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A04852	A sermon preached at White-Hall the 5. day of November. ann. 1608. By John King Doctor of Divinity, Deane of Christ-Church in Oxon: and Vicechauncellor of the Vniversity. Published by commandement	King, John, 1559?-1621.	1608 (1608)	STC 14986; ESTC S108048	22,863	44

did not demand with grones of heart Misericors quid facit VVhat meaneth his Maiestie to deale so graciouslie with them Some iustice with mercy and lenitie woulde doe wel Some frostes with the fire that warmeth these snakes in the bowels of your lande Some pluckes at these thornes and prickles in our eies the meane time and wil bee hereafter in our ●ides and hearts Least if iustice goe on to sleepe as ●t were hir dead sleepe the tares of disloialty treasons and seditions be so thicke sowen in the field of your kingdomes by those envious men the seedes-mē of Rome that it wil be difficulty and maistry afterwards to remoue them The foundations you haue heard before were in sundry acceptions I omitted one of all the rest that fundamenta were retia nets which the wicked spred to entrappe the righteous their crafty and clandestine coūsailes whervpon they built the whole frame of their mischiefes These were cast downe al their proiects descried their purposes frustrated But by whom For iustus quid fecit What hath the righteous done to breake those snares and to deliver himselfe That is the path which Basill with some others walke in so they make the connexion The answere is nihil nothing lesse then nothing Ad dominum ceu anchoram sacram confugit hee fled to the Lord as his anker altar sanctuarie cittie of refuge tower of defence mons in vertice montium mountaine aboue all mountaines that is to saie helper aboue all worldelie helpers The Lorde is in his holy temple The Lordes seate is in heaven Our soule hath also escaped as a birde from the snare of the fowler The snare is broken and vvee are delivered By whome Benedictus d. Blessed be the Lorde that hath not giuen vs vp a pray to their teeth That is Dominus in templo suo sancto If the Lord had not bin on our side may England now saie if the Lord had not beene on our side what then Our foundations had beene cast downe and theirs had beene reared vp But adiutorium nostrum Our helpe standeth in the name of the Lord which made heauen and earth Dominus in templo sancto suo But what will the wicked saie Dominus in templo sancto suo Dominus in coelo c. What is that to vs populus in scabello maie doe what they list Dominus deseruit terram The Lorde hath forsaken the earth Not so Jt is answered in my text Oculi eius respiciunt his eies behold nay palpebrae eius interrogant his very eylidds consider hee siteth not idly in heauē as the wicked imagin There is apertio oculorum saith S Austin and opertio Opēning and shutting the eie in God his eie his eielid God seeth with his open eie when hee discouereth a thing at the present and causeth vs also to see it But considereth with his eielid when he maketh as if he slept winketh at the waies of sinners taketh leasure and respite before he bring them to light It is not to be thought but that oculus respexit if you cōsider himselfe the bright eie of the Lord was vpon the first thought and imagination of this Salmonean thunder and lighning and followed thē in the whole course therof went with them when they trudged to Doway and gadded to Spaine marked the hissing of the bee of Aegypt to the fly of Assur all the intelligēce I meane that past betwixt the Leiger Iesuite in England with the leigers of Flaunders and Spaine yet he bewraied not this at the first but palpebrae eius explorarunt he sate with his eies shut considered vnder his eieliddes bare himselfe silent and stil let them runne on til they had runne themselues to perdition You see what palpebrae are I could giue you strange examples perhapps not proper to this daie more then others yet neither impertinent to my duty nor vnacceptable to a loiall auditorie nor strangers to my text where palpebrae are mentioned nor aliene from the worke we haue in hand our greate Hallelüiah and solemne sacrifice of praise thanksgiuing For doe we blesse God for preseruing the life of our King and shal we not blesse him for preseruing the honour of our King I verilie assure my selfe that discrimen and narrow exigent of life which his Maiestie was put vnto when he was in the fanges of the Lion in the very armes gripes of death did not so much afflict him as an vndeserued crime imputation