king Ego autem sum vir pauper tenuis To conclude The Sonne of Isai grew in the end to be a proverbe and word of reproach as in the speech of Saul to the Beniamites Heare now yee sonnes of Iemini will the sonne of Isai giue every one of you fieldes and vineyards c. that yee haue all conspired against me So Doeg the Edomite when he complained of Ahimelech the Lords Priests I saw said he the sonne of Isai there it was the best title he would vouchsafe him But admit the sonne of Isai must be king ouer Israell Why David filius Isai this sonne of Isai more then all the rest If Eliab the sonne of Isai in whom Samuell the Seer saw enough to enable him to the kingdome surely the anointed of the Lord is before him his primogeniture stature many things making therevnto or if Abinadab the second or Shammah the third or any one of the eldest it might lesse haue beene woÌ„dred at Are there no more but these said Samuell the father answered Adhuc reliquus est parvulus pascit oves There is yet behinde a little one that keepeth my sheepe But that gleaning is more then all the other haruest reliquiae salvabuntur reliquiae regnabunt This same reliquus parvulus pastor ovium this little and least and absent neglected vnsanctified not called to the sacrifice scarce euer thought vpon must be king ouer Jsraell So the Lord himselfe putteth him in minde of the best that he saw in him Ego tulite de pascuis sequentem greges What shall we say to this but that he who is rex regum dominuus dominantium Deus Deorum ens entium and causa causarum God and Lord ouer all as dominus vitae to giue vs breath and being so dominus gloriae to bring vs to promotion hee whose throne is the heauen of heauens and the earth his footstoole whose garment Majesty and his diademe perfit beauty and the sceptre of his kingdome a sceptre of equity who sitteth vpon the circle of the earth and diuideth this punctum among the sonnes of men whose priuiledge and right vnquestionable is per me reges regnant his might vnconquerable Dominus regnavit iraâ—cantur populi The Lord is King be the people never so vnpatient hee that putteth downe the mighty from their seat exalteth the humble and meeke that setteth seruants on horse backe and maketh Princes to walke on foote which lifteth the poore out of the dust placeth them with the Kings of the earth which weigheth the Kings in a ballance and findeth them to light and maketh the iudges of the earth vanity nothing as if they had never beene planted neuer sowen Finally hee at whose feete the Kings in the Reuelation cast downe their Crownes as if in effect they saide Non nobis Domine non nobis Lord these are not ours wee tooke them at thy handes thine is the kingdome and power and glorie for euer and euer I saie hee that is all in all to shew the libertie of his actions and soveraigntie of his power and that promotion commeth neither from the East nor from the VVest but from himselfe alone chooseth the weake things of the worlde to confounde the strong c and things that in comparison are not to bring to nought things that are If Ionathan had beene elected to the kingdome hee might haue saide Dignitas mea electa est if Eliab at as mea electa est God respecteth neither VVith him are olde and young noble and ignoble weake and strong all alike For as hee giveth the place so grace also annointeth both with oile and with his Spirit inuesteth into honour and inspireth with abilitie for gouernment both at once For so it is saide that from that date forward that the oile was powred vpon his head the Spirit of the Lorde prospered or grewe exceedingly vpon David Meruailous is the dispensation of God in the disposition of earthlie kingdomes Some reigne by Vsurpation some by election some by succession some by acquisition and purchase of sworde some by sortition or augurie some by imposition from men as Herode was put vpon the Jewes others from God as Saul appointed ouer Jsraell Some are borne of Kings and no Kings other Kings that had not Kings to their Fathers Some nati ad regnum heires apparant to the Crowne yet misse it others nati regno of whom the world neuer thought The wheele of Gods prouidence is euer in motion and holdeth a strange course according to the verse Regnavi saith one King in his declination regno saith an other in his possession and at the height of the wheele regnabo saith a thirde in his ascension sum sine regno the fourth cast out of his kingdome David was neither natus ad regnuÌ„ borne to a kingdome nor any Son of a king had no one suffrage in election pretended no title to succession in the earth much lesse sought to be king by intrusion yet by imposition and ordination from God is appointed king ouer Israell Hitherto you haue heard I that the sonne of Isai 2. David the sonne of Isai 3. was over 4. reigned ouer 5. Israel 6. all Israell It followeth And the space that hee reigned over Israell was 40. yeares seuen yeares reigned he in Hebron and 33. yeares reigned he in Ierusalem So as he not only reigned but reigned long to weete fourty years the time alowed by God to many the worthiest Judges and kings Gedeon iudged Israel 40. yeares Dauid was king 40 Salomon his sonne 40 Asa 40 Queene Elizabeth 40 vpwardes our Gracious Soueraigne that now is ouer Scotland alreadie 40 with aduantage J hope our Kalenders and Chronicles shal report to posteritie ouer England no lesse Amen sic loquatur dominus Deus domini mei regis Jt was the word of Benaias 1. Reg. 1. 