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A19548	A sermon at the solemnizing of the happie inauguration of our most gracious and religious soueraigne King Iames wherein is manifestly proued, that the soueraignty of kings is immediatly from God, and second to no authority on earth whatsoeuer : preached at Paules Crosse, the 24. of March last 1608 / by Richard Crakanthorpe ...	Crakanthorpe, Richard, 1567-1624.	1609 (1609)	STC 5979; ESTC S308	49,514	56

wantes and necessities of these Kingdomes Of these and such like particulars I will not now intreat though I could commend them by more then ordinary and vulgar report vnto you But that happinesse which I mentioned is an happie and glorious worke indeede of planting among those poore and sauage and to be pittied Virginians not onely humanitie instead of brutish inciuility but Religion also Piety the true knowledge and sincere worship of GOD where his name is not heard off and reducing those to Faith and saluation by Christ who as yet in the blindnesse of their Infidelity and superstition doe offer Sacrifice yea euen themselues vnto the Diuell This being the Religious and honourable intendment of this enterprise what glory shall heereby redound vnto God What Honour to our Soueraigne What comfort to those his Subiects who shall be the meanes or furtherers of so happy a worke not only to see a new BRITTAINE in another world but to heare also those as yet Heathen Barbarous and Brutish people together with our English to learne the speech and language of Canaan and next after their Hymnes and Alleluia●…es vnto God to sound forth the honour and happinesse of our Soueraigne not onely saying with this Queene of Sheba Happy are thy people and thy Subiects but happy are wee and others that were strangers to you yea strangers and aliants to God happy are we by thee and by thy wisedome And this be spoken of the second generall point which concernes the people and their happinesse by hauing Salomon a wise and prudent King to rule ouer them The third generall point concernes almighty God and containes a thankesgiuing to him for setting Salomon a wise King to rule ouer his people Blessed bee the Lorde thy God which set thee on his Throne The acknowledgement in this Queene of the true God of Israel of his Diuine prouidence and omnipotent power in placing Salomon in his owne Throne of his goodnesse and loue to Israel whom hee would establish for euer of his righteousnesse in that hee would haue his people gouerned by Iustice and Iudgement specially this her Religious thankesgiuing vnto God for this blessing bestowed on his people all these are so many euident demonstrations of her true knowledge of God of her loue to God and Gods Children of her sincere Piety and Religious seruing of God that though by Nature she was a Gentile and aliant from God yet was she by his speciall grace one of those Primitiae gentium which were ingrafted into the true Oliue and made pertakers of the fatnesse thereof and of those heauenly blessings stored vp in Iesus Christ. But I purposely omit all these particulers The onely point which I would now commend vnto you is what a motiue and prouocation this ought to bee for vs all to laud and magnifie the Lord for placing so wise and Religious a King ouer vs and all these kingdomes King Salomon was but a stranger to this Queene who yet as you see is so thankfull to God He so farre from being a stranger to vs that we may say as did the Tribes of Israel to King Dauid 2. Sam. 5 1. We are thy bones and thy flesh She being but a soiourner for a very short time in that kingdome could not long pertake the benefit of his instructions nor of peace and protection by his Iustice and Iudgement But we from our SALOMON receiue continuall influence of his Diuine both Sacred and Politicall Wisedome continuall protection vnder his sacred shield continuall tranqu●…lity vnder his most iust equall and wholsome Lawes both Ecclesiasticall and Ciuill How much more then should our mouths be filled with praises and blessings vnto the Lord our God And how Religiously should we say as she did Blessed be the Lord thy GOD which loued thee to set thee on his Throne I doubt not but for these blessings of the Lord often times in your priuate houses and Chambers ye sing Hymnes and Psalmes with a grace in your heartes vnto the Lord. But because for these publicke and extraordinary blessinges GOD lookes for publicke and extraordinary praises at our hands because we are now assembled in this place as at the Temple of Ierusalem of purpose to offer the sweet Sacrifice and Incense of our lippes vnto