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A05282	Queene Elizabeth, paraleld in her princely vertues, with Dauid, Iosua, and Hezekia 1 With Dauid her afflictions, to build the Church 2 With Iosua in her puissance, to protect the Church· 3 With Hezechia in her pietie, to reforme the Chureh [sic]. In three sermons, as they were preached three seuerall Queenes dayes. By William Leigh, Bachelor of Diuinitie.	Leigh, William, 1550-1639.	1612 (1612)	STC 15426; ESTC S108411	64,116	162

no lacke her exactions are not grieuous Lastly and so an ende of her praise but neuer of our praier to GOD for her Ezechia was sicke vnto the death hee prayed vnto the Lord and hee heard his prayers and pitied his teares and the Lord spake comfortably vnto him and gaue him a signe of his recouerie by the going backe of the shadowe of Asa his diall tenne degrees vpon the wall A sure symboll or Sacrament of fifteene yeares moe to bee added vnto his daies Where note first I pray you that the promise from God was fifteene and the degrees were but tenne to teach vs as one hath truely obserued that the Lord euer giueth moe graces vnto his word then to his Sacraments that begettting these but confirming the faith which the word hath formerly be gotten But to the comparison in hand and proiect I ay me at wee knowe that Princes are GODS yet must they dye like men there 's no difference in the moulde from the rich Crowne of Kings to the poore beggars crutch all must grinde to greete and to determine of the life of Kings and period of Kingdomes is not the least of Gods secretes onely reserued to himselfe yet if when it shall please the Lord to touch our dread soueraigne with sicknesse the harbenger of death it would likewise please him to pull backe the diall of her dayes some fewe degrees and adde more yeares vnto her dayes it were and would be as great a blessing to vs of England as euer Hezechia his life was to Israels Iuda which and if it may not by reason our many sins then Lord take her to eternitie neuer to dye And in the meane time whilest wee may enioy her blessed raigne with her life let vs foster and cherish Elizabeth as chaste Abishagge with the worthies of Israel did their Dauid of whom it is written that when he was old stricken in yeares they couered him with clothes but no heate came vnto him The counsell was to finde out a fairer virgin to stand before the King to chearish him and lie in his bosome that the King might get beate so they found one Abyshag a Sunamite and brought her to the King the maide was exceeding faire and cherished the King and ministred vnto him but the King knew her not The vse is good for in the person of Dauid you may behold as in a mirrour the state and condition of Princes what it is Princes are old cold and chillery Princes must decay and weare away In the person of Dauids seruants and faire Abishage is to be seene the loue and loyaltie towards their Soueraignes what it ought to be they stretch their wits to aduise practise with all their power how to preserue the Lords annoynted subiects must be carefull of their King The publike and priuate praier of all the land who owe faith to God and fealtie to their Prince all praise and prophecie this day what is it but