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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39577	Honour the king a sermon preached on the solemn fast, January 30, 1672/3 : wherein the duty of subjects to their sovereign is opened and asserted, the principles and practices inconsistent therewith are directed and condemned, and the innocent vindicated from unjust censures : at Birmingham in Warwick shire at the publick meeting-place there licensed according to His Majesties gracious declaration / by Samuel Fisher, M.A., late preacher of the word at Thornton in Cheshire.	Fisher, Samuel, 1616 or 17-1681.	1673 (1673)	Wing F1059A; Wing F1052A_CANCELLED; ESTC R32432	21,867	42

government that he may be kept from all Treasonable plots Conspiracies and Bloody attempts against his Person such as have been endeavoured or practiced against other Princes That God would lengthen out the thread of their lives grant them long and many happy dayes It hath been the ancient Vote of the People Vivat Rex Let the King live and great reason because it is threatned as a Judgment to have many Rulers i. e. to have the Seat of Government often changed by a multiplied succession of Princes whether taken away by God's hand immediately or by the violent hand of Traytors seldom is there a change of the person without some shaking of the Seat and Government it self Be earnest therefore with God ●or this as for your own lives that God would secure and preserve the life of the King for many dayes Daniel wished this for Darius when he was in the Lions Den Dan. 6.21 O King live● for ever And the Church prayeth for the King that the Name of the God of Iacob might defend him 2. Because the Kingly Office and so of other Rulers doth require high endowments special qualifications and a greater measure both of natural moral and supernatural accomplishments then is necessary for other men therefore God is to be sought earnestly to bestow all such gifts and graces upon them as may serve to accomplish them for their high and weighty employment by observing what the Scripture directs to as qualifications in Persons to be chosen to or set apart for Government or what the Scriptures do commend in such as were called to Government in the management of their places or what any have prayed for for themselves or others for them that may and should we pray for our Princes and Rulers It is an honest ambition for People to desire that their own present Governours might be equal to yea if it were the will of God might out strip the best of those that have gone before them in any Kingdom Now if you read Exod. 18.21 Deut. 1.13 15. 2 Sam. 23.3 1 Sam. 13.14 2 Sam. 22.24 1 Kings 3.6.5.9 2 Kings 22.19 In these places you may see some of the excellent qualifications that are fi● to be seated in the heart of a King viz. 1. The fear of God 2. Wisdom and ability 3. Iustice. 4. Vprightness 5. Hatred of covetousness 6. Tenderness of heart 7. Zeal for the Hou●e of God 8. Temperance 9. Love to and care of ●he People as Mo●es Make these therefore and whatsoever else you find as ● Jewel in the Crowns of Princes which hath rendr●d th●m famous and illustrious whether Meekness Mercy Magnanimity Curtesie Liberality Truth and Faithfulness in performing Promises c. the object of your Prayers and be earnest with God to enrich and enoble His Royal Majesty our King with all these excellent Graces by which he may be furnished and fitted for all the parts of His Government 3. Pray also that in the execution of His Government all things may be rightly administred according to the rule of God's Word that he may shew forth the beauty and glo●y of such rare and virtuous endowments as we have spoken of 1. That in His and Their personal carriage He may be free from all that may in the least eclipse His glory that His graces may sparkle in His conversation and His example make all others ashamed that are tainted with any thing contrary to the virtues of the Prince It 's a glorious thing for a Prince to go before His Subjects in the practice of that which is noble and praise-worthy Regis ●d exemplum c. Psal. 101.1 2 3 4. 2 Kings 20.3 It is a shame for Subjects to appear vitious when the Prince draws such fair lines in His course to be their Copies 2. That His Family may be rightly ordered in all points and therefore that He may have such and none other to serve Him as are themselves most careful to serve God It is noble for a Prince to take up Ioshuah's resolution Iosh. 24.15 and add David's to it Psal. 101.6 7. and to follow Abraham's practice 〈◊〉 ●8 18 19. and i● must need● be worthy of 〈◊〉 People 〈◊〉 pray fo● the ●rince that He may ●o so 3. In reference to the Public● we should pray to God that our Princes end Rulers may 1. Always in the first place look to the Interest of God and Religion above any of their own Interests and Concernments Psalm 132.2 3 4. Psalm 69.9 becau●e the settlement and security of theirs lieth principally in the maintenance and security of God's Right 2 Chron. 29.3 and 34.3 It cannot be expected that God should indulge them theirs if they be careless of his Property Pray 1. That by their Authority they may make the way open for the free passage of the Gospel that it may run and be glorified 2 Chron. 29.3 4. 2. Call the Ministers of the Lord and such as are to wait upon God's Altars to attend upon their Charge and be diligent in it 2 Chron. 29.4 11 25 30 31. and not to suffer any that are idle or scandalous in God's House 3. To cast out Idolatry with all the Relicks and Monuments of Idolatry that nothing remain to be a snare to the People to make them turn from God or to have an itching towards it 2 Chron. 30.14 and 31.1 4. To see whatsoever is wanting to the Worship of God which God hath appointed be restored 2 Chron. 30.1 2 3 4 5. and if any thing be crept in which is not of God's institution as Worship that it be swept out 5. That the Lord's Ministers who labour faithfully in the Word and Doctrine may be encouraged to th●ir Work by having their Portion set out for them and duly exhibited to them that they attend ●heir Work without distraction 2 Chron. 31.4 6. That care may be taken for the preserving encouraging and keeping pure the Fountains and Nurseries of Learning and Religion the Universities that from thence may still be raised up a learned and godly Ministry to officiate in God's House and to administer the Holy Things of God in all succession that there may be no room for the incroachment of Errors Heresies and False Doctrines These are things that have a special influence upon the happiness and welfare of Kings and Kingdoms and therefore God is earnestly to be sought that herein principally our Princes may approve themselves that they may have God with them and for them A pure flourishing Church doth usually make an happy and flourishing State God's promise is to honour them that honour him And on the other side the Apostacy Corruption and Degeneration of the Church hath fatally proved the Ruine and Destruction of the State beg therefore above all things that Kings and Princes may be Nursing Fathers to the Church Patrons to pure Religion 2. We should pray that our Princes and Rulers may bend themselves to look after the peace welfare prosperity establishment and good government