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A97115	God save the King, or A sermon of thanksgiving, for His Majesties happy return to his throne. Together with a character of his sacred person. Preached in the parish-church of East Coker in the county of Sommerset, May 24. 1660. By William Walwyn B.D. and sometimes fellow of St. Johns College in Oxon.	Walwyn, William, 1614-1671.	1660 (1660)	Wing W696B; Thomason E1033_10; ESTC R203977	18,961	42

I am verily perswaded that he would be so far from rebuking us for saying with them Luke 19. 38. Blessed be the King that cometh in the Name of the Lord that he would say to those Discontented Spirits who should murmure or be offended at us what he said to the Pharisees vers 40. of that Chapter I tell you that if these should hold their peace the stones would immediately cry out We will treat upon the words of the Text First as they are a Prayer or Supplication unto God for the King and they will afford us these particulars First the Supplicants And all the people shouted and said 2ly The Person supplicated for and that is REX the King 3ly The Person supplicated unto and that 's God 4ly The Matter of the Supplication and that is Ut vivat Rex that the King might live or might be saved and preserved In the handling of these particulars waving the Method propounded I shall begin with the Person supplicated unto and that is God A Jove Principium It is fittest that we first begin with HIM and indeed to whom could the people better addresse their Prayers for their King than unto God for ipse est qui dat salutem Regibus it is he that giveth safetie unto Kings Psal 144. 10. It is not His Guard about Him that preserves a King for unlesse the Lord watch over him as well as His Cities The watchman waketh but in vain Psal 127. 1. Neither can His Armies of Horse or Foot save Him For there is no King saith the Royal Psalmist saved by the multitude of an Host a mighty man is not delivered by much strength An horse is a vain thing for safety neither shall he deliver any by his great strength Psal 33. 16 17. Nor can the Love of His Subjects prolong his dayes the best that they can do is but salutare to pray for His health as here the people did it is God onely that can Salvare Give Him health and help in the time of trouble And therefore Let Kings of all men put their trust in the living God and that especially because they of all men seem to be overshadowed after a more Signal manner with the Salvation of Him who hath written on his thigh KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS Rev. 19. 16. And truly the King of K●ngs he is not onely by His Supreme power above them but also by His Love towards them and His Care for them which especial Love Providence and Care of His over Kings is remarkably manifested in the Scriptures by a threefold Injunction laid by God upon their Subjects for 1. God strictly injoyns them not so much as to Touch his Anointed Psal 105. 15. and that upon pain of Eternal damnation Rom. 13. 2. 2ly He injoyns them as not to lift up the least of their fingers so not to wag so much as a Tongue or to open so much as a Lip against them for Thou shalt not speak evil of the Ruler of thy people Acts 23. 5. And indeed what an high displeasure did God once actually shew against Miriam and Aaron for but muttering against Moses their Prince for Wherefore were you not afraid saith the Lord to speak against my servant Moses and the anger of the Lord was kindled against them and he departed and the cloud from the Tabernacle and behold Miriam became leprous white as snow the weakness of her Sex would not excuse her Numb 12. 8 9 10. 3ly As he injoyns not to lift up a finger or wag a lip against Them so likewise he forbids them to contrive so much as an evil thought of them Curse not the King no not in thy thoughts for the birds of the air shall carry the voice and that which hath wings shall tell the matter Ecclesiast 10. 20. and what 's that besides the birds of the air Why by that which is said there to have wings some Commentators understand the Guardian-Angels of Kings and Princes The Angels themselves shall discover Disloyal thoughts But how shall Angels know mens thoughts One answers that though the Angels naturally cannot understand the thoughts of men yet in such a Case there is Potestas Data a power given by God to the Tutelary Angels of Kings and Princes to understand the Trayterous thoughts of all such as bear disloyal and treacherous hearts against his anointed ones And as the King of Kings hath thus singularly manifested His Care over Kings Princes so hath he been pleased actually to manifest his vengeance against such Rebels as have risen up against them Witnesse Corah Dathan and Abiram whom the earth it self Swallowed up quick and became at once both their Sexton and their Grave Witnesse Zimri burnt to ashes in that very Palace whence he had driven his Lord and Soveraign 1 Kings 16. 18. and so notable a judgement indeed it was that wicked Jezabel her self took an especial notice of it for Had Zimri peace said she that stew his Master 2 Kings 9. 31. I might here be infinite if I should adde to these instances all those dreadful examples of Gods vengeance against such as have been Rebels against their Kings which with a wet finger I could easily fetch you from both Ecclesiastical and Secular Histories but I am to present you with a Sermon and not a Chronicle what hath already been said will sufficiently demonstrate That God hath a most especial and particular care in the Preservation of His Anointed and therefore to none so fitly may the people addresse their Prayers for the Life and Safety of their King as unto God and so much for the Person supplicated unto Next follows the Person supplicated for and that is Rex the King In whom 2. things are considerable 1. His Dignity 2. His Duty Melech in the Hebrew and Rex in the Latin tongue are derived from verbes which signifie to Rule and Reign and there is the Kings Dignity And the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the Greek is derived from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which sounds as much as the Foundation of the people and there is the Kings Duty I will spake severally to them both And 1. Of his Kingly Dignity and this derives its Excellency 1. Ab A'uthore from the Author or Institutor of it and that is God and therefore St. Peter calls it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Creature of God 1 Pet. 2. 3. and St. Paul terms it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Ordinance of God Rom. 13. 2. and God himself in the preseuce of Wisdom saith Per me Reges Regnant by me Kings Reign Prov. 8. 15. which Per denotes not a bare Permission but a Commission too it is not They Reign by my Sufferance but They Reign by my Ordinance and therefore St. Peter Couples these together in one Yoke Fear God Honour the King 1 Epist 2. 17. Many Irreligious people if they find or but Imagine sometimes any imperfection in their Superiors presently take occasion thereby to

