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A56369	A sermon preached at Christ-Church, Dublin, before both Houses of Parliament, May the 29th, 1661 being the anniversary of His Majesty King Charles the Second, his most memorable and happy restauration / by the Right Reverend Father in God, John Lord Bishop of Elphin.	Parker, John, d. 1681.	1661 (1661)	Wing P434; ESTC R11730	18,948	52

themselves but justly slaves to an usurping povver Persons vvho could signe Letters of renevving obedience to day when as by excommunications denounced against him all that should adhere to him they had councermanded it the day before as if they intended to antedate their own apostacy and let the vvorld see vvhich is strange that their relapse was more ancient than their repentance of these things my eyes have been but too sad vvitnesses As for those that have constantly adhered to his Majesty and his interest as they have allready tasted of his Princely bounty and clemency so I hope they shall of your just care Consumetur nequitia peccatorum let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end but establish the just Psal 7.9 I remember it vvas the saying of that Noble person upon a publick occasion to vvhich some here I believe can bear vvi●ness vvith me that it was more honourable to suffer with the best of Princes than to live gloriously with the worst of men He verified this in his practice and constant adherence to his Master and that vvithout any sinister or by-ends but meerly conscience to God and duty to his Prince And I bless God he is novv return'd again return'd an example of Loyalty and constancy to posterity And I hope I may speak as vvithout suspicion of flattery so likevvise of offence this vvhole Nation may bless God too I am sure this Church may I am sure it does and as vve all bless God for and joy in his Majesties return so is our praise heightned and our joyes enlarged by his return vvith such Servants return thou and all thy Servants There remains one thing more and that is a pious cordial and thankfull remembrance of the most signal mercies of this day A day not to be passed over in silence but a day to be celebrated with the greatest expressions of gratitude and joy we can imagine Herodotus tells us Herodotus Lib. 9. that the Persian Kings had allwayes a standing officer with a memento for them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And indeed our own gratitude should be that standing officer to put us frequently in minde of the great matters of this day for the more ready performance whereof let me exhort every one of you in those words of the Lord unto the Prophet Ezek. 24.2 Son of man write thee the name of the day even of this same day Our Sovereign Lord King CHARLES the Second after twelve yeares expulsion from his Kingdomes returned to the possession of his Crown and Royall dignity this same day A day fit to be written not onely with a pen of Iron or point of a Diamond but with a Quill borrowed from the wing of some glorious Cherubim God himself has writ it with a beam of the Sun in such glorious and resplendent mercies that he that runs may read it Oh let us write it too write it upon our hearts in the indeleble Characters of pious and religious thankfullness The Children that are yet unborn and the generations which are yet to come shall bless God for this day this day which was the restauration of our King of our Church of our Religion of our Laws of our Liberties of all that we can call venerable good honourable or sacred This day has in it a double festivall 't is the day of his Majesties most happy Birth and Nativity and 't is the day of his Majesties most happy restauration very well expressed by the Act of Parliament for the perpetual Anniversary Thanksgiving on the 19. of May the most memorable Birth-day not onely of his Majesty both as a Man and Prince but also as an actual King and of this and other his Majesties Kingdomes I may say then with David Psal 116.12 this is the day which the Lord hath made Assuredly it was his doeing and it is marvellous in all men's eves Let every one then in a grateful acknowledgement of the blessings and mercies of this day say with David quid retribuam Domino what shall I render unto the Lord for all his benefits towards me Let us take the cup of Salvation and call upon the name of the Lord let us pay our vovves unto the Lord novv in the presence of all his people and let us all humbly implore the riches of God's mercy vvho is the fountain of all our joyes that he vvould graciously continue the joyes of this day unto us that neither vvenor our Posterity may ever behold the like sad confusions To this end let us pray that God would continue his Majesty upon his Throne the Church in her possessions Religion in it's purity the People in obedience and these three Kingdomes in a firme and durable peace For the better effecting of all this let us pray pray not from the lip onely but from the heart and spirit Vivat Rex let the King live let him live long let him live happy and lastly that the Soul of our Lord the King may be bound up in the bundle of life with the Lord his God let us pray fervently pray ardently pray constantly yea pray as David danced before the * 1. Sam. 6.14 Arke even with all our might Domine salvum fac Regem GOD SAVE THE KING Amen FINIS

