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A03475	Panēguris D. Elizabethæ, Dei gratiâ Angliæ, Franciæ, & Hiberniæ Reginæ. A sermon preached at Pauls in London the 17. of November ann. Dom. 1599. ... and augmented in those places wherein, for the shortnes of the time, it could not there be then delivered. VVherevnto is adioyned an apologeticall discourse, whereby all such sclanderous accusations are fully and faithfully confuted, wherewith the honour of this realme hath beene vncharitably traduced by some of our adversaries in forraine nations, and at home, for observing the 17. of November yeerely in the forme of an holy-day ... By Thomas Holland, Doctor of Divinity, & her Highnes professor thereof in her Vniversity of Oxford.; Panēguris D. Elizabethae, Dei gratiâ Angliae Reginae	Holland, Thomas, 1539-1612.	1601 (1601)	STC 13597; ESTC S104142	118,907	169

God And as poore E●●● that mighty prophet was seene glorified in the mount with our Saviour so was divine Moses Math. 17. that was learned in all Aegyptian wisedome And as Lazarus in in this life full of sores Luc. 16. was seene in Abrahams bosome after his death in great glory so no doubt David the patriarch that was so mighty and rich enioyed the blessings of the Lord in the land of the living And Mat. 13.17 Though some learned men haue thought the contrary of king Salomon Heb. 11. as there was place in heaven for Peter Andrew Iames and Iohn that were fishermen and left all to follow Christ so there was place in heaven for rich glorious and wise Salomon that being a notable figure of Christ was a king and that a glorious wise king while he lived on the earth Neither is there only place in the kingdome of God for such as wandred vp downe in sheepe skins and goate skins being destitute afflicted and tormented such as the world was not worthy of but there is place for the great conquerour Ioshua honourable Gedeon valiant Ehua strong Sampson godly Hezekias zealous Iosias and iust Iehosaphat kings of Iuda There is not only place for litle Beniamin Psal 108.9 but also for Iuda that was the l●wgiver the princes of Zebulon and the princes of Nephtalim There is not only in heaven a place for starres but for the sunne and moone And although God hath chosen the poore of this world that they should bee riche in faith and heires of the kingdome which he promised to them that loue him yet he hath not reiected the rich nor altogither secluded them Ioh. 14.2 for In my fathers house saith our Saviour be many mansions of this argument also Saint Ambrose speaketh in this sort Ambros ad ●emetriad li. 1. ep 84. Quamvis tota vita hominis tentatio sit super terram c. Although the whole life of man vpon the earth be a tēptation aswell aboundance as want is wont to be the matter of sin when either the rich man is puffed vp with pride or the poore man falleth on murmuring yet there haue beene in al times and in our times also as some are good Poor so some good Rich. Neither is it in vaine that the blessed Apostle Saint Paule counselleth Timothy saying 1. Tim. 6. Charge them that are rich in this world that they be not high minded and that they trust not in vncertaine riches but in the living God which giveth vs all thinges aboundantly to enioy That they doe good and bee rich in good workes ready to distribute and communicate Laying vp in store for thēselues a good foundation against the time to come that they may obtaine eternall life And to come to the sexe o● women in the kingdome of God there was not only place for poore Martha Luc. 10. that ministred vnto Christ and Mary that had chosen the better part and the poore widdow that cast two mites into the treasurie of the temple Luc. 21. and the poore widdowes that ministred things necessary to the faithfull pilgrims and Saintes of God 1. Tim. 5. but there is place also for Deburah the prophetesse the wife of Lapidoth that iudged Israell and was a mother in Israell for Miriam the sister of Moses who with Moses and Aaron Iudic. 4. 