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A29527	Prayer and praise, a two-fold tribute to be payed by all loyal subjects to their supream and subordinate soveraign a subject entred upon April 23, 1661, being the day of the solemn inauguration of King Charles the II and finished the Lord's Day following / as it was delivered to the Church of God at Great Yarmouth by John Brinsley ...	Brinsley, John, 1600-1665.	1661 (1661)	Wing B4724; ESTC R35787	29,831	38

hands agreed And so shall I look upon this passage in it which I have now in hand Which acquaints us with a two-fold Tribute due as unto Solomon so unto Christ Prayer and Praise Prayer Prayer also shall be m●de for him continually Praise And daily shall he be praised Be●in we with the former Prayer also shall be made for him continually Wherein again as before I did I shall take notice of those two particulars The Tribute it self Prayer And the Time when and how oft it is to be payed Continually Touch upon them severally 1. The Tribute it self Prayer Prayer also shall be made for him But what Prayer made for him for Christ How can this be What doth he stand in n●ed of our Prayers that men upon Earth should make prayers for him being in Heaven Here t●e Iew● fall foul upon us Christians and jear us tha● we should expound this Psalm concerning our M●ssia who if he be what we believe him God how then can this passage agre● unto him that prayers should be made for him What pray for our God Prayers are to be put ●p to him not fo● him For answer to this True it is as it is with Saints and Angels so much more with Iesus Christ he being ascended into Heaven and sitting at the right hand of his Father Crowned with Honour and Glory having all Power given to him in Heaven and Earth He is far from needing the assistance of men or any other Creature● He needeth not our prayers we have need and that continuall need of his of his Intercession which he maketh for us as the Apostle tells us Rom. 8.34 But he hath no need of ours no more then the greatest Monarch upon Earth hath to receive an Alms from the poorest Peasant But though he hath no need of them as to his own person yet his Kingdom hath his Church which is as it were a part of himself his Body whereof he is the Head He is the Head of the Body the Church Col. 1.18 his Mystical Body Which in re●ard of the near relation it hath to him is called sometimes by his N●●e as 1 Cor. 12.12 As the Body is one and hath many members c. So is Christ. And again Gal. 3.16 Now to Abraham and to his Seed were the promises made c. which Seed is Christ meaning the Mystical Body of the Church whereof Christ is the Head and his Elect People the Members Now though he being the Head is out of the reach of our prayers so as that they should be made for him yet so are not his Members here upon Earth And up●n that account prayers may fitly be said to be made for him being made for his Kingdom For which all hi● Subjects are to pray So they are taught by Him himself in that Patern and Form of prayer which he hath left them After this manner pray ye Hallowed be thy Name thy Kingdom come Matth. 6.10 The Kingdom of God the Government whereof is committed to Jesus Christ as Mediatour this are his Subjects to pray for His Kingdom his Kingdom of Grace his Kingdom of Glory which are not properly two Kingdoms but two different states of the same Kingdom And for both these are prayers to be made 1. For his Kingdom of Grace his Church upon Earth which is visible invisible Visible in the Nations of the World Invisible in the hearts of his Elect People Both these are Christians to pray for 1. For his visible Kingdom for which they are chiefly to ●eg two things Preservation Augmentation both which are to be effected by the Power of Christ. 1. Preservation that it may be continued here upon Earth which it shall be to the end of the Wo●ld being defended and maintained by the power of Jesus Chris● against all the Enemies of it whether Men or Devils So he tell● Pe●er in that known Text Matth. 16.18 Thou art Peter and upon this Rock will I build my Church and th● Gates of Hell shall not prevail against it Upon this Rock not the rock Confessing but Confessed not upon Peter but upon that Confession which he had then made ver 16. Thou art Christ the Son of the living God upon this Rock ●aith he I will build my Church as I have already laid the foundation of it so will I ●arry on the building upholding and preserving it so as the Gates of Hell shall not prevail against i● that is all the pow●r and policy of Satan and his Instruments alluding to the custom of antient times w●●rein the Gates of Cities were the chief places of strength and the ●●sual meeting places for the holding of Councels let them plot and contrive and attempt what they will yet shall they not so far prevail against the Church as to destroy it to extirpate and root it out from off the Earth still Christ will have a visible Kingdom here upon Earth And for this are all his Subjects ●o pray that this his Kingdom may be thus continued Which whilst they do they may be said to make prayers for him 2. And a● they are to pray for the Preservation so for the Augmentation as for the continuance so for the increase and inlargment of this Kingdom of Christ that his Kingdom may come that his S●●pter may be lifted up his Government advanced his Church inlarged that it may be made a glorious Church So it shall be in the latter dayes For which we have many promises and those very clear and full As among other that of the Prophet Esay Chap. 2. ver 2 3. repeated by the Prophet Micah in the same terms M●e 4.1 It shall come to passe in the last dayes that the Mountain of the Lords House shall be established in the top of the Mountains and shall be exalted above the Hills and ●ll Nations shall flow unto it In the last Dayes in the Gospel-times the dayes of the Messiah the last Age of the World The Mountain of the Lords House the Church whereof Moun● Sion upon which the Temple was built was a Type Shall be established in t●e top of th● Mountains and exalted above the Hills it shall be settled and exalted being in the spiritual glory of it advanced far above all secular States and Kingdoms in the World And all Nations shall flow unto it ●●ws and Gentiles out of all parts of the World shall by whole Flocks and Sho●ls come in and joyn themselves to the Church embraci●g of the Gospel and submitting the●selves to the Government of Christ. And as it there followeth ver 3. M●●y People shall go and say Come ye and let us go up to the Mountain of the Lord to the House of the God of Iac●b and he will teach us of his wayes and we will walk in his path● This shall the People of the Iews do as among many other that Text of the Prophet Hosea clearly fore-telleth it Hos 3.4 The Children of Israel shall abide many dayes without a King

