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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40688	A sermon preached at the Collegiat [sic] Church of S. Peter in Westminster, on the 27 of March, being the day of His Majesties inauguration by Thomas Fuller.	Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661.	1643 (1643)	Wing F2465; ESTC R202167	12,852	30

mischef and therefore no wonder if David was unwilling to offend him Secondly consider David was at this time in the Non-age not to say Infancy of his new-recovered Kingdome Wary Physitians will not give strong purges to little children and David thought it no wisdome at this time on these Terms as matters stood with him to be severe in his proceedings but rather by all endeerments to tye and oblige the affections of his people the faster unto him We may see this in the matter of Shimei which immediately concerned David himselfe Yea when by Abishai he was urged and prest to punish him Shall not Shimei be put to death for this because he hath cursed the Lords annointed Yet Davids policy was so farre above his revenge that he not onely flatly rejected the motion but also sharply reproved the mover What have I to doe with you yee sonnes of Zerviah that yee should this day be adversaries unto me shall there any man be put to death this day in Israel for doe I not know that I am this day King over Israel He would not have the conduits run bloud on the day of his new Coronation nor would he have the first page in the second Edition of his Soveraignty written in red letters but rather sought by all acts of grace to gaine the good will of his Subjects Hence wee observe 8. Magistrates sometimes are faine to permit what they cannot conveniently punish for the present Thus sometimes Chirurgions leave their ulcers unlaunch't either because they are not ripe or because perchance they have not all their necessary instruments about them And indeed if Statists perceive that from the present removing of an inconvenience a greater mischief will inevitably follow 't were madnesse to undo a state for the present for feare it will be undone hereafter Perchance the wisdome of our Parliament may suffer in the censures of such who fathome mysteries of state by their owne shallow capacities for seeming to suffer Sectaries and Schismaticks to share and divide in Gods service with the Mephibosheths the quiet and peaceable children of our Church And indeed such Sectaries take a great share to themselves having taken away all the Common Prayer out of most places and under pretence to abolish superstition have almost banish't decency out of Gods Church But no doubt the Sages of our State want not will but wait a time when with more conveniencie and lesse disturbance though slowly surely they will restraine such turbulent spirits with David in my Text who was rather contented then well pleased to passe by Ziba for the present 9. Object Yea but may some say this speech of Mephibosheth cannot be allowed either in piety or policie For if he speak true then he was a foole and if he spake false then he was a flatterer If he spake true then he was a foole for what wise man would at once give away all that he hath Charity may impart her branches but she must not part with her root The wisdome of our grand Charter hath provided That no offender though for an hainous fault should be so heavily amerced but alwaies salvo suo sibi contenemento What favour is afforded to malefactors Charity surely should give to its selfe as not thereby to prejudice and impaire her owne livelihood I commend the well bounded and well grounded bounty of Zacheus Luke 19.8 Behold Lord halfe of my goods I give to the poore But with Mephibosheth to give All his goods and that not to the poore but to a couzening cheating servant was an action of madnesse How would he doe hereafter to subsist Did he expect hereafter to be miraculously fed with Manna dropt into his mouth Or in his old age would he turne Court almes-man and live on the bounty of others And grant he could shift for himselfe yet what should Micah his son doe and his future posterity If he spake false then he was a flatterer and said it onely to sooth David when he meant no such matter But Court-holy-water never quenched any thirsty soule Flatterers are the worst of tame beasts which tickle Princes even to their utter destruction 10. Resp. I answer He was neither foole nor flatterer but an affectionate Subject and at the present in a mighty passion of gladnesse But first we must know that it behoved Mephibosheth to doe something extraordinary and in his expressions to exceed the size and standard of common language were it onely to unstain his credit from the suspition of disloyalty Ziba had cast upon him Secondly Mephibosheth was confident and well assured that whatsoever David did for the present yet hereafter when sufficiently informed of Mephibosheths innocence hee would make not onely competent but plentifull provision for him But lastly and chiefly we must know that these words of Mephibosheth were spoken in a great passion of joy and passionate speeches must alwayes sue in Chauncery and plead to have the equity of a candide and charitable construction allowed them Let us not therefore be over-rigid in examining his words when we knew his meaning that he was affected with an unmanageable joy at Davids safe return Rather hence let us learn 11. Speeches spoken in passion must not be strercht so farre as they may be strain'd but have a favourable interpretation for such is the very nature of passion that it can scarce doe any thing but it must over-doe Seest thou then the soule of a man shaking with feare or soaring with joy or burning in anger or drowning in griefe meet his words with a charitable acception of them and defalke the extravagancies of his expressions The wringing of the nose bringeth forth bloud saith wise Agur Prov. 30.33 And he who shall presse and wrack and torture speeches spoken in passion may make a bloudy construction thereof besides beyond against the intent of him that spake it But let us content our selves that we know their meaning and not prosecute much lesse persecute their words too farre as here in my Text wee know the mind of Mephibosheth was to shew That hee was soundly sincerely and from the ground of his heart glad when he said Yea let him take All forasmuch as c. 12. Come we now to the consideration of the Grant Forasmuch as my Lord the King is come in peace unto his own house Behold in the words a confluence of many joyes together First The King there is matter of gladnesse for all Subjects in generall Secondly My Lord the King Mephibosheth was Davids servant in Ordinary or rather his extraordinary Favorite and this made his joy to be greater Thirdly Is come againe is come backe is returned and therefore more welcome after long wanting The interposing of the night renders the arising of the sunne more desired Princes presence after some absence more precious Fourthly To his own house Why were not all the houses in Israel Davids houses Are not Kings alwaies at home whilst in their kingdom True all the houses in