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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52340	A sermon preached in the cathedral church of Carlisle, on Sunday Feb. 15, 1684/5 being the next day after our Soveraign Lord James the Second, was proclaim'd King in that city. / by Will. Nicolson ...	Nicolson, William, 1655-1727.	1685 (1685)	Wing N1149; ESTC R17490	9,256	29

A SERMON Preach'd in the Cathedral Church OF CARLISLE On Sunday Feb. 15. 1684 5. Being the next day after our Soveraign Lord JAMES the Second was Proclaim'd KING in that City By Will. Nicolson M. A. Archdeacon and Prebendary of CARLISLE LONDON Printed for John Gellibrand at the Golden-Ball in St. Paul's Church-yard 1685. TO PHILIP MVSGRAVE Esq One of the CLERKS of His Majesties Most Honourable Privy-Council SIR I Know not what to think of the Present I here offer you If it be worth your Acceptance it cannot meet with a more deserving and worthy Patron and if not you have so much kindness for the Author that the Censure will be easie All I can say in behalf of it is only this That its appearance in publick is encourag'd by a City whose Loyalty has been sufficiently signaliz'd in her being own'd by the MUSGRAVES and I cannot doubt but that in this general Patronage some small share may be allow'd to Your most affectionately faithful Servant Will. Nicolson Prov. XXIV xxi My Son fear thou the Lord and the King and meddle not with those that are given to change THat Solomon was as great a Master of Politicks as any other part of Knowledge and that He was as expert at rearing of Kingdoms as building of Temples we have little reason to doubt if we consider how unreasonable 't is to imagine that God who had promised to make him wiser than all the Children of the East and to furnish Him with Understandiing exceeding much should yet with-hold from Him that part of Wisdom which was most necessary for so great a Prince The young King was conscious of his own Weakness and Unfitness to go in and out before so great a People And therefore He readily concludes that the most proper Boon that He could possibly beg at the Almighty's Hand was an understanding Heart able to direct him in the Execution of Justice and to discern betwixt Good and Evil. Accordingly his Petition is heard and God assures him that his request shall be granted him in so ample a manner that for Wisdom none of all the Kings that had gone before him could be compared to him neither after him should there ever arise any like unto him Kings 3. 12. So that a Monarch thus wise and knowing could not be mistaken in his directions But his Advice must needs be look'd upon as most weighty and solid as well in his prescribing the Measures of our Duty to God and Allegiance to our Prince as in his Cautions against the impolitick Vanity of Treason and Rebellion In these particulars his own experience had been sufficient to instruct him without any extraordinary Assistances of a Divine Spirit He could not but have observed how the Mercy and Meekness of his Father David had encouraged some Sons of Belial in Factions and Conspiracies and withal how unsuccesful such Attempts had always prov'd and how the Designs of restless Men to subvert the Government and to establish Anarchy and Confusion had been continually blasted and overthrown Three notorious Plots especially had miscarried within his remembrance and these were enough to convince him of the madness and folly of such hairbrain'd and unsetled Hotspurs as are ever uneasie under the lightest Yoke and always giv'n to change The first instance in this kind that King Solomon had met with was in his Brother Absolom A Prince whose sweet Countenance and sweeter Carriage had as himself fancy'd procured him Interest enough to gratifie his Ambitions and sufficiently strengthned his Aim to wield his Father's Scepter Flush'd with the prospect of so good success he resolves to give the King Battel and either to carry the Crown or perish in the Adventure For the better furtherance of his Design he begs leave of his Father to retire to Hebron under pretence forsooth of paying a Vow and offering Sacrifice As Rebellion never appears barefac'd at first but steals into the World under the Veil and Mask of Religion This plausible Petition the good King has no sooner granted then he is alarm'd with Trumpets and the noise of War forced to quit Jerusalem and his Palace and leave his Throne to the Usurper But Traytors are seldom long liv'd having always Vengeance at their Heels and accordingly if we follow but Absolom a Chapter or two further we find him hang'd and stab'd The second Plot in the latter end of King David's Reign we find to spring out of the Ruins and Rubbish of the former The Rebellious Tribes having lost their General begin immediately to tack about and to sneak and fawn on their lawful Soveraign with as great a shew and appearance of Zeal as that wherewith they had lately opposed him They have ten parts they say in the King and therefore they conceive 't is a sawcy encroachment upon their Right for Judah to monopolize their Prince But the King it seems was too well acquainted with the rebellious Tempers of these Hypocrites to repose any great share of confidence in them And therefore he believes it to be the safest course to re-establish himself among his old trusty try'd Friends at Jerusalem Upon this Sheba a hot-headed Benjamite takes upon him to rally the Rebel-Forces and proclaims a second Revolt with this popular Remonstrance we have no part in David neither have we Inheritance in the Son of Jesse Every Man to his Tents O Israel 2 Sam. 20. 1. But before we come to the end of that Chapter we have the Head of this Fool-hardy blade thrown over the Walls of Abel and thereby another stop put to the progress of Rebellion The third and last Conspiracy within the Memory of Solomon was that of Adonijah 1 Kings 1. A design as unfortunate as either of the former and every whit as fatal in the end This brief survey of these three Plots is sufficient to illustrate the Text without any other Comment and we may hence easily learn upon what grounds the Wise Man was induced to give this advice to his Son To fear the Lord and the King and not to meddle with those that are given to change The Words do evidently contain in them 1. An absolute command pressing the observance of a positive Duty fear thou the Lord and the King ●●d A negative Precept or Caution against a dangerous failure meddle not with c. Of both which in their order And first I take it for granted that 't will be needless at present to inforce the Duty of fearing God I presome there can be none here who are not already sufficiently convinc'd that 't is this which is the beginning of Wisdom and that therefore to be ignorant of or not to regard our Obligations in this particular must doubtless be the errantest folly and madness imagnable So that our main business in this place will be to shew you the necessary connexion there is betwixt the true Fear of God and the Fear of the King and the reasons why King Solomon has here link'd them