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A03475	Panēguris D. Elizabethæ, Dei gratiâ Angliæ, Franciæ, & Hiberniæ Reginæ. A sermon preached at Pauls in London the 17. of November ann. Dom. 1599. ... and augmented in those places wherein, for the shortnes of the time, it could not there be then delivered. VVherevnto is adioyned an apologeticall discourse, whereby all such sclanderous accusations are fully and faithfully confuted, wherewith the honour of this realme hath beene vncharitably traduced by some of our adversaries in forraine nations, and at home, for observing the 17. of November yeerely in the forme of an holy-day ... By Thomas Holland, Doctor of Divinity, & her Highnes professor thereof in her Vniversity of Oxford.; Panēguris D. Elizabethae, Dei gratiâ Angliae Reginae	Holland, Thomas, 1539-1612.	1601 (1601)	STC 13597; ESTC S104142	118,907	169

vt credat inquirit magnum est ipse prodigium qui credente mundo non credit Whonever doth yet for the seale of his faith seeke for miracles to himselfe a greate miracle or rather monster insomuch as the whole world beleeving he remaineth incredulous Let this suffice for the first note of Bishop Hughes miracles This point I cease to discusse further in this place in regard I am to handle by Gods grace this Argument more at large hereafter which I am seriously inforced to debate and to shew my minde in God willing the Vespers of the next Act A Derectiō of Samuell Hashnets discourse against ●ohn Dorrel c. Vide praefa Anton tomo histo 1. in Bulla canonizata Clement 7. Ant part 3 titul 22 paragraph 3. partly by promise partly for that a booke with a letter hath secretly bin conve●ed vnto me from a friend of one Iohn Dorrel Batchelor of Art in Cambridge in some sort solliciting me to manifest my opinion herein The second reason why I giue no credit to the miracles ascribed by these Legendary writers to S. Hugh is for that they faile in probation and of that forme of probation in those 1● conditiōs which the Church of Rome in matters of such quallity requireth whereby the world may infallibly be induced to beleeue that they be true and vnfained miracles Thirdly I thinke that there is no credit to bee ascribed to these miracles of Bishop Hugh A Swanno geniall to S Hugh for that some of these miracles as I said are foolish and ridiculous some of them are incredible superstitious all of them meere repugnant to the sincere trueth of Gods holy word in the scriptures inspired from aboue as namely the tale of a mighty big swan geniall to Bishop Hugh for the which fiction the Legēdary writer deserueth the title of a Doctor of the Whetstone which by a song prognosticated Bishop Hughs death some few dates before his final departure Some difference there in betweene this Legendary Aristotle in relation of the singing of swannes De hist● an● mal 9. c. 12. It is thought generally of learned men that Aristotle reported an vntruth when he saide the swannes did accustomably sing before their owne death 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 swannes are by nature 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 singers c. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 They sing especially at their owne deathes But th●s Swan of Lincolne singing before anothers death I thinke may be reputed by most learned men a fiction and a fable How superstitious those miracles are that are ascribed to Bishop Hugh and how dissonant from the sound word of faith these two examples following may evidently demonstrat to all that loue the truth In the first wherof this Legendary-ographer mentioneth that our Savior Christ vouchsafed to appeare visibly very oft to B. Hugh in the shape of a most beautifull childe In the Sacrament Virae Hugo Cap. 27. Aqui. part 3 Quest 76. Art 8. a miracle devised by the schoole-mens invention to establish the verity of their fained Trāsubstantiation His second miracle cōteined an appearāce of S. Hugh after his death to one of his friends with whom hee conversed very familiarly in his life time who was very desirous to know his estate after his departure out this life vnto whō also as this Legēdary reporteth he resolved diverse intricate questiōs which this his familiar before was not able to conceiue vntill he was instructed by the miraculous apparition of B. Hugh after his decease Who seeth not that hath any tast of gods word that this grosse sable directly contradicteth the holy parable of our Saviour concerning Dives Abraham vnto whō as vve knowe Luke 16.29.31 the Patriarch replied when he would haue one sent from the deade in this manner They haue Moses and the Prophets if they will not heare Moses and the Prophets neither will they be perswaded though one rise from the deade againe This fiction I say also directly contradicteth the cōmaundement of God in the 18. of Deuteronomy Deuter. 