in al the house and he doth ascribe the creation therof vnto God In whose bookes these are the first words grauen as it were in the forhead therof In principio deus creauit coelū et terram in the beginning God created the heauen the earth so that as the two disciples going to Emaus said vnto Iesus after his resurrection not yet known vnto them that he must needs be the only stranger in Israell if he knew not the things that had lately happened to Iesus of Nazareth a Prophet mighty in deede and in word before God and all the people so hee must needes bee a very great stranger in the Scriptures that knoweth not that God made the worlde Manye great Philosophers among the vnbeleeuing Gentiles hauing read the bookes of other writers haue doubted of the creation of the worlde and some haue thought it to haue beene eternall neuer made And some more folishly haue supposed it to haue beene accidently made Ex atomis conflatum growne to this forme by the falling of small motes together But among Christians which haue the bookes of Scripture Scripturae diuinitus inspiratae giuen by inspiration of God the childe that hath but spelled the first line of the Bible learneth that the Almightie God did create the heauen and the earth In Esa. 40 25. the Lord saith To whom now will you liken me that I should be like him saith the holy one lift vp your eyes on high and beholde who hath created these things and bringeth out their armies by number and calleth them all by names After verse 28. Knowest thou not or hast thou not heard that the euerlasting God the Lord hath created the ends of the earth c. In Ieremie in his tenth chapter where he sheweth the vanitie of idols compared vnto the liuing God the God of trueth in the 11. verse it is thus written Thus shall yee say vnto them the Gods that haue not made the heauens and the earth shall perish from the earth and from vnder these heauens he hath made the earth by his power and established the world by his wisedome and hath stretched out the heauens by his discretion And in the 27. Chapter and 5. verse God saith of himselfe I haue made the earth the man and the beast that are vpon the ground by my great power and by my out-stretched arme c. Yea God manifested in the flesh Iesus Christ the sonne of God and sonne of the Virgin Marie to whome in regarde of his humaine nature the iudgement of the worlde is committed which in regarde of his diuine nature was his without commission he hath made the worlde and all things therein and dooth now conserue the same Paul saith of him Colos. 1. 16. That by him althings were created which are in heauen and which are in earth things visible and things inuisible And the Apostle to the Hebrewes 1. 2. speaketh thus That whereas in former times God spake vnto our fathers by the Prophets in these last daies he hath spoken vnto vs by his sonne whom he hath made heire of all things by whom also he made the world who being the brightnesse of the glory and the ingraued forme of his person and bearing vp all things Potente verbo suo by his mightie word hath by himselfe purged our sinnes by him the world was made and by his mighty worde the world and all things in it are susteined So that certainly God did create the earth the habitable world all that dwell vpon it He did found it establish it vpon the seas being now by Gods appointment as a wall at the foote therof and a strong buttrice to shore and vphold the same But is this a good reason to claime the soueraigntie of the world because he made it I surely When Iacob had made his pottage and Esau came home hungrie out of the field he acknowledged that to be Iacobs that Iacob had made he challenged no right in it neither desired to haue it but vpon composition with his brother He is therefore more vnreasonable then Esau that acknowledging God to haue made the world will denie him to be Lord of the world of the worke of his owne hands Paul among the Athenians Acts. 17. 24. speaketh thus God that made the worlde and all things that are therein seeing that he is Lord of heauen earth dweleth not in temples made with hands Where he hath affirmed that God made the world and all things therin he feareth not immediatly to annex as a thing not to be spoken against that he is lord of heauen earth Concerning man one part of this earth and habitable world for he was made of the dust of the earth the Prophet saith Psal. 100. 3. Know yee that the Lord he is God it is he that hath made vs not we our selues we are his people and the sheepe of his pasture Hence he inferreth that we are his and he Lord and owner of vs as any man is of the flockes of his sheepe because the Lordes hands did make vs. And if the reason be good in any part of the world it is good also in the whole If the sonnes of men be Gods possession because hee made them then the earth and all that are vpon it are his for he made them In Esa. 45. 