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A07558	Iacobs great day of trouble, and deliuerance A sermon preached at Pauls Crosse, the fifth of August 1607. vpon his Maiesties deliuerance from the Earle Gowries treason and conspiracie. By Iohn Milvvarde Doctor of Diuinitie.	Milward, John, 1556-1609.; Milward, Matthias, fl. 1603-1641.	1610 (1610)	STC 17942; ESTC S112791	29,882	82

JACOBS GREAT DAY OF TROVBLE AND DELIVERANCE A SERMON PREACHED AT Pauls Crosse the fifth of August 1607. vpon his MAIESTIES deliuerance from the Earle GOVVRIES Treason and CONSPIRACIE By IOHN MILVVARDE Doctor of Diuinitie LONDON Printed for ELEAZAR EDGAR and are to bee sold at his Shop in Pauls Church-yard at the Signe of the Wind-mill 1610. To the Right Noble and Right Honourable GEORGE Earle of Dunbar Lord Hume of Barwicke Baron of Norham Lord High Treasurer of Scotland one of the Lords Commissioners equally conioyned for the middle Shires of Great Britaine sometime called the Borders or Marches Lord Gouernour and Captaine of his Maiesties Towne of Barwicke and the Garrison of the same Knight of the most Noble order of the Garter and one of his Maiesties most Honourable Priuie Councell in both Kingdomes RIGHT HONOVRABLE THe nature of true goodnesse is to communicate it selfe to others it is a powerfull Agent and would worke all like it selfe It pleaseth God to call great ones after his owne name dixi dij ostis and good ones after Christs name Nolite tangere Christos meos to to this end saith Saint Bernard vt sicut sunt haeredes nominis sint etiam imitatores sanctitatis to shew how noble they are by deputation and how worthy they should be by imitation that being the Delegats of so high a soueraigne they might be dij tutelares not titulares onely The mightie are said to be Gods hilles mons Domini mons pinguis though they first receiue raine from heauen yet they keepe it not to themselues but suffer it with speede to slyde downe to the valleyes they are the first to whom the Sunne shewes his rising and the last that behold his setting yet being once mounted vp to his Meridian the poorest Ant-hils then feele the vertue of his influence Those glorious lights of honour that shine in the faire Orbe of iustice the Starre Chamber they borrow their beames of brightnesse from one Sunne and those beames they keep not to themselues but as Homer calles Apollo are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 longe iaculantes imparting their splendor to inferiour bodies For greatnesse armed with goodnesse is the sanctuary of innocence and whither should misery flye if not to the mercifull Vertue indeed hath 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and is to her selfe a sufficient recompence sat habet fautorum semper qui recte facit nor needes she like palliated hypocrisie prostitute her beauty to popularity for she is the kings daughter and her glory is within 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith Clemens Alexandrinus amiable she is but not amorous and with no other philtres then her owne worthines winnes the hearts of the Noble yet like Truth that goes now and then with a scratcht face she hath neede of a Patrone and lookes for protection from her true professours not to be magnified aboue her merite for she cannot but to vindicate her honour from vile contempt He that loues others vertues hath many of his owne and it is impossible for goodnesse to find fauour but with the good Amongst whom most honourable Lord I find your noble selfe a Principall and whose memorable loue to my deerest brother if I should forget I were worthy as Alexander once serued one to be branded in the forehead with Ingratus hospes He that painted Ingratitude like a Fiend meant her for hell not mans heart which like the Sea for all the fresh riuers that fall into her vast bosome is neuer the sweeter like a whirling gulfe euer swallowing downe benefites neuer returning the least remembrance of thankes The nine leapers that our Sauiour healed had a worse disease then leprosie sticking on them vn thankefulnes Sapientis est said Seneca bene debere beneficium bene soluere interdum autem solutio est ipsa confessio so fals it out with mee right Honourable hauing obtained more then I durst desire and wanting power to requite nam tibi quod soluat non habet arca Iouis My heartiest prayers must bee your best payment and no other requitall then a thankefull acknowledgement Accept therefore I beseech you haac diuinae particulam aurae this heauenly parcell and blessed remnant of that faithfull and painefull Doctor whose powerfull