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lord_n	honourable_a	majesty_n	privy_a	10,396	5	9.6495	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04357	A brand, Titio erepta On the fift day of Nouember last, before the Honourable Lordes of his Maiesties Priuie Councell, and the graue iudges of the law, &c. this sermon preached by the Reuerend Father in Christ, William, Lord Bishoppe of Rochester.	Barlow, William, d. 1613.	1607 (1607)	STC 1447; ESTC S100897	22,514	44

A BRAND TITIO EREPTA On the fift day of Nouember last before the Honourable Lordes of his Maiesties Priuie Councell and the graue Iudges of the Law c. this Sermon PREACHED By the Reuerend Father in Christ William Lord Bishoppe of Rochester Nigra sum sed formosa filiae Ierusalem Cant. 1. 4. LONDON Imprinted by Iohn Windet for Mathew Law 1607. To the Kinges most Sacred MAIESTIE GReat Kings haue vouchsafed poore presentsfrom mean persons a poorer or more base then TITIO a Brand a Cole-Brand neuer King accepted because no stayed Subiect durst euer offer it and yet I must Not for that I dare doe it yea I dare not but doe it For what am I that I should either gainesay or delay to execute the commaunde of so great a Monarch and my most gracious Maister Perhappes my obedience in performing your pleasure will not counter-ballance this presumption in fronting it with your Highnes Name because published it might haue beene and yet not aspired to so glorious a PATRONAGE If that bee the offence I humbly craue pardon onely of your Maiestie For this being a BRAND fitte matter for fire to worke vppon and my case as the Prophetts Iaceo inter wentes I liue among men that are set on fire whose teeth are dartes euen those Ignea tela Ephe. 6 for the tongue is inflamed by Hell saieth Saint Iames to whose protection should I rather submit it then to HIS whose gracious countenance like vnto thar Angels roscidus flatus in the middest of the furnace shall so keepe it that the most fiery spirit shall not touch it to scorch it Since therefore it pleased your Maiestie most dreade Soueraigne to commaund the diuulging thereof I here in the duety of a Subiect and in all humilitie as becommeth a Christian offer it to your Highnes wishing that it may aunswere the report which those worthy Personages of great Honour and Wisedome who were present and heard it vouchsafed to afforde it If your Maiestie in the depth of your iudgement approue it it neede not feare the censure of any For why I neuer yet heard But I must stay my selfe least that your Maiesties due prasyes such is some mans hap be as they are by many accounted for vndueflatteries My prayers I trust shall not so bee namely that seeing the Highest King hath grauntēd vnto your Maiestie as vnto Salomon a LARGE HEART replenished with all capable of more then Royall Endowmentes it woulde please him to increase his Graces in you to prolong your daies among vs and to giue vs thankfull heartes for the fruition and affections loyally seruiceable to the pleasure of so Wise so Learned so Gracious so Religious a King whose vnworthy seruant I am euen Your MAIESTIES poore Chaplein VV. ROFFENS Non omne quod nigrum est continuô deforme est Bern. in Cant. Zach. 3. 2. Nonne Iste Titio ereptus ex igne Is not This a Brand snatcht out of the fire GReat deliuerances to haue perpetuall remembrances both Heather in their Stories shewe it vsuall and God in Scripture inioynes it necessarie Caue ne obliuiscaris is thrice repeated in one Chapter concerning the deliuerance from Egypt And those memorials were of two sorts both Mute and Vocall for Mute first those which the Scripture calleth Libros Monumentorū Hest. 6. 1. as Chronicles Annals Ephemerides and bookes of record for Bookes are dumbe Schoole-masters say Gellius and Plutarch secondly those which the Scripture calleth Acervum testem or Cumulum testimonij Gen 31 47. Trophaes and Pillars erected for posteritie whereon oftentimes they fastened the name or manner of their de iuerance as Dauid streightly enuironed by Saul who by an vnexpected message was suddenly pulled from him erected a Pillar and called it Petram diuidentem a stone of separation or diuision 1. Sa. 23. 28. Thirdly speciall daies selected for assemblies either for extraordinary cheere which the Scripture Deut. 16. 14. calleth Epulas festiuitatum or exempt from ordinarie worke and trade which the Heathen tearmed Ferias vacant and idle daies or spent in religious seruices sacrifices and killing of beasts such as S. Iac. 5. 6. calleth Diem mactationis vpon which oftentimes they imposed the Name of the Deliuerance as Esa. 9. 4. the day of Madian signifying the ouerthrow of Madian and the rescue of Israel from their intended spoile Nor did they vse onely these dumbe remembrances but Vocall also and they were both Artificial as Amos 6. 5 Vox psalterij the voice of the Organ and all instruments of Musicke which Dauid 2. Sam. 6 5 in one generall tearme calleth Ligna abietum the wood of firre trees for euen things without life haue a voice saith S. Paul 1. Cor. 14. 7. and Naturall also as Psal. 47. 1. Vox melodia which S. Paul expresseth by particulars Coll. 3. 16. Psalmes and Hymnes and spirituall songs For with all these were solemnized the Scripture Festiuals as Psal. 81. Sing wee merrily vnto God our strength make a cheerefull noise to the God of Iacob take the Psalme there is Vox melodiae the voice Naturall vers 1. Bring hither the Tabret the merrie harp with the lute blow vp the trumpet there is the voice Instrumētall ver 2. But these though they haue in them as S. Paul speaketh virtutem vocis the strength of voice 1. Cor. 14. 11. working strongly for the time not vpon the senses onely but euen the affections also yet because they haue not vocem virtutis a voice of power for that God reserues to his own voyce onely Ps. 68. 34. Dabit voci suae vocem virtutis therfore in their feasts they inioined Gods voice also to be heard by the mouthes of his Ministers who in those solemnities not onely like the Angel in this Storie Chap. 1. 13. should vtter Debarim tobim Debarim Nehummim Good words and comfortable but beeing maisters of the Assemblies so Salomon calleth thē Eccles 12. 11. thier speech shuld haue in it especially at such times both Clauos and Stimulos Nailes fastening in the most obdurate and forgetfull mindes a deepe impression with an horror of the enuyroning danger and goades exciting and prouoking the dullest affections to praise and thankesgiuing for the danger escaped for the rescue made Which very course our Church and State hath continued point deuise for this dates Memoriall more then any other it beeing more extraordinarie then any other euen that which Psal. 81 is for that solemne feast ordained and performed both statum diem a set day whereon to meete vers 3. and statutam legem a statute Law which inioyneth the meeting vers 4. VVith vs an Acte of Parliament for this day prescribing in some sort the manner of the celebration sutable to the custom of each seuerall place both with mute and dumbe Memorials as ringing firing feasting c. and with vocall also singing of Psalmes sounding of