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A40688	A sermon preached at the Collegiat [sic] Church of S. Peter in Westminster, on the 27 of March, being the day of His Majesties inauguration by Thomas Fuller.	Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661.	1643 (1643)	Wing F2465; ESTC R202167	12,852	30

PARLIAMENTI and he hath caused them to be cast both in silver and gold in pieces of severall sizes and proportions as if thereby to shew that he intends to make good his promise both to poore and rich great and small and we are bound to believe him Nor lesse faire are the professions of the Parlament on the other side no doubt but as really they intend them But these matters belong not to us to meddle with and as for all other politick objections against Peace they pertain not to the Pulpit to answer All that wee desire to see is the King re-married to the State and we doubt not but as the Bridegroome on the one side will bee carefull to have his portion paid His Prerogative So the Brides friends entrusted for her will be sure to see her joynter setled the liberty of the Subject 23. Come wee now briefly to apply our Text to the time And wee begin first with the King as this day doth direct us and truly he may bee called so emphatically for his goodnesse We may observe in our Saviour Mat. 11.7 that he spake nothing in the praise of Iohn Baptist whilst the Disciples of Iohn Baptist were in his presence lest perchance he might have incurred the suspition of flattery to commend the Master before the servants but the Text saith as they departed Iesus began c. to speak largely in Iohns commendation Seeing now the servants of our Soveraign are generally gone hence to wait on their Lord we may now boldly without danger to make them puft up with pride or our selves suspected for flattery speak that in praise of their Master which malice it selfe can not deny Look above him to his God how is he pious Look beneath to his Subjects how is he pitifull Look about him how is hee constant to his wife carefull for his children Look neare him how is hee good to his servants Look farre from him how is he just to forraigne Princes We may see in our catalogue of Kings that we shall scarce find any but besides the common jnfirmities attending on mankind were branded with some remarkable eye-sores WILLIAM a Conquerour but cruell RUFUS resolute but sacrilegious HENRY the first learned but unnaturall to his Brother STEVEN stout but an usurper HENRY the second wise but wanton RICHARD the first undaunted but undutifull to his parents Iohn politique but a great dissembler HENRY the third of great devotion but of small depth EDWARD the second beautifull but deboist RICHARD the second well natur'd but ill manner'd HENRY the fourth fortunate but having a false title HENRY the fifth a victorious King but formerly a riotous Prince HENRY the sixth Saint-like but very simple EDWARD the fourth fortunate but perjur'd to proceed no further But let malice it self stain our Soveraign with any notorious personall fault For to wish him wholly without fault were in effect to wish him dead Besides this consider him as a King what favours hath he bestowed on his Subjects and then that his curtesies might not unravell or fret out hath bound them with a strong border and a rich fringe a Triennial Parliament When God brought again the captivity of Sion then were wee like unto them that dreame Psal. 126. The Jewes would not believe their own happinesse it was so great so sudden But when wee consider so many favours conferred upon us by our King in so few yeares Ship-mony condemned Monopolies removed Starre-chamber it self censured High-commission levelled other Courts regulated offensive Canons declined burdensome ceremonies to tender consciences profer'd to bee abolished Trienniall Parliaments setled and the present indefinitely prolonged we have cause to suspect with our selves are we awake Doe we not dream Doe I speak Doe you heare Is it light Doe wee not deceive our selves with fond fancies or are not these Boones too big to beg too great to be granted such as our Fathers never durst desire nor grandfathers hope to receive O no it is so it is sure it is certaine we are awake we doe not dream if any thing be asleep it is our ingratitude which is so drowsie to returne deserved thanks to God and the King for these great favours And so much for the first the King 24. Next to the King comes my Lord the King and this peculiarly concerns the Courtiers and such Mephibosheths as eat bread at his table who under God owe their being to his bounty and whose states are not only made but created by Him These indeed of all other are bound most to rejoyce at their Soveraigns return being obliged thereunto by a threefold tye Loyalty to a Soveraigne duty to a Master and gratitude to a Benefactour except as some fondly hold that a letter seal'd with three seales may lawfully bee opened any conceive that a threefold engagement may the easiest be declined 25. Next we insist on his own house wherein this City is particularly pointed at For if London be the Jerusalem of our David then certainly Westminster