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A11162	A sermon preached at Richmond before Queene Elizabeth of famous memorie, vpon the 28. of March, 1596. By the reuerend father in God Anthony Rudd, Doctor in Diuinitie, and Lord Bishop of S. Dauids	Rudd, Anthony, 1549 or 50-1615.; R. S., fl. 1603.	1603 (1603)	STC 21432; ESTC S103177	19,634	62

euen the copie that Moses left was found in the ruines of it Whereupon followed a general repentance and a couenant with the Lord of all hands and the celebrating of a Passeouer with such solemnitie as the like had not bene kept in Israell from the 2. Chr. 35. 18 dayes of Samuel the Prophet Moreouer Daniel and his companions Dan. 1. 4. 5. 8. were both young and passing wel-fauoured without all blemish when they would not defile themselues with the diet which the Babylonian Emperour had assigned vnto them fearing lest by that large and daintie fare as by a sweet poyson they might haue bene drawne to forget their religion the miserie of their natiue countrie and their accustomed temperance In like sort Timothy kept 1. Tim. 6. 20 that which was committed vnto him and stirred vp the gift of God that 2. Tim. 1. 6. was in him in such sort that no man could despise his youth because he 1. Tim. 4. 12 was vnto them that beleeued an ensample in word in conuersation in loue in spirit in faith in purenesse Now if I get nothing in my youth Eccl. 25. 3. be it in matters spirituall or temporall what shall I find in mine age Some tell me I am tearmed Iuuenis à iuuando because I should helpe the Church and weale-publike to the vttermost of my power therfore good Lord to enable me hereunto teach me to number my dayes so that I may apply my heart vnto wisedome They that are past their ful growth and are come to the standing state of their age may in numbring their yeares which be spent and considering their condition present reason thus if it please them Howsoeuer we forgot our selues in the ignorance of our childhood and the vanitie of our youth yet this age of ours requireth other manners It is sufficient that we haue bestowed the time passed of the 1. Pet 4. 3. life after the fashion of this world now it is high time for vs to be changed by the renewing of our minds Rom. 12. 2. that we may proue what is the good will of God and acceptable and perfect It was a shame for the Corinthians that Paule could not speake 1. Cor. 3. 1. vnto them as vnto spirituall men but as vnto carnall euen as vnto babes in Christ It was in like manner a great reproch vnto the Hebrewes for that when as concerning the time they ought to haue bene teachers yet had they neede againe that the author of that Epistle should teach them the Heb. 5. 1● 13. 14. first principles of the word of God and were become such as had neede of milke and not of strong meate belonging to thē that are of age which through long custome haue their wits exercised to discerne both good and euill When Paule was a child 1. Cor. 13. 11. he spake as a child he vnderstood as a child he thought as a child but when he became a man he put away childish things Of vs chiefly it is expected that we be alreadie growne vp into him which is the head that Eph. 4. 15. 13 is Christ vnto a perfect man vnto the measure of the age of the fulnesse of Christ Of vs I say it is required that ayming at perfection we should forget that which is behind Phil. 3. 13. 14. and indeuour our selues vnto that which is before following hard toward the marke for the price of the high calling of God in Christ Iesus It is looked for at our hands that we be deseruedly tearmed Viri à virtute So that we should be manfull when neede is for the defence of our countrie wise in consulting vertuous in example of life and euery way the men of God being absolute and 2. Tim. 3. 17. made perfect vnto all good workes which God hath ordained that we Eph. 2. 10. should walke in them not onely denying vngodlines and worldly lusts but also liuing soberly and righteously Tit. 2. 12. 13 and godly in this present world looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glorie of the mightie God of our Sauiour Iesus Christ And in the meane time it appertaineth vnto vs as well as vnto others or rather aboue others to watch to 1. Cor. 16. 13. stand fast in the faith to quite vs like men and to be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might hauing long since put on the whole armour Eph. 6 10. 11. c. of God that we may be able to stand fast against all the assaults of the diuell hauing our loynes girded about with veritie and hauing on the brest-plate of righteousnesse and our feet being shod with the preparation of the Gospell of peace c. praying vnto God for grace that we may alwayes put our trust in him being strong and constant in our vocation and that he will vouchsafe to stablish Psal 31. 24 our hearts and confirme vs with heauenly strength vnto the end Thus good Lord teach vs to number our dayes that we may apply our hearts vnto wisedome Let me now come to the most reuerend age of my most deare and dread Soueraign who hath I doubt not learned to number her yeares that she may apply her hart vnto wisdome And therefore I conceiue in mind that in her soliloquia or priuate meditations she frameth her speech in this wise Remember not the sinnes of my Psal 25. 7. youth nor my transgressions but according to thy kindnesse remember me euen for thy goodnesse sake ô Lord. Behold I was borne in iniquitie Psal 51. 5. and in sinne hath my mother cōceaued me I know mine iniquitie and my sinnes are euer before me Ib. ver 3. Wherefore lest the Zion and Ierusalem 18. that is the Church and Commonwealth of England should be in daunger of thy wrath through my former sinnes Wash me thoroughly 2. from mine iniquitie and cleanse me from my sinne purge me and I shall be cleane wash me and I shall be 7. whiter then snow Lord I know and confesse that in my predecessors dayes and in the 37 yeares past of my raigne thou hast deliuered me as wonderfully from all my malicious and daungerous enemies as thou didst deliuer thy seruant Dauid from the tyrannie of Saul 1. Sam. 18. c. and his adherents from the inuasion of forraine aduersaries as the Philistims 2. Sam. 8. 10. 11. Ammonites Moabites Idumaeans Syrians c. and from the inward insurrections first of Absalom Ib. 15. c. and then of Sheba the sonne of Bichri Ib. 20. besides many other traiterours complots and trecherous conspiracies Therefore I will alway giue Psal 34. 1. thankes vnto thee ô Lord thy praise shal be in my mouth continually My Psal 103. 1. 2. soule praise thou the Lord and all that is within me praise his holy name my soule praise thou the Lord and forget not

