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A35085	A sermon preached upon the anniversary solemnity of the happy inauguration of our dread soveraign Lord King James II in the Collegiate Church of Ripon, February the 6th. 1685/6 / by Thomas Cartwright ...	Cartwright, Thomas, 1634-1689.	1686 (1686)	Wing C706; ESTC R21036	21,714	46

Mercy Our returns must be answerable to our receipts Nor will true Gratitude be either sullen or silent If God gives us an Harvest of Mercy he expects a Tithe of Joy The People in my Text thought themselves infinitely happy that they had been any ways serviceable to their Soveraign's satisfaction And his gracious acceptance of their performances fill'd their Hearts so brim-full of Joy that it ran over at their Mouths as it is expressed in the Fifth part of my Text To wit V. Exultationis Ratio The just Cause of their Triumph which is also the cause of our present Assembly All the Goodness which the Lord hath done for David his Servant and for Israel his People God's Goodness is never entertain'd as it ought to be if not with Joy and Gladness of Heart the very end at which his Benefits aim being to make glad the Hearts of Men. And if such strong Cordials as these which are now Administred to us will not revive our drooping Spirits and make the Life of Joy return into our Hearts 't is because we are dead in Trespasses and Sins Either we are not sensible of his Favours or think them not worth our Regarding if we strive to smother them and will not give our hearts leave to inlarge upon them as the Jews here did who were truly sensible of what great things the Lord had done for their Nation and how little they deserved them 1. Regi The first thing at which they seem'd so transported is for the Mercies of God shewn to David in Himself and in his Posterity to Him and to his Son Solomon who succeeded him to whom he had given such an extraordinary Gift of Wisdom and Vnderstanding as no meer mortal Man could plausibly pretend to For which his People do not force a smile in their Faces but their Joy was Real and Cordial it kept their residence in their Hearts Not like some in this Kingdom who were never more merry then at his Majesties Afflictions and yet now upon the Turning of the times fashion themselves to shew a Mirth as well as they can from their Teeth outwards and pretend to be affected with Joy for that which if their former Words and Actions are to be credited is their greatest Grief that they are not able to hinder They are now Joyful as they were before Loyal only in Hypocrisy But tho' the King and his People may God is not to be deceived he searches the secret Corners of your Hearts and if this Days Joy be not rooted there he will never accept it As your Satisfaction is so will your Rejoycing be Joy being but an Expression of that Pleasure which we take in the Enjoyment of what we intimately wish'd for And if we understood either our Duty or our Interest our Necessities or Convenience must needs concentre in the happiness of our Gracious Soveraign which is Essential to our own For unless God's Goodness be shewn to David his Servant Israel his People must never expect it And therefore when they alledg'd the Cause of their Joy they give the King's Happiness the Pre-eminence which it ought to have and assign that for the First and Greatest It is now seasonable for us to consider how Gracious God hath been to that Glorious Martyr King Charles the First in preserving and recalling his Posterity to their own People and Inheritance in setting his Two Sons upon his Throne Those Stones which the Builders rejected have since been made the Head of the Corner This is the Lord 's doing and it ought to be marvellous in our Eyes and matter of Joy to our Hearts His late Majesty of Blessed Memory knew full well that he was oblig'd by all the Ties of Honour Justice and Conscience to maintain the Crown in its due and Legal course of Descent as he did against that Traiterous Bill of Exclusion which some restless Men would have Intruded upon him who used all the Black Arts of Hell to rob his present Majesty of his Birth-right and Succession and would have perverted the universal Principle of all Nations and acted contrary to the express Word of God to compass his Ruine as if any unnatural Injury might have been done that good might have come of it Tantum Religio potuit suadere Malorum Not considering that the securing of Religion could not have been that way attempted but with open Violation to it self and Justice But Liberty and Religion are two such powerful Words of Enchantment that the very noise of them produces real effects in the World and terrible ones too For the unthinking and easily-deluded Multitude are by the sound of these made Instruments to destroy the things themselves which they so eagerly contended for and cheated of all their golden Expectations at last of which they dream'd at first Next to this we are oblig'd to bless God for the many perils which his Majesty hath escaped by Sea Ps cxxiv 4. If it had not been the Lord who was on our side the waters had over-whelmed him and the streams had gone over his soul For his last miraculous Deliverance from the sinking Gloucester-Frigat that he did not then lose his Life with his Ship whilst a great part of his Retinue perished in his sight But that the God of our salvation who shews his wonders in the deep saved him out of many waters for our preservation and this days solemnity We are likewise to bless Almighty God for snatching him out of the Jaws of Destruction by delivering him miraculously from that Vnnatural and Hellish Conspiracy and Rebellion which was the natural Product of their Black Bill of Exclusion For they who would have Excluded the present King confessed with their last Breaths That they would have Murder'd the former as well as him From whence God's almighty Arm did rescue them and us even because he had a favour unto us The Enemies of our Soveraign Lord the King are brought down and fallen but we are risen and stand upright Nor shall any Weapon which is formed against the Lord 's Anointed prosper Lastly We are to bless God for his deliverance from Two Rebellions in the First and his Peaceable entrance on the Second Year of his Reign to whom next to God and his good Angels we are most beholden for our national Happiness for all those miraculous Concurrences of his Providence which gave the Consecration to this glorious Day All which comprehensive Mercies call aloud upon us to sacrifice our unfeigned hearty Publick Thanks with one Heart and Voice to God for his transcendent Favours to David our King and Israel his People 2. Populo To Israel his people who by Solomon's means were freed from their Enemies and Bondage and kept in Peace and Safety Great is the goodness of God to the Land of our Nativity He hath made it both the envy and glory of the World Never had any Nation greater Evidences of his loving Kindness than we have had nor more at any time