12. the Lord saith I haue made the earth and created man vpon it I whose hands haue spred out the heauens I haue euen commanded all their armie Because he made and created these things and did spred them out giuing both being and forme substance and shape vnto them therefore he commandeth them as their Lord. Omni exercitui eorum mandata Dei he commandeth all the armies of them Which he should not doe if they remained not his Therefore vpon so great reason let vs yeelde God his right and say with the Prophet The earth is the Lords and all that is in it the world and they that dwell therein For he hath founded it vpon the seas and established it vpon the flouds Thus haue yee heard the doctrine of these wordes Now let vs consider what holy good vse we may make thereof And let this be the first vse that if God be Lord of all the earth and also the inhabitants that then all the earth and the inhabitants doe acknowledge and honour him And this the holye Ghoast doth teach vs in the Psalme 96. from the verse 7. Giue vnto the Lorde the families of the people giue vnto the Lorde glory and power giue vnto the Lord the glory of his name bring an offering and enter into his Courtes Worship the Lorde in the glorious sanctuarie tremble before him all the earth say among the nations the Lord reigneth Surely the worlde shal be stable and not mooue and he shall iudge the people in righteousnesse Let the heauens reioyce and let the earth bee glad let the Sea roare and all that therein is let the fielde bee
GODS VNIVERSAL right proclaimed A Sermon preached at Paules Crosse the 27. of March 1603. being the next Sunday after her Maiesties departure By I. H. 1. PET. 2. 17. Feare God Honour the King Imprinted at London for Cuthburt Burby 1603. ⧠God 's vniuersall right proclaimed PSAL. 24. 1. 2. 1. The earth is the Lords and all that therein is the worlde and they that dwell therein 2. For he hath founded it vpon the seas and established it vpon the flouds THis text for argument of my sermon not selected by curious choice but taken as it was offered by order of my priuate exercise in mine own place serueth yet most fitly for these times For whereas God dwelling in the heauens hath made a great change among vs vpon the earth and hauing called our late Soueraigne Queene to the possession of his heauenly kingdome for her hath giuen vnto vs a most prudent King to succeed in the gouernment of hir earthly kingdome this scripture sheweth that God herein hath done that which rightly he may because the earth and the inhabitants thereof are wholy his and he may bestowe kingdomes aduance gouerners and commit nations to be ruled at his pleasure Yea if it be lawfull for vs paruis componere magna and to obserue the similitudes and agreements that be betweene an earthly and a spirituall kingdome which is not forbidden to Christian modestie then this whole Psalme seemeth vnto me a scripture fit to be handled in this time in publick to honour as it were with some diuine ceremonies the kingdome and expected comming of this our noble King For in this Psalme the Prophet intreateth of the spirituall kingdome of Christ. First shewing what manner nations and people he reigneth ouer in the first sixe verses Next proclaming his comming in the other verses wherein the nobler sort of his subiects are required to prepare to receiue him But hauing chosen a part I will leaue the whole and returne to the part In the first sixe verses I haue shewed you that first the Prophet telleth vs what manner nations and people the Lord reigneth ouer They are all of two sorts The first of them that are subiect to his gouernment Iure creations by right of creation Of these he speaketh in these two verses and in this ranke may all be comprehended The second is a number chosen out of these with whome he doth conuerse more familiarlie as his domesticals which are honoured among the rest and distinguished from the rest Beneficio redemptionis by the benefit of redemption For as in an earthly kingdome the King reigneth ouer all his subiectes by equall right and it is Antichristian abhorring from religion among vs professed to say that any subiect should be exempt from the rule of his souereigne and yet admitteth some bound vnto him by a priuate couenant and oath taken of them to come neare and to doe seruice vnto him whom he doth inritch with rewardes and grace with honourable preferments Euen so in the kingdome of Christ hee raigneth with equall authority ouer all men For Psal. 2. 8. God the father gaue vnto him Gentes in her editatem et extremitates terra in possessionem the heathen for his inheritance the ends of the earth for his possession Yet a choice number there is bearing the marke of the foundation as the Kings liuery whereof the Apostle speaketh 2. Timoth. 2. 19. the foūdation of God abideth sure and hath this seale Dominus nouit qui sunt sui the Lord knoweth who are his These head mitteth to do him daylie seruice these he conuerseth with familiarly as he saith Ioh. 14. 