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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

of God followed him close at heels nay it was made an observation in Print that the King of Spain never prospered after he had once been civill to the King of England But consider are not poor wormes somewhat bold that dare adventure thus dogmatically to interpret the mysterious providences of God Surely the particular dispensations of Providence are Texts so hard that scarce one of a thousand can certainly tell what comment to put upon them Particular Providences are not plain rules but obscure riddles 'T is more safe to adore the wisdome then interpret the will of the great God in his various acts of Providence Yet notwithstanding it hath been strongly asserted by some believed by others that God had utterly cast off the King of England and the Royall Family and that upon this account God suffered them to be still overthrowne and at length banisht and driven away I answer 1. In Generall the defeats of Armies overthrows banishment are all but outward crosses and so no argument that God disowneth any person whatsoever No man knowes love or hatred by all that is before him Outward mercies do not alwayes argue love nor do afflictions Ecc. 9. 1. alway argue wrath God may severely punish when yet he hath no intent to destroy God may thunder aloud over that mans head whom yet he doth not mean to strike dead in the place God's Iudgements are not alway swords to kill but rods to correct and that in mercy too Ipsa Dei indignatio non aliunde est quàm de misericordiâ Saith Bernard God would not sometimes look as if he were angry did not his very mercy move him There is sometimes as much love in a frown as in a smile from Heaven there may be as much friendship in God's harder blowes as there is in his gentler strokes Surely the viper upon Pauls hand did not argue him to be a Murderer No more doth God's lash upon any man's back argue that man to be a cast away And as it is with persons so it is with causes too want of present successe is no convincing argument that God disowneth a cause Israel flieth before Ai and yet the cause was Gods The Turks have prevailed often against poor Christians and yet their cause is the Devils No man can truly judge of causes barely by their successe or miscarriage There are severall reasons why God may suffer the better cause for sometime to be worsted as 1. God it may be doth not like the instruments the work is good but the tools are naught the work shall lie 'till God provide some better instruments to effect it Or 2. God's time possibly is not yet come The cause indeed at present is Gods yea but the present time is not his It was God's purpose that Iericho should be taken yet not till the seventh day be come It is Gods purpose that such and such a cause shall prosper yea but it shall not prosper yet The Iewes have a proverb Vvas n● comede ante tempus eat not Grapes before their season Indeed Grapes will appear to be sweet and ●uscious yet not before the time of Grapes is come It shall appear that God owneth such and such a cause as holy and righteous but not till the appointed time be come It 's true Israel must come out of bondage but Israel must not come out yet now shall we say that Israel was ever the lesse the Israel of God because so long in Egypt 2. In particular the banishment of a King from his Throne is no sure argument that God disowneth him Indeed it may argue some present displeasure but not an implacable anger to be in God If God banish a Prince it is a likely signe that God intends to scourge him at present but t is no sure signe that God intends to cast him off I read of persons dear to God and yet for a while banisht too Get thee out of thy country Abraham the friend of God Gen. 12. 1. and yet commanded from his country Flee into Aegypt Christ Jesus the son of God and yet scarce sooner born then banisht Mat. 2. 13. David was not only a man but a King after Gods own heart and yet this David is forced to fly you 'll say why so surely when God turn'd David out of his Kingdome he did not turne him out of his favour too when David had lost the hearts of his Subiects he had not lost the heart of his God too O no there are other reasons why God is pleased sometimes to suffer his Davids the choicest of Kings and Princes to be banisht from their Courts and Kingdomes see why in 3 particulars 1. God doth this to correct them for sin This was David's case David had highly sinned upon that account David is thus severely punished David enters upon Vriahs bed there 's his sin well Absalom must enter upon David's throne there 's his punishment At David's command Vriah must lose his bloud at God's command David must lose his crown yet still God doth this in mercy he corrects indeed but doth not reiect David is banished but yet restored 2. God doth this to punish the sins of subiects Indeed 't is said I gave them a King in my wrath but surely God doth not Hos 13. 11. alway give but sometimes takes away Kings in his wrath Kings if evill are sore judgments Princes if good are signall mercies T is an argument of wrath when God is pleased either to s●nd the one or remove the othen T is as great a judgment to have a David banisht as to have a Saul sitting upon the throne 3. God doth this in mercy to his banisht ones the banishment of a Prince may look like a losse and yet may prove his signall advantage see why in 2 particulars 1. The banishment of a Prince doth sometimes tend to secure his person David is banisht into the wildernesse and why so alas there was no fafety for him at Ierusalem when David could not be safe among men God secures him even among beasts t is more then probable that David had lost his life had he not left his Throne And hath it not been thus with our David too Had not our Gracious Soveraigne been ●ut of England doubtlesse he had long since been our of the world had not he left his crown surely he had lost his head when God was pleased to banish his person he did then but secure his life the place of his exile was the place of his safety too God indeed commanded him into Egypt yea but he kept him there only till Herod was dead 2. The banishment of Princes makes them more fit to govern You 'l say it is good for men to be fit for their own employment things though good yet if not fit do scarce content us robes of scarlet if not rightly proportioned do rather trouble then adorne a straight shoe though made of Gold doth rather pinch the foot then