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A11168	A sermon preached before the Kings Maiestie at White-Hall vpon the ninth of Februarie. 1605. By the Reuerend Father in God, Anthonie Rudd, Doctor in Diuinitie, and Lord Bishop of Saint Dauids; Sermon preached before the Kings Majestie at White-Hall upon the ninth of February. 1605.	Rudd, Anthony, 1549 or 50-1615.; T. S., fl. 1606.	1606 (1606)	STC 21435; ESTC S112126	13,720	38

and whē as God himself protested that though Moses and Samuel stoode before him Ier 15 1. yet his affection could not bee toward that people And as for round executing of Iustice vpon offenders Eccles 8.11 the great necessitie therof appeareth hereby because it is directly gathered out of the wordes of the Preacher that the onely delay of Iustice is the animating of transgressours Wherefore King Dauid made a solemne promise that hee would betimes destroy all the wicked of the Land Psal ●01 8 that hee might cut of all the workers of iniquitie from the citie of the lord And for the same reasō saith Salomon in the Canticles Take vs the Foxes the little Foxes which destroy the vines Cant. 2.15 Which course if we had takē many yeares ago with the Iesuites secular Priests and other seminarie men we had not been so pestered with them and endangered by them as nowe we are and of late haue beene Deut. 13.11 17.13 Wherefore it is high time to put hand to this work that all Jsrael may heare feare do no more presumptuously Thus then it is euident that there is great vse and neede of the ordinarie meanes of preseruation the want whereof maketh a verie wofull estate As whē the Lord of hostes meant in the time of Isay to expose the Iewes to all inconueniences both oppressions and miseries at home and also inuasions abroad then he threatned that he would take frō Jerusalē Isay 3.1.2.3 frō Judah the stay the strēgth euen all the stay of bread all the stay of water the strōg man the man of war the Iudg the Prophet the prudent the aged the captaine of fiftie and the honourable and the Counseller and the cunning artificer and thy eloquent man Now that Saluation is of the Lorde wee haue had good experience of late by the rare manner of the discouering of that damnable and diuelish deuise which should haue beene acted vpon the fift of Nouember last For the same God which inspired Elisha that hee could tell the King of Jsrael 2. King 6.12 euen the verie wordes which the king of Aram spake in his priuie chamber And who in the dayes of Amos Amos. 3.7 would doe nothing but he reuealed his secrets vnto his seruants the Prophets And who appearing to Joseph in a dreame sayd Math. 2.13 Arise and take the babe and his mother and flee into Aegypt and be there till I bring thee word for Herode will seeke the babe to destroy him Ps 91.3.5.6 And who promiseth in the 91. Psalme to deliuer the faithfull not onely from the noysome pestilence but also from the snare of the hunter not onely from the arrowe that flyeth by day but also from the terrour of the night not onely from the plague that destroyeth at noonetide but also from the pestilence that walketh in the darkenesse euen he the same God put into the head of our gracious Soueraigne to make an vncouth and strang construction of an vnsubscribed letter but yet such an one as whereby both he and his and all wee were wondrously deliuered from the greatest daunger that euer would haue befallen vs. And that it may otherwise also appeare that this our Saluation was of the Lorde consider with what intent the letter aforesaid was written namely to saue one friend from perishing among vs but this resolution being still holden that wee should haue receiued the terrible intended blow Howbeit Almighty God who by his infinite power and wisedome bringeth light out of darkenesse and life out of death Isay 45.1 and who made Cyprus his annointed holding and guiding his right hand to subdue nations for the deliuerie of his people out of the captiuitie of Babilon whereas Cyrus at the first meant nothing lesse but only thought ther by to satisfie his owne ambition vaine glorie auarice and crueltie and who also turned the treachery of Iudas to the Saluation of mankind Math. 26. euen hee the same God of his vnspeakeable goodnesse made vse of this vndated letter intended for the good of one man onely to the preseruation of vs al both Prince and people Moreouer the greatnes of our deliuerance may appeare by this that the conspiracie went forward and our daunger continued without perfite discouerie till within few houres of the appointed time wherein the cruell massacre should haue been put in execution So Pharaoh brought the Jsraelites into such straytes Exo. 14.21 22. he being with his army behind them that if the Sea which was before them had not giuen present way vnto them they had been al put to the sword man woman and child Likewise Hezekiah was so distressed by Saneheribs armie that he confessed it to be a day of tribulation Isay 37.3 rebuke and blasphemie for the children were come to the birth there was no strength to bring forth In so much as Hezekia and his people must needs haue beene destroyed vnlesse the Lorde had sodainely put an hooke in Saneheribs nostrils and a bridle in his lips verse 29.36 and had caused his Angell to slay fourescore and fiue thousand of the enemies armie in the space of one night Psa 11.6.3 When Dauid made this mone in the 116. Psalme that the snares of death compared him and the griefes of the graue caught hold on him his meaning was to signifie in what great danger he had beene in the wildernesse of Maon when Saul and his armie compassed him and his followers round about to take them so that they could not possiblie haue escaped the edge of the sword 1. Sam. 23 26.27 if there had not come by Gods prouidence an vnlooked for messenger to Saul in post saying Hast thee and come for the Philistins haue inuaded the land Vndoubtedly Jehoshua was brought neere to the point of his vtter vndoing seeing it is sayd of him Zech. 3.2 Psa 68.20 Is not this a firebrand taken out of the fire Thus our God to whom belōgeth the issues of death hath infinite meanes to deliuer his in the greatest and most extreame daungers that we may know that Saluation belongeth vnto the Lord. Again that this our late preseruatiō may be acknowledged to haue come of the Lord onely call to minde what our doings and deserts were at that time before surely I feare greatly least if the Lord had visited vs Zeph. 1.12 as in the day of Zephaniah hee searched Jerusalem with lightes hee should haue founde many frozen in their dregs that is by their prosperitie hardened in their wickednesse and saying in their hearts the Lord wil neither doe good not euill Hee should I feare haue found many drawing iniquitie with the cordes of vanitie and sinne as it were with cart-ropes putting far away the euil day Isay 5.18 approaching to the seat of iniquitie Wherfore in this respect we may say with the Prophet Jeremie Amos 6.3 Lam 3.22