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A sermon preached upon the anniversary solemnity of the happy inauguration of our dread soveraign Lord King James II in the Collegiate Church of Ripon, February the 6th. 1685/6 / by Thomas Cartwright ...
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Cartwright, Thomas, 1634-1689.
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as obedient to his Commands as Israel was to Solomon's Whose Excellent President I have chosen to set before you to Copy after A Text which you must needs by this time see to be proper and pertinent and such as by the Blessing of God is made very seasonable and suitable to this Day 's Solemnity Which if it had fall'n into the hands of one whom better Parts and more Leisure had fitted for this Service might have afforded you a Discourse not Inferiour to what this great and first Anniversary Solemnity might teach you to expect But the happy Occasion of our meeting and your own obvious Meditations upon it will easily draw out the Paralel between this People in my Text and your selves without the help of a Preacher The main Ingredients which concur to the completing the happiness of any Kingdom you will find to meet here in my Text A Wise and devout King a Loyal and Religious People and a good understanding between them Solomon takes care to build and adorn the Temple of God and the People contribute freely and largely to it He brings the Ark of the Covenant into the City of David they attended it with all due Solemnity he establish'd Religion by a Law and the People take special notice of the Honour and Welfare of Religion under his Government Vers 11. of the Glory of the Lord filling the House of the Lord as a testimony of his owning what the King and they had done Vers 30. and of God's hearkning to the King 's and their Prayers in the House which he in their sight had newly Dedicated to him Prov. iij. 9. He honoured God with his substance and with the first-Fruits of his Increase he Sacrific'd Two and twenty thousand Vers 63. Oxen and an Hundred and twenty thousand Sheep They were well pleased with his Royal and Religious Performances and his Peace-Offering to the Lord this was the Joy of their hearts and they feasted themselves with the Remembrance of it to see Holiness and Happiness meet together Piety and Prosperity kiss each other Vers 65. Solomon held a Feast and all Israel with him a great Congregation Seven days and Seven days and on the Eighth day he sent the people away and they Blessed the King and went unto their Tents joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness that the Lord had done for David his Servant and for Israel his people God hath blessed us with a Prince at this time not inferiour to him in my Text for his Knowledge and Conduct in Government one who hath been brought up most part of his Life in the School of Affliction which hath wrought Patience and Patience such Experience in him such knowledge of Men and Business that if he do not by Judgment Establish this Kingdom the fault will not be his but our own For we cannot expect either from God or the King to be made happy whether we will or no we may pull down Destruction upon our selves and our Posterity by the very same methods that we did in his Father's time we may be Destroyers of our selves and the establish'd Religion and make our selves Examples of God's and the King's Justice But if we will take Example of this people in my Text the Sons of Zerviah shall never be too hard for our David nor will he ever be out of love with us or our Religion Loyalty is the King's Joy the Kingdoms Happiness and the Subjects Glory and if all people would be Loyal no Kingdom could be miserable I am sure not ours All the ties of Duty and Gratitude do at this time indispensably oblige us to it and to give his Sacred Majesty the best assurance we can that we know our Duty and that we are firmly resolv'd to act according to it as did this people in my Text On the Eighth day he sent the people away and they blessed the King and went unto their Tents joyful and glad of heart for all the Goodness that the Lord had done for David his Servant and for Israel his People In which words there are Five Particulars observable I. Regia populi Dismissio the Royal Dismission of the People On the Eighth day he sent the People away II. Populi Benedictio Votiva the People's dutiful Valediction They blessed the King at parting III. Populi Submissio the Peoples ready Submission They went unto their Tents IV. Populi Exultatio the People's Satisfaction and Triumph They were joyful and glad of heart V. Exultationis ratio the good Ground and just Reason of their Triumph 'T was for all the goodness that the Lord had done for David his Servant and for Israel his People I shall endeavour to Explain and Apply each of these Particulars in its order The first whereof is I. Regia Populi Dismissio the Dismission of the People when and by whom it was made Arab. Octavo a septem postremis post solennitatem die On the Eighth from the latter Seven days Solemnity of the Dedication or Encoenia such as our Wake-Days and Church-Feasts are for in both Solemnities there were Fourteen Days Seven for the Dedication and the other Seven for the Feast of Tabernacles which began on the Fifteenth of September After the exact Termination whereof Solomon informed the People then Assembled from the Eastern to the Western-borders of his Dominions of their Duty to God and the King and having made a Collection among them to defray the charge of the Sacrifices which had been offer'd when they had done the business for and unto which he call'd them he lets them know That he was not willing to detain them any longer from their private Employments and that he dispensed with their farther Attendance and gave them leave to depart on the morrow Which they accordingly did on the 23. of September with their Hearts as light as their Purses they carried away little Money but much Mirth along with them into the Country and were so far from grudging what they had so piously spent in God's and the King's Service that they gloried in its Acceptance and thought their Moneys well bestow'd and their Journey well paid for The Subjection of the People to their Prince was then thought as natural as that of Children to their Parents they never dream't of a State of natural Freedom When he call'd them they came and when he dismissed them they went away I wish the same Prudence Temper and Moderation had always been in all our fellow Subjects then would not that wild Notion and seditious Opinion ever have been broached among us That the King cannot Prorogue or Dissolve his Parliaments in which his People are Representatively Assembled till their Petitions be answer'd and their Grievances redressed or that they may tarry till they dismiss themselves and not depart when the King thinks fit and convenient as Solomon's People in my Text did with great Submission and Satisfaction which they intimated to the King when it was
