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A81140	Davids prayer for Solomon, containing the proper endowments and duty royall of a king, with the consequent blessings upon a kingdome. Delivered in a sermon at Christ-Church London, before the Right Honourable the Lord Major, the right worshipfull the aldermen his bretheren, together with the worshipfull companies of the said city, upon the 27th. of March, 1643. Being the commemoration of his Majesties inauguration. By Joseph Caryl, preacher to the Honourable Society of Lincolnes Inne. It is this present eight day of Aprill, anno Domini, 1643. Ordered by the Committee of the House of Commons in Parliament concerning printing, that this sermon intituled (Davids Prayer for Solomon, containing, the proper endowments and duty royall of a King, &c.) be printed and published. John White.	Caryl, Joseph, 1602-1673.; England and Wales. Parliament.	1643 (1643)	Wing C750; Thomason E97_12; ESTC R13263	23,752	44

seeme to lie levell with Nature Then surely Kings must be taught of God that transcendent mistery To governe Men to manure Nations They who are borne of the most Noble Progenitours yea they who are borne of the most Holy Progenitours are borne with nothing as from nature but with cruelty in their hearts and with violence in their hands Therefore pray Give the King thy judgements O God Secondly If we consider the condition of Kings we had need to pray this prayer the estate of Magistracy is an estate full of care The Crowne of a King is set with rich stones but it is lined with cares And they who have many cares had need of many prayers prayers of their owne and prayers from others The Apostles counsell is Be carefull in nothing but in all things with prayer and supplication make your requests knowne to God as nothing that care would eate a man out quickly unlesse prayer doe preserve him There is many a man consumed with the care of a single family yea some are consumed with the care of single selfe what then thinke you may the cares of a whole Kingdome what the care of three Kingdomes doe upon one man unlesse prayer prop him up therefore pray Give the King thy judgements O God Thirdly They that are encompass'd with temptations had need be encompass'd about with prayers and intercessions To be a King is a temptation No man knowes what his heart wo●ld be if he had so much power as a King in his hand as he said once can you tell me what you would be if you were a Lyon if to be a rich man be a temptation if to have riches be a temptation then much more to be a King to be the Earthly Center of Power is a temptation To be rich is so great a temptation that Christ tells us It is a hard thing for a richman to enter into the Kingdome of Heaven harder then for a Camell to goe through the eye of a needle If baggs of money if Lands and Houses be such temptations what are Crownes and Scepters And as the very estate it selfe of a King is a temptation so there are multitudes of temptations waiting upon and hanging about that estate A King can hardly set his foot out of his Chamber-doore but he treads upon a temptation A King can hardly heare a word I was about to say a Sermon but he heares a temptation some Sermons have more temptations in them then instructions he can hardly cast an eye but he lookes upon a temptation Now seeing a King hath so many temptations about him let him have store of prayers about him Prayer is the best Antidote against temptation Especially when we pray for Him as Christ teaches every one to pray for himselfe with others Lord leade not the King into temptation Lastly The Kings heart is in the hand of God Pro. 21. 1. And the hand of God is ordinarily in the prayers of his people God moves Kings and prayer moves God A Kings heart is so high that nothing can reach it but God And God is so high that nothing can reach him but prayer When a people have lost the key of their Kings heart prayer is a golden pick-lock to open it Further prayer doth not only prevaile with God to open the lock of a Kings heart but when need is to fashion it anew The Lord saith David Psal 33. 13 14 15. looketh downe from Heaven and he beholdeth all the sonnes of men From the place of his habitation he beholdeth all the Inhabitants of the Earth he fashioneth their hearts alike Alike Not that the hearts of all men are cast in the same mould Indeed the hearts of all men by nature are cast in the same mould they are of the same Make As face answereth face in the water so doe the hearts of the children of men That is they are all sinfull But if their hearts were in all respects alike their thoughts and counsels and actions would be a like too but the truth is there is not so much difference in the faces of men as there is in the hearts of men and therefore we cannot understand the Psalme thus that God makes all mens hearts of the same likenesse But take the meaning thus when God looks from Heaven and beholds all the Inhabitants of the Earth he can fashion the heart of one alike as he fashioneth the heart of another that is looke as ●ee is able to fashion the heart of a meane man so hee is able to