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A14854 The bride royall, or The spirituall marriage betweene Christ and his Church Deliuered by way of congratulation vpon the happy and hopefull marriage betweene the two incomparable princes, the Palsegraue, and the Ladie Elizabeth. In a sermon preached vpon the 14. day of Februarie last past, the day of that royall marriage triumphant solemnization. At Steeple Ashton in Wiltshire by G.W. Master of Arts, and pastor there. Webbe, George, 1581-1642. 1613 (1613) STC 25157; ESTC S119574 28,181 98

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23.10 but would wish that his latter end might be like thine and that after this life ended he might go with thee though but as thy dogge to heauen Comfort against feare of want Let this comfort thee against feare of want and threate of foe In time of dearth thou shalt haue enough thou art the Kings childe Hee that feedeth the fowles of the aire Matth. 6 26. and cloatheth the grasse of the field He wil much more prouide both food and cloath for his owne childe Of foes And why shouldest thou feare a mortall man or the son of man in whom there is no strength Feare not saith the Lord I am he that created thee I haue redeemed thee I haue called thee by thy name Thou art mine when thou passest thorow the waters I will be with thee when thou walkest thorow the fire the flame shall not kindle vpon thee Isay 43.12 And what though Satan lay sore siege at the castle of thy distressed soule Of Satan Matth. 16.18 Yet the gates of hell shall not preuaile against thee for thou art the daughter of the King of heauen Reuel 12.7.8 The great Michael shall fight for thee The Red Dragon nor any of his Bitterns shall neuer be able to ouercome thee Vse 2 But let this strike a terror and amazement into the hearts of all those Of terror to the Churches persecutors who are persecutours of this Princely daughter whether they persecute her or any member of her whether with their tongue as Shimei 2. Sam. 16.7 or with their gesture as Ismael Gen. 21.19 Act. 12.1 or with their hands as Herod whether cunningly as Iezabel or openly 1. King 21.5 Exod. 5.14 3. Iohn 9. as Pharoah whether by themselues as Diotrephes or by others as the Scribes and Pharisies Matth. 26.3 That which was spoken to railing Rhabshekah out-brauing Hezechiah may very well be applied vnto them Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed Against whome hast thou exalted thy voice and lifted vp thine eyes on high euen against the holy one of Israel Isay 37.23 Base wretch knowest thou whom thou goest about to disgrace to wrong or to reproach Surely one that is farre better then thy selfe a Kings son or daughter euen a child of the King of heauen Will a King see his child wronged and not reuenge it Will a King put vp an indignitie offered vnto his royall blood if he haue power and abilitie to redresse it But this our heauenly King is omni-scient and therefore seeth He is omnipotent and therefore able to reuenge the wrongs and iniuries offered vnto any of his children He hath said that Whosoeuer toucheth any of these toucheth the apple of his eye Deut. 32.10 The wrongs done vnto them he reckoneth as done vnto himselfe Act. 9.4 The Lord will smite thorow thy loynes O thou hater of his children Deut. 33.11 It had beene better for thee that thou haddest beene neuer borne Better that a Milstone were hanged about thy necke and that thou wert drowned in the middest of the sea then that thou shouldest offend any of the King of heauens little ones Matth. 18.6 Lastly Vse 3 seeing the Church of Christ is so excellent and pretious For direction let this serue for our direction First that for our owne part we vse all diligence to make it sure to our soules that wee are members of it In our affections We see how carefull men are to be enfranchised into priuiledged places and incorporations Act. 22.28 how they striue for it and rather then they will forgoe it giue a great summe of money for it How much more should we endeuour to be members of the Church whereby we are not only made free Denizens of heauens Kingdome Reuel 1.5 but also sonnes and heires yea Kings and Priests in this kingdome One day in Gods Court is better then a thousand elsewhere It is better to be adore-keeper in the house of God then to dwell in the tabernacles of wickednesse Psal 84.2.10 In our childrens education And let this not only make our selues willing mēbers of Gods Church but let it also incite vs to bring our sonnes and daughters into the lap of this heauenly Kings Isay 43.6 Isay 49.21.22 daughter to consecrate our children with Hannah to Gods seruice 1. Sam. 1.11 and to prepare them to be Brides vnto the holy Lambe Reuel 19.7 Wee all that are parents doe desire to preferre our children to good marriages to linke them to honest families and thinke it a great grace to vs and them if they may bee matched into great houses or Noble bloods But what is all the nobilitie greatnesse wealth or dignitie of the world to the dignity of the Church What a glorie is this to haue our children linked into the blood celestiall to haue our sonnes Sonnes of Zion our daughters daughters of Abraham to haue them married to Christ Iesus and to bee sons and daughters to the King of heauen In our thankfull recordation And finally that I may conclude this point if Dauid when Saul had dissemblingly profered vnto him his daughter Merab to bee his wife as one astonished made answere Who am I and what is my life Or what is my fathers house