36. Saul Act. 13. is also said to haue reigned 40. yeares but by the iudgment of the learned twenty of those yeares must be accoÌ„pted to the iudicature of Samuel Jt is a signe that they honored patreÌ„ saeculi the father of eternity with their gouermeÌ„t blest their mother natiue contry that their daies were so loÌ„g not only of life but of reigne in the Land which the Lord their God gaue theÌ„ Omnis potent atûs vita breuis saith the sonn of Sirach Hominum breuis regum breuior and by later experience it was found pontificum breuissima Men liue not loÌ„g kings a shorter time Popes shortest of al of some of which might be verified as Tully somtimes spake of their Consul habuimus vigilantes pontifices they skarse euer slept in the roume Dauid by the fauour of God both liueth and reigneth long For the clearer distinction and elucidation of the times it is added seauen yeares in Hebron which was as it were the childhood and apprentiship of his gouernment the storie
his kingdome shall there neuer be an end I come now to the prototypes the right David Salomon which my text speaketh of Thus David the Sonne of Ishai c. Where you see there are two persons David and Salomon and accordingly two partes first the cession or decease of the one secondly the succession and supply of the other In the person of David I obserue especially the 2. principal verbes Regnauit he reigned and mortuus est he died for in these two is his whole storie comprised Of the former it is said Regnavit super vniversum Israelem I will not so much nuÌ„ber as weigh my words But if super had stood alone in my text regnavit had beene away it had attributed some dignity vnto David more then others Where man is over but beasts as the shepheard over his flocke which was sometimes the case of David and as Amos over his heardes nay where beasts but ouer beasts as the tallest and goodliest Bee is over the Bees and the armies of Grashoppers and Ants haue their leaders wheresoever super is found it importeth a superiority excellencie preheminence and a kinde of ability vertue and skil which the inferiours submit themselues vnto Thus the minde is over the body reason ouer the appetite the head ouer the foote the Sun and Moone over the rest of the starres because God hath enriched magnified them with some greater measure of grace and dignified them with a note of honour more then others But here is more then a super in my text a superiority supreme 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an high commaunding authority man ouer man nullum morosius animal nec maiori arte tractaÌ„dum not as a father is ouer his sons nor a Lord over his servants nor a captaine ouer his hundreths and fifties over limited and determinate chardges not by iudicature alone as Samuell and the Iudges nor by way of Lieutenantship deputation subordinate prefecture whatsoever but as a King over subiects Regnavit he reigned a proconsul viceroy for God a mortall God imago the next and most glorious vpon earth administrantis omnia Dei able to say of himselfe Ego ex omnibus mortalibus placui electusque sum qui in terris deorum vice fungerer I am chosen out of thousands to sit in the seat of God and execute his iudgements There is yet more Super IsraeleÌ„ Og was king over Basan Seon ouer the Ammorits others ouer other the kingdomes of Canaan Infamous kings infamous kingdoÌ„s the names of the one writteÌ„ the carkasses of the other laid buried in the earth Great Assuerus over an 127. prouinces the great Emperor of the Turks over 72 kingdomes 3. Empires to omit the rest were not comparable to Dauid reigning ouer Israell The rest are populus non populus by the phrase of the holie ghost turba that is turbata multitude a body without an ey Israel is the people the peculiar the inheritance the beloued treasure the Sonne the first borne of the Lord the king over Israel primogenitus regum excelsus praeregibus terrae where though there bee not multiplicata gens as els where yet is there magnificata laetitia lesse store of people more abundaÌ„ce of grace not vasta eremus a wast desert but ciuitas vnita ornata Sparta hortus aromaticus ager cui benedixit dominus 27. Gen. 7. a Citty at vnitie in it selfe a sanctified Country a garden of spices a feild that the Lorde hath blest as hauing the true worship and feare of the Lord and the booke of the Law of God to direct both the king as touching his ordinances and the people concerning their obedience where the king is not as in other countries only murorum for outward and bodily defense but sacrorum also to see to the honour service of God Rex idem hominum Christique sacerdos There yet remaineth a fourth point to make vp a quadrate and perfitt honor of the king blessing of God vpon him and that is super vniuersum Isr. over al Israell There are that are but reguli or regij 