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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96682	God save the King: or Pious and loyal joy, the subjects duty, for their soveraign's safety. Opened in a sermon at Aldermanbury, upon the 30 of May, being the day after his Majesties most happy, joyfull and triumphant entrance into London. By Anthony Walker, minister of the Gospell at Fyfield in Essex.	Walker, Anthony, d. 1692.	1660 (1660)	Wing W303; Thomason E1030_5; ESTC R203980	25,087	44

King and People Jer. 3.23 Psal 108.6 That thy beloved may be delivered save with thy right hand v 12. Give us help from trouble for vain is the help of man Psal 33.16 17. There is no King saved by the multitude of an host a mighty man is not delivered by much strength An horse is a vain thing for safety neither shall he deliver any by his great strength and Psal 127.1 Except the Lord build the house they labor in vain that build it except the Lord keep the City the watch-man waketh but in vain The Scripture most frequently and abundantly suggesteth this and 't is never more needfull and seasonable to be meditated then at such solemn times when the strength and riches and splendor of a Kingdome is displayed together And first 't is very useful for the King then to remember the weaknesse and insufficiency of other helpers then is the temptation like to be strongest to carnal confidence in creature strength when it is set out with all its bravery and glistering gallantry then is the heart in most danger to be stollen away and to forsake the Lord Gods own caution doth evidently suppose this Deut. 6.11 12. 8.10 When thou hast eaten and art full beware that thou forget not the Lord thy God ver 12. Lest when thou hast eaten and art full c. vers 14. Then thine heart be lifted up and thou forget the Lord thy God c. vers 17. And thou say in thine heart my power and the might of my hand hath gotten me this wealth When Nebuchadnezzar was beholding the great Babylon which he had built by the might of his power and for the house of his Kingdome and the honour of his Majesty then it was that his pride pul'd down that heavy doome a voice fell down from Heaven Dan. 4.30 31. It was when Herod was arrayed with Royal apparel and sat upon his Throne and was applauded with the shout and acclamation of the people that he provoked vengeance by the hand of an Angel Acts 12.22 23. But to instance in better men 't was a temptation too strong for David even he in his prosperity waxed over confident and said that he should never be removed Psal 30.6 And too great for good Hezekiah for when great honour was done to him his heart was tickled and taken with it his heart was glad Isaiah 39.2 that is vainely and proudly so as to pull an heavy sentence down from God which was delivered by the Prophet in the following verses So that not only the prosperity of fools destroys them Prov. 1.32 but the Honour and Glory of the best men will ensnare and endanger them if they be not very heedful and mindful of their weaknesse and insufficiency in the midst of all their greatnesse and therefore wise Princes have used to dash the wine of their joy with some mortifying water to correct its intoxicating and inebriating force Hence was that solemn right in the instalment of the Eastern Emperours a Lapidary presenting variety of stones and bespeaking him to this sence Choose Mighty Sir under which of these stones your Highness pleases to inshrine your bones And Agesilaus had a Deaths head served to his Table at the greatest feasts and Philip of Macedon had a boy every morning to be his remembrancer crying at his door 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and still at the Popes inauguration the Cerimony of the Tare with a Sic transit gloria mundi is in use And Saladine the Sultane of Aegypt had an old Shirt carryed on a Pike before him with Proclamations made this is all that Saladine Conqueror of Asia shall carry out of the world with him and to the same good purpose may this expression God save the King serve even to mind him that the love of his most Loyal people and the strength of his most valiant Souldiers and the wisdom of his most prudent Council and the riches of his most wealthy Citizens are not sufficient to preserve him but he must doe it who alone it is that giveth salvation unto Kings Psal 144.10 and he may be helped freely to give the Lord the glory both of past and future salvations in the words of David Psal 44.6 7. I will not trust in my bow neither shall my sword save me But thou hast saved us from our enemies and hast put them to shame that hated us or as his Majesty graciously expressed himselfe in his short Speech to the Ministers in his passage through the City The deliverance which God hath wrought for me I own as the work of his own right hand