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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07558	Iacobs great day of trouble, and deliuerance A sermon preached at Pauls Crosse, the fifth of August 1607. vpon his Maiesties deliuerance from the Earle Gowries treason and conspiracie. By Iohn Milvvarde Doctor of Diuinitie.	Milward, John, 1556-1609.; Milward, Matthias, fl. 1603-1641.	1610 (1610)	STC 17942; ESTC S112791	29,882	82

bee a Iacob that is an innocent and harmelesse man and then to looke for his oppression and trouble Syrac 2.1 for as Syracides said My sonne hast thou entred into the feate of the Lord prepare thy soule to tentation and the instance is notable in the person of Christ that though hee were persecuted by Herod while he was an infant yet was he not tempted till after Baptisme to shew that so soone as wee giue our names to God and take vp our holy life then comes the sorrowe and persecution for righteousnesse and if he haue care to serue God and seuer himselfe from the prophane fashion of this world hee is derided and scorned as Noah was when the Arke was a making traduced by odious and disgracefull names and loaden with infinite iniuries as if he were a marke for all the Diuels arrowes Yet Iacob must haue patience and in all this addresse himselfe to God not shrinking in these aduersities and wrestlings no more then that holy Patriarch did Gen. 32.31 who ouercame and preuailed with the Angel though he went away halting we shall haue from the world a touch of sorrow to carry to our graues but there it should be buried and that which shal follow is comfort euerlasting And now as this day and time admonisheth in this Iacobs trouble I find a more excellent person to which it is applied that is to our verie Nathanaell i. the gift of God his sacred Maiestie who may take vp Israels complaint in a song of degrees for the degrees of his sorrowe that oftentimes from his youth vp he was afflicted may Israel now say Psalm 129.1 the plowers plowed on his back made long furrows that in a great noble kingdome from a yere old to this day is by God vpholdē was preserued from dangers thogh not freed from troubles for cares infinite are wrapped vp in the crownes of princes they are more noble then happy many troubles attēd vpon their persons because as in Esay the key of gouernement hangs vpon their shoulder and like the Master-pilot guids the shippe of the Common-wealth sitting at the sterne in euery storme so that the troubles of a carefull Prince are more then the labours of any common subiect and the dangers of the head more then of all the bodie Let vs then that are but legges and hands or other parts labour to support this Iacob not trouble Iacob but as much as we may free him from troubles I meane from griefe and sorrowes for it cannot be but the head wil ake if the body be distempered and the good and carefull head will watch and heare and see and search and find out and remedie all that may offend and hurt the bodie or els the head is not a head of care but a drowzie and a sleepie part which if it doe but slumber troubles are then sent both to awake the Pilot the Marriners for in the head you see the members are vnited Iacob for Israell that is the whole people Iacob for euery faithfull man Iacob for the Prince of Iacob in euery of these is seene a day of trouble Sed tamen But yet that is I the God of Iacob in despite of them al I will deliuer him And this shewes Gods owne opposing himselfe against all the troubles and troublers of Iacob Wherin I wil instance in two most famous particulars and set before your eyes the mercies of God to this kingdome in the daies of our late most noble Queene Elizabeth worthy of al our memories vnder whom you haue beene bred nursed and brought vp and the happie and most ioyfull succession of our so Noble a king vnder whom we are still so godly so louingly and so peaceably gouerned That this day we may remember with all possible thankes to God both their miraculous preseruations with a Sed tamen that is in despite of all their enemies Elizabeth the glorie of her Sex while she liued and the honour of it beeing dead a name signifying the oath of God as if God had sworne to be mercifull to England in the daies of Elizabeth Many and great were her troubles and yet deliuered out of all Let goe the famous acts shee did her succour of afflicted strangers reliefe of distressed states power to settle with peace and to suppresse by force honour at home and fame abroad I say let these passe But her deliuerance from Conspitacies and bloody Treasons so many and so wonderfull are to vs certaine Demonstrations of Gods mercie that the gospell of Christ which wee professe was at the first miraculously planted and established and euer since hath beene most miraculously preserued and continued Notwithstanding all Romish oppositions which so frequent and desperate plainely shew that our Church hath by them beene persecuted the Gospell intended to be suppressed the glorie of our State purposed to be supplanted the life and honour of so noble a Queene so cruelly pursued and yet I say notwithstanding all that euer they could doe in despight of all Traytors not worthy to bee named she was with her peoples peace her State and honour to the end of her life miraculously preserued and the Gospell liues and being dead shee liues in their hearts that loue the gospell But now to see GODS goodnesse still in preparing to this kingdome a king of whom I would say much but that as Saint Ierome said vereor ne damnum illius laudibus me a faceret verecundia and preparing such a king for such a kingdome A king of Iustice a king of peace whose receiuing was with such ioy and generall applause as I thinke neuer happened in any nation whose care of the afflicted and oppressed Israell which by many testimonies hath so clearely appeared shall pleade with God and he shal remember it in the euill day and when his soule is troubled the Lord shall stand by him and saue him aliue and the backes and sides of the poore relieued shall blesse him the prayers cryes and teares of his people shall praye for him and they shall say Deliuer Iacob Lorde out of all his troubles And hath not GOD deliuered him in this fift day of August as you haue heard before and since his Maiesties comming to this kingdome from other foule and trayterous attempts But aboue all from that same Salt Peter Treason or Peters salt Treason of Rome I know Saint Peter the Apostle neuer seasoned his meate nor manners with this kind of salt I say a Treason without all reason a treason sine nomine without a name as Saint Ierome notes of the face of the fourth Monarch the first a Lion the second a Beare the third a Leopard the fourth terribilis valde but sine nomine quia crudelitas eius erat sine modo such was this a Treason which neuer any age may forget and I thinke so horrible as scarce posterity can beleeue that euer any vipers bred in any Countrey would so bloudily betray their soueraigne Lord him and his All the Orders and States of a kingdome and kingdome and all such a treason so conceiued conspired contriued and so concealed to a point of time and then so mercifully discouered tell me what God is there to the God of Iacob and who so great yea adde this and who so good a God as Englands God let Rome if she please boast of her miracles and her rash and Garnets strawe all not worth a straw we will reioyce in the name of our God and make our boast of him that hath deliuered vs from so great a death and will deliuer hath planted the gospell and no power can supplant it hath peseru'd our state and stil preserues it hath confirmed his mercie to vs by his word continued it in the hopefull succession of Princes hath saued our king out of the hands of all his enemies and will saue him from the euill day from the sorrowfull Alas from the great dayes of trouble from open and priuy enemies from al that beare euill will at Jacob and the Lord is faithfull and hath promised Sed tamen that is let them doe what they can in despite of them all he is yet and yet he shall be deliuered Which since our eyes haue seene and our eares haue now heard the mercies of the Lord vnto our king and vs in this his day of mercie Let vs euer pray that God would continue them still and let our hearts ioyfully giue thankes and for these blessings euer ascribe to God our heauenly father to Iesus Christ his sonne our blessed Lord and only Sauiour and to the holy spirit our true and eternall Comforter three persons and one God All glorie honour praise and power this day and for euermore Amen FINIS