is his Sion where he hath his constant habitation Here is the principall Palace of his residence the proper seat of his great Councell the usuall receipt of his Revenues the common Courts of Justice the ancient Chaire of his Enthroning the Royall ashes of his Ancestours the fruitfull Nursery of his Children You therefore the inhabitants of this City have most reason to rejoyce 26. But alas what have I done that I should not or rather what have I to do that I cannot having invited many guests now to a feast and having no meat to set before you I have called Courtiers and Citizens to rejoyce and still one thing is wanting and that a main materiall one the founder of all the rest the King is not returned in Peace Thus the Sunne is slipt out of our Firmament and the Diamond dropt out of the ring of my Text I pretended and promised to make an application thereof to the time and must I now be like the foolish Builder in the Gospel begin and cannot finish Own house that is the bottom of the Text but this stands empty My Lord the King and that is the top of the Text but he is farre off and the words which are the side-walls to joyne them together Hee is come home in Peace These alas cannot be erected In this case there is but one remedy to help us and that prescribed by our Saviour himself Ioh. 16.23 Whatsoever ye ask the Father in my name he will give you 27. Let us pray faithfully pray fervently pray constantly pray continually Let Preacher and People joyne their praiers together that God would be pleased to build up the walls and make up the breach in the application that what cannot be told may be foretold for a truth and that our Text may be verified of Charles in Prophesie as by David in History Excellently Saint Austin adviseth that men should not be curious to enquire how originall sin came into them but carefull to seek how to get it out By the same similitude though reversed let us not be curious to know what made our King who next to God I count our originall good to leave this City or whether offences given or taken mov'd him to his departure but let us bend our brains improve our best endeavours to bring him safely and speedily backe againe How often herein have our pregnant hopes miscarried even when they were to be delivered Just as a man in a storme swimming through the sea to the shore till the oares of his faint armes begin to faile him is now come to catch land when an unmercifull wave beats him as far backe in an instant as hee can recover in an hour Just so when our hopes of a happy peace have bin ready to arrive some envious unexpected obstacle hath started up hath set our hopes ten degrees backwards as the shadow of the Sun-diall of Ahaz But let us not hereat be disheartened but with blind Bartimeus the more we are cōmanded by unhappy accidents to hold our peace let us cry the louder in our praiers The rather because our King is already partly come come in his offer to come come in his tender to treat come in his proffer of peace And this very day being the beginning of the Treaty I may say he set his first step forward God guide his feet and speed his pace Oh let us thriftily husband the least mite of hopes that it may increase and date our day from the first peeping of the morning starre before the Sunne be risen In a word desist from sinning persist in praying and then it may come to passe that this our Use may once be antidated and this daies Sermon sent as a Harbinger before hand to provide a lodging in your hearts for your joy against the time that my Lord our King shall returne to his owne house in peace FINIS

A SERMON PREACHED AT THE COLLEGIAT Church of S. Peter in Westminster on the 27. of March being the day OF HIS MAJESTIES INAUGURATION By Thomas Fuller B.D. LONDON Printed for Iohn Williams at the signe of the Crowne in Saint Pauls Church-yard 1643. A SERMON PREACHED at the Collegiate Church of S. PETER in WESTMINSTER on the 27. of March being the day of his MAJESTIES Inauguration 2. SAM. 19.30 Yea let him take All forasmuch as my Lord the KING is come againe in peace unto his own House IT is as naturall for malicious men to backbite as for dogs to bite or serpents to sting see this in Ziba who rais'd a false report on his master Mephibosheth and accused him to David when he departed from Jerusalem of no lesse then high Treason as if in Davids absence he affected the Kingdom for himself Well was Ziba studied in the Art of slandering to charge home and draw his arrow to the head for in haynous accusations when the wound is cured the very scarre will kill and though the innocence of the party accused may chance to cleare the main debt yet the arrerages of the suspition will be enough to undoe him But I wonder not at Ziba's accusing Mephibosheth I wonder at Davids believing Ziba at the first information of a single witnes and him a servant against his master without further proof as hearing both parties to proceed to censure and fine Mephibosheth with the losse of his lands was a piece of unjust justice wherein David cannot be excused much lesse defended All that can be said for him is this That not David but Davids distractions