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B14212	A sermon preached before his Maiestie at the court at Greenewich the 2. of Iuly. 1632. By Geo: Iay Mr. of Arts and late student of Christ-church in Oxon	Jay, George, b. 1597 or 8.	1632 (1632)	STC 14479.3; ESTC S103190	11,906	30

they fall away should bee renewed againe by repentance seeing they crucifie to themselues the Sonne of God afresh and put him to an open shame Heere I could give you many examples of revolters and backsliders and shew you to what a height of impiety they have growne when once they have forsaken God and that goodnesse they have begun to professe which for brevitie sake I will omit and conclude this poynt with the exhortation of the Apostle in the 3. to the Hebr. ver 12.13 Take heed brethren least at any time there be in any of you an evill heart and unfaithfull to depart away from the living God but exhort one an other daily whilest it is yet called to day least any of you be hardned through the deceitfulnesse of sinne for we are made partakers of Christ if wee hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end and my Text sayes If wee continue faithfull untill death the God of life and death will give us a Crowne of life And that 's my second generall part The Promise I will give thee a Crowne of Life Ego dabo tibi Coronam vitae And heere every word yeelds matter of observation I will begin with the first word Ego and that is either taken eminenter by way of eminencie And then t is I the God of heaven and earth that decke my selfe with light as with a garment that make the clouds my chariots and ride upon the wings of the winde I will give this Crowne Great persons give great gifts Alexander gave a talent to a begger not considering what was fit for the other to receive but for him to give Heere God sprinkles Crownes now and then one a few in an age all the world over but in the next life he makes them all Kings as it were showring and rayning Crownes from his glorious head upon his glorified members Secondly heere is Ego exclusivè I by way of exclusion And then it is I and none but I that give these Crownes This preferment these Crownes come neither from the East nor from the West nor from the South but from God alone T is not S. Peters keyes that can open the doore of that kingdome nor unlocke the treasury where these Crownes are layd up he keepes the key himselfe And if you will give me leave to slide from Spirituall to temporall Crownes then I shall tell you that God is the disposer of them also By me Kings reigne Prou. 8.15 As was sayd of him by a wiser man then any of those that ever usurped that power And t is but a ridiculous intrusion extrá jurisdictionem jus dicere To execute the power of a Iudge where a man hath no jurisdiction Or to give that which he hath not in his owne power to bestow which is none of his This is like the folly of the mad Athenian that tooke all the ships in the haven to be his owne and so gave them away where hee pleas'd as if he had beene the true and right Master of them Or like the divell that tooke the Sonne of God into an exceeding high mountaine and shewed him all the kingdomes of the world the glory of them proffering all unto him if he would fall downe and worship him When all those kingdomes and Crownes were his Lords inheritance and the donation of them his prerogative And they hold them but by a false tenure that receive them from any other Donor God is Iudge himselfe hee putteth downe one and setteth up an other himselfe the word is not idle hee doth it himselfe sayes the Psalmist And for this crowne it is not to bee bought as Iulianus the Emperour bought the Roman Empire nor to be sold as the Papall disposer of kingdomes doth bargaine for it But God himselfe bestowes it Hee needs no Vicar upon earth for that purpose His hands are long enough to set the Crowne upon that head that must weare it the words are plaine in my text Ego Dabo Dabo and that 's the next word which plainely shewes the manner how these Crownes are convey'd unto us we have them not by a bargaine or sale but by a deed of gift This Crowne is no purchase but a donation Wee may talke or we may dreame of meriting or earning this Crowne but we should bee but poorely rewarded if God should deale with us according to the proportion of our workes Our workes at the best are stained with the imperfections and blemishes of our corrupted nature so that the most that we could hope for was pardon for their defect And for a Delinquent that should sue for his pardon to claime to sit in the throne with his Soveraigne were a presumption so intollerable that if wee should be guilty of it heaven and earth would cry out shame upon us and condemne us for idiots Ther 's not a word in this part of my text but will serue for an exception against that absurd claime by merit Take Ego an offended God and what is he bound to doe in iustice take Dabo and what more free and non merited then gift wee must strike out that word if wee meane to make any claime by merit Take Tibi and what is man but a guilty malefactor There is such a gulfe of sinne betwixt Ego and Tibi that nothing can passe betweene them by way of Iustice but punishment and vengeance Or take man at the best he is but an offender reconciled to grace and favour and received to mercy so that every word cuts the throat of merit Or take the word Coronam and who that hath the disposing of it will set it upon the head of a Captaine Or put the other word to it and make it Coronam vitae and what an impudent demand were it for him to claime the Crowne of life who all the world knowes hath deserved the shakles of death They are bold attempters that dare adventure to breake downe all those barres there is not a word here but is a fense good enough to keepe out all that would take possession of this Crowne by way of merit For 't is Ego dabo tibi Tibi Tibi by way of Argument I haue handled already but yet I will not let it goe untill I haue observed it to our comfort Luther saies well that there is a great deale of divinity in pronouns giue me leaue to goe a little further and to tell you that there is a great deale of comfort in pronouns too Not onely strong divinitie to ground an argument but strong consolation to comfort a weake spirit Tibi is a word of singularity and will contract Gods generall promises to every man in particular if the fault bee not his owne God Almighties promises are like a well made picture though there bee an hundred in the roome in divers places and postures yet the picture seemes to looke upon every one of them in particular and wee cannot avoyd the aspect of it except wee

