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A02547	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.	Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656.	1613 (1613)	STC 12673; ESTC S122954	24,489	120

and siluer vnder the images of Saints and lightsome Angels vnder glittering cotes or glorious titles or beauteous faces whom they would defie as himselfe And as the freeborn Israelite might become a seruant either by forfaiture vpon trespasse or by sale or by spoile in warre so this accursed seruitude is incurred the same waies by them which should be Christians By forfaiture for though the debt and trespasse bee to God yet tradet lictori he shall deliuer the debtor to the Iaylor By sale as Ahab sold himselfe to worke wickednesse sold vnder sinne saith the Apostle By spoile Beware least any man make a spoile of you 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith Paul to his Colossians Alas what a miserable change doe these men make to leaue the liuing God which is so bountifull that hee rewards a cup of cold water with eternall glorie to serue him that hath nothing to giue but his bare wages and what wages The wages of sinne is death And what death not the death of the body in the seuering of the soule but the death of the soule in the separation from God there is not so much difference betwixt life and death as there is betwixt the first death and the second Oh wofull wages of a desperate worke Well were these men if they might goe vnpaide and serue for nothing but as the mercie of God will not let any of our poore seruices to him goe vnrewarded so will not his iustice suffer the contrarie seruice goe vnpaid in flaming fire rendring vengeance to them that know not God and those that obey not the Gospell of our Lord Iesus Beloued as that worthy Bishop said on his death-bed we are happie in this that wee serue a good Maister how happie shall it bee for vs if wee shall doe him good seruice that in the day of our account we may heare Euge serue bone well done good seruant enter into thy maisters ioy Now hee that prescribes the act seruice must also prescribe the manner Truely totally God cannot abide wee should serue him with a double heart an heart an heart that is hypocritically Neither that we should serue him with a false heart that is niggardly and vnwillingly but against doubling he will be seru'd in truth and against haluing hee will bee seru'd with all the heart To serue God and not in truth is mockerie To serue him truely and not with the whole heart is a base dodging with God This 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 eye-seruice is a fault with men but let vs serue God but while he sees vs it is enough Behold he sees vs euery where If hee did not see our heart it were enough to serue him in the face and if the heart were not his it were too much to giue him a part of it but now that he made this whole heart of outs it is reason he should bee seru'd with it and now that hee sees the inside of the heart it is madnesse not to serue him In truth Those serue God not in truth which as Seneca saies of some auditors come to heare not to learne which bring their tablets to write words not their hearts for the finger of God to write in Whose eies are on their Bible whiles their heart is on their Count-booke which can play the Saints in the Church Ruffians in the Tauerne Tyrants in their houses Cheators in their shops those Dames which vnder a cloke of modestie and deuotion hide nothing but pride and fiendishnesse Those serue God not with all their heart whose bosome is like Rachels tent that hath Teraphim Idols hid in the straw or rather like a Philistims Temple that hath the Arke and Dagon vnder one roofe That come in euer with Naamans exceptiues Onely in this Those that haue let downe the world like the spies into the bottome of the well of their heart and couer the mouth of it with wheare I meane that hide great oppressions with the show of small beneficences Those which like Salomons false Curtizan cry Diutdatur and are willing to share themselues betwixt God and the world And certainely this is a noble policie of the Diuell because he knowes he hath no right to the heart he can bee glad of any corner but with all he knowes that if hee haue any hee hath all for where hee hath any part God will haue none This base-mindednesse is fit for that euill one God will haue all or nothing It was an heroicall answere that Theodoret reports of Valentinian whom when the souldiers had chosen to be Emperour they were consulting to haue another ioyned with him No my souldiours said hee it was in your power to giue mee the Empire while I had it not but now when I haue it it is not in your power to giue me a partner Wee our selues say the bed and the throne can abide no riualls May wee not well say of the heart as Lot of Zoar Is it not a little one Alas it is euen too little for God what doe wee thinke of taking an Inmate into this cottage It is a fauour and happinesse that the God of glorie will vouchsafe to dwell in it alone Euen so O God take thou vp these roomes for thy selfe and inlarge them for the entertainment of thy spirit Haue thou vs wholly and let vs haue thee Let the world serue it selfe O let vs serue thee with all our hearts God hath set the heart on worke to feare the hands on worke to serue him now that nothing may be wanting he sets the head on worke to consider and that not so much the Iudgements of God yet those are of singular vse and may not bee forgotten as his mercies What great things hee hath done for you not against you He that looked vpon his owne workes and saw they were good and delighted in them delights that wee should looke vpon them too and applaud his wisedome power and mercy that shines in them Euen the least of Gods works are worthy of the obseruation of the greatest Angell in heauen but the magnalia dei the great things he hath done are more worthy of our wonder of our astonishmēt Great things indeed that he did for Israel hee meant to make that Nation a precedent of mercie that all the world might see what he could doe for a people Heauen and earth conspir'd to blesse them What should I speake of the wonders of Egypt Surely I know not whether their preseruation in it or deliuerance out of it were more miraculous Did they want a guide himselfe goes before them in fire Did they want a shelter his cloud is spread ouer them for a couering Did they want way The sea it selfe shall make it and bee at once a street and a wall to them Did they want bread Heauen it selfe shall powre downe foode of Angels Did they want meate to their bread The winde shall bring them whole driftes of quailes into their tents Doe

