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A86449	A sermon preached in St. Maries in Cambridge, upon Sunday the 27 of March, being the day of His Majesties happy inauguration: By Ri. Holdsvvorth D.D. Master of Emmanuel Colledge in Cambridge, Vicechancellour of the Universitie, and one of His Majesties chaplains. Published by His Majesties command.	Holdsworth, Richard, 1590-1649.	1642 (1642)	Wing H2401; Thomason E155_6; ESTC R23312	23,401	48

that the proposall of such laws comes from others let us then look to the many gracious messages which occasionally have been sent at severall times to that great Assemblie In these he speaks onely by himself and in so gracious a manner that to reade some passages would ravish a loyall heart as well as endear it In some of them we may see how he puts the happinesse of his people into the same proximitie with his own in others how he neglects his own for our accommodation In that of January the 20 you have these golden words That he will rather lay by any particular respect of his Own dignitie then lose time for the Publick good That out of his Fatherly care of his people he will be ready both to equall and to exceed the greatest examples of the most Indulgent Princes in their Acts of Grace and Favour to their people Again in that of the 28 of January there is yet more tendernesse He calles God to witnesse and with him the attestation of that sacred Name is very religious that the preservation of the publick peace the law and the libertie of the subject is and shall alwayes be as much his care and industrie as the safety of his own life or the lives of his dearest children Lastly in the other of the 15 of March there is more then yieldings and concessions a gracious prevention of our desires for he is pleased to excite and call upon that Great Councell even the second time to prepare with all speed such Acts as shall be for the establishment of their priviledges the free and quiet enjoying their estates and fortunes the liberties of their persons the securitie of the true Religion now professed in the Church of England What now shall we say to these things Is not that of Solomon made good unto us Prov. 16.10 A Divine sentence is in the lips of the King Have we not good cause to take up Ezra's benediction Ezr. 7.27 Blessed be the Lord which hath put such things as these into the Kings heart Such things as these we were not so ambitious as to hope for I trust we shall not be so unworthy as to forget For my self I could wish that according to the dutie of this day I could set them forth as they deserve But they need no varnish of Oratorie neither was it my intendment to use them further then for the proof of the proposition in hand to shew you how this highest excellencie of Princes in the care of their peoples happinesse is radiant in our Gracious Sovereigne Yet you may remember also that I told you The point needs not so much proofs as retributions It calls aloud upon us for all dutifull returns of honour love obedience loyaltie and thankfull acknowledgements into that Royall bosome the first mover and originall under God of our happinesse In the sphere of Nature there is none of us ignorant how willing the members are to make return to the head for the government and influence they receive from thence they will undergo hardship expose themselves to danger recede from things convenient nay necessary they will not grudge at any plentie or honour which is bestowed upon the head knowing by instinct that from the head the benefit of all redounds to them It is likewise obvious in the regiment of families which are as States epitomized that both honour and dutie belong to the Paterfamiliâs not onely for the right he hath in the house but for the provision and support and comfort which all receive from him Now Kings by way of excellencie are Fathers who look upon all their subjects as so many children and with that Noble Emperour account equally as daughters Rempublicam Juliam The very Heathen which saw onely the outside or Civill part reputed them as Fathers but the Prophet Isaiah when he speaks of the Church goes further and calls them Nursing Fathers Isai 49.23 a word which in propriety of speech might seem incongruous because they have no more of the nurse then the bosome nothing at all of the breasts if what is wanting in the sex were not supplied by their tendernesse Benignitie and clemencie and sweetnesse of disposition and facilitie of accesse and compassion toward the distressed these are their breasts more breasts then two the same both their breasts and their bowels which day by day they open to thousands severally and to all at once for the suckling and fostering of the publick Therefore it behoves us to think of returns By this word Christ read us the lesson Matth. 22.21 Bender or Return unto Cesar the things which are Cesars or the things which are from Cesar The protection of lives and fortunes and worldly comforts let him have these back again in the honour love fear obedience supplies which belong to the Sovereigne Head and Parent of a beloved people that his throne may be established by your loyalty his reigne still prosperous by your prayers blessings his life lengthened by yeares taken forth of your own that so he may long rejoyce to say with David Happy are the people So I have done with the second step of the Gradation the speciall part of the argument here handled It is De felicitate Populi The third is yet more speciall It is not onely De felicitate Populi but De felicitate Populari that is De Hac felicitate populi or De hoc Genere felicitatis Beatus cui SIC Happy they who are in SUCH A CASE or CONDITION What that condition is you may see in the former words in which there are severall blessings mentioned and all of them temporall Plenty is one in those words That our garners may be filled with all manner of store our oxen strong to labour our sheep bring forth thousands Peace is another in these words That there be no leading into captivitie no complaining in our streets Multitude of people especially such as are vertuous a third in those That our sonnes may grow up as the young plants our daughters may be as the polished corners of the temple The safetie and prosperitie of David their King a fourth or rather a first for it is first mentioned He giveth salvation or victorie to Kings and delivereth David his servant from the peril of the sword Of all these civill threeds the Psalmist twists this wreath of Happinesse Happy they who are in such a case Now hence ariseth the scruple Why David a man of so heavenly a temper and of so good a judgment in things which concern salvation that he is said to be A man after Gods own heart 1. Sam. 13.14 should place felicitie in these temporalls Devout S. Paul who of all others came nearest to Davids spirit had these outward things in no better esteem then as drosse Phil. 3.8 or dung and our blessed Saviour in his first Sermon thought good to begin the chain of happinesse from povertie and to second it from hunger Matt. 5.