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A15385	A paire of sermons successiuely preacht to a paire of peereles and succeeding princes The former as an ante-funerall to the late Prince Henry, anno Dom. 1612. October 25. The first day of his last and fatall sicknesse. The latter preacht this present yeere 1614. Ianuar. 16. to the now liuing Prince Charles, as a preseruer of his life, and life to his soule.	Wilkinson, Robert, Dr. in Divinity.	1614 (1614)	STC 25661; ESTC S120035	36,572	96

people lie vpon the King Rex non modò peccat sed peccare facit a King doth not onely sinne himselfe but also makes the people to sin either by sufferance as Aaron did or by example as Salomon did or by tyrannous compulsion as Jeroboam did of whom it is said seuenteene times in the bookes of the Kings that he sinned and made Jsrael to sin how then why then as when the people first began the making of the golden Calfe yet Aaron was first called in question about it Exod. 32.21 VVhy hast thou brought so great a sinne vpon the people so Kings Princes must account to God not onely for their owne sinnes but also for the sins of the people and were there no other trouble then this yet this very point of accounting to God is a troublesome and fearefull thing to thinke of Besides what art and great labour haue Kings in the very act of gouernment It is an art of all arts saith Gregory Nazianzen to gouerne man who is so wild a beast and vntamed of himselfe Exod. 18. Moses sat from morning to euening to heare and determine causes that Jethro pitied much to see him so wearie and so tired and it was truly said of Maximinus one of the Romane Emperours Quo maior fuero eo magis laborabo The greater I am the greater labours I see will stil befall and lie vpon me and the Lion which is king of the beasts is said to sleepe with his eyes open to shew that it is no sleepie life to be a king Besides what perturbations of feare are in the mindes of Kings more then of other men who may feare euery cup and euery bit and euery gift who feare their enemies and feare their friends because they know not their enemies from their friends for neither the habit be it neuer so religious nor behauiour of men be it neuer so humble can promise security to Princes witnesse the last but one of France Henry 3. slaine by a Frier Iacobine euen crouching and kneeling on his knee yea are not Kings more subiect to violent death then the common sort of men Of the Kings of Judah from Rehoboam down to Zedekiah there were in number twentie and six of them that is almost a third part slaine Againe of the Kings of Israel from Jeroboam downe to Oshea there were also in number twentie and tenne of them that is a iust halfe slaine Yea looke into our owne stories and our English Chronicles are all bloody from the Conquest downeward which is better known of three and twentie deceased Princes eight that is more then a third part slaine besides the Tragicall reports of France other countries Now sure it were a most fearefull thing amongst the common sort of men if one in euery three were subiect to violent death And whether shall a man turne but the higher still the more troublesome and more infortunate Oh therefore value nothing too high which death doth abolish dote not too much on death and troubles and golden misery Let not men set their hearts on that which cannot profit them or if it please a little yet it will not long stand by them If here wee seeke for peace it wil be answered as the Angels said of Christ Resurrexit non est hic Indeed it is often promised heere the world the flesh make promise of it and wee like false Prophets cry Peace peace and promise it to our selues but the true peace is gone vp with Christ and is not here Mat. 28. and Saint John was commanded to write it for assurance Write● from hence forth blessed are the dead for they rest from their labours Reuel 14.13 they rest hence forth but they rest not here and therefore since wee haue no rest but sorrowes and warres and troubles here let vs not seeke our rest here lest if we spend our time in seeking where it is not wee faile to finde it where it is God of his mercy draw our mindes from the deceit of this vaine miserable and sinfull world and lift vp both our hearts vnto the hope and our endeauours vnto the pursuit of eternity euen for Iesus Christ his sake To whom with the father c. THE KINGS HIGH WAY TO IMmortalitie A SERMON PREACHED this present yeere Ann. Do. 1614. Ian. 16. TO THE HIGH AND MIGHTY Prince CHARLES at his house and Chapell of S. Iames. PRO. 4.3.4 For I was my fathers sonne Tender and deare in the sight of my mother When he taught me and said vnto me Let thy heart hold fast my words Keepe my Commandements and liue MOst renowned and excellent But that sorrowes make short times seeme long it is not long since at vnawares and not knowing what I did I made vnto your deceased and now immortall brother a Sermon of Mortality or of death It is now fallen out by Gods prouidence and which God himselfe being witnesse I did not thinke of when I chose the text that I must make vnto your Highnesse a Sermon of life but as I had then no special illumination or prophecy that death was so neare to him so haue I now no absolute promise of life to you but vpon the conditions heere annexed Let thy heart hold fast my words Keepe my Commandements and thou shalt lieu which are the words of Dauid the speech of a King and therefore of weight and moment and it is a speech made to Salomon the sonne of a King and therefore pertinent and it is a speech taken from the mouth of the King the father by the pen of the King his sonne and therefore not lost or let fall to the ground as good counsell oft times is but recorded as a thing for euer permanent And wee may distinguish in it two things which diuide it into two parts for first Salomon sheweth what tender loue his parents bare vnto him He was his fathers son Tender and deare in the sight of his mother and then hee sheweth next by what testimonie they expressed their loue vnto him They taught him and said vnto him Let thy heart hold fast c. For the first that Salomon was to his father thus and to his mother thus and thus it is a tale vndoubtedly true but how agreeth it with Salomons wisedome to tell it They say a chiefe point of wisedome is to keepe counsell especialiy to conceale the secrets of a King but most especially to keepe secret what Kings and Queenes doe in their chambers and among their children It may bee that Dauid loued Salomon exceeding much how then It may be likewise that his mother loued him exceedingly more and what of that perhaps when he was swadled in clouts and lapt vp in a mantle shee might take him in her armes and talke like a mother to him perhaps when he was able to goe vpon his feet yet shee might set him on her knee and dance him yea and it may bee too that when hee was able to

