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father_n	holy_a	person_n	trinity_n	21,868	5	10.1111	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66470	Religion exprest by loyalty in a sermon preach'd before the right worshipful Samuel Swift Esq., Mayor of the ancient, honourable and loyal city of Worcester, the first Sunday after his inauguration or instalment, being the 19th day of October, in the year of our redemption 1684, at the parish church of St. Swithin, upon a text selected by William Swift, Esq. (his truly loyal father) being the 21st. & 22d. verses of the 24th chapter of Solomons Proverbs, in these following expressions / by Will. Williams ...	Williams, William, Inferior Brother to the venerable and orthodox clergy.; Swift, William.	1685 (1685)	Wing W2790; ESTC R12293	14,287	42

Subject that is to infer the Application both from the Premises and the Conclusion of my Text. Since therefore that all Persons fearing God ought to honour and obey their lawful Soveraign and not to meddle with such People as change from his Government by reason the Calamities of such shall suddenly arise yea even to ruine and destroy them in their unlawful Enterprises Then let it be our Christian care and diligence so to fear God and honour the King as to be in due subjection to all the subordinate Magistrates as those that are sent by them for the punishment of offenders more especially to the right Worshipful the present Mayor to whom God and the King have committed the Sword of Justice to execute Judgment in this City That as his name is Samuel he might therewith Samuel-like hew Disloyalty and Sedition in pieces as Agag the troubler of Israel was hew'd before the Lord in Gilgal which passage is observable in the 15. Chapter of the first of Samuel at the 33. ver But in the 22 23. ver of the same Chap. the Prophet Samuel hath an excellent Observation in reference to Obedience and Loyalty where he speaks these Expressions Behold to obey is better than sacrifice and to hearken then the fat of rams For Rebellion is as the sin of VVitchcraft and stubborness is as Iniquity and Idolatry But to put a Period to such wilful Practices I shall insert this Christian Caution That if in case any Persons be dejected by reason of accusing Consciences for withdrawing themselves long since from the Communion of their Mother-Church or neglecting their Duty of Loyalty to the King as the Foster-Father thereof And notwithstanding all this have an earnest desire for the future of being conformable to the said Church in complyance with the Apostle's Council who would have God to be fear'd and the King honoured I do ardently intreat all such for the calming or appeasing of their Consciences to lay hold on the present opportunity that their Obedience and Gods Mercy might meet together so that Righteousness and Peace may perpetually kiss each other In the pursuit of which duty St. Paul gives us a Christian and a Catholick exhortation in his first Epistle to Timothy the 2. Chap. at the 1 2 3. ver where he delivers this Apostolical charge That first of all Supplications Prayers Intercessions and giving of Thanks be made for all men For Kings and for all that are in Authority that we may lead a quiet and peaceable Life in all Godliness and Honesty For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour This was the practice of the holy Apostles and also the Rule of the Primitive Fathers Imitation as appears by a certain Prayer or Collect recited by Tertullian a reverend Father of the primitive Church in behalf of the antient Emperors Worded in these Expressions God Almighty who is the Protector and Defender of Kings Grant to your Sacred Majesty a long Life a happy Reign a secure State and Habitation a strong Army a faithful Senate or Councel and a Loyal People This Prayer is very requisite to be minded by every Loyal-hearted Person both for the Good of his Soveraign and himself more especially by the Subjects of this Kingdom that God might be intreated to make our King so pious prosperous and puissant in his Princely Enterprizes as that all European Tongues may unanimously confess CAROLUS Ille MAGNUS Charles he is the Great By the blessing of God he is great in this Nation and also Good to the Nation for this Kingdom is blessed both in his Regal Descent and Royal Deportment as to his Descent he is well known to be the Son of Nobles In which respect Solomon saith in the 10th Chap. of his Ecclesiastes at the 17. ver Blessed art thou O Land when thy King is the Son of Nobles Our Royal Charles is so Noble in all his Actions that I can parallel him with none but prudent and princely Solomon like unto whom in the first Place God has endued his heart with extraordinary Wisdom To go in and out before the great People of this Kingdom committed to his Princely Tuition 2. As Solomon was called Lemuel a King belonging to the Lord so also may our King For he is one belonging unto him 1st In that he is The Defender of his Holy Catholick and Apostolick Faith 2dly As Solomon was named Jedidiah a King beloved of the Lord so likewise may our Soveraign for it is certain that he was so beloved of the Lord as to be wonderfully rescued and preserved from the furious rage of his enemies not only before and at his Royal Restauration but also at sundry other times both at home and abroad 3dly As Solomon was called Shelemo a peaceable and a quiet King so may our CHARLES for he was so quiet and peaceable as not to revenge much of his Fathers Blood upon the heads of his Enemies neither fully to recompense their cruelty upon those Persons who by commixing Villany with Violence lately attempted to embrue their polluted hands in his own Royal Blood So that his Majesty might have taken up a doleful Lamentation in allusion to that of the Daughter of Sion mentioned in the 4. Chap. of Jeremiah at the 31. ver That bewaileth her self and that spreadeth her hands saying Wo is me now for my Soul is wearied because of Murtherers But may God Almighty preserve our Prince his gracious Person from all such Diabolical and Inhumane Attempts by establishing Peace within the Walls of his Three Kingdoms and Prosperity in the Palaces thereof That all his Subjects may live so peaceably and quiet under their Vines and their Fig-trees as to be free from the fear of Evil. Which that we may do Let us implore God the Father for the sake of God the Son to endue us with the Grace of God the Holy Ghost at all times in all places and upon all occasions to put in practice that Sacred Admonition of prudent Solomon the Son of David in the Words of my present Text where he saith to every Subject My Son fear thou the Lord and the King and meddle not with them that are given to change For their Calamity shall rise suddenly and who knoweth the ruin of them both Now to God the Father God the Son and God the Holy Ghost a Trinity of Consubstantial Persons subsisting in the Deity of one Individual Essence be ascribed as is most due all Honour Glory Power and Praise from henceforth even for ever more AMEN FINIS