but what every Man himself pleas'd or that none should be pressed to fight against a Common Enemy this would look like a Glorious State of Liberty indeed through a pair of Popular Spectacles But if the King who is the best Judge of publick Necessity should see this would presently ruine his Kingdom he were not true to his Trust which God hath reposed in him if he should suffer them to keep their Money for his and their Enemies to make merry with and not call them both in their Purses and Persons to defend him and themselves against such Invasions So that the King may it seems make use of his Prerogative as God does of his Omnipotence upon some extraordinary Occasions For as my Lord Hobart well observes Colt and Glover against the Bp. of Litchfield The Statute Laws are made to ease him of his Labour not to deprive him of his Power and that he may make a Grant with a Non obstante to them And indeed the Power of Dispensing with particular Laws in some Emergencies is such a Lex Coronae such a Prerogative without which no Kingdom can be well Govern'd but Justice will be turn'd into Wormwood For there never was yet nor ever will be any humane Law fram'd with such exact Skill and Policy that it might not on some occasion or other be burdensom to the Subject and obstructive to the publick Good of the Common-Wealth There being particular Cases and Exigencies so infinitely various that 't is impossible for the Wit of Man to foresee or prevent them And therefore in all Government there must be a power Paramount to the written Law and we have good reason to bless God that this is lodg'd but in one and in him whom he hath set over us to be his Vicegerent by whose Authority they who break the Letter of the Law in pure Zeal and Loyalty to serve the ends of Government and to uphold the Crown on the right Head that does and ought to wear it may be releiv'd and pardon'd and rewarded too Suppose a Statute-Law made in Heat when the Nation was in a great Fright and Ferment and upon the false Suggestions and Depositions of them who were afterwards judicially convicted of being Perjur'd Villains should happen to run the Kingdom into one Mischief out of pure Zeal to avoid another Or suppose it should rob the King of his Rights of Government or his Subjects of their Birth-right or incapacitate them to serve him as by Oath and Duty bound even to the Quelling of an Invasion or open Rebellion which he could not do without their help Must the Kingdom be consum'd in a general Conflagration as the greatest City of it once was by Law If Contra Hostem Publicum quilibet Homo Miles be as true as it is a Common Maxime That every Man is in Commission to suppress a publick Rebellion then why such an Out-cry as if we were all undone or might be so by force of Popish Arms Why should Protestants only be at liberty to spend their Blood for the King and Kingdom 's Safety and the Papists sit still and look on Or why may not the King suspend such a Law when there is Hannibal ad portas as the Diseases of State and the various Exigences and posture of Affairs require and his own Prudence and Discretion shall direct him or invite him to it I do not see what irregularities might not be fairly excused in such Exigences by that Supreme Law of Necessity which bears down all Transgressions The King hath indeed promised to Govern by Law but the safety of the People is an Exception implied in every Monarchical Promise Nor must Policy or Popularity prevail against Piety And I am afraid that some of them who object this so smartly against the King have forgot how many Statute-Laws they themselves have broken and never yet call'd to account for them For which they have reason to bless God and the King and to be so very well pleased with his Clemency to them as not to grudge others to be sharers with them in the like Indulgencies We enjoy enough and we have no reason to desire that Men of as unquestionable Loyalty as our selves should be starved because they are not of our Religion when we neither deny them to be God's Israel nor the King's People We do not say That the Church of Rome is not a True Church tho' we affirm it to be a Corrupt one we like their Body well but not their Vlcers nor have we left Them but their Errors 'T is the same Naaman and he a Syrian still but Leprous with them and Cleansed with us Which we speak not out of censure but grief for we pity their Errors pray for their Conversion and long for a Re-union upon Terms of Faith Truth and Charity Nor indeed were we Catholicks or Christians if we did not And that the King may be convinc'd that we do it from the bottom of our Hearts Let him see that we envy none of his Perswasion any Expressions or Marks of his Royal Favour which he thinks fit to confer upon them and that our Eye is not Evil because he is Good We live I know in an unhappy Age wherein every Man is made to pass for a Romanist in Masquerade who will not be a bore-fac'd Rebel He must break all the Ties of Faith Truth and Justice and tamely subject all the Laws of God and the King to the imperious Dictates of some sly popular Incendiaries or else he is condemn'd without Mercy for a Betrayer of his Country and one who is willing to part with his Birth-right Priviledges and Religion But I have not so learned Christ nor am I afraid or ashamed of any Nick-Names that shall be given me for doing my Duty A good Conscience never wants courage nor does the Owner of it care more what Men say than what they dream of him when he discharges it And my Prayer to God shall always be That the People of England those especially committed to my charge may prove themselves as Loyal as did the People in my Text Who left the Government of the Kingdom to Solomon and went unto their Tents joyful and glad of heart which is the Fourth part of my Text to wit IV. Populi Exultatio the People's Triumph They were joyful and glad of heart The Wise-man tells us That there is a time to Weep for the sins and sufferings of our selves and others and such was that which we celebrated on Saturday last and a time to Rejoyce for the light of God's Countenace lifted upon us and our Relations For this we never had a more seasonable time than that which gives a Being and Authority to our present meeting Which affords us as much reason to rejoyce as the People in my Text had Joy being an Eccho a Religious Repercussion arising from the enjoyment of God's Mercy and a fulness of joy a dutiful Correspondence to the fulness of God's