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A07558	Iacobs great day of trouble, and deliuerance A sermon preached at Pauls Crosse, the fifth of August 1607. vpon his Maiesties deliuerance from the Earle Gowries treason and conspiracie. By Iohn Milvvarde Doctor of Diuinitie.	Milward, John, 1556-1609.; Milward, Matthias, fl. 1603-1641.	1610 (1610)	STC 17942; ESTC S112791	29,882	82

JACOBS GREAT DAY OF TROVBLE AND DELIVERANCE A SERMON PREACHED AT Pauls Crosse the fifth of August 1607. vpon his MAIESTIES deliuerance from the Earle GOVVRIES Treason and CONSPIRACIE By IOHN MILVVARDE Doctor of Diuinitie LONDON Printed for ELEAZAR EDGAR and are to bee sold at his Shop in Pauls Church-yard at the Signe of the Wind-mill 1610. To the Right Noble and Right Honourable GEORGE Earle of Dunbar Lord Hume of Barwicke Baron of Norham Lord High Treasurer of Scotland one of the Lords Commissioners equally conioyned for the middle Shires of Great Britaine sometime called the Borders or Marches Lord Gouernour and Captaine of his Maiesties Towne of Barwicke and the Garrison of the same Knight of the most Noble order of the Garter and one of his Maiesties most Honourable Priuie Councell in both Kingdomes RIGHT HONOVRABLE THe nature of true goodnesse is to communicate it selfe to others it is a powerfull Agent and would worke all like it selfe It pleaseth God to call great ones after his owne name dixi dij ostis and good ones after Christs name Nolite tangere Christos meos to to this end saith Saint Bernard vt sicut sunt haeredes nominis sint etiam imitatores sanctitatis to shew how noble they are by deputation and how worthy they should be by imitation that being the Delegats of so high a soueraigne they might be dij tutelares not titulares onely The mightie are said to be Gods hilles mons Domini mons pinguis though they first receiue raine from heauen yet they keepe it not to themselues but suffer it with speede to slyde downe to the valleyes they are the first to whom the Sunne shewes his rising and the last that behold his setting yet being once mounted vp to his Meridian the poorest Ant-hils then feele the vertue of his influence Those glorious lights of honour that shine in the faire Orbe of iustice the Starre Chamber they borrow their beames of brightnesse from one Sunne and those beames they keep not to themselues but as Homer calles Apollo are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 longe iaculantes imparting their splendor to inferiour bodies For greatnesse armed with goodnesse is the sanctuary of innocence and whither should misery flye if not to the mercifull Vertue indeed hath 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and is to her selfe a sufficient recompence sat habet fautorum semper qui recte facit nor needes she like palliated hypocrisie prostitute her beauty to popularity for she is the kings daughter and her glory is within 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith Clemens Alexandrinus amiable she is but not amorous and with no other philtres then her owne worthines winnes the hearts of the Noble yet like Truth that goes now and then with a scratcht face she hath neede of a Patrone and lookes for protection from her true professours not to be magnified aboue her merite for she cannot but to vindicate her honour from vile contempt He that loues others vertues hath many of his owne and it is impossible for goodnesse to find fauour but with the good Amongst whom most honourable Lord I find your noble selfe a Principall and whose memorable loue to my deerest brother if I should forget I were worthy as Alexander once serued one to be branded in the forehead with Ingratus hospes He that painted Ingratitude like a Fiend meant her for hell not mans heart which like the Sea for all the fresh riuers that fall into her vast bosome is neuer the sweeter like a whirling gulfe euer swallowing downe benefites neuer returning the least remembrance of thankes The nine leapers that our Sauiour healed had a worse disease then leprosie sticking on them vn thankefulnes Sapientis est said Seneca bene debere beneficium bene soluere interdum autem solutio est ipsa confessio so fals it out with mee right Honourable hauing obtained more then I durst desire and wanting power to requite nam tibi quod soluat non habet arca Iouis My heartiest prayers must bee your best payment and no other requitall then a thankefull acknowledgement Accept therefore I beseech you haac diuinae particulam aurae this heauenly parcell and blessed remnant of that faithfull and painefull Doctor whose powerfull preaching like