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A97115	God save the King, or A sermon of thanksgiving, for His Majesties happy return to his throne. Together with a character of his sacred person. Preached in the parish-church of East Coker in the county of Sommerset, May 24. 1660. By William Walwyn B.D. and sometimes fellow of St. Johns College in Oxon.	Walwyn, William, 1614-1671.	1660 (1660)	Wing W696B; Thomason E1033_10; ESTC R203977	18,961	42

despise them and whence proceeds this but from want of the fear of God for if men did seriously consider their Superiors to be in Gods place and by his appointment they would then let passe their Infirmity which they derive from Adam and Reverence their Authority which they derive from God for as he that Contemns of Injures the Deputy of a King Contemns and Injures the King himself whose Deputy he is so he who Contemns or Injures his King who is Gods Deputy Injures and Contemns God himself and as he that despiset● the poor reproacheth his maker Prov. 17. 8. So he that despiseth his Superior seems to reproach God for appointing no better a Covernour over him These are all sound Truths delivered to us by Gods holy Spirit in his written Word Yet how of late have these Sacred Truths been impunged by the Rebellions and Bloody Tenets of the Jesuits Anabaptists and Puritans I rank them together because although Like Sampsons Foxes their Heads part yet they joyn Tailes together And 1. It is the constant Tenet of the Jesuits that King-Killing is Lawfull nay Meritorious if he be forsooth an Haeretical King that is to say if he be not a Roman Catholick and they have stood to this their Damnable Doctrin a Doctrin I may call it of Devils by their Bloody practices in so much that you can scarce find a Jesuits sleeve without a Dagg or a Dagger to murther one Prince or other It would be too tedious for me to recite or you to hear the Dismal Tragedies which they have acted in the Theatre of the world if any man may think I wrong them I shall only refer him to Mariana the Jesuit who hath wrote printed and publish'd to the world an whole Tract of the Lawfullnesse of Regicide or King-Killing 2. Next to these may come in the Anabaptists for what were the publick Preachments of Muncer in Germany were they not such bloody stuff as this as Sleidan in the fifth of his Commentaries relates God hath warned me face to face he that cannot lye hath commanded me to attempt the Change by these means even by killing the Magistrate and Phifer his lewd companion did but dream of killing many Rats and mice and presently he expounded his Dream of murthering the Nobles and have not our late Fanaticks as well as these laid their heads as close as they possibly could with the Jesuits in this point witnesse their continual and impetuous railing against the Ministry that they might come to fetch the freer strokes at Magistracy Tracing herein their Brethren in Germany who began first with the Bishops but ended in the Civil Magistrates And did we not the like here in England too when we first laid aside the Bishops and then the King 3. Nor have our Modern Puritans call them Presbyterians if you will lately lesse opposed the Dignity and Majestie of Kings witnesse their Tenets which will make you to Blush Sweat and Tremble but to hear them repented if you have any fear for God or any honour for the King And here that I may not seem to wrong the men I will cite their Names their Books and their Pages too where you shall find these pernicious Doctrines set abroach to intoxicate the brains and poyson the hearts of Loyal Subjects That it is unlawfull in any case to resist the superior Powers and that we are rather to submit to their punishments is a dangerous Doctrine taught by some by the permission of God for our sins so Goodman p. 30. And Knox as if he had borrowed Goodmans tongue tells us page 26. of his Appel That it is Blasphemy to say We must obey Kings whether they be good or whether they be evil and he asserts 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That Princes for just causes may be deposed as you may see in the 372. page of his Hist of the Church of Scotland alledging further That if Princes be Tyrants against God and His truth their subjects are freed from their Oaths of legeance as you may see again in Hib. to England and Scotland page 78. And I could here name you were I so disposed a great Presbyterian who upon the like Suggestion absolved not a few from their Oaths of Allegeance to our late murthered Soveraign a power which none but the Pope himself ever usurped Of the same Batch are the Doctrines vented by Buchanan in his Book de jure Regni apud Scotos for these Positions he layes us down there Populus Rege est praestantior melior The people are more excellent than the King page 61. of that Book and that therefore the people have the same power over their King that the King hath over any one man page 38. and he further asserts page 70. That the Minister may excommunicate Him and then he draws this Devilish Consequence That he who by excommunication is cast into Hell is not worthy to live upon earth as in the same page will appear to the Supervisor And thus like that Italian who having his enemy at his mercy made him first to renounce his God and then immediately pistolled him upon that Renunciation Buchanan hath found the way too How the Subject may kill both the Body and Soul of his Prince at one blow But he proceeds and tells us page 40th of the same book That it were very good that Rewards were appointed by the people for such as should kill Tyrants that is to say such Kings as by them will not be led by the nose as there be Salaries appointed for those Qui lupos aut ursos occiderunt aut catulos eorum deprehenderunt Who have killed Wolves or Bears or have destroyed their Blood And to the Argument that we should not resist evil Kings because God places Tyrants sometimes over the people for the punishment of their sins he bluntly answers page 57. that so God hath appointed private men to kill them And then next to that of Saint Paul to Titus 3. 1. Put them in mind to be subject to Principalities and powers and to obey Magistrates his answer is page 55. That Paul wrote this in the Infancy of the Church when men were not able to resist them and that therefore he wrote then to those Primitive Christians as were he alive he would write to such Christians as are now under the great Turk in substance small in courage poor in strength unarmed in number few and generally subject to all kind of injuries and that therefore his words in that Text of Scripture are not to be extended to the Body or people of a Potent Common-wealth so that in his sense Saint Pauls Let every one be subject to the Higher Powers is no more than this Let none dare to resist them till they find themselves able so to do and is not this excellent Divinity Lastly In his Epistle to the King of Scots prefixed to his Book he Quarrels with the Honourable phrases of Majestie and Highnesse and terms them Barbarismos

