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A72253	Three sermons vpon some portions of the former lessons appointed for certaine Sabbaths The first containing, a displaying of the wilfull deuises of wicked and vaine vvorldlings. Preached at Tanridge in Surrey the first of February 1597. The two latter describing the dangers of discontentment and disobedience. Preached the one at Tanridge and the other at Crowhurst in Iuly then next following. By Simon Harwarde.	Harward, Simon, fl. 1572-1614.	1599 (1599)	STC 12923.5; ESTC S124981	53,720	158

O that we were not become so drunkē with this our prosperitie as to forget that good Lord which hath giuen this good Land vnto vs O that we were not like Ieshurun spoken of in Deutronomie like the Horse which being fat and well fedde fedde doth spurne and flinge against his keeper nourisher O that we were not lyke the vntamed Heyfar by reason of our long running in plentifull pastures to forget to cary the sweete yoke of obedience O that we coulde make true vse of all the benefites and blessinges of our heauenly Father that the louing kindnesse of God might leade vs to repentance that we could as Samuel speaketh heere to the Israelites Feare the Lord and serue him ●n trueth with all our hartes and consider what great thinges he hath done for vs that we coulde Prayse the Lord for his goodnesse and declare the woonders which he dayly doth for this realme of Englande Then shoulde the blessing of God still remayne vppon vs both vpon Prince and people Then should the Lord continue his mercies in going in and out with our Armies Then should the Lord eyther make our enemies become our ●riendes or throughly turne his hande against our aduersaries Then should there ●e amongst vs euery soule duetifully sub●ect to the higher powers Then should we 〈◊〉 all distresses with contented mindes cast all our care on God for he careth for vs. Then should we in hart conceiue that assured confidence trust in the goodnesse of God that we should faythfully say with Dauid If the Lord be on our side we neede not care what man can doe vnto vs. Then should the Lord long prosper and euen for euer preserue that happie Monarchie vnder which we are here so peaceably gouerned and graunt vs a Kingdome of euerlastyng peace in the worlde to come Which giftes graces the Lord of Lords and King of all Kinges vouchsafe to giue vnto vs for the merites of our sauiour Christ Iesus To whom with the Father and the holy Ghost one true and euerliuing God for all his inestimable benefites bestowed vpon vs be all honour glory thanksegeuing and prayse now for euer Amen FINIS A SERMON DESCRIBING THE NATVRE AND HORROVR OF STVBBERNE DISOBEDIENCE Preached at Tanridge in Surrey the xvi day of Iuly Anno domini 1598. And at the same time written to be added as a second part to the Danger of discontentment * ⁎ * By Simon Harwarde LONDON ¶ Imprinted by RICHARD BRADOCKE for RICHARD IOHNS 1599. TO MY VERY good friende M. Michaell Murgatrod Steward in household to the most reuerend Father in God the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury his grace many ioyfull and happie yeares * ⁎ * SIR the great kindnesse and courtesie heretofore by me receiued at your hands whensoeuer I came either to Lambeth or Croydon to do my humble dutie vnto your most honorable Lord maister my L. his grace of Canterbury hath many times and often iustly occasioned me to remember you and to bethinke my poore selfe how happily I might anyway if not requite you yet yeald at the least some acknow ledgement and plaine testimonie of my thankfulnesse in that behalfe vnto you Hereof it commeth that being now to publishe this little treatise of horrour of disobedience I haue presumed in hope of pardon to direct the same to you as to a speciall friende meriting a farre greater matter frō me But vntill such time as I may performe some thing of greater moment for you my trust is you will accept in good part this small ●oken of my greate loue towardes ●ou And withall still continew●our former well-wishing affection ●owards me The which I doe ●ore desire than any waies I am ●ble to deserue and yet purpose● by Gods grace further to re●mpence if euer either occasion ●all serue or power shall better ●able me thereunto Euen so with●anie thankes for your manifold ●auours I cease to bee further troublesome at this time vnto ●ou beseeching almightie God ●ll to blesse you with the honou●able countenance of him whom ●u serue and whom for his great ●ertues sake all good and honest men doe loue reuerence and entirelie honour From Tanridge this second of Ianuarie 1599. Yours euer assured to his power Simon Harward ❧ The