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A19772	A sermon preached before his Maiestie at White-Hall, on the 24. of March last being Easter day, and being also the day of the beginning of His Maiesties most gracious reigne. By the Bishop of Elie His Maiesties almoner.	Andrewes, Lancelot, 1555-1626.	1611 (1611)	STC 620; ESTC S101693	17,515	41

The Persian by the light of nature called the King Ahashuerosh that is Soueraigne head The Graecian by the same light called the King 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the base or Corner-stone of his People Shall I adde this This word Stone which is heere affirmed of Dauid in this verse is in the new Testament fiue seuerall times turned by the Syrian Translator Cepha thrice in the three Gospels once in the Acts and once in Saint Peter So that hee did not thinke it strange to ●all King Dauid Cephas So Cepha as wel said of Dauid as of Peter And Tu pasces as well said ●o Dauid as Pasce to Peter And Zorobabel hath ●n his hand the Line as well a Iosua the high ●riest towards the building of the Temple The ●hing the duety it selfe and the bounds of it let vs ●ay foorth and agree of as we can but sure the Name is not to bee stood on it cannot bee de●ied Him ANd now to our selues to whom as This is the day which the Lord hath made touching Christ and his Resurrection so is it likewise the day that he hath made the second time by making ●●n it his Maiestie head of this Kingdome the ve●y Name whereof hath affinitie and carieth an ●llusion to the terme Anguli in the sound of it And neither were your Maiestie without your part of refusing in a kinde but did partici●ate somewhat of it with Dauid though in a ●esse degree Good and firme and sure though your Right were as any Stone yet allegations were studied to subiect it to question yea to re●using For did no body euer see a proiect drawen wherein some other stone was marked out to haue beene caput Anguli Yes it is 〈◊〉 knowen T●les were raised and set on foot 〈◊〉 Bookes written to that end And they tooke them selues for no mean● workemen that were the deuisers of them tha● both at home and abroad contriued it anoth●● way and plotted to haue put You by and 〈◊〉 haue had some other Head-stone of their owne hewing out in your roome Yea to make your case yet more like 〈◊〉 Christs case euen the High Priest he that clai●meth Caiphas place He and his crue had the●● hands in it We may no lesse truly say to them then St. Peter did to Caiphas Quem vos Wh●● yee would haue cast aside if yee might haue 〈◊〉 your willes And to that end had your fir●● Breues ready drawen and sent abroad and others in a readinesse to second them Yet for all their Breues and Buls this 〈◊〉 is the Head for all that Factus made he is and made by God For à Domino Gods doing it wa●● euidently that after so much plotting so many yeeres together at the very time God bow●● the harts of so many thousands as it had be●● the heart of one man to agree in one as th●● all that foresaw it thought it had not bee●● 〈◊〉 and all that saw it confessed it admirable and all men said This hath God done for they saw euidently It was his worke The head You were then made and head not of One Angle as You were before for Caput Anguli I hold a King to be though he haue but one Kingdome but Caput Trianguli Head now of three euen of a whole Triangle So their titles were dashed their plots disappointed and all their deuises as the Potters clay Yours it was of right and God hath brought You to it So it is and our eyes doe see it and our hearts ioy in it and our tongues blesse God for it and here we are this day with all praise and thankes to acknowledge it that so it is It is a part of this Dayes duetie that so we should acknowledge it and giue him thankes for it that brought it to passe And may I not further put you in minde of another making yet And it is not impertinent neither to this day especially For after the first making or placing looke how many after attempts are made to vnmake or displace the Head-stone againe so many times as it is heaued at to that ende and those attempts defeated so many new placings so many new makings are wee to reckon of 〈◊〉 was made Head not onely when Soul and ●●ner sought to put Him downe and were put downe themselues which was before he came to the Crowne but euen after he had it had worne it long when Absalon and Sheba refused Him being their head cried No part in Dauid and so sought to set him besids the Throne And builders there wanted not in that designe Absalon had Achitophel and Amasa two as principall Master-builders as then were any When God brought Dauid backe to his Seat againe and deliuered Him from them that sought to remooue Him from it He did as good as place Him in it anew Dauid himselfe saith so before at the 13. Verse Hee 〈◊〉 shrewdly lifted at and ready to turne ouer but God stayed him and set him right in his Seate again● And in very deed the Verse next before the 21. where he saith God had heard him and was become his deliuerer make the writers to thinke this Psalme was endited rather for this Second then for His first placing Now a like Second making we may well remember and we cannot doe it better then vpon this day This day as we shall see hath an interest in it That since Your setting in the Seat of this Kingdome Some there were builders one would haue taken them to be if hee had seene them with their tooles in their hands as if they had bene to haue layed some foundation where their meaning was to vndermine and to cast downe foundations and all yea to haue made a right Stone of you and blowne you vp among the Stones you and yours without any more adoe And Master builders they had amongst them so they wil needs be accounted that encouraged their hearts and strengthened their hands to the worke And that they might do there was no Seale to hinder it But disclose it that they might not for feare of breaking a Seale there was a Seale for that And thus did they aedificare ad gehennam edifie their followers to Helward to set them forward and send them to their owne place That Day which God ●●ndid that wretched designe and brought their mischiefe vpon their owne heads That Day did GOD make you Caput trianguli the second time That Day that He brought you backe if not from death it selfe yet frō deaths doore ●rom the very gates of destruction That Day was a very Easter day to You though it were in Nouember And 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 after a sort a very Resurrection as very a resurrection as Isaacks was which the Apostle there speaketh of That Day the destroying Angel I am sure past ouer You and so it was truely the Feast of the Passeouer Fit

