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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47368	A sermon preach'd before His Majesty at White-Hall, May 29th, 1668 by D.H. Killigrew ...; Sermons. Selections. 1685	Killigrew, Henry, 1613-1700.	1668 (1668)	Wing K447; ESTC R597	12,463	39

answer in the words of another in a like case Odiorum causae acriores quia iniquiores their hatred was the sharper and more implacable because it was the unjuster Innocence is abhorr'd by the wicked more than Injury and Violence The Religion and Piety of David was more insupportable to his Enemies than the Yoke of Tyranny and Oppression and they chose rather to bear the Iron Scepter of the Nations or of a base Usurper than his holy and righteous Scepter And this it was which made the Establishment of David so difficult because there was no Why no Just cause for the Aversion of his Enemies had there been a Reason it might have been remov'd had there been a Wrong there might have been a Reparation but Perversness and Impiety only govern'd and God utters himself as if he had broke through some great Obstruction in setting David on the Throne Like one that for a long time roll'd a stone against a Hill which often return'd upon him or Row'd against a strong Tide which forc'd his Boat back and when at last by many a weary stretch and Strain of his Arms has got the better fits down and reflects on what has past congratulates his labour and tells himself what himself has done Yet I have planted my Stone upon the top of the Hill or yet I have stemm'd this Churlish stream and got my Boat a head of it So God is pleas'd to speak in the Restoring of David as if he had been hard put to it and groan'd under the performance and Glory'd in having at last carry'd it through Yet have I set my King But perhaps some will say Is there any thing difficult to the Almighty Could not he have crusht the Cockatrice in the Shell Dasht the yet infant-Plot against the stones Scatter'd his Enemies in their first Imaginations Why did he suffer them to Combine before he confounded them Confederate and grow to strength before he cast them down and had them in derision as 't is said v. 4. Even for this very reason That he might not spoyle such his Scene of Laughter prevent the Glory of his Triumph obscure the wise Dispensations of his Providence that David might see the whole Wonder of his Deliverance and his wicked Adversaries the whole Folly of their Enterprize A wise General will not presently give on the Charge upon an Enemy passing a Foord till a considerable Party have gain'd the Bank that he may not only shew his Courage but his Conduct and cut off the adverse Power as well as repulse it Thus though God had it in his hands to dissipate and discourage the first Attempts of his own and Davids Opposers he chose rather to let them proceed and prosper to a degree that he might not only obstruct their wickedness but defeat it disturb the Conspiracy but confound the Conspirators And our Blessed Lord practis'd this piece of Policy when he suffer'd the Devil by his wicked Instruments the Jews to take away his Innocent Life and lay him in the Grave For after Satan flatter'd himself that he had surpriz'd his strong Foe he let him see he was surpriz'd by him that instead of receiving a Captive he had receiv'd a Conquerer within his Gates one that sack'd and despoyl'd his Kingdom dismantl'd his Forts and raz'd his Strong-holds And this was a performance worthy of that Triumphant Speech O Death where is thy Sting O Grave where is thy Victory A down-right defeat is not so renown'd to the Conquerer or so grievous to the Conquer'd as to turn his Stratagems upon himself and to overthrow him by his own subtlety and Treachery Again to Mock and Vex an Enemy is a further degree of Revenge than to destroy him When the Pirates of Cilicia began to treat some Passengers of Italy with the cruelty they used unto their Prisoners they cry'd out They were Citizens of Rome at which Venerable name the Pirates pretended to fear and commanded presently Gowns to be brought and put upon their Backs and shooes on their feet and then with a seeming lowly observance besought them To walk over the sides of the Ship and be free telling them by way of excuse for their Violation of them When they met them next in that Attire they should not be ignorant of their Quality and with this derision threw them into the Sea when the unfortunate men refus'd to cast themselves And the Enemies of David were such as God thought fit not only to destroy but also to mock and vex as 't is said vers the 4 and 5. The Lord had them in derision And vext them in his sore displeasure But How and after What manner did he mock and vex them By letting them a long time plot and strengthen themselves make a profuse expence of Labour money and bloud by letting them perswade themselves they had prevail'd that David was utterly excluded and then after all to shew them the despis'd and Rejected Son of Jesse set Gloriously on the Throne their Machin of Usurped Government made a Pageant for his Triumph all their endeavours all their glorying serve but for this Occasion of Gods glorying over them Yet have I set my King upon my holy Hill of Sion I have done with the Words which have been twice already eminently fulfill'd Once as I have shew'd in the Person of David And a Second time in the Exaltation of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ into the Kingdom of Heaven after his Resurrection as likewise in the setting up his Spiritual Throne in the hearts of men So that I may seem to assay an Impious thing to make a Third Application to any Mortal King whatsoever But while I shall not parallel the Divine and Mystical King but at a distance adore the foot-steps of his Sufferings and Exaltation and not compare them their will be no danger to shew the Tracts and Lineaments that are between the Deliverance and Establishment of David and of our Gracious Soveraign for the awaking our Gratitude and magnifying Gods mercies to this Nation The Application To observe the Method I began with For the same Reasons and Respects that David is call'd Gods King in my Text our King may pretend to the Title before all the present Kings of the Earth First He was a King of Gods particular and singular Advancing and placing in the Throne though not call'd like David from being a poor Shepheard-boy to Rule a Kingdom but descended of a long and glorious Race of Kings yet recall'd from a Forlorne exil'd State and a depos'd Condition to hold the Scepter of his Royal Ancestors by a no less Divine Favour So that whatever his Title to the Crown was we may truly say Had he not been Gods King he had not been King of this Land Secondly David was not only call'd Gods King as we have shew'd for his Eminent Deliverance of him but His Son And whoever considers the many Risques of our Soveraigns Life the Prodigies both of his Dangers