beyond humane contrivance and desire that all the glory of them may be ascribed to him And 't is seasonable and useful to the people also at such time to be put in mind how much both King and people need of the help of God to save them for then is the greatest fear of idolizing earthly deities when they shine not only with the rayes of their own Majesty but are made dazeling resplendent by that brightnesse which the flaming zeal and blazing love and Loyalty of their faithful people doth reflect upon them 'T is a well tim'd meditation therefore for the people at such a season to consider what they say when they cry out God save the King if he with all this help about him yet needs God to save him how much more do we if he cannot save himselfe unlesse God save him then neither can he fave us without his aid as that King confessed 2 King 6.27 and the words are good though he were otherwise who spoke them If the Lord do not help thee whence shall I help thee and it may assure us that its better to trust in the Lord then to put confidence in Princes Ps 118.9 and may teach us Ps 146.3 Not to put trust in Princes nor in the son of man in whom there is no help To conclude therefore let it be our care and practise as to love him affectionately and rejoyce in his prosperity and honour heartily and testifie our Allegiance freely and cheerfully so to pray for him most humbly and earnestly as knowing that as he hath been pleased to desire prayers so he greatly needs them for he cannot save himselfe he cannot save his people nor can they save him but must be beholding to the Lord to save them all Therefore Psal 21. Let the King joy in thy strength O Lord and in thy salvation let him greatly rejoyce Give him his hearts desire and with-hold not the request of his lips prevent him with the blessing of thy goodnesse and set a Crown of pure Gold upon his head give unto him long life yea length of dayes for ever and ever Let his glory be great in thy salvation lay upon him Majesty and Honour yea satisfie him with long life here and shew him thy salvation hereafter God Allmighty save him from all natural evils which are evil to him as a man and God save him from all civil evils which are evill to him as a King and God save him from Spiritual evils which are evil to him as a Christian and God save him from eternal evils which are evil to him as a man a King a Christian Even thus God save the King And let all Loyall loving Subjects say AMEN FINIS Errata IN the Epistle p. 1. l. 8. for a r. so p. 2. l. 16. r. Pathos p. 3. l. 9. r. moulded l. for scantly r. more securely Contents p. 1. l. 19. r. case p. 2. l. 6. r. compassion l. 9. for virtues r. reasons Page 6. d. So p. 10. l. 18. for at r. out p. 18. l. 26. for satisfie r. falsify p. 22. l. 17. for prayers r. pains l. 18. for now r. nor p. 27. l. 8. r. Christians p. 28. l. 23. for first r. that is p. 30. note his Majestyes words end l. 28. none of his l. 29. for continue r. preventive Ibid. note that the 4 last lines from his Majesty to sober Subjects inclusively should have been in the Margin l. ult after Subjects add doth abundantly verifie these words p. 33. l. 20. for Tare r. Blaze p. 34. l. 16. after made add more

For 1. This is the most hopeful way to obtain the two foregoing petitions for long life and a glorious reign for Prov 3.16 of grace and wisdom 't is affirmed that length of dayes is in her right hand and in her left hand riches and honour and Prov 22.4 By the fear of the Lord are riches honour and life 2. Because the King needs this as well as much as other men what is said of the great Prophet I mean Elijah is true of the greatest of Kings He is a man subject to the like passions Jam. 5.17 a peice of the corrupted mass of fallen mankind and a sinner by nature as really as other men and needs renewing sanctifying converting quickning purging pardoning grace as well as other men 3. Because the temptations of a King are more and stronger then of other men Partly by reason of his very place station the height and fullness of it and exemption from those many restraints which other men are awed by especialy from the m●lice and subtilty of Satan who knows how to do his work compendiously and therefore will be ready like the Syrians to fight neither with small nor great comparatively but with the King of Israel that by drawing a King to commit it he may bring vice into fashion and repute and therefore pray earnestly 4. God save the King from spiritual evils because it s of great concernment to the whole Nation what example the King sets for his practice is the grand coppy which most write after and the lives of the people will be in great measure the counterpart of his actions Regis ad exemplum c. So that all his good laws will hardly avail to counterpoyse a bad example if the Lord should leave him