all his benefits O Lord I am now entred a good way into the Climactericall yeare of mine age which mine enemies wish hope to be fatall vnto me But thou Lord which by thy Prophet Ieremy Ier. 10. 2. commandedst the house of Israell not to learne the way of the heathen nor to be afraid of the signes of heauen and who by thy mighty hand and out-stretched arme madest the yeare of the greatest expectation euen 88. maruellous by the ouerthrowe of thine and mine enemies Now for thy Gospels sake which hath long had a sanctuarie in this Iland make likewise 96. as prosperous vnto me and my loyall subiects that by the happie bringing about of this yeare I may still set vp the banner in thy Psal 20. 5. name which art my strength my Psal 18. 1. 2 rocke my fortresse my deliuerer the lifter vp of mine head my shield the horne also of my saluation my refuge Thou art my hope ô Lord God Psal 71. 5. 6. euen my trust from my youth vpon thee haue I bene stayed from the wombe thou art he that tooke me Ib. 9. out of my mothers bowels cast me not off in the time of age forsake me not when my strength faileth O forsake Psal 138. 8. not me the worke of thine hands vntill I haue declared thine arme to Psal 71. 18. this generation and thy power to all them that shall come Lord I haue now put foote within the doores of that age in the which the Almond tree flourisheth wherein Eccles 12. 1 men begin to cary a Calender in their bones the senses begin to faile the strength to diminish yea all the powers of the body daily to decay Now therefore graunt grace that though mine outward man thus perish 2. Cor. 4. 16. yet mine inward man may be renewed daily So direct me with thine holy spirite that I may daily waxe elder in godlinesse wisedome VVis 4. 9. being my gray haires and an vndefiled life mine old age Let thy statutes Psal 119. 54. be my songs in the house of my pilgrimage Sweeter vnto me thē hony Psal 19. 10. the hony-combe vnto my mouth and more desired by me then thousands Psal 1 19. 22. of siluer or the gold of Ophir yea thē the pearle or pretious stones Pro. 8. 11. 19. For though I haue out-liued almost all the Nobles of this Realme whom I found possessed of Dukedome Marquisats Earledoms Barronries at mine entring into the Kingdome and likewise all the Iudges of the land and all the Bishops set vp by me after my comming to the Crowne And although I haue seene an end of sundry of these once or twise ouer yet what auaileth this my long temporall life in suruiuing others vnlesse I my selfe lead alwayes a spirituall life while I cōtinue vpō earth in hope to enioy an eternal life whē I am dead And though Lord I haue liued in respect of my self long inough in this valley of miserie so that in regard of troubles past and dangers future I see some reason to say with Elias It is 1. Reg. 19. 4 inough ô Lord take my soule for I am no better then my fathers and with Paul I desire to be loosed and Phil. 1. 23. to be with Christ yet because this people reckon of me as Dauids subiects did of him whom they termed 2. Sam. 21. 17. the light of Israell and for that they esteeme of me as the Iewes did of Iosias whom they called the breath of Lam. 4. 20. their nosthrils Therefore for their sakes if it be thy pleasure in thine heauenly prouidence let me their candle burne yet a while longer and let me breathe still among them vntil I haue met with dāgers present or imminēt and established the state for the time to come so that not onely peace and 2. Reg. 20. 19. truth may be in my dayes but also that after my departure out of this life they may in the future age liue in peace and plentie in euery quarter and corner of the Realme from Barwicke to Porchmouth and from the Margets to the Mount like as Israell and Iudah dwelt without feare euery 1. Reg. 4. 25. man vnder his vine and vnder his fig-tree from Dan to Beer-sheba all the dayes of Salomon And if Lord for the effecting therof thou meanest to deale with me as with Hezekiah by adding to the former 2. Reg. 20. 6 part of my life the terme of 15. yeares more or rather two fifteenes if it be thy will then assist me euer with thy grace that during all that time I may know how to go out and 1. Reg. 3. 7. in feeding this people according to the simplicity of mine heart and guiding Psal 78. 72. them by the discretion of my hands That so at length I may go to the sepulchers of my fathers in a good time as a ricke of corne that is ripe Iob. 5. 26. caried into the barne yeelding the spirite like Dauid in a good age full of 1. Chro. 29. 28. dayes riches and honour And so the dust of this body returning to the Eccles 12. 7. earth as it was my spirit may returne to thee that gaue it to enioy alwaies Psal 16. 11. thy presence in the which there is fulnesse of ioy and to be alwayes at thy right hand where be pleasures for euer more purchased and prepared for all them that feare thee by the mediation of our Lord and Sauiour Christ Iesus To whom with thee and the holy Ghost be all honour and glory both now and for euer FINIS Erratum Pag. 21. lin 23. for first reade fift