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A05282	Queene Elizabeth, paraleld in her princely vertues, with Dauid, Iosua, and Hezekia 1 With Dauid her afflictions, to build the Church 2 With Iosua in her puissance, to protect the Church· 3 With Hezechia in her pietie, to reforme the Chureh [sic]. In three sermons, as they were preached three seuerall Queenes dayes. By William Leigh, Bachelor of Diuinitie.	Leigh, William, 1550-1639.	1612 (1612)	STC 15426; ESTC S108411	64,116	162

laid vpon them greater then they are able to beare but in the midst of the temptation God will giue a gracious issue for if the earth wil not the heaues shal● rather then dark night shall endanger the Campe by the station of the Sunne the day shall bee doubled for Israels deliuerance The vse of this Doctrine concerning the promise of our God is good as in temporall so in spirituall deliuerances and therefore I say with the blessed Apostle Let vs feare least at any time by forsaking the promise of entering into his rest any of you should seeme to be depriued Dauid saide my foote had welneare slipped but hee recouered himselfe by laying hold vpon the promise All falls are fearefull but yet recouerable if wee forsake not the promise But so long as wee leaue the promise we faile of grace that 's a fearfull fall to fall from Moses and to light vpon Christ is no danger to fall from the Lawe and to hit the Gospell is no perill To fall through sinne and to hit a Sauiour is recouerable but if we misse a Sauiour fall vpon sinne if we forsake the Gospel and light vpon the law if wee leaue Christ and follow Moses if we forsake the promise of his sauing grace we shall both feele and find that our case is dangerous deadly and desperate Besides the perill of being depriued for euer entering into his Rest. The Angels fell Caine fell Iudas fell Achitophel fell Had any of these fallen vpon their CHRIST they had neuer fallen so farre but all mist the promise and for that they are gone their fall is irrecouerable Howbeit when anie of the Patriarches fell Kings or Prophets when Peter Paul fell or the dearest Disciple of Christ fell all recouered their Falles by feeling the Promise which was the holde of their inheritance and so with speedie passage they flew vp in all their Afflictions into the bosome of the Promise as it were euen from the nethermost hell to the highest heauēs What should we then doe but hold fast our profession and rest vpon his promise as Iosuah did and so goe boldely to the Throne of Grace that wee may receiue mercie and finde Grace to helpe in time of neede whereunto all the godlie haue had their recourse as had the Doue to Noahes Arke when else-where shee could finde no footing or as the Riuers haue to the great Ocean and bloud to the heart vpon a suddaine feare for as 〈◊〉 care when all other succours faile the bloud hath it current through all the veines and runneth to the heart to comfort it So likewise in the manifolde distresses of this life and great feare of future falles by sinne death and d●mnation there 's no comfort to the current of the word which caryeth with it the promises of eternall life So saide Dauid in the day of his Afflictions It is my comfort in my Trouble for thy promise hath quickened me And againe I haue hid thy promises in my heart that I might not sinne against thee Say soule say Sainct I will walke in confidence of my cause and calling garded with the promise of my GOD and CHRIST I will walke euen to the gates of death and Hell and say as Hester did to Ahashuerus in the day of her distresse I will goe on and if I die I die But how can I euer die hauing my portion in that promised seede who hath rede●med my soule hauing the Gospell of promise to instruct my soule his holie spirit of promise to applye my soule the Sacraments seales of his promises to assure my soule with that heauenlie Canaan and ●●nd of promise to receiue my soule It cannot bee that a soule thus blessed should euer perish and therefore say with a godly Oration as Deborah did in her triumphant song after her honourable expedition against Iabin king of Canaan O my soule thou hast marched valiantlie and the Lorde hath giuen mee dominion ouer the strong But to the rest and now a while to solace our selues in the garden of our delight there to repose among the flowers of our Roses Paralel the two Princes of Israel and Englands Iudahes compare them in their puissance and Ballance them alike vpon the scales of true Nobilitie Religion and pietie and then tell mee whether Queene Elizabeth may not helpe with Iosuah to perfect the Register of the blessed Blessed Kings and blessed Queenes renowmed for their power and by whome the Lord hath gotten great glorie Iosuah was a Sauiour vnto his people of Israel Queene Elizabeth is and hath beene long a sweete repose vnto her people of England Iosua and Caleb were appointed for the search of Chanaan the place of Gods behest where hee would plant religion and establish a Church as a type of our heauenly being and onely they were found faithfull in the search whom the people would haue stoned for commending the land Now of all the Kings and Queenes of England who haue beene more faithfull in the search of true Religion went to it with better courage and haue so well reported of it as her brother that blossome of blessed memorie and