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grace_n	lord_n	sir_n	william_n	9,182	5	9.4998	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09403	Hepieíkeia: or, a treatise of Christian equitie and moderation. Deliuered publikely in lectures by M. W. Perkins, and now published by the consent of his assignes in Cambridge by a preacher of the word	Perkins, William, 1558-1602.; Crashaw, William, 1572-1626.	1604 (1604)	STC 19699; ESTC S106090	38,157	104

Ε'ΠΙΕΙ'ΚΕΙΑ OR A TREATISE OF Christian Equitie and moderation Deliuered publikely in Lectures by M. W. Perkins and now published by the consent of his Assignes in Cambridge by a Preacher of the word Eph. 4. 31. Forgiue one another as God for Christs sake doth forgiue you PRINTED BY IOHN LEGAT Printer to the Vniversitie of Cambridge 1604. And are to be sold in Pauls Church-yard at the signe of the Crowne by Simon 〈◊〉 To the right Honourable the L. Sheffeild Lord Lieuetenant and L. President Sir Tho. Heskith S. Iohn Benet Knights Charles Hales R. William Cutbert Pepper Iohn Ferne Esquires and the rest of his Maiesties Hon. Councell established in the North parts and vnder his Highnes the highest Patrons of Equitie Grace and peace from Iesus Christ. RIght Honourable and W. how famous in all writers the yeare Eightie eight and how fatall it was made by all the old and later Coniecturers is not vnknown to any of you but how the issue answered the expectation I see not saue only in that notable ouerthrow of the enemies of god the Papists whereupon our reuerend countreyman and Christs Champion for England said very well Octogesimus octavus mirabilis annus Clade Papistarum faustus vbique pijs But if euer yeare deserue to be famous in English Chronicles it is this yeare I cannot tell whether I should say 1602 or 1603 wherein whether Gods anger was more in taking from vs such a Queene as for ought I reade the world neuer had or his mercie in giuing vs such a King as England neuer had I leaue it to better heads to be determined How is the name of our God to be magnified by whose mercie so great a losse is made no losse but a gaine vnto vs for who seeth not that all her Princely vertues doe not only liue in him but are also in him beeing a man more perfect and accomplisht Shee is dead but her Heroicall zeale and loue to Religion is aliue shee bequeathed it with her kingdome to his Highnesse who doubtlesse will make both her Religion and her Kingdome to flourish as much more as a man doth excell a womā And who knoweth not that the enemies of our Religion and our peace notwithstanding all their politik dissembled brags to the contrarie doe finde his Maiestie so little for their purpose that now they would sing a thousand Masses to haue her aliue againe against whom they thundred out so many Curses and Excommunications and after whose blood they so thirsted whilst shee liued what straights are they driuen into who would wish her aliue againe at whose hands though a woman they neuer gained nor got one inch of ground in 44 yeares though nine or ten Popes and 10000 of their slaues wrastled with her all the while with all the power and policie craft and trecherie which the Deuill could lend them Nay her end was as glorious as her beginning and her last Proclamation against them was more to their shame and lesse to their comfort then euer any in her life before and so farre was shee from allowing them a Toleration of their intolerable religion in her old and therefore weakest age as that it neuer entred into her royall heart nor euer thought shee it worthie to be made a question whether it should be or no. No shee halted not betwixt two religions but to her Baal was Belial therfore shee banisht him and God was the Lord and therefore shee serued him Shee was resolued that Dagon must downe if Gods Arke stand or els if Dagon stand the Arke must away For both together cannot stand vpright Shee held that as when the enemies themselues brought the Arke into Dagons temple Dagon fell downe so if the Israelites should haue admitted Dagon into Gods temple that the Lord himselfe would haue remooued his Arke from them Blessed was shee in her life twise blessed in her end she lost not her first loue and her works were more at the last then at the first and blessed are we that enioyed her so long and more blessed who vnder her enioyed such 44 yeares as all the bookes in the world cannot shew vnder a woman but most blessed of all in that after such a Dauid God hath sent vs such a Salomon after such a woman such a man after such a Queene such a King who will make an ende of many a Ioab and many a Shimei which shee could not so well doe and finish that Temple which shee so well beganne and who I doubt not to affirme it doe the Deuill and the craftie Papist all they can is the chiefe Champion of Christ Iesus vpon the face of the earth And how happie a yeare shall this be if the losses which learning hath sustained be as well recompenced Iunius of Leiden Tossaine of Heilderberg Perkins of Cambridge haue this yeare bin taken from vs besides many other of inferiour note happie should those three famous Vniuersities be if the like were seated in their roomes Let vs leaue the first to the lower the second to the higher Germanie to praise them to lament them and to make supply for them It is the third who especially concerneth vs what losse the Church of God and in the Church England and in the Church of England the Ministery and in the Ministerie the Vniuersities in the Vniuersities the younger students haue sustained by the vntimely death of that Reuerend man I thinke is not vnknowne to any of you For how should he be vnknown to any of any note in England whose name and estimation is such in other natiōs as that at one Mart we find that in one halfe yeare two of his books were translated into Latine foure were were printed beyond the seas The best recompence of this losse is the fruit of his labours which he hath left behind him whereof some were written by himselfe and others taken by other men from his mouth all which at least so many of them as may be perfected there is hope we shall intime inioy Had not Iohan. Budaeus and Carolus Ionvillaus done so to Calvin Vitus Theodorus Ioh. Frederus and Iustus Ionas done so to Luther many worthy workes of those two great instruments of God had vtterly perished and had not some done so to this worthy mā no doubt many sweet blasts of that siluer trumpet of God had vanished away For my part though time be pretious vnto me otherwaies yet thinke I that time well spent which I may bestowe in preparing to the Presse any thing of his This discourse of Equitie now made readie as a child borne after his fathers death I present to your Honourable viewe and patronage If any aske why I dare tender so small a gift to so great personages my onely answer is I make the Iudges of Equitie the Patrons of Equitie God graunt you a long and Honourable state vnder our worthy Salomon Amen From my