cast vpō him of a dishonorable fact done Qui negligit famā homicida est It was 8. years since vpō the fifth of August last that the Gowries conspired against the life of the Lordes annointed and receaued their deserued meed There haue beene oculi nequam in the world mistrustfull eies that haue looked awry vpon that fact euer since would not beleeue it But what hath the Lord done the meanetime Albeit oculus non respexit his eie did not open out of hand and giue them present satisfaction yet palpebrae explorarunt his eieliddes considered he thought vpon it in secret in the counsaile of his owne heart and by a posthumous penitent tonfession after the conspirators were most of them dead and almost rotten of one of the complices themselues laid it as it were in the sunne-beames and put it past al question It were strange to giue you a parallele to this coetaneous I thinke in time and of the same standing It was eight yeares since likewise in the daies of Clement the eighth that Letters were sent vnto Rome to the Pope and two Cardinals Aldobrandine and Bellarmine wherein the hande of the King was abused his heart neuer coulde I doe but touch by the way I am vox clamantis the voice to a famous crier and lowde trumpetter of these thinges The matter hath long slept yeares after yeares haue expired and Pope deceased after Pope But palpebrae eius explorârunt though the eie of the Lorde hath not seemed to stirre al this while his Eie-liddes haue considered and bethought of the meanes and opportunitie to bring all forth And now at length truth the daughter of time or rather of the euerliving God though not by that miracle in the Psalme Ex ore infantium yet by an other not inferiour Ex ore malignantium out of the mouthes and hearts of enimies which intended a scandall to his sacred person hath as strangely discouered this as that other to the glorie of his great name and the honour both of king and kingdome Both these haue the eie-liddes of the Lorde considered and revealed the one after eight yeares and the other after eight the one by an actor or accessarie to the fact the other by the actour the one by occasion of papers and skrolles the other by occasion of papers and pamphlets And now to the seruice of this happie day wherein wee sing our Hosanna and commemorate our great and general iubilee Let this bee added as not the

the whole progeny father and sonne damme young roote and branch res and spes present and to come all must haue drunke of this deadly cup of woful desolation Now to put al togither if foundations of buildings must haue beene cast downe and Priests the foundations doctrines the foundations couenāts the foundatiūs lawes the foundations counsailes the foundations and successions the foundations we had beene as one summeth it vp Eversi à fundamentis quite turned vp by the rootes razed from the lowest foundations our church our common-wealth our gouernment our bodies our families our posterity had beene vtterly ouerthrowne When Elizaeus eied Hazāel 2. Reg. 8. with the teares running downe his cheekes to thinke of the euill he should doe to Jsrael in burning their citties with fire dashing their infants against the stones in the streets and ripping vp the women with childe Hazâel answered Num enim sum servus tuus canis vt faciam rem istā magnam Am I thy seruant a dog can I bee so forsaken of humanity and loose the bowels of manly compassion What then doth res ista magna deserue to bee thought of not the rash and wofull attempt of vnfortunate gentlemen as our Italionated Mountebancks seeke to salue it but the most nefarious facinorous flagitious incogitable fact of persōs with their proctors and patrones neither generous for what drop of ingenuous bloud was in them Nor men for what sparke of humanity Nor dogges vnlesse of the brood of Cerberus nor Tigers nor Panthers nor euening Wolues nor shee-Beares nor any thing but by the vnnaturallest strangest 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that euer was feigned by Poets very incarnated transanimated devils Who that they were vnfortunate in it that God that sitteth in heauen and ruleth not by fortune or chance but by an architectonicall soueraigne art of vnfallible prouidence be praised for euer and ever Amen Amen I haue yet the cause to demaunde VVhat hath the righteous done Quid commeruit What hath he deserued Bucer Quid enim mali At leastwise what evill Arnob what had David done Or what Davids like who walketh in the steps of David I appeale to the conscience