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A05282	Queene Elizabeth, paraleld in her princely vertues, with Dauid, Iosua, and Hezekia 1 With Dauid her afflictions, to build the Church 2 With Iosua in her puissance, to protect the Church· 3 With Hezechia in her pietie, to reforme the Chureh [sic]. In three sermons, as they were preached three seuerall Queenes dayes. By William Leigh, Bachelor of Diuinitie.	Leigh, William, 1550-1639.	1612 (1612)	STC 15426; ESTC S108411	64,116	162

Gilboah vpon you bee neither dewe nor rayne nor fieldes of offering for then the shield of the mightie is cast downe The shield of Saul as though he had not beene annointed with oyle The mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddo where Iosias was slaine wil neuer bee forgotten where euery familie mourned a part c. and vttered their passions with this pitifull plaint the Crowne of our head is fallē woe vnto vs that euer we sinned Lastly that one may stand for all I appeale to your owne passions who haue at any time seene your own soueraigne whether your teares of ioy haue not expressed your feare of griefe mourning like the Turtle-Doue whose sweetest song is in her sorrowe least hauing lost her mate shee should not finde him and hauing found her mate least shee might loose him thousands within the kingdome doe thus blend in their moyst and mixt teares vpon the sight and thoughts of their soueraigne And here leaue we the peoples passions and come wee to their praier the sweete perfume of their deuotion in these wordes LORD remember Dauid in all his affliction Wherein first I doe obserue in that the people flye to GOD for their King with no lesse loue then loyaltie they hold that the powers that are ordained of God they hold that he looseth the collar of kings girdeth their loynes with a girdle they hold that he sitteth in the middest of magistrats demandeth an accoūt of their gouernment I say they hold that it is hee and hee alone that setteth vp and pulleth downe that leadeth his people along by the hands of Moses and Aaron Wee say then with him who saide well Abrahamum non invenit dominus sed fecit patrem multarum gentium the Lord did not finde Abraham but hee made him a father of many nations hee called him from Hur of the Chaldeans Moses from the sedges Dauid frō the Ewes great with lābe to feede Iacob his people and Israel his inheritance Nay Christ Iesus king of kings and Lord of lords not by intrusion but by inauguration from his father thus I will set my king vpon my holy hill of Sion Aske of mee and I will giue thee the heathen for thine inheritance and the vttermost parts of the earth for thy possession Antichristian then miserable damnable is the doctrine of all such as dare say that Popes may either set vp or pull down Princes discharge the subiect of his obedience put a knife in the hād of any to sheath it in the bowels of their soueraignes Antichristian was the practise of that proude Pope who trod vpon the neck of Kings Emperours made them to hold his stirrop because they held not steddily tripped the crownes frō their heads Ego et r●x meus argued neither faith nor frailty in Cardinal Wolfey I may fastly say it was disloyaltie in Warwicke to giue out that he had rather make a King then be a King nay nay prowd peare it was neuer in thy power to make a King for the making of a King is the worke of a God and if it be true of all things much more of a Kings The Lord giueth and the Lord taketh away as it pleaseth the Lord so come things to passe Then cease your malice you miscreants of states for you can neuer preuaile against the Lord the powers that be are ordained of God who resisteth them resisteth the ordinance of God Is it possible to back the Sun Moone or Stars in their speedy course can ye hush the harmonie of the heauens or stil the raging of the sea cā ye alter the course of the yeare of seede time haruest of winter sōmer of the day of the night can ye either giue ●ife or deliuer fro death can ye create a new world with another gouernmēt then may ●ye resist the Lords ordinance in this Alter states pluck away all power from a powerfull God But it is not in you or your Romane God ô yee popish repiners it s not your boysterous bull can push downe a Prince it s not the croaking of your frogges and Locusts your Iesuited crew and Seminarie broode can blast our doctrine blemish our state or bereaue vs of our Soueraigne disquiet you may destroy you may not for the offences of the people there be many Princes