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A97115	God save the King, or A sermon of thanksgiving, for His Majesties happy return to his throne. Together with a character of his sacred person. Preached in the parish-church of East Coker in the county of Sommerset, May 24. 1660. By William Walwyn B.D. and sometimes fellow of St. Johns College in Oxon.	Walwyn, William, 1614-1671.	1660 (1660)	Wing W696B; Thomason E1033_10; ESTC R203977	18,961	42

despise them and whence proceeds this but from want of the fear of God for if men did seriously consider their Superiors to be in Gods place and by his appointment they would then let passe their Infirmity which they derive from Adam and Reverence their Authority which they derive from God for as he that Contemns of Injures the Deputy of a King Contemns and Injures the King himself whose Deputy he is so he who Contemns or Injures his King who is Gods Deputy Injures and Contemns God himself and as he that despiset● the poor reproacheth his maker Prov. 17. 8. So he that despiseth his Superior seems to reproach God for appointing no better a Covernour over him These are all sound Truths delivered to us by Gods holy Spirit in his written Word Yet how of late have these Sacred Truths been impunged by the Rebellions and Bloody Tenets of the Jesuits Anabaptists and Puritans I rank them together because although Like Sampsons Foxes their Heads part yet they joyn Tailes together And 1. It is the constant Tenet of the Jesuits that King-Killing is Lawfull nay Meritorious if he be forsooth an Haeretical King that is to say if he be not a Roman Catholick and they have stood to this their Damnable Doctrin a Doctrin I may call it of Devils by their Bloody practices in so much that you can scarce find a Jesuits sleeve without a Dagg or a Dagger to murther one Prince or other It would be too tedious for me to recite or you to hear the Dismal Tragedies which they have acted in the Theatre of the world if any man may think I wrong them I shall only refer him to Mariana the Jesuit who hath wrote printed and publish'd to the world an whole Tract of the Lawfullnesse of Regicide or King-Killing 2. Next to these may come in the Anabaptists for what were the publick Preachments of Muncer in Germany were they not such bloody stuff as this as Sleidan in the fifth of his Commentaries relates God hath warned me face to face he that cannot lye hath commanded me to attempt the Change by these means even by killing the Magistrate and Phifer his lewd companion did but dream of killing many Rats and mice and presently he expounded his Dream of murthering the Nobles and have not our late Fanaticks as well as these laid their heads as close as they possibly could with the Jesuits in this point witnesse their continual and impetuous railing against the Ministry that they might come to fetch the freer strokes at Magistracy Tracing herein their Brethren in Germany who began first with the Bishops but ended in the Civil Magistrates And did we not the like here in England too when we first laid aside the Bishops and then the King 3. Nor have our Modern Puritans call them Presbyterians if you will lately lesse opposed the Dignity and Majestie of Kings witnesse their Tenets which will make you to Blush Sweat and Tremble but to hear them repented if you have any fear for God or any honour for the King And here that I may not seem to wrong the men I will cite their Names their Books and their Pages too where you shall find these pernicious Doctrines set abroach to intoxicate the brains and poyson the hearts of Loyal Subjects That it is unlawfull in any case to resist the superior Powers and that we are rather to submit to their punishments is a dangerous Doctrine taught by some by the permission of God for our sins so Goodman p. 30. And Knox as if he had borrowed Goodmans tongue tells us page 26. of his Appel That it is Blasphemy to say We must obey Kings whether they be good or whether they be evil and he asserts 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That Princes for just causes may be deposed as you may see in the 372. page of his Hist of the Church of Scotland alledging further That if Princes be Tyrants against God and His truth their subjects are freed from their Oaths of legeance as you may see again in Hib. to England and Scotland page 78. And I could here name you were I so disposed a great Presbyterian who upon the like Suggestion absolved not a few from their Oaths of Allegeance to our late murthered Soveraign a power which none but the Pope himself ever usurped Of the same Batch are the Doctrines vented by Buchanan