21. Ei conspiciendum exhibebo meipsum I wil shew my owne selfe vnto him these he inricheth with gifts graces of his spirit in this world eternall life and a crowne of righteousnes in the next these he honoureth with high preferments making them by beleeuing the sonnes of God in this world and kings Priestes vnto God both here and in the next This second sort I haue not to speake of at this time because my Text reacheth not vnto them The earth is the Lordes and all that therein is the worlde and they that dwell therein For he hath founded it vpon the seas and established it vpon the floudes in these wordes he remembreth the first sorte of his subiectes which are so by right of creation Or if happily this diuision of subiects displease because the second mēber is included in the first they which are subiectes bound by the benefit of redemption are also bound by the bond of creation I will giue the sence of my Text in some other words The Prophet in these wordes remembreth the first reason ground of right by which the Lord clameth to be king Namely that he created the worlde The ground of right by which he clameth is in the second verse How farre he clameth by this ground of right is in the first verse Euen to be Lord of all The earth is the Lordes and all that therein is the world and they that dwell therein Thus farre he clameth euen to be Lord of all Of the earth and of the inhabitants Of the soile and those that occupie it Of euery tenement and eeuery tenant dwelling therein that these are the Lordes we are to inquire in this verse That they are his because he made them we are to inquire in the next verse And the doctrine of these things I will first deliuer and then the vses The earth is the Lordes the world is his Tremelius reades orbis habitabilis the habitable world that is the pile of the earth in the face whereof we dwell with the partes and ornamentes thereof in the bowels of it or vpper countenance as minerales mettalles stones moūtaines vallies plaines herbes plantes fruites such like for all these are earth or of the earth and adhearing thereto And all this is the Lordes For all this was when there was neither man nor beast nor any breathing thing to claime a property in them or to haue any vse of them For in the first day the earth was though yet in one masse with the heauens and the waters and wanting her forme as appeareth Genesis 1. 1. 2. And in the third day it was brought to her forme receiued her decking as in the same place appeareth verse 9. God said againe Let the waters vnder the heauen bee gathered into one place and let the dry land appeare and it was so And God called the dry land earth and the gathering together of the waters seas and God saw that it was good Then God saide Let the earth bud foorth the bud of the hearbe that seedeth seede the fruitefull tree which beareth fruite according to his kinde which may haue his seede in it selfe and it was so And the earth brought forth the bud of the hearb that seedeth seede according to his kinde also the tree that yeeldeth fruite which hath his seed in it selfe according
his will hee worketh in the armie of heauen and in the inhabitants of the earth and none can staye his hand nor say vnto him what doest thou Thus when men doe not acknowledge the supreame authoritie of God he knoweth how to make the proudest to recant But be it that men and beasts holde nothing in their owne right but all of fauour and at Gods will as appeareth also in their short continuance and giuing place by death Yet what may be answered vnto the Prince of darkenesse that challengeth much to himselfe in this world In Luk. 4. 5. in the historie of Christes temptation it is thus written of him That the deuill tooke him vp into an exceeding high mountaine and shewed him all the kingdomes of the world in the twinckling of an eye and said vnto him Tibi dabo potestatem hanc vniuersam et gloriam illorum regnorum nam mihi tradita est et cuicunque voluero do eam All this power will I giue thee and the glory of those kingdomes for that is deliuered vnto me and to whomsoeuer I will I giue it The deuill in these words challengeth much vnto himselfe and the scripture certainely giueth much vnto him calling him the prince of this world Iohn 14. 30. princeps huius mundi venit sed in me non habit quicquam the Prince of this world commeth hath naught in me And calling him God of this world 2. Cor. 4. 4. If our Gospell be hid it is hid to them that perish In quibus deus huius seculi excecauit mentes nempe in infidelibus c. In whome the God of this worlde hath blinded their mindes namely in the Infidels But in the deuils challenge marke not his modestie for he hath none but his fearefulnesse he dareth not say for incensing his iudge that the power of this world is his but that he is a commissioner all this saith he is committed vnto me And where the Scripture calleth him Prince and God of this world it is by reason of this commission by which power is giuen him in the darkenesse of this world to rule in the hearts of the children of disobedience And that fearfull speech also of his is false for it is not committed vnto him to haue at his pleasure the disposing of the kingdoms of the earth In Pro. 8. 