she without feare of any of the sonnes of Anakim Giants of Popery with whom not onely this our Hebron but all the world was pestered Mose● being dead God magnified Iosua in the sight of Israel by a miraculous mercy in bringing the Arke of God through the swellings of Iordan where it stood both still dry euen in the depth and channell of it her sisters dayes were seas of persecution and therefore are rightly called and euer so will be Mariana tempora swelling aboue the height of Iorden with fire and faggot against the Saints of God and whose I pray you stopped the streame of that blood and quenched the fire of that popish furie but Queene Elizabeth whom the Lord magnified in the sight of all England to backe that Iorden and bring her people with the Arke of her God to this our rest and sweete repose Iosua hauing passed Iorden he set vp Circumcision againe the second time which for fortie yeares space had beene left off in the wildernesse Queene Elizabeth purged the Sacraments of her Christ and reduced them to their right forme left off if not welneare lost in the vaste wildernesse of popish impietie for more then fortie yeares ten times told Iosua was directed in all his wayes by the booke of the Lawe and what other starre hath guided the heart of Queene Elizabeth there was not a word of all that GOD commanded which Iosua caused not to bee read openly So shee the euerlasting Gospell to bee preached and published throughout all her Realmes and Dominions Iosuah maketh a Couenant with a double vocuher for himselfe and all his familie in these wordes I and my house will serue the Lord. Queene Elizabeth hath bound her people by statutes

stockes and so stayed the bells but now Benefielde hath his passing peale and to God bee the praise I hope there is not a bell in England that rings not a tongue in England that prayes not an hart in England that ioyeth not in and for the life of their soueraigne if any Meroits there be who will not do as we do let the curse of Meros light vpō them for that they come not to help the Lorde against the mightie and let the Israel of God ●ay Amen To passe by her afflictions sithenc● her raigne I may not euen since shee came to the royall diademe of her crowne and dignitie no sooner set vpon her head but the care of her people was in her heart pressing out this passionate speech I care not for my selfe my life is not deare vnto mee they which might knowe what cares I beare with this burthen would neuer thinke I take no great ioy in wearing the Crowne Ballance them with Dauids afflictions and if yee bee not partiall of her perils you shall finde them such as may pierce your hearts to prouoke your speech and pray Lord remember Elizabeth in all her afflictions vpon Dauids entrance the Philistines were against him the Aramites against him Edom and Ammon with the Moabites and Hagarens the Grecians Sirogrecians these are forraine foes manie in number mightie in power malitious in heart bloody in hand and practises how many and mighty were they who cast their heads together with one consent and as it is in the Psalme were confederate these were enemies of state forraine and abroade And were they lesse dangerous at home Absolon his owne sonne Absolon by name the fathers peace became the fathers bane and sought his death who gaue him life Seba the sonne of Bechry a man of Gemini with his wicked roote disclaimed that hee had any part in the sonne of Iesse Michol mocked him and despised his deuotions Shemey curseth Achitophel plotteth Abner dieth and the sons of Zerniah are too hard for Dauid Forraine power were against our Elizabeth and are confederate Balaam Balack Turke Pope with all their vnited forces and for our home treasons they are greater then they can be expressed with tears they breake the heart ere they can bedewe the cheekes mightie Absolons and base borne Sebaes many Achito●hels I meane plotting Iesuits and Seminaries with their whining Cardinall Allen in their bloody designes haue disclaimed their Elizabeth Shemey curseth Pope Pius is become Impious the cursse is turned vpon himselfe for Elizabeth liueth a blessed Prince hee is dead a cursed Pope Lord remember Elizabeth c. Nay more to make ful the measure of her afflictions the Michols of this land are manie who disdaine our Dauid dauncing before the Arke scorne her deuotions and mocke her religion trāple vnder foote the bloud of the couenant as an vnholy thing and is not this an affliction yes no doubt and an afflicting affliction therefore we had need to pray Lord remeber Elizab c. Lastly our sinnes euen our loude crying sinnes hazard the life of our Prince our vnthankfulnes to God for her our colde deuotion and chilling zeale being fallen from our first loue our neglect of the word Sacraments and Sabaoths our generall Apostasie from the Faith our lacke of loue our great oppression and gnawing vsurie our extrauagant lusts of the flesh our excessiue Pride and hellish heate of Ambition I say anie of these hazard a Prince all these together shake the State and therefore wee had need to pray Lorde remember Elizabeth c. In tender of whose deliuerance long life and happie raigne there remaineth a dutie to bee performed this day on our behalfe euē with our good God to plead her cause and pray for her person Lux haec venerabilis Anglis This day is deare to England and of