in his Book de jure Regni apud Scotos for these Positions he layes us down there Populus Rege est praestantior melior The people are more excellent than the King page 61. of that Book and that therefore the people have the same power over their King that the King hath over any one man page 38. and he further asserts page 70. That the Minister may excommunicate Him and then he draws this Devilish Consequence That he who by excommunication is cast into Hell is not worthy to live upon earth as in the same page will appear to the Supervisor And thus like that Italian who having his enemy at his mercy made him first to renounce his God and then immediately pistolled him upon that Renunciation Buchanan hath found the way too How the Subject may kill both the Body and Soul of his Prince at one blow But he proceeds and tells us page 40th of the same book That it were very good that Rewards were appointed by the people for such as should kill Tyrants that is to say such Kings as by them will not be led by the nose as there be Salaries appointed for those Qui lupos aut ursos occiderunt aut catulos eorum deprehenderunt Who have killed Wolves or Bears or have destroyed their Blood And to the Argument that we should not resist evil Kings because God places Tyrants sometimes over the people for the punishment of their sins he bluntly answers page 57. that so God hath appointed private men to kill them And then next to that of Saint Paul to Titus 3. 1. Put them in mind to be subject to Principalities and powers and to obey Magistrates his answer is page 55. That Paul wrote this in the Infancy of the Church when men were not able to resist them and that therefore he wrote then to those Primitive Christians as were he alive he would write to such Christians as are now under the great Turk in substance small in courage poor in strength unarmed in number few and generally subject to all kind of injuries and that therefore his words in that Text of Scripture are not to be extended to the Body or people of a Potent Common-wealth so that in his sense Saint Pauls Let every one be subject to the Higher Powers is no more than this Let none dare to resist them till they find themselves able so to do and is not this excellent Divinity Lastly In his Epistle to the King of Scots prefixed to his Book he Quarrels with the Honourable phrases of Majestie and Highnesse and terms them Barbarismos

members the poor Commonalty that so they might swell themselves to an exorbitant greatnesse This this was our sad and wofull case and yet far worse than this it had been with us had not the King of Kings put into his own place again the Stone which the Builders refused and made Him the Head of the Corner This doubtlesse was the Lords doing and it ought to be marvellous in our eyes and we are all this day met to acknowledge Gods Power and goodnesse in bringing this mighty work to passe Wherefore for this let us now render unto God all possible praise and thanks Shouting aloud with the people in my Text and saying God save the King Here is yet one thing further observable in this acclamation in my Text and that 's the universality of it for All the people shouted and said God save the King and truly Vox populi Vox Dei the voice of the people whilst they thus pray is the voyce of God for God would have all the people thus to pray and that with an Imprimis for I exhort saith his Apostle That first of all Supplications Prayers and intercessions and Thanksgivings be made for all men for Kings especially and all that be in Authority that we may lead a quiet and a peaceable life in all Godlinesse and Honesty for this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour 1 Tim. 2. cap. 1 2 3 verses Montague in his Essayes tells us that some of the Town of Arras at what time Lewis the 11th of France took it chose rather to be hang'd than to say God save the King and if there be any of such Obstinate Malignant and disloyal Spirits amongst us it mattered not if they had their choice such strings as will not be unison with the rest of their fellows deserve fairly to be broken and thrown aside for when ought our acclamations of joy to be universal if not now since we have obtained again of God 1. Regem a King that we might not any longer be an headlesse people 2. Regem unum one King and so are no longer Ta●quam Bellua multorum capitum as a monstrous Beast with many heads and surely to have a King and but one King and not many Kings over us is promised as a very great blessing to Gods people Ezech 37. 22. 