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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03639	A sermon preached before the Kinges Maiestie, by I. Hopkins, one of his highnesse chaplaines	Hopkins, John, fl. 1604-1609.	1604 (1604)	STC 13767; ESTC S116562	17,384	47

happines of them to our posteritie which if our sinnes do not hinder good things from vs shall no doubt be accomplished For now the two peeces of wood so long disioyned mentioned in the 37. of Ezech. wee also may say are made one in the hand of our Soueraigne Now is that made one in gouernment which Nature had made one in situation now the two brethren Ioab Abishai may helpe one another Nay which is more we are that threefold gable which being well twisted will not easily be broken and these are great causes of thankfulnesse Further in the person of our Soueraigne we haue as great cause to praise the Lord in that not onely his Maiestie indued with excellent morall vertues but a zelous embracer and professor of the trueth and sinceritie of the Gospell from which neither hopes feares or perswasions could euer remooue him but as God had ordained him to be so we doubt not but he euer will be a true and worthy defender of the Christian fayth And now lastly for the time will not serue me to repeate all causes of thankfulnes this goodnesse of God in the middest of so great iudgment to remember mercie and to stay the hand of his striking Angell that so lately hath executed the sentence of death vpon so many of our brethren both in the head Citie of this kingdome and in many other partes of this land they were all by Nature as good as wee bought with the same price and we haue no lesse offended God then they The staying then of this iudgement should mooue vs all to thankfulnes that our liues and the liues of our brethren that remaine are yet pretious in the eyes of the Lord neither can we yet be secure considering the fire of Gods displeasure is not so quenched but that we may feare a kindling againe of the same a fresh for the wrath of the Lord is not wholly turned away but his hand is stretched out still because the people returneth not to him that smiteth them neither doe they seeke the Lord so that we may iustly feare least for our vnthankefulnesse the seconde iudgement be greater then the former And herein the example of Ezechia would not be forgotten who hauing receiued great fauour from God did not render to the Lord againe according to the benefite so that wrath came vpon him 2. Chron. 32.25 The Lord sanctifie our harts that these thinges may be better remembred and regarded then they haue been and this longer time of repentance that the Lord hath giuen vs may be thankfully acknowledged and layde hold on to eternall life This thankesgiuing may be distributed into two partes To whom it is giuen and for what In the first we see what hath euer been the practise of the godly who when they haue receiued any great benefit haue neither their eyes like children alwayes fixed on the gyft nor like carnall men on the meanes by which it was giuen them but their fayth rayseth their considerations higher namely to the Lord from whom all good things do come Wherein they consider of Gods loue towards them which stirreth vp in them loue to him againe his hearing their prayers which doth animate them to pray Psal 116.1 and his trueth in his promises for the strengthening and encreasing of their fayth And hereof is it that Ezra calleth the Lord the God of our Fathers in regarde of his couenant made with them So as by this maner of speaking it appeares he lookes to the promise the Lord made with the Fathers for their returne from captiuitie the setting vp againe of his worship amongst them which in this edict of the King he saw so fully per●ited and accomplished And surely the consideration hereof is much worth and of holy edifying in our meditations of heauēly things to confirme our assurance of Gods promises hereafter to be accomplished to vs by the experience of his faythfulnesse and goodnesse past as of preseruation in affliction strength for perseuerance the resurrection of our bodyes and whatsouer promises remaine yet accomplyshed But these thinges are so playne they neede no further enlarging It followes in the Text which hath so put in the Kinges hart Heere is the roote whence this benefite came next followes the benefite it selfe Pro. 21.1 The Kinges hart sayth Salomon is in the hand of the Lord as the riuers of water he turneth it whither soeuer it pleaseth him For if we can not thinke one good thought without the motion of Gods spirit much more are purposes of such great and wonderfull consequence as the beautifying of Gods house and furthering of his worshippe and seruice the speciall worke of God himselfe In which poynt I would note a double vse one for our selues that we knowing how many tentations Princes are subiect to by reason of these two great faculties of sinne wealth and authoritie should make it our continuall practise to pray for our Soueraigne Psal 72 1 Psal 20.1 that the Lord will giue him his iudgement and righteousnesse that the Lord will put in his Maiesties hart all good motions purposes and resolutions for the aduancement of his glory and good of his people and that his hart may neuer be corrupted either with pleasures or flatterers the bane of many Princes to choake those good seedes before they can come to ripenesse of perfection Neither should the great hopes we haue in good and vertuous Princes make vs carelesse herein For Salomon had many excellent vertues yet wealth and pleasure had welny wholly extinguished them Ioas being alwayes trayned vp in religion had a hart well disposed till he was drawen away by the Princes of Iuda as appeares in the 2. of Chro. 24.17 The seconde is that Princes themselues should consider what purposes they haue had heretofore for the good of the Church of God and to take heede they suffer not such motions of Gods spirite to be quenched in them For if in their lower estate with Dauid they haue made vowes and promises which no doubt the Lord did put in their hartes he will now looke at their handes for the payment of them For when God hath graunted the suite he lookes for the performance of the promise I might enlarge this poynt but to the wise a word is sufficient The next poynt in our text is the benefite for which Ezra is thankefull namely the beautifying of Gods house an vnspeakable speakeable comfort which the Church of God receiued by this Monarke In which wee may obserue ere wee come to the maine poynt that Ezra is first thankefull for the good of the Church before hee mention the fauour and preferment done to himselfe An argument vndoubtedly of zeale and loue to the Church of God as esteeming more the Churches good then his owne This affectionate zeale was in Moses who rather then the Lord should cast off the Iewes desired to be blotted out of the Booke of life And in the Apostle Paul that wished himselfe