passed this sentence so that being in feare and fright and flight it can scarce be accounted his deliberate Act once he said in his hast All men are lyars and now being on the spurre in his speed he believes Mephibosheth was a Traitor 2. But it pleased Gods providence that in this chapter the tide was turned and David returned to Jerusalem where Mephibosheth meeting him was admitted to speak in his owne behalf and makes a plain and pithy narration of the matter Innocence hath so clear a complexion that she needs no painting and a good cause consisting in matter of fact when it is plainly told is sufficiently pleaded He shews how that violenta detentio withheld him from attending on David being no lack of his loyalty but the lamenesse of his legs which might and should have been helpt had not Ziba hindred it on purpose in refusing to saddle his Asse And thus having wrong'd his master at home he then traduced him abroad transferring his own guile to make it become the others guiltinesse Soon did David perceive his errour and to make amends did order That the lands should be held in Copartnership betwixt them Mephibosheth have one moiety and Ziba the other Why speakest thou any more of thy matters I have said it Thou and Ziba divide the lands 3. This did not satisfie Mephibosheth not because it was too little but because it was too much Hee now needs nothing seeing his Soveraign is returned in safety and therefore desires that Ziba may have All according to Davids former appointment Yea let him take All This he did partly perchance to assert the Honour of David It should never be said that David said any thing and it was not done what grants hee made Mephibosheth would make good though with the losse of his lands It beares no proportion to the greatnesse of Princes nor stands with the statelinesse of States to say and unsay doe and undoe order and disorder againe whose first resolutions are presumed to be grounded on so good reason they shall need no revocation But chiefly he did it to shew the Hyperbole of his happinesse and Transcendency of his joy conceived at Davids safe return joy which sweld up him in full measure pressed down shaken together and running over Yet lest the least drop of so precious a liquor as this was being the spirits of loyalty distill'd should be spilt on the ground let us gather it up with our best attention and poure it in our hearts to practise it as it flowes from the Text Yea let him take All c. 4. The words contain a large Grant and a just consideration moving thereunto The large Grant let him Take All wherein observe the Granter Mephibosheth The Grantee Ziba and the thing Granted All i. e. house and lands and rents and profits and emoluments and obventions hereditaments with the appendants and the appurtenances thereunto belonging What the warinesse of modern men deviseth in many words and all twisted together few enough to hold in this litigious age wherein a span of land cannot be conveyed in lesse then a span of parchment see All these words summ'd up in this one word All in my Text let him take All Secondly Here is the consideration of the Granter which consisteth not in any mony paid or service perform'd by the Grantee but onely in respect of a generall good which God had bestowed on David and in him on all Israel Forasmuch as my Lord the King is come in Peace to his owne House 5. In prosecuting which parts I could desire that my discourse might have been open and champion to proceed in an even and continued style but my Text is incumbred with so many difficulties that my Sermon must rise and fall into hills and dales of Objections and Answers which Answers as so many fruitfull vallies shall afford us plentifull store of profitable observations 6. Object The first hill which we are to climbe is an objection if not within the walls yet surely in the suburbs of my Text Why may some say me thinks David doth Mephibosheth justice but by halfes For when his Innocence so plainly appeared the slanderer should have been soundly punished Thou and Ziba divide the land He should rather have divided Ziba's head from his shoulders Or of all the land leave him onely one Tree wherein hee should be justly executed as a land-mark to forewarne all deceitfull servants how they tread on so unwarrantable wayes What hope was there he would hereafter prove faithfull to his Prince that was false to his master Yea this was contrary to the fundamentall lawes of Davids family Psal. 101.5 Who so privily slandereth his neighbour him will I cut off Whereas Ziba here was so far from being cut off that he was both freely forgiven fairly rewarded for the malicious disservice he had done his master 7. Resp. I answer we must consider that Ziba was a considerable man in his tribe of Benjamin and probably might make a great impression on the people Besides great was his experience being an old Courtier of Sauls greater the allyance to him and dependance on him having fifteen sonnes and twenty servants All now officiously attending on King David at his return as it is in the seventeenth verse of this chapter Greatest of all was his will and skill to doe