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A19717	A sermon preached before the Queenes Maiestie, by the reuerende Father in God the Bishop of Chichester, at Grenewiche, the 14. day of Marche. 1573. Seene and allowed according to the order appoynted; Sermon preached before the Queenes Majestie.	Curteys, Richard, 1532?-1582.; Browne, Thomas, ca. 1535-1585.	1573 (1573)	STC 6135; ESTC S116432	21,769	58

¶ A SERMON preached before the Queenes Maiestie by the reuerende Father in God the Bishop of Chichester at Grenewiche the .14 day of Marche 1573. Seene and allowed according to the order appoynted Quam speciosi pedes euangelizantium pacem euangelizantium bona Rom. 9. ¶ Imprinted at London dy Henry Binneman for Francis Coldocke Anno. 1573. ¶ To the Reader Thomas Browne wisheth grace and peace WHeras among other learned and notable ▪ Sermons preached th●● Lent before the Queenes most excellent Maiestie and by h●r grace highly commended I vnderstood by those that were presente that hir Highnesse also liked very well comm●nded most graciously that sermon whiche the learned reuerende father in God the Bishop of Chichester preached before hir Maiestie in so much that some noble Peeres and many other desired a copie of the same I partly to satisfie their desire ▪ partly to signifie some sparke of my good will and duetie towardes the author and preacher of thy● Sermon my very good Lord of whom I haue receiued benefite trauelled so f●rre wyth those that could pleasure me in this behalfe that I o● length not onely receyued notes ▪ but almost the whole discourse of that learned sermon although not altogither in suche sorte as it was by the reuerend Father preached ▪ yet as ●●gh ther vnto as could be remembred And for the benefit of other I haue heere publishe● the ●ame trusting that this my labour wyll be no otherwise construed than thus tha● whereas I my selfe can offer as of my selfe very little or nothing at all to the buylding of Gods Temple I thoughte good to bring therevnto a goodly and beautifull pyller made by a cunning and noble workeman which I truste for the excellencie thereof will be of a greate manye with plausible allowance ioyfully receyued to whome for the greater encreasing of their ioy I will say that which Aeschines sayd vnto the men of Rhodes who wondered maruelously at the oration of that famous Orator Demosthenes beeing but sayde and recited by him vnto them Quid inquit Aeschines ●i ipsum audissetis sua verba resonantem sentiens in Demosthene magnum Demosthenis partem deesse ●i quae ipse dixit ab alio recitarentur Doe ye maruell sayde Aeschines at this my rehearsall of Demosthenes oration what if you had hearde him selfe sounding and pronouncing hys own● words Meaning therby that in Demosthenes great part of Demosthenes was wanting when that those things which he spake were recited of an other I doubt not but vnto all this my little trauell wil be acceptable to them that were present bicause they shall agayne be put in mynde of that whiche they before heard and so maye more deepely consider the same to those that were absent for that they shall heare that whiche before they heard not so be made better learned vnto saluation And thus desiring thee good Reader ▪ to be thankfull vnto God for this and other good fruites of the laborers in his vineyardes I bid thee farewell from Westminster the .vj. of April 1574. A godly Sermon preached at Grenewiche God bee mercyfull vnto vs and blesse vs and shewe vs the light of his countenance and bee mercyfull vnto vs that his waye may bee knowne vpon earthe hys sauyng health among all Nations through our Lorde Iesus Christ. Amen REmember thy maker in the dayes of thy youth before the tyme of trouble come and the yeres approch of the vvhiche thou shalt say I haue no pleasure in them 2 Before the sunne the light and the moone and the stars be darkned and the cloudes returne after rayne 3 Before the keepers of the house doe tremble and the strong men do bovv and the grinders do cease being fevve in number and they that looke out of the vvindovves vvaxe darke 4 And they shut the doores in the streate through the vveaknesse of the voyce of the grinding they yvake at the noyse of the birde and all the daughters of musicke de deafe 5 Before the high ones doe dreade and shake in the vvay The Almond trees doe blossome and the Grashoppers doe stick● vp and the Capers vvasted for man shall go to his long home and the mourners shall goe about in the streate 6 Before the siluer thread be lengthned and the golden caule do shrinke and the Pype bee broken vpon the spring and the vvheele vpon the cisterne 7 For dust shall returne to earthe from vvhence it vvas and the spirite to God vvhich gaue it Before I proc●ede any farther I shal most humbly beseeche you to pray THe Preacher king Salomon in the .ii. chapters going before hathe reckened vp all the ioyes pleasures bothe of the body and of the minde hath found by the wisedome of God that