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Prælium & præmium. The Christians warre and rewarde A sermon preached before the Kings maiestie at VVhitehall the 3. of May. 1608. By Daniell Price Master of Arts of Exeter Colledge, and chapleyn in ordinarie to the prince
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hath caused the Romaine faction to traduce vs for a solyfidian profession as if we did pluck vp good works as weeds and cast them out of dores which how much contrarie to our profession it is anie indicious ingenuous maie vnderstād So we that hold this against mē Angels that a true effectual liuely faith doth onlie iustifie so that we remoue not works from faith but works from iustifying We grant works to bee vta regni non causa regnandi Aug. Aquin. Hil. Origen as Austine speaketh and to be required necessitate praesentiae non necessitate efficientiae for as Hilary in his Comment vpon Math. teacheth Fides sola iustificat and S. Austen on the 4. of the Rom. fides sola mundat and as Origen on the same Chapter fides sola sufficit But then they replie out of S. Iames yee see saith the Apostle that of works a man is iustified and not of faith onlie Yea but saith S. Paule we conclude that a man is iustified by faith without the worke of the Lawe To reconcile both which places I saie that as we are iustified by faith without the works of the Law so by the works of the Law must our faith be iustified So that there is one righteousnesse imputed another righteousnesse excercised there is a iustice of iustification and a iustice of testification the one acquiteth before God the other approueth before men Paule speaketh of the former of these two Iames of the later The one establishing a real Christian iustifying faith Aquin. the other confuting a false fained divelish faith Aquinas in this one distinction ending this Christus iustificat effectiue fides iustificat apprehensiue opera iustificant declaratiue our works by faith faith by Christ doth iustifie vs. Our workes maie claime a part in our faith but not in our iustifying for in that great act of Cāceling the handwriting acquiting the conscience pacifying Gods anger and presenting vs blamelesse before Gods holy eies faith is wholie and solely imploied and our works not claiming anie part therein I speake not this to stoppe the blessed fountaine of good works I know that he that hath proclaimed of Mary Magdalen wheresoeuer this Gospel shal be preached mention shal be made of this woman he hath also promised that hee that shall giue to one of the lest the verie least gifte a Cup of cold water in his name shal not want their reward And therefore if any haue beene to busie in this kinde I say to such why cause ye the people to staie from their workes get ye to your burdens laie vpon the people the number of workes which they did in the beginning diminish nothing thereof for they be idle let them worke and worke continue in working that when Christ commeth to iudgment he maie finde them working and saie good servants and faithful yee haue beene faithfull in a little I will make you rulers over much enter into your masters ioy Let the vse of this doctrine mooue you al to consecrate your external and internal Vse inward outwarde actions vnto God that ye maie shew forth the vertue of him that hath called you if yee haue onlie outwarde sanctity ye deceiue others if only inward you deceiue your selues if neither inward nor outward ye deceiue God But be ye not deceiued God is not mocked S. Peter proueth that if temperance patience godlinesse brotherly kindnesse and loue be in you you shall neither be idle nor vnfruitfull in the knowledge of Christ 2. Pet. 1.8 Amor Dei saith Gregorie otiosus non est operatur magna si est si operari renuerit amor non est where the loue of God is it is not idle and where it is idle it is not Be earnest zealous religious and be ye so religiouslie zealous that you maie continue to the end for Nemini palma datur priusquam cursus conficiatur therefore God required not a working only but a cōtinuing perseuering keeping to the end For the end of that shal be rewarded O beloued shal not wee continue Tantum boni in bono quantum mali in malo shall the drunkard continue so long as his longues last the adulterer so long as his loines last the glutton while his skin the prowd man while his purse the wicked man while his life and shal not we continue To the ende that you maie continue to the ende Remember that God in his Arithmetique requireth Multiplicatiō not Substraction in his