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The romish Iudas A sermon preached at Saint Maries in Oxford the fifth of Nouember, 1610. By Iohn Ravvlinson Doctour of Diuinitie.
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Rawlinson, John, 1576-1630.
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THE ROMISH IVDAS A SERMON PREACHED AT SAINT MARIES IN OXFORD THE FIFTH OF NOVEMBER 1610. By IOHN RAVVLINSON Doctour of Diuinitie Bern. super Cantic Ser. 52. Non quod mihi est vtile sed quod multis id mihi vtile iudicabo LONDON Printed by WILLIAM HALL for IOHN HODGETS 1611. TO THE HONOVRABLE GOOD KNIGHT Sir Iohn Egerton multiplication of Grace in this life and consummation of Glory in that other HONOVRABLE SIR THough Nihili ad omne nullaest proportio there is no proportion betweene such a Nothing as this and the All of your all-deseruing fauours towards mee yet because the Moralist tells me that where onely the qualitie of the affection and not the quantitie of the present is to bee attended Modicum non differt à magno it skilles not bee the present great or small And Testes inhabiles tunc admittuntur cùm alioquì veritas haberi nequit say the Lawyers Witnesses lesse sufficient are admitted when the truth cannot without them be sufficiently tried J will not once question your kinde and fauourable construction of this either little Modicum of my loue or insufficient witnesse of the truth of my affection towards you to whom vnlesse I would bee impudently bashfull I cannot but ingenuously confesse that whatsoeuer is within the sphere of my actiuitie hath long since been deseruedly due Hauing therfore pâ—â—ssed this Sermon for a Souldiour to fight against the Romish Judas the Priests and Jesuites who are euer like a Ier. 2.24 Jeremies wilde Asse great with foale and so the fitter to bee pursued I know not vnder whose colours it should rather serue than yours both because the many sweet influences of your fauours haue taken such hold and handfast of me that though by the Ciuil Law Ecclesiae res vltra triennium locari non possunt Church-liuings cannot be let forth for more than three yeers yet by the Law of Ciuilitie my selfe a Church-man am bound to let and set my selfe to your seruice for euer as also because you haue vowed your Knights seruice to the defense of our Head-Captaine Christ against his and our Head-enemie the Pope the Muster-master of the Priests and Jesuites a sort of Romanists of whom I would wee might not truly say what b Cor. Tacit. Tacitus sometimes said of the Roman Augurs Hoc genus hominum semper vetabitur semper tamen in Ciuitate retinebitur They will euer be forbidden yet will this Land of ours neuer be rid of them To put by many other their matchlesse more than Machiauellian Practises both at home and abroad hee that shall but looke into their practise of the Powder-plot which I haue made the Subiectum adaequatum of this Sermon it cannot but resolue his heart if truly honest into that poeticall furie Odero si potero si non inuitus amabo J know their cunning to be such that they will disclaime what they cannot excuse and rather than stand burdened with so foule a crime disburden themselues of it what they may by terming it the rash c Ouid. attempt of certaine vnfortunate Gentlemen whom yet they account in nothing so much vnfortunate as that it was not their fortune to speede in that dismall enterprise Howbeit J verily beleeue that had they sped it would haue extorted teares from the Priests and Iesuites their taske-masters teares not of sorrow but of ioy such as Caesar shedde when Pompeys head was brought before him I trust my loyaltie to my most gracious Soueraigne will excuse my presumption that I suffer my pen to trauell in the same path after d The Bishop of Lincolne The Deane of Christ. church two of the most bright and orient Lights of our Church after whose haruest I am farre vnworthie to gleane and my loue to your honourable selfe obtaine my pardon for entitling you to these my poore trauels for whom as for my most honorable Lord and Master your Father the most noble Foster-father of the whole Clergie with each branch and sprig of so noble a Root my praier is and euer shall be to God e Michael Serinius in antiquitat Stet Domus haec donec fluctus Formica marinos Ebibat totum Testudo perambulet orbem Vntill a little-little Ant Shall drinke the brackish Sea-waues dry And a Snaile compasse all the world Stand may that noble â—â—milie Yours to the vtmost streine of his best seruice Iohn Rawlinson A SERMON PREACHED AT St. MARIES IN OXFORD the fifth of NOVEMBER 1610. The Preface FOr euery purpose vnder Heauen there is both 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 so the Septuagint read it a Eccles. 3. Ecclesiastes 3. Tempus and Tempestiuitas a Time and a Season and the Season is as I may call it Salactionum the salt that so seasoneth al our actions that whatsoeuer is vnseasonable is euer vnpleasing Musica in luctu importuna narratio b Ecclus. 