18. V. 11. Let not there be among you one that asketh councell of the dead I do not doubt but the godly will thinke that the most of those miracles Lucians fictions which are attributed to B. Hugh are in their own natures no better for truth then some of Lucians fictions or that I may speake more pertinently to the former name of a Mallet attributed parasitically to B. Hugh then that fable of a Mallet was true whō the L●fl●nders in the time of Paganisme did idolatrously adore which fabulous example I doe more willingly instance in because a writer of their owne to delight his auditory Calvino● Lib 1 cap. 7 Alex. Gag indes Lith hath recited it in this forme and order out of Alexander Gagvviu in descriptione Lithvaniae Some of the Lithvan●an Idolators being asked this question what the reason should bee why they honored for a God not onely trees serpents starts sū but also an iron Mallet of huge quantity they made answere to them that made the demaund of them in this manner We worship and adore this mallet for this reason Vpon a time a prince of Lithvany imprisoned the Sunne in a strong tower for that certaine daies he did not discover the beames of his light vnto the people subiecte to that Clymate herevpon Aries Taurus Gemini and the rest of the 12. Signes fearing that the world should loose the benefitt of the light of the sunne providing this Mallet with the force thereof brake downe the walles of this prison so by consequent released the sunne out of prison that he might returne to the accustomed service of the world for which benefite effected by this Mallet as the instrument said these Idolators we do yeeld this Mallet these signes of divine honor thankfully acknowledging hereby what good our country hath since intertained by it This fable of the Mal●t may vvorthily equalize in mine opinion most of the fabulous narrations written of B. Hugh and may bee reported vvith as greate credit as many of them which this Legend and such as the Myssal hath mentioned and proposed to the world Lastly lest it should be obiected that I deale not charitably with the dead and that I censure peremptorily the writers of this Legend and am over partial for the Protestantes glorye it remaineth that I shoulde adioyne to this Treatise what fruites of true holinesse notwithstanding al this popish trumpery is specified by the fore-said writers concerning B. Hugh Last obser Against Symony and bribery It is written of him that he was advanced to his Bishopricke without any S●moniacal compact that in the Administration of that great office in the Church he was not blemished with bribery Simony which 2. abominations not only Rome but other coūtries by professiō Christians how farre may be touched with the Lord God knoweth I pray God that these two filthy worms or Ga●grenas mar not all in

Πανηγυρὶς D. Elizabethae Dei gratiâ Angliae Franciae Hiberniae Reginae A SERMON PREACHED AT PAVLS in London the 17. of November Ann. Dom. 1599. the one and fortieth yeare of her Maiesties raigne and augmented in those places wherein for the shortnes of the time it could not there be then delivered VVherevnto is adioyned an Apologeticall discourse whereby all such sclanderous Accusations are fully and faithfully confuted wherewith the Honour of this Realme hath beene vncharitably traduced by some of our adversaries in forraine nations and at home for observing the 17. of November yeerely in the forme of an Holy-day and for the ioifull exercises and Courtly triumphes on that day in the honour of her Maiestie exhibited By THOMAS HOLLAND Doctor of Divinity her Highnes Professor thereof in her Vniversity of Oxford AT OXFORD Printed by JOSEPH BARNES and are to be solde in Pauls Church-yard at the signe of the Bible Ann. Dom. 1601. IN INSIGNIA SERENISSIMAE Elizabethae Dei Gratiâ Angliae Franciae Hiberniae Reginae 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 LIlia quae tria fers triplici divisa leone Bis Regina potens vivito Elisa diu Praesidium tu dulce Scoto es Tuque anchora Belgae es Floret auspicio Gallia magna tuo Hispano metuenda truci metuendaque Papae Ast Phoenix Anglo Gemmaque rara tuo es Militat ecce tibi duplici rosa tincta colore Lacte hinc depingens murice at inde comam Dextera te Domini semper tueatur ab omni Liberet hostili sanguineaque manu His malè sit malè qui cupiunt tibi Regia virgo His benè qui cupiunt singula salva tibi Thomas Holland HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENCE TO AL FAITHFVL CHRISTIANS true harted subiects that liue vnder the peaceable and flourishing regiment of Q. ELIZABETH by the grace of God Q. of England France Ireland Grace mercy and peace in our Lord God everlasting THE principal contents of this smal booke loving friends and deere Country-men comprehēdeth summarily in one sermon a perspicuous narration of the holy honorable and laborious peregrination of the Queene of the South Mat 12 42● 1 King 10 2. Chro 9 Luke 11 who came from the vttermost parts of the earth to Ierusalem to heare the wisedome of King Salomon This history in the old Testament is mentioned at large by the sacred register thereof inspired by the holy Ghost and this history is briefly and perspicuouslie alleadged by our Saviour Christ Ierusalē c How often wold I haue gathered thy childrē togither as the hen gathereth her chickēs vnder her wings and yee woulde not Mat. 24.37 in the new Testament by the way of comparison and inferred most pertinently to that ende