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A56369 A sermon preached at Christ-Church, Dublin, before both Houses of Parliament, May the 29th, 1661 being the anniversary of His Majesty King Charles the Second, his most memorable and happy restauration / by the Right Reverend Father in God, John Lord Bishop of Elphin. Parker, John, d. 1681. 1661 (1661) Wing P434; ESTC R11730 18,948 52

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A SERMON Preached at Christ-Church DUBLIN Before both Houses of PARLIAMENT May the 29 th 1661. Being the Anniversary of his Majesty King CHARLES the Second his most memorable and happy Restauration By the right Reverend Father in God John Lord Bishop of ELPNIN DVBLIN Printed by William Bladen Anno Domini 1661. Thursday May 30. 1661 By the House of Lords ORdered that the Bishop of Elphin shall have the thanks of this House for his Sermon yesterday and that the Speaker doe give him the thanks of this House and that the Bishop of Elphin be desired to Print his Sermon Copia vera John Keating Deput Cler. Parl. 30. May 1661. By the House of Commons ORdered that Cap. Trevor Lloyd and Cap. Henry Nicholls doe from this House return thanks unto the right Reverend Father in God the Lord Bishop of Elphin for his Sermon Preached at Christ-Church the 29. instant being the day of his Majesties birth and return unto his Kingdome of England and to desire his Lordship that the same may be Printed and Published Copia vera Exam. p●r Philip Fernely Cler. Parl. Errat Pag. 28. l. 14. pro operation l. apparition 2. Sam. CHAP. 19. v. 14. And he bowed the heart of all the men of Iudah even as the heart of one man so that they sent this word unto the King Return thou and all thy servants THe People of Israel even in the infancy of their Monarchy and before the Tribes had unhappily stoop't to a divided Scepter had yet the hard fate like these later Kingdoms to be withdrawn from their due obedience to their natural Prince into a most horrid and unnatural Rebellion and under the splendid notion of Reformation to serve the basest ends of lust and ambition Absolom whose aspiring thoughts had swel'd his hopes to the expectation of a Kingdom begins to quarrel Davids justice and flatteringly bemoanes the people in the want of the executive part of it that although their matters were never so importunate of justice yet there was none deputed by the King to hear them 2. Sam. 15.3 The way to mount himself upon the svveling wave of popular affection he thought was not directly and at first to tax the King of want of justice in himself but his Ministers the want of able Ministers to distribute that justice which the King could not but necessarily bestow of which haveing once possessed the people they think none fitter to remedy the evil then he that first found out the malady and therefore are ready to joyn with Absolom in his ambitious option O that He were made judge in the Land that every man that hath any Suit or Cause might come unto him and he would do him justice 2. Sam. 15.4 'Tas been the sly practice of aspiring spirits secretly to bespatter his integrity whose office they cover and to wound the Prince through the sides of his Ministers and 't is the jealous madness of the people many times to believe that justice vvill be done rather by any than by him vvhom God has next unto himself principally intrusted vvith the distribution of it David indeed vvas a Prince vvho had so large an interest in the affections of his people that had Absolom struck point blanck either at the office actions or person of the King the people vvould have been startled as having their eares unaccustomed to any obloquies against the Lords Anointed he finds fault therefore first vvith vvant onely of persons deputed to hear them and vvhen once their eares are bored open though but to collatteral aspersions they vvill at length be made tame and obedient to more virulent invectives Absolom having thus planted a jealousie in the people of the vvant of Ministers under the King to execute justice doth at length falling from his first pretences though not first aim labour to six them in this persvvasion that the King himself vvas no friend unto justice and so consequently unfit to rule them To such a prodigious height of vvickedness do the small beginings of Rebellious evils grovv The people could not vvant justice as long as they had Darvid to judge them * Sal. de Guber Dei Lib. 7. qui regit hocipso quod regit judicat says Salvian he that reigneth even in that he reigneth judgeth and indeed vvhile David reigued in Hierusalem vve hear of no clamours of the people ecchoed forth for vvant of justice till Absoloms flattery avvakens their jealousies and then like peccant persons pursued onely by their own guilt they startle at each shadovv and false appearance But as soon as David is driven from Hierusalem the Metropolis of the Kingdom and dispovverd as to the execution of his Regal authority there they soon find the vvant of that justice vvhich before vvas but absent in a dream The actions and concerns of Princes should be tenderly dealt vvith and 't is dangerous to afford an open ear to any lessenings either of their Persons Actions or Office for by such vvayes disloyalty insensibly steals into the heart which does but too frequently break forth into open Rebellion in the hand For those vvhich at the first follovved Absolom vvent out in their simplicity saith the text 2. Sam. 15.11 simplicicorde vvith a simple heart they vvere men of a good meaning little dreaming then of ingaging against the person and life of their King they marched forth at most as 't is probable but as intentional Petitioners for a publick distributive justice I but vvhen once the svvord is unsheathed and that the people have in a personal though perhaps not cordial compliance bidden open defyance to that sacred power which they should have religiously obeyed they will rather by iterated acts of Rebellion seem to justify their first defection than by a timely repentance acknowledge their guilt so procreative is sin of sin that to justily the first they necessarily involve themselves in more Absolom having thus by slie insinuations and specious pretences stolen the hearts of the People and under the covert of Religion 2. Sam. 15.7.8 the pious payment of a vovv in Hebron gained an opportunity to assemble his confederates as the fovvlest actions are many times mask'd vvith the fairest pretences and 'tas been the hard fate of Religion to be but too common a cloak for Rebellion he then begins to take off the vizzard and plainly discover that 't is not so much David's vvant of Justice as Absolom's vvant of the Kingship is the religious cause novv to be contended for and therefore Achitophel vvho vvas his Mouth as vvell as Oracle delivers Absolom's old sense but in a nevv and plainer dialect I will smite the King onely and bring back all the people unto thee 2. Sam. 17.2.3 Had the ground of the quarrell been onely vvant of Justice in Darvid's Ministers as vvas pretended the designe me thinks should not have been laid so close to the person of the King But this vvas but pretended the other it seems vvas originally intended by the