soles of their feet to dry up all the rivers of besieged places Isa 38.24 25. and said By the multitude of my Chariots am I come up to the heighth of the Mountain to the sides of Lebanon and I will enter into the heighth of his border and the forrest of his Carmel then did God but hiss for the flie as it is in the Prophet call up from Scotland a small Isa 7.18 inconsiderable and despised number and with them wrought this great Salvation Exod. 15.3 6. The Lord is a man of war the Lord is his name Thy right-hand O Lord is become glorious in power thy right-hand O Lord hath dashed in pieces the enemy And though there were several loyal attempts made before and some of them probable enough to effect deliverance for us yet did the all-wise God suffer them to be all broken and frustrated happily that he might fool earthly wisdom and by staining the beauty of all creature-excellency take the whole glory of our deliverance to himself that he might give us cause with admiration and amazement to say Thon settest a Crown of pure gold on his head A word of Inference and I ha' done 1. If God set the Crown on the King's head then what wretched impudence is it in any to dare to think much more to attempt the taking it off It is the very acting of that fancy of the Poets of the Giants fighting against Heaven Nothing but Hell is ill enough to own such an audacious presumption a most detestable and monstrous impiety 2. If God set the Crown on the King's head let us set our hearts on the King As Samuel said to Saul 1 Sam 9.20 On whom is all the desire of Israel is it not on thee and on all thy fathers house Prize him as the loyal men of Judah did their King David Thou art worth ten thousand of us Give unto Cesar the things that are Cesar ' s. Geneva Bibles wrong the King Give did I say it is not so proper though some like that Translation better 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is the word render pay it is his due Rom. 13.7 Render him his due Tribute as the Apostle calls it the Tribute of our persons our purses our tongues our hands our hearts Make honourable mention of him when we speak of him Bern. I and we must Sentire sublimiter too saves the Father think highly of him Do not take up any unworthy reports nor entertain any unhansome suspicion of him Do but remember how dear we have paid for our jealousies and I 'le say no more of that To draw to a conclusion Nothing now remains but Prayers and Praises 1. Prayers to him that setteth the Crown of pure gold on the King's head that he will please there to fix Psal 89.20 21 22. and keep it That as he hath found David his servant and anointed him with his holy oyle so he will establish his hand with him and let his arm strengthen him that the enemy may not exact upon him nor the son of wickedness hurt him That God who watched over him Psal 105.13 15. and charged his providence with him when he went from one Nation to another from one Kingdom to another people Psas 140.12 and suffered no man to touch his Anointed will still deliver him from the evil man and preserve him from the violent man which imagine mischief in their heart Psal 18.47 48. and continually are gathering together for War That he will subdue the people under him and lift him up above those that rise up against him V. 6.7 hujus Ps That he will make him exceeding glad with his countenance and the King trusting in God through the mercy of the most high Psal 7◠9 Psal 132.18 he may not miscarry That his enemies may lick the dust and be cloathed with shame but upon himself his Crown may flourish And blessed be God our prayers for him may come out of our Closets again and be put up in the Congregation It is sad to think how he was persecuted out of the very prayers of his people And these Prodigious Reformers would needs have our duty to be our crime A duty we owe to all to Kings most of all and was never forbidden by any but where They and Satan had command How well their interdiction to pray for the King can consist with that Apostolical injunction 1 Tim. 2 1. to pray for Kings and for all that are in authority let the world judge unless these New Modellers can pretend to a power of regulating the Rule it self and to deal with the Royal Law as they sometime did with the Laws of the Kingdom But we shall leave them to him who hath 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the sharp Sword with two edges to avenge the affronts and injuries done to his own truth 2. Praises Let us end with them Praise is the great duty of this day Psal 44 8. In God let us boast all the day long and praise his name for ever Exod. 15.1 2 7. Sing unto the Lord for he hath triumphed gloriously The Lord is our strength and song and he is become our salvation In the greatness of thine excellency thou hast overthrown them that rose up against thee Psal 148.13 And therefore Let us praise the name of the Lord for his name alone is excellent his glory is above the Earth Psal 150.1 and Heaven Praise God in his Sanctuary praise him in the firmament of his power You of the Magistracy Praise him in the heighths Vers 2. praise him for his mighty acts praise him according to his excellent greatness You of the Souldiery Psal 149.6 Let the high praises of God be in your mouths and a two-edged sword in your hands You of the Commonalty Psal 29 1. 