where-vnto it was by him applied namely to convince the stiffe-necked Iewes of impious incredulity and barbarous impiety who at that time to their owne confusion eternal destructiō refused the light of the ●ospel offered by our Saviors ministery vnto thē preferring obstinately darknesse before the sunne-shine of righteousnesse errour before trueth foolishnesse before wisedome death before life This peregrination of the Queene of the South in the words before I tearmed Holy Honourable Laborious Holy in consideration of the sacred matters and divine treasures mystically wrapped vp in the letter of this History recapitulated out of the old Testament by our Saviour in the New Honourable in regard of the circumstance of the action and the condition of those persons who are in my text mentioned described Laborious in regard of the longe toilesome daungerous and chargeable iourney that this wise and holy Queene vndertaketh and by Gods assistaunce and grace in al honour discretion magnifical bounty princely modesty industry performeth This Text how it fitted the time place and persons the mutual resemblance by the way of comparison in the two persons then spoken of in the sermon evidently declared the annual celebrities of the 17. of November being in these times yearely the day wherin this whole Realme giueth thanks to God by publike service and sheweth great signes of ioy in each parish and general assemblies for the happy regiment of our Q. Elizabeth plainely demonstrateth Menander Plutarch 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c As God ●ath fixed in heauē the Sunne and the Moone excellent resemblances of his glory so in a citty God hath ordained the Prince to shine as a patterne a ●irror of his excellent Maiesty The person in the Text by our Sa●iour commended is a woman by birth vocatiō descent a Queene by consequente thereof 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a liuing Image of God And as I haue by good reasō proved in the sermon a Mayden Queene The Person for whom we doe the 17. of November according to the rule of the B Apostle make supplication praiers intercessions giuing of thankes is by sexe a woman by birth auncient descent vocation title right of inheritance and regal investure a Queene by honour integrity of life grace given by God almighty from aboue a Mayden Queene The Queene of the South a woman of great wisdome a woman endued with rare learning The demonstration and experience of the rare wisdome skil of tongues giuen by God to the Queene of England hath not bin inclosed within the walles of her Courte neither confined within the limits of her kingdome only but hath beene sounded in forraine nations to her everlasting honour great admiratiō not by the reference of her owne people chiefly but by the testimony of many wise graue Embassadors sent from mighty Princes and great states to congratulate her Maiesty with whom she hath conferred in several languages Learning is in poore mē riches in nobility it shineth as gold in Princes like an o●●ent pearle and glistering emeraud Mat. 12 42. 1 King 10 2 Chron. 9. Luke 11. answering them readily in those tongues which they haue chosē of purpose to deliver their embassadge in The Queene of the South enchronicled in the holy writte of the olde Testament and honoured by the testimony of our Saviour in the New for vndertaking so great and worthy a iourney as is specified in the place marginally cor●● a iourney laborious toilesome perilous chargeable in regarde of the paines place persō c. yet honourable in cause ●ffect a iourney laborious in regard of the greate distance betweene Meroe Ierusalem Pomp. Mel. Africa inculta arena sterili obducta ob situm coeli de serta saepe multo ac mal●fico animaliū genere infesta c. Africa serpentibus adeo faecūda est vt mali meritò illi pot●ssimum palma detur Solin cap 40. Serpentum largo coquitur fecū da veneno Africa Si● Strabo lib. 2. Herod 4. Diodor. l. 4. Virg. Egl 1. Sitientes ibimus Afros Galust bell lug desc Afric the substance whereof is discoursed at lardge in the sermon toilesome in regard of the extreame heate whereunto those countries through

painted with vermilion and girded with girdles vpon their loynes with died attire vpon their heads looking all like princes after the manner of the Babylonions in Chaldea the land of their natiuitie as soone I say as shee saw them shee doated vpon them sent messengers vnto them into Chaldea If I say the very sight of these things were sufficient to allure Aholibah to sinne how much more easy is the carnall nature of man tainted by sin when we liue among sinners Psal 1. our nature especially being prone to be corrupted with sin as easily as the match is to take the fire gūpoulder to take the sparkling the dry stubble to take the flame mans nature I sa●e being prone to drinke iniqury as puddle and to sucke vp the dregs of sin as sweet hony Seneca thought trau●l not much profitable in his time in regard that such men that vndertooke such courses rather vndertooke that charge and paines to feed their eies then to benefit their mindes in these woords Senec ep 105. ad Lucil. Peregrinatio notitiā