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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63847	A sermon preached October the 19, 1690, before the right worshipful the mayor, aldermen, and sheriff, &c. of the town and county of New-Castle upon Tyne being the day appointed for a general thanks giving for His Majesties's safe return and happy success in Ireland / by Geo. Tullie ...	Tullie, George, 1652?-1695.	1691 (1691)	Wing T3242; ESTC R5463	11,368	32

in their consequences events For the Race is not always to the swift nor the Battel to the Strong The grand Vessel of the Publick-weal which these Pilotes steer is subject to be split upon ten thousand Rocks and lyable to many a tempestous Storm and those too raised both within and from without the Vessel For so it is that the very Passengers many times that are in Her thô their safety too depends upon Her preservation are yet but too forward some of them through a narrow but mistaken Spirit to indeavour only the saving of their own cabin others through envy Malice c. to make leeks in her and and sink her if they can so that a man all consider'd has just reason to cry out with Sr. Paul upon another Occasion Who of Himself is sufficient for these things None but he who ruleth the rageing of the Sea and the madness of the People And therefore they of all Men liveing have need of an understanding heart of the Spirit of Councel and of the Spirit of Judgment of that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that Heroicke Princely Spirit as the Septuagint render it Psal 51. v. 12. which enables Men for Great and Generous undertakeings And if these Divine Assistances of Wisdom Conduct and Courage are so entirely requisite to the right management of the nice and difficult province of a Ruler it will not I presume be denied me that the Righteous in Authority stand fairer for them than the wicked And then whatsoever Happyness by this meanes befalls such a Prince is necessarily derived down to the meanest of his People His Reputation is theirs His Glory theirs His Successes theirs His Gains theirs in as much as their Interests are now upon the same common bottom and it cannot be suppos'd but that next under God who directed him and his own Personal Conduct their Aid and Assistances contributed to all His Acquisitions So that what St. Paul says in relation to the members of the body and of the Church holds equally strong in case of a Righteous man become the head Politick of a Nation If that be honoured all the members rejoyce with it I have only to add in the 4th and last place That you need but at your leisure peruse your Bibles and so supersede me the Labour here to furnish you with pregnant instances of such Princes as through their excellent virtues have derived down happiness to their people I shall only more particularly remark that the Divine Goodness has been pleas'd to express that Special regard to the Righteousness of some Princes as perticularly to that of King David's that He allow'd it the priviledge to entail a blessing upon the Land for Generations after him Howbeit says he upon Occasion of Solomon's provocations of him I will not rend away all the Kingdome but will give one tribe to thy son for David my Servant's sake 1 Kings 11. 13. And when long after in the days of Hezekiah when Sennacherib laid siege to the City which He had chosen to put his name there He saved it says Isaiah for his own sake and for his Servant David's sake Isa 37. v. 35. Such a durable blessing did the Piety of one single Prince bequeath to the people And now lest I should be thought hitherto to have slurr'd over the Occasion of the Day thô I have not neither and so to have affronted both God and the King God the great and supreme Author of our happyness and the King His Instrument who with good Jehoshaphat returning from battel commands us this Day to repair unto the House of the Lord because He has made us to rejoyce over our Enemies I shall therefore add a few words concerning the Present Occasion of our rejoyceing and shew that it becometh well all the Just Honest Men in the Nation this Day to be thank full Thankfull for such a King thankfull for such a Delivernce For First If we respect Him whom God has set over us what is there wanting in Him to render Him a most compleat Prince and the Nation as compleatly happy under him What is there wanting in Him to recommend Him even to some of our own Nation For his Virtues and Exploits have done it long ago to all the World beside The one has made Him the terror of his Enemies The other the Darling of his Friends And both together have purchased him a Renown like the Jewels of His Crown both bright and Solid too Look we upon the Justice of His Reign What Violence is there done in it unless indeed it be that which He Offers might I so speak to Justice Her self through the extraordinary Clemency of his Nat●re Look we upon His Wisdom in Deliberation 'T is like some great River the silence and stilness of whose Course is owing to the deepness of its Channel Look we upon His Vigour in Action The Lightning of his own Canon's scarce more quick nor an hungry Lyon more fearless than He that Insomuch we have just reason to say unto the King what the Men of David sware to Him after his Victory ouer the Philistines Thou shalt go no more out with us to Battle that thou quench not the light of Israel 2. Sam. 21. 17. And when it had pleased the great Lord of Hosts to bless such personal Prowess and Conduct with success see with what Gentleness and Moderation He us'd the Victory God had given Him how the Christian presently overcame the man and the Natural Lenity of his Temper conquer'd the Conqueror He pursu'd His scatte'd Enemies indeed but with the mildness of Declarations not the edge of the Sword Lastly Look we upon Him in his Devotions And His Behaviour looks as if His Kingdom were no longer of this World but He were expecting every hour to be translated to a better His Religion is our own and when could we truly say so of a Prince before that of our Excellent and Establis'd Church and thô his Enemies were pleas'd to fling out some surmises to the contrary foolishly endeavouring to blacken the Sun yet they consider'd not that the Prejudices of Education which stick so close by and clap so Fatal a by ass upon other men could not prevail over a Judgment so pierceing to discern the truth and a Mind so invincibly resolv'd to defend it And how then are we obliged upon all these Accounts to accost the King in Tertullies his Rhetoric to Felix Seeing that by Thee we ensoy great quietness and that very worthy deeds are done unto this Nation by thy providence We accept it alwayes and in all places most Noble Prince with all Thankfullness Remembring always that God expects returns of gratitude not only to Himself but to the glorious Instruments likewise which he is pleased to make use off in accomplishing the Deliverance of a People As it is reprochfully said of Isarel not onely that they remembered not the Lord their God who had delivered them out of the Hands of