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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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other cause but their faithfulness to the King Blessed be God for all their malice Abiathar is escaped an honest high Priest to maintain the succession 1 Sam. 22.20 Nay when the ungratefull men of Keilah will betray their Deliverer 1 Sam. 23.12 giving up David into the cruel hands of Saul though He had saved them from the Mosse-troopers of the Philistines God will reveal the conspiracy and give him opportunity to escape 1 Sam. 23.19 And when the Ziphites turn Intelligencers and help Saul to inviron David so that his escape is thought impossible God will divert the fatal stratagem by the Philistines Invasion Yet Saul seeks to slay him day by day 1 Sam. 24.4 and at Engedi it happens that David had opportunity to slay Saul but he only cuts off the lap of his garment and God sends Saul home from the slaughter with that mercifull conviction This and much more is registred for our instruction that we might consider how often as he saith there was but a step between him and death yet he lives still 1 Sam. 20.3 and after his patient waiting upon God He is at last Possessor of the regal Crown and that is brought him too by an Amalekite not by an Israelite lest the people should brag that they gave him the Crown 2 Sam. 1.10 still to shew the prevention of divine bounty Well Crown'd he is and He raigns in Hebron seven years and is still followed with preventing grace a golden chain of multiplied preservations till about thirty years after 2 Sam. 5.5 the King of Ammons crown is set on too 2 Sam. 12.30 a Massy crown of finer gold and precious stones in it which Crown say all the Interpreters this our Text is meant of and this was a meer prevention of Mercy for you will find that David though He was David was under a sad cloud at that time and his sin upon sin one to cover the other the murder of Uriah to cover his Adultery with Bathsheba had rather rendred him liable to a severe judgement then fit for so rich a crown but as before in his distresses by Saul vitam petiit He asked life and God gave it Him so now veniam petiit He beg'd pardon and God forgave Him The story of David if I should track it step by step would yield a Volum rather then a Sermon Not an honest English man among us but might take his Bible and with a grateful acknowledgement turn most of it into an Allegory for this Day Three things more I cannot but point at in David two of which concern Kings in general but all three are most eminently applicable to our most gracious Soveraign and so I shall be led by the hand into my intended Application 1. God the setter on of Crowns The first is in the Text expressed Tu posuisti God is the setter on of Crowns This to rectifie our judgements which if they were in this point erroneous 't is hoped they are by this time somewhat convinc'd by providence which hath been the great argument all along For if this be true that Per me Reges regnant that God is the Soveraign Imposer and Disposer of Crowns then let the ambitious Absaloms and Jeroboams of the world that 1. Usurp Crowns take notice of this act of God 1 Against Usurpers of Crowns not ipse sibi sed Deus ipsi David did not snatch at it and set it on his own head but God did set it on Davids head The Crown is in Gods hand saith Esay 62.3 And I have set thee this day over the Nations saith Jeremy 1.10 Where it is rightly placed there is Gods right hand in it Well might therefore the Emperors stile themselves 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and so significantly stamp their coynes with a hand coming out of the clouds and setting a Crown upon their heads 2 Again 2. Against Deposers of Kings Let such as pretend to a power of desposing Kings consider that there is a noli me tangere engraven upon every imperial Crown such as Davids was over Judah and as it was excellently cleared by that (a) Sir Orland Pridgman incomparable person in his late charge at the solemn tryal of the Regicides such is the Crown of England an Imperial Crown In this sense only can that phrase be rightly understood Against thee thee only have I sinned Psalm 51.4 Though Murder and Adultery even in King David were great sins yet he was accounted to none but God And thus it is held forth in those excellent * Canons set forth in 1640. Can. 1. concerning Regal power Canons That There is no superior coercive power on earth neither in the Pope nor in the people over the Kings of England and therefore for Subjects to bear arms against their Kings offensive or defensive upon any pretence whatsoever they are the very words of the Canon is at least to resist the powers ordained by God and St. Paul saith They receive unto themselves damnation 'T is a concerning case Beloved and therefore give me leave to say the more Hear the sad complaint of a Reverend (d) Dr. H. King Bishop of Chchester n a Sermon preached at Paul Cross March 27. 1640 Text Jer. 1.10 pag. 36. Vide etiam p. 27 28. father of our Church above twenty years ago on the anniversary of such a day as this Arise O sword and smite my shepheard Zac. 13.7 was the barbarous inhumanity used towards Christ and I confess saith he oft-times since practised upon his Vicegerent I do not only mean the sword of excommunication more frequently used by the reverend Bishop of Rome then his Crosyer at which weapon Knox and Buchanan have shewed themselves as cunning Fencers as he but the material and criminal sword and this defended as stifly by those you scarcely would suspect Men who like the mutinous Israelites upon all occasins of pretended discontent cry down Moses and set up an Idol made out of popular votes and contributions Men who have found an arm to wield the sword of Justice which God never appointed in the manage of which irregular authority they have presumed to set the people on the bench and place the King at the bar Good God! Who would think this should be verified within eight years I should not trouble your loyal ears with such discourse as this but that it is too manifest that the Conclave and the Consistory do in this point jump together and a great many that cry out against Popery and fain would buz it in the heads of the vulgar that the Priests and the Gentrey will club to bring it in they d I say by these Antimonarchical principles work jorney-work to the Jesuits to the ruine of a reflourishing Church and State and the carrying on of the great project of their Catholick Dominion Let us beloved be more wise hereafter Tu posuisti will be Scripture still God is the setter on of