preaching like Bonarges one of the sonnes of Thunder for he was a Iohn many a Christian eare hath with comfort heard and whose worthy praise wil sound better from any mans mouth then mine He was my brother therefore I forbear yet me thinks to praise the dead and he deseruing were no flattery That his life was fraught with crosses I impute not to any inauspicious planet though he found in his horoscope some too malignant but to Diuine prouidence that with the frequent strokes malorum seu malleorum he might be fitted for that heauenly Ierusalem where of he was liuing a liuely and dead is now an euerliuing stone Yet this comfort God sent him and his friends to sweeten the bitternesse of sorrowes he serued a most gratious Master who loued him aliue and honoured him dead Cuius erat vinus mortuus huius erat For first his most excellent Maiestie to whom he owed the duetie of a subiect being his King of a seruant being his Master did out of his Heroick and Princely clemency a compassionate pitier of wrong'd simplicity rescue him from the jawes of conspiring periurie And after his death hath granted by your Honourable meanes an Annuity of an hundred pounds sterling for the better maintenance of his wife and children And since it pleased his Highnes to hold him worthy of imployment into Scotland I can testifie with what abundant ioy hee mentioned in his Letters your Honourable name how more like a father then a friend you respected him and to vse the words of his owne pen which if hee had liued the world should not haue known and which he wrote more for our comfort then any vaine ostentation vnlesse hee should lie in your bosome you could not vse him more louingly Also that honourable Lord the Lord Chancellor of Scotland in whose house my brother departed this life whose exceeding kindnes I ought neuer to forget and if cost or skill paines or praiers could haue redeemed him from the graue he had not died Besides the sumptuous Funerall the large remuneration of his seruants all at your honours charge do witnes to the world your Honorable disposition and how much you esteemed him Amongst his other children right Honourable left behinde him this which I here dedicate to your Honour is one not bredde of the mother but borne of the fathers owne braine like Pallas for which he endured some throwes and was by the helpe of a happy memory deliuered of it at Pauls crosse It is a poore Orphan but rich enough if you giue it countenance and safe enough if protection And the God of peace whose Minister he was whose Agent you are and whose work this is vouchsafe the light of his countenance to shine vpon you and so

I say that any that hath knowne the worlds malice the depth of Satan the rage of his Helhounds may say with the holy prophet Dauid I was in wosull miserie and he deliuered me what is hee in his life to whom deliuerance at one time or other hath not beene sweete But this word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is a future time a promise He shall be deliuered verbum dulce super mel fauum saith Saint Bernard yea but when quando duplicantur lateres tunc venit Moses not now nor yet but in the time of his trouble So in the Psalme Jnuoca me in die tribulationis ego liberabo te in the time of thy trouble in thy greatest anguish and extremity for then God shewes himselfe like Christ who slept til his Disciples were almost drowned and then rebukes c. and suspends his mercy to take thee out like Peter when he was sinking he cryed then and Christ then presently rescued him When there is but a steppe betweene thee and death then God deliuereth then is his time And this doth comfort much to think that we haue God a looker on and beholder yea a Master and a Moderator in the matter that things are gouerned not by Fate and Constellations but by heauenly Prouidence which slumbers not Yet Iacob must haue patience to tarrie Gods leisure there is no appointing his wisedome the time Iudith 8.16 as Iudith notably said to the Elders of Bethulia who were content to tarry fiue daies saith shee What will ye binde his Councel Abac. 2. or set the Lord a time nay rather as Abacuc aduiseth if the vision come not tarrie thou if it speake not yet waite for it shall speake in his appointed time and the Lorde will humble flesh and blood and deferre his comforts to make them sweeter Si differt Deus sua dona commendat non negat saith Angush and S. Bernard saith delicata est diuina consobatio non datur admittentibus alienam it is a sweete mercy to be deliuered and he that will haue it must only looke to God and in this