2 9. Give unto the Lord glory and strength give unto the Lord the glory due unto his Name in his Temple let every man speak of his honor for the Lord taketh pleasure in his people Psal 149.4 Psal 29.11 Psal 64.9 he will beautifie the meek with salvation The Lord will give strength unto his people the Lord will bless his people with peace Let all men fear and declare the work of God and wisely consider of his doings Let us all praise him till Earth emulates Heaven where they are all praises Let them shout for joy and be glad Psal 35.27 that favour our Righteous Cause yea let them say continually Let the Lord be magnified which taketh pleasure in the prosperity of his servants Because thou hast been our help Psal 63.4.7 therefore in the shadow of thy wings will we rejoice Thus will we bless thee while we live and lift up our hands in thy Name And when mens tongues cannot reach it let us borrow of Angels Luk. 2.13.14 and join with the heavenly Host praising God and saying Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace good-will towards men And that our praises may come in a good place and our thankfulness follow our mercies nearer than ordinary Let them be Mental and Monumental 1. Mental Keep in mind the works of God Let not that complaint of Nehemiah come in against us Neh. 9.16 17. That we dealt proudly and hardned our necks and hearkned not to his commandments And refused to obey neither were mindful of the wonders that he did among us Let not that of the Psalmist be charged upon us That we sang his praise Psal 106.12 13 21. and soon forgat his works That we forgat God our Saviour who had done great things for us To remember mercies is but a cheap piece of thankfulness 2. Monumental Erect Trophees and set up Memorials of our deliverance Psal 45.4 5 6 7. Let one generation praise his works to another and declare his mighty acts Let them speak of the glorious honor of his Majesty and of his wonderous works Let men speak of the might of his terrible acts and declare his greatness Let them abundantly utter the memory of his great goodness and sing of his righteousness Propagate our deliverance to infinite posterity Hide it not from our children Psal 78.4 and let them shew the generations to come the praises of the Lord and his strength and his wonderful works that he hath done Num. 23.23 According to this time it shall he said of Jacob and of Israel what hath God wrought Exod. 12.14 17. Let this day be repeated annually it is a day to be unto us for a memorial to keep it a feast unto the Lord throughout our generations to observe it in our generations by an Ordinance for ever Psal 102.18 Let it be written for the generations to come that the people which shall be created may praise the Lord Psal 111.4 That merciful and gracious Lord who hath so done his marvellous works that they ought to be had in remembrance Psal 136.23 Who remembred us in our low estate brought back his banished and hath all his life prevented him with the blessings of goodness and this day set a Crown of pure gold on his head Now unto the King eternal 1 Tim. 1.17 immortal invisible the only wise God be honor and glory for ever and ever Amen FINIS
GODS GOODNESSE IN Crowning THE KING Declared in a SERMON In the Church of Kingston upon Hull on the happy day of the Coronation of His Sacred Majesty CHARLS the SECOND April the 23d. 1661. By EDWARD BOTELER sometimes fellow of St. Mary Magdalen Colledge in Cambridge and now Rector of Wintringham in the County of LINCOLN Horat. Carm. li. 4. Od. 5. Sic desideriis icta fidelibus Quaerit patria Caesarem LONDON Printed for G. Bedâ—l and T. Collins and are to be sold at their Shop at the Middle Temple-Gate in Fleet street 1662. To the Right Honourable JOHN LORD BELLASSYSE Baron of Worlaby Lord Lieutenant of the East-Riding of York-shire and Governour of His MAIESTIES Garison and Forts of Kingston upon Hull My Lord THESE Notes were taken in your Lordships Garison and threatned to be brought before you in case I would not promise they should be forth-coming and engage for their appearance I did so and I here humbly present them for their trial If upon their examination your Lordship shall find them guilty of any thing like Heterodox or Disloyal let them be committed to Vulcan who allows papers no Bail But if their integrity shall appear I humbly beg your Lordships pass that they may go abroad under your honorable name For now every one is talking of their preferments I would gladly the world should know mine which is to be My Lord Your Lordships most humble and most devoted servant E. BOTELER To the Right Worshipful CHRISTOPHER RICHARDSON Esq MAYOR Of the Town of Kingston super HVLL AND To the Aldermen his Brethren who continued faithful during the late Defection AND To the Officers Burghers and Free-men that fear God and honour the King in that Corporation SIRS WE reade in that