chaste and faire Abishage found out to foster their liege Lady the Queene to stand before her chearish and lie in her bosome to get her heate and lengthen her life but oh that our praiers were more powerfull yet to preuaile with the Lord of life that she might liue to his glory and our comfort sweete Sunamyte let thy virginall vigor pierce her vaines warme her blood refresh her spirits Lord let the powerfull praier of priest Peere and people preuaile with their God for the safetie of his annoynted Without which it is to small purpose what euer we can say doe or deuise for what 's pollicie without pietie except the Lord keepe the citie the watchman watcheth but in vaine and except the Lord be her guard great is her danger for all humane succours faile in their greatnes no gold of Ophir no Orient pearle of Peru or Mexico no arme of flesh no horse ship or shower of shot no watch guard or counsel no Physicke drink or diet no furs of spotted Ermynes or sweet Sables can preserue your Elizabeth giue her life or length of daies faire Abishage must giue her heate It is the perfume of our praier to God in heauen that must preserue our Prince on earth And so let vs pray O Lord God almightie c. FINIS Psal. 93. 2. Sam. 7. 2. Mat. 8. 20 Heb. 11. 38. Numb 3● 1. Sam. 4. 5. 1. Sam. 6. 7. Heb. 8. 2. Lament 1 4. Gen. 8. 9. Gen. 31. 40. Acts 13. 22. Psal. 49. 9. 1 2 Claudian 2. Sam. 3. 2. Sam. 21 17. 2. Sam. 1. 21. Zachar. 12. 11. 12. Lament ●5 16. Rom. 13. Prou. 8. 15. 16. Psal. 77. 〈◊〉 12. 18 ●●●l 82. 1. ●en 12. 1. Exod. 3. 2. ●sal 78. ●1 Psal. 2. 6. Iob. 1. 21. Rom. 13 1. 2. Prou. 21. 30. Reuel 9. 3. Prouerb ●8 2. Psal. 45. 4. Augustinus in confession Eccles. 10. 20. Esay 32. 2. Ieremie 29. 7. Luk. 2. 1 Matt. 22 21. 1. Tim. ● 1. 2. 1. Pet. 2 13. 14 1. Pet. 2. 17. 2. Cor. 11. 28. Ester ● ● c. 〈◊〉 ● Verse 23. Ps●● Lament ● 19. Psal. 38. 2. Gen 5. 2. 2. 〈◊〉 5. 18. ●say 49. 23. Reuel 12 Dan. 12. Reuel 1● 11. Psal. 137. 7. Psal. 105. 18. ●el 21. 22. ●uel 7. 9. Iohn 1● Rom. 9. 3. Gen. 22. 9. 10. Gen. 7. 33. Psal. 10 18. Exod. 3● 32. 1. Cor. 11. 29. Cant. 5. 2. Lum 112. 1. Chron. 22. 1. Chron. 22. 8. Deut. 34. Gal. ● 26. 2. Sam. 5. 2. Sam. 6. 1. Chron. 22 14. Phil. 3. 8. ●●●k 19. 8 Luk 23. 52. Lu. 14. 26 Luk. 7. 3● Matt. 26. 8. Act. 1. 1● Phil. 2. 2 Gal. 4. 26. Exod. 25. 1. c. 2. Cor. 9. 7 Ps. 54. 6. Exod. 35. ●1 c. Exod. 38 26. Exod. 38 24. 25. Exod. 38. 8 Exod. 35 26. Exod. 36. 4. 5. Mal. 3. 8. 1. Chroni ●2 17. 18. c. 1. Chron. 28. 2. 1. Chron. 29. 2. c. Iud. ● 1● c. Deut. 1. Pope with prince hath neither pre ●edency nor parity ● Sam. 6. ●3 2. Thes. 2 4. Iohn 21. 15. 16. c Intertia parte summ● maiorit lib. ter Dist. 19. Matth. 1. 1. ● Mach. ●6 2. c. Abacuck 2. 2. 1. Sam. 16 11. Psal. 129. Psal. 69. 8. 1. Sam. 17 28. 1. Sam. 18. 1. Sam. 20 1. 1. Sam. 22 9. 1. Sam. 24 4. Psa. 35. 11 12. 1. Sam. 18. 10. 11. 1. Sam. 27. 1. 1. Sam. 30 5. 6. 1. Sam. 22 9. 1. Sam. 25 3. 1. Sam. 20 11. c. Iudg. 5. ●● ● Sam. 5. 17. 8. 1 Psal. 83. 6. 7. 2. Sam. 15 1. 2. Sam. 20 1. 2. Sam. 6. 16. 2. Sam. 16 5. 2. Sam. 16 21. 2. Sam. 3. 27. 39. 2. Sam. 6 16. Heb. 10. 29. Reuel 1. 4 Esay 9. 23 Esay 9. 47 Psal. 72. 6 Esay 8 ● 1. Sam. 17 45. c. Dan. 2. 45. 1. Sam ● 45. 4. 6. 2. Sam. ● 2. Sam. ● 10. 11. ●● 2. Sam. 8. 14. ● King 2.

