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A03495 A sermon preached at Pauls Crosse, March the 24. 1624. By Barten Holyday, now archdeacon of Oxford Holyday, Barten, 1593-1661. 1626 (1626) STC 13616; ESTC S104171 18,049 67

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EZEKIEL 37.22 I will make them one nation A SERMON PREACHED At Pauls Crosse March the 24. 1624. BY BARTEN HOLYDAY Archdeacon of OXFORD LONDON Printed by William Stansby for Nathaniell Butter and are to be sold at his Shop at Saint Austines Gate in Pauls Church-yard 1626. TO THE RIGHT REVEREND FATHER IN GOD IOHN LORD BISHOP OF OXFORD HIS WORTHY DIOCESAN My good Lord THat which is the cause for which many men doe not publish their labours is the chiefe cause for which I doe publish mine the danger of the attempt I iudged this the choisest proofe whereby I might expresse how hardy I dare bee rather then bee vngratefull And this courage in mee is but an effect of your goodnesse a goodnesse not more acceptable for the bountie then for the circumstances which argues as much your wisdome as your fauour It is a great fauour to satisfie hope but it is a skilfull fauour to preuent it Hope giues more speedy content then possession does but hope giues lesse content then possession giues nay it makes lesse the content which possession giues Which your bounty that well knowes how to manage it selfe so well vnderstands that it delights only in this noble oppression To disturbe him whom it blesses giuing him happinesse sooner then the apprehension of it And yet it is a kind of mercy to giue a man the respite of expectation though of good things the sodainnesse of newes though good being sometimes deadly But this is the only mercy which your goodnesse vseth to deny yet for which whiles your bountie claimes thankes from one your iudgement claimes applause from all And this is a part of that wisdome which now hath made you as eminent in the Church as it hath hitherto made you industrious for the Church Which honour as it was begun by your wisdome and zeale so was it perfected by the wisdome and fauour of our late Souereigne with whose most acceptable memory I thought good thus to conueigh my thankes And this memoriall may bee the more gratefull since it is an Anniuersary not of his death but of his happinesse in the Vnion of his Britanies It was before my seruice to his Maiesty but now to his memory then it expressed my duty but now my syncerity in which only blessing I shall alwayes defend and endeuour an ambitious perfection Nay this endeauour is already at that height that it may almost make my gratitude fall into the suspicion of pride whiles it doth wish my meditations immortall that so my thanks might be immortall The only way of con●e at that I haue taught my selfe is not so much in that your bounty did helpe me as in that your iudgment did choose mee to make mee a part of your good workes which by their nature must be a part of your ioy euen in death and a signe of that ioy which shall be after death Thus is it as possible for you to lose your good worke as the necessarie gratitude of Your Lordships perpetually obliged Barten Holyday TO speake of Kingdomes may bee as full of danger as it is of difficultie I knew not therefore how to endeuour an apter vnion of truth and safety then to speake of kingdomes in the words of a King My text was first deliuered by a Prophet and hath beene since coyned by a King in letters of gold a mettall not more compact then the kingdomes he vnited The King is the happinesse of this day and God the glory of it and the day is the thankefull Historie of both This day in which the expedition of the Diuine bounty did by the right of Coronation preuent the act of Coronation which graciously yeelds to the leisure of Ceremonie and of the subject who notwithstanding doth not make his King but declare him Our approbation and joy though in themselues they are of a naturall libertie being yet in this politicke relation but parts of Alleageance which then is compleate when we prooue our memory to be as good a subject as our vnderstanding and our will and by the loyall Astronomie of an Almanacke no lesse faithfully represent vnto our selues the reuolution of our joy then of our time No Coronation needs such repeated solemnitie euery Coronation expects it and this singularly deserues it There is in no Coronation an Vnion of heads there is in euery Coronation an vnion of a head and a bodie but in this there is also a vnion of bodies and then proportion as well as pietie ought to presume an vnion of hearts Varietie is the pleasure of nature but Vnitie is the businesse of Nature And therefore though the Creator haue in the diuersitie of creatures shewed his power Yet hath hee as much in their vnion shewed his proprietie There is implanted in the creatures a Catholike similitude which is the secret cause of a possible vnion so Diuersity may seeme to arise but from accession of circumstance which being withdrawne makes the creatures retire to their primitiue vnity And if you would see this vnitie in the creatures behold first the Heauens which indeed deserue to bee first beheld and though some Astronomers haue accused them into a diuision of Spheares yet may wee suspect such diuision to bee rather in the Astronomers then in the heauens and therefore some haue courteously preserued the vnitie of that great body by multiplying onely the motions of the lesser bodies the Starres yet diuersitie of Spheares would not ouerthrow vnitie but magnifie it whilest the inferiour Orbes doe at the same instant professe a contrarietie and an obedience to the first moouer striuing to recompence the varietie of their bodies by the consent of their motions Behold the Elements and you shall find that though they are apt to quarrell yet as if they would shew the goodnesse of a hastie nature they are reconciled with equall facility and speed and sometimes fall so farre in loue with their enemies that they seeme to lose themselues whiles they runne halfe way to meete them Thus doth the fire delight to be extinguished into ayre that it may slide neerer vnto water as well in nature as in affection And for a preparatiue to such vnion two opposite elements haue alwayes by prouidence one friendly element interposed which cunningly perswades them to a peace by the discretion of indifferencie Behold the most sullen minerals that seeme to be setled in the stoicisme of their separated natures and you shall find their pretended obstinacie so conquered to a change by the vnited power of Nature and Art that they shall at least dissemble their dissimilitudes and euen the fowlest appeare as faire as the promises of an Alchemist Or if you thinke you are not able to judge the heart of the earth you may reade this vnitie in the face of the earth you may reade it expounded in the fruits of the earth you may see the seuerall kinds of the apple dwell vpon the same apple-tree by which friendship of nourishment through their grafts the