dabit gentiū c. Trauaile will teach thee knowledge of countries nations will shew thee strang shapes of huge hilles large cham●ion feelds valeys streaming with continuall water vpon due obseruation perhaps the nature of some riuer namely either howe the river Nilus swelleth in winter by reason of the increase of waters which it gathereth in sommer Or how the riuer Tigris sodenly conueieth it selfe out of our sight taking her course through the hidden partes of the earth at length recouereth her former hugenes Or how the floud M●ander which hath exercised the wits of the most famous poets of all times passeth to and fro by often sed to Salomon were either naturall mathematicall musicall or such like which might be gathered out of scripture Canonicall and out of the booke of wisedome namely out of those scriptures which I haue cited already 1. King 4.49 and so to the end of the chap. The best iudgement that I haue seene yet given of these questions which the Queene proposed to Salomon may bee summarily selected out Pelican and Lavater Verisimile est eam de rebus divinis c. It is a matter of good likelyhood that shee desired to proue Salomōs knowledge in points of diuinity For now the glory of the most High creatour of all things hade beene published amongst the nations through Salomons renowne By this word Aenigmata are not meant those vnprofitable curious questions which Paul cōdemneth but certaine graue and weighty questiōs cōcerning God the prouidence of God touching sinne good workes of euerlasting l●fe perhaps also of things perte●ning to ciuill gouernmēt ordering of the affaires of this life For howsoeuer it seeme probable that shee was furnished with learned men such as were her coūtry mē the Gymnosophists yet they taught few truths their wordes were spiced with so much falshood overflowed with so many dregs were cōfoūded with so much drosse that it was litle or nothing in comparison to that greate and holy wisedome that shined in king Salomon The onely generall therefore in this I follow not further herein to speake in particular of it proposing that rule of S. Augustines for my ground Quae ipse tacuit Dominus c. That which the Lord hath concealed Aug. in Ioh. who is there amongst us that can say it is thus or thus or if any man dare say it whence doth hee proue it By this experimentall proofe that this Queene was enabled by God to make and actully maketh of king Salomons wisedome I do find and gather that vertue and learning may bee seemely ornaments in some women as well become them as they become men according to that of Xenophon in Symphos 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Womens nature is as capable in some degree of many good gifts as mans nature especially I say Eurip. med when God graceth these gifts with counsell and discretion and also that that may be without flattery spoken in commēdation of that sexe which Euripides hath spoken of it in Medea 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 We women also haue our Muse which attendeth on vs to instruct vs in wisedome I say not all women but perhaps amongest many you may finde a fewe not altogither rude and voide of learning whereunto also I may adde thus much that women may bee indued from aboue with holy learning not one●y by the way of discourse but also that they may be indued from aboue with knowledge of such points in Diuinity as are deepe scholasticall materiall fit for disputation learned conference and Academicall schooles Otherwise the spirite of God would neuer haue giuen so great a testimony of holy knowledge zeale in this honorable Queene Vnlesse also some women might haue excelled in these qualities of learning in the state of the new Testament Saint Ierom would neuer haue written so seriously to Lat● de i●stitut Fil. Hierom. ad laet de Iust filiae that shee should see her daughter from her infancy brought vp in the studie and holy literature of the sacred bible if women might not haue beene learned that learned and good Father would never haue aduised her that her daughter should take heed how shee read the bookes commonly called Apocrypha and with what iudgmēt she should obserue the contents of those books if women might not haue beene learned he would never haue perswaded her to bring vp her daughter in reading of Cyprians workes Athanasius his epistles and in pervsing heare the wisedome of king Salomon and in that shee came to heare it is not meant a bare heating for as I mentioned before shee came to heare and to learne and to be instructed yea to dispute with Salomon to haue his resolutiō in great questions of religion forth words of the text import so much For 1. King 10. and 2. Chron. 9. the Queene of Sheba hearing the fame of Salomon cōcerning the name of the Lord came to proue him with hard questions Hebr. levast● bek●doth the ●argum of Ionatham doth expound it in this sort ●euassa ●uth te be matlin id est vt tentaret eum in parabolis the Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The hebrew word is k●dath Proer 1.6 the greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lat. obscurae quaestiones c. darke questions The vulgare of Saint Ierome and Tremellius latinize the greeke worde both calling these hard questions aenigmata In the first of Proverbs I do find these words also in the consequence of one verse alleadged one as it were after the other mashal melitsa dibre koccanam kidoth These foure words the greeke expresseth thus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The vulgare in latine expresseth these words in this sort parabela interpretatio verba sapientum aenigmati ●eorum Tremellius translateth them

