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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33293	A sermon preached to a country auditory upon the eleventh of November being the day appointed for a solemn Thanksgiving for a late victory at sea, and His Majesty's safe return out of Flanders / by Samuel Clerke ...	Clark, Samuel, 1626-1701.	1693 (1693)	Wing C4497; ESTC R39372	17,355	33

up for the preservation of Kings He will make ready his Arrows upon their strings against the face of their enemies Psal 21.12 Then shall ye understand as in the case of Korah Numb 16.28 29 30 that the Lord himself giveth Salvation unto Kings when the Hand of the Lord is gone out against their enemies For he that durst break down the Hedge before mentioned what shall become of him Did not Sheba for this lose his Head Shimei his life and the two Eunuchs theirs What shall I add more Time would fail me to tell you of Baanah and Rechab Absalom and Achitophel Adonijah and Joab Zimri and Jozabad with infinite more who for attempting their Kings death procured their own by it Most sure it is that Salvation is of the Lord as Psalm 3.8 and as sure that He giveth Salvation unto Kings and delivereth David his Servant from the hurtful Sword Why is the Accent put upon Kings Doth not the Wing of Gods Providence extend to all his Children Have not others a share therein too The Question is propounded by the Reverend and Learned Dr. Featly who thus answers his own Proposal Yes Gods Providence extends to all but yet Kings are nearest to his Breast they receive more warmth from him he hath a special care of them He keepeth them as the Signet of his Finger because in them the Image of His Majesty shineth most brightly It concerneth him in Honour ●●ith he to maintain them that are his Vicegerent upon Earth It concerneth him in Love to defend the Defenders of the Faith and cherish the Nursing-Fathers of his dearest Spouse It concerneth him in Wisdom to save them who are the breath of so many thousand Nostrils to keep them whole who are the bond which holds together the Common-wealth In the danger of a King is the hazard of a State in the hazard of a State the ruine of a Church in the ruine of a Church God's House lieth in the Dust The Heathen Poet glanceth at this Truth when every where he stiled Kings διοτρεφεῖς as it were bred up and fostered in the bosom of Jove in their Dialect Jehovah in ours Keep me saith David as the Apple of thine Eyes Who can endure the least prick in that tender place No more will God abide his Anointed to be touched 1 Chron. 16.22 You have heard dear Christians why God giveth Salvation unto Kings 1. Because they are his Vicegerents his Deputies and his Honour is complicated in their Salvation 2. Because the Devil that malicious one with his infernal Agents seeks their destruction And Lastly Because in their Salvation consists the Peoples happiness You have also heard why and how God giveth Salvation unto them Pass we now from the Thesis to the Hypothesis from Gods giving Salvation to Kings in general to his delivering David his servant in particular from the hurtful sword which is the 2. And next in order St. Paul tells us that God is the Saviour of all men but chiefly of them that believe and I shall dare to say the Saviour of all Kings but the Pious above all the reason for both is intirely the same We may gather it thus If the Divine Providence watcheth over Kings indefinitely Kings in general what must he needs do then upon those that are faithful and rule over such as are devoted to his Service If he is wonderful in the Kings of the Earth what then must he needs be in those Kings who are Nursing-Fathers to his Church and People If in an Ethnick Ahasuerus what in a religious David a devout a Pious Prince what a King is among men that is a David among Kings what then shall God do for him and for all like him As they are precious in the eyes of the Lord so will he think nothing too much for them Those things which are but single in other Kings we may find conjunct in David a King and a servant of God too wherefore because a King he will give him Salvation and because his Servant he will deliver him from the hurtful Sword Because a King he hath in common with all Kings Gods care attending him and because his Servant he hath a propriety above the rest as a King by him he Reigns as God's Servant he is directed and governed by him All Kings as immediately constituted by God are his Viceroys and deputed Servants he is therefore King of Kings Lord of Lords But yet all do not acknowledge God nor shew themselves his Servants His Servant Nebuchadnezzar so God spake by the Prophet Jer. 27.6 But did that great King acknowledge this No he neither acknowledged himself Servant nor God Lord. For so speaks he to the Three Children Dan. 3.15 Let us see what God can deliver you out of my hands Nor did Pharaoh acknowledge this Who is the Lord saith he Exod. 5.2 But our Psalmist was in another Note He is free in his acknowledgments this way Psalm 116.16 Behold Lord I am thy Servant I am thy Servant and the Son of thine Handmaid Nor did he say this only but in his works he shewed himself so He spake it not by const aint but he made it his business to do the will of God He was so solicitous in the Lords matters that he would not go up to his Bed nor take his rest till the Ark of God was provided for Psalm 132.2 3. In the bringing that back again among other Servants of God he so demeaned himself that Michel his own Wife despised him as contemptible for his humility 2 Sam. 6.20 But he never thought himself humble enough before the Lord never solicitous enough in performing his will David was truly God's Servant humble as a Servant faithful as a Servant a Servant according to his own heart 1 Sam. 13.14 Most truly therefore and to our purpose it is here said David his Servant Hereupon we have that of God concerning his Servant David Psalm 89.21 My own Hand shall help him and my own Arm uphold him nor shall his enemies succeed against him nor shall the son of wickedness approach to hurt him i. e. in one word I will deliver him Now what God promised he perform 〈…〉 he save him from many shall I say dangers to keep to the Letter of my Text I shall rather say weapons keen drawn wielded against him He delivered him from the Sword of Goliah from the Javelin of Saul and which is most proper here from the hurtful Sword All Kings are God's Servants πρὸς ἡγεμόνα απαίδευτον saith Plutarch for the common good of Mankind but David by a specialty He was God's most special care as in the Text He it is that giveth Salvation unto Kings who delivereth David his Servant from the hurtful Sword 3. Our Royal David God's Servant also and lately delivered is the next to be spoken to The same God delivered both both from the Sword from the hurtful Sword both I need not spend time in giving you the particulars you all know the

