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A19669	A sermon made in the chappel at the Gylde Halle in London, the. xxix. day of September, 1574 before the Lord Maior and the whole state of the citie, then assembled for the chusing of their Maior that shuld then succede in the gouernme[n]t of the same citie. Concionatore Roberto Croleo. Perused and licenced, according to the Queenes Maisties iniunction.	Crowley, Robert, 1518?-1588.	1575 (1575)	STC 6092; ESTC S120719	15,206	56

A Sermon made in the Chappel at the Gylde Halle in London the .xxix. day of September 1574. before the Lord Maior and the whole state of the Citie then assembled for the chusing of their Maior that shuld then succede in the gouernmēt of the same Citie Coneionatore Roberto Croleo ¶ Perused and licenced according to the Quoenes Maiesties Iniunction ¶ Imprinted at London by Iohn Awdeley 1575 TO THE RIGHT honorable sir Iames Hawes Knight Lord Maior of the Citie of London and to his worshipful Brethren the Aldermen with the whole state of the same Citye Robert Crowley wisheth continuance in the feare of GOD. BEing by the Lord Maior that then was appointed to occupy the place of a better in your Chappell at the Gilde hall on that day wherin according to your yearely custome you were gathered together to make choyse of one to rule your Citie for the yeare then to come I dyd bende all my speeches to the instruction of as many of you as were to geue voyces in that Election and of him that was then to be elected And although I dyd not then so well lyke of myne owne doing that I could thinke it meete to be penned and published to the view of all that would reade it yet I perceiued afterward that manye amongest you were desirous to haue it in writing that it might remaine in memory and be a rule for you and your posteritie to follow in yout yearely Elections Being therefore requested by one that seemed to mee most desirous of this common commoditie to set downe in writyng that which I had then spoken I could not deny that so honest and reasonable a request But beyng then oppressed with manyfold exercises I differred the doing thereof almost to long euen tyll memorie began to be amazed when she should make report to my pen of those wordes which she not before wylled to retaine And then I began to feele that age cannot easely do that wherof youth maketh small accompt Yet notwythstandyng I caused my Memorie to searche out all her corners and to bring forth that which she foūd and so haue I penned as my Memorie telleth me almost the same wordes that I then spake and in the same order that I then did speake them And because I thought that thys instruction might serue as well for al other Elections as for that which then was in hand I thought good to adde an Appēdix wherein I haue applyed the whole matter of euery Election to be made of any that must serue in any publike calling either Ecclesiasticall or Ciuile If this my labour haue or shall do any good the praise thereof is due to God the doer of all that is wel done who first moued the myndes of your Rulers to thinke me meete to occupy that place at that tyme and my mynde to conceyue and vtter suche matter there and the minde of him that first moued mee to conceiue it in writing and the myndes of them that haue thought it meete to be imprinted To GOD therefore especially I do dedicate this my labour and generallye to all you whom he hath herein vsed as his instrumentes Beseeching his Maiestie to accept of that which hee hath made me able to do and to employ both it and mee to the commoditie of hys Church and you to take at hys hande the fruit of this my labour whom hee hath in this matter vsed as his instrumēt to instruct you how ye ought to deale not onely in this one yearelye election of your Maior but in all your other Elections also The Lord Iesus Christ whose Seruauntes we all do professe to be direct vs by his holy Spirite that in all our workes words and thoughtes we may seeke to set foorth the glorie of his and by him our heauenly Father To whom with the same his onely begotten sonne the holy spirit be al honor glory for euermore Amen Yours to commaund in the Lord Robert Crowley ¶ A Sermon made in the Chappel at the Gilde hall in London the .xxix. day of September in the yeare of our Lord God. 1574. before the Lord Maior and the whole state of the Citie then assembled for the chusing of their Maior that should then succéede in the gouernment of that Citie Concionatore Roberto Croleo IN the Psalme 139. it is written thus in the latter ende of the Psalme Do not I hate thē O Lord that hate thee And am not I greeued with them that rise vp against thee Yea I hate them right sore euen as though they were myne own enemies Try me O God and seeke the ground of my hart Proue mee and examyne my thoughtes Looke well if there be any way of wickednes in me and leade me in the way euerlasting That Psalme dearely beloued in our sauiour Christ in the latter end wherof these foure verses are written being in number .139 is one of those Psalmes which are by order appointed to be read this mornyng at the Mornyng prayer I haue thought good therfore to take a parcell thereof to entreate of as offered by order The Prophet Dauid doth in this Psalme shew him selfe to be myndfull of the maruelous and mercyful prouidence of God towardes al his creatures but especially towardes Man in whose creation preseruation and gouernment hee doth shew both his infinite wysedome and almighty power He sheweth hym selfe also to bee myndeful of the infinite and incomprehensible nature of God whych cānot be comprehended in heauen or earth or in any deepe places but fylleth all places and is fylled or comprehended of none He fylleth all and contayneth all and is not filled or contayned of any If I go vp into heauen sayth he thou art there if I go downe into hel thou art there to Yea if I shall take the winges of the morning that is if I shal make as much speede as mā can make to flee from thee and so flee into the vttermost parts of the sea euen there also thy hand shall leade me and thy right hand shall hold me Whether shall I go from thy spirit and whither shall I flee from thy presence He sheweth also how he estemeth of the deare friendes of God and on the contrary how he doth hate abhorre Gods enemies such as do hate and rise vp against God. Thus you haue hearde a briefe summe of this whole Psalme that is of the chiefe pointes cōtayned in this Psalme being in number .139 I do not entende at this time to entreate of all these thinges or of any one of them but to apply these foure verses which I haue nowe read being the last of this Psalme vnto this present Auditory and to the present occasiō of this assemble For I thinke it the duty of as many as shall occupye such places as this to apply all their speeches to their Auditories and to the occasions of their assembling Considering therefore that thys Auditory is assembled to chuse one to rule the rest I haue

