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God save the King A sermon preached in St. Pauls Church the 27th. of March 1639. Being the day of his Maiesties most happy inauguration, and of his northerne expedition. By Henry Valentine, D.D.
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Valentine, Henry, d. 1643.
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defend all Christian Kings Princes and Governours and especially thy servant Charles our King and now that we are come to him we are come to the businesse of the day and as you have lent me your patience hitherto for a Survey of my text so the Kings name may command it a little longer for a review and application which I shall dispatch with all convenient brevitie and so dismisse you No sooner was our Sunne set in the death of King Iames of blessed memory but it rose againe in the happy inauguration of King Charles so that no night followed for Regem habemus a King we have and such a one as the like is not among the people nay such an one I dare say as the like is not among the Kings of the earth whether we respect the beauty of his person or the graces of his foule God hath blessed him with a strong and healthfull constitution a comely and Majesticall presence an active and a vigorous body and yet this is is but the Cabinet the jewells that are lockt up in it are of inestimable value As for his Humility you may read it in his apparell especially in the passages of these times wherein he hath condescended as low to accommodate causlesse discontentments and to remove offences taken not given as the respects of Majesty would well suffer As for his Piety I challenge envy and malice it selfe to speake their worst Is he not constant to his devotions and reverent in them Hath he desired or indeavoured any thing more then a Conformity and Vniformity in Gods Service that there might bee but via una and cor unum one way and so one heart Hath he not been zealous of the glory of God and the publike places of his worship If I should hold my peace these stones would speake I meane the stones that are brought to this Temple to beautifie and vindicate it from a long and intolerable prophanation As for his Clemency doe we not all sit under our owne Vines and cate the fruit of them without any trembling or palpitation lest we should be arrested with the message of death or confiscation Hath he inflicted any punishments but such as the offence impartially considered mercy it selfe might have beene both the Iudge and Executioner Or to expresse it in his owne royall language Hath he not now for a long time together endeavoured by all calme and faire waies to appease the disorders and tumultuous carriages raised by some evill affected persons and fomented by some factious and turbulent spirits and now that his patience is abused and the sword in his hand doth he not call God and the world to witnesse that he is forced and constrained thereto A King then we have and such a King as this shew me a better among the people I may say of him and the people as the Epigrammatist does of Trajane and the Senate Mart. lib. 11. Epig. 5. Moribus hic viv at principis ille suis Let them live after his manners and he after his owne And if it be thus how much are they to blame who though rebus sic stantibus they dare not raile at the King as Shimei did or throw stones at him yet in their Sermons Conferences Libels and Pamphlets they mis-interpret his actions for his piety with them is Popery and Innovation his clemency with them is cruelty and persecution And thus the people are brought into a dislike and detestation of the present government and both the Person and Authority of the King cunningly undermined If the Serpent can but buzze a jealousie and suspition into the heads of our first Parents that God envies their happinesse the Apple will goe downe without chewing If Absalom can possesse the people that justice is not administred nor matters well carried it is an easie matter to steale away their hearts from their Allegiance to his Father And well it is that the holy Ghost gives it no better a title then stealth for it is a theft of the highest nature they rob not a private man but a King and that not of his Plate his Jewels or apparell but of the â—…ts of the people and consequently they rob him of the Armes of his people of the purses of his people of the prayers of his people and make him as much as in them lies Lodovicus â—iâ—… Lewes no bodie as sometimes an Emperour of Germany was called and for this stealth was Absalom justly and deservedly hanged And Solomon copied out this lesson from his ruine My son seare God Prov. 24.22 22. and the King and meddle not with them that are given to change for their calamity shall rise suddenly and who knowes the â—… of them both Let as then seeing we have a King rejoyce in him and seeing we have such a King as the like is not rejoyce yea I say againt rejoyce Let our joy be as great and as full as we can make it For the blessing is great and ought to be celebrated with as great solemnity as is possible And that our joy may not be as the crackling of thornes under a pot but long and lasting let us not only rejoyce in him but pray for him Pray for his life Vivat Rex let the King live Let the soule of our Lord be bound up in the bandie of life 1 Sam. 25.29 but as for the soules of his enemies sting them out O God as out of the middle of a sting Prolong O God the Kings life Psal 61.6 7. and his yeares as many generations Let him abide before thee for ever O prepare thy loving mercy and faithfulnesse that they may preserve him And as for his life so pray also for his prosperity Sit Rex fâ—lix let the King prosper and flourish Give him O Lord the desire of his heart and deny him not the request of his lips prevent him with the blessings of goodnesse and set a crown of pure gold upon his head Let his glory be great in thy salvation Honour and Majesty doe them lay upon him Psalme 2. â— give him everlasting felicitie and make him glad with the joy of thy coâ—…enance As for his enemies Psal 132.18 clothe them with shame but upon himselfe let his Crowne flourish Good â—…ke have be with his honour and let him ride on prosperously that they that hate him may bow before him and lick up the â—…st of his feâ—…e And because both these depends upon the safety of his Person Let us pray also Domine salvum fac Regem God save the King And never was this prayer more seasonable for Lord how are they increased that trouble him many they are that rise up against him They that have eaten of his bread have lift up their heeles against him Psal 83.2.5 His enemies make a tumult and they that hate him have lift up their heads they have consulted together against him with one consent and are confederate or as the word signifies entred into Covenant against him Be thou therefore O Lord a shield for him Psal 3.3 his glory and the lifter up of his head Psal 20.1.2 Heare him O Lord in the day of trouble the name of the God of Iacob defend him send him help from his Sanctuary and strengthen him out of Zion Psal 91.4 Defend him under thy wings and let him be safe under thy feathers let thy faithfulnesse and truth be his shield and buckler Psal 121.7 8. Preserve him from all evill preserve his going out and his comming in from this time forth and even for evermore But as for his enemies destroy them O God let them fall by their owne counsels cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions for they have rebelled against him Psal 3.10 Let them melt and consume away as the fat of Lambes Psal 83. Deut. 33.11 Make them as a wheele and as the stubble before the winde Smite thorâ—w the loines of them that rise against him that they rise not again Beate downe his foes before his face and plague them that hate him and let him see his desire upon his enemies So we thy people and sheep of thy pasture will give thee thankes for ever we will shew forth thy praise to all generations FINIS Imprimatur THO WYKES March 28. 1639.