Reign Speed's Hist B. 9. ch 18. p. 705. and no Reign of Edward the fifth of a juggling Divine called John Shaw a man of more fame than learning sayes the story and of less conscience than either that he preached away his credit with the people and lost his honesty by decrying the Title of his lawful Prince and magnifying the pretence of Richard the then Protector Foecunda culpae Secula Hor. Car. l. 3. Od. 6. But our Times big with mischief have brought forth a whole generation of such Changlings Creatures that would cry up Richard Protector and Oliver Protector and any Protector that would protect them in other mens Livings and their own Sorceries and Seditions Things sitter for Steeples than Churches as serving only to shew which way the wind stands having Ephemeram Religionem as Beza sayes of Baldwinus every day a new Religion It is all I shall say for this poor piece that it is honest Psal 45 1. My heart indited a good matter when I spake of the things which I made touching the King the Anointed of the Lord the rightful King declared so by the joint suffrages of Heaven and Earth And my comfort is I never spake for any other never worshipped any Calf of the peoples making never bowed to any golden image never plaid the Advocate for ill-gotten greatness nor durst misplace the royal and renowned names of David and Solomon upon any proud and inglorious Usurper So that you need not shame to share in the Patronge of this Sermon it is made Publick at your command let it be made passable by your encouragement Some of the male-contented Faction have been as unhansome as they durst in their discourses of it it is no more than I looked for Psal 45 5. Gods arrows are sharp in the heart of the Kings enemies and no wonder then if their madness make them run over at mouth You were pleased to treat it more ingenuously and have got this requital that in your candid reception of it you have spoken your own Loyalty And give me leave to tell you to your honor those acclamations and those expressions of joy which came from your hearts and sate upon your countenances on that day have given the world such an occount of you that you have secured your credit with the Ages to come and sweetned the name of your Town which before was ill-sented all the Nation over May this opening your hearts in some good measure compound for the shutting your gates May your Town a long while alas torn in pieces by Pulpit-Granado's now at length be as Hierusalem Psa 122 3 Vers 6 7. a City that is at unity in it self Let them prosper that love you Let peace be within your Walls and plenteousness within your borders Psal 144.12 That your sons may grow up as young plants and that your daughters may be as the polished corners of the Temple Vers 13. That your Garners may be full affording all manner of store Vers 14. That there be no decay no leading into captivity and no complaining in your streets Isa 23 8. That your Merchants may be Princes and your Trafiquers the honorable of the Earth Ezek. 27.25 That the Ships may sing of you and you may be made very glorious in the midst of the Seas May your happiness out-measure your hopes and your welfare exceed all possible votes of Your most obliged servant E. BOTELER In Concionem politissimam ad Excellentissimum Authorem Dominum Edoardum Botelerium NOn pius è Rostris furor hic denunciat arma Clamat intrepidè Sit maledicta Meros Non hîc Stentoreâ celebratur voce Farellus Alcarona tibi nullus habetur honos Christiadûm namque arma Preces fruitur patiendo Non vi non armis sacra serenda fides I fuge ferratâ Bellonae casside tecta Relligio tantis prodigiosa malis At tandem nostris tu gratior advenis oris Pax redit auspiciis dum Botelere tuis Secula dum renovas depingens aurea rursus Tempora foelicis flumine Rhetorices Dum Caáuciferi sic polles arte loquentem Ut te Battus amet nec sua verba crepet Scilicet haud melius citharâ divinior Orpheus Advocat in Thebas saxa animata suas Quà m tua divinae revocat facundia linguae Errantem eloquio ferrea corda domas Reddis Angligenis Regem redduntur ipsi Regi dum clarum dat diadema Deus Ex Ariadneo regum nam ducta corona Sydere grande Jovis non leve plebis opus Reddita Hullae sibi tandem dum Rostra perornas Quaeque Rebellis erat Regia rursus erit Amicissimo meritissimo viro accinebat H. CORBET M.D. In concionem Die Regio Kingstoniae super Hull Reverendo Viro D. Edoardo Botelerio Rectore Wintringhamiensi habitam ANglica Regales visunt Capitolia pompae Atque triumpham is vox sonat alma Ducis Sceptra tenet mollitque animos Rex Carolus iras Temperat hunc laetum dicite sêcla diem Ad restim nestrae redeunt cum res fera tellus In Chaos antiquum jam ruitura viget Discordes animos concordi pace ligavit Amnestia boni Regis ira