A SERMON PREACHED BEFORE HIS MAIESTIE AT THE COVRT AT GREENEWICH the 2. of IVLY 1632. BY GEO IAY Mr. OF ARTS AND LATE STVDENT OF CHRIST-CHVRCH in OXON Imprinted at London by Augustine Mathewes 1632. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE THE COVNTESSE OF DENBEIGH LADY OF HER MAIESTIES Bed-chamber and Mistrisse of her Robes RIGHT HONORABLE SOme that have conceiv'd better of this then I can at the hearing though it received little advantage by my delivery thought it worthy to be published to which when I was perswaded I did not much study to whom I should dedicate it For to whom should I present my service in this kind but to her who of all others hath given so many notable examples of religion and so much cherisht the professors of it and my selfe amongst the rest Religion and learning in these latter dayes never found a greater Patronesse You have beene the good Angell that when the waters were troubled have helpt the distressed into the poole Iohn 5.2 The grapes in Babell sent upon a time to the Vine leaves in Iudaea desiring their shadow least they were parcht with the heate Talmud Cholm 62.1 Our succorlesse clusters need not send so farre for protection did your branches spread under which the beasts of the field Dan. 4.12 and the foules of heaven had their habitations as heeretofore when the great Duke my gratious Master for a moment your illustrious brother lived During the intended expedition to Rochell were your power as great as then or as your disposition is good my hopes would live though his excellency and my noble Lord of Anglesey whom I shall ever name with honour and sorrow are dead And I make no question but that J should only finde an exchange not a losse and at last a happy successe of those many gratious references from his sacred Majestie whom God preserve for which I shall ever thinke my selfe bound to thanke your Honour and your noble kinseman Master Porter How can I conceive otherwise since your Honour lately without request freely and voluntarily offered me preferment of your owne untill you could procure mee better I presume you desire not to have this publisht Math. 9.30 yet our Saviour that charged the two blinde men that they should tell no man Luke 17.18 did not mislike the turning backe of the thankefull stranger should I conceale it I should not doe right to your sweete and noble disposition and leave in in some it may be a suspition of my unthankefulnesse For which pious expression of your favour unto me as also your many precedent besides the reward which such works of charity carry with thē your Ladyship shall ever have my prayers and thankes and as the humble acknowledgement of my obligation to your Honour so any future service when you shall please to descend so low as to command it from Your Honours humble beads-man to dispose of GEO IAY. A SERMON PREACHED AT THE COVRT REVEL 2.10 Be thou faithfull unto Death and I will giue thee a Crowne of life GOd is the best Paymaster he that labours in his Vineyard shall be sure of his hire though he comes at the last houre Math. 20.9 They that doubled their talents in the Gospell received not verball but reall rewards Math. 25.20 And a cup of cold water given in his name shall not be unpaid for Math. 10.42 And the faith of the thiefe upon the Crosse at the last gaspe shall bee recompenced with a place in Paradise Luk. 23.43 If Abraham will walke before God and bee perfect hee will make a covenant with him and blesse him exceedingly Gen. 17.1.2 Gods reward and mans service are Relatiues Posito vno ponitur alterum Say the one and you cannot deny the other If our obedience preceede his blessings will follow if one bee in the premises the other will be in the conclusion if we come before his presence with praise and thankesgiving and shew our selues glad in him with Psalmes he will be mercifull unto us and blesse us and shew us the light of his countenance and be mercifull unto us Fac hoc viues Doe this and thou art sure of life everlasting Luk. 10.28 Sure to eate of the Tree of life as in the seventh verse of this chapter sure not to be hurt of the second death as in the eleaventh verse and according to my Text Esto fidelis and Corona vitae will follow it is God that saies it Be thou faithfull c. Which words you are to understand as spoken by Christ Iesus the head to every faithfull member of his Church to whom he proposeth a duetie to be performed Faithfulnesse unto death and a reward to bee received a crowne of life So as the division is easie a duetie and a promise In the duety I obserue two things First the substance or matter of it Faithfulnesse wee must bee faithfull Secondly the Determination Extent or Measure of it untill Death In the Promise I also obserue two things First the reward it selfe a Crowne I will giue thee a Crowne Secondly the specification or quality of the Reward an immortall Crowne I will giue thee a Crowne of life Be thou faithfull c. I beginne with the first part our service And good reason our service should goe before the Reward to our service Therefore first we are to be faithfull Be thou faithfull unto Death c. And I will proceed according to the order of nature and consider first the substance of faithfulnesse and then the continuance And then I shall tell you by this word faithfulnesse wee are not to understand that habit of the soule whereby wee apprehend and lay hold upon the mercy and favour of God in our regeneration and first conversion which the scripture cals faith and whereby wee beleeue and yeeld assent unto all the articles of our Christian doctrine which is the roote and fountaine of all Christian duties But we are to conceiue it of that faithfulnesse which springs as an effect or fruite from that roote and includes a iust discharge of those duties which God requires at our hands As also an vniversall obedience to all his Commandements You know that wee are all Stewards unto the great Lord of heaven and sent into the earth to trafficke and negotiate with those talents which hee hath committed to every one of us in our severall places Now saith Saint Paul in the 1. Cor. 4. that it is required in a Steward that hee bee found faithfull that is iustly and honestly to husband and dispense those things that are intrusted to his charge according to the will and pleasure of his Lord and Master Now the maine rule that must direct us in the guiding and governing of all our purposes behaviours and actions must bee the glory of God Hee hath created all things for his owne sake saith Salomon Prov. 16. that is for his owne glory This is the tribute that he requires of every man this must