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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19296	A sermon profitably preached in the church within her Maiesties honourable Tower, neere the citie of London ...	Anderson, Anthony, d. 1593.	1586 (1586)	STC 571; ESTC S108526	34,033	110

confusion and say as thou seest if thine eye bee cleare whether our Absolute Papistes be not Resolute Rust as before is said For surely our most gracious Foundres Elizabeth with her pitifull Clemencie cannot melt their sacrylegious malice against her long suffering person but euen now after so many blessed benefites from the Lord by her Maiestie bestowed vpon thē vs in common were it but our long possessed peace the degenerate brattes of this fertile soile doe with eagre moode hunt in hungre the innocent bloude of her sacred bosome whose Romishe thirst cannot bee quenched except their Romulus drinke carowse in her guiltles bloude The blowing bellows of gods holy spirit worde the godly preachers cannot make pure that which is but drosse therfore they spende their liues in their labors al in vaine vppon these Romanists Or hath the apt matter by skilfull art more speedely to melte the mettal to say the godly pollicy of the most honorable Councell with these so wicked menne any better successe For in recompence of their honours good pollicie to procure these they may happely find could they possibly lend them hearing that the rust of these Romanists woulde rather seek to win a Ioab in Dauid his Court 2. Sam. 14.2.30 to procure thē still fauour sparing then by any their possible power they can simply be brought to Christiā obediēce But still these Catholiques labour to harden some but to hinder moe they allure many not of the worst calling to draw away the faith of the most from God and loyalty from her Maiesty if so they could and therfore our Recusants refuse their presence to the holy word and sacraments which is the prefixed purging fornace from a forced drosse whatsoeuer But now at last perceiuing all their hope to be at end they bend their ouerbold battery in wickednes against her Maiesty this her highnes lād of vprightnes Certes in respecte of our purpose towards them the lande is vpright in comparison with them and their Antichristian gouernement it is the Lande of righteousnes where the Gospell is sincerely Preached the Lordes Sacramentes in substaunce soundly administred and the seate of holy 〈…〉 ecclesiastical ciuil in all christian sorte erected and established But yet when we consider our Case with Gods Iustice wee acknowledge great cause of cōtrouersie with the whole lande as did the Prophet Hosea Hosea 4.1.2.3 for the inhabitants thereof In whose time muche wickednesse great ignoraunce and wilfull contempt of knowledge did ouerflowe the coast Carnality and bloudgiltines bare a mighty sway with an heaping togeather of sinnes euen bloude touched bloud viz. No spare of kinred or cease from horrible crueltie O Lord farre be this blott from thy chosen nation of Englande But in respecte of your Romishe reconciliation wee confesse very many by you are made lame and wickedly halt which ought not once to limpe before God and to her Maiestie whose wickednes doe cause our dread of an heauye Censure and the more because your present practise is a threat from the Lord of a direful daye if our speedye Repentaunce and faithfull prayers stand not in the gap before him Psal 106.23 But 〈…〉 ●●lice yee forraine and domestical Romains we firmely hold not Dauid and his subiectes The Lorde will protect his Annointed Psal 20.21 Psal 2. and conserue her person and state vntill the day of his decree and shee shall with increase in muche honor continue the last moment of that day maugre the mountains of your might the Stratageams of Satan and the furious sonnes of perdition by him sent her to destroy And also Christs holy word with her sacred seat and this most honorable Regiment shall in England still abide till the same day of his determinatiō though Resyn Romeliah Esay 7.3.4.5 6.7.8.9 in wāhope for the future Tabeall hunt now to make a breach in our Hierusalem thereto persist to doe their best Against all their wicked and most pestilent purposes O Lorde of hoastes and father of Councells Psal 20.9 saue thou our Queene Elizabeth and heare vs for her whensoeuer wee call vpon thee O eternall father let thy holy spirit dwell in her our head vnder thee so shall wee her true and louing members in godlines and peace long enioy her which is the heart of all our desire And directe O Lorde our heartes and powers as mourning Doues to keepe vs Innocent from this great offence But make vs wise as Serpentes to bende our backes to her in godly obedience Our bodies and our best to her defence Our Soules and selues to sing and sounde thy praise for this thy miraculous preseruation of her Maiestie and this thy Church and Realme in Christ our Lorde wee beseeche thee And here right Honorable I cease to deteyne you crauing pardon to this and patience for this and protection as it may stande with godlinesse and the safety of your Honour that my labour maye more boldely aske the Consult of all Satannicall consorts Why doe you gentyles rage c. God that is Eternall Almightye mercyfull and onely wise signe your Honour with your allotted proportion in these his Fatherly graces and stall you longe in honour and godlinesse to liue a Godly gouernour with others lyke vnder her Maiestye whose lyfe the Lorde prolonge to her and our felicitye in him Amen Your Honours humbly to commaund Anthony Anderson London September 30. 1586. Why doe the Gentiles rage and the people murmure in vaine Psal 2. IN the first of our holy labors I beseech you let vs consider that euery good gift descendeth from aboue and therefore in full perswasion of our heauenly fathers loue towards vs through Iesus Christ his onely Sonne Let vs faithfully by earnest prayer crye for his holy spirite to his vniuersall Church and euery part thereof and namely to this Church of England and Ireland c. Why doe the heathen rage and the people imagine murmure meditate with turbulent Spirites vpon great mischiefe yet all in vaine For neither haue they cause so to frette and fume or canne they possiblye bringe to passe that which so wickedly they haue in their banded consultations confirmed by conclusion The words are of Dauid the Lords annoynted king of Iuda besette with sundry enemies hatefull at his honour and hautely deuising which waye to distronize his excellencye but for that they were too weake at home they banded themselues with forren mates abroade so as they might the sooner attaine the ende of that their wicked desire Namely his home-dwelling Iewes aswell of his Courte as Country raised rebellion erecting an other king against him euen Abner a Noble man in the land set vp the sonne of Saule called Ishboseth and hee raigned two yeares in Israell The Philistines they bent their sundry battailes also against Dauid both beset themselues to his decay But this man of God heroically harted assured of his state for his election and therefore of