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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17917	Three sermons The former discouering a double and false heart, vpon the I. King. 21. 9. and 10. The second called, the blessednes of the righteous, vpon Psalm. 37. verse 37. The third, the court of guard, or watch of angels: I, Sam. 17. 37. By Nathaniel Cannon, Preacher of Gods Word at Hurley in Berkeshire.	Cannon, Nathanael, 1581 or 2-1664.	1616 (1616)	STC 4578; ESTC S117074	22,426	70

THREE SERMONS THE FORMER DISCOVERING A DOVBLE and false Heart vpon the 1. King 21.9 and 10. THE SECOND CALLED THE BLESSEDNES OF the Righteous vpon Psalm 37. verse 37. THE THIRD THE COVRT of Guard or Watch of Angels 1. Sam. 17.37 Nathaniel Cannon Preacher of Gods Word at Hurley in Berkeshire LONDON Printed by T.C. and B.A. for William Welby and are to be sold in Pauls Church yard at the Signe of the Swan 1616. TO THE THRISE HONORED PEERE MY LORDS Grace the Duke of Lennox Earle of Richmont Lord High Steward of his Maiesties Houshould Knight of the most noble and illustrious Order of the Garter and one of his Maiesties most Honourable Priuie Councell IF it may become a Seruant to make tender of his dutie vnto his Lord and Master then may your Grace vouchsafe to patronage this poore present notwithstanding it comes thus meanely apparelled My offering is but little and lesse then euer was offered to so great a personage yet let it not perish but find such acceptation as may giue testimonie of your most heroicall disposition When first I had leaue to call you Lord it was in my heart to doe something but neuer had the heart till now now too soone for I may truly acknowledge to your Grace that this hoc aliquid nihil est this is a very something nothing that is produced And yet great Lord I doe not nor I dare not speake meanely of my calling but my gifts with ioy with confidence and I hope with conscience I may ioyne with our Apostles saying that I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ Rom. 1.16 because it is the power of God vnto saluation to euery one that beleeueth so that in this respect although the Lord hath made you great yet if you were greater and the greatest vpon the face of the earth yet know it is the word of God of that glorious God who is the Creator and the Kings and Princes Dukes and Nobles are but his creatures as other men vos estis domini terrae indeed you are the Lords of the earth Psalm 82.1 and yet your selues are but Terra domini euen the earth of the Lords as other men O therefore let a seruant speake if you would double and trebble Honors vpon your head let the Word of God be the lanthorne vnto your feete and the light vnto your pathes Psalm 119. you shall see the way that leades vnto life euerlasting verbum est via the Word is the way haec via ducit ad vrbem this way leades vnto the hauen yea vnto the heauen prepared for those that loue that heare that reuerence and obey this word of God there shall you chāge your Dukedome for a Kingdome for he crownes his children Reuel 5.10 If then the eminent Lords would raise their houses let them raise vp their hearts and set them vpon righteousnesse for them saith God that honour me I will honour them but they that neglect or despise the Lord shall downe to the ground Be pleased therefore most Honorable Lord 1. Sam. 2.30 in respect of him whose word it is to looke vpon this small Exposition although in respect both of my weakenesse and vnworthinesse that doe present it may fall to the ground Plutarch in vita Artax Be vnto me in this kind a Princely Artaxerxes he receiued a handful of running water from a poore laborer be as gratious noble Lord in receiuing this from me a poore Scholler whilest I according to my beūden duty pray to my God for your increase of honor and happines internall externall eternall and so rest Your Graces Chaplaine in all dutifull obseruance Nathanael Cannon A DOVBLE HEART 1. KING 21.9.10 And she wrote in the letters saying Proclaime a fast and set Naboah among the people and set two wicked men before him to beare witnesse against him saying Thou didst blaspheme God and the King and then stone him to death EZechiels Vision is full of demonstration a Ezech. 8.8 and in a liuely maner doth present vnto vs the course or rather curse of sin it shewes vs the gradation of it as if it grew vp by the rule of multiplication from bad to worse from much to more from one mischiefe to another vntill the full measure of wickednesse and abomination it selfe bee made vp Goe saith God vnto the Prophet in that place and dig into the wall and thou shalt finde a doore which doore breake open and thou shalt see all manner of abominations and when thou hast scene those saith God goe a little farther and then thou shalt see more and the further thou goest the more abominations thou shalt find My Text seemeth to haue the like reuelation for by that time the walls of the Scripture are broken downe and the doore of it opened wee shall see such degrees of sinne and such a progression in wickednesse that the truth of that Scripture will appeare vnto vs which Esay speakes of as concerning the nature of wickednesse which is to draw sinne vpon sinne and iniquitie vpon iniquitie as it were with cart ropes b Esay 5.8 This course is here taken by a cursed woman for so God pronounceth Iezabel to bee who hauing with her husband Ahab set their eyes vpon that which was not their owne and longing after Naboaths Vineyard which was neere adioyning vnto their Pallace they propose it vnto him that they might obtaine it for a price or els that they might exchāge with him for some other but his answere is Negatiue God forbid saith hee that I should sell my fathers inheritance This refusal in vnpleasing to Ahab as if it had beene a great offence in Naboath to keepe his owne In this discontentment Iezabel takes her time and of a resolution to accomplish her wicked purpose incenseth Ahab after this manner Art thou a King saith she and rulest Israel As who should say Dares hee denie thee his vineyard Thus are there alwaies wicked instruments to prouoke and worke vngodly offices especially where wicked women become counsellors whose mallice is no lesse then is noted vnto vs when it maintaind that there is no head to the head of a Serpent Eccles 35. nor no malice to the malice of a wicked woman The consequence of this Text is an instance so it is very probable that Ahab would haue giuen this ouer after a little more grumbling But Iezabel scornes such a repulse shee wil haue his Vineyard and his bloud and for that purpose shee arraignes him condemnes him and executes him all at once as appeares in this Text. Thus hauing broken downe a little of the wall to make way vnto it that so we may see the occasion from whence all this proceeds wee will now adresse ourselues vnto the dore and looke in thereat that so we may enter into this Scripture and take into our consideration such seuerals as in a course of deuision this Text will naturally afford vnto vs The