3. Regem Talem such a King as hath no Qualem no Peer to match Him being 1. Talis Such a King who as far surpasses any of the people in the eminencies of his vertues and graces as ever Saul did surpasse all the people in the tallnesse of his stature verse 24. of this Chapter 2. Talis Such a King as by his own sufferings must needs be more sensible than other Kings of the sufferings of His Subjects for as to your comfort as you are Christians the Author to the Hebrews tells us Heb. 4 15. That we have not an High Priest which cannot be touch'd with the feeling of our infirmities because in all points he was tempted like as we are so to your comfort as you are Sujects I may tell you likewise that you now have not a Soveraign that cannot have a fellow-feeling of your Oppressions since Himself hath been brought up in the School of affliction 3. And Lustly Talis such a King as had an indubitable Right to the Crowns of these Realms and therefore to have detain'd Him longer from them must necessarily have brought one time or other some dreadfull Judgement upon the Land for our Injustice You then who desire the Restauration of your Religion Laws and Liberties You that pray for the Peace of the Church and the Prosperity of the State You that would freely enjoy a comfortable assurance of your lives and estates You that hope for better Trading and Commerce You that would be happy under a Religious Peaceable wise just and mercifull King and finally You that would choose to have one King rather than an whole Committee of Tyrants over you Joyn now unanimously your prayers with all the people and cry God save the King Amen FINIS A Catalogue of some Books printed for Henry Brome at the Gun in Ivy-Lane THe Aliance of Divine Offices exhibiting all the Liturgies of the Church of England since the Reformation by Hamon L'estrange Esquire The Souls Conflict being 8. Sermons preacht at Oxford and so much recommened by the late Dr. Hewyt Dr. Browns Sepulchral Urns and Garden of Cyrus Two Essayes of Love and Mariage The Queens Exchange by Mr. R. Brome Five New Playes by Mr. R. Brome never before printed Adam out of Eden by Mr. Speed Poems on several Persons and occasions by No body must know whom Crums of Comfort Most of Mr. Prynnes Books Shepheards Duty of Constables St. Bonaventures Soliloquies Healths Improvement in 4to Mr. Baxters Treatise of Conversion That long-expected piece The Survey of the Law containing directions how to prosecute or defend Actions brought at Common law by William Glisson Esq A Second Ternary of Sermons by the Learned Dr. Stewart The Elements of Water drawing in 40. Mr. Sprat's Plague of Athens in 4to Jews in America by Mr. Thorowgood The Royal Buckler in 80. A Collection of all Songs and Ballads made upon the Rump

Solaecismos Aulicos the Barbarisms and Solaecisms of the Court and that he might make a King to be but Good-man King at the best he would have Kings content themselves with lesse Revenues and fewer Attendants commending highly the Discipline of Laconia where it is strange to have one man pluck off anothers socks when he goes to bed and very much extols the example of Pelagius who first Discomfited the Saracens in Spain for that he had his house without any stately Rooms in it and was contented Good man with one and the same place for himself his fire his friends and his Cattel and thus like the Souldiers that Spit upon Christ These Sons of Beliab have Bespawled the face of Majestie * See more in Archbishop Bancroft Dangposit Nor of late years have the men of our times been more moderate than they for have not our Presses sweat and our Pulpits groaned under the very same pernicious Doctrins nay insteed of making them Mont Gerizims or Monts of Blessing have not too many of the Ministry made them Mont Eballs or Monts of Cursing when insteed of putting up their Supplications to God for their King they have not trembled to spend even in their Pulpits their direfull Curses and Imprecations against the Lords Anointed to the Eternal shame and Obloquy of our Church and the Protestant Religion which we professe As if they had laboured to the very utmost of their power to Wash and Rub off from the face of Moses that shining which God had more immediately imprinted upon it And so much be said for the Dignity of a King as it is first drawn ab Authore from the Author or Institutor of it and that is God but 2ly The Excellency of a King will appear in this That even God himself hath amongst his own honorary titles assumed unto Himself the name of a King for his stile as you have heard before runs thus King of Kings and Lord of Lords and his Government of the whole world is Monarchical for though there be three Persons in the Sacred Trinity yet there is but one God and consequently but one King everlasting Let then those Scribblers and Pamphleteers who of late with their Paper Squibs have so Oppugned and Dishonored Monarchical Government tremble to consider how through the sides of Princes they have struck at Gods own Monarchy over the whole world as far as their goose-quills could reach But 3ly The Excellency of Kingly Dignity shines in their Supremacy which is the most expresse Character of Himself which God can put upon a man and such a Supremacy St. Peter tells us is only in God and the King 1 Pet. 2. 