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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54714	God and the King. Gods strength the Kings salvation A sermon preached at Aylesham in the county of Norfolk, upon the 29 day of May 1661, being the anniversary day of thanksgiving, for the thrice happy and glorious restauration of our most Gracious Soveraign King Charles the second, to the royal government of all his Majesties kingdoms and dominions. By John Philips, B.D. sometime fellow of Magdalen College in Cambridge, and vicar of Aylesham in Norfolk.	Philips, John, vicar of Aylesham, Norfolk.	1661 (1661)	Wing P2031B; ESTC R218926	24,258	38

Esteem of His sacred Person and Authority Curse not the King no not in thy thought saith Salomon Eccl. 10. 21. For thought to God is both word and action and he that admits any low esteem into his heart of Soveragn Majesty wants that appreciative Love which consists in a singular regard of the Object beloved God hath placed him next to himself in Office and Honour and let us set him there in our judgement and estimation If he be our Father as he is Pater Patriae let him have our Fear and if he be our Master upon Earth let him have our Honour Whence comes uncomely Expressions causeless Jealousies needless Fears groundless Suspicions seditious Slanders treasonable Censures and rebellious Practices but from the abundance of a wicked heart that have entertained low thoughts of supreme Authority Kings are more than other men 1 Sam. 10. 6. and so let us esteem of them 2. In giving unto him his due praises and speaking well of his name I know it is a sin to flatter Kings and let it be Treason if you will and therefore Constantine reproved a Preacher for highly commending him in his presence But 't is a sin only for the fowl mouth of a cursing Shimei or a reviling Rabsekah to slander the foot-steps of the annointed of the Lord. Is it fit to say to a King thou art wicked and to Princes ye are ungodly Job 34. 18. If Theodosius erre in his Government let St. Ambrose put him in mind of it but otherwise we must not speak evill of Dignities therefore we must speak well of them It was the lot of Moses and is so too often of good Kings that when they fared well they would sacrifize to their own nets and thank themselves but if it went ill with them they laid the blame on Moses Exod. 14. 11. Exod. 32. 1. See there how shamefully they abuse him when he was in the Mount with God both pleading for them and receiving directions how to govern them First they gathe themselves together to Aaron a rebellious Assembly without Moses Secondly they force Aaron to make them Gods to go befor● them and it proves but a golden Calf at last Thirdly they contemn and slight Moses this Fellovv this Moses the man as if not vvorth the naming and Fourthly they slander him vvith vile aspersions as if they knevv not vvhat vvas become of him vvhen they could not be ignorant he vvas in the Mount vvith God Receiving the tvvo tables vvhich they had no mind to hear of But O let not us pay our Tribute with evil words we cannot mean well if we speak evil a woman that feareth the Lord must be praised Prov. 31. 30. much more a King ought daily to be praised Ps. 72. 15. 3 In a hearty obedience 1. Active to all his lawful Commands as to our Lord and Master our servile obedience as to our Husband as Q. Elizabeth said she was married to her kingdom our loving obedience as to our Father our filial obedience Nature will teach much more should Grace an obediential subjection in all Inferiors to their Superiors as in Children to their Parents Servants to their Masters Souldiers to their Commanders and Subjects to their Soveraign the meanest whereof is under his Care and the greatest must be under his Command 2. In our Passive obedience if the case require and in no case must we touch so much as a lap of his garment much less the pretious life of the Lords Annointed nor suffer any other to touch it so as to hurt it if it lye in our power to prevent it and herein God be merciful to England and lay not this to our charge He is the high Steward as well in Office as Name and must not be displaced but by God Bellarmine himself confesseth that the Heathen Emperors ought not to be resisted and it is a strange Religion that makes Christian Kings in a worse condition Prayers and Tears with holines of life were the Primitive Christians Weapons should be ours Oramus non pugnamus Casar was their Apology We pray unto thee O Caesar we fight not against thee and that not because they wanted strength if we believe S. Cyprian Nemo nostrum reluctatur quamvis cop●osus sit numerus 4. In supporting His Royal Dignity by our Estates and Lives also if need require the King must be served by the field Eccl. 5. 9. not only as a just reward of his care for us which none knows but himself though we find the comfort of it but also as a sign of our subjection to him but of this before 5 Lastly By and in our daily fervent prayers for his preservation and long and prosperous Reign over us that we may live a quiet and a peaceable life in all godliness and honesty 1 Tim. 2. 2. Or we may do it in Tertullians form that God would give him vitam prolixam imperium securum domum tutam exercitus fortes senatum fidelem populum probum orbem quietum A long Life a safe House victorious Armies a faithful Counsel a loyal People and a quiet World And that we may omit nothing in our prayers let us take in Tertullians next words quaecunque hominis Caesaris vota sunt That God would give him his hearts desire and not withold the request of his Lips as it is in the 2 ver of this Psalm The Heathen Emperors were pray'd for twice a day let us pray praise seven times a day for his sacred Majesty in the form of the antient Councils Carolo secundo regi a deo Coronato a deo Custodito vitam longam annos multos That the Lord would give to Charles the second our King Crowned and preserved of God a long life and yeares to many generations or in the words of Saint Ambrose ut injustitia virtute gubernet that he may govern us in righteousnes virtue Let us then to conclude all take up the acclamation of joy which the people of Rome did at the Coronation of Charles the Great Carolo secundo a deo Coronato Magno pacifico Britannorum imperatori vita vistoria To Charles the second Crowned of God the Great and peaceable Emperour of Britain be Life and Victory and let all that fear God and honour the King say Amen Amen FINIS