Bonarges one of the sonnes of Thunder for he was a Iohn many a Christian eare hath with comfort heard and whose worthy praise wil sound better from any mans mouth then mine He was my brother therefore I forbear yet me thinks to praise the dead and he deseruing were no flattery That his life was fraught with crosses I impute not to any inauspicious planet though he found in his horoscope some too malignant but to Diuine prouidence that with the frequent strokes malorum seu malleorum he might be fitted for that heauenly Ierusalem where of he was liuing a liuely and dead is now an euerliuing stone Yet this comfort God sent him and his friends to sweeten the bitternesse of sorrowes he serued a most gratious Master who loued him aliue and honoured him dead Cuius erat vinus mortuus huius erat For first his most excellent Maiestie to whom he owed the duetie of a subiect being his King of a seruant being his Master did out of his Heroick and Princely clemency a compassionate pitier of wrong'd simplicity rescue him from the jawes of conspiring periurie And after his death hath granted by your Honourable meanes an Annuity of an hundred pounds sterling for the better maintenance of his wife and children And since it pleased his Highnes to hold him worthy of imployment into Scotland I can testifie with what abundant ioy hee mentioned in his Letters your Honourable name how more like a father then a friend you respected him and to vse the words of his owne pen which if hee had liued the world should not haue known and which he wrote more for our comfort then any vaine ostentation vnlesse hee should lie in your bosome you could not vse him more louingly Also that honourable Lord the Lord Chancellor of Scotland in whose house my brother departed this life whose exceeding kindnes I ought neuer to forget and if cost or skill paines or praiers could haue redeemed him from the graue he had not died Besides the sumptuous Funerall the large remuneration of his seruants all at your honours charge do witnes to the world your Honorable disposition and how much you esteemed him Amongst his other children right Honourable left behinde him this which I here dedicate to your Honour is one not bredde of the mother but borne of the fathers owne braine like Pallas for which he endured some throwes and was by the helpe of a happy memory deliuered of it at Pauls crosse It is a poore Orphan but rich enough if you giue it countenance and safe enough if protection And the God of peace whose Minister he was whose Agent you are and whose work this is vouchsafe the light of his countenance to shine vpon you and so

encrease your earthly honour as you desire the aduancement of his Your Honours humbly deuoted MATTHIAS MYLWARD TO THE READER REligious Reader I am bold to call thee by a binding word because I suppose thee to be no loose companion This Sermon is bound for thee and may bee much bound to thee Peruse it but misuse it not Art thou a good Subiect Thou wilt Reade it for the Kings sake Art thou a good Christian Thou wilt loue it for thy soules sake Art thou both Thou wilt reuerence it for Gods sake Art thou neither Why then for Gods sake let it alone The dead bite not they must not bee bitten The Authour is at rest and gone yet hee liues thou secst He hath vnboweld himselfe like the Silke-worme and died in a good cause yet left such taskes behinde him as may record his memorie and propagate his fame to perpetuitie The kind acceptance of this may occasion the comming foorth of more If I haue done well in publishing it thanke God for my sake if not forgiue me for Gods sake Thine in him by whome and in whom and through whome are all things Matthias Mylward MEMORIAE VIRI DOCTRINA CLARISSIMID MYLVARDI ANGLI S. SANCTAE THEOLOGIAE DOCTORIS REGIAE MAIESTATI A SACELLIS c. IN SCOTIA DEFVNCTI CAL. AVG. I. D. C. IX SIccine te summam nobis Miluarde salutem Dicere nec patrios fas adijsse Lares Credo tuam hanc duxti Patriam viget Vnio Doctor Quam viuens docuit nunc quoque morte probat ALIVD Quam bene Miluarde est tua vox haec vltima nobis Ecce citus venio maxime Christe veni Venit adest frueris Te ô terque quaterque beatum Laeta ferens alijs qui rapis ante tibi Patricius ab Arenis Edinburgenus P. JACOBS GREAT DAY OF TROVBLE AND DELIVERANCE IEREM 30.7 Alas for this day is great none hath beene like it it is the time of IACOBS trouble yet shall he be deliuered from it THere is no Story more noble nor of note for Fame better knowne nor for Grace more honorable then the Story of the Iewes and State of Israel if ye consider the vocation speciall of Abraham and his familie or