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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

how miraculously he escaped the danger of Shipwrack in the Glocester Frigate how Providentially he was deliverred from the Barbarous assassination intended at the Rye And Lastly how wonderfully Successful his Arms were in the Suppression of the late Rebels both in England and Scotland when I say we reflect upon these things we cannot but discern and adore the good hand of God that out of such Perils both by Sea and Land hath reserved Him at last to Sway the Scepters of these Kingdoms and prospered the beginning of his Reign with a Victory so Remarkable and so much conducing to the good of his Subjects But particularly should we affectionately upon this Day Commemorate his quiet and peaceable Succession to the Throne of his Ancestors For when were consider how maliciously the Minds of ill men were not long since set against him what endeavours we made use of to exclude him from his just Rights Him the next Heir to the Imperial Crown of this Realm Him the intirely beloved Brother the only Brother of that most merciful Prince King Charles the Second Him the Son of that Royal Martyr King Charles the First Him that had often hazarded his Royal Life in the defence of this Nation and by his Courage and Conduct had gain'd Credit and Glory to it and farther what Rumors and Stories to that end were made of Him what bandyings and Consultations were held to work his Ruine and Subvertion and thereby to involve the whole Land in a Miserable Confusion and Sea of bloud and yet that notwithstanding all this all those restless endeavours of unreasonable men should be quite frustrated and brought to nought that the Strivings of the People should so soon be converted into a joyful reception of him and that he should so quietly and so peaceably enter upon the Entire Possession of his just Birthright and full Power without Bloudshed without Tumults without any Opposition with the joyfull Triumphs and Acclamations of all good men and receive no disturbance till the Late Unnatural Risings when I say we consider all this how great reason have we to Rejoyce Unfeignedly and most heartily to give the most Merciful God all Thanks and Praise who so wonderfully and so happily brought to pass the quiet Settlement of his Anointed and thereby delivered him and us from those Direful effects that must necessarily have been the sad Consequents of that black Bill of EXCLVSION Nor can it be any diminution of the honour or any reflection upon the memory of Our Late most Gracious Sovereign to make the Day on which he deceased a day of Joy and Thansgiving For we cannot but at the same time gratefully commemorate the many blessings we enjoy'd during the Reign of that most excellent Prince and in the midst of our Holy Triumphs for the happy Succession of the next Heir we cannot but affectionately remember that it was He next under God who by his Vigilant care and Prudent management of affairs allayed the heats and madness of the People stem'd the current of Popular fury brought the face of things to so good an issue and made the entrance to the Throne so plain and so easie for his Lawful Successor It was God's great mercy to us that he Lived so long to do so great things that he Died a quiet and a natural Death and after all the Storms and Tempests he strugled with left his Kingdoms in so serene a posture Wherefore whilst we endeavour to express our Joy and our Thankfulness to God for the King 's quiet and peaceable Succession let us not forget him who through God's blessing was the great cause and instrument of it So shall we honour the King that now is and not wrong the Memory of the King that is dead And I beseech you my Friends give me leave to exhort you to celebrate the Feast of this Day thankfully cheerfully and soberly not in Rioting and Drunkenness not in Licentiousness and Disorder lest whilst you pretend to observe it in honour of the King you should by your Intemperance dishonour God Having thus at large explain'd the Duty of Honouring the King and shewn you the chief Parts whereof it doth consist I shall in the 2d Second place but very briefly touch upon the Obligations we have to this Duty and so conclude 1st The first of which may be taken from the Consideration of the Authority by which he Reigns and that is no less then Divine for by me saith God Kings Reign and Princes decree Iustice by me Princes rule and Nobles even all the Iudges of the earth He derives not his Power from the People for they are but his Natural Subjects nor from the Solemnity of his Coronation for that is but a Ceremony of State nor from inherent or infused Grace for the most graceless Heathens have been invested with Sovereign Dominion but from the Constitution and appointment of God for there is no power St. Paul tells us but of God the powers that be are ordained of God Whence it is that all Kings and Supreme Rulers are called in Scripture the Lord 's Anointed And particularly Cyrus the Persian Monarch by Profession a meer Heathen is in Isaiah said by God himself to be his Anointed and all civil Magistrates those especially that have the Supreme Jurisdiction are also upon this accouut said to be Gods of whom God himself saith I have said ye are Gods and that very fitly and properly for they only act in his name by his Power upon his account and as God is the only Supream Governour over all the World so are these under him in their respective Dominions and so there may be as St. Paul saith Gods many and Lords many Usurpers that by Violence and Rebellion step into the Throne of Majesty such as was the Late Protector falsly so called have not this Prerogative nor is their power from God of such it is that God speaketh in the 8th of Hosea and the 4th verse they have set up Kings but not by me they have made them Princes and I knew it not But all Lawful Governours that come in by right and Lawful means such as beyond all condradiction is Our present Sovereign have their Character from the God of Gods and derive their Authority from a Divine Sanction Wherefore looking upon the King not barely as a Man but as a man by Gods appointment Reigning over us we cannot but find our selves oblig'd to Honour him Forasmuch as by honouring him we Honour the Ordinance of God and by not Honouring Him neither do we Honour the Ordinance of God We should Honour him for the Lords Sake who hath alwayes esteem'd any affront or disrespect done to His Anointed as if it had been directly offer'd to himself And if there be some degree of Honour due to the Kings Ambassadours abroad as they are his Representatives and to all Inferior Magistrates at Home as they act by his Commission and are sent by him how