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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49783	God save the King, or, The loyal and joyfull acclamation of subjects to their King as it was opened in a sermon, preached in one of the congregations of the city of Edinburgh ...	Lawrie, Robert.	1660 (1660)	Wing L694; ESTC R34509	19,165	22

and right Worship defacing Idolatry and of worthy Joshua who lived before them it is said Josh 24.31 That all the dayes of Joshua the people served the Lord. Now in all these respects it is that a good King is compared to the Light whose rising makes a day unto a people whose setting and obscuring makes their night as the Ancients expound that 24. verse of the 118 Psalm that was sung at the inauguration of David This is the day which the Lord hath made we will be glad and rejoyce in it It is called a day because of the Occurrents of the time that David had risen upon them like a Sun to make a lightsom day The 104. Psalm tels you what difference there is betwixt the day and the night The night is the time when the savage beasts range abroad Wolves Lions and Serpents creep out from their dens and holes But when the day appears these beasts retire to their caves and man goeth forth to his labour So it is in times of confusion when Government is cast loose all sorts of beastly men filthy as Swine greedy as Wolves cruel as Tygers deceitfull as Crocodiles they come abroad boldly to satisfie their lusts But in time of lawfull Authority when a King is on the Throne these vermine are chased to their holes and dens as is declared at large Psal 101. and honest men come forth appear and lift up their heads Application Thus you have seen the Doctrine Let us apply it to our Case We are assembled this day to blesse God for restoring our Kings Majesty to his Dominions Now if any people ever had cause to rejoyce upon such an occasion we much more Considering the unparallel'd circumstances of this our great mercy I desire you to consider of them in these five 1. What is the blessing restored to us 2. When the circumstance of time 3. How the manner 4. Who for a King is set over us 5. To Whom all this goodnesse is manifested a very undeserving people What. 1. What is the blessing restored to us Even our ancient fundamental Government under which these Kingdoms have enjoyed both the Gospel and Peace under which our progenitors have enjoyed many happy and good dayes by the Royal protection of our Kings It hath unhappily come in debate in these late times of confusion what kind of Government is the best But whoever might have disputed such a case it did no wayes become these Nations to do it Kingly Government being of so old and firm and undubitable possession amongst us In this Nation some hundred years before Christs incarnation it was established And if we go to the Scripture with it sure I am there is none will vye with it the very history of the lives of the Kings of the people of God taking up a great part of the Bible and Kingly Government being such a fair Image of God Almighties Government in the world and Christs Kingdom in the Church that the whole dispensations of providence the whole dispensations of grace in the Gospel are set forth to us under the expressions of King and Kingdom Every other word of the Gospel soundeth forth a King and Kingdom to us And why doth the New Testament in many places where duty to the Magistrate is pressed expresly and particularly mention Kings 1 Pet. 2.13 and v. 17. 1 Tim. 2.2 if not to set the seal and approbation of the holy Ghost upon Kingly Government in special And though it be said in Scripture of Saul that God gave Israel a King in His wrath and took him away in His displeasure Yet this can no manner of wayes rub upon Kingly Government seing it is most clear from these two that Kingly Government was not given them in wrath but in much mercy 1. That in Moses time the Lord had appointed that they should be ruled by Kings Deut. 17. and Moses himself was King in Jesurum 2. That after Saul God gave them a David in great love and we may easily perceive that the times of David and Solomon were the best times that ever Israel saw for Religion Peace and Prosperity they were never so godly never so wealthy and well every way as under them I remember when that prevailing Faction in England made their Act rejecting Kingly Government they put in this as a reason because it had been burdensome and troublesome to the Nations But I appeal to all who have considered whether their little finger hath not been more burdensom than the loyns of an hundred of our Kings And I cannot forget what an English Divine hath truly printed of their Commonwealth That we had saith he never so much common poverty as since we became a Commonwealth When. The second circumstance is the time When God hath restored this blessing to us After a dark night of Confusion a sad Interruption that hath been for many years I told you what the Persians did in policy to make the people esteem more highly of Government being established But God in his wisdom hath so disposed of us that we have seen not only a few dayes confusion but have been under sad distractions for many years that we might learn more highly to prize the blessing of lawfull Government when restored In King James the sixth his time we had a very clear and fair day a day like Joshua's day that continued for a long time In King Charles the first his time we had a fair day for the blessings of Government continued with us till the sins of all ranks coming to a great height our day was turned into a very black night and now in respect of the comfortable blessings of Kingly Government we have had a sad interruption for many years Yea and when after the detestable and execrable Murder committed upon Him We in this Nation expected a dawning of our day by calling home our present Kings Majesty to Scotland and crowning him here Behold it fell out to us as it is Isa 21.12 The morning cometh and the night also Our morning was soon turned into a night of captivity for ten years And as it is with the natural night that it is darkest just before day So before this appearing of light there was the greatest darknesse of confusion and reeling The righteous Lord overturning overturning one thing after another till he should come whose right it was And now that the Lord hath made light to arise after so long so black and dismal confusions How should it make us rejoyce Psal 118.27 God is the Lord who hath shewed us light binde the sacrifice with cords even unto the horus of the Altar How A third Circumstance is How There is a book in Scripture that hath its name ECHAH the book of How 's and there are many dolefull How 's in it the book of the Lamentations How doth the City sit solitary How is the Gold become dim But in this our mercy there are so many joyfull How 's that I cannot reckon all