Salvation of the Lord be not The Birds of the Air sing no other Note the Beasts in the Field give no other Voice than Salvation is the Lord's Which leads me to the Second Gradation He is the Saviour and that so great is his Pity and Compassion both of Man and Beast Psal 36.6 the Beast as well as Man but Man before or rather above the Beast Now that Man is more in the Eye or Care of Divine Providence than the Brutes is clear in this That the very Brutes are made for Man and much more the Creatures below them For Man doth the Day break and the Sun shine and the Rain fall and the Waters flow and the Grass grow and all the Herbs of the Field spring up and flourish after their several kinds For him are the Fields crowned with Corn and the Vallies laden with Grass For Him are the Hills lifted up and the Cattel made that feed upon the Hills For the feeding of him do the Herds feed and for his sake are the Flocks themselves clothed with Wooll for him doth the Horse were his hoof and the Oxe yield his neck unto the yoke and before him doth the Camel kneel to receive the burthen upon his back Now since God made man the end of other creatures and them a mean to his content and preservation and since the end is always valued more then the mean is we must needs conclude that God is more concern'd for man for whom all things were made then those very things which were made for him Hence that of St. Paul's double Expostulation 1 Cor. 9.9 10. Doth God take care for Oxen Gr saith he it altogether for our sake For our Sakes no doubt this is written That he that Ploweth should plow in hope he that Thresheth in hope should be Partaker of his hope As much as to say the Care of Beasts is not to be taken before that of Men We are God's chief Care wherefore Job gives God this Title as peculiar to him Job 7.20 I have sinned what shall I do unto thee O thou Preserver of men He it is that Giveth Salvation unto men But 3ly To Kings chiefly above the rest of Men μάλιςα διο●πρερέων βασιλέων as the Poet not impertinently Above all the Race of Mankind Kings go nearest the Heart of God and are his prime Care Great deliverance giveth he unto them Psa 18. ult He is their Tower of Salvation saith Samuel and Psal 28.8 The Lord is their strength and he is the saving strength of his Anointed In all Things God is wonderful but of all in the Preservation of crowned heads in none more in none equal thereunto What can be more evident now than that God giveth Salvation unto Kings To Kings I say in general for of Kings as they are God's Servants I shall speak more at large in its proper place He giveth Salvation what Salvation giveth Be it of whatsoever kind it will it is from him whether it be that of the physician a sound and healthy body against Diseases as they are mortal men For as it was pointed out to us by Daniel's Image Dan. 2.33 whose Leggs were of Iron his feet part of clay and part of Iron Thus Kings are the Peopl's Treasures but yet treasures in earthen Vessels they have need therefore of God's help and salvation 'T is true if we should understand it in this sense this God gives but this is not the genuine meaning of the place For this salvation here spoken of is from the Sword not from sickness from evil Manners nor ill humours from external Force not internal Dyscrasie God gives Salvation this salvation gives he unto Kings and to Kings above others I might argue à fortiori If God takes care of that which is less worthy and becoming his care much more will he do so of that which is more worth Therefore since even the beasts and other inferiour creatures are cared for by God much more must Men the highest of creatures in the world and Kings the highest of Men be under the same Watch. It is he that giveth Salvation unto Kings Here it may not be amiss to enquire a little into the Reasons of this God's Care and Protection of Kings and examine what probably may be the Causes why God is pleased to give Salvation to them above all others The Reasons I shall offer are Three The First taken from God The Second from Kings themselves The Third from the People 1. God giveth Salvation unto Kings because by him they are raised up and dignified By me Kings reign and Princes decree Justice Prov. 8.15 And as representing him they are called Gods Psal 82.6 I have said Ye are Gods I have said it who then dare gain-say it Ye are Gods that is in God's stead set in his Room invested with his Power and Authority his Vicegerents his Representatives his chief Ministers Does not St. Paul speaking of the Supream Magistrate tell us That he is the Minister of God Rom. 3.4 We are not capable of immediate Converse with God therefore he Rules us by Men like our selves he Governs Men by Man and so puts Man into his own Place There is hereupon a necessity of God's Protecting them as his Delegates Among Foreigners such as the Ambassadors of Kings as also their Representatives at home those that Impower them and whom they Represent are careful of their Preservation and to vindicate them from Contempt the Honour of the Ambassador is the Honour of him that sends him and the Disgrace of the Representative redounds to him whose Representative he is our David himself when his Embassadors were ill used whom he sent to the King of Ammon after his Fathers Death he took it as done to himself 2 Sam. 10.4 He thence severely revenged the Injury as his own Cap. 4. The great God of Heaven does he not the 〈◊〉 same His Honour cannot be intire and full unless theirs be so who are his Substitutes for his Honours sake he will procure their Salvation By him they are Ordain'd by 〈…〉 what they are Rom. 13.2 Hitherto is to be 〈◊〉 whatever belongeth to God as he is interested for them being their Founder and Preserver their Preserver so far forth that they be not Wronged and their Reven●●● if they be so 〈◊〉 Therefore God giveth Salvation unto Kings and taketh care of Princes above all others because they are exposed to greater Dangers than other Men. Certainly they must needs be in greater Danger in that the Devil that envious one maligns them most he aims at their Destruction above all others and no better can be expected from him whose Name in the Hebrew is Abaddon in the Greek Apollyon and in our English Destroyer a name diametrically opposite to that of God who is the Preserver and of the Holy Jesus his Son who is a Saviour that 's the import of his Name Matth. 1.21 For he shall save his people from their sins To destroy all is the