A sermon preached before the Queenes Maiestie, by the reuerende Father in God the Bishop of Chichester, at Grenewiche, the 14. day of Marche. 1573. Seene and allowed according to the order appoynted

¶To the Reader, Thomas Browne wisheth grace and peace.

WHeras among other lear∣ned and notable▪ Sermons preached th•••• Lent before the Queenes most excellent Ma∣iestie, and by h••r grace highly commended, I vnderstood by those that were presente, that hir Highnesse also liked very well, & comm••nded most graciously that sermon whiche the learned & reuerende father in God, the Bishop of Chiche∣ster preached before hir Maiestie, in so much that some noble Peeres, and many other desired a co∣pie of the same. I partly to satisfie their desire▪ partly to signifie some sparke of my good will and duetie towardes the author and preacher of thy•• Sermon, my very good Lord (of whom I haue receiued benefite) trauelled so f••rre wyth those that could pleasure me in this behalfe, that I o•• length not onely receyued notes▪ but almost the whole discourse of that learned sermon, although not altogither in suche sorte as it was by the re∣uerend Father preached▪ yet as ••••gh ther vnto as could be remembred. And for the benefit of other I haue heere publishe•• the ••ame, trusting that this my labour wyll be no otherwise construed than thus: tha•• whereas I my selfe can offer as of my selfe very little or nothing at all to the buylding of Gods Temple, I thoughte good to bring therevnto a goodly and beautifull pyller made by a cunning and noble workeman, which I truste for the excellencie thereof will be of a

greate manye with plausible allowance ioyfully receyued, to whome for the greater encreasing of their ioy, I will say that which Aeschines sayd vnto the men of Rhodes, who wondered marue∣lously at the oration of that famous Orator De∣mosthenes, beeing but sayde and recited by him vnto them: Quid inquit Aeschines ••i ipsum au∣dissetis sua verba resonantem? sentiens in De∣mosthene magnum Demosthenis partem deesse, ••i quae ipse dixit ab alio recitarentur: Doe ye mar∣uell, sayde Aeschines, at this my rehearsall of Demosthenes oration? what if you had hearde him selfe sounding and pronouncing hys own•• words? Meaning therby, that in Demosthenes great part of Demosthenes was wanting, when that those things which he spake were recited of an other. I doubt not, but vnto all, this my little trauell wil be acceptable: to them that were pre∣sent, bicause they shall agayne be put in mynde of that whiche they before heard, and so maye more deepely consider the same: to those that were ab∣sent, for that they shall heare that whiche before they heard not, & so be made better learned vnto saluation. And thus desiring thee good Reader▪ to be thankfull vnto God for this and other good fruites of the laborers in his vine∣yardes, I bid thee farewell, from Westminster the .vj. of April. 1574.