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A sermon preached at the Cathedral Church in Gloucester, upon St. Georges Day on which day His most sacred Majesty Charles the Second, was most solemnly crowned / by Tomas Carles ...
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Carles, Thomas, 1625 or 6-1675.
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an opportunity before to cast in my Mite into this Treasury Whiles therefore his real vertues transcend my Panegyrick and my conscience bears witness that I speak the truth in Christ Rom. 9.1 I lie not If I should be silent I should prevaricate against the truth and for you not to desire to hear it were to declare your selves most unthankfull to God who hath blest you with so religious so just and yet so mercifull a King I have observed it usual for our divine Orators in the most eminent pulpits to affect their hearers with the most eminent vertues of their present Prince and in speaking of those three his Predecessors lately mentioned I never observ'd much flattery but usually they fall short as I must needs this day The truth is I am not personally so much acquainted with his merit having never had the happiness to see the face of this glorious Sun since he shone among us I am I say neither Courtier nor Orator enough to speak his just character That his dayly endearing actions imprint on the hearts of all even his very enemies if any such be left and their conversion be not perfectly wrought by his unparallel'd conversation Me thinks I have said enough already to heighten our due esteem of so superlative a blessing and for this dayes felicities to cause an April shower of tears of joy Let us therefore briefly yet seriously consider whose Head is crown'd this day A person of most High birth most Religious education like David a man I verily believe after Gods own heart train'd up in the advantageous school of afflictions patient in Adversity for like David though the Crown was his by succession yet he waits twelve years till Gods time is come to set it on and surely miraculously preserv'd for this purpose A person naturally of a most majestique countenaunce yet mixt with so much sweetness and humility that his presence awes and invites at the same time Of an unmovable constancy in religion of a fixed confidence and trust in God demonstrating his innocency by his freedom of converse without distrust of any A strennous defender of the true faith a Pious Promoter of primitive discipline a zealous Reformer of corrupt manners and that by his own example as well as Precept being 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a living Law a walking statute Regis ad exemplum knowing that to be the more taking rule of the twain And surely dear Christians when we have commented in our thoughts upon these and the rest of his several perfections which I am not able sufficiently to express we cannot sure but believe that God hath set him as blessings for ever blessings in the abstract and in the plural and for ever not only his ever but the ever of our posterity How then can we chuse but cry out in the stile of the Councels to their Emperors Carolo secundo a Deo custodito coronato vitam longam Regnum prosperum prolem foelicem vitam aeteraam A long life a glorious raign a happy off-spring and everlasting felicities And therefore to conclude let us never hereafter hearken to the raâ—ling Rabshakâ—hs of Rome nor the popular insinuations of Geneva nor the Phanatique enter prizes for a fifth Monarchy but gladly acquiecse in this dayes manifest decision of the long controversy and shout with heart and voice Vive le Roy Vivat Rex God save the King Now to God the Father who hath mercifully restored the father of our Countrey To God the Son our Lord Jesus Christ who hath so wonderfully saved His anointed and to God the Holy Ghost the ever blessed Spirit who hath to this day preserved the breath of our Nostrils be given and ascribed by us and all the faithfull servants of the King of Heaven and al the loyal Subjects of his Deputy on earth The largest kindome the greatest power the highest glory this thrice happy day and for evermore Amen Amen FINIS
The Second CHARLES Heire to the Reyall Martyr Who for Religion and his Subjects Charter Spent the best blood that unjust sword ere dy dâ—â— Since that rude Souldier peired our Saviours sâ—â— Who such a Father hadst art such a Son Redeeme thy People and assum thy Owne A SERMON Preached at the CATHEDRAL CHURCH IN GLOUCESTER UPON ST. Georges Day On which day His most sacred Majesty CHARLES the SECOND was most solemnly crowned By Thomas Carles Mr. of Arts late Fellow of Baliol Coledge in Oxford now Rector of Barnesly in Glovcester PSALM 132.18 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I will make the horn * vid. Hamond in locum or Regal power of David to bud or rise again gloriously as the Orient Sun I have ordained or prepared a lamp or glory for mine anointed LONDON Printed by T. R. for Peter Dring at the Sun in the Poultrey next door to the Rose Tavern Anno 1661. TO THE Right Reverend Father in God WILLIAM Lord Bishop of GLOVCESTER Right Reverend Father THE place where this Sermon was delivered directs me to this dedication and your early influence among us emboldens me to hope your Patronage and Protection I have alwayes studiously to my power avoided the torture of publick censure but now I am forced to submit to the severity of desire and herein I