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A03475	Panēguris D. Elizabethæ, Dei gratiâ Angliæ, Franciæ, & Hiberniæ Reginæ. A sermon preached at Pauls in London the 17. of November ann. Dom. 1599. ... and augmented in those places wherein, for the shortnes of the time, it could not there be then delivered. VVherevnto is adioyned an apologeticall discourse, whereby all such sclanderous accusations are fully and faithfully confuted, wherewith the honour of this realme hath beene vncharitably traduced by some of our adversaries in forraine nations, and at home, for observing the 17. of November yeerely in the forme of an holy-day ... By Thomas Holland, Doctor of Divinity, & her Highnes professor thereof in her Vniversity of Oxford.; Panēguris D. Elizabethae, Dei gratiâ Angliae Reginae	Holland, Thomas, 1539-1612.	1601 (1601)	STC 13597; ESTC S104142	118,907	169

Christ let not this my censure be a discouragement vnto any one that approveth this order of dealing with the Adversary from his good labours since no question if any incline this way this kinde of writing is a gift given him from aboue Assuring him that my wordes heerein are no causes of discouragement vnto him or anie others that shal labor in this course but I wish in the Lord that these admonitions may serue as caveats and watchwordes and wardwordes as some of late haue written to al such as preferre this kinde before anie other and take this the fittest field for them to bestowe their manuring of and the best ground to til the ground which wil yeelde greatest blessing to their labours For their circumspectnesse herein wil doe great good both to the matter and method This advertisement I thoughte good here to inserte as appertinent to the purpose for that this kinde of writing vnlesse it bee managed in such sort as I haue specified before breedeth most inconvenience to the Author troubleth most the Reader and least disadvantageth the adversary But whether long discourse or scholastical method best serue your studies and bee most fit for controversie writers I wil not here further discusse but refer each man in the Lord to his owne inclination neither am I to prescribe to any one what course to take only I speake therein mine opinion as one that by Gods mercy haue long travailed in these exercises and as one that hath obtained mercy of the Lorde to be faithfull 1. Cor. 7. Asserteining that these 2. Plutarch Virgil. Math. 25. waies are not like the Bivium of Hercules neither the letter of Pythagoras nor the right hād nor the left in the day of iudgmēt But if they be wel handled like the 2. Apoc. 11. Nazian Tetrast 1. oliue braūches and two cādelstickes which wil stand before the God of the Earth And like those 2. goodly pearles of life whereof Nazianzene speaketh in his Tetrastikes of which whosoever shal embrace either he shal not loose his labour 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is both of them are fitte louely But here I finde 2. sortes of people misliking my present exhortatiō First some wil deeme that by this discourse I meane to reduce againe into the Church the olde Dunsery of the Schoolmen long agoe cōdemned in the world by special verdit exiled out of the Church reputed by al graue and learned divines rather a trade of blinde Sophistry then a right course of sound divinity To these that obiect vnto me in this eager bitternes I answere on this maner If they meane the matters that the Schoole-mē debate in their darke and cloudie affected obscurity prophane mixture of Philosophie with divinity let them assure themselues this course I condemne as wel as they and repute such schooles in many places worthy to be striken with that thunder-bolte of the Prophets Esaiae 1. Ier. 2. How is the faithfull city become an harlott Thy silver is become drosse thy wine is mixte with water My people hath forsaken me the founteine of liuing waters digg thē pittes evē brokē pittes that can holde no water VVhat hast thou to doe in the way of Aegypt to drinke vp the vvater of Nilus or vvhat makest thou in the vvay of Assur to drinke the vvater of the river And that al that follow these courses in that forme with them are no better thē those impure Philistines that filled the welles vvith earth Gen. 28. that Abrahā the holy Patriarch had digged If otherwise I say that noe man of learning and iudgement can iustly condemne the scholastical method Their manner of briefe distinguishing Their short obiecting Their art of summary and material aunswering Their practise of short substātial concluding Neither is this mine opinion alone herein but also the iudgment of Anthony Sadeele a man for knowledge of Divinity aboue al exceptions