certaine time THe moneth Nisan as it is called in the Hebrew here is the first Moneth of the yeare as the scripture vseth to recken and answereth vnto our March beginning at the first chaunge of the Moone after the 12. day of March when the daies and nights are both of one length And although manie doubt who this Artaxerxes was I take it certenly to be him that was called Longimanus long hand because the one hand was longer then the other as Edward the first was called Long-shanks because of his long leggs I loue not to fil vp bookes with mouing doubt vnto the vnlearned for whose cause speciallie I write namely such doubts as be harder in searching then profitable in vnderstanding The learneder sorte that list to trie their wits may search many mens writings and see diuers opinions but a most apparant truth simply told is best for the vnlearned Yet in the 4. Cha. of Ezra I haue fully enough opened the matter which I think after good consideration wilbe best liked of most men Among many thinges which prooue the good disposition of Nehemiah these certaine times that he appointeth of his doing most cleerely declare the same In the 9. moneth Nouember in the latter end of the yeare reckning the yeare by the course of the Sun he receiued these heauie newes of the misery of his people and countrie And in the first moneth of the yeare following yet both these moneths fell in the 20. yeare of the king Artaxerxes God gaue him this occasion to speak for the releife of them to the king It oft falleth out that the latter end of the yeare by the course of the Sunne is the beginning of the yeare by the reigne of the king As our gratious Q. Elizabeth began her happy reigne in Nouember yet March in the yeare following is parte of the same yeare of her reigne that Nouember was in the beginning Al this while 4. moneths at the least from Nouember to March was Nehemiah sad weeping fasting praying seeking some good occasion to seeke to the king for the releefe of his country After this sorte wil good men commend their sutes vnto Princes first by weeping fasting praying vnto God because they know the Princes heart to be in gods hand to dispose and turne as he thinketh good but the wicked worldlings that haue not God afore their eyes nor thinke not God to rule the world and Princes to seeke cleane contrary wayes and by rewardes by him and by her by flattering and dissembling make their way and breake their sutes vnto Princes When Quene Ester should speake to the king for the deliuerance of the Iews her people as Nehemiah should here she bad Mardocheus goe and will all the Iewes to fast pray for her that she might finde fauour in the kings sight and obteyne her sute for them and by these Godly meanes both Ester and Nehemiah prospered in their requests But because euery one cannot haue accesse to speak vnto the king breake his sute him selfe nor it is not fit that it should so be it is not amysse to vse the meanes of some good man about the prince to open the sute vnto him symply in the feare of God committing the successe thereof by earnest prayer to Gods goodwill and pleasure And better it shalbe for them thus symply to walke in the feare of god to faile in the sute then by lying flattery or briberie to obtaine it A hard lesson for Courtiers to follow but a most true and godly waie When Absalon was out offauour with his father Dauid by the meanes of Ioab and the woman of Thecoa he was brought in againe-but by practise rather then vpright dealing and therfore it prospe red not Nehemiah had hitherto kept his inwarde sorow so secret that the king perceiued it not but it ouercame him now and he was not able to couer it anie longer What earnest loue was this in him toward his countrie that thus long fasted and prayed and we are so nyce that what daunger soeuer hangeth ouer vs we cannot forbeare a dynner that by some abstynence from the bellie we maie more earnestlie giue our selues to prayer They that with reuerence will consider Gods secret prouidence and care that he hath for his people how he gouerneth all things yea euen those that seeme outwardly of no value after such a sorte that his heauenly wisdome and fatherly loue doeth most manyfestly appeare in them toward those that seeke him may here see a manifest example of it Not by chaunce for so nothing falleth out but by gods greate prouidence the king had wyne afore him was drie and called for drinke Nehemiah also as God had appointed stood by and as his office required being his cupbearer toke vp the cup tasted and gaue it to the king to drinke looking verie sadly whichhe was not wonte and Princes loue not to haue anie to do so about them Vppon this sadde looke falleth out all the matter which otherwaies he durst not open The king demaundeth what maketh him so sad Nehemiah openeth his griefe the king asketh what he would haue Nehemiah maketh his petition the king graunteth it and sendeth him tobuilde Ierusalem and giueth him liberally things necessarie to the doingof it A weightie matter to rise by occasion of a sad countenance but thus our God of small things can bring sotth great matters Dauid vsed to sit at king Sauls table vntil he fel in displeasure with him when he saw his place empty Saul would aske where he was that he came not to dinner And yf he spake angerly Ionathan Sauls sonne would let Dauid know that he might keepe him out of Sauls daunger thus by an empty place at the table Dauids life was diuers tymes saued Ester when she would goe to speake for her people and oflong tyme afore had not seene the king nor might not come in his presence except she were sent for putteth on her costly apparell and standeth afore the kings window where she might be seene The king seeing her sendeth for her she spying her tyme maketh her sute to the king for her people and delyuereth them Thus of smale occasions God worketh great things that we may know that he ruleth all things be they neuer so smale in mans sight But among many