fugit Nulla manet frontis unbecula nulla minarum Vox hec placato quis miser esse potest Nuncius ut Regis gratus Caducifer alti Praeco Dei nâ—bis en Botelerus adest Tu facunde tuà formâsti voce Rebelles Hinc parere placet dispicet inde nefas Et nos supplicitèr prosternimur eccè Leoni Pugna suum sinem procidit hostis habet Non nostri juris suimus Kingstonia inde Aâ—â—â—tu Regis Regia Villa sumus Edicto astautes arrectis auribus atque Tangamus proni regia sceptra manu Carolus Ille Deus nobis haec otia fecit Rex vivat vivat secula laeta ferat Ingeniose lyriâ perge incantare rebelles Artibus ingenuis ingeniose lyrae JO. SHORE Regiae Scholae apud Hullenses Hyperdidascalus Ad virum spectatissimum Dominum Edoardum Botelerium de Concione ejus in Inauguratione Serenissimi Regis Caroli secundi Kingstoniae super Hull habitâ Mensis Aprilis die 23. 1661. MAgnum vade liber Monumentum parve diei Quem nos Miramur fecit ipse Deus Cujus tu pompam sêclis Memorato futuris Vivus dum pereunt caetera testis eris Rege Coronato Nostri Spectacla triumphi Te sine tot vacua signa caduca forent Sed tu perpetuas solennia nostra trophaea Kingstoniaeque palám gaudia plena refers Splendida succincté magnalia Regis adumbras Plurima sic cives facienda doces Furca scelus capiat malesanum resteque dignum Quem tua non reducem pagina compta dabit Aurea subjectis sis semper regula fidis Quâ tuto possint vivere quâque mori Tu simul Hulla fidem quam debes Regia Regi Praestare hinc disce nominis esto memor JOHANNES CATLYN Scholae publ Hullensis Hypodidascalus To my dear Friend Mr EDWARD BOTELER Upon his Excellent SERMON SIR YOV have redeem'd our Pulpit from the Crimes Faction and Treason in those worser times Had stain'd it with and let them clearly see The diff'rence betwixt that and Loyalty Enforc't by such good Language and just Right The rigid Presbyter's your Proselyte Gain'd by this pow'rful Sermon all confess They ne'r saw beauteous Truth in richer Dress Give us more Sermons then and we shall own Though we Keep Guards yet you will take tho Town F. W. An Officer in the Garison of Hull GODS GOODNESSE IN Crowning THE KING PSAL. 21.3 For thou preventest him with the blessings of goodness thou settest a Crown of pure gold on his head WE seem this day to be in a condition much like that of the Disciples at the same time posed with and possessed of that incredible kind of truth of the Resurrection of whom it is said That they believed not for joy Luk. 24.41 and wondered We have lived to see a Day would have puzzeled an active faith to look for and considered in all its circumstances do not yet without some pleasing kind of difficulty believe it though we see it A matchless day second to none unless that which the Scripture saith knew no equal Josh 10.12 13 14. when Joshuah commanding in Heaven and Earth both at once gave check to the Sun and put that Giant to a stand in the face of the amazed World We may say this day as the four Lepers surprized with joy at the sudden vanishing and disappearance of the Syrians Army 2 King 7.9 This day is a day of good tidings Luk. 19.40 and we should not do well to hold our peace Should we hold our peace as our Lord said to the Pharisees troubled at the triumphing of the Disciples the stones would immediately cry out Stones and timber and all would cry out upon us for our great ingratitude Some of that Leaven we have still it is to be feared or worse some that are scarcely pleased with the pomp and splendor the joyes and acclamations of this day Since there have been Kings there have been such At Saul's inauguration when the people shouted and said God save the King the men whose hearts God had touched 1 Sam. 10.24 26 27. went with him but the children of Belial despised him 2 Sam. 18.32 Let such enemies of my Lord the King and all that rise against him to do him hurt be as that young man Absalom But Go forth Cant. 3.11 O ye daughters of Zion and behold King Solomon with the Crown wherewith his Mother Crowned him in the day of his Espousals and in the day of the gladness of his heart The King shall joy in thy strength O Lord V. 1. hujus Ps and in thy salvation how greatly shall he rejoice Thou hast given him his hearts desire and hast not with-holden the request of his lips For thou preventest him with the blessings of goodness thou settest a Crown of pure gold upon his head Before we come to the Text Method commands me to disingage it from some connexion And that must be done by casting a glance it shall be but a glance on the foregoing Psalm It is spent in prayer for the King was pen'd by David and by him committed to the Prefect of his Musick as a Form to solicit God with for his preservation and deliverance in troublous times and dayes of danger This is evident to any that reads the Psalm whose close is for we cannot spare time to look further Save Lord let the King hear us when we call Or as the Seventy two Interpreters 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 With which agree the Arabick Ethiopick and Apollinarius and is conceived by the Learned Doctor Hamond Paraphr on the Ps p. 118. of invaluable memory to be the place whence that petition in our Liturgy with the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 were taken O Lord save the King and mercifully heare us when we call upon thee And removing your eye from that Psalm to this you 'll find this to stand as a Taley to the former containing a Form of praise in return of the mercies there prayed