God and this day both before men and Angels to testifie our thanksgiuing vnto God our loue and loyaltie to our Soueraigne Let euery one of you prouoke stirre vp another and suffer me as one of the Trumpeters of the Lord to excite vs all and stirre vp your prepared hearts and Religious affections for all and euery of these blessings to laud and magnifie the glorious name of God and if it be possible by some extraordinary straine of our vnited thankes to pierce the very skies and giue an eccho to those Celestiall Quires singing Halleluiah Halleluiah honour and praise and glory be vnto God to the Lamb for euermore First for that aboundance of our continued and happy peace let vs say with the Prophet Praise the Lord O Ierusalem praise thy God O Sion for he hath made fast the barres of thy gates and blessed thy children within thee He maketh peace in thy borders and filleth thee with the flower of Wheat For establishing togither with this peace his holy Temple and Sanctuary among vs and in it the true and sincere worship of his holy name O that wee could expresse the like ioy as did the Israelites for their Temple which Salomon built and established among them All the congregation assembled therein the Leuites and singers of all sortes of Asaph Heman and Ieduthun being clad in fine Linnen stood with Cimbals with Vyols with Harpes at the East end of the Altar and with them an hundered and twenty Priests blowing with Trumpets they were all but as one man and made but one sound to be heard in praising the Lorde 2. Chron. 5 12 13. But because the pompe and beauty of the second Temple is euen as nothing to the first let vs yet with the best Trumpets of our hearts and tongues and with all our most solemne Instruments of musick sing that Psalme of Thanksgiuing which they then did vnto God Praise the Lord for he is good and his mercy indureth for euer Praise the Lord. Like ioy and thankesgiuing let vs all shew for the Arke of the Lord which by the meanes of our SALOMON according to Gods owne ordinance is established on those holy Mountaines of Sion of which the Lord hath saide Heere will I dwell for I haue a delight therein Yea let vs for these blessings not onely sing and reioyce but with the Kingly Prophet euen shoute and daunce with all our might before the Lorde For which howsoeuer some Michols of Babylon or of the house of Saule shall scoffe and scorne and tauntingly say vnto vs. O how glorious are you for the Temple and for the Arke this day yet this is our comfort and shall for

Angell of the Lorde according to the aboundance of that admirable and Diuine wisedome wherewith God hath extraordinarily filled his Royall heart hath firmely setled and established the Arke of the Lord vpon those holy Mountaines of Sion on which euen from the most pure and primitiue dayes of the Church and from the Apostles themselues it had euer rested Which if their fancy might haue preuailed had long since not onely beene remooued from Sion but placed also as did the Philistims place it 1. Sam. 6 11. most basely and totteringly and disgracefully euen set vpon a Cart. In the happy establishing whereof though some fewe as the Eckronites haue bin iustly smitten of the Lord because they neither had right nor bare sincere loue to the Arke of God whose cure also hath beene sought that with most tender and fatherly care and compassion but such is the zeale of opposition and predominancy of Popularity and contentious humors that by no demonstrations of reason will they be perswaded no not when they are indeed perswaded by no authority will they be mo●…ed no not by that Sacred and Soueraigne which God himselfe hath appointed in many of those affaires to bee the very Canon and rule of right though some fewe of these I say may repine heereat yet shall it euer be the honour yea the felicity and safety also of our Soueraigne to haue those holy Aarons to support his Princely hands and this shall euer be reckoned as a speciall and as it is in truth euen a rare blessing of God vpon this Church and Kingdome by all those whosoeuer not in shew but in sincerity and truth wish to see peace in Sion and prosperity in Ierusalem I must in silence passe by many other and great blessings which by the meanes of our SALOMON are heaped vpon vs. But let my tongue cleaue to the roofe of my mouth if I forget that one most memorable happinesse which wee all receiued by him on that fift of Nouember That one day shall be for euer a most glorious Tro haeum and euerlasting Monument both of his most blessed and vnspeakable Wisedom and of the infinit blessings which by him we haue all