of that heauenly station I dare not for that the Scripture seemes silent of that secret although the authors of the Hebrewe Homilies induced with sharpe and subtile reasons haue written of threescore and six houres standing others of a naturall day which is foure and twentie houres others of an artificiall or diurnall day which is twelue houres mentioned by our Sauiour Christ when he saide are there not twelue houres in the day if a man walke in the day hee stumbleth not c. But in answere to all it shall bee sufficient for vs to knowe that the Sunne stirred not till the battell was ended and Israel had auenged himselfe vppon the heathen the Lord was mercifull to giue them light that they might walke fight in the day not stumble by night in the desert one day was as long as two and it is sufficient for vs to knowe that such a day did neuer dawne such a battell was neuer fought that there was neuer day like that before it nor after it ●herein the Lord heard the voyce of a man and so fought for Israel And here see the power of prayer hee heard the voyce of a man and fought for Israel but the Lord fought not while Iosua prayed not nor was it the voyce of an Angell but the voyce of a man that preuailed with God for Israel nor was it any volly of shot no speare or pike no warlicke stratagem horse or sword could pierce the enemie till the voyce of Iosua had pierced the heauens that shoot of prayer that shiuered the walles of Iericho amazed the hearts of the Amorites weakened their hands and subdued their power in the valley of Aialon Iosua was neuer so puissant in his fight as in his prayer for in his fight he preuailed but with men but in his prayer he preuailed with God his faith his prayer and his loue conquered him that comandeth all according to that Solus amor triumphat à Deo onely loue conquereth God God by the Prophet shewes vs a Sentinel set vpon the walles of Ierusalem a watchman in his tower that wardeth and warneth onely by his praier which all the day and all the night continually should not cease keepe silence or giue God any rest till he should repaire and set vp Ierusalem the praise of the world It s true It s true Orationes Lachrimae sunt arma Ecclesiae praiers and teares are church weapons Oratio deum lenit lachrima cogit haec vngit illa pungit praier softeneth teares in force this melteth that pearceth the sweet soule of thy Sauiour to pittie thy plaints in the daies of thine affliction as in the day of Iosua And hereby the example of Iosua ye that are potentates of the world mightie men and Princes of the people spare me a little to prouoke your praier as more preuailing with God by priuiledge of your spirits then others of lower rancke Are the Amorites abroad are your states indangered is the Church grieued and are your soules afflicted for your selues for your people ye may be bolde with God for ye haue precedencie as Iosua here had euen by the power of your prayer to make him propitious Spare mee while I spare no Creature in Heauen Earth or Hell priuiledged frō the power of your prayer by which they are inforced to yeeld to the necessity of the Saints Moses prayed preuailed with God and had precedencie of the people when hee deuided the red Sea and put backe Iordane when he stroke the Rocke and inforced softe and sweete water to gush out In the height of his hands was the health of Israel for when they were lifted vp Amalek fell but when they shrunke Israe fainted when Eliah prayed the Heauens were as brasse and when he prayed againe the Clowdes dropped downe Fatnes Lyous mouthes were stopped at the prayer of Daniel and the childrens prayer beatte backe the Flame By the wrestling of prayer the Angell yeelded and at the commaund of prayer Diuels were daunted What should I say more By the power of prayer Sheol is shaken Hell is in horror sicknes ceaseth yeares are added winde and Seas obey Such priuiledge prayer hath especiallie in Men of might Princes Patriarches and Prophets which made the Israel of God when carefull of their king to pray that the Lord would be attent vnto his proper praier as more preuailing then theirs when they saide The Lorde heare thee in the day of Trouble the Name of the God of Iacob defende thee beeing well assured of this that the prayers of godly Princes are and euer haue bene powerful with God and profitable for his people Salomon prayed and the Temple was filled with the Clowde and the glorie of the Lord. Dauid prayed and doubly preuailed with God First that himselfe might fall into the handes of God rather then of men Secondly that the people might be spared and himselfe plagued Ezechia prayed and God restored him to health with increase of dayes euen fifteene yeare of the surplusage of his loue assured vnto him by the shadow of Ahaz his dyall vpon the wall brought backe ten degrees to make good the Lords promise vppon his prayer And why might not Iosuah a prince and Sauiour of his people by prayer to God commaund the creature euen the faire Fabricke of Sunne and Moone to none no more till Israel were auenged vpon their enemies Pardon me in your patience a while If to parallel these Princes praiers in their precedencie with God I leaue not out our owne Princes at home the perfume of