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A40432	A sermon preached before the honourable House of Commons, at St. Margaret's Westminster, on Wednesday the fifth of November, 1690 being the anniversary thanksgiving for the happy deliverance of King James the First, and three estates of the realm, from the Gunpowder-treason : and also for the happy arrival of His present Majesty on this day, for the deliverance of our church and nation from Popery and arbitrary power / by Sa. Freeman ...	Freeman, Samuel, 1643-1700.	1690 (1690)	Wing F2146; ESTC R2149	10,052	36

Dr. FREEMAN's SERMON BEFORE THE HOUSE of COMMONS November 5. 1690. Jovis 6. Die Novemb. 1690. ORdered That the Thanks of this House be given to Dr. Freeman for the Sermon he Preached yesterday before this House at St. Margarets Westminster And that he be desired to Print the same And that Sir William Leveson Gower do acquaint him therewith PAUL JODRELL Cl. Dom. Com. A SERMON Preached before the Honourable House of Commons AT St. MARGARET'S Westminster On Wednesday the Fifth of November 1690. BEING THE Anniversary Thanksgiving for the Happy Deliverance of King JAMES the First and the Three Estates of the Realm from the GUNPOWDER-TREASON And also for the Happy Arrival of His present MAJESTY on this Day for the Deliverance of our Church and Nation from Popery and Arbitrary Power By S A. FREEMAN D. D. Rector of St. Paul's Covent Garden and Chaplain in Ordinary to Their MAJESTIES LONDON Printed for Ric. Chiswell at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's Church-Yard M DC XC A SERMON Preached before the Honourable House of Commons NOVEMB 5. 1690. PSALM LXXXIX 21 22. I have found David my servant with my holy oyl have I anointed him My hand shall hold him fast and my arm shall strengthen him THE Words contain in them God's gracious Promise to King David of his special and more than ordinary Presence with and Protection of him in the Administration of the Government he had called him to And certainly never had any person greater experience of it than David both before and after his coming to the Crown Witness his Deliverance from the Paws of the Lion and the Bear from the mighty Force of the uncircumcised Philistine from the Persecutions of Saul from the Rebellion of Absalom from the secret Conspiracies of Domestick Foes and the open Invasions of Foreign Enemies Sometimes indeed it pleases God for the Punishment of a wicked People to suffer a Righteous and a Religious Prince to fall by the hands of Violence as was the Case of the good King Josiah yet this is but rarely so for the most part such Princes may promise themselves Safety and Success from the Providence of God that God's hand will hold them fast and his arm strengthem them that the Enemy shall not be able to do them violence nor the Son of Wickedness hurt them that God will smite down their Foes before their face and plague them that hate them Three things are here to be considered I. The Person to whom the Promise is made King David II. The Promise it self viz. God's special Presence with him and Protection of him My hand shall hold him fast and mine arm shall strengthen him III. What are the proper Uses and Application of this Doctrine I. The first thing to be considered is The Person to whom the Promise is made King David whom the Text considers under a two-fold Character As a Religious King David my servant And As a Rightful King With my holy oyl have Ianointed him 1. As a Religious King David my servant Saul by his Disobedience had shewed himself unworthy of the Government and God's Favour He rejected the word of the Lord says the Text and thereupon God rejected him from being King and resolv'd to translate the Crown to another Family And amongst all the Tribes and Families in Israel he pitch'd upon David the Son of Jesse as the most fit and best qualified Person for it I have found David my servant concerning whom God gave this Testimony That he was a man after his own heart and that he had done that which was Right in his eyes A Good King is one who is no less the Image of the Love and Goodness than of the Power and Majesty of God who no less represents the Affection and Tenderness of our Heavenly Father than the Authority of the Universal Monarch whose Care it is That Religion flourishes and the True Worship of God be established That Justice be impartially administred That Vice be subdued and Virtue encouraged That the One be sham'd by his Example and punish'd by his Laws And that the Other Reigns and Triumphs under the Influence of both One who invades no Man's Property Whose Ox or Ass have I taken Whom have I defrauded Whom have I oppressed So Samuel when Supreme Magistrate of Israel justified his Integrity Who uses not his Power to ruine his People to undermine the True Religion or to enslave their Persons but to defend Both and to preserve them in their Rights and Liberties Who is truly Pater Patriae the Father of his Countrey having no distinct Interest from his People's and making Their Welfare His highest Glory 2. As a Rightful King With my holy oyl have I anointed him No Man can call in question David's Title to the Crown unless he will dispute God's Right to dispose of Crowns as he pleases for David was immediately Chosen by God and Anointed by his Prophet But this was peculiar to the Kings of Israel and Judah no other Princes can produce such a Patent for their Crowns That which comes the nearest is When God by a signal and wonderful Providence for some Great and Noble Ends to Save a Nation or to Defend his Truth or to abate the Pride and Insults of His and His Churches Enemies pulls down Kings and sets up Kings But this is no certain way of arguing Success does not always give a Title where it gives a Crown The ordinary Means of conveying a Right to Govern are Either Conquest in a just Cause The Election of the People or Hereditary Succession Ours is own'd to be an Hereditary Crown viz. Always descending to the next Heir unless it so happen that he be naturally or morally uncapable and that the Publick Good and Safety will be evidently endangered in his hands Here it leaps over not out of the Royal Line but to the next against whom there is no such Objection The great End of Government is the Publick Good and Safety This for the most part is bound up in the Laws and Constitutions of the Community and as all the Powers and Prerogatives invested by Law in the Prince or Head of this Polity are the better to enable him to execute those Laws and maintain the Common Safety so all the Oaths that are taken to him by the Subjects are also in Subordination and Subserviency to the Common Safety to which they were antecedently oblig'd and he as well as they sworn to preserve And therefore the Lords and Commons of England as is evident all along in the Course of our History have always lookt upon that Prince who went about by an Arbitrary Power in Contradiction to their Laws and Rights both Civil and Ecclesiastical to Enslave and Oppress them as one that had laid down the English Kingship or Monarchy and have made no Scruple on such a just Occasion to withdraw their Allegiance from him and to place another of the same Royal Line on the Throne of