that there is nothing vsed in the publique service of the church of England that day which may not be iustified and warrantted to be lawfull religious and each way grounded vpon the infallible truth of Gods word either explicitè or implicitè as the school-men speake eyther expressiuely or by the way of necessary illation or consequence not doubting but that all that are learned and indifferent men will yeelde approbation to this kinde of aunswering so much the more because Gregory Nazianzene syr-named the Divine hath broken the yee to me heerein as the proverbe is Greg. Pres 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and is the patterne whō I follow Rerū aliae non su●t sed dicuntur aliae cū sint minimè dicuntur aliae nec sunt nec dicuntur aliae den●que et sunt dicuntur Of things some are not conteined in the scripture and yet are said to be other-some are conteined and are not saide to be others neyther are conteined nor are said to bee other both are conteined and also are said to be That there is nothing that day vsed in the church-service of England but what may be warranted by Gods word it is manifest by this manner of demonstration In the Liturgie or church-service of the church of England vsed the 17. of November there are two things to be obserued 1. What it participateth with other Festivities in this office 2 VVhat is principally that day and by the waies of particularity performed in the church For the first the generall office of the church that is vsed vpon any holy day is that day also according to the manner of other Festivities obserued this office who●ely consisting vpon an holy confession of sinnes distinct recitall of certaine Psalmes and two Chapters of the olde new Testament ordinarily which forme is also religiously obserued each Sabbaoth day and holy day throughout our Realme and every day of the yeere particularly in her Maiesties Chappell each Cathedrall 〈…〉 this land This maner of service of God I thinke 〈…〉 can take iust exceptiō against For the patterne of 〈◊〉 we haue receiued out of the auncient church of the Iewes out of the actes of the Apostles and from the Primatiue church 〈◊〉 and al ancient churches Greeke and Latine The particular office on the 17. of November now vsed is an exposition of some parte of Scripture and publique praier The exposition of Scripture chosē by the Minister that day is such as is si●te to perswade the auditory to due obedience to her Maiesty and to be thankfull to God for her Maiesties happy and flourishing Regiment these 43. yeeres and to excite them to prayer vnto God long to continue her Grace amongst vs if it be his blessed will to deliver her Highnesse from all malice of her enemies After the sermon solemne prayers are made by the Ministers or set forth by publique authority imploying matter of this quality Lastly if there be Psalmes song or sacred Antiphones either by the whole multitude or by the Quier as it is vsed in her Maiesties Chappell or in Cathedrall Churches they are composed according to this forme of prayer in the vvorde going nexte before specified Other forme of divine service I doe not Apologize besides I know none other and moreover I am perswaded that our adversaries are able to iustifie no other This being the summe and substance of all the sacred office in our church that day very greate reason had I to deny the Minor The reasons that I yeeld and build vpon are two vnremovable grounds not being willing to trouble the reader with the multitude of them that might for this purpose be selected out of Gods booke The first place that serueth for my purpose herevnto is a Canon of the Apostle contained in the 3. first verses of the 2. Chap. of the 1. to Tymothye 1. I exhort therefore that first of all supplications praiers intercessions giuing of thankes be made for all men 2. For kinges and all that are in authority that we may lead a quiet and a peaceable life in all godlinesse and honesty 3. For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour The 3. ground that I rely vpon is the 20. Psal according to the holy prophet David desiring the adversaries to examine whether these things be so or not or serue to that purpose that I haue alleadged them The first ground pregnantly prooveth the truth of my assertion and the 20. Psalme no lesse manifestly Titleman Prefat Psal ●at 20. Heb. 21. as learnedly pithily F. Titlemā hath proued a mā whose authority our Adversaries neither wil neither can deny with any equity neither doe I thinke that any of them will stand vpon it For the first namely the place alleadged out of the 2. Chap. of the Ep of S. Paul to Timothy Some will appeale