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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

A SERMON Preached before the Queenes Maiestie at Hampton Courte the 19. of February laste paste By VVilliam Iames Doctour of Diuinitie ¶ Imprinted at London by Henry Bynneman Anno Domini 1578. Aprilis 24. A Sermon preached at Hampton Court Ezrae 4. BVT the aduersaries of Iudah and Beniamin hearde that the children of the captiuity builded the tēple vnto the lorde God of Israel 2 And they came to Zerubbabel and to the chiefe fathers said vnto them we wil builde with you for we seeke the Lorde your God as ye do and we haue sacrificed vnto him since the time of Esar Haddon king of Asshur which brought vs vp hither 3 Then Zerubbabel and Iesua and the rest of the chiefe fathers of Israel saide vnto them it is not for you but for vs to builde the house vnto our God for we our selues togither vvil builde to the Lorde God of Israel as king Cyrus the king of Persia hath commaunded vs. GOd that first created man to his owne image and placed him as Lorde of Paradise that after his fall recomforted him that the séede of the woman should bruse the Serpentes head that with most gratious promises blessed Abraham and his posteritie that ledde his people through the wildernesse by the hande of Moyses and Aaron that sente them faythfull Iudges and zealous Priests to execute iustice and maintayne truthe that after long contempt of his mercyfull call by many of his Prophets gaue them ouer to be schooled by the king of Babilon that suffered their temple to bee raced and themselues moste miserably to be entreated that God that at no tyme can forget his faithfull people but remembreth them when they are in trouble and rescueth them in the perillous tyme bycause he will not suffer Virgam peccatorum super sortem iustorum Psal 100 at once worketh thrée strange wonders Fyrst he inflameth King Cyrus with an earnest desire not only to dimisse the people helde in captiuitie but also to restore vnto them all suche vessells treasures as Nabuchadnezer hadde before taken out of the Temple Secondly he rayseth vp thrée notable guydes thrée excellent and rare men for the preseruation of hys people nowe after their returne from babylon Zorobabell Ezra and Nehemias Thyrdly he encourageth the people with all earnestnesse to trauaile in the worke of the house of God so that neyther the wearinesse of the captiuitie whiche they had endured nor the true seruice of God of a long season vnfrequented nor the pleasures whiche Babylon offered coulde once wythdrawe these weake and féebled persons The summe is the snare is broken Israell is deliuered Zorobabel Ezra Nehemias the people al apply their businesse desiring in hearte no one thyng so muche as to erect the Temple of the Lorde to aduāce the glory of their despised God But sée the aduersaries of Iudah Beniamin came not of any cōscience but craftily to supplāt these workmen It so falleth out that if God haue a Church the Diuel if he cānot hinder it yet wil looke to haue an oare in it if Moses worke wonders Pharaos soothesayers will vse an apishe imitation The Apostles Peter Paule Barnabas shal no sooner testifye the trueth of Iesus Christ than Simon and Elymas the sorcerers wil be at ynches to peruerte the ryght wayes of the Lorde If Paul preache at Athens or at Ephesus then shall he surely finde either Stoikes Epicures or Iewes or some secte of miscreants ready to misse-leade Gods people The enuious mā that when the seruants sléepe soweth tares to choake the wheat that plucketh the word of God out of the harts of the hearers ne crederent seruarentur that somtime like a roaryng Lion séeketh whō he may deuoure and at another time can turn himselfe into an Angel of light that so shook that consciences of Caine Iudas that they thought their sins greater than coulde be forgiuen that so cunningly bleared Saules eies with the counterfaite shape of Samuel and made Ananias and his wife to lye to the holye Ghoste That man of sinne as a Spirite sawe the intente of Israell and as an enimy by all possible meanes goeth about to hinder the building of the house of God The diuel and the superstitious Samaritans saw that so long as Kyng Cyrus fauoured the Iewes and the reedifying of the Temple that so lōg it was vnpossible openly to hurt thē or hinder it and therefore nowe after that frowning wyll not serue he vseth a far more cunning shifte he beginneth now to flatter and speake faire You haue a long time endured trouble your treasure is wasted your bodies weakned the work is heauy your strēgth is féeble the charge greate your substance small we Zorobabell and you the reste of the chiefe of Israel we wil ioyne with you in this worke distruste vs not for wee séeke the Lord your God as you do and we haue sacrificed vnto hym since the tyme of Esar Haddon whyche brought vs vppe hither Whome might not these sugred speaches haue deceyued we will builde we séeke the Lorde with you wee sacrifice to him as you do But that God that euen in that same houre instructeth his what to answere and that hathe lefte to hys seruantes iudgement to discerne the sprytes whether they be of God or no here in a trice teacheth Zorobabell Iosua and the rest of the Elders to answeare It is not for you and vs to builde togither I will not stande heere to discusse why thys Booke and the nexte of Nehemias are accompted Canonical neither why the other of Esdras are refused I purpose onelye at thys tyme briefly to reste on these two pointes the aduersaries comming and Zorobabel Ieshua and the rest of Israelles reiecting of thē Of these that I may so speake as maye redounde to gods glory I most humbly craue your Christian ayde in earneste prayer These Iewes nowe returned from seauentie yeares captiuitie and nowe in hand with reedifying the house of God and desirous euery man to abide by his tackling at the first are set vpō wyth these suttle Samaritanes Let vs build with you this they sayd intending nothyng more than indéede to pull downe They sawe thus much with Scribes Phacifies that as if new Christ were suffered to grow vp that then al the people wold go after hym and that if Paul myghte be allowed to preache at Ephesus that then Diana should haue a great downe fall so if the buylding of the tēple might go forwarde that then the Idols of Samaria would be but little set by There are in these superstitious Idolaters two things worth the consideration their consent agréement vniuersallye to hinder Zorobabel and the rest and that in these wordes let vs build c when they intended to supplāt The other is their lying Hipocrisie we seke as you we sacrifise as you and firste it is strange to sée the agréement of the godlesse Againste true Mycheas the whole rabble of false prophetes prophesied

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