in Israel that I should be sonne in law to a King 1. Sam. 18.17.18 How much more iustly may euery Christian soule when as the eternall God doth not by seeming shew alone profer but really and royally performe the profer not to be son in law alone but to bee his very sonne or daughter by adoption say with holy admiration and thankfull recordation Who am I or what is my fathers house or what is there in me that I should be the sonne or the daughter of the King of heauen We may wel say with the penitent Prodigall O heauenly Father Wee haue sinned against heauen and against thee and are not worthy to be called thy sons make vs as one of thine hired seruants Luk. 15.18.19 For vs who are but dust and ashes Gen. 18.27 It were a great priuiledge to be the seruants of his seruants to be his vassals his bond-men to be but doore-keepers in the house Psal 84.10 were a great priuiledge and honorable seruice Ephes 2.19 but to bee fellow citizen with the Saints and of the houshold of God Iohn 15.15 to bee not seruants but sonnes Rom. 8.17 to be not only sonnes but heires yea heires of God yea fellow heires with Christ What heart can sufficiently conceiue of this so great a grace What affection can sufficiently admire it What tongue can one halfe expresse it Thinke on it and bee thankefull for it thou being a mēber of the Church art a Kings child Gods daughter the Spouse of Christ And thus much briefly of the Churches excellencie proceed wee now to the second circumstance which is the Churches Bewtie The Kings daughter is all glorious within All glorious
a learned Christian King a Defender of the Christian faith one who hath been the glory of Schooles and vniter of Kingdomes Tanti Regis talis filia of so great a King so gratious a daughter yea the eldest daughter yea the onely daughter is this daies Bride This our Kings Daughter is all glorious within and not within onely but wholly admirable The God of Nature hath in her bodie made her a mirrour of Natures Beautie and in her soule a patterne of Graces pietie So that albeit in her outward shape to the sight of men she be exceeding glorious yet inwardly to the sight of her God she is most glorious so gratiously all holy graces in her being so compact together that it drawes the eies harts of al men to admiration to see so much pietie in such comely beautie so great humilitie in such a Maiestie Neither doe her glorious Bridall robes be they neuer so glittering with wrought gold or curiously embroydered by the art of man as no doubt this day for the solemnitie of it and the honour of her estate it is most glorious so much adorne her as the more then golden graces of Gods holy Spirit in her The Virgins companions she hath none being the only Iewel of this Northerne I le and the Non-parel of the reformed Christian world the Virgin-daughters that haue seene her haue blessed her forren Queenes and their Princely daughters that haue heard of her haue praised her the eare that hath heard her hath admired her and the eye that hath seene her hath giuen witnesse vnto her And therefore no doubt with ioy and gladnes both Court and Citie Pallace and Country doth this day triumph in her pray for her and say of her Blessed be he that made her happy is hee that begate her renowned is she that bare her but most happy renowned and rich is he that hath her How much are we the inhabitants of this whole Ile bound vnto our good God that hath lent vs such a Princesse in her hath renued reuiued the name and nature of our late deceased euer to bee remembred happie Queene Elizabeth a name in this Land euermore to bee beloued for as much as that now thrice vnder that name it hath beene blessed The first of that name to this Land so happy being the great Grand-mother to the father of our present Elizabeth happy in her marriage and by her marriage first vniting the two Houses of Lancaster and York whose dissentions did annoy this Kingdome with bloody ciuill warres and then by the fruit of her marriage vniting these two Kingdomes England and Scotland which before were at continuall warres The second of that sweete and happy name whose remembrance is like that of Iosias Eccles 49. like the perfume made by the art of the Apothecarie sweete as hony in all mens mouthes and as musick at a banquet of wine happy in her not marrying for being a Virgin-Queene whom no King or Emperour of this world was worthy of shee prepared her selfe a Spouse for Christ and hauing found the walles of this Realme of brasse turned it into marble finding Religion in the sands she did set it on the rocke finding this a Land ouerwhelmed with ignorance and superstition shee restored true Religion and left it throughly seasoned with the Gospell our selues our children and their childrens children when they heare her name shall call her Blessed Our present Elizabeth this dayes Royall Bride is of no lesse happy hopes her Loue vnto her Name-sakes memorie her imitation of her Vertues her hatred of Popery and Superstition her zeale to Gods glory and sincere profession of the Gospell her religious education from her infancie Her reuerent attention at the hearing of the word Her respect vnto the Ministers of the Gospell Her faith Her zeale Her charitie is admirable and to euery Christian heart most comfortable It was the desire and often wish of this Gracious Princesse if report of some of her neerest obseruants may bee credited that in her Marriage match shee might be linked to a Prince professing the same Religion in which shee her selfe had beene