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A54714	God and the King. Gods strength the Kings salvation A sermon preached at Aylesham in the county of Norfolk, upon the 29 day of May 1661, being the anniversary day of thanksgiving, for the thrice happy and glorious restauration of our most Gracious Soveraign King Charles the second, to the royal government of all his Majesties kingdoms and dominions. By John Philips, B.D. sometime fellow of Magdalen College in Cambridge, and vicar of Aylesham in Norfolk.	Philips, John, vicar of Aylesham, Norfolk.	1661 (1661)	Wing P2031B; ESTC R218926	24,258	38

Salvation as the dayes of the Martyrs sufferings were called of old for how truely might the King take up the complaint of the Prophet Psal. 31. 12 13. I was forgotten as a dead man out of mind I was become as a broken Vessel I have heard the blasphemy of the multitude and fear was on every side whilest they conspired together against me to take away my life For the name of a King was no lesse than treason so did men call Loyalty after their own names as it was sometimes if I remember right in the Kingdom of France And though his Majesty had three Kingdoms yet he had not whereon like Noah's Dove to rest the soles of his tender feet nor whereon to lay his precious head and the head of us all but might well bemoan his condition to his Heavenly Father in the words of our blessed Saviour Math. 8. 20. The Foxes indeed those Herods and usurping Tyrants have holes and the birds of the air those kites and vultures have nests but the Son of a King and a King had not whereon to rest his head And therefore he leaves the earth and being desirous to get as neer Heaven as he could with Zacheus he climbs up into a tree and from thence God shewes him a way of escape and speaks unto him in a language of miraculous providence This day Salvation is come into thy house only he must passe thorow a Wildernesse to his Canaan and a Sea of troubles to the Haven where he would be And blessed be God that the Oak of Royal preservation was not to the rebellious Sons of Adam the tree of knowledge for then it had not been to the breath of our Nostrils the tree of life his Sacred Majesty had often heard of it no doubt at Ephrata but now he found it in the field of the Wood that God was his Strength and his Salvation 3. Thirdly the manner of his Restauration may further fasten the memory of this day in our hearts as a nail in a sure place for he came not to his Land of promise and the lot of his inheritance thorow the red Sea of the blood of his Subjects Yet if it had been so such a field with the Pearl in it had not been too dear though it had been the price of blood for whatsoever Judas or others have done we must confesse and that with a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the people of David 1 Sam. 18. 3. Our King was worth ten thousand of us But yet he came to us with a mighty indeed but a merry noise with ringing of Bells not with roaring of Cannons unless it were for lowder Musick There were no Widdows to make lamentation though many had cause enough no complaining in the Streets as he passed thorow in triumph no outcries but Hosannah and Allelujah Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord. He came not with fire and sword he brake no bruised reed in his shaken and tottering Kingdoms he quenched no smoaking Flax in the Church the light whereof was wel nigh extinguished there was no striving but whether his Majesty should be more gracious or his people more gratefull 4. There is one more argument from the day It is observed that this very day the Common-Prayer book purged from the drosse wherewith it was mixed was settled as the publick Liturgy of our Church which was after sealed with the blood of many of the Compilers of it which observation if it be true then methinks there should not be such divisions nor such sad thoughts of heart amongst us as there is concerning it So as to black and cloud our joy in this day of our peace What have been done in this place about it first and last is too well known Yet I can positively affirm that in this numerous and populous Congregation there are but few that absent themselves from the publick service of God upon offence taken at the reading of it though too many upon other sinfull and unwarrantable accounts I do therefore earnestly beseech as all my Reverend brethren the Ministers of the Gospel so all other Godly and peaceably disposed Christians that whilst it is our duty to pray for the peace of Jerusalem we do not suffer our prayers to be an occasion of the bteach of that her peace And I do adjure all in the words of the Apostle Phil. 2. 1 2 3. If there be any consolation in Christ if any fellowship of the spirit if any bowels and mercy fullfil you the Kings Kingdoms and one anothers joy that ye be like minded having the same love being of one accord and of one minde O let nothing be done in this matter through strife or vain-glory But let in lowlinesse of mind each esteem others better than themselves And O let us all in our several stations according to the Apostles precept Ephes. 4. 3. Endeavour to keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace And the rather ought we to take heed hereunto because we have formerly received mercies somewhat like unto these of this day but soon forfeited them by our sins for example King Charles the first that blessed Martyr was born the 19. day of November and on the same day if my intelligence fail me not began his return to us from his Northern Kingdom after that gracious Pacification made in his Royal Camp near Barwick And made without the shedding of one drop of blood for even when his two Kingdoms with their puissant armies were daring one another in a warlike posture he came as Neptune with his Trident and calmed those raging billows and rebuked those winds that were risen so high and said unto the Sea that was become so boysterous and threatning Be stil. Of which pacification I will not say it had been better for England if it had not been made for Blessed are the peace makers Matth. 5. 9. But sure it had been happy for both Kingdoms it had never been broken for then we had not sat wept so many years by these Waters of Babylon nor hung up our harps with little hopes and lesse joy to use them but long since taken them down and putting them in their right place and tune sung this song of joy and gladnesse The King shall rejoice in thy Strength O Lord and in thy Salvation he shall be exceeding glad For the Coherence and scope of which words it is this The Church in the last verse of the former Psalm prayes for the Kings Salvation 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 so the septuagint renders the words and so St. Jerom Domine salvum fac regem and so our Church word for word in her daily petition for him morning and evening O Lord save the King And I hope none will be offended at that Scripture Prayer unless there should be found yet some of those who could find no great fault with the Common Prayer Book but that it taught them so often to pray for the