message both for King and People by his return both were freed from those dangers and hardships which were and allwayes are the most certain attendants of warr And indeed his long absence made his return more wellcom both to himself and his Subjects it made his Crown sit less weighty on his own head and his Government less burdensome on the shoulders of his People Some are taught to prize blessings best in the want oft hem Would you understand the sweets of a soft bed and gentle repose Prov. 7.16.17 of a morsell of bread and a draught of wine ask not the effeminate person or rich glutton such as deck their beds with coverings of tapestry with perfumes of Myrrhe Aloes and Cinamon which * Amos 6.4 stretch themselves upon their Couches and eat the Lambs out of the Flock and Calves out of the midst of the stall that * Luke 16.9 fare sumptuously every day but ask the labouring man and weary travailer the hungry and the thirsty soul and they 'l tell you for our joyes are often heightned by our sorrows and we had not been many times so happy had we not been so miserable The very afflictions of this life make Heaven it self more Heavenly and in this sense too 2. Cor. 4.17 work for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory God is therefore pleased many times to let us taste the sweetness of one condition in the bitterness of an other and to change either vvhen he thinks fit for he who can turn the heart can at his pleasure likewise alter the condition Look upon King David but four Chapters before this of my Text and you shall see him fleeing from Hierusalem for fear of the Conspirators 2. Sam. 15.14.30 weeping as he goes up the ascent of Mount Olivet bare foot and his head uncover'd At Bahurim Shimei curses 2. Sam. 16.5.6 and casts stones at him and the heart of the men of Israel are generally after the Usurper as you may read 2. Sam. 15.13 Look upon him again in this and the preceding Chapter and you shall see his enemies defeated the pursuers pursued the Usurper hang'd Shimei begging pardon and the hearts of the people after their King inviteing him to that place and exercise of that authority from both which they had so lately driven him They sent this word unto the King return thou and as they manifested their Loyalty in this to the Ring so their kindness in the next to their fellow-Subjects And all thy Servants return thou and all thy Servants Which is the last thing in the Text of which very briefly And truly this kindness is well measured out by the line of Justice that they that shar'd with him in the sorrows of his exile should likewise taste of the sweets of his return This was according to S. Paul's pattern for better things a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 aconglorification for a copassion if we suffer with him that we may be glorifyed together Rom. 8.17 And the same Apostle tells the Philippians Chap. 1.29 Vnto you it is given in the behalf of Christ not onely to believe but allso to suffer for his sake And surely to believe in Christ is not onely an honour but allso an advantage but to suffer for Christ is a transcendent mark of favour And truly next to our sufferings for Christ and for Religion no suffering can be more honourable than for Subjects to suffer for and with their King Heaven it self looks upon such with an auspicious eye an eye of favour and regard What wounds they receive in such a cause are not brands but marks of honour a lim thus lost is not a want but an addition and to be look'd upon 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Theophyl in Gal. 6.17 as Theophylact in an other case as some Trophe or Regal Ensigne Well then may they be invited to return with the King who had thus hazarded their lives and left all to follow the King who had made good in their practice what that Gittite profess'd unto David 2. Sam. 15.21 In what place my Lord the King shall be whether in death or life even there also will thy servant be who had a love to his Person as well as a duty to his Office 't is fit that these all these should return return thou and all thy Servants And 't is much you 'l say that they did not except some some as evil Counsellours or unjust in the late management of their respective offices that so they might have put a better colour upon the face of their Rebellion No they are more ingenious in their repentance than so they doe not by any meanes labour to extenuate their sin or to make loyalty a crime in others when Rebellion is pardoned in themselves but without any exceptions return all return thou and all thy Servants And thus I have done with my Text I shall begge your patience for a word or two of application and so dismiss you Origen being to preach on that of the Psalmist's unto the wicked saith God what hast thou to doe to declare my Statutes Psal 50.16 wept over his Text instead of preaching and truly I may well weep over this Text instead of applying for that 's many times a passionate expression of joy as well as of sorrow and we may justly call up the most signal expressions to evidence the greatness of our joyes since this day my Lord the King came again in peace unto his own house I shall not lead your attention into the paralell and application as I did into the story of the Text through the many contrivances and managements of the Rebellion and shevv you hovv our Sovereign became an exile from these Kingdomes as David from Hierusalem this were to rake in the dunghill or to open Pandoras's box and so infection might flie abroad His sacred Majesty hath graciously buryed all these in the Act of Pardon and Oblivion and I shall not presume to unseal the Sepulchre but shall begin my application of the storie with the Text. His Majesty having early notice of the summoning of a Parliament to convene in VVestminster Aprill 25. 1660. and that the Lords were to be owned in that jurisdiction and authority which did alwayes belong unto them by birth-right and the fundamentall Lawes of the Land he sent two letters by a person of honour and integrity together with a generall Declaration to all his Subjects of what degree or quality soever to be first seasonably communicated to both Houses and afterwards to the whole Kingdom in which Letters and Declaration you may see such meekness such mercy and forgiveness as might easily convince the world that he had a spirit suitable to that of David's he svveetly mindes them of his own and the Kingdomes sufferings and then call's for their duty and assistance In his Declaration least fear of punishment to use his Majesties own words might