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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20276	A sermo[n] preached before the Quenes Maiestie, By Maister Edward Dering, the. 25. day of February. Anno. 1569; Sermon preached before the Quenes Majestie	Dering, Edward, 1540?-1576.	1569 (1569)	STC 6699; ESTC S113502	20,738	44

words admonish your Maiesty that are wise inough onely I wyll say this returne into your own hart and search your raynes And here I set before you the tribunall seate of Christ If you know these things to be true discharge the faith you owe greene not your quiet conscience least it begyn to accuse you and the burthen of it be greater then you shal be able to beare If God haue defended you mightely as euer he did Dauid the Prophet discharge your faith with the Prophet Dauid and cry in spirit Quid retribuam Domino pro omnibus quae retribuunt mihi What shal I geue vnto the Lord for all those benefites that he bestowed vpon me And thus much as God hath geuen me vtterance I haue noted vnto you out of the first part of this scripture how that God did chuse Dauid from the shepefold The Lord geue you grace to confesse his goodnes and she we your selues more thankfull for all his benefites One other thing we maye note here that al that we haue of God it is of hys frée mercy it is not of our deseruing euen as he gaue both the Tabernacle and the Scepter vnto the tribe of Iuda because he loued it So God gaue vnto his people a land that flowed with milke and hoony but he gaue it not for their righteousnes for they were a frowaroe people but because he loued them So God delt fauourably with Sion that is wyth the children of Israel not because of their obedience for they were a rebellious nation but because hee remembred his othe whych her sware vnto their forefathers So God fulfilled the prophecy of Iacob he blessed Iuda but he fulfilled it in Dauid whom hee tooke from the shepefoldes So Christ made hys kingdome euerlasting in the house of Iacob but he layd first the foūdation of it And now he hath builded it vp neither by the wisdome of the wyse nor by the vnderstanding of the p●…udent but to testifye vnto vs his frée grace and mercy Hée hath chosen the foolish things of this world to confound the wyse and the weake thinges of this world to confound the mighty and vyle thinges of the world which are despised to bring to nought the thinges that are estéemed and had in reputation for this cause alone as the scripture witnesseth that no flesh should reioyce in his presence But what nede we so far to seeke for examples Let vs behold our selues how plētifully at thys day are Gods mercies and benefites poured out vpon vs both vpon our Quéene and vpon her people How myghtely doth he defend vs in so many daungers How sit we in safety when all the world is on an vprore And is this thinke you of our deseruing or rather of Gods mercy Now surely surely we were very blinde if we would not al confes with the Prophet Ieremy that it is Gods mercy that we be not consumed So muche disobedience both in Prince and Subiect so litle care of duty so déepe forgetfulnes of God what doth it els deserue but heauye iudgement What can it testifie els but that all these blessinges are of mercy Wel wel the wisest w●…y is to take heede in time Let not our syus seperate betwene God and vs. If therebe no wher examples that we can looke vpon yet let vs beware by the tribe of Ephra im that we abuse not Gods mercies for feare we lose them Because we are now out of daunger and ther is no peril that is present let ve not therfore say as proud Babilon I sit like a Queene shal see no euil I shalbe a Lady for euer and shall see no losse of Children He that thinketh he stands saith Paul let him take heede he fall not It is no good argument that our state is sure because God hath deliuered vs out of a great many of trou bles Nay let vs rather feare be the more circumspect Gods arme that hath bene ●…ret ched out for our safegard in times past is not now drawne in that he cannot againe gréeue vs. God deliuered the people of Israel out of the handes of many and gréeous enemies but yet when the people of Israel would in no wise amend God could raise vp Salmanasar to leade them away to perpetual captiuitie Nay we haue a great many more fearful examples then this We haue fearful example before our eyes to take héde of Gods iudgementes when we abuse hys graces God defended Senacherib in the conquest of a great many of countries in al which he escaped harmles yet when he knew not himself but blasphemed the God of Israel euen before the waules of Ierusalem God could finde him out at home in hys own country and in the temple of his Idols his own sonnes slew him Agamemnon x. yeres together in mortall and bloody warres could neuer be hurt yet after at home in his owne house by hys own wyfe he was kylled Bibulus a noble Romaine gat many victories and styll escaped peryl yet afterward in the city of Rome when he should haue had the glory of all hys valiant actes and rode through the strats in the pryde of hys triumphe a tyle fallyng from the house stroke so déepe into hys head that it kylled hym presently Iulius Caisar in wynnyng the west part of the world in 51. set battayles neuer receyued daungerous stroke yet after all hys daungers so happely escaped at home in the Senate house in the myddest of hys Nobilitye and in hys Parlament robes he receiued 24. woundes and all of them deadly Many such examples are before our eyes to make vs beware and take heede of security when any daunger is pa●… and to take hede of forgetfulnes when we haue receiued mercy The Lord enrich vs with the graces of his spirit that when we often behold from whence we haue bene delyuered we may séeke diligently and be alwayes carefull how to be found thankfull The second argument whych I sayd the Prophet vsed to make the people thankful was taken of Gods intent and purpose to what end he chose Dauid and that he sheweth in these wordes To feede his people in Iacob and his inheritance in Israel These wordes are very plaine and containe so expresly what is the duty of any Prince or Magistrate that none can bee ignoraunt but he that will not know For this purpose they are chosen to feede Gods people in Iacob and his inheritaunce in Israel Whether he bee Prince or Emperour Duke Earle Lorde Counsellour Magistrat whatsoeuer for this purpose he is called discharge it as wel as he will He must feede Gods people in Iacob his inheritance in Israel O if God had called them for some other purpose how gladly would they haue executed it If God had called them to dicing and carding to swearing and lying to pride vanitie the mighty men of our daies how busely