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city_n	great_a	king_n	kingdom_n	9,660	5	5.5175	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67235	The duty of honouring the King and the obligations we have thereto delivered in a sermon preached at Richmond in York-shire, on the 6th of February, 1685/6 being the day on which His Majesty began His happy reign : at a general assembly of the loyal gentry of those parts, held there on purpose to celebrate the King's quiet and peaceable succession to the throne of his ancestors / by Christopher Wyvil ...	Wyvill, Christopher, 1651?-1711.	1686 (1686)	Wing W3786; ESTC R9015	18,499	36

graces that may be needful for him 2dly With all temporal blessings that he may be delivered from all dangers incident to his place from Private Conspiracies from Tumultuous Factions and from Open Rebellion that he may overcome and subdue all his Enemies that they may have no advantage over him nor the Wicked approach to hurt him that his Life may be long and his Reign happy and that all his Subjects may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all Godliness and honesty Such were the Petitions which the Primitive Christians put up to God for the Heathen Emperours praying for their very Persecutors vitam prolixam imperium securum domum tutam exercitus fortes c. a long life à secure Empire a safe family Valiant Armies and so on as Tertullian tells us the example therefore binds much more when a King hath submitted his Scepter to the standard of Jesus and maketh profession of the Christian faith Nor indeed can we reasonably expect that the King should be happy and prosperous without our sincere observance of this Duty for let us do what we can to make him so tho' we cheerfully assist him with our Fortunes and our Lives as we are bound to do when need so requires yet if we do not add our Prayers to the King of Kings to crown him with his favour and loving kindness in vain may all our endeavours be for there is no King that can be saved by the multitude of an hoast neither is there any man delivered by much strength and except the Lord keep the City and by his good Providence guard the Kingdom the Watchmen waketh but in vain But if all the Kings Subjects would but most affectionately Pray for him and with one heart one mind humbly beg the blessing of God upon him we might then have great hopes that the joynt-addresses of a whole Nation would be very prevalent at the Court of the King of Heaven Wherefore that men do not truly Honour the King that is negligent in this Duty of Praying for him forasmuch as he neglects that one expedient that may so much tend to his true Interest and true honour But further 4thly As Honouring the King doth require that we should do such things as may tend to his honour so it doth likewise oblige us to do nothing that may lessen it and to endeavour to prevent and suppress whatever may be prejudicial unto it For it is natural for us to abhor and avoid as much as we can whatever may tend to the discredit of those whom we really Love and Honour nor can that honour which we ought to have for the King consist with any thing that may defame him or cast a blemish upon his Govenment and those things that may have this malevalent effectare First Scurrilous Libels Secondly Scandalous Reports and Thirdly the blazoing abroad his personal errours and failings First Scurrilous Libels whether they be in writing or in Print in Prose or in Verse do not only make the King ridiculous but contemptible too they have a direct tendency to the wronging of his Person to the lessening of his Authority to the weakning of his Power and in conclusion to the very shakening of his Throne and that man that can find in his heart to wound the Kings Honour by making Libels upon him would not stick upon a convenient occasion to embrue his hands in his bloud he that keeps them is as bad for he thereby approves of what the other hath done else why doth he keep them why doth he treasure them up and is so chary of them is it for the wit and Elegancy of speech he meets with in them but what wit can there be in Ribaldry invectives and Scurrilous reflections upon the Lords Anointed is not that wit vilely misemploy'd and that ingenuity degenerated into folly that is spent upon such unworthy Designs What loyal heart can endure to see his Sovereign vilely abus'd and bespatter'd in the most witty and most elegant Language Could a man be well content to have himself or his dearest Friend so serv'd and can we then with patience and contentedness with pleasure and delight behold the Sacred Majesty of our King which one would think should be exempted from such Usages Satyrically exposed and libelled much less shall we give entertainment and harbour to such Scurrilities and not rather with indignation and abhorrence reject and tear them But then he that gives vent unto them and makes them public spreads the malignity of them and is not perhaps well aware what great Injury as well as what great Indignity he thereby doth the King but if he be aware of it if he knows the harm and considers the Mischief that may from thence arise and yet forbears not to hand them from one to another he is a Traitor to the King a betrayer of His Honour and an enemy to his Kingdoms In a word they that make them they that keep them they that disperse them are all Blameable If we do indeed heartily honour the King if we have any value for the preservation of His Credit and Renown as we should never make such Libels our selves so having found them being made we should presently seek to suppress them and make them quite away So likewise should we do in reference Secondly To scandalous Reports whether they be true or false if true we should forthwith stifle them in their very first birth keep them wholly to our selves and prevent the farther growth of them if false we should contradict them rectifie the Mistakes and discover the Cheat and Malice of them and not only so but do all we can to keep them from spreading for if scandalous Reports do but once take air how senseless and unreasonable soever the grounds for them may be yet they will not only find entertainment with credulous and easie People but also be apt to encrease in the telling such I make account are those that concern bad News misrepresentation of the Kings actions traducing of his good ones missinterpretation of his words odious reflections on the Government the raising of Fears and jealousies and the like All which or any of them may by degrees lessen the King in the esteem and regard the Love and affections of his People may make them weary of his Government and breed in them an aversion and hatred to his Person such Reports are of very pernicious consequence and may have a malignant influence upon the honour and the happiness of the King and his Kingdoms And therefore as it should be the great concern of us all to beware of them so more particularly is it the Duty of all Masters of Families to take care that neither their Children nor Servants nor any under their Authority be the broachers or the publishers of such reports let them not suffer them to have the liberty of talking of State Affairs or censuring the Actions of their Superiours or making any