of your Maiestie that inwarde reflexe of your Princely heart and to the open and broad eie of the world what harme had you euer done them Was it bycause you eased them of their fines and impositions Or sent them with life and limme vntouched beyond seas Or admitted them to your gracious presence and let the light of your countenance fal vpon them Hebrewes and Aegyptians both alike Or distributed your fauours honors aduancements of them and their houses with an equal hande For which of your good deedes Or was it because you receaved not the whole weapon into your bosome as C. Fimbria complained of Q. Scaevola That you diuided not the halfe of your kingdome to the Pope as Herode promised halfe of his to an harlot That you allowed not copartnership in supremacy with you within your own Dominions Realmes Admitted not altare contra altare a linsey wolsey miscellan medlyreligion within the land here an house for the arke there a temple for Dagon More then this which as far be from your sacred Maiestie ever to yeeld vnto as you are neare to Christ and christian simplicity iustus quid fecit VVhat hath the righteous done This this is the true cause and euer wil be the quarrell whilest the couenant of daie and night standeth that the Gospell of Christ and the faithfull professors thereof are not either wholy expelled the kingdome or affronted mated at least with a pellex I meane an adulterous idolatrous religion to haue as firme footing in the land as the other hath In the daies of your predecessor of memorable glory whilst she liued now of as glorious a memory what was the cause of their multiplied variated complotments against hir like the monsters in Africk everie daie almost a new conspiracy that then they gaue hir not leaue to liue now not leaue to be dead and to sleepe in hir dust but are angry at hir very manes Nec mors mihi finiet iras Saeua sed in manes manibus arma dabo that they haue ript hir vp from hir cradle runne through hir life to hir graue and will needs go down into hell to seeke hir immortall now immaculate incorruptible soule amongst hobgoblins and infernall spirits you knowe my author what is the cause J say Iusta quid fecit Rather man sueta quid fecit Gracious Lady what had shee euer done Whose finger did she euer cause to ake and hir heart aked not with him Only this that she nurst vp with the milke of hir breasts and hazarded to haue done with the dearest bloud in hir veines that euangelicall truth which by the blessing of God and your Maiesties zeale this Church yet retaineth But our comfort is Si canes nos allatrauerint consciderint auferre nobis nō possunt quin simus homines rationis participes illi autem sint canes latrantes Men shall be men notwithstanding the barkings of dogges dogges shall be doggs And therefore avaunt now not Hazāels dog whosoeuer thou art but hellish Curre 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for what was the fire of hell prepared if not for such tongues Go seeke thy Popes Cardinalls Cortizās thy Incubos Succubos amongst hobgoblins infernall spirits surrexit non est hìc she is in heauen she is not there she shal be a Saint in heauen when thou shalt be a dog without and as shee sate vpon a glorious throne in earth to iudge hir people so shall she sit vpon a far more glorious throne in heauen to iudge such miscreants as thou art Nullam habet authoritatem illa sententia vbi qui damnandus est damnat Thy tongue cannot hurt hir with God nor good men though it be as peircing as hot irons hette like the ouen of Babylon seuentimes red-hot at the fornace and hearth of hell it selfe Most Gracious Soueraigne You are yet a liuing Lion And the Lion of the tribe of Iudah graunt you may long and long so be It may be they feare the Lions paw and dare not as yet breake forth But when you shall bee a dead Lion as that imperiall Lionesse now is and Lions must die as well as wormes these dogges will barke at your manes to these Aegyptiacal dead flies will cause the sweet ointment of your precious and glorious name to stinke vpon the face of the earth what in them lieth with their Leprous venemous breath and libellous infamous pamphlets as they do hirs Jt is not this plea Iustus quid fecit That can excuse you I would they had iuster cause to aske iustus quid facit That your Maiesty would do them right and administer iustice vpon them in the timely execution of your Lawes and necessary castigation coercion of their vnrestrainable audaciousnesse That your faithfull and good subiects