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A33293 A sermon preached to a country auditory upon the eleventh of November being the day appointed for a solemn Thanksgiving for a late victory at sea, and His Majesty's safe return out of Flanders / by Samuel Clerke ... Clark, Samuel, 1626-1701. 1693 (1693) Wing C4497; ESTC R39372 17,355 33

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A SERMON PREACHED TO A Country Auditory Upon the Eleventh of November Being the DAY Appointed for a Solemn Thanksgiving For a Late VICTORY by SEA And His MAJESTY's Safe Return OUT OF FLANDERS By SAMVEL CLERKE B. D. LONDON Printed for W. Crooke And Sold by R. Taylor 1693. To the Right Honourable JOHN Lord CUTTS BARON of GOWREN My Lord TO whom could a Discourse of this nature I mean A Thanksgiving Sermon for the happy Deliverance of our Royal David from the hurtful Sword be more fitly Dedicated than to your Honour who so deeply shared in the Danger with His Majesty Accept of it Noble Sir not for its own Worth but as a Specimen of the Author's Sense of Your's and his Obligations to You. You by that of Vertue are arrived at the Temple of Honour Sir I beseech Almighty God that You may be ever in the Ascendent and that no malign Aspect may intervene at least to sully much less Eclipse Your Splendor till this Mortal shall have put on Immortality and You your Self become a Fixed Star in Heaven where is no Vicissitude or Alteration Thus Prayeth Your Honour 's most humble and Faithful Servant SAM CLERKE PSALM CXLIV Verses ix x. I will sing a new Song unto thee O God upon a Psaltery and an Instrument of ten Strings will I sing praises unto thee It is he that giveth Salvation unto Kings who delivereth David his Servant from the hurtful Sword HAving but heard these Words read there is scarce any One of so shallow a Capacity but may conceive them pertinent and suting well with the Time and Occasion of this our present Meeting For is here not mention made of Kings the Salvation of Kings nay of one above the rest David in great Danger yet delivered and that from the Sword too All very pertinent and congruous God had many times and often delivered David but he insists here chiefly on that one that both to us is proper and peculiar the hurtful Sword Now with me I beseech you dear Christians Behold our KING a Pious and Protestant Prince the Servant of God Jealous for the Lord of Hosts Zealous for his Church and People like the Royal Eagle throwing Himself between Them and Danger Behold Him by God delivered wonderfully delivered from the Death-threatning Cannon and the hurtful Sword And so the Words read are no other than a Comment upon the Day at once pointing out to us both our Happiness and our Duty Our Happiness in the Preservation of His Majesty our Duty in returning God Thanks for it which to encourage us also unto we have a Royal President before us who upon the very same account even God's Salvation and Deliverance snatches up his Psaltery tunes his Strings promises a New Song I will sing a new Song unto thee O God upon a Psaltery and an Instrument of ten Strings will I sing praises unto thee See here the Subject-matter of this Song a Song of thanksgiving Of Thanksgiving For what What Mercy what Favour is the holy man so thankful for It was no other than the King's Safety Because God the Preserver of Kings had here delivered his Servant David from the hurtful Sword He therefore resolves upon a new Song of Praise and Thanksgiving This is the Substance of my Text And as of what was then with great Joy sung by Israel so of what this Day we are called to Upon the receipt of any new Mercy God shall not load David with his Mercies but the Heavens shall Resound with his grateful Praises and Acknowledgments I will sing a new Song unto thee O God upon an Instrument of ten Strings will I sing praises unto thee He it is that giveth Salvation unto Kings who delivereth his Servant David from the hurtful Sword In which Words we have these Considerables 1. Here is Salvation given a Deliverance wrought 2. To or for whom To Kings in general to David in particular 3. By whom viz. by God 4. Here is the Return made by David both in behalf of himself and others I will sing c. Take the Whole summ'd up in two Theorems or Doctrinal Propositions 1. All Kings and under God's immediate Care and Protection but above all good Ones Or rather thus God giveth Salvation unto Kings in general but his Servants such as David was he delivereth in an especial manner He it is that giveth Salvation unto Kings who delivereth David his Servant from the hurtful Sword 2. Those that are thus delivered by him should praise God and be thankful to him I will sing a new Song unto thee O God upon a Psaltery and an Instrument of ten Strings will I sing praises unto thee In the discussing of which for my more methodical proceeding I shall speak to these severals 1. That God giveth Salvation to Kings in general with the Reasons why and manner how he effects it I shall descend 2ly to Particulars and make it good in David the Servant of God in my Text. 3ly In our Royal David King William in the Day 4ly I shall speak briefly to my Second Proposition And lastly I shall close up all with a seasonable Application To clear the Thesis That God giveth Salvation to Kings in general I shall proceed by a Threefold Gradation 1. Shewing That God giveth Salvation 2ly That he giveth Salvation unto Men above other Creatures And 3ly To Kings above other Men. 1. To give Salvation is so congruous to the Divine Nature that God claims it to himself as his Native Property and Peculiar Isa 43.11 I even I am the Lord and besides ●e there is no Saviour I even I am the Lord This redoubled I is emphatical and exclusive And besides me there is no Saviour They are but gross Idolaters that put their trust in Man Or with the deluded Papists set up for Saviours the Saints departed It is worth our Note what Ferdinand King of Arragon sending his Son against the Florentines spake to him Victoria mihi crede non hominum disciplinis nec industria comparatur sed Dei Optimi Maximi benignitate arbitrio Believe me Son Victories are not gotten by Art or Industry but given of God If we look into the Prophecy of Jonah what we meet with Chap. 2.9 may be said to be the Argument of the whole Book and might have concluded every Chapter therein viz That Salvation is of the Lord. The Mariners saith the R. R d. Bishop King in his Lectures on that Prophet might have written upon their Ship instead of Castor and Pollux Or the like Device Salvation is the Lord's The Ninivites might have written upon their Gates Salvation is the Lord's And whole Mankind whose Cause is pitied and pleaded by God against the hardness of Jonah's Heart might have written in the Palms of their Hands Salvation is the Lord's It is the Argument of both the Testaments the Staff and Supportation of Heaven and Earth They would both sink and all the Joynts be severed if the