whose praiers are yet sweete in this our English Eden and like the smell of a field which the Lord hath blessed that powerfull praier of Edward the sixt made at his death and in the houre of his dissolution shall neuer die while the state standeth but euer be blessed by it O my God defend this Realme from papistry and maintaine thy true religion that I and thy people may praise thy holy name and therewith all he said I am faint Lord haue mercy vpon me and take my spirit Let me neuer liue to pray more or pray to liue longer if I be not perswaded in my soule and from my God that euen yet the blessing of that prayer is vpon this people as a wall of brasse to beate backe poperie as Iosuas day lengthened til the Amorites were vanquished and as pure mirrhe dropping still vpon the barres and handles of our doores to sweeten England in the maintenance of true religion and pietie Againe at the birth and baptisme of his deare sister Queen Elizabeth our dread Soueraigne who now liueth and long may we say Liue liue the King of Herauldes when the christening and ceremonies were ended proclaimed this praier and with what effect iudge yee God of his infinite goodnes send prosperous life and long to the high and mightie Princesse of England Elizabeth

Surely surely a Prince so high in the fauour of God and so mightie with men so blessed with daies and prosperous in her raigne so beloued at home and so dread abroade so absolute for blessings and so admired for gouernment was neuer seene in England Herauld thy praier was powerfull and preuailed with God for thy proclamation hath wrought heauē filled the earth with the cloude and glory of her happie raigne I might here speake to make good the doctrine I aime at of that disastrous disease of our nation the Kings euill cured by no hand but of the Lords annoynted vpon whose sacred touch and prayer thousands within the kingdome haue beene deliuered from that wofull maladie the humour being beaten backe the veines purged and the canker killed when neither surgions skill nor Physicions cunning could helpe thē had the Prince precedencie by praier Null●s adhibitis pharmacis to relieue the patient it may be the cause is secret in nature but not in grace which vsually helpeth when all other succours faile And thus you see how Princes praiers pleadings with God haue much preuailed being graced with faith not a creature of God but it stands at their checke if they grieue the creatures groane after a deliuerance God in heauen and his Gods on earth doe sympathise they soare high who came from an high and their generous spirits beg much at the hāds of the Lord God of spirits there was neuer yet any truly noble or of an honorable descent but from an heauēly ascēt It s not your royall blood but the honour of your God that makes you noble your greatnes is in the breath of his being according to that Nemo vir magnus vnquā extitit sine diuino aliquo afflatu numine there was neuer yet any great man moulded on earth but had his minde inspired with some diuine influence from heauen And now from the combate Iosua had with his God by praier come we to the command he had ouer the creature by the word wherein spare me a while to speake it shall be as I hope a seasonable instructiō lessoning vs how to demeane our selues toward God as the whole hoste of his creatures may stand either for vs if we doe wel or against vs if we doe euill the lesson is short and soone taken out For if we be at enmitie with God then all his creatures wil be at enmitie with vs The earth will swallow vs the water will drowne vs the aire will infect vs the fire will consume vs Yea the basest creatures vpon the earth will bandie our destruction wormes will eate our entrals Lice will consume our faire flesh flies will fright vs and frogges will leape into our Kings chambers monstrous visions will trouble vs and make vs swoone as though our owne soules should betray vs the darkenes of the night will be intollerable and the thoughts of the graue insupportable What should I say more the whistling of the windes chierping of birds amongst the thicke branches the water falls the skipping and roaring of wild beasts with the sound that answereth againe in the hollow mountaines these fearefull things as Salomon saith will make vs appalled for the lesse that the hope is whithin the more is our torment without Nay which is more then all I haue said and I yearne to speake it if we be at enmitie with God his word and Sacraments wil be our enemies the law will fright vs and the Gospell will flatter vs to our destruction the blessed Sacraments seales of our assurance wil rubbe off if vnreuerētly we rubbe vpon him Psalmes Hymnes and spirituall songs will turne to dolefull ditties and our melancholy will marre our melodie Songs of Sion to vs will be but songs of sorrow with a woe and welladaie that euer we were at enmitie with our God and Christ. But è regione altera if we be in amitie and friends with God as Iosua was then all his creatures will fawne vpon vs the earth will support vs and the aire will cheare vs the water will coole vs and the fire will comfort vs our meate will feede vs and our clothes will warme vs our houses will shroude vs and our beds will ease vs