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Tvvo sermons preached in Scotland before the Kings Maiesty the one, in his chappell royall of Holy-Roode-house at his Highnesse comming in: the other, in the church of Drumfreis at his Highnesse going out: by W. Cowper ...
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promise of protection to godly Kings in the doing of their office for this comming in and going out is a Periphrasis familiarly vsed by the Spirit of God to expresse the Royall function I am now said Moses an hundreth and twenty yeere old and can no more goe out and in before you that is I can no more doe the Office of a Gouernour vnto you And againe when he prayed for Ioshua The Lord God of the Spirits of all flesh appoint a man to go in and out before the Congregation that they be not as sheepe without a Shepheard This same is more cleere out of that Prayer of Salomon I am but young and know not how to goe in and out Now what he meanes by this he expounds himselfe Giue to thy seruant an vnderstanding heart that I may discerne betweene good and bad and may iudge thy people So that to goe out and in before the people is to iudge the people rightly and to discerne betweene the good and the euill Of this first may appeare what a great blessing of God a religious Ruler is walking himselfe in the way of righteousnesse and leading his people both by Law and example to follow him when hee so rules his Subiects as onely caring how to make them subiects vnto God Such was the Princely and most Christian disposition of Frederic the Emperor who being demanded whom of his subiects hee loued best answered Them who so please me that in no case they will displease God As the King leadeth so commonly the people follow Ipsi se homines in Regis velut vnici exempli mores formant men fashion themselues to the manners of the King as their onely paterne and example Qâ—â— in saeculi cubnâ—ne constituti sunt aut plurimos secum perdunt aut ad salutem ducunt they who are placed into the top of honour either they saue or destroy many with themselues if they be euill they are euill to others and to themselues if they be good they can not but doe good vnto others Also a wicked Ieroboam will cause Israel to sinne but a good Ezekiah will turne them againe vnto the Lord. Blessed art thou O Land when thy King is the sonne of Nobles that is noble for vertue wisedome and godlinesse When the Ruler of the Land dare cast the first stone at Adulterers being innocent himselfe When he dare with Nehemiah shake his lap against Oppressors being free of Oppression himselfe Such a one with a good conscience may pray as he did O my God remember me in goodnesse according to all that I haue done for this people Againe we see here that the Office of a King is full of labour it is a comming in and a going out the end of one businesse is the beginning of another The Egyptians were wont to figure vigilancy by the Lyons head Manethon the Egyptian in his writs to Herodotus giues out that the Lyon sleepes not at all though Aristotle with better reason affirme Nullum animal perpetua vti vigilia that no creature can watch continually yet two things moued them to that opinion the one was that when the Lyon resteth he stirreth his taile continually the other is quòd Leo magnos habeat oculos palpâ—bras as adeoparuâ—s vt non possint oculum penitùs obtegere that the Lyon hath great eyes and so little eye-lids as are not able to couer the eye fully therefore is it that euen in sleeping the Lyon lookes as if hee were waking Howeuer it be hereby properly is figured the restlesse care of conscientious Kings They may lye as one sayes in beds of Iuory trimmed with carpets of Egypt but ouer-hanged with curtaines of care their mindes are in a continuall motion day and night how to go in and out before their people Neither is it possible that any man could be sufficient for so laborious and hard a charge for it is ars artium regere hominem were not as the calling is singular so it hath a singular vnction accompanying it Presumptuous men out of their ignorant mindes may thinke themselues fit enough for the highest places But let men beware to vsurpe for a Royall office without the Royall vnction is a burden that will beare downe and oppresse the stoutest the strongest and the wisest Damocles may stand for an example who being set in the Chaire of King Dionysius when hee looked vp to the sword hanging aboue his head loathed all the honour and pleasure offered to him by such as were appointed to serue him and was well content quickly to quit his place and no maruell for it was not his calling and therefore had he not that vnction that only maketh men strong able and meet for the calling But to returne a conscientious King for so are they who haue the calling and the vnction is full of cares hee is not like that womanly Emperour of Assyria Sardanapalus of whose base behauiour it is shame to speake among men nor yet like that Romane Emperour Domitian quitantae fuit desidiae vt in cubiculo solus acuto stilo muscas configeret who was so giuen to idle loytering that hee would sit alone all day in his chamber pricking at Flyes with a sharpe bodkin But a good King is like that good Iehosaphat of whom it is written that he went and returned through the people from Beersheba to mount Ephraim setting Iudges in the Land City by City and bringing home againe to the Lord God of their Fathers such as had falne from him from one Prouince one City one house to another he trauaileth continually exercising his Royall function Blessed bee the Lord who hath set such a Iehosaphat ouer vs who taketh the paines and counteth it his pleasure to trauell from one end of the I le to the other for the good of his people In respect of them from whom he commeth his Maiesty his iourney is a going out they looke after him not without sorrow as vnto the Sunne descending comforted only with assured hope that it will shortly rise againe vnto them In respect of vs it is a comming in yea a comming home and his Maiesties subiects here of all estates looke vnto him with ioy as a Sunne rising which long had been absent from them We wish that as in the dayes of Iosua the Sunne stayed in Gibâ—ah and the Moone in the valley of Aialen so this Land might for euer enioy the presence of our Soueraine but in this the will of our God and the will of our Soueraine must be the limits of our desires Yet as the Sunne rolling in his Sphere benefites euery place wherevpon he shineth and leaueth tokens of remembrance till hee come againe so is it expected that his Maiesties comming into this Land shall be like the raine vpon grasse new mowne where the sythes of the Sonnes of Aâ—ak haue