the Homage of a good Subject after he had been shut up in the Lions Den. He acknowledged him to be his King and honour'd him accordingly Dan. ij 24. O King live for ever And the Primitive Christians wished Julian himself Length of days and prosperity And as our Religion is not Evangelium armatum nor will suffer us to rise up against our King Vi Armis not to be done without the Violation of all the Laws of God and Man so neither shall we ever have occasion to do it as they had Precibus Lachrymis those pious Weapons with which the Primitive Christians overcame the Tyranny of their Persecutors Prov. xxi 1. For the King's Heart is in the Hand of the Lord and he who can turn it whithersoever he will hath inclined it hitherto and I trust will always do to the Protection of the Church of England Wherein we have his Royal Word for our Security and if that be not sufficient to allay Mens Fears and Jealousies I know not what will We can appeal to his Sacred Majesty how we adher'd as became us to his Right for Conscience-sake tho' against that which some short-sighted Polititians and worse Christians would have made us believe to have been our Interest We cannot but glory in the Reproaches and Injuries we sustain'd on his account from the Out-rages of the Mobile He is of too generous and gracious a Nature to use the Power which God hath given him to procure their Ruine who were always ready and ever will be to do their best to prevent his And therefore the Venient Romani the groundless Jealousies of Popery's coming in which alarums the Rabble shall not be such a scar-crow as to fright us out of our Wits and Religion nor shall it ever exasperate or enrage us to do any thing that is wicked upon the apprehensions of it nor to abandon our Loyalty Justice and moral Honesty to prevent it For it would be a Contradiction to maintain advance or establish Religion upon the Ruines of Justice which founds all Religion nor must God's Ordinance be secured in one point by endangering it in another No doubt but the King will gratifie his own Perswasion without any severe and cruel Methods on the other hand for he naturally abhors Sanguine Sacrifices Upon which consideration he hath been pleased by his own Royal and voluntary Declaration to renew and confirm to his Subjects the best Magna Charta that every they had A Blessing obtained without a Rebellion and which calls for a suitable Veneration and Return from his People He knows that ours is a Religion that hath always asserted the Rights of the Crown with Life and Fortune And how chearfully the Members of it have spent their Blood and Treasure in his own his late Majesty's and his Father's Service And how they stand affected to his Prerogative upon which they know all Popular Encroachments to be as fatal as Inundations of the Sea And that loose Reins cast upon the Neck of a Resty People will teach them a trick to throw their Rider till none can sit them And that none can live in the Communion of our Church who does not solemnly renounce all rebellious Principles and Practices and disclaim all Usurpations whatsoever upon Sovereign Powers He can never be over-ruled by any designing Men of what perswasion soever to put off his own generous Nature and innate Kindness to his old Friends He is very well content we should be as faithful to God as we are to him as true to our Religion as to our King God Preserve and Prosper him for it Alas We do but flatter our selves if ever we hope to be Govern'd without that which is commonly call'd an Arbitrary Power let the Word sound never so harshly The only question is Who shall have it Whether it shall be in the King or the People In one or many And the Denial of necessary Powers for the safety of the Kingdom which call them what you will are the Regalia the Inherent Rights of the Crown for Fear of Mis-Government is the ready way to lose all the Fruits and Benefit of Government it self for want of those powers to support it For 't is impossible for any Common-Wealth to subsist without that dreadful thing call'd Arbitrary Power if by Arbitrary you mean as I do Supreme and Absolute True it is That if this be vested in one the People are over-apt to call it Tyranny but if in many they are pleased to christen it by the glorious Name of Liberty Tho' if Tyranny consist not in the abundance but abuse of Power not in the uncontroulableness but unreasonableness not in the exercise but excess of it it will be as unjust and Tyrannical in them as in him so to use it Nor are Common-Wealths more secur'd from this sort of Tyranny than Monarchies Our own Statute Laws acknowledge 16. R. 2.5 25. H. 8.21 24. H. 8.12 That our King is subject to none but God and that he hath an Imperial Crown and they call his Kingdom an Empire And by the Common Law the King is neither inferior to the Three Estates nor co-ordinate with them but is Major Vniversis as well as Singulis Greater than all of them as well collectively as singly The Parliament doth but propound prepare and present the Project of the Law 't is the Royal Stamp that makes it one The sole Legislative Power is lodg'd in the King and to him saith Bracton belongs the interpretation of all Laws when made not in plain Cases but in New Questions and Emergent Doubts of which the King was the first and must be the last Judge too For if the People be Judge he is no Monarch at all and so farewel all Government There is no State in which there is not an ultimate Judicature which is not to be accountable and Queen Elizabeth used to say That she was to be accountable to none but God Nor did the Protestants call this Tyranny or Arbitrary Government in her Days And therefore let not the Dragon's Tail pretend now to lead the Head least after much fruitless Toil it draw the Body of Three Kingdoms into the Ditch Things are not always in themselves as they appear to us We see them but on the Dark side the King hath more Wisdom than to lay open the Arcana Imperii to us And if an Implicit Faith be due to the meanest Artificer in his own Art how much more is it due to the King in the profound secrets of Government His Actions are manifest but his Reasons seal'd up in the Cabinet of his own Royal Breast And if Bodinus says true Lib. 1. de Rep. c. 8. A Sovereign Prince may Derogate to the Law which he hath promised or sworn to keep if the Equity thereof be ceas'd and that of himself without the consent of his Subjects Suppose there were a Law That the People should pay no Taxes or Contributions to the publick Good