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enemy_n	david_n	hand_n	saul_n	2,591	5	9.7819	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42043	David's returne from his banishment set forth in a thanks-giving sermon for the returne of His Sacred Majesty Charles the II, and preached at St. Maries in Oxon, May 27, 1660 / by Francis Gregory ...	Gregory, Francis, 1625?-1707.	1660 (1660)	Wing G1888; ESTC R13480	29,954	42

that I should stretch forth mine hand against the Lords anointed David had 1 Sam. 24. 6. now King Saul in his power but yet he spareth him and why so alas if David had killed Saul being his enemy it had been cruelty and yet that David spar●d him being the King it was not mercy but Loyalty and Iustice The text tells us that when David cut off the skirt of his Soveraigne's garment his heart smote him you will say why then did he do it Surely to evidence that although King Saul was a persecutour indeed yet Subiect David would be no Trayt●ur sure it is when David cut off Saul's skirt he might as easily have cut off his head as we have done but the Lord forbid saith David if David took up armes he used them not to destroy the life of his Prince but to defend his own David well understood that for him to murder Saul would be a Treason against his Soveraign a sin against his God a wound to his own soul 2. Use of Exhortation Is there indeed a great respect reverence honour due to Kings Princes is it that which God himself requires O then be exhorted 1. To mourn over and beg pardon for the sad miscarriages of England towards the Lords anointed ones We are bound to honour our Kings and Princes well and how have we done it Murder the Father banish the Son is this the honour we owe them are our solemne oaths and covenants come to this we sware to preserve his Majesties Sacred person and yet we have killed him when we sware to make him a Glorious Prince did we intend to make him a Glorious Martyr too surely Martyrd●m it was upon his account though murder upon Ours Alas to bring a Prince from a Palace to a scaffold from a Throne to a block is this the duty that God requires from Subiects shall I shew you the foulnesse of that act in 4 Particulars 1. T was an act of high Iniustice You will say against whom I answer against God and Man 1. Against God Kings are Gods Deputies and is it just with man to remove them Kings are God's Vice-ger●nts and is it just for man to pull them down O surely Kings are accountable to none but God who gives them their commission Reges in ipsos Imperium est Iovis saith H●race that God alone who exalts the Prince hath power to degrade him for men to depose and execute Princes is boldly to invade the right of God the Prerogative of Heaven 2. Against man I mean both King and Subiect 1. T was an act of high Injustice against the King himselfe Alas our King lost his pretious bloud as no Subject can ordinarily lose a penny what a subject loseth he loseth by law he must lose by the judgment of his Peers well and by what law did our King lose his life not by the law of heaven that commands an honour not by the law of England that requires obedience well but was he judged by his Peeres surely Kings have no Peeres at all but however was he judged by his Nobles surely no of all the Nobles Barons Earles Marquesses Dukes of England I think there was not so much as one among the Iudges of the King O no those stars hid their faces and would not see their Sun eclypsed It was the Shrub that pull'd our C●dar down they were but whelps that tore out our Lyons throat it was the dirty foot that kickt off England's royall head Our Gracious Prince that died without a law without a Legall Iury died with as much injustice as innocence 2. T was an act of high injustice against the Subiect when England lost her King subiects as children lost their father wee have smarted under the lash of step fathers ever since when England lost her Prince subiects as sheep lost their sheepheard and have not the wolves devoured us ever since when England lost her Soveraigne subiects as members lost their head well suppose England deserved this losse yet what have our n●ighbour-nations done had it been just for English men to kill the King of England yet was it iust for us to kill the King of Ireland the King of Scotland too if we must needs behead our selves yet must we behead our neighb●urs too O dismall stroke O act of injustice an act that renders three nations fatherlesse at one blow But 2. T was an act of the greatest cruelty imaginable Had the death of the King been just yet it had been cruell too indeed Judges must be just but still Judges must not be cruell as to the act it selfe Iustice was but pretended but as to the circumstances of the act the Cruelty was Reall t is resolved the King must die but when and where 1. Wh●n must he dy why the third day after his sentence A short time you will say for a King to set his house in order to dispose of three Kingdomes but as to that his enemies resolve to do it for him hee needs no longer time on that account well but the King must die the third day alas a short time of repentance for so notori●us a sinner as his enemies made him had not the Kings innocence been greater then the mercy of Rebels they took the speediest course to turne his body into the Grave and his soul into Hell the same moment tell me what though Iustice must be done ●● the body yet is there no charity to be shewed the soul if the King be unfit for earth yet let him have a little longer time to prepare for Heaven O no there is no reprieve no not for a day though the Saints of God beg'd it with Teares But blessed be God our King was fit to die and upon that account had no more need to desire then his enemies had will to grant the least delay 2. Where must he dye alas at his own door When he was dead he might not be buried in his own proper grave but when he is to dy that is to be done at his own gate Poor Prince the place of his Royalty must be the place of his Execution Well and was there no place could serve but this Surely t is that which must needs imbitt●r his death the more at one view he is forced to behold his f●rmer Glory and his present Calamity did not the very place minister an occasion to the King of such thoughts as these alas I was once a King there stands my Palace I am now a condemned prisoner lo here is my Scaffold I ●nce lived as a Prince yonder is my Throne I must now die as a Malefact●ur lo here is my bl●ck I once lived as Englands lawfull Sov●raigne yonder my N●bles were then about me I must now dye like a Tyrant behold my Executi●ner Alas Poor Prince but O cruell Subiects before he shall dy he must be minded in what P●mp ●e had lived at ●nce he must see the axe and the Scepter to make him a