if our sins sacke vs not wee shall neuer fall if the Lord say prosper how can our branch wither and if he say from heauen ride on because of the word of truth of meekenes and of righteousnes who dare say from the earth light off ride rule and raigne no more trayterous is the hart that thinkes it trayterous is the mouth that speakes it trayterous is the hand that works it trayterous is the pen that writes it And yet woe is me to tell this our age and climate is pestered with men of such poysoned breathes who dare both thinke say doe and write that a mortall man may manage kingdomes and authorise subiects to depriue their Princes as if the powers that be were not ordained of God their faculties are of force their bulles are divulged their antichristian doctrine is traduced by Symancha Costerus and Dolman who haue blackened the aire with their derne diuinitie whilest they auerre that subiects may rise rebell kill their kings if they be not pleasing to their deuotion Augustine mourned much for that hee had euer read against the true God Tonantem Iouem adulterantem of a thundering God and of an adulterous God for so deemed the Pagans of their Iupiter Capitolinus Much more may Papists grieue that euer they either read or reuerenced in the place of God their capital Pope tonantem adulterantem a cursing God and a carnall God adulterating states and cursing Kings and yet to God be the praise his Bul bolts are but birdboults blunted by a better God witnes the flourishing blessed estate both of our Church and kingdome vnder the happie gouernment of our dread Soueraigne by whom the Lord hath multiplied our nation increased our ioy and neuer with no blessings powred vpon her from heauen then since Impius Quintus cursed her from the earth for she liueth a blessed Prince and he is dead a cursed Pope and if any trayterous Bechry the sonne of rebellious Iemini haue in his heart so bad a thought or in his mouth so foule a word kindled with heate of that bull as to say A precibus ad praelium frō prayers to your pikes and to your tents ô Israel we haue no part in Queene Elizabeth let the iudgement of Bechry fall vpon him and let all the people say Amen And let this suffice for the second obseruation teaching vs by the example of this religious and passionate people praying for their king that who plead or practise the contrarie doe violate the Lords holy ordinance and lay violent

the sorrowes of a Sauiour as the razing of Scripture in the hearts of Kings and soules of subiects which hath brought vpon a great part of Christendome seas of error heresies and Idolatrie Nor are our aduersaries the Papists least in this conspiracie against Moses and the Prophets whose bookes with their bones they haue both buried burned shut the doores of the Temple quenched the holy lampes ouerthrowne the Altars killed the Prophets disordered the bread vppon the pure table subuerted all as Ierobo●m did and yet say we are the true Church away from vs. I am holier then thou vnder which faire pretence of holinesse and humblenesse of minde as the Apostle saith they beguile the soules of the simple and at their pleasure beare rule ouer the consciences of men aduancing themselues in those things which they neuer saw rashly pu●t vp with their fleshly mindes and hold not the head wherof al the body furnished and knit together by iovnts and bands increaseth with the increasing of God Now to dimme the brightnesse of this Sun and to dearne the Doctrine of Christ sealed with his precious blood they haue cast a mist in our eyes would couer their wickednesse with a cloud of faire pretence vrging for doctrines mens traditions and saying of the Scriptures and word of God as Iudas saide of Mary when shee powred out her ointment vppon Christ his head Ad quid perditio haec what needes this wast ye haue Fathers Councels Popes Cardinals Doctors Angelicall and Seraphicall yee haue Sorbonists Canonists Friers Muncks and Iesuites these are yours to conquer the field ye need none other forces the Scripture is but a dull dead a dumbe letter it hath no life in it but these haue both light and life When I think vpon this their bare brag without blowes they seeme to mee much like that vaunting Embassadour ful of foolish babble sent from the Aetolians to F. Quintius then chieftaine in Achaia who as Liuie reporteth the story after he had bragged much of the Aetolian forces both by sea and by land their point blanck-shot fierce horses puissant infantry at last hee came to terrifie with