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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04351	A sermon preached before the Queenes Maiestie at Hampton Courte, the 19. of February laste paste. By VVilliam Iames Doctour of Diuinitie	James, William, 1542-1617.	1578 (1578)	STC 14465; ESTC S107697	20,743	68

vp to heauen he is there if wée go downe to Hel he is there if we take the wings of the winde he is there present for himselfe hath sayde beholde I am with you to the ende of the world The house of God hath sometimes bene in a ship on the Seas as with our sauiour sometimes in a poore house with his disciples sometymes in the market place at Athens in a parlor at Troas on the shoare with Paul and the faithfull Where two or thrée are gathered togyther in my name I am in the middest of them and where Christ is there may we be assured is Christs Church Tertul in exhorta ad castitatem Ecclesia est vbi duo aut tres sunt licet laici sunt the churche is where two or thrée be together although they be lay men But God to the intente he mighte haue a peculiar place for his people where they might vse prayer thankesgiuing offer sacrifice first raised Salomon to builde and these to redifye a house for his owne honour In the bookes of kings and Chronicles we reade that in the foure hundreth and foure scoure yeare after the children of Israell were come oute of Egipte dyd Salomon builde the house of the Lorde of thrée scoure cubites long in Ierusalem in mounte Moriah whiche had bene declared vnto Dauid his father in the place which Dauid prepared in the thresshing floore of Ornan the Iebusite It is wel worth consideration that neyther Salomon in his first nor these in their new buylding do eyther builde to any other than to the Lord or once herein thinke of buyldyng to themselues Salomon builded not to Abraham although he wer the father of the faithful nor to Isaac although in him the séede were called nor to Iacob although of hym came the twelue Trybes not to Moyses nor Elyas nor Aaron not to anye Prieste not to anye Iudge not to any Prophete but to the Lorde God of Israel onely But we haue forsaken Salomō and folowed the Samaritans we haue not builded one tēple to that Lord but many temples to Idols As that Iewes in old time built vp high places in euery citie and erected altars in euery high hill euery nation made themselfe a God and put them in the highe places whiche the Samaritanes had made euen so did we where was there any then that buylded vnto the God of Israel They buylded Temples they erected Altars they carued Images they appoynted certaine feasts they washed themselues at their entrie into the churche they fell down before their Gods they kindled lights and burned Frankensence seuerall Gods had seuerall Priestes and was it not so in poperie Might not we cōplayne with Ieremie accordyng to the number of thy cities was thy Gods O I●huda● and accordyng to the number of the streates haste thou erected Altars of confusion to sacrifice to Baal And was not this true in poperie In euery great Town how many Temples and till of late not one dedicated to Christe Whereas the virgin Mary had euerye day hir Masse many Sainctes manye Masses then was Christe onelye on the Fryday that but in Cathedrall churches only remembred That which was true while he liued on earth that birdes of the aire haue nestes the foxes dens that may much more truly be spoken of such seruices as were done to hym here on earth Euery where hath Peter a churche Mary Paule Dunston Aldate Gyles George Scythe and Katherine but the sonne of Man hath not where to hyde his head Tertul. li. 1. contra Marcionem said truly Inuenio plane ignotis Dijs aras prostitutas sed attica idololatria est item incertis Dijs sed Romana superstitio est I find Altars erected to vnknowen Gods but it is the Idolarye of Athens and to vncertayne Gods but it is the superstition of Rome Austin feared not to saye that there were temples builded to them on earth whose soules laye buryed in Hell Wel might therfore that prophetical Spirite in Ieremy complaine and wel may we that the people haue channged the true God and sought for that that pro●●teth not that they haue forsaken the fountaine of the water of life and haue digged themselues cesterues that can hold no water nay as Dauid saith their Idolles are multiplyed after the whiche they make so great haste Superstition hathe no hoe nothing too hotte nothing too heauy The Iewes offred their owne children to Moloch