Solaecismos Aulicos the Barbarisms and Solaecisms of the Court and that he might make a King to be but Good-man King at the best he would have Kings content themselves with lesse Revenues and fewer Attendants commending highly the Discipline of Laconia where it is strange to have one man pluck off anothers socks when he goes to bed and very much extols the example of Pelagius who first Discomfited the Saracens in Spain for that he had his house without any stately Rooms in it and was contented Good man with one and the same place for himself his fire his friends and his Cattel and thus like the Souldiers that Spit upon Christ These Sons of Beliab have Bespawled the face of Majestie * See more in Archbishop Bancroft Dangposit Nor of late years have the men of our times been more moderate than they for have not our Presses sweat and our Pulpits groaned under the very same pernicious Doctrins nay insteed of making them Mont Gerizims or Monts of Blessing have not too many of the Ministry made them Mont Eballs or Monts of Cursing when insteed of putting up their Supplications to God for their King they have not trembled to spend even in their Pulpits their direfull Curses and Imprecations against the Lords Anointed to the Eternal shame and Obloquy of our Church and the Protestant Religion which we professe As if they had laboured to the very utmost of their power to Wash and Rub off from the face of Moses that shining which God had more immediately imprinted upon it And so much be said for the Dignity of a King as it is first drawn ab Authore from the Author or Institutor of it and that is God but 2ly The Excellency of a King will appear in this That even God himself hath amongst his own honorary titles assumed unto Himself the name of a King for his stile as you have heard before runs thus King of Kings and Lord of Lords and his Government of the whole world is Monarchical for though there be three Persons in the Sacred Trinity yet there is but one God and consequently but one King everlasting Let then those Scribblers and Pamphleteers who of late with their Paper Squibs have so Oppugned and Dishonored Monarchical Government tremble to consider how through the sides of Princes they have struck at Gods own Monarchy over the whole world as far as their goose-quills could reach But 3ly The Excellency of Kingly Dignity shines in their Supremacy which is the most expresse Character of Himself which God can put upon a man and such a Supremacy St. Peter tells us is only in God and the King 1 Pet. 2. 13. for God is the Supreme Ruler of Kings and Kings are the Supreme Rulers of Men and in this very regard God himself the better to oblige our obedience to them as well as to himself stiles them Gods they have his Ip'se dixit to shew for it I have said ye are Gods saith God himself of Kings Psal 82. 7. It is very true that God hath said this of all Inferiour Magistrates as well as of Kings but yet Kings in regard of their Supremacy bear a more full and expresse Character of God than they Inferiour Magistrates according to the greater or the lesser Authority they bear in the Commonwealth have the Image of God drawn upon them like half Pictures of which some are drawn down to the girdle and some again but to the neck and shoulders but the Supreme Magistrate who is above all the rest and onely inferior to God himself hath the image of God upon him drawn to the full length and proportion as far as he is capable to receive it like those pictures which are drawn from head to foot and therefore with the greater Emphasis may God stile them gods And truly this very Appellation of gods may God well seem to have given them as well to mind Kings themselves of their Duty as to mind the people of their Dignity which brings me to the second thing considerable in this Word Rex the King and that is his Duty For since Princes and Magistrates are called by God himself GODS they should thence learn to behave themselves towards their inferiors like gods indeed and as they bear Gods name stand in Gods place and represent Gods person so they should imitate Gods properties and attributes And 1. They should imitate the Supreme God whose image they bear in commanding their Subjects nothing but what is holy and just for to threaten terrifie or intice men unto unholy and unrighteous actions Diaboli●est non Dei is the part of a Devil and not of a God 2. These Inferior gods should imitate the Supreme God in his sustaining and conserving power Now as God in heaven orders and disposes all things to the best and cherishes what is good and curbs what is bad by his providence continually preserves the world in general and every one in particular So these gods on earth must look to it not only Ne quid detrimenti Respublica capiat that the Common weal be not prejudiced but that also no one single man that is a Member thereof be oppressed it must be their care and providence to reward and incourage the good and to curb yea if need be to cut off the wicked And hence therefore in the Scriptures they are called Nursing Fathers Isa 49. 23. to expresse their tendernesse and indulgency towards their Subjects whom they are to look upon as their children as did Augustus Caesar of whom Macrobius writes Saturn l. 1. c. 5. that he carried such an intire and fatherly affection to the Common-wealth that he was wont to call it ●iliam suam his daughter and chose rather to be stiled Pater Patriae the Father of his Countrey than Dominus the Lord and Master of it because he endeavoured to govern it rather by love than fear 2. In the Scriptures Kings and governors are called Shepherds to mind them that they should be watchfull to keep out the Wolf that is to say whatsoever may be destructive to the Sheep committed to their charge for Princes are not to be like sharp-pointed Pyramids which are raised on high but support nothing but they must be like pillars seeing they are erected by God to sustain and uphold the whole frame and fabrick of the Church and State from Ruine and so these gods as God himself stiles them shall shew themselve rightly to be Dii averrunci Tutelares as so many Tutelar gods to the Nations and people over whom they reign for indeed Kings and Potentates are set over the people not as Comets to pour forth nothing but plagues upon those below them but as benign stars to cast down upon their inferiors Light Heat and Life 3. These mortal gods must imitate the immortal God as in the Dispensations of his providence so likewise in the Administrations of his Justice for the impartial and equal execution of Justice is the