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An holy panegyrick a sermon preached at Paules Crosse vpon the anniuersarie solemnitie of the happie inauguration of our dread soueraigne Lord King James, Mar. 24, 1613 / by J.H.D.D.
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Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656.
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AN HOLY PANEGYRICK A Sermon Preached at Paules Crosse vpon the anniuersarie Solemnitie of the happie Inauguration of our Dread Soueraigne Lord King JAMES Mar. 24. 1613. By J. H. D. D. LONDON Printed by Iohn Pindley for SAMVEL MACHAM 1613. TO THE RIGHT Honorable Sir IOHN SVVINERTON Knight Lord Maior of the Citie of London All grace and happinesse RIght Honorable Mine owne forwardnesse whereof it repenteth me not hath sent forth other of my labours vnbidden but this your effectual importunitie hath drawne forth into the common light Jt is an holy desire that the eye may second the eare in any thing that may helpe the soule and we that are fishers of men should be-wanting to our selues if we had not baits for both those sences I plead not the disaduantage of a dead letter in respect of that life which elocution puts into any discourse Such as it is I make it both publike and yours I haue caused my thoughts so neere as I could to goe back to the verie tearmes wherein I expressed them as thinking it better to fetch those words I haue let fall then to follow those I must take vp That therefore which it pleased your Lo to heare with such patient attention and with so good affection to desire I not vnwillingly suffer abroad that these papers may speake that permanently to the eyes of all our countrimen which in the passage found such fauor in the eares of your citizens and such roome in so many heart's Besides your first and vehement motion for the presse your knowne loue to learning deserues a better acknowledgement and no doubt finds it from more worthie hands And if my gratulation would add any thing those should enuie you which wil not imitate you For the rest God giue your Lo. a wise vnderstanding courageous heart that you may prudently strongly menage these wild times vpon which you are fallen and by your holy example and powerfull endeuors helpe to shorten these raines of licentiousnesse That so this citie which is better taught then anie vnder heauen may teach all other places how to liue may honor that profession which hath made it renowmed and all Gods Church ioyfull The welfare and happinesse whereof and your Lo. in it is vnfainedly wished by Your Lordships humbly deuoted Ios. HALL AN HOLY Panegyrick 1. SAM 12. 24 25. Therefore feare you the Lord and serue him in truth with all your hearts and consider how great things he hath done for you But if you do wickedly ye shall perish both yee and your King I Hold it no small fauor of God right Honourable beloued that he hath called me to the seruice of this day both in the name of such a people to praise him for his Anointed and in his name to praise his Anointed to his people The same hand that giues the oportunite vouchsafe to giue successe to this businesse That which the lewes sinned in but desiring it is our happinesse to inioy I need not call any other witnesse then this day wherin we celebrate the blessing of a King and which is more of a King higher then other Princes by the head and shoulders And if other yeeres had forgotten this tribute of their loyaltie and thankfulnesse yet the example of those ancient Roman Christians as Eusebius and Sozomen reporr would haue taught vs that the tenth complete yeere of our Constantine deserues to be solemne Iubilar And if our ill nature could bee content to smother this mercie in silence the very Lepers of Samaria shold rise vp against vs say Wee doe not well this is a day of good tidings we hold our peace My discourse yet shall not bee altogether laudatory but as Samuels led in with exhortation and caried out with threatning For this Text is a composition of duties fauors dangers of duties which we oâ—â—e of fauours receiued of dangers threatned The duties that God Idokes for of vs come before the mention of the fauors wee haue receiued from him though after their receit to teach vs that as his mercy so our obedieÌ„ce should be absolute and the danger followes both to make vs more carefull to hold the fauors and performe the duties And me thinks there cannot be a more excellent mixture If we should heare only of the fauors of God nothing of our duties wee should fall into conceitednesse if only of our duties without recognition of his sauours we should proue vncheerfull and if both of these without mention of any danger wee should presume on our fauours and bee slacke in our duties prepare therfore your Christian eares and hearts for this threefold cord of God that through his blessing these duties may draw you to obedience the dangers to a greater awe and the fauours to further thankefulnesse The goodnesse of these outward things is not such as that it can priuiledge euery desire of them from sinne Monarchy is the best of gouernments likest to his rule that sits in the assembly of Gods One God one King was the acclamation of those ancient Christians and yet it was mis-desired of the Israelites We may not euer desire that which is better in it selfe but that which is better for vs Neither must we follow our conceit in this iudgement but the appointment of God Now though God had appointed in time both a Scepter and a Law giuer to Iuda yet they sinned in mending the pace of God and spurring on his decree And if they had staid his leasure so that they had desired that which was best in it selfe best for them appointed by God and now appointed yet the manner and ground offended For out of an humour of innouation out of discontent out of distrust out of an itch of conformitie to other Nations to aske a King it was not onely a sinne as they confesse vers 29. but ragnah rabbah a great wickednesse as Samuel tels them vers 17. and as oftentimes we may reade Gods displeasure in the face of the heauen he showes it in the weather God thunders and raynes in the middest of wheat haruest The thunder was fearefull the raine in that hote climate and season strangely vnseasonable both to be in the instant vpon Samuels speech was iustly miraculous The heathen Poets bring in their fained God thundering in applause I neuer finde the true God did so This voice of God brake these Cedars of Lebanon and made these Hindes to calue and now they cry Peccauimus ver 19 If euer we will stoope the iudgements of God will bring vs on our knees Samuel takes vantage of their humiliation and according to the golden sentence of that Samian wise-man that bids vs lay waight vpon the loden how euer Hierom take it in another sense he lades them with these three duties Feare seruice consideration Feare and seruice goe still together Serue the Lord in feare saith Dauid Feare the Lord and serue him saith Ioshua And feare euer