to himself to set one and on the other side 't is a very great advantage to virtue and Godlinesse when 't is commended by the Kings practise as well as commended by his authority if Religion and Piety be in credit and fashion at the Court 't will be the mode and fashion of City and Country the wisdome of God hath frequently made use of the conversion of Kings to open a way for the Gospel into their Dominions yea and their peoples hearts too 5. Because the imployments of a King are great many and weighty and indeed the duties of the meanest of our callings will be too heavy for us to be well borne unless the Lord help us to sustaine them and how much more doth a King whose work is as the noblest so the hardest need much Divine assistance much grace much help from Heaven to performe so great a trust to the glory of God his owne comfort and his peoples good 6. Because if God should in anger leave the King to injoyne grievous and unlawful things which I only innocently suppose to awaken your zealous prayers for him but do not peevishly suggest or sullenly foreboad he will how uncomfortable will your neglect of duty make your sufferings if you should be called to suffer in such case for then will your conscience fly in your face and tell you I may thank my owne neglect of duty for all this if I had begged earnestly for wisdome and the guidance of Gods holy Spirit for him 't is like such things had never been injoyned and I now reap nothing but the just desert of mine own folly and neglects which certainly will be unpleasant fruit and one of the bitterest drops in a sorrowful unwelcome cup In a word seeing 't is the grace and Spirit of God which sanctifies all relations and fits and inables for the resisting the temptations incident to them and to perform the duty incumbent on us in them let us pray heartily that God would beautifie the King abundantly with those plentiful influences of his Spirit which may render him at once the best of Kings and the best of men and that he would save him from all the guilt and power and filth and deceitfulnesse of sin and what ever Spiritual evils are evil to him as a Christian 4. God save the King from eternal evils evil to him as man as King as Christian Let the King live an eternal life in Heaven after a long and happy life on earth Serus in Coelum redeat Hor or in the words of a better Poet the sweet Singer of Israel Psal 91. ult Let God say of him With long life will I satisfie him and shew him my salvation And we should with as much hearty earnestness pray and cry God save the King in this sence as in any this is to be saved indeed Alas all other salvation is a poor low thing without that salvation which is emphatically so called and shall never be changed or altered Let me inforce this briefly 1. If you love the King truly you must pray thus for him true love will constraine you 't is a false and a despicable and but a selfish love which doth not stretch it self out unto eternity You love no man truly whose soul you do not love and certainly you love not that soule concerning which you are indifferent and care not what becomes of it care not though it perish and be lost and damn'd for ever Can you say you love and not be moved with the everlasting prayers and sorrows of those whom you pretend to love now be solicitous for their prevention or removall 2. If there be any bowels of Christianity or but generous humanity in you it will provoke you thus to pray for him especially For if a King miscarry O how terrible and sad will his miscarriage be Potentes potenter The mighty shall be mightily tormented if they go to the place of torment it may heat the coldest and kindle the dampest devotions into flames of zeal to prevent so sad a change to consider how horrid it will be to change the dignity the splendor the Authority and Majesty of a Throne and Scepter into eternal bonds and darknesse hunger thirst and cold to extremity beyond imagination to Vassalage under the basest and vilest piece of the whole Creation it would be a dreadful alteration for the poorest of us to change our meanest accommodations for the flames of Hell and unmixed wrath of the Almighty God but what then for a King to fall from so high a standing graviori lapsu and be insulted over as the King of Babilon Isa 14.9 10. Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming it raiseth up the dead for thee even all the great ones of the earth it hath raised up from their thrones all the Kings of the nations All they shall speake and say unto thee art thou also become weak as we art thou become like unto us Thy pompe is brought down How art thou fallen from Heaven The thing it self doth speak so movingly that I shall add no more but as men amazed use to do with greatest vehemence cry out God save the King from those eternall evills