the redemption of his posteritie from the yron and Aegiptian bondage elutulentis manuum operibus saith Saint Augustine Though the seruice was base Aug. in Psal Esa 48.17 Psal 130.7 yet was the redeemer Noble and the redemption copiosa nimis as the good King said or if ye consider the great benefites wherewith they were inriched beneficia priuatiua positiua as the schoolemen call them First benefites conferred or euills remooued in one word to say as much as may be said to ties liber tot malis tot bonis toties auctus Psal 116.12 might make them cast in their mind with that holy king and Prophet Quid retribuam What shall J render to the Lord for all his benefites So that when God giues he doth not as many doe which giue to Ruffians liberally that which they spend loosely Deut. 4.40 but as in Deuteronomie vt bene sit tibi that it may goe well with thee ten times repeated in that booke for to that end God giues that his gifts may be blessings and that you may see gods bounty too he cals them omnia beneficia all because hee with-holds nothing Nothing that is good from them that leadea godly life and then King Dauid cals them Psal 84. beneficiadej from the person to shew their excellencie and to the persons to shew their dignitie that is excellent gifts from an excellent giuer giuen to men to make them excellent that as the Hebrew word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 spoken of troubles signifies number and quantity many and great so of benefits theirs were multa magna and all to make the threefold cord of duty strong whereby they might be bound to God But with ill natures thus it happeneth that fulnesse is the mother of forgetfulnes and we alth and prosperitie Nurses of wantonnesse in Deuteronomie God therefore complaines thus Dilectus meus impinguatus dilatatus incrassatus recalcitrauit Deut. 32.15 the people fed fatled inlarged spurnedwith their heele that is were vnthankefull and vnkind and the Prophet Hoje saith Oz. 13.6 They were filled their heart was exalted and they haue forgotten mee They forsooke their God and iustly he cast them off and cast them into the hands of Philistines Iud. 4. Ion. 1.15 Cananites Moabites Ammonites c. So that their sinne became to them like Jonas to the Mariners against whom windes and waues and all conspired to cast the fugitiue ouer-boord yet was hee neere and deare vnto God whom heauenly prouidence would not suffer to perish but hedged his way with thornes that he should not runne away to his vtter ruine And God thus tempered this peoples posteritie with inuasion of enemies assault of neighbour euils scorne of wicked men with troubled state with bad gouernours with continuall warres and warres iniustice and misgouernment are like a three stringed whip for punishment afterwards their kingdome was deuided and at last they came to their worst state captiuitie vnder the Chaldees for 70. yeeres together who ouerturned the Temple the glory of that kingdome rooted out that Nation almost vtterly rased downe their walls burnt their Citie and miserably and vnmercifully slew their people bringing in the lamentable times of famine fire and sword times saith Lactant. In quibus non erat iucundum viuere euery where being ouertaken with trembling and horrour their daies now likened by this Prophet in this Chapter to the dayes of Child-bearing wherin their men like women in trauell put their hands vpon their loynes and all their faces were turned into palenes which made the Prophet cry out Vae quia c. Alas for this day is great none hath beene like it it is the time of Iacobs trouble yet shall he be deliuered from it In which words are two generall points contayned viz. First the Sorrowfull distresse of Iacob Secondly the Consolation which followed In the first I obserue foure things First A vehement exclamation a very Vae Alas more then a sadde and heauie groane sorrow of a deepe impression from the very hearts roote sighing crying Secondly A confirmation of it with a reason to shew he cries not without cause Alas for this day is great in which are two words dies magnus there is breuitas and grauitas not short and sweet but like to anger si breuis grauis viz. If it bee short it is sharpe Thirdly A reason vpon reason it is a great day why so for none hath beene like it and this is an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 very forcible such a day as neuer was the like a strong a strange amplification of sorrow The fourth part speakes out for in the other three sorrow spake in her owne language that is scarce could speake at all but chatter like a Crane or like a Swallow