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A10501	Vivat Rex A sermon preached at Pauls Crosse on the day of his Maiesties happie inauguration, March 24⁰. 1614. And now newly published, by occasion of his late (no lesse happy) recovery. By John Rawlinson Dr of Divinity, and one of his Maiesties chaplaines in ordinary.	Rawlinson, John, 1576-1630.	1619 (1619)	STC 20777; ESTC S115693	31,914	48

long life because he is the cause of his owne ill No more can the people wish themselues any greater good than the life of the King because he is the cause of all their weale A King then being Totum populi the total-summe as I may say of all the peoples welfare good reason that Totus populus not some but all the people should iointly pray for His welfare that both Vox Votum their voice and their wish Chordula Cor their tongue-string and their heart-string Clamor Amor their loude shoute and their loue should sound in an vnison to make vp this sweet consort of Vivat Rex God saue the King that they should doe as the people doe in my text Clamare as it were rend and teare the very clouds with the cry and shoute of their prayers that they may pull downe a blessing of long life vpon the head of the King crying both vnâ voce with one voice that they haue Vnum Regem but one King vivâ voce with a loude on liuely voice that they may haue Vivum Regem a huing King Vivat Rex Thus far of Vivat Rex as it is a supplication It 's now more than time I should speake of it as it is an Acclamation or a voice of ioy and thanksgiuing vnto God and therefore now this second acception shall onely serue me for Application to the day Vivat Rex PART 2. ACCLAMATION fereuing for APPLICATION The ioints and passages of our ioy and thanksgiuing may be three 1 That we haue Regem a King 2ly That we haue Talem such a King who for his matchlesse Graces and virtues may more truely bee call'd a None-such Ps 118.24 3ly That this is the day Quem fecit Dominus which the Lord hath made nay rather In quo factus ast Dominus Wherein King Iames was made our Lord. It is the day of our reioycing for his Crowne and ought therefore to be the Crowne of our reioycing REIOICE that we haue 1 REGEM 1 First then reioice we that we haue a King Vixit Ragina we had a Queene who had shee liued wee should haue thought we had had no need of King Iames But now Vivit Rex we haue a King and while He liues we haue cause to say we haue no need of Queene Elsabeth Both of them so incomparably excellent that it must be the commendation of both that either of them was like the other Hieron epist l. 3. ep ad Eustoch She was a Queene of whom we might truly say as St Ierom said of that Roman Paula Vnius contempsit gloriam vrbis totius orbis opinione celebratur She contemn'd the glory of one City her name is pretious throughout the whole World Eurip. Hecub Or rather as Euripides said of Polyxena 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 setting aside her mortality she was a Goddesse here on earth Insomuch that Grammarians did even blush at their old rule of Masculinum dignius est Faminino The masculine gender is more worthy than the faeminine till King Iames as on this day came as our Dayes-man to arbitrate the matter and to vindicate the credit of His sexe It was not without cause that during the time of that short Inter-regnum or enter-space of reigne betweene the death of that blessed Queene and the entring of our blessed King to this kingdome Ios 7.5 our hearts did melt like water as did the hearts of the Israelties For what euils had we not then iust cause to expect But when the wine of all our comfort failed vs when the pitchers and vessels of our hearts ouerflowed with the water of sorow and compunction then did God euen the God of Iacob who is a most praesent and extemporary helpe in the needfull time of trouble of his owne free bounty and mercy turne our water our salt water into wine Then did our 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or King grow vp as it were in an instant like the herbe Basil call'd Basilica or Regia berba which by some is also call'd Ocymum of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 because of the celerity and sodainnes of it's growth His title contrary to the hope of our foes and feare of our friends taking firme and peaceable footing in our land before his person and that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 without the effusion or shedding of any one drop either of bloud or of sweate So that as Iacob said to Laban Gen. 30.30 Gen. 30 Benedixit tibi Dominus ad introitum meum The Lord hath blessed thee by my comming So may our Iacob say to this land of ours And in a better sense may this Land of ours sing SOL RE ME FA that is SOLus REx ME FAcit It 's the King onely vnder God that mak'sane than could one of the Popes of whom the same song was set vp as a Pasquil in Rome meaning that onely the King of Spaine had made him Pope by giuing a Spanish fig to some of his praedecessors in that See And so as St Austin speakes of the sorowes ioyes of the righteous Tristitia nostra habet Quasi Aust in Ps 48. sed Laetitia nostra non habet Quasi Our sorow for Queene Elisabeth was but as it were sorow but our ioy for King Iames is ioy indeed 1 NOT A PLVRALITY Ioy indeede and greate ioy that we haue not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a plurality of Kings For Kings they say are impatient of copartners and kingdomes I am sure are as impatient of them as Kings themselues The world at some times can hardly endure the heate but of one Sun but certes if there were two Sunnes they would quite burne it vp It 's an old and for the most part a true rule in Oeconomy that hee that hath but one servant hath a whole servant he that hath two hath but halfe a servant but he that hath three hath never a servant And no lesse true is it in Policy of Kings who are Servipublici publike Servants for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A ruler Max. Tyr. dissert 20. ●ub fin or a King saith Max. Tyrius is seruant to many Masters One King a whole King two Kings halfe a King three Kings and never a King In 1 Macch. 1 we reade 1. Macch. 1.10 that after the death of King Alexander his seruants shared his kingdome among them and so the Macedonians in steed of one King had many Kings But see what followes in the very next words Et multiplicata sunt mala in terrâ and much wickednes encreased in the land O how happy then we that haue not Regem vnum in pluribus a King that is but one among many but Plures in vno many Kings in one The King of England the King of Scotland the King of France the King of Ireland all foure Kings in our one King So that he is not onely 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Dionys de divin nom l. 4. but

