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death_n	body_n	immortal_a	soul_n	7,080	5	5.8875	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35184	Two sermons preached in the cathedral-church of Bristol, January the 30th 1679/80 and January the 31th 1680/81 being the days of publick humiliation for the execrable murder of King Charles the first / by Samuel Crossman ...	Crossman, Samuel, 1624?-1684.	1681 (1681)	Wing C7271; ESTC R17923	25,553	48

pluck thee out of thy dwelling-place and root thee out of the land of the living God had spoken it and God made it good And David called one of the young men and said Go neer and fall upon him And he smote him that he died Let not man dare to wound where God anoints Tibi summum rerum judicium Dii dedere nobis obsequii gloria relicta est said that Roman Knight with a rare modesty to the Emperour He that hath given his Anointed Authority over us the same God hath left us the honour of a quiet and peaceable submission unto him 'T is our Duty and 't is no less our Glory The smallest Star may shine as truly as the Sun The Subject may as well adorn his Sphere as the Prince Every one in his proper Orb. May our light in our several places so shine that men may see our good works and glorifie our Father which is in Heaven This emblematical anointing has been the ancient way of investiture to our British Kings and is still so continued at their Coronations They are anointed on the Head in token of Superiority upon the Breast as an obligement to Sanctity on both the Arms in signification of Royal Strength and Authority Now where God is thus pleas'd as in David's case to say With my holy oyl have I anointed him we can do no less than religiously take up the ensuing words as our proper Respond Oh let thy hand establish him and thine arm strengthen him Beat down his foes before his face and let thy faithfulness and mercy be with him for ever IV. The fourth and last particular is Israel's concernment in their Princes weal or woe He was the breath of their Nostrils Nobis aequè dilectus ac spiritus vitalis As if the Church had said Our Vital breath is not more dear to us than the safety of our Soveraign We all observe there is nothing more immediately requisite to this natural life than our breath Such is Government to our civil life such the true weal of our Governours in the esteem of Holy Scripture The phrase before us 't is not a complemental flourish of gay Oratory no vain Hyperbole of Court-flattery The words they are the words of Truth and Soberness the Language of solid Divinity the express Assertion of Almighty God and his Prophet that we might receive them with the greater reverence The breath of our nostrils in whom the whole body of the Kingdom as it were lives and moves and has its well-being One it may be in a sullen frowardness murmurs his Princes manner of life 't is too splendid his Crown too imperial his Throne too radiant his Court too noble his Train too numerous his Revenues too large and his Guards too awful Nay but who art thou oh man that thus quarrellest against the breath of thine own Nostrils When the Hands and Feet in the Fable were so mutinous against the Stomack a little time sufficiently convinced them the conspiracy 't was rather against themselves To suffocate the Breath is to destroy the Body When the Queen of Sheba had seen the unparallel'd Royalties the Order and Administration of Solomon's Court instead of carping with splenetick Censures she breaks forth into Ejaculations of the highest joy and praise Blessed be the Lord thy God which delighted in thee to set thee upon the Throne of Israel because the Lord loved Israel for ever He that delighted in Solomon did still as truly love Israel The raising of the one 't was no despising of the other The condition of the Jews under our Text was through their many provocations against God brought now very low that City which had been sometime Princess amongst the Provinces was now tributary 'T was however a great comfort to them under their many other sorrows that they had yet a King of their own his presence they reckoned as their very life Vnder his shadow we shall live among the heathen They hoped in him to reap the fruits of that comfortable promise between Prince and People He shall be an hiding place from the winde and a covert from the tempest as rivers of water in a dry place and as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land Now his single Death cloth'd the whole Land in Mourning Thus David's Worthies concluded if their Prince fell the lamp of Israel would be forthwith quenched Sub regno tuo tanquam sub luce as if they said to David While thou art with us 't is day if we lose thee 't is likely then to be a dark and dismal night From the greatness of our concern herein it may be it became so weighty a Maxime in the Law Rex non potest mori The King cannot die In his natural personal capacity he is mortal but in his Royal political capacity he is immortal That the body of the Kingdom might not perish for want of a never-dying Soul to animate and enliven it that there might be no Chasm no evil befalling the Kingdom the Law reckons that at the very instant of the Soveraigns death by a kind of State Metempsychosis the Soveraignty becomes immediately transfus'd to the next Heir of the Crown Of all Nations we in this Island may thankfully say as the Church The breath of our nostrils We have been here under the government of Kings beyond the utmost Records of all History So that multitude of days seem to tell us in point of prudence as well as conscience we should now fear God and the King and not meddle with them that are given to change Of all Nations in the acknowledgement of foreign Writers we may modestly boast what none else can Britannia omnium provinciarum prima publicitus Christi nomen recepit 'T was Britain that yielded the first Christian King by whose piety we also became the first professed Christian people 'T was Britain that yielded the first Christian Emperour so great a blessing to the whole Church of God 'T was still under the same good conduct of Kings that we were brought to this happy state of Reformation whereat we now stand And if there be any thing which at this day either dishonours or endangers us 't is our want of that due consistence which we owe thereto We have been rescued by these Jerubbaals from the Usurpations of Popery over our State deposing our Kings and disposing of their Crowns as the Pope pleas'd by secret Artifices withdrawing and alienating the minds of Subjects from their bounden Allegiance to their Princes abetting Seditions and Rebellions as best serv'd his ends And now shall we tread in the same perverse steps God forbid Shall we do the same things which we so justly condemn in others Shall we traiterously depose or murder Kings Shall we dare to dispose of their Crowns as every popular Tumult shall happen to incline far be it from us What is so bad in a Pope is scarce much better