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A86449	A sermon preached in St. Maries in Cambridge, upon Sunday the 27 of March, being the day of His Majesties happy inauguration: By Ri. Holdsvvorth D.D. Master of Emmanuel Colledge in Cambridge, Vicechancellour of the Universitie, and one of His Majesties chaplains. Published by His Majesties command.	Holdsworth, Richard, 1590-1649.	1642 (1642)	Wing H2401; Thomason E155_6; ESTC R23312	23,401	48

of strange children vers 11. And he might as easily have continued the same strain in the clauses following That MY sonnes may grow up as the young plants MY daughters may be as the polished corners of the temple MY sheep fruitfull MY oxen strong MY garners full and plenteous and accordingly he might have concluded it also Happy shall I be if I be in such a case This I say he might have done nay this he would have done if his desires had reflected onely upon himself But being of a diffusive heart and knowing what belonged to the neighbourhoods of pietie as loth to enjoy this happinesse alone he alters his style and being in the height of well-wishes to himself he turns the singular into a plurall Our sheep Our oxen Our garners Our sonnes and daughters that he might compendiate all in this Happy are the people Here 's a true testimonie both of a religious and generous mind who knew in his most retired thoughts to look out of himself and to be mindfull of the publick welfare in his privatest meditations S. Ambrose observes it as a clear character of a noble spirit to do what tends to the publick good though to his own disadvantage And Salvian in his first De providentia doth reckon this as the principall thing which made the Fabii and the Fabricii and other Romane Worthies so renowned in their times That they were content to expose themselves to want and danger for the prosperitie and safetie of the publick But alas there are few such spirits in our time It is a rare thing to find a private man who cordially devoteth himself to the good of the Communitie It was the complaint of Plato in his time That every man was impetuously carried 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and of Thucydides the Historian in his Vnusquisque rem suam urget and of Tacitus in his Privata cuique stimulatio vile decus publicum S. Paul himself was driven to this complaint Phil. 2.21 All seek their own Where he left we may take it up Our own settling our own securitie our own wealth our own advancement is all we generally look after There is hardly any man to be found whose bent is not towards himself Whereas the publick is the private infinitely multiplied and so much the more of nearer concernment as it is of larger extension whereas again man is onely a world in a figurative sense of speaking and that but a microcosme or little world that is in effect a small part of the great yet as in some other things so in this also it falls out The Allegorie devoures the letter the private eats up the publick the part the whole the overweaning respect to the little world doth every where almost overturn the greater I know there are many which make fair shews goodly pretences great ostentation of the contrary You shall have them often crying out The Publick the Publick and as fast as the Jews did The Temple the Temple but it is with the like insyncetitie for their aim is wholly for themselves So we shew our selves hypocrites even in things civill as well as in religion Each godly man is of another temper His word is that of S. Ambrose Mihi parcior for is totus or that of the Oratour in Salust Adsum en Caius Cotta voveo dedóque me pro Republica It was a brave resolution in a Heathen but it concerns us Christians more For he was onely a part of one Communitie we each of us have a share in two being members of the Church as well as the State So there is a double tie upon us and that we should daily remember it it is insinuated in the Lord's prayer in which as there is one expresse petition for the publick so there is a respect had to it in all There is nothing singular not an I nor a Me nor a Mine but all plurall We Vs Our noting that it is every mans duty even in his prayers to be zealous for the Communitie But the text will not allow me that scope to speak of this zeal to the publick as 't is the dutie of private men but as it is an excellencie of Kings and Princes It 's true I might call it a duty even in them also God requires it of them as a dutie but it becomes us to repute it an excellencie both because the benefit is ours which redounds from thence and likewise because it is more eminent and illustrious in them then in other men In others it 's limited and ministeriall in a Prince supreme and universall He is the influxive head who both governs the whole bodie and every member which is any way serviceable to the bodie The glorious Sunne that gives light both to the world and to the starres themselves which in their severall stations are usefull to the world Here 's enough to define it an excellencie to have the care and trust of the whole in himself Yea but further to tender it as himself and to set the weal of the publick in equipage with his own happinesse and to fold them up together his own in the publick and the publick in his own is so high an ascent of goodnesse that it were a great wrong to such vertue to style it by any lesse name then an excellencie In this particular I might easily be large but it requires not so much proofs as acknowledgements and retributions Therefore I will briefly proceed both wayes and first give you a few examples for proofs and then I am sure there is no man so unworthy but will think himself obliged to retributions The first example shall be taken from Moses whom Philo reckons among Kings and so doth the Scripture Deut. 33.5 For howsoever he had not the name he had the power and authority yet even in that power he was not more Regal then in his tendernesse over the people At one time his tendernesse was so great toward them that because he could not do them so much good as he desired he besought the Lord to take away his life Numb 11.15 At another time he was so perplexed with the fear of their destruction that he requested of God either to keep them still in the land of the living or to blot him out of the book of life Exod. 32.32 hereby shewing himself not onely the miracle of Nature as Philo calls him but of Grace too in pledging for them that which was more worth then his life his very salvation It was a rare example of Castor and Pollux so highly magnified by Authours That being twinnes and as the Poets feigned one born mortall the other immortall Pollux to shew his love to his brother yielded so farre as to take to himself a part of his brothers mortalitie and to lend him as much of his own immortalitie being better pleased to enjoy a half immortalitie with the good of his brother then a whole one alone by himself It is known by all to be a