of any gainesayer Antonius Sadeele de vera methodo Theologicè simul ac Scholasticè disputādi vnto whose censure I doe appeale heerein to whose opinion I doe subscribe to whose tract of this Argument I referre the Readers Assuring al learned Schollers that if the drosse tinne of Schoole-divinity be purged and burned away by the true fire of Gods word that the method of Schoole-learning is not lightly to be reiected neither vtterly to bee condemned The secōd sort of people that wil take offēce at this treatise are many such as make supposal that this persuasion of mine if it should take effect would greatly hinder the vnspeakeable benefitte vvhich godlie preaching worketh in the Church amongst Christiā people To this I answere God forbid that this exhortation or any other by me vttered should be anie impediment or any waies a motion to hinder the gift of soule-saving preaching 1. Thes c. 5 cōcerning which the Apostle hath writtē to the Thessalonians in this māner Quench not the Spirit despise not prophecying which because it doth cōtaine these three benefits namely edification exhortation and cosnolation the same Apostle preferreth before the miraculous giftes of tongues which was the admirable treasure giuen to the Church after our Saviour Christ his ascension to be imploied to the gathering together of the Saints and for the edification of Christs body Yet I beseech them that are of this mind faithfully iudicially to examine how I shal refel by Gods grace this coniecturall supposal and misconceiued imagination True it is I must confesse that the gift of preaching in our church and in al the Churches vnder the cope of heaven is a sacred and a most beneficial gift if it be sincerely ministred that the true vse of it is farre to bee preferred before the vse of tongues and many other giftes in the Church that it was the summe of that cōmission which our Saviour gaue to his Apostles both before and after his Ascension 2 Tim. 1. v. 14. that it is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or that worthy thing that P. commended to Timothy and that thing which he was by the Apostle commaunded to deliver to faithfull men which should be able also to teach others Yet this nothing impeacheth the true vnderstanding of the former proiect as by the grace of God it shal appeare by this sequele There may be numbred in this Realme at these times neere 5000. Preachers Catechists Exhorters God be praised who increase the number of thē The maine streame and tide of Students in Divinity is caried wholie this way not without some secret influence of Gods spirite I doubt not In the Vniversities the greatest nūber of scholers desire to haue their names in the register of the sonnes of the Prophets Now of these 5000. if there were but 50. able men dedicated to this worke men qualified in gifts men which like Hur Aaron would hold vp Moses hands Exod. 17. whilest Ioshua and Israel discomfite Amalecke I dare boldly speak that

the righteous that her memory should be sacred and honourable in all ages to come for that shee came from the vtmost partes of the earth to Ierusalem to vsing Hilarius his bookes inoffenso pede Without tripping or stumbling into error next after the reading of holy writt Nay if women might not haue beene learned the Prophet Ioel would neuer in his second Chap. haue foretold that in the state of the new testament maidens should prophecy Gods spirit beeing powred out vpō the church imediatly after Christ our sauiours ascensiō which should with a mighty floud neuer failing in aboundance of waters to the end of the world water from aboue the whole body of the church as the mist that did use out of the spring amiddest Paradise out of which the riuers issuing watered the garden and made it fruitfull Secondly you must not onely stay here but you must needs proceede somewhat further in the vnfouldinge of these words To heare the wisedome of Salomon As they that looke vpon the sunne ought not onely to consider the brightnes of his face when it is orientall but also sometimes bend themselues to consider the benefit of his reflexion and besides this also him that is the creator of this sunne by which this materiall worlde receiueth light Ambros Hexam 4. die 4. cap. 1 according as Sant Ambrose hath taught lib. 4. hexamer die 4. cap. 1. So in this poinct also you are not onely to consider the wisedome of this Queene in proposing to king Salomon these hard questions but here we are by the way of reflexion to consider that which is added 1. King 10.3 and 2. Chrō 9.2 how well king Salomon satisfied the Queenes obiections how wel he resolued her doubts 1. King 10.3 2. Chro. 9.2 which followeth in these words And Saloman declared vnto her all her questions nothing was hid from the king which he expounded not vnto her These things noted as from the body of the sun wee proceede to consider the benefit of his reflexion and from the reflexion to consider the creator of the sun namely him that made the sun to be the great light to rule the day to shine vpon the earth to separate the day from the night to distinguish seasons dayes yeeres c. so we must not here persist in considering Salomon onely Sy●●s Hymn 5. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1. King 10.3 2. Chr. 9.2 but we must with all let this action of Salomon leade vs by the hand to consider his greatnes wisedome power fullnes of all knowledge whome king Salomon in this action prefigured O! king Salomon the text saith And Salomon declared vnto her all her questions nothing was hid from the king which he expounded not vnto her Which words in opinion import thus much such hard questions as this Queene proposed Salomon answered such darke speeches as this Queene obiected king Salomon cleared such doubtful matters as moved some scruple in her minde king Salomon dissolved all maner of reasons that shee could alleadge by the way of disputation king Salomon satisfied there was no secret of this Queenes heart but immediatly the holy and heavenly wisedome of God that shined in king Salomon a vpon the reference did vnfold it Now if king Salomon a mortall man though a notable figure of Christ coulde so largely and aboundantly and sufficiently answere all this Queenes doubtes and fully satisfie how much more sufficiently is the son of ●od able to satisfie al the doubts that rise in the church which this Queene here figuratiuely representeth and to the comfort of the whole church militant fully answere all obiections that either the flesh the world the devill yea man or ●ngell can mooue being the w●sedome of the father the beloved sonne whom the father hath referred vs to heare Ioh. 5. who hath received the holy ghost not by measure of whose fulnesse we haue received all grace for grace whose name be blessed for ever I conclude here this part for that I haue a little before handled this point by the way of comparison and therefore neede not to reiterate same vide pag. D. The next particular of the second generall that commeth to mine handes in this text to be discussed is how this honorable wise Queen behaveth her selfe in king Salomons court Our Saviour saith shee came from the vttermost endes of the earth to heare king Salomons wisedome The wisedome of king Salomon as I haue sufficiently before declared was not only speculatiue but practical it was not renowmed only as it was called Sapientia but as it vvas also Prudentia neither was king Salomon famous for his vniversall knowledge only but hee was honourably spoken of for that he managed all aff●res of his country kingdome and whatsoever he tooke in hand Sapientia to the root Prudentia to the flower of M●●y 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Nazian in tetrastich Arast Eth 6 vvith great prudence wisedome and discretion and marshalled all things answerable to his place and honour For although sapience prudence be two pretious ●ewels and two vertues of rare excellent effects yet neverthelesse as one is greater then the other so one is more profitable to some states and persons then the other yea sometimes in some persons one of them is not linked with the other yea oftentimes one of them is like to the hearb Moly that Homer speaketh of Odyss μ. in roote the other may more fitly bee compared to the hearb Molyes flower Yet as Naziar zeu saith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Both of them are gracious and louely This thing Aristotle hath learnedly obserued and verily pithily by the way of comparison noted in these words And in this antithesis or mutuall reference Wisedome is a vertue meere intellectuall proposing to it selfe things only contemplatiue Prudence an actiue vertue proposing to it selfe operation in such things as are meere pract●ke Wisedome respecteth thinges most excellent in nature yea it seeketh to learne misteries aboue the compasse of nature prudence worketh vpon such matters as are cōmodious for civile life Wisedome regardeth only knowledge and therein reposeth her contentation Prudence respecteth how shee may benefit her selfe others there is her delectation Wisedome considereth vniversals Prudence considereth particulars and how things are in vse and may be well vsed Wisedoms obiect are thi●gs alwaies immutable as they be in themselues and in their causes as far forth as Intellectus agens The actiue vnderstanding which is the eie of mās soule is able to reach Prudence is wholly exercised in matters deliberatiue or in civile actiōs to the life of mā commodious or discommodious in such things I say as are often by their sundry events particularly altered sometimes by one occasion sometimes by another yet alwaies such as serue mans life to some good end or other Wisedome is only behouefull and good for the party that spēdeth his time in contēplatiō but Prudence studieth to benefit it selfe resteth not

