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A93187	God save the King: or, A sermon preach'd at Lyme-Regis May 18. 1660. at the solemn proclamation of his most Excellent Majesty Charles the II. by the grace of God, of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, King, defender of the faith. / By Ames Short M.A. minister there.	Short, Ames, 1615 or 16-1697.	1660 (1660)	Wing S3526; Thomason E1919_2; ESTC R203570	29,855	112

his wrath and justice 4. Let us express our joy in His Majesty's Restitution c. By stopping our eares for ever against the bewitching temptations of such as are given to change Let the smart of our sufferings under past changes cause us to dread the least thought of making our selves happy by tearing to pieces our antient and best forme of Government and attempting to erect a new Let us no more lend an eare to those Monsters of Treason and Tyranny who had lately cheated us into slavery under a pretence of liberty and who had brought us into bondage unto their owne wills and lusts by promising to set us at liberty and make us free Let the monstrous opinions and horible confusions we have lately suffered under them cause us to tremble at the mention of a Common-wealth Government that hath begotten them And now that we have recovered our Pilot let us resolve never to cast or suffer him to be cast overboard againe lest we suffer shipshwrack for want of him Let us resolve according to the command of God Pro. 24.21 22. To feare God and the King and not to meddle with those that are given to change 5. Let us express our joy c. By blessing and praising that God who by his power and providence hath so wonderfully brought it about for us Certainely it hath not been brought about by humane policy might or power but by the spirit and finger of God Zech. 4.6 'T is true Inments have been used and as Instruments 't is fit they should be honored and we should blesse God for them But who was it that raised up those instruments was it not God who as the Apostle tells us 1 Cor. 1.27 28 29. hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise and the weake things of the world to confound the things that are mighty c. that no flesh should glory in his presence Againe tell me who gave them that wisdom and conrage wherby they have been enabled to effect what they have attempted was it not God doubtlesse it was So that from first to last the whole work is his and the whole glory and praise of it is due to him Let us then this day and all our days express our joy in it by giving God the glory of it And in our rejoycings let us blesse and praise the God of Heaven for this his unspeakable mercy to us and unto these almost ruined Kingdomes 1. With our souls and all that is within us And let us awaken and stir up our souls so to do as David did his upon another account Psal 103.1 Let us bless him with our souls by loving fearing and admiring of him and all his incomprehensible attributes discovered in bringing about His Majesty's restitution Let us also blesse him by our delighting our selvs in him Let us not express our joy by taking our fill of delight in the creatures but by delighting our selves in God our Creator And indeed this is the best way wherein we can expresse our joy upon any account in the world And such a way of expressing our joy at the Proclamation of His Majesty would at once evidence us to be the King 's best Subjects and God's best friends and servants 2. Let us express our joy upon this account in blessing and praising God with our tongues Let us open our mouths and let our lips shew forth the glory of God this day and all our dayes God hath given us our tongues to this end that with them we might shew forth his praise Letus then in our rejoycing this day be speaking of God and of those glorious attributes of God which he hath discovered in bringing about this work This way David resolved to blesse God Psal 26.7 145.5 and prophecyed that other men should do so too Psal 145.6 7. yea that one generation should tell the works of God to another that he might not lose the honour of them Psal 145.4 So the present generation should bless God for his mercy in the restitution of his Majesty by transmitting it to posterity that the generations to come may praise him for it 3. Let us express our joy upon this account by blessing God with our lives Let our lives praise God every day that we have to live for his mercy to us in the restitution of His Majesty this day to his just Rights And let us thus bless God 1. by endeavouring dayly after a more thorough Reformation of our selves and others as much as in us lies Now that God hath restored His Majesty let us sit down and consider with our selves what our personal sins are whereby we did provoke God to suffer the worst of Tyrants to murther his Royal Father and for so many years to banish his Majesty having discovered them let us turn from them Let us do it heartily and unfeignedly so as never to turn to the commission of them more O let us resolve never to provoke this God more who notwithstanding our sinful provocations hath delivered