Minister of God for our good And so he is indeed the Preserver of our sacred Truth our Defence in War our Security in Peace and therefore hath right to whatsoever is necessary to the safety of his sacred person the support of his Regal Dignity the preservation and enlargement of his Kingdoms and Dominions the subduing of his people under him in case of disloyalty to the rendring of him feared and respected abroad honoured loved and obeyed at home And whosoever shall deny their Soveraign these or any thing else quoad potestatem utendi pro bono Communi or demand any of them out of his hand I must send them for answer to the 1 Kings 2. 22. Let them ask the Kingdom also And if his Majesty shall see cause to imploy any of the Parts Gifts and Abilities of any of his Subjects though Ecclesiastical person in the Administration of Civil affairs consistent with the Honour and Dignity of their spiritual Function I know not why he should be deprived of that just Prerogative Moses made Judges out of all the Tribes and the Apostle 1 Cor. 6. both intimates and argues that those that are most esteemed in the Church should not therefore be in the less capacity to judge of things pertaining to this life Upon which ground holy St. Augustine spent part of the day sometimes the whole as Possidonius relates in his life in the decision of civil Causes and received Letters and returned Resolution about them For though no man that warreth this spiritual warfare ought to entangle himself with the things of this life 2 Tim. 2. 4. and Christs Kingdom be not of this World Joh. 18. 36. and Christ rejects with indignation the covetous wretch his motion Luke 12. 49. with man who made me a Judge over you which places among others are alleged by those that leave no stone unmoved nor Scripture unwrested to wring that power out of their hand that are far better able to manage it themselves and I am sure to a better end for this is one way whereby the spiritual Fathers of the Church may better find out the temper and disposition of the people and so judge whether they grow in Faith and Obedience or not For it is one good sign given by our Practical Divines and Possidonius hints as much to know a true Christian from a Counterfeit by his behaviour about the things of this World when Christ touched the young mans free-hold he soon appeared dross Though therefore the spiritual Souldier must not intangle himself yet he must submit himself to his Princes Command and though Christs Kingdom be nor of yet it is in this World And it seems to me to be supposed that Christ might have been a Judge but he must not make himself one which Rule had it been followed we had not had so many nor such Judges as we have had Let not us therefore deny the Kings power in temporals as the Papists do in spirituals but put we in practice our Saviours Precept Mat. 22. Give unto Caesar the things that are Caesars or rather render unto him what is his for though it may be called giving for the willingness and readiness that should be in the Giver and it may be for some other reasons yet it is a gift not of Courtesie but Duty for the word is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Render and the next words which are Caesars shews Caesar hath a Right before the giving for I cannot be said to give that which is anothers but that which is my own I conclude this with the improvement of the Apostles Arg●ment who goeth to warfare at any time at his own charges who planteth a Vineyard and eateth not of the fruit thereof who feedeth a Flock and eateth not of the milk thereof who ruleth a Kingdom and indeed who can without the Strength thereof And thus much for the first blessing of Kings the Lord is Author of their Strength The second blessing of the King of which the Lord is the Author is his Salvation of which now but a few words Salvation is taken three waies in Scripture especially First for spiritual deliverance from sin and the direfull effects of it Death Hell and Damnation Christ tells Zacheus Luke 19. 9. that Salvation was come into his house Secondly for eternal Glory of which he is the Author to all those that believe and obey him Heb. 5. 9. Thirdly for temporal deliverance from our Enemies and all outward evils so Exod. 14. 13. stand still and see the Salvation of the Lord and in this sense though I exclude not the other David calls God frequently the God of his Salvation Ps. 18. 46. Ps. 24 5. Ps. 85. 7 9. Now though God was and is and will be we believe hope and pray to the King the Author of all those Salvations Yet his temporal Salvation seems more especially intended in the Text and is the peculiar Subject of our present discourse Salvation supposes danger and were I able to give you a just Catalogue of his Majesties manifold and great dangers I fear I should cast a black cloud over the solemnity of this day was he not with St. Paul 2. Cor. 11. 26. in perils of waters that were even like to have run over his Soul in perils of Robers that lay in wait for him by troops in perils amongst his own Country-men who use to deal more kindly one with another in perils by the Heathens or those that were worse than Heathens in perils in the Wilderness whither he was driven as a Pellican in perils in the Sea and sure that faithfull Pilot that wafted his Royal person over it in his small Vessel could not but fear but it may be his Majesty encouraged him as Julius Caesar did his Pilot when he was afraid of a Storm Caesarem vehis thou carriest Caesar O how can we forget to make us more cordially thankfull his tribulations distresses persecutions being for Christs sake and his Kingdoms killed all the day and year yea many years long O remember how our Shepheard was counted as a sheep for the Slaughter What mutinies were raised continually against this our Moses what preparations for destruction against this our Hezekiah what Combinations Plots and Conspiracies against this our Jehoshaphat what Stratagems against this our Joshua Yet in all these he was more than Conquerour through him that loved him The Lord delivered him and was his Salvation from the Bear and Lion and from that uncircumcised Philistine It was not the Oake though it be the Strongest of Trees Amos 2. 9. that could have secured him nor the thick leaves thereof that could have hid him till the Calamities were over-past nor was it the eye of any faithfull Centinel to give notice of approaching danger that could have preserved him though they were all happy means thereof But it was the Arm of the Lord that was his Strength and his Fortress The shadow of his wings that was his Refuge and the