13. for God is the Supreme Ruler of Kings and Kings are the Supreme Rulers of Men and in this very regard God himself the better to oblige our obedience to them as well as to himself stiles them Gods they have his Ip'se dixit to shew for it I have said ye are Gods saith God himself of Kings Psal 82. 7. It is very true that God hath said this of all Inferiour Magistrates as well as of Kings but yet Kings in regard of their Supremacy bear a more full and expresse Character of God than they Inferiour Magistrates according to the greater or the lesser Authority they bear in the Commonwealth have the Image of God drawn upon them like half Pictures of which some are drawn down to the girdle and some again but to the neck and shoulders but the Supreme Magistrate who is above all the rest and onely inferior to God himself hath the image of God upon him drawn to the full length and proportion as far as he is capable to receive it like those pictures which are drawn from head to foot and therefore with the greater Emphasis may God stile them gods And truly this very Appellation of gods may God well seem to have given them as well to mind Kings themselves of their Duty as to mind the people of their Dignity which brings me to the second thing considerable in this Word Rex the King and that is his Duty For since Princes and Magistrates are called by God himself GODS they should thence learn to behave themselves towards their inferiors like gods indeed and as they bear Gods name stand in Gods place and represent Gods person so they should imitate Gods properties and attributes And 1. They should imitate the Supreme God whose image they bear in commanding their Subjects nothing but what is holy and just for to threaten terrifie or intice men unto unholy and unrighteous actions Diaboli●est non Dei is the part of a Devil and not of a God 2. These Inferior gods should imitate the Supreme God in his sustaining and conserving power Now as God in heaven orders and disposes all things to the best and cherishes what is good and curbs what is bad by his providence continually preserves the world in general and every one in particular So these gods on earth must look to it not only Ne quid detrimenti Respublica capiat that the Common weal be not prejudiced but that also no one single man that is a Member thereof be oppressed it must be their care and providence to reward and incourage the good and to curb yea if need be to cut off the wicked And hence therefore in the Scriptures they are called Nursing Fathers Isa 49. 23. to expresse their tendernesse and indulgency towards their Subjects whom they are to look upon as their children as did Augustus Caesar of whom Macrobius writes Saturn l. 1. c. 5. that he carried such an intire and fatherly affection to the Common-wealth that he was wont to call it ●iliam suam his daughter and chose rather to be stiled Pater Patriae the Father of his Countrey than Dominus the Lord and Master of it because he endeavoured to govern it rather by love than fear 2. In the Scriptures Kings and governors are called Shepherds to mind them that they should be watchfull to keep out the Wolf that is to say whatsoever may be destructive to the Sheep committed to their charge for Princes are not to be like sharp-pointed Pyramids which are raised on high but support nothing but they must be like pillars seeing they are erected by God to sustain and uphold the whole frame and fabrick of the Church and State from Ruine and so these gods as God himself stiles them shall shew themselve rightly to be Dii averrunci Tutelares as so many Tutelar gods to the Nations and people over whom they reign for indeed Kings and Potentates are set over the people not as Comets to pour forth nothing but plagues upon those below them but as benign stars to cast down upon their inferiors Light Heat and Life 3. These mortal gods must imitate the immortal God as in the Dispensations of his providence so likewise in the Administrations of his Justice for the impartial and equal execution of Justice is the