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A16562	Remaines of that reverend and famous postiller, Iohn Boys, Doctor in Divinitie, and late Deane of Canterburie Containing sundry sermons; partly, on some proper lessons vsed in our English liturgie: and partly, on other select portions of holy Scripture.	Boys, John, 1571-1625.	1631 (1631)	STC 3468; ESTC S106820	176,926	320

time when Sennacherib was slayne and that is sayd here to be when he was in praying and worshipping his god Nisrock From whence we may see what an idle thing an idol is for we must imagine that Sennacherib when he saw Adramelech and Sharezer rushing in vpon him and ready to kill him heartily called vpon his god for helpe and doubtlesse Nisrock if hee had had any power would not haue suffered his prime 〈◊〉 thus vnfortunatly to perish in his temple but an idol as St Paul teacheth vs is nothing and what would you haue nothing to doe Something it is in opinion and esteeme for so there be many gods and many Lords but nothing in trueth and value something in the mind of an idolater but nothing in the world nothing in worth or working euery founder is confounded by the grauen Image Ieremy 16. 14. So Dauid Idols are but siluer and gold the worke of mens handes they haue mouthes and speake not eyes haue they but see not they haue eares but yet they heare not neither is there any breath in their nostrils they that make them are like vnto them and so are all they that put their trusi in them and Fzechiah in this present chapter at the 17. verse Trueth it is Lord that the kings of Ashur haue destroyed the nations and fired their gods for they were no gods but the worke of mans hand euen wood and st●…ne therefore they destroyed them The Papists inuocating Saints in stead of the Sauiour and adoring their images euen with the same kind of worship which is due to the Prototype kneeling crouching creeping to stockes and stones offer in the temple the sacrifice of fooles calling vpon Baal and Bell who can neither heare them nor helpe them Heare o Israel the Lord thy God is Lord only and him only shalt than serue Wee find in the Bible precept vpon precept as Esay speakes and line vpon line for our prayingvnto God in the time of trouble but for inuocation of Saints in the scripture neither precept nor promise nor patterne the pictures of the saints of Christ of the martyrs of Christ of the mother of Christ adored and worshipped are not able to saue their seruants more then Nisrocke here did Sennacherib who notwithstanding his deuotion in the chappell of his owne house was ignominiously slayne in the sight of his Idol and that in the very act and houre of prayer as hee was in the temple worshipping Nisrocke DAN 13. 16. Shadrach Meshach and Abednego answered and sayd v●…o the King c. NAbuchodonosor an idolatrous and a proud king in the words immediatly going before questioned Shadrach Meshach and Abednego the true seruants of the most high God whether they would serue his gods and adore that image which hee by solemne edict had commanded to bee worshipped threatning them if they did not obey with death and ●…hat imminent death in the same houre and that imminent death a violent death and of all violent deaths the most horrible to be cast into the mids of a firy fornace To which answere is made by them in our text conteyning their Resolution Reason of their resolution Their resolution appeares to be peremptorie by the Preface of their speech O Nabuchodonosor wee are not carefull to answere thee in this matter Conclusion of their speech be it knowne vnto thee O King that wee will not serue thy gods c. The reasons of this resolution are two 1. Taken from Gods almighty power behold our God whom wee serue is able to deliuer vs from the burning fierie furn●…e 2. From his holy will and hee will deliuer vs out of thy hand O King These three verses then are placed in the mids of the chapter as some diuide betweene 15. verses on each side like the sunne in the mids of the firmament and the heart in the mids of 〈◊〉 body from whence 〈◊〉 arise it he light and life of the whole story let v●… follow the light proceed according to the propounded method The resolution of these words is prudent and pious reseruing vnto God the things which are Gods and yet giuing vnto Caesar the things which are Caesars Affording Nabuchodonosor his due title King and yeelding obedience to him as to their King rather patiently suffering the payne then obstinatly resisting the power because the God of heauen had giuen him a kingdome power and strength and glory