fashion the heart of a mighty man as hee is able to fashion the heart of a Subject so hee is able to fashion the heart of a King Thus he fashions their hearts alike when wee put the heart of a King into the hand of God to fashion wee put a curious pee●e into his hand The heart of a King is the most curious peece of worke in the world Yet God can alike namely as soone and with as much ease fashion and frame that curious peece as he doth the plainest peece in the world he fashions all their hearts alike and therefore if we would have the heart of a King fashioned we must put it out to God who only can doe it and who can easily doe it Now there is nothing can carry a Kings heart to fashioning unto God but onely Prayer therefore you see the necessity of this duty Then let the King pray this Prayer for himselfe Kings should not put all prayer-worke out to others it is better to get a Blessing then to have it Then let us pray this Prayer for the King It is a duty which we have as much need to pay unto our King as any people under Heaven Then pay this Tribute of Prayer unto the King it may be a richer revenue to him then all that he hath in the world besides This may bring him in greater honour greater glory and greater prosperity then all that ever our purses or our persons our councels or our indeavours can bring him in And me thinks we are now in a speciall manner engaged to it at this time First The whole Kingdome shakes now then surely the Throne that being the Basis of it cannot stand so fast as heretofore therefore pray thus For His Throne is established in Righteousnesse Prov. 25. 5. Iudgement and Righteousnesse are the Pillars of the State and stronger Supporters of the Kings Armes then the Lyon or the Vnicorne Secondly We who desire the fashioning of so many things both in Church and Common-wealth by the hand of our King had need pray that our Kings heart may be exactly fashioned by the hand of God Thirdly We who have complained long That the heart of our King is stollen away from us how shall wee rescue and fetch it backe againe but by prayer Though any other course should gaine his person to us yet no other course can gain his heart to us Holy Prayers will at last over-match unholy Counsels Againe

that is the businesse that we have to doe for Kings make us a King to judge us that is his Art as he said concerning the Romans let others paint let others ●arve tu regere Imperio populos Romane memento hae tibi sint artes Doe thou governe people and Nations this is thy Art this is thy craft So the people of Israel said at the first cry for a King let us have a King to judge us Before they had a King they had Judges and now they would have a King it is but to judge them Here was a new Title but the worke was still the same Only before God was their King and man judged them Now man was both their King and their Judge In that one word Iudge by a Synecdoche all the duty and businesse of a King is comprehended As the generall duty of a Man respecting the Law is fulfill'd in this one word Thou shalt love thy Neighbour as thy selfe So the generall duty of a Prince is fulfil'd in this one word Thou shalt judge the people of God with judgement and with righteousnesse Barely to love is not the fulfilling of the Law But you must looke to the object thy Neighbour and to the measure thy selfe So barely to judge is not the whole duty of a King The object Thy people thy poore And the measure with judgement and with righteousnesse are to be taken in If it be so how is it possible they should ever drive that Royall trade without judgement and righteousnesse The commodity in which Kings deale and which they put off to their people is judgement and righteousnesse Then they must have judgement and righteousnesse in stock how else shall they dispense them unto others Can any one judge that hath not judgement or doe right that hath not righteousnesse Iudgement and righteousnesse are as it were the right hand of a Magistrate yea they are both his hands he can doe nothing at all quatenus talis as a Magistrate without these and therefore when God himselfe is spoken of under the notion of a King presently it is added Iudgement and righteousnesse are the habitation of his Throne Psal 97. 2. His Throne inhabits or dwells in these God must worke in the spheare of judgement and righteousnesse or else He can doe nothing as a King And when the Kingdome of Christ is spoken of in the glory of it you shall see that Christ doth all his worke by these Isa 9. Of the encrease of his government and peace there shall be no end upon the Throne of David and upon his Kingdome to order it and to establish it with judgement and with righteousnesse from henceforth even for ever Christ orders and disposeth every thing in his Kingdome by judgement and by righteousnesse The reigne of David is thus described 2 Sam. 8. 