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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03640	A sermon preached before the queenes maiestie at Hampton Court, on Sunday the 16. day of October: By I. Hopkins, one of his maiesties chaplaines in ordinarie	Hopkins, John, fl. 1604-1609.	1609 (1609)	STC 13768; ESTC S114087	13,139	44

A SERMON PREACHED BEFORE THE QVEENES MAIESTIE at Hampton Court on Sunday the 〈◊〉 day of October By I. HOPKINS one of his Maiesties Chaplaines in ordinarie P●… 3.18 Many walke of whom I haue tolde you often 〈◊〉 now tell you weeping that they 〈◊〉 the enemies of the crosse of Christ. AT LONDON 〈◊〉 printed by F. K. for Thomas Man 1609. TO THE MIGHTIE HIGH-BORNE VERTVOVS AND MOST excellent Princesse ANNE by the grace of God Queene of great Brittaine France and Ireland YOur Maiesties attentiue hearing and gratious approouing this plaine Sermon when it was preached before your Highnesse mine own experience of your religious deuotion in frequenting the seruice of God and your Highnesse godly affection to goodbooks and dailie reading them which hath been often testified by such as are acquainted with your Maiesties studies haue emboldned mee to print this Sermon and present it to your Maiestie earnestlie desiring that it may bee as profitable for the increase of godlines in such as reade it as it will be acceptable to manie being graced with your Maiesties name and patronage The Lord of heauen and earth so blesse your Maiesty with a dailie increase of his graces that as your Highnesse hath the happines to be the most worthie and famous Queene of Europe so after manie yeeres enioying your Crowne vpon earth you may bee crowned with eternal glory in heauen For which none shall more heartily pray then Your Maiesties most humble seruant I. HOPKINS A SERMON PREACHED BEFORE THE Queenes Maiestie at Hampton Court on Sunday the 16. day of October GEN. 5.24 And Henoch walked with God and he was no more seene for God tooke him away IT is an obseruation no lesse auncient then true that such as search into the bowels of the earth for mettals after long labours and great paines doe finde paruum in magno a little mettall in much oare but saith S. Chrysostome in his fifteenth Homilie vpon Genesis they that labour in the sacred mine of the holy Scriptures shall finde magnum in paruo a great treasure of doctrine in a few words many diuine instructions in a short sentence And this most Gratious and Honorable is this day fulfilled in our eares this parcell of Scripture very short and yet the matter so large as will bee hardly deliuered within the vsuall time limited for a Sermon The words are an historicall record of an holy man that liued in the first age of the world whose life for an example is left to perpetuall memorie For as the doctrines in the Scriptures are for the information of our iudgements so are the examples for the reformation of our affections And no doubt good examples where they are well obserued and carefully applied are strong motiues to vertue and godlines And it is vndoubtedly one of the causes of the common corruption of this age that there are so many examples of prophane impietie and so few presidents of religious vertue But that we may the better vnderstand and remember that which wee shall heare from this Scripture we wil obserue therein two parts The life of Henoch for our example Henoch walked with God And his end for our comfort He was no more seene for God tooke him away His life considered first in it selfe that he walked with God Next with certaine circumstances necessarilie obserued for his greater commendations as shall afterward appeare In the second part The thing it selfe that he was no more seene And the reason of the same for God tooke him away And Henoch walked with God c. This phrase is vsuall in the Hebrew tongue To walke signifieth to hold a course of life To walke in the counsell of the wicked is to liue in the counsell of the wicked To walke in the waies of the Kings of Israel is to liue like the Kings of Israel To walke after Baalim is to practise the Idolatrie of Baalim To walke with God is to liue according to Gods will both in worshipping of him as he hath commanded and practising such morall duties as he hath prescribed And to walke at all times and in all places as in the presence of God who is an eye witnes of our most secret actions Psalm 139. for though all men walke in Gods sight as who can hide himselfe from him whose eyes behold all places Prou. spying out the euill and the good yet the most sort of men Iob 39. like the Ostrich mentioned by Elihu in the booke of Iob either know it not or regard it not But that the meaning of these words may more clearely appeare vnto vs let vs looke into other places of holy Scripture where the like wordes are set downe and expounded so shal we see how the holie Ghost the best Interpreter of the Scriptures will teach vs to vnderstand them In the third chapter of the first booke of the Kings Salomon saith thus vnto the Lord King 3.6 Thou hast shewed to thy seruant Dauid my father great mercie when he walked before thee in truth and in righteousnes and in vprightnesse of heart with thee And in chapter 9. the Lord saith to him 1. King 9.4 If thou wilt walke before mee as Dauid thy father walked in purenesse of heart and in righteousnesse to doe according to all that I haue commanded thee c. Also in the second of the Kings and the twentieth chapter Hezechiah saith I beseech thee O Lord remember now how I haue walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart and haue done that which is good in thy sight So that by all these places it is euident that to walke with God implies three duties truth for the foundation righteousnesse and holinesse of life for the outward conuersation and sinceritie in the heart without dissimulation Henoch then is commended for these three things soundnesse of religion sinceritie of heart and godlinesse of life And this was the walking that was commanded to Abraham Gen. 17.1 Gen. 6.9 commended in Noah and worthilie recorded by this example of Henoch for our instruction first that wee settle our faith vpon true grounds Eccles 10.1 secondly that we take heed of hypocrisie which like a dead flie corrupteth all the boxe of ointment lastly that our conuersation be in holinesse without which no man shall see God Heb. 12.14 If wee build on a false foundation Matth. 7. the building will fall If our profession be in hypocrisie our hope will be as the web of a spider And if we ioyne not vertue to our faith Iob 18.14 2. Pet. 1. Iames. it will be a dead or a diuels faith Therefore wee may hence conclude that neither heretikes hypocrites nor prophane persons walke with God and they that walke not with God in the kingdome of grace shall neuer rest with him in the kingdome of glorie In the application therefore of this point such as by reason of carelesnes to heare and learne good things are yet ignorant of the