15. the wisdom of God saith per mereges regnant et dominatores decernunt iustitiā by me kings reigne and Princes decree iustice And the Prophet of God saith Psa. 75. 6. Nō ab exortu nec ab occasu neque à deserto est exaltatio Sed deus index hūc deprimit illū exaltat to come to preferment is neither from the east nor frō the west nor from the wildernesse that is South or North for on both sides Iudea was inclosed with the wildernesse but God is the iudge hee maketh lowe and he maketh high And the Queene of Sheba telleth Salomon 2. Chron 9. 8. that God did place him In solio suo regem pro Iehoua deo suo in Gods throne King in the steede of the Lorde his God Kings therefore doe sit by God and for God in the throne of God and are not beholding to the prince of darkenesse but to the father of lights and are therefore called Vncti Iehouae the annointed of the Lord. If therefore neither man nor beast though they inhabite the earth holde otherwise then of fauour and at will being no cheefe Lordes nor yet the Angels not the good ones though they often descend to minister vnto thē on earth that shall inherite eternall saluation nor the euill ones though they compasse the earth too and fro walking abroade in it be Lords of the same wee must confesse with the Prophet that the earth is the Lordes the habitable world is his But be it that the soile and habitation is the Lords yet it may be that the inhabitants are not his For oft times the ship is one mans and the merchandise wherewith it is fraited is another mans Oft times the soile belongeth to one man as Lord of the Manor and the corne growing on the ground belongeth to another as Farmer of the grange Many times one man is maister owner of the house and another oweth the goods laid vp therein Let vs therefore see if it be not so in this case the Lord being Lorde of the earth and men free-men not bound vnto him And surely there haue not wanted men in all ages of the world that haue refused to acknowledge God to bee their Lord. When Moses spake to Pharaoh in the name of the Lord Pharaoh proudly made answer Exod. 5. 2. saying Who is the Lord that I should heare his voyce and let Israel goe I know not the Lord neyther will I let Israel goe Hee knew no superiour he belonged vnto none Let vs ioyne with him Nebuchadnezar who threatning the three Iewes that would not worship his golden Image said vnto them proudly Dā 3. 15. Quis est Deus qui eripere possit vos è manibus meis who is that God that can deliuer you out of my hands he was so far from thinking any God his Lorde that he thought himselfe a Lorde of Gods and greater then all Gods To these may bee added the tumultuous and raging people of Iewes and Gentiles with their Kings and gouernours that Psal. 2. 2. came together contra Iehouam et contra Christum eius against the Lord and against his Christ against God the father against God the sonne against the annointed of the Lord with this rebellious resolution Let vs breake their bonds cast away their cords from vs. If any thinke that kings perhaps may fall into this errour being deceiued by royall maiestie which yeelding to no Lord in earth thinketh it should be subiect to no Lord in heauen but subiects learning to obey earthly Lordes will much more humble themselues to a heauenly Lord it is not to be feared of them that they should say vnto God as the citizens by their messenger said to their noble ruler Luk. 19. 14. Nolumus hunc regnare super nos we will not haue this man to reigne ouer vs. First in the 2. Psalme the people conspired with their Princes In the Parable in Luke the multitude of the people subiect to God refuse his gouernment And further in the 12. Psalme vers 3. 4. the Prophet sayth The Lorde shall cut off Labia blanda linguam grandiloquam flattering lippes proud speaking tongues Eos qui dicunt linguae nostrae ius obtinebimus labia nostra penes nos sunt quis esset dominus nobis We will stande vpon the right of our tounges our lippes are our owne who is Lorde ouer vs These flattering lips though ioyned with proude speaking tongues yet shoulde bewraye men of subiect estate for kings vse to be flattered they vse not to flatter And it is certaine that men both of high and lowe degrees denie Gods power ouer them If not