that we printing in memory and practisyng in lyfe these profitable lessons may in our seuerall callinges so deale in al that we do that God may in vs be glorified we in him euerlastingly comforted wyth that endles comfort that hee hath prepared for hys Which comfort he graūt that hath prepared it to whom be all honor glory world without end Amen ¶ An Appendix added vnto this Sermon THus at the request of a friend wishing the cōmon commodity I haue as nygh as I could committed my Sermon to writing in such order and as my memorye would serue me in such woordes as I dyd vtter it in the hearyng of the Lord Maior and his Brethren the Aldermen and the whole state of the City of London being then according to their yearelye order assembled to chuse one to be their Maior for the yere then following And because the text that I haue handled may as well be applyed to al other elections as to that which then was to bee made I haue thought meete in the setting out of this my Sermō in print to adde this Appendix wherin I haue applyed the wordes of the Prophet generally to all elections as well of such as shall serue in the Ecclesiasticall gouernment as in the Ciuile Notyng the duties both of them to whom it appartayneth to chuse and also of them that shall be chosen to anye gouernment in eyther state And first of them to whō it belongeth to chuse The persons that in any order haue to geue consent to the choyse of any that shall serue in any publike calling must first consyder the place that is to be supplied by hym that is to bee chosen wyth a due consideratiō of those qualities that must be in hym that shall be able to do the duty that belongeth to that place And then their care must be to fynde out such one as hath in hym those qualities And if any shal offer them selues to take vpon them the place and enable them selues thereunto they are to bee narrowlye looked vnto and thorowly tryed before they be admitted because they do by offering them selues geue occasion to be suspected of some desire eyther to be aduaunced or els to be enritched which desire is most pernicious in hym that shall serue in any publike calling Isocrates an Heathen man instructyng Demonicus a yong Gentleman that was like to be called to publike office sayth thus vnto hym A publicis functionibus nō ditior sed gloriosior discedas Depart not from a publike office being more ritch but more honourable then when thou tookest it But if any shall by wordes writing giftes or anye other ambitions meane seeke to be admitted the same hath made him selfe altogether vnmeete to be admitted although there be in him as much as may be in a mā otherwise to make him meete For such one beyng in place cānot vse any good gift that is in hym to anye other ende then that whych moued hym so to seeke the place They therfore that haue to geue consent in elections must not bee subiect to their owne corrupt affections so that they be lead by them to chuse or admit anye in respect of consanguinitie affinity friendship or friendly familiarity neither may they stand in awe of any mans person so through feare of dyspleasure or hope of some friendly pleasure be enduced to chuse or admyt such one as they do not know to be meete for the place that they doo chuse or admit him vnto They must haue styl before their eyes the Maiestye of God whose Ministers they are that occupy any publike place And therefore in chusyng or admittyng them that shall supply any such place the chusers and admitters must do all that they do in the feare of Gods Maiestye euen as they that know do not forget that they shal answer to him for al that they shall do therin It is meete therefore that if the election or admission be to be made by many the same do before they proceede to election or admission ioyne them selues together in publike praier not of custome onely or supersticiously but with harty desire to obtayne at Gods hand hys holy spirite to direct them so that they may finde out consent vpon such one as may be both able and willing so to serue in the place that he shall be chosen vnto that Gods glory may be set forth in al that he shall do in that place After this sort did the Apostels behaue thē selues when thei thought it meete to chuse one to supply the place of Iudas ▪ which had bene one of them but was by transgression fallen from hys place and became a traitour to his Maister for which wyckednes hee was so left to hym selfe that hee hanged hym selfe and by the gushing out of hys bowels he was made an horryble example to all traytours they agreed vpon twoo whych had bene conuersant with them and therefore were well knowen vnto them and because they could not discerne which of the two was most meete for the place they prayed to God and casting lots thei besought God that the lot might light vpon hym whom God knew to be most meete And if the election or admission do belong to any one person then it is meete that that person do not onely make earnest and harty praiers to God in his own person that in the choyse that he shall make he may be directed by Gods holy spirite to make such choise as may be to Gods glorye but that the same do desire that as many as may take either commoditye or hurt by the choise that he shall make would in harty prayers vnto God beg that in chusing his hart may be directed by Gods holy spirite to chuse such one as in all pointes may be meete for the place that he shall be chosen vnto And whether the election belong to one or to many this one thyng must be diligently looked vnto by the Electours that neyther they them selues bee corrupted wyth bribes neither enduced by the perswasion of anye that is bribed to make choyse of any in whom they do not see those properties that I haue before noted out of the fyft and second bookes of Moses For he that is not a brother that is to saye a true Christian but a Papist or an heretike of any maner sect the same must bee so hated that he be not chosen to supply any place in any publike ministration In like maner he that is not a man of such wysdome and actiuity as is required in him that shal supply that place that is to be supplyed and he in whom the sygnes of Gods feare do not appeare or that is not a true man nor one that hateth couetousnes must be so hated of them or him to whom it appertaineth to chuse or admit that hee be not chosen or admitted by them but refused as a person vnmeete to supply such a place And thus much touching