yea and God will make our greatest enemies either our friends or our footestoole What should I say more if God be thy friend the beast that beares thee will bid thee beware as he did Balaam and Ionathans arrow will bid thee be gone as he did Dauid thy weake sling and peeble stone shall quell a Giant and with the iawe bone of an asse thou shalt kill a thousand Starres shall fight for thee as they did for Deborah and the riuer Kison shall sweepe them away Rauens shall feede thee as they did the Prophet and the Cocke shall crowe thee to repentance as he did Peter Nay if thou be in amitie with God the night will be short and thy sleepe sweete the graue will be to thee as a bed of downe there to rest till the day of thy resurrection word Sacraments and Sabaothes will be thy solace till thou come to that Sabaoth of rest thy prayers will sent sweete as perfume and thy praises sound in thy soule like harmonie of the heauens In a word and so to conclude with my text and close with your religious eares and hearts ye may not maruell if Iosua hauing God his friend had also the cōmaund of his fairest creatures and bad them stand still who neuer stood before for the prayer of a righteous man auaileth much if it be feruent Elias was a man subiect to like passions as we are and hee praied earnestly that it might not raine it rained not on the earth for three yeares sixe monthes and he praied againe and the heauens gaue raine and the earth brought forth her fruite The vse is good and much to our comfort if we be feruent in praier for we haue a greater commaund then either Iosua or Elias had they commaunded but the creatures we commaund the creator euen the Lords Christ we bring him down we must make him ours with all the benefits of his passion euen remission of sinnes and euerlasting life to the which God bring vs. And let this suffice to satisfie you of Iosua his great puisance as preuailing with God by prayer and with his creatures by command All the Hoast of heauen earth and hell being as I haue told you mans Hostes from the Lord of Hoasts whilest we be friends with God and fetch them off by faith either to defend our selues or offend our enemies in the day of battel otherwise if we be at enmitie with God as likewise I haue said the basest of his creatures as lice flies and frogs are big enough to beate downe Pharao in his pride or the greatest monarke in this world in his presumption against the Lord. And now come we from the praier and word of Iosua to the arme and

and lawes to the worship of God her selfe not second to anie in rendering her vowes There was none able to withstand Iosuah all his life for the Lorde was with him and hee was famous throughout all the worlde Queene Elizabeth hath beaten backe all her enemies and who hath resisted her power for which her prayers is with God and her fame with men At the sounde of the Trumpet the walles of Iericho fell after Iosuah had compassed it about seuen times with the shower and shoute of his deuotion Not seuen times but seuentie times seuen times hath Qu. Elizabeth by prayer to God prophecying with men sacked that Romish Iericho whose walles to God be the praise by her princely power and prayer are well shiuered at home shaken abroad with Iosuah his curse to all such as shall repaire the ruines cursed bee the man before the Lorde that raiseth vp and builds vp this Romish Iericho Let him lay the first stone thereof in his eldest sonne and in his youngest sonne set vp the gates that is let him build to the destructiō of all his stock as Hiel did in Bethel Ai could not be wonne till the execrable thing was out Iosuah could not sacke it till sinne was punished the Hoast purged and purified of Achan his stealth Achans rebellion is discouered in Ireland in the north of England and in the south themselues with their Babilonish garment Sicles of siluer and wedges of golde execrable things in the Hoast to steale away the hearts of subiects from their allegiance haue beene brought by our Iosuah into the valley of Achor there to suffer condigne punishmēt some by execution some by banishment some by confiscation of goods with this iust sentence from Iosuah of their death and doome This place where yee die shall bee called Achor which is trouble for in as much as you haue troubled vs the Lorde shall trouble you and turne his fierce wrath from our nation The craft of the Gibeonites procured them peace with Iosuah they beguiled their Prince with the presence of an Embassage from farre and with an argument of their loue to God loyaltie to him for they say wee came from farre we are thy seruants we seeke the Lord thy God and haue heard his fame Now therfore make a league with vs looke vpon vs we come from far our sacks are patched our shooes are clouted our bottles are rent bound vp our bread is mouled our drink is sowred and we are all of the olde Loue is not suspitious it beleeueth all things it hopeth all things It endureth all things it knoweth not it owne The Gibeonites of this Lande haue beguiled Queene Elizabeth with a faire presence of loue to God and loyaltie to her person and with their patched cloake of Antiquitie Clouted shooes and Bottles mouled bread and baggage of popish trash they would