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A54714	God and the King. Gods strength the Kings salvation A sermon preached at Aylesham in the county of Norfolk, upon the 29 day of May 1661, being the anniversary day of thanksgiving, for the thrice happy and glorious restauration of our most Gracious Soveraign King Charles the second, to the royal government of all his Majesties kingdoms and dominions. By John Philips, B.D. sometime fellow of Magdalen College in Cambridge, and vicar of Aylesham in Norfolk.	Philips, John, vicar of Aylesham, Norfolk.	1661 (1661)	Wing P2031B; ESTC R218926	24,258	38

it 2 Chro 34. 31. But that any such should be imposed upon the subject without the sanction of the King however for the matter of it something may be both lawfull and necessary is a work on which so much hay and stuble is built that it cannot endure the trial of the great day but it must be burnt and the workers must suffer losse But O let them be saved but as by fire 3 Thirdly did not King David 1 Chro. 13. 3. King Jehosophat 2 Chro. 19. and others assemble the Priests and Levites to consult and order the affairs that concern the house of God But that any of never so eminent parts and piety should convene without the authority of the supreme Magistrate being Christian and disanul the settled liturgy and Canons of the Church and compose and impose forms or directions for worship and government It gives but too just an occasion to our adversaries to reproach our Church as they unjustly did that celebrious convention of the Synod of Dort Calling it in derision a conventicle and somewhat that is worse 4 Fourthly did not King Jehosophat send out I do not say ordain Priests and Levites to teach the book of the law 2 Chro. 17. 9. The power indeed I mean of Ordination belongs to the Right Reverend the Bishops of the Church and to them alone or at least to none without them except in case of necessity But the outward commission warrant command and authority for the execution of that their spiritual function is I humbly conceive from the King who is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Constantine said of himself And because I have named Bishops let me have leave to say thus much without offence Smectymnuus was foretold plain enough to my understanding by our late pious and learned Diocaesan their Antagonist That if those skilfull pilots did not remain in the ship of the Church it could not be saved and the Euroclidon that hath since tossed her hath shewed that That R. R. Father in God was not less than a Prophet And that Paul and his successors counsel should have been hearkened unto that they might not so unadvisedly have loosened from Crete to allude to the Apostle Acts 27. 11. That so the Church might have gained that harm and loss which since she hath sustained 5 Fiftly and lastly to instance in no more did not Kings punish false Prophets Blasphemers Idolaters break down Idols groves high places and take order to reform all things amisse in the Church he may exercise his ingenuity in Tortura Torti or open his Eares to Ephata take a larger walk in the field of our Church and I suppose he will receive satisfaction who desires more And indeed for this cause the King is stiled custos utriusque tabuli keeper of the whole Law Deut. 17. 18. Not only out of Zeal and Duty but Right and Authority he is as Charles the great was called Rector Religionis the Governour of Religion the Nursing Father of the Church Is 49. and Pastor also Numb 27. 17. yea and head also of the Church which is not a Title given to Kings in King Henry the 8. daies as some have imagined but in the statute Law of God as antient as the first King ordinarily so called that ever was in the Church of God for God made Saul head over all the Tribes 1 Sam. 15. 17. Neither let any object that he is a member of the Church and so cannot be the head for Theodosius was both Caput Imperii membrum Ecclesiae for he may be a member of the Catholick Church and head also of the National Church in his own Dominions As then he is King over all his Subjects of what profession soever so he is an Absolute head as he is a King over a people professing Christianity so is a Christian head and as he is a pious King over all that are godly in the Kingdom I know no incongruity I shall be willing to be better informed he is Sano sensu Spiritual head I do not say nor mean as Christ is head of his Church by inward direction of his Spirit and powerfull influence of his Grace let such blasphemous mouths be for ever stop'd nor yet an Universal visible head let them defend it whom it concerns nor a Ministerial head or tongue or hand to Preach the word administer the seals and censures of the Church Yet 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 are names given to Christian Kings and Emperors in antiquity and do speek them Spiritual And they that are so neer God in names as to be called Gods and in Office as to be his immediate Deputies and Vicegerents upon Earth and are annointed by his special appointment Cannot but be so denominated and experience proves that many times the Salvation of Souls is more helped forward by the execution of the wholsome Laws of godly Princes than by the tongue of the Minister in his powerfull Exhortations the heart of man being more apt to be moved for fear of Punishment than allured for the love of Virtue However the Church of England hath many strong Obligations upon her besides the tye of Conscience in obedience to the immediate command of God in gratitude to acknowledge and so to obey his Majesty as head over all spiritual persons and in all spiritual causes from whom she hath already received so many unhoped for and unexpected spiritual as well as temporal blessings And so much for that particular that the Kings Strength as it is taken for Right and Authority is from the Lord. Lastly take Strength for Power Abilities Force Honour Dignities Glory Treasure or what ever else lyes in the genuine sense of the word Strength or is annexed with it in Scripture for the neerness and sim litude if not identity unto it as all or most of those expressions are And also whatsoever is comprehended under the name and notion of Prerogative Royal belongs unto the King from the same Original his right to the Crown doth for it will sound strange to any mans understanding that is not darkened with prejudice that a King should have his Commission to govern immediately from God and should not have right by the same Tenure to whatsoever is necessary for the putting of that power into action and exercise for the obtaining of its Ends. Therefore Customs Tributes Fear Reverence Revenues Militia by Sea and Land Forts Holds Castles Magazins Ammunitions Power to pardon or punish offenders against his Laws to make War or Peace to confer Honours raise Forces appoint Commanders to settle Counsellors Judges and all other Officers of State or what ever Diamonds and Jewels besides for as it is beyond my model to know so it is beyond my modesty and subjection curiously to inquire into do adorn his Regal Dignity they are fixed originally upon divine Institution 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith the Apostle because he is the