22.6 saith the Sonne of Sirac c. 22. A tale out of time is as musicke in mourning or in c Suidas Suidas his Prouerbe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the wearing of a hot and heauy winter-cloake at Midsommer-Yea that Panis Angelorum Angelicall Manna that came downe from Heauen though when it was gathered in due time it had in it Omne delectamentum the delight and delicacie of all sweets d Sap. 16.20 Sap. 16. yet being gathered out of season tempore non suo as vpon the Sabbath day it putrified and was full of wormes e Exo. 16.20 Exod. 16. As in other works so especially in this great and notable worke of the Lord the Worke of Workes the dispensation of his holy word there is a tempestiuitie or season to bee obserued Text and Time must haue congruitie each with other As at other times so especially at such a time as this which for the noble and excellent worke of our deliuery wrought therein by the high and mighty hand of God from the damnable designes of that cursed crew those Catuli Catilmarij whelpes of Catilines breed Iudae plusquà m Iudaici more than Iewish Iudasses who as this day fiue yeeres had banded themselues together for the extirpation both of Prince and people may bee called a Time of Times for but for it to vs time had beene no more and doth therfore rightfully challenge at our hands a Song of Songs euen a song of thankesgiuing which is the best and sweetest melodie in the eares of God While I speake of suting this time with a Text I presume your conceits doe already anticipate and runne before mee in my choice which indeede shall bee a choice without choice none other than that of Iudas his treason the hideous crie and dinne whereof so latelie sounded and shall now againe bee reuiued in your eares THE TEXT Luc. 22.48 Judas betraiest thou the Sonne of man with a kisse MY Text then as yee see for the vicinitie and readinesse of it is like Iacobs Venison f Ge. 27.20
no longer in the scabbard of cruell pitie and to perswade our selues as too-too-iustly wee may that n Virgil. Vna salus nobis nullam sperare salutem Our only safe course shall be neuer to thinke our selues safe so long as this Troian Horse is among vs o Idem Equo ne credite Teucri And that though one vaute of theirs be dammed vp yet so long as there is another and that a deeper vaute of Treason in their hollow hearts abyssus abyssum one vaute will call vp another and ignis ignem one fire-worke will kindle m Rom. 13. another and simile simile one like will produce another like to it selfe Dolent sibi bolum è faucibus ereptum it grieues them that wee were not giuen ouer as a prey vnto Faux his teeth and therefore their rage is still as hot as hell-fire against vs euen 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a fire that neuer wil be quenched and the burning thereof if we looke not to it will be fire and much wood and the breath of the Pope like a riuer of brimstone to kindle it for euermore 3 A Consolation to confirme and solace our hearts in this assurance that as at our first redemption de inferiori abysso from the nethermost hell Christ cancelled Chirographum the hand-writing that was against vs and nailed it to his Crosse and now againe at this our second redemption as I may call it de superiori abysso from the vppermost hell he also cancelled Chirographum the hand-writing that was against vs and nailed it to the Traitors Crosse so if we shall serue and feare him as we ought he will euer frustrate and annihilate whatsoeuer purposes and proiects all the diuels either on earth or in hell can deuise against vs. And that as Christ was Emmanuel God with vs Ad consummationem salutis for the consummation of our saluation when as the Sonne of man he suffered himselfe to be betraied to the death of the Crosse as in my text and againe Emmanuel God with vs as on this day ad consummationem salutis for the consummation of this our second saluation when as the Son of God he reuealed and as it were betraied these Traitors to the death of the Crosse so hee will also be Emmanuel God with vs p Matt. 28. ad consummationem saeculi to the end of the world if wee stand fast and immoueable in the faith of Christ whereby we shall be able to quench all the firie darts of the diuell For true and faithfull is he that hath promised that if we will be his people he will surely be our God Wherefore march valiantly ô my soule and ô ye the faithfull souldiers of Christ bee strong and comfort your hearts Christo Duce so long as your Captain Generall is Christ feare not what diuell or man can doe vnto you 4 And lastly a Gratulation or Thankesgiuing vnto God for this his vnspeakable mercie towards vs. For Ecce nunc dies salutis Behold now the day of saluation A day in the Church of Rome _____ Carbone notabilis atro for euer to be marked and signed with a blacke coale because the fire came not at their coale to make it red but to the Churches of Great Britannie for euer to stand in their Kalendars like that Vialactea or milkie way in heauen q Ouid. Candore notabilis ipso and to be noted for a milke-white day because in it the fauour of God was as milke to represse and quench the wild-fire and the gunpowder that had otherwise beene vnquenchable till wee had staunched quenched the fury of it with a common ruine 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 dies but not in diem a day but the memory therof not to last only for a day Diem pro anno diem inquam pro anno tibi dedi saith God to his