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A19772	A sermon preached before his Maiestie at White-Hall, on the 24. of March last being Easter day, and being also the day of the beginning of His Maiesties most gracious reigne. By the Bishop of Elie His Maiesties almoner.	Andrewes, Lancelot, 1555-1626.	1611 (1611)	STC 620; ESTC S101693	17,515	41

then 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a headstone after And they that had rather be a Front in a wall then in a meaner place sub Lapide Angulari And they that stand vpon their owne partition and will not endure to heare of any ioyning care not what become of Angulus if it were stroken out the same minde is not i● them in neither of them which was in Christ Iesus His minde we see He looks to the Angle as to the head and to the head as to the Angle And they build best that build likest him Wisedome is iustified of all her Children And last the due●y of the whole Second part and so this dayes du●ty is this When the head-stone is brought foorth and reared as to day it was we are to prosecute it with Hosanna and Benedictus qui venit as it straightway followeth in the Psalme with acclamation of Grace Grace vnto it For so saith the Prophet Lapis primarius would be layd with reioycing Reioycing as in His regard that hath obteined his due so euen in the buildings that hath got such a head such and so gracious a head as could endure thus to be refused by them and yet admit yea euen those that so refused him if the fault be not in themselues to be Stones in his building for all that and to be members of the Body whereof He is the head Then secondly as God hath so we to make him head Actually wee cannot he is made to our hands but in account wee may Giuing him the highest place in all our respects Magnifying his Name and his Word aboue all things his Word making it our chiefe ground his Name and the Glory of it making it our chiefe end That other considerations cary vs not away as these builders here it did of Venient Romani or I wot not what but that euer as the Heathen Lawyer said it be Potior ratio quae facit pro Religione the best ●eason that maketh best for Religion and for the good of the Body of this head that is the peace of His Church And this for Lapis erat Christus But Lapis erat Dauid is likewise true Therefore that we doe King Dauid no wrong let vs shew how it fits him too but briefly because this is not His day Dauid was a Stone The Iewes say it was his nic-name or name of disgrace that in scorne they called him so For that all his credit forsooth came by casting a Stone and hitting Goliah by chance right in the forehead and so they thwited him with that name They gaue it him in scorne but he bare it in earnest For sure much sorrow he endured had that propertie of a Stone And nothing could remoue him or make him shrinke from his Trust in God or from his Allegiance to Saul his liege lord that qualitie also And refused he was not as Christ we must not looke for that neither in him nor in any God forbid that any euer should be so refused as hee As Christ none but Christ. No but yet in his degree refused he was though A hard time he had and many hard termes and hard vsages he endured for many yeeres together pursued and followed and should haue bene no head nay should haue had no head if He had bene gotten Refused and by whom Euen by Saul all his life time and when Saul was dead Abner refused him and set vp another against him And when he was out of his Country in Gath refused there too by the Princes of Achis And euen at home by his own brethren fathers house Yea Samuel himselfe had giuen it away the Head-place from him to Eliab and so refused him but for God And these went then for the chiefe builders in Israel at that time So the builders refused him But after all this all this notwithstanding this Stone became the head that is Dauid got the Crowne and was King at last For head is the Kings Name So doeth Samuel call the King 1. Sam. 15. 17. So doeth Esay cap. 7. 4. So doeth Hose 1. 11. But especially so Daniel in expresse termes Tu es Caput aureum speaking to the King Thou art the head of gold Head and of the Corner that is as some interpret it of Iuda and Israel But that is thought somewhat hard For those two were not two Kingdomes nor euer so reckoned till Roboams time And what if Dauid had not happened to haue bene first King of one Tribe and after of all should hee haue lost this name then Should he not haue bene 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Shal no King be Caput Anguli if he haue but one entire kingdome Shall not Salomon as well as Dauid No question but he shall The better part therefore thinke good to giue it that sense which neuer failes in any State and which sundry times yee shall finde pointed at by Dauid himselfe as in the 115. before and in the 135. after Yea euen heere in this Psalme at the beginning Dom●●s Israel and Domus Aaron the house of Israel and the house of Aaron that is the two estates Ciuill and Ecclesiasticall which make the maine Angle in euery Gouernment God himselfe hath seuered them and made these two but to meete in one not one to maligne and consume the other And the happie combining of these two is the strength of the Head and the strength of the whole Building If it beare but vpon one of them it will certainely decay It did so in Sauls time He little regarded the Arke and lesse the Priests Dauid saw Sauls error and in his Psalme where hee singeth Ne perdas to a Common-wealth promiseth to haue equall care of both pillars and to vphold them both The first Booke of Chronicles is sufficient to prooue and perswade any hee dealt in both as chiefe ouer both Not by right of Priest●hood for none hee had And that of his Prophesie is as cold Others also did the like Asa Iosaphat Ezekias Iosias that were no Prophets nor euer so accounted In the Law it is Philo's note both Tables meete in the fifth Commandement which is the Crowne Commandement as it were in an Angle which Commandement is placed saith he 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as it were in the middle or confines of both tables that of Religion and this other of Iustice Ciuill That with the right arme the Prince may support that and with the left this and so vphold both And in the Gospell Christ applyeth this very verse to himselfe as heire of the Vineyard Heire hee was not but as King not as Priest Hee could not for of that Tribe hee was not borne but was called to it as was Aaron Since then here we finde both and that Dauid was both it is no error I trust to call a King Caput Anguli no more is it to call him Lapidem primarium or angularem choose yee whether