all the mercies of our GOD registred in the Kalender of his Loue next to that of his Sonne CHRIST Albo signanda lapillo to bee of blessed memorie wherein wee haue found to our vnspeakable ioy and doe feele to the gladnes of our hearts that the people that walked in darknesse haue seene a great Light and wee that earst dwelt in the Land of the shadowe of death I meane of poperie and grosse Idolatrie vpon vs hath this Light shined God in mercie hath increased our ioye in the life light and gouernment of our dread soueraigne in whose fun-shine now we walke and pray that her day may euer dawne The allusion is good from our Christ to our Queene for by him and her the yoke of our burthen the staffe of our shoulder and the rodde of our oppressor hath bene broken as in the day of Midian and surely till these her Al●ion dayes euery battel of the warrier hath bin with noise and tumbling of garments in bloud but hers hath bene in softnes and in silence like a showre of Raine vppon a fleece of wooll like vnto Siloah that runneth softly by Sion like vnto the battell of Salmos hath fought our Salem Queene Sine Sudore sanguine without sweat or blood and like her Christ patiendo potiùs quam agendo auxit imperium her conquest hath beene without blood or broyle rather by sufferance and succouring of others at home then by seasures abroad hath she inlarged the bonds of her Empire And here seasonably and for conclusion of all spare me in a word to Paralell the two Princes as in their afflictions so in successe of blessings to make the yoke of their heauie gouernment more supportable Dauid killed Goliah in his weake strength with prayer in his mouth a peeble stone in his hand he stroke him on the forehead for that hee did confront his God Etibi percutitur vbi deerat Christus There hee felled him where Christ was fayling Queene Elizabeth in her weake and femimine sex to giue God the glorie hath subdued that great Giant at Gath I meane that man of Rome with the sweete perfume of prayer in her mouth and the power of the word of God in her blessed hand a stone hewen out of the mountaine without hands as Daniel saith dashing in peeces all the marbles of this world in the spirit and speech of Dauid hath beene her royall martch Thou commest to me with a sword with a speare and with a shield but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of Hostes that God of the Hoste of Israel whom thou hast railed vpon this day shall the Lord close thee in my hād that all the world may know that englād hath a God Dauid brought the Arke into his Citie by the hands of the Leuites So doth Queen Elizabeth the Religion of her Christ into the bowels of al her kingdomes by a beautifull ministery Dauid dedicated the vessels gotten of the Gentiles to the vse of the temple so doth she the spoiles of the Papists to the maintenance of

and lawes to the worship of God her selfe not second to anie in rendering her vowes There was none able to withstand Iosuah all his life for the Lorde was with him and hee was famous throughout all the worlde Queene Elizabeth hath beaten backe all her enemies and who hath resisted her power for which her prayers is with God and her fame with men At the sounde of the Trumpet the walles of Iericho fell after Iosuah had compassed it about seuen times with the shower and shoute of his deuotion Not seuen times but seuentie times seuen times hath Qu. Elizabeth by prayer to God prophecying with men sacked that Romish Iericho whose walles to God be the praise by her princely power and prayer are well shiuered at home shaken abroad with Iosuah his curse to all such as shall repaire the ruines cursed bee the man before the Lorde that raiseth vp and builds vp this Romish Iericho Let him lay the first stone thereof in his eldest sonne and in his youngest sonne set vp the gates that is let him build to the destructiō of all his stock as Hiel did in Bethel Ai could not be wonne till the execrable thing was out Iosuah could not sacke it till sinne was punished the Hoast purged and purified of Achan his stealth Achans rebellion is discouered in Ireland in the north of England and in the south themselues with their Babilonish garment Sicles of siluer and wedges of golde execrable things in the Hoast to steale away the hearts of subiects from their allegiance haue beene brought by our Iosuah into the valley of Achor there to suffer condigne punishmēt some by execution some by banishment some by confiscation of goods with this iust sentence from Iosuah of their death and doome This place where yee die shall bee called Achor which is trouble for in as much as you haue troubled vs the Lorde shall trouble you and turne his fierce wrath from our nation The craft of the Gibeonites procured them peace with Iosuah they beguiled their Prince with the presence of an Embassage from farre and with an argument of their loue to God loyaltie to him for they say wee came from farre we are thy seruants we seeke the Lord thy God and haue heard his fame Now therfore make a league with vs looke vpon vs we come from far our sacks are patched our shooes are clouted our bottles are rent bound vp our bread is mouled our drink is sowred and we are all of the olde Loue is not suspitious it beleeueth all things it hopeth all things It endureth all things it knoweth not it owne The Gibeonites of this