Prophet r Ezec. 4.6 Ezechiel c. 4. I haue appointed thee a day for a yeare euen a day for a yeare But this is dies pro omnibus annis a day that must neuer be ouer-year'd a day for all the yeares of our life to thanke God for a day I say wherein ſ Psa 111.4 the mercifull and gratious Lord hath so done his merueilous worke that it ought to bee had in remembrance For it was come to a Tantumnon and to a paulominùs in inferno habitasset anima nostra We were euen at the pits brinke Jn articulo mortis not onley as men appointed to die but at the point to die But God who is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as t Simplicius in Arist Physic l. 1. the Philosopher calls him and as u Psal 9.9 Dauid Deus in opportunitatibus a God in the needfull time of trouble when we were thus albicantes ad messem white for the haruest and ready to be cut downe and there wanted nothing but only the thrusting in of Falx the sickle to cut vs downe or Fax the fire to burn vs vp or Faux euen Guy Faux or if yee will Faux Orci that hellish Faux to haue deuoured vs then then did he send from heauen and saue vs. Nocte pluit totâ redeunt spectacula manè All the night long were the vngodly digging a pit for vs but before the morning watch I say before the morning watch they fell into it themselues God the watchman of Israel who neither slumbers nor sleeps who vnlesse he had kept the City the watchmen had watched but in vain he watched them a turne and turn'd their counsell to their owne confusion The blow which they had intended vnto vs was such a blow to themselues that in euery honest heart the credit of their Lex ignea is quite blowne vp O let not vs also play the Iudasses with God and set light by this and other his mercies towards vs. Ps 125.4 If God do * benefacere do well vnto vs let it not grieue vs benedicere to speak good of his name Ge. 22.13 But as x a Ramme was offer'd vp to God for Isaaks deliuery when wood fire and knife were prepared to haue kill'd offer'd vp him in sacrifice Psal 28.1 so y Afferte domino filij Dei afferte domino filios arietum For this deliuery of our gracious Iacob and his people bring vnto the Lord ô ye sons of God bring young rammes bring also the calues of your lips vnto the Lord that is as it followes in the Psalme Ascribe vnto the Lord worship and strength Giue the Lord the honor due vnto his name And sith our blessed Iacob as this day got away the blessing from that Romish Esau supplanted those supplanters hauing as it were wrestled al night with the destroying Angel in the morning became Israel and preuailed with God Oh let Iacob and all Israel powre out their hearts in songs of thanksgiuing vnto God the God of Iacob Israel And sith our selues were not made as wee had almost beene Oblatio matutina a morning burnt incense to the diuell igni deuorationis with their deuouring fire let vs make our selues Oblationem matutinam a morning burnt sacrifice vnto God igni deuotionis with the fire of deuotion And sith Calix mortis that bitter cuppe of death and destruction which they had mixed for vs passed from vs vntouched and vntasted let vs testifie our thankfulnesse vnto God for it by taking and tasting of this other cup which the Lord himselfe hath mingled for vs euen the cup of his owne bloud a bloud that speaketh better things than did the bloud of their cup. For this is Calix salutaris the cup of saluation and Calix benedictionis the cup of blessing and Calix Eucharistiae the cup of thanksgiuing vnto God as for the benefit of Christs suffering so likewise for the benefit of our not suffering And now beseech wee God Quid enim nisi vota supersunt euen that God who hath hitherto so graciously preserued vs that if euery haire of our head were a life it were not too much to spend them al in defence of his truth that as he turn'd the treason of Iudas to the saluation of mankind so he would also turn this treason of the Papists to the good of this Land that it may make vs al wise vnto saluation that once knowing them we may for euer learne to auoid them that the Regall Diademe may for euer be so nailed and fixed to the head of King James that the strong and gun-powder breath of the Pope or any other Prince or Potentate whatsoeuer may neuer bee able to blow it off That his Queene may be an ancient Nursing-mother both to him and our whole Land That his Children may grow vp as the young plants be as Oliue-branches pledges of our continuall peace round about his Table That God would also make his enemies the enemies of his truth like vnto a wheele and strike them with the spirit of giddinesse That hee would turne their fire-matches into halters for their owne necks and their swords into their owne bowels and that hee would euer bow downe their backes whose neckes are so stiffe that they wil not bow to the yoake of obedience to their liege and lawfull Soueraigne that so we his people may take vp that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Song of triumph z Ps 110.1 Dixit Dominus Domino meo The Lord said vnto our Lord the King Sit thou on thy Throne vntill I make thy foes thy footstoole And let all the people say Fiat Fiat Viuat Viuat Valeat Valeat God saue King Iames. Amen Amen Amen Euen so Lord Iesus FINIS