preface of the Author to the Christian Reader AS in the former Sermon beloued in Christ there is laide open vnto thee the offence of the Israelites in desiring a king So in this the argument whereof was likewise takē out of the first chapter by the order of our church appointed for the Sabaoth then next ensuing there doth follow some part of the punishment wherewith it pleased God to scourge the malcontented desires of that rebellious people In asking a king they did wilfully cast off the ordinance of God who had established anotherforme of gouernmēt amongst them therefore as this history doth euidently declare the Lord hath now giuen them a King in his wrath and as commonly he doth punish euery transgression in and by it selfe so to a rebellious wilfull people he hath sent a stubborne and obstinate gouernour The matter then of this latter Sermon depending so necessarily on the other going before I haue thought it not amisse here to ioyne them both togither with equall labour of pēning as before they required not much vnequall time in their vttering deliuering And being so vnited I do offer them here ioyntly to thy godly consideration praying thee in the same maner to accept them as they are now presented to thee that is with a single sincere and wel-willing affection Farewell in Christ From Tanridge this xviii of Iuly Anno 1598. 1. Sam. 15. Ver. 23. But rebellion is as the sinne of witchcraft stubborne resisting is as superstition and Idolatrie because thou hast cast awaie the word of the Lord the Lord hath likewise cast awaie thee from being King THE Amalechits of whom Agag is now King whom GOD doth heere in this Chapter commaunde to be vtterly destroyed by Saule were as the Prouerbe is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 mali corui mala oua of a wicked race a cursed generation as descended of one Amalec who was a base sonne of Eliphas the sonne of Esau by a concubine named Timna They did with such bloudy hearts afflicte and assault the Israel ●s in Rephidim when they were comming out of Aegypt especially in following them and beating downe the hinmost of them killing such as they saw were faint and weary and not able to march with the rest that God did both assure his seruant Moses that he would destroy the remembrance of Amalec from vnder heauen and also by Moses commaund the Israelites that as soone as they had gotten victory of their enemies about them they should put in execution that decree of Gods vengeance denounced against those Amalekites For although the Lord doe suffer for a time the wicked to rage

Three Sermons vpon some portions of the former lessons appointed for certaine Sabbaths The first containing A displaying of the wilfull deuises of wicked and vaine vvorldlings Preached at Tanridge in Surrey the first of February 1597. The two latter describing the dangers of discontentment and disobedience Preached the one at Tanridge and the other at Crowhurst in Iuly then next following By Simon Harwarde LONDON ¶ Imprinted by RICHARD BRADOCKE for RICHARD IOHNS 1599. TO THE RIGHT honorable and most Reuerend Father in Christ my singular good Lord Iohn Lord Archbishoppe of Canterbury primate of all England and Metropolitaine and one of the Lords of her Maiesties most Honorable priuie Councell manie healthfull and happie yeares in all ioy and continuance of all honorable felicitie IT hath often fallen out most Reuerend my very good Lord that small things haue beene offered informer ages to mightie and noble Potentates But then though small in quātity yet haue they either bene such matters as like Pearles haue in a little roome contained greate worth or els they haue beene such as in case of necessitie haue supplied a want or stode in some good steade to those great Personages to whom they haue beene deliuered and presented The treatise of Isocrates 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sent to king Nicocles was shorte and compendious The water which Plutarch doth report to haue beene taken vp with the palme of a poore mans hand and with a cheerefull countenance exhibited to King Artaxerxes was but of very small quantitie yet was the one very precious eloquent and full of well compacted instructions and the other very needfull cōmodious to remooue or ease some present distresse and extremitie But this my discourse being penned as it was vttered in rude and homely manner and containing also nothing but that which is so farre and so many degrees better knowne to your Grace than I am any way able to expresse and make manifest I should in no case aduenture to present it vnto your Grace but that I haue had heretofore so often and so