Lande haue beguiled Queene Elizabeth with a faire presence of loue to God and loyaltie to her person and with their patched cloake of Antiquitie Clouted shooes and Bottles mouled bread and baggage of popish trash they would beguile and still beare the worlde in hand that they are all of the oulde and so they are in rottennesse rotten hearts to God rotten hearts to their Prince as may appeare vpon the breach of couenant with our Iosuah Euen this day they should hew wood for the sacrifice but their Axes are dull they should drawe water for the house of the Lorde but their buckets are broken they should attend the Altar of the Lord but they haue digged it vp Our Iosuah hath giuen them life vpon the contracte and put them neare and about the holie things and is it not strange vppon fourtie yeares kinde vsage they should haue no greater familiaritie with their God and Prince no wood no water no Altar no prayer to God of all this long day of Iosuah so continued and so blessed for her preseruation what none why then Hee that is filthie let him bee filthie still Hee that is Popish let him bee Popish still and whiles yee would seeme to beguile vs with your Antichristian Antiquitie wee will rest vpon our New-Religion and say Antiquitas nostra Christus ours is not new but renewed like the booke of God for a long time lost but found at last by the good King Iosias and wee sing as it were a new song Reuelat. 14. 3. Aliud est nouare aliud est renouare Iosuah not knowing his successor recommended the people ouer to God at Sichem and tyed them by couenāt to serue the Lord and for an heire apparant erected a stone there to witnes against them if they should at any time denie their God Albeit saith Queene Elizabeth it doth please almightie God to continue mee still in this minde to liue out of the state of mariage yet is it not to be feared but he will so worke in my heart and your wisedomes that as good prouision may be made in conueniēt time whereby the Realme shall not remaine destitute of an heire that may be a fit gouernour and peraduenture more beneficiall to the Realme then such of spring as may come of me for though I be neuer so carefull of your weldoing and minde euer so to be yet may mine issue growe out of kinde And for me it shall be sufficiēt that a Queene hauing raigned such a time liued and died a virgin The Lord God of Gods the Lord God of Gods will prouide you a Prince of wisedome to goe out before you and to bring you in againe Lastly and to make good my text Iosua as I haue said was thrise noble in that hee preuailed with God to cammaund the creatures till the field was foughten and their enemies were subdued That Mirabilis annus of 88. will neuer be forgotten so long as the sunne and moone endureth When the starres fought for our Deborah as the sunne and moone did then for Iosua Nay more the riuer Kison swept them away from Callis in France to Dingle-Cushe in Ireland Seas Rockes and shelues fought for England shee armed her selfe with praiers to God against that great Armado and preuailed that the enemies might know they were men and not God and their horses flesh and not spirit That the shippes were but wood the tacklings but hempe Their Oares but reeds and their powder but dust nay their top-gallant must stoope at the maiestie of a greater God and vaile at the puissance of Queene Elizabeth Let Tilberie Campe speake to the praise of her presence and powerfull praier there when with God in her heart and a commaunding staffe in her hand she vttered these or the like words in her Princely march Come on now my companions at armes and fellow Souldiers in the field now for the Lord for your Queene and for the kingdome for what are these proud Philistines that they should reuile the Hoast of the liuing God I haue beene your Prince in peace so will I be in warre neither will I bid you goe and fight but come and let vs fight the battell of the Lord the enemie perhaps may challenge my sexe for that I am

doores of the Lords house euen in the first yeare first moneth and first day of her raigne procuring the Lord to be honoured aright with the pure Religion of her God and a parliament Royall to establish the same Ezekiah brought in the Priests and the Leuites and gathered them into the east streete to sanctifie the house of the Lord God and to cary forth the filthines out of the sanctuarie Queene Elizabeth called home her exiled ministers Leuites from Geneua Frankeford Zuricke and most parts of Germany to purge the sanctuarie of it pollutions and to cast forth the filthines thereof Ezekia at the very first tooke away the high places and defaced the Images and cut downe the groaues hee brake in peeces the brasen serpent that Moses had made for vnto those daies the children of Israel did burne incense to it and called it in contempt of that their Idolatry no more a Serpent but Nehushtan a peece of brasse What were your Altars of stone but high places And what were your Roode loftes Celles and shrines of Saints but groaues of superstition what was all your Imagetie with lights lampes Pax and palmes but grosse Idolatrie whereunto England burned incense to the Queene of heauen till Elizabeth came but then euen at the first downe they went and broke they were by her princely power and warrantie the careasses whereof lye at this day monuments of popissi