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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67235	The duty of honouring the King and the obligations we have thereto delivered in a sermon preached at Richmond in York-shire, on the 6th of February, 1685/6 being the day on which His Majesty began His happy reign : at a general assembly of the loyal gentry of those parts, held there on purpose to celebrate the King's quiet and peaceable succession to the throne of his ancestors / by Christopher Wyvil ...	Wyvill, Christopher, 1651?-1711.	1686 (1686)	Wing W3786; ESTC R9015	18,499	36

of Honouring the King a Duty upon which many others do mainly depend a duty incumbent upon all the Kings Subjects in what parts of his Dominions soever they live by whatsoever Titles they are distinguished whether they be Noble or Ignoble whether they be Lay-men or Ecclesiastical Persons a Duty which if rightly practised would tend to the universal good and welfare of the whole Kingdom and of every member of it 't would make the King great at Home and considerable Abroad that we may therefore rightly understand it that we may all duely practise it and carefully avoid what is forbidden by it I shall by Gods assistance in my following discourse endeavour to do these two things 1. To explain the Duty and the several parts of it And 2dly To shew the Obligations we have to it 1. First for explanation of the Duty by Honouring the King may in short be meant an awful framing and composing of the whole man respectively to his Authority For it hath respect to the very cogitations of out hearts to which none but God and our selves are conscious it concerns our speech and puts a bridle upon our tongues it hath an eye upon our actions and directs the regulation of them But that we may more fully discern what it doth positively require what consequently it doth plainly forbid be pleas'd to take notice of these following particulars 1. Honouring the King doth require a Reverential esteem of him an inward respectiveness of the soul to him so as in our thoughts to have a worthy opinion of him and to think of him very highly according to the dignity of his Office and the eminent Character he bears amongst us Such no doubt was that honourable account which the Subjects of King David had of him when they own'd him to be worth ten thousand of them as you may find in the Second Book of Samuel the 18th Chapter and the 3d. verse as likewise when in the same Book of Samuel the 21st chapter and the 17th verse they held him to be the Light of Israel Such were the thoughts which men conceived of Zedekiah who yet was no very good King when upon his fatal Captivity under the King of Babylon he was lamented by the character of the breath of their nostrils Such every lawful Governour that sits upon the Throne of Majesty ought to be esteem'd such apprehensions should every one of us have of our King We must have so great thoughts of his high Calling as to look upon him to be Gods immediate Vicegerent within his own Dominions and to be accountable to him only for what he doth for where the word of a King is there is power and who may say unto him what dost thou we must esteem him under God to be the Supream Governour and not imagine that any man or any number of men either within or without his Realms hath any power or Superiority over him In which respect it was that Saul was said by Samuel to be the head of the tribes of Israel the King is called Supream in this very chapter of my text and by the good Lawes and Constitutions of this Land our present Sovereign is declared to be So in all Causes and over all persons to think otherwise of him is to wrong him and detracts from that honour which by the Laws of God man belongs unto him Let the Votaries of the Church of Rome who think the Pope to be above him and the upstart Sect of Presbyterians or Independents that would have him truckle under the Cognizance of their Classical meetings See how at the last great day they will answer to God their denyal of this part of his just prerogative The Loyalty of the Church of England teacheth us another Doctrine we all being thereby obliged to believe that the King hath all Power both Ecclesiastical and temporal and so long as we are members of this Church we must do him that right and afford him that honour in our hearts as to be firmly perswaded that no humane Authority is above his or equal to it that none may constrain or limit it And as we are not to lessen his Sovereignty in our thoughts so neither should we think ill of him much less devise or contrive any evil against him Honour is properly an inward act of the Soul which if it be true and sincere cannot afford harbour for any base intentions or treacherous designs evil purposes and malitious imaginations can no more consist with it then Light with Darkness or love with hatred and for a man to profess that he honours the King and at the same time to entertain thoughts and designes of harm against his Crown and Dignity is like Ioab to speak fairly and friendly to his Neighbour and presently to smite him under the fifth rib to the very heart The imaginations of our hearts 't is true are only known to God But if they be void of that due regard we should have for our Sovereign if they give way to any bloody intendments and Teasonable Practices although no mortal man that is not made privy to them can make them known yet that all-searching eye that pierceth into the very secrets of the heart can and often doth discover them be they never so cunningly closely contrived by wayes methods sufficiently declaring his care and providence in the protection and preservation of his Vicegerent And because the persons of Princes are more Sacred then the persons of private men therefore God hath promised in his holy word that curses tho' but in the heart conceived against them shall be detected by the Birds of the Air that is in some Notorious and Remarkable manner if by ordinary means they cannot be revealed So detestable in the sight of God are but the least intentions of evil against the Lords anointed And may all those Devilish devices be confounded and those false and evil thoughts blasted that shall at any time be hatched in the breast of any man against the Life or against the Honour of our Lord the King Now when this Reverential Esteem and Awful regard for the King is once well setled and grounded in the heart it will soon exert it self in real and substantial matter in outward and visible Signes that may plainly testifie and manifest our inward respect Honour conceived in the thoughts will not rest wholly there but will be productive of apparent indications of it 't is the root that gives life and nourishment to the branches that sprout up from it the Original and Spring from whence several considerable Duties as so many rivulets from the Fountain-head do naturally flow 't is not sufficient to pretend an inward respectiveness without giving an outward and sensible evidence thereof for that would be but vile mockery as on the other hand an outward submissiveness without an inward hearty and sincere reverence would be but downright hypoerisy Wherefore 2dly Honouring the