to you look upon these four 1. How unexpectedly 2. How suddenly 3. How sweetly 4. How wonderfully 1. How unexpectedly Were not all doors of hope shut upon us Especially two things seemed to have barred the door upon this blessing 1. The great alienation of heart found in many of the Nations from the King and his Family It was said of David Psal 118.22 The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner The Master-builders had rejected him yet was he advanced they who had formerly rejected him coming to him 2 Sam. 5.1 and saying we are thy bone and thy flesh So God hath wrought for our Soveraigne 2. Another impediment that stood betwixt us and all hope of this blessing was that the power and strength of all Armies within these Lands stood against the King all Armies were on the contrair part There was an Abner for Saul but not a Joab these many years to appear for David Now this makes the change miraculous that the very Armies that stood against are now turned for him And that a more noble and generous person than Abner did send unto our King and with better successe then he 2 Sam. 3.12 saying Whose is the Land my hand shall be with thee to bring about all Israel to thee God who doth in the Armies of the heaven and earth what pleaseth him Dan. 4.35 He hath turned all the power of Armies by sea and land for him 2. How suddenly was this done Isa 66.8 Who hath heard such a thing who hath seen such things shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day or shall a Nation be born at once in so short a space that the Lord hath created a new face of affairs and made the hearts of three Nations to bow to their King at one time This is the Lords doing and may be marvellous in our eyes 3. How sweetly is this done sine sudore sine sanguine without sweat or toyl without bloud-shed No man lost his goods no man lost his life in this late revolution Every one were not long since prognosticating sad things if ever we got a setled Government again we can look for it no otherwise than through a sea of bloud But Behold God hath disappointed all these fears and the hopes also of the enemies of our peace who fret and rage and gnash their teeth seeing their expectation frustrated 4. How wonderfully Deut. 4.32 we may apply that passage Ask now of the dayes that are past which were before thee since the day that God created man upon earth and ask from the one side of heaven to the other whether there hath been any such thing as this great thing is or hath been heard like it No history hath the parallel of it a King thrust away with the hight of contempt the same King returned in the highest glory honour respect and observance Who. A Fourth Circumstance in this mercie and a main one is Who For a King is restored to us It is true that I read in Eusebius his Eccles Hist That it was laid to a Ministers charge as a challenge Ausus est Imperatorem in ore beatum dicere a small praise before a Kings face may be interpreted adulation but a great praise behind his back may be no more than a just debt This one thing I am sure of from the Word of God That next to the honour of Christ his Gospel and his Grace nothing is more a Ministers duty than to advance the honour and due esteem of lawfull Authority in peoples hearts For next to Fear God is Honour the King And the Apostle Paul presseth upon Titus and all Ministers as a speciall part of their work Tit. 3.1 Put people in minde to be Subject unto Principalities and Powers He himself presseth it to purpose Rom. 13.1 Let every soul be Subject c. The Apostle Peter runs in the same straine 1 Pet. 2.13 And truly a Minister cannot do a worse turn in his station than to diminish the due credit of the lawfull Magistrate by any speech in publick before the people The Apostle Jude v. 8. stands not to call them filthy dreamers who despise dominion and speak evil of dignities But now what I have to say of the Kings Person shall be summed up in these six 1. We have cause to rejoyce that the righteous Heir of the Kingdom is restored to his Throne This is the great joynt that God hath put in for the healing of those broken Nations usually you see in Pieces of work that are joyned by Mortises and Tenons when the principal tenon is made fast all the rest of the parts clap together easily David experienced it to be so Psal 75.3 The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved but I uphold the pillars of it all was out of joynt till he who had Gods right and mans to Govern came to the Throne then proved he a healer to their broken and disjoynted parts 2. There is cause of joy in this that he is a King of so good expectation Hiram King of Tyrus was a prudent man and a godly prosolyte and when he saw Solomon's Letters wherein he discovered his prudence and affection to the house of God though Solomon had not as yet given many other proofs of his wife Government he congratulats the happiness of the land saying because God loved Israel therefore hath be made Solomon King 2 Chron. 2.11 And what may we say of the Gracious Letters and Messages our King did send before himself came to his people They found themselves bound at London to keep a Solemn Thanksgiving even for these Gracious Letters and Messages 3. Let me adde a King of so generall approbation that hath the good testimony of all that know him for Prudence Clemency Moderation Sobriety and Piety Great is his renown among the Reformed abroad for his constancie in the Protestant Faith in the midst of many assaults and tentations 4. A King tryed by many afflictions he cometh out of the furnace of tryall It was all the better for Israel that David came by the cross to the Crown all the better for England that Queen Elizabeth came out of a Prison to reign Though we ought to be grieved for his long and sad afflictions Yet may we not hope that it shall come to passe as Joseph spoke to his brethren Gen. 50.20 You intended it for evil but God hath turned it into good for the saving of much people alive Though men intended his down-bearing for evill Yet we may hope God will turn it into good unto these Nations that he may be fitter to Govern these Nations being so long in the school of hard affliction 5. A King glorious by many deliverances Psal 18.50 Great deliverances giveth he to his King and sheweth mercy to his anointed even to David As many Countries as he hath been in with as many great deliverances hath God compassed him from dangers both spirituall and