for What the Church begged of God in the foregoing they bless him for the receit of in this Psalm They are none of those Orators whom affliction only makes so that never cry but under the lash nor lift up their hands to God but when he layes his hand upon them Such as the Prophet tells us of Lord Isa 26.16 in trouble have they visited thee they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them But even now when God hath remembred them they will not forget him Now they are past danger they are not past duty Now they are set as it were out of Gun-shot they set their hearts and tune their spirits to thanksgiving To beg of God when we are empty may speak faith in the heart but to bless him when we are full is the breathing of a most excellent spirit Our Text then is part of that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Triumphant Song sung by the Jews in acknowledgement of God's goodness to
not how to speak good enough of the name of that God Qui non petentibus solùm sed impaenitentibus non invocantibus sed provocantibus bonum largitur And this runs a paralel with that promise of the Evangelical Prophet Isa 65.24 And it shall come to pass that before they call I will answer and whiles they are yet speaking I will hear And this calls for that return of the Apostle Unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think Eph 3.20 211 unto him be glory in the Church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages world without end Amen Thou preventest the King in his Petition that 's one 2. Lorinus in Loc. Thou preventest him in his Expectation Et voâ—a vincit cogitationes He exceeds not only prayer but thoughts This is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 indeed exceeding abundantly above all when goodness is above both votes and hopes and imagination it self could not reach our mercies And certainly if ever God prevented the thoughts and expectation of King or people we are they Ps 126.1 When the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion we were like them that dream 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 So the Seventy two Interpreters With whom the vulgar Latin consents Sicut consolati as men comforted We are dead men revived Like men given for gone and restored As sick desperately sick persons strangely unexpectedly recovered from the confines of death and the grave to a pancratick habit and soundness of body Which best Interpreters conceive to be the meaning of that place Let us look back again for we can never look too often and with admiration enough on that memorable ingagement at WORCESTER There the shield of the mighty was vilely cast away 2 Sam. 1.21 the shield of the King as if he was not anointed with oyle There innumerable evils compassed him about There the wrath of the enemy was great Deut. 32.27 and the adversary behaved himself strangely and said Our hand is high behold we do prevail The enemy said Exod. 15.9 I will pursue I will overtake I will divide the spoil my lust shall be satisfied upon him my hand shall destroy him I will make his remembrance to cease from among men Deut. 3â— 26 Lam. 4 19 His persecutors were swifter than the Eagles of the Heaven they pursued him upon the Mountains they laid wait for him in the Wilderness And we thought nothing else Vers 20. Exod. 14.13 Psal 57.2 but that The breath of our nostrils the anointed of the Lord had been taken in their pits But see the salvation of the Lord which he shewed to him that day He cried unto God most high unto God that performeth all things for him And lo besides beyond above all expectation Vers 2. Ps 124.7 He sends from Heaven and saves him from the reproach of him that would swallow him up His soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the Fowlers the snare is broken and he is escaped Preventing goodness secured him against circumventing wickedness and he is alive as at this day Vers 6. Blessed be the Lord who hath not given him as a prey to their teeth Psa 18 46 The Lord liveth and blessed be his rock and let the God of his salvation be exalted Add to this his constancy in Religion from which neither as his own royal pen gives it us could ever move him though he might complain as David 1 Sam. â—6 19 They have driven me out this day from abiding in the inheritance of the Lord saying Go serve other Gods And add to this his return hither in safety upon the wings of his peoples votes and prayers after the government was unhinged and the old foundations so farre out of course and the New Modellers so strengthened in their wickedness as to dare to attempt the abjuration of his royal Person Isa 58.12 and Family To build the old wast places and to raise up the foundations of many generations and be called The Repairer of the breach the Restorer of paths to dwell in And we must needs confess that God hath eminently prevented all expectations with the blessings of goodness Let us learn then whether we owe and to whom to ascribe the peace the plenty the liberty the life the joy of this Day even to preventing goodness all Had it not been for that neither we