and Escapes how God snatcht him out of the Battle led him safe through the mid'st of his Enemies conceal'd him many daies by a Divine Providence after the manner the Ancients feign'd their Heroes were wrapt in a Cloud and then without the assistance of Armies by the same Invisible and Unresistable Hand fixt him in his Throne must confess we have not only reason to celebrate this Day for his coming into the World or his coming to the Crown for the Birth I say of his Person or the Birth of his Royal Dignity but for his being Born Gods King and Gods Son i.e. The King of his preservation and the Son of his Promotion Thirdly As David was call'd Gods King because he was more pleased with him than with others was the King of his liking as well as of his Preserving and Advancing So the Wonderfull Testimonies of Gods Love to our Soveraign warrants nay obliges us to believe and revere him as Gods King also in this sense as the King of his liking and after his own heart And whom God has approv'd let no man judge whom he has Seal'd let no man dare to Censure no not in his thoughts Princes then for the most part want Goodness when their People want Candor and their defect of Vertue is their Subjects defect of Love and Loyalty But if those were Gods Kings Kings of his liking Kings after his own heart that set up the True Worship and discountenanc'd the False that executed Justice and Judgment in the Land then Malice it self must confess our King is Gods King David was renown'd for that one Merciful Speech upon his Return to his Kingdom Shall there any man be put to death this day in Israel As it had been a thing to be abominated to shew Severity when God had shew'd him such singular Grace But how many Shimei's how many Railers how many Cursers 't is but a small thing which I have said how many Capitall Enemies how many Betrayers how many Covenanters against him and lyers in Wait for his Bloud did our David pardon upon his Return 'T was an Observation of Old regnabit sanguine multo Ad regnum quisquis venit ab exilio The King that returns after Exile will Reign for the Future in Bloud and Revenge But our King contrariwise after his Exile regnabat Sanguine parco Reigns at this day as one Elected to a Kingdom that had a Crown bestow'd on him and not as one that had recover'd his own So that as the Virgins gave David the preheminence to Saul in the Songs of Victory and Triumph saying Saul has slain his thousands and David his Ten thousands We in the Songs of Mercy and Clemency may give our King the preheminence to David and say As David pardon'd one single detractor our Gracious Soveraign gave life and opportunity of Repentance to thousands of Traitors and Murtherers and was truly in this Gods King and not only a King of his liking but a King that is like him resembling him in one of his Noblest Attributes that of his Mercy Those to whom Princes intrust the care of their Souls ought to be faithfull to them and not only speak pleasing things but true to imitate good Surgions who not alwayes use Oyls and Lenitives but if need be Lancets and Corrosives But then let no man at a distance furmise Evil of his Prince least while he denyes him to be Gods King he sets to his hand to make him no King at all and while he strips him of his Righteousness strips him also of his Royal Dignity I speak not to the Kings Enemies but to his severer Friends if he have any The Sinister Thoughts and Censures of the Subject are often Ominous and Fatal to a Prince whereas their good Opinions are prophetick and presage the Vertue they ascribe and make him the Person they proclaim him St. Paul says Charity believeth all things hopeth all things endureth all things i. e. those who have this Grace are easily induced to believe the good of another which they do not know to hope that which they do not believe and to suffer even when they can neither believe nor hope And if any man be not able to walk upon this profound Sea of Charity why does he like Peter rashly and un-bidden cast himself into it Why does he presumptuously Intrude into his Masters company Who supported by a Divine Power shall stride Majestically ore the Waves and march through the storm to safety while he disorder'd by every Gust and amaz'd at every Billow poorly sinks in the danger his Fancy only fram'd Will not such an one another day like him in the Parable that wanted a Wedding Garment be speechless i.e. have nothing to say for himself when he sees his Prince as far above him in Glory as he was in his Station in this life And when 't is objected to him as 't was to Peter O thou of little faith wherefore didst thou doubt I proceed God set David on his holy hill of Sion Not to say that instead of one Fort of Sion God has garded our King with many strong-holds and Castles or yet to boast the Advantages of an Island above a Hill which is not only to be ascended before it can be assaulted but to be Sail'd to before it can be approach'd and fought for before it can be Sail'd to being defended by moveable Bulwarks stout Ships which must be subdu'd before the Inhabitants can be grappl'd with upon equal terms But to come to the Point in which the chiefest strength of Sion consisted in that it was a Moral and Spiritual Fortification a holy hill and Gods hill If the Church of Christ be not inferior to the Old Tabernacle the Gospel to the Law the substance to the shadow when God not only set our King upon his Throne but restor'd the True Religion and plac'd him within the Protection of it he set him upon as Holy and consequently upon as strong a Hill as he set David and we may rest assur'd he delights as much to dwell here and that 't is as desperate an Enterprize to assault this his Habitation as 't was to assault Sion But alas some will say with a deep sigh Would we found these things to be so But what for a long time has been more infirm and unstable than the Condition of this Nation Not only ready to be broken in pieces by any Impression of an Enemy but even to dissolve and fall asunder of it self and the supports of Religion have been as weak as those of the Arm of Flesh. To which I answer This has not happen'd from the Weakness of the Divine Assistances which God has given us but from our neglect and contempt of them Religion does not guard men like a Palladium or Charm preserve those who have the luck only to wear it and be possess'd of it but those who practise it and live according to its Precepts they are not Sextons and Sacrists that