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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10994	Sermons preached before his Maiestie 1. The bridegromes banquet. 2. The triumph of constancie. 3. The banishment of dogges. By Francis Rollenson, Batcheler of Diuinitie.	Rollenson, Francis, ca. 1565-1630.	1611 (1611)	STC 21264; ESTC S112081	60,158	83

SERMONS PREACHED BEFORE HIS MAIESTIE 1. The Bridegromes Banquet 2. The Triumph of Constancie 3. The Banishment of Dogges By FRANCIS ROLLENSON Batcheler of Diuinitie Omnia pro veritate nihil pro tempore AT LONDON Printed by T. Snodham for Roger Iackson and are to be solde at his Shop in Fleet-streete ouer against the Conduit 1611. TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE THOMAS LORD ELLESMERE LORD CHAVNCELOVR OF ENGLAND RIght Honourable Preaching and Printing of Sermons if both be done for the glory of God and the good of his Church are like the Two siluer Trumpets of the Tabernacle excellent instruments to call men to Christ but if in Printing and Preaching Diuines seeke their owne glory and thirst after popular applause then they be but Trumpets of Rams-hornes whose sound leuels not the walles of Iericho but Hierusalem with the ground I dare not auowe that these my labours Preached and Printed be Trumpets of Siluer for then should I paralele the proud Pharasie in iustifying my selfe neither will I acknowledge them to be of horne for so should I wilfully brand mine owne actions with shame and carie Caines marke euer vpon me let the censure be referred to him who is the searcher of the reines and whose all-seeing eie hath ouer-lookt the ayme and intention of my heart vpon which this Nil vltrà is grauen Deo Ecclesiae For God and his Church This God by One starre conducted the wise men from the East when they came to worship the starre of Iacob and offer their Gold Incense and Myrrhe to our King Priest and Prophet Christ but he hath directed me to your Lordships presence by Two starres fixt by his gracious goodnesse in the firmament of your noble heart Vertue and Honour there to make an oblation not of Myrrhe Incense and Gold but of one slender talent and Two poore Mites Three worthlesse Sermons preached as once our Sauiour did in a Ship royall but written out for the presse as Ionah praied in the Whales belly I know that the Magi of our Church doe daily cast out of their aboundance Rich offerings into your Treasurie to whose writings I may iustly apply that of the Poet and call them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Garden and Table of Alcinous so well fraught and furnisht they be with Knowledge Iudgement Wit and Elegancie but the poore Widow must do as she may not as she would They that cannot bring Gold and Pearles to the building of the Tabernacle must present a Rams-skin and Goates-haire All the Patriarches wore not Party-coloured Coates and all the Seruants had not fiue Talents They then that haue but one Talent in their Purse and one Coate to their backe must measure their actions by their ability euen as God himselfe by ballance doth distribute his Graces Yet many things in themselues of no moment are highly priced because of their dedication to the Temples saith Plinie The two Tables being but of stone were reuerently regarded because in them the finger of God writ the Law nay the very Besomes and Ash-pannes of the Temple were much esteemed because they were instruments in the Lords house so I hope these my Endeuours shall purchase the better Respect in the opinion of the Readers for that they were and are dedicated to the deuout eare of his Sacred Maiestie the inuincible defender of the faith and to the Iudicious eie of your honourable selfe being a bountifull Nurcing-father of our Church which if it shall please you out of your True worth fauourably to Accept Patronise and Protect I will boldly promise to second them with a better Present And thus as most bounden in duty readie in seruice and daily in Praier vnto Almighty God to be your Honours guide and fortresse both in this life and the life to come I rest most humble at your Honors commaund FRANCIS ROLLENSON THE BRIDEGROMES BANQVET CANT CANT 5. CAP. 1. VER I am come into my garden my sister my spouse I gathered my myrrhe with my spice I ate mine honie-combe with mine honie I dranke my wine with my milke eate O my friends drinke and make you merie O welbeloued SAlomon the Author of this Text was a King a Philosopher a Preacher and a Prophet and therefore he may fitly be compared to the Cherubim which a Ezech. 10.14 Ezechiel saw in his vision for as they had the face of a Lyon a Man an Oxe and an Eagle euen so Salomon first he was a royall Lyon of the Tribe of Iudah sitting vpon an b 1. Reg. 10.18.19 Iuorie throne supported by twelue artificiall Lyons emblems of Royaltie and Courage which two like c Ex. 28.30 Vrim and Thummim in Aarons breast-plate ought to be engrauen in euery Princes heart Secondly hee had the face of a Man witnesse his Aphorismes of morall Philosophie the Prouerbes d Hieron in Prouerb by which he instructs men of greene and vnripe yeares in vertue and godlinesse Thirdly he was an vn●●usled Oxe labouring in Gods haruest treading out the Corne and trampling the Chaffe vnder his feete for being Ecclesiastes in his Sermons he doth vnmaske that Babilonish strumpet Vanitie raising the whole architecture of his speech vpon this foundation e Eccles 1.1 Vanitie of Van ties all is Vanitie Lastly he had the face and the wings of an Eagle For what Prophet euer mounted to so high a pitch as this sweet Singer of Israel in his Song of Songs that volume of mysteries called by Saint f Orig. Proam in Cant. Origen Epithalamion because it containes the wooing and the wedding of the Sonne of God and his Spouse the Church whose Loue was from the beginning but their Mariage in the fulnesse of time Euery line in this song is the language of loue and euery word rellisheth heauenly passion but this Verse which I haue chosen for my Text doth especially describe First the Consummation of their Mariage secondly the Wedding feast thirdly the entertainment of the guests which three are the maine branches growing out of this stemme I am come c. In these words is the Consummation of Christes marriage by which is vnderstood the Vnion of the two Natures Diuine and Humane the Contract whereof was Gods Promise of Christes comming and the Consummation his Natiuitie In an Espousall or Contract g Cod. lib. 5. tit 4. leg 7. Gordian Cod. lib. 5. tit 4. leg 12. Dioclesian the Consent both of Parents and Parties is necessarily required So heere first God the Father is content that his Sonne shall come into the world and be made like vnto vs in all things sinne only excepted it was his owne decree for all mankinde in h Rom. 5.12 Adam being corrupt i Con. Mogunt cap. 5. Quia primorum hominum peccatum in omnes homines transiuit secum suam poenam traxit because the sinne of the first Man was deriued by propagation vnto all men and drew the punishment with it God looked vpon the posteritie of Adam