beguile and still beare the worlde in hand that they are all of the oulde and so they are in rottennesse rotten hearts to God rotten hearts to their Prince as may appeare vpon the breach of couenant with our Iosuah Euen this day they should hew wood for the sacrifice but their Axes are dull they should drawe water for the house of the Lorde but their buckets are broken they should attend the Altar of the Lord but they haue digged it vp Our Iosuah hath giuen them life vpon the contracte and put them neare and about the holie things and is it not strange vppon fourtie yeares kinde vsage they should haue no greater familiaritie with their God and Prince no wood no water no Altar no prayer to God of all this long day of Iosuah so continued and so blessed for her preseruation what none why then Hee that is filthie let him bee filthie still Hee that is Popish let him bee Popish still and whiles yee would seeme to beguile vs with your Antichristian Antiquitie wee will rest vpon our New-Religion and say Antiquitas nostra Christus ours is not new but renewed like the booke of God for a long time lost but found at last by the good King Iosias and wee sing as it were a new song Reuelat. 14. 3. Aliud est nouare aliud est renouare Iosuah not knowing his successor recommended the people ouer to God at Sichem and tyed them by couenāt to serue the Lord and for an heire apparant erected a stone there to witnes against them if they should at any time denie their God Albeit saith Queene Elizabeth it doth please almightie God to continue mee still in this minde to liue out of the state of mariage yet is it not to be feared but he will so worke in my heart and your wisedomes that as good prouision may be made in conueniēt time whereby the Realme shall not remaine destitute of an heire that may be a fit gouernour and peraduenture more beneficiall to the Realme then such of spring as may come of me for though I be neuer so carefull of your weldoing and minde euer so to be yet may mine issue growe out of kinde And for me it shall be sufficiēt that a Queene hauing raigned such a time liued and died a virgin The Lord God of Gods the Lord God of Gods will prouide you a Prince of wisedome to goe out before you and to bring you in againe Lastly and to make good my text Iosua as I haue said was thrise noble in that hee preuailed with God to cammaund the creatures till the field was foughten and their enemies were subdued That Mirabilis annus of 88. will neuer be forgotten so long as the sunne and moone endureth When the starres fought for our Deborah as the sunne and moone did then for Iosua Nay more the riuer Kison swept them away from Callis in France to Dingle-Cushe in Ireland Seas Rockes and shelues fought for England shee armed her selfe with praiers to God against that great Armado and preuailed that the enemies might know they were men and not God and their horses flesh and not spirit That the shippes were but wood the tacklings but hempe Their Oares but reeds and their powder but dust nay their top-gallant must stoope at the maiestie of a greater God and vaile at the puissance of Queene Elizabeth Let Tilberie Campe speake to the praise of her presence and powerfull praier there when with God in her heart and a commaunding staffe in her hand she vttered these or the like words in her Princely march Come on now my companions at armes and fellow Souldiers in the field now for the Lord for your Queene and for the kingdome for what are these proud Philistines that they should reuile the Hoast of the liuing God I haue beene your Prince in peace so will I be in warre neither will I bid you goe and fight but come and let vs fight the battell of the Lord the enemie perhaps may challenge my sexe for that I am

doores of the Lords house euen in the first yeare first moneth and first day of her raigne procuring the Lord to be honoured aright with the pure Religion of her God and a parliament Royall to establish the same Ezekiah brought in the Priests and the Leuites and gathered them into the east streete to sanctifie the house of the Lord God and to cary forth the filthines out of the sanctuarie Queene Elizabeth called home her exiled ministers Leuites from Geneua Frankeford Zuricke and most parts of Germany to purge the sanctuarie of it pollutions and to cast forth the filthines thereof Ezekia at the very first tooke away the high places and defaced the Images and cut downe the groaues hee brake in peeces the brasen serpent that Moses had made for vnto those daies the children of Israel did burne incense to it and called it in contempt of that their Idolatry no more a Serpent but Nehushtan a peece of brasse What were your Altars of stone but high places And what were your Roode loftes Celles and shrines of Saints but groaues of superstition what was all your Imagetie with lights lampes Pax and palmes but grosse Idolatrie whereunto England burned incense to the Queene of heauen till Elizabeth came but then euen at the first downe they went and broke they were by her princely power and warrantie the careasses whereof lye at this day monuments of popissi Idolatry and of her maiesties blessed reformation with this disdaine what are they now but stick and stone and