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A sermon briefly comparing the estate of King Salomon and his subiectes togither with the condition of Queene Elizabeth and her people preached in Sainct Maries in Oxford the 17. of Nouember, and now printed with some small alteration, by Iohn Prime, 1585
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Prime, John, 1550-1596.
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A SERMON BRIEFLY COMPARING THE ESTATE OF KING SALOMON AND his Subiectes togither with the condition of Queene ELIZABETH and her people PREACHED IN SAINCT Maries in Oxford the 17. of Nouember and now printed with some small alteration by IOHN PRIME 1585. IMPRINTED AT OXFORD by Ioseph Barnes Printer to the Vniuersitie 1585. TO THE CHRISTIAN Reader Grace and Peace PRESENT occasion gentle Reader moueth me to present thee with this litle Sermon lately preached earnestly requested at my hands Once printing doeth ease the often copying out Verily therein is no great matter of such moment but only a desire to affect and stir vp some duetifull cogitations in the mindes of the hearers in these last and vnthankefull dayes And soothly I was the lesse carefull to perfourm many proofes either of the Princes sacred authoritie or happie gouernment in the execution and fruites thereof being priuie afore-hand to the printing of M. D. Bilsons verie learned and like careful booke in these respects euen now comming foorth by way of thorough perfit answere to turbulent wits and troublesome heades and vaine defenders of falsly so called Catholiques against the necessary and mercifull execution of due Iustice and her Maiesties Lawes And herein good Reader my verie hart reioyceth that the long barennesse of one and the same College at length with much adoe first hath brought forth him enabled to incounter with the best of our olde deceiued predecessours to witte D. Cole D. Harpsfield D. Harding D. Sanders Dorman Rastall D. Stapleton Points Marshall Fouler Hide William Rainoldes and the rest God of his goodnes increase our knowledge zeal and discretion to the discharge of our dueties vnto the ful Exod. 3. Pharao non dimittet nisi in manu valida Poperie is not ouercome by silence ignorance and sufferance And know you my brethren of greater ability gifts who euer you be it is a certaine experienced truth Papists neuer flocke togither neuer mutter Asdod and Spanish in corners neuer vent sparse abroad lies fables at ordinary meetings neuer write crake vaunt so fast but as croking toades against a storme God make vs wise to discern who be who and ready prest alwayes to diuert their spite defend his truth Remember that word Negotiamim Luc. 13. donec veniam Hide not your talents omit not oportunities occupie till I come Fare you well in Christ Iesu New Colledge in Oxford 27. Nouemb. 1585. 1. KINGS 10.9 Blessed be the Lord thy God which loued thee to set thee on the throne of Israel because he loued Israel for euer and made thee King to doe equitie and righteousnesse THese words some yeares * 1574. since as some of you may remember vppon this yearelie and happie occasion were most learnedly largely and effectuallie debated with you In resuming the same againe my purpose is not to venture flight with the Eagle or to run with the Gyant or any way to compare with that excellent man Onelie for good reasons mouing me there-unto I haue rather chosen to sowe in a ground readie plowed vp to my hand than to breake vppe a newe at mine owne choice Without more adoe or farther impertinent prefacing these woordes and the whole storie of the Queene of Saba is not only recorded * 1. King 10 here but also word for woorde repeated againe in the latter booke of Chronicles as a matter woorthy all memorie and admiration 2. Chron. 9. For that a woman and shee a Queene and as our Sauiour noteth from the farthest partes of the earth Mat. 12.45 onelie mooued with the fame of a wise man should come so readilie to learne wisedome is more than straunge deserueth euerlasting praise with all posteritie in ages succeeding and shee shall rise at the last day of doome and iudgement to the condemnation of the maruelous sloth of some whole generations Some other Luc. 11.31 her like would haue dealt after a diuerse and a dislike sort as for example reasoning thus I am a woman by nature weake and can not a Queene and neede not of soueraigne estate and it were vnseemelie to leaue my people at random and to uenture at auentures to trauell abroad The way is long and tedious the iourney daungerous full of cruell beastes and of men woorse than beastes the fame is but a report and reportes are not alwaies true But shee fore-casteth none of all these doubts and inconueniences neither the vncertainty of the euent nor perill of the way nor tediousnesse of the iourney nor dignity of her person nor infirmitie of her sexe She as a faire type and a timely first-fruite of the gentils presenteth herself among the people of GOD preferring the aduenture for wisedome more Prou. 3.15 than for siluer gold or what euer thing else of richest price And beeing nowe come to Ierusalem conferreth at large with Salomon himselfe and receiueth speciall aunswere in euery thing aboue expectation After a while she surueieth his buildinges and taketh particular viewe of his whole house and gouernment and when shee had considered all the order of his realme the array of his seruiters the manner of his waiters their attire their diet their blessed roume and place whereby they enioyed the happy presence of so woonderfullie wise a Prince that could aunswere to euery her question demaund and motiue that shee could make she was all amazed and her spirite was taken from her And comming to herselfe againe she breaketh forth no doubt by the spirite of God into the woordes of my text Blessed be the Lord thy God which loued thee c. A blessed God and a louing a blessed Prince and a blessed people beloued of God A blessed God to be praised and blessed for euer as the Apostle speaketh Amen Rom. 1.25 9.5 But wherewith this Queene beginneth namely with the praise and blessing of God God willing we meane to interlace all and end the whole In the meane while consider wee apart Gods blessings 1 vpon Salomom and 2 vpon Salomons subiects 1 Salomons blessing and louely estate is therefore termed so and so pronounced here because god placed him in the throne of regiment amongst his people And in truth to be a plant in the Lordes orchard to bee the woorkmanshippe of his owne hands toward the toppe or in the midle or neere the foundation or where-about so-euer in the frame of his building euen to bee the poorest doore-keeper in all his house Psal 84.10 is no small benefit or common blessing yet is this more properly his doing and hee alone chiefly planteth and placeth all that are allotted to chiefest roumes The Sunne placeth not it selfe aboue the Moone and starres The head setteth not it selfe vpon the shoulders By * Prou. 8.15 me saith the wisedome of God Kings raigne as if it were saide if by others as it is complained in the Prophet Osce Ose 8.4 then not by me and therefore by me alone saith the