5 when the Lorde redeemed Israel out of the house of servants was sent before the people to their delivery And lastly Micheah 6 4. there is a place in the kingdome of heaven for this honourable Queene the Queene of the South who came from the vtmost partes of the earth to heare the wisedome of Salomon I might heere mention Constantinus Magnus Theodosius Ioseph of Arimathia that honourable counseller noble Theophilus after Constantinus the great his mother Helena Theodosius Magnus and his wife Placilla Martian the great Emperour and his wife Pulcheria in whose government the great counsell of Chalcedon was held Carolus Magnus and Iudeth the wife of Ludovicus Pius with many Kings and Queenes of England King Henry the seventh and Elizabeth his wife Lady Margaret Countesse of Richmond Iohn Kempe Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Kempe Bishop of London Thomas Woolsey Cardinall Archbishop of Yorke King Henry the eight King Edward the sixt● Iohn Baill●●● king of the Scottes and Dorberguilla his wife founders of Bailliol Colledge Water Stapleton and Edmond Stafford Bishops of Excester and Sir William Peter knight foūders of Excester Coll. in Oxford But the time wil not suffer me I wil therefore returne to my present text of the Queene of the south a figure of the comming of the gentiles vnto Christ and one by the testimony of our Saviour that shall rise against this generation and shall condemne it for shee came from the vtmost partes of the earth to heare the wisedome of Salomon and beholde a greater then Salomon is heere Having discouered sufficiently of the person having made vse of such doctrine as fitly herein might answere this time text land place the figure and type which this person representeth draweth me to handle it For Exo. 25.20 For as in the tabernacle the face of one of the Cherubins respected another one ever with a reflexed countenance beheld the other as one ring of the arke was ingaged within the other thereby drew the other so having expressed the historicall sense the figure of mysticall sense draweth me to shew what is signified by this great person here mētioned And this figure or type is mystically vnderstood of the whole text of the old testament secretly woven in by the spirit of God as the threed is which the shittle carieth in the silkemans web by which the partes of the whole are combined togither and although the mysticall sense be not manifest to the Iewes nor yet revealed vnto them yet for vs it is to beholde 2. Cor. 3. as in a myrrour the face of the Lord with open face The figure I mention oft which giveth life and inlighteneth the history as the arteries giue life to the blood in the vaines as the crowne of golde imbordered the holy table of Shittim wood Exod. 25. that was in the tabernacle and as the bels and pomgranates were vpon the skirts of Aarons garments the one sounding the other shadowing the sweet odoriferous holines of the true high Priest by the which he was made vocalis or sounding for as the waters of Marah were made sweete by the tree which Moses cast into thē at the Lords commāden ent Exo. 25.25 so by this figure the holy history of this honorable Queene receiveth life and is inlightened garnished and made shining and sounding And this is the salt that seasoneth the old testament Iob. 6. without which oftentimes there is no more taste in the story of it then in the white of an egge The testimony of Christ is the spirit

cedar tree which is in lebanon euen vnto the hyslop that springeth out of the wall Hee spake also of beasts and of fowles and of creeping thinges and of fishes And there came of all people to heare the wisdome of Salomon from all kings of the earth which had heard of his wisdome These things are repeated againe in the 10. chap. of the same booke 1. King 10 So king Salomon exceeded all the kings of the earth both in riches and wisdome And all the world sought to see Salomon to heare his wisdom which God had put in his heart And they brought euery man his present vessells of siluer and vessels of gold and raiment and armour sweet odors horses mules from yeere to yeere Sap. 7. To this consenteth that which is in the 7. of wisedome God gaue Salomon true vnderstanding of things that are so that hee knew the world was made and the powers of the elements the begining and the end and the mids of the times how the times alter and the change of the seasons the course of the yeare and the situacion of the starres the name of liuing things and the furiousnes of beasts the power of the windes and the imaginacions of men the diuersity of plants and the vertue of rootes and all things both secret knowne did he know for wisedome the woorker of all things taught him And heereunto cōsenteth that of Sirachs son Eccle. 