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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30451	A sermon preached before the King, at Whitehall, on the second of December, 1697. Being the day of thanksgiving for the peace. / By the Right Reverend Father in God, Gilbert, Lord Bishop of Sarum.	Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.	1698 (1698)	Wing B5907; ESTC R21499	19,321	38

cruelly to death tho' they had let him live when he was in their Power Next he gave scope to his Rage against all those who had been concern'd in the Revolution both they and their Children were destroy'd without either Mercy or the Forms of Justice And because he had been ill used in the place of his Exile the Country now Inhabited by the Crim-Tartars he resolved to destroy or to use a Modern word to execute the whole Country His Army thought they had obeyed his Cruel Commands when they had Murdered all both Men and Women They indeed spared the Children they thought they could not be within their Orders they might be sold for Slaves or trained up to War They were bloody enough but not to the pitch of a Tyrant's Cruelty He resolv'd to satiate his Revenge even with the blood of Innocents and ordered them all to be shipt and brought to him They were upwards of Seventy Thousand A Storm fell upon them they all perished in the Euxine where they found a milder Fate than was prepared for them This gave him great joy because they had all perished it had been greater if he had glutted his own Eyes with so inhumane a sight but the Pleasure lasted not long he had now raised all Mankind against him his own Army abhorr'd him The second Revolt ended more Tragically they were not then contented to stigmatize him as before both he and his Son were cruelly put to death This Meditation may seem to go too far from the joyfulness of the present Occasion but perhaps nothing can make us feel it so sensibly as the remembring that we have been deliver'd from and the considering what might have been the Consequences of a fatal Relapse It remains that we look at the Ends of Government as they are express'd by the Queen in my Text. The two great ones are in these words with relation to God to be King for the Lord thy God and with relation to the People to establish them for ever Then follows the standing Maxims of a good King in the course of his Administration to do Judgment and Justice to execute Law to punish and reward leaving the severer part to Just and Impartial Judges and taking the Nobler one of Rewarding under his own Care and management To be King for the Lord his God is plainly to Govern in God's stead To consider Power and Authority as a derivation from him which will be then best applied when the first and chief of the Princes cares is to Maintain and raise the Honour of Religion Solomon began his Reign with the Executing David's Designs and the employing his Treasures in building a Temple of that Glory and Magnificence that it may be justly reckoned among the Wonders of the World This was suitable to Natural Religion and more particularly to that Dispensation then Instituted by God which was to have its last Finishing in this great Structure and in the exact Observance of all those Rules and Orders that had been settled by David In all this he was to Reign for the Lord his God to reduce the People that was so fond of outward State and Solemnity that they were thereby much disposed to Idolatry and to make them delight the more in the Worship of God by such a compliance with their Inclinations But the chief Instances in which he was to Rule for the Lord his God were the recommending Piety and Holiness by his own Example and the encouraging it by his Authority His Prayer in Dedicating the Temple gives a Noble Instance of the Impressions that Religion had made upon his own Mind Certainly those who reckon the Title of Defender of the Faith one of the peculiar Glories of the Crown will apply their Thoughts with a particular Zeal to every thing that may promote Religion both in their own Dominions and out of them The Decencies as well as the Solemnities of the Worship of God will not be thought below their Care But above all things the Contempt and Scorn of Sacred matters is that against which they will turn their indignation with the warmest Zeal and against those who do as it were attack Heaven and make War upon it who Study to render Religion as Contemptible to others as they have made it look to themselves What Prince cou'd suffer a subordinate Magistrate under him who should bear with all the Affronts put on Majesty as long as the lower respects due to himself were observed This may teach them with how just a Zeal they should punish those bold Attempts against Heaven tho' made by some who pretend to Zeal and Affection to themselves Such Persons instead of Supporting the Throne pull it down by engaging Heaven against all that they undertake It is a degree of Compliance with thei● wickedness to be pleased with them to trust them or to shew them favour But it is not enough not t● seem to be of the side of those who fight against God or to abett them Princes who Rule for God enter into all the true Concerns of Religion tho' not indeed into the Passions and Violences of those who espouse it While they check these they will promote the other in the most effectual manner An unblemish't Pattern set by themselves in the Purity and Probity of their own Deportment will give the fullest Authority to all their other Designs Next to their Persons their chief Care will be the reforming of their Court and Houshold and the letting it appear that Vertue and Religion are reckoned among the first and most indispensible Qualities of those who may pretend to Favour And that Vice and Impiety are insuperable barrs in the way to it Princes who Govern so that they Rule for God may justly expect that he will Watch over them and Protect them That he will make their Crown sit sure and easie and their Thrones safe and fix'd under them The Second Design for which such Kings are raised up is because God loves their People that by their means they may be established for ever that is in the Jewish Phrase for a long time A Happy tempering of Government at Home a subduing of Enemies abroad and a ballancing of Neighbours so equally that none of them may grow beyond their pitch are the surest Methods for arriving at a fixed Establishment We were so shaken at Home that the Foundations of our Government seem'd to be undermined not only by open and violent Attacks upon Liberty and Property but likewise by the more cover'd tho' no less dangerous Invasions made under the pretences of Law but against the plainest Intentions of it Colours were oft given to excuse that which in it self carried such a Face of Injustice that without those Masks it could not have passed upon a free People Success in some of these Attempts encouraged the Contrivers to a further prosecuting of them so that there was scarce any part of our Law left which those Harpies had not touch'd and by touching defil'd