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A67235	The duty of honouring the King and the obligations we have thereto delivered in a sermon preached at Richmond in York-shire, on the 6th of February, 1685/6 being the day on which His Majesty began His happy reign : at a general assembly of the loyal gentry of those parts, held there on purpose to celebrate the King's quiet and peaceable succession to the throne of his ancestors / by Christopher Wyvil ...	Wyvill, Christopher, 1651?-1711.	1686 (1686)	Wing W3786; ESTC R9015	18,499	36

Kingdoms good to wage War against whom we are bound to fight and ventured our Lives and Persons in his just defence which should be as much at his Command and Service as our Estates and Fortunes His Domestick Enemies of the two are the worse for a man can have no worse Adversaries then those of his own Houshold a Kingdom divided against it self cannot stand and if an house be divided against it self unless the good hand of Providence intervene the ruine of that house must needs be near Now his Majesties Domestick Enemies are those of his Natural Subjects that being instigated by the Devil do bear an ill will to his Person and carry on evil Designs and evil Practices against his Government Of which some perhaps may be in open Rebellion and with a bare face commit Acts of Hostility against him And a Man would really wonder that there should ever be such Monsters in Nature such unnatural bruit Beasts as thirst after the Bloud of their own Father endeavour to rip up the Womb of their own Mother and seek the subversion of the Place of their own Nativity the which all they may be suppos'd to do that draw their Swords against their Liege Lord and Sovereign and by a civil War disturb the public Peace And it is but the last Years Revolution that makes us experimentally know that there may be Devils upon Earth in humane shape as well as there are really Devils in Hell and as these rebel against God so do they rebel against Gods Vicegerent Now when Rebels are got to such an Head as to appear in open Arms it is the part of good Subjects to shew themselves for the Kings side by resisting and opposing them by preventing their Numbers to encrease by cutting them short of Relief by Declaring openly against them by animating each other to withstand them all of them in their several Capacities contributing some way or other to quell and subdue them Again others there are of the King 's Domestick Enemies that appear not so openly but yet covertly manage the same mischievous and treasonable Designs And they are by so much the more formidable dangerous by howmuch the more unperceivable and unsuspected their ways and methods of Proceeding are such are they who will not professedly declare and level War against him but they will lay cunning Plots and privy Conspiracies to deprive him of his Life Others will profess an abhorrence of such a bloody Enterprize and declare that they have no ill will towards His Person but yet they will not stick at seizing of his Guards taking Him out of the hands as they think of evil Counsellers and keeping Him under a Restraint till he shall be forced to comply with their unreasonable Demands or they will endeavour as was the Saying and the Design of that ungrateful Traytor the late Earl of Shaftsbury leisurely to walk His Majesty out of His Dominions by setting up factious Clubs and Cabals of disaffected and discontented People by subtile and crafty Insinuations withdrawing the Vulgar from the Duty of their Allegiance infecting their Minds with seditious Principles and making them sit for any sudden Assault and Insurrection which things they do some for some particular disgrace which they deservedly received at Court seeking to revenge their private Quarrel by setting the whole Nation on a Flame some out of Pride and Ambition not thinking themselves sufficiently rewarded for their former Services some out of a vain affectation of Popularity desiring to be esteem'd the Head of a Party some out of a design to fish in troubled Waters and to become gainers by public Destractions and lastly some for the meer sake of doing Mischief like the Scottish Ferguson that remorseless Villain that when the accursed Treasons of his Confederates were hapily detected had notwithstanding the boldness to profess that for his part he would never be out of a Plot as long ashe liv'd Now when such men are busied upon such hellish Contrivances it is the Duty of all those that truly Honour the King to be assisting to him in counterplotting their Designs in suppressing their Meetings in making if possible a discovery of their Actions and bringing their Persons to condign Punishment Particularly it should be the Endeavour of all inferior Magistrats and subordinate Officers who are to be a terrour to evil Works to take care that the King suffers no wrong by such Workers of evil that none of His just Rights and Prerogatives be invaded and violated by them to keep the Populacy quiet and make them do their own Business to suppress seditious Tumults in time lest by connivance and forbearance they become too headstrong and unruly and by a vigilant Circumspection to look well to the Trust which their great Master hath reposed in them Nay it concerns all the loyal Party when the Faction grows insolent and daring it mainly I say concerns us all to be no less couragious and active according to our power in asserting the King's Cause and vindicating his honour and not to suffer it to be run down by Noise and Clamour and by Fury and Violence in such a Case to sit still and be afraid to own Him is to betray him and quietly permit him to become a Prey to those that hate him we should speak our Minds freely and act boldly in the Defence of him and chuse rather to be buried in the Ruines of the Royal Family if that must fall then part with our Loyalty and side with their Enemies But Thirdly As we may be very instrumental in promoting the King's honour by relieving his Wants and by assisting him against all his Enemies so likewise may we be so in praying unto God for him which as it is a Duty enjoyn'd us by St. Paul exhorting us to pray as for all Men so more particularly for Kings so it is in its self most easie and in every Mans power to perform For whereas all men have not wherewithal to contribute towards the relief of the King's wants all men may nevertheless pray for Him The poorest man in his Dominions can make him this Offering and the richest can afford him nothing better He that begs his bread from door to door and is himself destitute of present Sustenance may enrich his Prince by the Tribute of his Prayers and advance him higher then all the Kings of the Earth And again whereas all the King's Subjects are not nor indeed conveniently can be actually engaged in his Service by fighting for him and assisting him against his Enemies yet they may all pierce Heaven by their Prayers and derive down showers of blessings upon his Armies and make them Successful and Victorious Now those things which we should chiefly beg of God for him are that he may be endowed First With all Spiritual blessings with the Piety of David with the Wisdom of Solomon and with a daily supply and encrease of all other gifts and