inplain words yet in plaine deeds while they contemne his voyce The Apostle saith Titus 1. 16. There are which professe to know God Sed factis negant in their workes they denie him being abhominable disobedient and to euery goodworke reprobate Concerning this point That as the earth is the Lordes so all that are in it as the habitable world is his so they that dwell therein Concerning this The Lorde saith Ezechiel 18. 4. Omnes animaemeae sunt all soules are mine the soule of the father and the soule of the sonne is mine And if the soules of all both young and olde be the Lordes whose are the bodies which in all things are ruled by the wil of the soule The Lord further saith Ieremie 32. 27. Beholde I am the Lorde God of all flesh is any thing to hard for me All flesh is his If our bodies be flesh they also are the Lordes Let flesh and bloud therefore and euery childe of man acknowledge to whome he belongeth Caro et spiritus totus homo carnalis et spiritualis omnis homo flesh and spirite the whole man fleshly and spirituall euery man is wholely the Lordes Dauid was godly Saule was wicked Vterque dei Dauid of an vpright hart Saul an hypocrite Vterque seruus dei Both the one and other his seruants Paule speaking of Iesus Christ that had humbled himselfe and became obedient vntill the death of the Crosse saith of him Phil. 2. 9. That therefore God hath highly exalted him and giuen him a name aboue euery name that at the name of Iesus Omne genu se flectat coelestium ac terrestrium et subterra neorum euery knee should bow of things in heauen and of things in earth and of things vnder the earth Omnisque lingua profiteatur Iesum Christum esse dominum ad gloriam dei patris and that euery tongue should confesse Iesus Christ to be the Lord to the glory of God the father Euery one therefore whatsoeuer he be and wheresoeuer of al the creatures of God in heauen or in earth or vnder the earth must acknowledge the soueraigne authority of this Lord That the earth is his and all that are in it the world al they that dwell therin There haue beene ample kingdomes in the world mighty Kings claming and conquering farre but none so ample so farre claming as this The glorious kingdome of the golden head of Babell the rich kingdome of the siluer brest and armes of the Medes and Persians the mighty kingdome of the brasen bellies and thighes of Alexander the Grecians the warlike kingdomes of the Yron legs of the Seleucidae and Lagidae successors of Alexander in the North and South are able to match this ample kingdome of the Lord. The king saw a stone cut of without handes that grewe into a great mountaine and filled the whole earth Which the prophet interpreteth of the ample and eternall kingdome that God should set vp among men euen the kingdome of his sonne whose borders should be the circle of the world The breadth thereof frō the North to the South The length therof the iourny of the sunne Vbicunque locus est illic preest dominus vbicunque homines sunt illis praeest dominus Whersoeuer place is there God raigneth wheresoeuer men are ouer them God raigneth Malach. 1. 11. From the rysing of the Sunne vnto the going downe thereof my name is great among the Gentiles and in euery place incense shal be offered to my name a pure offering for my name is great among the Heathen saith the Lord of hostes Thus much of this verse shewing how far the Lord claimeth euen to be Lord of all the earth the inhabitantes the world and the dwellers therein For hee hath founded it vppon the Seas and established it vppon the floudes This verse contayneth a reason and ground of his claime namely that hee made the world and the inhabitantes thereof And where as the Prophet saith that God did found it and establish it vpon the waters the meaning is this that in founding and establishing the earth and habitable world he made it to appeare high aboue the waters as if the waters lying euen in a lowe leuell called aquae quia aequae as if these leueled lowe waters were the flore the earth the building raised vp vpon them Genesis 1. 9. It is written God said againe let the waters vnder the heauen be gathered into one place and let the dry land appeare and it was so And God called the dry land earth and the gathering together of the waters he called seas Before the waters and the earth were so mixed that the earth was wholy couered with the waters as a lute or some instrument in a case and God commaunded them to retyre into one place and holde an euen course For so Tremelius interprets the place recto et aequabili cursu contendant Let their motion from hence foorth be direct and leuell hastening into their assigned place where they may haue that euen course This worke of God is notablie set foorth by the Prophet in the Psalme 104. Tremelius reading giuing much light to our reading from the 5. ver He set the earth vpon her foundatiōs that it shall neuer moue Abisso vt indumento operueras eam supramontes stantibus aquis Thou hadst couered it with the deepe as with a garment the waters standing aboue the mountaines thus it was vntill the third day Ex increpatione tua diffugerunt a voce tui tonitrui accelerarunt fugam at thy rebuke they fled from the voyce of thy thunder they hastened their flight Gods worde