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A sermon preached before his Maiestie at the court at Greenewich the 2. of Iuly. 1632. By Geo: Iay Mr. of Arts and late student of Christ-church in Oxon
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Jay, George, b. 1597 or 8.
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turne our eyes aside Tibi doth particularize and brings downe this Crowne upon every mans head And indeed a particular word doth well for Corona For 't is a single head that must be ingirt with a Crowne Regnum non patitur consortem A Crowne cannot bee set upon the heads of two men at once much lesse upon a many headded multitude This Crowne will fit but a single head 't is Ego dabo tibi Coronam Corona A Crowne is the highest honour and happinesse upon earth 't is a Circle that takes in all that the earth can afford And therefore if wee will take a resemblance of the Saints glory from any thing in this world earth cannot yeeld a higher then to call it a Crowne He that weares the Crowne swayes and commands all within the orbe of his power But the greatest Scepter-swayer that this world affords is oftentimes overswayed and borne downe by his owne passions and infirmities But when this Crowne shall be set upon our heads ther 's not the meanest vassayle but shall feele more content in having dominion and power and free command over himselfe then the greatest Monarch ever found in being able to moue a whole Empire of subiects with the breath of his mouth A Crowne is circular when once you are in it you may run round without end which caries it aboue the spheare of mortalitie and makes it truely a Crowne of life and that 's my last word Corona vitae I know not whether a man may safely say that this passage of ours from earth to earth from the wombe to the tombe bee a life or no. I thinke that which one said of men at sea that he knew not whether they might be reckoned amongst the living or the dead may be as well said of all that are a shoare for he that now breaths with the greatest strength and freedome may presently breath out his last spiramus expiramus our breath like the doue of Noahs arke goes out and comes in goes out and never returnes againe Saint Paul saies wee die daily And our Saviour Christ that knew better how to tearme this naturall being of ours then wee our selues sayes they are but dead men that carie others to Church The dead bury the dead Luk. 9. verse 60. Hee therefore that will thinke to find true contentment in a Crowne must seeke it where no death is to bee found here is nothing but sinning therefore nothing but dying in heaven nothing but obedience and therefore nothing but life There is Corona vitae a Crowne that shall last for ever and that 's the tearme for which wee hold it T is not given to vs and our heires for ever but to us and our owne persons for ever And this doth distinguish it from all other gifts in the world Men thinke to make theiâ— deeds and grants immortall and to continue for ever they are conveied to them and their heirâ—s for ever But the Prophet sayes in the 37. Psalme that another takes possession of them and he sought them and they were no where to bee found Whereas this Ego in my text giues to this Tibi this gratious master to his faithfull servant an immortall gift a Crowne of life which shall make him liue for ever And now if wee ioyne all the words together Ego daho tibi Coronam vitae Wee shall find that hee hath given us a gift in proportion in weight and measure so farre beyond our service Rom. 8.18 that wee haue reason to confesse with Saint Paul that our sufferings and faithfulnesse is not worthy of the glory that shall be revealed vnto us the Crowne of life that shall be bestowed upon us And therefore we had need make a stand and cry out with the Prophet David O Lord what is man that thou art so mindfull of him Psal 144.3 or the sonne of man that thou so regardest him Had it not beene enough O Lord to make us little inferior to the Angels but thou must giue us a kingdome and crowne us with honour and glory and such a kingdome and such honour and such glory as shall haue no end Though the Kings of the earth are crowned and the Scripture call theÌ„ Gods Yet they are but mortall Gods and weare but corruptible crownes and the time shall come that will lay these Gods and these crownes low enough in the dust and these Gods and these crownes shall bee turned into dust into nothing But let this bee their comfort as God hath loved them with an everlasting loue so hee will crowne them hereafter with an everlasting Crowne A Crowne of such mettle that the rust of time shall never eate into not the continuance of eternity one for diminish the glory of it it shall bee an incorruptible crowne Death it selfe shall haue no power over it it shall been Crowne of life The Crowne shall be fitted to the head and the head to the Crowne an incorruptible Crowne upon an importall head As our bodies and soules shall liue for ever So our Crowne shall bee a crowne of life Bee thou faithfull c. Now the God that gaue us our being enable us to the performance of this duety and incline our hearts to serue him continually without interruption faithfully without dissimulation Let our devotion be sincere and then O Lord continue it untill death And after that according to thy promise and thou O God art iust in thy promises crowne us with glory and life to serue thee in thy kingdome for evermore Now to God the Father c. Amen FINIS