much the man as the man's employment that challengeth our respect Not Ioseph a prisoner but Ioseph Pharaoh's Lord high steward is the man that is honoured Men ignobly born wrapped in raggs if call'd to some high employment may wear their scarlet robes as persons of h●nour well but what employment so high as that of Kings and princes T is an employment of honour to be the governour of a town or a castle but what is it to be the governour of a Nation Kings are the vice-royes of heaven Gods vice-gerents upon earth he is the minister of God God owns Rom. 13. 4. Psal 18. 50. Kings as Deputies o● his great deliverance giveth he to his King and why his surely his by patent his by delegation Our ministers are the ambassadors of Christ our Princes the deputies of God The Minister intreats the Prince commands and both in the st●ad of God Ye●jud●e not f●r man but for the Lord what is that surely 2 Chr. 19. 6. as for the glory so in the roome of God Now is there not a respect due to Kings and Princes for this we give a respect to the Major of a Corporation and why so possibly the man 's but a beggar possibly the man 's but a scandal●us sinner yea but he is the King's Psal 49. 20. Lieuetenant he represents the Prince and for that we respect him so here should Kings and Princes be naught yet they are God's vice-ger●nts still consider them as men so they may be vile consider them as Magistrates so they must be h●nourable Man being Psal 49. 20. in honour and having no understanding is like the beasts that perish The text implieth that a man may be without understanding without Grace and yet be a man in Hon●ur still 'T is true the Prince's sin may degra●● him in Gods account even below the Condition of beasts yea but the Prince's Place and Employment exalt him above the common Condition of Men. Vses 1. Of Information Is there indeed a great respect reverence and honour due to Kings and Princes then surely this Doctrine informes us how much those persons are too blam● that deny this reverentiall respect that justly belongs to the Lord 's anointed See who they are in three particulars 1. Men are too blame that entertaine dishonourable thoughts of and disloyall wishes to their Kings and Princes Curse not the King Eccl. 10. 20. no not in thy thought God layeth a restraint not only upon our words and actions but even upon our thoughts It s true high treason consisteth in words and actions but yet there is a p●tty Treason even in thoughts How long will ye imagine mischiefe against a man What man doth David mean surely himselfe the king T is a sin Psal 62. 4. not only to doe but to imagine mischiefe against the Prince Indeed there 's little danger in thoughts alone but yet in thoughts alone there is much of sin Treason only in thoughts hurts not the Prince its Object but still it doth hurt the soul its subject Bl●sse them that Mat. 5. 44. curse you yea that is Christian yea but to curse them in thoughts whom we stand bound to bl●sse that is devilish 2. Men are too blame that speak unadvised words concerning Kings and Princes They are not afraid to sp●ak evill of digniti●s They are not afraid but the expression implieth they should be 2 Pet. 2. 10. afraid That God who holds our hands doth also stop our mouths Who may say to a King what dost thou T is not who dares say but who may say who ought to say So Elihu interprets it Is it fit Eccl. 8. 4. to say to a King thou art wicked and to Princes ye are ungodly T is not said is it safe to say but is it fit to say It implieth that in Iob. 34. 18. saying so there is not only danger but sin Thou shalt not revile the Exod. 22. 28. Gods nor curse the ruler of thy people to speak against the King is to sin against the Lord. God himselfe hath tied our tongues and yet alas how do tongues break out in this particular Come out come out thou bloudy man thou man of Belial that is Shimei's language 2 Sam. 16. 7. to David King of Israel well and what hath been our language to David King of England It s true David King of Israel had his sins and David King of England had his miscarriages too but yet remember the spots of Princes are magnified by the person that weares them That which looks but like an Infirmity in the Subiect in the King would look like a crimes a freckle in the face is more visible then a scar in the foot I am perswaded that day that England lost the latest of her Kings that day the world lost the best of its Kings T is not easie to say whether he were more patient in his sufferings or innocent in his doings T is not easie to say whether hee were the better King or the better Christian Well what language found our England's David from amongst us Come out come out thou oppressour a way with a Tyrant Yea but why a Tyrant why an Oppressour surely since his death England hath stoutly born more heavy burdens then ever and that looks like an argument that the King of England had not cracked our should●rs broke our back Oh no 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Dogs bark at the M●on and why so the moon indeed hath some spots but yet the Dogs do not bark at the Moon upon that account it may be her light offends them surely it was not the spots but the Glory the honour the dignity of his late Maiesty that made the dogs so bark at England's Sun Alas alas such bitter language was intended as his reproach but it proves our shame we fought against his authority with swords in our hands there 's our rebellion we fought against his name and honour with swords in our mouths there 's our Blasphemy 3. Men are highly too blame that act against their Kings and Princes If it be a sin to think what is it then to speak if it be a sin to speak what is it then to act and yet alas such men have been amongst us Submit your selves to the King saith God rise up against the King say men Honour the King saith God reproach the King say men Pray for the King saith God pray against the King say men Surely men do not well remember that o● the Apostle whosoever resisteth the power resisteth the ordinance of God it 's true men make the crown t is God that makes the King to melt the Rom. 13. 2. crown is to destory but the workmanship of man to make away the King is to destroy the workmanship of God 't is that which we have done both waies we have made away both King and crown I read how tender David was in this particular God f●rbid