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A72253	Three sermons vpon some portions of the former lessons appointed for certaine Sabbaths The first containing, a displaying of the wilfull deuises of wicked and vaine vvorldlings. Preached at Tanridge in Surrey the first of February 1597. The two latter describing the dangers of discontentment and disobedience. Preached the one at Tanridge and the other at Crowhurst in Iuly then next following. By Simon Harwarde.	Harward, Simon, fl. 1572-1614.	1599 (1599)	STC 12923.5; ESTC S124981	53,720	158

Appius let vs make a Dictator from whom it shall not be lawfull for any man to appeale Tantus erat Dictatoris terror apud hostes vt eo creato statim à moenibus discesserint So great was the terrour of the Dictator euen amongst the enemies that as sone as he was created they raised their siege and departed Wherby appeareth playnely that the ancient Romains as wel in warre as in peace founde this as a sure anchor holde against all seditions and dangers to enioy one such a Magistrate as from whom there should be no appeale and whose authoritie should possesse as it were the roome of God vpon the earth The Carians were once a wealthy and flourishing people but by seditions which came by the hauing of many heads gouernours they were brought to ruine and vtter desolation wherevpon there arose a prouerbe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Multi duces disperdidere Cariam Too many Guydes vndid the countey Caria When many Souldiers were mutinous prudent Vlysses did represse them with these wordes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Multos imperitare malum est rex vnicus esto T is not good too many to rule let onely be one King Which verse as Aemilius Probus doth testifie Dion did also vse when Heraclides began his faction Thirdly the gouernement of one Monarch doth seeme to resemble most liuely the image of Gods power maiestie For as in the firmament the Sunne Moone and Starres do as it were represent some image of the glory of the Eternall So the rule of Monarches in their seuerall kingdomes vpon earth doth call to our considerations the gouernment and high maiestie of the omnipotent God And most certainly ac this time of the alteration of the estate of the Iewish common-wealth the wil and purpose of God is in his seruant king Dauid to erect an Image type of the kingdome of Christ But here may some say If the will of God were now in Dauid and his posteritie to set foorth a figure of the kingdom of Christ how can the Israelites be said to sinne so great a sinne in asking a king when they asked onely that which was determined in the purpose of God Why doeth the Lorde so punish their request in sending them so wicked a king as was Saul who besides his often and wilfull disobedience against the cōmandement of God did most cruelly murder the priests of God causing to bee slaine at one time fourescore and fiue which ware the linnen Ephod if in desiring a king their will did concurre with the will of God Yee are heere to obserue that the Israelites had no respect to the purpose of God but onely they shewed foorth the fruites of despairing and malcontented affections In the spoile of the goods of Iob the Caldeans and Sabeans had no regarde to the will and purpose of God which was most iust and holy to examine sharply one of his seruants and to make him a schoolemaster of patience to all posteritie their desire was onely iniuriously to enrich themselues with the spoyle of Iob. In the death of our sauiour Christ the high Priestes Scribes Pharises had no respect to the will of God which was most mercifull and iust by that all sufficient raunsome for sinne to saue all beleeuers their intent was onely to bee reuenged of him whom they hated with deadly malice Euen so these Israelites haue no desire here to obey the secret decree of God in the kingdome of Dauid and of his ofspring to set out a resemblance of the kingdome of Christ but onely their purpose is with a desperat discontentment to shake off the gouernment of their good iudge Samuel contrary to the reuealed wil of God which had before decreed that Whosoeuer was approued to be raised vp of God for their deliuerer he should afterward iudge Israel all the dayes of his life And therefore they worthily receiue a punishment of their obstinate disobedience against the expresse commandement of God And yet notwithstanding this historie doeth shew vs that the appointment of God was performed in Samuel who is said To haue iudged Israel all the dayes of his life Seuen and twentie yeeres and seuen moneths hee had iudged when Saul beganne to reigne Two yeeres was Saul king for although he liued aboue twelue yeeres after that hee was elected king yet forasmuch as in the second yeere hee was denounced to bee reiected of God his kingdome is named to be but of two yeres in continuance And during that time also y e authoritie of Samuel is not abolished for euen in these affaires against Nachash the Ammonite a punishment was in a publique Proclamation threatened against euery one which would not followe Saul and Samuel although in the Actes of the Apostles because the kingdome is the more