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A49704 A commemoration of King Charles his inauguration, or, A sermon preached at Pauls Crosse by William Laud ... Laud, William, 1573-1645. 1645 (1645) Wing L579; ESTC R200020 20,473 38

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never so great if David pray and God remember the King cannot bee lost in any sorrow Hezekiah found it so when he fasted and prayed and turned to the Lord Isa 37. for then the Host of Zenacharib was presently broken and himselfe saved So then David is at this necessary worke he is at prayer I but for whom is it that David pra●es Surely diev●s ancient and moderne Divines think that in this place the King and the Kings son stand but for one person the person of Solomon under two different relations the King and the Kings son and that there is an Emphasis added by the Repetition And they thinke too that David penned this Psalm when he was dying when he resigned his Crowne to Solomon and delivered the Scepter into his hand which the Iesuit Lorinus tels us and he is very exact that it was just foure yeers surely I thinke hee failes of his reckoning before Davids death when hee made this prayer for Solomon And he avoucheth Ierome to be his Author but it is not so the Iesuite in this as in divers greater busines is too bold Indeed Ierome saith that Dav●d lived after Solomon was crowned aliquot annus some yeers but he saith not just four it may be more or fewer I will not enter upon the question quando when David made this Prayer and penned this Psalme First because the quando the time here is not in the text nor in any part else in Scripture therefore I may safely be ignorant Secondly b●cause suppose this were the last Psalme that ever David made as some collect out of the last verse yet that supposed will not prove that hee made this Psalme after he had crowned Solomon King for before Solomon was crowned David was little lesse then bedrid 1 King 1. at which time it is out of question that David prayed therefore hee did not then compose this Psal●e Therefore I shall take liberty to dissent from this opinion with al submission to better judgements but especially to the Church Me thinks it was not so near night with the Prophet when he penned this Psalme I rather think that David made it when himselfe was King and his purpose was firmely set that Solomon should succeed him for so he had sworne 1 King 3. And I think this prayer here in the beginning of the Psalm was made first by David for himselfe and then for Solomon after And since this opinion maintains nothing contrary to the Analogie of faith nothing that hinders the context nothing that crosses any determination of the Church nay since there is in it more piety to God more duty to himselfe more instruction to his Son and more good example to other Kings that the prayer begin at himselfe I will take the prayer as I find it in the very words of the Psalme to be a prayer first for David and then for his Son and so proceed Well then Davids prayer here is first for himselfe we shall come to his Son af●et And he is an excellent example to Kings in this for the first thing that makes prayer necessary absolutely necessary for a King is himselfe that a superiour hand even Gods hand would set and keepe him right whom so many inferiour hands labour to set awry I but what need the King to pray for himselfe he wants no prayers whom all the people pray for Indeed it is true the people are bound to pray for their King 1 Tim. 2. and I make no doubt but that the people performe this duty as they are bound since it is a tribute which by the Law of God they ought to pay and David so great and so good a King had out of question the prayers of all his people both for himselfe and his son yet for all that you shall find David at his prayers for himselfe too And certainly there is great reason for it for of all acts of Charity this of Prayer is aptest to begin at home It is true indeed the King ought to have the prayers of his people and that man cannot deserve so much as the name of a Christian that prayes not heartily for the King because that is not the Kings good only but the peoples way to lead a life in godlinesse and honesty 1 Tim. 5. Therefore that man that makes no conscience of praying for the King let him pretend what hee can hee must be presumed to have as little care of all godliness and honesty I but though the King ought to have the prayers of his people yet in the performance of their duty I reade not of any dispensation the King hath to neglect his own not to pray for himselfe If hee be a King like David he must be a King at his prayers too especially in those great things that concerne the King that concerne the kingdome that concerne his Son and his succession to his kingdome there he of necessity must pray for himselfe He may joy in his peoples prayers there but hee must pray for himselfe too And God be ever blessed for it you have a King that is daily at his prayers both for himselfe and for you yet here I pray take this along with you that as it is the peoples duty to pray for their King and that takes not off the King to pray for himselfe So on the contrary side the Kings religious care in praying for himselfe is so far from lessening that it augments the obligation of the people to pray for the King And when both pray the King for himselfe and the people for the King God will not refuse their prayers And the prayer granted though it fal first upon the head of the King as good reason it should yet it becomes as Aarons oyle Psal. 133. for it runs to the skirts of all his people so that they have the benefit both of their own and of his prayer I will never misdoubt the pietie of this nation in the performing this dutie of which both here and in al places they are met this day to make publick proof For the person that keeps close to this dutie among many others hee shall be sure of this one great blessing he cannot fal into the opposite sin of murmuring against the King David the King in the text hee had faithfull and religious people yet there was a Shemei among them that instead of praying for the King cursed and reviled him 2 Sam. 16. David was very patient but I pray remember what Solomon the Kings Son did to Shimei 2 King 2. remember that and if the memorie of his punishment would affright other men from running into this blasphemous iniquitie all would soon be well We are to consider in the next place to whom it is here that the Prophet prayes and that is exprest A deo Give the King thy Iudgements O God Doe thou give And as this is all mens dutie so it it is the dutie of the King too among the rest to go in prayer to