15. And David executed judgement and justjce to all his people That which the fire is to the Chymists the same is righteousnesse and judgement unto Princes the Chymists can doe nothing without fire if they have not fire all their worke must stand still So unlesse Princes have righteousnesse and judgement they cannot worke the whole frame of true governement and all the wheeles of a right Common-wealth stand still till judgement and righteousnesse give them motion And forasmuch as to judge and to judge with righteousnesse is the duty of Kings It is necessary to set downe more distinctly what it is to judge with righteousnesse Neither is it improper for this authority to heare such lessons Though I speake not this day before the Person of a King yet I speake before many who are representative Kings Every subordinate Magistrate hath in his compasse the work of a King put into his hand yea subordinate Magistrates are the Kings Hands and Tongue and eyes by which he sees and speakes and executes In such a correct sence as this I may say of the Senate of London as he of the Senate of Rome It is an assembly of Kings Seeing you are trusted with the Kings worke which is To judge the people Heare what it is to doe it by the Kings Rule with judgement and with righteousnesse with the judgement and righteousnesse of God for so it becometh Kings I shall give 4 Rules to cleare it First To judge with the righteousnesse of GOD is to judge by a Law Such is the judgement of God Though he be absolute in himselfe and may make his will his Law and no man must question it yet he judges by a Law That of the Apostle seemes to crosse this in some cases Rom. 2. 12. As many as have sinned without Law shall also perish without Law I answer you must understand that onely in regard of the formale the formality of a Law not in regard of the materiale or matter of it for there is no sinning without the matter of a Law So the Apostle concludes Rom. 4. 15. Where there is no Law there is no sin there may be a sinning without the formality of a Law and so the Text carries it they that sinne without the Law that is not having the Law formally published to their ear●s or written to their eyes as wee know many had not they shall perish by the sentence of the Law as written in their hearts and spoken to their consciences The foundation of every judgement is in the Law And so strict is the Allyance of these two Law and Justice that among the Latines the word Iustice derives it's pedigree from the word Law Iustitia nomen habet a jure jus a jubendo say the Criticks Hence the learned both Divines and States-men make a threefold resemblance of the Law First say they it is like a Glasse to discover Secondly like a Bridle to restraine Thirdly like a Sword to punish offences These are the weapons of a Magistrate As the Imperiall Law-giver admonisheth in the first proemiall sentence to his Institutions Imperatoriam Majestatem non solum armis decoratam sed etiam legibus oportet esse armatam A King must be adorn'd with armes and arm'd with Laws A King armed with righteous Lawes is That Higher Power spoken of Roman 13. 1. To which every soule must be subject which they that resist shall receive to themselves Damnation Where that word of a King is there is Power and such a power as who may say unto him what doest thou Eccles 8. 4. This is the higher power indeed whereas a Magistrate and his will especially a Magistrate and his lust is not properly the higher Power but the higher weaknesse the strength as well as the rule of Princes lies in the law That 's the locke of these Sampsons and as Lawes are the Kings strength so the peoples security That people is most happy whose Prince is a breathing Law They cannot but be unhappy whose Law is nothing else but the breath of a Prince This is the first part of Gods righteousnesse to judge by Law and to make this rule fuller

While I say there are so many enemies to all righteous persons can we be to seeke why the Mountaines brought forth warre while there are some fill'd with all unrighteousnesse as the Gentiles are described in Roman 1. 29. and while there are so many friends to all unrighteousnesse can we be ignorant why the Mountaines brought forth warre While errour was maintain'd which is unrighteousnesse in opinion while Idolatry was winked at and superstition contended for which are unrighteousnesse in worship while prophanenesse was encouraged which is unrighteousnesse in practise while oppression was countenanc'd which is unrighteousnesse in Government can any one be to learne why the Mountaines and the Hills brought forth Warre While Judgement was turn'd into Gall and the fruit of Righteousnesse into Hemlocke are yee not taught why the Mountaines brought forth warre While many as this Text cals them of Gods people and of Gods poore who are in another Text Isa 61. called Trees of Righteousnesse were stubbed up and rooted out of most places in the Kingdome not only from great Townes and Cities but from the very Mountaines and H●lls so that they could not live quietly any where are we not taught why the Mountaines and the Hills brought forth warre Those Trees of Righteousnesse are stiled in the same place The plantation of the Lord while men were busie to root up the plantation of the Lord Is it any wonder if the Lord by the Iron-hand of the Sword rooted up their Plantations who sees not clearly in the Glasse of this Truth why and by what our Mountaines and our Hills have brought forth warre it hath been by unrighteousnesse Now at this day there is a great cry for that which is the promise of the Text There is a great cry for Peace desire is upon the wing to over-take and recall our departing if not departed peace And it is our duty to cry after it Follow peace is the command of God Hebr. 12. 