they be all méere vanitie and miserie for he saithe I haue considered all the workes that are done vnder the sunne and beholde all is vanitie and vexation of the spirite And thervpon taketh occasion in this twelfth chapter to exhort euery one to serue God in tyme before trouble come or sicknesse gréeue or age presse or death carrie vs away For the body that is but dust shall goe againe to dust and the spirite whiche is eternall shall returne to God as wyll more playnly appeare by a bréef discourse and expounding of the Metaphors and darke speaches Remember thy maker in the dayes of thy youth That is Serue the Lord thy God that made thée of nothing redéemed thée of worse than nothing whilest thou arte yong strong helthfull riche and mery Before the time of trouble come and the yeeres of the whiche thou shalt say I haue no pleasure in them That is before pouertie sicknesse losse of fri●nds banishmēt persecution and miserie come vpon thée in the which flesh and bloud bath no pleasure Before the sunne and the moone and the starres be darkned and the clouds returne after rayne That is Before thou fall to such extremitie that thou not only do not take any ioy or cōfort of the light of the sunne of the moone of the stars other creatures which God hath made for the cōfort of man but the clouds returne after rayne sicknesse grow vpō sicknesse grief vpon grief paine vpon paine sorow vpō sorow These Metaphors do signifie trouble and sicknesse Before the keepers of the house doe tremble The body is called the house for that as a man is lodged dwelleth in his house for a time So the soule or spirite is lodged dwelleth in the body as in his house for a time The handes be called the keepers of this house or body for that as the kéepers of the house do dresse vp the house repayre and defende the house from spoyles and breaches So the hands do apparell féede repayre and defende the body from spoyles and inconueniences The strong men do bow The legges bée called strong men for that as strong men be porters and beare burdens as postes

and pillers do beare vp houses and buyldings so the legges of men doe beare vp the burdens the buyldings the houses or bodies of men And thy grinders do cease beeing fewe in number The téeth be called the grinders for that as the milstones do grinde bruse and make small the corne that is to be baked Euen so the téeth do grinde chawe and make small the meate that is to be baked or concocted in the stomake And they that looke out at the windowes waxe darke The windowes he called eye lids the eyes be those that looke out by the windowes For as they which are in the house are comforted directed by the light which they sée by the windowe opened so the powers of the body be comforted and directed by the light which they receyue by the eyes the eye liddes béeing opened And they shutt● the doores in the streat● The lippes be called the doores for that as the doores do shut and close in all things that be in the house Euen so the lippes do shut close the tong the breath all other things that be in the house of the body And they wake at the noyse of the birde When men waxe olde their brayne waxeth dry sléepe fayleth and then they rather ●●umber tha● sléepe in so muche that th● crowing of a cocke the chirping of a birde or any little noyse will awake them And all the daughters of musicke be deafe The eares be called the daughters of musicke for that the harmonie and consente of notes and soundes is tuned and iudged by the eare The high ones doe dread and shake in the way The vpper partes of the body be called the high ones which in aged persons do crooke and stoupe and as it were shake for feare Before the Almōd trees do blossome The head is called the Almonde trée and gray heares the blossomes for that as the blossomes do cause the Almond tree to shewe all white so the gray heares do make the head shew all white And the Grashoppers stick vp The shoulders he called the grashoppers for that as the legges and wings of Grashoppers do● stick vp and appeare aboue the body so the shoulders in leane and aged persons do sticke vp and appeare aboue the body And the capers wasted The capers do heere signifie the reynes for that Caparis is an hath which is v●ry good for the reynes His meaning is before you be aged for that in aged persons the hands do quauer and tremble the legges be faint and féeble the teeth decay and f●ll out the eyes waxe dimme the lippes wil not easily open and shutte they sleepe little and watch muche through the drinesse of their brayne their hearing fayleth they stoupe and shake as they go their heades be white their shoulders sticke out their reines be wasted Before the siluer thread bee lengthened The siluer thread is the sinewes which do stretch and lengthen vpon death and they be called siluer threades for that they be white like siluer and doe holde binde and tye togither the bones of the body whiche would els one fall frō an other as threads and lynes doe