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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

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

to admonish them of the truth as likewise Saint Augustine homicida dicitur Diabolus non gladio armatus non ferro accinctus verbū seminauit occidit Noli ergo putare te non homicidam cùm fratri tuo mala persuades The Diuel is called a murderer from the beginning not as one armed with sworde and weapon but he sowed ill counsell and so did kill Doe not therefore imagine that thou art free from murder if thou doest perswade or entise thy brother to any kinde of wickednesse The poysoned malice which lucketh in the hearts of the Romish Catholicks doth another dangerous way breake out into murder to wit by treasons and rebellions which are called of Dauid bloodshedde in the fiftie and fift Psalme made as Beza and Tremellius do iudge in the time of the conspiracie of Absolon and Achitophell The bloodthirstie and deceiptfull men saith hee shall not liue out halfe their daies For although lawfull warres bee called the warres not of men but of God himselfe prouided alwaies that they bee taken in hande withan aduised care not to thrust men into wilful dangers and so to make as it were a pastime of the bloode of man Dauid because his men were so fewe which brought him water through the greate armie of the Philistines woulde not drinke of it because it was as hee said the bloode of them which did fetch it with so desperately endangering their liues Yet traitorous rebellions do most euidently proceede of a very poysonfull and diuelish malice of heart and are so detestable in the sight of God that whatsoeuer is done by them against the anointed Soueraigne the Lord doth reuenge and punish it euen as done against his owne person As may manifestly appeare in the before named conspiracie where though Absolon were most noble in birth as being the kings owne sonne though hee were most comely and beautifull in personne though he were highly in fauour with the people whose hearts hee had stollen away and though hee were most dearely and entirely beloued of his father Dauid insomuch as the King gaue most earnest commaundemēt to his Generals and captaines that notwithstanding his traiterous sedition yet they should for his sake intreat Absolon kindly and no man to be so hardy as to lay hands vpon Absolon Yet the Lord of heauen who in treasons and rebellions doth account his owne maiestie most of all contemned and his owne authoritie impugned did as it were take the matter into his owne hands when hee caused an oake stretching out her bough to trusse vp Absolon by the locks of his gallant heire to testifie vnto all posteritie that no nobilitie of bloode no comelinesse or gifts of body no loue nor fauour eyther of prince or people shall saue a rebell from due punishment but that howsoeuer the iudgements of man be sometimes wanting yet GOD himselfe who is thereby chiefly dishonoured will vndoubtedly follow by some extraordinary meanes with a heauie and sharpe reuenge Howsoeuer GOD did for a time suffer that rebellion to growe to head and waxe strong Yet at the last the words which Dauid did pronounce of them that the bloodthirstie men should not liue forth halfe their daies were verified to the full when as the heade of that conspiracie was plucked vp by the heade so the baiser sort receiued a fit rewarde for a rascall crewe beeing slaine in one day twentie thousand besides that the Counsellour Achitophell who gaue the aduice to the rebellion had his wisedome so confounded that for want of a hangman hee became a hangman to himselfe That the treasons and rebellions which for these many yeares haue beene and are stirred vp in Christendome doe especially proceede from the Romishe Catholickes there needeth no other proofe but their owne confession For the writer of the Popish Chronicle called Gallo-Belgicus in that part of his third Come which he calleth supplementum calleth the commotious in Ireland Comitis Tyronij Hibernorum rebellionem the rebellion of the Earle of Tyronne and of the Irish men but the same man in other places of the same booke doth say Catholicos plurimos ad comitē Tyronium vndique confluxisse that many Catholiks out of all quarters did ioyne themselues to the Earle of Tyronne whom hee also calleth Catholicorum antesignanum ducem the captaine General of the Catholiks Whereby it appeareth that hee accounteth rebellion and his owne profession of the Catholike faith to haue such neare affinitie amongst thēselues that very easily they doe knit and ioyne the one to the other So heretofore by the dealings of pope Innocentius the third against Iohn king of England and by Pope Adrian the fourth his absoluing the subiects of the King of Sicily from all loyaltie and alleageance as also by dailie experience in these daies for we heare of no insurrection but there is a popish Priest at the one ende of it nay the Popes priuie Factors are the chiefest Authors and their Fryers handes the very instruments to murder Princes wee see it plainly confirmed vnto vs that Rome is the fountaine and spring out of which poysons bloodshedde witchcrafts treasons and rebellions do ouerflow the whole earth Of all the egges of the drop-bloode that is the malicious purposes of the heart here condemned by the Prophet Esay these of y e Catholike rebels are most diuelish dangerous Hee y t nameth other sins nameth most commonly simple and single transgressions but he y e nameth rebellion nameth in a manner a heape of all sinnes that can bee named murders rapes thefts blasphemies oppressions whordomes and in a manner all sinnes whatsoeuer they are all together vnited in this crime of rebellion It is as it were a hell in this worlde the feendes and furies whereof are the traiterous cutthroats the Generall and Captaine is Lucifer the prince of rebels the torments punishments are greefes walings and woes of children fatherlesse of fathers childlesse of women husbandlesse of poore friendles of all comfortlesse They may cloake and couer their pretences and purposes with a shew of the Catholicke faith but they must needes bee counted diuelish intents which seeke to drawe any such mischeefes and calamities vpon their natiue soyle and countrie for infinite are the miseries which then needes must follow when as one hath written treason is aboue reason and might ouerrunneth right and it is had for lawfull whatsoeuer is lustfull and common woe is accounted common wealth The very heathen Poet by the light of naturall reason coulde perceiue the filthinesse of such seditious affections 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Most vngodly is he lawles vnnatural vnkynde Which desireth warres by ciuil bloudy rebelling The kingly Prophet when he had the electiō of three plagues offered vnto him of which one must of necessitie be taken he made choyce of pestilence rather tha● warre Lord saide he let vs fall into thy hands for