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A61282	Four sermons preached upon solemne occasions I. The troubler of Israel. II. The righteous mans concern for the churches misery. Preached before the judges. III. Cæsars due honour, preached before the mayor and aldermen of Leicester, May 29. 1669. IV. Davids work and rest, preached before the election of the mayor. By Tho. Stanhope A.M. Vicar of St. Margarets in Leicester.	Stanhope, Thomas.	1670 (1670)	Wing S5233B; ESTC R221868	48,189	101

and the modus supponendi In the Suppositum the subject and the predicate the subject the foundations the predicate destroyed In the modus supponendi take notice of three things for the word if will bear them al 1. the possibility of it the foundations may be destrayed 2. the iniquity of it It is a very wicked thing to destroy them 3. the miseny or calamity which attends it it will be a sad thing if the foundations be destroyed The Second general is the Interrogation What can the Righteous do or according to some translations What hath the Righteous done both may be taken in under three notions 1. as vox reflectentis 2. as vox deplorantis 3. as vox inquirentis The firstagrees especially with the old the second with both and the third with the new reading of these parts in their order I begin with the first the Supposition and therein with 1. The Subject or matter of the suppositum the foundations I may spare the pains to tell you that the word is by some rendred snares or nets as if David had particularly intended Sauls designs against him We have nothing to do with it in that notion suiting perhaps as little with the sence as with this occasion Thus far I shall use it and no further May destroying the foundations prove as great a snare to all who endeavour it as could correspond with Sauls batred without prejudice to Davids innocency Omitting therefore the variety of translations we fix upon the English where the Metaphor is drawn from a building to which the Church and State are here compared And not here only but in other places too St. Paul calls the Church the house of God 1 Tim. 3.15 Jerusalem is builded as a City that is compact together saith the Psalmist Ps 12.3 Jerusalem where God had his Temple and the King had his Throne And thus we shall see these foundations are either foundations of Doctrine or foundations of Government Take away the one and the building will totter for want of its Jachin which doth establish it Take away the other and it will reel for want of its Booz for in it is strength 1. There are foundations of Doctrine Those points which comprize the substance of Christian Religion We ordinarily call them fundamentals And the Scripture useth the term in the text Heb. 6.1 not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith towards God which in the beginning of that verse is said to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the principles of the Doctrine of Christ such are the being and attributes of God the divinity and humanity of our Saviour the infallibility and authority of the Scriptures the immortality of the soul the resurrection of the body and the like for upon these we build our Religion and the building can never stand unless the foundation be firm Admit men once to deny these principles or to be perswaded into a disbelief of them and never expect to find their actions savour any thing of piety or honesty It is evidently plain that a practical conviction of these grand truths hath the greatest influence upon our souls to make us good scrvants to our God and good subjects to our King True the Gospel primarily aims at our piety yet doth it withall design our Allegiance that with equall conscience we pay the duties owing to the powers on earth as we do to the almighty power of heaven I had almost forgot to mention St. August in loc Augustines exposition in his Hoc dicit contra omnes Hereticos For then the Psalmist by foundations must mean doctrinall truths if Hereticks who pervert these truths be destroyers of the foundations 2. There are also a second sort of foundations those of Government which we suppose to be the fundamental laws in a nation grounded upon the Maximes of naturall and Civill Pollicy Thus St. Hierome expounds the words Hierom. in in loc si leges dissipatae sint if the laws be dissolved 'T is well known there is no civilized much less Christian Kingdom but hath its nationall constitutions if that be not too low a word whereby the people are governed God himself would not let the Israelites be without them as a means to uphold societies and keep every person within his due bounds Now as Lawes are virtually lodged in the supreme Magistrate so as by his consent Le Roy. le veult they receive there sanction so in an especiall manner He may be intended in the text David as a King speakes of himself at the same rate the earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved I bear up the Pillars of it Ps 75.3 And certainly there cannot be a greater shake given to any nation than an infringing the just Authority of the Prince or of those to whom he commits either Ecclesiasticall or Civill Jurisdiction I say Ecclesiasticall for some of the Rabbins have been so favourable as to name the very Priests for these foundations I dare not plead to so much reading but a worthy Author asserts it to be Rabbi Solomons gloss fundamenta i.e. Vicaris decapla in loc Sacerdotes super quos fulciebat se populus the Priests who were the peoples prop and support Wonder not I speak for our own order It is pity we should lose those priviledges which the bounty of God and his Vice-gerents have given us These then are the foundations of doctrine and of Government the subject of the proposition whose predicate follows 2. The predicate destroyed if the foundations be destroyed Where the Psalmist still prosecutes his Metaphor for the word signifies a demolishing of buildings Not only a picking some stones out of the wall which yet might be incomvenient nor beating down the higher stories and upper rooms though that would spoil the houses beauty but the laying it levell with the ground which must render it perfectly un-inhabitable Thus when the doctrines of Christianity are boldly denyed and the laws of a Kingdom insolently epposed when the people seditiously refuse either to be led by Moses or Aaron then may we wofully complain of the foundations being destroyed And so I pass from the first thing the suppositum to 2. The modus supponendi the manner of the supposall in the word if If the foundations be destroyed And here we are first presented with 1. The possibility of it That these foundations MAY BE destroyed for de impossibilibus non est supponendum no wise man much less the All-wise God would suppose impossibilities And indeed the truth hereof doth but too plainly appear No sooner did the Son of righteousness begin to shine but clouds arose to darken his light Truth was no sooner sprung out of the earth but errors began to peep out of hell The Church in her infancy was pestered with Herefies and the tares grew up as fast as the wheat There was a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 among Satans followers as there was among Christs disciples A