heere to the Syriack text affirming that this Canon onely concerneth the private duety of the Minister herein and in no sort the publique service and office of the church in regard that in that place Syriacus context in their language the Pronoune Demonstratiue is inserted in the 2. person I exhorte Thee therefore or I require of Thee therefore which Pronoune the Greeke and Latine hath omitted Chrysost Oecum Ambr. he vulgar editio Hycron To this I answere first that all the Greekes and Latines that I haue seene leaue out the Pronoune Chrysostome Occumenius the Comm●nt ascribed to S. Ambrose The vulgar edition Itala S. Hyerom Erasmus Annotations and Paraphrase vppon vvhome I rather relye then vpon the Syriack herein Erasm Annotat Paraphras Secondly admit the Pronoune Te be inserted as Tremelliu● hath done yet this maketh nothing against our position For although but the Bishop or Minister alone be mētioned yet since this is to bee done in solemne and sacred assemblies in the which the people are taught and bound to say Amen although the Pronoune be applied to the Minister yet the Amen of the people heerevnto is not excluded 1. Tim. 3.15 Also that this Canon many others in this Epistle import the publique office of the Church it may easily be proved out of the 15. verse of the 3. Chapter and in divers other places of this Epistle which sense also Saint Chrysostome followeth in his expositions of these wordes given id est in quotidiano objequio perpetuoq Religionie ritu Theophilact his Abridger hath 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I● daily worship Ambrose For it behoveth the Bishop or Min●ster being a publique intercessor to God for all manner of men being also as it were a father to the whole world to pray for all men for the faithfull vnfaithfull for friends and enemies for such as re●le and afflict vs for Kings Haec regula ecclesiastica tradita a Magistro Gentium est quae vt ●tur Sacerdotes nostri vt pro omnibus supplicent This Ecclesiasticall or Church-rule which our Ministers vse is

of prophecy Apocalyps 19.10 And how p●ant this is to this purpose you may see that this figure diverse ancient fathers of the church do sufficiently obserue Isidore saith Isidore Haec regina venturā●cclesiam de gentibus desiderātē Christum figurabat c. This Queene represented the Church which should come of the Gentiles desiring Christ which accompanied with diverse sortes of men Eucher de de regn l. 3. and forgetting both her owne people and her fathers house should runne vnto Christ To this is correspondent that of Eucherit●s Sien● haec regina venit à sinibus terra c. As this Queene came from the endes of the ends of the earth to wit * Or Aethiopia India as some say to heare the wisedome of Salomon so the Church many ages after came to her redeemer and teacher that after the foolishnesse of her error shee might at length perceiue the doctrine of the truth This is that Queene of whom it is said vnto the Lord On thy right hand standeth the Queene in a vesture of golde wrought about with diverse colours that is to say adorned on all sides with diverse precious and comely vertues For this is the mother of all that beleeue which regenerateth such vnto salvation as were borne vnto death by whome Christ hath restored more in Grace then perished in Nature To this may be fitly annexed that of Angelomus Stromata Angelomus Stromata August Serm. de Temp 252. Se●● 2. In figura hutu● reginae ven●t ecclesia ex gentibus c. Vnder the figure 〈◊〉 to this Queene the Church of the Gentiles came from the endes of the earth saying aside all earthly desires and vices to heare the wisedome of Salomon that is to say of our peace maker our Lord Christ Iesus who in his flesh loosed the bandes of enmity betwixt God and man Shee came after her olde profane superstitions to heare of inlightning of the faith of the iudgmēt to come of the immortality of the soule and of the hope and glorie of the resurrection Shee came into Hierusalem therefore with a great company not with the one onely nation of the Hebrewes of which the Synagogue did before consist but with all kindes of men and diverse nations throughout the whole world We must also thinke as Saint Augustine very well observeth Aug. cōtra Manich. li. 22. cap. 24. Qua in re hoc pr●mùm d●co c. In which matter first this I say that not onely the tongue of those men but the life also was propheticall and that that whole kingdome of the Hebrew nation was some great Prophet because they were the figure of some great prophet Wherfore concerning them whose heartes were instructed in the wisedome of God the prophecy of Christ and of the church which was to come is to be scanned not only in their sayings but in their doings also but as concerning the rest and the whole body of that nation the prophecie of Christ and the church to come is to be examined in those things which by Gods secret working were done either in them or by them 1. Cor. 10. Namely this I doe gather of him that not only their tongues but also their liues were propheticall so that the history of the olde testament is but as the shell of the nut to the kernell the vaile to