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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59595	Eikōn basilikē, or, The princes royal being the sum of a sermon preached in the minister of York on the Lords-Day morning (in the Assize week) March 24, 1650 ... / by John Shavve.	Shawe, John, 1608-1672.	1650 (1650)	Wing S3028; ESTC R30139	32,715	47

ΕΙΚΩΝ ΒΑΣΙΛΙΚΗ OR The Princes Royal Being the Sum of a SERMON Preached in the Minster at York on the Lords-Day morning in the Assize week March 24. 1650. before the Right Honorable Francis Thorp and Alexander Rigby Esquires Barons of the publique Exchequer and Justices of the Assize for the Northern Circuit the Honorable the Lord Major of York the Right Worshipful Sir John Savil Knight High-Sheriff of York-shire the Right Worshipful Justices of Peace Gentry and others of the City and County of York By JOHN SHAVVE M. A. Sometimes of Christ-Colledg in Cambridge and now Preacher of Gods Word at Kingston upon Hull DAN 7. 27. And the Kingdom and Dominion and the Greatness of the Kingdom under the whole Heaven shall be given to the People of the Saints of the most High whose Kingdom is an everlasting Kingdom and all Dominions shall serve and obey him LONDON Printed by John Macock for Nathaniel Brooks and are to be sold at his shop at the Angel in Cornhil 1650. To the Right Honorable William Lenthal Esq Speaker of the PARLIAMENT of the Common-wealth of ENGLAND RIGHT HONORABLE VEry ancient Historians call this our Nation Primogenitam Ecclesiarum the first begotten of all the Churches and tell us that though Christ was preached in some other Nations before this yet that this was the first wherein the Christian Faith was publiquely entertained by Prince and State Omnium Provinciarum prima Britannia publicitus Christi nomen recepit and they add that Lucius King of Britain was the first Christian King in the world and did in the year after Christ 169. send two learned men Elvanus and Medvinus to Eleutherius then Bishop of Rome to receive further instruction in the Christian Faith and for the better Government of this Land Eleutherius returned Answer by two learned men Faganus and a Others call them Fugatius and Dimanus Damianus in these words You require of us the Roman Laws and the Emperors to be sent over to you the Roman Laws and the Emperors we may ever reprove but the Law of God we cannot you have received by Gods Mercy in the Realm of Britain the Law and Faith of Christ you have with you within the Realm both the parts of the Scriptures the Old and New Testament Out of the same by Gods grace with the counsel of your Realm take you a Law and by that Law through Gods sufferance rule you your Kingdom of Britain for a King hath his name of ruling and not of having a Realm you shall be a King while you rule well but if you do otherwise the name of a King shall not remain with you and you shall lose it which God forbid c. And though the Gospel was preached here before then yet not till then were the Temples of Idolatry the twenty eight Flamines and three Arch-Flamines removed and a marvellous great change made throughout Lucius his Dominions Romanorum inaccessa loca Christo fuere subdita After when Gregory sent Augustin the Monk hither who brought over some Truth and much Superstition in the Saxons reign here anno 596. he found the wife of Ethelbert King of Kent viz. Queen Berta and her Chaplain Bishop Luidhard and many others zealous Christians especially in Wales yet some light broke out then and much more in the reign of a childe King Edward 6. and more by a woman Queen Elizab. that God alone might have all the glory and surely God is carrying on the same work still in purging and reforming of his Church shaking Nations that Christ may the more come in And I verily beleeve that no ten Hagg. 2. 7. years since Lucius his time can speak of so great wonders if not miracles wrought for England and wherein the Lord hath more appeared for the good of his People here then since Your Honor hath sate in the Chair of that Honorable Assembly of Englands Parliament God grant that our murmuring which never makes any thing better but provokes a father and brings more rods and lashes on the childe and which God calls Rebellion Numb 16. 41 46. with c. 17. 10. do not either quite overturn us or at least protract eleven days journey into fourty years travel as the Israelites murmuring did Numb 14. 26 30. and cause that many of us shall fall in the Wilderness and never see the good Land Far be from me such thoughts such praise b Adulator Laudator have both the same letters or rather flattery as to think or say that the Grand Assembly whereof You have so long and with such indefatigable pains been the faithful Speaker hath had no faults and errors though I desire rather to weep over them to God then blaze them to men remembering often that story of Gilbert Foliot Bishop of London in H 2. raign Anno Christi 1161. who saith of himself that when he first entered into the Monastery he zealously cryed out against the sluggishness of his Governors afterward being chosen Governor he inveighed against his superiors being chosen Prior he cryed out against the Abbots afterwards being chosen Abbot he excused them and deeply charged the Bishops but being chosen Bishop I began saith he to see how much easier it is to finde faults then when it is our own case to mend them I cannot say of your Honorable Senate what that learned and holy c Who was as Nazian said of Basil 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Beza who lived 86. years said of himself that his Head never once aked but truly I think a bad Stomack may make a good Head to ake and our sins and murmurings may much further that which we so much complain against Israel sinned and God left David to number the People 2 Sam. 34. 1. and I verily beleeve that our good and wise God that can bring light out of darkness good out of evil and extract medicines out of poysons 2 Cor. 4. 6. hath sometimes brought much good to this Land even out of Your Errors and our Enemies and hath many times a Mercy that Luther much noted and often blessed God for not taken advantage of your and our failings to our destruction but hereby made us more zealous wary and active afterwards O the wisdom and mercy of our gracious God! Of all the Saints in Scripture I finde no one that vented more impatience then Job as Cap. 3. cursing though not God as Satan promised Job 1. 11. 2. 5. yet cursing Job 6. 8 9. 7. 14 15. 10. 18 19. Yet the Holy Ghost Jam. 5. 11. highly commends Jobs patience and lays it down for a pattern never naming one word of his impatience Abraham shewed much unbelief twice thereby denying his wife yet is chronicled for the Father of the * Rom. 4. 11 18 19 20. faithful and one strong in Faith Jehoshaphat joyned friendship with Ahab 2 Chron. 18. 3. went with him to battel against Ramoth Gilead Vers 27 28. and after that he had been