tacitarum literarum ad aures ipsorum per venire and that they would vouchsafe to imitate herein the commendable example of Foelix the Deputy though otherwise a corrupt Iudge Act ●3 who would not heare S. Paule his most iust defence neither release him vppon the testimoniall contained in Claudius Lysias his Epistle vntill hee had heard what his adversaries could speake against him I desire thee to obserue herein also Gentle Reader that in this tract my chiefe drift and intent is only to answere such accusatiōs as are obiected against our celebrities now yearly vsed the 17. of November in manner forme before specified But yet because the authours of this accusatiō haue so cunningly framed their speeches that it is vnpossible almost to defend the solemnes of the Coronation without mention also of our thankfulnesse to God in remembring the day of the Queenes Nativity very willingly in defending the one I acknowledge my selfe no lesse armed to defend the other And although I mention only or for the most part the day of the Coronation yet vnderstande that the very same obiections are for the most part of that nature that oppugning the one they doe oppugne the other those accusations I meane that they alleadge against the Coronation day fitted by them artificially doe serue to oppugne also our celebrities vsed for Queene Elizabeths birth-day imitating herein the skil of experimented Canoniers who although they take their aime directly against one parte of an opposite rampire of stone which they batter doe not only strike that parte which they fixe their eies vppon in the discharge but immediately strike the directly adverse part also by no lesse violence in repercussion and rebound imitating I saie herein Echoes in which one voice doth yeeld two soūds and those brasen Cymbals in the temple of Iupiter Dodonaeus Chil. Eras Cent. 1. Suidas which were so artificially contrived that if one ranke were touched the other also sounded resembling likewise the sound of the Lute which if you presse in the necke with the left hand the right hand is enforced to strike the same strings in the belly of the Lute And that I may the better keepe my selfe within compasse in few words I wil lay downe the state of the Controversie that in it you may see the substance of the matters in this argumente to be discussed THE STATE OF THE QVESTION 1 Whether the sacred solemnities at these times yearly celebrated by the Church of England the 17. of November commonly named QVEENE ELIZABETHS HOLY DAY bee repugnant to the immaculate institutions of the law of God and to the reverend and Christian constitutions of the holy Catholique Church 2. Whether the triumphs vndertaken and performed at Courte that day ●onfires r●nging of bels discharging of Ordinance at the Tower of London in the honour of the Queene and other signes of ioy then vsually and wilingly exhibited by the people of our Land to expresse their vnfaine a loue to hir Maiestie be laudable convenient and in their owne natures tollerable in a Christian Common-wealth The Adversaries holde the Negatiue as it hath appeared and doth appeare by speeches and writings we hold and teach the contrary to thē heerein but because a bare Assertion is not of sufficient validity to decide a matter controversial a bare Negatiue is not of it selfe in such a case a sound sufficient answer without the reason of our Negatiue Cic. 1. de Natura De. orum Ipse dixit Turpe est philosopho aliquid dicere sine ratione quātò magis Theol. and since Pythagaras his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is not a grounde sure inough in controversies now a daies for the opponent to vse or the Adversarie to relie vppon without other probable and sufficient reasons the particular and sincere alleadging of our Adversaries obiections and the allation of our answers wil easilie demonstrate who maintaine the vndoubted truth and who deale sophistically maliciously vntruely And because in custome of Schooles oppositions ordinarilie are precedent to solutions In places of iudgment accusations are accustomably heard before defences plaintifes informe before defendantes put in their answeres I will first lay downe what exceptions our