bynde togither other loose things And the golden caule do shrinke The skinne whiche couereth and encloseth the brayne is called the golden caule bicause it is yelow like golde and dothe enclose and kéepe togither the brayne as the caule dothe enclose and kéepe togither the heare The pypes be broken vpō the spring The hart is called the spring the Arterie the pipe for that as water hauing the beginning in the spring dothe flowe out of the spring into the pipe and from one pipe to an other to euery office in the house so the vitall spirites springing or beginning in the heart go out of the heart into the arteries which be round hollow like cundite pypes and runne from one arterie to an other to all the partes of the bodie And the wheele vppon the cisterne The stomacke is called a cisterne a lake or a poole For so the Hebrue word doth signifie and the liuer is called the whéele the wrench or plumpe for that as waters do not spring in a lake or poole but eyther ●all by rayne or be gathered togither by the industrie and deuise of man so meat drink haue not their beginning in the stomacke but he put into it by the hande or mouth And as by a whéele and wrench or plumpe and certayne lynes men do● plumpe and drawe water out of the lake or poole for their necessarie vses so the liuer by the veynes doth plumpe and draw the iuyce out of the stomake and doth alter and change it into blou● and conuey it to the nourishment of the body For dust That is the fleshe and bones which were made of earth and dust shall dye and rot and returne to earth and dust agayne The spirite shall go agayne to God which gaue it That is sayth the Chalde Paraphrast the soule shall go agayne to stande in iudgement before the Lord which gaue it to man. The principall lessons be these First that ech one ought to serue God in time Nexte that trouble sicknesse age and death be Gods bayliffes to arrest warne vs of our dutie to God. Thirdly that euery one shall ryse agayne and giue an accompt to God of his dooings The firste lesson is conteyned in thes● wordes Remember thy maker in the daye● of thy youth in the which we are to learn 1 First what it is to remember God. 2 Secondly to note the cause that moueth vs to remember him 3 Thirdly the time and season of this remembrance The remembrance or duetifull seruing of God. IT appeareth by the course of the Scriptures that to remember our maker is to beléeue in God and Christ Iesus which gaue him selfe to dye for vs beeing his enimies which hath quickned vs beeing dead in sinne who being once dead in the in●irmitie of the flesh rose againe with power ascended into heauen with maiestie hath led away Captiuitie captiue and reigneth in heauenly thinges aboue all principalities and powers and aboue euery name that is named not onely in this world but in the world to come Who by his fleshe hath taken away the diuision and separation that was betwene God and vs abolishing the law which was set against vs in precepts decrées Who is our peac● our aduocate and propitiation for the sinnes of the whole world By whom we haue boldnesse and entrance with all confidence through fayth in him For as ther● is no way into the house but by the doore so there is no commyng to God but by fayth in Christ. By this doore entred Cornelius the Romane by this dore entred y Aethiopian Eunuch By this doore Zacheus receiued y person of Christ into his house saluatiō to him his whole familie By this dore the Iaylor mētioned in the .16 of the Acts receyued saluation to

the treasures of the world the spirituall sworde that cutteth the hearts and parteth the flesh from the spirite the heauenly Nette that encloseth and bringeth togither the children of God the water of life which washeth away our sinnes the sacr●d fyre that burneth away the superfluous humors of worldely desires the wholsome leauen that seasoneth and edifyeth the soule the swéete bread that ●éedeth the man of God And the true keye that openeth to vs Christ Iesus the doore of the kingdome of heauen God hath buyld●d in it the sincere and substantiall walles of the Sacraments of Baptisme and the Lordes Supper the seales of fayth the watche words of Christian souldiers the images of our Resurrection and the pawnes of our saluation He hathe pickte out the stones of errour and heres●e God hath set ouer it Miriah ▪ ●o set foorth his glory to cause his worde to be taught to aduaunce vertue to punishe vice to be a nurse and fosterer of his people to write out his booke and to reade on it continually to keepe his commaundementes not turning from them to the lefte hande nor to the right He hath set ouer it many good Moyseses that many stande in the gappe to turne away Gods wrath to guide gods people in the wildernesse of these perillous dayes and to iudge them from morning to euening and many good Aarons to ring the golden belles of the Law and Gospell in Gods Sanctuarie and Churche to present sacrifices of thankesgiuing and to giue light to Gods