worse then Nehushtan brused brasse The Temple being purged and Imagery defaced the King with his Princes prepared for the sacrifice euen a sinne offering for the Kingdome and for the sanctuarie and for Iuda with a burnt sacrifice and an offering of praise vnto the Lord in the words of Dauid and Asaph the Seer they sung Psalmes they blewe the Trumpets and so they praised the Lord with ioy bowed themselues and worshipped whereat Ezechia reioyced and all the people that GOD hadde made them so readie for the thing was done suddenly Queene Elizabeth hauing purged the Church of England of that pregnant Idoll the Masse what hath shee lesse done then prepared for the holy Sacrament of the blessed death and passion of our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ a sinne offering in deede for the Kingdome for the sanctuarie and for this our English Iuda And how often sithence hath shee sanctified it with her praier honoured it with her presence her Virgines Peeres and people bearing her companie with Trumpet Organ Voyce and V●all that GOD hadde made here her people so religious for the thing was done suddenly and I pray God wee haue not lost a part of that our first loue that our Manna growe not lothsome that wee bee not colder now then wee were then and that the first tenne yeares doe not blemish the last twentie of her gratious raigne what euer it is mee thinkes there is a want both of faith to God and fealtie towardes the Prince Graunt Lord wee may bee zealous and amend Ezechia came to his raigne in desperate times when Ahaz his father had peruerted the state both of Church and common-weale fetched Altars from Damascus and sacrificed his sonnes to the fire became tributarie vnto Assur exiled the godly of Iudah and had brought in the abhominations of Babel and subscribed to Tiglath Pilesar King of Assur saying I am thy seruant and thy Sonne Euen so Queene Elizabeth beganne her raigne in desperate times when her Sister had shaken the State with no lesse fearefull then fiery designes fetched Altars from Rome and sacrificed her chiefest subiects to the fire exiled the godlie of the land brought in Straungers because a vassall to the Pope and subscribed to his power saying I am thy Seruant I am thy Hand-mayde Ezechiah withstood Assur payed him no tribute yeelded him no homage resisted Rabsechah and endured his rayling with a Princely patience committting the successe to God who made him glorious by deliuerance And did not our gratious soueraigne withstand the Pope all his vassall Kings Did she not discharge herselfe and people of all Tribute Toll and Taxe that way Hath shee not endured the raylings of many Romish Rabsecahes with a Princelie patience and hauing committed the successe of all her affaires to God is shee not made glorious by deliuerance whiles they are a dead accursed and cursing crue and yet she liueth a blessed Queene long may we say to our solace and their sorrow liue liue It is said of Ezechia that the Lord saued him and the inhabitants of Hierusalem from the hand of Zenacharib King of Assur and from the handes of all other and maintained them on euery side good LORD how haue the Leaguers cast their hands together with one consent consederate against thine annointed thy Church and people in England Gebal and Ammon and Amalecke the Philistimes with them that dwell at Tyre I meane the Tabernacles of Romish Edomites whose crie was downe with it downe with it euen to the ground let vs take to our selues the house of God in possession But good Lord how often haue we beene saued both Prince and people from this ill kinde of men how hast thou maintained vs on euery side thine Angell fought for Ezechia thy Starres haue fought for Debora and the riuer Kison hath swept them away O my God make them still like vnto a wheele And as the stubble before the winde In the daies of Hezechia it is saide that many brought offerings vnto the LORD ●● Hierusalem and presents to Hezechia King of Iuda so that hee was magnified in the sight of all nations from thenceforth they persecuted Churches of other Kingdomes and poore exiled Christians let them speake to the comfort of their soules with how great ioy and gladnesse their offerings here in England haue beene tendered by them and receiued by vs let them speake to the honour of our Queene and countrey how liberally they haue bin maintained when they hadde nothing to feede vpon but winde and aire yea and what nation is there in whose sight Queene Elizabeth is not magnified either dread for her puissance loued for her vertue or admired for her gouernment To bee briefe Ezechia had exceeding much riches honour treasures of siluer and gold of precious stones of sweet odors and of shields of al pleasant vessels store-houses for the increase of wheate wine and oyle stals for all beasts and ranges for the stables The Lord hath blessed our Queene with his hidden treasures here on earth and her honor is great in her aboundance her Garrisons are full in Ireland Flaunders and Barwick and yet her treasures are not exh●●●sted and for her store of shields shot and munition wheate wine and oile stalles for beastes and ranges for stables let her officers speake both in Court and Countrie sure I am we feele