The priests of Baal did cut and launce themselues The people to make a Calfe and an Ephad offered all their richest iewells Againe these Iews build not to themselues they build not houses call them after their own names They dydde not with the Agregentines build as though they woulde liue for euer and liue as though they woulde dye for euer but they builded as men by theyr liues destrous to set vp the glory of the true God They to builde Gods house spared nothing but we to builde our owne nestes plucke from Gods house If Zorobabel Iosue the rest of the chiefe fathers were not more carefull thā some of the feet be both learning with out which we are like brute beasts and religion without which we nothing differ from Infidels would spéedily perish I feare me there are that wish as he did of the Romains that they had al but one heade that he might cut off al at once so that wish that many Churches were but one church that it might at once be ouerturned But will you liue alone vpon the earth what profiteth it a man to win the whole worlde if hee loose hys own soule Quid prosunt ista cùm caro datur vermibus anima daemonibus The last thing is the warrant as King Cyrus king of Persia hath commaūded vs. The warrant wherby the work wēt forward was not of Zorobabel althogh he wer their guide homward nor of Esdras although he were a learned scribe and was to reforme both their religion and maners nor of Nehemias although he was to finish the walls and to deliuer them from oppression It was not at the commaundement of any Patriarche of any Prophet not by the direction of any Prieste but of King Cyrus King of Persia God by whome Kyngs do raigne and that hath not gyuen thē the sword for nought that hathe promised to raise them vp as nursing fathers and nursing mothers to hys churche doth her● stir vp Cyrus to further his own cause to set forwarde she buylding of his house It is worthe the marking God doth not this worke by anye that were as it may séeme of hys owne couenante hee doth not fetch either Saul from kéeping of Asses or Dauid frō kéeping Shéepe or Elizeus from the plowe or Amos frō the hearde But as the deliueraunce is altogither miraculous so is the meanes ordinary by a Kyng by K. Cyrus king of Persia It is wonderful to sée that Gods people in reedifying the holy Tēple did so willingly obey a K. in al

damnandum nouit vt sibi socios multiplicet quibuseum gehe●nnae ignibus addicatur He persecuteth so muche the more cruellye that as hée knoweth himselfe sure to be damned so he may multiplie fellowes to partake the paynes of hell fire He that in olde tyme beganne with deceyte he nowe endeth with deceyte he beganne with bloud he now endeth with bloud He that made Adam to lose Paradise he maketh many to forsake their owne natiue countrey him for an apple them for lesse than the paryng hée that made Adam disobey God he maketh them to disobey the Lordes annointed he that made Lots wife looke backe to Sodome he now maketh olde English beldams to returne after xix yéeres preachyng of the Gospell to the lothsome puddle of Popishe trumperie He that in old tyme by the bloud of the Lambe was ouercome and dispossessed of heauen he by a droppe of bloud is contente to take possession of his witches and Sorcerers here on earthe He that in olde tyme shedde the bloud of innocent Abell and prepared hoate fornasses for Goddes faythfull seruants hée at this daye rayseth vppe bloudie massacres and firie inquisitiōs and why but bycause hys tyme is shorte Where the Gospel is preached most diligently there dothe the Deuill rage moste furiously and lyke a good Captayne endeuoreth by all meanes to reedifie those walles that the worde of God hath battered downe and to renew that olde Adam that by the spirite of God is put away and as one sayde Account al tyme loste that is not spent in some vertuous exercyse so the Deuill accounteth all tyme lost that is not spent either in veryng or withdrawing from God the childrē of God and why but bicause his time is shorte A seconde thing in these idolatrous Samaritanes is their lying false hypocrisie for neither sought they the Lord as Israel did neither sacrificed they as they ought to haue done 2. Reg. 17. they pretēded to feare the Lord but apointed priests of thēselues for the high places and prepared sacrifice and did after the maner of the nations and therefore the spirite of God testifyeth that they neyther feared God nor did after the ordinauntes nor custome nor lawe nor cōmaundement which