nor possibly this place especially in this decorum and lustre had been standing here this day This was our wings and feathers our rock and refuge our walls and bullwarks our shield and buckler our strength and stay our light and our salvation This is that Tower of David builded for an Armory Cant. 4.4 whereon there hang a thousand Bucklers all shields of mighty men This is every thing to the King and to us in him Thou preventest him with the blessings of goodness That Zion's stones have been pitied Ps 102.14 and any have favoured the dust thereof so that she did not sink down into eternal and irrecoverable ruines That the beauteous Church of England scratched and torne by her own undutiful sons is not sitting solitary like that Widow in the Lamentations bemoaning her miseries and begging pity of Passengers Lam. 1.12 Is it nothing to you all you that pass by behold and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow which is done unto me wherewith the Lord hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger That we are not filled with the noise of the Warrior Isa 9 5. and Garments rolled in blood Ps 144.14 That we have no leading into captivity no complaining in our streets but our eyes see Hierusalem a quiet habitation a Tabernacle that shall not be taken down That the plots and conspiracies of unreasonable men if it be not unreasonable to call them men are discovered their purposes disappointed and their arm broken That we are not filled with bitterness Lam. 3 15. and made drunk with wormwood Fed with the bread of Affliction Isa 30.20 and the water of Affliction and our Teachers removed into corners That we are not compassed with gall and travel Lam. 3.5 7. hedged about and our chain made heavy That our necks are not under persecution Ch. 5.5 8. and we labouring without rest Servants ruling over us whiles there is none to deliver us out of their hands In short That we are not incomparably wretched as miserable as war and wickedness as faction and folly as error and ambition as malice and madness can make us is solely from this preventing of the Text Thou preventest him with the blessings of goodness And therefore that I may close this How much is it our concern to address often and earnestly to Heaven to importune the God of all grace that he will continue to prevent the King and his liege people with the blessings of goodness still 1 Sam.
2.10 That his Adversaries may be broken in pieces and that he will thunder out of Heaven upon them That he will give strength to the King and exalt the horn of his anointed that so the King may yet joy in his strength Psal 84 9â— and greatly rejoice in his salvation Behold O God our shield and look upon the face of thine anointed The children of Edom are waiting for another day of Hierusalem and as smooth as they look and speak with Jael's butter and milk Judg. 4.18 and a Turn in my Lord turn in to us and fear not it is to be feared they have a nail for those temples which God of his preventing goodness keep out of their hands Let my Lord the King live and this fear be to his enemies And so I shall ha' done with the first general part of the Text The Conservation of the King Thou preventest him with the blessings of goodness Come we now to the Second that which we are come with this great and unusual pomp to solemnize The Coronation of the King Thou settest a crown of pure gold on his head And here that we may make this second part match and run a paralel with the first we shall take notice of three expressions which heighten the mercy of his Coronation as those other did of his Conservation 1. The King's head crowned 2. The crown upon that head gold pure gold 3. The hand of God setting that crown of gold upon that head Thou settest a crown of pure gold on his head 1. Upon his head Not upon any one member no nor upon any five members neither no nor yet upon the whole body For by the undoubted fundamental Laws of this Kingdom neither the Peers of the Realm nor the Commons nor both together in Parliament nor the people collectively or representatively nor any other persons whatsoever ever had hath or ought to have any coercive power over the persons of the Kings of this Realm Dated Jâ—â— 25. 1660. As the Royal pen informs us in a late Proclamation and hath enacted it also at the request of the late Parliament that our heels may no more stand where our head should be Upon his head as fittest for Vision Provision 1. The head is fittest for Vision Eccles 2.14 A wise man's eyes are in his head And well had it been for us if ours had been believed to be there when time was probably we had not seen the miseries and direful effects of the late Warres We were so sagacious and quick-sighted we could see things before they were in their causes our members would needs see more than our head and so we ran blind-folded into confusion The eyes of a people are in their King as in their head and they that are without him witness our late selves are but like Sampson without his eyes fit for nothing but to make the Philistines sport Judg. 16.25 It is a sign their brains are