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B01853	A sermon preached at the coronation of William III and Mary II, King and Queen of England, ---- France, and Ireland, defenders of the faith in the Abby-Church of Westminster, April 11, 1689 / by Gilbert Lord Bishop of Salisbury. Printed by their Majesties special command.	Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.	1689 (1689)	Wing B5888AA; ESTC R176250	10,364	17

Rulers seem to have Justice so deeply rooted in their natures that every act of Injustice is as a Violence done them yet unless thsre is a more lasting Principle formed in them their Noble and Vertuous Inclinations will be so often crossed by prevailing Interests and they will find themselves so often beset with corrupt Men who court forbidden Gain and love the wages of unrighteousness that it will not be possible for them to maintain their Integrity if they have not a Principle within them of such force that it bears all things down before it and that is the fear of God This will possess their minds with a secret awe of that Supreme Being which sees all things and discovers even the hidden things of dishonesty This will accustom Princes to consider that how much soever they may be raised above their Subjects yet they are as nothing before that God who as he set them up by his Providence so he can pull them down at his pleasure He poureth contempt upon Princes Psalm 107.40 and when he blasts the Counsels and intends to defeat the Designs of the Greatest and Loftiest Monarchs how eastly do Crowns fall and Thrones shake This fear of God will make Princes often remember even in the Pride of all their Glory that though then they look like Gods yet they must die like Men Psal 82.6 7. this Prospect will make them think sometimes on the melancholy Reflections which the approaches of Death will probably raise within them if they at any time for the encrease of their Treasure or their Power or for any ambitious or il Design have perverted Judgment or denied Justice if they have shed Innocent Blood or shut their Ears against the Cries of the miserable The remembrance of these things will then raise Agonies in their Minds which they will not be able to soften by any of all these Diversions with which they entertained them selves in their Health and flourishing Condition The Violences that they have committed and the Blood which they have shed will then stick too close to their Thoughts to be eastly shaken off by them Or if they could be so charmed with the sweetness of Empire that it should make them deaf to all Clamours in this World yet as soon as their Souls pass out of their Bodies they must leave their Crowns and all their Glory behind them and go into a state where all the Distinctions that now look so gay and so shining will signifie nothing unless it be to add to their Account to encrease their Guilt and to heighten their Condemnation Then they must appear at a Tribunal where there is no respect of Persons where the Cries of those Widows and Orphans whom they either made or oppressed or at least refused to relieve will be heard and every one of those Complaints against which their Greatness secured them when on Earth will be weighed in the Scales of Impartial Justice Then those Princes who have hardned themselves against the Miseries of Mankind against all that effusion of Blood and Desolation which their desire of Glory their Ambition or their Revenge occasioned in the injust Wars which they have made will find that they have a just and righteous God to deal with that accepteth not the Persons of Princes Job 34.19 that revengeth Innocent Blood especially the Blood of his Saints and that will reward every man according to his works Mat. 16.27 These are all Considerations of such mighty force which rise out of the fear of God that if Princes do not shut them quite out of their minds they will certainly make all their Maxims of Justice so much the firmer as they are graffed upon this stock and nourished with these and such like Reflections Ruling in the fear of te Lord does not only import that this is the Prince's secret Motive and constant Remembrancer but that the Fear of God becomes the Rule of the Government as well as the Principle of him that governs Few Princes are so bad as to own that they have no regard to Religion in any thing they doe It is a strong temptation to their Subjects to shake off their Yoke when they openly shake off God's but as many as make a pretence of their Religion do with it as they do who wear Masks which rather hide than disguise them for none take the Vizar for the true Face though it covers it They use Religion for the hiding some secret deformities but the Mask is so course that though all Men cannot see what is under it yet they plainly discern that it is but a Mask Hypocrisie as all other things that we wear is capable of new Fashions and of different Modes and the Skill of those who use it is to find out that which is most likely to take and to suit it with the present occasion In one Age the endowing of Monasteries and the building of Churches could sanctifie the greatest Monsters The Devotion of another Age was the carrying over vast Armies to be destroyed in the Holy Land At another time a Zeal for some new Doctrine or controverted piece of Worship was te Holiness in Vogue The being given up blindly to a Confessor the breaking of Faith and the persecting of Hereticks to signifie a zeal for Holy Church can serve with some to cover a multitude of Sins At some times the Praying and Preaching with Appearances of Fervour and Devotion has a Charm that carries Nations after it And a Rigour in supporting Established Forms and the ruining of such as do not comply with them will also draw to it selfs great Applauses After all these Mistakes or Impostures the true Notion of ruling in the fear of the Lord is when Princes make that Religion which God has revealed the chief mark and measure of their whole Government When the encouraging and promoting of a vigorous Piety and the maintaining of True Religion by ways and means suitable to it is the chief design of their Rule When Impiety and vice are punished and Error is repressed but without the ruine of such as are involved in it When the decency of the Worship of God is kept up without adulterating it with Superstition When Order is carried on in the Curch of God without Tyranny And above all when Princes are in their own deportment Examples of the Fear of God but without Affectation and when it is visible that they honour those that fear te Lord and that vile men are despised by them Psal 5.4 then do they truly Rule in the Fear of God. When we see Kings become thus truly Christian Philosophers then we may expect to see the City of God the New Jerusalem quickly come down from Heaven to settle among us and if we may look for a glorious Thousand Years on Earth we may reckon that it is not far from us when we see Kings fall down before him that is the King of Kings and offer up their Crowns to him by whom they Reign Kings