was like a thundring checke vnto them Conscenderunt per montes descenderunt per valles in locum quem fundaueras eis they climed ouer the mountaines ranne downe by the vallies vnto the place assigned to them Terminum opposuisti ne transeant ne reuertuntur ad operiendū terram Thou hast set bonds vnto thē that they shall not passe that they returne not to couer the earth thus it was on the third day and by that word of God as an eternal decree the waters hold their rectumet aequabilem cursum their plaine and leuell wauing course and are about the skirtes of the dry land as a foundation and strong pinning to holde vp the sides of it And therefore doth the Prophet say That the Lord hath founded it vppon the Seas and prepared it vppon the floudes Whatsoeuer his words are the thing that he affirmeth is this that God in the beginning made the earth made the inhabitants by the power of his word and by the same mighty word of his stil vpholdeth the same We haue the history of the creation deliuered in writing vnto vs by the mā to whom God appeared in the burning bush to whom God spake in the mountaine familiarly face to face that saw the glory of God somuch as mortall eyes might see and liue euen by Moses that was faithfull
Where-from if God hath miraculouslie deliuered vs whose name be therfore eternally praised yet who can thinke vpon it what a one she was vnto vs while she liued a watchfull keeper a mercifull iudge a Queene of peace a defender of the faith and a very mother in Israel who can thinke vpon it that she was such a one vnto vs while she liued and not bee touched at the hart with sorrow that she liues not still to be still such a one vnto vs Surely in her that is taken from vs we haue fallen vpon vs occasions of sorrowe But God most good hath not left vs as desolate plaintiffes vnto a solitarie sorrow without all comfort but hath giuen vs also many causes of reioycing both in our blessed Queene departed from vs and also in our right noble King giuen vs. In her that is departed God hath giuen vnto vs occasiō of reioycing in the māner of her departing wherein he hath honored her memorie among the righteous and more honoured his owne name for his mercy to her In two great and notable fauours that her end was peaceable and that it was godlie that she ended her dayes quietlie and dyed in the faith of Christ. First herein we haue cause to reioyce on her behalfe that her end was peaceable without the stroake of man and without any other stroake of God then such as is common to all men that passe by the straite of death The Bull of Pius Quintus denounced an other end The inuincible Armada of Spaine threatned an other end Many bloudy traytors iustly suffering among vs attempted an other end And yet notwithstanding the God of peace gaue vnto hir a peaceable end she liued long our band of peace and died quietly a childe of peace as if God had promised her that he promised Abraham Genesis 15. 15. Thou shalt goe vnto thy Fathers Cum pace in peace and shalt bee buryed In canitie bona in a good age that is Satura dierum diuitiarum honoris full of dayes riches and honour and all present blessings as a good age is expounded 1. Chron. 29. 28. Dauid dyed in a good age full of dayes riches and honour our Queene matching him for the fulnesse of the dayes of her life for she was come into the yeare wherein Dauid dyed being seauentie yeare olde and ouermatching him for the fulnesse of the dayes of her reigne for he reigned but fortie yeares and shee sawe the fiue and fortieth of her reigne in more peace then Dauid had I will not giue offence by remembring how farre different from her ende the ende of the last Catholike King of Spaine and most Christian King of France was the one dying by a heauie stroake of Gods hand and the other by a violent stroake of mans hand neyther of them neare to that sweete sleepe whereinto she fell in her departing And as her end was peaceable so it was pious godly christiā she died in the faith of Christ giuing euidence therof in her weakest times and now inioyeth the end of her faith the saluation of her soule the blessing pronounced from heauen Blessed are the dead that die in the Lorde they rest from their labours On the Sundaye last before her death the reuerend father the Lorde Bishop of Chichester and Doctor Parrie one of her highnesse Chaplines going to reade deuine seruice vnto her as the maner was vpon the Lords day her heauie sadnesse at this time wel remooued she pronounced after them the confession of sinnes with prayer for the forgiuenesse of them which is vsually pronounced by the congregation when we come together to seeke the face of our God And though it was done with a weake voyce yet was it with great euidence of a feruent spirit looking vp vnto God The next night God gaue vnto her quiet sleep in her bed wherby she was much refreshed the Lord preparing her by renewed cōfort vnto a happy end For as one