scarce in their heads that think their eyes would do well any where else Upon his head for Vision 2. Upon his head for Provision The head is Providore and Purveyor for the whole body The welfare of the body depends mostly upon the Wisdom and Council upon the dictates and directions of the head The body supports the head by its strength and the head supplyes the body by its providence A Church or State without this head is like an Orphan or fatherless Infants So that promise intimates Erunt Reges nutricij hij And Kings shall be thy Nursing Fathers Isa 49.23 and their Queens thy Nursing Mothers Oeconomi tui as some render it making the Church and Common-wealth the Family of the Prince upon whom lies the whole care and governance of it to order it and provide for it Upon his head as fittest for provision That 's a second Upon his head This being 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 both for Order and for honor's sake Or if you please Upon his head Imports The heighth of his place and The weight of his employment 1. The heighth of his place Head denotes chiefdom and pre-eminence The chief of their Tribes and Families which the Vulgar Latin all along calls Principes our Translation renders Heads Princes are Heads Mic. 3.1 Hear O Heads of Jacob and ye Princes of the house of Israel It may be said of Saul in his place as well as his person that he is Altior universo populo ab humero sursum Higher by the head than all the people Rex omnibus major Deo solo minor was good divinity in Tertullian's dayes though the iniquity of ours had almost dasht it out of countenance with that ridiculous Maxim of our new Statists Confuted by Bodinâ—s de Repub. l. 1. cap. 8. Major singulis minor universis The King is above all and under God only He is Homo Deo secundus in the same Father's phrase A man second to God Nay be it spoken with reverence He is a God of the second sort 1 Tim 1.17 Psal 82.6 Deus est immortalis Rex Rex mortalis Deus God is an immortal King and the King is a mortal God This is Scripture language and I hope we may speak it without suspicion of flattery The height of the King's place that 's the first import of his head 2. The weight of his employment The trouble of Government lies most in the head Others may have their hands but the King commonly hath his head full This made Antigonus say to his son Regnum nostrumest servitus splendida A Kingdom is but a glorious servitude A finer kind of trouble No wonder if Saul hid himself among the stuff 1 Sam. 10 2â— and chose rather to obscure his head among the baggage than offer it to the Crown of Israel if he foresaw the burden of business and incumbrance which he was like to put on with it Indeed could that Bellua multorum capitum be tamed and all Wood made Mercury Would the Rout be refined and ingenuity be found among the Rabble Were there hopes to meet with a Nation as tractable as David found his countreymen of Judah Whose hearts he bowed 2 Sam. 19.14 even as the heart of one man Then Facile est imperium in bones Plaâ—t as the Comedian Good men are easily governed But the depravity of nature the pride avarice and ambition of men hath made them so mutinous and unruly that government is become a weight big enough for head and shoulders and all Isa 9.6 Therefore that Principatus super humerum in the Prophet The Government shall be upon his shoulder does not only allude to the Scepter and Sword and other symbols of Authority Praetoâ—ibus aâ—te ibant â—â—câ—ores cum fâ—scibas Cic. carried upon the shoulder as the Romane Fasces were before the Magistrate but speaks government it self to be a weight requiring more than an ordinary strength to undergo it
in more sober times was never an exemption from obedience Nay the Canonists go further Excommunicatio Domini non liberat vassalum à Sacramento Ministers may excommunicate Princes Buchanan de jur Reg. p. 70. The Excommunication of a King if such could be and it is too well known whose fingers itch to have such a power in their hands doth not free a Subject from his Oath and obedience It matters not what Sanders a ranting Romanist asserts An heretical King is no King Nor do we value that venemous Quacunque arte of Mariana it is lawful sayes he but it is but he that sayes it by any artifice trick or cunning to remove Kings that stand in the way Compare Knox and Buchan with Card. Bel. Emon Sa. Petra Sancta and other Jesuites And I know not whether our Schismatiques come in as seconds or do not rather out-do all in their damnable positions witness Muncer that notorious and incomparable Impostor who pretended to a conference with God and a Commission from him to kill Kings destroy the wicked such as his sense makes so and begin a new world of Saints Eph. 4.20 But we have not so learned Christ An unchristian'd Greek was better taught than so who calls a King 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the lively image of God the Preserver of all things And Tertullian sayes so much for the very Gentiles Caesarem majori formidine observatum à Gentilibus quà m ipsum de Olympo Jovem They looked on Caesar with