mother of France did with Henry 3. her vnlucky sonne shee bids him play and follow his pleasure and not trouble himselfe with the stirres in the Church that shee and her Holy league in the meane time might set both Church kingdome on fire In like manner doe they mufle their kings in blindnesse and suffer them not to looke into the causes of religion that themselues in the meane time might frame a religion to their owne lust But when God laid it vpon the King that hee should write himselfe the copie of the Law in a booke that it should be with him and that hee should reade in it all the daies of his life Deut 17.18.19 his meaning was sure that Kings should bee vnderstanding men able to iudge and discerne of the law themselues and not altogether to goe on trust for their religion It followeth in the text Let thy heart holdfast my words keepe my Commandements and thou shalt liue whereby it appeares that Dauid did not onely teach his sonne but also catechise him and teach him religion for hee taught him to hold fast his words and his words were the words of life Iust as Deut. 8. the Commandements which if a man doe he shall liue in them and there is no learning but religion which brings eternall life And Dauid doth heere two things first hee giueth his sonne a charge that hee doe thus and thus and then if he doe these things hee makes him a promise that hee shall liue Hee chargeth him most strongly for first hee speakes to his hear tor inward man Let thy heart hold fast c. and then he frameth his conuersation or outward man that he keepe his Commandements The matter which he committeth to him is VVords and words howsoeuer they are but winde in the eares of the scorners yet the words of the wise are like goades and like nailes Eccles 12. like goades to pricke forward and like nailes to hold fast And Christ saith Ioh. 6. The words which J speake are spirit and life And Ioh. 12. The word which J haue spoken shall iudge you at the last Againe hee is commanded not to attaine them for that he did by his fathers teaching but when hee was taught to retaine or hold them fast and all this said to his heart Let thy heart hold fast c. For though it bee said vniuersally to all Thou shalt loue the Lord thy God with all all thy heart Deut. 6. yet it belongeth especially to Kings and God vpon this very occasion of annointing Dauid to the kingome said The Lord respecteth the heart 1. Sam. 16. So Dauids owne heart made him fit for a kingdome and therefore now he calles for the heart of his sonne whom hee knew God had destinate to bee King Let thy heart hold fast c. Now of an instructed heart there bee three testimonies First sincerity that what a man see me to doe hee doe it indeede and truly against the fashion of hypocrites Secondly zeale that what he doth he do it feruently against the fashion of cold professors and thirdly perseuerance that what hee begin to doe hee doe it to the end and constantly against the custome of backsliders The first thing is sincerity which still drawes in the heart as Saint Paul said of seruants Not with eye scruice but as the seruants of Christ from the heart Ephes 6. Dauid doth not teach his sonne as Machiauell taught Kings Regi ante omnia optandum vt pius videatur etiamsinōsit that a king aboue all things must seeme religious though indeed he be not euen as Saul which set vp an altar consulted with the Priests offered sacrifice killed the enemies of God and at euery word had God in his mouth when all was but a flash But Ablolon was more deuout then hee for hee must goe to Hebron and there pay his vowes and offer peace offerings to God for bringing him backe to Ierusalem and reconciling him to his father againe a meere Machiauellian practise for at the very same time he plotted how to winne the peoples hearts and to depose his father 2. Sam. 15. But Herod more deuout then hee Goe search for the the babe and when ye haue found him bring mee word againe that J also may come and worship him Matth. 2.8 May come and worshippe him when hee went to destroy him Monster of mankinde did Adoro signifie to kill or Occido to worship Is it not enough to murther and doe mischiefe but to make religion the cloake And thus did Julian the Apostata though he hated the Christians and their religion deadly yet he comes at times into their Churches and falles downe on his knees and praies deuoutly with them but all for a further purpose But as it neuer goes well with the gouernment where the gouernours are meere Politicians so is it worst with themselues for where God hath lift vp to the highest hee looketh for the best and if men serue him onely with a hood where hee requires the heart is not this to mocke God but God is not mockt witnesse that Saul and Absolon Herod and Julian whom we named before Againe the heart importeth a zeale to that we are taught as Ierem. 20.9 His word was in my heart like a burning fire And as a man cannot sit still which carries fire in his bosome so hee which is inwardly taught is inwardly toucht and cannot keepe silence nor cannot forbeare but is driuen with a spirit marcheth like Jehu the sonne of Nimshi suriously And it was spoken of that Jehu kingly 2 King 9. if it had beene spoken perfectly Come see the zeale that J haue for the Lord of hosts 2. King 10. For he put downe the idolatrous king hee killed his mother hee killed his children his kin dred confederates familiars and when he had trained the Priests of Baal into the temple of Baal he burnt vp temple Priests and Idoll and made one bonefire of them all Not like Rehoboam which suffered sinne to grow euen to the male stewes in Judah 1. King 14.24 and made the holy land like Sodom Nor like King Ahab which suffered the enemie of God to escape out of his hands shewed him mercy euen to his owne confusion 1. King 20. Iudah the kingly tribe had his blessing from Jacob to bee like a Lion Gen. 49.9 Not like a sheepe to walke vp and downe in a warme fleece and eate and drinke and sleepe and sit and see and doe nothing but like a Lion and like a Lions whelpe which carrieth fire in his hart and a flame in his eyes and a scepter in one hand and a sword in another to forbid sin and to punish sinne and to punish it in the proudest and he that doth not thus hee is like the Church at Laodicea Reuel 3. Neither hote nor cold and the Lord shall spew him out of his mouth The third testimonie of the hart is Perseuerance to begin well and to continue in