Adversaries take against the solemnization the 17. of November in this Realme performed who be the accusers in this action what manner of persons they bee that haue picked this quarrell with what ●ile their weapons haue beene sharpdened in what mould they haue beene cast on what anvilde they haue beene hammered The Accusers I finde in this Action foure accusers three of them of our owne nation O●om in Macchab. the fourth by profession a Iesuite or as they call themselues of the Society of Iesus borne in Lorayne as he saith himselfe Sand. de schi●●m pa. 302 303. Ra●n in Calu. Iui●● Lib. 2. Pag 347. Cap. 18. by name Nicolaus Serrarius The English men are Nicolas Sanders in his booke de schismat● Pag. 302.303 William Raynolds in Cal. Turc Lib. 2. Pag. 347. Cap. 18. according to these additions in which they are now printed the third also which I take to be an English man I terme Anonymall because those things that he hath obiected come to me but at the second hand and by the reference of some other the authour remaining Individuum vagum But because Sanders Reynolds Serrarius are holdē men of greater reputation for opiniō of learning varietie of reading and laborious penning by them that preferre Babylon before Syon the traditions of men before the heavenly inspired and purified word of light and life I will especially insist in this discourse vpon such accusations as they haue devised contrived vttered and set abroach in the world Accusation The Church and common wealth of England transgresseth against the lawes and offendeth against the sacred practises of the holy Catholique Church and by the issue thereof against God in that it solemnly celebrateth the 17 of November and ordeineth it to be a holy day or day sacred by church-service to the honour of Queene Elizabeth The triumphes at Courte and other signes of ioy that day vsually exhibited by the people of the Land are foolish ridiculous meere heathenish and actions that savoure of nothinge else but meere ●latteries c. The summe of these accusations and the substance of these exclamations which they haue vsed in this debatement may be reduced breisely to these heads conveniently digested after this manner Obiections appertaining to the fi●st generall head The repugnancy of these solemnizations and celebrities to Gods holy word and the constitution of the holy Church they haue endevoured to proue after this sorte Such publique offices of any church that cannot bee warranted by Gods holy word that haue neither presidēt therein to patronage them not any good consequent out of scripture which also haue neither decree Canon nor constitution of the holy catholique church neither any approued testimony of any history or of holy Father are meere vnlawfull

say in Wiltsh●●e as others say in the Dioces of Bathe and Wells Fabia Chro 2 Pet. 2 wi●h faire words and coveto●snesse they shall make merchandise of you that shevveth not mercy vnto himselfe But to returne to S. Hugh the severity of his life the report of his devotion caused him to bespoken of farre and wide and toto be talked of in many countries and nations Herevpō Henry the 2. king of England procured him to be sent for out of Burgundy into England and first advaunced him to be Prior of an house of the Carthusians it VVictam vvhich house he greatly inriched by his often repaire to the King at whose handes he cunningly ob●●i●ed many golden gratifications and no small summe of come to that vse His advancement to his Bishopricke his demeanor therein After this he was advaunced by the king to the Sea of Lincolne was in so great favour with him that the king relled not at any quietnesse or content of mind till he had raised him vp to that dignity and had caused him to bee invested in that Episcopal seate and to be consecrated by the Metropolitan of of Canterbury Being settled it this sea of Lincolne he severely executed al Ecclesiasticall censures vpon malefactours namely vpon lavvlesse Forresters whom noe church censures in those times coulde scarse suppresse But in most thinges he crossed the kings courses by whome he was advaunced to his dignity and honor which with what spirit he performed God only knoweth Who liued a litle before But the world thought that he walked very neere to Thom. Beckets steppes and liked over much his proceedings Hee likevvise verie sharpely punished all such Archdeacons of his Iurisdiction that were bribers would not haue offenders pennance commuted his diligence in cōferring holy Orders vpon such as sought them is specified in few words by the author of his life likewise his exhortations to the Archbishops and the Fathers of the church to vnity peace and concord his quiet