greater reverence than Jupiter To shorten this Our histories tell us that Eleutherius wrote to King Lucius by whose means the heavenly light and brightness of Christianity first shone upon this Island Camd. Brit p. 67. as saith our Antiquary Vos estis Dei Vicarius You are God's Vicegerent in your Kingdom Kings are all so They are his Representatives here below He communicates his own name and stile to them that men may know they are anointed with the Oyle of gladness above their fellows and learn to look on Majesty as a very transcript of Divinity This Crown of pure gold commends the King's Dignity That 's first 2. It commands the Subjects Duty The Crown layes claim to our obedience And though the Donatists of old whom a peevish Canne in his Vâ—trom the Temple that Vox praeterea nihil and impertinent Trifle of the late mad world was not ashamed to call honest and our Donatists under new names would fain find out some subterfuges and plead an exemption yet they run full upon the mouth of that Canon of the Apostle 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rom. 13.1 Let every soul be subject Eâ—â—ad Eâ—â—sc Senond Every soul without exception Qui tentat excipere tentat decipere So Saint Bernard concludes He that would except would deceive He that with the sons of Belial dares ask 1 Sam. 10. What is Saul that he should reign over us will not stick in time Job 21.15 to question with the Atheist in Job What is the Almighty that we should serve him Our own late experiences evince this abundantly and are a sad proof of it These are those 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The blots and blemishes the Scab and scandal to all Religion Such unruly principles and practices have made Christianity suffer opening the mouths of Julian and Porphyrie and such like scoffers to declaim against it as an enemy to all order and government It was the commendation of the Christians good subjects to Antonine no very good Emperor that they did Inservire laeti they did him cheerful service how much more then shall the best of Kings command ready obedience even from the worst of Subjects I hope I may save the labour of an exhortation in this place K. Charles the first before the Gates of Hull on St. George's day 1642. if I do but call to your remembrance who it was which this day nineteen years stood before your gates Much good may the meditation do you thoughts of it had need make you more than penitents Nor will I draw Arguments of obedience to you from the King or his Crown the name of your Town dedicates you to him Kingston super Hull and the very Arms of your Corporation are Monitors of your loyalty where lest one should not serve you have no less than three Crowns to put you in mind of your duty The Crown commands duty And be that enough for the second particular in this latter general part of the Text. The Crown on the King's head of pure gold Come we now to the third and last The hand of God setting that Crown of pure gold upon the head of the King Thou settest a Crown of pure gold on his head Thou Dan. 5.21 And who could do it but he He is the most high and ruleth in the kingdom of men Ch. 2.37 and appointeth over it whomsoever he will The God of Heaven hath given thee a kingdom power and strength and glory sayes Daniel who was Privy-Counsellor to two Monarchies and Principal Secretary to four Kings and so had the advantage to observe their successions alterations and disposals God is the great Moderator of Heaven and Earth the Original of Dominion is in him he is the only arbitrary and indisputable disposer of all the Diadems of the world He setteth on the Crown By me Kings reign Prov. 8.15 Psal 89.39 and Princes decree justice He taketh off the Crown Thou hast prophaned his Crown by casting it to the ground Thou settest it on by thy Commissive and Ordinative he sets it not on himself by thy permissive Will He takes it fairly from thy hand does not seize it by any hand of craft or cruelty It is the happiness of a people when their King hath a Crown of God's setting on Usurpers are their grievance make them complain as the Romans of Pompey the great Miseria nostra Magnus est Thou settest it on And who hath such cause to say so as we Men and Brethren let me speak freely unto you if ever Crown was set on by the immediate hand of God it is that upon the King's head this day Isa 52.10 Never did the Lord so make bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the Nation never did this end of the earth see such salvation of our God I appeal to his most inveterate Oppugners who were wont to argue the righteousness of their cause from the Topick of their success and victories Deut. 32.31 Ch. 4.32 whether their Rock be as our Rock even our enemies themselves being judges For ask now of the dayes that are past which were before us since the day that God created man upon the earth and ask from one side of Heaven unto the other whether there hath been any such thing as this great thing is or hath been heard like iâ— When they were as numerous and as haughty as Senacherib vaunting that they were enow with the