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A11164 A sermon preached at Greenwich before the Kings Maiestie vpon Tuesday in VVhitson weeke being the 14. of Iune. 1603. By the Reuerend Father in God Antonie Rudd, Doctor of Diuinitie, and Lord Bishop of Saint Dauids Rudd, Anthony, 1549 or 50-1615. 1603 (1603) STC 21433; ESTC S112125 11,126 40

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A SERMON Preached at Greenwich before the Kings Maiestie vpon Tuesday in VVhitson weeke being the 14. of Iune 1603. By the Reuerend Father in God Antonie Rudd Doctor of Diuinitie and Lord Bishop of Saint Dauids LABORE ET CONSTANTIA LONDON Imprinted by I. H. for Thomas Man and Clement Knight 1603. TO THE Christian Reader FOrsomuch as I was at this sermon among other auditors who iudged it verie diuinelike for the matter the manner of handling of it and afterward vnderstood that diuers which hard it preached and more which did onely heare of it by the report of others were verie desirous to haue the view eyther written or rather printed therfore hauing obtained a copie of it for mine owne vse I thought it expedient to commit it to the presse for the publike good of all such as will vouchsafe to read it with patience and iudge of it by the rule of charitie ❧ A Sermon preached at Greenwich before the Kings Maiestie vpon Tuesday in VVhitsonweek being the 14. of Iune 1603. Psal 101.1 I will sing mercie and iudgement to thee O Lord will I sing IN this Psalme the kingly Prophet Dauid declareth how he will behaue himselfe in his kingdome first touching his owne person and afterward touching his subiects both in the Court and in the countrie In this first verse of the Psalme he vndertaketh or promiseth to sing the dittie of the song is mercie and iudgement The person to whom he singeth is expressed in these words To thee O Lord will I sing In that he assumeth to sing the matter which he hath in hand it implieth that he will doe it with ioy with a loud voice and with his full power It argueth ioy Iam. 5.13 Psal 137.1.2.3.4 For is any man among you afflicted let him pray is any merrie let him sing And how should the children of the captiuitie sing one of the songs of Zion in a straunge land when they sit mourning and weeping by the riuers of Babell where they haue hung vp their harps vpon the willows that grow thereby And as a pleasant song requireth a merrie heart so doth it also a stretched out voice with great strength put thereunto So then by this example of Dauid we are taught in the meditations of our heart the words of our tongue and the actions of our life tending to godlinesse and iustice to doe all with cheerefulnes feruencie and to the vtmost of our power For example in the case of our inward affection toward God our dutie is To loue the Lord our God with all our heart with all our soule Deut. 6.5 and with all our strength In the matter of Gods worship ioyned with the aduancing of his glory and the furtherance of our saluation 2. Sam. 6.14 Behold Dauid daunceth before the Arke with all his might Of the kingdome of Christ it is prophecied thus by the Psalmist Psal 110.3 Thy people shall come willingly at the time of assembling thine armie in holy beautie Psal 69.9 The zeale of Gods house did eate vp the princely prophet And from the time of Iohn the Baptist hitherto Mat. 11.12 The kingdome of heauen suffereth violence Act. 17.16 and the violent take it by force If Paule come to Athens and see the Citie subiect to Idolatrie his spirit will be stirred within him And if he and Barnabas being at Listra perceiue the people readie to sacrifice vnto them by the names of Iupiter and Mercurie Act. 14.14 then they will euen rent their clothes in signe of detesting and abhorring it Exod. 32.15 vnto the 21. If Moses when he commeth downe from the Mount vnderstand that the people in his absence haue made a golden Calfe and giuen worship vnto it then his wrath waxeth hotte and he casteth the tables which were the worke and writing of God out of his hands and breaketh them in peeces and taking the Calfe he burneth it in the fire and grindeth it to powder and stroweth it vpon the water and maketh the children of Israel to drinke of it to despite them of their Idolatrie If we speake of charitable almes thē by S. Pauls rule The Lord louech a cheerefull giuer 2. Cor. 9.7 If execution must be done vpon the enemies of God and his holy Church Ier. 48.10 then Ieremie pronounceth him cursed that doth the worke of the Lord negligently Rom. 12.11 We should by Pauls aduise to the Romanes Tit. 2.14 be feruent in spirit And by his admonition giuen in the epistle to Titus we ought to be zealous of good workes And surely if any doe frame themselues after the patterne of the Laodiceans who were luke-warme Apoc. 3.16 neither hore nor cold it will come to passe that God shall spew them out of his mouth To preuent which inconuenience Dauid here affirmeth that he wil sing this heauenly dittie of mercie and iudgement the which words may be construed two waies the Analogie of faith preserued First in respect of the time past by way of praise for Gods mercie toward himselfe and Gods iudgements against his enemies Secondly in regard of the time to come touching the gouernment of the kingdome by way of practise of mercie toward the good and of iudgement against the bad The first interpretation yeeldeth vnto vs this doctrine in generall that we should shew our selues thankfull vnto Almightie God for all his benefits bestowed vpon vs according to the comaundement of God ioyned with a comfortable promise Psal 50.15 Call vpon me in the day of trouble and so will I deliuer thee and thou shalt glorifie mee And after the example of the Psalmist saying Open thou my lips O Lord that is Psal 51.15 giue me occasion to praise thee and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise And if God vouchsafe to deliuer Dauids desolate soule from the sword and the power of the dog Psal 22.20.21.22 from the lions mouth and the hornes of the Vnicornes then will Dauid declare his name vnto his brethren and praise him in the midst of the congregation But alas if a viewe be taken of vs vpon whom the ends of the world be come it is to be feared that we shal be found no better in this case then they were in the daies of our Sauiour Christ when as of ten leapers that were cleansed onely one returned to giue thanks Luke 17.15.16 And verely so haue worldly minded men beene vsually accustomed to mistake the originall and spring-head of the temporall benefits which they receiue that the Nimrods of the earth which liued in the daies of Habacuk Hab. 1.15.16 whēas they took vp al with the angle and catched it in their net and gathered it in their yearne whereof they reioyced and were glad then they sacrificed to their net burnt incence to their yearne because in their false imagination by them their portion became fat and their meat plenteous that is they flattered themselues