Vigour what an universal Harmony of Affections what a perfect agreement of Councils and Endeavours inflamed the Breasts of all Men What a strange Folly and Infatuation blinded the Counsels of our Enemies What guilty Fears and Cowardise seiz'd their Spirits How all was brought about by a dry Victory without the expence of the Blood either of our Friends or Enemies We must conclude That God was with him of a truth and that it was he that made it to prosper III. It remains now only that we consider what are the proper Uses and Application of this Doctrine I shall name at present but these four And 1. What a sincere regard and esteem ought we to have for those for whom God is pleased to have so great and particular a concern The Scripture is very strict in injoyning Honour and Reverence to them we are commanded to fear the King to obey him to pay tribute to him all just and legal Power and Authority is not to be resisted this is the Ordinance of God and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation Wise and gracious Princes are so great Blessings to their Kingdoms that in the Heathen World their Subjects not only paid them the highest Honours during their lives but worshipt them too after their deaths They could not imagine that those who either by the invention of useful Arts or the institution of an excellent Government or by many noble Exploits and Deliverances had in a high degree obliged their Countries died like other Men they reckon'd they became Divine and were translated among the Gods and so chang'd their Allegiance into Adoration I mention this not for imitation but as an infinite shame and reproach to too many Christians who cannot find in their Hearts to make any other returns to their Princes for the innumerable Benefits and mighty Deliverances they at the peril of their Lives and Blood have purchas'd for them than Curses and opprobrious Language than meditating Ruine and Destruction against them What can we desire more that is not by the blessing of God upon their Undertaking restor'd and confirm'd to us Our Laws have recover'd their just Vigour and Authority our Rights and Properties are secur'd our Holy Religion safe our Lives and our Souls too if we are not wanting to our selves out of danger We feel indeed at present some Burdens and Taxes but are they any other than what are absolutely necessary for our preservation voluntarily impos'd upon us by our Representatives in Parliament And what are tollerable and easie when compar'd with the Slavery and Oppression we are freed from and the far greater Miseries we had just reason to fear were coming upon us We have nothing to complain of unless it be that the Government is too mild and merciful to them who so little deserve it Certainly they who so murmur and repine under this Golden Scepter consider not what it would be to feel the Iron Rod of French Cruelty and Popish Revenge 2. God's special Presence with and Protection of good Kings shews how vain and foolish a thing it is as well as sinful to conspire against them Never was there yet a Government or Governour that could give Content and Satisfaction to all its Subjects so long as there are Devils in Hell that delight in the Miseries and Confusions of Men and so long as there is Pride and Ambition and Malice and Revenge and Covetousness lodg'd in the Breasts of Men must Princes expect to meet with those who envying their Power and Greatness will be always contriving how to snatch it from them or make them uneasie under it some there are that affect a Change for Change sake and therefore desire to be rid of their present Masters onely that they might have new ones Others are for troubling the Waters hoping thereby for an opportunity to heal their lame Fortunes in them Others are against the Government because the Government is against them It 's an Enemy to some Mens Debaucheries and they had as live part with their Lives as their Vices and their Pleasures It s an Enemy to some Mens Profits and Honours they have lost something they had or they want something they cannot get they have no share in the Administration no Place of Trust no Post of Advantage in it and some Men can be true to nothing but their own Interests and because a Government does not serve their turn they are for another that will It s an Enemy to that which some Men call their Religion I mean their Superstitious and Idolatrous way of Worship and that State must not think to stand long if the Devil and the Jesuit can help it that does not fall down to their Dagon But in vain are all the Attempts of Malice and Treason against those who are compass'd about with God's Favour as with a Shield Good Princes are the peculiar Charge and Favourites of God He in an especial manner interests himself in their Safety and unless their Enemies are of God's Privy Couucil and can know before-hand that he 'll suffer it they can no more be secure of Success in their Conspiracies than they can be of being too hard for the Almighty Give me leave therefore in this case to apply the beginning of the 2 d Psalm that was literally spoken of David as well as figuratively of Christ Why do the Papists rage and the disaffected People imagine a vain thing He that sits in Heaven shall laugh them to scorn the Lord shall have them in Derision yet have I set my King upon my Holy Hill of Sion 3. God's special Presence with and Protection of good Kings calls upon us to pray for the continuance of it to those whom in his good Providence he hath set over us the Mercies God promises he expects should be fetch'd down by Prayer Now Kings being the main Instruments of Providence whereby God conveyeth his Favours and dispenseth his Justice to a People as we cannot expect to be happy and prosperous but by their means so we cannot expect that they should be a means of it unless by fervent and devout Prayer we engage the continual powerful Presence of God with them Not to invoke the Blessing of God upon Governours is to disown God's Government of the World whose Ministers they are And how can that People expect to be blessed by God who disown his Government There are none but must be sensible how much the welfare of this Kingdom is bound up in the Preservation of this Government In all likelihood our Religion our Laws and our Liberties will stand and fall with our Princes we are therefore highly oblig'd if not for theirs for our own Sakes to lift up our Hearts and our Voices to Heaven for them I hope we have not yet forgot the Day of our Distress what passionate Prayers we then sent up to Heaven to take pity on us And God was pleased to hear the Prayers of his People He rais'd us up a Deliverer