verse 37. of the former chapter This example should teach euery soule to be subiect vnto soue●…igne authority taking vp against a ty●…ant prince not a sword but a buckler obeying ferrend●… non feriendo suffering his will 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 command things according to the rules of p●…ty to bee done of vs If otherwise to bee done on vs a wicked gouernour is a Nabuchadnezzar that is as the word is interpreted the mourning of the generation and the weapons of the Church 〈◊〉 prayers and teares Ecclesia Christi quoth Hierome 〈◊〉 Theophilus est 〈◊〉 patiend●… 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 faciend●… contumelias an hard lesson I confesse which is not well taught but in a few Churches and well practised almost in none for Schismatistes in vpholding their pretended holy discipline sho●…e al●…e at Caesars●…rowne ●…rowne and Iesuited Papists are right downe traytors and professed King-killers in maintaining their Antichristiā Hierarchy both haue dangerous positions and practises in this kind the one to beate downe the walles of Sion by disturbing the peace of the reformed Church and the other to build vp the walles of Babylon by defending the abomination of the deformed Synagogue The Lord of the vineyard Marke 12. sent seruants to his farmers that hee might receiue some fruits of the same but they beat some and killed others the Schismaticks are Caedentes the Papistes and Here●…ickes accidentes the villaine ●…auilliack confessed at his death that he was sory for that hee had committed mur●…her but not sorry for that he had killed the King O God which 〈◊〉 die King of kings euen the Lord paramont from whom all power is deri●…d if thou send good Princes as thou hast out of the riches of thy great mercy to this land at this time giue grace ●…at w●… may still honour them as our ●…ursing fat●… 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 come for the condigne punishment of our sinne that wee may receiue them as thy rods with all humility patience piety resoluing as that holy Martyr Iohn Bradford If the Queene will giue mee life I will thanke her If shee will banish me I will thanke her If shee will burne shee I will thanke her If shee will condemne me to perpetuall imprisonment I will thanke her O Nabuchodonosor wee are not carefull as they gaue to Nabuchodonosor the things of Nabuchodonosor So they reserued vnto God all honour due to God as if they should haue sayd in an argugument of another nature wee would bee carefull happily curious in returning a pleasing answere to the King

of Condoling woe and shall be free from Condemning though our spirituall enemies are stronger and our greiuous sinnes are greater then wee yet as God said to Rebecca the greater shall serue the lesser In Christ all thi●…gs are ours and all things quoth Paul euen Sin it selfe quoth Augustine euen the Deuill himselfe quoth Luther worke together for our good yea for the best if we loue God in his Christ. Heale vs thenô Lord and wee shall be healed saue vs and we shall be saued Deliuer vs from eternall woe that we may bee blessed with euerlasting happinesse in thy kingdome of glory where wee shall euer be sure to be free from sorrow because free from sin Ceasing to draw iniquity with cordes of vanity and sin as it were with cart-ropes ESAY 41. 14. Feare not worme Iacob c. CHrist is Alpha and Omega Reu. 1. 8. As Esay speakes in this Chap. at the 4. verse the first and the last and that vnto vs as well as in himselfe being yesterday and to day and the same for euer Heb. 13. 8. And therefore the Church allots a proper Scripture for euery Sunday throughout the whole yeare begins and ends her deuout seruice with the comming of Christ. For the first sentence declared in the Gospell appointed for the first Sunday is behold thy King commeth vnto thee And the conclusion of the last Gospell on the last Sunday this of a truth is the same Prophet that should come into the world which occasioned Petrus Machado to terme this order annulus Christianus as it were the Christians round or ring So the Church in obseruing this high and holy time makes the birth of our Lord and appurtenances of the same the first and the last obiect of all her solemne deuotions other holy dayes in deed come between the feasts of his Natiuity Circumcision and Epiphany but all of them are called Christmas dedicated onely to Christs honour and the reason as some coniecture why Saint Stephen and Saint Iohn and the blessed Innocents are mentioned aboue the rest of the Saints is to shew that Christ came