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the 4. of Ioh. such as in likelyhood were the 31. Kings that fought against Iosuah 12. Ios. those other fiue that Abraham followed and put to flight only with his houshold seruants and in the opinion of some writers the 3. frendes of Iob and those 3. supposed kings of Colen of whom Caesar Baronius the Casar Dictator of writers as one tearmeth him reporteth that by an accustomable phrase of scripture they may bee tearmed Kings as Lords are wont to be of seueral townes and citties David far differently is king ouer all Israell Not as Charles the 7. of France beeing excluded the rest of his Kingdome was called in sport Rex Biturigum Rex sine terrâ not as Saul at the first when but a band of men followed him whose hart the Lord had touched the other asked how shall he saue vs Not as Dauid himselfe whilest Isboseth vsurpeth against him Dauid is King ouer al Israel So as hitherto he is 1. a principall man a go uernour and superiour bycause super 2. a principall superiour a King because regnauit 3. a principal king because super Israelem 4. an obsolute monarke a sole and a whole king because regnauit super vniuersum Isr. These are the 4. wheeles whervpon the heigth of his honor runneth witnesse the Lord himselfe when he capitulateth with him 2. Sam. 12. 7. after this manner I haue anointed thee king ouer Israell and haue giuen thee the house of Israell and Iudah siparua sunt ista if this bee too little as indeed it was very great then J wil giue thee much more Now we haue seene the honour let vs a while examine the person on whom it is coÌ„ferred Regnavit super vniversum Israelem who Filius Isai. The Son of Isai. Where is Ionathan the meane time or some other of the Sonnes of Saul the king his predecessour at leastwise a man of the tribe of Beniamin from whence their first king was taken Who is this Isai that his Sonne should be aduanced to the kingdome The most that I finde of him in the booke of God is that he was an Ephrathite of Bethleem Iuda et erat vir in diebus Sanl senex graÌ„daevus inter viros that is at the vttermost with the helpe of the English marginal note accompted among them that bare office David himselfe when first the eldest daughter of Saul Merab was profferred vnto him at his combate with Goliah asked Quis ego sum VVho am I or what my condition or what the kinâ—ed of my father in Israel that I shoulde be sonne in Law to the King Afterwardes when Michel was designed to him and the seruants of the King were sent to proue him his answere was seemeth it a smal thing vnto you to become sonne in law to the
A SERMON PREACHED IN St. MARIES at Oxford the 24. of March being the day of his sacred Maiesties inauguration and Maundie thursday BY JOHN KINGE Doctor of Divinity Deane of Christ Church and Vicechancellor of the Vniversitie At Oxford Printed by Ioseph Barnes 1608. 1. Chron. vlt. v. 26. 27. 28. 26 Thus David the Sonne of Ishaj reigned over all Israell 27 And the space that hee reigned over Israel was fourty yeare seven yeare reigned he in Hebron three and thirty yeere reigned he in Hierusalem 28 And he died in a good age full of daies riches honour Salomon his Sonne reigned in his steed MY text is like the time which the Christian world now soleÌ„nizeth and shal to the worlds end Both are divided text and time into two parts in the former whereof is death life in the later corruption dissolution in the one reparation and resurrection in the other The difference is that the subiect of the changes vicissitudes in my text are two differeÌ„t persons David and Salomon Father and Sonne one dieth and giveth ouer reigning the other beginneth his reigne and liueth on But the subiect of change in this anniversary and perpetuall rememoration is a David to inveni Davidem servum meum oleo Sancto meo vnxi eum ver 9. Psal. 21. and the Sonne of David Hosanna filio David 2â— Math. 9. and the successor of David Dabit ei dominus sedem David patris eius 1. Luk. 17. But this David and this Sonne and successor of David are one and the same person that both died and liued suffered and conquered lost in the eie of the world recovered his kingdome I thinke my selfe happy that the comming so neare togither of two such in their seueral kindes so great festiuities the foote of the one you see treadeth vpon the heele of the other this feast which we now hold is the vigilles and forerunner to that other feast the celebration of one of which we owe as Christians of the other as the childreÌ„ of this Land English subiects giueth mee so iust an occasion togither with my principal aime at the one to haue a collateral sidelong aspect at the other and in the full body of the one which my purpose and taske is to describe to descrie some shaddow semblaÌ„ce of the other for in them both was the falling rising of a king in theÌ„ both for the time both the bale blisse of Israel whilest I am casting my treasure the richest of the riches of Gods spirit that my sinful soule hath receiued the best of my meditations and speech into the treasury of this happie daie to which we all come to offer froÌ„ the abundance of our harts and bounden