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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12604	The eunuche's conuersion A sermon preached at Paules Crosse, the second of February. 1617. By Charles Sonnibank, Doctor of Diuinitie, & Canon of Windsor.	Sonibancke, Charles, 1564-1638.	1617 (1617)	STC 22927; ESTC S114127	43,380	142

siluer into drosse The chiefest honour of a Noble or great man is vertue and the chiefest vertue is religion without the which how great soeuer hee bee at home or abroad and how noble soeuer he may seeme in his owne eyes yet is hee base and vile in the eyes of God In the second of Ieremie after that the people had forsaken God the Prophet saith They haue changed their glory for that which doth not profit as though the glory of a people were indeed the seruice of the true God and the ceasing so to serue him vvere the ceasing or loosing of their glory The feare of the Lord saith the wise sonne of Sirach in his first chapter is a glory to a man and a ioyfull crowne vnto his head A King may be a King but if hee want this feare he is a King but without a crowne A noble man may be noble but without this feare he shall want his glory A great man may be great either in his own or other mens eyes but if he want the feare of God his greatnes is but as the swelling of a bladder puft vp with wind which shal quickly vanish and come to nothing A rich man may be rich and may abound euen wallow in wealth yet if he be not rich in the Lord walke not in his feare his riches are but as the varnish vpon a rotten post hee is painted indeed with gold but his root is rottennesse his life is sinful and his end inglorious For the richest crowne and chiefest glory to great men in what kinde soeuer they be great is the fear and worship of God their greatest prerogatiue is to be of the houshold of faith their greatest freedom is to be the seruants of God their greatest nobilitie is their new birth in Christ and their greatest riches are the gifts and graces of Gods Spirit in them At the top of the scepter and of all greatnes sits Honor and at the foote of the scepter and of all greatnes sits Care not onely the care of performing such duties as belong to the places of such as are any way great but especially the care of seruing and fearing God from whom they haue their greatnesse without which care honour is but as a bundle of painted flowers that yeeld no true sweetnesse and greatnesse is but as a bunch vpon the back of a deformed creature which makes him the more misshapen and lothsome in the eyes of God Dauids glory was the Lord. Thou O Lord saith hee art my buckler the lifter vp of my head and my glory Psal 3.3 And Theodosius the Emperor hold it a greater honour vnto himselfe that he was Membrum Ecclesiae than that he was Caput Imperij that hee vvas a member of the Church and thereby the seruant of God than that hee was the head and Commaunder of the whole Empire And I am verely perswaded that our most Christian and princely Theodosius doth more reioyce and dooth herein take more comfort that hee is Defensor fidei Defender of the true ancient truly Catholique Apostolique saith than that he is Magnae Britaniae Rex the sole Monarch great Commander of Great Britaine And surely heerin cōsisteth our happiness for this we haue great cause to praise GOD for that our noblest plants both root branches planted by the Lords owne right hand in the best fattest grounds of our country who haue the best title greatest interest among vs to true nobility greatnes doe like vnto the fruitfull trees of Paradise bring foorth among vs not onely much hope but much fruite also of holinesse and religious pietie to the glory of God that heere hath planted them And as they for their parts so it is farther also to be wished that all they which are great in a subordinate and inferiour degree of greatnesse vnto them the greater they are the more they also would acknowledge themselues bound the more they would striue to worship and serue God who hath made them great that so it might be truly saide in our Church this Common-wealth that not onely Terra dat fructū suum the earth brings forth her increase when poore men doe gladly serue God but also that euen Coeli enarrant gloriam Dei astra matutina laudant eum that is the heauens set forth the glory of God and the morning stars praise him when our greatest Grandoes our noblest our chiefest great-ones are carefull to serue and to feare the Lord. And here me thinkes I haue a very fit and iust occasion offered me without straining or offering violence to my Text to speake vnto you Right Honourable whether you sit on the one or the other bench and to you Right Worshipfull wheresoeuer you are seated and howsoeuer you be ranked that heare me this day euen to as many of you as either for your honour your office or your wealth haue prime and principall places in this our Common-wealth and first by the example of this honourable rich Eunuch to tel you for your comforth that your greatnesse and plentie may stand with the seruice of God Christianity and next for your better remembring thereof to put you all in minde that by how much the more God hath beene bountifull to you aboue other men by so much the more you ought and are bound aboue other men to be dutifull and seruiceable vnto him because that from the sea of his bounty you haue receiued all your waters from the torch-light of his goodnesse you haue lighted all your candles from the fountaine of his fauour you haue filled all your pitchers and from the Mine of his treasures you haue receiued all your riches And therefore let mee speake vnto you that are mighty rich and great men in this assembly as Dauid did to the great men in his time Psal 29.1.1 Giue vnto the Lord O yee mighty giue vnto the Lord glory and strength giue vnto the Lord the glory due vnto his name Now seeing you cannot giue any actuall and reall seruice any actuall reall workes of bounty or requitall to the person of God himselfe both for that he is in heauen and needeth nothing that is yours yet doe them to the support of Gods trueth and the furtherance of religion do them to the maintenance of study and increase of learning doe them to Christs needy Saints and poore children and then know it remember it to your cōfort that what you doe to them you doe to Christ himselfe Matth. 25.40 who will not leaue you vnrewarded Dauid when he could not be kind nor shew his loue to Ionathan his dearest friend he shewed it to poore and lame Mephibosheth the sonne of Ionathan so seeing you cannot shew kindnesse to your Lord and Sauiour Iesus himselfe shew it to his lame Mephibosheth's his lame his poore his indigent and needy Saints and seruants Some write that although the gold myrrh and frankincense which were offered by the