iournies progreds not regredi in his Philosophie motum velociorem in fine quam in principio Mistake me not I saie he requireth motum velociorem not violentiorem for I know violent motions be vnnatural and yet there haue beene latelie so many violent motions in our Church that had not the diuine gubernation of our primū movens restrained the heat of inferiour Spheres our Church had beene on fire the Clerolaicall presbiterie had brought among vs a Cyclopical anarchy But I need not to bring these in publicke Theophilact vpon Luke obserueth that Lady Philautia Lady selfe loue was maried to the Pharisie in the Gospel Theoph. in Luk. The Pharisie I am sure is dead shee was then left a widdow The Anabaptists Brownists Barronists and Humorists are in competition yet for her The Presbiterie is corriual with them they much torture themselues in the suit we are not much troubled with them and I hope we shal be lesse I come not hither to trample them if there be anie thing good in them I honor it the exorbitancie I pitty I would they would remēber that as knowledge without zeale is not religion so zeale without knowledge is not discretion They would not then be so violent and virulent Our motions beloued they must not bee violent as these but natural it must bee a perpetual motion to the end we maie stretch out our selues but not out stretch our selues runne but not ouerrunne wee must continue in a ciuil sober sanctified course runing our race fighting our fight til wee haue finished our course we shal be sure to finde help in running comfort in cōtinuing ioye in obtaineing a reward in triumphing though al the world bee against vs yet wee shal bee as Mount Syon that shal not bee remoued as Socrates whoe neuer changed countenance or as the Cypresse tree which neuer changeth colour Troubles maie assault the godly but neuer insult ouer them they shall haue a refection in their affliction and Consolation after desolation post praelium praemium and so J come frō praelium to praemium my second part I will giue him power ouer nations were there not greater reward for delightinging in the Lord then the delight of that delight the ioie of that ioie ◠Pars. the plesure of that pleasure it were sufficient dilectionis nulla maior expetenda est remuneratio quam ipsa dilectio saieth leo But behold the bountifulnesse mercy liberalitie munificens of our good god hee inciteth and
Praelium praemium THE CHRISTIANS WARRE and rewarde A SERMON PREACHED before the Kings Maiestie at VVhitehall the 3. of May. 1608. BY DANIELL PRICE Master of Arts of Exeter Colledge and Chapleyn in ordinarie to the PRINCE Vincenti dabitur OXFORD Printed by Ioseph Barnes 1608. TO THE MOST REVEREND FATHER IN GOD THE LORD Arch-bishop of Canterburie his Grace Primat and Metrapolitan of all England one of his Maiesties most Honorable priuie Counsel the right worthy Chauncelour of the famous Vniuersitie of Oxford MOst reverend religious rightly honourable so small a present for so great a Patrone is not tollerable by the rule of proportion especiallie when so great weaknesse lyeth open to the eie of so great worthinesse My apprehension at the first conceited mee so strongly that I designed this to aternal oblivion resolved that it shoulde haue dyed and beene buried in the place it first breathed but fearing lest an action of presumption would bee commenced against mee for burying so poore an Orphan in so princely a place as the Kings Chappel I adventured to lay it in the graue of the presse wrapping it in these sheetes as in a Syndon mantling it on a sable letter as in a hearse and yet after foure aates pressing to death it revived and is crept to present it selfe vnto your Grace presuming that as you affoorded it gratious attention at the preaching so you will affoord it gratious acception in the printing If there bee anie thing worthy Patronadge in it or in mee I humbly prostrate it reioycing much I may tender any observāce vnto him whom his roiall Maiestie the gracious Queene my Princely Master the noblest Personadges the greatest schollers both the Vniversities the Church Commō wealth arts and schooles doe for his studies conferences labours imploymēts acknowledge reverence and preferre to the Confluence of all honour I must confesse it had manie verie honorable friends who desired after the preaching to bee acquainted with it but I was then doubtful whether I should publish it or no somtimes dissolving it sometimes resolving for it til now at length I haue adventured to let it see the sunne It is the first