she departed fully satisfied finding the reality of his worth far exceeding the report which at her departure she acknowledged as we find it 1 King 10.6 c. And she said unto the King It was a true report that I heard in mine own Land of thy Acts and of thy Wisdom Howbeit I believed not the words untill I came and mine Eyes have seen it and behold the half was not told m● thy wisdom and prosperity exceedeth the Fame which I heard Blessed be the Lord thy God which delighteth in thee to set thee on the Throne of Israel because the Lord loved Israel for ever therefore made he thee King to do Iustice and Iudgment And she gave the King an hundred and twenty Talents of Gold and Spices very great sto●● and precious Stones Thus was he honoured praised and blessed of others And so he was of his own Subjects who being as I said blessed in him blessed him Even as he speaking of good Wife who is wise and careful in ordering the businesse of her Family saith Her Children rise up and call her blessed her Husband also and he praiseth her Prov. 3● 28 So did his Subjects unto him feeling the benefit of his wife and righteous Government they called him blessed daily praising of him Thus was this Tribute payed unto him And so let it be by us to our Royal Soveraign And that upon a double account the Vertues which are eminent in him and the Benefits which we have received from him His vertues which are truly praise-worthy Such is the Patience which he hath shewen in bearing of so many so great so long continued Sufferings as during his so many years exile he hath had experience of And such is his Constan●y in adhearing to God's true Religion Notwithstanding his case was much like unto David's who complaining unto King Saul of his hard Usage from his malicious Enemies saith They have driven me out this day from abiding in the Inheritance of the Lord saying Go serve other gods 1 Sam. 26.19 Being by their means driven and kept out of his own Land where he enjoyed the Ordinances of God freely he was forced to wander from place to place from Country to Country to have his abode in Idolatrous Nations By which doing of theirs they did as much in them lay force and compel him to turn Idolater And even such hath been the condition of this our dread Soveraign and that for many years together yet through the good providence of God watching over him he hath continued constant to his Religion as David did To these add his Sobriety and Temperance wherein he is exemplary to his Subjects setting a Copy for them to write after As also his Moderation and Meekness which he hath declared by granting such indulgence to consciences truly tender which he would not have pressed under the burden of offensive unnecessary observances as by desiring and endeavouring an accommodation of differences that there might be as to matters of lesser concernment a Christian compliance amongst persons of different perswasions To which ann●x his Lenity and Gentlenesse in not taking all just advantages against all such as by whom he hath unjustly suffered To all which add the Zeal which he hath shewen against those Epidemical Sins of Swearing and Drunkenness which through too much indulgence have been sorife in this Nation These and other the like Vertues they call for this Tribute to be payed unto him And so do all those blessings and benefits which since his return we enjoyed under his Government For which let him under God be prais●d And oh that the Lord may so blesse him for the future that he may yet be made a greater blessing unto his People in this and the Neighbour-Nations that they sitting quietly under his shadow may enjoy the Gospel of peace and the peace of the Gospel havi●● all the Ordinances of God continued to them with Liberty and Purity That so they being blessed in him may blesse God for him giving unto God as the Authour and to him as the Instrument the praise and honour which is due unto both But I want time to prosecu●e what I have only propounded And so shall take leave of the Literal sense of the words in the Text as relating to King Solomon It remains that I should look upon them in their Mystical sense as relating to King Iesus of whom Solomon was a Type But this I shall adjourn to the next Occasion The Second SERMON April 28 1661. PSAL. 72.15 Prayer also shall be made for him continually and daily shall he be praised THese words as you lately heard may be looked upon two wayes Literally and Mystically Literally as relating to King Solomon Mystically as relating to King Iesus With the former of these I have done It now remains that I come to the latter to look upon the words as relating unto Christ of whom King Solomon was a Type That he was so I presume it will not be questioned by any who understand the meaning of his Name Solomon Pacifious Peaceable So we find it expounded 1 Chron. 22.9 where the Lord giveth unto David the reason of imposing this Name upon this his Son Behold saith he a Son shall b● born unto thee who shall be a man of rest and I will give him rest from all his Enemies round about For his Name shall be Solomon and I will give peace and quietness unto Israel in his dayes Such a Prince was he a Prince of peace of a peaceable disposition and under whose Government the Land had peace And herein was he a Type of Christ whom we find described to be such a Prince having this Name given unto him Esay 9.6 His Name shall be called The Prince of Peace Shir Shalom the mystical Solomon To which we may joyn that other name which was given unto Solomon and that also by God himself Who sending by the hand of Nathan the Prophet called his name Iedidiah that is beloved of the Lord as we have it 2 Sam. 12.24 23. Which Name how fitly it agreeth unto Christ we may learn from that Voice from Heaven which was heard at his Baptism saying This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased Matth. 3.17 This is Ies●s Christ the true Solomon And being so well may this Psalm as the 45th being much of the s●me ●●ture an● kind withou● co●●roversy h●●h be conceived to have an ●ye at h●m So it is agreed by all Ch●istian ●xpositors Howev●r some of them have made it a Question whether it have an eye at Solomon at all there being in it many expressions so highly Hyperbolical as that they cannot conceive how they should agree to him or any Mortal man whatever yea diverse of those whom we account to be the best Interpreters by their manner of Interpretation applying it only to Christ may seem to have thought little lesse yet that it hath a respect unto Christ and chiefly unto Him it is on all