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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30451	A sermon preached before the King, at Whitehall, on the second of December, 1697. Being the day of thanksgiving for the peace. / By the Right Reverend Father in God, Gilbert, Lord Bishop of Sarum.	Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.	1698 (1698)	Wing B5907; ESTC R21499	19,321	38

PUBLISHED By His MAJESTY'S Special Command A SERMON Preached before the KING At WHITEHALL On the Second of DECEMBER 1697. BEING The Day of Thanksgiving For the PEACE By the Right Reverend Father in God GILBERT Lord Bishop of SARUM LONDON Printed for Ri. Chiswell at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's Church-yard MDCXCVIII THE Bishop of SALISBURY'S THANKSGIVING-SERMON For the PEACE 2 CHRON. IX 8. Blessed be the Lord thy God which delighted in thee to set thee on his throne to be King for the Lord thy God because thy God loved Israel to establish them for ever therefore made he thee King over them to do judgment and justice THESE are the words of an Arabian Queen who was so moved with a Noble Curiosity raised by the same of Solomon's Wisdom that she undertook a Journey from the utmost parts of the earth furnished her self both with an Equipage and Presents suitable to her Rank and also with Questions by which she might judge whether Fame had not too much heightned this great King's Character She could not believe the half of what she had heard and having probably a good opinion of her own Understanding she resolved to try His with those Questions that puzzled her self But when she came and found that Report instead of magnifying matters had been very defective when she observed the compass of his Knowledge with the depth of his Mind and that he applied his Speculations to the Arts of Government as well as to the Contemplations of Nature when she saw his vast Designs of Buildings his own as well as God's House so wonderfully executed the Treasures he was heaping up and the Methods of Trade he was setting on for procuring constant and fresh Supplies and that he could join the Magnificence that belonged to his Character with the more Real Greatness of his own Comprehensive Mind So that while he employed his Thoughts in the Sublimest Enquiries he did not neglect even those Lesser ones of External Grandeur which how inconsiderable soever they may seem to a Soul capable of vaster things yet are necessary to maintain those Impressions of Awe and Respect which give Authority to Government When she saw the State in which he was served the Pomp of his Retinue and his glorious Processions to the Temple she was overcome with Wonder she despised her own Dignity and Kingdom And thought that the Subjects and Servants of such a Prince were happier than the Sovereigns of other Nations Her admiration of this being above all ordinary Expressions she vents it in those Raptures that I have read She adores the Great Jehovah of the Jews who had taken pleasure in advancing One who so well deserved it and who imployed it so worthily in raising the Honour of that God who had so eminently exalted him From hence she concluded That certainly God loved that Nation whom he had blessed with such a Prince by whose Wisdom and Conduct they were in all probability to be established on the firmest Basis The best Principles and Measures of Government which would make them Sure and Lasting Establish them for ever For she could not think but that so extraordinary a Blessing must be designed for great Ends. Such a King would certainly govern them both with Judgment and Justice Two words that seem to signify the same thing yet the Masters of that Language put this difference That the former relates to the Rewarding and the latter to the Punishing part of Justice So wise a King would maintain a severe Execution of Law against Offenders and be no less careful to find out the Men of Merit and to trust advance and reward these Certainly such a Prince and such an Administration are so great Blessings and so much the greater because so little Common so few Instances of them occurring either in the Observation of the present Age or the Records of past times that wheresoever we meet them we ought to acknowledge they are the special Favours of Heaven and the most distinguishing Marks of God's loving a Nation The Blessings we now enjoy and that great One which at this time we do particularly Acknowledge do so naturally carry us to Devotions like those in my Text that all my Hearers must be beforehand with me in the Application But in our Case there are some Specialties that give it a peculiar Exaltation Solomon had his Crown his Treasures and Armies transmitted down to him Conquests were made for him he himself had gone through none of those Scenes of Horror but had an easy Inheritance conveyed from his Father without Battels or Blood Fatigue or Danger He was Bred up to the Maxims of Government and acquainted with all his Father's Secrets his Designs as well as his Conduct so that he began upon great Advantages David's Long and Glorious Reign before him had prepared Peoples Hearts to Love and Obey him who was God's Choice as well as his Father's The Building so Magnificent a Temple in the beginnings of his Quiet and Auspicious Reign made him the Delight and Wonder of his People Thus the Causes of his being so Great and Prosperous were very visible If then the Queen of Sheba was so struck with seeing Solomon in all his glory with how much louder Accents ought we to carry on the Hallelujahs of This Day who see a Prince Raised and Conducted by such a special train of Amazing Providences without any of those Supports that every Step he has made carries in it Characters of a particular Direction from Heaven He has indeed the Blood of Sovereigns in him but his Crowns are the Gifts of Heaven The Two Great Heroes of the last Age the Defenders of Religion and the Patrons of Liberty were proper Sources to give Life and Descent to One in whom their Characters were to be Exalted as well as their Dignity was to be Raised They were Both of a Race of Sovereigns One was of the First Form but what might be wanting in the Extent of their Territories and the Lustre of their Coronets was fully made up in those truly Royal Accomplishments of their Minds They were Capable of the greatest things and Acted in a Sphere suited to their Capacity They Talked little but did Wonders They had all the Gravity as well as all the Virtues of Religion in them without the Affectations of Shew or Hypocrisy They had none of the Arts of Flattery or Insinuation yet could bring vast Multitudes to Depend on them to Trust to them and to Obey them They had Souls of so peculiar a Make that they seemed Born to Animate whole Nations to a pitch of their own Courage to a like Zeal for Religion and a like Love of Liberty They lived Great but died Greater the greater for the conjunction of their Descent the mixing those Noble Qualities of their Minds as well as their Blood The Issue of such a Union was designed to Perfect the Work which they had begun That seemed Buried with them but was to