wel saith Veraconsolatio perpetuo durat in electis et si languescit per spiritum sanctum instauratur potissimum autem est efficax circa vita finem et mortis articulum True comfort indureth perpetually in the elect if it beginneth at any time to faint it is restored by the holy Ghost especially it is strong and effectuall toward the end of life and approach of death which in her Grace was obserued to the great reioycing of her seruants For on the Wednesday death approaching which she desired that she might be losed and be with Christ which is best of all the right reuerend father the Lorde Archbishop of Canterbury comming in vnto her at three in the after-noone he put her in minde of the sufferings of Christ the meanes of her saluation of remission of sinnes and eternall life most gladly she harkened vnto him testifying her ioy with her hand which shee could not so well doe with her voyce And whē the reuerend father knowing how soone sicke parties are wearied did withdrawe himselfe giuing signe with her hand she called him vnto her the second time And when againe after a second speech hee withdrewe himself she beckned to haue him come vnto her the third time So pleasing vnto her soule was the voyce of him that had in his mouth the word of reconciliation so beautifull in her eyes were the feete of him that did preach glad tydings and publish saluation and it was not affection to the man but loue vnto the doctrine and glad tydings of saluation that led her listening eare For the reuerend Lord Bishop of Chichester comming after vnto her rehearsed vnto her the grounds of Christian faith requiring some testimony of her assenting vnto them which she readily gaue both with hand eye And when he proceeded so far as to say vnto her that it was not inough generally to beleeue that those things were true but euery Christian man must beleeue that they were true vnto them that they were members of the true Church truly redeemed by Iesus Christ that their sinnes were forgiuen and that they should liue for euer with God she did with great show of faith lift vp her eies and handes to heauen where she knew her life to be hid with Christ in God and staied them long testifying her perticular faith and apprehension of Gods mercy to her in Christ. So continuing vnto the death a professor of the faith whereof she had bin defender in her life And findeth now the trueth of his promise that said Reue. 3. 10. Be faithfull vnto the death and I will giue thee the crowne of life Thus did she end her dayes in the faith and euen in her that is taken from vs we haue cause of reioycing when we cōsider how God tooke her away in his great mercy ending her daies in peace in the faith of Christ. But notwithstanding her happinesse in her death vnhappy had wee beene after her death if God had not giuen vs a good king to succeede her In whome when we cast our eye towardes him we finde great causes to lift vp our heads and reioice His name hetherto onelye proclaimed in our streetes hath stilled the ragings of the people danting the enimies of true religion and causing the enimies of peace that thought now to looke out to hide their heades What shall we not hope that the presence of his person will doe when the sound of his name hath done so much already surely we shall see it if euer this land saw it fulfilled that Salomon saith Prouerbes 20. 8. A King sitting in the throne of iudgement driueth away all euill with his eyes I speake not these things in flatterye but in the firme hope of my soule For propinquity of bloud he is the next and rightfull heire of Henrie the seuenth of famous memorie of the house of Lancaster of Elizabeth his wife ayre of the house of Yorke His education hath bin Godly of his wisedome for gouernment and of his sincerity for religion he hath already giuen proofe not onely in the gouernement of his kingdome of Scotland but otherwise also to the content of many that could not so fully obserue his gouernement as peruse his writings What remaineth then but that we reioyce in God and praise him for our present soueraigne praying that he may safely come vntovs long continue with vs standing in Gods grace to the good of Gods Church safety of the kingdomes ouer which he is set Such is the mercie of God toward vs in the king giuen vnto vs such are the causes of reioycing that wee haue in our King Which quisquis non videt cecus est quisquis videt et non laudat ingratus est quisquis laudanti reluctatur insanus est Whosoeuer seeth not is blind whosoeuer seeth and praiseth not is vnthankfull whosoeuer misliketh others praysing is not wise And therefore seeing God hath made so happye a change for vs in the disposing of this kingdome beeing Lorde of all the earth let vs beare it with such mindes as become wise men mingling heauinesse with our ioy and ioy with our heauinesse and let vs lift vp the Trumpet of our lowdest voyces and say God saue King Iames. AMEN