the Lord cōmaunded the children of Iacob whome he named Israell notwithstanding here they come with these lying speches we seke we sacrifice Singular was the impudency of these Samaritanes that notwithstanding their owne consciences accused them their dayly practises declared the cleane contrary yet they blush not to saye wee seke c. It is a plague that lyeth on Hypocrytes there is no other sinner be he neuer so strong a thiefe be he neuer so filthy a liuer be he neuer so common a lyar be he neuer so great a blasphemer be he neuer so byting an vsurer be he neuer so cruel a murtherer be he neuer so rancke a traytor be he neuer so false to God so faithlesse to men but in his thefte be desireth darknesse in his adultry secretnes for his lying pardō for his blasphemy sometyme séeketh forgiuenesse in hys vsury feareth lawe in hys murder dreadeth the wagging of euery leafe in his treason suspecteth the bewraying of the byrdes of the ayre But the Hypocrite neyther fearing him that knoweth the hart and raynes neyther regarding his owne reproche dareth bycause he cā bleare mens eies to present himselfe as it were into the presence of God Suche were they that came to our sauiour Christ Maister we know thou speakest truth and regardest no mans person is it lawful to pay trybute to Cesar or no Why if I speake truth beléeue you me not oh ye Hypocrites and another Maister what shal I do to inherite eternal life and Mayster what is the greatest commaundemente in the law To whome our sauiour aunswereth Not euery one that sayth to me Lorde Lorde shall enter into the kingdome of heauen but he which doth the wil of my father which is in heauē Why do you call me Lord Lorde and doe not the things which I cōmaunde why tempt yée me O ye hypocrites what offer ye to me O ye painted sepulchers you appeare fayre outwardly but inwardly yée are full of dead mens bones and all filthynesse Why doe yée honour mée with your lippes your hartes beyng farre from me Why speake you lies vnto me you haue consciences marked with an hoate Iron Why pretend you a shewe of godlinesse seyng you haue denied the power thereof Surely these Samaritanes are as it were a cleare glasse to beholde the miserie of iniquitie that in this worlde preuayleth Such an hypocrite was Herode that when he purposed nothing but the death of our sauiour Iesus Christe as may appeare by the slaughter of the innocents yet he perswadeth with the Wisemen to returne home by him that he with thē might worship him that was borne King of the Iewes such false teachers hurte the Apostles suche false brethren added muche to Paules bondes And died these Samaritanes only thinke we with Zorobabel and rose there none of their ashes are there at this daye no Herodians that in word speake that in harte they thinke not are there no false teachers to hinder the Gospell of Christe and are there no false brethren to adde to Paules bondes Not to speake of such as whē Steuen preached stopped their eares nor of such as say we wil not heare charme the charmer neuer so wisely nay there are a broode which liue in the church by the church but are not of the churche that at this day do hinder and hitherto haue hindred the course of Zorobabel And as true it is that new wine is not to be put in olde bottels nor new cloth to be patched in an old garmēt nor Christ Circumcision to be matched togither and as God in olde age raysed vp not a Prieste of Baal but Elias nor our sauiour any lerned Pharisée but simple fishermen to treade the waye of hys Gospel so is not Zorobabel to admitte such as mingle Christ and Belial the Church of God and Idols the Gospell and popery religiō and mockery What better words than of Samaritanes we seeke we sacrifice what better profession than of Herode Go and séeke and bryng me word that I may worship yet were the Samaritanes Idolatours yet was Herode a Foxe What better spéeches thā we be cōformable men we obserue our princes laws we follow iniunctiōs we obey orders yet if it come to examination at the passage of Iordan as Iepthe and the Gyleadites did trie the Ephraimites by pronouncing Shiboleth I feare me they wil say single Siboleth there wil want the harty aspiration h h wanteth the harte wanteth It is an olde prouerbe Ex vnguibus leonem Let them be narowly loked into howe they grunt and grone at the preaching of the Gospell howe they carpe at the doings of the godlye learned how they deride the simpler sorte of the professors of the Gospell how open eares they haue to heare