receiued By it wee enioy not onely our Goods our Lands our Liuings our Liberty our Religion but euen this that we liue and breath this day we owe it to him and to his wisedome It was not the Loue nor Loyalty of his though most louing and Loyall Subiects which preuented that sudden and secret blow that should at once haue dispatched and blowne vp all It was not the Prudence and vigilancie of those thrice-Noble woorthies of King Dauid the Golden pillers of Israel though a most wise and a most Honourable Senate All may and all willingly doe disclaime the praise of that day The whole honour of that most wonderfull and withall most happy deliuerance must bee giuen first to thee O most glorious and most gracious God and next after thee to thine annointed alone Thou didst fill his hart as thou didst sometime the hart of thy holy Prophet Daniel with wisedome frō aboue to Discouer the deepe and secret thinges and to know what is in darknesse And he being full of thy Spirit to the endlesse comfort of this Empire and of all his loiall subiectes discouered indeede that darke and secret speech that darke and secret Vaut that darke secret and hellish treason so kept off that imminent blow which would haue proued fatall to him to vs and to all his kingdomes The happinesse of that day of thy wisedome O gracious King our Histories and Chronicles shal commend our Lawes and Statutes shall record to all eternity Euery Citty Towne and Village euery Church in this Land euery degree of thy people from the tallest Caeder to the very Shrubbe shall sing and sound foorth thy Noble praise And as the Israelites did in honor of Iosiah euery Tribe and family shall praise thee apart and their Wiues apart The royall and princely Tribe of Iuda shall prayse thee apart and the holy Tribe of Leuie shall praise thee apart The Nobility shall praise thee apart the Gentry Commons shall praise thee apart The Students of a●…professions shal praise thee apart the Men of Warre and the Men of Peace shall praise thee apart yea euery House euery Family throughout all Israell shall praise thee apart We in this age will speake of thy praise to our Children our Children to their Childrens Children vnto all generations And if it were possible that we or our posteritie could bee silent herein yet the Magnificent and princely buildings and Monumentes in these two famous and renowned Citties the very wood and wals of these houses stones in these streets euen with their dumb eloquence would sing aloud and sound foorth thy Noble praise all which in their kinds are pertakers of that happines which vnder thee and by thee we then all receiued Iudge now with your selues if besides many and great blessinges which I haue purposely omitted for these so great and indeed inualuable blessings which by the happy meanes of our SALOMON we doe enioy we may not all most iustly say to him as did the Queene of Sheba to King Salomon Happy O King are thy people and happy are thy Seruants Shall I further here adde whereof this Queene is silent in that King of Israel that the wisedom of our SALOMON is an happinesse not onely to his owne people and Subiectes but euen to strangers also The gracious beames there of like those of the Sunne spreading themselues to far and forraine Countries yea to the vtmost Coastes of this and the other world To omit many other and euident proofes hereof euen that which beeing the chiefe if time would suffer ought not to bee omitted that with such constancy and zeale himselfe holds forth a glorious Lampe of Piety and true Religion vnto all Christian Kings and kingdomes performing heerein that which Gods spirite hath noted as the greatest part of wisdome the more wise the King was the more he taught them knowledge caused them to heare But omitting these let the honourable expedition now happily intended for Virginea be a witnesse enterprised I say not auspicijs but by the most wise religious direction and protection of our chiefest Pilot seconded by so many honorable and worthy personages in this State and kingdome that it may iustly giue encouragement with alacrity and cheerefulnesse for some to vndertake for others to further so noble so religious an attempt I may not stay in this straightnes of time to mention much lesse set forth vnto you the great and manifold benefits which may redound to this our so populous a Nation by planting an English Colony in a Territory as large and spacious almost as is England and in a soyle so rich fertill and fruitefull as that besides the sufficiencyes it naturally yealds for it selfe may with best conuenience supply some of the greatest