the face of Moses the curtaine to the arke the vaine to the silver the letter to the spirit as the combe to the hony the ring of golde to the precious stone inclosed in the base Of this we may see more in Saint Augustine in his seventeenth booke de Civitate Dei his first and third chapters The person and figure sufficiently described and the vse of the doctrine accordingly handled the next thing that offereth it selfe to my discourse is the action of this worthy woman here mentioned Her action may be the better scanned if we wil weigh what the son of God hath testified of her action in this life and of her honour reward and glory in the life to come adioyning here vnto as occasion serveth for elucidations sake such things as are at large written of her 1. King 10. and 2. Paralip 9. to which chapters I must necessarily referre you oftentimes 1. King 10. 2. Chro. 9. because that those things which are briefely laide downe here are amply discoursed of in those former histories Here they are brought in by the way of example there they are laide downe fully in story By this also you shall finde that the old testament is not contrary to the new but that the same spirit was author of them both Aug. cōtra Manich. August de doct Christian lib. 3. cap. 30. Lastly that although there are sundry second helpes to open the scripture as the rules of Ticonius which Saint Augustine hath mentioned de doctr Christ lib. 3. cap. 30. and other rules there specified and such things as many of the ancient fathers mentioned Hilar. de trinit lib. 1. Iren. contr va●ent li. 1. cap. 1. Apocalyps as Hilary lib. 1. de Trinitate And Irenaeus against the Valentinians lib. 1. cap. 1. Yet the best of all that farre surmounteth all other kindes of expositions is to open holy scripture by scripture For the treasuries of the house of David will only be truly and finally opened by the key of David Scriptures will best bee expounded by that holy spirit by which they were endited 2. Pet. 1. as metall wil bee only mollified by fire the adamant hammered only by tooles of his owne nature or as some say sanguine hircino with Goates bloud Iron will only bee drawne by the load stone And because I may strictly follow the line of my discourse I will first by the grace of God speake of such actions as are mentioned of her in this life performed and so by sequele of the rest Things that are spoken of her in this life are these two first her comming to Hierusalem secondly what her actions were at Hierusalem when shee came to Salomon And lest I should counfound both you and my selfe in the multiplicity of these generall heads I purpose first to answere an obiection which might otherwise through occurrence hinder me in this particular discourse Wherein nominately these three branches are incident to be delivered what moued this noble Queene to come to Hierusalē what paines shee tooke in her comming or iourney lastly with what traine shee came and how honorably shee was accompanied and attended vpon in her iourney to Hierusalem The obiections by Gods assistance in few words shall be dissolued Whereas it may bee thought an vnmeet thing both in regard of the sex which is feeble delicate by nature and in regard of the vocation place which this woman was by God called vnto honoured with all namely that a person of her sex and estimation should vndertake to perfourme a iourney of so great travaile a matter of so

scandalous and merite abolishing But the solemnization celebrity now yeerely vsed in the church of England the 17. of November cannot be warranted in such sort as it is required in the premises of the Maior Ergo The solemnization and celebrities now yeerelie vsed in the church and common-wealth of Englande the 17. of November are meere vnlawfull scandalous merite abolishing All church-service wherein all glory and honor is not giuen to God alone wherein the office of the B. Virgin the mother of God is neglected brought into contempt or wilfully omitted is meere scandalous impious and intollerable But the Ecclesiastical service some daies vsed at these seasons in the church of England is of this nature and qualitie Ergo the Ecclesiastical seruice some daies vsed at these seasons in the church of England is meere scandalous impious and intollerable That church service which worketh among Christian people any neglect contempt or forgetfulnes of any one Sainte canonized by the church according to that order which the Romane Consistorie hath prescribed is not alowable But the solemnization of Q. Elizabeths holy day worketh among Christian people neglect c. of a Sainte canonized namely of Sr. Hugh sometime Bishop of Lincolne Ergo the solemnization of Q. Elizabeths holy day is not alowable That church service and those exercises and disports that are materially foolish meere parasiticall and sp●ced with flattery which reduce men backe againe to the fearfull abomination of heathenish Idolatrie longe since cast downe and consounded and his●ed out of the worlde by the light of the glorious Gospell of Iesus Christ are not to be tollerated in any Christian common-wealth But the church-service and exercises now yerely