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A93841 King David's case apply'd to King James and King William in a sermon preach'd at Christ-Church, Dublin, on the fifth of November, 1691 / by John Stearne ... Stearne, John, 1660-1745. 1691 (1691) Wing S5358; ESTC R42759 10,294 16

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King David's CASE Apply'd To King James AND King William IN A SERMON Preach'd at Christ-Church Dublin on the Fifth of November 1691. By John Stearne Curate of St. Nicholas within the Walls and Chaplain to the Right Honourable Sir Charles Porter Lord High Chancellor and One of the Lords Justices of Ireland If your delight be in Thrones and Scepters O ye Kings of the People honour Wisdom that ye may Reign for evermore Wisdom of Solomon VI. XXI DVBLIN Printed by Andrew Crook on Ormonde-Key and are to be sold by Elishal Dolson at the Stationers-Arms in Castle-street and by Robert Thornton in Capel-street 1691. A SERMON ON Psalm IV. Ver. 2 3 4. O Ye Sons of men how long will ye turn my Glory into Shame how long will ye love Vanity and seek after leasing But Know that the Lord hath set a part him that is Godly for himselfe the Lord will hear when I call unto him Stand in aw and sin not Commune with your owne heart upon your bed and be Still GOdliness supports the Throne and more sets off a Crown than all its Jewels it makes a King safe in the Protection of Heaven Strikes his Enemies with Terrour and in his Subjects raises an Expectation of many glorious Dayes under his blessed Reign Such Royal Vertues enrich'd the soul of Henry the VII Emperour of Germany that as a very faithfull Historian informes the world ab uno ipso laborantis Imperil modela speraretur it might have been reasonably expected that by him alone the whole Body of the languishing Empire shou'd have been restor'd to an healthful State And did not the many and great Military Civil and Religious Accomplishments well known unto more than the Christian World in the fam'd Atchievements of our present Monarch bear up the linking Hearts of all our Protestant Kingdoms with the justest Hopes of seeing one happy day all the Miseries that oppress'd or threatned our Church and State seasonably remov'd or prevented by his Successfull Arm And according to such an Expectation the careful Providence of God the All wise Disposer of Crowns and Scepters has been so signally display'd in a long Series of Mercies to him in carrying on and in compleating that truly Christian Work that a man must be either willfully blind in not observing or basely ungrateful in not acknowledging that his Royal Person was the Chief Instrument of God in that surprizing Revolution which is deservedly the Joy of the present Generation and which will be the Wonder of future Ages The sudden News of such a Deliverer's Coming into England on this memorable Day was I conceive to many as the Angel's Message was unto the Shepherds at our Saviour's Comlng into the World Good tydings of great Joy for as if he had been a greater Light made to rule the Day of our Deliverance he still grew stronger as he advanc'd and with his prevailing Beams soon dispel'd those Clouds which had long hung over our Heads making all black and melancholy round about Us. Yet as the inconstant Jews presently forgat God their Saviour and lightly esteemed Moses his Servant whom he had chosen to conduct them with Wonders towards Canaan how soon did too many repine at the forward and almost uninterrupted Approaches of their own Happiness and Slander the Foot-steps of their great Deliverer Such is the uneasy humour of some that they are always discontented under their Oppressions and yet always undervalue the relieving Hand so that neither a Popish nor a Protestant King nor yet a most merciful God can please them Such dissatisfi'd Creatures were the Men that both by secret and open Methods oppos'd our Royal Psalmist Tho' God had excluded Saul for his wickedness given his Kingdom to a Neighbour that was better than He and tho' David was anointed by Samuel at Gods express Command yet how many in the Kingdom of Israel joyn'd their Endeavours with Saul's Malice to obstruct David's just Accession to the Crown And when Saul was fall'n ingloriously on the Mountains of Gilboa how many labour'd to promote the Interest of his Family and to disturb King David in his Possession Not only Forreign Nations the Jebusites and Philistines the Moabites Syrians and Amalekites set themselves against him but as if there had been a joynt-conspiracy to cross the six'd Resolve of Heaven a considerable Number of the Jews comply'd with Abner's design to place Saul's Son upon the Throne This as many Judicious Expositers do conclude was the special Occasion upon which David compos'd the present Psalm In the first Verse he appeals to God as the Witness Judge and Defender of his righteous Cause gratefully owns his past Mercies to him in the Day of Trouble humbly prays for future and then in our Text addresses his Speech unto the Sons of Men by a double earnest Interrogation implying at once the greatness of his own Concern and of their Folly in opposing him How long will ye turn my Glory into Shame how long will ye love Vanity and seek after lies How long will ye think to deprive me of that Honour which God's Goodness has conferr'd upon me How long will ye look upon me as an Ambitious Usurper and expose me as such unto the scorn and contempt of the people How long will ye make it your Business and Satisfaction to contrive encourage and carry on such traiterous Counsels Designs and Plots against my Life and Crown as will most certainly prove vain Devices and lying Imaginations most grossly disappointing all your big Hopes of compassing my ruine in the end God has already often heard my Prayer and enlarged me when I was in Distress and therefore he will hear me when I call upon him hereafter to confound your Devices Be not therefore O ye Sons of Men any longer so bold and foolish as to persist in such unsuccessfull and and unjust Attempts but know assuredly that I am so far from ambitiouslly aspiring unto the Throne of Israel that God has qualifi'd me by his holy Oyl for the Government of that People over whom he hath wonderfully set me apart or in an extraordinary manner made me King that I may Act for himself for his Honour in promoting his true Religion in the Land and thereby advance the Happiness of all his People committed to my Charge Having thus acquainted you with the most probable Occasion of this Psalm and given you a very natural Explication of our Text in particular I shall not any further enlarge upon the words as relating to K. David and his Enemies either in Saul's or his own Court but raise from them one Proposition of more general concernment and fairly apply it to the Double Blessing which we ought to celebrate this remarkable Day Namely the great deliverance of our three Kingdoms from Popery by the timely Discovery of the Gun-Powder-Treason to the peaceful K. James the First and the great Deliverance of the same Kingdoms from the same misery by the seasonable coming of