demeanure vvith his Chapter and associates in Lincolne being in disposition naturally cholericke his religious care in perfourming solemne obsequies in funerals his kissing of leapers his great zeale to life contemplatiue his great paine and chardge in building the church of Lincolne from the foundation his carrying of of stones to this monument vppon his ovvne shoulders his severe administratiō of iustice his gift of prophecy are with like brevity by the same author registred His death and funerall Hee continued B. in the Sea of Lincolne some 15. or 16. yeares 58. daies and deceased this life at London the 17. of November in the raigne of K. Iohn as it shoulde seeme about the 2. or 3. yeare of this kings raigne Anno Domi. 1201. being at the time of his decease of the age of threescore yeares or therabout His body was honourably conveyed from London where he deceased to Lincolne his funeralls were solemnely attended vpon all the way thither with great concourse of people through all the coasts by the which it was carried he was buried in a Parliamēt time at Lincolne K. Iohn and the K. of Scotts then raigning being then present at the celebration of his obsequies accōpanied with Arch. Bishops of the Realme with many Earles Barons Abbotts great multitude of the Cōmon people He was canonized to be a Saint by Pope Honorius the 3. An Do. 1280. Some 80. years or therabout after his decease his body was taken vp and shrined solemnly The certaine time and yeare of his Canoniz is not noted Honorius the 3. Sedit An 10 menses 8 who died ab●ut A.D. 1227. Platina de vit Pont. O●●ph Chr●ni●o Observations vpon his life gathered out of Surius and the great Missall First in the whole discourse of his life I finde little mentiō of Christs merits of the mysteries of the passiō of our redemption and of his infinite graces and mercies that haue beene most aboundantly powred vpon his church wheras S. Paul in his 14. Epistles containing in summe of leaues a small volume matter vnexplicable hath in each chapter in some sort expressed sometimes at large amply somtimes in a word every where pithily to purpose yea 500. times at the least the blessed name of Iesus may be quoted out of these Epistles And yet the penner of this S. Hughes life hath scarse quoted in a long verball discourse the name of Iesus once neither hath he made any great mention of Christs merittes neither of the great mystery of our redemptiō which should be the scope that all that d●●cribe the Sancts liues shoulde principally obserue should be the worke that all writers in desciphering Sancts liues should onely arme at For Bernard in Cant. Serm. 13. in comparisō of Christs glo●y I safely and sincerely may say with Bernard Quis credat par●et● si se dicat parturire radium quem suscipit per ●enestram aut si glorienter nubes quod imbres generint quis nonirredeat Mihi liquidò constat nec de canalibus orir●rivos aquarum nec de labijs vel dentibus verba prudentiae et si sensus vl●rà corporeus non attingat Siqua sanc in sanctis digna lande veladmiratione intueor clara luce veritatis discutiens profectò reperio laud●bilē sive mirabilem alium apparere atque alium esse et laudo Deum in sanctis eius Sive sit Helisaeus siue ille magnus Helias mortuorum vtique suscitatores ipsi quidem suo non imperio sed ministerio foris exhibent nobis nova et insueta Deus ver● in ipsis maneus ipse facit opera invisibitis et inaccessabilis ●● se in suis spectabilis atque mirabilis qui facit mirabilia solus Nec laus cala●● laudabilis est pictura sive scriptura nec gloria linguae aut labicrum sermo boni● Who will beleeue the wall that saith it brought forth the Sunne beame vvhich it receiveth through the windowes or who would not scoffe at the cloudes if they vaunte that they begate the shoures I am fully perswaded that neither rivers of water do rise out of the chanels through which they rūne nor the vvordes of wisedome out of the lippes and teeth which vtter them although by any bodily s●nse wee can reach noe farther coniecture no other If I see in the saints any thing worthy praise and admiration examining it by the cleere light of truth I verily finde that it is one who appeareth commendable and admirable and another who is so indeede and so I praise God in his Saintes Whether it be Elisaeus or that great Elias both raisers of the dead they indeede exhibite and shew vnto vs apparently new and vnaccustomed miracles not by their own autority but by their ministery But it is God who abiding in them doth these workes himselfe God vvho in himselfe is invisible and vnapproachable but in his Ministers visible and vvonderfull doth these vvonders alone Neither is laudable vvriting or