vsed in Englande are of the nature specified in the Maior Ergo the church-services and exercises now yeerely vsed in England the 17. of November are not to bee tolerated in any Christian common-wealth The obiections that appertaine to the second generall head Wheras they presuppose we wil deny it that the church of Englande prescribeth that day to be obserued as an holy day they labour to proue by these cavils ensuing that our denial herein is meerly vnture and contradicteth our own decrees prescriptions and approbations Those daies vnto which we giue all the signes of holie daies or the maior part must needes be obserued for holy daies by vs according to that Maxime of the Logicians The denomination followeth the whole or the Maior part But the daies of Queene Elizabeths Coronation Nativity haue all the signes of holy daies Ergo the daies of Q. Elizabeths Coronation Nativity are observed for holy daies by vs. 2 Those daies must needs be reputed holy daies by vs which we obserue with greater devotiō more religiously thē the chiefe holy daies of the whole year But we obserue the daies of the Queenes Coronation and Nativity with greater devotion more religiously then the chiefe holy daies namely then Christs Nativity and then the day of his Ascension Ergo the daies of the Queenes Nativity Coronation must needs be reputed as holy daies by vs. The summe substāce of al their obiectiōs that I haue seene or heard are concluded in forme dialectical in these premises it remaineth now that I should examine them answer thē refel thē as far forth as God shal enable me which thing I wil indevour to performe by Gods grace by trying thē vpon approued touchstones by waying thē in indifferent ballances by bringing them vnto the light which discovereth proveth al Ioh. 3.20 wherein I will labour by the fire of Gods word to sever gold from brasse stubble hay frō pretious stones wil do my best by the testimony of ancient approoued learning to deale herein like as the Eagle who willingly nourisheth such yōg ones acknowledgeth thē to be her own which cā look on the Globe of the Sun without winking or any impeaching of the christaline humor of the eie excluding the other out of his nest as haggards bastards and misbegotten By the premises the readers may easily perceiue vpon what tearmes our accusers stand in this debate vpon what complots their accusations haue beene contrived vvith what cunning bitternesse and disdaine their discourses heerein haue beene compiled Novv it remaineth Gentle Reader that thou shouldest vvith as greate equitie and indifferency listen to the answers ensuing and to the sincere Apology by which the sclaunder of these accusations shall easily by the grace of God bee confuted Plut. vite Alex. hoping that thou haste reserued with Alexander the other care for the defendant I briefly enter to the matter proposing that sentēce of K. Salomon to my selfe to follow Prov. 15. desirous to performe al things with good adu●ce meditatiō Cor iust● meditatur quod respondeat especially because I haue vndertaken heerein to defend the credite of our Ecclesiasticall government and the honour of this flourishing mighty kingdome concerning this action Intentio The solemnities and celebrities performed the 17. of November in the State cōmon-wealth of England c. are things meere vnlawfull scandalous evill not to bee tolerated pernitious iniurious to Gods glory and to his Saints foolish meere parasiticall and such as open a windowe to reduce into the worlde againe heathenish abomination I require a reason of this Minor It is evident that this celebrity is of this nature say o●r accusers First because this office of the church of England hath no warrant out of Gods word wherevpon the Protestants in all their disputations and writings doe accustomedly relye and entirely make their demurre vppon as their soules sole anchor either expressiuely or by the way of necessary illation and good consequence c. besides that it cannot bee maintained by any soūd Canon of the Catholique church neyther by any testimony approued of any of the holy Fathers neither by any good practise of any Christian common-wealth I beseech thee godly and indifferent Reader patiently to examine each member of this accusation beginning with the first heade alleadged in the Maior the other partes of the premises by Gods grace shall either in the sequele of the first generall heade or in the parts of the second generall head be faithfully examined opened discussed and debated Ansvvere This accusation is forged of meere vntruths and hath no good ground but is built vpon the sands and with the least puffe of wind and blast of weather is immediatly cōfounded True it is these words are not registred in scripture by so many titles and sillables Math. 7. The church of England shal obserue the 17. of November such a celebrity such a forme of service in such manner as the Lord prescribe●h the feastes of the olde Testament Memento vt diem Sabbati sanctifices Remember thou keepe holy the sabboth day Ex. 20. Le● 23. The feasts of the Lord which you shall call holy assemblies even these are my feasts c. yet this is true also