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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

Subjects Birthright and the Superiors Debt as Francis the first of France acknowledged who when a poor widow kneeled before him and begged Justice of him he bid her to stand up For good woman said he Justice I ow thee and therefore if thou beg any thing of me let it be Mercy The God of heaven is no respecter of persons and such should Princes the gods on earth be they must impartially execute Justice and Judgement according to the Merits of the Causes that are brought before them not acording to the opinions they have of the persons who come to their Tribunals for justice which righteous Rule of Justice hath of late years been but little observed in our Courts of Iudicature where a man were his cause never so good should have found but little Justice if he were once discovered to be a Cavalier that is to say such an one as heartily loved his King And as these earthly gods should imitate the God of heaven in the administrations of his Justice so should they likewise 4. Do the same in the Administration of his Grace and Mercy Their Laws like Draco's must not be written in blood but in milk lest by too much rigor their Justice convert into Cruelty as grapes too hard pressed yield rather vinegar than wine nor must they mix their revengefull thoughts or rigorous and rough Passions with the sensures and sentences which they passe upon poor Delinquents for so they may commit Murther with the Sword of Justice Briefly the chiefest things in which Princes should imitate the King of Kings are these To shew mercy to defend the poor Orphan and widow to deliver the poor from him that is too mighty for him to undo heavy burthens and to let the oppressed go free to be nursing Fathers especially to the Church and in all things to be zealous for Gods true Worship and Service for if Princes have power in their hands to do good but do it not they will shew themselves to be Idola magis quam dii dead stocks and idols rather than gods even just such Idols as the Psalmist describing Psal 115. 7. tells us They have hands but handle not 5ly And finally As the Supreme God above is the poor mans God as well as the God of the rich man so every good King must with King James of ever blessed memorie in his Basilicon Doron professe himself to be the poor mans King and therefore as God above rejects not the prayers and supplications of the poor and needy and such as pray in faith unto him though many times they be stuffed with many imperfections and polluted with many failings so neither must Gods Deputy God cast by in scorn and contempt the humble Petition of the simplest and poorest of His Subjects though perhaps the silly wretch hath greased it in his pocket or soiled it with his thumbs and though it be but badly indited and worse penned and so have we done First with the person supplicated unto and that is God Secondly with the Person supplicated for and that is the King Come we next to the matter of the Supplication and that is Ut VIVAT That he may live or that God may save and preserve Him God save the King Which words in their full extent may reach as well to the Political and Spiritual Life of the King as to his Natural and Corporal life and this was indeed the whole matter of the Primitive Christians prayers even for those most barbarous and Heathenish Emperors under whose Dominions and tyranny God had placed them for we pray saith Tertullian in his Apologie for the Christians pro omnibus Imperatoribus for all Emperors for all without exception for the worst as well as for the best well and what did they pray why we pray saith he that God would give them vitam prolixam a long life securum Imperium a secure Empire Domun tutam a safe dwelling Exercitus fortes puissant Armies Senatum fidelem Faithfull Senates or Parliaments populum probum good and Loyal Subjects Orbem quietum a quiet and peaceable Reign and finally Quaecunque hominis aut Caesaris vota sunt i. e. whatsoever good things either the people can wish for Him or with Caesar himself can wish for himself All this was the Subject or matter of their Prayers and so it should be of ours But I verily believe that the life here principally prayed for by the people in my Text was onely the Natural or Corporal life of the King and surely their praying for the Kings life is in effect to pray for their own for the King is the Breath of his peoples nostrils Lam. 4. 20. because the very life and well-being of the people depends upon the life and well-being of their King as the life of a man depends upon his breathing and this Consideration it was that made the men of David to swear that he should no more go out with them to Battell lest he quench'd not the light of Israel 2 Sam. 21. 17. Serinus apud Stebaeum Serm. 42. mentions a Law amongst the Persians that after the death of the King there should be a five dayes Interregnum or Cessation of all Law and government 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that the people by that want might learn to know what a great blessing it is to injoy the King and his Laws and surely if the want of our King and the Cessation of the due execution of the Fundamental Laws of this Land for so many years now past will not open the eyes of a Rebellious people to see what a blessing they had forfeited and lost I may justly fear that such a darknesse possesseth them as will end in utter darknesse It is held by some Learned Astronomers that when the Sun in Joshuas time stood still the Moon and Stars made the like pause whether it were so or no I now dispute not but sure we are that since our Sun stood still the Religion of our Church amongst us which is in Scripture compared to the Moon like one in a deep Apoplexie had not any visible life or motion and our Laws which are as it were those Stars by whose Influences our Lives and Liberties are preserved were almost altogether suspended from their due execution Currat Lex Vivat Rex must ever go both together When there was no King in Israel it is said Judg. 17. 6. That every man did that which was good in his own eyes and that was stark naught you may be sure and was not this our very Case whilest we had no King in this our Israel were not the Laws of God and Man laid aside when every one might serve God or not serve Him might go to Church or not go to Church might pay Church dues or not pay them this was the Licentiousnesse that sprang up amongst us for want of our Soveraign and this ●icentiousnesse was impiously nick named forsooth Liberty of Conscience This and much sadder than this

