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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