patience and hopefull expecting must euery good man possesse his soule Secondly Iacob must then hope most where his reason is least and this is a faithfull mans part for what reason had Abraham to hope for Isaac at those yeares If as Saint Paul saith Rom. 4. he had not beleeued and hoped without fixing his heart vpon reason or Dauid euer to haue worne the Crowne if he had bent to reason And what reason had Iacob in this day to hope but that faith like Deborabs soule marcheth valiantly and endureth like Moses Hebr. 11. as seeing him which is inuisible The third thing which I noted in this liberabitur is That Iacob must not bee weake-handed nor faint-hearted to droup and cast away his confidence but valiant and couragious and so expect the promise for this cause did the Angell say to Gedeon goe in this thy might thou valiant man Kings and Princes be called Sauiours but yet such as neede saluation and they that saue others the Lord will saue them But if there be any king or noble or Iudge or Prelate or potentate that abuseth his power and will not saue such as are oppressed the Lord will leaue such in their enemies hands and as they haue no care to comfort others so GOD in their times of trouble shall leaue them comfortlesse and this shall be their iust portion These kind of men are endued with a more noble spirit not for their owne sakes so much as for others Dauid had a heart like a lion Sampson rends a lion in peeces and after saues his people and that people of Israell not onely in their Rulers had a blessing of mightie and valiant men but in inferiours also to shew that from GOD commeth also the outward Ornaments of Nobilitie and they are certainely most Noble that are most Faithfull and they most valiant that are most vertuous The first Iacob that euer was faieth Gen. 31.40 I endured c. and then reckons his sorrowes and the last and all must endure till they receiue the promise Job 36.5 for Iob that suffered heauie things was tolde by Elihu that the mightie God casteth away none that is mightie and valiant of courage The second thing is to shew what is implyed in this worde IACOB and this will make vp the application and sheweth First That Iacob the Patriarches life was a verie troublesome life full of difficultie daunger distresse hearts griefe amongst his children and yet GOD made a sweete and blessed ende with him and deliuered him from all sent him downe into Aegypt yea went with him Gen. 46.4 Descendam tecum in Aegyptum there hee sawe Ioseph his fruit full bough there he blessed his sonnes there he died and gaue commaundement of his bones that is prophecying their liberahitur israell shall be deliuered But here Iacob standes for a whole people to whom Jeremy for their sinne threatneth Captiuity and makes a description of a said and ruth full day wherein they shall looke with gaslly and amazed looks one vpon another pale faced and heauie hearted when this day shall come a great day a day of sorrow the day of wretchednesse and miserie neuer day like it a people setled in a glorious state thought neuer to be remoued but they shall haue their day and so had Ierusalem in Christs time her day O sicognouisses c. and that day was her day and time of trouble Let vs looke vpon our selues wee stand now wee may fall wee are at peace but there can be no security yron and clay legs will not nor can not beare vp the biazen thighes the golden lead and siluer body the bribery and prowling the oppression and cries of the oppressed the parking in of beasts and depopulating Townes to shut out Christians the neglect of iustice the death of godly zeale the contempt of lawes and all good order wil bring a day of trouble vpon Iacob that is vpon this kingdome which God yet withholdes in great mercie to make Iacob and euerie Iacob to bethinke themselues and not to melt away in worldly pleasures for this is true they that bath themselues in pleasure and in worldly ioy it makes the manliest heart to melt away and I haue heard it and read it often and in my life haue seene it that there are many haue beene worthy men that haue put on vertue with their Armour and vices with their gowne that is in exercise and sorrow and acuersity in distresse in action and armes haue beene very vigilant and valiant but comming to peace and ease and lulled in pleasures lap haue falne a sleepe if not swounded yea they haue grieuously falne if not falne quite away Iacob yet is more particular and heere may stand for any faithfull soule which shall haue her time of trouble that is of aduersitie and tentation therefore hee must looke first he