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A56593
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Ad testimonium a sermon on the King's day, February the 6th, 1685/6 at St Katharine Coleman's, London / by S.P.
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Patrick, Simon, 1626-1707.
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shall continue as long as his as long as the World shall endure But sure the Obligations of his Subjects to him are far greater than any People ever lay under and ought therefore to be paid in the most dutiful and solemn Manner That great Tribute of Praise as well as of Prayer Give me leave likewise herein to offer you some few Directions and so I 'll conclude The Church directs us to praise God not only with our Lips but in our Lives we may take the same instruction in Praising God's Vicegerent He best praises the Lawgiver who lives most conformable to his Laws and the greatest Panegyric upon Caesar is To Obey his Commands they are the only Flatterers whose Hearts and Tongues do not go together and 't is our Duty to praise our Prince and not to Flatter him Nothing can be grosser than to praise the King's Wisdom and yet at the same time to prefer our own above it My Lord the King saith Mephibosheth is as an Angel of God But then he thought so as well as said it and therefore resign'd all he had in the World to the King's dispose All Distrust and Jealousie is inconsistent with Praise for this must proceed from Love and Love casteth out Fear We have a Prince that of all Mankind ought the most to be trusted because it is not in our powers to provoke him him more to break his Word than we have done Our Provocations have been so great That nothing but his Sacred Word could stand between us and his Anger But this must not encourage us to use him ill for tho the Decree for our Good is gone out of the King's Mouth yet it is not ratified by God without good Conditions We have been grievous Delinquents and are now but upon good Behavior and Lives as well as Hearts are in God's Hand Conc. Lat. Bishop Andrews terms Kings the treasures of the People If so we at present have a most inestimable Treasure But then he bids us remember 2 Cor. 4.7 That we have these Treasures in Earthen Vessels Let us have a great care and use it tenderly that we together with our Prince may see our Childrens Children and peace upon Israel Our Blessing is to us but a new Comer we hardly know yet what it is that we enjoy Consider but one Particular That the English Nation for this last Year hath been a greater Terror abroad than for some Ages before at least-ways 't is in our power soon to be so only by this in not being a Terror to our selves Let but the English Praise and Love their King and all the World will soon stand in awe of him Not that he trusts in his own strength or in the Arm of Flesh but in his God in his Right and in his Innocence Witness that one Act of his whereby in the Assembly now in being he would not what others would perhaps have Excluded his Exclusioners But there is no occasion to be loud and importunate in our Praises they 'l be best understood by our being still and quiet Let us all 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 make it our Ambition to be so It should be our Ambition 1 Thes 4.7 because it is our Interest nay we see it is to no purpose to be otherwise It is but a folly to resist so often the plain and visible Hand of Providence the Injuries and Affronts that are done to Majesty still turn to Blessings And as to our Prince in particular God hath as plainly and manifestly protected him from all his Enemies as if with our own Eyes we had seen him guarded with a Flaming Sword or resting his Head under an Angels Wing God Almighty hath given him so many and such signal Deliverances that we should be even Faithless if we did not believe that it can never be in the power of Men or Devils to hurt him So that God will Reign and the King will Reign be the People never so unquiet God hath Judged the King Ps 43.1 and hath pleaded his Cause against an ungodly Nation He hath delivered him from the deceitful and unjust Man Ps 18.20 The Lord hath rewarded him according to his Righteousness according to the cleaness of his Hands hath he recompensed him And now the King will be sure to live Peaceably and Quietly himself He is resolved to stand fast like a Rock in the midst of his Ocean neither the Raging Waves of the Sea nor the Madness of the People 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hom. II. l. 1. shall ever remove him from his Center He is resolved to deserve Praise and to have it too if not from his People yet from his God To conclude then with the Words of this Psalm His Name shall endure for ever his Name shall be continued as long as the Sun and Men shall be Blessed in him Blessed be the Lord God the God of Israel who only doth wondrous things And Blessed be his Glorious Name for ever Amen and Amen FINIS