was the Ataxie or disorder which had crept in amongst us and therefore well may the people pray Vivat Rex ut vivat Regnum Let the King live that the Kingdom may live or God save the King that God may save the people But besides the motive the people have to pray for the King in respect of their own good they have another motive to pray for him in respect of the Kings good First In regard that although God hath made him a King yet he hath still left him but a mortal man for though God whom the Scriptures compare to a Potter hath glazed Kings and Princes and made them shine and glitter with greater Power Dignity and Majesty than meaner vessels yet they are still composed but of the same clay with other men and are as fragil and apt to be broken nay more apt than other men of low degree for they have more cares to shorten their lives and they have more enemies if God prevent them not to cut off their dayes for alasse no men have more either ghostly or bodily enemies than they and First For their ghostly enemies besides their own sins to which the Luxuries of their Courts the Luxuriancy of their prosperities the haughtinesse of their glory and the uncomptrollablenesse of their power and Soveraignty may possibly tempt and prompt them they find many times that the sins of their people also are their deadly enemies for by them God is often provoked to take off the King even the most pious Princes have suffered much for the sins of their people as the head commonly akes for the ill vapors of the stomach that is placed beneath it and thus the Psalmist tells us that when the people murmured and Rebelled against God That it went ill with Moses for their sakes Psal 106. 32. and indeed none are such bitter and pernitious enemies to a King as the sins of his people These are they that cry out against the King Crucifige crucifige Crucifie him crucifie him even whilst with their mouths the people cry Hosanna Blessed be the King that cometh in the Name of the Lord. And therefore let all faithfull and Loyal Subjects who truly love the King take heed lest by the sinfulnesse of an extravagant Joy for God his sending them their King again they provoke not God to ravish Him from us once more and so our long looked for long prayed for and long stayed for happinesse like Orpheus his Euridice give us not the slip and irrecoverably vanish away even whilst we are turning to catch and embrace it Let us O let us this day especially take heed that we impair not the Kings Health by making our selves drunk with drinking His Health But farther yet as the Kings own frailty and mortality and his sins and the sins of his Subjects may well incite us to pray God save the King 2ly So likewise may the many dangers and storms from without to which the Lords Anointed ones these full and straight Cedars are more obnoxious than the lower shrubs move every good Christian and Loyal Subject to implore Gods Protection over his King for as Brands are the more subject to catch fire by reason of their frequent imployments about the Chimney So Kings who by their places and ●●●eminences are to govern and order both Church and State and by their office must scatter the wicked and bring the Wheel over them Prov. 20. 26. are more liable ever to be traduced and scorched by Satans imps and Factors the sons of Belial than those whom Solomon calls Prov. 22. 29. Chasshukim men of mean birth and obscure places and no publick imployments Those who walk in the Sun will have alwayes a black shadow attending upon them which way soever they move and so men of the brightest Dignities and Merits shall still be sure to be haunted with the Spirits of Envy Hatred Malice or Discontent They shall ever find some labouring to overshadow or eclipse the King and if it may be possible to quite extinguish the Glories with which they be invested and arrayed and if the Report be true Some already have been plotting mischief against our Gracious Soveraign whose sore eyes could not endure the brightnesse and Splendor of our Rising Sun though blessed be God the Preserver of men and of Kings especially God hath given their bloudy Devises a miscarrying Womb and dry Paps But doubtlesse there are more such Villains yet undetected for there are now whole Swarms of Professed King killers I mean Jesuits amongst us who as they have had every finger of their hands in working our distractions will imploy both their Arms also to hinder the peace and happinesse of our Church and State and it is clear as the Sun that there are millions of Anabaptistical and fanatick Spirits who will readily joyn heads hearts hands and purses to the work there is no trusting to their crying out with the rest of the Kings good Subjects God save the King for like Rogues that are Burnt in the hand they only say so because they see they must either for fear or shame God I hope will put it into the hearts of our Patriots in Parliament to ferret these Vermine out of their holes and with a Salutary breath like that mighty strong West wind which took away the Aegyptian Locusts and cast them into the Sea Exod. 10. 19. to clear the Land of all such Malvoglio's as are displeased with the peace and felicity of it and so I passe from the Consideration of these words as they are a Supplication for the safety of the King to a review of them as they are the peoples Acclamation whereby they testifie their Gladsomnesse to God for their King for all the people shouted and said God save the King This Acclamation was made at the Inauguration of Saul as bad a King as likely could be found in the whole pack which I the rather observe that I may incite you with the more gladsome hearts and fervent prayers to receive your most Gratious Soveraign for if all Sauls people shouted which was the Signal expression of their Joyes exultancy how much more cause have we to Triumph with exceeding Joy at the Reception of our CHARLS to whom were we freely to chose a King out of the whole stock of the Kings of the Nations I am verily perswaded we should not possibly find an Equal for where oh where shall we find a mate to this Phoenix whose presence and virtues are able to make us almost forget his incomparable Father Witnesse his pure and unspotted Chastity Emblemed by the Snow-white Lillies in his Royal Armes never yet so much as tainted by the Black-parrated tongues of his most malicious detractors though being now in the Heat and Gallantry of his youth he might doubtlesse have found Temptations enough to have fired inordinate affections amidst the loosenesse and luxuries of forreign Princes Courts Witnesse his profound wisdom and prudence in his solid composing the fierce