excellent state of gouernment the whole fourtie yeeres be attributed to Saul as the greater power and maiestie swallowing vp the lesse As concerning the miraculous prouidence of God extended towardes the Israelites during the time that Samuel was their Iudge there neede no further testimonies but that onely place in the seuenth chapter of this booke wher it is sayd That the hand of the Lord was against the Philistines all the dayes of Samuel The Philistines were the deadliest and fiercest enemies that euer molested the Israelits Seeing then that God ouerthrew their cruellest mightiest enemies that not once or twice but euen al the dayes of Samuel what a wretched ingratitude was this that because a few aduersaries had gotten aduantage against one of their Cities they should therfor vnthankfully shake off that happie gouernment vnder which God had graunted them so many triumphant victories But what were the causes of this their vnkind froward desire of alteration First they would be like to other nations rounde about them as they say Make vs a King to gouerne vs like all other nations And afterward againe We will be like all other Countries a King shall iudge vs and goe out before vs and fight our battayles Forraine gouernementes although they be in them selues most excellent as no doubt those were which were established vnder kings are not to be drawen as ensamples to other nations wherein another estate of gouernment hath alreadie taken place Wee cannot affirme that because this or that is nowe done in the common wealth of Geneua or because this or that was once done in the Elderships and Councels of the Iewes therefore the same ought to bee done in other seniories and assemblies where there is not that Ius gladij that ciuill authoritie power which we see plainly was in them Their Synagogues had the ordering of ciuill punishments to condemne to bee scourged those whom they iudged to offend they could send out officers with swords and staues to apprehend Christ they could examine witnesses against him and binde him and deliuer him to Pilate And whereas when Pilate

Three Sermons vpon some portions of the former lessons appointed for certaine Sabbaths The first containing A displaying of the wilfull deuises of wicked and vaine vvorldlings Preached at Tanridge in Surrey the first of February 1597. The two latter describing the dangers of discontentment and disobedience Preached the one at Tanridge and the other at Crowhurst in Iuly then next following By Simon Harwarde LONDON ¶ Imprinted by RICHARD BRADOCKE for RICHARD IOHNS 1599. TO THE RIGHT honorable and most Reuerend Father in Christ my singular good Lord Iohn Lord Archbishoppe of Canterbury primate of all England and Metropolitaine and one of the Lords of her Maiesties most Honorable priuie Councell manie healthfull and happie yeares in all ioy and continuance of all honorable felicitie IT hath often fallen out most Reuerend my very good Lord that small things haue beene offered informer ages to mightie and noble Potentates But then though small in quātity yet haue they either bene such matters as like Pearles haue in a little roome contained greate worth or els they haue beene such as in case of necessitie haue supplied a want or stode in some good steade to those great Personages to whom they haue beene deliuered and presented The treatise of Isocrates 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sent to king Nicocles was shorte and compendious The water which Plutarch doth report to haue beene taken vp with the palme of a poore mans hand and with a cheerefull countenance exhibited to King Artaxerxes was but of very small quantitie yet was the one very precious eloquent and full of well compacted instructions and the other very needfull cōmodious to remooue or ease some present distresse and extremitie But this my discourse being penned as it was vttered in rude and homely manner and containing also nothing but that which is so farre and so many degrees better knowne to your Grace than I am any way able to expresse and make manifest I should in no case aduenture to present it vnto your Grace but that I haue had heretofore so often and so plentifull experience of your Graces exceeding clemencie that not only it hath often accepted great and exquisite volumes written by them who haue had a calmer quietnesse for their studies and haue beene that way of farre more fit sufficiencie but also hath sometimes fauorably receiued such poore tokens of my humble and deutifull affections as my troublesome estate of sustenāce and slender talent of knowledge haue bene able to addresse afford In the Preface of my Sermon next following which was first printed because indeede I ment not at this time to haue set forth any more I haue signified that when I consented to the publishing thereof my purpose was before it in the same volume to haue prefixed one other Sermon made some eight years since vpō the beginning of the first psalme But seeing that both there are now no more copies of that Sermon to be had amongst the Stationers that also I perceiue there haue bene a cōuenient sufficient nūber of them alreadie printed dispersed I haue thought it not