naming a sort of strāge Nations their assistance that scarcely had beeno heard of before to wit the Dakes the Medians the Cadusians the Aelimenans Wherunto Quintius answered now in good sooth saith he this is mine Hoast of Chalcis vp and downe who when we wondered vpon a time how hee met with that plentie of Venison wee had and such varietie withall the man nothing so glorious as these fellowes heere smiled pleasantly vpon vs and saide wee were very welcome to a feast of good tame swine and no better but well-fare a good Cooke my maisters quoth hee who by his cunning hand what with seasoning it and what with seruing it vp with diuers sauces hath made all this faire shew of wilde flesh and the same of sundry sorts Euen so saith Quintius this great boaste of little roste these diuers kindes of Armies these many names of Nations neuer heard of before to witte the Dakes the Medes the Cadusians the Aelimeians they are but Syrians when all is done Quidrides papista de te narratur fabula Why smilest thou O Papist the tale is true of thee your popish prouision is cooked with a curious hand like the feast of Chalcis and yet it is no Venison but plaine porcke and no better and for your glorious titles of Romaneforces as Popes Cardinals Canonists Friers Monkes Iesuits Sorbonistes neuer had before they are but Syrians when al is done Sectaries Schismatikes and Symonistes which if you please to ballance with the gold of the sanctuarie and lay them with the bodie and soule of all your religion vppon the scales with the scriptures of God ye shall finde them lighter then vanitie it selfe for as the Prophet saith Let him speake my wordes faithfully for what is chaffe to wheate I know it will be opposed that they are learned wise and wittie I neuer denied it and so were the Scribes and Pharisies in the daies of Christ as also Iulian Porphiry and Arius with all the heretikes that haue beene sithence as Gangrenes in the Church of God and therefore I may well apply to our learned papists that which of old Tully said of the Grecians Tribus illis literas do multarum artium disciplinam non adimo sermonis iepôrem ingeniorum d●umon dicendi copiam ● Wee yeeld them to be learned we grant that they are skilfull in many arts wee take from them no elegancie of speech no sharpenes of wit no copie of words to be briefe if they assume any thing more wee enuy it not At religionem illi nunquam hab●erunt they were neuer religious saith Tully and he giues the reason Quippe quibus insiurandum iocus est testimoniam Ladus they neuer cared either for an Oath or for the holy Oracles but made a l●ll● of the one and a sport of the other Now of what esteeme Oathes and Scriptures are with Papists I leaue it to a further search and examination onely this for the time being far spent religion and faith they neuer had it as vnto whom Oathes are but lests and the sacred Scriptures sports and plaies nay rather their praier is with the Pagan Poet Da fallere da iustum sanctumque videri Giue me the gift to decoiue and yet giue me to seeme both iust and holy Well I say no more but leaue them to Gods mercy further to enlighten their hearts when his good pleasure shall be And so passe to paralell the Princes I haue in hand in the successe of their gouernment and how God blessed them alike in their religious endeuours Fzekia kept the commandements which the Lord had commaunded Moses And what other starre hath guided the heart of Queene Elizabeth but Moses and the Prophets with this booke of life here in my hand which vpon her entrance she layed in her lap euer sithence she hath kept in her 〈…〉 London witnesse who gaue it with how ioyfull an affection shee receiued it and let the applause of all the people as then so still marshall her Princely progresse in the silence of their soules and say Prosper with thy glory ride on because of the word of truth of meekenes righteousnes and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things Ezekia succeeded Ahaz a good sonne to a bad father So did Queene Elizabeth Mary a Religious Prince a superstitious sister Ezekia began to raigne when hee was fiue and twentie yeares old Calculate her maiesties yeares when shee began her blessed raigne and ye shall finde her thereabouts and not much vnder Ezekia opened the doores of the house of the Lord which Ahaz his father had shut vp he opened them in the first yeare and in the first moneth of his raigne and repaired them Queene Elizabeth deferred no time to establish Religion but opened the