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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

graces that may be needful for him 2dly With all temporal blessings that he may be delivered from all dangers incident to his place from Private Conspiracies from Tumultuous Factions and from Open Rebellion that he may overcome and subdue all his Enemies that they may have no advantage over him nor the Wicked approach to hurt him that his Life may be long and his Reign happy and that all his Subjects may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all Godliness and honesty Such were the Petitions which the Primitive Christians put up to God for the Heathen Emperours praying for their very Persecutors vitam prolixam imperium securum domum tutam exercitus fortes c. a long life à secure Empire a safe family Valiant Armies and so on as Tertullian tells us the example therefore binds much more when a King hath submitted his Scepter to the standard of Jesus and maketh profession of the Christian faith Nor indeed can we reasonably expect that the King should be happy and prosperous without our sincere observance of this Duty for let us do what we can to make him so tho' we cheerfully assist him with our Fortunes and our Lives as we are bound to do when need so requires yet if we do not add our Prayers to the King of Kings to crown him with his favour and loving kindness in vain may all our endeavours be for there is no King that can be saved by the multitude of an hoast neither is there any man delivered by much strength and except the Lord keep the City and by his good Providence guard the Kingdom the Watchmen waketh but in vain But if all the Kings Subjects would but most affectionately Pray for him and with one heart one mind humbly beg the blessing of God upon him we might then have great hopes that the joynt-addresses of a whole Nation would be very prevalent at the Court of the King of Heaven Wherefore that men do not truly Honour the King that is negligent in this Duty of Praying for him forasmuch as he neglects that one expedient that may so much tend to his true Interest and true honour But further 4thly As Honouring the King doth require that we should do such things as may tend to his honour so it doth likewise oblige us to do nothing that may lessen it and to endeavour to prevent and suppress whatever may be prejudicial unto it For it is natural for us to abhor and avoid as much as we can whatever may tend to the discredit of those whom we really Love and Honour nor can that honour which we ought to have for the King consist with any thing that may defame him or cast a blemish upon his Govenment and those things that may have this malevalent effectare First Scurrilous Libels Secondly Scandalous Reports and Thirdly the blazoing abroad his personal errours and failings First Scurrilous Libels whether they be in writing or in Print in Prose or in Verse do not only make the King ridiculous but contemptible too they have a direct tendency to the wronging of his Person to the lessening of his Authority to the weakning of his Power and in conclusion to the very shakening of his Throne and that man that can find in his heart to wound the Kings Honour by making Libels upon him would not stick upon a convenient occasion to embrue his hands in his bloud he that keeps them is as bad for he thereby approves of what the other hath done else why doth he keep them why doth he treasure them up and is so chary of them is it for the wit and Elegancy of speech he meets with in them but what wit can there be in Ribaldry invectives and Scurrilous reflections upon the Lords Anointed is not that wit vilely misemploy'd and that ingenuity degenerated into folly that is spent upon such unworthy Designs What loyal heart can endure to see his Sovereign vilely abus'd and bespatter'd in the most witty and most elegant Language Could a man be well content to have himself or his dearest Friend so serv'd and can we then with patience and contentedness with pleasure and delight behold the Sacred Majesty of our King which one would think should be exempted from such Usages Satyrically exposed and libelled much less shall we give entertainment and harbour to such Scurrilities and not rather with indignation and abhorrence reject and tear them But then he that gives vent unto them and makes them public spreads the malignity of them and is not perhaps well aware what great Injury as well as what great Indignity he thereby doth the King but if he be aware of it if he knows the harm and considers the Mischief that may from thence arise and yet forbears not to hand them from one to another he is a Traitor to the King a betrayer of His Honour and an enemy to his Kingdoms In a word they that make them they that keep them they that disperse them are all Blameable If we do indeed heartily honour the King if we have any value for the preservation of His Credit and Renown as we should never make such Libels our selves so having found them being made we should presently seek to suppress them and make them quite away So likewise should we do in reference Secondly To scandalous Reports whether they be true or false if true we should forthwith stifle them in their very first birth keep them wholly to our selves and prevent the farther growth of them if false we should contradict them rectifie the Mistakes and discover the Cheat and Malice of them and not only so but do all we can to keep them from spreading for if scandalous Reports do but once take air how senseless and unreasonable soever the grounds for them may be yet they will not only find entertainment with credulous and easie People but also be apt to encrease in the telling such I make account are those that concern bad News misrepresentation of the Kings actions traducing of his good ones missinterpretation of his words odious reflections on the Government the raising of Fears and jealousies and the like All which or any of them may by degrees lessen the King in the esteem and regard the Love and affections of his People may make them weary of his Government and breed in them an aversion and hatred to his Person such Reports are of very pernicious consequence and may have a malignant influence upon the honour and the happiness of the King and his Kingdoms And therefore as it should be the great concern of us all to beware of them so more particularly is it the Duty of all Masters of Families to take care that neither their Children nor Servants nor any under their Authority be the broachers or the publishers of such reports let them not suffer them to have the liberty of talking of State Affairs or censuring the Actions of their Superiours or making any