duety we ought owe to our David deceased our Salomon that now is I may also cast in a mite by the way for introduction sake in honor of my ever-blessed Saviour the king of kings who was dead and is aliue and liveth for evermore Amen and in remembrance of his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 world-sauing passion the price of our soules that his posthumâ— immortalitas conquest ouer death after death the precedent and pledge of our eternal happinesse How small an alteration of words will fit the whole frame and tenor of my text vnto that other King the antitype of David and Salomon whose kingdome was not of this world he vsed no legions of Angels or meÌ„ neither chariots nor horsemen he had no pallace nor Court not so much as the hole of a Foxe to couch in no crowne but of thornes no sceptre but reedes noe throne but his crosse yet was he a king indeed factus est principatus super humerum eius Constitui regem meum super Sion and held and stiled to be a king yea the king of the Iewes and that with a pen of adamant quod scripsi scripsi what I haue written I haue written and wil not goe from it Thus then maie we read his storie Igitur Iesus filius David regnavit c. Thus Iesus the sonne of Dauid of the roote of Jsâ—ai reigned over al Israel for to the house of Israel was he sent the space that hee reigned over Israel was the later of the two numbers in my text three and thirtie yeares So long as he liued he reigned simul filius simul Caesar a King from his birth where is hee that is BORNE king of the Iewes Thirtie yeares reigned he in Hebron a pri uate and retired life vnder the name habitt of a carpenters sonne three yeares in IerusaleÌ„ in the light and admiration of the whole world And hee died the good shepheard for the life of his sheepe J might saie after a pilgrimage of few and evil daies in aetate non bona and neither full of daies for abscissus est de terrâ viuentiuÌ„ 53. Es. He was cut out of the land of the liuing Dauid is said to haue slept because his death was natural and quiet this was violent nor full of riches that had not a shrowd but lent him to be wrapt in nor full of honor that with many a vah wagging the head fy vpon thee fy vpon thee crucify him crucify him was exiled the world and so far of from Salomon his sonne to raigne in his stead that is from any hope of successiâ—on that the hearts of very disciples brake they saie one to another Nos sperabamus we hoped it had beene he that should haue restored Israell 24. Luc. but our hope faileth vs as the sommer waters But J wil keepe the line of my text and saie in the laÌ„guage therof he died not old but in a good age hauing liued long enough satis naturae bycause satis gratiae to purchase the good of his people satis gloriae to procure the glory of his owne name ful of daies for though he were soone dead non dimidiauit dies suos he saw not the halfe of threeskore teÌ„ years which is the life of a maÌ„ yet fulfilled he much time Ful of riches LadeÌ„ with the spoiles of the GeÌ„tiles his bosome filled with the souls of his Saints every soule richer theÌ„ a world as a mowers with sheaues full of honor wheÌ„ the face of whole nature chaÌ„ged at his death the sun being clothed in black the pillers of the earth rocking the vaile of the teÌ„ple rending hir garmeÌ„ts the rocks not their garments but their hearts the graues of the dead opening their more then braâ—en gates disclosing their slaine finally death it selfe vanquished principalities and powers triumphed Satan and his whole kingdome trodden vnder foot And after al this not SalomoÌ„ his Sonne to reigne in his steede but himselfe a greater then Salomon heire apparant to his own kingdome succeeder in his owne throne one and the selfe same Phoenix out of his owne ashes rose and reigned over all Israell and to the ends of the earth and of
so for Salomon filius pro eo Salomon the sonne is in his fathers stead I haue not spoken vnto you in the riddle of SamsoÌ„ nor in the parable of the woman of Tekoah My trumpet hath not giuen an vncertaine sound The book of my speech was not claspt he that ran might read vnderstand what my meaning was Mutatis nominibus Israell is this Isle Dauid was Elizabeth and Salomon is our Soueraigne that now reigneth It agreeth wel with my Text that as the sonne of Isai so the daughter of king Henry therein she excelled David shee was the daughter of a puissant king as David the son of Isai so Elizabeth the daughter of King Henry the third the last the vnlikeliest a brother and sister betweene hir and the Crowne and as David from the sheep-fold so Elizabeth from a prison froÌ„ a state worse then a milke paile in Woodstockparke notwithstanding al this Reigned wel worthy to reigne a queene ouer men a queene ouer queenes a queene ouer hir selfe because a maiden-queene virtus tua meruit imperium virtuti addidit forma suffragium what wanted shee either to body or minde to make hir an absolute queene and shee reigned Over all Israell ouer all hir dominions at once without any difference of Hebron or Ierusalem an absolute Monarke and Empresse froÌ„ the first to the last therein shee ouergoeth David