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A05166 A sermon preached at VVhite-hall, on the 24. of March, 1621 Beeing the day of the beginning of his Maiesties most gracious reigne. By the Bishop of S. Dauids. Laud, William, 1573-1645. 1622 (1622) STC 15300; ESTC S101899 19,186 54

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Dauid is happy that in the midst of all these various turnes of Gods Countenance A and Cum and Iuxta and Apud wee finde not nor I hope neuer shall that disasterous Aspect of opposition which is contra against For then all Ioy were gone For if it should bee Rex contra vultum Dei then it were all sinne And if it should bee vultus Dei contra Regem both which God forbid then it were all punishment In neither Ioy in neither Blessing It is farre better in my Text if wee take care to hold it there Cum vultu with or in the fauour of his Countenance Thirdly this ioy begins at the King Laetificasti eum Thou hast made him glad He must haue the greatest care and therefore the Ioy must bee first or chiefest in him and if you will take a view of my Text you will find Him excellently seated for the purpose for I find Eum that is Dauid that is the King standing betweene Laetificasti and Gaudium as if God would haue the Kings place knowne by Ioy on the right hand and Ioy on the left heere God places the King this is his ordinance to season his cares therefore if any attempt to displace him to plunge him into griefe to make him struggle with difficulties it is a kinde of Deposing him The care of Gouernement should be eased not discomfited else doubtlesse God would neuer haue placed Dauid betweene Laetificasti gaudium Ioy and Ioy. And it is fit for the people especially the greater in their families to looke to this that Dauid may keepe Inter Laetificasti gaudium the place where God hath set him for when all is done and the braine weary of thinking this will be found true They cannot holde their places in gaudio in ioy if Dauid sit not sure in his and it is an excellent obseruation made by Cassidore a Senator he was and Secretary of State to Theodoricus and after a most strict and deuoted Christian. He makes all sad that endeauours not the Kings Ioy Et omnes affligit qui Regi aliquid necessarium subtrahit And hee afflicts all men that withholds necessaries from the King And certainely it is the glory of a State to keep Dauid vpright where God sets him and that you see is Inter laetificasti gaudium betweene Ioy and Ioy where God euer keepe Him and His. And now I am come to the second generall of the Text the Reason both of the Thing and the Meanes of the Honour and the Manner of Gods laying it vpon Kings And the Reason is Quia sperat because the King puts his trust in the Lord In which may it please you to obserue three circumstances The first of these is the Vertue it selfe which God first gaue the Prophet and for which hee after gaue him a Blessing to the People and Ioy in himselfe The Vertue is Hope That Hope in the Lord. Now Hope followes the nature of Faith And such as the Faith is such is the Hope Both must bee in Domino in the Lord or neither can bee true And it is in a sort with the deniall of Hope in any Creature That the Hope which is founded vpon God alone I say alone as the prime Author may be firme and not diuided Nulli hominum fidens trusting vpon no man is Theodoret. Not in armies nor in riches nor in any strength of man is Euthymius Not in sword nor speare nor shield but in the Name of the Lord of hostes is Dauid himselfe 1. Reg. 17. And Dauid could not lay better hold any where For since before all lies vpon God Tu dedisti and Tu laetificasti Thou hast giuen and Thou hast made glad where could any man fasten better And indeed the words are a reciprocall proofe either to other For because God giues Dauid hopes And because Dauid hopes God giues more abundantly Honour Blessing and Ioy. It is in the Text Quia sperat euen because hee trusts Secondly Is trust then and relying vpon God a matter of such consequence that it alone stands as a cause of these Yes Hope and Trust rightly layde vpon God haue euer beene in his children Loco meriti in stead of merit And what euer may bee thought of this Hope it is a Kings vertue in this place And Thomas prooues it That Hope is necessary for all men but especially for Princes And the more trust in God Honoratior Princeps the more honour hath the King as Apollinarius obserues it And therefore Hope is not here a naked expectation of somewhat to come But it is Hope and the ground of Hope Faith as some later Diuines thinke not amisse And Faith embraces the Veritie of God as well as the Promises made vpon it And this was right For so God promised and so Dauid beleeu'd he would performe 2 Reg. 7.29 And since wee haue found Faith and Hope in this action of Trusting God as our English well expresses it let vs neuer seeke to shut out Charity And if Faith Hope and Charitie bee together as they loue to goe then you may vnderstand the Text Quia sperat because he Hopes De toto cultu of the entire worship of God For as S. Isidor obserues in all inward worship which is the heart of Religion are these three Faith Hope and Charitie And in the most vsuall phrase of Scripture though not euer scarce one of these is named but all are vnderstood to be present and if so then because he trusts is as much as Quia colit because he worships So at last we are come to the cause indeed why God set Dauid for such a Blessing to his people why he filled him with such ioy of his countenance And all was Quia culto● because he was such a religious worshipper It is in the Text then that a Kings Religion is a great cause of his happinesse The greatest Politicians that are haue confessed thus farre that some Religion is necessary to make a King a Blessing to his People and a common-wealth happy But the matter is not great with them whether it bee a true or a false Religion so it be one But they are heere in a miserable error for since they suppose a Religion necessary as they must my Text will turne all the rest vpon them that true Religion is most apt and most able to Blesse and Honour both King and People For first Trueth is stronger then falsehood and will so prooue it selfe wheresoeuer it is not preuented or abused and therefore it is more able Next true Religion breeds euer true Faith and true Hope in God which no false Religion can therefore it is more apt Then true Hope and Faith haue heere the promise of God for the Kings Ioy the Peoples Blessing euen Quia sperat because he trusts whereas the rest haue onely his permission Therefore it is both both more apt and more able to blesse King and Common-wealth