wonderfull eye of Providence that neither slumbers nor sleeps that watched over him that eye that saw Nathanael under the Fig-tree that Angel supposed to be Christ the Angel of the Covenant that appeared to Abraham under the Oak of Mamre that was his Angelus Custos his Keeper and Preserver And though I know the idolatry of worshiping Green Trees and that the French wisards the Dryades worshiped the Oak called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from whence they had their names Yet in a holy and religious Commemoration of our S●veraigns miraculous preservation I cannot but call to the Woods to rejoyce as the Bishop of Bitento did in his Sermon at the opening of the long expected Council as they will call it of Trent And to the Mountains and all Hills Fruitfull Trees and all Cedars to praise the name of the Lord Ps. 148. 9. And as Christian Churches were built in Rome in Monte Querculano in the Mountain of Oaks so called for the abundance of those Trees there growing So let some pious Oratory be built to the service of God in the place of that Royal Oak of Preservation if it be cut down and let him that laid his axe to the root of that tree be condemned for ever to be a hewer of wood Let the Oak for the pretious fruit it once bore be reckoned among the fruitfullest trees of the Forrest like the tree of life that bore 12 manner of fruits Rev. 22. 6. and let the leaves thereof be hence forward good for the healing of the Nations let no ominous bird ever build her neast in the branches thereof And he that hath not this day brought a bough of the Oak in his hand to strew in the way and to testifie his thankfulness let that punishment at least be inflicted on him which the Jews they say did on every one that brought not a bough of the Palm in his hand when Christ rid in triumph to Jerusalem let him fast all that day Whilst we giving instruments their due acknowledgment magnifie the name of Jehovah only his Majesties mighty ready seasonable wise holy faithfull and everlasting Strength the sole Author of his so great Salvation and so I am fallen upon the second part of the Text the Kings and Churches praise for Gods Strength and his Salvation which I told you should be our Application First then let the King rejoyce and that both with inward joy and outward gladness and that exceedingly too as having the greatest cause the beams of divine favour shining most strongly upon him God having set him again in his own Throne for solium Regis est solium Dei invested him with his own robes of Power and Majesty given him his own name set him often in his own book as neer himself as one sentence can joyn them made him his immediate Deputy and Viceger●nt upon Earth foster'd him in his bosome made him a Chosen Vessel to bear his name and to do his great work and what greater work can there be than that he is doing to take care of Gods Church to settle his Kingdoms in Truth Peace and Holyness and to cement and glue a broken and heart-divided people to unite both the Roses and the Kingdoms again together And O let his sacred Majesty offer unto the God of his Salvation out of this his Garden of Paradise as England hath been called the red Rose of the praises of his lips and the white Rose of Innocency and Purity of life a sweet smelling Sacrifice acceptable to the Lord his Strength and his Redeemer Indeed his gracious Majesty hath prevented this our desire having already as Noah builded an Altar Jacob a House Solomon a Temple Constantine a Church erected an everlasting Monument of praise and thanksgiving by setting apart this day by a perpetual decree for the service and honour of God the God of his Salvation Secondly let us therefore following his pious Example for otherwise to speak of the duty of Kings in the ears of their Subjects is secretly to raise jealousies of his Government in their minds and no better than Pulpit-treason of which some have been too full bless God for restoring to us our King our Hereditary King and such a King at such a time in such a manner and to such end When all stood amazed as at their wits end when there was none to deliver us to settle our Confusions in Church and State none to glue our divided hearts none to heal our desperate breaches none to cure our deadly wound if his sacred hand had not touched them O let our souls praise the Lord and all that is within us bless his holy Name and let us express our joy outwardly and that exceedingly let the voice of joy and gladness be heard in our dwellings let us not refrain our lips let it appear we have our portion in this our David and our inheritance in the Son of Jesse Motives And let me give you a few motives to stir us up to this duty of joy and gladness and some directions how to perform it and I conclude God hath this day restored to us our mercifull King invested indeed he is with all other Princely Graces but his Mercy is in him as in God over all his other works his gracious pardon reaches not only to thousands but millions even to those that are yet unborn For had he been extreme how few could have indured when all must have confessed except some few despised Royallists whose knees did never bow to Baal that they were in the same though not equal condemnation yea he offered pardon to those that asked it not and their own consciences can tell them whether they thank him for it or no now they have it So gracious a Prince he is that he would not enter his Kingdoms in the blood of any of his Subjects except those immediate Regicides who committed that barbarous murder upon the perion of his Royal Father a fact never to be named without the depth of detestation And alas how is it possible but the wrath of God must lye upon their heads who would crucifie the Lamb Jesus to chuse a Fox Herod So mercifull he is that with Mauritius the Emperor he would scarce have a Traytor dye and with Theodosius he seems to wish he could call them again to life might it be with the justice of his Throne And O let the stupendious Act of his gracious Pardon never hurt himself nor his Posterity incourage his Enemies to commit the same sins again for which they have found easier forgiveness on Earth than ever they shall find in Heaven without repentance and restitution nor discourage or dishearten his Faithfull and Loyal Subjects but that they may be willing again to venture their Lives and Estates for the service of their Soveraigns if they be called unto it as some in this place have done 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for the Lords sake only 2. God hath restored unto us our Religious