am willing to grant the request of many worthy friends that by this new way of self-denial I may serve my Generation My turn in the City-Lecture falling upon that happy day 1 Cor. 12.26 my natural Allegiance bound me to speak a word in season but I little thought there would have been so solemn an Assembly but I then saw the Apostle verified If one member be honoured all the members rejoyce with it Every Conduit Cross and Market-place in that ancient City by their Garlands Crowns and Laurels proclaimed what day it was to England and indeed the morning preparations for the solemnity of that glorious day did much satisfie and encourage me to lift up my voice like a trumpet and to tell them both their duty and happiness in their strict Allegiance and fidelity to their unparallel'd King And I hope that those that left no possible expression of joy out of their Festival will carry on the same cheerfull spirit of Obedience and gratitude at the return of the exercise of your Lordships Holy Office and Paternal care for their souls My necessary retirement of late years to my Countrey charge hath too much estranged me from men and books and all the modern advantages for so solemn a performance but since my slender pains were so curteously accepted in that great congregation I hope my boldness in entituling your Lordship to them will be pardoned for while I hear you have so zealously and happily defended our publick devotions I will not despair of your favour to the meanest son of the Church while I remain Your Lordships most humbly devoted Thomas Carles A SERMON ON THE CORONATION-DAY April 23. 1661. PSALM XXI 3. For thou preventest Him with the (a) Or liberal blessings blessings of goodness thou settest a Crown of pure gold on His head THE liberal blessings of this gladsom day which we by a loyal sympathy partake of challenge an hearty Selah a ravishing Hallelujah from every true lover of his God his King and his Countrey That oyl of gladness wherewith our Royal head is this day solemnly anointed cannot but run down to the skirts of the Nation We being therefore so miraculously prevented with the blessings of goodness let us loudly eccho their Hosanna to our David Psalm 51.1 when our God is setting a Crown of pure gold upon his head While therefore Ispeak of the things of God that concern the King if your Christian attentions crown my meditations I hope you will receive and I wish you might with all its due accents verbum diei in die suo It was a pious exhortation and a strange prophecy of a worthy person (b) Dr. George Wild Bishop of London declared in a Sermon preached at Oxon before the members of the house of Commons there assembled 1643. â—on Psalm 12.8 9. now a reverend Father of the Church about fourteen years ago when we were faln into an Iron age and never dreamt Domitians dream or thought of this golden and peacefull time we now behold Be we but content saith he to wait Gods leisure without murmuring and distrust here in his own house and we shall behold the Buckler of the North and the sword of the West meet and concenter triumphantly in the East and there make up a wreath of bayes and a chaplet of roses for that head that hath been so long crowned with thorns This day I may say is this Prophecy and my Text fulfilled in your ears Verse 1. The King shall rejoyce in thy strength O Lord exceeding glad shall He be of thy salvation Verse 3. For thou preventest him with the blessings of goodness Thou settst a Crown of pure gold on His head If I am unmethodical in my discourse impute it to the Hyperbaton of joy the natural disorder of that heightned passion may not misbecome this day This day 't is just a twelve-month since we were singing another tune in this City But blessed be God while I was performing my duty the joyfull news was brought that the Phanatique cloud was dispersed which threatned the preventing of all these blessings of goodness and therefore since the Ruler of the stars hath been so favourable as to crown this year thus with thy goodness that we have an unparallel'd Prince for sufferings and vertues after a twelve years divorce from his people so unanimously owned so I appily returned so gloriously received so firmly establisht so universally beloved and so solemnly crown'd as it is this day we cannot but take up this holy 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or song of triumph and bear our part in the burden of this Psalm of prayer and say as the King shall rejoyce in thy strength O Lord so will we sing and praise thy power Verse 13 The whole Psalm seems to be penned on purpose for the coronation of a King and is primarily to be understood of David the proverb of Kingly blessings with reference to Christ the antytipe of David and author of those blessings and is very applycable to every godly Prince that writes after Davids copy and Christs example and through many tribulations enters into the glory of his kingdome If I should draw the Parallel throughout the Psalm between King David and our pious Soveraign I might possibly seem tedious but be neither guilty of falshood nor flattery both which are abominable in this sacred place In the former part the first seven verses of the Psalm there is a notable 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Enumeration of those signal blessings wherewith God bless'd them both and for which therefore they both bless God Salvation in the first verse Verse 1 Satisfaction in the second