they fall directly let mee shew you him rather in the blessings we receiue from him then in the graces which are in him And not to insist vpon his extinguishing of those hellish feudes in Scotland the reducing of those barbarous borderers to ciuilitie and order two acts worthy of eternitie and which no hand but his could doe Consider how great things the Lord hath done for vs by him in our Peace in our freedome of the Gospell in our Deliuerance Continuance detracts from the value of any fauour Little doe wee know the price of peace If wee had beene in the cotes of our forefathers or our neighbours we should haue knowne how to esteeme this deare blessing of GOD. Oh my deare brethren we neuer knew what it was to heare the murdering peeces about our eares to see our churches and houses flaming ouer our heads to heare the fearefull cracks of their fals mixed with the confused out-cries of men killing encouraging to kill or resist dying and the shriekings of women and children wee neuer saw tender babes snach't from the breasts of their mothers now bleeding vpon the stones or sprauling vpon the pikes and the distracted mother rauished ere she may haue leaue to dye Wee neuer saw men and horses lye wallowing in their mingled bloud and the gastly visages of death deformed with wounds The impotent wife hanging with teares on her armed husband as desirous to dye with him with whom shee may not liue The amazed runnings to and fro of those that would faine escape if they knew how and the furious pace of a bloudy victor The rifling of houses for spoile and euery souldiour running with his load and readie to fight with other for our bootie Themiserable captiue driuen manicled before the usulting enemie Neuer did wee know how cruell an Aduersarie is and how burdensome an helper is in warre Looke round about you All your neighbours haue seene and tasted these calamities All the rest of the world haue been whirled about in these wofull tumults onely this Iland hath like the center stood vnmoueable Onely this Isle hath beene like Nilus which when all other waters ouer-flow keepes within the banks That we are free frō these a thousand other miseries of warre Whether should wee ascribe it but next vnder God to his Anointed as a King as a King of Peace For both Anarchy is the mother of diuision as wee see in the state of Italy wherein when they wanted their King all ranne into ciuill broiles The Venetians with them of Rauenna Verona and Vincentia with the Paduans and Taruisians The Pisans and Florentines with them of Luca and Sienna and besides euery King is not a Peace-maker Ours is made of Peace There haue been Princes which as the Antiochians said of Iulian taking occasion by the Bull which he stamp't in his coine haue gored the world to death The breasts of some Princes haue beene like a Thunder-cloud whose vapours would neuer leaue working till they haue vented themselues with terrour to the world Ours hath nothing in it but a gracious rayne to water the inheritance of God Behold Hee euen He alone like to Noahs Doue brought an Oliue of peace to the tossed Arke of Christendome Hee like another Augustus before the second comming of CHRIST hath becalmed the world and shut the iron gates of warre and is the bond of that peace hee hath made And if the Peace-maker both doth blesse and is blessed how should we blesse him and blesse God for him and hold our selues blessed in him Now what were peace without religion but like a Nabals sheepe-shearing like the fatting of an Epicurian hogge the very festiuall reuels of the Diuell But for vs wee haue Gloria in excelsis Deo sung before our Pax in terris in a word wee haue Peace with the Gospell Machiauell himselfe could say in his Discourses that two continued successions of vertuous Princes fanno grandi effetti cannot but doe great matters We proue it so this day wherein religion is not onely warmed but locked in her seat so fast that the gates of hell shall neuer preuaile against it There haue beene Princes and that in this land which as the heathen Politician compared his Tyrant haue beene like to ill Physitians that haue purged away the good humours and left the bad behinde them with whom any thing hath beene lawfull but to be religious Some of your gray hayres can bee my witnesses Behold the euils wee haue escaped show vs our blessings Here hath been no dragging out of houses no hiding of Bibles no creeping into woods no Bonnering or Butchering of Gods Saints no rotting in dungeons no casting of infants out of the mothers belly into the mothers flames nothing but Gods truth aboundantly preached cheerefully professed incouraged rewarded What Nation vnder heauen yeeldes so many learned Diuines What times euer yeelded so many preaching Bishops When was this Citie the Citie of our ioy euer so happy this way as in these late successions Whither can wee ascribe this health of the Church and life of the Gospell but next to GOD to His example His countenance His indeuours Wherein I may not omit how right he hath trod in the steps of that blessed Constantine in all his religious proceedings Let vs in one word parrallel them Constantine caused fiftie Volumes of the Scriptures to be fayre written out in parchment for the vse of the Church King Iames hath caused the bookes of Scriptures to bee accurately translated and published by thousands Constantine made a zealous edict against Nouatians Valentinians Marcionites King Iames besides his powerfull proclamations and soueraine lawes hath effectually written against Popery and Vorstianisme Constantine tooke away the liberty of the meetings of heretickes King Iames hath by wholesome laws inhibited the assemblies of Papists and seismatickes Constantine sate in the midst of his Bishops as if hee had been one of them King Iames besides his solemne conferences vouchsaues not seldome to spend his meales in discourse with his Bishops and other worthy Diuines Constantine charged his sonnes vt planè sine fuco Christiani essent that they should be Christians in earnest King Iames hath done the same in learned and Diuine precepts which shall liue till time be no more Yea in their very coines is a resemblance Constantine had his picture stampt vpon his mettals praying King Iames hath his picture with a prayer about it O Lord protect the Kingdomes which thou hast vnited Lastly Constantine built Churches one in Hierusalem another in Nicomedia King James hath founded one Colledge which shall help to build and confirme the whole Church of God vpon earth Yee wealthy Citizens that loue Ierusalem cast in your store after this royall example into the sanctuary of God and whiles you make the Church of God happie make your selues so Brethren if we haue any rellish of Christ any