14. The word signifies not only to prosecute but to persecute Follow peace with as much love to imbrace it as a persecutour followes an innocent person with hatred to destroy him Follow Peace though like a hunted beast it flyes from you so much the Metaphor will beare Follow this noble game though it be upon a very cold sent with heat of spirit Onely let the point in hand direct us in this purs●it For what though all the people of the Nation cry for Peace and what though the King and Parliament at this day treat for Peace yet all this cannot obtaine peace unlesse there be a cry after a Treaty about yea an entreating for Righteousnesse See not my face saith Ios●ph unlesse your younger Brother come with you So saith Peace see not my face unlesse my Elder Sister or rather my Mother Righteousnesse come along with you if we should travell for Peace without this we shall but wander in a Maze and more entangle our selves in trouble It is onely the golden thred of righteousnesse that can lead us through through the Laborinth of our present distractions unto rest Who weepes not to see the wounds of this Nation weeping bloud every day and yet if wee should skin over those wounds before righteousnes hath searched them to the bottom I tremble to thinke how quickly they will fester and either striking inward kill the heart or breaking outward fill the whole body with a sore Who mournes not over our breaches and yet if we shall goe about to daube them up with untempered morter and such is all that though it have never so many sublimated Ingredients of humane wisedome and State-policies all that I say is untempered morter which is not mixt and made up with righteousnes If we dawbe with that I tremble to thinke how quickly our wall will fall and who can imagine how great the fall thereof will be That which those Enemies spake scoffingly and spake falsly concerning the wall which Nehemiah had built and the people of God who helped with him Nehem. 4. 3. If a Fox goe up he shall even breake downe their stone wall The same we may speake truly and in good earnest concerning any wall of Peace that should be built and not by righteousnes if but a Fox go up upon it down it will fall againe For this is a certaine Conclusion That whatsoever the Fox alone I meane subtilty and humane policy builds that the Fox subtiltie and humane policy is able to pull downe againe the Foxes could not pull down no nor the Ramme batter downe the wall that Nehemiah had built and why Because men though as wise as Serpents yet as innocent as Doves built it What the wisdome of Innocence doth all the power of policy cannot undoe You see then what course must be taken what must he done that the Mountaines and hils that your Townes and Cities may bring forth peace set righteousnesse a worke or worke by righteousnesse and then your peace is wrought The pleasant Olive branches of peace grow and flourish out of the acts and administrations of justice once part with the justice of a Nation and you part with the peace of a Nation when the Sword of justice glisters the Sword of warre shall rust draw out the Sword of righteousnesse and God will sheath his Sword of wrath The Psalmist assures us this in Psal 106. 3. Blessed are they that keepe judgement and he that doth righteousnesse at all times at all times Every thing saith the King-preacher is beautifull in its season Then righteousnesse is ever beautifull for this Scripture warrants it in season alwayes There are some now who greatly desire this blessing of peace but they are greatly afraid this is not a time to be exact in righteousnesse or to stand strictly upon judgement These would be wiser then God would they not he saith blessed are they that keepe judgement and doe righteousnesse at all times Ob. But affirmitive commands doe not bind ad semper at all times to the doing of them An. 1. It ought to be our earnest desire and utmost endeavour to doe them at all times An. 2. It is best if we can doe them at all times An. 3. The times are very rare wherein they cannot be done God very seldome casts his people into such streights as loosen the knot of his commands An. 4. Be sure those times and those streights be of Gods making not of ours If either our owne groundlesse feare or heedlesse folly casts us into them this Maxime is no defence Ob. But David himselfe forbore to doe righteousnesse at some time Blood was treacherously shed almost in his own presence and yet he spares the murderer 2 Sam. 3. 27 28. An. 1. All the policies of holy David were not holy The infirmities of good men must not be our rules It is not safe for us on earth to goe by the falls of such as are now in Heaven An. 2. If the feare of David had not bin too hard at that