And the space that shee reigned was aboue fortie yeares therein also shee exceedeth David Et mortua est and she died And ô yee my senses meditations dy with hir death thinke not of it theÌ„ the harp of my tongue be hung vp to the roofe of my mouth and sound not hir being in Babylon lying in a strange land Silence admire adore hir whom noe speech can Honour She died so did Dauid Salomon before hir so hir father and Grandfather so al the kings and kingdomes monarkes and monarkies of the earth so the Phenix of womanhode the virgin mother of Christ so Christ the sauiour of the world the virgin sonne of that virgin mother But she died as Dauid did In senectute hir old age the 70th yeare of hir life shee wanted but halfe a step as it were 5. or sixe monethes to the ful end of hir race And In Senectute bona Therin she before Dauid Clothes could not warme him and they were driueÌ„ to prouide him a nurse to cherish him It was not so with hir she died before she was old hir ey was not dymme hir natural force not abated which was the blessing of Moses 34. Deut. and of Caleb 14. Iosua who being foureskore and fiue yeares old was that daie as strong as when Moses first sent him to view the land Ful of daies and Jas ful of matter My spirit within mee compeleth mee to speake but where shal J first begin or how shal J make an end As those that drawe the whole world into a map doe it aliquanto detrimento magnitudinis nullo dispendio veritatis so all J can do for this present is but to point at hir principal and princely nay heroical and heauenly vertues Hir Maiestie and presence meete for a Queene 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hir wisedome learning knowledge of tongues eloquence moderation elemency iustice temperance I thinke as of anie prince vnder the roofe of heauen chastity magnanimity puissance more then credible in hir sexe piety loue towards hir country hir God were they hir true inherent graces or are they my enforced glosses fictions The very malice of enimies that sought continuallie to contract abbreuiate hir daies was à n argument of their fulnes because shee was melior quà m viuere expediebat to good for them to endure through the abundance of hir vertues All these J am forced to passe ouer non ingratus sed oppressus vincor magnitudine I am ouerborne with nuÌ„ber and greatnesse Singula complecti cuperem sèd densior instat Gestorum series Riches is the least of al others though she lent her neighbours abroad borrowed not and both kept and left a magnificent state yea supported staâ—es holpe to releiue kings patronized Countries For which for al the rest hir honour shal be obscured darkned when sunne and moone shal haue noe light Black vapours and fogges of Egypt wil rise vp against the sunne dead flies wil atteint the swetest ointments of Apothecaries and dead dogges haue not spared to revile David himselfe Some haue sought to dishonor hir both with lipps and libells whose tongues haue beene â—ed hot at the fire and their pennes deep dipt in the brimstone of hel The Lord rebuke them But such honour had this Angel on earth whilst she liued and now Saint in heauen that the ey that faw her blest hir and the eare that heard hir gaue witnesse to hir and as if Christendome were to â—kant a bound for hir glory Turkes Mores renowned hir To straÌ„gers of al sorts it seemed some part of their earthly happinesse that they were able to saie Romam vidi Theodosium vidi vtrumque simul vidi I saw England J saw Q. Elizabeth I saw them both together a glorious Queene a flourishing kingdome Leuior cippus nunc imprimat ossa Her bodie is in the sepulchre of kings hir bones in their chamber of rest hir soule with hir God hir name in the booke of life hir crowne in heauen hir inheritance with Saints hir remembrance on earth hir glory with hir people and the sweet perfume of hir fame and renowne shal fil the whole house of this land to daie and to morrow and in the daies of our childreÌ„s children Vpon the death of our David there were that had prophecied of vs as sometimes they did of the Christians Ad certum tempus sunt Christiani posteà peribunt redibunt idola Protestants shall not long be The Gospell shall downe and the Masse vp againe St. Auctin answereth them Verùm tu cùm expect as miser infidelis vt tran seant Christiani transis ipse sine Christianis Thou perishest wretched dog the Christians abide will Inimici Deimentiti sunt ei thus the haters of God are found liers vnto him When God and nature had wrought their worke in closing vp hir eies that was the eie and sparke of Israell what could God and Grace haue done more to haue closed vp our wounds whereof we were bleeding and might haue bled to death then that Salomon hir Son shoulde reigne in bi r stead My text maketh hast to succession David dieth Salomon reigneth no interregnum or space betweene both are embraced in the same periode only a small point to distinguish them Ruit super imperatorem imperium A kingdome cannot stande without a King The euer waking prouidence of God hasted no lesse for vs Mortua est regnavit One and the selfe-same morning about the thirde watch of the night saw the