47. chap. 47. How wise was Salomon in his youth Hee was sided with vnderstanding as a floud His minde couered the whole earth filled it with graue and darke sentences His name went about in the Iles and for his peace he was beleeved And this wisedome of Salomon which was giuen him by God was either Vniversalis quaedam sapientia A certaine vniversall wisedome For his heart was large by his wisedome which was as the sand of the sea in number his heart was filled with vnderstanding as a floud hee excelled all men in wisedome Or els this wisedome was particularis Particular In naturall causes which consisted in knowing of birds beasts hearbs elements fishes trees influences astronomicall situatiō of starres of prouerbs and darke sentences of musike of Diuinity which appeareth by his praier in the dedication of the temple by the resolution of the Queenes questions which shee proposed vnto him There were the lines and cords of admiration which drew people out of all nations to bee desirous to see Salomon as now what a concourse wold bee to see such a man as should excell in such gifts that should shine in such qualities that should glister with so manifold and miraculous graces These gifts of God these graces and these vertues were the cords I say that drew the whole world after Salomon and made all the world desirous to see Salomon This was that attractiue quality that drew such a concourse of people out of all the earth to see Salomon this was the loadestone that drew the heart of this honorable Queene of the south as it were a needle and incensed her with an holy zeale to come to see and to conferre with king Salomon Yet all this ●dome of Salomon was nothing in comparison of the wisedome of Christ in whome the fulnes of the Godhead Coloss 2. Cōll 2.9 dwelt 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Bodily and vpon whom rested those manifolde giftes of the holy Ghost spoken of Isa 11.2 Esay 11.2 the spirit of wisedome and vnderstanding the spirit of counsell and strength the spirit of knowledge of the feare of the Lord whom Salomon in figure represented and of whom this Queene by Salomon sought to be instructed Heere I should enter into the figure betweene Christ and Salomon but because the time passeth away speedily I will summarily conclude Salomon an earthly king Christ our Saviour a king of heaven rex regum Dominus domina●trum king of kings and Lord of Lordes Salomon drew some of all nations to heare him Christ our Saviour drew all nations after him to heare him and to beleeue in him Salomon raigned in Ierusalem in the land of Israell Christ our Saviour his dominion is vnto the vttermost endes of the earth Salomons raigne was but for forty years Christs raigne for ever Salomon a man Christ God and man Salomons wisedome definite Christs wisdome infinite Salomon had plenty of silver in Ierusalem almuggim trees c. gold and precious stones Christ gaue ioy of soules peace of conscience comfort of the spirit and life everlasting by powring out his spirit vpon all flesh We read not that Salomō spake with many tongues but Christ sending downe the holy Ghost gaue cloven and fierie tongues and made young men to see visions old men to dreame dreames and maidens to prophecy Briefly Ioel. 2. Act. 2. Salomons benefites were specially earthly or if they were spirituall they were infused by revelation but vpon our Saviour Esay 11.2 there resided the spirit of wisedome of counsell Isa 11.2 c. Christ was annointed with the oile of gladnesse and ioy aboue his fellowes and as Saint Iohn saith cap. 1.14 We saw the glory of him Ioh. 1.14 as the glory of the only begotten sonne of God full of grace and truth And of his fulnesse haue we all received grace for grace Lastly Salomon was but a shadow or figure Christ the substance figured So of this comparison let this suffice The next thing to be handled that followeth the motiues which drew this Queene to Ierusalē are the paines that this noble Queene taketh to come to Salomon Proverb 1. Wisedome in the booke of the proverbs vttereth her voice in the streetes and shee calleth in the high streetes among the presse and entering of the gates yet the fooles of this world whom shee calleth refuse to come when shee stretcheth out her hand they wil not regard when shee admonisheth they will despise her correction Proverb 9. when they are invited to her feast they refuse to come when they are charmed by the wise charmer they will stop their eares like a deafe adder they will saie villam 〈◊〉 I haue bought a farme or vxo●em duxi I haue married a wife c. as the excusers of themselues in the parable Luc. 14.18 Luc. 14.18.20 But this noble Queene shee doth otherwise as the needle shee will follow the load-stone as the loadstone will by secret influence follow the North star as the heliotropium will turne towardes the sunne This may be seene in the paines of her iourney by her comming from Mero● to Ierusalem Ierusalem Long. 66. Latit 31. The north pole is elevated at Ierusalem 31. degrees as Cosmographers doe define every degree containeth 60. miles in earth the distance of Meroe from the aequinoctiall line is 16. degrees according to Ptolomees tables Meroe Long. 61. Latit 16. Ptolem. tab geograph The difference of longitude must also be considered so Meroe from Ierusalem is distant 15.