was the Ataxie or disorder which had crept in amongst us and therefore well may the people pray Vivat Rex ut vivat Regnum Let the King live that the Kingdom may live or God save the King that God may save the people But besides the motive the people have to pray for the King in respect of their own good they have another motive to pray for him in respect of the Kings good First In regard that although God hath made him a King yet he hath still left him but a mortal man for though God whom the Scriptures compare to a Potter hath glazed Kings and Princes and made them shine and glitter with greater Power Dignity and Majesty than meaner vessels yet they are still composed but of the same clay with other men and are as fragil and apt to be broken nay more apt than other men of low degree for they have more cares to shorten their lives and they have more enemies if God prevent them not to cut off their dayes for alasse no men have more either ghostly or bodily enemies than they and First For their ghostly enemies besides their own sins to which the Luxuries of their Courts the Luxuriancy of their prosperities the haughtinesse of their glory and the uncomptrollablenesse of their power and Soveraignty may possibly tempt and prompt them they find many times that the sins of their people also are their deadly enemies for by them God is often provoked to take off the King even the most pious Princes have suffered much for the sins of their people as the head commonly akes for the ill vapors of the stomach that is placed beneath it and thus the Psalmist tells us that when the people murmured and Rebelled against God That it went ill with Moses for their sakes Psal 106. 32. and indeed none are such bitter and pernitious enemies to a King as the sins of his people These are they that cry out against the King Crucifige crucifige Crucifie him crucifie him even whilst with their mouths the people cry Hosanna Blessed be the King that cometh in the Name of the Lord. And therefore let all faithfull and Loyal Subjects who truly love the King take heed lest by the sinfulnesse of an extravagant Joy for God his sending them their King again they provoke not God to ravish Him from us once more and so our long looked for long prayed for and long stayed for happinesse like Orpheus his Euridice give us not the slip and irrecoverably vanish away even whilst we are turning to catch and embrace it Let us O let us this day especially take heed that we impair not the Kings Health by making our selves drunk with drinking His Health But farther yet as the Kings own frailty and mortality and his sins and the sins of his Subjects may well incite us to pray God save the King 2ly So likewise may the many dangers and storms from without to which the Lords Anointed ones these full and straight Cedars are more obnoxious than the lower shrubs move every good Christian and Loyal Subject to implore Gods Protection over his King for as Brands are the more subject to catch fire by reason of their frequent imployments about the Chimney So Kings who by their places and ●●●eminences are to govern and order both Church and State and by their office must scatter the wicked and bring the Wheel over them Prov. 20. 26. are more liable ever to be traduced and scorched by Satans imps and Factors the sons of Belial than those whom Solomon calls Prov. 22. 29. Chasshukim men of mean birth and obscure places and no publick imployments Those who walk in the Sun will have alwayes a black shadow attending upon them which way soever they move and so men of the brightest Dignities and Merits shall still be sure to be haunted with the Spirits of Envy Hatred Malice or Discontent They shall ever find some labouring to overshadow or eclipse the King and if it may be possible to quite extinguish the Glories with which they be invested and arrayed and if the Report be true Some already have been plotting mischief against our Gracious Soveraign whose sore eyes could not endure the brightnesse and Splendor of our Rising Sun though blessed be God the Preserver of men and of Kings especially God hath given their bloudy Devises a miscarrying Womb and dry Paps But doubtlesse there are more such Villains yet undetected for there are now whole Swarms of Professed King killers I mean Jesuits amongst us who as they have had every finger of their hands in working our distractions will imploy both their Arms also to hinder the peace and happinesse of our Church and State and it is clear as the Sun that there are millions of Anabaptistical and fanatick Spirits who will readily joyn heads hearts hands and purses to the work there is no trusting to their crying out with the rest of the Kings good Subjects God save the King for like Rogues that are Burnt in the hand they only say so because they see they must either for fear or shame God I hope will put it into the hearts of our Patriots in Parliament to ferret these Vermine out of their holes and with a Salutary breath like that mighty strong West wind which took away the Aegyptian Locusts and cast them into the Sea Exod. 10. 19. to clear the Land of all such Malvoglio's as are displeased with the peace and felicity of it and so I passe from the Consideration of these words as they are a Supplication for the safety of the King to a review of them as they are the peoples Acclamation whereby they testifie their Gladsomnesse to God for their King for all the people shouted and said God save the King This Acclamation was made at the Inauguration of Saul as bad a King as likely could be found in the whole pack which I the rather observe that I may incite you with the more gladsome hearts and fervent prayers to receive your most Gratious Soveraign for if all Sauls people shouted which was the Signal expression of their Joyes exultancy how much more cause have we to Triumph with exceeding Joy at the Reception of our CHARLS to whom were we freely to chose a King out of the whole stock of the Kings of the Nations I am verily perswaded we should not possibly find an Equal for where oh where shall we find a mate to this Phoenix whose presence and virtues are able to make us almost forget his incomparable Father Witnesse his pure and unspotted Chastity Emblemed by the Snow-white Lillies in his Royal Armes never yet so much as tainted by the Black-parrated tongues of his most malicious detractors though being now in the Heat and Gallantry of his youth he might doubtlesse have found Temptations enough to have fired inordinate affections amidst the loosenesse and luxuries of forreign Princes Courts Witnesse his profound wisdom and prudence in his solid composing the fierce