TVVO SERMONS PREACHED IN Scotland before the Kings MAIESTY The one in his Chappell Royall of Holy-Roode-house at his Highnesse comming in The other in the Church of Drumfreis at his Highnesse going out By W. COWPER Bishop of Galloway and Deane of his Maiesties Chappell Royall NOLI ALTVM SAPERE LONDON Printed by G. P. for Iohn Budge and are to be sold at his shop in Pauls Church-yard at the greene Dragon 1618. TO THE RIGHT Reuerend Father in God Iames Lord Bishop of Winton Deane of his Maiesties Chappell-Royall and one of his Maiesties most Honourable Priuie Counsaile MY LORD SHortly after his Maiesties departure from Drumfreis to Carleel I posted away these two little Sermons vnder hope they might serue for witnesses of my willing affection to haue attended his Maiestie in the rest of the iourney if the condition either of my person which is infirme or of the place which was no longer pertinent to me could so haue permitted How they were miscarried I know not belike they haue taken in the Westerne way wherein their father and fellowes had not been accustomed to walke before them alway after long wandring they returned backe againe vnto me but not without good tydings for the one of them told me he was certainly informed to find fauour with my Lord Duke of Lennox his Grace who still kept in mind that Welcome giuen to his Maiesty in the Royall Chappell of the Palace of Holy-roode-house at his Maiesties comming in The other seemed to mee no lesse confident that he would be countenanced by my Lord Marques of Buckingham who did likewise remember the admonition giuen to the worthy Nobles of England as also that hearty Acclamation of the people who seemed to powre out their hearts with their voices and cryes for his Maiesties preseruation in the Church of Drumfreis at his Maiesties going out Both these I easily beleeued when I called to mind the continual and constant kindnesse which through long experience I had found of the one and that rare humanity of the other euident toward all and whereof it pleased his Lordship when he was here to giue me a speciall proofe Yet could I not presume to present such base and vnapparelled Pilgrimes to so Noble and high Personages Sure I am if they could haue ouertaken that Reuerend Graue most Learned Prelate my Lord Bishop of Ely they had not wanted a Patrone for I knew from himselfe that nothing comming from the B. of Candida Casa would be vâ—welcome to his Lordship for Amphibalus sake harbored in Mona by Crathlint King of Scots and protected there with the Christians that fled with him from the bloudy persecution of Dioclesian But when I had considered all I thought it most kindly since they come from the Deane of his Maiesties Chappell here they should take their course directly to your Lordship Deane of his Highnesse Royall Chappell there My Lord they are Strangers I trust your Lordship will vse them kindly all the fauour I craue is that your Lordship would once bring them vnder his Maiesties eye there to receiue their sentence whether they shall be committed to the Presse that they wander no more or then returned home againe vntill they gather further strength to doe for themselues So rests Your Lordships owne in Iesus Christ W. B. of Galloway HIS MAIESTIES COMMING IN. PSAL. 121. VERS 8. The Lord shall preserue they going out and thy comming in from henceforth and for euer My helpe is in the Name of the Lord. THis verse containes an Oracle or heauenly answer giuen from the great King IEHOVA to Dauid his Deputie-King in Canaan and it commeth this Day to another King the Successor of Dauid and Deputie also of IEHOVA in Brittaine bringing with it a heartie welcome and a most sure promise of a safe-conduct to our Soueraigne in His comming in and going out Euthymius said of the one to wit of Dauid that he was Primi Regis cor lingua calamus the heart the tongue and the pen of the first King And who can deny this in the owne sort competent to our Soueraigne A King whose heart hath proued indiuertible from God qui â—ec minis nec muneribus à vera fide flectiposset a King whose tongue doth pleade the cause of God that they who stand about him to minister vnto him may dayly heare and see Regem Philosophantem Philosephum regnantem a King whose pen though it hath not penned Canonicall Scripture that Canon was coÌ„pleted by S. Iohn yet hath it explained Canonical Scripture and propagated to many Kings and Nations the knowledge of God his Eternal Truth vnknown to theÌ„ before The present Ageadmires it the subsequent shal be forced to acknowledge it there reigneth this day in Brittain long may he raign in it a King who in his own degree is also primi Regis cor lingua calamus and vnto whom that supreme Maiestie who is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 commeth this comfortable promise of protection The Lord shall preserue thy going out and thy comming in This verse by some of the Diuines is resolued in a Prayer by others in a Promise both agreeable to the analogie of Faith but the second most consonant to the course of this Psalme for in the first two verses Dauid sendeth vp his Prayer to the Lord in the remanent sixe the Lord sends downe his answere to Dauid full of comfortable promises whereof this is the last and hath in it these circumstances to be considered First who is it that makes the promise the Lord. Next to whom is the promise made it lurkes in this word thy He who in the beginning of the Psalme lifted vp his eyes to the Lord protesting that his helpe came from him who made the heauen and the earth receiues this answere The Lord shall preserue thy comming and thy going Thirdly the benefit promised is preseruation Last the qualities of this preseruation these are two-fold First it is totall He shall preserue thee in all thy waies both comming and going Next it is perpetuall From henceforth and for euer shall the Lord preserue thee Thus haue we the little body of this Text shortly anatomized both the method and matter thereof explained The first circumstance then is carried in the first word The Lord. This praise belongeth to the Lord that He and none but He preserueth such as are his The Lord keepeth the feete of his Saints said Anna the Mother of Samuel Hee numbreth the haires of our head said our Sauiour O what a care O what a vigilance is this from the sole of our foote to the haire of our head doth the protection of the Lord ouershaddow vs. Et si sic custodiuntur superflua tua in quant à securitate est anima tua And seeing the Lord hath such care of thy superfluities that a haire of thy head fals not to the ground but by his prouidence