which actions as farre forth exceede the reach of our capacities vnlesse we be inlightened from aboue daily exercised in holy meditations as the earth is from the heavens as the plaine is from the depth as flesh and blood is from Gods kingdome To the danger or perill of the losse of her kingdome I answere seeing it was the Lords doing to stir her vp to take this iourney her country could not be rebellious for God no questiō thē dwelled in the middest of her people by his mighty power that God that accōpanied her in her iourney to Ierusalē was also glorified by Salomon in ●erusalem spake there out of the Mercy seat Now where God is in the middest of a people Psal 46.5 how shall that nation be moved God shall helpe such a prince early This our God will make the warres to cease there hee will breake the bow cut the speare and burne the chariots he will still the rages of such seas asswage all fury in such people and such seas then shall haue sands from God to stop their overflowing all such people shall then haue railes to keep thē in al such surge● shal haue shore rockes to binde them in or to breake them Besides how could this woman feare any tumult or rebellion at home or amongst her owne people when as the text saith shee came to Ierusalem beshem-Iehovah which thing also Rabbi Kim●y hath obserued And in that her action was a figure of the church of the Gentiles as I haue before obserued out of Isidore Eucherius Angelomus and since we finde that which Gregory hath expressed 1. Moral Greg. ●● 〈◊〉 Vt ad ostendēdam innocentiam venit Abel c. As Abell came to be a paterne of innocency Enoch of integrity Noe of a long-patient perseverance both of good hope and weldoing Abraham of obedience Isaac of chastity of of mariage Iacob of tolerancie in labour Ioseph of repaying evill with good Moses of mildenesse Ioshua of constancie in adversitie Iob of patience in affliction and all these were as morning starres shining before the sun as it were forerunners and types of the true messias who succeeded them so the church of the Gentiles was prefigured in Rahab of Iericho Ruth of Moab Pharaohs daughter espowsed to Salomon in the little sister which then had no breastes Cant. 8.8 and nowe in this honourable princesse the Queene of the south here specified commended farre preferred in Gods kingdome and received thereinto whē incredulous Scribes Epicureall Sadduces blasphemous Pharises shall be cast into vtter darkenesse where is weeping and gnashing of teeth The obiection being dissolved the internall cause that moved this Queene to vndertake this iourney is next to be handled But what moved this noble Queene to come to Ierusalem Wisd 7. The first thing that moved her questionlesse was the secret working of the holy Ghost that finger of God that spirit of vnderstanding which is holy subtile moueable cleare vndefiled pure intellectuall who as the winde Ioh. 18. bloweth whither it listeth whose sounde none hearing knoweth either from whence it commeth or whither it goeth Sap. 1. who being one can doe all things and remaining in it selfe renueth all thinges Pro. 21. who entereth into holy soules maketh them friends of God Prophets this holy spirit mooved the heart of this mighty Queene in whose power the heartes of princes are who turneth them as the rivers of waters whither soever it pleaseth him If it be therfore not laborious for the influence of the heavens not only to heat the inferior bodies that lie in the superficial part of the earth aire but also to worke by a secret vertue in such mettals as are hidden in the bowels of the earth and are vnsensible in thēselues according to that of Saint Ambrose offic 1.14 Ambrose offic 1.14 Quid autem tam stoliaum quam putare c. But what is so foolish as to thinke that any thing as hidden from God whereas the sunne who ministreth vs light pierceth into hidden corners and the force of his heate entereth into the very foundations of our houses secret closets who can deny but that by the temperate heate of the spring the inward bowels of the earth are warmed which before were fast congealed with winter frostes Trees also haue a sense of the force of heate colde in so much that their very rootes are either killed with colde or revived with the cherishing heate of the Sunne The earth also displa●●th her variety of fruit as soone as the aire waxeth moderate If then the beames of the Sun be able to disperse their light over the whole earth and can neither be hindered by yron barres nor close wickets from making entrance into our closest roomes and shall not the intelligible brightnes of God diffuse it selfe into the inmost cogitations of men and diue into those heartes which it selfe hath created 1. Cor. 2. Was it not easie then for Gods holy spirit which searcheth al things yea the deepe things of God which searcheth the corners of mans heart sealeth our election which is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the earnest of our inheritance Eph. 1. Rom. 8. which crieth abba father in our hearts and beareth witnesse vnto vs that we are Gods children which maketh request for vs with sighes that cannot bee expressed by whom all things were fashioned Heb. 4. vnto whose eies all things are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Naked and laide open whose operation is mighty liuely sharper then any two edged sword entereth through even to the dividing asunder of the soule and the spirit and of the iointes and of the marrow is a discerner of the thoughts intents of the hart vnto whose sight there is no creature which is not manifest was it not easie I say thē for that holy spirit which is infinite in power incomprehensible in maiesty and because he is God is as the Schoolemen say vbique praesens Lōb S●nt 1. D●si 37. per essentiam praesentiam pot●ntiam Every where subsistent by his essence praesence and power to mooue the heart of this holy Queene to come to Ierusalem to draw her heart after Salomon as rivers follow the spring tydes as the orbe draweth the planet as primum mobile The first spheare which is moved draweth the inferiour spheres against their owne course as Elias his mantle cast on Elisha made him run after him 1. King 19.10 in as much as by this holy spirite all things are created and moved Hercules Gallus and all other oratours drawe by the eares but this holy Queene was drawen by the hearte in that maner of drawing Cant. 1.3 that the spowse in the Cant●cles is drawen after him whom her soule loveth in those lines of loue that our Saviour speaketh of in the sixth of Iohn Nemo venit ad me Ioh. 6. nisi pater meus traxerit