amisse in lieu steed therof to adde this short speach had at Tanridge the first of Feb. last past vpon a portion of the first lesson appointed for the Sabbath In which as certain learned Iustices of Surrey who in heart honor your Grace M. Bostock M. Sander my very good friends with other vertuous religious gentilmen thē assēbled had bin worthy to haue had more exact matter thē my voice eyther did or could at that time deliuer somuch more now your Grace shoulde haue had if any way my penne had bin of power to prepaire it This Sermon describing as it doth the originall cause of both those enormities which are condemned in the treatises following and hauing bene as it was in time first made and vttered doth therefore now iustly chalenge to possesse here in order the first and principall place And being by the Printer vnited with the rest into one little discourse as to frame thereby some slēder gift to beginne the new yeare withall I doe here most humbly present it vnto your Grace hoping that the greatnesse of my sincere and deutifull desires shall not be measured by the smalnesse of my gift and praying that J may remaine still continued in the good fauour of your Grace to whom god the disposer of all times grant that this and many other good yeares may be most healthfull prosperous to the ioy of vs all who do hartilie desire the long peace of the Church and to your eternal most Honorable renowne From Tanridge this second of Ianuarie 1598. Your Graces most humble in all deutie Simon Harward A DISPLAYING of the wilfull deuises of wicked and vaine worldlings The text Esay cap. 59. ver 5. They hatch the egges of the Cockatrice or dropbloud and weaue the Spiders webbe he that eateth of their eggs shall dye euen he which is sprinkled shal be as though a Viper did burst out vpon him THE Prophet Esay beloued in the Lord hauing a little before described the great misery of the Iewes who togither w t their King Achas were compelled by their enimies to seeke help of a deadly foe to wit of Tiglah Pilleser King of the Assyrians and that in such base manner that their King besids the humble sending of presents was enforced to bende and crouch with these seruile speaches seruus tuus filius tuus sim let mee bee thy seruant and thy son onely saue me this time from the hands of Retzin king of Syria which abiect abasing y e Prophet doth notably name to be euen a throwing downe into hell Hee doth afterward expresse the causes of that and all other their calamities which were indeede their wickednesse in their liues and their damnable hypocrisie in their fastings and seruice of GOD. Which their iniquities although he haue in the chapter last going before very liuelily deciphered them and very effectually condemned them yet in this chapter hee houldeth on still y e same argument declaring vnto them that God is of as great power to assist them as euer he was to deliuer their forefathers his hand is not shortned but that hee can saue neither is his eare made heauie but that hee can heare Onely their iniquities made a seperation betwixt God and them as afterwards was likewise saide vnto them by the Prophet Ezechiel that by their ●prophaning of diuine sacrifices and by their wicked abhominations they had set vp posts and pillers against God and made a wall betwixt God and them The enormities which at this time did make a diuision betwixt God and this people and cause the Lord euen to hide his face from them are expressed heere in the verses last going before to be of thre seuerall sorts First the bloudy oppressions of their handes outward dealings your hands saith Esay are full of bloud and your fingers defiled

concerning The fruites of our repentaunce towardes God wherein Dauid Psal 1. doth place The chiefest blessednesse and felicitie of man I haue thought good to adde thereunto this Sermon which I made at the same Church where you and others Iustices Gentlemen were assembled on the ninth of Iuly last past vpon a part of the first Lesson by the order of our Church appoynted for that Sabboth as concerning that duetifull contentment of minde which as good subiects we owe all to our Prince and Countrey that as in the first we are put in remembrance of our duetie towards the Lord of Lords and Prince of Princes so in this other as well we which vttered and heard it as others into whose handes it shall come to be read may be admonished of those loyall affections which we ought continually to beare to our mo● gracious Soueraigne and our established Common-wealth As I am well assure● that these affections are and haue alway● bin throughly setled in your faythful hartes so I doubt not but ye are also a fully desirous that by this slender labour and by all meanes possible others may be allured drawen to the like disposition Thus hoping that you will as louing● accept the reading and publishyng as you haue already done the hearing I commit this my short Discourse to your Worshippes and you and it to the blessing of the Almightie From Tondridge this .xij. of Iuly 1598. Your Worships assured in the Lord Simon Harward 1. Sam. 12.19 VVe haue added a vvickednesse to all our other sinnes in asking vs a King WHen Nachash the King