what they intended to haue acted at your last Parliament To quit their en●●esy ye shall do well to enact some stricter order against them now at your next Parliament It is observed by Eustathiu● Eustath in Dionyl 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that the people Arimas●● in Scythia are all borne 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 onely with one ●y● The ground of which accident ●e refer's to their winking with one ey when they shoot For with much winking 〈◊〉 their ayming that ey wexed lesse first in the fathers then in the sons and so in their sons sons for many generations till at last they had wi●kt it quite out and so it continued I will not take vpon me to divine but I pray God we winke not so long at Popery till in the end we winke out the very EY of this our land which is our Gratious Soveraigne the Ey of our soules too which is God's true Religion And my hearts desire vnto God for this our Israel is that as his Maiestie hath in this surpassed his Sister-Queene whose 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or after-fami shall never decay so long as religion hath a tongue to speake that he hath in a manner extinguish'd those Novatores New Sectaries or authors of innovation in Church discipline So in this he would also surpass himselfe even in weeding out those Veteratores or crafty factors for the Old religion as they call it who haue a●ready trumpt dangers enough in his way to arme him with expectation of nothing but inlaelicity mischiefe at their hands Away with all dispensation in matter of religion which indeed i● but nick-named a dispensation A dispensation that is against right and reason saith the Summist out of Panormitan is not to be called Dispensatio Angel de Cas consc sed Dissipatie a Dispensation but a Dissipation Religio à religando Religion saith S. Austin hath it's name of tying Austin retrac l. 1. c. 13. Lactant l. 4. c. 28. Histor tripart l. 1. c. 7. because it 's it that tyes and knitt's the hearts of the people not only to God but to their Prince too And therfore Constantine the Emperour made Religion which is the truth of Christ to bee the touch-stone of the truth of his subiects loue to him And because hee would finde who were indeed his faithfull friends hee caused proclamation to be made that as many as would reneag the Christian faith they should bee his friends his Counsellours of estate all the rest must be packing Wherevpon many of them revolting from the faith in hope of preferment others keeping the faith but retiring themselues the Emperour changed his decree keeping those onely in office which kept their saith to God but expelling and amouing those that denyed the faith Ye saith hee that keepe not your faith with God what hope can I haue that ever ye should proue faithfull subiects vnto me Such then being the condition and frailty of Kings themselues that vncerteine it is whither they shall dy a dry or a moist death whither by the hand of God or by the hands of men it is but needfull that wee make his Maiesties Life our Samuel or our 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is 1. Sam. 1.20 Plato l. quendam inscribit 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is that we aske it of God by prayer that as his Maiesties reigne began with a preface of prayer which indeed is the best preface to every busines even a prayer of Vivat Rex God saue the King So we should still continue our prayers for it as we doe this day in publike and as I hope we do every day in private as being a thing which S. Paul would haue to be prayed for with an Inprimis or first of all 1. Tim. 2. And 1. Tim. 2.1 that I may set the keener edge vpon every one of you for discharge of this so necessary a duty Let it not grieue you Beloued if as Christ's Sepulcher was made in a Garden Io. 19. So in the gardē as I may say of this day's ioy and triumph Ioh. 19.41 I do here build also your Sepulchers especially seeing we are now In Sepulchreto in a Coemetery or place of Sepulchers Quòd si magna ruat quercus trepidate myrica Humfied contr monst prodit If the ax of death hew downe the great and mighty Oaks ahlas what shall become of vs poore Shrubs If death spare not the head it selfe how should the members hope to escape Wherefore as Zipporah circumcised her son with a sharp stone Ex. 4. Ex. 4.25 So let all of vs circumcise our hearts with remembrance of the graue stone from which none no not Princes themselues can plead exemption There are of you who either haue or may haue your chambers as gorgeously and as sumptuously bedeckt as was that highest dining chamber in Pliny which ranne round about continually like the heavens P●●● in the roofe of it were curiously wrought the Sun the Moone the Starres And yet when ye haue made you such a Heauen here on earth dy ye must Earth must and will to Earth But ahlas Beloued this is it that deceiues vs we are impatient either to heare or thinke of death till it come Whence it is that though we haue Tot spectacula tot specula so many spectacles and so many looking-glasses of mortality before our eyes yet are wee like to those that are bitten with mad dogs Qui sespsos non noscunt in speculo Gerson who knowe not themselues in a glasse A second motiue to the people to pray for the Kings life 1 NECESSITAS is the Necessity of it in reguard of themselues Vivat Rex vt Vivat Regnum Let the King liue that his Kingdome may liue for the Kings life is the life of the whole Kingdome 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the very word in my text for a King is so call'd because he is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the foundation of the people Greg. Mor. 9. l. c. 10. Sap. 6.24 according to which 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the wise man saith Sap. 6. that a wise King is Stabilimentum populi the support or stay or staffe of his people And because a King is Persona publica not a private but a publike person hence is it that his style is Mandamus Volumus in the plural We will and command So that when the people pray for the King they do indeed in effect pray for them selues Accidentia non sunt entia nisi quia sunt entis saith the Philosopher Met. l. 7. A●●●● Met. l. ● Accidents haue no being of themselues but onely as they are inhaerent in a substance which hath a selfe-being And surely so may the people say to their King Quòd vivo valeo si valeo tuum est that both their being and their well-being depend's vpon him As therefore one can wish a covetous man no greater mischiefe than a