tender of my dutie and the first dedication frō our Vniversity Presse since the time your Grace was pleased to entertaine the protection of vs. The Lord preserue your Grace to continue for manie and manie yeeres that the Church may long enioie so worthie a Piller the Common wealth so wise a Counseller and this famous Vniversity so honourable a Chauncellour Exeter Coll. this 19. of June 1608. Your Graces in all humble dutie DANIELL PRICE The Text. Revel 2.26 He that overcommeth keepeth my works to the ende to him will I giue power over nations THE whole booke of God writtē by his finger deliuered by his power inspired by his spirit and revealed by his will is as Cassiodore obserueth Schola coelest is eruditio vitalis auditorium veritatis disciplina singularis profitable to teach to instruct to reproue to correct that the man of God may be perfect in al good works whatsoeuer is contained in this booke God hath reuealed to man 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is become 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 secretum relatum nay not only relatum but revelatum The whole booke from Genesis to the Reuelation is the Genesis of a Revelation here beginneth the Exodus the end termination complement accomplishment of the Reuelation Iob may conceaue Secreta Dei Iob. 11.6 Daniel may obserue abscondita Dei Dan. 2.22 The Apostle may discerne profunda Dei 1. Cor. 2.10 And Paule wrapped vp to the thirde heauens may heare arcana Dei 2. Cor. 12.4 But now secreta profunda arcana abscondita be revelata The Aenigma is disclosed the knot vnloosed the mysteries interpreted the vaile remoued all things reuealed he that was vailed in the flesh is reuealed in the spirit and in this booke is the manifestation of our God of his will of the Lambe and of his life of the spirit and of his truth of his seales trumpets angels viols thunders lightnings threatnings iudgements of heauē hel the earth the sea consumption destruction dissolution desolation and final consumation of the world Jf the whole Scripture may bee called the Librarie of the holy Ghost then this is the Closet of that librarie if the Lanthorne of Jsrael then this is the light of that Lanthorne if the Alphabet of God then this is then of that Alphabet this is the ende of his booke who is the beginning and the end the last of his book who is the first and the last the Ω of his booke who is α and Ω the Amen of his booke who is yea and Amen The holyest place not more worthily called sanctum sanctorum or the Iubile Sabbatum sabbatorum or the Canticles Cantica Canticorum or Empireum Coelū Coelorum I say not more truely called so then this Revelatio Revelationum the Compendium and Epitome of all the works wonders secrets depths and misteries of God so that as a father well speaketh of the whole scripture Hugo I may also in particular speake of this Apocalips pascit miraculis oraculis figuris verbis mysterijs Greg. Morall And as Manna as Gregory obserueth habet omne delectamentum omnis saporis suauitatem so I may speake of this booke of the Reuelation which is the hid Manna kept long in the Arke inter arcana and now manifested among Reuelata O then come and see and see heare and taste how good and sweete this Manna is it wil giue to euerie man his gust rellish if yee be ignorant here yee may be instructed if weak heare yee may be strengthned if feareful here ye may be hartened if fighting here yee may be comforted if triumphing here yee maie be crowned and more thē this here is the greatest blessing pronounced that ever was to anie booke Blessed is he that readeth Revel 1. he that heareth and he that vnderstandeth and hee that keepeth the words of this booke Out of this book out of that Manna of this booke haue J chosen this portion of scripture as a portion of meate in due season which if you wil staye till J haue prepared it for you J will present it to bee panem nostrum hodiernum or rather panem nostrum quotidianum He that overcometh and keepeth my workes to the end to him wil I giue power ouer nations what subiect more sit for Heroicall spirits then an encitement to chiualtrie nay what subiect maie speake of a fitter subiect before a most royal King then of a kingdome Beholde both these in this Hee that ouercometh c. Hee that ouercometh here a christian is made a conquerour and keepeth my woorks to the end hereof a Conquerour he is made a Continuer J wil giue him power ouer nations hereof a Continuer he is made a king He that ouercometh here hee is approued a Christian and keepeth my woorkes