us from usurping Tyrants and hath restored to us our most dread and rightfull Sovereign 2. By dedicating our selves heartily intirely and sincerely to the fear and service of God Let the consideration fo the great things God hath done for us cause us to fear the Lord and serve him with our whole heart all our days according to that of Samuel 1 Sam. 12.24 though we have hitherto served Satan and our own lusts let us from henceforth resolve to serve no Master but God As you have yielded your members servants to uncleanness to iniquity unto iniquity ev en so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness according to that of the Apostle Rom. 6.19 and both these things I earnestly beg of you 1. For your owne sakes 2. For His Majesty's sake Lest if you still do wickedly you provoke the Lord to destroy both your King and your selves According to that of Samuel 1 Sam. 12.25 But if ye shall still do wickedly ye shall be consumed both you and your King 3. By doing what in us lies in our several stations to improve his Majesty's Authority for the right and proper ends of Authority Let us not any of us endeavour to improve it for by and base ends of our own to scramble for Honors Offices and Preferments for our selves as others have done under the late Usurpers But let us improve it 1. For the suppressing of Superstition Heresie and Profainnesse These are the things that have been the meritorious cause of all our sufferings let us therefore improve his Majesty's Authority to suppress them 2. For the effecting of a thorough Reformation both in Church and State according to the Word of God and the Laws of the land And let us beg of God to put it into his Majesty's heart so to do 3. For the propagation of the truth and power of Godliness that all within his Majesty's Dominions may know the truth and express the power of Godliness in their lives and conversations 4. Let us blesse God with our lives for this his mercy to us in restoring his Majesty by opening the doors of our hearts unto the Lord Jesus Christ the King of glory that he may erect his throne there so as to reigne over us all our dayes according to that of David Psal 24.7 8 9 10. Christ as Mediator guideth all the Affaires of the world And it is he that hath restored his Majesty to his authority now in a way of thankfullnesse unto him let us admit him into our hearts that he may reign and rule over us by his word and spirit Let us serve the King of Kings and Lord of Lords with fear and rejoice with trembling Let us kisse the son lest he be angry and we perish from the way as we are exhorted to do Psal 2.10 11. 6. Let us in the last place expresse our joy in his Majesty's restitution by giving portions to such for whom nothing is provided Ther 's provision made for you Gentlemen of the Country somthing suitable to your worth and quality Let me desire you to expresse your rejoicing in this days solemnity by giving something to the poor for whom nothing is provided Let us do this day as the Jewes of old did upon their Festival days of joy and rejoicing what they did and were enjoyned to do you may see Nehemiah 8.10 11 12. Esther 9.22 Now to conclude all if you thus expresse your joy in the solemnity of this day you shall not only be truly blessed in his Majesty but his sacred Majesty shall be as truly happy in you You shall not onely live happily under his Government here but you shall for ever live and reign with him in an Eternity of glory hereafter Now to the onely wise God who liveth and reigneth for ever and doth what pleaseth him both in Heaven above and in the Earth beneath be Glory Honour and Immortality for ever and ever AMEN FINIS

and Spanish saw Make England happy by no Salick Law This Monarch's rising first restores to health The Kingdom deadly sick o' th' Commonwealth Obstructions thus remov'd each lively vein Conveighs its active spirits once again Hark how the Bels Guns Drums and Trumpets ring And loyal Pulpits cry God save the King See how the blazing earth by Bon-fires tries To translate Heaven and outshine the skies Lyme's glorious Triumphs do bespeak it glad To gain the Title Regis once it had My joys are mixt with pray'rs that Charles his wain By Traytors hands be ne'r o'return'd again That Crown and Church may flourish and the State Be fix'd in spite of strange or home-bred hate That CHARLES be wise as Solomon to give The Childe to those would hav 't united live Theophilus Philanax A SERMON PREACH'D AT LYME-REGIS May the 18. 