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 MAIESTY 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 M. A. Fellow of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge and Chaplain to his Grace the Duke of Ormond Printed at the request of the Gentlemen that heard it Imprimatur Ro. Altham R mo P. D no. Iohan. Archiep. Ebor. à sacris Domesticis YORK Printed by Io. White for Richard Lambert Bookseller at the Crown within the Minster-Gates Anno Dom. M. DC LXXXVI To the Right Honourable CONYERS Earl of HOLDERNESS Lord DARCY and MEINIL My Lord THe only Reason that obtain'd my consent to the publishing of the ensuing Discourse was the Opinion they had who heard it that it might be serviceable to his Majesty by reducing some of His misguided Subjects into a right sence and practice of their Allegiance towards Him to which end I beseech our good God to give it his blessing And the Honour I have to be related to your Lordships truly Loyal and Religious Family obligeth me to Dedicate it to your Lordship most humbly begging your Lordship's acceptance of it as a Testimony of the Duty owing to your Lordship from My LORD Your Lordship 's Most obedient Grandson and Most humble Servant Chris. Wyvil THE DUTY OF HONOURING THE KING 1 Pet. 2. 17. Honour the King THat which in the Primitive Age of the Church raised many Enemies to the Christian Faith and induced the Potentates of the Earth to endeavour its extirpation was a groundless Suspition of its inconsistency with Civil Powers a Calumny invented no doubt and spread abroad by the Devil and his Agents on purpose to alienate the minds of men from making profession of it and to bring it into the contempt and hatred of Kings and Princes they being thereby perswaded that the Kingdom of Christ howsoever it was taught not to consist of this world was an encroachment upon their Dominions that the preaching of the Gospel howsoever it was said to be the Gospel of Peace carried nothing else with it but Fire and Sword wheresoever it was planted that Faction and Sedition Conspiracies and Rebellion were the only product of its Doctrine and that they who Taught and embraced it were no better then common Incendiaries Subverters of the public Peace and quietness Seducers of the People where they came and even turned the world upside down But the vanity and the falshood of this Suggestion both by the Practice of Christ and of the Writings of his Apostles doth sufficiently appear For our Saviour did not only give Commandment to his Followers to render unto Caesar the things which be Caesar's as well as unto God the things which be God's but that he might confirm his Doctrine by his own Example he patiently submitted himself to the Jurisdiction of an Heathen Governour freely owning the Power and Authority he had over him Nor were his Disciples less careful to imprint the same Doctrine in the minds of their Proselytes strictly charging them as to live in unity and concord one with another so more particularly to be obedient to Government and Governours and to pay a just deference to the Civil Magistrat St. Paul exhorteth every soul to be subject to the higher Powers and to pay tribute to whom tribute custom to whom custom fear to whom fear honour to whom honour is due And he chargeth Titus to put the People in mind of being subject to Principalities and Powers and to obey Magistrates Which Subject is also prosecuted by St. Peter in this Chapter of my Text where he exhorteth his own Countrymen the Iews that were dispersed here and there throughout Pontus Galatia Cappadocia Asia and Bithynia to submit themselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake whether it be to the King as Supreme or unto Governours as unto them that are sent by him And he had some special Reason for so doing for there was then as there is now a Generation of men that under a pretence of Christian Liberty thought themselves under no obligation to temporal Princes denying to pay them even civil Respect esteeming all men as equal and vainly imagining that no mortal man ought to be accounted a Prince or a Lord over them It was therefore but necessary for our Apostle to put these men in mind of their Duty and to require them so to be free as not to use their Liberty for a cloak of maliciousness but as the servants of God and to fear God yet so as to Honour the King also And it is very considerable that the Persons to whom he directs this Epistle were at that time under the Supreme Government of the Emperour Claudius a prophane Infidel and a cruel Tyrant a worshipper of the Heathen Idols according to the custom of the ancient Romans a Man naturally merciless and given to bloudshed and yet such an unbelieving and bloudy Oppressor this blessed Apostle doth exhort the believing Iews to honour Now if such deference was to be paid to him how much more reasonably is it due to a Christian King And with what alacrity should we be ready to yield it to our present Sovereign who hath not only shewn himself merciful already to a great degree in Pardoning the Lives of some of those Men whose hands were unnaturally lift up to take away his but by his Sacred Word which was wont to be more unalterable then any of the Laws of the Medes and Persians and by his repeated promises which he hath made unconstrain'd unaskt unsought for God Almighty bless his Royal heart for it hath given us sufficient assuranccs that he will support and defend our Church It is one great excellency of our Holy Faith that as it is very consistent with order and civil Society and fitted for the prosperity and Happiness of men of all degrees So the just Rights and Priviledges of temporal Princes cannot be better secured then by the rules of its Doctrine all persons by the Christian Religion being enjoyned obedience to those in Authority not only for wrath but also for Conscience sake every man as he is bound to fear God being also obliged to honour the King And we cannot but admire and adore the Wisdom and goodness of God that when for the preservation of Order and Government in the World he did ordain that Power and Authority by which Kings do reign and Princes decree justice he did at the sametime determine to provide for the support of it and took great care for the securing of their Persons from violence and their Crowns from contempt as by many good Laws and precepts so more especially by that