how miraculously he escaped the danger of Shipwrack in the Glocester Frigate how Providentially he was deliverred from the Barbarous assassination intended at the Rye And Lastly how wonderfully Successful his Arms were in the Suppression of the late Rebels both in England and Scotland when I say we reflect upon these things we cannot but discern and adore the good hand of God that out of such Perils both by Sea and Land hath reserved Him at last to Sway the Scepters of these Kingdoms and prospered the beginning of his Reign with a Victory so Remarkable and so much conducing to the good of his Subjects But particularly should we affectionately upon this Day Commemorate his quiet and peaceable Succession to the Throne of his Ancestors For when were consider how maliciously the Minds of ill men were not long since set against him what endeavours we made use of to exclude him from his just Rights Him the next Heir to the Imperial Crown of this Realm Him the intirely beloved Brother the only Brother of that most merciful Prince King Charles the Second Him the Son of that Royal Martyr King Charles the First Him that had often hazarded his Royal Life in the defence of this Nation and by his Courage and Conduct had gain'd Credit and Glory to it and farther what Rumors and Stories to that end were made of Him what bandyings and Consultations were held to work his Ruine and Subvertion and thereby to involve the whole Land in a Miserable Confusion and Sea of bloud and yet that notwithstanding all this all those restless endeavours of unreasonable men should be quite frustrated and brought to nought that the Strivings of the People should so soon be converted into a joyful reception of him and that he should so quietly and so peaceably enter upon the Entire Possession of his just Birthright and full Power without Bloudshed without Tumults without any Opposition with the joyfull Triumphs and Acclamations of all good men and receive no disturbance till the Late Unnatural Risings when I say we consider all this how great reason have we to Rejoyce Unfeignedly and most heartily to give the most Merciful God all Thanks and Praise who so wonderfully and so happily brought to pass the quiet Settlement of his Anointed and thereby delivered him and us from those Direful effects that must necessarily have been the sad Consequents of that black Bill of EXCLVSION Nor can it be any diminution of the honour or any reflection upon the memory of Our Late most Gracious Sovereign to make the Day on which he deceased a day of Joy and Thansgiving For we cannot but at the same time gratefully commemorate the many blessings we enjoy'd during the Reign of that most excellent Prince and in the midst of our Holy Triumphs for the happy Succession of the next Heir we cannot but affectionately remember that it was He next under God who by his Vigilant care and Prudent management of affairs allayed the heats and madness of the People stem'd the current of Popular fury brought the face of things to so good an issue and made the entrance to the Throne so plain and so easie for his Lawful Successor It was God's great mercy to us that he Lived so long to do so great things that he Died a quiet and a natural Death and after all the Storms and Tempests he strugled with left his Kingdoms in so serene a posture Wherefore whilst we endeavour to express our Joy and our Thankfulness to God for the King 's quiet and peaceable Succession let us not forget him who through God's blessing was the great cause and instrument of it So shall we honour the King that now is and not wrong the Memory of the King that is dead And I beseech you my Friends give me leave to exhort you to celebrate the Feast of this Day thankfully cheerfully and soberly not in Rioting and Drunkenness not in Licentiousness and Disorder lest whilst you pretend to observe it in honour of the King you should by your Intemperance dishonour God Having thus at large explain'd the Duty of Honouring the King and shewn you the chief Parts whereof it doth consist I shall in the 2d Second place but very briefly touch upon the Obligations we have to this Duty and so conclude 1st The first of which may be taken from the Consideration of the Authority by which he Reigns and that is no less then Divine for by me saith God Kings Reign and Princes decree Iustice by me Princes rule and Nobles even all the Iudges of the earth He derives not his Power from the People for they are but his Natural Subjects nor from the Solemnity of his Coronation for that is but a Ceremony of State nor from inherent or infused Grace for the most graceless Heathens have been invested with Sovereign Dominion but from the Constitution and appointment of God for there is no power St. Paul tells us but of God the powers that be are ordained of God Whence it is that all Kings and Supreme Rulers are called in Scripture the Lord 's Anointed And particularly Cyrus the Persian Monarch by Profession a meer Heathen is in Isaiah said by God himself to be his Anointed and all civil Magistrates those especially that have the Supreme Jurisdiction are also upon this accouut said to be Gods of whom God himself saith I have said ye are Gods and that very fitly and properly for they only act in his name by his Power upon his account and as God is the only Supream Governour over all the World so are these under him in their respective Dominions and so there may be as St. Paul saith Gods many and Lords many Usurpers that by Violence and Rebellion step into the Throne of Majesty such as was the Late Protector falsly so called have not this Prerogative nor is their power from God of such it is that God speaketh in the 8th of Hosea and the 4th verse they have set up Kings but not by me they have made them Princes and I knew it not But all Lawful Governours that come in by right and Lawful means such as beyond all condradiction is Our present Sovereign have their Character from the God of Gods and derive their Authority from a Divine Sanction Wherefore looking upon the King not barely as a Man but as a man by Gods appointment Reigning over us we cannot but find our selves oblig'd to Honour him Forasmuch as by honouring him we Honour the Ordinance of God and by not Honouring Him neither do we Honour the Ordinance of God We should Honour him for the Lords Sake who hath alwayes esteem'd any affront or disrespect done to His Anointed as if it had been directly offer'd to himself And if there be some degree of Honour due to the Kings Ambassadours abroad as they are his Representatives and to all Inferior Magistrates at Home as they act by his Commission and are sent by him how