into the world to saue men of all sorts of whatsoeuer degree the Chiualrie represented by Saint Stephen a resolute Knight and warriour in the Lords battaile The Clergie represented by S. Iohn stiled the Diuine The Commonaltie or Infantrie represented by the children Herod slew Or intimating that Christ was borne for men of euery seueral age for men of perfect strength as Saint Stephen For old men on their Crouches as Saint Iohn who liued after Christ was dead as Hierom reports in his life 68. yeeres being as Baronius avoweth at his dying houre 106. yeeres old Lastly for Infants in their Cradles as the blessed Innocents Or it may bee these Saints are honourably remembred at Christmas rather then other because Christ saith if any will follow me let him forsake himselfe take vp his Crosse Mat. 16. 24. The seruant is not greater then his Master if they haue persecuted me they will persecute you also Ioh. 15. 20. Now Bernard other Doctours say there bee 3. kinds of suffering or martyrdome in Christs cause The 1. In will in act as that of Saint Stephen the 2. In will but not in act as that of Saint Iohn the third in act but not in will as that of the Bethelemitish Innocents And so Christ as it is sayd Cant. 5. 10. Is white and ruddy the chiefest among ten thousand as one featly but I censure not hovv featly Candidus in Iohanne rubicundus in Stephano electus ex millibus in Innocentibus This Scripture then is chosen aptly for a Christmas Sunday promising that in type which wee now see performed in truth namely that Christ our Lord is the deliuerer of Sion out of her Captiuity the Comforter abettor strength helper in a word the redeemer of his people from the hands of all their enemies from the bands of all her sinnes In this verse which is Capitulum Capitis as it were the Chapters abridgment two points are to be considered especially 1. The weaknesse of the Church in respect of her selfe as being a worme and as a dead man 2. The strength of the Church in respect of her Sauiour saying feare not I will helpe thee this I haue sayd and this I will haue done being powerfull and able because the Lord pittifull and willing because thy redeemer faithfull and true because the holy one of Israel The Lord calleth elsewhere Iacob his chosen Israel his possession Iuda his Sanctuary Israel his dominion an holy Nation a Kingdome of Priests an holy tree springing of an holy root a people peculiar to himselfe enclosed as it were from the Commons of the whole world But heere considering their present affection and miserable condition vnder Captiuity hee takes a better course with them in omitting these glorious titles and comparing them vnto wormes and men that are dead for this he shewes more That he greatly cares for them although they seeme most abiect in the worlds eye Feare not I am with thee be not affrayd I am thy God I will strengthen thee and helpe thee and sustaine thee with the right hand of my iustice Howsoeuer now thou beest nothing yet I wil so succour thee that all the men of thy strife shall be confounded ashamed perish and come themselues to nothing Behold I will make thee a roller and a new threshing instrument hauing teeth and so thou shalt thresh the mountaines and grind them to powder and make the hills as chaffe A word spoken in his place saith Salomon is like aples of gold with pictures of siluer He therefore which is set apart for the gathering together of the Saints and the worke of the ministrie must as St. Paul exhorts diuide the word of truth aright He must as the Baptist in preparing way for his Lord exalt the vallyes and make the mountaines low Men are made mountaines two wayes either assuming too much vnto themselues out of their owne merit or else presuming too much vpon Gods mercy and on the contrarie men are vallyes in contemplating their great faults and little faith humbled in their sin and in their suffering for sin And therefore the man of God ought to digg downe Mountaines by denouncing Iudgments and to raise vallyes by pronouncing mercy He must as Ambrose sayd bee like a Bee applying the I awes sting to the proud in heart but the Gospells honie to the poore in Spirit It is written in the Law that if a man goeth vnto the wood with his neighbour to hew wood and his hand strikes with the axe to cut downe the tree If the head slip from the helme and hit his neighbour that he dye the same shall flie to one of the Cities appoynted for refuge and liue Such as handle the word indiscreetly without any distinction of times or places or persons or circumstances of sin makes the head