instructed Good Princesse the God of Heauen be blessed for it shee hath her wish No sonne of Antichrist No vassal to the Pope hath the first fruites of her Marriage bedde No superstitious Masse doth defile the celebration of her Nuptials or obscure the glorie of her Marriage but shee is matched with a Prince in Religion in education in yeeres in vertues fit and fit for none but for her selfe Had shee good Princesse bin linked in Mariage with one of a different Religion what an vnequall yoke had that beene How derogatorie from Gods glorie How preiudicious to our State How dangerous to her person How hurtfull to her Soule But blessed be God who hath prouided better things for vs for Her for his Churches good Herein our Gracious Soueraigne hath manifested vnto the World the sinceritie of his heart and the soundnesse of his profession in that no outward dignitie state or glorie could cause him to match his Child with a contrarie Religion Doubtlesse the finger of God hath beene here This match is of his especiall chusing And indeede did we well consider of it what greater what more glorious match could wee wish for or desire for our great Masters onely Daughter These Kings and mightie Monarches who haue submitted their Crownes vnto the iurisdiction of the Pope of Rome are but vassals vnto the Pope not absolute Princes This our Germaine Bridegroome is a free Prince his state is in subiection vnto none Descended of most Noble and religious Progenitors euen from that House which first of all the Princes of Europe set it selfe against the Pope Acts and Monuments of the Church in defence of the Gospell and brought in the name of Protestanisme Himselfe of that name which to the Popes hath beene alwayes terrible and of that carriage Fridenrych in the Germaine tongue is as much as Salomon so Hartma●●us Sprunglius in Iob Ho. 1 that in the eyes of all that feare the Lord hath made him truely venerable An other Salomon for so doeth his Name in his Countrey language signifie A young Iosias who hath set his heart to feare the LORD Wherein euen in his Name wee may see Gods great mercie towards vs For whereas it pleased God of late because wee were vnworthy of him to take away from vs our hopefull Prince HENRY FREDERICK our Soueraignes Eldest Sonne whose memoriall is and euer shall be blessed our losse which was vnspeakable is heerein so much the lesse in that wee haue not wholly lost him for though HENRY bee gone yet FREDERICK is left behinde O happie day blessed Marriage happie Bridegroome glorious Bride This day is a day of good tydings who can hold his peace It is the day which the Lord hath made we haue great cause to reioyce and to bee glad in it This day is Peace ratified Religion established the Church beautified the Commōwealth strengthned the hearts of good Subiects cheared the friendship of confederate Nations confirmed Britanie and Germanie combined O Pray for the Peace and Prosperitie of this happie Bridall Let them prosper which wish well vnto it Let them bee confounded that maligne it Let them perish that enuie it And thou O great Iehouah A conclusion with a Prayer God Almightie King of Heauen and Earth who for the comfort of mankind hast ordained Marriage and made it Honourable and at this day more then Honourable in the Royall Marriage of these two great and hopefull Princes Blesse this thine owne ordinance to thine owne glory and their comfort Thou thrice glorious and euer blessed Trinitie Almightie Father Eternall Sonne Inspiring Holy Ghost vouchsafe thy presence at this their Marriage-meeting Let thine holy Angels pitch their Tents about them and let thy mightie hand graciously defend them from the malice of the enemie and from the mischiefe of the aduersarie and from all dangers that may beplotted against them Knit thou their hearts and minds together with true Loue with the bond of the Spirit in the feare of thy name Marrie them to thy selfe in righteousnesse in iudgement in louing kindnesse in mercies and faithfulnesse Let the Angels sing happinesse and the Heauens drop downe blessednesse vpon this their Mariage Sanctifie their Marriage bed and in thy good time make them fruitfull in procreation of Children that they may haue many Sons and Daughters whom they may make Princes in all Lands And make them and theirs euermore worthy nursing fathers and nursing mothers vnto thy Church Confirme O Lord the good things which thou hast begun in them and so assist them with thy grace that neither Satans subtiltie nor their youthes frailetie nor the worlds vanitie nor their peoples flatterie nor mans wisdomes policie may diuert them from the path of piety Adorne them more and more with thy graces cloath them with thy righteousnesse multiply vpon them all heroicall and spirituall graces that they may grow vp more and more in fauour with thee and with men Blesse them whilest they are here amongst vs and blesse them when they shall bee gone from vs blesse them in their bodies and in their soules in their Gouernment and in their Subiects blesse them at home and abroad by sea and by land in peace and in warre smite thorow the loines of those that rise vp against thē blesse those that blesse them and curse those that curse them keep and protect them as the apple of thine eye continue their loue their health their happines prolong their dayes for many generations that they may liue together a long time here in perfect loue and amity and after this life ended may feast with thee at the Lambes marriage with glory etetnally Amen FINIS