Idolatry and of her maiesties blessed reformation with this disdaine what are they now but stick and stone and worse then Nehushtan brused brasse The Temple being purged and Imagery defaced the King with his Princes prepared for the sacrifice euen a sinne offering for the Kingdome and for the sanctuarie and for Iuda with a burnt sacrifice and an offering of praise vnto the Lord in the words of Dauid and Asaph the Seer they sung Psalmes they blewe the Trumpets and so they praised the Lord with ioy bowed themselues and worshipped whereat Ezechia reioyced and all the people that GOD hadde made them so readie for the thing was done suddenly Queene Elizabeth hauing purged the Church of England of that pregnant Idoll the Masse what hath shee lesse done then prepared for the holy Sacrament of the blessed death and passion of our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ a sinne offering in deede for the Kingdome for the sanctuarie and for this our English Iuda And how often sithence hath shee sanctified it with her praier honoured it with her presence her Virgines Peeres and people bearing her companie with Trumpet Organ Voyce and V●all that GOD hadde made here her people so religious for the thing was done suddenly and I pray God wee haue not lost a part of that our first loue that our Manna growe not lothsome that wee bee not colder now then wee were then and that the first tenne yeares doe not blemish the last twentie of her gratious raigne what euer it is mee thinkes there is a want both of faith to God and fealtie towardes the Prince Graunt Lord wee may bee zealous and amend Ezechia came to his raigne in desperate times when Ahaz his father had peruerted the state both of Church and common-weale fetched Altars from Damascus and sacrificed his sonnes to the fire became tributarie vnto Assur exiled the godly of Iudah and had brought in the abhominations of Babel and subscribed to Tiglath Pilesar King of Assur saying I am thy seruant and thy Sonne Euen so Queene Elizabeth beganne her raigne in desperate times when her Sister had shaken the State with no lesse fearefull then fiery designes fetched Altars from Rome and sacrificed her chiefest subiects to the fire exiled the godlie of the land brought in Straungers because a vassall to the Pope and subscribed to his power saying I am thy Seruant I am thy Hand-mayde Ezechiah withstood Assur payed him no tribute yeelded him no homage resisted Rabsechah and endured his rayling with a Princely patience committting the successe to God who made him glorious by deliuerance And did not our gratious soueraigne withstand the Pope all his vassall Kings Did she not discharge herselfe and people of all Tribute Toll and Taxe that way Hath shee not endured the raylings of many Romish Rabsecahes with a Princelie patience and hauing committed the successe of all her affaires to God is shee not made glorious by deliuerance whiles they are a dead accursed and cursing crue and yet she liueth a blessed Queene long may we say to our solace and their sorrow liue liue It is said of Ezechia that the Lord saued him and the inhabitants of Hierusalem from the hand of Zenacharib King of Assur and from the handes of all other and maintained them on euery side good LORD how haue the Leaguers cast their hands together with one consent consederate against thine annointed thy Church and people in England Gebal and Ammon and Amalecke the Philistimes with them that dwell at Tyre I meane the Tabernacles of Romish Edomites whose crie was downe with it downe with it euen to the ground let vs take to our selues the house of God in possession But good Lord how often haue we beene saued both Prince and people from this ill kinde of men how hast thou maintained vs on euery side thine Angell fought for Ezechia thy Starres haue fought for Debora and the riuer Kison hath swept them away O my God make them still like vnto a wheele And as the stubble before the winde In the daies of Hezechia it is saide that many brought offerings vnto the LORD ●● Hierusalem and presents to Hezechia King of Iuda so that hee was magnified in the sight of all nations from thenceforth they persecuted Churches of other Kingdomes and poore exiled Christians let them speake to the comfort of their soules with how great ioy and gladnesse their offerings here in England haue beene tendered by them and receiued by vs let them speake to the honour of our Queene and countrey how liberally they haue bin maintained when they hadde nothing to feede vpon but winde and aire yea and what nation is there in whose sight Queene Elizabeth is not magnified either dread for her puissance loued for her vertue or admired for her gouernment To bee briefe Ezechia had exceeding much riches honour treasures of siluer and gold of precious stones of sweet odors and of shields of al pleasant vessels store-houses for the increase of wheate wine and oyle stals for all beasts and ranges for the stables The Lord hath blessed our Queene with his hidden treasures here on earth and her honor is great in her aboundance her Garrisons are full in Ireland Flaunders and Barwick and yet her treasures are not exh●●●sted and for her store of shields shot and munition wheate wine and oile stalles for beastes and ranges for stables let her officers speake both in Court and Countrie sure I am we feele