people by his worde He hath pla●●d in it kéepers and watchemen preachers ministers whiche fe●d● his flocke plowe his grounde and sounde the trumpet of his worde so godly so learnedly and paynefully as thys 〈◊〉 seldome or neuer hathe tasted the lyke Although Cicer●es dogges that should barke at the Romish● wolues begi● to snatche at the christian Belwethers He hath made a winepresse of Iudges Iustices and Magistrates to presse the husk of controuersies and suites from the iuyce vi●e from vertue falshoode from truthe And al these hath he done to moue vs to beléeue that he is God almightie the first and the last the God of Gods Lorde of Lordes and that besides him is none To moue vs to feare the profoundnesse of his riches wisedome and knowledge Who is greater than our hearts and knoweth all things who yéeldeth wrath in the day of wrath to euery one according to the hardnesse of his heart who if we will not turne hath whe● his sword bent his bow and prepared the arrowes of deathe To loue him as true and faythfull as gentle and mercyfull who hath not dealte wyth vs after our sinnes nor rewarded vs after our iniquities But looke howe wide the East is from the west so farre hath he set our sinnes from vs. All these hathe he done to moue vs to séeke the Lorde with all our hearts to be zelous in the truthe of the ieolous God whiche giueth not his glorie to an other whiche will haue vs all or no part of vs and casteth the luke warme oute of hys mouth To kéepe our spirites soules and bodies pure and without blame to the comming of our Lorde Iesus Christ. To be faythfull and constante that we may receyue the crowne of life To labour to ouercome that we may eate of the hidden Manna to be clothed with whyte aray and to be made pillers in the Temple of God. All these hathe he done to moue vs to girde our selues with truthe to binde it about our neckes and to write it in the table of our heartes to flye the softe pillowes of flatterie the paynted cloake of dissimulation the sharpe rasors of slandering and speake the truthe eche one to another To arme our selues with righteousnesse and to make good good and euill euill darkenesse darkenesse and lighte lighte swéete swéete and sowre sowre To put on the shoes of peace the chayne that lincketh Christians togither wyth the bonde of loue the Image of Christ● grauen in mans heart the swéete dewe o● Hermon and the precious oyntment of Aaron to the Leuites and seruaunts of god To moue vs to kéepe the garments of innocencie to labour the wo●ke of God in the day of this life to cast ou● bread vpon the waters to deale our breade to the hungry to bring the poore that wander into our houses when we see the naked to cloth them to loose the bandes of wyckednesse to take off the heauy burdens to let the oppressed go free to breake euery yoke of the vngodly to helpe the blind and lame the widow and fatherlesse the staunger and friendlesse All these hath be done to moue vs lyke prudente Noahs to bu●lde the arke of a good conscience before the floud of Iudgement doe ouerflowe Like prouident Iosephs to lay vp the grayne of godlynesse in the barnes of our heartes before the dearth of mercy shall be Like paynefull Antes to prouide the foode of th● soule before the winter of Iustice approche Lyke tractable patients to take the preparatiues of repentance before the pangs of deathe do come Likewise virgins to haue readie the lampe of fayth and the oyle of vertue before the bridegrome Christe Iesus doe shutte the doores Lyke good Stewardes to prouyde for the Tabernacle of heauen before we loose the office of this life In the dayes of fayre wether of plentie of Sommer of health of oportunitie of this life to remember our maker and to serue him dutifully And thus much of the first principall lesson Trouble age sicknesse and death be Gods Bay●●ffes BUt the nature of man is so crabbed and frowarde that commonly the mercies and graces of God do little preuayle with him and therefore when man forgetting the goodnesse of God beginneth to waxe secure and carelesse God hathe certayne Bayliffes and scourges as trouble sickenesse age and deathe whiche he sendeth foorth to arest them to come to his Court of Iustice th●re to be warned of their duties 〈…〉 for their offences As the holy ghost dothe teache in the .28 of Deuteronomie by Moyses If they will not obey the voyce of the Lorde their God the Lorde shall sende vpon them trouble cursing and shame The Lorde shall make the pestilence cleaue vnto them the Lorde shall smite them with pouertie sicknesse and colde drought blasting and meldewe the heauen that is ouer their heads shall be brasen and the earth that is vnder them yron In the .32 of Deuteronom Thou haste forsaken th● mightie God that begatte thée and haste forgotten the Lorde that made thée Th● Lorde then sawe it and was angry and sayde I will hide my face from thée and thou shalte bee consumed wyth hunger and burnte with heate and bitter destruction I will also sende vpon