plentifull experience of your Graces exceeding clemencie that not only it hath often accepted great and exquisite volumes written by them who haue had a calmer quietnesse for their studies and haue beene that way of farre more fit sufficiencie but also hath sometimes fauorably receiued such poore tokens of my humble and deutifull affections as my troublesome estate of sustenāce and slender talent of knowledge haue bene able to addresse afford In the Preface of my Sermon next following which was first printed because indeede I ment not at this time to haue set forth any more I haue signified that when I consented to the publishing thereof my purpose was before it in the same volume to haue prefixed one other Sermon made some eight years since vpō the beginning of the first psalme But seeing that both there are now no more copies of that Sermon to be had amongst the Stationers that also I perceiue there haue bene a cōuenient sufficient nūber of them alreadie printed dispersed I haue thought it not amisse in lieu steed therof to adde this short speach had at Tanridge the first of Feb. last past vpon a portion of the first lesson appointed for the Sabbath In which as certain learned Iustices of Surrey who in heart honor your Grace M. Bostock M. Sander my very good friends with other vertuous religious gentilmen thē assēbled had bin worthy to haue had more exact matter thē my voice eyther did or could at that time deliuer somuch more now your Grace shoulde haue had if any way my penne had bin of power to prepaire it This Sermon describing as it doth the originall cause of both those enormities which are condemned in the treatises following and hauing bene as it was in time first made and vttered doth therefore now iustly chalenge to possesse here in order the first and principall place And being by the Printer vnited with the rest into one little discourse as to frame thereby some slēder gift to beginne the new yeare withall I doe here most humbly present it vnto your Grace hoping that the greatnesse of my sincere and deutifull desires shall not be measured by the smalnesse of my gift and praying that J may remaine still continued in the good fauour of your Grace to whom god the disposer of all times grant that this and many other good yeares may be most healthfull prosperous to the ioy of vs all who do hartilie desire the long peace of the Church and to your eternal most Honorable renowne From Tanridge this second of Ianuarie 1598. Your Graces most humble in all deutie Simon Harward A DISPLAYING of the wilfull deuises of wicked and vaine worldlings The text Esay cap. 59. ver 5. They hatch the egges of the Cockatrice or dropbloud and weaue the Spiders webbe he that eateth of their eggs shall dye euen he which is sprinkled shal be as though a Viper did burst out vpon him THE Prophet Esay beloued in the Lord hauing a little before described the great misery of the Iewes who togither w t their King Achas were compelled by their enimies to seeke help of a deadly foe to wit of Tiglah Pilleser King of the Assyrians and that in such base manner that their King besids the humble sending of presents was enforced to bende and crouch with these seruile speaches seruus tuus filius tuus sim let mee bee thy seruant and thy son onely saue me this time from the hands of Retzin king of Syria which abiect abasing y e Prophet doth notably name to be euen a throwing downe into hell Hee doth afterward expresse the causes of that and all other their calamities which were indeede their wickednesse in their liues and their damnable hypocrisie in their fastings and seruice of GOD. Which their iniquities although he haue in the chapter last going before very liuelily deciphered them and very effectually condemned them yet in this chapter hee houldeth on still y e same argument declaring vnto them that God is of as great power to assist them as euer he was to deliuer their forefathers his hand is not shortned but that hee can saue neither is his eare made heauie but that hee can heare Onely their iniquities made a seperation betwixt God and them as afterwards was likewise saide vnto them by the Prophet Ezechiel that by their ●prophaning of diuine sacrifices and by their wicked abhominations they had set vp posts and pillers against God and made a wall betwixt God and them The enormities which at this time did make a diuision betwixt God and this people and cause the Lord euen to hide his face from them are expressed heere in the verses last going before to be of thre seuerall sorts First the bloudy oppressions of their handes outward dealings your hands saith Esay are full of bloud and your fingers defiled