the Hammers to drive them in that they may take the faster hold You see then briefly wherein David did and conformably to him wherein every good Magistrate should serve his Generation Four things I have mentioned as points of duty let me adde four more as grounds of encouragement to these duries and they are these The serving your Generation on this manner will 1. Make your life honourable 2. It will make your memory precious 3. It will make your people happy And 4. It will make your death comfortable All which you shall see exactly proved in David himself 1. It will make your life Honourable A Magistrate never acts with more policy for himself than when he acts with the most piety towards God Nor can he devise a readier way to compass his own honour than by designing the honour of God I appeal to the person in the Text Psal 89.27 I will make him my first-born higher than the Kings of the earth So much more honourable than all others as the first-born is above his brethren that the Kings and Princes about him shall stoop to him as one of a more raised dignity and renown Nor was it only so in his time but in Solomons too So well was God pleased with his request for a wise and understanding heart that he might discern between good and bad that he grants what he had asked and gives what he asked not both riches and honour so that there shall not saith the Text be any of the Kings like unto thee all thy dayes 1 Kings 3.13 It is needless to produce more instances Doe you your part and be sure God will doe His. He who distributes his judgements by a tantum and quantum distributes his rewards so too And if you expect a greater measure of honour God will expect a greater measu●e of duty This is the way to raise your Names to advance your fame far above that parchment Nobility as Charron calls it which consists onely in purchased titles without the supplement of vertuous actions In a word God will honour you good men will honour you and for the wicked it is no matter whether they doe or not though should they malice and intend mischief against you it lies not in their power to hurt you for when a mans wayes please the Lord he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him Prov. 16.7 2. It will make your memory precious Your honour shall not die when you die but live many years many Ages after you I need no more particular proof of this in the case of David than the preserving his Name and that excellent Encomium of him conveyed in the Bible to succeeding Ages there to continue while the World endures that the Genera●ions after him might see such a man there was such a life he led and such a memorial he left behind him So that methinks this Divine providence comments upon and confirms what he wrote by Divine inspiration Psal 112.6 The righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance Nor was it happiness singly We read that when Moses dyed God himself took care to bury him privately Deut. 34.6 He buried him in a Valley in the land of Moab over against Bethpeon but no man knoweth of his Sepulchre unto this day And the Rabbins give this reason of it lest the Israelites who had so great a reverence for his memory should have idolized his Grave had they known where it was Most certainly Moses his fame reached much further than his own time by that Character given him in after-ages 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That excellent Law-giver of the Jews and more than a man And indeed Psal 149.9 This honour have all his Saints If you carry your selves in your places with the same faithfulness as they did the very remembrance of you shall be grateful to those that come after you and your vertuous actions will preserve you longer in memory than any Epitaph upon your Grave-stones I leave it to your own deciding whether a commendation written in the hearts of men be not much more durable than in pillars of marble And who may more justly expect or more rationally hope for it than he that dischargeth a publick trust religiously faithfully conscientiously 3. This will make your people happy I call them yours whilst under your Government Magistrates actions reach further than their own persons and tend extreamly either to the advantage or disadvantage of the places where they live We see it in the case of David for I still keep him in mine eye Whilst he lived Israel flourished in times of peace and conquered in times of war Nay when he was dead Jerusalem fared the better for him Sennacherib invades Judah some 300 years after Davids time Ahaz had provoked God to anger by his Idolatry yet notwithstanding that provocation God thinks of David remembers his piety and resolves for his sake Jerusalem should be defended I will defend this City to save it for mine own sake and for my servant Davids sake 2 Kings 19.34 And truly this is but what elsewhere we learn from the Scripture Prov. 28.2 For the transgression of a land many are the Princes thereof but by a man of understanding the state thereof shall be prolonged it shall be made healthfull as health is a great means of prolonging life And I know not well how to use a stronger Motive What greater comfort hath the Nurse than to see the Child thrive at her breast And what greater satisfaction to a good Governour than to see the Town happy under his Government nay to lay a foundation as much as can be to perpetuate its happiness many years after him Pardon me if I urge this with some earnestness out of the honour I bear to this place May all the blessings of heaven continually rest and the tender mercies of the most High descend upon it May all the Inhabitants find Grace Plenty and Peace and the Town flourish while the Sun and Moon endure To which Petitions God Almighty say Amen 4. This will make your death comfortable Death makes no difference between Magistrate and People between Prince and Peasant The Mortall Sythe is Master of the Royall Scepter and mowes down the Lillies of the Crown as well as the Grass of the Field Die you must be you never so great be you never so vertuous only your vertue will be a good preservative against the terrors of death and will cheer up your hearts in the deepest Agony Cansin I remember compares it to the Geometricall Cube * Holy Court in the life of Theodosius cast it on what side you will it always finds its Basis Whether we live or die it affords us comfort when nothing else in the world can do it With what Tranquillity did David go to his Father When he had done his work he lies down in peace to take his rest whereupon his death is called a falling on sleep David after he had served his