Coronation of his head in the third verse Prolongation of his life in the forth verse Glory honour and Majesty in the fifth Superlative benediction Excessive joy in the sixth nay providentially setled as the Abstract of blessings and that for ever And all this heap and load of bounty flowing from the favourable countenance and the never failing mercies of the most high verse 7. From Gods gracious acceptance of the Kings prayers v. 2. and his preventing grace in the Kings extremities verse 3. not flowing from any merit of his own but because of his constant faith and trust and confidence in God verse 7. which is the best foundation of an unmovable and setled continuance of all there And in the latter part that we may know at the same time in which the King is so happy what shall become of his enemies and that his enemies may know what will become of all their treacheries and conspiracies both their prosperous rebellions and their yet undiscovered stratagems and machinations there is an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a confession or acknowledgement of Gods power or a prophecy of their destruction that hate the Lord 's Christ His hand his right hand shall find out them that hate him Verse 8 verse 8. In the season of his angry countenance they shall be suddenly and dreadfully consumed v. 9. or prepar'd as a fiery Oven against the opportunity of his vengeance 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the Septuagint reads it Nay their seed and off-spring utterly extirpated from among the children of men verse 10. And because they blotted such a mischievous device which they were not able to perform verse 11. And yet though their power was weakned their will was not wanting and they fought as it were the last man against God therefore now will God laugh at their calamity and make them the sport of his fury the But of his vengeance emptying his quiver upon the very faces of them and cut them off with a methodical destruction as the words inforce it verse 12. And what can be the conclusion of both these viz. the preservation of this anointed and the confusion of this and their Adversaries but let God be exalted in his own strength and so will we sing and praise his power who giveth such deliverance unto Kings Psalm 144.10 and rescueth David his servant from the hurtfull and cruel sword Now because this third verse contains so full a reason and ground of the Kings unexpressible joy O how greatly shall he rejoyce because it immediately follows the only Selah of of the Psalm and appears by the first particle for to be the cause of the lifting up both of the heart and voice both of David and Israel of King and people I have confined my thoughts to that alone leaving the rest of the Psalm to your occasional meditations and herein we have enough to carry on the parallel to teach us our duty and happiness in the Kings honour and deliverance Here is 1. The division His unexpected restauration Thou preventest him with the blessings of goodness 2. His splendid inauguration Thou settest a Crown of pure gold on his head In both we have to consider these three things 1. The Author Thou O Lord. 2. The Object or subject of these great things Him the King 1 David in the letter and original 2 Charles the second in the transcript and copy 3 The Act of special grace and favour that 's two-fold 1 Preventing him with all his doings with his most gracious favour 2 Furthring him in his great happiness with his continual help 1 Delivering him from wrong 2 Restoring him to his Right 3 Setling him in his throne 1 Bestowing blessings upon him and those 2 The blessings of goodness liberal blessings 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 3 And that by way of Preventirn 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 unthought of unaskt of him Again 1 a Crown nay two Crownes for David as many or more for our dear Soveraign 2. Of Gold not of thorns nor of lead though weighty and full of cares 3 Pure gold 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an honourable Imperial Crown 4 Upon his head not over it as Edward the fifth not only in his eye not to aim at but to enjoy and wear 5 And lastly Set it setled placed confirmed establisht In such a large field I shall only gather some flowers to weave a Civique garland for our Caesar that at least we may also crown him with our loyal thoughts our hearty wishes and and our Religious prayers and first let us look on the Original awhile and see Davids inlargement that we may make room for his Majesties honour to be seen If we consider him in the sacred story from his first anointing by Samuel to the end of his reign 1 Sam. 16. we shall find much of this free and preventing grace of God bestowed upon him and indeed God is not satisfied to give when we ask but before we think of mercy to bestow it that is his Prerogative that is his delight 'T is the blessing of Gods goodness to prevent with tender mercies To prevent and with a blessing and that of goodness too that is the fat of the sacrifice the Crown of benediction thus it was with David thus with us too When he was following the Ewes great with young Psalm 78.71 1 Sam. 16.6 a Kingdome entred not into His thoughts yet then praevenit Deus He was sent for by Samuel Eliab his elder brother was not taken nor any of his brethren but He a youth a stripling anointed then and by divine appointment entititled to the Crown For this Crown he stayes some years 1 Sam. 26.10 till Saul the Tyrant and cruel enemy of David was dead and His day was come and all the while that the evil spirit of Saul stirred him up to plot and contrive Davids destruction what a heap and catalogue of preventing mercies and memorable deliverances are registred in the latter half of that first book of Samuel How often was Saul hindred from actuall murder of David 1 Sam. 19. ibid. 1 Sam. 19.20 sometime by the unmatchable love of Jonathan Sauls own son sometime by the kindness and policy of Michael Sauls own daughter One while by transforming Sauls Pursuivants into Prophets Nay if that will not change his furious resolution but he will himself pursue David you 'l find him tam'd to a proverb Ibid. v. 23. and like Saul in the Gospel not now a persecutor of David but a Prophet also in Samuels Colledge But yet the fear that David will enjoy the kingdome makes Saul continue his impotent fury and then though good David is forced to fly and banish himself yet he is not starv'd The Priests rather shall relieve him with Hallowed bread though that cursed Doeg makes them pay for it with their lives 1 Sam. 22.18 yet though the plot be against the Priests as well as the King and truly for no