these These were foolish people that knew not the vertue or value of a Stone no heed to be taken what they cry We will get vs with Ieremie to men of skill that know what Stone is for euery place professed builders by their trade But these also were no better conceited of Him then the other for doe any of the Rulers make any account of him Ioh. 7. 48. As who say None of them neither The very Builders refuse him too Wel we wil make the best of it It may be not for the Head But there be more places then that if not allow him there yet hee may be in some else Improbauerunt it may be but not reprobauerunt disalowed but not cast aside quite We aske then how farre Will ye put him vp the second time and to see the Quousque in kinde will ye put vp Barabbas with him No● hunc sed Barabbam So it went That was their verdict Now by this time it is reprobauerunt as flat as may be a refuse indeed and that with a foule indignitie But these were but the vulgar againe What say the Builders to this He or them that tooke himselfe for a very Vitruui●s such a workman as he said all the rest vnderstood nothing at all the Master-builder Caiphas he was flat Expedit It was expedient he should die be cast aside into the heap of rubbish be put out of the building cleane That is his doome Now lay these two together To be refused is not so much it may be it is of such as are ignorant But to be refused of Builders and those the chiefe is much for they are presumed to be skilfull Againe to be disliked for the chiefe place not so much if not for that he may bee for another But to be vtterly reprobate that is not refused for the Head nor refused for the Corner but refused simply for any roome at all not in the tappe nay not in the bottome not in the Corner nay not in any ranke of 〈◊〉 Building that is as much as may be And this was Christs lot Yet this was all but in words nothing was done to him But there is a reprobation in deed ●nd that is yet far worse And to that they pro●eeded euen to actuall matters to reall reproba●ion Before they cast him aside this poore Stone they hackt and they hewed it and mangled it pitiously they shewed their mali●● euen in that too Celauerunt Sculptur am ei●s saith the Prophet their tooles walked on him they graued him and cut him with a witnesse and made him full of eyes on euery side Wh●● skilled that What disgrace or what sorrow is done to a Stone the Stone feeles it not The cry of Non hunc or the edge of the grauing toole affect it nothing True But he was Lapis viu●s a liuing Stone as Peter calleth him 1. Pet. 2. 5. a Stone that had life life and sense and 〈◊〉 all Felt his grauing the edge and point both felt his despising the scorne and malice both of the twaine this the more but both he 〈◊〉 When they made furrowes on his backe with th● scourges when they platted the Crowne 〈◊〉 Thornes and made it ●it close to his head 〈…〉 digged his hands and feet he felt all 〈◊〉 endured it patiently tanquam lapis but he 〈◊〉 it sensibly tanquam viuus Had quicke sense 〈◊〉 his paine in grauing had liuely apprehensio● of his contempt in refusing And these very two words in the Text ● Lapidem and Reprobauerunt set out vnto 〈◊〉 both parts of his Passion fully As if hee 〈◊〉 beene Stone so layd they on him As if hee had beene a Reprobate so powred they all disgrace vpon him And euen as a Stone he was in his Passion For as the Stones giue against the weather so was there not to bee seene vpon him a bloody sweat Did he not giue as it were of himselfe against the tempest came And when it came was it not so strange euen that which this liuing Stone suffered as the dead Stones that had no life as if they had had life and compassion of his case rent in sunder with it Lapidem then is true And for reprobauerunt that is as true For how could they haue entreated a reprobate worse then they entreated Him In his thirst In his prayer In the very pangs of death what words of scorne and spitefull opprobrie what deeds of malice and wretched indignitie Of himselfe it is said and by way of exaggeration Hee humbled himselfe to death the death of the Crosse of them it may be no lesse Reprobauerunt ad mortem mortem Crucis they reiected Him to death the death of Reprobates the death whereunto a Curse is annexed the death of the Crosse. And neuer gaue Him ouer till they brought him Lapis ad lapidem into a graue of Stone and rolled a Stone vpon him and there left him And thus much for Lapis quem reprobauerunt It is the Feast of the Passeouer We now passe ouer to His other estate His Exaltation ad Caput Anguli Were it not strange the stone should be rolled away and this Stone should be digged vp againe and set vp in the Antes the place most conspicuous that is made a Corner-stone and that in the very top the highest part of all that is made a head-stone Were not this a strange Passeouer from death to life from lowest reprobation to highest approbation from basest reproach to greatest glory But seeing builders we see may be deceiued and that in Capite as we finde here and that though Caiphas be one of them and a stone may haue wrong would it not be well we called to scrutinie againe Is there any builder yet left before whom we may bring the matter Yes there is Euery house is built of some 〈◊〉 saith the Apostle but hee that is the Builder of all is GOD. Hee that set vp this great vaulted worke of Heauen ouer our heads that layed the Corner-stone of the earth Hee is a builder But he that layeth his Chamber-beames in the waters Et appendit terram super nihilum hangs this great Masse no man knowes vpon what He that beginneth at the top and builds downwards Heauen first and then Earth as hee did hee passeth all ours hee is a skilfull builder indeed Is hee of the same minde Offer Christ to His probation He will reprobare reprobantes cōdemne them that so refused Him And all wil turne quite contrary Saint Peter saith it Hee was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 reprobate with men but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 chosen of God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 nothing worth with them but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 pretious with him Meete to bee in the building Nay no building meet to be without him And in the building if any part more obiect to the sight then other there And in that if any place