feare of God these two cannot lodge vnder one roofe for the feare of God driues out euill saith Ecclesiasticus As therefore Abraham argues well from the cause to the effect Because the feare of God is not in this place therfore they will kill me So Dauid argues back from the effect to the cause They imagine wickednesse on their bed c. therefore the feare of God is not before them I would to God this argument were not too demonstratiue Brethren our liues shame vs. If wee fear'd the Lord durst we dally with his name durst wee teare it in pieces Surely we contemn his person whose name we contemne The Iewes haue a conceit that the sinne of that Israelite which was stoned for blasphemie was onely this that hee named that ineffable name of foure letters Iehouah Shall their feare keepe them from once mentioning the dreadfull name of God and shall not our feare keepe vs from abusing it Durst we so boldly sinne God in the face if wee feared him Durst wee mocke God with a formall flourish of that which our heart tels vs wee are not if wee feared him Durst wee be Christians at Church Mammonists at home if we feared him Pardon mee if in a day of gratulation I hardly temper my tongue from reproof for as the Iewes had euer some malefactour brought forth to them in their great feast so it shall bee the happiest peece of our triumph and solemnitie if wee can bring forth that wicked profanenesse wherewith wee haue dishonor'd God blemisht his Gospell to bee scourged and dismissed with all holy indignitie From this feare let vs passe as briefly through that which we must dwel in all our liues the seruice of God This is the subiect of all sermons mine shall but touch at it You shall see how I hasten to that discourse which this day your expectation calls me to Diuine Philosophy teaches vs to referre not onely our speculations but our affections to action As therefore our seruice must be grounded vpon feare so our feare must be reduced to seruice What strength can these Masculine dispositions of the soule yeild vs if with the Israelites brood they bee smoothered in the birth Indeed the worst kinde of feare is that we call seruile but the best feare is the feare of seruants For there is no seruant of God but feares filially And againe God hath no sonne but he serues Euen the natural sonne of God was so in the forme of a seruant that hee serued indeed and so did hee serue that he indured all sorrow and fulfilled all righteousnesse So euery Christian is a sonne and heyre to the King of heauen and his word must be I serue Wee all know what seruice meanes For wee all are or were I imagine either seruants of maisters or seruants of the publique or maisters of seruants or all these Wee cannot therefore be ignorant either what we require of ours or what our superiors require of vs. If seruice consisted onely in wearing of liueries in taking of wages in making of curtesies and kissing of hands there were nothing more easie or more common Al of vs weare the cognizance of our christianity in our baptisme all liue vpon Gods trencher in our maintenance all giue him the complements of a fashionable profession But be not deceiued the life of seruice is worke the worke of a Christian is obedience to the Law of God The Centurion when hee would describe his good seruant in the Gospell needed say no more but this I bid him doe this and he doth it Seruice then briefely is nothing but a readinesse to doe as wee are bidden and therefore both Salomon and he that was greater then Salomon describes it by keeping the commandements and the chosen vessell giues an euerlasting rule His seruants ye are to whom yee obey Now I might distinguish this seruice into habituall and actuall Habituall for as the seruant while hee eates or sleepes is in seruice still so are wee to God Actuall whether vniuersal in the whole carriage of our liues which Zacharie tels vs is in holinesse and righteousnesse holinesse to God righteousnesse to men or particular either in the duties which are proper to GOD Inuocation and Attendance on his ordinance which by an excellence is termed his seruice or in those which are proper to vs as wee are peeces of a Family Church common-wealth the stations whereof GOD hath so disposed that wee may serue him in seruing one another And thus you see I might make way for an endlesse discourse but it shal content me passing ouer this world of matter to glance onely at the generalitie of this infinite theme As euery obedience serues God so euery sin makes God serue vs. One said wittily that the angry man made himselfe the iudge and God the executioner There is no sin that doth not the like The glutton makes God his cator and himselfe the guest and his belly his god especially in the new-found feasts of this age wherin profusenesse and profanenesse striue for the tables end The lasciuious man makes himselfe the louer and as Viues saies of Mahumet God the Pandar The couetous man makes himselfe the Vsurer and God the broker The ambitious makes God his state and Honor his God Of euery sinner doth God say iustly seruire me fecisti Thou hast made mee to serue with thy sinnes There cannot be a greater honor for vs then to serue such a maister as commands heauen earth hell Whom it is both dishonour and basenesse not to serue The hyest stile that King Dauid could deuise to giue himselfe not in the phrase of a friuolous French complement but in the plaine speech of a true Israelite was Behold I am thy seruant and he that is Lord of many seruants of the Diuell delights to call himselfe the seruant of the seruants of God The Angels of heauen reioyce to be our fellowes in this seruice But there cannot be a greater shame then to see seruants ride on horsebacke and Princes walking as seruants on the ground I meane to see the GOD of heauen made a lacquey to our vile affections and in the liues of men to see God attend vpon the world Brethren there is seruice enough in the world but it is to a wrong maister In mea patria Deus venter as Hierome said Euery worldling is a Papist in this that he giues 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 seruice to the creature which is the lowest respect that can bee Yea so much more humble then latria as it is more absolute and without respect of recompence Yea I would it were vncharitable to say that many besides the sauages of Calecut place Satan in the throne and God on the footestoole For as Witches and Sorcerers conuerse with euill spirits in plausible and familiar formes which in vgly shapes they would abhorre so many a man serues Satan vnder the formes of gold