of the Ammonites Right Worshipfull and beloued in Christ had now brought the inhabitantes of Iabesh Gilead into so greate distresse that onely vpon seauen dayes respite they were to yeelde vp their Citie into the enemies handes vpon a very hard condition which was that euery one of the Citizens should haue his right eye plucked out The people of Israel partly because they saw Samuel their Iudge to be olde and feeble and partly because they percei●ed the sonnes of Samuel Ioel and Abiah though ruling in the place and stead of their Father yet not walking in the wayes and ●teps of their Father as dispayring to haue any ayde or deliuerance by their Iudges in which state of gouernment God had fo● many yeeres so happily preserued them● They come with one consent to the● Iudge and desire that they may haue King Samuel when he had vsed ma● meanes and many forcible argumentes 〈◊〉 disswade them from this their malcontent● and dispayring minde and seeing euidently that no perswasions could take any pla●n their wilfull hartes doth now at the la● call vpon the Lord in the time of Wheat haruest for a sodaine and miraculous thu●der and storme of raine that thereby as were by an other voyce of God the peo● might be further certified both how greuously they had offended and how for th● offence the Lorde was highly displeas● with them When the Israelites saw ●parantly that Samuel had no sooner call vnto the Lord for that thunder and rain● but that presently his request was hea● and that in terrible manner in the sight a● hearing of the whole people they were a●nished and being wonderfully striken w● sodaine feare They desire Samuel to p● to the Lord for them that they die n● adding these wordes which now I haue read as a reason of their petition and a confession of their desart For say they we haue sinned besides all our other sinnes in asking vs a King What this offence was which the Prophet doth seeke so many wayes to lay open vnto them it shall the better appeare if we consider these two especiall obseruations First the mightie prouidence and infinite goodnesse of God extended towardes that people so many yeeres together during the tyme of the gouernment of the Iudges And secondly how small weake the occasions were for the which they desire to shake off that blessed gouernment as also on the other side what great and waighty causes they had to haue bin contented with that estate wherein God had so long and so miraculously protected them How long the people had liued deliuered defended and gouerned by Iudges S. Augustine doth record it in his 18. booke de Ciuitate Dei where he affirmeth that at that time wherein Rome was buylt which was by Romulus in the time of Iosias king of Iuda the Hebrewes had bin seauen hundred and eighteene yeeres in the land of Canaan whereof sayth he seauen twentie appertaine to Iosua three hundred twentie and nine to the Iudges and three hundred sixtie and two to the Kinges where he maketh three seuerall estates of Gouernment vnder which it pleased God that his people Israel should liue The first was vnder Dukes as in the dayes of Moses and Iosua The second was by Iudges which differed from Iosua for he was appoynted a gouernour in the time of prosperitie when Sehon the King of the Amorits and Ogge the King of Basan were ouerthrowne and vanquished but the Iudges were first inaugurated and inuested into their callinges in some great distresses by the affecting of some notable deliuerance Neither were they like the Dictators aduaunced amongst the Heathen for they were chosen by the voyces of men but these by the voyce of God him selfe They were chosen out of men of greatest accompt and best furnished for the vndergoing of such a charge but these were raysed vp miraculously out of the inferiour sort and lowest degrees of people and inabled extraordinarily by the gyftes and presence of the Almightie as it is sayd in the second Chapter of the Iudges The Lord raysed vp Iudges which deliuered them out of the handes of their oppressours And when the Lord did raise vp any Iudges the Lord as it is sayd there was with that Iudge and did deliuer the people out of the handes of the enemies all the dayes of that Iudges life There were also many differences betwixt them and the Kinges which folowed In the Kinges succession of blood tooke ●lace in the Iudges it tooke no place The Kings had a greater authoritie in ru●ing and commaunding then the Iudges would chalenge The affayres hauing good successe against the Madianites the people offered to Gedeon that he should Reigne ●s king ouer them But Gedeon answe●ed Neither will I reigne ouer you ney●her shall my childe reigne ouer you but ●he Lord shall still raigne ouer you The Kinges were some of them holy and some picked the Iudges were all the faythfull ●eruantes of God though some times er●ng yet alwayes rysing againe by repen●nce The Kinges did some of them saue the people from inuasions and some no● but the Iudges did euer deliuer them fro● the hands of their oppressours And the●fore they haue the Hebrewe name Mos● grim Sauiours giuen vnto them as in 〈◊〉 thirde Chapter of the Iudges it is sayd Othoniel that the Lord did stirre vp● Sauiour