1660. at the Solemn Proclamation of His most Excellent Majesty Charles II. c. THe Proclamation and Inauguration of Kings hath been observed with great solemnity in all ages The Preamble by all Nations In the observation of which Solemnities none have been more forward than God's most faithfull Prophets and Priests and Ministers of the Gospel And therefore that I may give a further testimony of that loyal and sincere affection I have ever born to His most excellent Majesty our Sovereign Lord Charles by the grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith I shall at present apply my self to speak something suitable to the solemnity of this day that by so doing I may quicken you to the observation of it both with an inward and outward rejoycing suitable unto it not that I think you need a spur being fully assured of the sincerity of your affection both to his Majesty's Person and Authority Now the words I shall insist upon to this end you shall finde written 1 KINGS 1.39 40. The Text And Zadock the Priest took an horn of Oyl out of the Tabernacle and annointed Solomon and they blew the trumpet and all the people said God save King Solomon And all the people came up after him and the people piped with Pipes and rejoyced with great joy so that the earth rent with the sound of them The words are Historicall and in them you have a Relation of the Proclamation and Inauguration of Solomon to be King over Israel For methods sake and your better understanding of them you may take notice 1. Of the Agents or Persons who were imployed in the observation of these solemnities 2. Of their Actions or the things done and performed by these Agents 3. Of the Person about whose concernments these Agents were imployed The Agents were Zadok the Preist who began the solemnity and the rest of the people who were then present among whom for the honour of the solemnity was Nathan the Prophet and many others men of great account and esteem both in the Church and State of Israel as evidently appears by the verse immediately foregoing So Zadock the Priest and Nathan the Prophet and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada and the Cherethites and the Pelethites went downe and caused Solomon to ride upon King David's Mule c. And from hence I conclude That it is a thing no way unbecoming a Priest Note a Prophet a Minister of God to act his part in the Procla mation and Inauguration of his just and lawful Sovereign 2. The Actions of these Agents and they are divers every man in this Solemnity was imployed in some thing suitable to his place and station 1. Zadok the Priest begins the work 't is said he took a Horne of oyle out of the Tabernacle and anointed Solomon A Ceremony frequently used by God's command and appointment in the designation and Inauguration of Persons to be Kings as you may see by comparing these Scriptures 1 Sam. 9.16 I will send thee a man out of the land of benjamin and thou shalt anoint him to be Captaine over my People Israel that he may save my People out of the hand of the Philistines So cap. 10. v. 1. Then Samuel took a viall of oyle and poured it upon his head and kissed him and said Is it not because the Lord hath anointed thee to be Captain over his Inheritance So cap. 16. vers 1. And the Lord said to Samuel c. Fill thy horn with oyle and goe I will send thee to Jesse the Bethlemite for I have provided me a King among his sons Item v. 13. Then Samuel took the horne of oyle and anointed him in the midst of his Brethren and the spirit of the Lord came upon David from that day forward Againe 2. Sam. 2 4. And the men of Judah came and there they anointed David King over the house of Judah so 1. Cron. 29.22 and they made Solomon King the second time and anointed him to the Lord to be chief Governor And this ceremony was upon these considerations used 1. To declare that God had called and appointed the Person thus anointed to the exercise of the office of a King 2. To give assurance to others and to the persons thus anointed that God would furnish them with gifts graces and abilities for the discharge of the Kingly office to which he had designed and called them And from the use of this ceremonie it is that Kings in Scripture are often called the Lord's anointed as you may see 1. Sam. 24.6 God forbid that I should do this thing unto my Master the Lord 's anointed c. Seing he is the anointed of the Lord. So Isa 45.1 thus saith the Lord to his anointed to Cyrus c. and in many other places 2. The Priest having done his part the Trumpeters performed their parts they blew the trumpet and by the sound of trumpet proclaimed him King 3. All the people which were present cryed God save King Solomon and then followed after him and piped with pipes and rejoyced with exceeding great joy so that the earth rent with the sound of their shouts and acclamations of joy an Hyperbolicall speech to expresse the exceeding greatness of their joy 3. Solomon the son of David by Bathsheba who had been the wife of Vriah was the person about whose concernments these Agents were thus imployed The person about whose c. I say was Solomon who was 1. Not only a Prince but a lawfull Prince being appointed of God and nominated by David his Royall father to succeed him in his government as you may see by comparing the 1. Chr. 28. and 5. with this 1 King 1.28 c. 2. A hopefull Prince a Prince from whom they might expect much good both to the Church and Sate of Israel and that because he was 1. A very pious Prince 2. A very wise and prudent Prince 3. A beloved Prince beloved even of God himselfe with a speciall love and therefore called Jedediah 2 Sam. 12.24 25. And she bare a son and he called his name Solomon and the Lord loved him